Aug 8, 2023·edited Aug 8, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.
Dear Bill,
Good one.
And from what I have seen, in every major eposide of history for which we have memoirs, letters, & etc, we will find many characters, much like these apparently very respectable officials whom you discuss here, doing and saying things that we, reading decades later, find thunderously wrong-headed, absurd, and even contemptible. Even, in some instances, criminal. And yes, in pretty much all instances I've come across in my reading adventures, said apparently respectable officials were doing what they had a strong incentive to do, and not doing what they did not have a strong incentive not to do-- never mind objective facts, and the pointless death and suffering of other people.
You write: "Answer: There were no negative consequences. In fact, the careers of both ladies flourished."
I would say, yes, in the short and possibly also the medium term. But long term? That could be a very different story.
It is a hard lesson to learn esp late in life..but you have company...there are a small percentage of us contrarians...but the comfort is we come in handy one every couple hundred years..if only to survive and leave a record. But it's a hard thing to learn..the incentives drive the behavior
Egads. Another Substacker just published an article saying Dr. Marrazzo was one of the main backers of Remdesivir. This makes sense and connects another dot. I'm glad I mentioned Remdesivir in my article. This is actually very scary. Great find by this author.
all murderers. All doctors who promoted the jabs are. In fact all doctors who promote any jabs are guilty of harming. None of them should have a licence because they harm people.
To "protect the people" we have to ... "drain the swamp" .... Purge a whole lot of people. I'd say nuke a lot of Alphabet Agencies .... "just to be sure."
I have to agree with where I believe simulationcommnder is going (or at least hinting towards), I don't think "All of them" is feasible or even necessary. It's not ALL of them, I'd go so far as to say it's actually a small percentage but they are in key/critical roles of influence and decision mking soo they apppear tohave more support/backers/believers than they really do. You treat it like a hostile takeover, after taking over you fire all the peopel at the top and een some managers/supervisors below the top. You do this to root out the rot from the old without killing off the entire tree
Don't do that because how many bicycles do you think there are and IF what you have to share has value, if you dive into the spokes, then what do you have to share after that?
Aug 8, 2023·edited Aug 9, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.
Hang in there Bill. You chose the high road and unfortunately it will be a few years until people come around and realize you were a visionary and the evil people in charge get sent packing or at least get corrected and don't get further promoted . In the end you win.
Great analysis article Bill, you lay out a logical argument and if the medical evidence shows the vaccines cause or accelerate cancer in individuals all hell should break out. As it won’t matter what your ideology or party is, cancer is an equal opportunity killer. Funny how the search for the truth is replaced by the big lie theory and people don’t get it. From the Russia Russia hoax to Covid people better wake up and realize government is not your friend and shouldn’t be trusted. As Reagan said trust but verify but in todays world the people on power that unleashed this on the world know if the truth comes out there time in power comes to and end. Keep up the great work
Bill, I so appreciate you making the connections with incentives. At the same time, the voices in my head are yelling, "It's so unfair. These folks don't deserve their promotions or accolades!" But, moving on, I remember the movie "The Abominable Dr. Phibes": In 1925, pissed-off rich dude Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) goes after the medics led by Dr. Vesalius (Joseph Cotton) because he thinks they screwed up and let his wife, Victoria, kick the bucket. Phibes gets all biblical and knocks them off one by one using the Old Testament's 10 Plagues of Egypt. I'm not for knocking anyone off, but investigating the possible "plagues" we could use to derail the career paths of the folks in this article might also be worth discovering.
Aug 8, 2023·edited Aug 8, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.
I've got whiplash after trying to follow the Alabama GOP's leadership during pandemic. Which has something to do with who led Alabama's Health Department:
1) Alabama Lt. Gov. butts heads with governor over coronavirus response
“Folks are supposed to have common sense,” she said. “It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down....I’ve done all I know how to do. I can encourage you to do something, but I can’t make you take care of yourself.”
“Media, I want you to start reporting the facts. The new cases of COVID are because of unvaccinated folks. Almost 100% of the new hospitalizations are unvaccinated folks. And the deaths certainly are occurring with unvaccinated folks. These folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain. We’ve got to get folks to take the shot.”
“I want folks to get vaccinated,” she said.
“That’s the cure. That prevents everything. Why do we want to mess around with just temporary stuff? We don’t need to just encourage people to go halfway with curing this disease. Let’s get it done. We know what it takes to get it done. Get a shot in your arm. I’ve done it. It’s safe. The data proves it. It doesn’t cost anything. It saves lives.”
Ivey received both shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in December. She called it “just the thing to do,” saying those who have received it should encourage others to receive the vaccine.
4) Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey Is Blocking Efforts To Pass Ban On COVID Vaccine Mandates
While Ivey signed an executive order barring mandates across state agencies on Monday, the governor’s ban does not apply to private businesses, as do new protections in Texas and Montana.
Ivey however, says Biden’s federal mandate should be challenged by the courts and not statehouse legislation.
Alabama Republican House Speaker Mac McCutcheon supports the governor’s apparent cop-out demand rhat Biden’s mandate be challenged in the judiciary rather than legislative action.
Others in the state blasted the order as “horribly insufficient,” in Republican Auditor Jim Zeigler’s words, because “it protects only the state workers of the executive branch” and not private employees. Zeigler, who is also a potential gubernatorial candidate next year, added a political cartoon mocking Ivey on Twitter.
In July, Biden praised Ivey’s efforts to get residents to accept the vaccines.
“You notice a lot of our very conservative friends have finally had an altar call. They’ve seen the Lord,” Biden said at a summer campaign event for former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “Thank God the governor of Alabama, at one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, is now.”
Alabama Republicans seemingly conservative on most issues, most all endorsing Trump (though Gov. Ivey hasn't made any endorsement yet, nor has Sen. Katie Britt). But divided on pandemic freedom.
- Gov. Ivey initially reluctant to issue emergency orders
- Then Ivey pushed into issuing by her Lt. Governor Ainsworth and media (and Trump?)
- Then Ivey issues mask mandate
- Then Ainsworth calls Ivey's mask mandate an "overstep"
- Then Ivey nastily berates and blames the unvaccinated into getting jabbed with experimental biotech, proclaiming how safe and effective it is, parroting Rachel Maddow, Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky,, Big Pharma's Big Lies.
- Then Ivey blocks legislative efforts to protect Alabaman's from Biden's experimental biotech mandates, "our hands are tied" cop-out supported by the GOP House Speaker, garnering praise from Biden.
WTH?! Messy factions in the GOP, no doubt many stealth D's wearing R clothing in Red state politics mucking up the works. Ivey better on some freedom policies, Ainsworth better on some freedom policies, they'd flip back and forth. Both unreliable on side of freedom. It's like those passing around the incentives were toying with them, teasing like pets jumping to get a treat that's being waived above. It's Alabama, they each had to keep a foot on freedom ground, but there were obviously forces pushing and pulling them off of it.
Fox, I almost added Gov. Ivey to my "case study" examples and was going to reference and link to her infamous quote where she "blames the unvaccinated folks." My point was going to be that SHE suffered no consequences from sharing that POV (and obviously trusting the advice and counsel of people like Dr. Karen Landers). Gov. Ivey of course won re-election in a landslide. Zero consequences. This also bothers me as I actually know Gov. Ivey and consider her a friend ... but she bought all the Covid snake oil.
Smells like hidden hands holding the puppet strings. Her first instincts were to stay with freedom. Got cajoled from her right by Ainsworth. Who, if reports are true about how Trump cajoled many reluctant GOP governors to issue EO's, probably got a call from Trump to push Ivey. And once she was in, she was in. Pressure, pressure, coerce, bully, name-call, pressure, just stopping short of mandating. But very much a part of the "othering" and despicable societal and familial division we still suffer from. Very little daylight between herself and Democrat governors like Colorado's Jared "Just wear the damn mask!" and "Just get the damn jab!" Polis.
My bet is Trump pressure. Still proud and boastful of his OWS. And why I'd vote for RFK Jr over Trump if that ever came to be a choice.
All politicians do a simple calculation: In the net, will doing A (or not doing A) help me or hurt me politically? Gov. Ivey read the political tea leaves and decided she had no incentive to defend people's right to NOT get vaccinated. She was sucking up to maybe Trump but definitely the "mainstream media" and the authorized narrative on "vaccines" at the time.
Now narratives can sometimes change and I bet she regrets - and is embarrassed by - that statement today. But it certainly didn't hurt her making it. The proof is in the landslide election she won.
Those Alabama voters that Dr. Marrazzo helped make "smarter" were "all in" on the same bogus narrative.
So the people who control the narrative control the population. The "public health experts" had no problem fooling Alabama's governor.
Kay Ellen Ivey does seem rather bizarre as you say, flip flopping back and forth. Her Wikipedia entry says she has been married and divorced twice so perhaps this says something about her judgment.
She was born with a surname Nettles and now she is an Ivey! Perhaps she is a 'plant'...
Anagrams of her name include:
evilly Yankee
key naive yell
kill ye any eve
Which may explain a few things. But she has been very sensible on some things like the transgender nonsense. All rather odd. Perhaps she should revert to her maiden name!
Excellent article. So happy to find you here on Substack! I just subscribed! I sincerely thank you for what you are doing. Not many are willing to do this and stand up for truth. I wish someone would research and write about what average Americans can do to fight this battle we are in. I am disabled and limited in what I could do physically, but there has to be things people like me can do to help this fight. I know it’s always suggested for regular people to run for school boards or city level positions to start change, but like I said, I can’t do that. If someone could come out with a list that has opportunities in all areas to take that most likely people haven’t even thought of, it would be a great beginning.
God Bless You and keep doing what you are doing. You are truly appreciated.
Thank you very much, Carla. I think you can have a big influence sharing your thoughts and interesting news in Reader Comments on Substack. You help encourage me with your nice words. Maybe pick one little area that you think is really important and research that and learn more than most people ... and then share your wisdom or what you've learned.
That We So Carefully Follow, Will Dismantle The Core Credibility/Foundation Of The Very Same Medical Institutions That They Themselves Depend Upon So Dearly
- For Their Own Credibility.
Their Own Readership And Followers, In The Hundreds Of Thousands, Are Further Along Than Many Of The Doctors Who Have Yet To "Unlearn" The Lies.
What sustains me is the knowledge that it would take just one scandal - definitively proven - for the whole swamp to start to be drained. People would say, "Well, what else have they been lying about?" And the answer would be: "....Pretty much everything."
I've been on Malone, intimately on this for three years. I have pushed every button. Which is how I came up with the analogy that they are made to operate like appliances. He lacks the button that the world needs.
I've written many "keys to the operation" type articles. But I've also now written many "keys to understanding what's actually happened" type articles. Today's essay of course falls into the latter category.
Previously, I've regularaly shared your substack on FB - as noted to the other commenter, to awaken the living dead. All efforts are needed and likely working, hence this draconian move by the flailing Canadain government. Have you see the video of the henchman of WEF calling for the elimination of all dissenters?
Far from over, new intensified efforts including digital banking are being broadly rolled out in Australia and the UK.
Writing and publishing where one can is critical - thank you for your effort!
I agree, Dennis (although I also get why people boycott Facebook). But I'm a writer trying to "influence debates" and so my philosophy is "fish where the fish are."
Even if one article reaches 40 Facebook readers who wouldn't have otherwise seen my story ... that's still 40 new readers .... and - who knows? - one of them might be really important.
One of my recent articles eviscerated Facebook. From my Substack metrics, I was stunned to see that 60 or so of my "reads" for that article came from .... Facebook. I don't know how it got through the algorithms.
I think the problem is as old as time. People do bad things because there is no real punishment. No real punishment can be an incentive, just like getting something out of "it" for oneself is an incentive. The makers of the Covid cult all stick together and have each other's backs. So, punishment for any of their repugnant lies and actions is highly unlikely. Plus, there is no one above the Covid cult to determine they did something wrong and need to be punished. That's the beauty of being part of the "at the top" crowd, you make your own rules and aren't accountable for anything. In theory, we the people, are above those buffoons. But we are too busy fighting with each other. Manipulating all of us into hating each other, was a brilliant strategic move.
How do we wake everyone up and make them realize that they have been manipulated?
Aug 8, 2023·edited Aug 8, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.
Yes indeed, the problem is as old as time. But I don't think it's necessary, never mind possible, to wake everyone up and make them realize they've been conned. What is necessary and possible is to wake up enough people that a tipping point can be reached, and then, with a flick, the general culture goes a better way. I'd very much like to see that happen with regard to a restoration of respect for medical freedom / our rights as enshrined in the US Constitution, and I do think that is possible-- very possible. I also think that, even if this happens, oh happy day, there will always be people among us who go on glugging this flavor or that of the Kool-Aid.
I'm not supporting Zuckerberg. I'm doing the opposite in my opinion. One "active account" out of one billion doesn't amount to a hill of beans. I can do a lot more good by using his own social media tool to harpoon his operation or educate more people about the evil acts of FB. We just have different ideas of how to achieve the same goal.
maybe, maybe not, but really - I'm so tired of hypocrites
puppet hypocrites are the worst besides maybe hypocrite puppets - their both puppets in the end not realizing strings that pull them....I'm sick of em.
My view is some good ideas from the 19th century have been stifled, but now we are hopefully going to learn together about how hard it is to keep a good idea down....Kropotkin comes to mind as I type this.....so, I don't judge, but I am tired of all the puppetry and the kabuki and whatnot - theatrics and politics don't really mix well if the theatrics aspect of it takes upon a life of its own unfounded - that is what I think. Some things are real.
Group-think is a powerful force, but there will always be individuals immune to it.
(Edit): Do you want to know why?
I'll tell - the moment everybody agrees to the same thing is the moment there is no differentiation and then at that moment nothing exists....so "group-think" taken to its logical extreme is evidently a dead-end road.
So the reason there will always be individuals immune to it is if "group-think" had taken force before, then we wouldn't even be here in the first place and being we are here it suggest there are some who are immune to it - for good reason I'd like to put forth. Group-think is the language of dimwits sometimes who don't want to think for themselves and apparently are lacking in principles - as if they are effing puppets.
Dear Bill,
Good one.
And from what I have seen, in every major eposide of history for which we have memoirs, letters, & etc, we will find many characters, much like these apparently very respectable officials whom you discuss here, doing and saying things that we, reading decades later, find thunderously wrong-headed, absurd, and even contemptible. Even, in some instances, criminal. And yes, in pretty much all instances I've come across in my reading adventures, said apparently respectable officials were doing what they had a strong incentive to do, and not doing what they did not have a strong incentive not to do-- never mind objective facts, and the pointless death and suffering of other people.
You write: "Answer: There were no negative consequences. In fact, the careers of both ladies flourished."
I would say, yes, in the short and possibly also the medium term. But long term? That could be a very different story.
It is a hard lesson to learn esp late in life..but you have company...there are a small percentage of us contrarians...but the comfort is we come in handy one every couple hundred years..if only to survive and leave a record. But it's a hard thing to learn..the incentives drive the behavior
Fair Duchess - rest assured there must be some windmill chasers out there still?
(I send a smile to you)
BK
Oh yes....Smiling back at ya!
Egads. Another Substacker just published an article saying Dr. Marrazzo was one of the main backers of Remdesivir. This makes sense and connects another dot. I'm glad I mentioned Remdesivir in my article. This is actually very scary. Great find by this author.
https://www.dossier.today/p/fauci-successor-at-niaid-peddled?utm_source=cross-post&publication_id=69009&post_id=135850906&isFreemail=true&utm_campaign=1032096&utm_medium=email
Remdesivir was a failed drug before 2020 except the weasel words of the regulators and drug company obscure the fact.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/remdesivir-brand-name-veklury-and-covid-19/
That’s why nurses made t-shirts: “Run-death-is-near”
I’m sure I have a photo of one somewhere…
If you find one of those photos, email it to me. I'd like to run it in a future article!
I found one. I believe they were actually marketed by American Frontline Nurses. I need an email address to send.
Also this: https://www.americanfrontlinenurses.org/product-page/run-death-is-near-sticker
all murderers. All doctors who promoted the jabs are. In fact all doctors who promote any jabs are guilty of harming. None of them should have a licence because they harm people.
I came to the same conclusion a while back: (two-part series)
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/when-incentives-go-wrong
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/when-incentives-go-wrong-61b
Worse than "nothing bad happened" is the fact that all these people are in positions to do this again -- and they're already talking about it.
You made the key point. If we don't get rid of these people now, how many more people are they going to harm in the future?
Um.........."all of them"?
To "protect the people" we have to ... "drain the swamp" .... Purge a whole lot of people. I'd say nuke a lot of Alphabet Agencies .... "just to be sure."
I have to agree with where I believe simulationcommnder is going (or at least hinting towards), I don't think "All of them" is feasible or even necessary. It's not ALL of them, I'd go so far as to say it's actually a small percentage but they are in key/critical roles of influence and decision mking soo they apppear tohave more support/backers/believers than they really do. You treat it like a hostile takeover, after taking over you fire all the peopel at the top and een some managers/supervisors below the top. You do this to root out the rot from the old without killing off the entire tree
I hope maybe people like you and the author of this substack..might possibly put a spoke or two in the plans
At this point I'm ready to dive into the spokes.
Don't do that because how many bicycles do you think there are and IF what you have to share has value, if you dive into the spokes, then what do you have to share after that?
~
anyhow - nice to meet you.
BK
All of that is true, but at least I won't have to deal with the clowns any longer ;)
Nice to meet you too!
One doesn't need to dive into the spokes so much as to speak to those who 'spoke' nonsense like Karen Landers and Jeanne Jeanne Marrazzo!
Hang in there Bill. You chose the high road and unfortunately it will be a few years until people come around and realize you were a visionary and the evil people in charge get sent packing or at least get corrected and don't get further promoted . In the end you win.
Great analysis article Bill, you lay out a logical argument and if the medical evidence shows the vaccines cause or accelerate cancer in individuals all hell should break out. As it won’t matter what your ideology or party is, cancer is an equal opportunity killer. Funny how the search for the truth is replaced by the big lie theory and people don’t get it. From the Russia Russia hoax to Covid people better wake up and realize government is not your friend and shouldn’t be trusted. As Reagan said trust but verify but in todays world the people on power that unleashed this on the world know if the truth comes out there time in power comes to and end. Keep up the great work
Thanks, John. I've decided my real purpose in life is to spread just one message: Don't trust the experts or authorities.
I appreciate this article - makes me realize why I'm a paid subscriber.
I've got a "story" I'm telling one chapter at a time in real time and here it is:
https://buffaloken.substack.com/p/whisper-of-the-wolf
I appreciate many of the posters here for the fine information they contribute.
Thanks Bill.
Ken
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Thanks for saying that. I invite comments sharing info as the story gets told.
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Bill, I so appreciate you making the connections with incentives. At the same time, the voices in my head are yelling, "It's so unfair. These folks don't deserve their promotions or accolades!" But, moving on, I remember the movie "The Abominable Dr. Phibes": In 1925, pissed-off rich dude Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) goes after the medics led by Dr. Vesalius (Joseph Cotton) because he thinks they screwed up and let his wife, Victoria, kick the bucket. Phibes gets all biblical and knocks them off one by one using the Old Testament's 10 Plagues of Egypt. I'm not for knocking anyone off, but investigating the possible "plagues" we could use to derail the career paths of the folks in this article might also be worth discovering.
I've got whiplash after trying to follow the Alabama GOP's leadership during pandemic. Which has something to do with who led Alabama's Health Department:
1) Alabama Lt. Gov. butts heads with governor over coronavirus response
https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2020/03/alabama-lieutenant-governor-sounds-alarm-on-coronavirus-response-butting-heads-with-the-governor.html
2) https://www.wsfa.com/2020/07/15/lieutenant-governor-says-alabama-mask-mandate-is-an-overstep/
"Shortly after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced a statewide mask mandate, Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth spoke out against it."
3) https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/kay-ivey-tells-alabamians-to-get-vaccinated-i-cant-make-you-take-care-of-yourself.html
“Folks are supposed to have common sense,” she said. “It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down....I’ve done all I know how to do. I can encourage you to do something, but I can’t make you take care of yourself.”
“Media, I want you to start reporting the facts. The new cases of COVID are because of unvaccinated folks. Almost 100% of the new hospitalizations are unvaccinated folks. And the deaths certainly are occurring with unvaccinated folks. These folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain. We’ve got to get folks to take the shot.”
“I want folks to get vaccinated,” she said.
“That’s the cure. That prevents everything. Why do we want to mess around with just temporary stuff? We don’t need to just encourage people to go halfway with curing this disease. Let’s get it done. We know what it takes to get it done. Get a shot in your arm. I’ve done it. It’s safe. The data proves it. It doesn’t cost anything. It saves lives.”
Ivey received both shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in December. She called it “just the thing to do,” saying those who have received it should encourage others to receive the vaccine.
4) Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey Is Blocking Efforts To Pass Ban On COVID Vaccine Mandates
https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/31/alabama-republican-gov-kay-ivey-is-blocking-efforts-to-pass-ban-on-covid-vaccine-mandates/
While Ivey signed an executive order barring mandates across state agencies on Monday, the governor’s ban does not apply to private businesses, as do new protections in Texas and Montana.
Ivey however, says Biden’s federal mandate should be challenged by the courts and not statehouse legislation.
Alabama Republican House Speaker Mac McCutcheon supports the governor’s apparent cop-out demand rhat Biden’s mandate be challenged in the judiciary rather than legislative action.
Others in the state blasted the order as “horribly insufficient,” in Republican Auditor Jim Zeigler’s words, because “it protects only the state workers of the executive branch” and not private employees. Zeigler, who is also a potential gubernatorial candidate next year, added a political cartoon mocking Ivey on Twitter.
In July, Biden praised Ivey’s efforts to get residents to accept the vaccines.
“You notice a lot of our very conservative friends have finally had an altar call. They’ve seen the Lord,” Biden said at a summer campaign event for former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. “Thank God the governor of Alabama, at one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, is now.”
Alabama Republicans seemingly conservative on most issues, most all endorsing Trump (though Gov. Ivey hasn't made any endorsement yet, nor has Sen. Katie Britt). But divided on pandemic freedom.
- Gov. Ivey initially reluctant to issue emergency orders
- Then Ivey pushed into issuing by her Lt. Governor Ainsworth and media (and Trump?)
- Then Ivey issues mask mandate
- Then Ainsworth calls Ivey's mask mandate an "overstep"
- Then Ivey nastily berates and blames the unvaccinated into getting jabbed with experimental biotech, proclaiming how safe and effective it is, parroting Rachel Maddow, Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky,, Big Pharma's Big Lies.
- Then Ivey blocks legislative efforts to protect Alabaman's from Biden's experimental biotech mandates, "our hands are tied" cop-out supported by the GOP House Speaker, garnering praise from Biden.
WTH?! Messy factions in the GOP, no doubt many stealth D's wearing R clothing in Red state politics mucking up the works. Ivey better on some freedom policies, Ainsworth better on some freedom policies, they'd flip back and forth. Both unreliable on side of freedom. It's like those passing around the incentives were toying with them, teasing like pets jumping to get a treat that's being waived above. It's Alabama, they each had to keep a foot on freedom ground, but there were obviously forces pushing and pulling them off of it.
Fox, I almost added Gov. Ivey to my "case study" examples and was going to reference and link to her infamous quote where she "blames the unvaccinated folks." My point was going to be that SHE suffered no consequences from sharing that POV (and obviously trusting the advice and counsel of people like Dr. Karen Landers). Gov. Ivey of course won re-election in a landslide. Zero consequences. This also bothers me as I actually know Gov. Ivey and consider her a friend ... but she bought all the Covid snake oil.
Smells like hidden hands holding the puppet strings. Her first instincts were to stay with freedom. Got cajoled from her right by Ainsworth. Who, if reports are true about how Trump cajoled many reluctant GOP governors to issue EO's, probably got a call from Trump to push Ivey. And once she was in, she was in. Pressure, pressure, coerce, bully, name-call, pressure, just stopping short of mandating. But very much a part of the "othering" and despicable societal and familial division we still suffer from. Very little daylight between herself and Democrat governors like Colorado's Jared "Just wear the damn mask!" and "Just get the damn jab!" Polis.
My bet is Trump pressure. Still proud and boastful of his OWS. And why I'd vote for RFK Jr over Trump if that ever came to be a choice.
All politicians do a simple calculation: In the net, will doing A (or not doing A) help me or hurt me politically? Gov. Ivey read the political tea leaves and decided she had no incentive to defend people's right to NOT get vaccinated. She was sucking up to maybe Trump but definitely the "mainstream media" and the authorized narrative on "vaccines" at the time.
Now narratives can sometimes change and I bet she regrets - and is embarrassed by - that statement today. But it certainly didn't hurt her making it. The proof is in the landslide election she won.
Those Alabama voters that Dr. Marrazzo helped make "smarter" were "all in" on the same bogus narrative.
So the people who control the narrative control the population. The "public health experts" had no problem fooling Alabama's governor.
Indeed. Am I reading Ainsworth right? Coveting her job.
Kay Ellen Ivey does seem rather bizarre as you say, flip flopping back and forth. Her Wikipedia entry says she has been married and divorced twice so perhaps this says something about her judgment.
She was born with a surname Nettles and now she is an Ivey! Perhaps she is a 'plant'...
Anagrams of her name include:
evilly Yankee
key naive yell
kill ye any eve
Which may explain a few things. But she has been very sensible on some things like the transgender nonsense. All rather odd. Perhaps she should revert to her maiden name!
Excellent article. So happy to find you here on Substack! I just subscribed! I sincerely thank you for what you are doing. Not many are willing to do this and stand up for truth. I wish someone would research and write about what average Americans can do to fight this battle we are in. I am disabled and limited in what I could do physically, but there has to be things people like me can do to help this fight. I know it’s always suggested for regular people to run for school boards or city level positions to start change, but like I said, I can’t do that. If someone could come out with a list that has opportunities in all areas to take that most likely people haven’t even thought of, it would be a great beginning.
God Bless You and keep doing what you are doing. You are truly appreciated.
Thank you very much, Carla. I think you can have a big influence sharing your thoughts and interesting news in Reader Comments on Substack. You help encourage me with your nice words. Maybe pick one little area that you think is really important and research that and learn more than most people ... and then share your wisdom or what you've learned.
The Make Or Break For This Movement
Is Whether Just One Of The Notable Doctors
That We So Carefully Follow, Will Dismantle The Core Credibility/Foundation Of The Very Same Medical Institutions That They Themselves Depend Upon So Dearly
- For Their Own Credibility.
Their Own Readership And Followers, In The Hundreds Of Thousands, Are Further Along Than Many Of The Doctors Who Have Yet To "Unlearn" The Lies.
Consequently The Longer Each Of Them Takes
- The Less Credibility They Are Each Left With.
What sustains me is the knowledge that it would take just one scandal - definitively proven - for the whole swamp to start to be drained. People would say, "Well, what else have they been lying about?" And the answer would be: "....Pretty much everything."
This is the key that unlocks the doors to the castle. Once inside all of the other doors can be opened from within the hallways of the castle.
I've been on Malone, intimately on this for three years. I have pushed every button. Which is how I came up with the analogy that they are made to operate like appliances. He lacks the button that the world needs.
His wife Jill - May Have It.
I've written many "keys to the operation" type articles. But I've also now written many "keys to understanding what's actually happened" type articles. Today's essay of course falls into the latter category.
Just tried to share your article on FB - now in Canada, news cannot be shared on FB ... Canada goes full Orwellian.
Thanks for the effort! I appreciate all "shares" - I keep trying to get around those dad blasted "gatekeepers of the news."
Previously, I've regularaly shared your substack on FB - as noted to the other commenter, to awaken the living dead. All efforts are needed and likely working, hence this draconian move by the flailing Canadain government. Have you see the video of the henchman of WEF calling for the elimination of all dissenters?
Far from over, new intensified efforts including digital banking are being broadly rolled out in Australia and the UK.
Writing and publishing where one can is critical - thank you for your effort!
I agree, Dennis (although I also get why people boycott Facebook). But I'm a writer trying to "influence debates" and so my philosophy is "fish where the fish are."
Even if one article reaches 40 Facebook readers who wouldn't have otherwise seen my story ... that's still 40 new readers .... and - who knows? - one of them might be really important.
completely agree :)
Quit supporting those that would like to see you dead.
posting on FB is not supporting those who wish to see us dead - it is intended to wake up the living dead.
One of my recent articles eviscerated Facebook. From my Substack metrics, I was stunned to see that 60 or so of my "reads" for that article came from .... Facebook. I don't know how it got through the algorithms.
Your support is supporting censorship, drop boxes, stolen elections and all of zucks ngos.
Good job
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I think the problem is as old as time. People do bad things because there is no real punishment. No real punishment can be an incentive, just like getting something out of "it" for oneself is an incentive. The makers of the Covid cult all stick together and have each other's backs. So, punishment for any of their repugnant lies and actions is highly unlikely. Plus, there is no one above the Covid cult to determine they did something wrong and need to be punished. That's the beauty of being part of the "at the top" crowd, you make your own rules and aren't accountable for anything. In theory, we the people, are above those buffoons. But we are too busy fighting with each other. Manipulating all of us into hating each other, was a brilliant strategic move.
How do we wake everyone up and make them realize that they have been manipulated?
Yes indeed, the problem is as old as time. But I don't think it's necessary, never mind possible, to wake everyone up and make them realize they've been conned. What is necessary and possible is to wake up enough people that a tipping point can be reached, and then, with a flick, the general culture goes a better way. I'd very much like to see that happen with regard to a restoration of respect for medical freedom / our rights as enshrined in the US Constitution, and I do think that is possible-- very possible. I also think that, even if this happens, oh happy day, there will always be people among us who go on glugging this flavor or that of the Kool-Aid.
I love your wisdom. We've got the strongest, soundest ideas and the truth on our side so we should have a very good chance to ultimately prevail.
I'm a hypocrite.
But I know how to stop.
I will no longer be supporting those that support Zuckerberg.
I'm not supporting Zuckerberg. I'm doing the opposite in my opinion. One "active account" out of one billion doesn't amount to a hill of beans. I can do a lot more good by using his own social media tool to harpoon his operation or educate more people about the evil acts of FB. We just have different ideas of how to achieve the same goal.
Some hypocrites can still look in the mirror and realize they were treated like puppets.
Zuckerberg, FB, Meta - call it what you will - tis a place full of hypocrites who don't know they are puppets.
maybe, maybe not, but really - I'm so tired of hypocrites
puppet hypocrites are the worst besides maybe hypocrite puppets - their both puppets in the end not realizing strings that pull them....I'm sick of em.
Not to belabor this (really....
My view is some good ideas from the 19th century have been stifled, but now we are hopefully going to learn together about how hard it is to keep a good idea down....Kropotkin comes to mind as I type this.....so, I don't judge, but I am tired of all the puppetry and the kabuki and whatnot - theatrics and politics don't really mix well if the theatrics aspect of it takes upon a life of its own unfounded - that is what I think. Some things are real.
It’s really sad because journalists are supposed to be contrarian and look into things...but that isn’t rewarded at all.
Group-think is a powerful force, but there will always be individuals immune to it.
(Edit): Do you want to know why?
I'll tell - the moment everybody agrees to the same thing is the moment there is no differentiation and then at that moment nothing exists....so "group-think" taken to its logical extreme is evidently a dead-end road.
So the reason there will always be individuals immune to it is if "group-think" had taken force before, then we wouldn't even be here in the first place and being we are here it suggest there are some who are immune to it - for good reason I'd like to put forth. Group-think is the language of dimwits sometimes who don't want to think for themselves and apparently are lacking in principles - as if they are effing puppets.
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Sad but true the evidence suggests.
BK