Have been very disappointed in Mr King who, it turns out, never really believed that his government could be capable of such evils, unless of course it was led by Donald Trump, then of course it IS evil personified. But only President Trump. Everyone else is fine, great folks only care about the little guys. That the man who wrote The Stand could believe that Fauci is a saint boggles the mind. What has happened to that lost generation, the hippies of the 60’s who hated the government and everything it stood for? That they now firmly believe everything the government says is astonishing. And depressing. I pray to be a little wiser in my upcoming dotage.
Thanks. I share your disappointment in King, which is why I mentioned him in this piece. Who would the real monsters most likely be? I think Serling would have known this.
I've read pretty credible info which says King is part of deep state - when you think about it, it makes a lot of sense and may well be the reason why he thinks Fauci is a saint (he's probably the worst of all genocidal murderers in history) and why he hates ONLY Trump. He did deal in a lot of very dark stuff in his novels IMO, which is why I quit reading him years ago. btw, Bill, we discussed possibility of me working with you a while back. Sorry I didn't get back to you. We moved - actually I did all the work as my elderly husband became quite ill and couldn't walk so all my time has been spent caring for him, doing all the housework, cooking, moving in, etc. and now I have some health problems. Nothing fatal, just very tired and very busy with a bad case of depression. I've been watching this movie since 1981 and am at my wit's end quite honestly. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner but it's been really crazy from Aug. until last week. Hope you had a good Christmas. From what I"ve read it does look like white hats are winning and are close to victory. Let's hope.
Thanks Bill. Husband's health is deteroriating and his memory is going so I don't expect I'll have much time to help you out at this point; however, I do see a number of clues that we are near the end of this tribulation and white hats are winning. So, there's that.
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Thank you Julie, much appreciated. Yes, many of us are boomers - we grew up in a much freer time and remember what freedom was like. Some younger folks have no idea what our lives were like and what we think about things - many of us went to lots of protests to protect our freedoms. Most of us knew early on the govt was corrupt; Vietnam war was a huge clue for one. I've known lots of Vietnam vets, every single one has horror stories about our govt. So yes, we feel we need to help clean up the mess deep state has created - it's our last gift to America, at least for me. I'm an old lady, if they kill me or imprison me, I won't last long and I'm at end of my life anyway - also we're retired and have time to do research. Thank you for knowing & understanding this!!
Ditto. I think I have just about every book he has written, including the Bachman books. A majority in hardcover. Even have audio forms of some of them.
'Giving up' BudLight was a no-brainer, never touched the stuff anyway. Pretty much the same for Target. Disney was more challenging just because of the various outlets it owns, but did that too. But, admittedly, it will be a tough choice if King comes out with a new book. So disappointed in the direction he took. Wonder if his son is following suit?
As a boomer I can tell you the kids in the 60s weren't rebels in the way you might think. Anti-government, anti-war was IN. Pro-establishment narrative was uncool. It was the opposite of today. Sure there were a few principled rebels, like always. Most were as much followers then as they are now, following the easy path of thinking, or pretending to think, like their peers.
I lived the ‘60’s, was politically active as a radical left individual. Hippies were not that large a group and were generally not politically aware in any real sense. They didn’t resist, organize, or fight back. They dropped out. Politically they were irrelevant. We were aware. Of their irrelevance at the time.
What separates us from the protagonists in the Twilight Zone series is they were truly alone. We have Substack and a handful of other information exchange platforms, have begun to sort ourselves out in our day-to-day lives with others who are awake held closer than those who are not. That 15% or so not feeling completely isolated, totally alone makes a big difference. And would've made a big difference in the Twilight Zone episodes if they found just one other "sane" person in the twisted reality of the absurd they found themselves in. So there's that. For now, anyways.
Good point, Fox. We're not as alone as those TZ main characters. Still, four years in one might think our numbers would have made more of a difference in exposing the monsters. The real villains are still safe ... but maybe fewer of us have completely lost it because we realize we're not completely alone. Our numbers are actually growing ... which is a good thing.
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Thing is, our antagonists know this. They watched TZ, too. And study us as we study them. Even Substack is under their watchful, learning, adapting eyes. We can't kid ourselves that they have better things to do than read what the most intelligent minds of their opponents are saying to each other - Hi watcher!! The moment they feel like they can or must shut down information exchanges like Substack they will. And then we'll feel as isolated as the TZ characters. Unless we are building our community of like-mindeds now, in ways that are immune from their suppression of avenues of connection.
I think they are watching us on Substack ... and me too. They don't like what they are reading and definitely want to "isolate" us further ... if they can ... which, they probably can. I'm not sure things are getting "less scary."
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We must use their attention to our advantage, not be frightened of it. If we moderate our thoughts, speak fearfully they will take our self-censorship as a victory. Whereas the more of us dissenting they see the less likely they are to proceed to even harsher repression.
There's truly safety in numbers, herd immunity. If we shrink our numbers voluntarily to the point they see/believe that their final victory is in hand they will make the final brutal assault on dissenters, as a pack of lions or hyenas make their final brutal assault on the gazelle's that straggle, are isolated from the rest of the herd. We must always speak our truth, unafraid, knowing and fully accepting the consequences for speaking truth. Not desirous of the consequences, but aware that there may come a day when we are the prey in their jaws. And dissent anyways.
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And Rumble.
If it plays out like it's playing out in China it'll be a never-ending game of cat and mouse. One dissenting communications method becomes too popular sharing too much third-rail truths between too many, is shut down, culprits punished, new method rises, gains popularity providing same outlet, grows too popular, shut down. Over and over this repeats. Dissent movements keep the flame alive, but the cat-mouse is effective at making sure dissenters never grow large enough to threaten their government.
Just today I tried to post info on Twitter but was told they wouldn't post it because my info was "harmful" - they neglected to say it was harmful to deep state not the rest of us.
I don't know exactly what to think of Musk. He's improved Twitter, no doubt. But he hired some off-the-charts censorious bitch to monitor content, can't find her name or details of it with a quick search, but most readers here would be aware anyway. So WTF was that? He got insanely rich playing the same suck-up to the PTB game the other mega-billionaires play. Putting much trust in him is naive.
I don’t think Substack is going to survive 2024. It will be EO’d into oblivion, or it will be swamped with AI bots, or AI will rewrite everything to conform or make it obvious jibber jabber. Imagine posting something, then reading it an hour later only to find that it now makes no sense. How much more time would you spend writing? I think every form of electronic information that does not conform to the narrative will be eliminated. For public safety. They are attempting every possible thing to prevent Trump from being fraudulently “beaten” by the USG in an election. So far, it is not working, and he is not quitting. I don’t think they want to JFK him but time is running out. My guess is that Martial Law will be declared due to some fake cyber or paramilitary “attack”, (either one actually organized and run by USG) or they will release a more effective bioweapon. Maybe they’ll use Bruce’s Anthrax. Something to lock everyone in their houses, and take away all of their money.
Some of that may be true. But I will choose to not give that level of dystopian detail the power of my mind, my thoughts, that future will not originate as a manifestation of those fears. We remain aware of the forces that are all around us. But we needn't unnecessarily strengthen them with the collective energies of our ideas and words. We watch, observe them, problem solve around their obstacles as we become aware of them being erected in our way.
They aren’t for long. This mercury retrograde has been a doozy…….just wait another week and come back to this post on the 2nd of January. Much more is about to be revealed, and the truth shall set us free.
I just wish I had one physically proximate. So hard to watch what one says all the time.....with all the hideous news about the jabs coming out, and beyond that, realizing that the country you thought you lived in hasn't been real for over 50 years....its a bitter pill. And most of all, what is to come and what to do.
But I totally loved the Twighlight Zone comparison. That is really what it feels like...every day.
Yep. Burn RMN and HK in effigy. Not only did "the silent majority" buy into it, but the Neocons exacerbated it! (As do the stoners, HDTV watchers, and other "normies".)
I have been saying for years this is like living in the Twilight Zone. It was extremely depressing watching stores close for forever. My local Toysrus building became a medical facility which I am sure injects unknown substances from criminal companies with no liability into babies arms and legs all the while saying there are too mamy people in the world. But please don't ask questions though. The thought police will get you.
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"Rod Serling didn’t tell us how to get out of The Twilight Zone." The answer is knowing and speaking out the truth. Truth sheds light to dispel darkness--darkness is where The Zone wins. The mouth is connected to our inner man and must speak out the truth to keep us from letting the lies of The Zone drive us towards disconnection from reality or to demoralization. Thank you and many others who are writing and exposing the truth. The second way to escape The Zone is understanding the realities that the world's peoples are entrenched in a cosmic war against Satan and his minions and our sin; and the only way of escape from them is thru God's Son Jesus Christ--hence the good news of his birth and declaring of the angels: "Peace on Earth to those whom God is pleased." Merry Christmas.
Without the knowledge that God is ultimately in control and that He has provided salvation through Jesus Christ, it would be very depressing and hopeless! I do pray that those who do not know this will come to a revelation of the Truth. It's
The vax thing was like a cult. I still have the text from a friend telling me excitedly he had got his shot and asking if I had got mine yet. Within 6 months he was hospitalized, intubated and dead. Sad what they have done to us. Maybe some people are waking up.
Bill, another interesting parallel media epic is the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original). In the end, the man was driving himself to desperation and fear from what he had experienced (everyone he knew was taken over by alien entities), but he snapped back to reality when he found others who were willing to believe his story.
Sorry. The original movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," did come out in black and white in the 1950s. Yes, there was a horrible remake much later. If you say 1994, I'll believe you, as I have no compunction to look it up. I saw part of both of them, I wasn't interested. From what I saw, the black and white one was better. I saw it as a child in the 60s, on the late night Saturday horror movie show with Sammy Terry, on Indianapolis Channel 4. (WTTV) That's not the 90s, either.
You may call me a liar, too, if you like, but you're outnumbered.
I think that this is one of your most important and prescient 'stacks that you have written! It captures the thoughts and feelings that I have had since "two weeks to flatten the curve" was first uttered. Twilight Zone, Stephan King (spot on!), screaming into a Deep Blue State void while seemingly everyone is nodding their heads for more . . . eyes wide awake in a Matrix-like nightmare of NPCs.
Thanks, M G. This is one of those articles I wanted to get on the record. If I'm going to continue to be in this zone, I want to at least write about it.
that's great advice but i can say to you that at 75 it's not that easy. nothing works as well at that age. i'm stuck in mid-michiganistan and would love to scoot but i'm alone and on my own. respects.
Husband is 78 and I'm 69, both moved to red state in the South 2 yrs ago. It's really hard making friends at our age so we're very lonely. Don't know what to tell you but yes it's very difficult at our age to move. Hope things get better soon for you, sir.
I'm sorry. Obviously, I didn't know. Indiana isn't far, but isn't really red either. I'm kinda in the same boat as you and want to move farther South to a redder state. I'll probably just end up homeless.
I did; but I'm still at the end of my rope. Even the red staters don't know half of what's going on, though they do have the big picture for the most part but there's still lefties who have NO idea what's going on and get really, really angry if you say anything that isn't according to their belief system.
Although I can only remember two episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, my favorite was titled "The Midnight Sun," and played 17 November 1961. It's all about "Global Boiling" and "The Climate Crisis" (or maybe "Catastrophe") and provided Margaret Thatcher a great story line to break a coal-miners' strike in the 1980s. It also has a surprise ending!
Earlier today I was thinking about all the propaganda used to condition people (especially children) that I have witnessed over the years. I remember certain children in second grade who told me that their church offered "the only true religion." The military (from which I was fortunate not to get involved) teaches people to murder other people - and the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce brings this to light better than almost anything else I have read.
As we witness the genocide of thousands of people in Gaza, and see our United States supporting this atrocity, I realize how totally indoctrinated some people are to support such a tragedy.
Back on the Ides of March of 2020, our whole world seemed to turn upside down due to some "virus." At the time I did not know what to think, but I came up with my own interpretation: on one side, this was a deadly pathogen that required extraordinary measures to protect people; on the other side the whole thing was a scam and a fraud - and the truth lay somewhere between these two extremes. As time went on, the scam and fraud seemed more and more likely.
One episode that stands out to me is from Season 2 - it's about a little boy who has evil powers. If everyone in his house and town doesn't keep him happy, he kills them or turns them into some kind of monster. People are constantly on pens and needles trying to keep a mad, juvenile happy ... because they know what will happen if they don't. Sound familiar?
Everyone also knows they have to keep the boy happy and that he is evil, but they can't stand up to him. They can't win either way.
Some people say, "Just let it go. It's all in the past now." I'm not in that group. These people are still in control and still in charge. They aren't done yet. The scary episodes are still occurring.
This is by NO means in the past. Not by a long shot - it won't be until the entire truth comes out and people quit dying and getting sick from the clot shot.
Well. I guess I was wrong to refuse an experimental drug with zero long term data as to efficacy or side effects. If Travis Kelce now says to take two vaccines at the same time, then who an I ti disagree. What do I know? After all, Taylor Swift......
"Get two shots for one" is proof that we're still in this surreal episode of The Twilight Zone. When such commercials can no longer be made, we might be "in the clear."
"2 for 1" is definitely proof that we're still "in the zone".
However, if we've learned anything during the last 4 years it is that we will never be completely "in the clear". This is not a "negative" point for view, though. It is simply a recognition that freedom must be defended by every generation ~ and we are only 2 generations away from complete illiteracy.
My heart hurts for both of you. That's insanity on steroids. Wish I knew what to tell you - except he needs to quit going there, they're only making it worse. I think those of us who know what's really going on are about at the end of our rope, I know I am. Sending you a huge hug, dear.
i was at the va 2 weeks ago and they're becoming the long arm of the donk party. i need to run away from them before i end up in another episode of the twilight zone. at the saginaw, mi va facility you need a covid test just to get your teeth cleaned.
You might have read this from me already as I’ve told it many times on numerous threads. When I was 16 years old in the summer of 1967 while visiting New York with my mom, I walked into a hotel elevator and there stood Rod Serling who looked like he was expecting me. Together the two of us took a ride down 40 stories. Never being a bashful kid I asked him point blank if the Twilight Zone really exists. He looked at me with a grin, took a drag off his cigarette (in those days people used to smoke everywhere including elevators) and said “yes sonny, indeed it’s real!” It never really impacted me until 2020 when it became so obvious that I’m living in the fifth dimension.
Now factor in the willfully ignorant, and arrogant Covidians ready to turn in and berate the " covid deniers in their own neighborhoods and even in their families and we will have a 1930s Nazi Germany situation.
.... shhh - just close your eyes and look back on your life - remember the sweetness of not knowing any of it - that's it - that's your happy place. There - see how far you've come - see how far weve all come. Didn't work? Sorry you've been red-pilled... there is no going back - you're in the fight now... or you die.
John: that article is one of the most well-sourced articles I've seen in years. Very well done, kudos! I remember the 1960s and the chaos of it and my parents trying to make sense of what was going on.
As a side note, I know for a fact that D O J has been compromised since 1981 and probably before. I know this because my dad, a very honest and patriotic good man, was threatened by D O J that year. He was born in 1920 and came from absolutely nothing, worked hard since he was 6 y.o. ran his own public relations business, became a mustang admiral in navy after being in WW2 and worked with Ronald Reagan when he was gov of CA. In 1980 he was one of Reagan's top advisors in campaign for president. After he became top advisor to Ed Meese, Reagan's top advisor. After a year of serving in that capacity, D O J came to him and told him he had to quit or they would completely ruin him in every single newspaper in America. Funny thing is that my dad had been a journalist at one time and knew every editor of every major paper in the U.S. - but still the deep state is so powerful and was even then, that they could threatened and scare even good people into going along with them. My dad was forced to quit - it was probably the lowest point of his entire life. He totally believed in Reagan and thought he could do some good and give back to his country. I have a picture of him with Pres. Reagan and Ed Meese - it still hurts for me to look at it. They had nothing on my dad but it didn't matter, they can make things up - one of their tactics is to get their targeted person drunk until they pass out or put something in their drink, then put a child next to them and make it look like a sex scandal. My guess is D O J crime goes back to at least JFK.
Great story about your father I loved Reagan as I had the pleasure to work on the protective details of his two adult children Maureen and Michael. I am with you 100% just finishing up my last sub stack on exposing there plan to destroy America on how devious this plan is and on the dire consequences of the 2024 election tyranny or freedom as Jefferson said the public gets the government they deserve. Thanks for the kind comments
I'd characterize JFK's assassination as the moment the powerful baddies who had been pulling strings in the background for a long, long time felt safe enough to show their hands. Knowing they could get away with it without consequences. And able to dial up Vietnam, escalate it, and distract the population from seriously investigating them as war always distracts. DOJ has been dirty from inception. That whole national police constitutional prohibition was there for a reason. It exists anyways using linguistics to avoid meeting the prohibited definition.
12,000 "likes" for you! Agree totally. I'm old enough to vividly remember the day JFK was shot, a very, very sad day and I agree about the baddies pulling strings in the background before that. There is an excellent book, extremely well-sourced using many govt. docs by Dr. Michael Salla "JFK's Last Stand" - has info I never knew about and also tells us the main reason he was shot. He wanted to expose the biggest thing they were hiding, which was the truth about UFOs. I highly recommend everyone read it. If you want to know more about the truth of UFO's read the next book in the series, "Antarctica's Hidden History" another very well-sourced book. Americans need to know our REAL history.
I played in several football games at Troy with a visiting team back in the mid 70s. Was always a good game experience at the Div. 2 level way back when.
You might have played against Troy teams coached by Charlie Bradshaw. Coach Bradshaw coached Troy from 1976-1982. He had some very good Division II teams. His son, Charles, was my best friend. Because of this, I got to be a water boy and watch many of those games from the sidelines as a 11 to 12-year-old boy. They might have been Division II athletes, but they could play! I can remember some hits that made me think, "Remind me to never play college football."
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Cool. I'm considered the world record holder in fake-punts. Dual school record holder in the 110M HH, and JC National Qualifier at 19yo at Moorprak College, CA. Four of the fake punts made the newspaper and two made the LA Times. This is the 64 yard fake-punt pass from the Punter/QB for a Jamal Anderson TD at Moorpark vs Ventura that made the LA Times, and a video re-appeared of the play after 25 years found on Jamal's dad's camera. Showing the Punter, #13, me, making the block on the Punt Returner, allowing Jamal to score the TD. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hu36L69Ey6I -- I played D2 at Cal Poly SLO, after being the P/QB for Jamal Anderson at Moorpark JC 1990-91, P/QB for Westlake HS before that. Later, played Semi-Pro for 4 years and tried out with all the NFL teams at camps, the CFL, XFL, UFL and Preditors with Jay Gruden four times and others up to 41yo. Here's one of the tryouts with the Calgary Stampeders. There, they witnessed 60MPH passes, with perfect accuracy, and 5.6+ hang time punts, 20/20 fair catches, all at 40+ yo. But, Jay Gruden basically said "They're are not looking for old people"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNoUPXXsDm4
With all the changes in college sports, I worry about the little programs even surviving. They say NIL and transfers are "helping athletes" but I think the "Law of Opposite Effects" is kicking in again. These changes will end up taking away opportunities for far more student athletes that the few who are helped at the "Blue Blood" rich programs.
74-75.....Perry Griggs, Mark King I remember. Don’t remember who was coaching. I think 1974 we played there for Troy Homecoming. Good crowd. Great D2 atmosphere back then.
I remember both of them. Perry Griggs was an all-time great for Troy. He played right before Coach Bradshaw came.
Coach Bradshaw had previously been head coach at Kentucky. Before that he was an assistant at Alabama for Coach Bryant. He actually was my late father's offensive line coach at Bama 1958-1961. That's the family connection to the Bradshaws.
BTW, Mrs. Bradshaw was the best friend of Coach Bryant's wife, Mary Harmon .... who grew up in ... Troy, Alabama!
Wow Bill, I never knew your dad played for the Bear at Bama. I grew up in Waycross GA (not too far from Troy) where I began cheering for the Dawgs right around that time. Did he ever discuss the famous scandal where Georgia coach Wallace Butts was recorded revealing team secrets before their match? While it seems fairly benign in this era, back then it was a big story and the penalty was the cessation of the ancient rivalry where the two schools used to play their first game every year.
Speaking of the rivalry and its significance nowadays, what’s your take on how to determine a college football championship? I’ve been saying for years that they ought to have a playoff system similar to March Madness. Just use all these bowl games as the venues with perhaps 16 teams competing. Like most people I rarely watch most of them because they’re meaningless, especially when you have two games (FSU-UGA and OHIO St) where these teams are championship quality.
I had a roommate who had been a high school QB recruited by a Div. 1 school at that position. He was injured in summer drills, never played a game. We'd toss the ball around in the back yard, park. My hands lost skin and were bruised every time, he had a rocket arm. Instant understanding of the caliber of athlete who plays ball.
Have been very disappointed in Mr King who, it turns out, never really believed that his government could be capable of such evils, unless of course it was led by Donald Trump, then of course it IS evil personified. But only President Trump. Everyone else is fine, great folks only care about the little guys. That the man who wrote The Stand could believe that Fauci is a saint boggles the mind. What has happened to that lost generation, the hippies of the 60’s who hated the government and everything it stood for? That they now firmly believe everything the government says is astonishing. And depressing. I pray to be a little wiser in my upcoming dotage.
Thanks. I share your disappointment in King, which is why I mentioned him in this piece. Who would the real monsters most likely be? I think Serling would have known this.
I've read pretty credible info which says King is part of deep state - when you think about it, it makes a lot of sense and may well be the reason why he thinks Fauci is a saint (he's probably the worst of all genocidal murderers in history) and why he hates ONLY Trump. He did deal in a lot of very dark stuff in his novels IMO, which is why I quit reading him years ago. btw, Bill, we discussed possibility of me working with you a while back. Sorry I didn't get back to you. We moved - actually I did all the work as my elderly husband became quite ill and couldn't walk so all my time has been spent caring for him, doing all the housework, cooking, moving in, etc. and now I have some health problems. Nothing fatal, just very tired and very busy with a bad case of depression. I've been watching this movie since 1981 and am at my wit's end quite honestly. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner but it's been really crazy from Aug. until last week. Hope you had a good Christmas. From what I"ve read it does look like white hats are winning and are close to victory. Let's hope.
Sorry to hear of your tough times. Good luck. Hang tough.
Thanks Bill. Husband's health is deteroriating and his memory is going so I don't expect I'll have much time to help you out at this point; however, I do see a number of clues that we are near the end of this tribulation and white hats are winning. So, there's that.
Don't worry about me. Take care of your husband! Thinking about you.
Thank you, Bill - that means a lot to me. Same to you. ❤ ❤ 🙏🙏
God Bless You and Your husband.
Oh my how it seems most of the white hats are boomer’s with so many burdens! Praying for you
Thank you Julie, much appreciated. Yes, many of us are boomers - we grew up in a much freer time and remember what freedom was like. Some younger folks have no idea what our lives were like and what we think about things - many of us went to lots of protests to protect our freedoms. Most of us knew early on the govt was corrupt; Vietnam war was a huge clue for one. I've known lots of Vietnam vets, every single one has horror stories about our govt. So yes, we feel we need to help clean up the mess deep state has created - it's our last gift to America, at least for me. I'm an old lady, if they kill me or imprison me, I won't last long and I'm at end of my life anyway - also we're retired and have time to do research. Thank you for knowing & understanding this!!
Ditto. I think I have just about every book he has written, including the Bachman books. A majority in hardcover. Even have audio forms of some of them.
'Giving up' BudLight was a no-brainer, never touched the stuff anyway. Pretty much the same for Target. Disney was more challenging just because of the various outlets it owns, but did that too. But, admittedly, it will be a tough choice if King comes out with a new book. So disappointed in the direction he took. Wonder if his son is following suit?
Since he took the covid death shots, we can assume he has prions in his brain.
Marijuana and HDTV make people believe the consensus.
For me disappointed is an understatement. I was devastated when I first found out. I'm over it, a little bit, now.
As a boomer I can tell you the kids in the 60s weren't rebels in the way you might think. Anti-government, anti-war was IN. Pro-establishment narrative was uncool. It was the opposite of today. Sure there were a few principled rebels, like always. Most were as much followers then as they are now, following the easy path of thinking, or pretending to think, like their peers.
I lived the ‘60’s, was politically active as a radical left individual. Hippies were not that large a group and were generally not politically aware in any real sense. They didn’t resist, organize, or fight back. They dropped out. Politically they were irrelevant. We were aware. Of their irrelevance at the time.
What separates us from the protagonists in the Twilight Zone series is they were truly alone. We have Substack and a handful of other information exchange platforms, have begun to sort ourselves out in our day-to-day lives with others who are awake held closer than those who are not. That 15% or so not feeling completely isolated, totally alone makes a big difference. And would've made a big difference in the Twilight Zone episodes if they found just one other "sane" person in the twisted reality of the absurd they found themselves in. So there's that. For now, anyways.
Good point, Fox. We're not as alone as those TZ main characters. Still, four years in one might think our numbers would have made more of a difference in exposing the monsters. The real villains are still safe ... but maybe fewer of us have completely lost it because we realize we're not completely alone. Our numbers are actually growing ... which is a good thing.
Thing is, our antagonists know this. They watched TZ, too. And study us as we study them. Even Substack is under their watchful, learning, adapting eyes. We can't kid ourselves that they have better things to do than read what the most intelligent minds of their opponents are saying to each other - Hi watcher!! The moment they feel like they can or must shut down information exchanges like Substack they will. And then we'll feel as isolated as the TZ characters. Unless we are building our community of like-mindeds now, in ways that are immune from their suppression of avenues of connection.
I think they are watching us on Substack ... and me too. They don't like what they are reading and definitely want to "isolate" us further ... if they can ... which, they probably can. I'm not sure things are getting "less scary."
We must use their attention to our advantage, not be frightened of it. If we moderate our thoughts, speak fearfully they will take our self-censorship as a victory. Whereas the more of us dissenting they see the less likely they are to proceed to even harsher repression.
There's truly safety in numbers, herd immunity. If we shrink our numbers voluntarily to the point they see/believe that their final victory is in hand they will make the final brutal assault on dissenters, as a pack of lions or hyenas make their final brutal assault on the gazelle's that straggle, are isolated from the rest of the herd. We must always speak our truth, unafraid, knowing and fully accepting the consequences for speaking truth. Not desirous of the consequences, but aware that there may come a day when we are the prey in their jaws. And dissent anyways.
I believe I’m toast already, so I’m just going to keep going.
Ha! ... I think that's me too.
When going through hell, keep on going!
Me too!
Igor Chudov's Substack is being targeted by NewsGuard (DoD's baby).
https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/this-blog-will-be-censored-by-newsguard
Peter McCullough recently said he thought X and Substack would both be going down:
> https://workflowy.com/s/beyond-covid-19/SoQPdY75WJteLUYx#/def13dd427ee
And Rumble.
If it plays out like it's playing out in China it'll be a never-ending game of cat and mouse. One dissenting communications method becomes too popular sharing too much third-rail truths between too many, is shut down, culprits punished, new method rises, gains popularity providing same outlet, grows too popular, shut down. Over and over this repeats. Dissent movements keep the flame alive, but the cat-mouse is effective at making sure dissenters never grow large enough to threaten their government.
The EU is going after X very hard.
Just today I tried to post info on Twitter but was told they wouldn't post it because my info was "harmful" - they neglected to say it was harmful to deep state not the rest of us.
I was bounced off of X because they said I kept violating their policies.
But, when I appealed, and inquired what policies I violated, I was not given an answer.
That's straight out of Communist Manifesto - take away someone's right but don't tell them why.
I don't know exactly what to think of Musk. He's improved Twitter, no doubt. But he hired some off-the-charts censorious bitch to monitor content, can't find her name or details of it with a quick search, but most readers here would be aware anyway. So WTF was that? He got insanely rich playing the same suck-up to the PTB game the other mega-billionaires play. Putting much trust in him is naive.
I don’t think Substack is going to survive 2024. It will be EO’d into oblivion, or it will be swamped with AI bots, or AI will rewrite everything to conform or make it obvious jibber jabber. Imagine posting something, then reading it an hour later only to find that it now makes no sense. How much more time would you spend writing? I think every form of electronic information that does not conform to the narrative will be eliminated. For public safety. They are attempting every possible thing to prevent Trump from being fraudulently “beaten” by the USG in an election. So far, it is not working, and he is not quitting. I don’t think they want to JFK him but time is running out. My guess is that Martial Law will be declared due to some fake cyber or paramilitary “attack”, (either one actually organized and run by USG) or they will release a more effective bioweapon. Maybe they’ll use Bruce’s Anthrax. Something to lock everyone in their houses, and take away all of their money.
Some of that may be true. But I will choose to not give that level of dystopian detail the power of my mind, my thoughts, that future will not originate as a manifestation of those fears. We remain aware of the forces that are all around us. But we needn't unnecessarily strengthen them with the collective energies of our ideas and words. We watch, observe them, problem solve around their obstacles as we become aware of them being erected in our way.
Pretty dark, aren’t you? A professional fearmonger?
isolate, demoralize, silence, reprogram and if necessary kill is the play book.
NewsGuard (fake fact checkers funded by DoD) are targeting Igor Chudov's Substack.
https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/this-blog-will-be-censored-by-newsguard
They aren’t for long. This mercury retrograde has been a doozy…….just wait another week and come back to this post on the 2nd of January. Much more is about to be revealed, and the truth shall set us free.
I just wish I had one physically proximate. So hard to watch what one says all the time.....with all the hideous news about the jabs coming out, and beyond that, realizing that the country you thought you lived in hasn't been real for over 50 years....its a bitter pill. And most of all, what is to come and what to do.
But I totally loved the Twighlight Zone comparison. That is really what it feels like...every day.
Yep. Burn RMN and HK in effigy. Not only did "the silent majority" buy into it, but the Neocons exacerbated it! (As do the stoners, HDTV watchers, and other "normies".)
I have been saying for years this is like living in the Twilight Zone. It was extremely depressing watching stores close for forever. My local Toysrus building became a medical facility which I am sure injects unknown substances from criminal companies with no liability into babies arms and legs all the while saying there are too mamy people in the world. But please don't ask questions though. The thought police will get you.
"Rod Serling didn’t tell us how to get out of The Twilight Zone." The answer is knowing and speaking out the truth. Truth sheds light to dispel darkness--darkness is where The Zone wins. The mouth is connected to our inner man and must speak out the truth to keep us from letting the lies of The Zone drive us towards disconnection from reality or to demoralization. Thank you and many others who are writing and exposing the truth. The second way to escape The Zone is understanding the realities that the world's peoples are entrenched in a cosmic war against Satan and his minions and our sin; and the only way of escape from them is thru God's Son Jesus Christ--hence the good news of his birth and declaring of the angels: "Peace on Earth to those whom God is pleased." Merry Christmas.
Without the knowledge that God is ultimately in control and that He has provided salvation through Jesus Christ, it would be very depressing and hopeless! I do pray that those who do not know this will come to a revelation of the Truth. It's
The vax thing was like a cult. I still have the text from a friend telling me excitedly he had got his shot and asking if I had got mine yet. Within 6 months he was hospitalized, intubated and dead. Sad what they have done to us. Maybe some people are waking up.
Bill, another interesting parallel media epic is the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original). In the end, the man was driving himself to desperation and fear from what he had experienced (everyone he knew was taken over by alien entities), but he snapped back to reality when he found others who were willing to believe his story.
I've been referencing that film a lot over the past four years. The original 1950s one
Available on the Internet archives - as are the episodes of the original Twilight Zone.
Haven't seen. Is it aligned with The Puppet Masters?
Its a hollywood movie from the 1950s.
No. Book is; movie is much more recent. Point is, do these movies share the same theme?
The original movie is from 50’s. Remake done recently—watch old one. Yes TZONE is related, INVASION is bit more sci-fi horror.
1994 was not in the 1950s. That was a book; not a "movie". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppet_Masters And it's not "Twilight Zone".
Sorry. The original movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," did come out in black and white in the 1950s. Yes, there was a horrible remake much later. If you say 1994, I'll believe you, as I have no compunction to look it up. I saw part of both of them, I wasn't interested. From what I saw, the black and white one was better. I saw it as a child in the 60s, on the late night Saturday horror movie show with Sammy Terry, on Indianapolis Channel 4. (WTTV) That's not the 90s, either.
You may call me a liar, too, if you like, but you're outnumbered.
Please reread what i wrote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers
I think that this is one of your most important and prescient 'stacks that you have written! It captures the thoughts and feelings that I have had since "two weeks to flatten the curve" was first uttered. Twilight Zone, Stephan King (spot on!), screaming into a Deep Blue State void while seemingly everyone is nodding their heads for more . . . eyes wide awake in a Matrix-like nightmare of NPCs.
Thanks, M G. This is one of those articles I wanted to get on the record. If I'm going to continue to be in this zone, I want to at least write about it.
Find a red state and escape the deep blue hell.
that's great advice but i can say to you that at 75 it's not that easy. nothing works as well at that age. i'm stuck in mid-michiganistan and would love to scoot but i'm alone and on my own. respects.
Husband is 78 and I'm 69, both moved to red state in the South 2 yrs ago. It's really hard making friends at our age so we're very lonely. Don't know what to tell you but yes it's very difficult at our age to move. Hope things get better soon for you, sir.
I'm sorry. Obviously, I didn't know. Indiana isn't far, but isn't really red either. I'm kinda in the same boat as you and want to move farther South to a redder state. I'll probably just end up homeless.
you will never be homeless. we can all help each other. arkanasas is good but at some point....every road leads to the southern border.
It'll be due to lack of funds. X is trying to take everything. Law will probably let them.
I did; but I'm still at the end of my rope. Even the red staters don't know half of what's going on, though they do have the big picture for the most part but there's still lefties who have NO idea what's going on and get really, really angry if you say anything that isn't according to their belief system.
Red states can turn if the wrong governor is elected.
Very true.
Although I can only remember two episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, my favorite was titled "The Midnight Sun," and played 17 November 1961. It's all about "Global Boiling" and "The Climate Crisis" (or maybe "Catastrophe") and provided Margaret Thatcher a great story line to break a coal-miners' strike in the 1980s. It also has a surprise ending!
Earlier today I was thinking about all the propaganda used to condition people (especially children) that I have witnessed over the years. I remember certain children in second grade who told me that their church offered "the only true religion." The military (from which I was fortunate not to get involved) teaches people to murder other people - and the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce brings this to light better than almost anything else I have read.
As we witness the genocide of thousands of people in Gaza, and see our United States supporting this atrocity, I realize how totally indoctrinated some people are to support such a tragedy.
Back on the Ides of March of 2020, our whole world seemed to turn upside down due to some "virus." At the time I did not know what to think, but I came up with my own interpretation: on one side, this was a deadly pathogen that required extraordinary measures to protect people; on the other side the whole thing was a scam and a fraud - and the truth lay somewhere between these two extremes. As time went on, the scam and fraud seemed more and more likely.
Thanks, Bill, for all your great articles!
One episode that stands out to me is from Season 2 - it's about a little boy who has evil powers. If everyone in his house and town doesn't keep him happy, he kills them or turns them into some kind of monster. People are constantly on pens and needles trying to keep a mad, juvenile happy ... because they know what will happen if they don't. Sound familiar?
Everyone also knows they have to keep the boy happy and that he is evil, but they can't stand up to him. They can't win either way.
Played by Billy Mumy.
He sends them to the cornfield.
Mine was the cookbook one "To Serve Man"...kinda reminds me of the globalists now.
I used to know a Bill hull in northeast TN, you don't live in Tennessee do you?
That's a really good episode. It's kinda like how I feel all summer, every summer.
I am still pissed at what they did to us for the last four years.
Some people say, "Just let it go. It's all in the past now." I'm not in that group. These people are still in control and still in charge. They aren't done yet. The scary episodes are still occurring.
It's gonna get worse.
That's the real horror. That, and the fact so few people seem to realize this.
wait until it becomes so painfully obvious that trump isn't going to be president and that it will michelle obama or kamala harris or grethen whitmer.
the outer limits of the twilight zone.
This is by NO means in the past. Not by a long shot - it won't be until the entire truth comes out and people quit dying and getting sick from the clot shot.
Yes! That's the part of the "Our Father" that I struggle with the most. Forgiving "those who trespass against us."
Yes ~ That's been the biggest challenge for me, as well ~ so I've gathered a few reminders for myself, and any others who might be interested:
> https://bra.in/4vPx6J
The videos, in particular, are especially powerful.
Well. I guess I was wrong to refuse an experimental drug with zero long term data as to efficacy or side effects. If Travis Kelce now says to take two vaccines at the same time, then who an I ti disagree. What do I know? After all, Taylor Swift......
"Get two shots for one" is proof that we're still in this surreal episode of The Twilight Zone. When such commercials can no longer be made, we might be "in the clear."
"2 for 1" is definitely proof that we're still "in the zone".
However, if we've learned anything during the last 4 years it is that we will never be completely "in the clear". This is not a "negative" point for view, though. It is simply a recognition that freedom must be defended by every generation ~ and we are only 2 generations away from complete illiteracy.
VA pushing the covid shot and the flu shot at the same time like they are doing us a favor.
https://www.va.gov/initiatives/covid-flu/
Shuttling a friend to&fro appts @ VA hospital. Just discovered they've been jabbing him at every op while treating him for vein clots, among his ills.
My heart hurts.
I just want to scream!
😲😢😭 Does he understand what they're doing to him?!
I am heartbroken along with you, for both of you.
My heart hurts for both of you. That's insanity on steroids. Wish I knew what to tell you - except he needs to quit going there, they're only making it worse. I think those of us who know what's really going on are about at the end of our rope, I know I am. Sending you a huge hug, dear.
Cullers culling shit, as Sage Hana says.
i was at the va 2 weeks ago and they're becoming the long arm of the donk party. i need to run away from them before i end up in another episode of the twilight zone. at the saginaw, mi va facility you need a covid test just to get your teeth cleaned.
Disgusting. Tell them they should be ashamed and to go fuck themselves! Don’t excuse my French!
A covid test like the one where they shove that Chinese-made swab up your nose hoping they don't hit the blood brain barrier?
That one?
exactly the one.
Don't hold your breath, Bill. You might turn blue, and assume room temperature. That would not be a good thing. .....for you or us.
You might have read this from me already as I’ve told it many times on numerous threads. When I was 16 years old in the summer of 1967 while visiting New York with my mom, I walked into a hotel elevator and there stood Rod Serling who looked like he was expecting me. Together the two of us took a ride down 40 stories. Never being a bashful kid I asked him point blank if the Twilight Zone really exists. He looked at me with a grin, took a drag off his cigarette (in those days people used to smoke everywhere including elevators) and said “yes sonny, indeed it’s real!” It never really impacted me until 2020 when it became so obvious that I’m living in the fifth dimension.
What a great anecdote. I love these "brushes with famous people" stories. I like his answer!
Now factor in the willfully ignorant, and arrogant Covidians ready to turn in and berate the " covid deniers in their own neighborhoods and even in their families and we will have a 1930s Nazi Germany situation.
We already do have a Nazi situation ~ "Never Again" is now global
> https://neveragainisnowglobal.com/
Thanks for posting the link for other folks.
Powerful episodes.
I agree that the "New Normal" is a contemporary Twilight Zone.
THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON MAPLE STREET. The monsters are now viruses as Twilight Zone meets the Covid Tyranny. Listen to the hit song. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/the-monsters-are-due-on-maple-street
Twilight Zone Spoof: Nightmare at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. President Pfauci finds himself in an underground bunker beneath the White House besieged by “anti-vaxxer” forces. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/twilight-zone-spoof-nightmare-at
.... shhh - just close your eyes and look back on your life - remember the sweetness of not knowing any of it - that's it - that's your happy place. There - see how far you've come - see how far weve all come. Didn't work? Sorry you've been red-pilled... there is no going back - you're in the fight now... or you die.
Bill good article follows same theme I wrote last year on educating the public of how corrupted the justice system had become. https://jseaman.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-twilight-zone-where
John: that article is one of the most well-sourced articles I've seen in years. Very well done, kudos! I remember the 1960s and the chaos of it and my parents trying to make sense of what was going on.
As a side note, I know for a fact that D O J has been compromised since 1981 and probably before. I know this because my dad, a very honest and patriotic good man, was threatened by D O J that year. He was born in 1920 and came from absolutely nothing, worked hard since he was 6 y.o. ran his own public relations business, became a mustang admiral in navy after being in WW2 and worked with Ronald Reagan when he was gov of CA. In 1980 he was one of Reagan's top advisors in campaign for president. After he became top advisor to Ed Meese, Reagan's top advisor. After a year of serving in that capacity, D O J came to him and told him he had to quit or they would completely ruin him in every single newspaper in America. Funny thing is that my dad had been a journalist at one time and knew every editor of every major paper in the U.S. - but still the deep state is so powerful and was even then, that they could threatened and scare even good people into going along with them. My dad was forced to quit - it was probably the lowest point of his entire life. He totally believed in Reagan and thought he could do some good and give back to his country. I have a picture of him with Pres. Reagan and Ed Meese - it still hurts for me to look at it. They had nothing on my dad but it didn't matter, they can make things up - one of their tactics is to get their targeted person drunk until they pass out or put something in their drink, then put a child next to them and make it look like a sex scandal. My guess is D O J crime goes back to at least JFK.
Great story about your father I loved Reagan as I had the pleasure to work on the protective details of his two adult children Maureen and Michael. I am with you 100% just finishing up my last sub stack on exposing there plan to destroy America on how devious this plan is and on the dire consequences of the 2024 election tyranny or freedom as Jefferson said the public gets the government they deserve. Thanks for the kind comments
I've concluded that destroying the best things about society is a part of the long-range plan.
I'd characterize JFK's assassination as the moment the powerful baddies who had been pulling strings in the background for a long, long time felt safe enough to show their hands. Knowing they could get away with it without consequences. And able to dial up Vietnam, escalate it, and distract the population from seriously investigating them as war always distracts. DOJ has been dirty from inception. That whole national police constitutional prohibition was there for a reason. It exists anyways using linguistics to avoid meeting the prohibited definition.
12,000 "likes" for you! Agree totally. I'm old enough to vividly remember the day JFK was shot, a very, very sad day and I agree about the baddies pulling strings in the background before that. There is an excellent book, extremely well-sourced using many govt. docs by Dr. Michael Salla "JFK's Last Stand" - has info I never knew about and also tells us the main reason he was shot. He wanted to expose the biggest thing they were hiding, which was the truth about UFOs. I highly recommend everyone read it. If you want to know more about the truth of UFO's read the next book in the series, "Antarctica's Hidden History" another very well-sourced book. Americans need to know our REAL history.
I played in several football games at Troy with a visiting team back in the mid 70s. Was always a good game experience at the Div. 2 level way back when.
You might have played against Troy teams coached by Charlie Bradshaw. Coach Bradshaw coached Troy from 1976-1982. He had some very good Division II teams. His son, Charles, was my best friend. Because of this, I got to be a water boy and watch many of those games from the sidelines as a 11 to 12-year-old boy. They might have been Division II athletes, but they could play! I can remember some hits that made me think, "Remind me to never play college football."
Cool. I'm considered the world record holder in fake-punts. Dual school record holder in the 110M HH, and JC National Qualifier at 19yo at Moorprak College, CA. Four of the fake punts made the newspaper and two made the LA Times. This is the 64 yard fake-punt pass from the Punter/QB for a Jamal Anderson TD at Moorpark vs Ventura that made the LA Times, and a video re-appeared of the play after 25 years found on Jamal's dad's camera. Showing the Punter, #13, me, making the block on the Punt Returner, allowing Jamal to score the TD. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hu36L69Ey6I -- I played D2 at Cal Poly SLO, after being the P/QB for Jamal Anderson at Moorpark JC 1990-91, P/QB for Westlake HS before that. Later, played Semi-Pro for 4 years and tried out with all the NFL teams at camps, the CFL, XFL, UFL and Preditors with Jay Gruden four times and others up to 41yo. Here's one of the tryouts with the Calgary Stampeders. There, they witnessed 60MPH passes, with perfect accuracy, and 5.6+ hang time punts, 20/20 fair catches, all at 40+ yo. But, Jay Gruden basically said "They're are not looking for old people"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNoUPXXsDm4
With all the changes in college sports, I worry about the little programs even surviving. They say NIL and transfers are "helping athletes" but I think the "Law of Opposite Effects" is kicking in again. These changes will end up taking away opportunities for far more student athletes that the few who are helped at the "Blue Blood" rich programs.
74-75.....Perry Griggs, Mark King I remember. Don’t remember who was coaching. I think 1974 we played there for Troy Homecoming. Good crowd. Great D2 atmosphere back then.
I remember both of them. Perry Griggs was an all-time great for Troy. He played right before Coach Bradshaw came.
Coach Bradshaw had previously been head coach at Kentucky. Before that he was an assistant at Alabama for Coach Bryant. He actually was my late father's offensive line coach at Bama 1958-1961. That's the family connection to the Bradshaws.
BTW, Mrs. Bradshaw was the best friend of Coach Bryant's wife, Mary Harmon .... who grew up in ... Troy, Alabama!
Wow Bill, I never knew your dad played for the Bear at Bama. I grew up in Waycross GA (not too far from Troy) where I began cheering for the Dawgs right around that time. Did he ever discuss the famous scandal where Georgia coach Wallace Butts was recorded revealing team secrets before their match? While it seems fairly benign in this era, back then it was a big story and the penalty was the cessation of the ancient rivalry where the two schools used to play their first game every year.
Speaking of the rivalry and its significance nowadays, what’s your take on how to determine a college football championship? I’ve been saying for years that they ought to have a playoff system similar to March Madness. Just use all these bowl games as the venues with perhaps 16 teams competing. Like most people I rarely watch most of them because they’re meaningless, especially when you have two games (FSU-UGA and OHIO St) where these teams are championship quality.
I had a roommate who had been a high school QB recruited by a Div. 1 school at that position. He was injured in summer drills, never played a game. We'd toss the ball around in the back yard, park. My hands lost skin and were bruised every time, he had a rocket arm. Instant understanding of the caliber of athlete who plays ball.