Okay, I want to start by saying that I'm as left wing libertarian as it is possible to be. I am at the lower left extreme of the political compass. What you are missing is that civil liberties supercede everything else. Without that, there is nothing. What that means is that even though some things may make you recoil, if you are going to participate in the political process (and that is debatable given that it makes no difference), you may have to support the candidate who supports civil liberties. It makes no difference if your candidate is left on everything if s/he does not support free speech and bodily autonomy. It bugs the hell out of me that Ron DiSantis makes disparaging remarks when people in South America vote for a leftist president, but on civil liberties he is great. So IF I were to vote for president in 2024 and he were the Republican candidate, I would prefer him by a long way to Biden. The second thing you are missing is that the 2020 election WAS corrupt. So was the one in 2016. You need to acknowledge that the US does not have free and fair elections and hasn't for a long time. There is massive vote tampering and shenanigans, and both sides resist the changes that would be necessary for our elections to be secure. Democrats have not had a legitimate primary, probably ever. Voting machines are easy to fractionate or simply flip. Absentee ballot fiddling is rampant. State attorney generals routinely make decisions during primaries and elections to privilege their own party, or disenfranchise voters. It would behoove you to realize that COVID is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dishonesty, propaganda and greed, and that it is ALL bullshit, not just the COVID response.
I agree. It is important to realize that there is no credible evidence that Trump won 2020. But it is equally important to realize that the reason his claim is so credible to millions of people is that everyone knows our elections are being tampered with. The worst problem is electronic voting. Trump's claim that somehow Hugo Chavez came back from the grave and re-programmed Dominion machines to make Biden win are ludicrous, but it is perfectly true that Dominion machines have been used for multiple stolen elections (generally stolen by Republicans). We need hand-counted paper ballots: the only system that is observable and verifiable.
In Oregon, we are only allowed to vote by mail - for many years. Other states also have that policy. NO evidence of corruption in any of those states. This provides written documented proof. The GOP will NEVER approve that because that would surely be the end of any wins for them.
The trouble with that system though is that mail-in ballots are very easy to corrupt. All kinds of things happen to those ballots, deliberate and not deliberate, before they hit the post office.
So now we're not trusting the U.S. mail? In Oregon you can mail the ballots in or use drop boxes which are spread around the state. There has never been any evidence of corruption within any State election that requires one to vote by mail or drop boxes. How do you explain that reality Linda?
Oh, I misunderstood- sorry however NO evidence of ballots being tampered with in states requiring mail in or drop box has ever been shown to be the case. So the case is moot for that issue. Again, numerous states have had this exclusive process for many, many years, more than enough time to discover a real problem.
I must confess to missing the aspect of going in to vote, I'm a former east coaster. I still remember the first time, when I was 18, being able to vote and closing the curtain in the voting booth. It was thrilling for me.
When Kirsch proposed we support Johnson I wrote, no I will not hold my nose and support someone who is a grifter like plenty of other republicans, and who I agree with on only ONE issue.
Yes, our democracy is at risk. We are being asked to make a 'sophies choice' in a way.
If only I had a time machine to see how all of this plays out.
To this day I can't understand how people still see trump as someone who has this countries interests at heart. He has only ever had one person's interstest at heart, his own. People are simply projecting onto him things they wish he was.
Ron Johnson is about 50% less creepy than Trump to me, who is 95% creepy. (Yes, I measured their creepiness with my creepiness meter). I am really quite suprised that so many get behind Trump, say they will vote for him, given his financial/tax/political histories. Not sure what to hope for, other than a good crop of potatoes in the garden and that PennyMac doesn't repo my house too quickly as I see the economy grinding down. Maybe I will contact my mortgage lender proactively this week, ask some questions. Best from OR
Well said Atlandea. I agree. This is a Sophie's Choice moment. And yes, projection is a powerful mechanism that can be dangerous, as it is in this instance.
You really still don’t understand what is going on. If Trump was in office, I will bet all this censorship wouldn’t be happening!!!!! He wasn’t perfect, but he did love his country and fought for us. With all that is going on and you still don’t get it, that is sad bc there are too many like you who is going to allow WEF & NATO & WHO to take over the world. Then that is when there will be no Democracy!!! Do you think we are behaving as a free country now when ppl are mandated or lose their jobs to get a jab that doesn’t even work for the newer strains? Not to speak of the censorship of the massive amount of illness & death from them. Now to jab babies and young children who have a .0000 risk. The Phizer studies reveal the horrendous fraud. The election was STOLEN. 2000 Mules shows the blatant fraud. Further, this was a Plandemic/Scamdemic in order for the world coup d’etat to occur. You are like an Hitler soldier who has been brain-washed by the military style psyche ops, 24-7 fear porn and constant lies. However few reds came to the rescue except Johnson & Paul. Its all a mess.
Here is a concise listing of all that has and is occurring: Please Listen closely to what Harari has to say:
Thanks for sharing your views on this Sharon. Please remember that Trump was president when the pandemic started. His administration created operation Warp Speed which allowed these dangerous injections to be made and distributed. He was unable to stop it. He didn't realize that the pharmaceutical industry controlled everything. He failed. In this regard, I still blame the public health agencies. That's what needs to change. Those are the criminals. They have operated in democratic and republican political parties. THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL PROBLEM. The WEF, the WHO etc. they have been ALL been operating for decades despite which party is in power. Yes, "it's all a mess". We need to unite the democrats and the republicans to bring about change. Together, we can do this. If we remain divided - THEY WIN! PLEASE stop stirring the pot of division.
I agree both parties have failed us and in the hands of big pharma and worse. But your alliance with the current admin is very short sighted. Trump foolishly believed them!!! But he seemed to do many things while in office to try and save us from something he knew was coming from the “deep state”. If you don’t see how the current admin is treasonous then you don’t understand!!!! And it is Liberalism that drives this more than the other side!!! BLM, gender insanity, unchecked border entrance, are just parts of the elements to destroy our culture and peace and economy to eventually completely take us over. So I am not doing any further divisioning! Its all being done by outside forces and our puppet admin is doing nothing. Ukraine is a big manipulative provoked intentionally. Gas prices, inflation. Don't you see and connect the dots!!! Please take me off your list. I thought I had already done that before.
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Sharon, you wrote - "You really still don’t understand what is going on. If Trump was in office, I will bet all this censorship wouldn’t be happening!!!!!"
I can only assume that you have a very selective memory. You obviously have completely forgotten about all of the extreme censorship of the media and anyone else who made any critical comments about Trump or his administration. That level of censorship was no less egregious than what we have seen from the current administration surrounding the pandemic.
As far as your misplaced confidence that the election was stolen, I would highly recommend that you reexamine the evidence. All the distorted and fraudulent material presented in 2000 mules, and supported by many in the Republican Party (only in public however - in private, most have admitted how ridiculous this position is), is based solely on Trumps Big Lie. Even his own comically incompetent consiglieri, Giuliani, admitted publicly that they had absolutely no proof - “We’ve got lots of theories. We just don’t have the evidence.” This patently ridiculous lie is solely the result of Trump being a flaming narcissist and being utterly unable to contemplate his loss, so his only option was simply to make stuff up. All of this made up material by Trump and his ilk doesn't even come close to the mountain of material that proves his lie wrong. Even the republicans own "official" efforts to "prove" the election was stolen, failed miserably. Whether it was the 62 legal attempts in front of many Trump appointed judges, or the ridiculous waste of taxpayer monies to get the "Ninja" auditors to prove it in Arizona. Not one single attempt held up to any level of rational scrutiny. In fact, most of the infinitesimal cases of voter fraud, were people trying to get more votes for Trump. You, obviously, can support whoever you want, including Trump, but please do it with your eyes open!
Thanks for making such pertinent points. Will they be heard by republican sympathizers....I suspect not. If they don't accept the conclusions of 60+ litigations, many with Trump appointed judges, then nothing will allow them to understand that they've been deceived.
I don't like Trump so I hope you don't see this as a challenge to that, but I am going to. challenge you on this:
"You obviously have completely forgotten about all of the extreme censorship of the media and anyone else who made any critical comments about Trump or his administration."
What censorship? The media was all over Trump, reporting any and allegations against him. EVERYONE who was critical of Trump, including many Republicans, got a huge platform to tell their stories. He was impeached twice!
Trump talked shit about the media on Twitter, but I can't recall a single time his administration or the right was successful in suppressing a story in the same way that the Biden administration was successful in suppressing the Hunter laptop story, for example.
But it was the left suppressing any and all divergent opinions on Covid that was unlike anything I've ever seen in my life, and it scared the hell out of me. It truly felt like we were living in 1984.
Vernon - I agree abt the unprecedented nature of scientific censorship and the resultant absence of Informed Consent tht is a critical component of this nations bioethics since Nuremberg. What I was referring to was not only Trumps intentions and myriad attempts at censorship, but also the fact that for a time, Trump shut down all White House briefings in his attempt to prevent the media (except for Fox [at least until they started pissing him off] and AON) from knowing anything he and his administration were doing. This was essentially akin to the state run media outlets we see in autocratic countries. I get that the MSM was still providing platforms for anyone who was willing to complain about Trump. You can never eliminate all commentary. Even in the midst of the horrific censorship going on during the pandemic, there have still been media platforms such as Fox and OAN willing to give voice to anyone wanting to speak out about it. And, as we are experiencing personally, the rise of platforms such as Substack giving voice to the voiceless.
Thanks for this and quoting me. This is an important dialogue for us to have.
The problem is the 2 party system and the media - like FOX news and MSNBC for years engaged what I call "compulsory mutual disparagement" and also identification in opposition. Much political hysteria began with Trump. I think he did a lot of harm, like exiting the Iran nuclear deal and other treaties. But leaving the WHO now seems like a great idea.
We have to get beyond the duality of black and white, us and them, all or nothing thinking,
Much of the RD conflict is incited. We are being pitted against each other which empowers the dark forces. Those of us progressives who are aware have strange bedfellows - which may be part of the solution. We are challenged to transcend all0or-nothing thinking.
The Democrats have been terrible - which is why Trump won in the first place. The failed to appeal to many, especially those not college educated white males and drove them to the other side. With Covid, the Dems are mindless - compulsively rejecting things like hydroxychloroquine without investigating, because Trump liked it. I am registered Dem for now but may leave - will write an appeal to them. They have a short time to redeem themselves and look at the actual science and apologize and promote enlightened, rational policies and to educate the public. I am more of an independent.
Today I think we should all declare our independence from both parties. I will write a piece about this soon.
Here is a piece I wrote about this
Let’s You and Him Fight: Can We Overcome a Manipulated Conflict?
Thanks Diane. You also found that quote which I mentioned above.
“… we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it.” – Professor Eric Rubin of Harvard University, testifying before FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), October 26, 2021, on myocarditis and deaths, before voting to approve.
I'm a liberal that's been crashing on the Right's couch for the past 15 years. The Democratic party I knew growing up has been taken over by Leftists. Leftists are adept at exploitation of trust to commit harm; i.e. perfidy. Liberals don't stab people in the back; Leftists do it as a matter of course because "the ends always justify the means."
I don't look to the Right because I'm one of them. Rather, I see them as my mental furniture; or the manifestation of my inferior function. As a Dionysian Liberal, without the Right, I'd spin off into pure chaos and entropy. You can't 'deviate from the norm' if you lose all sight of where the "norm" is.
You know about "The Trusted News Initiative," but did you know it had its inception during the 2014 Ukraine Coup?
Odd as the words may sound, COVID-19 is a cognitive warfare operation. If truth is the agreement of knowledge with its object, at what point did ANYTHING we were told about COVID-19 agree with objective fact?
NEVER.
I believe you've mentioned reading RFK's book, so you're familiar with the germ games, and SPARS 2017. We're under attack by our own government Dr Rabin. Team Biden is not Democrat; it's Leftist. And it wields power from a cognitive warfare apparatus it built during the 2014 Ukraine coup.
The infrastructure needed for the COVID-19 cognitive warfare operation was established during the 2014 Ukraine coup—where Asst. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Vice President Joe Biden engineered regime change on Russia’s border using Nazi’s as muscle—e.g., Svoboda, Right Sector, etc.—and created a post-coup vassal-state which included the very same Nazis as government officials.”
In exchange for legitimizing their coup and subsequent genocide of Eastern Ukrainians as the “Revolution of Dignity,” Team Biden’s Nazi vassal state has been paying tribute in cash, muscle and intelligence services. You’ve heard of a second home? Since 2014, Team Biden has been using a second country to launder misappropriations and run intelligence operations against its political opponents in the U.S.
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"…[The] anti-Russian information warfare apparatus, which was birthed out of the Ukraine coup, … includes Britain’s 77th Military Brigade (embedded in social media companies throughout the world), the Integrity Initiative, NATO’s Strategic Communications Center in Latvia, and the State Department’s Global Engagement Center.
All of these military-grade psychological and information warfare groups operated and continue to operate on behalf of the coup in Ukraine and have been critical in the “perception management” surrounding various false-flag atrocities attributed to Russia…. Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the primary propagandists in the 2016-2017 operations against Trump, also operated in Ukraine, with Steele providing Victoria Nuland and John Kerry frequent operational updates through many memoranda concerning developments in that country. In fact, the British Integrity Initiative’s documents, seized and published by the hacking group “Anonymous [Europe],” point to a propaganda initiative and censorship effort aimed squarely at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, conducted, in part, right out of the State Department.
In describing this modern form of information warfare, Joel Harding, who went to work for Ukraine’s newly established “Information Ministry” during the coup, and formerly worked for Hillary Clinton at the State Department, describes a regime in which all information, other than manipulated propaganda, is denied to the target population. A compliant media apparatus [now known as “The Trusted News Initiative”] publishes daily talking points about key events, over and over again. The talking points are aimed at the “psyche” of targeted populations, with high emotive content, designed to produce desired action. Dissenting views are to be censored or debunked as “conspiracy theories.”
Harding and the Atlantic Council put this into operation in the United States shortly after the [2016] election, when the Washington Post published the signal piece, “Propaganda or Not.” It listed every website in the United States that had been deemed to be insufficiently anti-Russian—most of which provided the only independent journalism in the United States—as requiring immediate censorship."
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Everything you were told about Trump colluding with Russia, Trump making an impeachable phone call with Ukraine, COVID-19... it's all cognitive warfare. I can prove with one photo that same cognitive warfare apparatus set up the January 6th "insurrection."
They lied to us about everything Dr. Rabin. Team Biden's Ukraine-based cognitive warfare apparatus has turned the Democratic party into the angry mob in a Harper Lee novel; staring Donald Trump as Boo Radley.
Take a look at the Table of Contents of my Memo of Law
Go to page 120 in the pdf viewer, and read pgs 112-113 to see proof that you've been lied to.
The Republican's aren't white supremacists or insurrectionists; they're rule-obeying church mice, and the Leftists know it and exploit it. That's why we're getting slaughtered. The Right isn't putting its foot down to stop them.
We have to wake up the survivors of our tribe before its too late; because the Right doesn't have the requisite capacity for ruthlessness that it's going to take to stop the Leftists.
"Odd as the words may sound, COVID-19 is a cognitive warfare operation. If truth is the agreement of knowledge with its object, at what point did ANYTHING we were told about COVID-19 agree with objective fact?"
This right here. It's truly frightening that people fell for the hoax.
You're looking at this as a binary choice. It's not. This is about finding balance again.
You don't have to vote down the line Republican or Democrat. You can vote by candidate. You can vote third party or not at all if you don't like any candidate. Did they support vaccine mandates and lockdowns? DON'T VOTE FOR THEM! They are unthinking authoritarians and very dangerous to our democracy.
IMO, we often treat politics like sports. I'm not team blue or team red.
Personally, I think the "left" and "right" dichotomy has to die if we're going to move forward. Both are based on political theory developed about 200 years ago. If you look at all our problems through a certain framework (left or right, liberal or conservative), you can only come up with limited solutions. Get rid of the framework and the possible solutions are endless.
Listen, I'm a gay man and I've always been very liberal. I still am, in the classic sense of "live and let live". But the Democratic Party is not liberal anymore. They've become quiet authoritarian. I don't like the Republican Party either. But I will vote for an individual Republican if I like their policy, their opinions and their leadership style. I will not vote for anyone that supported lockdowns or vaccine mandates. Our personal liberty and bodily autonomy are too important.
We have an important state election coming up. Tina Kotchek is the Democratic nominee. She supported a statewide vaccine mandate. I hope you will consider voting for someone else.
Okay, I want to start by saying that I'm as left wing libertarian as it is possible to be. I am at the lower left extreme of the political compass. What you are missing is that civil liberties supercede everything else. Without that, there is nothing. What that means is that even though some things may make you recoil, if you are going to participate in the political process (and that is debatable given that it makes no difference), you may have to support the candidate who supports civil liberties. It makes no difference if your candidate is left on everything if s/he does not support free speech and bodily autonomy. It bugs the hell out of me that Ron DiSantis makes disparaging remarks when people in South America vote for a leftist president, but on civil liberties he is great. So IF I were to vote for president in 2024 and he were the Republican candidate, I would prefer him by a long way to Biden. The second thing you are missing is that the 2020 election WAS corrupt. So was the one in 2016. You need to acknowledge that the US does not have free and fair elections and hasn't for a long time. There is massive vote tampering and shenanigans, and both sides resist the changes that would be necessary for our elections to be secure. Democrats have not had a legitimate primary, probably ever. Voting machines are easy to fractionate or simply flip. Absentee ballot fiddling is rampant. State attorney generals routinely make decisions during primaries and elections to privilege their own party, or disenfranchise voters. It would behoove you to realize that COVID is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dishonesty, propaganda and greed, and that it is ALL bullshit, not just the COVID response.
I agree. It is important to realize that there is no credible evidence that Trump won 2020. But it is equally important to realize that the reason his claim is so credible to millions of people is that everyone knows our elections are being tampered with. The worst problem is electronic voting. Trump's claim that somehow Hugo Chavez came back from the grave and re-programmed Dominion machines to make Biden win are ludicrous, but it is perfectly true that Dominion machines have been used for multiple stolen elections (generally stolen by Republicans). We need hand-counted paper ballots: the only system that is observable and verifiable.
In Oregon, we are only allowed to vote by mail - for many years. Other states also have that policy. NO evidence of corruption in any of those states. This provides written documented proof. The GOP will NEVER approve that because that would surely be the end of any wins for them.
The trouble with that system though is that mail-in ballots are very easy to corrupt. All kinds of things happen to those ballots, deliberate and not deliberate, before they hit the post office.
So now we're not trusting the U.S. mail? In Oregon you can mail the ballots in or use drop boxes which are spread around the state. There has never been any evidence of corruption within any State election that requires one to vote by mail or drop boxes. How do you explain that reality Linda?
You did not understand me. It's not a problem with the mail. It's a problem with the ballots before they are mailed.
Oh, I misunderstood- sorry however NO evidence of ballots being tampered with in states requiring mail in or drop box has ever been shown to be the case. So the case is moot for that issue. Again, numerous states have had this exclusive process for many, many years, more than enough time to discover a real problem.
I must confess to missing the aspect of going in to vote, I'm a former east coaster. I still remember the first time, when I was 18, being able to vote and closing the curtain in the voting booth. It was thrilling for me.
Great comment! Agree 100%.
When Kirsch proposed we support Johnson I wrote, no I will not hold my nose and support someone who is a grifter like plenty of other republicans, and who I agree with on only ONE issue.
Yes, our democracy is at risk. We are being asked to make a 'sophies choice' in a way.
If only I had a time machine to see how all of this plays out.
To this day I can't understand how people still see trump as someone who has this countries interests at heart. He has only ever had one person's interstest at heart, his own. People are simply projecting onto him things they wish he was.
Ron Johnson is about 50% less creepy than Trump to me, who is 95% creepy. (Yes, I measured their creepiness with my creepiness meter). I am really quite suprised that so many get behind Trump, say they will vote for him, given his financial/tax/political histories. Not sure what to hope for, other than a good crop of potatoes in the garden and that PennyMac doesn't repo my house too quickly as I see the economy grinding down. Maybe I will contact my mortgage lender proactively this week, ask some questions. Best from OR
Well said Atlandea. I agree. This is a Sophie's Choice moment. And yes, projection is a powerful mechanism that can be dangerous, as it is in this instance.
You really still don’t understand what is going on. If Trump was in office, I will bet all this censorship wouldn’t be happening!!!!! He wasn’t perfect, but he did love his country and fought for us. With all that is going on and you still don’t get it, that is sad bc there are too many like you who is going to allow WEF & NATO & WHO to take over the world. Then that is when there will be no Democracy!!! Do you think we are behaving as a free country now when ppl are mandated or lose their jobs to get a jab that doesn’t even work for the newer strains? Not to speak of the censorship of the massive amount of illness & death from them. Now to jab babies and young children who have a .0000 risk. The Phizer studies reveal the horrendous fraud. The election was STOLEN. 2000 Mules shows the blatant fraud. Further, this was a Plandemic/Scamdemic in order for the world coup d’etat to occur. You are like an Hitler soldier who has been brain-washed by the military style psyche ops, 24-7 fear porn and constant lies. However few reds came to the rescue except Johnson & Paul. Its all a mess.
Here is a concise listing of all that has and is occurring: Please Listen closely to what Harari has to say:
https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-mostly-peaceful-depopulation/comment/7529361
Thanks for sharing your views on this Sharon. Please remember that Trump was president when the pandemic started. His administration created operation Warp Speed which allowed these dangerous injections to be made and distributed. He was unable to stop it. He didn't realize that the pharmaceutical industry controlled everything. He failed. In this regard, I still blame the public health agencies. That's what needs to change. Those are the criminals. They have operated in democratic and republican political parties. THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL PROBLEM. The WEF, the WHO etc. they have been ALL been operating for decades despite which party is in power. Yes, "it's all a mess". We need to unite the democrats and the republicans to bring about change. Together, we can do this. If we remain divided - THEY WIN! PLEASE stop stirring the pot of division.
I agree both parties have failed us and in the hands of big pharma and worse. But your alliance with the current admin is very short sighted. Trump foolishly believed them!!! But he seemed to do many things while in office to try and save us from something he knew was coming from the “deep state”. If you don’t see how the current admin is treasonous then you don’t understand!!!! And it is Liberalism that drives this more than the other side!!! BLM, gender insanity, unchecked border entrance, are just parts of the elements to destroy our culture and peace and economy to eventually completely take us over. So I am not doing any further divisioning! Its all being done by outside forces and our puppet admin is doing nothing. Ukraine is a big manipulative provoked intentionally. Gas prices, inflation. Don't you see and connect the dots!!! Please take me off your list. I thought I had already done that before.
Please unsubscribe. Not sure why that's so challenging for you to accomplish. I agree it would be best for everyone. I wish you well Sharon.
I did unsubscribe. Your unsubscribe doesn’t work just like your readership that is near 0. Commie Marxism if what you want!
Are you for real? There's a tab at the top of the post - to unsubscribe. So you believe substack is tricking you to stay subscribed or have I somehow manipulated the platform to keep you in my clutches? I'm done and hopefully you are too.
I did it from the bottom part. I rally don’t know why it didn’t work, but I can Assure you I did cancel it before and only read it again bc it showed up again into my emails. Have a great life!!! Hope your readership increases!!!
Sharon, you wrote - "You really still don’t understand what is going on. If Trump was in office, I will bet all this censorship wouldn’t be happening!!!!!"
I can only assume that you have a very selective memory. You obviously have completely forgotten about all of the extreme censorship of the media and anyone else who made any critical comments about Trump or his administration. That level of censorship was no less egregious than what we have seen from the current administration surrounding the pandemic.
As far as your misplaced confidence that the election was stolen, I would highly recommend that you reexamine the evidence. All the distorted and fraudulent material presented in 2000 mules, and supported by many in the Republican Party (only in public however - in private, most have admitted how ridiculous this position is), is based solely on Trumps Big Lie. Even his own comically incompetent consiglieri, Giuliani, admitted publicly that they had absolutely no proof - “We’ve got lots of theories. We just don’t have the evidence.” This patently ridiculous lie is solely the result of Trump being a flaming narcissist and being utterly unable to contemplate his loss, so his only option was simply to make stuff up. All of this made up material by Trump and his ilk doesn't even come close to the mountain of material that proves his lie wrong. Even the republicans own "official" efforts to "prove" the election was stolen, failed miserably. Whether it was the 62 legal attempts in front of many Trump appointed judges, or the ridiculous waste of taxpayer monies to get the "Ninja" auditors to prove it in Arizona. Not one single attempt held up to any level of rational scrutiny. In fact, most of the infinitesimal cases of voter fraud, were people trying to get more votes for Trump. You, obviously, can support whoever you want, including Trump, but please do it with your eyes open!
Thanks for making such pertinent points. Will they be heard by republican sympathizers....I suspect not. If they don't accept the conclusions of 60+ litigations, many with Trump appointed judges, then nothing will allow them to understand that they've been deceived.
I don't like Trump so I hope you don't see this as a challenge to that, but I am going to. challenge you on this:
"You obviously have completely forgotten about all of the extreme censorship of the media and anyone else who made any critical comments about Trump or his administration."
What censorship? The media was all over Trump, reporting any and allegations against him. EVERYONE who was critical of Trump, including many Republicans, got a huge platform to tell their stories. He was impeached twice!
Trump talked shit about the media on Twitter, but I can't recall a single time his administration or the right was successful in suppressing a story in the same way that the Biden administration was successful in suppressing the Hunter laptop story, for example.
But it was the left suppressing any and all divergent opinions on Covid that was unlike anything I've ever seen in my life, and it scared the hell out of me. It truly felt like we were living in 1984.
Vernon - I agree abt the unprecedented nature of scientific censorship and the resultant absence of Informed Consent tht is a critical component of this nations bioethics since Nuremberg. What I was referring to was not only Trumps intentions and myriad attempts at censorship, but also the fact that for a time, Trump shut down all White House briefings in his attempt to prevent the media (except for Fox [at least until they started pissing him off] and AON) from knowing anything he and his administration were doing. This was essentially akin to the state run media outlets we see in autocratic countries. I get that the MSM was still providing platforms for anyone who was willing to complain about Trump. You can never eliminate all commentary. Even in the midst of the horrific censorship going on during the pandemic, there have still been media platforms such as Fox and OAN willing to give voice to anyone wanting to speak out about it. And, as we are experiencing personally, the rise of platforms such as Substack giving voice to the voiceless.
Thanks for this and quoting me. This is an important dialogue for us to have.
The problem is the 2 party system and the media - like FOX news and MSNBC for years engaged what I call "compulsory mutual disparagement" and also identification in opposition. Much political hysteria began with Trump. I think he did a lot of harm, like exiting the Iran nuclear deal and other treaties. But leaving the WHO now seems like a great idea.
We have to get beyond the duality of black and white, us and them, all or nothing thinking,
Much of the RD conflict is incited. We are being pitted against each other which empowers the dark forces. Those of us progressives who are aware have strange bedfellows - which may be part of the solution. We are challenged to transcend all0or-nothing thinking.
The Democrats have been terrible - which is why Trump won in the first place. The failed to appeal to many, especially those not college educated white males and drove them to the other side. With Covid, the Dems are mindless - compulsively rejecting things like hydroxychloroquine without investigating, because Trump liked it. I am registered Dem for now but may leave - will write an appeal to them. They have a short time to redeem themselves and look at the actual science and apologize and promote enlightened, rational policies and to educate the public. I am more of an independent.
Today I think we should all declare our independence from both parties. I will write a piece about this soon.
Here is a piece I wrote about this
Let’s You and Him Fight: Can We Overcome a Manipulated Conflict?
https://coronawise.substack.com/p/lets-you-and-him-fight-can-we-overcome
and my latest on the little ones
Before It’s Too Late, Before You Jab Your Little One
https://coronawise.substack.com/p/before-its-too-late-before-you-jab
2 Usable Informed Consent Checklists for Little Ones
Know Before You Act
https://coronawise.substack.com/p/2-usable-informed-consent-checklists
Thanks Diane. You also found that quote which I mentioned above.
“… we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it.” – Professor Eric Rubin of Harvard University, testifying before FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), October 26, 2021, on myocarditis and deaths, before voting to approve.
Dr. Rabin,
I'm a liberal that's been crashing on the Right's couch for the past 15 years. The Democratic party I knew growing up has been taken over by Leftists. Leftists are adept at exploitation of trust to commit harm; i.e. perfidy. Liberals don't stab people in the back; Leftists do it as a matter of course because "the ends always justify the means."
I don't look to the Right because I'm one of them. Rather, I see them as my mental furniture; or the manifestation of my inferior function. As a Dionysian Liberal, without the Right, I'd spin off into pure chaos and entropy. You can't 'deviate from the norm' if you lose all sight of where the "norm" is.
You know about "The Trusted News Initiative," but did you know it had its inception during the 2014 Ukraine Coup?
Odd as the words may sound, COVID-19 is a cognitive warfare operation. If truth is the agreement of knowledge with its object, at what point did ANYTHING we were told about COVID-19 agree with objective fact?
NEVER.
I believe you've mentioned reading RFK's book, so you're familiar with the germ games, and SPARS 2017. We're under attack by our own government Dr Rabin. Team Biden is not Democrat; it's Leftist. And it wields power from a cognitive warfare apparatus it built during the 2014 Ukraine coup.
The infrastructure needed for the COVID-19 cognitive warfare operation was established during the 2014 Ukraine coup—where Asst. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Vice President Joe Biden engineered regime change on Russia’s border using Nazi’s as muscle—e.g., Svoboda, Right Sector, etc.—and created a post-coup vassal-state which included the very same Nazis as government officials.”
In exchange for legitimizing their coup and subsequent genocide of Eastern Ukrainians as the “Revolution of Dignity,” Team Biden’s Nazi vassal state has been paying tribute in cash, muscle and intelligence services. You’ve heard of a second home? Since 2014, Team Biden has been using a second country to launder misappropriations and run intelligence operations against its political opponents in the U.S.
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"…[The] anti-Russian information warfare apparatus, which was birthed out of the Ukraine coup, … includes Britain’s 77th Military Brigade (embedded in social media companies throughout the world), the Integrity Initiative, NATO’s Strategic Communications Center in Latvia, and the State Department’s Global Engagement Center.
All of these military-grade psychological and information warfare groups operated and continue to operate on behalf of the coup in Ukraine and have been critical in the “perception management” surrounding various false-flag atrocities attributed to Russia…. Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the primary propagandists in the 2016-2017 operations against Trump, also operated in Ukraine, with Steele providing Victoria Nuland and John Kerry frequent operational updates through many memoranda concerning developments in that country. In fact, the British Integrity Initiative’s documents, seized and published by the hacking group “Anonymous [Europe],” point to a propaganda initiative and censorship effort aimed squarely at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, conducted, in part, right out of the State Department.
In describing this modern form of information warfare, Joel Harding, who went to work for Ukraine’s newly established “Information Ministry” during the coup, and formerly worked for Hillary Clinton at the State Department, describes a regime in which all information, other than manipulated propaganda, is denied to the target population. A compliant media apparatus [now known as “The Trusted News Initiative”] publishes daily talking points about key events, over and over again. The talking points are aimed at the “psyche” of targeted populations, with high emotive content, designed to produce desired action. Dissenting views are to be censored or debunked as “conspiracy theories.”
Harding and the Atlantic Council put this into operation in the United States shortly after the [2016] election, when the Washington Post published the signal piece, “Propaganda or Not.” It listed every website in the United States that had been deemed to be insufficiently anti-Russian—most of which provided the only independent journalism in the United States—as requiring immediate censorship."
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Everything you were told about Trump colluding with Russia, Trump making an impeachable phone call with Ukraine, COVID-19... it's all cognitive warfare. I can prove with one photo that same cognitive warfare apparatus set up the January 6th "insurrection."
They lied to us about everything Dr. Rabin. Team Biden's Ukraine-based cognitive warfare apparatus has turned the Democratic party into the angry mob in a Harper Lee novel; staring Donald Trump as Boo Radley.
Take a look at the Table of Contents of my Memo of Law
https://www.houseofstone76.com/copy-of-memo-of-law-in-support-of-com
Go to page 120 in the pdf viewer, and read pgs 112-113 to see proof that you've been lied to.
The Republican's aren't white supremacists or insurrectionists; they're rule-obeying church mice, and the Leftists know it and exploit it. That's why we're getting slaughtered. The Right isn't putting its foot down to stop them.
We have to wake up the survivors of our tribe before its too late; because the Right doesn't have the requisite capacity for ruthlessness that it's going to take to stop the Leftists.
"Odd as the words may sound, COVID-19 is a cognitive warfare operation. If truth is the agreement of knowledge with its object, at what point did ANYTHING we were told about COVID-19 agree with objective fact?"
This right here. It's truly frightening that people fell for the hoax.
You're looking at this as a binary choice. It's not. This is about finding balance again.
You don't have to vote down the line Republican or Democrat. You can vote by candidate. You can vote third party or not at all if you don't like any candidate. Did they support vaccine mandates and lockdowns? DON'T VOTE FOR THEM! They are unthinking authoritarians and very dangerous to our democracy.
IMO, we often treat politics like sports. I'm not team blue or team red.
Personally, I think the "left" and "right" dichotomy has to die if we're going to move forward. Both are based on political theory developed about 200 years ago. If you look at all our problems through a certain framework (left or right, liberal or conservative), you can only come up with limited solutions. Get rid of the framework and the possible solutions are endless.
Listen, I'm a gay man and I've always been very liberal. I still am, in the classic sense of "live and let live". But the Democratic Party is not liberal anymore. They've become quiet authoritarian. I don't like the Republican Party either. But I will vote for an individual Republican if I like their policy, their opinions and their leadership style. I will not vote for anyone that supported lockdowns or vaccine mandates. Our personal liberty and bodily autonomy are too important.
We have an important state election coming up. Tina Kotchek is the Democratic nominee. She supported a statewide vaccine mandate. I hope you will consider voting for someone else.
Here is a relevant new piece by my friend, Alanna
https://alannahartzok.substack.com/p/the-new-declaration-of-independence