Back in Year Moderna, while I was absolutely throwing away my life and murdering my own child by refusing the lifesaving vaccines that would prevent us from being immediately slaughtered by the deadly virus, I had a series of discussions with concerned intervenors
Actual sentence from the article, coding a fact claim as a performative emotional response: "Trump and his allies are pretend-raging that the deal would 'allow' 5,000 migrants to illegally enter daily." If you're West of the Rockies, you may have just heard me rolling my eyes like an earthquake.
It's so weird (not really, but you know) that Democrats can't defend what's actually in the bill, and instead complain that Republicans (and others) have read it and know what it contains. It reminds me very much of when the 'experts' were getting frustrated at anti-maskers because the anti-maskers actually knew the data surrounding masks.
When the vaxx hysteria was in full swing and people would call me names and say horrible things, I would calmly look at them and ask them if they knew what was in the vaccine. Not one person ever did. Would you like to know what’s in the vaxx? No, I just know it’s safe and effective and you’re killing people and you shouldn’t even be able to buy food. There was no such thing as a rational discussion. Now they’re too afraid to find out what poisons they’ve shot into their families.
Their denial is really something now that they have something to really be worried about. I was ghosted by plenty, and I'm not even sad or sorry about it.
The average tenure in the Senate is 12 years and generally one only arrives there after a stint in the House of another 6-8. So the average Senator today is a 61 year old has had someone managing his life and insulating him from reality for at least 20 years.
It's hard enough for you and I to adapt to instant information delivery, 24x7 news cycles, social media mobs, etc... imagine how much harder it is for them. They're living in a 1995 media bubble: major networks, evening news, long delays before information gets out. They think they can still do backroom, scratch-my-back deals that no one will know about until they've been passed. So when it doesn't work, they assume it's some kind of organized opposition; the plebes can't actually respond that quickly.
James Lankford is the new Adam Kinzinger. Once the democrats and Mitch McConnell are done using him for their nasty purposes they will flush him down the toilet along with other nasty things.
In fairness to SCOTUS, all they did was refuse to issue an injunction in a case that’s not even gone to trial. The role of SCOTUS is not to do fact finding as if a trial judge.
I agree that race-based admissions are crap, but the government is entitled to make its execrable case (that minority military officers are more effective when freighted with the implication they can’t make it on merit) before being blown out.
BTW, the DoD is under statutory *mandate* to increase racial diversity at all officer ranks. It was in an NDAA signed by Trump (can’t remember the year). Of course, the NDAA is a massive bill negotiated at the Schumer/McConnell level and not even shared with the White House while in process. It’s not clear that the mandate was even known except by the Dem negotiators.
McConnell has done great things on judges, but on spending & other legislation he’s been a whore. He’ll never leave voluntarily, so I reluctantly hope he has an medical issue sufficient to force his retirement. Given his death grip on power, that medical issue may be ☠️.
I saw Kristin Sinema interviewed about her support for the garbage bill - she was asked if she read the bill. She looked down, stammered around a few seconds, then said well I voted for it, so of course I read it. It was 100% crystal clear she was lying. Her stance has to be good for Kari Lake for Senate.
Only if you give the “boy” credibility. There is virtually no one in either party or in the media whom I believe regarding priorities. The only trustworthy name that comes to mind is Jack Keane, retired Army 4 star, who comments solely on military matters and leadership on FNC.
I suppose I can understand why the Senate Republicans are selling their souls. It must have to do with either a bribe or a threat. I just wish they wouldn't sell us down the river quite so cheaply. I hate being a bargain basement pawn.
Did it make mention of the ‘amazing’ shim/zim/zir who is opposing this meltdown with ‘their truth’? Hearing someone say feel instead of think is like a fork being dragged across a plate to me.
1. It constantly assumes the "true" motives Republicans & Trump have for rejecting it
2. It provides very little information on why Republicans actually say they reject it
3. In several places, it concedes key facts that support the complaint that the bill would not actually solve the problem (e.g. releasing migrants)
4. It concedes key facts that reveal just how bad the situation is, which is to essentially concede the entire border narrative to the Republicans/Trump, namely that our border is totally out of control, and in fact has been out of control for some time (e.g. we have to release them because things are so backlogged and there's so many of them)
5. It does these things despite the fact that the author spends half the article giving reasons why he thinks the bill is bad
These are all features of anti-trump/anti-republican/anti-conservative media. Always assume motive, never engage the actual arguments, meanwhile everything you say implicitly concedes the point.
We are fortunate to live in a time when people are forced to reveal their moral priorities. Everybody has been subjected to mandatory and public Asch and Milgram experiments, so that now we know exactly who can be peer pressured into asserting that 2+2=5, and who will gladly administer lethal shocks to strangers if a person in authority tells them to.
Conversely, we know who we can trust. Who cares if that number is depressingly small? It always was, only now we have that vital intelligence for the future, because the real experiments are just getting started.
I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight knowing there are people that are enrolled in a University in the United States of America that don't have the brains it would take to wipe their butts.
“Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kickass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.” — Dr. Lexus , Idiocracy
Addendum--From the FAA website and coming to a control tower near you: "The FAA actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops and advances people with disabilities. . . . Targeted disabilities . . . include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability [i.e., 'tards!], psychiatric disability and dwarfism."
Obviously, these students did not learn math from a nun, because my first-grade nun taught us how to do basic arithmetic in our heads. Although I did poorly in math once I got to algebra, which I consider to be the unnatural co-mingling of letters and numbers, I can still add, subtract, multiply, and divide without paper, all these decades later. It's actually not hard. Or maybe it is.
If you want to freak out a millennial or a gen Z'er, calculate the tax while you're standing in line and hand them the correct change as soon as they read it off the register.
Or even worse give them more than the amount and the change works out to an even dollar amount. Seems they can't figure out why you gave them an odd amount.
About 5-6 years ago, my Mom was checking out and a sale item rang up at full price. Mom told the cashier that the item was supposed to be 10% off, so the cashier stopped and looked...then just stared at the keypad on the register. After a short pause, the cashier called the supervisor over.
Cashier: "This lady says this is supposed to be 10% off."
Supervisor: "So why don't you override the price?"
Cashier: "I was GOING TO. But I can't find the 10% off key."
Yeah, I can figure tax in my head. I used to import children's books in two dozen languages for homeschoolers learning foreign languages and I could convert currencies in my head too. You know what those young'uns can't do either? Count back change. They're so used to the cash register telling them that they can't figure it out on their own. I usually just tell them how much I'm due back.
I, too, am of the generation that would give either a) exact change or b) extra change in order to round off the total charge whenever possible. Youngest son, a millennial, watched me do that once recently and told me, "You know, Mom, you don't get a prize for that."
One thing about Catholic school. You were going to learn to do basic math, spell and read. Or the nun would call your mom and there would be hell to pay.
I’m a CPA, and I pay for nothing in cash. The “Tap” function on CC terminals is SO much faster and bypasses the clerical/math incompetence. I literally visit the ATM once or twice a year.
I am apparently one of a dying breed as I have no credit or debit cards and pay for everything in cash; you know, that green stuff and the jingly silver-colored things.
Versus me, who in 1988 volunteered to be a guinea pig for my old school employer’s experiment with ACH payroll (vs. paper check). I think my preference was borne from living 30 yrs in Houston and the security concerns of periodically carrying large amounts of cash. ✌️
I can't help it, I was raised by people who distrusted governments, politicians, and banks. Insofar as money was concerned, they believed that it wasn't real until you held it in your hand. I don't think my parents ever had a credit card, neither did my grandparents. Paying cash was drummed into my head. Gotta say that budgeting is easier - when the green stuff runs out it's time to stop spending.
My 7 year old grand nephew, who is being homeschooled, can do that in his head and come up with the answer in 30 seconds. As a former teacher and public school proponent, I cringe when I see such ignorance in our young people.
You aren’t seeing the upside – your kids will be able to cruise into any high level job in the world, e.g., “President Dwayne Elizondo 'Mountain Dew' Herbert Camacho."
I remember the ASVAB. MFers wouldn't leave me alone after I took it. (IIRC, there were two people in the school who actually finished it and I was one of them.)
Too funny. You must have scored in the high 80s or 90s. In recruiting lingo--that would make you CAT 1. That is one HOT ASVAB score--and you're right, they'd be hounding you.
I guess they didn't go to the math videos section on TikTok. This shows you that diversity in America is alive and well. American college students of all genders and ethnicities are fucking retards.
"We know exactly who can be peer pressured into asserting that 2+2=5, and who will gladly administer lethal shocks to strangers if a person in authority tells them to."
Democrats.
Democrats will do these things.
It didn't used to be so cleanly partisan (cf. RFK Jr), but it sure has become that way.
Bro, I was fully on the 'Let's go to Iraq Train'. I also fell into the trap of explaining away WMD...'Saddam had months to hide them, get them to Syria...'
We did see how BrownShirty the Leftists became with Vacc Mandates, masks, social distancing etc, but I think we lose some credibility and agency when we fail to admit the Right/Classical Liberal/Non-Insane suffer from the same cognitive biases at times.
Jon Haidt wrote a fascinating book called "The Righteous Mind". Evolutionary Psychology. One point he makes in the book is that we are all genetically predisposed to our political beliefs.
I had to really think about that for a while, eventually nodding my head. Doesn't matter the time, I would likely have been part of the group that went outside the wire to hunt. I prefer team sports, hanging out with men doing hard things-it is how I'm built.
On our way back from a hunt, I doubt any of us would be thinking about how to evenly distribute the food once we got back inside the wire. That would be the women, and the dude painting the cave wall....
I feel the same way--I feel betrayed by the Left. I feel exiled by these people. We know they were comfortable with unvaccinated people not getting health care--I so get it--and usually, they are dumb on top of it all...but...
I try to keep in mind my own dismal track record of being 1000% on board with a narrative that resonated with me.
Bush, McCain, Romney... These guys *used* to be the face of the Republican party. Now the Trump and DeSantis types are ascendant. There is a huge difference.
I voted Gore in 2000 and *still* believed the Iraq WMD Hoax because so many respectable establishment types swore by it. But as the GWOT dragged on I became a Greenwald / Trump kind of guy - intensely skeptical of the next big Arms Contractor Feeding Frenzy, but also not afraid to knock heads when truly needed. And above all, completely distrusting of the Alphabet-Soup Security State and all the tyrannical overreach it implied.
That sort of distrust-the-establishment vaguely libertarian attitude had a firm home in the Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s - even while Reagan had his own Republican version of freedom and cutting back gov't regulation - but the landscape has shifted drastically since the early 2000s.
Lack of a Soviet rival to keep us focused on our unique value proposition (liberty)? Overreaction to 9/11? I dunno.
Agreed, huge difference in the Republican Party. I think it is appropriate. While I always thought of 'populism' little different than 'mob rule'--it turns out I'm way more populist than 'chamber of commerce-ish'. The same people who gave us Bush, McCain, Romney also gave us the Rust Belt, outsourcing our talent/manufacturing, and gave up on any cultural battles.
Good riddance. I have had a thick Libertarian streak my entire life, but (honestly) I think most of it is really a Carpman's 'problem with authority'. Had a horrible step-dad, and my vision of authority was distorted as a child.
Now, after the detritus I see in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland--I'm more 'law & order', maybe legalizing all the drugs wasn't a great idea...so some of my small 'L' libertarian ideas are brushing up against reality. I voted for gay marriage here--now our schools are filled with groomers, maybe they were always there...
Something I've come to understand but am unhappy about is that as much as I seek safety, certainty, comfort--especially in ideas--the more I close my mind to other input. Certainty kills curiosity.
The newer Trump/DeSantis Republican Party has made me way way way more suspicious of all my previous beliefs, and a much greater advocate in limited govt. When Vivek said he's lay off 50% of the govt day one, I was nodding my head vigorously...especially with all the alphabet soup security state, maybe 75% is better--and everyone over 20 years in govt.
It’s human to not want to let go of a set of beliefs. (If it’s easy to let go of them, were they really beliefs?) The question is what do you do when validated evidence comes out that the premises you’d accepted were flawed? I personally had no problem admitting to leftist debaters that the WMDs had not been there in years. What I couldn’t stand was their assertion that “Bush lied” vs. being mistaken. There was no discussion of George Tenet slapping Bush’s desk and asserting the presence of WMDs was a “slam dunk!”
This deceitful “advantage-taking” from people who excuse the ≈150M dead under Marxist regimes as “they just didn’t implement it right.”
Well said John. You're more accurately describing my thinking back then as well.
We had Cindy Sheehan and Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) up here protesting on one of the overpasses into Fort Lewis. It was a crazy time.
The vehemence with which these folks, crying crocodile tears, were screaming 'Bush lied; People died!" added to my own 'improving my fighting position' response.
I came to the conclusion that nearly everyone in Iraq leadership believed they had WMD. Their scientists lied about their own progress, or they'd have their head lopped off.
I agree – The only explanation that makes sense is that Saddam was riding a tiger, and if he’d admitted he had no WMDs, the tiger would have devoured him instantly. The threat of wiping out one’s ancestral village & all relatives with poison gas is pretty effective.
My wife and I are looking for our third pediatrician for our 4 month old daughter now. The first wouldn’t see us after one appointment when we told her we would be delaying vaccinations and following a reduced schedule of vaccines that had substantial data on efficacy. The second put a bunch of snarky notes in our Aurora health care file how we are, “very vaccine resistant.” That pissed off the misses.
It’s clear to me these “doctors” and “scientists” were never in the business of health. I hope this whole corrupt system burns.
We switched to an osteopathic pediatrician who doesn't take health insurance -- her practice is cash only. It instantly puts a stop to all of those discussions. And we submit our payments to our health insurance company for reimbursement, so the cost to us ends up being the same as it would be if insurance was just paying up front. Cash-only doctors seem to be the key to the whole thing.
We are actively looking for someone like this near us. It’s clear to me we will either be doing something like you suggest or joining one of the Christian medishare groups because I’m probably going to be arrested if I have to continually deal with with 30-something year old NPC corporate “doctors.” The hubris and utter lack of understanding by these people makes me apoplectic beyond description. Thanks for the suggestion.
Not even anywhere what you're dealing with but I've had to see Dr's a lot the past few years after not seeing them for like 20years. I can just feel the thickness in the air when they read my chart saying, not vaxxed. I'm kind of an asshole at 41 years old you can just tell not to even bring it up with me, hahahaha.
I am having heart issues. Which is nearly a death sentence in BC. I did see a cardiologist. So hostile. She said “why aren’t you vaxed?” Barked it out. I said “Because I am scientifically literate.” The appointment went down hill from there.
Do you STILL get that vibe, even after vaccines are on their 8th booster (or whatever)? And after young athletes continue to drop dead from heart “disease?”
I did get that vibe but it was really just upon meeting the doc and nurses and them.going over my chart. Out of 5 or 6 Dr's/nurses I got asked twice why I don't have the vax. I simply say It's not necessary.
My podiatrist has stopped dealing with commercial health insurance altogether. He shared the above link to a directory for direct primary care. Several of the DPC practices listed recommend Sedera for "catastrophic" care and emergencies.
Good idea. It’s absolutely a lost cause, however one tries to strategize, to work with a physician who accepts insurance, as they’re within a certain paradigm which they will not deviate from, as evidenced by the Twitter link you provided. I only use a functional medicine MD who (fortunately for our small city!) left a corporate-owned clinic and opened her own clinic about 10 years ago. Insurance isn’t accepted; it’s all out of pocket. Night and day, in my experience. P.S. Note how insurance steers folks away from various forms of medicine/health care, and forces them into ‘conventional’ western medicine. It’s a total ripoff.
Bandit - no kidding. For me personally, it is not a good value at all. It’s as if I’m paying for virtually nothing, with the exception of things such as injuries (last October I broke my ankle). I hate the way insurance steers people into certain modes of ‘health care’.
Chris they can take your insurance, document that you don’t want any immunizations. They need to respect your rights as parents. Just remember, doctors who take cash may not report it all . Find a doctor who respects your opinion and takes your insurance. ( Sorry this may not be a popular comment) .
Paul Edward - you’re not going to have any success unless you use a physician who doesn’t accept insurance. It’s not fair or right, but this is our reality today. Also, I’ve realized that if a child is doing well, they don’t need to see a doctor anyway, unless they have a serious illness the parents can’t figure out how to treat, or a serious injury that requires emergency care. When I was young, children never went to the doctor unless it was absolutely unavoidable. Baby ‘well’ appointments only exist nowadays in order for the doc to push vaccinations/immunizations.
1) I'm pretty poor, especially after health issues after a mold + lyme infection left me with greatly reduced hours. 2) my actual health is very much a priority to me 3) the fees are very reasonable to me ($65 / $75 for a visit) and big value -- health, vitality, cleared those infections, pain is gone, zero side effects from treatments -- for the investment. Insurance is imo a scam.
That’s a very reasonable price . Some doctors ask for a consultation fee between 1-3 thousand dollars , which does not include Iv therapies and their vitamins in their office . You’re very fortunate. I wish you well .
goodness! I've not run into those. Some will ask for a commitment of coming for several weeks to make sure of progress and initial evaluations, which take an hour generally, are more expensive, but there are other options besides the 1-3 thousand price tag. I steer clear of IV therapies myself. Supplements definitely helpful, though, but those are far less expensive than drugs.
You were lucky to have some interaction. I just got disowned by family and friends when all I did was ask for them to show me what evidence they had that made them so sure, so that I could change my mind - as I so wanted to be wrong. Nope. Silence and they never spoke to me again. Says it all really.
Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. The scamdemic, its rituals and our refusal to play along was integral to our daughter cutting off contact with us. That in itself is bad enough but it includes our grandchildren too. Remember what they stole from you.
Oh I know I am very far from alone in this and I feel for everyone who has lost family and friends. For some of us, most of us I suspect, that contact will never be regained and if it is there will be trust lost, for the most part. It is so difficult for anyone to admit they were wrong, they were duped, all that - and the longer it goes on the harder it is to climb down from one's own high horse. It's so much easier to cut people out and keep the head in the sand and pretend they are still right. To find Any answer which allows them to keep in blissful ignorance.
I hope one day your grandchildren will be able to see through the veil and grow enough to want to re-establish contact with you. I remember when my son's friends wore masks when we went to the shops. I took them to one side and explained to them that they had to take the ridiculous thing off straight away and why. Interestingy, they all did. Every one but one, who admitted he wore it because he could hide behind it. He is lost, the others are saved. they only 'went along to get along' and just needed the support to do what they wanted to do all along.
Yes, a lot is stolen from us. I think more has been stolen from those who cannot see. The impact on them os so much worse in so many ways. The one friend who hid behind his mask has unfortunately also been got by the whole gender nonsense. It's so sad, but I will continue to fight for his freedom. Freedom to think for himself!
Thank you for your kind words. So sad to hear of another innocent child being lost in this global brainwashing being waged. This is all evil and one day those responsible will be held accountable.
“…just needed the support to do what they wanted to do all along.”
I think that describes a HUGE percentage of our population today. It’s the whole premise underlying virtue signaling – the pursuit of support & approval.
I must be truly abnormal. I have never felt the need (pressure yes, “need” no) to betray my sense of right & wrong to achieve social acceptance – “If you don’t accept me as I am, then Fuck You!” Maybe my abusive father inadvertently created a real sense of self-worth that I will not surrender to anyone. If you want to bend me to your thinking, do it with facts & logic.
Ditto, but at lest my mother started talkiing to me again shortly before she died from very aggressive pancreatic cancer. I think she knew and starrted talking to me as if nothing had happened after 'disowning' me three years before. i think it was her way of accepting it without saying it in so many words. What averaged a year from diagn=osis to death for her was five weeks. Still, she did not die without welcoming me back into her life, albeit so very briefly, and for that I am grateful. We only get one mum and I would have been so very sad had she died without welcoming me back in her life, especially over this.
They're hoping that the tireless and annoying minority will be able to control the discussion by shaming everybody who doesn't think like them.
And it worked, for a bit. But just like the overused "YOU'RE RACIST" stopped having an effect on people, the overused "YOU DON'T CARE" will surely stop having an effect on people as well.
Sooner or later, people will come to the conclusion (if they haven't) that something isn't a "vaccine" just because you call it one.
"Climate illness?" What a joke. People with this affliction are what my grandmother would have called "constitutionally inadequate." What they need is exercise and fresh air. Doctors buying into this propaganda are shameful. Since 2020, nothing has eroded the credibility of the medical profession like the medical profession itself.
See, you did your own research which makes you SUPER DOUBLE PLUS MAXIMUM HITLER HIMMLER. I was actually told the same thing and I worked at two of the largest academic libraries in Canada for *twelve fucking years*. That is literally my freaking JOB.
Speaking of which librarianship has also gone off the demented deep end and I don't even recognize my profession anymore.
That’s my profession, too. DIE is killing everything it touches. Also, a significant proportion of my colleagues have been infected with woke brain viruses, so even though they see the decay and rot, they can’t allow themselves to identify the issue.
Engineering is a dead profession in the clown world of “math and physics are racist”.
LOL this is legitimately crazy. It’s not even as rainy as it was 7 years ago when it rained so much we had a super bloom. Or even as rainy as it was last year 🤦🏻♀️ Remember it snowed in North San Bernardino and Rialto! Also, I’m not actually typing up this comment because I’m dead. I shoulda got the life saving miracle drug Kamala Harris didn’t want because Trump made.
Bret Weinstein recently sat down to chat with Tucker Carlson and sombrely noted that the western world is infected with a fatal parasite. He’s not wrong. Young ignoramuses suing the government because other people drive their cars, is a symptom of the fatal infection.
Our little slice of Paradise is a long, long way from Alabama, but we share the same "retardspeak" deficit.
Thankfully.
There is a theory, prevalent at the Saturday morning meeting of the 'Old Farts Club', at the Coffee Shop. Is it possible that retardspeakers, exposed to our rural culture, may fear the sight of men and women, (yeah, we know the difference), doing actual work? Do they think they could be permanently traumatized? Would a total lack of man buns, electric cars, or green hair be damaging to their oh-so-fragile psyches?
Yessir. The retardspeakers run from manual labor faster than Niki Haley runs to MIC donors. Trying to imagine a manbun making hay bales in an open station tractor in an Alabama August afternoon brings a chuckle to me.
Laughing out loud here. We have had wonderful rains this winter in southeast PA and we have springs running down in our woods that have been dry for several years. The weather is delightful here right now and I walk down there every day and listen to the soft music as the water drops over the rocks. The whole US is being watered well this winter. I'm glad to see one of our most important agricultural meccas is soaking it up. Send strawberries out soon please! When will these poor souls realize that sometimes it's dry. And then it gets wet.
In 1979 Three Mile Island 20 miles away threatened to melt down. I was working as a public health nurse and would have needed to help evacuate people if necessary, and give them Iodine capsules. I visited my family in Virginia that weekend only to see President Carter on the national news visiting TMI. I was struck with the realization we had been living in the shadow of what many believed was a national crisis. You are living in a manipulated crisis Chris. It’s nothing new.
TMI had repercushions through out the western world, if you can believe it.
Soviet stooges in the Green and Peace movements used it to ramp up nuclear panic even over here, and forced our Socialist Democrat governement to hold a referendum on nuclear power.
The PM at the time, Olof Palme, literally spun a 180 overnight on his position on nuclear and referenda - and the entire party apparatus spun with him, memory-holing yesterday's Truth.
That had a great awakening-effect on people here, seeing the hypocrisy and rule-by-fear and emotionality so blatantly exposed, and it was part of a process which led to the Socialist Party's rapid fall from public favour during the 1980s.
I remember people refusing to eat microwaved food, or even entering apartments with microwave ovens in them, because of "the radiation", the fear was that strong. Trying to explain the difference didn't help - it's all radiation, apparently, and all of it is evil.
Yep. The reason women were traditionally excluded is so there would be enough men remaining to marginalize the few histrionic males.
All this crazy nonsense - the vax shaming, the constant race baiting, the butchering of kids, the climate hysteria, can be laid at the feet of the policy of providing women equal opportunity while failing to have an honest discussion of why sex-based roles existed in the first place.
You gotta be real careful with that with guys, it starts off all fun, but it always gets weird fast with the Epstein types, and next thing you know, one of your brothers wants to elephant walk the pledges during Monday Night Football on Parent's week.
BS. It's all screaming, threatening to blackball, physical hazing and some alcohol related hazing (which should be banned). This, combined with corporate disillusionment in my youth is why I had the balls to say no to the vax, among other personal wins. Hazing works.
What we’ve always known ; men & women are different. 1). Boys/ Men must learn to control their sexual urges ( most by nature they want sex with as many women as possible), and 2. girls/women should learn how to control their feelings. Feminists believe #1 ( all men are potential rapists) but call you a misogynist if you dare state #2.
Very true. Also young men take insanely stupid risks for very little benefit. A big part of the problem is that we can be honest about this: "don't drive drunk, you might kill yourself or some little kid", or "don't sleep with random women, you'll get the clap".
There is nothing analogous on the female side, like "before you get on a moral panic, try to figure out what's going on first", or "the straight white males in your office are not interested in how super important your feelings are".
The polarization of society is increasing. First, I lost friends because I wasn't vaccinated. Then, I was shunned because I questioned climate change. Now, work colleagues won't interact with me because I question that we have the strongest economy in the history of economies. I work in real estate, and just this morning a mortgage broker was telling me how "now that rates are declining..." When I brought up that rates were up on Friday (6.92%) he looked up his rate for today and admitted it was 7.02%. Hmm, so much for falling rates. I look at lenders as a necessary evil (the same way many look at real estate agents [me]) but I understand they are just trying to make a living. But, I am not a client, I am a colleague. When I try to engage them in a conversation about the economy, they pull back, stop returning my phone calls, and basically disappear. Until, of course, I refer them business, then they are friendly as can be. Now that we are in an election year, the anti-Trump crowd is ramping up the rhetoric, and climate change, doubting the economy, or being concerned about the border are all signs that I am a NAZI! I don't expect to lose friends this time around since I don't have any friends left. It is becoming a very strange world to be a conservative minded individual. And I don't mean Republican, because I am disgusted by both sides of our so-called two party system.
RRMM - you seem to be thinking clearly and have spent time and effort attempting to understand the situation. The friends and colleagues you lost may not know they are lacking information needed to make good decisions. Psychosis is disconnection from reality. People may have false beliefs or experience things that aren’t real. Psychosis isn’t a condition. It’s a term that describes a collection of symptoms.
Schizophrenia is a symptom of mass psychosis and involves a disconnection from reality, including hallucinations and delusions. It also affects your ability to recognize your symptoms. It’s a severe condition, but it’s treatable.
I have had conversations with people who just emphatically refuse to entertain any thoughts about Covid that are not told to them through their "news" programming or like-minded friends/family. They have no interest in new or additional information that would help them understand what is happening. I'm not a mental health professional but it is not difficult to see or read about the symptoms of psychosis in a large portion of the population.
I wouldn't have put it into words the way you did, but I agree with your assessment. When I first realized people are only able to converse up to the limits of their understanding or acceptance of reality, I stopped engaging them. Sadly, I am not a quick learner, and I am now realizing this issue extends to all areas including climate change, the economy, or anything else. When I do engage in "friendly" conversation with people I need to continually remind myself not to bring up anything controversial, and to keep the conversations extremely superficial. To say those conversation are not satisfying would be an understatement. It feels like I am Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
Fellow lone wolf here too, my friend. Fuck em. Be happy you haves eyes to see. It's just life! If they want to get that bent about it, it's their loss. Consintrait on the things and people you love. That's all that matters.
First headline I see, three minutes after posting this:
"Why Mike Johnson Is Having a MAGA Meltdown Over the Border Deal"
Meltdown! Emotions!
https://newrepublic.com/article/178754/mike-johnson-immigration-border-deal-meltdown
Not going to click.....but is the reason because the bill is complete and total shit that should be rejected by any sane American?
Actual sentence from the article, coding a fact claim as a performative emotional response: "Trump and his allies are pretend-raging that the deal would 'allow' 5,000 migrants to illegally enter daily." If you're West of the Rockies, you may have just heard me rolling my eyes like an earthquake.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that eye rolling is a sign of "whiteness", which would therefore make it racist.
My eyes are gonna get stuck from rolling any day now
I'm there with ya, Kelliann!
Eye-rolling is like totally racist. WaPo said so.
It's so weird (not really, but you know) that Democrats can't defend what's actually in the bill, and instead complain that Republicans (and others) have read it and know what it contains. It reminds me very much of when the 'experts' were getting frustrated at anti-maskers because the anti-maskers actually knew the data surrounding masks.
When the vaxx hysteria was in full swing and people would call me names and say horrible things, I would calmly look at them and ask them if they knew what was in the vaccine. Not one person ever did. Would you like to know what’s in the vaxx? No, I just know it’s safe and effective and you’re killing people and you shouldn’t even be able to buy food. There was no such thing as a rational discussion. Now they’re too afraid to find out what poisons they’ve shot into their families.
Their denial is really something now that they have something to really be worried about. I was ghosted by plenty, and I'm not even sad or sorry about it.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/rna-vaccines-risk-heavy-menstrual-bleeding-clarified-2024a10002og
The average tenure in the Senate is 12 years and generally one only arrives there after a stint in the House of another 6-8. So the average Senator today is a 61 year old has had someone managing his life and insulating him from reality for at least 20 years.
It's hard enough for you and I to adapt to instant information delivery, 24x7 news cycles, social media mobs, etc... imagine how much harder it is for them. They're living in a 1995 media bubble: major networks, evening news, long delays before information gets out. They think they can still do backroom, scratch-my-back deals that no one will know about until they've been passed. So when it doesn't work, they assume it's some kind of organized opposition; the plebes can't actually respond that quickly.
Yep....they screwed up so bad we started paying attention to them.
James Lankford is the new Adam Kinzinger. Once the democrats and Mitch McConnell are done using him for their nasty purposes they will flush him down the toilet along with other nasty things.
Exactly.
Supreme Court ain't much better.
Apparently they support racism:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/west-point-can-continue-race-based-admissions-now-supreme-court-rules
In fairness to SCOTUS, all they did was refuse to issue an injunction in a case that’s not even gone to trial. The role of SCOTUS is not to do fact finding as if a trial judge.
I agree that race-based admissions are crap, but the government is entitled to make its execrable case (that minority military officers are more effective when freighted with the implication they can’t make it on merit) before being blown out.
True. I'm still miffed they sat on their hands for 2 years during c19 and let virtually every amendment be neutered
I'm never flying again - anyone who can ensure you get safely from point A to point B is now being replaced by DEI hires. Thanks but no thanks.
BTW, the DoD is under statutory *mandate* to increase racial diversity at all officer ranks. It was in an NDAA signed by Trump (can’t remember the year). Of course, the NDAA is a massive bill negotiated at the Schumer/McConnell level and not even shared with the White House while in process. It’s not clear that the mandate was even known except by the Dem negotiators.
McConnell has done great things on judges, but on spending & other legislation he’s been a whore. He’ll never leave voluntarily, so I reluctantly hope he has an medical issue sufficient to force his retirement. Given his death grip on power, that medical issue may be ☠️.
great comparison!
I saw Kristin Sinema interviewed about her support for the garbage bill - she was asked if she read the bill. She looked down, stammered around a few seconds, then said well I voted for it, so of course I read it. It was 100% crystal clear she was lying. Her stance has to be good for Kari Lake for Senate.
We are suffering from a never ending boy-who-cried-wolf approach to nearly every aspect of our existence. It’s exhausting. Utterly exhausting.
Only if you give the “boy” credibility. There is virtually no one in either party or in the media whom I believe regarding priorities. The only trustworthy name that comes to mind is Jack Keane, retired Army 4 star, who comments solely on military matters and leadership on FNC.
Tom McClintock. RIP.
I suppose I can understand why the Senate Republicans are selling their souls. It must have to do with either a bribe or a threat. I just wish they wouldn't sell us down the river quite so cheaply. I hate being a bargain basement pawn.
It's almost as if they're profiting from war....
My middle school English teacher would have questioned the use of "almost". She would have demanded a 1000 word essay justifying the use of that term.
I didn't do so well on grammar...
Leave my Grammer out of this!
My Grammer died because I wasn’t vaccinated.
Poor Gramma 🤣
Ya think RG 😤😠🤬
A Kmart blue light special!
Did it make mention of the ‘amazing’ shim/zim/zir who is opposing this meltdown with ‘their truth’? Hearing someone say feel instead of think is like a fork being dragged across a plate to me.
I prefer them to say “feel.” That way I know who the assholes are without hurting my brain by listening to their BS.
I notice a few things about this piece:
1. It constantly assumes the "true" motives Republicans & Trump have for rejecting it
2. It provides very little information on why Republicans actually say they reject it
3. In several places, it concedes key facts that support the complaint that the bill would not actually solve the problem (e.g. releasing migrants)
4. It concedes key facts that reveal just how bad the situation is, which is to essentially concede the entire border narrative to the Republicans/Trump, namely that our border is totally out of control, and in fact has been out of control for some time (e.g. we have to release them because things are so backlogged and there's so many of them)
5. It does these things despite the fact that the author spends half the article giving reasons why he thinks the bill is bad
These are all features of anti-trump/anti-republican/anti-conservative media. Always assume motive, never engage the actual arguments, meanwhile everything you say implicitly concedes the point.
If MAGA Meltdowns we’re caused by fossil fuels, then the Climate Change warriors would be chanting “Drill Baby Drill!”
We are fortunate to live in a time when people are forced to reveal their moral priorities. Everybody has been subjected to mandatory and public Asch and Milgram experiments, so that now we know exactly who can be peer pressured into asserting that 2+2=5, and who will gladly administer lethal shocks to strangers if a person in authority tells them to.
Conversely, we know who we can trust. Who cares if that number is depressingly small? It always was, only now we have that vital intelligence for the future, because the real experiments are just getting started.
Here's a perfect example of what you're talking about. College students are asked to solve 15 x 4...........
https://twitter.com/MustangMan_TX/status/1754301061060313254
They answered with conviction, so they are right. It's 48. Don't be a hater.
I want to know how on earth somebody ended up at "23"...........
um, it doesn't matter. they ended up with a consensus on 48 so that is the answer.
The consensus is what was important to them. They knew 48 was a multiple of some numbers.
THAT is a fact.
They're only off by 12. That's not too bad. `\_(•_•)_/`
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Good point. They were 80% correct. 48/60. What’s that? A B+?
Fer shure!
I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight knowing there are people that are enrolled in a University in the United States of America that don't have the brains it would take to wipe their butts.
It’s all about the feelings, man.
I watched it 4 times. Not one of them had a clue. No wonder people are graduating in gender studies and event planning.
I have been told not to worry about the future.
This clip totally supports that opinion.
If appears there may not be a future!
“Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kickass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.” — Dr. Lexus , Idiocracy
Addendum--From the FAA website and coming to a control tower near you: "The FAA actively recruits, hires, promotes, retains, develops and advances people with disabilities. . . . Targeted disabilities . . . include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability [i.e., 'tards!], psychiatric disability and dwarfism."
With people like that in charge of ANYTHING, maybe we'd be better off with no future.
Now, now.
Obviously, these students did not learn math from a nun, because my first-grade nun taught us how to do basic arithmetic in our heads. Although I did poorly in math once I got to algebra, which I consider to be the unnatural co-mingling of letters and numbers, I can still add, subtract, multiply, and divide without paper, all these decades later. It's actually not hard. Or maybe it is.
If you want to freak out a millennial or a gen Z'er, calculate the tax while you're standing in line and hand them the correct change as soon as they read it off the register.
Or even worse give them more than the amount and the change works out to an even dollar amount. Seems they can't figure out why you gave them an odd amount.
Simple entertainment for us simple folks.
I did that once, calculated so I would get $5.00 back. The confused cashier handed it back and said we don’t do that here.....
The total is $7.37 so you give them a ten and two pennies and they have no idea what to do.
About 5-6 years ago, my Mom was checking out and a sale item rang up at full price. Mom told the cashier that the item was supposed to be 10% off, so the cashier stopped and looked...then just stared at the keypad on the register. After a short pause, the cashier called the supervisor over.
Cashier: "This lady says this is supposed to be 10% off."
Supervisor: "So why don't you override the price?"
Cashier: "I was GOING TO. But I can't find the 10% off key."
Mom: "It's $1.25."
Cashier: "You can figure that in your head?"
Supervisor: [laughs]
Yeah, I can figure tax in my head. I used to import children's books in two dozen languages for homeschoolers learning foreign languages and I could convert currencies in my head too. You know what those young'uns can't do either? Count back change. They're so used to the cash register telling them that they can't figure it out on their own. I usually just tell them how much I'm due back.
I, too, am of the generation that would give either a) exact change or b) extra change in order to round off the total charge whenever possible. Youngest son, a millennial, watched me do that once recently and told me, "You know, Mom, you don't get a prize for that."
Sadly I've learned that just because something is easy doesn't mean it's easy for everybody.
But how did they graduate high school, much less get accepted into college........
15 x 4, beginning level multiplication…how did they graduate from 4th grade??
You can even do it the dumb way and get the answer. 15 + 15 = 30, 30 + 30 = 60. Ta Da! The answer!
Oh! Sorry, they probably can't add either. 😳
I took remedial math in grade school and flunked trig TWICE then gave up, but even I can multiply 4 x 15! (I do it the dumb way.)
Sister did not care at all whether you thought it was easy or not. You learned.
I suppose that would be much too stressful for students these days, but there's something to be said for structure and discipline.
We’ve exchanged numerous comments over the months, only for me to learn you harbor this racism-based skill. The horror! The horror!
One thing about Catholic school. You were going to learn to do basic math, spell and read. Or the nun would call your mom and there would be hell to pay.
My wife attended parochial school, and rulers & yardsticks were only tangentially used for measurement…
My mom always knew what happened at school before I even got home.
All those letters and numbers having unnatural relationships with each other. A and 3, divided into 2 multiplied by B. It’s disgusting.
It might be even more disgusting if I could understand any of it.
I’m a CPA, and I pay for nothing in cash. The “Tap” function on CC terminals is SO much faster and bypasses the clerical/math incompetence. I literally visit the ATM once or twice a year.
I am apparently one of a dying breed as I have no credit or debit cards and pay for everything in cash; you know, that green stuff and the jingly silver-colored things.
Versus me, who in 1988 volunteered to be a guinea pig for my old school employer’s experiment with ACH payroll (vs. paper check). I think my preference was borne from living 30 yrs in Houston and the security concerns of periodically carrying large amounts of cash. ✌️
I can't help it, I was raised by people who distrusted governments, politicians, and banks. Insofar as money was concerned, they believed that it wasn't real until you held it in your hand. I don't think my parents ever had a credit card, neither did my grandparents. Paying cash was drummed into my head. Gotta say that budgeting is easier - when the green stuff runs out it's time to stop spending.
Fifteen times four??? C’mon man, those are college students…they don’t get into higher math until graduate school!
My 7 year old grand nephew, who is being homeschooled, can do that in his head and come up with the answer in 30 seconds. As a former teacher and public school proponent, I cringe when I see such ignorance in our young people.
It’s literally painful to see this.
You aren’t seeing the upside – your kids will be able to cruise into any high level job in the world, e.g., “President Dwayne Elizondo 'Mountain Dew' Herbert Camacho."
One of my besties is a recruiter for the Army National Guard. This was about 10 years ago...but I'm sure it has improved since then...
Mike takes two high school graduates to MEPS to take the ASVAB..military SAT/IQ test. The test that determines which jobs are available to everyone.
They scored an 8 and an 11. Out of 100. High School Graduates. Prior to Zoom pseudo school. 8 & 11.
Heads should roll...but instead we voted back in the same school board...
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I remember the ASVAB. MFers wouldn't leave me alone after I took it. (IIRC, there were two people in the school who actually finished it and I was one of them.)
Too funny. You must have scored in the high 80s or 90s. In recruiting lingo--that would make you CAT 1. That is one HOT ASVAB score--and you're right, they'd be hounding you.
bsn
Even then I didn't see the sense in sending our young men and women over into the sandbox.
I suffered from cognitive dissonance. Was a CPT on 9/11. The attacks validated everything I had been doing for the past 10 years...
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If I was paying for a kid at Kennesaw, I’d be having an aneurysm right about now.
And being stupid is funny to them. Probably because basic math is an underpinning of the patriarchy. Turns my stomach just writing it.
I guess they didn't go to the math videos section on TikTok. This shows you that diversity in America is alive and well. American college students of all genders and ethnicities are fucking retards.
The scary part is this is the pool from which they will be hiring 87,000 IRS agents.
The way those morons are doing math, we might all be getting rebates!!!
That’s depressing....
😳😲🙄😱🤢🤮
It is a depressingly small number, but it’s always better to know who everyone really is when it matters.
"We know exactly who can be peer pressured into asserting that 2+2=5, and who will gladly administer lethal shocks to strangers if a person in authority tells them to."
Democrats.
Democrats will do these things.
It didn't used to be so cleanly partisan (cf. RFK Jr), but it sure has become that way.
Vote accordingly.
Bro, I was fully on the 'Let's go to Iraq Train'. I also fell into the trap of explaining away WMD...'Saddam had months to hide them, get them to Syria...'
We did see how BrownShirty the Leftists became with Vacc Mandates, masks, social distancing etc, but I think we lose some credibility and agency when we fail to admit the Right/Classical Liberal/Non-Insane suffer from the same cognitive biases at times.
Jon Haidt wrote a fascinating book called "The Righteous Mind". Evolutionary Psychology. One point he makes in the book is that we are all genetically predisposed to our political beliefs.
I had to really think about that for a while, eventually nodding my head. Doesn't matter the time, I would likely have been part of the group that went outside the wire to hunt. I prefer team sports, hanging out with men doing hard things-it is how I'm built.
On our way back from a hunt, I doubt any of us would be thinking about how to evenly distribute the food once we got back inside the wire. That would be the women, and the dude painting the cave wall....
I feel the same way--I feel betrayed by the Left. I feel exiled by these people. We know they were comfortable with unvaccinated people not getting health care--I so get it--and usually, they are dumb on top of it all...but...
I try to keep in mind my own dismal track record of being 1000% on board with a narrative that resonated with me.
bsn
Bush, McCain, Romney... These guys *used* to be the face of the Republican party. Now the Trump and DeSantis types are ascendant. There is a huge difference.
I voted Gore in 2000 and *still* believed the Iraq WMD Hoax because so many respectable establishment types swore by it. But as the GWOT dragged on I became a Greenwald / Trump kind of guy - intensely skeptical of the next big Arms Contractor Feeding Frenzy, but also not afraid to knock heads when truly needed. And above all, completely distrusting of the Alphabet-Soup Security State and all the tyrannical overreach it implied.
That sort of distrust-the-establishment vaguely libertarian attitude had a firm home in the Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s - even while Reagan had his own Republican version of freedom and cutting back gov't regulation - but the landscape has shifted drastically since the early 2000s.
Lack of a Soviet rival to keep us focused on our unique value proposition (liberty)? Overreaction to 9/11? I dunno.
Ben,
Agreed, huge difference in the Republican Party. I think it is appropriate. While I always thought of 'populism' little different than 'mob rule'--it turns out I'm way more populist than 'chamber of commerce-ish'. The same people who gave us Bush, McCain, Romney also gave us the Rust Belt, outsourcing our talent/manufacturing, and gave up on any cultural battles.
Good riddance. I have had a thick Libertarian streak my entire life, but (honestly) I think most of it is really a Carpman's 'problem with authority'. Had a horrible step-dad, and my vision of authority was distorted as a child.
Now, after the detritus I see in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland--I'm more 'law & order', maybe legalizing all the drugs wasn't a great idea...so some of my small 'L' libertarian ideas are brushing up against reality. I voted for gay marriage here--now our schools are filled with groomers, maybe they were always there...
Something I've come to understand but am unhappy about is that as much as I seek safety, certainty, comfort--especially in ideas--the more I close my mind to other input. Certainty kills curiosity.
The newer Trump/DeSantis Republican Party has made me way way way more suspicious of all my previous beliefs, and a much greater advocate in limited govt. When Vivek said he's lay off 50% of the govt day one, I was nodding my head vigorously...especially with all the alphabet soup security state, maybe 75% is better--and everyone over 20 years in govt.
Have a great week.
bsn
It’s human to not want to let go of a set of beliefs. (If it’s easy to let go of them, were they really beliefs?) The question is what do you do when validated evidence comes out that the premises you’d accepted were flawed? I personally had no problem admitting to leftist debaters that the WMDs had not been there in years. What I couldn’t stand was their assertion that “Bush lied” vs. being mistaken. There was no discussion of George Tenet slapping Bush’s desk and asserting the presence of WMDs was a “slam dunk!”
This deceitful “advantage-taking” from people who excuse the ≈150M dead under Marxist regimes as “they just didn’t implement it right.”
Well said John. You're more accurately describing my thinking back then as well.
We had Cindy Sheehan and Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) up here protesting on one of the overpasses into Fort Lewis. It was a crazy time.
The vehemence with which these folks, crying crocodile tears, were screaming 'Bush lied; People died!" added to my own 'improving my fighting position' response.
I came to the conclusion that nearly everyone in Iraq leadership believed they had WMD. Their scientists lied about their own progress, or they'd have their head lopped off.
Truth? Who knows?
150M dead? That is revisionist history.
bsn
I always thought our guys thought there were WMDs in Iraq because we sold them to Saddam. Maybe he used all of them on the Kurds?
Usage accounted for some, but he sold some to Assad and surrendered the rest after Gulf I. He threw the inspectors out to conceal their absence.
I agree – The only explanation that makes sense is that Saddam was riding a tiger, and if he’d admitted he had no WMDs, the tiger would have devoured him instantly. The threat of wiping out one’s ancestral village & all relatives with poison gas is pretty effective.
Yesssss, man. I couldn't agree more. The numbers are small but they always have been. Damn straight. Keep it tight, gang!
Stealing this quote. Although I quickly realized that I know who I can trust, when some people were hysterical about getting The Shot.
My wife and I are looking for our third pediatrician for our 4 month old daughter now. The first wouldn’t see us after one appointment when we told her we would be delaying vaccinations and following a reduced schedule of vaccines that had substantial data on efficacy. The second put a bunch of snarky notes in our Aurora health care file how we are, “very vaccine resistant.” That pissed off the misses.
It’s clear to me these “doctors” and “scientists” were never in the business of health. I hope this whole corrupt system burns.
We switched to an osteopathic pediatrician who doesn't take health insurance -- her practice is cash only. It instantly puts a stop to all of those discussions. And we submit our payments to our health insurance company for reimbursement, so the cost to us ends up being the same as it would be if insurance was just paying up front. Cash-only doctors seem to be the key to the whole thing.
We are actively looking for someone like this near us. It’s clear to me we will either be doing something like you suggest or joining one of the Christian medishare groups because I’m probably going to be arrested if I have to continually deal with with 30-something year old NPC corporate “doctors.” The hubris and utter lack of understanding by these people makes me apoplectic beyond description. Thanks for the suggestion.
They're all just drug pushers anyway. It seems to be all they know.
So that's why they all have infinity pools!
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Not even anywhere what you're dealing with but I've had to see Dr's a lot the past few years after not seeing them for like 20years. I can just feel the thickness in the air when they read my chart saying, not vaxxed. I'm kind of an asshole at 41 years old you can just tell not to even bring it up with me, hahahaha.
I am having heart issues. Which is nearly a death sentence in BC. I did see a cardiologist. So hostile. She said “why aren’t you vaxed?” Barked it out. I said “Because I am scientifically literate.” The appointment went down hill from there.
I know, the energy really shifts, doesn't it?
Get well
Thank you.
Do you STILL get that vibe, even after vaccines are on their 8th booster (or whatever)? And after young athletes continue to drop dead from heart “disease?”
I did get that vibe but it was really just upon meeting the doc and nurses and them.going over my chart. Out of 5 or 6 Dr's/nurses I got asked twice why I don't have the vax. I simply say It's not necessary.
https://jointhewedge.com/
My podiatrist has stopped dealing with commercial health insurance altogether. He shared the above link to a directory for direct primary care. Several of the DPC practices listed recommend Sedera for "catastrophic" care and emergencies.
Good idea. It’s absolutely a lost cause, however one tries to strategize, to work with a physician who accepts insurance, as they’re within a certain paradigm which they will not deviate from, as evidenced by the Twitter link you provided. I only use a functional medicine MD who (fortunately for our small city!) left a corporate-owned clinic and opened her own clinic about 10 years ago. Insurance isn’t accepted; it’s all out of pocket. Night and day, in my experience. P.S. Note how insurance steers folks away from various forms of medicine/health care, and forces them into ‘conventional’ western medicine. It’s a total ripoff.
Insurance
Medicare is really fun. 🙄
Bandit - no kidding. For me personally, it is not a good value at all. It’s as if I’m paying for virtually nothing, with the exception of things such as injuries (last October I broke my ankle). I hate the way insurance steers people into certain modes of ‘health care’.
Fer real!
I swear you get less service from the doctors, too. Probably, because the USG tells them how much money they'll get to treat people with Medicare.
I roll into Medicare this coming May. Can't wait (sarcasm).
I'm looking forward to it for you. (Not)
You can learn a lot about people once you understand their profit motive.
Thank you Randy 💥🎯
Same here. The extra cost, and drive, is worth our peace of mind.
Chris they can take your insurance, document that you don’t want any immunizations. They need to respect your rights as parents. Just remember, doctors who take cash may not report it all . Find a doctor who respects your opinion and takes your insurance. ( Sorry this may not be a popular comment) .
Also , find physicians who are self employed and don’t have to answer to corporate medicine .
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Seek and you shall find
Paul Edward - you’re not going to have any success unless you use a physician who doesn’t accept insurance. It’s not fair or right, but this is our reality today. Also, I’ve realized that if a child is doing well, they don’t need to see a doctor anyway, unless they have a serious illness the parents can’t figure out how to treat, or a serious injury that requires emergency care. When I was young, children never went to the doctor unless it was absolutely unavoidable. Baby ‘well’ appointments only exist nowadays in order for the doc to push vaccinations/immunizations.
I take insurance and don’t give 2 shits about vaccines. But I’m not employed by a hospital corporation. I use the FLCCC as a helpful guideline.
I’m 50 and my mother was a career nurse. We hardly ever went to the pediatrician. From 13 onward I never even had a doctor, let alone a pediatrician.
You are SO RIGHT. Healthy people don’t need healthcare…
Tell them you prefer to remain in the control group....
100% Bill B
integrative health docs 100%. Most don't deal with insurance. I switched years ago. Never looked back.
Glad you can pay cash that many patients cannot .
1) I'm pretty poor, especially after health issues after a mold + lyme infection left me with greatly reduced hours. 2) my actual health is very much a priority to me 3) the fees are very reasonable to me ($65 / $75 for a visit) and big value -- health, vitality, cleared those infections, pain is gone, zero side effects from treatments -- for the investment. Insurance is imo a scam.
That’s a very reasonable price . Some doctors ask for a consultation fee between 1-3 thousand dollars , which does not include Iv therapies and their vitamins in their office . You’re very fortunate. I wish you well .
goodness! I've not run into those. Some will ask for a commitment of coming for several weeks to make sure of progress and initial evaluations, which take an hour generally, are more expensive, but there are other options besides the 1-3 thousand price tag. I steer clear of IV therapies myself. Supplements definitely helpful, though, but those are far less expensive than drugs.
Awesome 🤗
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Let's assume you have pale skin.
I wonder if the same thing would happen if you had darker melanin?
You should not take your daughter to the doctor unless she is super ill. She doesn't need a pediatrician imo.
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE EMERGENCY!!!
KNOW WHO ELSE DIDN'T USE ALL CAPS THAT'S RIGHT ADOLF HITLER THINK ABOUT IT
But he capitalized all his nouns.
AND 👏 IT 👏 NEEDS 👏 MORE 👏 SASSY 👏 CLAPS!
LMAO. IF ONLY I COULD MAKE THE FONT LARGER I COULD REALLY MAKE YOU FEEL MY FEELINGS hARdeR!
You were lucky to have some interaction. I just got disowned by family and friends when all I did was ask for them to show me what evidence they had that made them so sure, so that I could change my mind - as I so wanted to be wrong. Nope. Silence and they never spoke to me again. Says it all really.
The silence descended soon enough.
Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger. The scamdemic, its rituals and our refusal to play along was integral to our daughter cutting off contact with us. That in itself is bad enough but it includes our grandchildren too. Remember what they stole from you.
Oh I know I am very far from alone in this and I feel for everyone who has lost family and friends. For some of us, most of us I suspect, that contact will never be regained and if it is there will be trust lost, for the most part. It is so difficult for anyone to admit they were wrong, they were duped, all that - and the longer it goes on the harder it is to climb down from one's own high horse. It's so much easier to cut people out and keep the head in the sand and pretend they are still right. To find Any answer which allows them to keep in blissful ignorance.
I hope one day your grandchildren will be able to see through the veil and grow enough to want to re-establish contact with you. I remember when my son's friends wore masks when we went to the shops. I took them to one side and explained to them that they had to take the ridiculous thing off straight away and why. Interestingy, they all did. Every one but one, who admitted he wore it because he could hide behind it. He is lost, the others are saved. they only 'went along to get along' and just needed the support to do what they wanted to do all along.
Yes, a lot is stolen from us. I think more has been stolen from those who cannot see. The impact on them os so much worse in so many ways. The one friend who hid behind his mask has unfortunately also been got by the whole gender nonsense. It's so sad, but I will continue to fight for his freedom. Freedom to think for himself!
Thank you for your kind words. So sad to hear of another innocent child being lost in this global brainwashing being waged. This is all evil and one day those responsible will be held accountable.
“…just needed the support to do what they wanted to do all along.”
I think that describes a HUGE percentage of our population today. It’s the whole premise underlying virtue signaling – the pursuit of support & approval.
I must be truly abnormal. I have never felt the need (pressure yes, “need” no) to betray my sense of right & wrong to achieve social acceptance – “If you don’t accept me as I am, then Fuck You!” Maybe my abusive father inadvertently created a real sense of self-worth that I will not surrender to anyone. If you want to bend me to your thinking, do it with facts & logic.
You aren't alone, some of my family still won't talk to me.
Ditto, but at lest my mother started talkiing to me again shortly before she died from very aggressive pancreatic cancer. I think she knew and starrted talking to me as if nothing had happened after 'disowning' me three years before. i think it was her way of accepting it without saying it in so many words. What averaged a year from diagn=osis to death for her was five weeks. Still, she did not die without welcoming me back into her life, albeit so very briefly, and for that I am grateful. We only get one mum and I would have been so very sad had she died without welcoming me back in her life, especially over this.
They're hoping that the tireless and annoying minority will be able to control the discussion by shaming everybody who doesn't think like them.
And it worked, for a bit. But just like the overused "YOU'RE RACIST" stopped having an effect on people, the overused "YOU DON'T CARE" will surely stop having an effect on people as well.
Sooner or later, people will come to the conclusion (if they haven't) that something isn't a "vaccine" just because you call it one.
And a man isn't a woman just because you call him one! The examples are endless.
Yup. You also don't die from c19 just because you had it when you died.
"YOU DON'T CARE"
I can’t object to that criticism – I could not possibly give less of a crap about the entirety of the Liberal universe. Guilty and proud of it!
"Climate illness?" What a joke. People with this affliction are what my grandmother would have called "constitutionally inadequate." What they need is exercise and fresh air. Doctors buying into this propaganda are shameful. Since 2020, nothing has eroded the credibility of the medical profession like the medical profession itself.
And a slap upside the head.
See, you did your own research which makes you SUPER DOUBLE PLUS MAXIMUM HITLER HIMMLER. I was actually told the same thing and I worked at two of the largest academic libraries in Canada for *twelve fucking years*. That is literally my freaking JOB.
Speaking of which librarianship has also gone off the demented deep end and I don't even recognize my profession anymore.
I'm a civil engineers and some how "equity" has wormed it's way into infrastructure design like drainage studies.
Things are nuts, everywhere.
That’s my profession, too. DIE is killing everything it touches. Also, a significant proportion of my colleagues have been infected with woke brain viruses, so even though they see the decay and rot, they can’t allow themselves to identify the issue.
Engineering is a dead profession in the clown world of “math and physics are racist”.
Fortunately, engineering has little impact on our daily lives.
Sanitation engineering saved more lives than the CDC and FDA, combined. And they don't torture any puppies!!!
*huge belly laugh, followed by a heavy sigh*
That screaming person needed to be kicked out of the meeting.
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LOL this is legitimately crazy. It’s not even as rainy as it was 7 years ago when it rained so much we had a super bloom. Or even as rainy as it was last year 🤦🏻♀️ Remember it snowed in North San Bernardino and Rialto! Also, I’m not actually typing up this comment because I’m dead. I shoulda got the life saving miracle drug Kamala Harris didn’t want because Trump made.
Bret Weinstein recently sat down to chat with Tucker Carlson and sombrely noted that the western world is infected with a fatal parasite. He’s not wrong. Young ignoramuses suing the government because other people drive their cars, is a symptom of the fatal infection.
Watching Bret "wake up" to the evil that rules over us is one of my favorite things lately.
I live in bumfvck Alabama, I'm not surrounded by retardspeak. How ironic is that?
Our little slice of Paradise is a long, long way from Alabama, but we share the same "retardspeak" deficit.
Thankfully.
There is a theory, prevalent at the Saturday morning meeting of the 'Old Farts Club', at the Coffee Shop. Is it possible that retardspeakers, exposed to our rural culture, may fear the sight of men and women, (yeah, we know the difference), doing actual work? Do they think they could be permanently traumatized? Would a total lack of man buns, electric cars, or green hair be damaging to their oh-so-fragile psyches?
Yessir. The retardspeakers run from manual labor faster than Niki Haley runs to MIC donors. Trying to imagine a manbun making hay bales in an open station tractor in an Alabama August afternoon brings a chuckle to me.
I don't know, let's get the chainsaw and find out.
That's because good ole' boys have wisdom.
Not ironic at all. Seems pretty logical.
Laughing out loud here. We have had wonderful rains this winter in southeast PA and we have springs running down in our woods that have been dry for several years. The weather is delightful here right now and I walk down there every day and listen to the soft music as the water drops over the rocks. The whole US is being watered well this winter. I'm glad to see one of our most important agricultural meccas is soaking it up. Send strawberries out soon please! When will these poor souls realize that sometimes it's dry. And then it gets wet.
It's enjoyable. True story! I walked in the devastating atmospheric river that's lashing us, and it was quite pleasant.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDzeLsSdOps&feature=youtu.be
SEE HOW THEY'RE SUFFERING!?!?!?
In 1979 Three Mile Island 20 miles away threatened to melt down. I was working as a public health nurse and would have needed to help evacuate people if necessary, and give them Iodine capsules. I visited my family in Virginia that weekend only to see President Carter on the national news visiting TMI. I was struck with the realization we had been living in the shadow of what many believed was a national crisis. You are living in a manipulated crisis Chris. It’s nothing new.
TMI had repercushions through out the western world, if you can believe it.
Soviet stooges in the Green and Peace movements used it to ramp up nuclear panic even over here, and forced our Socialist Democrat governement to hold a referendum on nuclear power.
The PM at the time, Olof Palme, literally spun a 180 overnight on his position on nuclear and referenda - and the entire party apparatus spun with him, memory-holing yesterday's Truth.
That had a great awakening-effect on people here, seeing the hypocrisy and rule-by-fear and emotionality so blatantly exposed, and it was part of a process which led to the Socialist Party's rapid fall from public favour during the 1980s.
I remember people refusing to eat microwaved food, or even entering apartments with microwave ovens in them, because of "the radiation", the fear was that strong. Trying to explain the difference didn't help - it's all radiation, apparently, and all of it is evil.
Wonder what those people use to see with. . .
Thanks for this. I really had no idea. I live here and I still think nuclear power is our best energy option.
Its called winter.
I mean, it was.
Seasons are raaaacist!
OBVIOUSLY
Racist's are seasons.
Why is that so funny?!
Racists come and go like the fashion of the seasons.
It's this years new black
It's that black that reflects no light. Whatever the heck they call that....
I work as a tutor, mostly for standardized tests. Here's a revealing SAT question --
Scientists ___ these pits may have developed when lava on the moon's surface partially cooled, forming a thin crust on top.
(A) feel like
(B) hypothesize
(C) proclaim
(D) spell out
You'd be surprised how many people (mostly girls) go for (A) or (C).
Yep. The reason women were traditionally excluded is so there would be enough men remaining to marginalize the few histrionic males.
All this crazy nonsense - the vax shaming, the constant race baiting, the butchering of kids, the climate hysteria, can be laid at the feet of the policy of providing women equal opportunity while failing to have an honest discussion of why sex-based roles existed in the first place.
100% and it made pussy's out of men
Bring back hazing.
Lol
You gotta be real careful with that with guys, it starts off all fun, but it always gets weird fast with the Epstein types, and next thing you know, one of your brothers wants to elephant walk the pledges during Monday Night Football on Parent's week.
BS. It's all screaming, threatening to blackball, physical hazing and some alcohol related hazing (which should be banned). This, combined with corporate disillusionment in my youth is why I had the balls to say no to the vax, among other personal wins. Hazing works.
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What we’ve always known ; men & women are different. 1). Boys/ Men must learn to control their sexual urges ( most by nature they want sex with as many women as possible), and 2. girls/women should learn how to control their feelings. Feminists believe #1 ( all men are potential rapists) but call you a misogynist if you dare state #2.
Very true. Also young men take insanely stupid risks for very little benefit. A big part of the problem is that we can be honest about this: "don't drive drunk, you might kill yourself or some little kid", or "don't sleep with random women, you'll get the clap".
There is nothing analogous on the female side, like "before you get on a moral panic, try to figure out what's going on first", or "the straight white males in your office are not interested in how super important your feelings are".
Proclaim??? We are doomed.
Of course! They learned that in 2020.
Sadly, no I wouldn’t. There’re just too many videos of moronic young women in college.
The polarization of society is increasing. First, I lost friends because I wasn't vaccinated. Then, I was shunned because I questioned climate change. Now, work colleagues won't interact with me because I question that we have the strongest economy in the history of economies. I work in real estate, and just this morning a mortgage broker was telling me how "now that rates are declining..." When I brought up that rates were up on Friday (6.92%) he looked up his rate for today and admitted it was 7.02%. Hmm, so much for falling rates. I look at lenders as a necessary evil (the same way many look at real estate agents [me]) but I understand they are just trying to make a living. But, I am not a client, I am a colleague. When I try to engage them in a conversation about the economy, they pull back, stop returning my phone calls, and basically disappear. Until, of course, I refer them business, then they are friendly as can be. Now that we are in an election year, the anti-Trump crowd is ramping up the rhetoric, and climate change, doubting the economy, or being concerned about the border are all signs that I am a NAZI! I don't expect to lose friends this time around since I don't have any friends left. It is becoming a very strange world to be a conservative minded individual. And I don't mean Republican, because I am disgusted by both sides of our so-called two party system.
RRMM - you seem to be thinking clearly and have spent time and effort attempting to understand the situation. The friends and colleagues you lost may not know they are lacking information needed to make good decisions. Psychosis is disconnection from reality. People may have false beliefs or experience things that aren’t real. Psychosis isn’t a condition. It’s a term that describes a collection of symptoms.
Schizophrenia is a symptom of mass psychosis and involves a disconnection from reality, including hallucinations and delusions. It also affects your ability to recognize your symptoms. It’s a severe condition, but it’s treatable.
I have had conversations with people who just emphatically refuse to entertain any thoughts about Covid that are not told to them through their "news" programming or like-minded friends/family. They have no interest in new or additional information that would help them understand what is happening. I'm not a mental health professional but it is not difficult to see or read about the symptoms of psychosis in a large portion of the population.
Some refer to this as mass psychosis.
I wouldn't have put it into words the way you did, but I agree with your assessment. When I first realized people are only able to converse up to the limits of their understanding or acceptance of reality, I stopped engaging them. Sadly, I am not a quick learner, and I am now realizing this issue extends to all areas including climate change, the economy, or anything else. When I do engage in "friendly" conversation with people I need to continually remind myself not to bring up anything controversial, and to keep the conversations extremely superficial. To say those conversation are not satisfying would be an understatement. It feels like I am Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
Fellow lone wolf here too, my friend. Fuck em. Be happy you haves eyes to see. It's just life! If they want to get that bent about it, it's their loss. Consintrait on the things and people you love. That's all that matters.
Another absolute corker of an article and this phrase is sadly so real for so many of us: "before we lapsed into years of icy silence" ... sigh.
Yes! It’s sad.