“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu
UPDATE: After reading Carl Eric Scott’s thoughtful reflection on this essay (https://pomocon.substack.com/p/margaret-anna-alice-strong-medicine), I have replaced the JP Sears video and surrounding sentences with a lengthy new section addressing Carl’s valid concerns about the flippancy of the video detracting from the overall tone of the essay. Please take the time to read that new section as it deepens the conversation on truth, justice, reconciliation, and forgiveness.
Thank you, Carl, for prompting me to improve my essay!
I was a good German...until... I took my son for a doctors appointment and the pediatrician insisted I get Covid tested because I had traveled over thanksgiving (Herr Fauci said if you travel you WILL be exposed to Covid) and I had my typical winter runny nose. I said ‘No thank you.’ The psychopath literally chased me out to my car. And that’s when I realized: this is insane. I’m out.
Thank you for your courage. Most people would have caved. This is what all of us who claim to value liberty and bodily autonomy should have been doing from the start. There's nothing that makes my blood boil more than reading a comment from someone who says that they "had to" get tested and wear a mask so they could go on a cruise or fly to their favorite vacation spot! WTH? How about cancelling the cruise or flight and calling the cruise line or airline president and telling them you did? And why you did? It's only by people doing what you did FedUpInOR that we will ever have a chance of turning this madness around. And the sad thing? *We are the majority* and don't even know it. We could have stopped all of this from the beginning if we would have said no and had the same courage you do.
I actually was very shaken by the event. She was a Master Manipulator and tried to convince me that I was a terrible person for...having a runny nose AND seeing my family over a holiday. It took me awhile as a new mom to be okay.
I couldn’t agree more. I believed from THE GET GO that this was an evil plot. Who locks up health people? THE CHINESE! I know because my dad was alive and he was Chinese and he was like WTF?! So I went a little crazy and did RESEARCH and bombarded my kids with it every day. RELENTLESS is what I should have tattooed on me, convinced these shots are made to kill and maim. So no excuses, never comply. Like Fitts says “there are some fates worse than death”
She chased me to my car. Manipulating me, guilting me, lying to me. Fortunately my infant son was wailing so I buckled him in and left. I was very shaken by that confrontation. Shaken awake.
It really was. Made it clearly obvious that her information came from CNN and not scholarly articles which I was familiar with and thus knew that travel did not automatically mean Covid. I’m relived to have saved my son from that being his doctor. We obviously don’t go there anymore.
Sounds like your doctor may be a good candidate for Head of the CDC!
Rochelle Walensky is on a fairly recent video trying to distance herself with a "We didn't know about breakouts" and giggling while doing it. She reveals that she learned about "95% efficacy" from watching CNN.
"In November 2020, CNN reported that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 95% effective at preventing COVID-19.
At that time in 2020, Dr. Rochelle Walensky was a professor at Harvard Medical School and head of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital. In a March 3, 2022 interview, Walensky referenced the CNN report she heard in 2020, before she became CDC director."
If the only lasting effect from this whole debacle is a public generally suspicious of experts and authority figures regardless of their credentials, then it will all have been worth it.
Nothing wrong with thinking the thought of running over one who has tried to intimidate you. I love killing bullies metaphorically and I'll kill them in the real world if need be. Bullies get no sympathy from me.
I guess I'm a bad-ass German so to speak.
Anyhow, good thing she didn't follow your advice and makes total sense being her children were there. Still, maybe just swerve towards them on the way out, and then what happens happens. Just get out and don't look back even if there was a bump along the way when you left.
Can't blame anybody for that or can you?
If you try, then you are a hypocrite, so once again, nothing wrong with thinking the thought of running over the one trying to intimidate you for the crime of having a runny nose.
Hells-bells, Julian Assange is in prison for the "crime" of telling the truth, so I guess all bets are off on expecting jurisprudence and justice from the "state" of UK at least and seems the same is true for many other states of the so-called "West" who have turned into thieves and criminals steeling reserves from others upon a whim not realizing they seal their fate with this behavior.
Crazy, crazy world we are all witnessing. Shit, I need to get my hands dirty.
"Coincidence" that he (Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR test) ended up dead at that time? A lot of truthtellers sure are "conveniently" ending up dead.
This has been happening far too long. The number of scientists who died 'suddenly' post events like AIDS, 911, the Iraq war, the anthrax scare, etc are adding up. Lots of convienent deaths around covid as well.
They are not forced. Heavily encouraged, yes, but they can be honest with people. There are a few that are or offer patient-centered care such as functional medicine doctors
NOT TRUE... A quasi National radio host has been pounding the truth home concerning docs and hospitals over the past year... THEIR LICENSES ARE HELD OVER THEIR HEADS!
Please post the doctors other than Americas Frontline doctors who can ever prescribe ivermectin or hydoxy
-----------Going to the doctor will never be the same. I no longer trust anything they do or say until they satisfy their bona fides with me that they knew it all to be a hoax, too. I DON’T trust doctors anymore, none of them. Too many went along and the ones that didn’t, didn’t blow the whistle on the others. The more important lesson, however, is to understand that the use of the word Covid is the modern interpretation for "demon," an unseen evil that must be guarded against at all costs, the population put through all manner of machinations to prove that they neither have it or will do anything the inquisitors ask to expel it.
I haven't trusted docs a long time. Ever since one denied me pain relief post surgery because I was a punk and obviously a 'junkie'. He told my parents this when they called to ask my status in hospital. I went into shock and thank the effing gods I had both a friend and the wife of my boss who worked as nurses to vouch for me and get me treatment.
I should have sued him for malpractice, but I couldn't put the pieces together until years later.
I so do not trust docs, do my own medicine now. Barring trauma, they don't see me.
How about Joe Rogan's doctor? We don't hear much about the other rare MDs who are/were willing to prescribe IVM/HCQ, but since they are subject to 'oversight' (aka harassment) from their local/state medical boards, it's not surprising that they don't advertise their deviation from the bulk of the herd.
Since the "test" was ended as the method for "confirming" Covid-19 infection, what "test" are they now using, if any (or was your run-in with one of the mass-insane, pre-December 2021)?
Do you know that they are now using PCR tests to test the chickens and turkeys for bird flu? They are "finding" huge amounts of "highly contagious" bird flu and have killed off over 17,000,000 birds so far. Meat and egg shortages, anyone? It's also not just factory farms they're going after either. It's also Joe Blow down the road that has a hand full of chickens in his backyard, that are also being tested and killed.
Remembering back in the beginnings of all this there was (operative word 'was') a Presidente of an African country who sent in pcr swabs from Papayas, motor oil, and goat's blood (or some such thing?). When the tests came back positive Did They have the Papaya groves burned? the oil wells capped? and all the goats killed? Nope.
They just offed the Presidente who dared to mock Their evil game. I'm guessing the Cabal refers to Their game plan as The Georgia Glad Stones for Genocidal Warfare Guidance.
It's scaring the fuck outta me. I have a free range backyard flock. Trying to get roosters to make more chickens but they are 'too loud'. Yeah, like the sirens, like the freeway traffic, what are you sayin you cant handle reality? I am converting a camper into a hen house and am creating a closed yard in correspondance with recent bird flu hysteria in Britain. They will take my plentiful supply of simple protein over my dead body and I mean I really want to go as an old chicken lady mowed down by bullets protecting my farm allotment.
I might be looking into that. I think my next move is to try hand-raising a guy of a fairly quiet breed like Australorps or Lavender Orpington. My landlady had about half a dozen LOrp roosters at one time, the product of an open run purchase and they didn't make much noise at all.
I had silkies in NYC that were very quiet so long as there was no more than one rooster, but they're not great meat birds.
I've been told Americaunas(sp?) are the best in this regard but have never tried them. We do Jersey Giants and Plymouth Rocks. They're not quiet, but with space and fewer roosters, they're not awful.
🙌 I'm with ya! I live in an addition just outside town. No farm animals allowed. I'd love to have some chickens. I like to watch them. The eggs would be nice, too. Listening to a rooster crow and piss off the neighbors, would be a plus. 🤣
Well, we're better off not eating chicken and/or eggs, or any flesh food(s), anyway. I haven't eaten eggs in several years; and, though I still eat some chicken, I've cut down on its consumption quite a bit. Same with dairy. As far as red meat is concerned, I rarely ever eat it, or at least steak and roast beef. I know I shouldn't eat pork especially, but I still succumb to some pizzas with pork on them. I love pepperoni.
Sorry, I like my eggs :). Home-grown eggs have an amazing nutritional profile, much better than factory farmed. My hens are treated well, free range a couple of acres of beautiful land and are spoiled rotten. In all probability, eggs aren't going to kill me any faster than the beer is.
Ask yourself the question, "Were chicken eggs meant to be eaten by human beings?" When you eat them, what you are essentially eating is fertilized or unfertilized chicken fetuses. Would you eat aborted human fetuses? Also, chickens eat dirty, disease carrying insects while they're "free ranging". (It would probably be safer to eat the aborted human fetuses.) To each their own, and I believe in "live and let live", but the thought of eating chicken eggs grosses me out knowing what they really are. I think the subject of eating chicken eggs is like going hunting for meat, I'd eat them, like I'd eat wild meat, if there wasn't anything else, and there was a real necessity of doing so for survival. Otherwise, unless I was homeless again and had to eat more affordable fast food, no thank you.
I'll think I'll agree to disagree. I watch my chickens eat bugs and worms from nature and alchemy turns them into food I can eat. I don't see nature as dirty or something I must avoid.
But I am just a white trash fool who won't touch soylent vegan gluten crap held together by fake industrial gums. To each his own.
BTW, I'm 'FedUpInOregon', too! You know what, I had a terrible thought: A little while ago I heard a noise in Portland that sounded like a missile coming at us, and I thought, what if "they" nuke Portland to blame it on the Russians, or the Chinese, treating "liberal, degenerate" Portland like it's "expendable"? If it happens, at least I won't know what hit me (for more than a moment anyway), and it will likely be over with very quickly (I'll only have enough time, perhaps, to notice my entire apartment, and myself, blowing to smithereens). Nothing would surprise me anymore. The powers-that-be now have small tactical nukes that can "limit" the damage and fallout to a more localized area [used in the WTC Towers{?}---did anyone check for radiation at ground zero?], thus not destroying the entire country, and world (or more of downtown New York City on 9/11). The Satanic cultists want most people dead, so this would be a "good" way to get rid of at least a million people (including those who die from the aftereffects in the surrounding area). Anyway, I don't want to give the psychopaths and sociopaths any ideas, but they don't need me to come up with such an idea, slash plan.
I'm tempted to say that they wouldn't do such to Portland, because Portland is filled with Jews (I'm living in a Jewish owned and operated HUD apartment complex), but they "sacrificed 'their own'" during the holocaust, getting rid of most of the "purer-blood" Jews, and starting Israel with the Ashkenazi (Nazi), eastern-European Jews who only have about 27% Jewish blood, having been converted to Judaism as non-Jews originally. No wonder, eh, that they run Israel as a "good German (Nazi)", corporate-fascist, totalitarian, apartheid, mass-open-air-imprisonment, mass-murder, mass-war-criminal, mass-human-rights-violating state, as they do, much like the U.S. and the rest of the Western countries' governments do, run by a government that some top leaders of have admitted that they believe all non-Jews must be eradicated the world-over, not only the Palestinians and Muslims? And these are the Jews that most of us in the West have been brainwashed to believe we must blindly support, to the tune of many billions of dollars, and have adoration for, and sympathize with (or at least feel sorry for them) since the 1940s. Now, who's going to falsely accuse me of being "anti-Semitic" first?
....Which makes me wonder, are the Ukranian "Nazis" Jewish, or partly made up of powerful Ukranian Jews, and that's one of the reasons why the U.S. and the other Western (NATO) governments (including Israel?) are supporting them right now?
“Democratization” and Anti-Semitism in Ukraine: When Neo-Nazi Symbols Become “The New Normal”
I was fired from my job 4 years short of full pension for refusing the shots. I have never been one to feel sorry for myself, but I can’t help but feel like I have been victimized. This article made me feel a little better. Thanks for that.
Oh my goodness, Jeff, I am so sorry to hear that. The stories of people sacrificing their retirement particularly enrage—and inspire—me. Talk about courageously standing up for your principles and making a truly weighty sacrifice. I very badly wish to see the organizations that did this to their employees severely penalized and forced to issue the pensions of those who have been wrongly terminated. I hope there is a chance for a class action lawsuit and that you will be able to benefit from that.
If you took the vax to protect your present and were injured or killed, you would have had a poor or no future. It is an unnatural decision to have to make.
Nancy Pelosi has contracted the virus. Per her spokesperson, she rec'd her SECOND BOOSTER last month. I'm no math wiz but that's four jabs of mRNA elixir goodness in an 82-year old woman, the demographic heading to the Big Farm Upstate in rapid fashion per the UK data.
Great points, Sage, although in her case, I suspect she got the saline shot, and no doubt she’s on ivermectin like all the politicians and their silver-spooned children are.
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Coincidentally Pelosi was scheduled to go to Taiwan leading a congressional field trip show of solidarity. The CCP (Pelosi's owners) released a stern warning about the trip and magically within a few hours she came down with Covid ("asymptomatic" of course) and the trip was cancelled. The same playbook used by Trudeau when the Truckers came to Ottawa and will no doubt be used by world leaders consistently as an excuse for anything.
I had the same thought when I heard about that (great minds :-) I think maybe he's not high up enough in the hierarchy. Look at all the blunders they made letting high-profile athletes and celebrities get it.
And yes, we must perform our due diligence and hold ourselves to the highest standards of journalistic integrity as we never want to sink to the level of mainstream journalists :-)
My desire (borderline pathological) to know what really happened probably supersedes any "integrity" issue, although they are perhaps the same. "Integrity" root word "wholeness, or health" means considering the totality of the phenomenon.
But it connotes, "ethical" more than "pathological desire for real truth".
This nurse just keeps coming back in alternative media and nobody investigates. Why do we not apply the same scrutiny to everything no matter if it fits our narrative or not?
I appreciate that, Ron, and this is why I’ve never written about this topic and haven’t gone down that rabbit-hole. We have enough concrete, irrefutable evidence to work from, so no need to muddy the waters with unsubstantiated claims that could undermine our well-grounded case.
And contrary to your latter statement, I have seen many instances of people on Team Reality fact-checking one another and making clarifications/corrections where needed. This is one of the strengths of being part of a community of independent, critical thinkers, and we improve ourselves by holding our statements to the same rigorous standards we demand of the mainstream narrative–pushers.
Thanks Margaret. Unfortunately there are many who lack a scientific education and critical thinking skills who post and propagate a lot of nonsense in telegram channels and other places. From chemtrails to aliens and other unverified conspiracy theories.
Lately I have noticed many local anti-vaxxers going off in some "dreaming of a better world" idea, entering spirirual realms and getting lost to reality alltogether. Reality is all we have, even when it has gone bad. Everything else is just a dream.
So the numbers part of her claim doesn't work...probably. Still undecided about her overall claim, but RON's point is important: in the information-situation we're in, where the professional fact checkers and experts are awol or actively spreading misinfo, the opportunities for folks who want to spread alternative/anti-vax-harm misinfo multiply. Want to make a strong impression at the rally? In a substack article? Just relay a more dramatic claim...one neither you nor others has checked. Want to sell something, such as an alt-medicine service or treatment? Same dynamic. Soon, hard to say when, but a some point, Denial will collapse, the floodgates will open, and substacks like MAA's will get tens of thousands of visits/comments. That will be the moment of maximum danger from various charlatans. And obviously, if there are a handful of truly dramatic charaltan-scams, the Narrative Priests will try to recover some of their eroding ground by giving them maximum attention. So, everyone, listen to RON, and heed his basic message even if you're not sure about this one Slovenian nurse and her claims. Stay skeptical, my friends!
But how would that work? Say you’re getting your second booster and I come in for my first shot. They’ll use the same vial for you as me, I don’t think the administrators of these shots know all the tricks.
Maybe the very first batches sent out were that way.
We are all here, caught in the matrix, and waking up is our biggest task.
I've been a rebel and challenger of the dominant paradigm for as long as I can remember - but I still get caught up sometimes. We need to forgive ourselves, forgive those around us who get caught up. Because the brainwashing and coercion has been super-intense - everybody has their breaking point, and it is not for any of us to judge another person for cracking.
Here in Australia, in the last few months of 2021 we had jab mandates, a bit different in every state but 100% for health workers.
When my son's partner succumbed - because she has a mortgage, and kids, and a job she likes - my first reaction was dismay, and then I started looking for ways to help mitigate the possible damage (because she was dead against participating in this experimental injection).
Another friend - a specialist nurse - also succumbed, for the same reasons.
Most of my family members (except for my son) have also been injected - but they were all convinced by the government propaganda.
Yet all are victims of this mind control operation - which has now ventured beyond mind control to body control too.
Here in Queensland, Australia, we have had a jab mandate for eating out at any sort of sit-down cafe, restaurant, pub, club, since December 2021 until the end of next week. Some businesses fought it - and got quite brutally targeted by police. Others just did the minimum: put up a sign, and mostly didn't take any action to check people's green tick. But there were some businesses who went out of their way to go the extra mile: some businesses outside the government mandate (eg furniture shops) who still decided it was a good idea to put up signs saying that only vaxxed people could enter. And some have been quite rigorous in enforcing.
In the beginning, it was understandable, as our government made it quite clear that businesses who did not take steps to enforce the mandates would be hit with heavy fines. (And in fact, they have done this with some businesses.)
How should we judge them?
Personally, I feel that the ones who went out of their way, are ones I will never patronise again.
The ones who complied apologetically, well, how can I judge them, knowing how ruthless our government has been when defied?
But certainly, the ones who resisted (even passively) will get my future patronage when these mandates are lifted next week.
Those who succumbed to the jab mandates because of the pressure and threat of destitution have my heartfelt compassion.
Those who resisted - and lost their livelihoods - have my utmost admiration. (Me, I am retired, so being unjabbed was an easy decision for me.)
The ones who think they have a right to impose any of this on the rest of us, well, they have my undying contempt. Even those whose professed motives were altruistic. Because deciding what is in the best interests of other people demands at least a bit of time and effort trying to think about how this might backfire, how it might not be as helpful as intended, how it might not actually be beneficial at all. This is so if you give your neighbour a plate of cookies, and it is so if you decide to wear a mask around them, and it is so if you want your kids to get injected in order to save grandma.
We all have a responsibility to think about the consequences of our actions and our decisions - that is called "being an adult".
And if we don't, then we are liable.
A "good German", a bad human, one who is guilty of doing harm.
Doing thoughtless harm is maybe not as bad as intentional harm, but it is still something we should be trying to avoid, in our path of learning, growth and evolution towards the Light.
I agree that forgiveness is important, and many people I care about were swept up in the mass hypnosis. I know they are goodhearted and simply trusted the wrong people/entities, were too busy to investigate for themselves, and lacked the awareness of propaganda so naïvely believed it.
Mattias Desmet talks about the need to be understanding of the people who fell under mass formation in the video I linked in this article:
It is especially distressing to hear poignant stories like the ones you shared where they were coerced against their will. That is a violation of the human rights laws that were put in place to prevent such abuses from ever happening again, and it sickens me to see how the perpetrators have forged ahead with no regard to those international laws.
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Here in NZ, now that Comrade Jabcinda Ardern has (for now) rolled back some of the Covid mandates (dictators often take two steps forward in tyranny and then one step back as a "release valve" of the pressure, to avoid the masses causing a revolt), we unvaxxed are able to eat in restaurants again, after 4 months of being treated like lepers in society. My spouse and I took note of which restaurants went full Covid Clown World ("Ve Vill closely inspect your passes mit monocle in eye!") and which posted signs of regret that they were upset at being forced to discriminate against some of their customers.
We will spend our money only at the restaurants (and retail businesses) who clearly signaled their solidarity with freedom of choice when it comes to an experimental "vaccine" with a seriously alarming adverse reaction profile.
One way that I determine which businesses were worth my patronage was by entering a shop without my wearing the nanny state-required slave mask. I would do this if I were the only one in the store. If the proprietor said "Where's your mask?" I would simply roll my eyes and say as I left, "I'll take my money elsewhere." Most store owners or managers seemed cheerful enough to serve me when I shopped without a mask as the only customer in the store.
I was going to watch Joker movie tonight but I stuck with perusing this thread that blossomed from Margaret's essay gem. Glad I did and finding your post was inspiring. "Covid Clown World" ... such an awesome description. Go figure how even here in Idaho Panhandle 2nd Amendent Stronghold USA, things got really dicey for awhile. I am, from day one of C.C.W. mandates a devout Resistor. As a result I got kicked out of many stores and confronted by a few Karens on the street and elsewhere's. I won't go into all the examples of the insanity. Things have loosened up a bit lately. I chock up ongoing reports of insane behavior to the fact that a whole lotta humans are now brain damaged due to the reduced oxygen uptake, increased co2 and bacteria intake from wearing face diapers for 2 years straight. Thank you for the firsthand review of NZ life and your Refusenick stance! God Bless.
Great list of 20 questions! Just needs a corporate media question, so good people like Dr. Malone don't fall for their scams and invite them to their horse farms.
Hi Rick, Yes. If I'm remembering correctly from his Rogan interview, one has to wonder about Malone's integrity when he brags about having deep state/spooks connections?!
Also, Horse Farms? I'm guessing those types of ops/hobby farms are gigantic tax writeoffs like a lot of other ventures for the rich and famous are. I'm (not) sooo impressed by horse hobby farmers. Unless of course he's actually raising and using working animals to till, plant, harvest and transport. Doubtful?
I should watch that interview again, but, Rogan's demeanor for some reason really irritates me, let alone how he stated that the studio covid tests everyone before they enter the building. (don't know if that's still the studio's policy) Anyway. Just droppin food for thought and further research inspired by your warning. Plenty of other players out in Covid Clown World (borrowed that apt definition from 'Moonspinner' of NZ in this thread !) to be wary of, i.e., Dr. Ryan Cole. On and On it goes.
My God. Gold. I gave up trust in authority figures at a very young age. Now that I am not at a very young age, I instinctively doubt anything they say. I never wore a mask, never “socially distanced”, never followed a single one of their fucking rules, never got a shot, and I never ever will. And if anyone had a single doubt, Pelosi, right at the beginning after all the mandatory bullshit started, walking around her “beauty salon” with no mask after having it open just for her should have given them a clue.
By the way, most of the Good Germans (I mean the ones that slavishly stuck with it to the end and only let up when the gubmint told them to) have done what all Good Germans do, they’ve hidden the evidence of their perfidy and hope no one mentions it. YOU MUST NEVER LET ANYONE FORGET WHAT THEY DID, LEAST OF ALL *THEM*. No excuses.
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Being 'red-pilled' also comes with a price. We are early Christians being blamed by Nero for the Great Fire of Rome.
I'm not feeling so "badass" these days. Both my wife and I - and our kids, fortunately - saw this for what it was from the beginning. We left our home of twenty years and moved south to give our kids a more normal school experience. We've lost friends, sacrificed hobbies and interests, and have gained a reputation for being 'crazy conspiracy theorists.'
The level of depression and hopelessness that I experience daily makes it difficult to function. My entire belief system has been destroyed. I no longer have faith in government or basic institutions like the military, medicine or law. I no longer enjoy entertainment or sports because the level to which they are instruments of manipulation is too apparent.
I am not suicidal but I certainly understand how someone could look around and decide that "enough is enough" and blow their own brains out. I can't process how far humanity has descended and there will be no coming back.
Let's not fool ourselves. While we are busy patting ourselves on the back for our bravery and vision, the majority of people out there are still 'all in' and will happily resume mask-wearing, taking more shots, and having their movement digitally tracked if their government tells them they have to as a precondition to seeing Foo Fighters sans Taylor Hawkins live in concert.
My wife lost her job due to her company's vaccine mandate. Luckily, she found another one albeit for slightly less money. Regardless, she's doing okay.
I work for a great international company that, fortunately for me, never mandated vaccines. I'm grateful for the stance that my company took. Regardless, I estimate that ninety-five percent of my colleagues are vaccinated based upon an unscientific survey drawn from comments made, attitudes expressed, the "Hey, everybody, I just got my second booster" applause-o-meter, and the number of people who still insist on wearing masks in virtual meetings or who have mask selfies on their company profile photos.
Because my job requires international travel I still have the veritable 'Sword of Damocles' hanging over my head. It's only a matter of time where I will be asked to attend some convention in Europe or in Washington D.C., New York, or Chicago that I will have to decline which will then expose my dirty secret. While I have a fairly unique skill set and there's no guarantee that I will be fired immediately, I suspect that my ability to continue in my role will be seriously questioned.
Not a "bad ass." Feeling pretty "f*cked", actually.
I wholeheartedly agree with what Colleen and Carl said. All of the steps you took *did* take 1) cognizance and 2) courage, and thus I deem you an honorary Badass, ejsmith :-) You did what was necessary to protect you and your family and you had the bravery to push back against the pressure of the mob. That is a demonstration of everyday badassery and worthy of applause.
Please give yourself credit. What you've done is all it takes, really. Non-participation, passive resistance will be harder for the covidians to fight in the long run than more active protest. I am so grateful for the countless people around the world who are fighting tyranny in the kind of path your family is taking.
Colleen is right. Maybe read some Vaclav Havel. Or watch the great Czech film "Burning Bush." Your witness and service to your children is priceless, regardless of what happens with your career.
"My entire belief system has been destroyed. I no longer have faith in government or basic institutions like the military, medicine or law. I no longer enjoy entertainment or sports because the level to which they are instruments of manipulation is too apparent." That speaks to what so many are feeling, EJ. I don't agree that there is "no coming back" from this dip into subhumanity and no preventing further descent into it, but yeah, our Old World is dead. Killed. Gone. RIP, 1945-2020 America. Whatever good we salvage, it will be a quite different future society. I do sense that you need to get to a church (the better to get the full victims-of-Nero experience?), as you need some solid rock in the storm. Try the Anglican Church of North America--they're sane. Prayers for you, brother dissident.
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Great comment. I'm grateful for exchanges like these and the knowledge that there are a lot of us out there who see this clearly for what it is.
I'm not that worried about my career. Like my wife, I'll roll with whatever fate has in store for me. My duty is to our kids and to all of those fighting inhumanity.
My Christian faith along with Viktor Frankl, Marcus Aurelius, Orwell, and Camus have been my "go-to's" during this dystopian adventure. The first book I 're-read' when all this started was "The Plague." (I'll admit that just like "1984" I may have finally "got it").
I don't have much faith in "The Church" per se as organized religion appears to be just another coercion mechanism. Watching the Pope and Franklin Graham doing sales pitches for Big Pharma buttresses my argument. The irony was not lost on me when Franklin Graham was hospitalized last November for constrictive pericarditis.
Glad to learn about your faith and general resilience, appalled to hear about Franklin Graham's misjudgment and diagnosis. Two other book recs for you, by two Catholic heavyweights: Walker Percy, Thanatos Syndrome--a novel excellent on medical agency corruption, and Daniel Mahoney, The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity, which among other virtues, is politely but strongly critical of Pope Francis.
Thank you. I will look into these. I just finished Eric Metaxas's brilliant biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. A brilliant example of the power of faith in the face of tyranny.
ACNA is different. Many of its members are those who underwent the painful process of parting ways with the Episcopal Church. We've had the no-mask option for nearly a year, and are now back to the common cup at communion for those who want it.
Knowing that the governmant can simply declare complete BS to be true and that most people will simply accept it as being true is very frightening.
It means that the government can commit whatever atrocity they feel like committing and the bulk of the population will go along with it, and probably feel good about going along with it.
I understand how you feel. I feel much the same. God bless and keep you, your family, and may you never have to be put in the position to be "outed" at work.
We Badass Germans do what we can, having delivered 32% of the comments on the EU proposal, way more than the population share of 19%. The statistics by country are interesting in general: overrepresentation of Germany, Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Latvia; underrepresentation of France, Spain, Poland, Romania.
Badass German here; did not answer "yes" to a single question on the list. Have lost a few "friends" along the way, moved states so that I didn't have to fight so much every day, and had two businesses close down (travel and trade shows, impossible to operate during the lockdowns) but I am still happier being a badass than a follower and would do it all again if I were forced to.
UPDATE: After reading Carl Eric Scott’s thoughtful reflection on this essay (https://pomocon.substack.com/p/margaret-anna-alice-strong-medicine), I have replaced the JP Sears video and surrounding sentences with a lengthy new section addressing Carl’s valid concerns about the flippancy of the video detracting from the overall tone of the essay. Please take the time to read that new section as it deepens the conversation on truth, justice, reconciliation, and forgiveness.
Thank you, Carl, for prompting me to improve my essay!
It takes a special skill to take criticism. Well done!
Thank you, Dennis! I am grateful to Carl for his honest and thoughtful assessment as it inspired me to improve this piece.
I was a good German...until... I took my son for a doctors appointment and the pediatrician insisted I get Covid tested because I had traveled over thanksgiving (Herr Fauci said if you travel you WILL be exposed to Covid) and I had my typical winter runny nose. I said ‘No thank you.’ The psychopath literally chased me out to my car. And that’s when I realized: this is insane. I’m out.
Good for you, FedUpInOR! 👏 And look what a truth warrior you’ve become! That gives me hope for those who are still hypnotized.
Thank you for your courage. Most people would have caved. This is what all of us who claim to value liberty and bodily autonomy should have been doing from the start. There's nothing that makes my blood boil more than reading a comment from someone who says that they "had to" get tested and wear a mask so they could go on a cruise or fly to their favorite vacation spot! WTH? How about cancelling the cruise or flight and calling the cruise line or airline president and telling them you did? And why you did? It's only by people doing what you did FedUpInOR that we will ever have a chance of turning this madness around. And the sad thing? *We are the majority* and don't even know it. We could have stopped all of this from the beginning if we would have said no and had the same courage you do.
Or that they "had to" take an irreversible genetic experiment with a horrendous adverse effects profile in order to take a cruise.
I actually was very shaken by the event. She was a Master Manipulator and tried to convince me that I was a terrible person for...having a runny nose AND seeing my family over a holiday. It took me awhile as a new mom to be okay.
I couldn’t agree more. I believed from THE GET GO that this was an evil plot. Who locks up health people? THE CHINESE! I know because my dad was alive and he was Chinese and he was like WTF?! So I went a little crazy and did RESEARCH and bombarded my kids with it every day. RELENTLESS is what I should have tattooed on me, convinced these shots are made to kill and maim. So no excuses, never comply. Like Fitts says “there are some fates worse than death”
CHASED you? I wanna hear the rest of that story. WTF?
She chased me to my car. Manipulating me, guilting me, lying to me. Fortunately my infant son was wailing so I buckled him in and left. I was very shaken by that confrontation. Shaken awake.
I guess we could see it as her doing you a favor!
It really was. Made it clearly obvious that her information came from CNN and not scholarly articles which I was familiar with and thus knew that travel did not automatically mean Covid. I’m relived to have saved my son from that being his doctor. We obviously don’t go there anymore.
😅
Sounds like your doctor may be a good candidate for Head of the CDC!
Rochelle Walensky is on a fairly recent video trying to distance herself with a "We didn't know about breakouts" and giggling while doing it. She reveals that she learned about "95% efficacy" from watching CNN.
"In November 2020, CNN reported that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 95% effective at preventing COVID-19.
At that time in 2020, Dr. Rochelle Walensky was a professor at Harvard Medical School and head of the infectious diseases division at Massachusetts General Hospital. In a March 3, 2022 interview, Walensky referenced the CNN report she heard in 2020, before she became CDC director."
Good grief! That is what passes for intellectual competence at Harvard Medical School these days?
If the only lasting effect from this whole debacle is a public generally suspicious of experts and authority figures regardless of their credentials, then it will all have been worth it.
Should have run her over, totally unintentionally, of course.
Sarcasm!
Liar! (😉😋)
But a noble liar.
Nothing wrong with thinking the thought of running over one who has tried to intimidate you. I love killing bullies metaphorically and I'll kill them in the real world if need be. Bullies get no sympathy from me.
I guess I'm a bad-ass German so to speak.
Anyhow, good thing she didn't follow your advice and makes total sense being her children were there. Still, maybe just swerve towards them on the way out, and then what happens happens. Just get out and don't look back even if there was a bump along the way when you left.
Can't blame anybody for that or can you?
If you try, then you are a hypocrite, so once again, nothing wrong with thinking the thought of running over the one trying to intimidate you for the crime of having a runny nose.
Hells-bells, Julian Assange is in prison for the "crime" of telling the truth, so I guess all bets are off on expecting jurisprudence and justice from the "state" of UK at least and seems the same is true for many other states of the so-called "West" who have turned into thieves and criminals steeling reserves from others upon a whim not realizing they seal their fate with this behavior.
Crazy, crazy world we are all witnessing. Shit, I need to get my hands dirty.
I am a mother and I know that if and when the time comes I will do WHATEVER it takes to defend myself and my kids.
God bless you for having the cajones to run for your life and your son's. Deepest respects!
Jesus. Whatever it takes, so glad you are taking care yourself so now you can protect your child!
You live in Portland I take it.
Me, too! 😆
Mullis is the PCR inventor - he called these tests worthless for detecting covid..
Rapid tests are also worthless... Kary is dead now!
https://rumble.com/vhu4rz-kary-mullis-inventor-of-the-pcr-test.html
"Coincidence" that he (Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR test) ended up dead at that time? A lot of truthtellers sure are "conveniently" ending up dead.
This has been happening far too long. The number of scientists who died 'suddenly' post events like AIDS, 911, the Iraq war, the anthrax scare, etc are adding up. Lots of convienent deaths around covid as well.
Yes but how much money are these doctors making off of administering these tests? That’s the real key
they are forced to follow CDC, NIH, or HHS protocol.... as they lose trust with many..
They are not forced. Heavily encouraged, yes, but they can be honest with people. There are a few that are or offer patient-centered care such as functional medicine doctors
NOT TRUE... A quasi National radio host has been pounding the truth home concerning docs and hospitals over the past year... THEIR LICENSES ARE HELD OVER THEIR HEADS!
Please post the doctors other than Americas Frontline doctors who can ever prescribe ivermectin or hydoxy
-----------Going to the doctor will never be the same. I no longer trust anything they do or say until they satisfy their bona fides with me that they knew it all to be a hoax, too. I DON’T trust doctors anymore, none of them. Too many went along and the ones that didn’t, didn’t blow the whistle on the others. The more important lesson, however, is to understand that the use of the word Covid is the modern interpretation for "demon," an unseen evil that must be guarded against at all costs, the population put through all manner of machinations to prove that they neither have it or will do anything the inquisitors ask to expel it.
https://twelveround.com/blog/the-pandemic-inquisition
I haven't trusted docs a long time. Ever since one denied me pain relief post surgery because I was a punk and obviously a 'junkie'. He told my parents this when they called to ask my status in hospital. I went into shock and thank the effing gods I had both a friend and the wife of my boss who worked as nurses to vouch for me and get me treatment.
I should have sued him for malpractice, but I couldn't put the pieces together until years later.
I so do not trust docs, do my own medicine now. Barring trauma, they don't see me.
How about Joe Rogan's doctor? We don't hear much about the other rare MDs who are/were willing to prescribe IVM/HCQ, but since they are subject to 'oversight' (aka harassment) from their local/state medical boards, it's not surprising that they don't advertise their deviation from the bulk of the herd.
Since the "test" was ended as the method for "confirming" Covid-19 infection, what "test" are they now using, if any (or was your run-in with one of the mass-insane, pre-December 2021)?
Do you know that they are now using PCR tests to test the chickens and turkeys for bird flu? They are "finding" huge amounts of "highly contagious" bird flu and have killed off over 17,000,000 birds so far. Meat and egg shortages, anyone? It's also not just factory farms they're going after either. It's also Joe Blow down the road that has a hand full of chickens in his backyard, that are also being tested and killed.
Remembering back in the beginnings of all this there was (operative word 'was') a Presidente of an African country who sent in pcr swabs from Papayas, motor oil, and goat's blood (or some such thing?). When the tests came back positive Did They have the Papaya groves burned? the oil wells capped? and all the goats killed? Nope.
They just offed the Presidente who dared to mock Their evil game. I'm guessing the Cabal refers to Their game plan as The Georgia Glad Stones for Genocidal Warfare Guidance.
Yep. Thinking about it puts an arrow of ice through my heart. --- They will kill anyone who gets in their way.
It's scaring the fuck outta me. I have a free range backyard flock. Trying to get roosters to make more chickens but they are 'too loud'. Yeah, like the sirens, like the freeway traffic, what are you sayin you cant handle reality? I am converting a camper into a hen house and am creating a closed yard in correspondance with recent bird flu hysteria in Britain. They will take my plentiful supply of simple protein over my dead body and I mean I really want to go as an old chicken lady mowed down by bullets protecting my farm allotment.
I'm in farm country so this isn't a problem for me, but there are means of "de-crowing" roosters if you find you absolutely must.
I might be looking into that. I think my next move is to try hand-raising a guy of a fairly quiet breed like Australorps or Lavender Orpington. My landlady had about half a dozen LOrp roosters at one time, the product of an open run purchase and they didn't make much noise at all.
Lorps of all kinds are a quiet breed, indeed.
I had silkies in NYC that were very quiet so long as there was no more than one rooster, but they're not great meat birds.
I've been told Americaunas(sp?) are the best in this regard but have never tried them. We do Jersey Giants and Plymouth Rocks. They're not quiet, but with space and fewer roosters, they're not awful.
🙌 I'm with ya! I live in an addition just outside town. No farm animals allowed. I'd love to have some chickens. I like to watch them. The eggs would be nice, too. Listening to a rooster crow and piss off the neighbors, would be a plus. 🤣
I find watching chickens to be quite relaxing. It's better than a fish tank, LOL!
True. Plus sometimes they do funny things.
Charlie you rock
Thanks. :) Back atcha!
Well, we're better off not eating chicken and/or eggs, or any flesh food(s), anyway. I haven't eaten eggs in several years; and, though I still eat some chicken, I've cut down on its consumption quite a bit. Same with dairy. As far as red meat is concerned, I rarely ever eat it, or at least steak and roast beef. I know I shouldn't eat pork especially, but I still succumb to some pizzas with pork on them. I love pepperoni.
Sorry, I like my eggs :). Home-grown eggs have an amazing nutritional profile, much better than factory farmed. My hens are treated well, free range a couple of acres of beautiful land and are spoiled rotten. In all probability, eggs aren't going to kill me any faster than the beer is.
Ask yourself the question, "Were chicken eggs meant to be eaten by human beings?" When you eat them, what you are essentially eating is fertilized or unfertilized chicken fetuses. Would you eat aborted human fetuses? Also, chickens eat dirty, disease carrying insects while they're "free ranging". (It would probably be safer to eat the aborted human fetuses.) To each their own, and I believe in "live and let live", but the thought of eating chicken eggs grosses me out knowing what they really are. I think the subject of eating chicken eggs is like going hunting for meat, I'd eat them, like I'd eat wild meat, if there wasn't anything else, and there was a real necessity of doing so for survival. Otherwise, unless I was homeless again and had to eat more affordable fast food, no thank you.
I'll think I'll agree to disagree. I watch my chickens eat bugs and worms from nature and alchemy turns them into food I can eat. I don't see nature as dirty or something I must avoid.
But I am just a white trash fool who won't touch soylent vegan gluten crap held together by fake industrial gums. To each his own.
How about bugs?
I eat the occasional when I’m walking and talking, mistaking an dead beer bug for a flax seed….crunchy
What about 'em?
I wrote a poem years back that I titled, "Get Me's Bug Me".
This was in 2020.
BTW, I'm 'FedUpInOregon', too! You know what, I had a terrible thought: A little while ago I heard a noise in Portland that sounded like a missile coming at us, and I thought, what if "they" nuke Portland to blame it on the Russians, or the Chinese, treating "liberal, degenerate" Portland like it's "expendable"? If it happens, at least I won't know what hit me (for more than a moment anyway), and it will likely be over with very quickly (I'll only have enough time, perhaps, to notice my entire apartment, and myself, blowing to smithereens). Nothing would surprise me anymore. The powers-that-be now have small tactical nukes that can "limit" the damage and fallout to a more localized area [used in the WTC Towers{?}---did anyone check for radiation at ground zero?], thus not destroying the entire country, and world (or more of downtown New York City on 9/11). The Satanic cultists want most people dead, so this would be a "good" way to get rid of at least a million people (including those who die from the aftereffects in the surrounding area). Anyway, I don't want to give the psychopaths and sociopaths any ideas, but they don't need me to come up with such an idea, slash plan.
I'm tempted to say that they wouldn't do such to Portland, because Portland is filled with Jews (I'm living in a Jewish owned and operated HUD apartment complex), but they "sacrificed 'their own'" during the holocaust, getting rid of most of the "purer-blood" Jews, and starting Israel with the Ashkenazi (Nazi), eastern-European Jews who only have about 27% Jewish blood, having been converted to Judaism as non-Jews originally. No wonder, eh, that they run Israel as a "good German (Nazi)", corporate-fascist, totalitarian, apartheid, mass-open-air-imprisonment, mass-murder, mass-war-criminal, mass-human-rights-violating state, as they do, much like the U.S. and the rest of the Western countries' governments do, run by a government that some top leaders of have admitted that they believe all non-Jews must be eradicated the world-over, not only the Palestinians and Muslims? And these are the Jews that most of us in the West have been brainwashed to believe we must blindly support, to the tune of many billions of dollars, and have adoration for, and sympathize with (or at least feel sorry for them) since the 1940s. Now, who's going to falsely accuse me of being "anti-Semitic" first?
....Which makes me wonder, are the Ukranian "Nazis" Jewish, or partly made up of powerful Ukranian Jews, and that's one of the reasons why the U.S. and the other Western (NATO) governments (including Israel?) are supporting them right now?
“Democratization” and Anti-Semitism in Ukraine: When Neo-Nazi Symbols Become “The New Normal”
By Julie Lévesque
Global Research, April 02, 2022
https://www.globalresearch.ca/democratization-and-anti-semitism-in-ukraine-neo-nazi-symbols-become-the-new-normal/5371919
"Im out" awesome line.
Or, "I'm gone".
Or, "I'm out of here" / "I'm outta here".
I was fired from my job 4 years short of full pension for refusing the shots. I have never been one to feel sorry for myself, but I can’t help but feel like I have been victimized. This article made me feel a little better. Thanks for that.
Oh my goodness, Jeff, I am so sorry to hear that. The stories of people sacrificing their retirement particularly enrage—and inspire—me. Talk about courageously standing up for your principles and making a truly weighty sacrifice. I very badly wish to see the organizations that did this to their employees severely penalized and forced to issue the pensions of those who have been wrongly terminated. I hope there is a chance for a class action lawsuit and that you will be able to benefit from that.
Glad my article helped, in any case!
You are a victim.
My coworkers who didn’t want the shots, but took them to keep from being fired were victimized too.
If you took the vax to protect your present and were injured or killed, you would have had a poor or no future. It is an unnatural decision to have to make.
Yep
Shared to Telegram!
And, I’m a Badass German. :) ;)
Here’s the proof:
https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/coleys-toxins-how-the-most-effective?s=w
You absolutely are, Monica, and thank you for your brave and brilliant work as well as for sharing!
Literally, by family, and figuratively as well - https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/pharmacogenomics-toxicogenomics?s=w
Nancy Pelosi has contracted the virus. Per her spokesperson, she rec'd her SECOND BOOSTER last month. I'm no math wiz but that's four jabs of mRNA elixir goodness in an 82-year old woman, the demographic heading to the Big Farm Upstate in rapid fashion per the UK data.
The bills are coming due on a bad loan.
Great points, Sage, although in her case, I suspect she got the saline shot, and no doubt she’s on ivermectin like all the politicians and their silver-spooned children are.
Coincidentally Pelosi was scheduled to go to Taiwan leading a congressional field trip show of solidarity. The CCP (Pelosi's owners) released a stern warning about the trip and magically within a few hours she came down with Covid ("asymptomatic" of course) and the trip was cancelled. The same playbook used by Trudeau when the Truckers came to Ottawa and will no doubt be used by world leaders consistently as an excuse for anything.
The plot thickens!
Not a coincidence.
Like Psaki, Like Hillary, Positive Covid Test the new get out of jail free card?
#2: Similarly, if Gavin Newsom did get Bell's Palsy as Kirsch speculates, did Newsom, a WEF guy who is all in on the fascism, get the real stuff?
This is where my mind goes!
I had the same thought when I heard about that (great minds :-) I think maybe he's not high up enough in the hierarchy. Look at all the blunders they made letting high-profile athletes and celebrities get it.
Certainly plausible. But Galoshes can't work backwards from a premise and try to make it fit.
Galoshes has to work from the ground floor and make a calculated analysis.
The Pelosi (and US Congress) one seems very doable b/c apparently you have one doctor administering...
All the various WEF grads, spread out everywhere...Would be very difficult logistically to keep all the batches and confederates organized and quiet.
One of the many reasons I love you 😻
And yes, we must perform our due diligence and hold ourselves to the highest standards of journalistic integrity as we never want to sink to the level of mainstream journalists :-)
::Insert cat with heart eyes emoji here::
My desire (borderline pathological) to know what really happened probably supersedes any "integrity" issue, although they are perhaps the same. "Integrity" root word "wholeness, or health" means considering the totality of the phenomenon.
But it connotes, "ethical" more than "pathological desire for real truth".
This has been Fun With Words with Galoshes Hana.
I need coffee. :)
Gavi is high enough, Getty money pawn, Globalist Grad 2009.
Interestingly he spent 200K in 1 week Mexico vacation….
Now he’s in S America again?
Health treatments for the death shot?
Yes as a Commifornian I wonder the same thing about Newscum.
This is a delicious conspiracy theory that to be clear, I do not discount!
But I would dearly love to know how the rubber hit the road in implementing the Saline Ruse if it happened.
As in, who knew and how did it actually unfold? Did a special batch make it to the doctor and he was given a knowing look...use THIS batch here.
Did the person delivering the batch know? Did the person who loaded the batch know? How was this all communicated from top down. And so forth.
If this whistleblower nurse in Slovenia is to be believed:
“Number 1 is the placebo, saline. Number 2 is the mRNA. The number 3 is an mRNA stick that contains the onco gene, linked to the adenovirus that contributes to the development of cancer.” (https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/24541/whistleblower-nurse-reveals-politicians-getting-saline-solution-not-vaxx/)
So therein lies some WEF bungling. You can't let lowly nurses in on the ruse, Oligarchs! They will blow the whistle on your shenanigans!
The whole thing will come unraveled. Your plot to rid the world of useless eaters.
The Great Unraveling has begun!
This is like Global Mass Murder Scooby Doo.
"We would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling whistleblower nurses!"
I debunked that video in a comment here:
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-real-story-on-hot-covid-19-lots/comment/5641830?s=r
This nurse just keeps coming back in alternative media and nobody investigates. Why do we not apply the same scrutiny to everything no matter if it fits our narrative or not?
I appreciate that, Ron, and this is why I’ve never written about this topic and haven’t gone down that rabbit-hole. We have enough concrete, irrefutable evidence to work from, so no need to muddy the waters with unsubstantiated claims that could undermine our well-grounded case.
And contrary to your latter statement, I have seen many instances of people on Team Reality fact-checking one another and making clarifications/corrections where needed. This is one of the strengths of being part of a community of independent, critical thinkers, and we improve ourselves by holding our statements to the same rigorous standards we demand of the mainstream narrative–pushers.
Thanks Margaret. Unfortunately there are many who lack a scientific education and critical thinking skills who post and propagate a lot of nonsense in telegram channels and other places. From chemtrails to aliens and other unverified conspiracy theories.
Lately I have noticed many local anti-vaxxers going off in some "dreaming of a better world" idea, entering spirirual realms and getting lost to reality alltogether. Reality is all we have, even when it has gone bad. Everything else is just a dream.
So the numbers part of her claim doesn't work...probably. Still undecided about her overall claim, but RON's point is important: in the information-situation we're in, where the professional fact checkers and experts are awol or actively spreading misinfo, the opportunities for folks who want to spread alternative/anti-vax-harm misinfo multiply. Want to make a strong impression at the rally? In a substack article? Just relay a more dramatic claim...one neither you nor others has checked. Want to sell something, such as an alt-medicine service or treatment? Same dynamic. Soon, hard to say when, but a some point, Denial will collapse, the floodgates will open, and substacks like MAA's will get tens of thousands of visits/comments. That will be the moment of maximum danger from various charlatans. And obviously, if there are a handful of truly dramatic charaltan-scams, the Narrative Priests will try to recover some of their eroding ground by giving them maximum attention. So, everyone, listen to RON, and heed his basic message even if you're not sure about this one Slovenian nurse and her claims. Stay skeptical, my friends!
But how would that work? Say you’re getting your second booster and I come in for my first shot. They’ll use the same vial for you as me, I don’t think the administrators of these shots know all the tricks.
Maybe the very first batches sent out were that way.
Remember that nurse was/is in Slovenia. What they got and how it's designated could be different from what the US received.
Ivermectin worked wonders on my unvaccinated self. I kicked covid within a week.
👏 She will not be missed.
We are all here, caught in the matrix, and waking up is our biggest task.
I've been a rebel and challenger of the dominant paradigm for as long as I can remember - but I still get caught up sometimes. We need to forgive ourselves, forgive those around us who get caught up. Because the brainwashing and coercion has been super-intense - everybody has their breaking point, and it is not for any of us to judge another person for cracking.
Here in Australia, in the last few months of 2021 we had jab mandates, a bit different in every state but 100% for health workers.
When my son's partner succumbed - because she has a mortgage, and kids, and a job she likes - my first reaction was dismay, and then I started looking for ways to help mitigate the possible damage (because she was dead against participating in this experimental injection).
Another friend - a specialist nurse - also succumbed, for the same reasons.
Most of my family members (except for my son) have also been injected - but they were all convinced by the government propaganda.
Yet all are victims of this mind control operation - which has now ventured beyond mind control to body control too.
Here in Queensland, Australia, we have had a jab mandate for eating out at any sort of sit-down cafe, restaurant, pub, club, since December 2021 until the end of next week. Some businesses fought it - and got quite brutally targeted by police. Others just did the minimum: put up a sign, and mostly didn't take any action to check people's green tick. But there were some businesses who went out of their way to go the extra mile: some businesses outside the government mandate (eg furniture shops) who still decided it was a good idea to put up signs saying that only vaxxed people could enter. And some have been quite rigorous in enforcing.
In the beginning, it was understandable, as our government made it quite clear that businesses who did not take steps to enforce the mandates would be hit with heavy fines. (And in fact, they have done this with some businesses.)
How should we judge them?
Personally, I feel that the ones who went out of their way, are ones I will never patronise again.
The ones who complied apologetically, well, how can I judge them, knowing how ruthless our government has been when defied?
But certainly, the ones who resisted (even passively) will get my future patronage when these mandates are lifted next week.
Those who succumbed to the jab mandates because of the pressure and threat of destitution have my heartfelt compassion.
Those who resisted - and lost their livelihoods - have my utmost admiration. (Me, I am retired, so being unjabbed was an easy decision for me.)
The ones who think they have a right to impose any of this on the rest of us, well, they have my undying contempt. Even those whose professed motives were altruistic. Because deciding what is in the best interests of other people demands at least a bit of time and effort trying to think about how this might backfire, how it might not be as helpful as intended, how it might not actually be beneficial at all. This is so if you give your neighbour a plate of cookies, and it is so if you decide to wear a mask around them, and it is so if you want your kids to get injected in order to save grandma.
We all have a responsibility to think about the consequences of our actions and our decisions - that is called "being an adult".
And if we don't, then we are liable.
A "good German", a bad human, one who is guilty of doing harm.
Doing thoughtless harm is maybe not as bad as intentional harm, but it is still something we should be trying to avoid, in our path of learning, growth and evolution towards the Light.
Thank you for this moving contemplation, Mara!
I agree that forgiveness is important, and many people I care about were swept up in the mass hypnosis. I know they are goodhearted and simply trusted the wrong people/entities, were too busy to investigate for themselves, and lacked the awareness of propaganda so naïvely believed it.
Mattias Desmet talks about the need to be understanding of the people who fell under mass formation in the video I linked in this article:
https://peakprosperity.com/mattias-desmet-on-mass-formation/
It is especially distressing to hear poignant stories like the ones you shared where they were coerced against their will. That is a violation of the human rights laws that were put in place to prevent such abuses from ever happening again, and it sickens me to see how the perpetrators have forged ahead with no regard to those international laws.
Your focus on mitigation is both wise and compassionate. And I agree that the zealous colluders (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling) should no longer be patronized, while the resisters should absolutely be rewarded.
Here in NZ, now that Comrade Jabcinda Ardern has (for now) rolled back some of the Covid mandates (dictators often take two steps forward in tyranny and then one step back as a "release valve" of the pressure, to avoid the masses causing a revolt), we unvaxxed are able to eat in restaurants again, after 4 months of being treated like lepers in society. My spouse and I took note of which restaurants went full Covid Clown World ("Ve Vill closely inspect your passes mit monocle in eye!") and which posted signs of regret that they were upset at being forced to discriminate against some of their customers.
We will spend our money only at the restaurants (and retail businesses) who clearly signaled their solidarity with freedom of choice when it comes to an experimental "vaccine" with a seriously alarming adverse reaction profile.
One way that I determine which businesses were worth my patronage was by entering a shop without my wearing the nanny state-required slave mask. I would do this if I were the only one in the store. If the proprietor said "Where's your mask?" I would simply roll my eyes and say as I left, "I'll take my money elsewhere." Most store owners or managers seemed cheerful enough to serve me when I shopped without a mask as the only customer in the store.
I was going to watch Joker movie tonight but I stuck with perusing this thread that blossomed from Margaret's essay gem. Glad I did and finding your post was inspiring. "Covid Clown World" ... such an awesome description. Go figure how even here in Idaho Panhandle 2nd Amendent Stronghold USA, things got really dicey for awhile. I am, from day one of C.C.W. mandates a devout Resistor. As a result I got kicked out of many stores and confronted by a few Karens on the street and elsewhere's. I won't go into all the examples of the insanity. Things have loosened up a bit lately. I chock up ongoing reports of insane behavior to the fact that a whole lotta humans are now brain damaged due to the reduced oxygen uptake, increased co2 and bacteria intake from wearing face diapers for 2 years straight. Thank you for the firsthand review of NZ life and your Refusenick stance! God Bless.
Well-deserved!
You did steal it!!! But you always ‘steal’ the best stuff! And I agree this ‘comment” thread is great! 💓👏
Great list of 20 questions! Just needs a corporate media question, so good people like Dr. Malone don't fall for their scams and invite them to their horse farms.
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dont buy into Malone... ANY REPLY??
Hi Rick, Yes. If I'm remembering correctly from his Rogan interview, one has to wonder about Malone's integrity when he brags about having deep state/spooks connections?!
Also, Horse Farms? I'm guessing those types of ops/hobby farms are gigantic tax writeoffs like a lot of other ventures for the rich and famous are. I'm (not) sooo impressed by horse hobby farmers. Unless of course he's actually raising and using working animals to till, plant, harvest and transport. Doubtful?
I should watch that interview again, but, Rogan's demeanor for some reason really irritates me, let alone how he stated that the studio covid tests everyone before they enter the building. (don't know if that's still the studio's policy) Anyway. Just droppin food for thought and further research inspired by your warning. Plenty of other players out in Covid Clown World (borrowed that apt definition from 'Moonspinner' of NZ in this thread !) to be wary of, i.e., Dr. Ryan Cole. On and On it goes.
My God. Gold. I gave up trust in authority figures at a very young age. Now that I am not at a very young age, I instinctively doubt anything they say. I never wore a mask, never “socially distanced”, never followed a single one of their fucking rules, never got a shot, and I never ever will. And if anyone had a single doubt, Pelosi, right at the beginning after all the mandatory bullshit started, walking around her “beauty salon” with no mask after having it open just for her should have given them a clue.
Thank you, hoppah! And good on you for being a lifelong anti-authoritarian! I think I’ve been that way since birth :-)
By the way, most of the Good Germans (I mean the ones that slavishly stuck with it to the end and only let up when the gubmint told them to) have done what all Good Germans do, they’ve hidden the evidence of their perfidy and hope no one mentions it. YOU MUST NEVER LET ANYONE FORGET WHAT THEY DID, LEAST OF ALL *THEM*. No excuses.
Amen, hoppah, especially when it comes to *THEM*!
Proud to be able to tell my kids and grandkids that their mother did not go quietly into tyranny.
It is indeed a legacy to be proud of, Crissy, and no doubt you are serving as an inspiration to others! 🙌
Excellent way to bring all the everyday complicity which allowed tyranny to flourish. I am celebrating being a Badass Brit .
Haha, thank you for your fellow badassery, Susan! 💪🙌
Being 'red-pilled' also comes with a price. We are early Christians being blamed by Nero for the Great Fire of Rome.
I'm not feeling so "badass" these days. Both my wife and I - and our kids, fortunately - saw this for what it was from the beginning. We left our home of twenty years and moved south to give our kids a more normal school experience. We've lost friends, sacrificed hobbies and interests, and have gained a reputation for being 'crazy conspiracy theorists.'
The level of depression and hopelessness that I experience daily makes it difficult to function. My entire belief system has been destroyed. I no longer have faith in government or basic institutions like the military, medicine or law. I no longer enjoy entertainment or sports because the level to which they are instruments of manipulation is too apparent.
I am not suicidal but I certainly understand how someone could look around and decide that "enough is enough" and blow their own brains out. I can't process how far humanity has descended and there will be no coming back.
Let's not fool ourselves. While we are busy patting ourselves on the back for our bravery and vision, the majority of people out there are still 'all in' and will happily resume mask-wearing, taking more shots, and having their movement digitally tracked if their government tells them they have to as a precondition to seeing Foo Fighters sans Taylor Hawkins live in concert.
My wife lost her job due to her company's vaccine mandate. Luckily, she found another one albeit for slightly less money. Regardless, she's doing okay.
I work for a great international company that, fortunately for me, never mandated vaccines. I'm grateful for the stance that my company took. Regardless, I estimate that ninety-five percent of my colleagues are vaccinated based upon an unscientific survey drawn from comments made, attitudes expressed, the "Hey, everybody, I just got my second booster" applause-o-meter, and the number of people who still insist on wearing masks in virtual meetings or who have mask selfies on their company profile photos.
Because my job requires international travel I still have the veritable 'Sword of Damocles' hanging over my head. It's only a matter of time where I will be asked to attend some convention in Europe or in Washington D.C., New York, or Chicago that I will have to decline which will then expose my dirty secret. While I have a fairly unique skill set and there's no guarantee that I will be fired immediately, I suspect that my ability to continue in my role will be seriously questioned.
Not a "bad ass." Feeling pretty "f*cked", actually.
I wholeheartedly agree with what Colleen and Carl said. All of the steps you took *did* take 1) cognizance and 2) courage, and thus I deem you an honorary Badass, ejsmith :-) You did what was necessary to protect you and your family and you had the bravery to push back against the pressure of the mob. That is a demonstration of everyday badassery and worthy of applause.
Please give yourself credit. What you've done is all it takes, really. Non-participation, passive resistance will be harder for the covidians to fight in the long run than more active protest. I am so grateful for the countless people around the world who are fighting tyranny in the kind of path your family is taking.
Colleen is right. Maybe read some Vaclav Havel. Or watch the great Czech film "Burning Bush." Your witness and service to your children is priceless, regardless of what happens with your career.
"My entire belief system has been destroyed. I no longer have faith in government or basic institutions like the military, medicine or law. I no longer enjoy entertainment or sports because the level to which they are instruments of manipulation is too apparent." That speaks to what so many are feeling, EJ. I don't agree that there is "no coming back" from this dip into subhumanity and no preventing further descent into it, but yeah, our Old World is dead. Killed. Gone. RIP, 1945-2020 America. Whatever good we salvage, it will be a quite different future society. I do sense that you need to get to a church (the better to get the full victims-of-Nero experience?), as you need some solid rock in the storm. Try the Anglican Church of North America--they're sane. Prayers for you, brother dissident.
Great comment. I'm grateful for exchanges like these and the knowledge that there are a lot of us out there who see this clearly for what it is.
I'm not that worried about my career. Like my wife, I'll roll with whatever fate has in store for me. My duty is to our kids and to all of those fighting inhumanity.
My Christian faith along with Viktor Frankl, Marcus Aurelius, Orwell, and Camus have been my "go-to's" during this dystopian adventure. The first book I 're-read' when all this started was "The Plague." (I'll admit that just like "1984" I may have finally "got it").
I don't have much faith in "The Church" per se as organized religion appears to be just another coercion mechanism. Watching the Pope and Franklin Graham doing sales pitches for Big Pharma buttresses my argument. The irony was not lost on me when Franklin Graham was hospitalized last November for constrictive pericarditis.
Glad to learn about your faith and general resilience, appalled to hear about Franklin Graham's misjudgment and diagnosis. Two other book recs for you, by two Catholic heavyweights: Walker Percy, Thanatos Syndrome--a novel excellent on medical agency corruption, and Daniel Mahoney, The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity, which among other virtues, is politely but strongly critical of Pope Francis.
Thank you. I will look into these. I just finished Eric Metaxas's brilliant biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. A brilliant example of the power of faith in the face of tyranny.
That is an excellent book, and for these times especially. My wife and I read first half of it--need to return to the rest.
The Anglican church in England has gone full coivd compliant and is fully woke.
ACNA is different. Many of its members are those who underwent the painful process of parting ways with the Episcopal Church. We've had the no-mask option for nearly a year, and are now back to the common cup at communion for those who want it.
Knowing that the governmant can simply declare complete BS to be true and that most people will simply accept it as being true is very frightening.
It means that the government can commit whatever atrocity they feel like committing and the bulk of the population will go along with it, and probably feel good about going along with it.
I understand how you feel. I feel much the same. God bless and keep you, your family, and may you never have to be put in the position to be "outed" at work.
We Badass Germans do what we can, having delivered 32% of the comments on the EU proposal, way more than the population share of 19%. The statistics by country are interesting in general: overrepresentation of Germany, Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Latvia; underrepresentation of France, Spain, Poland, Romania.
Wie interessant und gut für euch!
Badass German here; did not answer "yes" to a single question on the list. Have lost a few "friends" along the way, moved states so that I didn't have to fight so much every day, and had two businesses close down (travel and trade shows, impossible to operate during the lockdowns) but I am still happier being a badass than a follower and would do it all again if I were forced to.
Ohhh, the irony of that Rage Against the Machine song.
Wow big comprehensive post full of well thought out links. Bravo.
Thanks so much, Unacceptable Fakeologist, and I really appreciate your sharing it, too!
We need to promote each other if we're going to get any traction.