What should frighten people today, isn’t the authoritarian governments of China and Russia, but the authoritarians in our midsts. It is terrifying that such a retrograde philosophy has taken root amongst so many western leaders...including among the Democrats in the US.
They know these policies (like the travel ban in Canada) will have …
What should frighten people today, isn’t the authoritarian governments of China and Russia, but the authoritarians in our midsts. It is terrifying that such a retrograde philosophy has taken root amongst so many western leaders...including among the Democrats in the US.
They know these policies (like the travel ban in Canada) will have no discernible effect, but that isn’t the point. The point is control...do what we say you little plebs or we will crush you.
This is only possible because of a largely compliant media...which is why I am so thankful for places like Common Sense which give alternative (non-government) narratives a voice.
PS - if you're interested in my writings on freedom and other important topics...check out my substack
Coming to this a little late, Gordon - but must comment on the last sentence of your first paragraph. Why mention only the Dems?
For the entire year of 2020 our country was in the (capable?) hands of the the Trump White House. That was the year the entire economy was locked down for basically one fiscal quarter because no one anywhere had any idea what the hell virus was attacking us. Not knowing what was going on does not make you authoritarian, it means protecting your population. And the Trump administration did. It had its ups and downs, but it treated Covid as the threat it was. Does that make him authoritarian? I don't think so.
Whatever Biden and his 'authoritarian' team might have done in 2021 till now re Covid was basically a continuation of the same policies - though many on this thread will probably quibble with that.
Did Trudeau go too far? Did Biden with his rules (non citizens still have to be vaxxed to enter the US)? Probably. Is it some kind of an example of despotism or control? Hardly. No one, either in Trudeau's PMO or Biden's White House is intelligent enough for that. They believed in vaccinations, so that's the direction they went. And that is the direction Trump went.
People in power are not smarter than we are. Don't give them credit for things they are not capable of doing.
I'm responding late to your comment, which I agree with but have a different take on what transpired.
You wrote;
"For the entire year of 2020, our country was in the (capable?) hands of the Trump White House. That was the year the entire economy was locked down for basically one fiscal quarter because no one anywhere had any idea what the hell virus was attacking us."
I maintain that we knew what it was and where it came from because we had financed its development.
The proof is in the denials of Fauci and company as well as video and written evidence.
October 2019, 2 months before the first reported case in China, Fauci and top HHS officials conceptualize having a new outbreak of novel avian flu virus from China so they can accelerate FDA approvals and enforce mRNA vaccines on the masses
"Outgoing National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins stood by his email referring to the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration as "fringe epidemiologists," despite credentials from Oxford, Harvard, and Stanford."
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins
"Wisdom of crowds is the idea that large groups of people are collectively smarter than individual experts when it comes to problem-solving, decision-making, innovating, and predicting. The idea is that the viewpoint of an individual can inherently be biased, whereas taking the average knowledge of a crowd can result in eliminating the bias or noise to produce a clearer and more coherent result."
"The theory is often applied to financial markets to show why markets in some instances operate efficiently and other times inefficiently. Market participants in the crowd need to be diverse and have an incentive for markets to function efficiently."
Keeping this in mind, note how social media and mainstream press perverted this once embraced concept by censoring any with an opinion different than that of the "state-run media" narrative.
How the CDC Coordinated With Big Tech To Censor Americans
Facebook just announced it "made a mistake" when it censored studies showing HCQ saves lives. Censorship is never "a mistake." Tech executives repeatedly made a calculated decision, month after month, silencing physicians worldwide.
There is so much more I could add but not wanting to drone on and one and waste server space, I'll stop for now, but I'm convinced this attack was deliberate as the opening shots to take out the "Orange Man" by way of a stolen election. No Planbdemic, no push for drop boxes, insane quantities of mail-in ballots.
"ADOLF HITLER: "IF YOU TELL A BIG ENOUGH LIE AND TELL IT FREQUENTLY ENOUGH, IT WILL BE BELIEVED"
Attributed to many, but that doesn't negate the statement's truth.
Will check out your link. Meanwhile, this bit from Jordan Peterson crossed my desk yesterday, and while characteristically blunt, he was uncharacteristically coarse:
The most frightening aspect of how both the Trudeau and Biden regimes managed to not only subvert and trample upon their countries' enshrined rights of freedom and personal autonomy, but to effectively recruit about half of the populace to turn against their neighbors. And then turn them in. It's an East German Stazi wet dream.
We didn't stamp out fascism in the 20th century, instead we only doused the flames while leaving the embers smoldering. And now with the power of the MSM and Social Media Industrial Complex combined to inundate us with government-approved propaganda which is the most effective application of a State media in history – combined with a brainwashed, indoctrinated (sorry, I mean "educated") public – fascism has returned as a wildfire for which we have little defense beyond perseverance. And, of course, Substack.
I was well-informed, so it was stunning that so many people believed what they were being told. And then when people so quickly turned against family, friends and neighbors, it was frightening. I would have never believed it could happen in 2021 and on in the US if I hadn't lived through it. How some could believe that "othering" people was the moral thing to do was astonishing and heartbreaking.
Both my sister and her husband are PhD's. One in speech and language pathology, the other in cognitive science -- so hard sciences, not pseudo-academic claptrap like "gender grievance studies." Neither are recent graduates. Both consume the Kool Aid by the gallon and refuse to even consider that there may be alternative views, at least not valid ones. They are of course hard core Democrat voters.
University indoctrination long ago shut down the conveyance of critical thinking skills in lieu of rigid, state-approved conformity. I shudder to think of how much further along today's graduates are on the road to sheepville.
they know they are right , that paper with PHD on it validates that thinking , if not they would have to admit most of their life/ education was a sham . it is hard to admit you are wrong even once
I attended one of the top 5 public universities. Now I know why my mom wanted me to make a different choice. She wanted me to have a foundation of independent critical thinking, values and truth rather than groupthink and conformity. And also to develop a community with like-minded individuals. I too wish I had made a different choice. Regardless, she had nothing to worry about. The foundation she and my dad gave me remains strong. It is very difficult to undermine good parenting. But yes, nature plays into it as well and my siblings are quite different from me.
When I told my mom and sister, who are compliant consumers of mainstream media (but oh so informed because they consume NYT and NPR, and certainly not Fox), that their news sources were lying to them - or at best - spinning to fit a narrative, they just chuckled. They honestly believe I have been brainwashed (by whom, I don't know) and that their sources of news are telling the truth. They refuse to even entertain the idea that their news sources are lying! And yes, they were all on board with the Biden admin-initiated mandates (and when they learned I opposed them, the next question was: "So what do you think about Jan 6?" idk - Is there a connection there?) and thought the Canadian truckers were Canada's equivalent of the evil, racists, yahoo MAGAs. At least they haven't disowned me. Anyway, my point is that I believe the vast majority in the US, like Canada, either don't care or get their news from legacy outlets. (Even outlets on the right are pulling the wool.) We who read Substack, et al. are outliers, who perhaps have a deeper more nuanced view, but we will remain under the boot along with everyone else.
There is a wonderful saying that "everybody is conservative about things they know best" or something like this. This is why I recommend when talking to people who love you enough to listen, start small by pointing to things they know about. Or things which are easily verified by data (no advice on dealing with nuts who officially say "I don't care about data ''). If they agree that your facts are correct , you can ask why they think NYT/NPR and so on did not report them or did not report correctly. Small steps :) I am really encouraged by grassroots driven results in SF. Our local press can lie, but normal people can see what's in front of them. So called "true believers" would say that they can make any sacrifice for a cause, but this is not working when they want YOU to do this.
I can't laugh enough at your suggestion. Sorry. They would no more read what they perceive as a conspiracy, right-wing nutter article than they would dare to turn on Fox News. You underestimate the closed-mindedness of the true believers.
Exactly. My 90 year old mom tries to bait me into talking about these issues, and I refuse to engage. She would no more read an article from the right than cut off her finger. She is a right fighter and absolutely will not listen to reason or logic. If the government or MSNBC says it is true, then, by gosh, it's true.
I know that! But I didn't make my point clear: If it is a reading suggestion by me, it is ipso facto a right-wing conspiracy nutter article. I, btw, am nothing of the sort but the fact that I think legacy media, big pharma, and most of all, the government lie is enough to paint me with that broad brush. They should know better, after all, I was a tepid supporter of Bernie Sanders and they knew that.
Same. The left side of my family looks at me funny when I say masks are stupid, why are we still testing people, and no I’m not getting a booster shot. 😐
I think we in a very precarious position at the moment I sometimes think it’s a volcano about to blow. The Democrats, the legacy media and social media have captured America and these evil actors are looking for power and control they have power at the moment but not full control yet hopefully it’s about to change
Gordon Comstock. I disagree with you. Have you actually talked to any supporters of the Covid measures? i think you are speculating. The compliant to whom I’ve talked don’t know that the Covid measures - lockdowns, masks and vaccines - don’t work. In fact they are true believers.
We will win this battle with investigations into the facts or we will not win it all. We certainly won’t win it by maligning those on the other side of these issues.
I am an unvaccinated 75 year old who believes in vaccines but does not believe in the efficacy of rushed experimental vaccines. I am in the minority. I want facts, not accusations.
You are correct but the truth will be suppressed. The believers will never learn the truth. The gaslighting, spinning, and memory hole-ing has already begun. The believers will go on to their next belief while they create stories in their mind to placate the cognitive dissonance. (E.g., the health authorities did the best they could with the limited information about the virus that they had at the time. A lie but try telling that to a believer.)
It was to control the populations of the Western Countries which worked like a charm the dissenters are shut down and the believers are waiting for the 4th and the 5th shot. It beggars belief
There are far too many true believers in Canada - the TruAnon. They're still masking themselves and their children in supermarkets, and they can't wait to get their fourth shot of an increasingly inappropriate "vaccine". They're also eagerly vaccinating their little kids. And they can't wait to vote for Trudeau again.
True enough. But we won’t change their minds by accusing them of submitting to authoritarianism. We need to investigate and establish whether healthy children are at more risk from the vaccine than Covid.
You know very well that such an investigation will never be authorized by any level of Canadian government. Any doctor who self-funds such an investigation will put their medical licence at risk.
I agree with you about individual doctors (mine hilariously claimed Ivermectin is dangerous. I wish I could have seen the look on his face when I asked what research he had conducted). They have neither the desire or capacity to conduct any investigation, but I don’t know that Prime Minister Poliviere won’t authorize such an investigation
Good point about Pierre, but by the time Rolex Jag crawls out of Fidelito's backside in 2025, people will just want to move on. Those who have been directly hurt by Fidelito's overreach will probably launch a class action, and the rest will want to get out of various UN agreements that penalize our resource industries and start making money again.
For the uninformed: Rolex Jag is the (very wealthy) leader of the New Democratic Party, who are even more to the left of the US Dems. He made a pact to support Trudeau's minority government until 2025, thus eliminating the possibility of a non-conference vote that would normally bring on an election.
There is a small reason and a large reason for us having the Second Amendment. Depending where you live, you might need self-defense again thugs. The more important reason is that guns in the hands of a broad middle class - not just a ideological fringe - are our insurance policy against dictatorship.
Point is, we in the lower 48 have guns and a second amendment and didn’t use them but could have. It appears that’s what the left wants and it’s not given to them but, remember, Biden said we don’t have fighter jets, a-bombs, etc, as he leaves a country defeated by guys living in caves and he leaves them eighty billion in high tech weaponry as his departing gift. So, yes, no one wants a blood bath but our governments sure want us disarmed as they unleash criminals, them among them, on is.
You have cited instances of guns being used to protect against mere citizens committing crimes.
Anyone in the lower 48 who uses guns to fight against government tyranny will be mowed down in a NYC minute. Your vaunted 2A protection against government overreach is totally illusory.
So far it is not illusory. Which is why they are desperate to disarm. But then again we fought a war against tyranny to become citizens. The same tyrrany which you are still the subject of.
Generally, Canadians don’t believe that every Tom, Dick and Harry should have a legal right to own a gun. Generally, you Americans do. And you dress it up with the fantasy that the right to own guns somehow protects you against tyrannical governments. It doesn’t. It just means that you have a greater chance of being shot as you go about your daily lives.
I am a conservative who is glad we don’t have the “protection” of your 2nd Amendment.
problem is not with legal gun ownership just this week in Montreal 3 murders committed by one deranged idiot with an illegal gun . it is hard to own a gun legally in Kanada yet there are shootings weekly hows that ?
I’m thinking you have criminals that by definition, don’t obey laws and some are named Tom, Duck, and Harry and they have guns. Especially the one named Justin.
Go gently into that dark night. Your country, your choice.
We don’t have your insane catch and release bail laws. Our crime rate is much lower than yours. America has moved significantly to the left since the days of Reagan. Your big cities are unsafe.
LOL, enter the projection and the favorite of the ignorant; Alinsky Rule Five, Ridicule.
Favorite because it doesn’t take much thought and makes one feel they’ve participated, you know, like throwing a brick through a window; revolutionaries for sure.
Everybody hates lawyers til they need one. If you are a doctor and commit malpractice you should be sued. That makes future malpractice less likely to occur. Ditto manufacturing flaws and a long litany of other causes of action. And not to belabor the point but were it not for this Canadian lawyer we would not be reading this post. Lawsuits are the answer, not the problem
Exactly what I have been saying to my friends and anyone else who would listen. And even more frightening is that so many are fine to comply with the edicts. They aren't overly concerned. Americans have become too soft and comfortable. I sure hope they wake up soon.
I’m not sure we will CR,and then on the other hand I’m nervous as to what might happen if we do. It’s kind of like World War 2 when America ignored what was going on in Europe and then got attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor where all hell broke out there after. I think regular Americans are petrified what our government is capable of unleashing on us. We only have to watch 1/6 to see how this is playing out, people have been in prison for 18 months without a trial for merely attending the rally. The Truckers in Canada were treated no differently their bank accounts were closed the people who supported them, their accounts were closed it’s like living in the twilight zone you have to pinch yourself to see you not dreaming terrifying stuff to say the least.
There is a lot we don't know about 1/6, but the fact that these individuals have been held so long without trial is incredibly concerning. And if Trudeau's emergency and freezing the truckers / supporters bank accounts didn't wake people up, I don't know what will. Completely freaked me out.
I have lost “ friends” over this conversation. The only thing that has opened their squinted eyes from the blinding rays is that despite all their vaccines, they still get COVID. Hummm. They they say the vaccine mitigates the disease. How about…the vaccine didn’t work????
I love these sample sizes of one or two that "prove" vaccines don't work. There are none so blind as those that will not see. There are many sources of statistics gathered by reputable and diverse organizations. A quick analysis of Canada, Japan, France, UK, USA, Sweden and Germany shows an almost direct correlation between vaccination rates and excess death increase over the time of the pandemic. At the top is Canada with 83% fully vaccinated and an absolute excess deaths calculation of 6.83% increase. At the bottom of this list is the "greatest country in the world" with 67% vaccinated and 18% increase. One outlier is Sweden who have a higher rate of excess deaths than their vaccination rate would suggest but they were the country that went against the lockdown protocols of the time. Hmmmmm. My analysis is rudimentary but similar analysis can be done many ways. They pretty much all point to the same FACT. To suggest the vaccines didn't work is willful stupidity.
You know that nobody ever claimed that covid vaccines are 100% effective? They just reduce the risk getting the decease and if You still get it they give a certain protection from getting severely sick of covid. That's all. And of course some vaccinated people still get it and very very few vaccinated people do still die of covid. That does not mean vaccines are useless. They improve Your chances of not dying of covid drastically! It's the same with seatbelts. They give You a good protection against dying in a collision in Your car. But there are still some people dying in car collisions despite having buckled up. Does that mean there shouldn't be a seat belt mandate? Although it saves lifes? Scientifically proven just like the life saving effect of vaccines?
If back in day the day, when science managed to eradicate polio with world wide vaccination campaigns, there were as many ignorant dummies as there are nowadays, there would still hundreds of thousands of children suffer and die from polio. I used to believe in human progress, that people would get ever more smart and rational with time, but I'm loosing that believe. In fact human reason seems to be in sharp decline these days, because thanks to modern technology even the dumbest person can pretend to be an expert for everything on some screen and make thousands of others believe his BS.
you have proved your point . " because thanks to modern technology even the dumbest person can pretend to be an expert for everything on some screen ""
He's a politician. If You take everything an American president babbles for face value, than You would have already died some time ago, not of Covid but of poisoning by drinking Lysol, because the sitting American president of that day claimed drinking disinfectants would protect You from covid! Remember that?
You said "nobody ever claimed that the vaccines were 100% effective." Yes they did - Biden did.
As far as Trump goes (and why is he even in a discussion about Canadian mandates?)...
Trump's Direct Quote -
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?
"So it'd be interesting to check that."
Idiotic, yes. But he never "claimed they would protect you from Covid."
Ironically, a year before that he was saying the vaccines can't be trusted because they were developed under the Trump administration. The flip-flopping is breathtaking.
(1/12) "Shortly after midnight (eastern), President Trump was leading in all six of the swing states still in issue: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, and had racked up, apart from those six states, 232 electoral votes to Biden's 227.
I love the part in that video up there where the whistleblower actually reminds these goons that they are breaking all kinds of state and federal election laws. And they laugh it off.
74 Georgia Counties Can’t Produce Original 2020 Election Ballot Images
Ballot images are a critical aspect of election records that have long been required to be retained by federal and state law. Federal law requires a 22-month retention period for election records while state law requires a 24-month retention period for election documents which are generally considered to include those that are electronic. [USC 52 20701, O.C.G.A. 21-2-73]
EVIDENCE. THE CHICAGO WAY. Jim Allen, instructs staff to make it impossible to reconcile ballots
Photos from the Michigan voter database show numerous "voters" who have a birth year of 1/1/1900. That means they are all 120 years old! Completely fraudulent and should be grounds for a lawsuit!
WISCONSIN- There was a massive spike at 3:42 am- 143,379 votes went to Biden. You can see on the video below Milwaukee's Election Commissioner loading the "vote spike" on a USB drive just after 3 am.
Yesterday, 7th Circuit law clerk Professor Margot Cleveland shared several shocking videos documenting premeditated, felony election evidence destruction in Delaware County, PA.
Last night a lawsuit was filed against county election officials and former Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar. The suit begins🔥:
"Defendants intentionally and fraudulently conspired to destroy, delete, secrete, and hide November 3, 2020, election data, materials, and equipment to prevent discovery of election fraud and election law violations in Delaware County, which the Defendants also conspired to commit and did commit while carrying out the November 3, 2020, election…
Moreover, when a May 21, 2021 Right to Know (RTK) request for election information and data was made with respect to information that is by federal and state law to be kept and preserved, the Defendants fraudulently and intentionally deleted, changed, adulterated, manipulated and/or obscured the information, data, and materials produced in response to the RTK request in order to hide their fraud and election code violations because they knew that they could not reconcile the previously fraudulently reported November 3, 2020 election results with the actual responsive information that they had in their possession and which they were required to preserve and produce in response to the Right to Know request.
Plaintiffs know this to be the case and can document this and demonstrate this by showing, among other things, that November 3, 2020 election, data materials, and equipment was destroyed including but not limited to V-Drives, Return Sheets, machine tapes/proof sheets/result tapes, Mail-In Ballots, Ballots Destroyed, voting machines, hard drives, paper documentation, Blue Crest data, correspondence concerning the November 3, 2020 election."
The lawsuit further alleges that the fraud was outcome-altering:
"61. It appears Delaware County was the last county to submit its presidential vote total in the state potentially changing November 3, 2020 election results in numerous races.
62. It appears prior to Delaware County submitting its vote totals, Donald J. Trump was leading Joseph Biden by 7,515 votes.
63. Delaware County submitted [its] presidential votes total with a difference of 88,070 between the two presidential candidates. [Exhibit G]."
The entire document is a savage, painstakingly detailed account of criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud, backed up by video. Brian Cates writes:
"This filing is the real deal. It's exhaustive in it's research and citing of legal precedents. It goes into great detail… The people who put this filing together spent months on it. I can tell."
But, boys and girls and non-binaries, listen up; you can't get a pothole fixed in less than five years, but magically, they addressed all of these concerns before 2020? LOL, yeah, right.
The topic is on a Canadian government policy. It's got nothing to do with Trump. Wrong country. Try to focus.
It may be a very wise act for people in higher risk categories to get multiple and ongoing Covid shots. Just like it is wise for older people to get a shingles vax (I'm 60, and I'd take getting covid over shingles any day). But this bunk of "public responsibility" to be forced to get Covid shots s based on THE BIG LIE: that vaccinated individuals don't spread Covid.
It's a wise practice to limit the amount of sugar and processed carbs in your diet, and especially to get your fat ass outside and regularly exercise, even just walking. Obesity is also a pandemic. Why aren't you progressives demanding fat people be fired from their jobs and rendered homeless? Why aren't you wishing misery and death on the fat, like you do at people who don't want COVID shots. Don't bother with "but fat isn't contagious," because the burden on public health created by all these fat people (start with type 2 diabetes) is huge - including how being fat greatly increases the risk of more serous Covid. But oddly, no weight mandates to travel. Imagine "You are prohibited by law from boarding a plane or train if you are obese. Even worse, progressive squeal (pun intended) that "body shaming" is a hate crime. But, sure, demonize and spew your hate at a healthy 25 year old with statistically no meaningful risk of Covid, fire him from his job, refuse all basic human rights to him, because he makes a personal decision that you don't like and that does not effect you. Yeah, that's not a hate crime.
Since when is obesity an infectious disease? If I could become obese myself just because an obese person coughs at me I sure would like my government to apply measures to protect me. But obesity only effects the obese person and that makes it their personal business. And yes, contagiousness is the difference that really changes everything here as far as disease control is concerned. The obese person runs a higher risk of dying of covid, not me.
It's from a Zappa song. It's not my job to educate you on Zappa.
You missed my point. It's about the Hate and Rage progressives had/still have for the deplorables, especially unvaxed deplorables. Preventing someone from working or traveling is serious authoritarianism. And for what?
My using FAT as an example is not about COVID, although, again, COVID very much likes to fat-shame.
My point is that all the hate and rage is just political and not because you hate and rage people who wont/dont take care of their health.
No one prevented anyone from working or travelling. It's everyone's own choice. Get vaccinated and work and travel or don't get vaccinated and stay at home. Take Your pick! It's as simple as that. There are lots of things You can only do if You obey to certain rules. Have You ever seen a sign in a restaurant saying "No shirt, no shoes, no service"? Does anybody complain about "authoritarianism" here? Saying "Those fascists won't let me eat! They wanna starve me to death!" "Well, Sir, get dressed properly and her's Your food. Enjoy!"........."Show me Your proof of vaccination and hop aboard!"
Yeah yeah, I could convert to Mormonism if I want to see the inside of a temple.
The entire point of the article is that the Canadian government imposed a "shots for service" requirement for way more fundamental right - to travel - to return to your own country! - based on nothing but politics. Shoes and shirts arguably promote something to do with restaurant cleanliness. And certainly any restaurant owner can make whatever dress code they want (ties and jackets, anyone)? and people can decide whether I want to eat there. WTF does vaccination have to do with riding on a train or plane? Nothing. Maybe (maybe) Pfizer et al actually believed that getting the shots would actually make a person non-infectious. They don't. They haven't. Even progressives get this (or at least most of them do). But, humans in power rarely concede one of their brilliant policies was a mistake. According to this author, the Canadian policy was just pulled out of someone's ass (figuratively or literally, I'm not sure).
The point is that there was no science behind it. They were looking for it and "came up short"...
And actually we live in an age where "your public responsibility" is being used to control you. The lockdowns, the masks, the forced shots - I've read all sorts of studies - in the end, none of it really worked - compare countries and states that didn't lock down with those that did, read all the studies about what the masking and school lockdowns did to children. As someone who has had severe side effects from those first two shots, was I supposed to sacrifice my health as my "public responsibility"?
The point is, science was incomplete back then and a decision had to be made whether to act quick to be able to at least manage the spread of the virus or wait until the science was complete and risk to be too late with any counter measures. Both ways there were serious downsides, but the prospect of a deadly disease spreading basically unchecked because we didn't react fast enough had the potential of a real horror scenario unfolding right in front of our eyes with us unable to do much about it but watch it killing millions. Well, that's what pretty much happened in the US because the various levels of US government didn't get their act together and an utterly useless president was unable to show any leadership to stem the crisis.
No, you just changed the point of this piece to fit your argument.
Compare state by state what happened here and some of the most locked down areas had the highest mortality rates. Compare country by country. Compare numbers from Canada and Sweden.
China's numbers were low (if you can believe them) because they were locked in their homes like animals in cages.
Your obsession with Trump is showing. I was trying to comment on the Canadian mandates. Not Trump. I see that you hate him, but he had nothing to do with what Canada did.
The Swedish mortality rate is actually lower than Canada's.
I was comparing those two countries - one that did not lock down its' citizens and one that was among the most authoritarian in the world.
Another thing you're forgetting is that in the beginning, hospitals were reporting deaths WITH Covid as deaths FROM Covid. US numbers were very inflated, and we may never know the actual number.
Yep. For the record never had a flu shot. I’m not anti-vax but I just never worried At ALL about the flu. With Covid I thought “no need to get that shot I am not worried about Covid”. But then the pressure. And in the end (April 2021) I did get shots 1 and 2. Why? Not fear of Covid, but fear of the restrictions! So I caved to fear and now I feel like a spineless coward. Because I acted against my own best interests due to fear. I wish I could reverse that decision. And btw - I got Covid anyway, January 2022. It was like a cold.
Interesting. I never got vaccinated...my husband did. I traveled extensively, always following protocol, during 2020 and 2021. Jan 2022 my husband got Covid and had it for a week. I got it at the end of his week and had it for 3 days and took ibuprofen. Reduced energy for another week and then fine. I'm 74. After reading all the research that is going on post-pandemic, I'm thankful I didn't cave to pressure, listened to my body and didn't get vaxed.
well all that proves is you are not a teacher that knows it all and puts down others with insults because they don't follow "his science" . What it proves i that you think did a little more research it's not that complicated . Just harder these days as much is buried if it does not follow the party line
they are waiting for you in Burlington and about this "
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"What I believe we can all agree on is that the divisiveness in this country is reaching a crescendo " please name the band leader of this divisiveness , oh wait it must be Trump !
That’s gone with the 2020 election I can’t see the Democrooks ever leaving the WH and I’m sure 2024 Joe will be running again, and am sure Kamala will be the President of America eventually. We don’t have to vote anymore it doesn’t matter America has finally tipped over the edge
What penalty, what removal. Do you have anything backing up your assertions other than Joy Reid's voice in your head?
As to "insurrection," keep eating up that astroturf theatre. You realize these are the same people that claimed and failed on Russia, Trump, Ukraine, Pee Tape, so many others but, here you are, loyal puppy, panting in anticipation of the next load of crap you want to swallow!
Remember everyone Michael Fanone is just a dedicated cop who defended the Capitol and not at all a lowlife Democratic operative hanging with other lowlifes.
The January 6th Committee Kindly Asks You to Ignore the FBI
“The FBI found no evidence President Trump, or his allies coordinated any part of the Capitol riots. The January 6th Committee would like for you to ignore that.”
Trump Didn't Order The National Guard To Protect The Capitol? He Can't, He Authorized But It Was Up To Pelosi, Bowser To Bring Them In. The Didn't.
Here, from the World Socialists website. Note, they had to brand demonstrators "fascist" because that's what Alinskyite, fascists do, project so dumbasses get confused!
This level of stupidity has to be physically painful, huh>
Please clarify. By "leave the White House" do you mean after the Electoral College votes were certified or on election day? Because if you mean on election day, which your snarky tone implies to to me it does, Trump received in excess of 74,000,000 million votes. That's a lot of "sycophants".
It’s easy to dupe ignorant people. Politicians, their dutiful Red Guards running our education system and their propagandists in the media long ago realized that if you control knowledge, you can control the masses. They’ve succeeded to a large extent as witnessed by the Covid lies too many willingly accepted as fact. God bless those with the knowledge, and the far fewer who daily display the courage and fortitude to resist and expose the lies.
Many are willingly ignorant. I have shared data throughout the pandemic with family and friends. It didn't matter. They were fearful. They obeyed the rules. And then they got vaccinated. Now, they don't wish to hear about vaccine adverse events because they can't comprehend that they accepted the shots. Even though they regard me as annoying now, I keep sharing the data because I don't want them to get a 4th shot. I never cared about being right; I only cared about the health of my family and friends. Relationships aren't what they were, but I have zero regrets.
And so you shouldn’t my poster boy is Novak Djokovic. I have found him to be inspirational he won’t back down. My friends have lambasted me for saying so I have had 3 shots it is my first and last shots I definitely won’t be having more and I feel great 😃😃
Yep, I fully support him as well. I am also concerned for all the families that have been separated due to the US vaccine mandate for non-citizens. I can't even imagine the lost time and memories together. It is so cruel.
To me, there are multiple reasons for objections to the shot mandates: 1) the biology, i.e. not safe and not effective, 2) personal autonomy, 3) religious beliefs, and 4) medical vulnerability to the ingredients.
I actually think the debate should begin with #1. And since they aren't safe or effective, they shouldn't have even made it to market for the remaining objections to matter. I follow GigaohmBiological https://www.twitch.tv/gigaohmbiological for the science.
Glad you aren't getting anymore shots. If my sources are correct, the next one will include 3 mRNA strains plus the flu vaccine. No thank you!
“I can tell you where I was when the CNN feed came that it was 95% effective — the vaccine. So many of us wanted to be helpful. So many of us wanted to say, ‘okay, this is our ticket out right now.’ We’re done.
Sound like she was high on her own drug!
Fauci, Walensky, and Co. Attempt to Rewrite History Before Things Turn for the Worse for Them
Dr. Robert Malone: "Rochelle Walensky [recently came out] acknowledging that there is this myocarditis and cardiac inflammation ... and then saying 'Well, we just recently became aware of it.' It is such blatant revision of history. It's clearly a lie."
At this point it is time for ALL establishment medicine to halt its narrative that C19 vaccines lessen symptom severity. PERIOD. They used this tag line in 2021 to get people to roll up their sleeves; however, now the data is in and worldwide, this is proven FALSE.
1) transmission and duration is increased within vaccinated
See, you couldn’t have had the flu. That’s not the narrative so, they attribute this fall-off to their stupid mask, distancing, all the worthless superstitious based science you embrace. Wear a chicken bone around your next, it’s so effective!
So, educate me. How many of the 98-99% of those you cite died with Covid, not BECAUSE of it? Were they already on deaths bed? In fact, maybe you can provide the same statistic for all the “Covid deaths”. How many people have already been infected? How many of the UNvaccinated have natural immunity from previous infection? Is natural immunity better than the vaccine? Are booster shots of any benefit at all for a virus that keeps mutating?
Since no “educated” person has bothered to provide that information I’m not going to succumb to the hysterical rants and fearmongering from arrogant twits whose misinformation, outright lies and mandates have caused catastrophic damage that dwarfs anything Covid is responsible for. If you want to worship self professed oracles like Dr. "I am science" Fauci, be my guest. I'll continue to pray to the only God who has offered us guidance for thousands of years.
I am going to pray for your education. In the 1950s there was a theory that ICE CREAM caused polio. Based on the fact that polio seemed to spike in summer, you know when people eat a lot of ice cream. If establishing a fact were as simple as cause and effect there would be no need for science. Actual science not this pseudo-science being passed off as science today.
Additionally, in January 2013, during Clinton’s last month at the State Department, the World Bank’s investment unit invested $150 million in Laureate."
Hillary University: Bill Clinton Bagged $16.46 Million From For Profit College As the State Department Funneled $55 Million Back
Douglas L. Becker, Laureate’s CEO, has donated generously to Hillary Clinton’s various political campaigns. He gave $4,600 in 2007 and $2,000 in 2005.”
1) A truly intelligent nation would realize that while progress, in the sense of forward momentum Is good, Progressivism is merely a fairy tale at best, a cult at worst. 2) Comparing the Nordic countries with their tiny populations and very homogeneous populations to the US is apple and oranges. 3) As a woman I find your comment about women very ill-informed. Historically it was men who taught. Specifically in Western civilization it was the Catholic Church which originally fostered widespread education. In the US it is true that women were teachers during the 19th century, but it was not that many because unlike now people understood having a family was work. Teaching was considered a respectable occupation for a single woman. You might view this as an example of how "America shits on women." I find that POV quite odious. It is the left which shits on women, and blacks, and Latinos, and gays, bi-sexuals, and lesbians, and farmers, and auto workers, and oil and gas workers. The left never has a good thing to say about any of those groups, or countless others,, unless and until to do so scores points on its behalf. That is foreign to me as I believe partisanship, on either side, should exist to serve the nation, not itself. Instead we have Pelosis, Clintons, Bidens, Obamas, etc. enriching themselves at the expense of the working public. And before you point out the Cheneys, McConnells, McCains, G4ahams doing the same I am well aware. The difference is the Left accepts it, the Right does not.
Both your bias (toward the Left) and your prejudice ( against the Right) fully exposed. For your enlightenment, conservative people, even religious conservatives believe in the sanctity/value/power of the individual. That is why the preamble to the Constitution says "We the People in order to form a more perfect union . . ." . WE are the source not the product. The Left has , and is, creating urban plantations - go to your lord employer and get your pay. Then give whatever portion of it to the Master federal government that they demand.
First off, “love the poorly educated” is, of course, taken out of context to fit the “progressive” narrative!
Being a self proclaimed “educated person,” why do you do that; fall for the narrative?
“We won the evangelicals,” Trump said.
“We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”
“That last line was, as you might expect, the sound bite of the night. Indeed, “I love the poorly educated” was trending on Twitter early Wednesday morning, with users expressing a mix of bewilderment, consternation and other big words such supporters might not understand.”
Being the progressives have had a stranglehold on education, you want to blame what, conservatives for the shambles?
As to Japan; how many drag Queen shows do they conduct in their schools? How much time indoctrinating students with “Critical race theory?”,” and other “progressive” tripe?
Progressivism and public employee unionists destroy everything they come into contact with!
Nice try, and it’s a shame you wasted your money if what you wrote is your “educated” opinion!
Oh, liberals shit on women. There, fixed it for you.
Or are willing/able to overcome their fears. Their position is a corollary of needing victims to exist. It is why so.many have the Twilight Zone, Bizarro World, WTF is happening feeling.
I've been trying to dig into this: Why do those who lean Democratic/ perhaps progressive also seem more fearful, more neurotic, and mostly value safety over everything else? We could see this way before COVID. A simple answer might be because the Dems values big government and want the protection they perceive the govt brings. But that doesn't really answer the question as to why they are so damn neurotic. I also have observed that those on what might be considered these days as the far left (e.g., Jimmy Dore) do not share this value and seem to have more in common, at least as far as the "safety uber alles" issue goes, with those on the so-called right. As a post script, if you think it's a vacuum created by a loss of traditional religious community - as I once did - look around. Many (many!) of the churches and synagogues are on the Woke Train and many were (some still are) the most vociferous about vaccine/mask mandates.
For years I hypothesized that the folks in the Northeast were bred to be less venturesome/risk takers. The risk takers over the years migrated westward in the U.S., leaving the folks that were less confident behind...and need the warm embrace of the gubmint to keep them happy.
Interesting take but ya...California, Oregon, Washington State. However, CA, OR, and WA politics are driven by the urban areas. The rural areas of those states, while less densely populated, do not lean blue. (they are more like Texas). Maybe there is something about the people who gravitate to urban living or who live in the urban cocoon that makes them less adventurous and afraid of risks. But then again, it is those urban denizens who take most of the business and artistic risks, so I don't think that explains it. But I do think there's something about living in the big city (virtually all of them lean heavy D) that helps drive this neuroses.
To your question, many intelligent people think and give to the logical side of the brain, while other intelligent people think, but give to the emotional side of the brain. If it doesn’t feel right, it can’t be so. That explains it for me.
I think that rings true but does that mean most Democrat types think emotionally? I know Ben Shapiro more or less makes that claim. Even if that is the answer, why are those who lean D, emotional thinkers?
I think many churches are dominated in their ruling hierarchy by the Woke who lost their because of heretical doctrine espoused by woke seminaries and seminary faculty members. At the church level, the woke pastors preach a feel-good sermon rather than a Bible-based sermon.
We hear fear being preached daily - Climate Change is a Global Emergency! Covid will kill Millions! Republicans are running loose Destroying Democracy! Monkeypox! And of course Russia! Putin!
That is the crux of it. They fear because that is how they are told to feel by the media, hyping every occurrence as a disaster of epic proportion, 24/7. And guess who will save them? The Almighty, infallible government. I don't want to be saved from fake crises. I just want to be left alone.
Yip correct on all points now where to from 2022 we have covered everything and the Democrats are still whinging I’m wondering what else they can demand from the people
True, paper ballots otherwise walk in your mail in ballot on voting day, same count, chain of custody on ballot boxes all this should help for a free and fair election, and the most important your ID
I am an anesthesiologist. One of the things I do is review a patient's medications before surgery. Truly, it is rare when someone is not on one of these medications, and many are on more than one. Anxiety and depression are normal human emotions that we all feel from time to time. When allowed to work through the those tough times, humans gain strength and resilience. That said, I am sure there are some people who really do need those medications, but not nearly the numbers we are seeing now. Big Pharma is laughing all the way to the bank!
The reason behind defund the police is to eliminate local law enforcement and turn law enforcement over to a centralized governmental law enforcement, such as the KGB or Gestapo.
True. The fearful see power as a source of comfort. The don't care that they have deprived people of their jobs, seeing their elderly parents, harmed children. In 2020, the left didn't care that the police were shot, spat on, beaten, with their precincts set on fire. To hell with them! However, they suddenly became "protective" of them and their health with vaccine mandates. Hypocrites all.
What should frighten people today, isn’t the authoritarian governments of China and Russia, but the authoritarians in our midsts. It is terrifying that such a retrograde philosophy has taken root amongst so many western leaders...including among the Democrats in the US.
They know these policies (like the travel ban in Canada) will have no discernible effect, but that isn’t the point. The point is control...do what we say you little plebs or we will crush you.
This is only possible because of a largely compliant media...which is why I am so thankful for places like Common Sense which give alternative (non-government) narratives a voice.
PS - if you're interested in my writings on freedom and other important topics...check out my substack
https://gordoncomstock.substack.com/
Coming to this a little late, Gordon - but must comment on the last sentence of your first paragraph. Why mention only the Dems?
For the entire year of 2020 our country was in the (capable?) hands of the the Trump White House. That was the year the entire economy was locked down for basically one fiscal quarter because no one anywhere had any idea what the hell virus was attacking us. Not knowing what was going on does not make you authoritarian, it means protecting your population. And the Trump administration did. It had its ups and downs, but it treated Covid as the threat it was. Does that make him authoritarian? I don't think so.
Whatever Biden and his 'authoritarian' team might have done in 2021 till now re Covid was basically a continuation of the same policies - though many on this thread will probably quibble with that.
Did Trudeau go too far? Did Biden with his rules (non citizens still have to be vaxxed to enter the US)? Probably. Is it some kind of an example of despotism or control? Hardly. No one, either in Trudeau's PMO or Biden's White House is intelligent enough for that. They believed in vaccinations, so that's the direction they went. And that is the direction Trump went.
People in power are not smarter than we are. Don't give them credit for things they are not capable of doing.
I'm responding late to your comment, which I agree with but have a different take on what transpired.
You wrote;
"For the entire year of 2020, our country was in the (capable?) hands of the Trump White House. That was the year the entire economy was locked down for basically one fiscal quarter because no one anywhere had any idea what the hell virus was attacking us."
I maintain that we knew what it was and where it came from because we had financed its development.
The proof is in the denials of Fauci and company as well as video and written evidence.
Reminder: Francis Collins resigned from his post as NIH Director just as fast as he could after the evidence surfaced that Peter Daszak's EchoHealth Alliance had been hiding the gain of function research at the Wuhan lab that it had been funding. https://humanevents.com/2021/10/21/nih-changes-its-tune-confirms-it-funded-wuhan-gain-of-function-experiment-that-made-bat-coronavirus-more-dangerous/
WATCH: Explosive, Unearthed Video Shows Peter Daszak Describing' Chinese Colleagues' Developing 'Killer' Coronaviruses.
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/daszak-reveals-chinese-colleagues-manipulating-coronaviruses/
October 2019, 2 months before the first reported case in China, Fauci and top HHS officials conceptualize having a new outbreak of novel avian flu virus from China so they can accelerate FDA approvals and enforce mRNA vaccines on the masses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsCwPfsb7C4
Fauci's agency funded China's bat coronavirus research for years: Judicial Watch report https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/faucis-agency-knew-about-chinas-coronavirus-research-2014-judicial-watch
The Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis Is A Conspiracy Theory, Not Science https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2021/06/03/the-wuhan-lab-leak-hypothesis-is-a-conspiracy-theory-not-science/?sh=1634b8c6dd8c
The Lancet Updates Letter That Dubbed COVID-19 Lab Leak a 'Conspiracy Theory' https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/the-lancet-updates-letter-that-dubbed-covid-19-lab-leak-a-conspiracy-theory_3868568.html?v=ul
Nolte: Scientists Admit Covering Up Lab Leak Theory to Avoid Being 'Associated' with Trump (TDS Cost Lives) https://www.breitbart.com/science/2021/06/18/nolte-scientists-admit-covering-up-lab-leak-theory-avoid-being-associated-trump/
Harvard Scientist Says Trump Hatred Influenced Experts Who Denied Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
https://humanevents.com/2021/06/17/harvard-scientist-says-trump-hatred-influenced-experts-who-denied-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/
Former CDC Director Received Death Threats From Scientists for Supporting Wuhan Lab Leak Theory https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/former-cdc-director-received-death-threats-from-scientists-for-supporting-wuhan-lab-leak-theory_3843153.html
Collins Confronted About Calling Great Barrington Declaration Authors' Fringe Epidemiologists' https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/12/21/francis-collins-confronted-about-calling-great-barrington-declaration-authors-fringe-epidemiologists-n2600873
"Outgoing National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins stood by his email referring to the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration as "fringe epidemiologists," despite credentials from Oxford, Harvard, and Stanford."
The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins
Former Trump Adviser (Brix) Under Fire for Covid Data Fraud Speaks Out About Wuhan Lab Leak Theory (World Military Games) https://beckernews.com/former-trump-adviser-under-fire-for-covid-data-fraud-speaks-out-about-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-45942/
What Is Wisdom of Crowds?
"Wisdom of crowds is the idea that large groups of people are collectively smarter than individual experts when it comes to problem-solving, decision-making, innovating, and predicting. The idea is that the viewpoint of an individual can inherently be biased, whereas taking the average knowledge of a crowd can result in eliminating the bias or noise to produce a clearer and more coherent result."
"The theory is often applied to financial markets to show why markets in some instances operate efficiently and other times inefficiently. Market participants in the crowd need to be diverse and have an incentive for markets to function efficiently."
Keeping this in mind, note how social media and mainstream press perverted this once embraced concept by censoring any with an opinion different than that of the "state-run media" narrative.
How the CDC Coordinated With Big Tech To Censor Americans
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/how-the-cdc-coordinated-with-big-tech-to-censor-americans/
Twitter Censors Pfizer-Injured Israeli COVID Vaccine Director
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/twitter-censors-pfizer-injured-israeli?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
YouTube Nukes (censorship) Video Of GOP Lawmakers Discussing Constitutional Limits To COVID Vaxx Mandates
READ:https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/21/youtube-nukes-video-of-gop-lawmakers-discussing-constitutional-limits-to-covid-vaxx-mandates/ • @FDRLSTT
1/30/2021
https://twitter.com/drsimonegold
Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold
Facebook just announced it "made a mistake" when it censored studies showing HCQ saves lives. Censorship is never "a mistake." Tech executives repeatedly made a calculated decision, month after month, silencing physicians worldwide.
Censorship kills.
http://ow.ly/vM1N30ruDA0
There is so much more I could add but not wanting to drone on and one and waste server space, I'll stop for now, but I'm convinced this attack was deliberate as the opening shots to take out the "Orange Man" by way of a stolen election. No Planbdemic, no push for drop boxes, insane quantities of mail-in ballots.
"ADOLF HITLER: "IF YOU TELL A BIG ENOUGH LIE AND TELL IT FREQUENTLY ENOUGH, IT WILL BE BELIEVED"
Attributed to many, but that doesn't negate the statement's truth.
Will check out your link. Meanwhile, this bit from Jordan Peterson crossed my desk yesterday, and while characteristically blunt, he was uncharacteristically coarse:
https://youtu.be/6fCB8IUGdKY
Guessing your content is similar.
Travel bans are scarier than the authoritarian regines in Russia and China... really?
The most frightening aspect of how both the Trudeau and Biden regimes managed to not only subvert and trample upon their countries' enshrined rights of freedom and personal autonomy, but to effectively recruit about half of the populace to turn against their neighbors. And then turn them in. It's an East German Stazi wet dream.
We didn't stamp out fascism in the 20th century, instead we only doused the flames while leaving the embers smoldering. And now with the power of the MSM and Social Media Industrial Complex combined to inundate us with government-approved propaganda which is the most effective application of a State media in history – combined with a brainwashed, indoctrinated (sorry, I mean "educated") public – fascism has returned as a wildfire for which we have little defense beyond perseverance. And, of course, Substack.
I was well-informed, so it was stunning that so many people believed what they were being told. And then when people so quickly turned against family, friends and neighbors, it was frightening. I would have never believed it could happen in 2021 and on in the US if I hadn't lived through it. How some could believe that "othering" people was the moral thing to do was astonishing and heartbreaking.
Both my sister and her husband are PhD's. One in speech and language pathology, the other in cognitive science -- so hard sciences, not pseudo-academic claptrap like "gender grievance studies." Neither are recent graduates. Both consume the Kool Aid by the gallon and refuse to even consider that there may be alternative views, at least not valid ones. They are of course hard core Democrat voters.
University indoctrination long ago shut down the conveyance of critical thinking skills in lieu of rigid, state-approved conformity. I shudder to think of how much further along today's graduates are on the road to sheepville.
they know they are right , that paper with PHD on it validates that thinking , if not they would have to admit most of their life/ education was a sham . it is hard to admit you are wrong even once
Perhaps it is a path of.least resistance thing. I have been thinking it is f3ar driven/based. Maybe it is just plain old lazy.
I attended one of the top 5 public universities. Now I know why my mom wanted me to make a different choice. She wanted me to have a foundation of independent critical thinking, values and truth rather than groupthink and conformity. And also to develop a community with like-minded individuals. I too wish I had made a different choice. Regardless, she had nothing to worry about. The foundation she and my dad gave me remains strong. It is very difficult to undermine good parenting. But yes, nature plays into it as well and my siblings are quite different from me.
I do not know you but I am.proud of you.
I am as well. And of your parents.
A dying breed, I fear.
Aww, thanks.
BOOM!
"Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."
When I told my mom and sister, who are compliant consumers of mainstream media (but oh so informed because they consume NYT and NPR, and certainly not Fox), that their news sources were lying to them - or at best - spinning to fit a narrative, they just chuckled. They honestly believe I have been brainwashed (by whom, I don't know) and that their sources of news are telling the truth. They refuse to even entertain the idea that their news sources are lying! And yes, they were all on board with the Biden admin-initiated mandates (and when they learned I opposed them, the next question was: "So what do you think about Jan 6?" idk - Is there a connection there?) and thought the Canadian truckers were Canada's equivalent of the evil, racists, yahoo MAGAs. At least they haven't disowned me. Anyway, my point is that I believe the vast majority in the US, like Canada, either don't care or get their news from legacy outlets. (Even outlets on the right are pulling the wool.) We who read Substack, et al. are outliers, who perhaps have a deeper more nuanced view, but we will remain under the boot along with everyone else.
There is a wonderful saying that "everybody is conservative about things they know best" or something like this. This is why I recommend when talking to people who love you enough to listen, start small by pointing to things they know about. Or things which are easily verified by data (no advice on dealing with nuts who officially say "I don't care about data ''). If they agree that your facts are correct , you can ask why they think NYT/NPR and so on did not report them or did not report correctly. Small steps :) I am really encouraged by grassroots driven results in SF. Our local press can lie, but normal people can see what's in front of them. So called "true believers" would say that they can make any sacrifice for a cause, but this is not working when they want YOU to do this.
If they do disown I will accept ownership of you 😄😄you write and sound so normal!
Have Mom and sister read this Substack article…., then have a conversation https://sashastone.substack.com/p/the-ultra-elite-vs-the-ultra-maga#details
I can't laugh enough at your suggestion. Sorry. They would no more read what they perceive as a conspiracy, right-wing nutter article than they would dare to turn on Fox News. You underestimate the closed-mindedness of the true believers.
Exactly. My 90 year old mom tries to bait me into talking about these issues, and I refuse to engage. She would no more read an article from the right than cut off her finger. She is a right fighter and absolutely will not listen to reason or logic. If the government or MSNBC says it is true, then, by gosh, it's true.
But….she’s not a right wing nutter! You, however, right on the mark regarding the closed mindedness issue.
I know that! But I didn't make my point clear: If it is a reading suggestion by me, it is ipso facto a right-wing conspiracy nutter article. I, btw, am nothing of the sort but the fact that I think legacy media, big pharma, and most of all, the government lie is enough to paint me with that broad brush. They should know better, after all, I was a tepid supporter of Bernie Sanders and they knew that.
To reply to my own comment might be bad form but omg, what serendipity. Heather Heying's substack article just dropped. It's short and says exactly what I was trying to convey in this comment thread. Well worth the read (very short): You are not alone. https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/youarenotalone?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Excellent!!!!
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain
Same. The left side of my family looks at me funny when I say masks are stupid, why are we still testing people, and no I’m not getting a booster shot. 😐
Same here.
I think we in a very precarious position at the moment I sometimes think it’s a volcano about to blow. The Democrats, the legacy media and social media have captured America and these evil actors are looking for power and control they have power at the moment but not full control yet hopefully it’s about to change
Gordon Comstock. I disagree with you. Have you actually talked to any supporters of the Covid measures? i think you are speculating. The compliant to whom I’ve talked don’t know that the Covid measures - lockdowns, masks and vaccines - don’t work. In fact they are true believers.
We will win this battle with investigations into the facts or we will not win it all. We certainly won’t win it by maligning those on the other side of these issues.
I am an unvaccinated 75 year old who believes in vaccines but does not believe in the efficacy of rushed experimental vaccines. I am in the minority. I want facts, not accusations.
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You are correct but the truth will be suppressed. The believers will never learn the truth. The gaslighting, spinning, and memory hole-ing has already begun. The believers will go on to their next belief while they create stories in their mind to placate the cognitive dissonance. (E.g., the health authorities did the best they could with the limited information about the virus that they had at the time. A lie but try telling that to a believer.)
It was to control the populations of the Western Countries which worked like a charm the dissenters are shut down and the believers are waiting for the 4th and the 5th shot. It beggars belief
mem...a full look forward
They won’t come clean now because they don’t want to ‘destroy public trust’ - a prime example of government pretzel logic
Too late. Much of the public trust is destroyed. Justifiably so IMO.
There are far too many true believers in Canada - the TruAnon. They're still masking themselves and their children in supermarkets, and they can't wait to get their fourth shot of an increasingly inappropriate "vaccine". They're also eagerly vaccinating their little kids. And they can't wait to vote for Trudeau again.
God that sounds like Western Democracies
True enough. But we won’t change their minds by accusing them of submitting to authoritarianism. We need to investigate and establish whether healthy children are at more risk from the vaccine than Covid.
But where do you expect to find the information if the questions you need answers to are shut down.
You know very well that such an investigation will never be authorized by any level of Canadian government. Any doctor who self-funds such an investigation will put their medical licence at risk.
Everybody knows that Al world wide except Terence.
I agree with you about individual doctors (mine hilariously claimed Ivermectin is dangerous. I wish I could have seen the look on his face when I asked what research he had conducted). They have neither the desire or capacity to conduct any investigation, but I don’t know that Prime Minister Poliviere won’t authorize such an investigation
Good point about Pierre, but by the time Rolex Jag crawls out of Fidelito's backside in 2025, people will just want to move on. Those who have been directly hurt by Fidelito's overreach will probably launch a class action, and the rest will want to get out of various UN agreements that penalize our resource industries and start making money again.
For the uninformed: Rolex Jag is the (very wealthy) leader of the New Democratic Party, who are even more to the left of the US Dems. He made a pact to support Trudeau's minority government until 2025, thus eliminating the possibility of a non-conference vote that would normally bring on an election.
where we stand depends upon who has the guns
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/where-we-stand-depends-upon-who-has
I’m keeping mine Eric legitimately I might add
Thank God, but In Canada we usually resolve issues peacefully. We are not burdened with 2nd Amendment gun nuttery.
That is not working well for Canada at this point. Your submission, er peacefulness, is clearly assumed.
There is a small reason and a large reason for us having the Second Amendment. Depending where you live, you might need self-defense again thugs. The more important reason is that guns in the hands of a broad middle class - not just a ideological fringe - are our insurance policy against dictatorship.
Have your guns protected you against an insane open border and insane vaccine mandates? The 2A protection is a fantasy.
pretty sure mine have kept some of the subjects of the insane open border off my property.
(live maybe two miles from the border)
So are you saying owning firearms gives no personal benefit at all?
Yeah, I noticed that with the truckers protest. https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/02/videos-show-canadian-police-beating-trucker-protesters-trampling-them-with-horses/
Same in Australia; https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/24/australia-harsh-police-response-during-covid-19
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If the protesters had guns and used them, there would have been a bloodbath.
Point is, we in the lower 48 have guns and a second amendment and didn’t use them but could have. It appears that’s what the left wants and it’s not given to them but, remember, Biden said we don’t have fighter jets, a-bombs, etc, as he leaves a country defeated by guys living in caves and he leaves them eighty billion in high tech weaponry as his departing gift. So, yes, no one wants a blood bath but our governments sure want us disarmed as they unleash criminals, them among them, on is.
N.Y. Times Amnesia: Not a 'Single Instance' of Self-Defense With Guns https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/chris-reeves/2017/11/06/nyt-amnesia-not-single-instance-self-defense-guns
Elderly California store owner fires at armed robbery suspect who shouts, 'He shot my arm off!’
California robbery suspect found later at a hospital suffering from gunshot wound
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-liquor-store-armed-robbery-suspect-shot
Second Amendment in Action: Woman's Suspected Stalker Kicks in Front Door, She Shoots Him Dead https://www.westernjournal.com/second-amendment-action-womans-suspected-stalker-kicks-front-door-shoots-dead/
Pregnant Woman Used AR-15 to Drop Armed Robber Attacking Her 11-Year-Old Daughter https://www.westernjournal.com/pregnant-woman-used-ar-15-drop-armed-robber-attacking-11-year-old-daughter/
ELIZABETH WARREN: CONCEALED CARRY DOESN'T MAKE ANYONE SAFER' https://news.grabien.com/story-elizabeth-warren-concealed-carry-doesnt-make-anyone-safer
UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped mass public shootings and other mass attacks https://crimeresearch.org/2016/09/uber-driver-in-chicago-stops-mass-public-shooting/
Armed Citizen Stops Robbery Suspect at Chick-fil-A in Atlanta: Police https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/armed-citizen-stops-robbery-suspect-at-chick-fil-a-in-atlanta-police_3727632.html
Concealed Permit Holder Opens Fire, Kills Armed Robbery Suspect https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/07/concealed-permit-holder-opens-fire-kills-armed-robbery-suspect/
Suspects Allegedly Point Gun at Woman's Head, Get Shot Dead https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/09/suspects-allegedly-point-gun-at-womans-head-get-shot-dead/
Mother, daughter use handgun to fight off armed robber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn5MHAlvQfA&feature=youtu.be
Michigan woman headed for church shoots, kills home intruder https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-woman-headed-for-church-shoots-kills-home-intruder?fbclid=IwAR0oBoXtisFrk8tXz4uV6TCfrojIkQK-4Lkygh9pf-N1T-9cK_ClKUC7scU.
I suppose they all could have waited for the Vavalde police to save them?
Anyway, good luck to you. We all want peace.
Trudeau Tells Canadians They Have No Right to Self-Defense with a Gun
Eric Stoner
You have cited instances of guns being used to protect against mere citizens committing crimes.
Anyone in the lower 48 who uses guns to fight against government tyranny will be mowed down in a NYC minute. Your vaunted 2A protection against government overreach is totally illusory.
That's what was said 240 odd years ago.... and Vietnam seems to have been an overmatched adversary that drove the U.S. out of the country.
So far it is not illusory. Which is why they are desperate to disarm. But then again we fought a war against tyranny to become citizens. The same tyrrany which you are still the subject of.
Then why the fevered desperate yearning to disarm people? Sounds like the tyrants are secure behind their armed guards?
Generally, Canadians don’t believe that every Tom, Dick and Harry should have a legal right to own a gun. Generally, you Americans do. And you dress it up with the fantasy that the right to own guns somehow protects you against tyrannical governments. It doesn’t. It just means that you have a greater chance of being shot as you go about your daily lives.
I am a conservative who is glad we don’t have the “protection” of your 2nd Amendment.
problem is not with legal gun ownership just this week in Montreal 3 murders committed by one deranged idiot with an illegal gun . it is hard to own a gun legally in Kanada yet there are shootings weekly hows that ?
I’m thinking you have criminals that by definition, don’t obey laws and some are named Tom, Duck, and Harry and they have guns. Especially the one named Justin.
Go gently into that dark night. Your country, your choice.
Ours; Reagan’s Final Address: https://youtu.be/FjECSv8KFN4
We don’t have your insane catch and release bail laws. Our crime rate is much lower than yours. America has moved significantly to the left since the days of Reagan. Your big cities are unsafe.
You can’t reason with gun nuts.
LOL, enter the projection and the favorite of the ignorant; Alinsky Rule Five, Ridicule.
Favorite because it doesn’t take much thought and makes one feel they’ve participated, you know, like throwing a brick through a window; revolutionaries for sure.
Yeah, I noticed that. I felt bad for the protesters, but Canadians are getting what they voted for.
Absolutely! That’s pretty much the point of the Nanny State. Sigh.
Nanny state….isn’t that the sad truth. People do dumb ass shit, get hurt, and then run to a lawyer to sue someone for their own stupidity. 🙄
Everybody hates lawyers til they need one. If you are a doctor and commit malpractice you should be sued. That makes future malpractice less likely to occur. Ditto manufacturing flaws and a long litany of other causes of action. And not to belabor the point but were it not for this Canadian lawyer we would not be reading this post. Lawsuits are the answer, not the problem
Exactly what I have been saying to my friends and anyone else who would listen. And even more frightening is that so many are fine to comply with the edicts. They aren't overly concerned. Americans have become too soft and comfortable. I sure hope they wake up soon.
I’m not sure we will CR,and then on the other hand I’m nervous as to what might happen if we do. It’s kind of like World War 2 when America ignored what was going on in Europe and then got attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor where all hell broke out there after. I think regular Americans are petrified what our government is capable of unleashing on us. We only have to watch 1/6 to see how this is playing out, people have been in prison for 18 months without a trial for merely attending the rally. The Truckers in Canada were treated no differently their bank accounts were closed the people who supported them, their accounts were closed it’s like living in the twilight zone you have to pinch yourself to see you not dreaming terrifying stuff to say the least.
There is a lot we don't know about 1/6, but the fact that these individuals have been held so long without trial is incredibly concerning. And if Trudeau's emergency and freezing the truckers / supporters bank accounts didn't wake people up, I don't know what will. Completely freaked me out.
Apparently, limousine liberal elitists don't have to follow their own mandates. However, the unwashed masses have to.
To a leftist, it is, "Do as I say, not as I do."
This applies to Gavin Newsom and this idiot: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-one-of-the-only-western-leaders-to-mandate-masks-on-trains-spotted-maskless-on-train
Petty tyrants.
There's a fantastic quote in HBO's "Chernobyl":
"If that mask worked, you'd be wearing it."
Now, I am going to have to watch it again!
I have lost “ friends” over this conversation. The only thing that has opened their squinted eyes from the blinding rays is that despite all their vaccines, they still get COVID. Hummm. They they say the vaccine mitigates the disease. How about…the vaccine didn’t work????
I love these sample sizes of one or two that "prove" vaccines don't work. There are none so blind as those that will not see. There are many sources of statistics gathered by reputable and diverse organizations. A quick analysis of Canada, Japan, France, UK, USA, Sweden and Germany shows an almost direct correlation between vaccination rates and excess death increase over the time of the pandemic. At the top is Canada with 83% fully vaccinated and an absolute excess deaths calculation of 6.83% increase. At the bottom of this list is the "greatest country in the world" with 67% vaccinated and 18% increase. One outlier is Sweden who have a higher rate of excess deaths than their vaccination rate would suggest but they were the country that went against the lockdown protocols of the time. Hmmmmm. My analysis is rudimentary but similar analysis can be done many ways. They pretty much all point to the same FACT. To suggest the vaccines didn't work is willful stupidity.
You know that nobody ever claimed that covid vaccines are 100% effective? They just reduce the risk getting the decease and if You still get it they give a certain protection from getting severely sick of covid. That's all. And of course some vaccinated people still get it and very very few vaccinated people do still die of covid. That does not mean vaccines are useless. They improve Your chances of not dying of covid drastically! It's the same with seatbelts. They give You a good protection against dying in a collision in Your car. But there are still some people dying in car collisions despite having buckled up. Does that mean there shouldn't be a seat belt mandate? Although it saves lifes? Scientifically proven just like the life saving effect of vaccines?
If back in day the day, when science managed to eradicate polio with world wide vaccination campaigns, there were as many ignorant dummies as there are nowadays, there would still hundreds of thousands of children suffer and die from polio. I used to believe in human progress, that people would get ever more smart and rational with time, but I'm loosing that believe. In fact human reason seems to be in sharp decline these days, because thanks to modern technology even the dumbest person can pretend to be an expert for everything on some screen and make thousands of others believe his BS.
you have proved your point . " because thanks to modern technology even the dumbest person can pretend to be an expert for everything on some screen ""
https://metatron.substack.com/p/how-the-vaccinated-produce-variants
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/hiding-the-truth-by-hiding-the-data
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/rte-roundtable-talk-2-coronavirus
You are the woefully ignorant. But do press on.
please explain how the towers came down . Blue balls ? that something you suffer ?
I seem to remember Biden saying "You're not going to get Covid if you get these vaccines" in July 2021.......
He's a politician. If You take everything an American president babbles for face value, than You would have already died some time ago, not of Covid but of poisoning by drinking Lysol, because the sitting American president of that day claimed drinking disinfectants would protect You from covid! Remember that?
You said "nobody ever claimed that the vaccines were 100% effective." Yes they did - Biden did.
As far as Trump goes (and why is he even in a discussion about Canadian mandates?)...
Trump's Direct Quote -
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?
"So it'd be interesting to check that."
Idiotic, yes. But he never "claimed they would protect you from Covid."
Ironically, a year before that he was saying the vaccines can't be trusted because they were developed under the Trump administration. The flip-flopping is breathtaking.
they are prepared for you in Burlington this week , "fools parade " they are waiting for a leader
Yep, cleanest election ever!
12/10/2020 Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸
(1/12) "Shortly after midnight (eastern), President Trump was leading in all six of the swing states still in issue: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, and had racked up, apart from those six states, 232 electoral votes to Biden's 227.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337030749271298049.html
BREAKING: Whistleblower in Delaware County, PA with evidence of destruction of election data and equipment.
https://twitter.com/profmjcleveland/status/1461152992443486213?s=11&t=cOC7YgT_tu04Kzq6Tz_T2g
I love the part in that video up there where the whistleblower actually reminds these goons that they are breaking all kinds of state and federal election laws. And they laugh it off.
74 Georgia Counties Can’t Produce Original 2020 Election Ballot Images
Ballot images are a critical aspect of election records that have long been required to be retained by federal and state law. Federal law requires a 22-month retention period for election records while state law requires a 24-month retention period for election documents which are generally considered to include those that are electronic. [USC 52 20701, O.C.G.A. 21-2-73]
EVIDENCE. THE CHICAGO WAY. Jim Allen, instructs staff to make it impossible to reconcile ballots
https://rumble.com/vx7mxb-evidence.-the-chicago-way.-jim-allen-instructs-staff-to-make-it-impossible-.html
6/1/2022 DEKALB COUNTY RECOUNT SHOWS MASSIVE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MACHINE COUNT AND HAND COUNT FROM MAY 24TH PRIMARY – ELECTION RESULTS CHANGED, ELECTRONIC DATABASE SUSPECTED https://www.georgiarecord.com/dekalb-county-recount-shows-massive-difference-between-machine-count-and-hand-count-from-may-24th-primary-election-results-changed-electronic-database-suspected/
Hundreds if not thousands of examples of the fraud taking place but, here, “the Big Guy” can clear it up;
Biden: We Have ‘The Most Extensive and Inclusive Voter Fraud Organization’ https://freebeacon.com/elections/biden-we-have-the-most-extensive-and-inclusive-voter-fraud-organization/
Video Removed From Above Article. Here it is; https://youtu.be/MA8a2g6tTp0
Cut out the crap. You lost! You are just sore losers!
Tell that to Hillary, Stacy Abrams. Now stamp your feet and try more name calling.
Says the "projection" machine. So the Kool-Aid be strong with you. Here are some of your servers, free of charge.
MSM (Mainstream Media) ECHO CHAMBER: NO EVIDENCE OF ELECTION THEFT! https://www.bitchute.com/video/pxZSRyVheAjS/
A refresher for your TDS, on the house:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9U_qTJ1UZ0
I's dotted, tee's crossed? LOL
Here they are, dotting eyes destroying election records which are against the law. Yep, real proud there dotted eyes and crossed t's.
UPDATE: Elections Operative Who Deleted Maricopa Database Before Machines Were Turned Over to Auditors DID NOT HAVE PROPER ACCESS to Room - Knew Exactly What to Delete! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/update-elections-operative-deleted-maricopa-database-machines-turned-auditors-not-proper-access-room-knew-exactly-delete/
Michigan Destruction of Evidence: Benson memo demanding deletion of electronic poll book data questionable | Michigan Senate Republicans https://www.misenategop.com/benson-memo-demanding-deletion-of-electronic-pollbook-data-questionable/
Mike Coudrey @MichaelCoudrey
Photos from the Michigan voter database show numerous "voters" who have a birth year of 1/1/1900. That means they are all 120 years old! Completely fraudulent and should be grounds for a lawsuit!
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1324283660602781699
Poll Challengers Locked Out of, vote count. #Detroit
https://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1324070754208616449?s=20
Here are the current Michigan results from the MI Secretary of State. Don't listen to news outlets. They are using projections. https://twitter.com/Gimblin/status/1324098491371659266
12/5/2020 Jess @jessiprincey
WISCONSIN- There was a massive spike at 3:42 am- 143,379 votes went to Biden. You can see on the video below Milwaukee's Election Commissioner loading the "vote spike" on a USB drive just after 3 am.
https://twitter.com/jessiprincey/status/1335332385383182338?s=11
Wisconsin has 3,684,726 active registered voters. They counted 3,288,771 votes. That's, um, a bit unbelievable. https://twitter.com/Harlan/status/1324039094524137472?s=20
Analysis: Seven Milwaukee wards report more 2020 presidential votes than registered voters; Biden nets 146K votes in city
https://mkecitywire.com/stories/564495243-analysis-seven-milwaukee-wards-report-more-2020-presidential-votes-than-registered-voters-biden-nets-146k-votes-in-city
Yesterday, 7th Circuit law clerk Professor Margot Cleveland shared several shocking videos documenting premeditated, felony election evidence destruction in Delaware County, PA.
Last night a lawsuit was filed against county election officials and former Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar. The suit begins🔥:
"Defendants intentionally and fraudulently conspired to destroy, delete, secrete, and hide November 3, 2020, election data, materials, and equipment to prevent discovery of election fraud and election law violations in Delaware County, which the Defendants also conspired to commit and did commit while carrying out the November 3, 2020, election…
Moreover, when a May 21, 2021 Right to Know (RTK) request for election information and data was made with respect to information that is by federal and state law to be kept and preserved, the Defendants fraudulently and intentionally deleted, changed, adulterated, manipulated and/or obscured the information, data, and materials produced in response to the RTK request in order to hide their fraud and election code violations because they knew that they could not reconcile the previously fraudulently reported November 3, 2020 election results with the actual responsive information that they had in their possession and which they were required to preserve and produce in response to the Right to Know request.
Plaintiffs know this to be the case and can document this and demonstrate this by showing, among other things, that November 3, 2020 election, data materials, and equipment was destroyed including but not limited to V-Drives, Return Sheets, machine tapes/proof sheets/result tapes, Mail-In Ballots, Ballots Destroyed, voting machines, hard drives, paper documentation, Blue Crest data, correspondence concerning the November 3, 2020 election."
The lawsuit further alleges that the fraud was outcome-altering:
"61. It appears Delaware County was the last county to submit its presidential vote total in the state potentially changing November 3, 2020 election results in numerous races.
62. It appears prior to Delaware County submitting its vote totals, Donald J. Trump was leading Joseph Biden by 7,515 votes.
63. Delaware County submitted [its] presidential votes total with a difference of 88,070 between the two presidential candidates. [Exhibit G]."
The entire document is a savage, painstakingly detailed account of criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud, backed up by video. Brian Cates writes:
"This filing is the real deal. It's exhaustive in it's research and citing of legal precedents. It goes into great detail… The people who put this filing together spent months on it. I can tell."
Read ⚖️ Lawsuit
Hat tip🤠 @drawandstrikechannel
Learn more 🔦🧵 PA Thread - Delaware County
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https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1461152992443486213?s=20
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https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1461154558458146817?s=20 THREE
Election official says VDrives are missing containing electronic information tabulated by the voting machines -- a violation of federal law
Democrat Senators Worried Machines Are Easily Hackable: https://rumble.com/vzgf5j-democrats-on-hacking-americas-computerized-voting-system.html
CNN: We watched hackers break into voting machines
Time Magazine: The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | Time
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
So, they cheated to save us? Cool, huh?
But, boys and girls and non-binaries, listen up; you can't get a pothole fixed in less than five years, but magically, they addressed all of these concerns before 2020? LOL, yeah, right.
https://rumble.com/vzgf5j-democrats-on-hacking-americas-computerized-voting-system.html
Carry on; it's essential. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2018-05/31/17/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-06/anigif_sub-buzz-7200-1527802399-2.gif
Yep, I can't acquire your taste for turds from government. You can have any allocated for me, genius.
I'm afraid I have to agree with You. It will be ugly.
The topic is on a Canadian government policy. It's got nothing to do with Trump. Wrong country. Try to focus.
It may be a very wise act for people in higher risk categories to get multiple and ongoing Covid shots. Just like it is wise for older people to get a shingles vax (I'm 60, and I'd take getting covid over shingles any day). But this bunk of "public responsibility" to be forced to get Covid shots s based on THE BIG LIE: that vaccinated individuals don't spread Covid.
It's a wise practice to limit the amount of sugar and processed carbs in your diet, and especially to get your fat ass outside and regularly exercise, even just walking. Obesity is also a pandemic. Why aren't you progressives demanding fat people be fired from their jobs and rendered homeless? Why aren't you wishing misery and death on the fat, like you do at people who don't want COVID shots. Don't bother with "but fat isn't contagious," because the burden on public health created by all these fat people (start with type 2 diabetes) is huge - including how being fat greatly increases the risk of more serous Covid. But oddly, no weight mandates to travel. Imagine "You are prohibited by law from boarding a plane or train if you are obese. Even worse, progressive squeal (pun intended) that "body shaming" is a hate crime. But, sure, demonize and spew your hate at a healthy 25 year old with statistically no meaningful risk of Covid, fire him from his job, refuse all basic human rights to him, because he makes a personal decision that you don't like and that does not effect you. Yeah, that's not a hate crime.
Since when is obesity an infectious disease? If I could become obese myself just because an obese person coughs at me I sure would like my government to apply measures to protect me. But obesity only effects the obese person and that makes it their personal business. And yes, contagiousness is the difference that really changes everything here as far as disease control is concerned. The obese person runs a higher risk of dying of covid, not me.
It's from a Zappa song. It's not my job to educate you on Zappa.
You missed my point. It's about the Hate and Rage progressives had/still have for the deplorables, especially unvaxed deplorables. Preventing someone from working or traveling is serious authoritarianism. And for what?
My using FAT as an example is not about COVID, although, again, COVID very much likes to fat-shame.
My point is that all the hate and rage is just political and not because you hate and rage people who wont/dont take care of their health.
Loaf pinched.
No one prevented anyone from working or travelling. It's everyone's own choice. Get vaccinated and work and travel or don't get vaccinated and stay at home. Take Your pick! It's as simple as that. There are lots of things You can only do if You obey to certain rules. Have You ever seen a sign in a restaurant saying "No shirt, no shoes, no service"? Does anybody complain about "authoritarianism" here? Saying "Those fascists won't let me eat! They wanna starve me to death!" "Well, Sir, get dressed properly and her's Your food. Enjoy!"........."Show me Your proof of vaccination and hop aboard!"
Yeah yeah, I could convert to Mormonism if I want to see the inside of a temple.
The entire point of the article is that the Canadian government imposed a "shots for service" requirement for way more fundamental right - to travel - to return to your own country! - based on nothing but politics. Shoes and shirts arguably promote something to do with restaurant cleanliness. And certainly any restaurant owner can make whatever dress code they want (ties and jackets, anyone)? and people can decide whether I want to eat there. WTF does vaccination have to do with riding on a train or plane? Nothing. Maybe (maybe) Pfizer et al actually believed that getting the shots would actually make a person non-infectious. They don't. They haven't. Even progressives get this (or at least most of them do). But, humans in power rarely concede one of their brilliant policies was a mistake. According to this author, the Canadian policy was just pulled out of someone's ass (figuratively or literally, I'm not sure).
"WTF does vaccination have to do with riding on a train or plane?"
Seriously?
The point is that there was no science behind it. They were looking for it and "came up short"...
And actually we live in an age where "your public responsibility" is being used to control you. The lockdowns, the masks, the forced shots - I've read all sorts of studies - in the end, none of it really worked - compare countries and states that didn't lock down with those that did, read all the studies about what the masking and school lockdowns did to children. As someone who has had severe side effects from those first two shots, was I supposed to sacrifice my health as my "public responsibility"?
The point is, science was incomplete back then and a decision had to be made whether to act quick to be able to at least manage the spread of the virus or wait until the science was complete and risk to be too late with any counter measures. Both ways there were serious downsides, but the prospect of a deadly disease spreading basically unchecked because we didn't react fast enough had the potential of a real horror scenario unfolding right in front of our eyes with us unable to do much about it but watch it killing millions. Well, that's what pretty much happened in the US because the various levels of US government didn't get their act together and an utterly useless president was unable to show any leadership to stem the crisis.
No, you just changed the point of this piece to fit your argument.
Compare state by state what happened here and some of the most locked down areas had the highest mortality rates. Compare country by country. Compare numbers from Canada and Sweden.
China's numbers were low (if you can believe them) because they were locked in their homes like animals in cages.
Your obsession with Trump is showing. I was trying to comment on the Canadian mandates. Not Trump. I see that you hate him, but he had nothing to do with what Canada did.
The Swedish mortality rate is actually lower than Canada's.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mortality+rate+of+covid+by+country&oq=mortailty+rate+of+covid+by+c&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i13j0i22i30l3j0i22i30i457j0i22i30l2j0i8i13i30.11041j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I was comparing those two countries - one that did not lock down its' citizens and one that was among the most authoritarian in the world.
Another thing you're forgetting is that in the beginning, hospitals were reporting deaths WITH Covid as deaths FROM Covid. US numbers were very inflated, and we may never know the actual number.
Seriously! 10 family members who did ALL the vaccinations and other bs still got Covid this summer (8 of the 10).
Its a faith thing. It may have made it less bad but there is absolutely no way to know.
I got the vaccines last year because i've always gotten vaccines but i now realize we were sold a bill of goods on this so no more for me.
Way too much politics, same as everything else.
Yep. For the record never had a flu shot. I’m not anti-vax but I just never worried At ALL about the flu. With Covid I thought “no need to get that shot I am not worried about Covid”. But then the pressure. And in the end (April 2021) I did get shots 1 and 2. Why? Not fear of Covid, but fear of the restrictions! So I caved to fear and now I feel like a spineless coward. Because I acted against my own best interests due to fear. I wish I could reverse that decision. And btw - I got Covid anyway, January 2022. It was like a cold.
We are the same
Got shots April and June 2021 then booster in august as at the time it was suggested for travel and I do/did lots of business travel.
Everything is anecdotal but I have had more colds in the last year than in the previous 5
Interesting. I never got vaccinated...my husband did. I traveled extensively, always following protocol, during 2020 and 2021. Jan 2022 my husband got Covid and had it for a week. I got it at the end of his week and had it for 3 days and took ibuprofen. Reduced energy for another week and then fine. I'm 74. After reading all the research that is going on post-pandemic, I'm thankful I didn't cave to pressure, listened to my body and didn't get vaxed.
well all that proves is you are not a teacher that knows it all and puts down others with insults because they don't follow "his science" . What it proves i that you think did a little more research it's not that complicated . Just harder these days as much is buried if it does not follow the party line
maybe teach can exprain this
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1841
Sure. Keep repeating that unprovable hypothesis.
more bs for you
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1841
they are waiting for you in Burlington and about this "
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34 min ago
"What I believe we can all agree on is that the divisiveness in this country is reaching a crescendo " please name the band leader of this divisiveness , oh wait it must be Trump !
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Honestly, not really.
That’s gone with the 2020 election I can’t see the Democrooks ever leaving the WH and I’m sure 2024 Joe will be running again, and am sure Kamala will be the President of America eventually. We don’t have to vote anymore it doesn’t matter America has finally tipped over the edge
I think.it will be Newsom. I think he ordered the drapes the other day.
You're wrong so, you've been corrected.
Pro tip, google; Trump made official plans to leave the white house after the inauguration of biden
What penalty, what removal. Do you have anything backing up your assertions other than Joy Reid's voice in your head?
As to "insurrection," keep eating up that astroturf theatre. You realize these are the same people that claimed and failed on Russia, Trump, Ukraine, Pee Tape, so many others but, here you are, loyal puppy, panting in anticipation of the next load of crap you want to swallow!
Hey, who is Ray Epps? You ever heard of him?
Meanwhile;
@julie_kelly2
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2
Remember everyone Michael Fanone is just a dedicated cop who defended the Capitol and not at all a lowlife Democratic operative hanging with other lowlifes.
12 Minute mark, Fanone crying:
https://youtu.be/OBR3IXz37iw
Adam Kinzinger Cryin J6 Committee;
https://youtu.be/9uZUoDn6RBM
Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin
Aug 1
Look who came over for a hot cup of F**K TRUMP.
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1554154589854777346?s=11&t=GZ_8gsZBBZcFZbAfqov7Ew
Anatomy of a Potential Agent Provocateur (Officer Fanone)
https://rumble.com/vckpmb-anatomy-of-a-potential-agent-provocateur.html
Thread
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty
@julie_kelly2 explains who Fanone really is.
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1428071487555129349
The January 6th Committee Kindly Asks You to Ignore the FBI
“The FBI found no evidence President Trump, or his allies coordinated any part of the Capitol riots. The January 6th Committee would like for you to ignore that.”
https://townhall.com/capitol-voices/congressmanandybiggs/2022/06/08/the-january-6th-committee-kindly-asks-you-to-ignore-the-fbi-n2608348
Jim Jordan among 5 House Republicans selected by McCarthy for January 6 select committee
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/politics/house-republicans-chosen-for-january-6-committee/index.html
Pelosi Kicks Reps. Jordan, Banks Off of January 6 Committee
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2021/07/21/pelosi-kicks-jordan-banks-off-committee-n2592886
The Capitol Hill Riot Was Pelosi’s Fault, Not Trump’s https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/capitol-hill-riot-was-pelosis-fault-not-trumps-daniel-greenfield/
Trump Didn't Order The National Guard To Protect The Capitol? He Can't, He Authorized But It Was Up To Pelosi, Bowser To Bring Them In. The Didn't.
Here, from the World Socialists website. Note, they had to brand demonstrators "fascist" because that's what Alinskyite, fascists do, project so dumbasses get confused!
This level of stupidity has to be physically painful, huh>
Former Pentagon chief: Trump approved National Guard troops on January 6 to protect fascist “demonstrators” https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/13/mili-m13.html
Please clarify. By "leave the White House" do you mean after the Electoral College votes were certified or on election day? Because if you mean on election day, which your snarky tone implies to to me it does, Trump received in excess of 74,000,000 million votes. That's a lot of "sycophants".
funny how we had 4 years of he's not my president protests and false accusations . Don't see that now do you ?
I'm free no matter what my government says or does. I'll never give up.
It’s easy to dupe ignorant people. Politicians, their dutiful Red Guards running our education system and their propagandists in the media long ago realized that if you control knowledge, you can control the masses. They’ve succeeded to a large extent as witnessed by the Covid lies too many willingly accepted as fact. God bless those with the knowledge, and the far fewer who daily display the courage and fortitude to resist and expose the lies.
60 Minutes: Mostly 'Affluent and College-Educated' Liberals Fall for Fake News http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/27/60-minutes-mostly-affluent-and-college-educated-liberals-fall-for-fake-news/
Your presumption exposes your ignorance though an oblique Alinsky rule five, ridicule was special. The name is a movie character; figure it out.
I would say control.thr communication of the pseudo knowledge.
Many are willingly ignorant. I have shared data throughout the pandemic with family and friends. It didn't matter. They were fearful. They obeyed the rules. And then they got vaccinated. Now, they don't wish to hear about vaccine adverse events because they can't comprehend that they accepted the shots. Even though they regard me as annoying now, I keep sharing the data because I don't want them to get a 4th shot. I never cared about being right; I only cared about the health of my family and friends. Relationships aren't what they were, but I have zero regrets.
And so you shouldn’t my poster boy is Novak Djokovic. I have found him to be inspirational he won’t back down. My friends have lambasted me for saying so I have had 3 shots it is my first and last shots I definitely won’t be having more and I feel great 😃😃
Yep, I fully support him as well. I am also concerned for all the families that have been separated due to the US vaccine mandate for non-citizens. I can't even imagine the lost time and memories together. It is so cruel.
To me, there are multiple reasons for objections to the shot mandates: 1) the biology, i.e. not safe and not effective, 2) personal autonomy, 3) religious beliefs, and 4) medical vulnerability to the ingredients.
I actually think the debate should begin with #1. And since they aren't safe or effective, they shouldn't have even made it to market for the remaining objections to matter. I follow GigaohmBiological https://www.twitch.tv/gigaohmbiological for the science.
Glad you aren't getting anymore shots. If my sources are correct, the next one will include 3 mRNA strains plus the flu vaccine. No thank you!
Where did you get your facts from?
The science from CNN? Solid stuff!
CDC Director Walensky Finally ‘Comes Clean’ on Covid Vaccine Mistakes
https://beckernews.com/new-cdc-director-walensky-finally-comes-clean-on-covid-vaccine-mistakes-44319/
“I can tell you where I was when the CNN feed came that it was 95% effective — the vaccine. So many of us wanted to be helpful. So many of us wanted to say, ‘okay, this is our ticket out right now.’ We’re done.
Sound like she was high on her own drug!
Fauci, Walensky, and Co. Attempt to Rewrite History Before Things Turn for the Worse for Them
Dr. Robert Malone: "Rochelle Walensky [recently came out] acknowledging that there is this myocarditis and cardiac inflammation ... and then saying 'Well, we just recently became aware of it.' It is such blatant revision of history. It's clearly a lie."
Full Video: tinyurl.com/Malone-8-4
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https://rumble.com/v1esun5-fauci-walensky-and-co.-attempt-to-rewrite-history-before-the-blame-falls-ba.html
Horowitz: Just 1 known unvaccinated person hospitalized last week in Australia’s largest state - Conservative Review
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-covid-hospitalizations-australia-2657453020.html
With over 96% of the adult population fully vaccinated and 70+% boosted, Australia has just set a new record for COVID deaths.
https://twitter.com/ianmsc/status/1554944791175016448?s=21&t=fCMlKL2mCUXXi_nEvJc_NQ
Yeah, it’s here to stay!
"A Recurring Fountain Of Revenue": FDA Exec Admits Biden Planning Annual Shots, Including Toddlers https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/recurring-fountain-revenue-fda-exec-admits-biden-planning-annual-shots-and-vaxxing
“Young, dumb and full of cum?”
You a writer for Biden; “lying dog faced pony soldier?”
New England Journal of Medicine: Unvaccinated COVID Patients Are Contagious for LESS Time Than those Vaxed or Boosted. (NEJM)
https://www.disclose.tv/id/1551907875525730304/
At this point it is time for ALL establishment medicine to halt its narrative that C19 vaccines lessen symptom severity. PERIOD. They used this tag line in 2021 to get people to roll up their sleeves; however, now the data is in and worldwide, this is proven FALSE.
1) transmission and duration is increased within vaccinated
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2202092
And...
2) symptoms and likelihood of death is increased anomaly the vaccinated.
Now it is clear that there is ZERO benefit of these vaccines and ONLY risk.
#stoptheclotshot
Don’t fret, you can use your super effective “draconian lockdowns” when this returns;
Flu season which struck down 310,000 Australians 'worst on record' due to early outbreaks
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-11/early-outbreaks-to-blame-for-worst-flu-season-on-record/11949320
Flu Has Disappeared for More Than a Year
Mask wearing, social distancing and other steps to stop COVID-19 have also curtailed influenza
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-worldwide-during-the-covid-pandemic1/
See, you couldn’t have had the flu. That’s not the narrative so, they attribute this fall-off to their stupid mask, distancing, all the worthless superstitious based science you embrace. Wear a chicken bone around your next, it’s so effective!
“Pray to your god people get educated”.
So, educate me. How many of the 98-99% of those you cite died with Covid, not BECAUSE of it? Were they already on deaths bed? In fact, maybe you can provide the same statistic for all the “Covid deaths”. How many people have already been infected? How many of the UNvaccinated have natural immunity from previous infection? Is natural immunity better than the vaccine? Are booster shots of any benefit at all for a virus that keeps mutating?
Since no “educated” person has bothered to provide that information I’m not going to succumb to the hysterical rants and fearmongering from arrogant twits whose misinformation, outright lies and mandates have caused catastrophic damage that dwarfs anything Covid is responsible for. If you want to worship self professed oracles like Dr. "I am science" Fauci, be my guest. I'll continue to pray to the only God who has offered us guidance for thousands of years.
I'm already "there". You should open your mind. I suspect it would improve your demeanor.
I am going to pray for your education. In the 1950s there was a theory that ICE CREAM caused polio. Based on the fact that polio seemed to spike in summer, you know when people eat a lot of ice cream. If establishing a fact were as simple as cause and effect there would be no need for science. Actual science not this pseudo-science being passed off as science today.
Still working on student loan foreignness?
Laureate Education With Clinton Ties Swings To Sharp Loss http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/09/laureate-education-with-clinton-ties-swings-to-sharp-loss/
Laureate, Issuing IPO With $4.7 Billion in Debt - http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-laureate-ipo-folo-20151005-story.html
Laureate Students Struggling to Re-Pay Loans as IPO Looms: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-11-04/laureate-loan-repayment-rate-shows-u-s-debt-burden-as-ipo-looms
Clinton Backed, “For-Profit College” Downgraded: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/08/seedy-clinton-backed-for-profit-college-company-downgraded-to-junk-bond-status/
Additionally, in January 2013, during Clinton’s last month at the State Department, the World Bank’s investment unit invested $150 million in Laureate."
Hillary University: Bill Clinton Bagged $16.46 Million From For Profit College As the State Department Funneled $55 Million Back
8/26/2019
Massive college scams taxpayers out of student loans with fake enrollment paperwork, whistleblowers say https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/25/university-of-phoenix-student-loans/#disqus_thread
Douglas L. Becker, Laureate’s CEO, has donated generously to Hillary Clinton’s various political campaigns. He gave $4,600 in 2007 and $2,000 in 2005.”
Johnathan Turley, The Clinton University Problem: Laureate Education Lawsuits Present Problem For Clintons - https://jonathanturley.org/2016/06/08/the-clintons-university-problem-laureate-education-lawsuits-present-problem-for-clintons/#more-99783
SHOCKER: Colleges Stop Exorbitant Price Increases After Congress Caps Student Loans
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/24/shocker-colleges-stop-exorbitant-price-increases-after-congress-caps-student-loans/
1) A truly intelligent nation would realize that while progress, in the sense of forward momentum Is good, Progressivism is merely a fairy tale at best, a cult at worst. 2) Comparing the Nordic countries with their tiny populations and very homogeneous populations to the US is apple and oranges. 3) As a woman I find your comment about women very ill-informed. Historically it was men who taught. Specifically in Western civilization it was the Catholic Church which originally fostered widespread education. In the US it is true that women were teachers during the 19th century, but it was not that many because unlike now people understood having a family was work. Teaching was considered a respectable occupation for a single woman. You might view this as an example of how "America shits on women." I find that POV quite odious. It is the left which shits on women, and blacks, and Latinos, and gays, bi-sexuals, and lesbians, and farmers, and auto workers, and oil and gas workers. The left never has a good thing to say about any of those groups, or countless others,, unless and until to do so scores points on its behalf. That is foreign to me as I believe partisanship, on either side, should exist to serve the nation, not itself. Instead we have Pelosis, Clintons, Bidens, Obamas, etc. enriching themselves at the expense of the working public. And before you point out the Cheneys, McConnells, McCains, G4ahams doing the same I am well aware. The difference is the Left accepts it, the Right does not.
Both your bias (toward the Left) and your prejudice ( against the Right) fully exposed. For your enlightenment, conservative people, even religious conservatives believe in the sanctity/value/power of the individual. That is why the preamble to the Constitution says "We the People in order to form a more perfect union . . ." . WE are the source not the product. The Left has , and is, creating urban plantations - go to your lord employer and get your pay. Then give whatever portion of it to the Master federal government that they demand.
Yeah, I'm such a cultists I didn't take me leaders advice to take "the shot!" Stay stupid, RT.
First off, “love the poorly educated” is, of course, taken out of context to fit the “progressive” narrative!
Being a self proclaimed “educated person,” why do you do that; fall for the narrative?
“We won the evangelicals,” Trump said.
“We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”
“That last line was, as you might expect, the sound bite of the night. Indeed, “I love the poorly educated” was trending on Twitter early Wednesday morning, with users expressing a mix of bewilderment, consternation and other big words such supporters might not understand.”
Being the progressives have had a stranglehold on education, you want to blame what, conservatives for the shambles?
As to Japan; how many drag Queen shows do they conduct in their schools? How much time indoctrinating students with “Critical race theory?”,” and other “progressive” tripe?
Progressivism and public employee unionists destroy everything they come into contact with!
Nice try, and it’s a shame you wasted your money if what you wrote is your “educated” opinion!
Oh, liberals shit on women. There, fixed it for you.
You just disqualified yourself from this discussion. If you have to resort to that...
University of Alabama and University of Houston for my doctorate. You? Anywhere?
Or are willing/able to overcome their fears. Their position is a corollary of needing victims to exist. It is why so.many have the Twilight Zone, Bizarro World, WTF is happening feeling.
I've been trying to dig into this: Why do those who lean Democratic/ perhaps progressive also seem more fearful, more neurotic, and mostly value safety over everything else? We could see this way before COVID. A simple answer might be because the Dems values big government and want the protection they perceive the govt brings. But that doesn't really answer the question as to why they are so damn neurotic. I also have observed that those on what might be considered these days as the far left (e.g., Jimmy Dore) do not share this value and seem to have more in common, at least as far as the "safety uber alles" issue goes, with those on the so-called right. As a post script, if you think it's a vacuum created by a loss of traditional religious community - as I once did - look around. Many (many!) of the churches and synagogues are on the Woke Train and many were (some still are) the most vociferous about vaccine/mask mandates.
For years I hypothesized that the folks in the Northeast were bred to be less venturesome/risk takers. The risk takers over the years migrated westward in the U.S., leaving the folks that were less confident behind...and need the warm embrace of the gubmint to keep them happy.
Doesn't explain California though.
Interesting take but ya...California, Oregon, Washington State. However, CA, OR, and WA politics are driven by the urban areas. The rural areas of those states, while less densely populated, do not lean blue. (they are more like Texas). Maybe there is something about the people who gravitate to urban living or who live in the urban cocoon that makes them less adventurous and afraid of risks. But then again, it is those urban denizens who take most of the business and artistic risks, so I don't think that explains it. But I do think there's something about living in the big city (virtually all of them lean heavy D) that helps drive this neuroses.
Neither do non-urban areas in the northeast. The further away you get from NYC , the more red NY state becomes.
To your question, many intelligent people think and give to the logical side of the brain, while other intelligent people think, but give to the emotional side of the brain. If it doesn’t feel right, it can’t be so. That explains it for me.
I think that rings true but does that mean most Democrat types think emotionally? I know Ben Shapiro more or less makes that claim. Even if that is the answer, why are those who lean D, emotional thinkers?
We living in strange times never mind interesting times.
I think many churches are dominated in their ruling hierarchy by the Woke who lost their because of heretical doctrine espoused by woke seminaries and seminary faculty members. At the church level, the woke pastors preach a feel-good sermon rather than a Bible-based sermon.
We hear fear being preached daily - Climate Change is a Global Emergency! Covid will kill Millions! Republicans are running loose Destroying Democracy! Monkeypox! And of course Russia! Putin!
That is the crux of it. They fear because that is how they are told to feel by the media, hyping every occurrence as a disaster of epic proportion, 24/7. And guess who will save them? The Almighty, infallible government. I don't want to be saved from fake crises. I just want to be left alone.
Heavens yes now kjmac what can we do about it! We cannot just carrying on line this there is a breaking point
Yip correct on all points now where to from 2022 we have covered everything and the Democrats are still whinging I’m wondering what else they can demand from the people
OMG yes Golfer, now what can we seriously do about it. We can’t carry on and on with the Democrats distraction we are nearly rock bottom.
True, paper ballots otherwise walk in your mail in ballot on voting day, same count, chain of custody on ballot boxes all this should help for a free and fair election, and the most important your ID
So true! It is no wonder over half of the population (including children) are on anti-depressants or anxiolytics...or both!
I am an anesthesiologist. One of the things I do is review a patient's medications before surgery. Truly, it is rare when someone is not on one of these medications, and many are on more than one. Anxiety and depression are normal human emotions that we all feel from time to time. When allowed to work through the those tough times, humans gain strength and resilience. That said, I am sure there are some people who really do need those medications, but not nearly the numbers we are seeing now. Big Pharma is laughing all the way to the bank!
Would be interesting find out.
Lower consciousness scores for the left lol! Maybe meant conscientiousness?
I thought he meant that unconscious people tend to lean left. For example, dead people always vote democrat.
The reason behind defund the police is to eliminate local law enforcement and turn law enforcement over to a centralized governmental law enforcement, such as the KGB or Gestapo.
True. The fearful see power as a source of comfort. The don't care that they have deprived people of their jobs, seeing their elderly parents, harmed children. In 2020, the left didn't care that the police were shot, spat on, beaten, with their precincts set on fire. To hell with them! However, they suddenly became "protective" of them and their health with vaccine mandates. Hypocrites all.