Today I pushed send on my letter to the editor titled “Shot Dead” and said the vaccine is killing us, its time to stop ignoring the reality. I can sleep tonight knowing I did the right thing.
I live in a small town in western Colorado where the local newspaper editor praised the local public health director, county commissioners, hospital CEO and school administrators for getting as many people vaxxed and boosted as possible. Today we see young athletes with turbo cancers, teens with myocarditis and so many auto- immune diseases among every age bracket its shocking. No one says anything! I called for lawsuits against all those that coerced this poison on us. Just think if every newspaper across America got a letter to the editor...how the tide might turn. Do it, be that person. I have a template you could use.
The other day I learned on November 14, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (1986 Act) had its 37th anniversary. One of the things it created is a “vaccine court” (the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program or VCP) intended to pay Americans for injury or death caused by a vaccine. The government created the program making it sound great, but quietly was removing all liability from vaccine manufacturers and taking away the Constitutional right to sue them directly. Why? The programs cap the amount for a death at $250,000.
Nearly $5.1 billion has been awarded to over 10,000 Americans for injury and death under the VICP. Unfortunately, the threshold to meet the burden of proof is nearly impossible to achieve and its designed that way.
The influenza shot has been the holder of the top spot for injury and death but that title now belongs to the Covid-19 injections. These shots were rolled out under the EUA and have now been added to the childhood immunization schedule as well.
In early 2021 Moderna, Pfizer, Astra-Zeneca and J and J each released their own concoction to fight the Covid-19 virus and immediately $22 billion was provided by HHS for testing and distribution. Mass vaccination programs were administered across the country using local Public Health Departments as a conduit to get everyone dosed up. School administrators allowed Walmart $100.00 gift cards to be given out as incentives while the vaccine busses rolled into their parking lots.
Soon after the rollout, doctors started reporting of breakthrough cases and myocarditis among young men. The CDC Director emphatically stated, “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus-they don’t get sick”…That’s “not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.” Unfortunately, Rochelle Walensky was seeing the opposite in real-world data and in fact breakthrough cases and myocarditis were not rare. Today, we learn more than five million breakthrough cases in 2021 alone. At the same time we were told we needed 80% of a community to get fully vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, we were also told the unvaxxed were the reason so many vaccinated were getting sick again. The unvaxxed were killing Grandma and hence they should be locked up without food and denied life saving surgeries. Yes, people actually said that…natural immunity was never mentioned.
November 2023 and the tide has finally turned. According to Miranda Devine, the DOJ has posted new job listings seeking attorneys to defend the Federal Government in vaccine injury cases. Hmmm, do they expect there might be some sort of huge caseload coming their way? What they do know is there are many major cases challenging the constitutionality of the PREP Act-the federal statute that shields Pfizer and Moderna from liability for their defective vaccine products. If these major cases move forward (which they will) to remove vaccine manufacturers’ liability shields, the avalanche of lawsuits may be comparable on the scale of asbestos and tobacco cases or bigger. The PREP Act’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) is a failure of epic proportions and as of October 2023, only 6 vaccine injury claims have been paid out even though there are millions of VAERS reports of adverse events including death.
Fortunately, this is not the only lawsuit being brought to the Courts in regards to the Covid-19 policies put in place. Strong legal arguments are questioning whether employers can legally require the shots of their employees or lose their jobs and were the employees coerced into doing so. Children may not be forced, coerced or pressured into taking EUA products and are entitled by law to refuse them, private institutions that coerce an EUA drug on children could face lawsuits. Lastly, everyone knows someone who has had a questionable reaction to the vaccine and follow-up boosters. Whether it’s a shocking Stage 4 turbo cancer, pneumonia, shingles, auto-immune disease, sudden heart attack, stroke, miscarriages or covid 5 times over, it is way past time to acknowledge this mRNA gene therapy and the undisclosed ingredients in them were neither safe or effective. Also, why were lifesaving drugs actually prohibited from being used in this County while others known to cause actual harm like remdesivir were allowed? Is it normal for 12 young people every week to have a sudden cardiac death? I implore you to watch www.shotdead.org to help you understand this cannot be ignored any longer. The liability immune shield must be removed from big Pharma now and a top down look at how our health agencies mishandled the public health emergency.
Great letter. Did they publish it? The disappearance of "letters to the editor" at newspapers ... and many news organizations doing away with on-line Reader Comment sections ... are another way the mainstream media prevents dissenting opinions that would challenge any authorized narrative.
That's an anomaly. Good for him publishing it and good for you writing it.
I've lost count of the number of letters to the editor and "guest op-eds" I submitted to our state's leading news organization (al.com) that they never published.
In our small town in Northern BC many of us did send letters to the editor that were not printed. The organization behind our local newspaper is subsidized by our federal government....
I remember the Sunday paper of the biggest papers in my state would have a page of letters to the editor. Many were highly critical of the newspaper's coverage of some topic, but the papers still ran these letters. Those days are long gone.
Our newspaper was one of the FIRST in 1995 to publish online with comments. I was amazed at the comments they would often let stand completely disproving the article, of which I wrote a few. In 2000 they cut off comments and deleted all from online history because everyone was talking about Al Gore's "Tennessee Mafia" connections.
They came back on from 2003 - 2012, again shocking me that so many comments disproved the article and were left standing. They cut off again with a week's warning but disputed my claim they would delete all comments, making disproved articles "true" again. A week after cutoff they did delete all comment history, in a response to an email from me they claimed it was a mistake. Ha ha.
You are in good company Bill. Steve Kirsch and A Midwestern Doctor have already made a dive into deadly and debilitating childhood vaccines and brought the horror to substack. Feel free to dive in too. I took childhood and travel vaccines up to Covid but never again. I'll stick to vitamins and suppliments. I worry about my grandkids as their parents are not so enlightened.
I think the narrative that needs to be pushed (instead of anti-vaxx) is freedom of choice. My body my choice was very popular decades ago and it only applied to women. Today, it applies to everyone and is even more important.
If you refuse a vaccine the criticism is that you aren't helping reach herd immunity. To this they add the "and some people who can't get the vaccine will be at risk". Covid got everyone to be fearful of how they may kill someone if they don't contribute to herd immunity. Covid vaccines could never achieve herd immunity and now it looks like they prolonged the pandemic and made it more likely for people to catch and transmit the disease.
Consider though one of the few diseases where the vaccines are effective: Small Pox, Measles and perhaps Chicken Pox. These are not diseases that mutate like Covid, Zika, Dengue or the Flu (Positive vs Negative sense RNA viruses). These effective vaccines are what people refer to when they demand that you stop thinking for yourself and do what is best for society. Even with these effective vaccines, if you chose not to get vaccinated, it is only you that will get sick, not the vaccinated. When thinking about the fragile person who can't get the vaccine that you are now putting at risk by not violating your free will, the answer should be to isolate them from society while the pandemic blows through and the risk goes away. This is what we do with our elderly to protect them while the healthy deal with themselves.
With Covid, they did what the WHO 2019 pandemic playbook says not to ever do; vaccinate during a pandemic - especially with an ineffective vaccine. It only creates variants and prolongs the existence of the risk.
In other words: They knew better and did the opposite anyway. Every opportunity they took a 6 month pandemic and made it 4 years while putting the most vulnerable at risk. They killed millions with their ineffective treatments and called it helping.
VAERS now lists the deaths from vaccines in all of its recorded history as 90% from Covid vaccine. Same goes for the known side effects. Remember that VAERS requires a 'side effect' to happen within 2 weeks of vaccination or it can't be recorded. With the mRNA method, the effect is still building after the second week.
They also changed the operative meaning of a "vaccine." With the vaccines on the childhood vaccine schedule, we were told if your child got this shot, they'd never get this disease. That, I guess, seems to be true with many of these vaccines.
But it's definitely not true with the Covid non-vaccine. Nor is it true with the "flu vaccine." I keep harping on the fact the "watchdog press" never did its job on the flu "vaccines, which the press should have told everyone are not really "vaccines."
But everyone thought they were - even if they don't work - and so when they rolled out the Covid vaccines, everyone went along with the need to get them. Then again, we were told a million times the Covid vaccines were "95 percent effective." That was the Mother of All Lies. Think of how many officials and experts (and "skeptical" journalists) eagerly spread that disinformation.
Yes. Using the word ‘vaccine’ was simply a (very successful) marketing strategy, as we all know. The complicity of the CORRUPTED corporate media is undeniable. They are responsible for a lot of blame in this mess.
I used to think that a few vaccines such as smallpox, measles, and polio were ‘fine’. No longer, after researching and learning the actual truth about them. If I was having a child today, I would not let my child have any injections whatsoever. I don’t really care if anyone wants to slap a label on me, such as ‘anti-vax’ or whatever. It’s nothing more than manipulative name-calling. And I agree that it’s really about freedom of choice, bodily autonomy. Also, I don’t believe one should have to use the argument of whether a shot is ‘safe & effective’ or not. To me, it’s about not wanting to have anything injected into my body…that’s it. We should not have to explain or defend our reason why.
I am reaching the same conclusion. My point about those vaccines is that they are effective. If you get a vaccine for small pox and go into a room with the virus, you will not get it. That is not the same for the flu or Covid yet that is how the latter are being marketed.
If you aren't going to be exposed to small pox, then you have no reason to suffer the side effects of the vaccine.
MMR isn't so clear. It comes and goes and people I know know someone who has died from it (child). We also know that the side effects can cause health problems.
Polio was likely not a successful vaccine. At the time there were pesticides that caused the same paralysis as polio. They were banned at the same time the vaccine came out. Guess who got credit for elimination of paralysis?
I’m with you Fred. I have my first grand baby due any day. My daughter trusts that doctors wouldn’t suggest something that would harm someone. I pray every day that something wakes her up to what is happening and how harmful the jab and some of the more recent vaccines are. I want her, her husband and my granddaughter to have happy healthy lives. I will add you to my prayers tonight. God Bless You.
About half of the commercials I see on TV are now paid for by Big Pharma. Some are vaccine commercials and others are for medicines that are necessited by other ailments or vaccines the previous medicines probably caused.
It must be mind-boggling how much $ this industry is making from legalized drug-pushing.
I don’t mind the K, although prefer the oral drops (the very rare brain bleeds can be catastrophic), but absolute NO to the HepB (and they’ve been given against parents wishes in some circumstances). Zero risk of HepB vs tiny risk of SIDS. Enough said. Haven’t read “Turtles All The Way Down,” but comes highly recommended.
K1 seems to be something of a serious poison, Tony-s microscopy recently published an article on it. K2 is the one you want. But I cannot take that either, I took it for a few days and did not feel well with it. (it was K2 D3 combined)
Link didn’t work, but I’d be interested. I assume you’re referring to supplements, since as a naturally occurring fat soluble vitamin, K has many beneficial effects in the body.
SIDS is on many (if not all) childhood vaccine package inserts as an adverse event, and the rate is NOT decreasing.
“The observation that the increase in the rates of non-SIDS causes of sudden unexpected infant death could account for >90% of the drop in the SIDS rates suggests that a change in classification may be occurring.”
The major issue I have with DeSantis is that it was stupid to even enter the race with the circumstances currently in play. If he can't see this, I have to question his judgement about other stuff. Yes, he was great about covid -- but he could be great about covid as governor of Florida.
All that said, it's true that we have to be willing to say stuff that people don't want to hear. Anything else is just public relations, as somebody smart once said.......
I think DeSantis picked up on the key issue - totalitarian over-reach based on bogus science. That's going to continue ... unless a president tries to stop it. A governor can't stop it. My two possible presidential choices have long been RFK, Jr. or DeSantis because they think like me on what I think is the biggest and most important issue.
DeSantis was probably shot out of the saddle before the race even started because of his unacceptable views on Covid issues.
I also think the Powers that Be really feared his campaign more than they did Trump's. I think somehow they know Trump isn't going to be elected ... or they think DeSantis could have beat "Joe Biden" but Trump can't?
I don't know. The way that wind gauge on DeSantis changed so fast is kind of eery to me.
It will be interesting to see how many of my readers defend DeSantis. If they do, they are going against the Narrative and will probably face big blowback.
Also, "The Narrative has Already Spoken." DeSantis is toast. Once a Narrative is this entrenched, you can't change it in a couple of months.
RFK may be on target on covid but how about climate, gun control and abortion?
I too like DeSantis but believe we need someone in the WH who must drain the swamp to protect himself and his family and there is only one who has that personal motivation.
No matter how 'good' DeSantis is, he's going up against an ex-president who drastically increased his vote in 2020 and 'lost' under incredibly dubious circumstances. He never had a chance in the primary -- the way that he immediately went underwater when he actually jumped in the race proves it. (Attacking Trump supporters was a stupid, stupid idea.)
Regarding the media, I don't think the wind ever changed -- they hated DeSantis during covid, and they hate him now. If Trump weren't running, they would spend more time hating him -- just like they hated Romney and McCain.
I said long ago that the best-case scenario is that DeSantis and Trump focus on election integrity and leave the bickering to the middle schoolers, but neither of them could manage it for even a day or two.
If "Joe Biden" wins in 2024 - like I have actually predicted he will - surely half the country will know that there is no "election integrity."
Heck, if Trump wins the Left is going to tell us again that the Russians stole another election so they won't believe "election integrity" exists either.
One way or another, half the country is going to be irate and questioning election integrity. That's one reason I think we're going to start hearing the S-word a lot more in the future.
This is why the GOP should have spent the last 3 years vigorously defending election integrity -- now more evidence of cheating is coming out (even in 'irrelevant' races), but it's too late for the 2024 election.
"One way or another, half the country is going to be irate and questioning election integrity."
We keep listing never-exposed scandals or taboo topics off limits to real investigations. Election integrity is the Mother of All Scandals as it makes possible the continuation of all the other crimes and frauds.
If one starts with the premise that they are dead set on rolling out more Climate Change BS ... and digital currency .... and more mRNA vaccines and more whatever from the WEF and Bill Gates' playbook ... it would seem to follow that they'd HAVE to have a mechanism in place to ensure their president is "elected." If they didn't have this mechanism, all or most of their plans could go ... poof.
Are they really this crooked and corrupt ... and determined ... and this brazen? Ah, yes.
When I write that "every important organization is now captured," I'm not writing this sentence to get more story clicks or because it sounds cool or provocative. I'm writing this because I believe it with every fibre in my body and every cell in my brain.
I also think this: A lot of people and organizations went to a lot of trouble over decades to get all these key organizations completely captured. Why would they do such a thing? Why would this be so important to them?
Maybe some of the world's true rulers just want to stay in power and make more money a little longer. But I think the key people behind the curtain did this because they want to accomplish certain things. What are those things? Digital currency, (banning cash), bugs in our meat, social credit scores, WHO treaties, Saving the Climate (which they know is a ruse), more mRNA vaccines to make sure Big Pharma continues to rule the world, protecting the MIC, maybe population control, world government and socialism/communism?
But to do all this stuff or any of this stuff, they have to have the executive branch under their control.
This tells me they have to also have come up with some pretty sure method of winning presidential elections. I also think they have the U.S. Supreme Court, but would like a few more safe votes in that body, which they'll get when "Joe Biden" is re-elected.
They've got Congress. They've got the FBI and CIA and DOJ. They've got the major companies and the media.
This coming presidential election will be the most important in U.S. history IMO. "They" already removed the variable of DeSantis out of the calculus. He's not a threat to their plans any more. I think they also have a plan for disposing Trump. RFK, Jr. is a wild card, but I don't think they are worried too much about him.
They are so close to getting all their chess pieces just where they want them that they can taste it.
He is going against an ex-president that failed on many levels and has not a nice character. To re-elect Trump, only because he mihgt be better than Biden, is madness I feel sorry for you Americans with the current choices you have. You deserve better. All polritical party systems are around the world are corrupted by now and the candidates that are "selected" are a joke. But America tops the lot. Sorry to say. Kennedy is by far the best choice you have - this man has some integrity at least.
This is exactly the kind of mealy-mouthed objection that's ultimately irrelevant.
Trump got nearly 75 million votes. For DeSantis to win in the primary, he has to convince a LARGE section of those people to abandon Trump -- and then he went about that task by attacking them and calling them cultists.
If a politician cannot see this obvious political truth, I have to wonder why he's actually running. Chris Christie doesn't think he's going to actually be president -- he's just there to attack Trump. Is DeSantis in the race for the same reason?
Regardless, DeSantis has taken the most promising GOP career in recent memory and completely shattered it -- for nothing.
Here's my take on DeSantis. First of all...we all like him, right? He's governed Florida as a rock ribbed Republican, He's been great. But most likely, the big money Doners and the RNC (who all hate Trump) needed to position a favored candidate to run in 2024....since it was assumed that Trump would be buried in indictments and likely even be in jail. But, hahahaha....Trump has survived even that! He's as strong as ever.
But, why did DeSantis agree to step forward in the first place? Easy. They made him a real, real good offer. A book deal. A book no one will ever even read. He probably got millions. His family is now set for life. So, what does he care if it all blew up in his face? Its not even his fault. Its not his time. He can go back to being the most popular governor in the country, (luckily they changed the law so he didn't need to resign as governor to run for President). The people want Trump.
So, hahahaha.....once DeSantis drops out...who will be the preferred anti-Trump Republican candidate? Nikki Haley?? Hahahahaha.
You just sold DeSantis to me lol. He attacked Trump supporters and called them cultists? Finally a man talking the truth and showing integrity. Funny that you liked my comment to Bill Rice, where I was asking him not to become a journalistic whore, but support a political and capitalistical whore like Trump. A man who failed. A man who had his chance. He couldn't drain the swamp. He was outfoxed by old man Biden who he mocked endlessly. Why would you want to reelecte a president that failed miserably? Never happened before. I don't get people.
I have watched Trump make great strides forward on large and small key issues.
He has a mean mouth and I don't like his personality but he did a great job.
DeSantis is a smarter, wiser version of Trump but he doesn't have the backing so he is best off waiting for a future election. I don't see him settling for VP either.
Trump is the best choice and the democrats obviously agree because they are trying their darnedest to keep him from running. Now if Trump can just clean up his mouth and engage brain before using his mouth he can probably get 4 years with the presidency, congress, supreme court and possibly the senant.
You had me up to "DeSantis is a smarter, wiser version of Trump...". If he were smarter and wiser he wouldn't have sold his candidacy to the Bushes, et al. RD will never* be president of the U.S. because he was willing to turn against the President who is clearly the bases favorite candidate and for good reasons.
*will need to beg the citizens for forgiveness for his mis-alignment with the Bushes and get on board with the America First agenda as a start.
Ma Mu, RFK does seem to have integrity, but I wish he was not so in “lock-step” with Biden on everything else! He also seems to be beholden to all the climate change hysteria, and Lordy, how often do we have to say it, reparations will not help the black communities (any more than the fraudulent BLM folks)!
DeSantis is being paid (campaign support) as a supposedly viable candidate to bad mouth DJT. Hasn't worked and won't work. Poor Ron got screwed but it seems he might just deserve it.
What if DeSantis sincerely believes DJT botched the Covid response and listened to all the wrong advisers? Can he say this or would that be considered "bad-mouthing" Donald Trump?
My main point is that the current "operative narrative" among Republicans is that you CANNOT "bad mouth" Donald Trump.
Yeah, you really shouldn't bad mouth the most popular Republican candidate since Reagan if you are interested in serving the American people as a Republican. Not to mention bad mouthing the guy who saved your first Governor run. Seems a bit disingenuous to me.
Probably not, but if you did this it would require courage - which IMO is one of the qualities we need in our "leaders." Donald Trump wasn't courageous enough to fire Fauci and Birx and he repeatedly bad-mouthed DeSantis for not following the lockdown protocols Trump endorsed.
The Ryan plan, Obama charged, is "a Trojan Horse" for proponents of an unworkable trickle-down economic theory. "Disguised as deficit-reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country," he said. "It is thinly veiled social Darwinism. It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who's willing to work for it -- a place where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the heart of the middle class." As if that weren't dire enough, he added, "it is a prescription for decline."
The question is whether Obama will be able to convince voters that Romney is, in fact, a far-right ideologue. Romney has indeed endorsed the Ryan budget, if a bit gingerly, and was campaigning with Ryan in Wisconsin even as Obama spoke. Yet much of Romney's own record and rhetoric suggests that, like Obama, his inclinations are more centrist than not; and while there are questions he ought to answer about the extent and consequences of his support for Ryan's proposals, he hasn't exactly said the government ought to rescind its aid for grandmothers and disabled children.
I don't think the PTB fear DeSantis. They fear Trump or they wouldn't have done what they did and are continuing to do to Trump. None of that is happening to DeSantis. Which leads me to believe DeSantis is within the overton window, like romney vs obama. I don't make a great habit of listening to speeches but no politician has ever said what Trump has said. Which strikes at everything the PTb in the d.c. sewer are afraid of.
Sure Bill, they don't fear Trump (sarc). And the multiple indictments are all legitimate concerns. The H. Clinton/FBI conspiracy against him that started during his 2016 campaign wasn't because the left feared some Ron DeSantis type of boy scout.
Trumps voters were happy with his first term and many more joined in 2020.
DeSantis was bankrolled by the Bushes and others in the establishment Republican party, attacked his number 1 benefactor (Trump and his supporters) and used his Governor position to try and leave the state (yes, lucky he got the law changed so he can still draw the Gov paycheck). When the Governor won't talk about his future plans while running for re-election was a red flag that turned out to be a real concern.
RD makes me wonder why he would do all the right things during the pandemic only to go against the more than obvious R presidential candidate for 2024. Money talks and bullshit walks (all the way back to Florida). Truly disappointed in RD's pettiness.
So, Donald Trump is a mean tweeting asshole. So, what. That is what President DJT does along with energy independence, secure borders, respect on the world stage, no new wars, low unemployment (for all), etc., etc.. I'll take all the wins I can get with DJT, thank you.
Where does Donald Trump now live? If DeSantis is taking orders from the Bush's (who supported all the lockdowns and vaccines) why did DeSantis come out so forcefully against the lockdowns? It seems to me he's pissing off his benefactors there. It gets very little press, but DeSantis and the surgeon general he appointed are now pushing harder than any other governor to challenge the safety and efficacy of the vaccines (admittedly, belatedly, but better late than never).
If Covid response is NOT your main issue, I understand the huge support for Trump. But if you think the Covid response (Big Brother writ large) is THE key political development of our lifetimes, voters would look for future leaders who pushed back against these draconian and civil-liberty-eviscerating responses.
My main take-away is that "Covid" is actually NOT the No. 1 issue for 90 percent of voters. So I'm in a very small minority .... which I understand (although Covid stories are still of high interest to millions of readers on Substack ... I can't figure it out.)
The whole COVID scenario is but one tool in the box for the global left. Horrendous what the government did to the citizens of the U.S. and glad RD did what he did but I can see/imagine now (based on his actions taken immediately after the election) that he likely did it to win re-election so he could parlay that into a run at the presidency knowing all along that he would be running against the immensely popular former president. Cynical, you bet but then again look who is occupying the White House and how he got there and tell me my thoughts here are wildly out of line.
My main take-away regarding DeSantis is that my very high trust level for him has dwindled to levels that match his presidential polling numbers (single digit).
They have also tried to destroy RJK Jr., and he's one of their own and part of the revered Kennedy family to boot. Dems love the Kennedys, but not RFK Jr. because he tells the truth about Covid and vaccines in general. I saw him in an interview recently where he said point blank he thinks vaccines cause autism. Wow. Finally someone who doesn't sidestep this issue. But what is the response by the Dems? Make it impossible for him to win a primary, so he has to run as an Independent. Uphill climb for him.
Being a warrior means the slings and arrows are coming your way...shields up... you will sustain injuries.
If the framers of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights we’re afraid, you wouldn’t even have had the opportunity to make the decision about what you write.
We need warriors. The choice is slavery. We have the choice because brave men and women chose Freedom at their own peril.
I am now proudly an anti-vaxxer and I’m thinking more and more that I’m also a flat earther (or at least not on a spinning globe going one gazillion miles per hour through the universe). I now question everything that I’ve ever learned. After living unvaxxed in Seattle working a corporate job during Covid surrounded by vaxx lovers....I know I can live through anything and I don’t care what names I’m called.
I never understood why people are so afraid of being called an "anti-vaxxer." So what? I have been called much worse in my lifetime. But then again I have never wanted to sit at the cool kids lunch table.
Tell me about it. Many of us work in an industry whereas you are relentlessly as well as highly trained to recognize and detect WILLFUL BLINDNESS and FRAUD.
You are on the right track Bill. If you are worrying if people like your post or not, you turn into a journalistic whore. Write from your heart and soul and with integrity and that will always be rewarding.
Writing from Australia, from viewing the 2016 US primaries and election, augmented by the all the extra wikileaks etc material...
I got the impression that Florida had its own mafia/cabal, or at least was an annexation for a cabal that was different from the rest of the US, as a handy access point for drug running.
Looking at DeSantis in that context, I'd say he was outplayed by a more US-dominant mafia/cabal.
To understand why he was first elevated, and then flattened, it may be that the US-dominant cabal would've preferred the non-mandating of vaccines, but that it certainly had other ideas to who was going to be in the Presidential position.
On expressing antivax sentiments... I know exactly where you're coming from, although I found a strategy for saying anti-vax-type things that resisted challenge. I use Australian-govt funded research to demonstrate the case I'm making.
After years in anti-GMO scepticism I learnt the tone of the professional defamers/demonisers/propagandists. It's a black is white propaganda. All one has to do is look for the evidence of the reverse of what they're claiming. It always exists. I happened to recognise that in the vaccine world in about 2017. Media/pharma/govt were in a co-ordinated message to demonise unvaxd people as spreading a new whooping cough outbreak. It looked 'black-is-white' so I called up google scholar and searched on govt databases. It turns out the new whooping cough emerged from the vaxd population, and was doing so around the world, having mutated against one of the primary vaccine antigens. Govt websites had materials that said this themselves. I didn't suffer a lot of attack on twitter among the propagandists, and felt quite strong even though I was very new to the subject.
In short, when there's something worth saying, there'll be data to support it.
Covid was a God-send in several ways, not least of which was to show what the full mobilisation of a global weaponised media looks like. Prior to Project19 we'd never seen it dialled up to its maximum.
It was quite the thing to behold, seeing the Information War's powers. All encompassing, full spectrum saturation that reached into every crevice on the planet. And aimed squarely at the civilian population. If we didn't really understand what 5th Generation warfare was, we were treated to a front row seat.
But now, having seen it revealed in its full malevolence, I'd hope we're all a little wiser.
We've now seen how it operates.
How it targets, distorts and lies.
And lies again.
The takedown of Ron Desantis. And an even more recent example of the take down of Thomas Massie now getting underway, simply because he didn't join the Congress cattle with "Israel" branded on their flanks.
Contrary to feeling like a lone voice in the wilderness, when everyone has the courage to not self-censor, it soon overrides the reasons for doing so to begin with.
Courage is contagious. Look how quickly courage spread when people began calling out Israel, when just 3 months ago no one dared criticise that apparent sacred cow.
It starts with 1 voice, then dominoes from there, and before too long the MSM machine becomes powerless against it.
We become far safer for speaking out because we collectively overwhelm and expose the lie of the narrative.
“Calling someone an “anti-vaxxer” in 2023 is like calling someone a “heliocentrist” in 1633. I suppose you could but it’s a hilarious self-own. You think it’s a sick burn because you always obey authority. But the paradigm has already shifted and you are on the wrong side of history.”
Great points, as always. I am often engaged in defending my practice of saying things that outrage others. As a classic liberal who doesn’t buy any of the left’s current narrative, I’ve been left a “man without a party”, which is probably the reason I’m an RFK supporter.
I too have witnessed DeSantis’ decline with some degree of surprise. Summer of ‘22 I would have bet him to win the 2024 Presidential race with ease. I had been very impressed with his understanding (and independent research) of Covid, and by his general willingness to take on the scourge of wokeness. But I think his loss of popularity can’t entirely be placed on narrative control.
For one thing, his fight against Disney (and I was/am on his side) turned somehow ugly. I can’t explain when exactly it happened, but he went from ‘brave protector of children from overdone wokeness’ to ‘crazy zealot who wants to get rid of Disneyworld.’ It’s a difference that is hard for me to describe perfectly, but I’m pretty sure that something did change there, and that others felt it as well.
I think his other big liability comes from his position on abortion. As a disclaimer, I have mixed feelings on abortion and don’t feel personally-invested in the issue. I completely understand the passion of those who feel strongly on either side of the issue, and could argue either side of it. But a number of states across America seem to be saying through various state referenda that they want limitations on their abortion limitations. DeSantis, by signing the six-week bill, showed that he’s way off to one end of the spectrum. Trump, on the other hand, did appoint the judges who overruled Roe, but he never really weighed in heavily- probably because he was flipflopping from being a pro-choice New Yorker in his younger days. I think the pro-life right tolerated Trump in spite of his wishywashiness on the issue, not because of it. They got the ruling they got because of the Supreme Court nominees they wanted, and have no complaints. They’d probably prefer DeSantis on this issue but it might not be enough to make them jump over to him. But people like the Republicans in Kansas who voted for the abortion referendum... they would probably be equally happy with Trump or DeSantis, but I think they’re getting the same sense that maybe he’s a bit too much of a crusader, and it’s spooking them. This sort of hard stance on what a lot of them don’t see as the main issue is pushing them back towards Trump, whose crusade- that the Democratic Party and indeed Washington itself is a corrupt and overreaching enterprise that has to be uprooted- has a far more wide-ranging appeal to most of those who feel left behind.
If anyone calls us an anti-vaxxer for questioning the Covid shots....just ask them if they've got the latest booster...if they say no ...then they are just as anti-vax as any of us.
I asked my state's leading sports columnist this question in an email exchange. He didn't give me an answer. This is the same columnist who castigated everyone for not getting their Covid vaccines. I particularly remember one or two columns where he attacked Auburn's former coach for not publicly disclosing if he was vaccinated or not. As a "public figure," the coach should have set an example for everyone else in our state and at least answered this question, this columnist insisted.
I pointed out to this columnist (Joe Goodman of al.com) that he himself is a "public figure" in our state. Why won't he reveal if he got all his extra boosters?
Your comments certainly apply to the medical profession who were threatened with erasure from the medical register and losing their jobs. I find it very sad that my profession abandoned the precautionary principle and failed to question the authorised narrative. “First do no harm” and “making the patient your first concern” were no longer the guiding principles. Only those who had retired from practice could semi -safely speak out, but even so were obliged to self censor in the way that you describe for fear of the consequences of doing so.
The turning point for many was vaccine mandates, when we knew that the vaccine neither prevented infection nor transmission of the virus, and vaccination of children and young adults, when we knew them to be at minuscule personal risk and no threat to others. For me this was when speaking up became an absolute obligation.
The Fall of Minneapolis documentary is an example of something that I shared with, ironically, family and friends from Minneapolis... and “crickets”. Nobody cares.
Re: RDS: Becoming a "public servant" on the bigger stage requires you to relinquish image control to professional groomers. Except Trump.
DeSantis lost his shiny self-determination as Florida's savior when he stepped into the primary field. Pride? Maybe. His family (personal and state) really needed him to continue to position FL as a powerful harbinger of woke-cancellation and common sense sanctuary. That he Could Have Been VP in an unbeatable ticket and played the winning "game" is speculation but he can't BE anyone but himself.
I'm watching from VA, where Gov Youngkin chomps at the MAGA succession bit.
Bill, your instincts are good, being right is always better than being safe.
Re: CFP, for some unknown reason my comments on the OT have disappeared after I hit send/post/enter. (FYI my browser, settings or tattoo status are not to blame.) I struck a nerve on some critical comment I guess, & my status is persona non grata. So, there are Signs to self censor everywhere.
Re: ZeroHedge, numerous rabid anti-Semitics live (still? IDK) in the comment universe there, so I just don't engage with likely hate bots live or automated.
Free speech is precious. My time is preciouser. ;)
Today I pushed send on my letter to the editor titled “Shot Dead” and said the vaccine is killing us, its time to stop ignoring the reality. I can sleep tonight knowing I did the right thing.
I live in a small town in western Colorado where the local newspaper editor praised the local public health director, county commissioners, hospital CEO and school administrators for getting as many people vaxxed and boosted as possible. Today we see young athletes with turbo cancers, teens with myocarditis and so many auto- immune diseases among every age bracket its shocking. No one says anything! I called for lawsuits against all those that coerced this poison on us. Just think if every newspaper across America got a letter to the editor...how the tide might turn. Do it, be that person. I have a template you could use.
Post your letter — I’d like to see it.
Thank you for speaking out.
SHOT DEAD
Dear Mark,
The other day I learned on November 14, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (1986 Act) had its 37th anniversary. One of the things it created is a “vaccine court” (the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program or VCP) intended to pay Americans for injury or death caused by a vaccine. The government created the program making it sound great, but quietly was removing all liability from vaccine manufacturers and taking away the Constitutional right to sue them directly. Why? The programs cap the amount for a death at $250,000.
Nearly $5.1 billion has been awarded to over 10,000 Americans for injury and death under the VICP. Unfortunately, the threshold to meet the burden of proof is nearly impossible to achieve and its designed that way.
The influenza shot has been the holder of the top spot for injury and death but that title now belongs to the Covid-19 injections. These shots were rolled out under the EUA and have now been added to the childhood immunization schedule as well.
In early 2021 Moderna, Pfizer, Astra-Zeneca and J and J each released their own concoction to fight the Covid-19 virus and immediately $22 billion was provided by HHS for testing and distribution. Mass vaccination programs were administered across the country using local Public Health Departments as a conduit to get everyone dosed up. School administrators allowed Walmart $100.00 gift cards to be given out as incentives while the vaccine busses rolled into their parking lots.
Soon after the rollout, doctors started reporting of breakthrough cases and myocarditis among young men. The CDC Director emphatically stated, “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus-they don’t get sick”…That’s “not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.” Unfortunately, Rochelle Walensky was seeing the opposite in real-world data and in fact breakthrough cases and myocarditis were not rare. Today, we learn more than five million breakthrough cases in 2021 alone. At the same time we were told we needed 80% of a community to get fully vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, we were also told the unvaxxed were the reason so many vaccinated were getting sick again. The unvaxxed were killing Grandma and hence they should be locked up without food and denied life saving surgeries. Yes, people actually said that…natural immunity was never mentioned.
November 2023 and the tide has finally turned. According to Miranda Devine, the DOJ has posted new job listings seeking attorneys to defend the Federal Government in vaccine injury cases. Hmmm, do they expect there might be some sort of huge caseload coming their way? What they do know is there are many major cases challenging the constitutionality of the PREP Act-the federal statute that shields Pfizer and Moderna from liability for their defective vaccine products. If these major cases move forward (which they will) to remove vaccine manufacturers’ liability shields, the avalanche of lawsuits may be comparable on the scale of asbestos and tobacco cases or bigger. The PREP Act’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) is a failure of epic proportions and as of October 2023, only 6 vaccine injury claims have been paid out even though there are millions of VAERS reports of adverse events including death.
Fortunately, this is not the only lawsuit being brought to the Courts in regards to the Covid-19 policies put in place. Strong legal arguments are questioning whether employers can legally require the shots of their employees or lose their jobs and were the employees coerced into doing so. Children may not be forced, coerced or pressured into taking EUA products and are entitled by law to refuse them, private institutions that coerce an EUA drug on children could face lawsuits. Lastly, everyone knows someone who has had a questionable reaction to the vaccine and follow-up boosters. Whether it’s a shocking Stage 4 turbo cancer, pneumonia, shingles, auto-immune disease, sudden heart attack, stroke, miscarriages or covid 5 times over, it is way past time to acknowledge this mRNA gene therapy and the undisclosed ingredients in them were neither safe or effective. Also, why were lifesaving drugs actually prohibited from being used in this County while others known to cause actual harm like remdesivir were allowed? Is it normal for 12 young people every week to have a sudden cardiac death? I implore you to watch www.shotdead.org to help you understand this cannot be ignored any longer. The liability immune shield must be removed from big Pharma now and a top down look at how our health agencies mishandled the public health emergency.
Teri O’Rourke.
Great letter. Did they publish it? The disappearance of "letters to the editor" at newspapers ... and many news organizations doing away with on-line Reader Comment sections ... are another way the mainstream media prevents dissenting opinions that would challenge any authorized narrative.
The editor responded to me saying he would publish it.
That's an anomaly. Good for him publishing it and good for you writing it.
I've lost count of the number of letters to the editor and "guest op-eds" I submitted to our state's leading news organization (al.com) that they never published.
"Fair and balanced." Not.
In our small town in Northern BC many of us did send letters to the editor that were not printed. The organization behind our local newspaper is subsidized by our federal government....
I remember the Sunday paper of the biggest papers in my state would have a page of letters to the editor. Many were highly critical of the newspaper's coverage of some topic, but the papers still ran these letters. Those days are long gone.
Our newspaper was one of the FIRST in 1995 to publish online with comments. I was amazed at the comments they would often let stand completely disproving the article, of which I wrote a few. In 2000 they cut off comments and deleted all from online history because everyone was talking about Al Gore's "Tennessee Mafia" connections.
They came back on from 2003 - 2012, again shocking me that so many comments disproved the article and were left standing. They cut off again with a week's warning but disputed my claim they would delete all comments, making disproved articles "true" again. A week after cutoff they did delete all comment history, in a response to an email from me they claimed it was a mistake. Ha ha.
Thats frightening. Whats the next step?
My mom lives in Redding CA and the Record Searchlight was bought out by USA today. So, the editorial power is GONE.
Gannett is hanging on by a thread. Their coming death was really suicide.
You are in good company Bill. Steve Kirsch and A Midwestern Doctor have already made a dive into deadly and debilitating childhood vaccines and brought the horror to substack. Feel free to dive in too. I took childhood and travel vaccines up to Covid but never again. I'll stick to vitamins and suppliments. I worry about my grandkids as their parents are not so enlightened.
"Vaccine hesitancy" is increasing pretty dramatically. That might be the one silver lining of the whole pandemic.
We are hoping. Too many autistic and damaged kids.
I think the narrative that needs to be pushed (instead of anti-vaxx) is freedom of choice. My body my choice was very popular decades ago and it only applied to women. Today, it applies to everyone and is even more important.
If you refuse a vaccine the criticism is that you aren't helping reach herd immunity. To this they add the "and some people who can't get the vaccine will be at risk". Covid got everyone to be fearful of how they may kill someone if they don't contribute to herd immunity. Covid vaccines could never achieve herd immunity and now it looks like they prolonged the pandemic and made it more likely for people to catch and transmit the disease.
Consider though one of the few diseases where the vaccines are effective: Small Pox, Measles and perhaps Chicken Pox. These are not diseases that mutate like Covid, Zika, Dengue or the Flu (Positive vs Negative sense RNA viruses). These effective vaccines are what people refer to when they demand that you stop thinking for yourself and do what is best for society. Even with these effective vaccines, if you chose not to get vaccinated, it is only you that will get sick, not the vaccinated. When thinking about the fragile person who can't get the vaccine that you are now putting at risk by not violating your free will, the answer should be to isolate them from society while the pandemic blows through and the risk goes away. This is what we do with our elderly to protect them while the healthy deal with themselves.
With Covid, they did what the WHO 2019 pandemic playbook says not to ever do; vaccinate during a pandemic - especially with an ineffective vaccine. It only creates variants and prolongs the existence of the risk.
In other words: They knew better and did the opposite anyway. Every opportunity they took a 6 month pandemic and made it 4 years while putting the most vulnerable at risk. They killed millions with their ineffective treatments and called it helping.
VAERS now lists the deaths from vaccines in all of its recorded history as 90% from Covid vaccine. Same goes for the known side effects. Remember that VAERS requires a 'side effect' to happen within 2 weeks of vaccination or it can't be recorded. With the mRNA method, the effect is still building after the second week.
They also changed the operative meaning of a "vaccine." With the vaccines on the childhood vaccine schedule, we were told if your child got this shot, they'd never get this disease. That, I guess, seems to be true with many of these vaccines.
But it's definitely not true with the Covid non-vaccine. Nor is it true with the "flu vaccine." I keep harping on the fact the "watchdog press" never did its job on the flu "vaccines, which the press should have told everyone are not really "vaccines."
But everyone thought they were - even if they don't work - and so when they rolled out the Covid vaccines, everyone went along with the need to get them. Then again, we were told a million times the Covid vaccines were "95 percent effective." That was the Mother of All Lies. Think of how many officials and experts (and "skeptical" journalists) eagerly spread that disinformation.
Yes. Using the word ‘vaccine’ was simply a (very successful) marketing strategy, as we all know. The complicity of the CORRUPTED corporate media is undeniable. They are responsible for a lot of blame in this mess.
I used to think that a few vaccines such as smallpox, measles, and polio were ‘fine’. No longer, after researching and learning the actual truth about them. If I was having a child today, I would not let my child have any injections whatsoever. I don’t really care if anyone wants to slap a label on me, such as ‘anti-vax’ or whatever. It’s nothing more than manipulative name-calling. And I agree that it’s really about freedom of choice, bodily autonomy. Also, I don’t believe one should have to use the argument of whether a shot is ‘safe & effective’ or not. To me, it’s about not wanting to have anything injected into my body…that’s it. We should not have to explain or defend our reason why.
I am reaching the same conclusion. My point about those vaccines is that they are effective. If you get a vaccine for small pox and go into a room with the virus, you will not get it. That is not the same for the flu or Covid yet that is how the latter are being marketed.
If you aren't going to be exposed to small pox, then you have no reason to suffer the side effects of the vaccine.
MMR isn't so clear. It comes and goes and people I know know someone who has died from it (child). We also know that the side effects can cause health problems.
Polio was likely not a successful vaccine. At the time there were pesticides that caused the same paralysis as polio. They were banned at the same time the vaccine came out. Guess who got credit for elimination of paralysis?
I prefer "vaccine refusal" because we have brains LOL
people have been shouting for 100+ years but no one listened. May be they will listen now
Same. I will never willingly take another vaccine.
I’m with you Fred. I have my first grand baby due any day. My daughter trusts that doctors wouldn’t suggest something that would harm someone. I pray every day that something wakes her up to what is happening and how harmful the jab and some of the more recent vaccines are. I want her, her husband and my granddaughter to have happy healthy lives. I will add you to my prayers tonight. God Bless You.
About half of the commercials I see on TV are now paid for by Big Pharma. Some are vaccine commercials and others are for medicines that are necessited by other ailments or vaccines the previous medicines probably caused.
It must be mind-boggling how much $ this industry is making from legalized drug-pushing.
starting with that K for newborns. Let her read that first.
I don’t mind the K, although prefer the oral drops (the very rare brain bleeds can be catastrophic), but absolute NO to the HepB (and they’ve been given against parents wishes in some circumstances). Zero risk of HepB vs tiny risk of SIDS. Enough said. Haven’t read “Turtles All The Way Down,” but comes highly recommended.
K1 seems to be something of a serious poison, Tony-s microscopy recently published an article on it. K2 is the one you want. But I cannot take that either, I took it for a few days and did not feel well with it. (it was K2 D3 combined)
here is the articlehttps://amuro.substack.com/
Link didn’t work, but I’d be interested. I assume you’re referring to supplements, since as a naturally occurring fat soluble vitamin, K has many beneficial effects in the body.
https://amuro.substack.com/p/vitamin-k1-foreign-objects-phase
see if this works. I am referring to the vit K1 injection all babies get when born in hospital.
No to hepB . Definitely.
Lala- It’s that second sentence of your post that is the problem. She needs to get over that hump of trusting the doctor.
SIDS is on many (if not all) childhood vaccine package inserts as an adverse event, and the rate is NOT decreasing.
“The observation that the increase in the rates of non-SIDS causes of sudden unexpected infant death could account for >90% of the drop in the SIDS rates suggests that a change in classification may be occurring.”
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/115/5/1247/67529/Changes-in-the-Classification-of-Sudden-Unexpected?redirectedFrom=fulltext
The major issue I have with DeSantis is that it was stupid to even enter the race with the circumstances currently in play. If he can't see this, I have to question his judgement about other stuff. Yes, he was great about covid -- but he could be great about covid as governor of Florida.
All that said, it's true that we have to be willing to say stuff that people don't want to hear. Anything else is just public relations, as somebody smart once said.......
I think DeSantis picked up on the key issue - totalitarian over-reach based on bogus science. That's going to continue ... unless a president tries to stop it. A governor can't stop it. My two possible presidential choices have long been RFK, Jr. or DeSantis because they think like me on what I think is the biggest and most important issue.
DeSantis was probably shot out of the saddle before the race even started because of his unacceptable views on Covid issues.
I also think the Powers that Be really feared his campaign more than they did Trump's. I think somehow they know Trump isn't going to be elected ... or they think DeSantis could have beat "Joe Biden" but Trump can't?
I don't know. The way that wind gauge on DeSantis changed so fast is kind of eery to me.
It will be interesting to see how many of my readers defend DeSantis. If they do, they are going against the Narrative and will probably face big blowback.
Also, "The Narrative has Already Spoken." DeSantis is toast. Once a Narrative is this entrenched, you can't change it in a couple of months.
RFK may be on target on covid but how about climate, gun control and abortion?
I too like DeSantis but believe we need someone in the WH who must drain the swamp to protect himself and his family and there is only one who has that personal motivation.
Great points, Crusader.
No matter how 'good' DeSantis is, he's going up against an ex-president who drastically increased his vote in 2020 and 'lost' under incredibly dubious circumstances. He never had a chance in the primary -- the way that he immediately went underwater when he actually jumped in the race proves it. (Attacking Trump supporters was a stupid, stupid idea.)
Regarding the media, I don't think the wind ever changed -- they hated DeSantis during covid, and they hate him now. If Trump weren't running, they would spend more time hating him -- just like they hated Romney and McCain.
I said long ago that the best-case scenario is that DeSantis and Trump focus on election integrity and leave the bickering to the middle schoolers, but neither of them could manage it for even a day or two.
If "Joe Biden" wins in 2024 - like I have actually predicted he will - surely half the country will know that there is no "election integrity."
Heck, if Trump wins the Left is going to tell us again that the Russians stole another election so they won't believe "election integrity" exists either.
One way or another, half the country is going to be irate and questioning election integrity. That's one reason I think we're going to start hearing the S-word a lot more in the future.
This is why the GOP should have spent the last 3 years vigorously defending election integrity -- now more evidence of cheating is coming out (even in 'irrelevant' races), but it's too late for the 2024 election.
"One way or another, half the country is going to be irate and questioning election integrity."
One might almost think that's the plan.......
We keep listing never-exposed scandals or taboo topics off limits to real investigations. Election integrity is the Mother of All Scandals as it makes possible the continuation of all the other crimes and frauds.
If one starts with the premise that they are dead set on rolling out more Climate Change BS ... and digital currency .... and more mRNA vaccines and more whatever from the WEF and Bill Gates' playbook ... it would seem to follow that they'd HAVE to have a mechanism in place to ensure their president is "elected." If they didn't have this mechanism, all or most of their plans could go ... poof.
Are they really this crooked and corrupt ... and determined ... and this brazen? Ah, yes.
When I write that "every important organization is now captured," I'm not writing this sentence to get more story clicks or because it sounds cool or provocative. I'm writing this because I believe it with every fibre in my body and every cell in my brain.
I also think this: A lot of people and organizations went to a lot of trouble over decades to get all these key organizations completely captured. Why would they do such a thing? Why would this be so important to them?
Maybe some of the world's true rulers just want to stay in power and make more money a little longer. But I think the key people behind the curtain did this because they want to accomplish certain things. What are those things? Digital currency, (banning cash), bugs in our meat, social credit scores, WHO treaties, Saving the Climate (which they know is a ruse), more mRNA vaccines to make sure Big Pharma continues to rule the world, protecting the MIC, maybe population control, world government and socialism/communism?
But to do all this stuff or any of this stuff, they have to have the executive branch under their control.
This tells me they have to also have come up with some pretty sure method of winning presidential elections. I also think they have the U.S. Supreme Court, but would like a few more safe votes in that body, which they'll get when "Joe Biden" is re-elected.
They've got Congress. They've got the FBI and CIA and DOJ. They've got the major companies and the media.
This coming presidential election will be the most important in U.S. history IMO. "They" already removed the variable of DeSantis out of the calculus. He's not a threat to their plans any more. I think they also have a plan for disposing Trump. RFK, Jr. is a wild card, but I don't think they are worried too much about him.
They are so close to getting all their chess pieces just where they want them that they can taste it.
Interesting times to be alive.
He is going against an ex-president that failed on many levels and has not a nice character. To re-elect Trump, only because he mihgt be better than Biden, is madness I feel sorry for you Americans with the current choices you have. You deserve better. All polritical party systems are around the world are corrupted by now and the candidates that are "selected" are a joke. But America tops the lot. Sorry to say. Kennedy is by far the best choice you have - this man has some integrity at least.
This is exactly the kind of mealy-mouthed objection that's ultimately irrelevant.
Trump got nearly 75 million votes. For DeSantis to win in the primary, he has to convince a LARGE section of those people to abandon Trump -- and then he went about that task by attacking them and calling them cultists.
If a politician cannot see this obvious political truth, I have to wonder why he's actually running. Chris Christie doesn't think he's going to actually be president -- he's just there to attack Trump. Is DeSantis in the race for the same reason?
Regardless, DeSantis has taken the most promising GOP career in recent memory and completely shattered it -- for nothing.
Here's my take on DeSantis. First of all...we all like him, right? He's governed Florida as a rock ribbed Republican, He's been great. But most likely, the big money Doners and the RNC (who all hate Trump) needed to position a favored candidate to run in 2024....since it was assumed that Trump would be buried in indictments and likely even be in jail. But, hahahaha....Trump has survived even that! He's as strong as ever.
But, why did DeSantis agree to step forward in the first place? Easy. They made him a real, real good offer. A book deal. A book no one will ever even read. He probably got millions. His family is now set for life. So, what does he care if it all blew up in his face? Its not even his fault. Its not his time. He can go back to being the most popular governor in the country, (luckily they changed the law so he didn't need to resign as governor to run for President). The people want Trump.
So, hahahaha.....once DeSantis drops out...who will be the preferred anti-Trump Republican candidate? Nikki Haley?? Hahahahaha.
We "all" used to like him (a lot). Now, not so much. Hope he doesn't take out his losing frustrations on us Trump supporting citizens of Florida.
You just sold DeSantis to me lol. He attacked Trump supporters and called them cultists? Finally a man talking the truth and showing integrity. Funny that you liked my comment to Bill Rice, where I was asking him not to become a journalistic whore, but support a political and capitalistical whore like Trump. A man who failed. A man who had his chance. He couldn't drain the swamp. He was outfoxed by old man Biden who he mocked endlessly. Why would you want to reelecte a president that failed miserably? Never happened before. I don't get people.
*sigh*
You still don't get it.
Is calling your political opponents cultists a good way to get them to change their minds and vote for you, or is it not?
If you're confused, ask Hillary Clinton.
Edit: And what I want matters exactly zero. This race has been decided for months and we don't even vote for months.
I have watched Trump make great strides forward on large and small key issues.
He has a mean mouth and I don't like his personality but he did a great job.
DeSantis is a smarter, wiser version of Trump but he doesn't have the backing so he is best off waiting for a future election. I don't see him settling for VP either.
Trump is the best choice and the democrats obviously agree because they are trying their darnedest to keep him from running. Now if Trump can just clean up his mouth and engage brain before using his mouth he can probably get 4 years with the presidency, congress, supreme court and possibly the senant.
You had me up to "DeSantis is a smarter, wiser version of Trump...". If he were smarter and wiser he wouldn't have sold his candidacy to the Bushes, et al. RD will never* be president of the U.S. because he was willing to turn against the President who is clearly the bases favorite candidate and for good reasons.
*will need to beg the citizens for forgiveness for his mis-alignment with the Bushes and get on board with the America First agenda as a start.
Ma Mu, RFK does seem to have integrity, but I wish he was not so in “lock-step” with Biden on everything else! He also seems to be beholden to all the climate change hysteria, and Lordy, how often do we have to say it, reparations will not help the black communities (any more than the fraudulent BLM folks)!
DeSantis is being paid (campaign support) as a supposedly viable candidate to bad mouth DJT. Hasn't worked and won't work. Poor Ron got screwed but it seems he might just deserve it.
Has Donald Trump ever "bad-mouthed" Ron DeSantis?
What if DeSantis sincerely believes DJT botched the Covid response and listened to all the wrong advisers? Can he say this or would that be considered "bad-mouthing" Donald Trump?
My main point is that the current "operative narrative" among Republicans is that you CANNOT "bad mouth" Donald Trump.
Yeah, you really shouldn't bad mouth the most popular Republican candidate since Reagan if you are interested in serving the American people as a Republican. Not to mention bad mouthing the guy who saved your first Governor run. Seems a bit disingenuous to me.
Probably not, but if you did this it would require courage - which IMO is one of the qualities we need in our "leaders." Donald Trump wasn't courageous enough to fire Fauci and Birx and he repeatedly bad-mouthed DeSantis for not following the lockdown protocols Trump endorsed.
They didn't hate Romney jobbers. McCain, that was pretend.
They hated him before they loved him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/can-obama-convince-america-romney-is-a-radical-right-winger/255418/
The Ryan plan, Obama charged, is "a Trojan Horse" for proponents of an unworkable trickle-down economic theory. "Disguised as deficit-reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country," he said. "It is thinly veiled social Darwinism. It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who's willing to work for it -- a place where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the heart of the middle class." As if that weren't dire enough, he added, "it is a prescription for decline."
The question is whether Obama will be able to convince voters that Romney is, in fact, a far-right ideologue. Romney has indeed endorsed the Ryan budget, if a bit gingerly, and was campaigning with Ryan in Wisconsin even as Obama spoke. Yet much of Romney's own record and rhetoric suggests that, like Obama, his inclinations are more centrist than not; and while there are questions he ought to answer about the extent and consequences of his support for Ryan's proposals, he hasn't exactly said the government ought to rescind its aid for grandmothers and disabled children.
I don't think the PTB fear DeSantis. They fear Trump or they wouldn't have done what they did and are continuing to do to Trump. None of that is happening to DeSantis. Which leads me to believe DeSantis is within the overton window, like romney vs obama. I don't make a great habit of listening to speeches but no politician has ever said what Trump has said. Which strikes at everything the PTb in the d.c. sewer are afraid of.
Sure Bill, they don't fear Trump (sarc). And the multiple indictments are all legitimate concerns. The H. Clinton/FBI conspiracy against him that started during his 2016 campaign wasn't because the left feared some Ron DeSantis type of boy scout.
Trumps voters were happy with his first term and many more joined in 2020.
DeSantis was bankrolled by the Bushes and others in the establishment Republican party, attacked his number 1 benefactor (Trump and his supporters) and used his Governor position to try and leave the state (yes, lucky he got the law changed so he can still draw the Gov paycheck). When the Governor won't talk about his future plans while running for re-election was a red flag that turned out to be a real concern.
RD makes me wonder why he would do all the right things during the pandemic only to go against the more than obvious R presidential candidate for 2024. Money talks and bullshit walks (all the way back to Florida). Truly disappointed in RD's pettiness.
So, Donald Trump is a mean tweeting asshole. So, what. That is what President DJT does along with energy independence, secure borders, respect on the world stage, no new wars, low unemployment (for all), etc., etc.. I'll take all the wins I can get with DJT, thank you.
Where does Donald Trump now live? If DeSantis is taking orders from the Bush's (who supported all the lockdowns and vaccines) why did DeSantis come out so forcefully against the lockdowns? It seems to me he's pissing off his benefactors there. It gets very little press, but DeSantis and the surgeon general he appointed are now pushing harder than any other governor to challenge the safety and efficacy of the vaccines (admittedly, belatedly, but better late than never).
If Covid response is NOT your main issue, I understand the huge support for Trump. But if you think the Covid response (Big Brother writ large) is THE key political development of our lifetimes, voters would look for future leaders who pushed back against these draconian and civil-liberty-eviscerating responses.
My main take-away is that "Covid" is actually NOT the No. 1 issue for 90 percent of voters. So I'm in a very small minority .... which I understand (although Covid stories are still of high interest to millions of readers on Substack ... I can't figure it out.)
The whole COVID scenario is but one tool in the box for the global left. Horrendous what the government did to the citizens of the U.S. and glad RD did what he did but I can see/imagine now (based on his actions taken immediately after the election) that he likely did it to win re-election so he could parlay that into a run at the presidency knowing all along that he would be running against the immensely popular former president. Cynical, you bet but then again look who is occupying the White House and how he got there and tell me my thoughts here are wildly out of line.
My main take-away regarding DeSantis is that my very high trust level for him has dwindled to levels that match his presidential polling numbers (single digit).
They have also tried to destroy RJK Jr., and he's one of their own and part of the revered Kennedy family to boot. Dems love the Kennedys, but not RFK Jr. because he tells the truth about Covid and vaccines in general. I saw him in an interview recently where he said point blank he thinks vaccines cause autism. Wow. Finally someone who doesn't sidestep this issue. But what is the response by the Dems? Make it impossible for him to win a primary, so he has to run as an Independent. Uphill climb for him.
Being a warrior means the slings and arrows are coming your way...shields up... you will sustain injuries.
If the framers of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights we’re afraid, you wouldn’t even have had the opportunity to make the decision about what you write.
We need warriors. The choice is slavery. We have the choice because brave men and women chose Freedom at their own peril.
Stand for Freedom.
BTW ... great substack! Stay strong!
I am now proudly an anti-vaxxer and I’m thinking more and more that I’m also a flat earther (or at least not on a spinning globe going one gazillion miles per hour through the universe). I now question everything that I’ve ever learned. After living unvaxxed in Seattle working a corporate job during Covid surrounded by vaxx lovers....I know I can live through anything and I don’t care what names I’m called.
I never understood why people are so afraid of being called an "anti-vaxxer." So what? I have been called much worse in my lifetime. But then again I have never wanted to sit at the cool kids lunch table.
Tell me about it. Many of us work in an industry whereas you are relentlessly as well as highly trained to recognize and detect WILLFUL BLINDNESS and FRAUD.
We now live in a world whereas women and children have become FAIR GAME.
WARS
SEX TRAFFICKING
VACCINES
I think it is now ok to always hit SEND.
I even reveal my real name when I do it.
You are on the right track Bill. If you are worrying if people like your post or not, you turn into a journalistic whore. Write from your heart and soul and with integrity and that will always be rewarding.
Writing from Australia, from viewing the 2016 US primaries and election, augmented by the all the extra wikileaks etc material...
I got the impression that Florida had its own mafia/cabal, or at least was an annexation for a cabal that was different from the rest of the US, as a handy access point for drug running.
Looking at DeSantis in that context, I'd say he was outplayed by a more US-dominant mafia/cabal.
To understand why he was first elevated, and then flattened, it may be that the US-dominant cabal would've preferred the non-mandating of vaccines, but that it certainly had other ideas to who was going to be in the Presidential position.
On expressing antivax sentiments... I know exactly where you're coming from, although I found a strategy for saying anti-vax-type things that resisted challenge. I use Australian-govt funded research to demonstrate the case I'm making.
After years in anti-GMO scepticism I learnt the tone of the professional defamers/demonisers/propagandists. It's a black is white propaganda. All one has to do is look for the evidence of the reverse of what they're claiming. It always exists. I happened to recognise that in the vaccine world in about 2017. Media/pharma/govt were in a co-ordinated message to demonise unvaxd people as spreading a new whooping cough outbreak. It looked 'black-is-white' so I called up google scholar and searched on govt databases. It turns out the new whooping cough emerged from the vaxd population, and was doing so around the world, having mutated against one of the primary vaccine antigens. Govt websites had materials that said this themselves. I didn't suffer a lot of attack on twitter among the propagandists, and felt quite strong even though I was very new to the subject.
In short, when there's something worth saying, there'll be data to support it.
Covid was a God-send in several ways, not least of which was to show what the full mobilisation of a global weaponised media looks like. Prior to Project19 we'd never seen it dialled up to its maximum.
It was quite the thing to behold, seeing the Information War's powers. All encompassing, full spectrum saturation that reached into every crevice on the planet. And aimed squarely at the civilian population. If we didn't really understand what 5th Generation warfare was, we were treated to a front row seat.
But now, having seen it revealed in its full malevolence, I'd hope we're all a little wiser.
We've now seen how it operates.
How it targets, distorts and lies.
And lies again.
The takedown of Ron Desantis. And an even more recent example of the take down of Thomas Massie now getting underway, simply because he didn't join the Congress cattle with "Israel" branded on their flanks.
Contrary to feeling like a lone voice in the wilderness, when everyone has the courage to not self-censor, it soon overrides the reasons for doing so to begin with.
Courage is contagious. Look how quickly courage spread when people began calling out Israel, when just 3 months ago no one dared criticise that apparent sacred cow.
It starts with 1 voice, then dominoes from there, and before too long the MSM machine becomes powerless against it.
We become far safer for speaking out because we collectively overwhelm and expose the lie of the narrative.
Then it topples it completely.
These projects definitely are designed to "take down" certain people. They don't know what hit them.
“Calling someone an “anti-vaxxer” in 2023 is like calling someone a “heliocentrist” in 1633. I suppose you could but it’s a hilarious self-own. You think it’s a sick burn because you always obey authority. But the paradigm has already shifted and you are on the wrong side of history.”
— Toby Rogers
If it feels a bit scary, this means you MUST publish it, and you must do so NOW.
Thank you for this post.
Great points, as always. I am often engaged in defending my practice of saying things that outrage others. As a classic liberal who doesn’t buy any of the left’s current narrative, I’ve been left a “man without a party”, which is probably the reason I’m an RFK supporter.
I too have witnessed DeSantis’ decline with some degree of surprise. Summer of ‘22 I would have bet him to win the 2024 Presidential race with ease. I had been very impressed with his understanding (and independent research) of Covid, and by his general willingness to take on the scourge of wokeness. But I think his loss of popularity can’t entirely be placed on narrative control.
For one thing, his fight against Disney (and I was/am on his side) turned somehow ugly. I can’t explain when exactly it happened, but he went from ‘brave protector of children from overdone wokeness’ to ‘crazy zealot who wants to get rid of Disneyworld.’ It’s a difference that is hard for me to describe perfectly, but I’m pretty sure that something did change there, and that others felt it as well.
I think his other big liability comes from his position on abortion. As a disclaimer, I have mixed feelings on abortion and don’t feel personally-invested in the issue. I completely understand the passion of those who feel strongly on either side of the issue, and could argue either side of it. But a number of states across America seem to be saying through various state referenda that they want limitations on their abortion limitations. DeSantis, by signing the six-week bill, showed that he’s way off to one end of the spectrum. Trump, on the other hand, did appoint the judges who overruled Roe, but he never really weighed in heavily- probably because he was flipflopping from being a pro-choice New Yorker in his younger days. I think the pro-life right tolerated Trump in spite of his wishywashiness on the issue, not because of it. They got the ruling they got because of the Supreme Court nominees they wanted, and have no complaints. They’d probably prefer DeSantis on this issue but it might not be enough to make them jump over to him. But people like the Republicans in Kansas who voted for the abortion referendum... they would probably be equally happy with Trump or DeSantis, but I think they’re getting the same sense that maybe he’s a bit too much of a crusader, and it’s spooking them. This sort of hard stance on what a lot of them don’t see as the main issue is pushing them back towards Trump, whose crusade- that the Democratic Party and indeed Washington itself is a corrupt and overreaching enterprise that has to be uprooted- has a far more wide-ranging appeal to most of those who feel left behind.
Anyway, just my two cents.
Keep up the good work!
If anyone calls us an anti-vaxxer for questioning the Covid shots....just ask them if they've got the latest booster...if they say no ...then they are just as anti-vax as any of us.
I asked my state's leading sports columnist this question in an email exchange. He didn't give me an answer. This is the same columnist who castigated everyone for not getting their Covid vaccines. I particularly remember one or two columns where he attacked Auburn's former coach for not publicly disclosing if he was vaccinated or not. As a "public figure," the coach should have set an example for everyone else in our state and at least answered this question, this columnist insisted.
I pointed out to this columnist (Joe Goodman of al.com) that he himself is a "public figure" in our state. Why won't he reveal if he got all his extra boosters?
The hypocrisy never ends.
Maybe he lost track of all the boosters. It could be up to 6 or 7 by now.....
Your comments certainly apply to the medical profession who were threatened with erasure from the medical register and losing their jobs. I find it very sad that my profession abandoned the precautionary principle and failed to question the authorised narrative. “First do no harm” and “making the patient your first concern” were no longer the guiding principles. Only those who had retired from practice could semi -safely speak out, but even so were obliged to self censor in the way that you describe for fear of the consequences of doing so.
The turning point for many was vaccine mandates, when we knew that the vaccine neither prevented infection nor transmission of the virus, and vaccination of children and young adults, when we knew them to be at minuscule personal risk and no threat to others. For me this was when speaking up became an absolute obligation.
Those should have been the "turning points" for far more people.
Absolutely I couldn’t agree more.
The Fall of Minneapolis documentary is an example of something that I shared with, ironically, family and friends from Minneapolis... and “crickets”. Nobody cares.
https://alphanews.org/alpha-news-documentary-the-fall-of-minneapolis-out-now/
Re: RDS: Becoming a "public servant" on the bigger stage requires you to relinquish image control to professional groomers. Except Trump.
DeSantis lost his shiny self-determination as Florida's savior when he stepped into the primary field. Pride? Maybe. His family (personal and state) really needed him to continue to position FL as a powerful harbinger of woke-cancellation and common sense sanctuary. That he Could Have Been VP in an unbeatable ticket and played the winning "game" is speculation but he can't BE anyone but himself.
I'm watching from VA, where Gov Youngkin chomps at the MAGA succession bit.
Bill, your instincts are good, being right is always better than being safe.
Lonely, but powerful.
Re: CFP, for some unknown reason my comments on the OT have disappeared after I hit send/post/enter. (FYI my browser, settings or tattoo status are not to blame.) I struck a nerve on some critical comment I guess, & my status is persona non grata. So, there are Signs to self censor everywhere.
Re: ZeroHedge, numerous rabid anti-Semitics live (still? IDK) in the comment universe there, so I just don't engage with likely hate bots live or automated.
Free speech is precious. My time is preciouser. ;)