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Another question that might be interesting to readers just occurred to me: Who has had the greatest influence in persuading more people to change their views on the "authorized narrative?"

I'd have to vote for Tucker Carlson just because he does reach a pretty good-sized "mainstream audience," which probably includes a fair number of people who once went along with all the official narratives.

Steve Kirsch, who is relentless and whose site has grown exponentially, has to be up there as well.

I would also put RFK, Jr. on the list just because his book "The Real Anthony Fauci" has sold so many copies and got such amazing "word of mouth" advertising. I don't know how anyone who was half-way open-minded could read that book and not be influenced by the arguments and data.

Thinking about this question might give us some ideas on how to change more people from "blue pill" to "red pill."

I still think we would have a sea change in thinking about "the narrative" if, by some miracle, the NY Times did real investigative reporting (or maybe "Sixty Minutes) but, alas, we know this won't happen - which is a tell in itself.

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Re: RFK, Jr. He also started the Children's Health Defender website, which is cranking out real investigative reporting and real journalism on a routine basis. So he fits my heroic model of someone who said, "Hell, if no one in the mainstream media is going to do this type investigation or look into these topics, we'll do it ourselves."

And his organization is among the few trial lawyer operations that is filing lawsuits.

So, he's written the most important book on this topic; he's started a journalism organization and he's working the legal/lawsuit angle as well. Pretty impressive.

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In this article, I opine that "20 percent" of Americans basically "get it" or think like I do. But that was a complete guess, just based on observation or instinct. I wonder if readers think I'm in the ballpark with that estimate. Poll question: What percentage do my readers think "get it" or think kind of like us?

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Bill,

I think your 20% estimate is conservative, perhaps appropriately so, but still conservative. I believe there are another 20-40% of people who seriously question and have major doubts about this blasphemous C-19 narrative.

I agree wholeheartedly with your list of truth influencers. You have listed the obvious big 3, at least for those of us who pay some daily attention to the trending story lines: Tucker Carlson, Steve Kirsch, and Bobby Kennedy. Each of these influencers is in his own special niche of influence and together the synergy is positive and is very constructive to righting the narrative up and out of the whirlpools in the sea of lies.

I would add Joseph Mercola to that list. He rails against the general Empire and the C-19 Empire daily in his posts. Robert Malone, MD, Peter McCullough, MD, and a number of other brave and great MDs have championed truth in the face of lunatic onslaught, cancel culture, censorship, and professional board attacks.

In broader consideration, I believe that 60-70% of Americans have reached dubiety about a number of the bamboozlement narratives being pushed upon us. This figure is helped by the general perception that Biden is demented, his administration is a clown theater of pitifuls, and economic and social trending is on a glaringly obvious downslope. There have to be a significant number of left leaning people who may cross back over that center point over the next 2 years.

These next 2 years are so super critical.

We remain hopeful that the members of the House of Representatives pursuing truth can add further to the shift in consciousness.

All radical pendulum swings tend to swing back. This swing back needs to hurry up before our industries, like the food industry, are further destroyed. I am very concerned about the Empire's well accumulated tendency to keep the masses in fear and confusion by how they run perception management programs of all sorts...war narrative, economy narrative, environment narrative, balloons over the USA narrative, etc. I believe that more people are becoming aware and perhaps a good number are paying attention to the truth influencers.

And so I remain hopeful that the better angels of our nature are going to show up in peoples' hearts and minds, choices and actions, and shifts in consciousness. Each of us must do something, however small, on a daily basis to help this shift.

Your recent nicely varied articles focusing on the C-19 lies are very important. This is a mega focal point that needs much ongoing scrutiny.

For those readers who may not know it, Bill is a contributing author for the Brownstone Institute. See https://brownstone.org/authors/

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Thanks, Johnny D. Good pep talk and you added some other really important influencers. Naomi Wolf is a part of the Brownstone Group as well. She's the rare liberal who has become a warrior for our cause. I recommend her book, The Bodies of Others, if you haven't read it yet.

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I saw Naomi Wolf in the Brownstone Institute list of authors, and I have followed her for a couple of years. I stand to add my applause on mention of her name.

The Bodies of Others is an ominous looking title...yikes!

Indeed, she is a wise helpful lefty, and I hope her lefty friends are listening to her and others, like Tulsi Gabbard. The ranks will gather and grow.

We have to have faith that there is a growing groundswell of good people who are coming to their senses about what our American culture was founded on, and how valuable it is in the global community of countries that have lost freedom.

Onward

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I like your positive attitude and optimism. That was one of the keys of Ronald Reagan's success and popularity.

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Feb 13, 2023·edited Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Bill, going to surmise you are correct. Just returned from a 3 day event in Atlanta. Hundreds of guests from multiple states. They came in trains, planes and automobiles.

Not. One. Conversation. With. Anyone. Mentioned. Covid/Shots.

Quite a switch from the "Entry with Proof of Vax" mentality of even a year ago.

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And I bet most braved the event sans mask.

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Correct. Nary a mask in site. Ever.

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Ironically, my good friend and I were having this conversation a few days ago. We estimated about 15%-20% are really aware at this point. This is just a hunch based off personal experience. I honestly don't think there are even 15% that are aware in my direct circle of friends/family. I would say 20% is probably a very generous estimate and 15% is probably much more likely, if we're talking a nationwide population scale.

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When I wrote this article, I kept mentioning the "authorized Covid narrative" so I said to myself, "I probably need to give some examples of what exactly this 'authorized narrative' is." At first, I thought I'd give 10 examples. As you can see, I ended up giving 29 examples. That is, it wasn't hard coming up with these dubious or faux narratives. I'm sure I could have easily come up with 40 or my readers can add some more examples. Question: How the heck can you have 40 narratives/"settled science" and every single one of them is false or at least dubious? I couldn't do this if I tried.

It's impressive to not get ONE thing right.

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% of MDs who should have led the general strike against the loss of oath and public trust: 100.

The whole disgraceful thing would be over by now.

Chickenshits.

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Feb 13, 2023·edited Feb 13, 2023Author

Or what if just 25 percent had done this? Same result probably. We can't get 1 percent to speak up ... here in the "home of the brave." Sigh.

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If just ONE prominent newspaper would take the claims of these 10 doctors seriously, we would be getting somewhere. But that one newspaper hasn't stepped forward yet. We're three years into this story so if they haven't done this yet ....

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It just takes ONE entity changing and more will follow out of the anxiety brought about by competitiveness and the feeling of being left behind the curve.

So...we need one chickenshit entity (prominent newspaper, prominent institution, prominent college, prominent educator, prominent corporation, prominent law enforcement/military group, etc., etc.) to give up their chickenshitedness, step up to the plate, and swing for the bleachers.

Then a novel kind of mass formation psychosis can occur and Mattias Desmet can write a new book entitled, "See, I Told You So."

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Great point! I've been saying this all along. The people who orchestrated this plandemic knew that almost every doctor would go along with it because they have worked so hard to get where they are in life and have much to lose. They are used to a certain lifestyle. But I was just following orders will not be a valid excuse.

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Wow! It looks even worse when set out so clearly. Many thanks. As a retired doctor I am ashamed of my profession, although I can hardly blame them for not putting their livelihoods and reputations at serious risk. That is the most shameful aspect of the last three years. People were afraid, and had very good reason to be afraid, to question the narrative openly.

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Feb 13, 2023·edited Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

However, if many more doctors had grown a pair (regardless of actual sex), just think how much more money they might have made by having the 70,000,000 prospective patients flock to them. That's 1.4 million people per state looking for a doctor that doesn't harrass them about the vaxx.

Since, obviously, money is the only factor in becoming a doctor. (Which, is what I have been saying for >40 years.)

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If the LGBTQ managed to break through into the mainstream with less than 1/2 % of the population in their ranks, 20% of the population, pushing back against a false Covid narrative and a destructive government stands a high probability of success too.

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Well the problem with this statement is that it assumes that LGBTefg’s were the ones responsible for breaking themselves into the mainstream. They most likely were NOT. They were used as propaganda and inserted into the mainstream by the powers that be who are trying *really* hard to sterilize the whole world, reduce population and rid themselves of useless eaters. What better way than thru moral degeneracy, destruction of the nuclear family, and (ultimate goal) transgendering young kids before they become able to breed. Very diabolical if you ask me. And to be clear I don’t have a problem with gay people. Or with people who wear opposite gender clothing etc etc. you do you boo boo. But the way it’s all been weaponized, propagandized and shoved down our gullets leaves a bad bad taste in my mouth. Also the demasculinization of the male species is very important. Don’t want any fighters out there. Only sissy soy boys please. Preferably those who either like other boys or drugs. Or both.

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Maybe the establishment wanted LGBTQ to break through into the mainstream. And the same desire does not hold for questioning the Covid regime.

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Seems to me that the 20% of Non-Conformists around the western world are now living in a parallel universe. It's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers isn't it? People around us look normal, they behave fairly normally. But they are no longer like us. They carry around inside them not only experimental gene technology but also strange illogical beliefs which they would probably protect by getting rid of the 20% if they were told to.

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Great analogy! Scott Adams says it's like we're watching two different movies on the same screen. I'd say it's more like the two groups are in different movie theaters! (And the movie that is playing is The Matrix.)

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It's more like the same story filmed by two different directors but with the same cast!

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When talking with friends and I say something that contradicts the COVID narrative I get suspicious looks as if I'm saying something the equivalent of the earth is flat or I'm pushing a conspiracy theory or I'm referring to an "anti vaxxer" who can be ignored. Their response is to just regurgitate what got from their trusted news outlets. No one I talk to ever refers to a research paper. (I've read over 400 papers.)

Nonetheless, if you're right in that 20% of the people question the narrative there is some hope (albeit limited) that the narrative will change. However, some portion of that 20% needs to be vocal. That is a challenge because it's tough to get a platform to get the message out. I think the way to open the door is for someone like Dr. Aseem Malhotra to speak out. As a well-known and respected cardiologist in the UK he switched from being a vaccine advocate to a vaccine skeptic. He has been able to get his message onto the BBC without being cancelled and published a two part article in a journal. (When I refer to Malhotra's change of mind my friends just shrug it off.)

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If this is being mentioned on the BBC, that's a big deal. It was a big deal when Fox News started running some segments that "questioned the narrative." And then they kept doing it. Even taking on Big Pharma (especially Tucker Carlson). The headline, as far as I'm concerned, is that the sky didn't fall when they did this. As far as I can tell from their TV ratings, no Fox News viewers are switching over to CNN in protest.

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Henry, today i read that Dr Drew of TV fame has finally had his about-face, publicly. Now its a matter of assessing for ourselves the kind of apologetic language he uses, to determine what he’s made of. Hopefully he can lead many to their brutal red-pilling. And drain the covidiot swamp.

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

This timely article brings to mind two things. First, a quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." But it also brings to mind the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack of 1941, as described in the book, Day of Deceit, by Robert Stinnett (1999). Apparently there were several congressional investigations into what prompted Japan to attack Hawaii, and the extent of U.S. involvement in setting it up. Nobody was held accountable, although it seems there was sufficient evidence to do so. Robert Stinnett certainly provides plenty of evidence in his book.

If indeed 20% of the population recognize the propaganda and atrocities committed in the name of "Covid," then we may well be on our way to the truth "being self-evident." But this may never be enough to hold accountable the people who perpetrated these crimes against humanity.

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You are lucky to have 20% in the USA.

I very seriously doubt Canada has even a 5% awareness. Within the evangelical church...I doubt there is even a 2% awareness of what the hell is going on...in Canada.

2% would be a very generous number.

I hate to agree with you....but my numbers are even worse than yours....so the odds of success look more like buying a lottery ticket than anything else.

Near where I live is a small Baptist church. I quit going to church 25 years ago because I could get the same info from CBC, if I cared to.

I have hosted the pastor of this church for coffee...for several months...once a week... in my home

Every time we are together his goal is to either get me to go to church...or shame me for not.

I retort by telling him I love God...but hate religion.

This pastor...though sincere...knows nothing about what is going on around him in the current world. I mean nothing. Neither do the deacons. I know them all...they know nothing except the CBC/Trudeau television narrative.

I just found out the pastor may be leaving...over what I think is both trivial and ridiculous, especially in light of global dynamics.

It is so insane it is not worth mentioning...but this issue has been such a sore spot it will cause a split.

Yet not likely one person in that congregation could tell me the history of the Ukraine war...the real story...not the tv one.

Not one of them would be aware of the vaccine injuries and deaths. There was no uproar when the churches were closed.

In fact...just recently one of the deacons commented on how well the whole covid thing was handled in Canada, and in this province.

There was me...not 5 ft away from him...fired for not getting the jab...but he was boasting of the success. This is a Baptist deacon.

This is Canada.

Lost.

No...it will not recover.

Wherever this swirling vortex of sewage is headed...we in Canada are making the trip with it.. Proudly...I might add.

As a nation...we are lost. We have sold our souls.

We are deep into stage four, irreversable, intellectual and spiritual cancer.

Whatever our lot is...we have earned it.

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Man, that's a bleak report from Canada, but thanks for sharing your observations and thoughts.

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How about the tens of thousands who went to Ottawa?

And the many thousands who watched every minute of it, read every blog, lost sleep for three weeks to not miss a thing. Around the entire globe.

That gave me so much energy and happiness for an actual future Guy LeBlake.

It can not have been for nothing.

Numbers and statistics and percentages can wear us down.

But I know the truth of what I saw in Canada a year ago.

It wasn't a small number of people and it was on fire with life, truth, purpose and love.

I think it was a miracle.

And the spark of it has to still be there, as it is in you.

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

We may be only 20% but our numbers are growing. We must tell all who will listen what we see.

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Yes. Our numbers are growing faster than their numbers.

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Some additional flavors of the Authorized Covid Narrative:

Covid poses no significant risk to younger people, but locking up and down everyone is necessary to save Grandma.

Children are at virtually zero risk from Covid, but schools must be closed indefinitely because kids could carry the virus home and infect Grandma.

Large scale immune pressure elicited by the vaxxiines is of no concern whatsoever, but if it becomes a problem, the solution is more vaxxiines.

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Excellent article!

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I rather suspect the virus can be easily spread outdoors; from biotrails. I and quite a few acquaintances with no direct contact came down with Omicron near simultaneously at the end of 2021.

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Biotrails = chemtrails only with biologicals?

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Feb 13, 2023·edited Feb 13, 2023

Given the lack of boosters uptake, I think your numbers might be too conservative and not really depicting the range of awareness that actually exists.

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Feb 13, 2023Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

Yes. I worry however that too much, far too much, of booster uptake 'hesitancy' is 'soft', ie the folk are not entirely sure just why they wont take a booster. Trot out covid mk 2 and a vaccine to save us and what proportion of 'booster hesitants' might line up?

Our opportunity - the booster hesitants need to be shown how they were right to resist. It is easy to engage on the basis of explaining to folk how they were right, and so much more difficult to explain to folk how they were wrong. People love being right and will sit down to listen to just how right they were. In some detail. And they then become resistant to further propaganda.

I dunno, actually. My redpill success is modest at best, say 2 of 20 folk. So not great. However one success actually came from the above dynamic, you resisted, turns out your instincts were right, here is why, aren't you clever. It was a thing, it worked.

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This is interesting - another estimate "by the numbers" - You think about 1 in 10 of your outreach efforts have paid dividends. That's not bad. If we could all convince 1 in 10 people to consider the possibility they've been misled, the needle would move pretty fast.

I don't get out much and rarely engage people in 1-on-1 debates so I don't know what my batting average would be. I do try to persuade people through the old written word, but I certainly realize that I am "preaching to the choir" here on Substack.

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What a tell. I don't think these nations can even give away these doses (to, say, poor nations). Nobody wants them.

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Del Bigtree was like a lifeline to me, when I felt as if suddenly, overnight in March 2020, the whole of humanity had lost its common-sense-gene.

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