YES! Jeff has been one of the lights in the darkness ever since he started on Medium, and then got cancelled and had to go to Substack. He, Dr. Frank, and el gato malo were voices of sanity early on.
I do research for business planning (self employed) for a living and when project after project cancelled or put on hold I threw all my ener…
YES! Jeff has been one of the lights in the darkness ever since he started on Medium, and then got cancelled and had to go to Substack. He, Dr. Frank, and el gato malo were voices of sanity early on.
I do research for business planning (self employed) for a living and when project after project cancelled or put on hold I threw all my energy into this covid mess. Origin of the virus, treatment protocols, sketchy data, those ridiculous 'models' with NO methodology anywhere to be found. My covid file on my computer has over 1300 files in 31 folders. I shared prolifically with anyone and everyone who would listen. I can take on anyone who wants to argue with links, data, studies, timelines, and the rest. But guess what, almost no one had anything of substance to argue back, they instead resorted to name calling and insults. It was a lonely time save a few sane friends who did listen.
The silver lining is that I have a whole new circle. Found groups who were meeting in person, got more involved politically, and that has become a new lifeline. Knocked over 2000 doors last year for candidates from school board to US Senate. Good conversations at some of the doors, and of course some who just want to cuss me out. Oh well, next. And frankly, I can hardly even stand going to just plain social things where people just want to talk about Taylor Swift and Netflix and other mindless blather. Oh it's a nice escape for an hour or so and then I am looking for a way out. My hubby gets annoyed at me if he is having a good time so I smile and nod and look at my watch, lol. He's awake, but the political bug didn't bite him as hard as it did me, so I get even by dragging him to some of those political dinners and events where he gets to smile and nod.
I too feel bad for the duped, I still see people in masks, although not like a year or so ago.
Although I didn’t dive into the data quite as much, I did so much reading about Covid and masks and then the vaccines. I don’t have a background in the natural sciences or medicine so no one would listen to me 🙄 It felt pretty lonely sometimes. Substack and Gab were lifelines to me. I could find people who were asking questions and not just blindly following the protocols and the narrative.
Because of all the time I spend reading and informing myself, I am also more politically engaged than my husband is. He works very hard and I think he just doesn’t have the mental energy for it. But sometimes he seems to think I’m a little extreme. I don’t care though. I know what I’ve learned and I am glad my eyes are more open than ever. I can help my family make good decisions based on what I know.
Isn’t it telling how people immediately start with the name calling and mockery when they have no actual facts to counter your information or your questions? (Reminds me of the two trolls here also)
Hubby and I are a case study in opposites attract. I am the Type A always in motion and have to have projects and he is the most laid back chill person I know. I think I have seen him legit angry maybe half a dozen times in 33 years of marriage. But he keeps me off the ledge from time to time, lol.
And yes, my background is business and finance. I almost forgot the 'Oh since when are you a medical professional?' comment. That was a big one, especially early on. True, but have done research for clients in the space, so the learning curve was a little less steep. And it doesn't take a medical professional to see that this stuff never passed the smell test. I am just used to finding, vetting and organizing data in a way that I can use it to help my clients understand things. The process doesn't change by industry. Although I did learn a lot about scientific and medical topics as I had the time to go deeper into it since everything else was cancelled. Wish I never HAD to learn about gain of function though.
You have a leg up on 98% of the world as a researcher. You have the tools, the expertise and people don't get it. The sector of investigation doesn't matter. Learn enough, in a hurry, and, well, let's just say you *should* be a go-to person. People have proven disappointing in this boat we're all supposed to be adrift in, trying to get our bearings. I've tossed most of them into the brig. I'm making it with a small crew. ....
Good for you getting motivated politically. I hope you have some responsive office holders. It's dirty business at most levels, worse the higher up they get. I'm slogging through Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail. The level of detail is important but a challenge to process, mind boggling. The big picture is ugly and unsurprising that moral degeneracy is par for the course. Our "leaders" are in large part the least fit to lead. Along with a most significant part of the machinery. Since forever. They get off on exerting power and control and money buys them all of that plus fulfillment of their depraved desires. Their ilk stops at nothing; they have no conscience. The psychopath/sociopath thing. I have a sibling who is a mere narcissist and that's bad enough. I also understand that the only way to change things is through the political process. Good for you diving in. As an HSP -highly sensitive person, yep, it's a thing- I have to pick my movements with exquisite care. Live politics is off the table. We need people like you. Do it, sister. With your new circle, a new brighter phase of life. Yup, gotta shed the newly discovered dead weight. What a trip this is. 🌎
Mixed results. Got 3 out of 5 conservatives onto an all liberal school board in spring of 22 and 23, and 2 conservatives out of 4 onto city council, but not good results at the county, which is solid blue on the KC side with a lot more population than the redder part to the east. Eric Schmitt, the rock star AG who, along with the Louisiana AG filed the Missouri v Biden case, won his primary and got elected to the US Senate. Win some, ya lose some. I know several state reps personally, and they are genuine honest guys who are fighting the good fight, although the lobbyists really run the statehouse despite a R super-majority. It's frustrating as h*ll at times, but just consider, what are the alternatives but to keep fighting? This infiltration by the left did not happen overnight, so it's like turning a battleship.
And "our leaders are least fit to lead". True. The skills to get elected are different than the skills to be a good leader many times. I ran for city council and lost in 2018, got 40% against a long time incumbent, but it wore me out. I am much better as the data geek behind the scenes vs being the attention whore. I do love knocking doors and talking to people one on one, but raising money and promoting myself were not strengths. Stuff I could learn, but for now am content to stay behind the scenes. I am self employed and made zero dollars the 3 months before the election as I was too busy running. People don't realize how tough being an elected person really is. You are 'on' 24/7, way more issues than you really have time or knowledge to address, and the pay is pitiful. $11K for city council which is almost a full time job if you do it right. State rep is ~$35K and some per diem when legislature is in session. Most people who can afford to run are either retired, business owners with businesses that they don't run or have employers, like law firms, who are OK with them being gone a lot. The pool of people who both WANT to run, and CAN afford to run is actually pretty small. That is also part of the problem.
You did better locally than my blue pocket in a supposedly red state. I fear that legislature RINOs are a bloc that belies the redness. Locally, zero shift in school board, city council and county commissioners. All 100% blue. --
Correct the infiltration-takeover took time. At least two generations locally if not more. Nationally, it started in earnest with Paper Clip, so three generations ago. I listened to a relatively riveting podcast on the strategy and slow, calculated, methodical, patient infiltration by the Communists into societal institutions that began earlier, which march was reinforced and strengthened with Paper Clip. Turning a battleship is a good analogy/metaphor. It was a while ago when I heard the podcast. If I can find it (4-episode series if I remember correctly) I'll post a link. --
Indeed, the founders were gentlemen farmers or successful merchants, a class that could afford to be away from home for weeks at a time. Government pay sucks, except for bureaucratic sinecures, so yeah electeds in general belong to a special class. Good that you identified your strengths and weaknesses, right? I'm a total introvert (Heterodox Introvert :) so have at it whoever wants that job of running for and holding office. Though as you point out running unsuccessfully can be deflating, I'm sure even for those who have different strengths/fortitude. It takes all kinds, which covers a lot of territory, but it's true. The world would be awfully boring if we were all like me. Aside from which we'd drive each other crazy speaking of multiple personality disorder. 🤪
Funny your description of your state sounds a lot like MO, sadly. Super-majority is a disadvantage as it lulls too many back to sleep, thinking 'we got this'. No, we don't. D's demand lockstep compliance, the R's are all over the place. The State R Party Platform is little more than a paperweight, although I will temper that to say that there are areas of the state where a 'far right' (I hate that term as it's turned into a slur but shorthand for those who are small government, Pro life, Pro 2A and have balls to stand up to the woke) candidate is going to struggle to win so a squishy R still is better than a D. But then they all get to the capitol and fight all session long.
And yes, I saw the introvert in your name and figured you weren't going to be door knocking any time soon, lol. It's too bad the political process lends itself to the extroverts, as we need the introverts, who tend to be the ones who are informed, thoughtful and can work behind the scenes to get stuff done. I am a weird mix. Perfectly happy to be home with a book or going out to events and such and meeting new people, Just too much of one or the other and I start to get antsy. Hated the 3-4 months when everything was cancelled, including my income so hubby and I did mostly stay home as we didn't have much $ to do anything anyway although he did get back to working faster than me. It was great to get a lot of home projects done but I still missed being out there. So I don't know what I am. My daughter is very introverted and loved working from home and going nowhere. Her car battery even went dead from sitting too long! So yeah, we all need each other!!
"...they all get to the capitol and fight all session long." *eye roll. Ain't it the truth.
Yup, I agree the introverts are a force unto themselves and can have great impact toward where their energy is directed. You're also not likely to hear from us about our accomplishments. We're fine with staying in the background.
Love the anecdotal report about your daughter whose car battery went dead! 😂
Interestingly, though of course I can't speak for everyone, many introverts are fine with walking into a room where they know no one. They can navigate but it's completely different from an extrovert and can be extremely draining. Especially the small talk bs. If you have a few minutes, I found this car talk by Matt Walsh to be solidly up my alley. When he paused for 3 seconds at one point in the middle of a sentence, I finished the sentence -out loud!😂- and then he finished his sentence with the exact same words. Entertainment with a lifeways instructional twist. Your daughter might appreciate it?
LOVE that video!! I will send it to her. Reminds me of when she was in HS and I would strike up a conversation with, say, someone in the grocery line and she would dig her nails into my arm and hiss MOM YOU ARE SO EMBARRASSING.
But there are some people with whom having a conversation with them IS draining. And I am finding myself increasingly bored with the typical 'cocktail party chatter' that goes on in mixed political groups, mainly because nearly every topic of interest is now taboo. Went to a neighborhood pool party last weekend and I was looking for the exit within an hour. I mean, heck, I was talking about the challenge of trying to grow my flowers this year due to the schizophrenic weather we've had this spring and early summer, and this chick launches into a climate change rant. Sigh. Even the weather is political.
My line of questioning to anyone that wants to go off on climate change goes something like, So the earth is how many billion years old? And estimates are that humans have been here only a fraction of that time, some multiple of tens of millions of years? I don't think climate science has dug into the earth's crust to figure out the precise cycles of climate change over the billions of years; I'm not even sure the crust holds those records. Do you know? (They don't.) Do you know how those measurements or judgements are made (about climactic conditions over eons)? (They don't.) We know about glaciers and glacial retreat from evidence, like at Yosemite or in the upper northeast US. Do you know the timing on that? What era of geological history? No? Well, we know it wasn't in our lifetime. Or the last 600 years or so, when the Europeans first arrived. Oh and by the way, how is it there are salt deposits in Utah? You know, the salt flats? And salt mines deeper in the earth? All salt comes from the sea. Where's the nearby sea to Utah? There was no sea in Utah when Europeans came to the continent. Do you think maybe the climate changed over eons and maybe where there used to be a sea it's now inland? I'm guessing that could happen again, in reverse, but it's liable to be gradual; you and I will be long gone before the sea creeps back to Utah. You think? Have you been tracking the creep of sea level? Have you clocked the timeline for the sea to cover coastal cities? Are they supposed to be gone in 10 years? 5? 20? What's the latest prediction? How come the Obamas and Gores and Bushes all have multi-million dollar coastal properties? Did you know that in the 1970s global cooling activists were predicting an ice age by 2000? That didn't happen. There was some level of hysteria about it from an outlier faction. You know, the doom and gloom types. Did you know that by the 1980s the story had flipped and the warnings were about global warming instead of an impending ice age? Doesn't it seem odd that that outlook could have changed so drastically in the space of about a decade? Did you know that by the end of the 1980s an activist with U.N. ties was giving dire warnings that if things didn't change entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by the year 2000? I forget his name. He's a forgettable figure. We're 20+ years past his dire deadline. Last time I checked no nations had been wiped off the face of the earth as a result of any climate shift. ...Yadda. Be ready to spew back at them. They're just spouting what they've been fed. Tell them you remember this stuff, they can go look it up. I hear ya, there's nary a subject that doesn't have a political spin on it. I'm just venting again. Thanks for your patience!
see? There are advantages to being an introvert - you don't have to listen to these idiots, lol. Yeah I am right there with ya. When my kids were still at home a local science museum used to have 'Science Saturdays' speakers once a month and I would take my kids. One talk was by a local TV meteorologist who spent about 2 hours debunking the 'global warming' narrative using a lot of your same points. Not long after that, he was off the air. He is now a state Senator in Kansas.
So true. As an introvert I don't feel like I'm missing out one bit - on the neighborhood pool party or whatever. Very quiet neighbor.
Local TV weather broadcaster has had the job for +25 years. Up until about maybe a decade ago spoke his mind (logic based on science) about global warming or climate change, I forget, Both maybe, it's been that long. Then seemed like overnight he flipped. I surmise he was blackmailed about keeping his job. So now we know how he chooses to butter his bread.
YES! Jeff has been one of the lights in the darkness ever since he started on Medium, and then got cancelled and had to go to Substack. He, Dr. Frank, and el gato malo were voices of sanity early on.
I do research for business planning (self employed) for a living and when project after project cancelled or put on hold I threw all my energy into this covid mess. Origin of the virus, treatment protocols, sketchy data, those ridiculous 'models' with NO methodology anywhere to be found. My covid file on my computer has over 1300 files in 31 folders. I shared prolifically with anyone and everyone who would listen. I can take on anyone who wants to argue with links, data, studies, timelines, and the rest. But guess what, almost no one had anything of substance to argue back, they instead resorted to name calling and insults. It was a lonely time save a few sane friends who did listen.
The silver lining is that I have a whole new circle. Found groups who were meeting in person, got more involved politically, and that has become a new lifeline. Knocked over 2000 doors last year for candidates from school board to US Senate. Good conversations at some of the doors, and of course some who just want to cuss me out. Oh well, next. And frankly, I can hardly even stand going to just plain social things where people just want to talk about Taylor Swift and Netflix and other mindless blather. Oh it's a nice escape for an hour or so and then I am looking for a way out. My hubby gets annoyed at me if he is having a good time so I smile and nod and look at my watch, lol. He's awake, but the political bug didn't bite him as hard as it did me, so I get even by dragging him to some of those political dinners and events where he gets to smile and nod.
I too feel bad for the duped, I still see people in masks, although not like a year or so ago.
Although I didn’t dive into the data quite as much, I did so much reading about Covid and masks and then the vaccines. I don’t have a background in the natural sciences or medicine so no one would listen to me 🙄 It felt pretty lonely sometimes. Substack and Gab were lifelines to me. I could find people who were asking questions and not just blindly following the protocols and the narrative.
Because of all the time I spend reading and informing myself, I am also more politically engaged than my husband is. He works very hard and I think he just doesn’t have the mental energy for it. But sometimes he seems to think I’m a little extreme. I don’t care though. I know what I’ve learned and I am glad my eyes are more open than ever. I can help my family make good decisions based on what I know.
Isn’t it telling how people immediately start with the name calling and mockery when they have no actual facts to counter your information or your questions? (Reminds me of the two trolls here also)
Hubby and I are a case study in opposites attract. I am the Type A always in motion and have to have projects and he is the most laid back chill person I know. I think I have seen him legit angry maybe half a dozen times in 33 years of marriage. But he keeps me off the ledge from time to time, lol.
And yes, my background is business and finance. I almost forgot the 'Oh since when are you a medical professional?' comment. That was a big one, especially early on. True, but have done research for clients in the space, so the learning curve was a little less steep. And it doesn't take a medical professional to see that this stuff never passed the smell test. I am just used to finding, vetting and organizing data in a way that I can use it to help my clients understand things. The process doesn't change by industry. Although I did learn a lot about scientific and medical topics as I had the time to go deeper into it since everything else was cancelled. Wish I never HAD to learn about gain of function though.
You have a leg up on 98% of the world as a researcher. You have the tools, the expertise and people don't get it. The sector of investigation doesn't matter. Learn enough, in a hurry, and, well, let's just say you *should* be a go-to person. People have proven disappointing in this boat we're all supposed to be adrift in, trying to get our bearings. I've tossed most of them into the brig. I'm making it with a small crew. ....
Good for you getting motivated politically. I hope you have some responsive office holders. It's dirty business at most levels, worse the higher up they get. I'm slogging through Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail. The level of detail is important but a challenge to process, mind boggling. The big picture is ugly and unsurprising that moral degeneracy is par for the course. Our "leaders" are in large part the least fit to lead. Along with a most significant part of the machinery. Since forever. They get off on exerting power and control and money buys them all of that plus fulfillment of their depraved desires. Their ilk stops at nothing; they have no conscience. The psychopath/sociopath thing. I have a sibling who is a mere narcissist and that's bad enough. I also understand that the only way to change things is through the political process. Good for you diving in. As an HSP -highly sensitive person, yep, it's a thing- I have to pick my movements with exquisite care. Live politics is off the table. We need people like you. Do it, sister. With your new circle, a new brighter phase of life. Yup, gotta shed the newly discovered dead weight. What a trip this is. 🌎
Mixed results. Got 3 out of 5 conservatives onto an all liberal school board in spring of 22 and 23, and 2 conservatives out of 4 onto city council, but not good results at the county, which is solid blue on the KC side with a lot more population than the redder part to the east. Eric Schmitt, the rock star AG who, along with the Louisiana AG filed the Missouri v Biden case, won his primary and got elected to the US Senate. Win some, ya lose some. I know several state reps personally, and they are genuine honest guys who are fighting the good fight, although the lobbyists really run the statehouse despite a R super-majority. It's frustrating as h*ll at times, but just consider, what are the alternatives but to keep fighting? This infiltration by the left did not happen overnight, so it's like turning a battleship.
And "our leaders are least fit to lead". True. The skills to get elected are different than the skills to be a good leader many times. I ran for city council and lost in 2018, got 40% against a long time incumbent, but it wore me out. I am much better as the data geek behind the scenes vs being the attention whore. I do love knocking doors and talking to people one on one, but raising money and promoting myself were not strengths. Stuff I could learn, but for now am content to stay behind the scenes. I am self employed and made zero dollars the 3 months before the election as I was too busy running. People don't realize how tough being an elected person really is. You are 'on' 24/7, way more issues than you really have time or knowledge to address, and the pay is pitiful. $11K for city council which is almost a full time job if you do it right. State rep is ~$35K and some per diem when legislature is in session. Most people who can afford to run are either retired, business owners with businesses that they don't run or have employers, like law firms, who are OK with them being gone a lot. The pool of people who both WANT to run, and CAN afford to run is actually pretty small. That is also part of the problem.
You did better locally than my blue pocket in a supposedly red state. I fear that legislature RINOs are a bloc that belies the redness. Locally, zero shift in school board, city council and county commissioners. All 100% blue. --
Correct the infiltration-takeover took time. At least two generations locally if not more. Nationally, it started in earnest with Paper Clip, so three generations ago. I listened to a relatively riveting podcast on the strategy and slow, calculated, methodical, patient infiltration by the Communists into societal institutions that began earlier, which march was reinforced and strengthened with Paper Clip. Turning a battleship is a good analogy/metaphor. It was a while ago when I heard the podcast. If I can find it (4-episode series if I remember correctly) I'll post a link. --
Indeed, the founders were gentlemen farmers or successful merchants, a class that could afford to be away from home for weeks at a time. Government pay sucks, except for bureaucratic sinecures, so yeah electeds in general belong to a special class. Good that you identified your strengths and weaknesses, right? I'm a total introvert (Heterodox Introvert :) so have at it whoever wants that job of running for and holding office. Though as you point out running unsuccessfully can be deflating, I'm sure even for those who have different strengths/fortitude. It takes all kinds, which covers a lot of territory, but it's true. The world would be awfully boring if we were all like me. Aside from which we'd drive each other crazy speaking of multiple personality disorder. 🤪
Funny your description of your state sounds a lot like MO, sadly. Super-majority is a disadvantage as it lulls too many back to sleep, thinking 'we got this'. No, we don't. D's demand lockstep compliance, the R's are all over the place. The State R Party Platform is little more than a paperweight, although I will temper that to say that there are areas of the state where a 'far right' (I hate that term as it's turned into a slur but shorthand for those who are small government, Pro life, Pro 2A and have balls to stand up to the woke) candidate is going to struggle to win so a squishy R still is better than a D. But then they all get to the capitol and fight all session long.
And yes, I saw the introvert in your name and figured you weren't going to be door knocking any time soon, lol. It's too bad the political process lends itself to the extroverts, as we need the introverts, who tend to be the ones who are informed, thoughtful and can work behind the scenes to get stuff done. I am a weird mix. Perfectly happy to be home with a book or going out to events and such and meeting new people, Just too much of one or the other and I start to get antsy. Hated the 3-4 months when everything was cancelled, including my income so hubby and I did mostly stay home as we didn't have much $ to do anything anyway although he did get back to working faster than me. It was great to get a lot of home projects done but I still missed being out there. So I don't know what I am. My daughter is very introverted and loved working from home and going nowhere. Her car battery even went dead from sitting too long! So yeah, we all need each other!!
"...they all get to the capitol and fight all session long." *eye roll. Ain't it the truth.
Yup, I agree the introverts are a force unto themselves and can have great impact toward where their energy is directed. You're also not likely to hear from us about our accomplishments. We're fine with staying in the background.
Love the anecdotal report about your daughter whose car battery went dead! 😂
Interestingly, though of course I can't speak for everyone, many introverts are fine with walking into a room where they know no one. They can navigate but it's completely different from an extrovert and can be extremely draining. Especially the small talk bs. If you have a few minutes, I found this car talk by Matt Walsh to be solidly up my alley. When he paused for 3 seconds at one point in the middle of a sentence, I finished the sentence -out loud!😂- and then he finished his sentence with the exact same words. Entertainment with a lifeways instructional twist. Your daughter might appreciate it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh87OVCYY_g
LOVE that video!! I will send it to her. Reminds me of when she was in HS and I would strike up a conversation with, say, someone in the grocery line and she would dig her nails into my arm and hiss MOM YOU ARE SO EMBARRASSING.
But there are some people with whom having a conversation with them IS draining. And I am finding myself increasingly bored with the typical 'cocktail party chatter' that goes on in mixed political groups, mainly because nearly every topic of interest is now taboo. Went to a neighborhood pool party last weekend and I was looking for the exit within an hour. I mean, heck, I was talking about the challenge of trying to grow my flowers this year due to the schizophrenic weather we've had this spring and early summer, and this chick launches into a climate change rant. Sigh. Even the weather is political.
Jeez.
My line of questioning to anyone that wants to go off on climate change goes something like, So the earth is how many billion years old? And estimates are that humans have been here only a fraction of that time, some multiple of tens of millions of years? I don't think climate science has dug into the earth's crust to figure out the precise cycles of climate change over the billions of years; I'm not even sure the crust holds those records. Do you know? (They don't.) Do you know how those measurements or judgements are made (about climactic conditions over eons)? (They don't.) We know about glaciers and glacial retreat from evidence, like at Yosemite or in the upper northeast US. Do you know the timing on that? What era of geological history? No? Well, we know it wasn't in our lifetime. Or the last 600 years or so, when the Europeans first arrived. Oh and by the way, how is it there are salt deposits in Utah? You know, the salt flats? And salt mines deeper in the earth? All salt comes from the sea. Where's the nearby sea to Utah? There was no sea in Utah when Europeans came to the continent. Do you think maybe the climate changed over eons and maybe where there used to be a sea it's now inland? I'm guessing that could happen again, in reverse, but it's liable to be gradual; you and I will be long gone before the sea creeps back to Utah. You think? Have you been tracking the creep of sea level? Have you clocked the timeline for the sea to cover coastal cities? Are they supposed to be gone in 10 years? 5? 20? What's the latest prediction? How come the Obamas and Gores and Bushes all have multi-million dollar coastal properties? Did you know that in the 1970s global cooling activists were predicting an ice age by 2000? That didn't happen. There was some level of hysteria about it from an outlier faction. You know, the doom and gloom types. Did you know that by the 1980s the story had flipped and the warnings were about global warming instead of an impending ice age? Doesn't it seem odd that that outlook could have changed so drastically in the space of about a decade? Did you know that by the end of the 1980s an activist with U.N. ties was giving dire warnings that if things didn't change entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by the year 2000? I forget his name. He's a forgettable figure. We're 20+ years past his dire deadline. Last time I checked no nations had been wiped off the face of the earth as a result of any climate shift. ...Yadda. Be ready to spew back at them. They're just spouting what they've been fed. Tell them you remember this stuff, they can go look it up. I hear ya, there's nary a subject that doesn't have a political spin on it. I'm just venting again. Thanks for your patience!
see? There are advantages to being an introvert - you don't have to listen to these idiots, lol. Yeah I am right there with ya. When my kids were still at home a local science museum used to have 'Science Saturdays' speakers once a month and I would take my kids. One talk was by a local TV meteorologist who spent about 2 hours debunking the 'global warming' narrative using a lot of your same points. Not long after that, he was off the air. He is now a state Senator in Kansas.
So true. As an introvert I don't feel like I'm missing out one bit - on the neighborhood pool party or whatever. Very quiet neighbor.
Local TV weather broadcaster has had the job for +25 years. Up until about maybe a decade ago spoke his mind (logic based on science) about global warming or climate change, I forget, Both maybe, it's been that long. Then seemed like overnight he flipped. I surmise he was blackmailed about keeping his job. So now we know how he chooses to butter his bread.
Just stumbled on this, thought you would like it https://twitter.com/PaulHook_em/status/1683974655651053568