Ah, it's the "cavalry" not calvary that rides in to rescue the wagon train. Annie, my corgi-terrier mix who co-edits my Substack, missed another one!
I caught the typo myself two hours after I hit the "send" button. This one bothers me because I have made the same mistake in other articles in the past. I think I might have Long Covid or Brain Fog.
Your mistake was relying on a Corgi-Terrier mix for editing. Terriers just aren't good at editing. Corgis are just okay. Put the two together and there's a problem. I advise a Border Collie, that works for me.
I write most of my stories in my PJs or my "cozy pants" as I call them. I just had to chase Annie down because she had run off with one of my favorite pair of cozy pants. She was trying to make some point or maybe keep me from making another mistake?
You should be proud,, many of the leaders on our side were fooled early, even long enough to get the jab. I'm really surprised by the people who seem to have it so figured out now but are not purebloods. I think you feel like YOU are swimming upstream. Salmon actually love doing that, it's something else to see what they can blast right up and how easily they do it. It's their lifelong destiny. Sorry, nitpicking, but if you'd seen what I've seen you couldn't let that pass either!
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This triggers so much grief and despair after having visited my father and stepmother on Father's Day. They were my inspiration to be the best daughter I could be throughout my adult life. I made a LOT of mistakes but with their guidance and support, I learned from them, held myself accountable, transformed my life and felt myself finding my way into my own wisdom as an elder for my own children and granddaughter, nieces and nephews.
You see, my stepmother, whom I adored and respected until a sudden shift 7 years ago for no apparent reason (though I suspect it might be lies my sister told her), refused to allow me to hug my father, who is now deep into Alzheimer's. Having drunk the covid kool-aid, she insisted I wear a mask yet I STILL wasn't allowed to hug him. She then proceeded to stand him up and give him a long warm hug in front of me knowing that I had spent 6 hours driving to see him after 3 years of being unable to visit. There is no doubt in my mind that she was using him to punish me for my covid position and reveling in her power over me. It was disturbing to behold.
I was devastated and left the house shaking after this display of cruelty not letting on that I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I was courteous, graciously giving my dad his Father's Day gift and a huge basket of flowers for her birthday coming up this Friday. I came in love and peace. I left with overwhelming sadness for her, for my dad, for the world that they've lost their humanity. People have become addicted to the feeling of superiority over others as compensation for their own self-hatred.
So, yes, there are fewer and fewer adults in the room and our children will become more and more lost as they grow up amidst a culture that treats adults like children and children like adults. Where truth is considered blasphemous and lies are considered sacred truth. Orwell couldn't have made a more accurate prediction of what is currently unfolding.
And the kicker? Those of us who ARE adults in the room will not be around much longer. We'll be imprisoned, killed, or die of sickness and old age, if we're lucky. It's going to be a very bumpy ride down the cliff of civilizational collapse.
Thanks, Bill. It means a lot that people have commented with support. I'm still in a very dark place. I don't think I'll ever see my dad again. I'm experiencing pre-traumatic anxiety knowing my dad is very frail. My worst nightmare would be that she takes yet another jab and ends up injured and unable to care for him. But she's oblivious and doesn't want to listen to anyone. It's heartbreaking.
Signme Uplease, I am so sorry you had to go this. If it is of any consolation, I have witnessed this sort of behavior, that perfectly nice people one has known for many years, once the covid vax nonsense wormed into their minds, became, literally, gleefully sadistic towards the unjabbed, even towards their closest, dearest relatives. I do not use the term "sadistic" lightly, and I do not exaggerate. And it was not an isolated but a widespread thing, this gleeful sadism. And to witness it was quite disturbing to me, and to many others. I was extremely disappointed and disgusted by my own (ex) friends and family members who indulged in this gleeful sadism towards the unjabbed, but now I am coming to accept that it was part of the con they fell for-- they were conned into injuring themselves with immunotoxic injections, as they were also conned into injuring their own relationships. Some will realize what has happened, the evil they fell for, some not. As for who's going to die, we'll all die of something sometime, but meanwhile, we each have our path to walk in this life. May yours be a good one with many beauties and wonders, and people of strong heart to walk with you.
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Wow, what a sad tale. Yes, everything is topsy-turvy - you deserve better, she deserves nothing. I agree, civilizational collapse is our most likely fate. Can you imagine what it will be like after filling the world with 8 billion people whose only source of food is stores and restaurants, delivered via a complex and fragile system? If that just stops, and why wouldn't it, there will be more cannibalism than in all previous history combined, most likely. Glubb's "The Fate of Empires", free online and short, might make you feel better, as it did me. The cycle is inevitable, built into man's nature. We are simply doing what we always do. There are some promising signs though, we might escape the worst yet.
All my life I've been called "contrary" as a light hearted slur on my character by people frustrated that I wouldn't tow the line. Now I'm thinking it saved my life and may save many to come as things really crumble. Now just hoping to find a way to help.
Hunter Biden just skated on having more than 1.5 million in unexplained income and never even filed a tax return...and freely admitted he was the bag man for his father. IN addition, he lied on his gun permit application and it ended up in trash barrell outside a high school.
But he got his felonies reduced to misdemenors, no jail time no fines, not even a slap on the wrist..
Yeah, the "religious community" was MIA during the whole thing. Silly me thought that the churches would stand strong against all the craziness. Ha!
Here's my anecdote.....my workplace was forcing everyone to get vaxxed....I was real worried....I emailed my parish priest trying to get a religious exemption....(my old naive self actually thought this might work!).
Anyway, to his credit the priest was at least straight with me saying that there was nothing he could do. And then he cautioned me that I shouldn't even try to use a religious exemption from a Catholic Church....all the HR departments knew that the archbishops and even the pope himself were recommending the fricken shot! so, trying to get an exemption like this was an easy deny.....so..... thanks for nothing Catholic Church.
Postscript - even if the Church was useless (which it was)....someone was still watching over us....I don't know how exactly, but me and my family somehow managed to get through it all..... unvaxxed!
Good anecdote. It confirms what I suspected was common-place. As a self-employed freelance journalist, no employer was coercing me to get the shots.
I told a few friends I was un-vaxxed and they almost had a cow. They'd move back a few feet from me. (They all got Covid after being vaccinated and boosted. I never did).
Hahahaha...same here......I remember i was walking my dog....my neighbor was sitting on one of those stools doing some gardening...I started chatting with him......he mentions that he had just got back from getting his booster....and asked "Have you got your booster yet?" .....I said "No....I haven't had any shots at all". Hahaha...he instantly fell violently backwards...both hands on the ground behind him....you'd think I had leprosy or something!...it was really funny. Anyway, we're still friends....but we haven't mentioned vaxxes since.....
I could see it then too. Back then, I remember thinking "well, we send our young men, just beginning their lives, to die in huge numbers to protect our way of life when it's threatened. We'll surely be smart enough to pivot and accept casualties among those who have already lived their lives, rather than destroy everything". WRONG! I never had much faith in most of my fellow men, but turned out I'd been far too charitable in assessing them. As far as your friends buying the lies in March 2020, it's worth pointing out Malone, McCullough, Malhotra, Campbell all believed in the obvious scam long enough to actually get jabbed. So some of your friends might not be hopeless.
Maybe it was always like this, but the controlled media kept us out of the loop? It does feel like it has gotten worse, and more so since November 1963. Too many people giving in, and going for the easy solution and cutting corners, instead of doing the "right thing" ... it all adds up, and hits you in the back eventually.
Nobel laureate Kary Mullis (the inventor of the PCR method) touched on the lack of leadership and wisdom at the top in this 1996 interview: "There are no wise men up there [...] we're on our own".
I very much agree, and I am sure Bill Hicks could find a lot of material in the last three years as well. Thankfully, Jimmy Dore is carrying on the torch: https://rumble.com/TheJimmyDoreShow
thankyou for clarifying for me what this piece reminded me of... it was precisely that Kary Mullis interview. And I had spoken of what he said to my Dad because it left an impression then; namely there are no adults in the room wisely guarding our institutions, rather foxes and henhouses spring to mind...
You're welcome. It's an incredible interview with a unique human being, combining high intelligence, intuition, and wisdom.
Let's make his birthday December 28 "Kary Mullis Day", where we listen to the interview and remember him. I've added it to my calendar. Are you up for it?
Taken to its logical conclusion, you could almost say the hippies were right: Don't trust anyone over thirty. But that also means, NOT being a passive news sponge. As much as possible, any subject needs to be actively pursued and personally verified, to not fall prey to the massive propaganda from the dinosaur MSM monopoly.
I’m friends with John Longshore and Barry McKnight, who have hosted a very popular sports call-in radio show in Montgomery for decades.
John and Barry often brag about the quality of the calls they receive on their show. I concur. The callers to John and Barry’s show are outstanding. What’s always struck me about these callers is that 95 percent of them seem like very normal, thoughtful, mature people. (Like: “adults in the room.”)
This is in stark contrast to some of the extravagant regular callers to other popular radio shows. For example, Paul Finebaum is one of the most popular sports talk-show hosts in America. Before he was known nation-wide, every sports fan in Alabama listened to Finebaum’s show.
Paul’s interviews are good and he gets good guests - and Paul can make good points - but, man, many of his most-famous/infamous callers make me cringe - and immediately change the radio dial when they once again come back on the show. I don’t want to offend them, but I think some of these people are literally crazy.
Anyway, it’s refreshing to learn that the whole world is really NOT like the sample of callers we get on Finebaum.
… Well, I think my Substack is well on the way to emulating one of the great features of John and Barry’s show. I’ve also got smart and sane, “normal” people making comments here.
So thank you. One of my big “marketing ideas” is to grow my Substack site by … highlighting the Reader Comments section and hopefully attracting even more thoughtful people who are willing to opine here.
Memo to self: How do I reach the 20,000 people who listen to John and Barry’s show every day? Some of them might like my Substack as well.
Note: I know John and Barry have at least 20,000 daily listeners because I used to sell radio commercials for Cumulus in Montgomery (I thus saw the Arbitron ratings). One of the seven radio stations I sold for was WMSP Sports Radio. It was pretty easy to get the right businesses on John and Barry’s show.
I’d tell advertising prospects: "These are loyal and smart listeners, with disposable income. They listen to the show pretty much every day and don’t 'channel surf.' That means your commercials will be heard over and over by these people … and frequency of commercials being heard is vitally important to any successful radio advertising campaign."
In other words, you’ve got repeat listeners who will be exposed to your commercial over and over.
This is what I’m looking for with my Substack newsletter: People who visit my site on a regular basis - not just to read my articles, but to check out the Reader Comments section ... where you can read the comments of many "adults in the room!"
The dial is moving but only because of people like you, the one in 200 with the courage to speak and keep speaking and keep bringing data and logic in the face of screaming and name calling.
Speaking of a lack of adults in the room, I just saw an article on The Blaze that Jordan Peterson’s interview w/ RFK Jr was taken off YouTube for vaccine “misinformation”. It never ends, they will not admit what’s true & will continue to censor. They’re all so complicit in the death & damage that they can’t do anything else
Just send them to some real maximum security prison. Take all their money and give it to victims. Humiliate them. There are some that deserve the death sentence if one believes in the death sentence. I do for egregious enough crimes. Killing a couple million innocent people and inflicting misery on a billion or so is egregious enough.
I've never been or the death penalty, except maybe in wartime, when it's all about winning and justice can't be expected. Not that the death penalty is never deserved, but one thing we know for sure - government is corrupt and incompetent. Allowing them to decide who lives and dies during normal times seems really stupid to me. When they screw up it's a little late to fix it. Now when it comes to vigilante justice, that's a different set of rules.
Bandit, Well, the worst of the worst probably all got saline. You don’t see any of the prominent worst of the worst in the vulnerable age range like Faux-Xis, Clintons, Bidens, Pelosis, Feinsteins, ad nauseam having dropped dead, right??
Just shows you are not a doormat and if under attack you'll fight back, harder than the SOB that came after you. Which is a good thing. You sound like a very nice person to me.
I was wrong as well. I never thought biz would just close up and go home.
The media and colleges are bought. We have chickeshit politicians, including DJT on this subject.
The medical community might kill more than they save. So that honor is misplaced.
Trial lawyers don't make money until after damages. Constitutional lawyers are too slow.
SJWs of today and the hippes, beatniks peaceniks and earth lovers of yesterday are the new "The Man".
Mega corps didn't suffer they were prosperous.
It was the Biz Associations that surprised me the most. They showed themselves not to be advocates but leeches.
But don't despair, the dissent has worked, how many vaccines are getting dumped every day all around the world.
I stopped waiting for accountability and punishment the day GW said he had his own agenda and is not gna be diverted holding the Clintons accountable for their crimes. Stomach cancer for the evil is the best accountability we can hope for. I wonder if RD just stuck his finger in the wind felt a small breeze blowing right and decided to gamble. What has RFK lost in his fight, he is a viable political candidate.
Those that stand up are still revered.
Last but not least.
The horse that doesn't drink the water dies just like the horse that drinks the kool-aid.
I saw him once too. He and the Heart Breakers just walked out on stage and started rocking. First song: "American Girl."
My wife and I just watched a couple of the better Super Bowl half-time acts. We watched Prince and Tom Petty the other night. They don't make rockers like they used to either.
I've got a 7-year-old son who I make listen to my music. He loves Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles, Billy Joel and Tom Petty. Also, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, Sr. He can hear a song one time and has the lyrics down. So there's hope for the future!
I don't know if I made this point clear enough in my article: Censorship is really an effort to block or silence the voices of the "adults in the room." The kids didn't want to be stopped by the smart adults - so they made it where they couldn't stop them.
Yes the adults have left the room. I remember the time when good men and women would do the right thing (I am showing my age). I have been telling my wife for the last three years "it is you and me against the world babe". The mechanism by which this change occurred still escapes me. How could so many people in control have suddenly lost their senses? I know how the press was coerced (money). How were the doctor's subverted. How were the politicians made into accomplices? How were leaders of industry turned into jab promoters, pride enthusiasts and woke captains, some cashing in on the vaccine cash cow? If your up for a deep dive then finding the mechanism and tracing the whole sad scenario back to the perpetrators would be a great service to us "normal" people.
Fred, most of your "accomplices" were also probably captured by good, old-fashioned money. It may or may not be direct funding. It was indirect. The doctors knew that if they didn't support "The Current Thing" they could either lose their licenses, would lose patients or would become pariahs/apostates in their community and hospitals ... which would mean less money for them going forward.
Average bureaucrats were motived by the same desire to NOT challenge the "Current Thing." They intuitively knew if they DID do this, there went there chances to rise up the organizational ladder and get a good pay raise in the future. And they might get fired.
All the "crony fascism" companies know that they have to stay on the good side of "The Man" (Uncle Sam) to keep getting corporate contracts or to keep OSHA or the IRS or the regulators off their backs.
"Follow the money" works as an explanation almost every time. But throw in the necessity of supporting the "authorized narrative" (aka The Current Thing).
Its a great start Bill. I am looking for the mechanism such as the executive of the Federation of State Medical boards is bribed? (just a little bribe money to a few people) to mandate vaccines as policy that will then filter down to all the local state medical boards as policy with severe penalties for non compliance. To me that is a mechanism I could see influencing the Covid narrative. I have no proof and the FSMB holds secretive meetings so such a possible collusion could have been done verbally only with no evidence until someone ponies up a confession. Someday the truth will come out and the race is on to see who uncovers it first, sort of like the Twitter files revealed a whole lot of conspiracy in the FBI.
I see where you are coming from - a few key bribes - yep, I would say very possible, perhaps even likely. These people and organizations are brazen and far more corrupt than I once thought.
I think I've figured out some of it just from logical extrapolations. But I don't have enough "smoking gun" evidence. We need whistleblowers. I used to think I could never break some huge international scandal/story, but I do now .... because my Substack site is fairly well known now and I'm fairly well known in the "Covid writer" community. This means some important person with info might contact me. Or: I can interview people who want to share their stories and they want to reach a large number of people and they know I can now do this.
I'm not in the Big Leagues yet, but I'm also not in obscure semi-pro leagues any more.
My mom died in the beginning of the year from multiple forms of cancer, her choice not to seek treatment. My husband’s parents 20teens, don’t remember which year. I am glad neither set of parents are living and seeing all their hard work smashed to bits. No matter where I go there it is the same, politics, education, economy, this is life as it really is, warts and all. We muddle through it, learn, fail, succeed, just breathe.
Ah, it's the "cavalry" not calvary that rides in to rescue the wagon train. Annie, my corgi-terrier mix who co-edits my Substack, missed another one!
I caught the typo myself two hours after I hit the "send" button. This one bothers me because I have made the same mistake in other articles in the past. I think I might have Long Covid or Brain Fog.
Your mistake was relying on a Corgi-Terrier mix for editing. Terriers just aren't good at editing. Corgis are just okay. Put the two together and there's a problem. I advise a Border Collie, that works for me.
Probably have both, Bill. It's been nice reading you, though...Suggest you turn it all over to Annie...
I write most of my stories in my PJs or my "cozy pants" as I call them. I just had to chase Annie down because she had run off with one of my favorite pair of cozy pants. She was trying to make some point or maybe keep me from making another mistake?
I and any proofer I know wdve scanned over. Good self-catch.
You mean you are human? You have human traits and faults. Just like the rest of humanity. Thank God I am not alone
Corgis are delightful, but they are dreadful editors.
I sometimes feel like a salmon swimming upstream.
Early on I said covid was a bioweapon and was called a nutter.
Early on I refused the covid death shot, and said the shot was a bioweapon, and was called a nutter.
Well...I can wear the term "nutter" with pride...because I don't have any of the myriad side effects from the covid death shot.
You should be proud,, many of the leaders on our side were fooled early, even long enough to get the jab. I'm really surprised by the people who seem to have it so figured out now but are not purebloods. I think you feel like YOU are swimming upstream. Salmon actually love doing that, it's something else to see what they can blast right up and how easily they do it. It's their lifelong destiny. Sorry, nitpicking, but if you'd seen what I've seen you couldn't let that pass either!
This triggers so much grief and despair after having visited my father and stepmother on Father's Day. They were my inspiration to be the best daughter I could be throughout my adult life. I made a LOT of mistakes but with their guidance and support, I learned from them, held myself accountable, transformed my life and felt myself finding my way into my own wisdom as an elder for my own children and granddaughter, nieces and nephews.
You see, my stepmother, whom I adored and respected until a sudden shift 7 years ago for no apparent reason (though I suspect it might be lies my sister told her), refused to allow me to hug my father, who is now deep into Alzheimer's. Having drunk the covid kool-aid, she insisted I wear a mask yet I STILL wasn't allowed to hug him. She then proceeded to stand him up and give him a long warm hug in front of me knowing that I had spent 6 hours driving to see him after 3 years of being unable to visit. There is no doubt in my mind that she was using him to punish me for my covid position and reveling in her power over me. It was disturbing to behold.
I was devastated and left the house shaking after this display of cruelty not letting on that I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I was courteous, graciously giving my dad his Father's Day gift and a huge basket of flowers for her birthday coming up this Friday. I came in love and peace. I left with overwhelming sadness for her, for my dad, for the world that they've lost their humanity. People have become addicted to the feeling of superiority over others as compensation for their own self-hatred.
So, yes, there are fewer and fewer adults in the room and our children will become more and more lost as they grow up amidst a culture that treats adults like children and children like adults. Where truth is considered blasphemous and lies are considered sacred truth. Orwell couldn't have made a more accurate prediction of what is currently unfolding.
And the kicker? Those of us who ARE adults in the room will not be around much longer. We'll be imprisoned, killed, or die of sickness and old age, if we're lucky. It's going to be a very bumpy ride down the cliff of civilizational collapse.
Thanks for sharing this powerful (and very sad, but true) anecdote.
Thanks, Bill. It means a lot that people have commented with support. I'm still in a very dark place. I don't think I'll ever see my dad again. I'm experiencing pre-traumatic anxiety knowing my dad is very frail. My worst nightmare would be that she takes yet another jab and ends up injured and unable to care for him. But she's oblivious and doesn't want to listen to anyone. It's heartbreaking.
Be as tough as you can.
Signme Uplease, I am so sorry you had to go this. If it is of any consolation, I have witnessed this sort of behavior, that perfectly nice people one has known for many years, once the covid vax nonsense wormed into their minds, became, literally, gleefully sadistic towards the unjabbed, even towards their closest, dearest relatives. I do not use the term "sadistic" lightly, and I do not exaggerate. And it was not an isolated but a widespread thing, this gleeful sadism. And to witness it was quite disturbing to me, and to many others. I was extremely disappointed and disgusted by my own (ex) friends and family members who indulged in this gleeful sadism towards the unjabbed, but now I am coming to accept that it was part of the con they fell for-- they were conned into injuring themselves with immunotoxic injections, as they were also conned into injuring their own relationships. Some will realize what has happened, the evil they fell for, some not. As for who's going to die, we'll all die of something sometime, but meanwhile, we each have our path to walk in this life. May yours be a good one with many beauties and wonders, and people of strong heart to walk with you.
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Wow, what a sad tale. Yes, everything is topsy-turvy - you deserve better, she deserves nothing. I agree, civilizational collapse is our most likely fate. Can you imagine what it will be like after filling the world with 8 billion people whose only source of food is stores and restaurants, delivered via a complex and fragile system? If that just stops, and why wouldn't it, there will be more cannibalism than in all previous history combined, most likely. Glubb's "The Fate of Empires", free online and short, might make you feel better, as it did me. The cycle is inevitable, built into man's nature. We are simply doing what we always do. There are some promising signs though, we might escape the worst yet.
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I’m so sorry. That was a very difficult day!
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All my life I've been called "contrary" as a light hearted slur on my character by people frustrated that I wouldn't tow the line. Now I'm thinking it saved my life and may save many to come as things really crumble. Now just hoping to find a way to help.
Yes it did save your life!
May you find just the right action best for you to take.
The example you set has already helped.
Hunter Biden just skated on having more than 1.5 million in unexplained income and never even filed a tax return...and freely admitted he was the bag man for his father. IN addition, he lied on his gun permit application and it ended up in trash barrell outside a high school.
But he got his felonies reduced to misdemenors, no jail time no fines, not even a slap on the wrist..
Tell me about it.
I saw those headlines. I didn't even want to read the stories. But I KNEW what was coming.
I still need to go back and read your analysis of those links. I'm getting read to do that!
Great post.
Yeah, the "religious community" was MIA during the whole thing. Silly me thought that the churches would stand strong against all the craziness. Ha!
Here's my anecdote.....my workplace was forcing everyone to get vaxxed....I was real worried....I emailed my parish priest trying to get a religious exemption....(my old naive self actually thought this might work!).
Anyway, to his credit the priest was at least straight with me saying that there was nothing he could do. And then he cautioned me that I shouldn't even try to use a religious exemption from a Catholic Church....all the HR departments knew that the archbishops and even the pope himself were recommending the fricken shot! so, trying to get an exemption like this was an easy deny.....so..... thanks for nothing Catholic Church.
Postscript - even if the Church was useless (which it was)....someone was still watching over us....I don't know how exactly, but me and my family somehow managed to get through it all..... unvaxxed!
Good anecdote. It confirms what I suspected was common-place. As a self-employed freelance journalist, no employer was coercing me to get the shots.
I told a few friends I was un-vaxxed and they almost had a cow. They'd move back a few feet from me. (They all got Covid after being vaccinated and boosted. I never did).
Hahahaha...same here......I remember i was walking my dog....my neighbor was sitting on one of those stools doing some gardening...I started chatting with him......he mentions that he had just got back from getting his booster....and asked "Have you got your booster yet?" .....I said "No....I haven't had any shots at all". Hahaha...he instantly fell violently backwards...both hands on the ground behind him....you'd think I had leprosy or something!...it was really funny. Anyway, we're still friends....but we haven't mentioned vaxxes since.....
We were all "Leppers." Or treated like leppers. That's also called ... "discrimination." Authorized and encouraged discrimination.
In mid-March, 2020, I surveyed my friends, trying to build opposition. They all bought the Scam.
Depressing poll results there. As they say, being one of the few adults in the room ain't for sissies.
Actually, it doesn't bother me. I know it doesn't bother you much either.
I had some depressing experiences in that wise myself. They bought the scam hook, line, sinker, and Railroad Across the Indian Ocean.
I could see it then too. Back then, I remember thinking "well, we send our young men, just beginning their lives, to die in huge numbers to protect our way of life when it's threatened. We'll surely be smart enough to pivot and accept casualties among those who have already lived their lives, rather than destroy everything". WRONG! I never had much faith in most of my fellow men, but turned out I'd been far too charitable in assessing them. As far as your friends buying the lies in March 2020, it's worth pointing out Malone, McCullough, Malhotra, Campbell all believed in the obvious scam long enough to actually get jabbed. So some of your friends might not be hopeless.
Maybe it was always like this, but the controlled media kept us out of the loop? It does feel like it has gotten worse, and more so since November 1963. Too many people giving in, and going for the easy solution and cutting corners, instead of doing the "right thing" ... it all adds up, and hits you in the back eventually.
Nobel laureate Kary Mullis (the inventor of the PCR method) touched on the lack of leadership and wisdom at the top in this 1996 interview: "There are no wise men up there [...] we're on our own".
https://odysee.com/@newstonedphilosopher/kary-mullis-full-interview-with-gary?t=6750
That's a great quote from Mullis (I wish he was still with us ... George Carlin too).
I very much agree, and I am sure Bill Hicks could find a lot of material in the last three years as well. Thankfully, Jimmy Dore is carrying on the torch: https://rumble.com/TheJimmyDoreShow
thankyou for clarifying for me what this piece reminded me of... it was precisely that Kary Mullis interview. And I had spoken of what he said to my Dad because it left an impression then; namely there are no adults in the room wisely guarding our institutions, rather foxes and henhouses spring to mind...
You're welcome. It's an incredible interview with a unique human being, combining high intelligence, intuition, and wisdom.
Let's make his birthday December 28 "Kary Mullis Day", where we listen to the interview and remember him. I've added it to my calendar. Are you up for it?
Taken to its logical conclusion, you could almost say the hippies were right: Don't trust anyone over thirty. But that also means, NOT being a passive news sponge. As much as possible, any subject needs to be actively pursued and personally verified, to not fall prey to the massive propaganda from the dinosaur MSM monopoly.
IN PRAISE OF MY READERS’ COMMENTS …
I’m friends with John Longshore and Barry McKnight, who have hosted a very popular sports call-in radio show in Montgomery for decades.
John and Barry often brag about the quality of the calls they receive on their show. I concur. The callers to John and Barry’s show are outstanding. What’s always struck me about these callers is that 95 percent of them seem like very normal, thoughtful, mature people. (Like: “adults in the room.”)
This is in stark contrast to some of the extravagant regular callers to other popular radio shows. For example, Paul Finebaum is one of the most popular sports talk-show hosts in America. Before he was known nation-wide, every sports fan in Alabama listened to Finebaum’s show.
Paul’s interviews are good and he gets good guests - and Paul can make good points - but, man, many of his most-famous/infamous callers make me cringe - and immediately change the radio dial when they once again come back on the show. I don’t want to offend them, but I think some of these people are literally crazy.
Anyway, it’s refreshing to learn that the whole world is really NOT like the sample of callers we get on Finebaum.
… Well, I think my Substack is well on the way to emulating one of the great features of John and Barry’s show. I’ve also got smart and sane, “normal” people making comments here.
So thank you. One of my big “marketing ideas” is to grow my Substack site by … highlighting the Reader Comments section and hopefully attracting even more thoughtful people who are willing to opine here.
Memo to self: How do I reach the 20,000 people who listen to John and Barry’s show every day? Some of them might like my Substack as well.
Note: I know John and Barry have at least 20,000 daily listeners because I used to sell radio commercials for Cumulus in Montgomery (I thus saw the Arbitron ratings). One of the seven radio stations I sold for was WMSP Sports Radio. It was pretty easy to get the right businesses on John and Barry’s show.
I’d tell advertising prospects: "These are loyal and smart listeners, with disposable income. They listen to the show pretty much every day and don’t 'channel surf.' That means your commercials will be heard over and over by these people … and frequency of commercials being heard is vitally important to any successful radio advertising campaign."
In other words, you’ve got repeat listeners who will be exposed to your commercial over and over.
This is what I’m looking for with my Substack newsletter: People who visit my site on a regular basis - not just to read my articles, but to check out the Reader Comments section ... where you can read the comments of many "adults in the room!"
Amen Bill.
The dial is moving but only because of people like you, the one in 200 with the courage to speak and keep speaking and keep bringing data and logic in the face of screaming and name calling.
Speaking of a lack of adults in the room, I just saw an article on The Blaze that Jordan Peterson’s interview w/ RFK Jr was taken off YouTube for vaccine “misinformation”. It never ends, they will not admit what’s true & will continue to censor. They’re all so complicit in the death & damage that they can’t do anything else
I'm just hoping they all die or are horribly disabled. Not nice, I know, but....
Just send them to some real maximum security prison. Take all their money and give it to victims. Humiliate them. There are some that deserve the death sentence if one believes in the death sentence. I do for egregious enough crimes. Killing a couple million innocent people and inflicting misery on a billion or so is egregious enough.
I've never been or the death penalty, except maybe in wartime, when it's all about winning and justice can't be expected. Not that the death penalty is never deserved, but one thing we know for sure - government is corrupt and incompetent. Allowing them to decide who lives and dies during normal times seems really stupid to me. When they screw up it's a little late to fix it. Now when it comes to vigilante justice, that's a different set of rules.
Bandit, Well, the worst of the worst probably all got saline. You don’t see any of the prominent worst of the worst in the vulnerable age range like Faux-Xis, Clintons, Bidens, Pelosis, Feinsteins, ad nauseam having dropped dead, right??
Just shows you are not a doormat and if under attack you'll fight back, harder than the SOB that came after you. Which is a good thing. You sound like a very nice person to me.
I was wrong as well. I never thought biz would just close up and go home.
The media and colleges are bought. We have chickeshit politicians, including DJT on this subject.
The medical community might kill more than they save. So that honor is misplaced.
Trial lawyers don't make money until after damages. Constitutional lawyers are too slow.
SJWs of today and the hippes, beatniks peaceniks and earth lovers of yesterday are the new "The Man".
Mega corps didn't suffer they were prosperous.
It was the Biz Associations that surprised me the most. They showed themselves not to be advocates but leeches.
But don't despair, the dissent has worked, how many vaccines are getting dumped every day all around the world.
I stopped waiting for accountability and punishment the day GW said he had his own agenda and is not gna be diverted holding the Clintons accountable for their crimes. Stomach cancer for the evil is the best accountability we can hope for. I wonder if RD just stuck his finger in the wind felt a small breeze blowing right and decided to gamble. What has RFK lost in his fight, he is a viable political candidate.
Those that stand up are still revered.
Last but not least.
The horse that doesn't drink the water dies just like the horse that drinks the kool-aid.
Bill- don’t let the bastards get you down!!! “Tell the truth and hold your ground”!!!
https://youtu.be/8gwU3kjY5y4
Thanks for the pep talk, Dan! I'm a big Tommy Petty fan. I'm not going to back down; I'm gonna stand my ground.
Loved Petty too. Saw him twice in concert. Was hoping for the third! Very unassuming rock “star” which is one reason I liked him.
I saw him once too. He and the Heart Breakers just walked out on stage and started rocking. First song: "American Girl."
My wife and I just watched a couple of the better Super Bowl half-time acts. We watched Prince and Tom Petty the other night. They don't make rockers like they used to either.
No, they sure don't. I miss real rock-n-roll!
I've got a 7-year-old son who I make listen to my music. He loves Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles, Billy Joel and Tom Petty. Also, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams, Sr. He can hear a song one time and has the lyrics down. So there's hope for the future!
Listen to the lyrics also in the Kris K song.
Illigitimi non corborundum.
You're corresponding with a guy who got a public education from Troy Public Schools. We didn't have Latin. I figure it must apply though!
I don't know if I made this point clear enough in my article: Censorship is really an effort to block or silence the voices of the "adults in the room." The kids didn't want to be stopped by the smart adults - so they made it where they couldn't stop them.
Yes the adults have left the room. I remember the time when good men and women would do the right thing (I am showing my age). I have been telling my wife for the last three years "it is you and me against the world babe". The mechanism by which this change occurred still escapes me. How could so many people in control have suddenly lost their senses? I know how the press was coerced (money). How were the doctor's subverted. How were the politicians made into accomplices? How were leaders of industry turned into jab promoters, pride enthusiasts and woke captains, some cashing in on the vaccine cash cow? If your up for a deep dive then finding the mechanism and tracing the whole sad scenario back to the perpetrators would be a great service to us "normal" people.
Fred, most of your "accomplices" were also probably captured by good, old-fashioned money. It may or may not be direct funding. It was indirect. The doctors knew that if they didn't support "The Current Thing" they could either lose their licenses, would lose patients or would become pariahs/apostates in their community and hospitals ... which would mean less money for them going forward.
Average bureaucrats were motived by the same desire to NOT challenge the "Current Thing." They intuitively knew if they DID do this, there went there chances to rise up the organizational ladder and get a good pay raise in the future. And they might get fired.
All the "crony fascism" companies know that they have to stay on the good side of "The Man" (Uncle Sam) to keep getting corporate contracts or to keep OSHA or the IRS or the regulators off their backs.
"Follow the money" works as an explanation almost every time. But throw in the necessity of supporting the "authorized narrative" (aka The Current Thing).
I forgot about OSHA.
Freaking jack booted thugs.
Its a great start Bill. I am looking for the mechanism such as the executive of the Federation of State Medical boards is bribed? (just a little bribe money to a few people) to mandate vaccines as policy that will then filter down to all the local state medical boards as policy with severe penalties for non compliance. To me that is a mechanism I could see influencing the Covid narrative. I have no proof and the FSMB holds secretive meetings so such a possible collusion could have been done verbally only with no evidence until someone ponies up a confession. Someday the truth will come out and the race is on to see who uncovers it first, sort of like the Twitter files revealed a whole lot of conspiracy in the FBI.
I see where you are coming from - a few key bribes - yep, I would say very possible, perhaps even likely. These people and organizations are brazen and far more corrupt than I once thought.
Re: "The mechanism by which this change occurred still escapes me. How could so many people in control have suddenly lost their senses?"
I ask myself that every day. Sometimes I think I'm part way down the road towards understanding, but then... nah, they're nuts.
If anyone is going to figure it out, it's going to be you!
I think I've figured out some of it just from logical extrapolations. But I don't have enough "smoking gun" evidence. We need whistleblowers. I used to think I could never break some huge international scandal/story, but I do now .... because my Substack site is fairly well known now and I'm fairly well known in the "Covid writer" community. This means some important person with info might contact me. Or: I can interview people who want to share their stories and they want to reach a large number of people and they know I can now do this.
I'm not in the Big Leagues yet, but I'm also not in obscure semi-pro leagues any more.
My mom died in the beginning of the year from multiple forms of cancer, her choice not to seek treatment. My husband’s parents 20teens, don’t remember which year. I am glad neither set of parents are living and seeing all their hard work smashed to bits. No matter where I go there it is the same, politics, education, economy, this is life as it really is, warts and all. We muddle through it, learn, fail, succeed, just breathe.
So sorry about your mother ... I think the "authorized narrative" or "The Current Thing" might be as powerful as "the force" in the Star Wars movies.