Re the excellent RFK Jr, I read the DNC was considering eliminating debates before the primaries. Do you think that could happen Bill? Biden would be demolished by RFK in a debate so seems plausible.
I would be stunned if President Biden's handlers let him debate a fifth grader. They'll figure out some excuse for staying out of the debates ... and the press won't say anything.
That's what should worry all of us. I've thought about it and decided even our nefarious, evil rulers don't want that. Who would they rule over in the future? They might be dead too. But that doesn't mean that things couldn't go sideways. It's happened before with some of our world wars, especially the first one.
No surprise, they change the rules to accommodate President Tapioca. KJP has already announced that the word “norm” is overused and in no way does any past pattern of X ( i.e. Press Conferences) set a “precedent.” Now if people would pay attention for five minutes, they’d realize they’re being conned.....
LoL I wonder what reason the Bidenistas will come up with next to "save our democracy" and cancel the debates. Monkeypox, that train left the station and chugged over a cliff.
Apr 14, 2023·edited Apr 14, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.
We know they want to muzzle him. If they can keep him off the debate stage, they will. Another way besides not having debates would be to manipulate his poll numbers to keep him below the cutoff point to be invited. Another technique would be to have so many debaters he could be nearly ignored. What little speaking he did would, of course, be severely "moderated".
Yep. But normally an incumbent president has few if any challengers so Kennedy ought to be the only major challenger. But I'd watch that "poll" criteria. They used it against Tulsi Gabbard, if I remember.
They've gotten mighty brazen. He could be polling 30%, except the poll THEY use has him ridiculously lower, below the cutoff, which they can also set wherever they choose. Mission accomplished, and never any pushback from the MSM. They're figuring this out as I type. I don't think Democrat voters will vote for a decent human being anyway, they proved that with Tulsi. With even a marginally respectable electorate, she should have swamped the rest of the field, but never got any traction even in actual primary results.
And then think about the debate proper if Kennedy even gets to participate. You know all the questions will be softballs for Biden and very few if any would have anything to do with RFK, Jr's core issue- the Covid scamdemic. The press would try to cover for Biden and definitely wouldn't want to ask any questions that might help Kennedy.
I reckon Kennedy would relish the challenge. I was just listening to him on London Real (circa 2020) talking about how it was normal in his family to have debates. Papa (or Grandfather) would throw out a topic and the kids would take a position and argue - from childhood. He is skilled in the hardball domain - from a very early age.
An awful lot of uphill. But,can't roll over just because it's hard. Persistence is one thing that's never overrated. I hope he gets enough visibility to make it interesting and not just frustrating.
Heck, just put that giant easter bunny on stage with him and he'll walk the other way and it will be over in minutes. The binder and media's spin would be awesome. This guy's so far gone now, imagine in a year.
Not for the person, but when I am feeling low, I find solace thinking about the many that willingly deal with this guy. They deserve all the frustration, anxiety, madness and karma that comes with orchestrating this charade, both in this life and the next.
YUP, yup, yup. Confirmed to me yesterday by my Doctor at my Medicare Useless ( Wellness) Check Up. She already had me down for no COVID shots, no flu shots. We had a pretty solid conversation touching on Big Pharma comprising her ability “to do no harm.” Most of note, her patients are hesitant about all recommended shots. It’s a family practice so she is struggling with parents on the fence about all pediatric inoculations. I showed her my favorite meme of the three pin cushions in chronological order and said, “ I honestly cannot blame them” and now they want to add yearly COVID and boosters added... “ you have to question the risk/benefit”.. she did not disagree. She loves me, the majority of her patients my age take an arsenal of meds all too happy that “there’s a pill for that.” I take two Blood Pressure rxs and that’s it. She also approved of my COVID cocktail of Zinc, D3 and Quercitin.
Regarding trust in government, we must follow the Seinfeldian principle foisted upon George Costanza in the episode "The opposite" where Jerry imparts onto George "If every instinct you have is wrong then the opposite would have to be right." That's how we should approach government, whatever they say, the opposite is more likely the truth.
Apr 14, 2023·edited Apr 14, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.
Good points and nice to get a dose of optimism. It's not unwarranted IMO. But I still think the day might come when Brownstone, Substack, and the others are suddenly "disappeared" from the web. Or they load right up but the content is starkly different. Would the censors have anything to fear if they did this? They seem to have the power, if cornered they'll probably use that power. I don't see them accepting defeat gracefully.
I have the same worry, SteelJ. I mean these people and organizations are as brazen as they can be ... and they don't fight fair. They can't be amused by the growth of Substack.
I’d like to add that there are other health care professionals out here telling it like it is, having been alerted to the regulatory capture of the alphabet agencies by RFK Jr’s wonderful book. I also go to children’s health defense regularly and have completely changed my stance on vaccines 100% due to this and other research I have personally done. I will never recommend (let alone take) another vaccine as long as they are unproven (which none are, none have ever been through a random controlled trial, double blind with a TRUE PLACEBO (saline). When they can show that (or even take the time to compare the health of traditionally vaccinated children to the health of the thousands of unvaccinated children that ARE out there) then I will never recommend. Watch Vaxxed II if you want to be inspired by the vibrant, healthy unvaccinated children and horrified by the damage done to ordinary children all over the US who have suffered greatly. All in the name of avoiding mostly benign illnesses that were all on the downward spiral BEFORE mass vaccination started. They are now damaging healthy teenagers with Gardasil in the name of “maybe” preventing cancer in 40 years (which they have NO WAY TO PROVE since they didn’t study it for 40 years). Garbage.
Did you see my article on Kaiser Permanente, where they highlight on their website that there will soon be a "vaccine" for RSV. What isn't there going to be a vaccine for in the future?
What rock you been sleeping under? Supposedly by the fall, you will be able to get (and who knows about mandates) an mRNA combo RSV/COVID/Flu shot. There are diff combos - RSV/COVID and COVID/Flu. But I'll bet they'll love that triple dose. Here's Moderna's upcoming offerings, as posted by Art Vandelay, Feb 12 as a comment on https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/why-there-isnt-going-to-be-a-covid/comments
"And yet 20+ new and improved mRNA “vaccines” in the pipeline for Moderna, who are singularly focused on mRNA magic. How about about a 2-1 flu/RSV jab? Yup one of those in phase 1. Not good enough? How about a 3-1 flu/RSV/Covid jab, also in phase 1 trials. Maybe an older adult just needs an RSV jab to compliment the 7th or 8th booster. Got one of those and it is in phase 3 trials. Oh and don’t forget the HIV therapeutics in phase 1 and all of the above flu/RSV/Covid product shelf for kids.
RCTs are delusory, and probably why these "no virus" people consider viruses just a psychosomatic illusion. No saline nor needle needed. No jab is an entirely valid control. No needles!
I agree but the powers that be like to salivate all over them and have labeled them “the best” even thought they are mostly garbage that don’t follow their own protocols. But a true blind with true placebo (100% inert) would “eliminate” doubt which is why they will never do them. They just repeat their religious mantra of saving lives etc etc. I’m excited to see the benefits to society that Covid has undoubtedly created with these rules of opposite intentions. 😂🤣
There are a zillion ways to throw a placebo double blind RCT. How you select your trial participants. What type of placebo you use (active? passive?). What evaluation criteria you include or leave out. Too easy to get the results you want. All of it is corrupt, see Peter Gotzsche's excellent "Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime." or, for a more accessible read, Ben Goldacre's "Bad Medicine."
I haven't trusted journals since I met Gotzsche in 2012.
Hi Bill, Your post brings to mind an anecdote of decades ago, when Washington DC's Mayor Barry imposed a gasoline tax. Ergo, drivers, who were commuting into work from Maryland and Virginia, just filled up closer to home. Anyone else could tootle over the MD-DC or VA-DC border for cheaper gas in a few minutes. So this managed to both crush the Washington DC gas stations and achieve a big fat nada for the city's finances. To me, it's not just a great anadecote for beginning economics students, but it illustrates how bone-headed people can be, and yet, at the same time, resourceful. Better to find oneself in the latter category whenever possible!
Great example. One day I'm going to write a piece about the underground gasoline storage tank regs that forced 90 percent of the rural country stores to close. The idea was to save lives from contaminated ground water that MIGHT cause cancer in a few people decades in the future. Maybe it did. But it also forced millions of people to drive 40 extra miles to get gas, bread, sodas, etc and we have no idea how many serious and fatal traffic accidents happened because of this extra driving. I'm aware of this issue because my late father was a gasoline distributor. It cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with the new regs and eventually caused him to sell his business. Today, there is not one local gasoline distributor in our county. So it also cost a lot of jobs.
I've actually already started it. As usual, it's too long. Thanks for the encouragement. I think it's an interesting story most people aren't familiar with. These little country stores (or my father if his business technically owned the storage tanks) either had to spend lots of money to replace those tanks or stop selling gas. I don't think any of them made much money selling gasoline, but the fact they did allowed them to sell their little items in their stores. I know this, 90 percentage of those stores are now covered up with kudzu. My Dad died of a heart attack at 70 and I bet complying with those EPA regs took five years off his life.
Apr 15, 2023·edited Apr 15, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.
Bill, I want to share with you a quote from someone about Australia and the comment about your dad reminds me of this. People always go on and on about our "great standard of living" but this person gets what is happening. (n.b., Apologies in advance for the use of the word c*nt but this is our vernacular. Everyone casually uses this word and Americans are totally shocked. You can be a 'good c*nt' (good) or a 'total c*unt' (bad). It's like 'mate.' "mate, go F yourself" (bad). Yeahhowyougoinmate (good)).
The quote:
"My entire life is filling out paperword and waiting. I'm trapped in a constant cycle of limbo because every single facet of my life is ruled by some fat Karen in an office somewhere and there's come c*nt (bad - my emphasis) waiting around every corner to catch me out for anything I can do, all of which I need a license for, I have to pay a fee for, and I have to fill out forms and wait for. This isn't a high standard of living. It's a purgatory of the most mediocre authoritarian nanny state that ever existed, located in the ass end of the world nowhere. The whole place could vanish into the sea tomorrow and nobody would care. The circuses aren't even palatable anymore and I can barely afford the bread."
This is the most perfect description of Australia in 2023 you can imagine. It wasn't like this 20 years ago, though. It was full of mates and good c*nts.
Driving around on in the hinterlands, I always wondered why I would see so very many abandoned gas stations.... I look forward to reading your article when it's ready.
In the 90's, I worked for a company who remediated those tanks. I can confirm what you are saying - the cost to remediate a "faulty" or "bad" tank (depending on criterion) was prohibitive for Mom & Pop. I always did like getting my petrol at Farm Bureau. No "loyalty programs" or convenience store. Just petrol. I don't know (since I left the US in 2002) whether Farm Bureau is still able to provide this service to members.
The small guys would have gotten sqeezed out any way..
I'm one who would drive by the little local gas station i had been walking to buying candy from for years.. yup drive up to the interstate to the new gas station.
Maybe, or some of them, but many probably would have stayed open. They were also gathering places for people in these little communities. People in Smuteye, Spring Hill, Shellhorn ... now HAVE to drive into town to Troy to get their cigs, beer, bread ... and gas. So I guess it's good for the businesses in Troy.
Bill, you are right with your Law of Opposite Effects.
Retired military here. I received every vax known to man except for the toxic anthrax shot (one of the contributing factors to Gulf War Syndrome). Even after retirement, I continued to get vaccines.
Never again.
Someone will have to put a gun to my head, and fire, before another vaccine goes into my body.
Warning to others: there is a FDA black box warning on the shingles vaccine for Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Your doctor won't tell you. Probably clueless...or just wants the kickback from Big Pharma.
Thanks, Kathleen. I do think this effort to persecute "anti-vaxxers" has back-fired big time. Thanks for the info and link on the shingles "vaccine." If you saw my last story, an RSV vaccine will soon be available for children. I think the long-awaited Hay Fever vaccine is on deck.
So many people are so afraid of becoming even slightly sick it really makes me wonder why this Mass Hypochondria has permeated our society. The steady barrage of Pharma advertising? An aging population worried that the mildest cold might morph into their final illness? It makes them ripe picking for the vax pushers.
Obviously only speaking for my family; we ONLY took a flu shot back around 2009 because my wife's oncologist wouldn't discharge her unless we both did. That's the only one I've ever had in my life; now I don't even want to go to my PCP for a routine exam, that's how much they've damaged the medical industry with this BS.
I'm old, former smoker and have copd, I was getting the pneumonia vax but not anymore. I feel like they're after more deaths so I believe they'll add mRNA to everything with a needle.
I was never vaxx hesitant and always got my annual flu shots.....all that changed thanks to that lying scumbag Fauci, the CDC, FDA, and big pharma killers. No more
Apr 15, 2023·edited Apr 15, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.
Bill, I agree. I also think that “kids” are going to start becoming “conservative,” whatever that means now. I hope it means more libertarian and questioning of authority. They are going to get sick of walking on eggshells all the time, being worried about offending people, and sick of being called out as racists, etc. for no reason. They also will learn more and more of the damage these “vaccines“ have caused them and their friends and peers. For the past few years, anything outside of the official, unsustainable-as-it-is-based-on-falsehood narrative has been totally taboo. Of course teenagers never gravitate towards what their elders think is taboo… And then, who knows? The parents of these “kids” might realize they can’t beat their own children in debates about these matters, and the parents might realize that they themselves never believed in most of this fanciful bullshit anyway but were repeating it merely because they were afraid of losing friends and losing their jobs .…
I think you've identified a big part of the explanation, Brian: "...but were repeating it merely because they were afraid of losing friends and losing their jobs .…"
Peer pressure. Groupthink. Fear of going against "the current thing."
It will be interesting to see what the younger generation ultimately thinks and does. The college students were as silent as could be in all this. I'm a big fan of Ron Paul's and during his last campaign in 2012, he always talked about how the young people made him optimistic about the future. I must say I don't share that optimism as it regards the the "younger generations" based on observations in our Covid years.
AFAIK the college kids took it. Mandated - desperate to get away from home and start their careers - they take it. Desperate to play their sport - they take it. I have a mate who works in medical centre at my hometown Big 10 University. The administrators waffled - first mandated, then not, then mandated - I think it's on "not" at the moment (red state). But I'll bet the uptake in this age group is high. They are too young to not believe what they are told.
Depends which screens, perhaps. My point is actually that they will get sick of the official narrative (which is on their screens 24/7 ) and want to rebel. i’m pretty convinced some young people adopted the woke stuff as a way to mess with authority figures – shut down a class in high school or even college by claiming you’re offended
Have you ever argued with a hard core lefty? As soon as you start proving your point they say lies or no proof or the classic, they change the subject. They must all take arguing classes.
Mmmm. Most of the youngsters I know are "fitting in," going along. The peer pressure on this one is intense. Once they've been modified (I reckon most Australian children are) - they will not resist after. (vascular damage to the brain makes people docile - ref: Peter Breggin). The youngest I've met who was shot was 7 - but I'm an old retired person, and don't come into great contact with children.
Thank you very much, Dr. John. This one has already gotten me about 160 new subscribers. I also appreciate everyone who shares my articles or mentions my Substack to like-thinking friends or family members. My first goal was to get 3,000 subscribers. My next goal is to reach 20,000. That's a magic number because if you can get just 5 percent of your subscribers to become paid subscribers, you can make a living doing this. Even those who are already tapped out on subscriptions can help you by sharing this Substack with others. Please come back and post often in the Reader Comments. That's another goal of mine - have one of the best "Reader Comment Sections" on Substack. I'm moving the needle on that goal as well.
Thank you, honey. I just had a "story idea" and I went with it. Thanks to Substack and all our great subscribers, thousands of people will also see it. They should all ignore the typos and grammatical errors!
Re the excellent RFK Jr, I read the DNC was considering eliminating debates before the primaries. Do you think that could happen Bill? Biden would be demolished by RFK in a debate so seems plausible.
I would be stunned if President Biden's handlers let him debate a fifth grader. They'll figure out some excuse for staying out of the debates ... and the press won't say anything.
They will declare another pandemic!
WW111 MOST LIKELY. FJB
That's what should worry all of us. I've thought about it and decided even our nefarious, evil rulers don't want that. Who would they rule over in the future? They might be dead too. But that doesn't mean that things couldn't go sideways. It's happened before with some of our world wars, especially the first one.
See jamesroguski.substack.com for the latest on the International Health Regulations to usurp our Constitutional and human rights.
Yes, exactly!
Or use a double!!
No surprise, they change the rules to accommodate President Tapioca. KJP has already announced that the word “norm” is overused and in no way does any past pattern of X ( i.e. Press Conferences) set a “precedent.” Now if people would pay attention for five minutes, they’d realize they’re being conned.....
LoL I wonder what reason the Bidenistas will come up with next to "save our democracy" and cancel the debates. Monkeypox, that train left the station and chugged over a cliff.
Marburg pulling into the station.
Yeah, my bet would be on some strain of avian or whatever flu. But who knows. Crafty buggers they are.
We know they want to muzzle him. If they can keep him off the debate stage, they will. Another way besides not having debates would be to manipulate his poll numbers to keep him below the cutoff point to be invited. Another technique would be to have so many debaters he could be nearly ignored. What little speaking he did would, of course, be severely "moderated".
Yep. But normally an incumbent president has few if any challengers so Kennedy ought to be the only major challenger. But I'd watch that "poll" criteria. They used it against Tulsi Gabbard, if I remember.
They've gotten mighty brazen. He could be polling 30%, except the poll THEY use has him ridiculously lower, below the cutoff, which they can also set wherever they choose. Mission accomplished, and never any pushback from the MSM. They're figuring this out as I type. I don't think Democrat voters will vote for a decent human being anyway, they proved that with Tulsi. With even a marginally respectable electorate, she should have swamped the rest of the field, but never got any traction even in actual primary results.
And then think about the debate proper if Kennedy even gets to participate. You know all the questions will be softballs for Biden and very few if any would have anything to do with RFK, Jr's core issue- the Covid scamdemic. The press would try to cover for Biden and definitely wouldn't want to ask any questions that might help Kennedy.
I reckon Kennedy would relish the challenge. I was just listening to him on London Real (circa 2020) talking about how it was normal in his family to have debates. Papa (or Grandfather) would throw out a topic and the kids would take a position and argue - from childhood. He is skilled in the hardball domain - from a very early age.
An awful lot of uphill. But,can't roll over just because it's hard. Persistence is one thing that's never overrated. I hope he gets enough visibility to make it interesting and not just frustrating.
Heck, just put that giant easter bunny on stage with him and he'll walk the other way and it will be over in minutes. The binder and media's spin would be awesome. This guy's so far gone now, imagine in a year.
I know. Does dementia ever get better?
Not for the person, but when I am feeling low, I find solace thinking about the many that willingly deal with this guy. They deserve all the frustration, anxiety, madness and karma that comes with orchestrating this charade, both in this life and the next.
This is nuts. But predictable in clown world.
YUP, yup, yup. Confirmed to me yesterday by my Doctor at my Medicare Useless ( Wellness) Check Up. She already had me down for no COVID shots, no flu shots. We had a pretty solid conversation touching on Big Pharma comprising her ability “to do no harm.” Most of note, her patients are hesitant about all recommended shots. It’s a family practice so she is struggling with parents on the fence about all pediatric inoculations. I showed her my favorite meme of the three pin cushions in chronological order and said, “ I honestly cannot blame them” and now they want to add yearly COVID and boosters added... “ you have to question the risk/benefit”.. she did not disagree. She loves me, the majority of her patients my age take an arsenal of meds all too happy that “there’s a pill for that.” I take two Blood Pressure rxs and that’s it. She also approved of my COVID cocktail of Zinc, D3 and Quercitin.
Regarding trust in government, we must follow the Seinfeldian principle foisted upon George Costanza in the episode "The opposite" where Jerry imparts onto George "If every instinct you have is wrong then the opposite would have to be right." That's how we should approach government, whatever they say, the opposite is more likely the truth.
Good points and nice to get a dose of optimism. It's not unwarranted IMO. But I still think the day might come when Brownstone, Substack, and the others are suddenly "disappeared" from the web. Or they load right up but the content is starkly different. Would the censors have anything to fear if they did this? They seem to have the power, if cornered they'll probably use that power. I don't see them accepting defeat gracefully.
I have the same worry, SteelJ. I mean these people and organizations are as brazen as they can be ... and they don't fight fair. They can't be amused by the growth of Substack.
Hence the feud between Elon & Taibbi about posting Substack links & notes on Twitter....
Or use AI to create a fake!!
I’d like to add that there are other health care professionals out here telling it like it is, having been alerted to the regulatory capture of the alphabet agencies by RFK Jr’s wonderful book. I also go to children’s health defense regularly and have completely changed my stance on vaccines 100% due to this and other research I have personally done. I will never recommend (let alone take) another vaccine as long as they are unproven (which none are, none have ever been through a random controlled trial, double blind with a TRUE PLACEBO (saline). When they can show that (or even take the time to compare the health of traditionally vaccinated children to the health of the thousands of unvaccinated children that ARE out there) then I will never recommend. Watch Vaxxed II if you want to be inspired by the vibrant, healthy unvaccinated children and horrified by the damage done to ordinary children all over the US who have suffered greatly. All in the name of avoiding mostly benign illnesses that were all on the downward spiral BEFORE mass vaccination started. They are now damaging healthy teenagers with Gardasil in the name of “maybe” preventing cancer in 40 years (which they have NO WAY TO PROVE since they didn’t study it for 40 years). Garbage.
Did you see my article on Kaiser Permanente, where they highlight on their website that there will soon be a "vaccine" for RSV. What isn't there going to be a vaccine for in the future?
There will never be a vaccine for their lunacy, idiocy, and greed.
I did. There will never be a vaccine for stupidity, although it is badly needed. 😂
What rock you been sleeping under? Supposedly by the fall, you will be able to get (and who knows about mandates) an mRNA combo RSV/COVID/Flu shot. There are diff combos - RSV/COVID and COVID/Flu. But I'll bet they'll love that triple dose. Here's Moderna's upcoming offerings, as posted by Art Vandelay, Feb 12 as a comment on https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/why-there-isnt-going-to-be-a-covid/comments
"And yet 20+ new and improved mRNA “vaccines” in the pipeline for Moderna, who are singularly focused on mRNA magic. How about about a 2-1 flu/RSV jab? Yup one of those in phase 1. Not good enough? How about a 3-1 flu/RSV/Covid jab, also in phase 1 trials. Maybe an older adult just needs an RSV jab to compliment the 7th or 8th booster. Got one of those and it is in phase 3 trials. Oh and don’t forget the HIV therapeutics in phase 1 and all of the above flu/RSV/Covid product shelf for kids.
https://www.modernatx.com/research/product-pipeline "
RCTs are delusory, and probably why these "no virus" people consider viruses just a psychosomatic illusion. No saline nor needle needed. No jab is an entirely valid control. No needles!
I agree but the powers that be like to salivate all over them and have labeled them “the best” even thought they are mostly garbage that don’t follow their own protocols. But a true blind with true placebo (100% inert) would “eliminate” doubt which is why they will never do them. They just repeat their religious mantra of saving lives etc etc. I’m excited to see the benefits to society that Covid has undoubtedly created with these rules of opposite intentions. 😂🤣
There are a zillion ways to throw a placebo double blind RCT. How you select your trial participants. What type of placebo you use (active? passive?). What evaluation criteria you include or leave out. Too easy to get the results you want. All of it is corrupt, see Peter Gotzsche's excellent "Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime." or, for a more accessible read, Ben Goldacre's "Bad Medicine."
I haven't trusted journals since I met Gotzsche in 2012.
After this debacle, I will abstain from any vaccine of any kind hereinafter.
Take vitamin C if you get tetanus.
https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/tetanus-shot-how-do-we-know-it-works
Hi Bill, Your post brings to mind an anecdote of decades ago, when Washington DC's Mayor Barry imposed a gasoline tax. Ergo, drivers, who were commuting into work from Maryland and Virginia, just filled up closer to home. Anyone else could tootle over the MD-DC or VA-DC border for cheaper gas in a few minutes. So this managed to both crush the Washington DC gas stations and achieve a big fat nada for the city's finances. To me, it's not just a great anadecote for beginning economics students, but it illustrates how bone-headed people can be, and yet, at the same time, resourceful. Better to find oneself in the latter category whenever possible!
Great example. One day I'm going to write a piece about the underground gasoline storage tank regs that forced 90 percent of the rural country stores to close. The idea was to save lives from contaminated ground water that MIGHT cause cancer in a few people decades in the future. Maybe it did. But it also forced millions of people to drive 40 extra miles to get gas, bread, sodas, etc and we have no idea how many serious and fatal traffic accidents happened because of this extra driving. I'm aware of this issue because my late father was a gasoline distributor. It cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with the new regs and eventually caused him to sell his business. Today, there is not one local gasoline distributor in our county. So it also cost a lot of jobs.
Bill, I very much hope you will write that piece. It's an important story.
I've actually already started it. As usual, it's too long. Thanks for the encouragement. I think it's an interesting story most people aren't familiar with. These little country stores (or my father if his business technically owned the storage tanks) either had to spend lots of money to replace those tanks or stop selling gas. I don't think any of them made much money selling gasoline, but the fact they did allowed them to sell their little items in their stores. I know this, 90 percentage of those stores are now covered up with kudzu. My Dad died of a heart attack at 70 and I bet complying with those EPA regs took five years off his life.
Bill, I want to share with you a quote from someone about Australia and the comment about your dad reminds me of this. People always go on and on about our "great standard of living" but this person gets what is happening. (n.b., Apologies in advance for the use of the word c*nt but this is our vernacular. Everyone casually uses this word and Americans are totally shocked. You can be a 'good c*nt' (good) or a 'total c*unt' (bad). It's like 'mate.' "mate, go F yourself" (bad). Yeahhowyougoinmate (good)).
The quote:
"My entire life is filling out paperword and waiting. I'm trapped in a constant cycle of limbo because every single facet of my life is ruled by some fat Karen in an office somewhere and there's come c*nt (bad - my emphasis) waiting around every corner to catch me out for anything I can do, all of which I need a license for, I have to pay a fee for, and I have to fill out forms and wait for. This isn't a high standard of living. It's a purgatory of the most mediocre authoritarian nanny state that ever existed, located in the ass end of the world nowhere. The whole place could vanish into the sea tomorrow and nobody would care. The circuses aren't even palatable anymore and I can barely afford the bread."
This is the most perfect description of Australia in 2023 you can imagine. It wasn't like this 20 years ago, though. It was full of mates and good c*nts.
Driving around on in the hinterlands, I always wondered why I would see so very many abandoned gas stations.... I look forward to reading your article when it's ready.
IMO, that's the main reason - the Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in again.
In the 90's, I worked for a company who remediated those tanks. I can confirm what you are saying - the cost to remediate a "faulty" or "bad" tank (depending on criterion) was prohibitive for Mom & Pop. I always did like getting my petrol at Farm Bureau. No "loyalty programs" or convenience store. Just petrol. I don't know (since I left the US in 2002) whether Farm Bureau is still able to provide this service to members.
The small guys would have gotten sqeezed out any way..
I'm one who would drive by the little local gas station i had been walking to buying candy from for years.. yup drive up to the interstate to the new gas station.
Buc ees
Maybe, or some of them, but many probably would have stayed open. They were also gathering places for people in these little communities. People in Smuteye, Spring Hill, Shellhorn ... now HAVE to drive into town to Troy to get their cigs, beer, bread ... and gas. So I guess it's good for the businesses in Troy.
congratulation on your success, cheers on your optimism and thanks for your insights
Bill, you are right with your Law of Opposite Effects.
Retired military here. I received every vax known to man except for the toxic anthrax shot (one of the contributing factors to Gulf War Syndrome). Even after retirement, I continued to get vaccines.
Never again.
Someone will have to put a gun to my head, and fire, before another vaccine goes into my body.
Warning to others: there is a FDA black box warning on the shingles vaccine for Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Your doctor won't tell you. Probably clueless...or just wants the kickback from Big Pharma.
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/fda-requires-warning-about-guillain-barre-syndrome-gbs-be-included-prescribing-information-shingrix#:~:text=FDA%20has%20required%20a%20new,days%20following%20vaccination%20with%20Shingrix.
Thanks, Kathleen. I do think this effort to persecute "anti-vaxxers" has back-fired big time. Thanks for the info and link on the shingles "vaccine." If you saw my last story, an RSV vaccine will soon be available for children. I think the long-awaited Hay Fever vaccine is on deck.
So many people are so afraid of becoming even slightly sick it really makes me wonder why this Mass Hypochondria has permeated our society. The steady barrage of Pharma advertising? An aging population worried that the mildest cold might morph into their final illness? It makes them ripe picking for the vax pushers.
Why? Marketing marketing marketing.
Joke? Attempt at humor relief? Vaccines (the adjuvants, anyhow) cause allergies.
Yes, another effort at a joke. Not really a laughing matter though.
We thank the good Lord for Brave folks like you! You are reaping what you have sown.
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Take your jab and stick it up FJB'S wrinkled butt.
Obviously only speaking for my family; we ONLY took a flu shot back around 2009 because my wife's oncologist wouldn't discharge her unless we both did. That's the only one I've ever had in my life; now I don't even want to go to my PCP for a routine exam, that's how much they've damaged the medical industry with this BS.
I'm old, former smoker and have copd, I was getting the pneumonia vax but not anymore. I feel like they're after more deaths so I believe they'll add mRNA to everything with a needle.
and foods, both natural and processed and water, and.....
I was never vaxx hesitant and always got my annual flu shots.....all that changed thanks to that lying scumbag Fauci, the CDC, FDA, and big pharma killers. No more
Bill, I agree. I also think that “kids” are going to start becoming “conservative,” whatever that means now. I hope it means more libertarian and questioning of authority. They are going to get sick of walking on eggshells all the time, being worried about offending people, and sick of being called out as racists, etc. for no reason. They also will learn more and more of the damage these “vaccines“ have caused them and their friends and peers. For the past few years, anything outside of the official, unsustainable-as-it-is-based-on-falsehood narrative has been totally taboo. Of course teenagers never gravitate towards what their elders think is taboo… And then, who knows? The parents of these “kids” might realize they can’t beat their own children in debates about these matters, and the parents might realize that they themselves never believed in most of this fanciful bullshit anyway but were repeating it merely because they were afraid of losing friends and losing their jobs .…
I think you've identified a big part of the explanation, Brian: "...but were repeating it merely because they were afraid of losing friends and losing their jobs .…"
Peer pressure. Groupthink. Fear of going against "the current thing."
It will be interesting to see what the younger generation ultimately thinks and does. The college students were as silent as could be in all this. I'm a big fan of Ron Paul's and during his last campaign in 2012, he always talked about how the young people made him optimistic about the future. I must say I don't share that optimism as it regards the the "younger generations" based on observations in our Covid years.
AFAIK the college kids took it. Mandated - desperate to get away from home and start their careers - they take it. Desperate to play their sport - they take it. I have a mate who works in medical centre at my hometown Big 10 University. The administrators waffled - first mandated, then not, then mandated - I think it's on "not" at the moment (red state). But I'll bet the uptake in this age group is high. They are too young to not believe what they are told.
Great point - I have been shocked at the overall non-reaction to vax mandates at colleges.
Well, that probably won’t happen with the kids unless they stop staring at a screen all day.
Depends which screens, perhaps. My point is actually that they will get sick of the official narrative (which is on their screens 24/7 ) and want to rebel. i’m pretty convinced some young people adopted the woke stuff as a way to mess with authority figures – shut down a class in high school or even college by claiming you’re offended
Rejecting Tradition is Modernity: Gen Z Now Favoring ‘Dumb’ Phones
https://yr.media/tech/gen-z-dumb-light-mobile-cell-phones-outdated-tech-noumaan-faiz/
Have you ever argued with a hard core lefty? As soon as you start proving your point they say lies or no proof or the classic, they change the subject. They must all take arguing classes.
Mmmm. Most of the youngsters I know are "fitting in," going along. The peer pressure on this one is intense. Once they've been modified (I reckon most Australian children are) - they will not resist after. (vascular damage to the brain makes people docile - ref: Peter Breggin). The youngest I've met who was shot was 7 - but I'm an old retired person, and don't come into great contact with children.
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Good one, Bill.
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