Nothing has changed and no one has been punished because those designing and executing the Covid mission didn’t just get it wrong: they pursued the totalitarianism radicals always want. I suggest the current administration is the furtherance and acceleration of those plans. Tactics vary but the objective is the same: power over others for their own benefit. And just for the heck of it
The mailed military votes often get ignored and not counted. I think it was 2020, there were bags of military votes found - tossed into some corner - and never counted. Our military is treated like dirt during and after their service. How many spam emails do I still get everyday from a law firm chasing the Camp Lejeune issue? There were others. Agent Orange in Vietnam? And, don't get me started on the VA. What a slap in the face this pathetic government agency is.
I told everyone I know and still do that Medicare for all will suck hard, it is social medicine. You dont want it. They say how do you know? I said the VA is social medicine for the Vets. it sucks ass. Long wait times, lots of cancelled appts and now a messed up electronic records roll out. That literally changes your medical records to being wrong.
…Or Great Britain’s or the much touted Cuban pretend healthcare. It’s plain to see what a disaster it (and all things socialist) is, and yet they persist. All power to the State!
Yeah, the wait on dental appts is like 8-10 yrs. Some poor woman pulled all her own teeth with pliers because she had been waiting better than 5 yrs for them to pull one tooth. The rest had rotted in the meantime.
All we had to do was show some baytzim and cohesion and we could have not only pushed back against this bullshit plandemic but forced them to desist. But no, we let them single us out, manhandle us and as a group of educated, smart people, who in fact knew better, treat us like the sheep we apparently are.
Reminds me of Churchills comment to Chamberlain after the latter returned from Munich…’You were given a choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war’
Remember that when the riots start this summer and the civil authorities tell you to ‘Shelter in Place’ for your own good. Just like in the plandemic remember, it’s not for your good, its for theirs.
“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” …1941
After the COVID tyranny madness I resolved to be ungovernable. This grandmother will never again wear a mask, agree to be forcibly quarantined or “social distance.” I will never agree to vaccinations and I will never trust the CDC, NIH or any other government health organization.
Amen Fellow Grandparent. We need to instill that sense of individuality and ‘ungovernability’ into our grandchildren. I feel our children will be too slow to react to this! We were given the gift of a long life, lets use it!
Chuck, you are so right— all the 60, 70, 80, and 90 year olds in this commenting community do definitely still have a tremendous value to give this history and understanding of freedom to the younger generations.
It is an incredibly important mission, and a powerful reason for living.
I suggest, on behalf of all American citizens, that there should be an award, let's call it the "Golden Finger," presented annually to the world's worst healthcare organization: in this case, the United States Government.
Chuck, a while back I was talking to a new neighbor when his two sons, both in middle school, joined us. I made a remark about Churchill and one of the sons said “who is Churchill”. Their dad and I both looked at each other and shook our heads. We are allowing our history to be erased in our schools.
And because it has been erased, the last generations, from about 50 years old and up, are the last ones who’d been taught it. When we’re gone, it’s gone for good, unless we fight to bring it back.
50 percent of the country still believes the lockdowns were appropriate. Saw a young lady yesterday walking out of a clinic still wearing her mask. They're not required anymore so why is she wearing it? If you ask her she will quote the Fauci dogma line. Some people are lemmings and won't learn from mistakes.
That half of the country still believes lockdowns were appropriate further reveals the divide our nation is experiencing. There is a dark abyss separating us, carved out by those who put the desire for power over the desire for a great country. These are not necessarily the Rs and the Ds, the Libs and Conservatives, they are anyone whose primary goal is to remain in political office or to maintain their bureaucratic fiefdoms. Our country needs a great (figurative) lopping off of heads in government, and a few other places, if we are to have any hope of narrowing the abyss.
The pandemic provided the Excuse many people who had poor social skills and were unable to hide without being exposed. They could hide, keep people away, have the government create their lives… These are people who may well be lemmings but most likely closet communists. They may not even know.
I think the COVID will look different, not an illness ( we are on to it). Food shortages, ⛽️ fuel price, health care costs. It’s time to dump the tea.
The Covid lockup will probably not be tried again. But you are correct; efforts to use fear (and loathing) against us will be here forever (also a long time.)
I would argue that Trump chose dishonor four years ago. He could have been a leader and stood up to Fauci, insisting on freedom for citizens to make their own educated choices regarding the COVID virus. The former president owes us an apology for his cowardice.
What I remember is that he stood in front of the snarling press every day and answered questions and gave updates for as long as it took. Respirators NOW!!! Mandatory masks NOW!!! It seems to me he was transparent and was working with the info given him by these damn people whose jobs were to give him good information, not just the info that would help their stock portfolios. NONE of us really understood 4 years ago the true level of evil, carelessness, love of money/power and actual hate towards regular Americans that our agency leaders had/have. We knew they weren’t good but reality was worse than we could have imagined.
PDJT reacted with supplying respirators, even had a Navy ship up and running in NY to help when that idiot governor and the press howled all day long that he wasn’t doing anything. Remember, PDJT was excoriated every damn day for over a year in all the press for even mentioning ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Anyway, all that to say, he was the first and only elected Republican since Reagan to stand up against the left in his words and actions. And sometimes that’s uncomfortable or embarrassing to hear because normal Americans aren’t fond of controversy, I know I’m not.
Amy, I agree. Thanks for saying it. DJT was a business person. He trusted the advisors.DJT believed the same BS we all thought - that we had a government that was half way decent- WE DON"T - BE WARE!! It would be appropriate for DJT to tell the American public- he is not infallible, not placing blame but accepting responsibility for the actions by arresting the Ass-H's that led/ followed the farce. Then have a movement to prosecute any and all of these nut cases that smell of Totalitarianism immediately. These people are criminals and need to be punished, not write books or enrich themselves.
We don't elect Saints- We elect people to the office of president- DJT is the leader we need now and his ability and courage. Imagine how much courage it is taking to return to fight these psychopaths? I didn't listen to any of the COVID crap- they threw me in a nursing home- I left- they are the same people I treat for psychotic, control and sociopathic issues. Controversy is tough but we need it to not get pushed around....DOC
Amy you are so right PDJT is an imperfect human but the one needed at this time.I repeat there was only one perfect human and We crucified him,yet he arose from the dead to give us faith.
I do agree with you. We still don’t know the extent of evil we are facing, we always need to remember We don’t know what we don’t know. It’s dangerous. Perhaps, the plan was to make PDJT run and when he didn’t- they changed the plan. Pence was of NO help and my fear is that Christians will be part of the weak link. Unintentional but weak all the same.
You know I struggle with that. What would I have done as the President at the time and with the information I had at the time. Who would I have verify the info and direction he was told was correct on a back channel just in case and how long would I let it go on before I either succumbed to the facts as they were layed out in front of me or go with (if there even was one) the back channel fact checker.
He was between a rock and a hard place, forced there by the fearmongers. What would have happened had he said, “It’s just a virus. It will die out eventually.” And done nothing? He did what he thought was right. I forgive him for that.
He was surrounded by people who were either plain evil or just plain ignorant, and no one else at one of the most challenging times in our history. His instincts that something was off were right, but he was completely alone in that.
He did what he thought he must do for the people and even then he was excoriated for that. Whatever he did - or didn’t do - he was blasted for it.
He’s not a perfect man, by any stretch, but he was in an extraordinary place at an extraordinary time, like no one else ever before him.
I cut him yards of slack for that.
But he needs somehow to show he now realizes he was willfully deceived by all those around him so that it cannot happen again, and he won’t be fooled again - ever. (Cue The Who….)
None of us knew what was going on at the time. Now we know. We know we can't trust them. Them - the bureaucrats - who exist in their kingdoms long after the politicians have gone. We need to lop off entire agencies. Cut the top 10 levels of heads off the agencies we keep and bring others in to run the shows. We need Term Limits for politicians - and their bureaucratic brethren.
Remember the always-with-scarf Birx? She wrote a book about their collusion----that if Trump defied any of them, they would all resign. Imagine the uproar from the press! He tried----he pushed Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine and what did they say? "He's telling people to drink bleach; that's horse medicine." All uncorrected by the completely corrupt leftovers from the worst president in history, the Muslim Obama. The man who said he would fundamentally change America & has spent from 2008 to 2024 trying to kill us & the country. The disgusting media were all-in, being the Obama-worshipers they've always been. No one thinks Trump is perfect, but he's the BEST FU to the establishment, the media & all of the stupids who believe the lies. Remember the maelstrom they created, all based on lies. The Dems are great at projection and that's what Pelosi, Schiff, Cuomo and all of the bums in public health did 24/7. TRUMP 2024!
All the mRNA patents from the AIDS era that he used to get money from the Covid scamdemic. Yes. All the money through deceit. He never mentioned any of that. It is just now coming out slowly as government agencies are forced through the courts to answer all the FOIAs they ignored and have been ignoring for the last 4 plus years.
Remember that Fauci was complicit by funding gain of function research being done in Wuhan. Fauci was covering his own behind by throwing out a bunch of half-assed information and other distractions such as telling us that a vaccine would prevent Covid, masking, etc. while punishing actual doctors who touted the efficacy of cheap, effective treatments such as ivermectin hydroxychloroquine.
-1.4a) Deported 25 million Illegal aliens and their US born but not valid ‘US citizen children’, chain families members that chain immigrated
-1.6a) Indicted Mayorkas for violating/not enforcing Federal immigration Law
-1.8a) Indicting the Biden Crime Family under ‘Rep-Sandy’ RICO/FARA/FACTA Federal Statutes,
-2) cut the Federal Budget by 90%’ - $6.3 TRILLION per Year,
-3) retired 97% of Federal workers,
-4 ) eliminated 120% of Federal ‘(democrat and/or red/china) Contractors’,
-5) completel fire all workers at
-the State Department
-the FIB, CIA, NSA, ODNI, Pentagon, DOJ, ATF, US Attys, and all other Black Ops agencies (incl DEI black/brown/gay/trans/pedo/etc/etc/usw….), and make them re-apply for the 50 positions open for the Replacement Agencies, located in at least
-Eagle Pass, TX
-Tularosa, NM
-Needles, AZ
-Dumas, TX,
-Clinton, OK
-Dodge City, KS
-North Bank Grand Canyon, AZ
-Merced, CA
-Calexico, CA
-Opelousas, LA
-Chained Rock, KY
-Paw Paw, WV
-Jumonville Glen, PA
6) Blackmail all the usual CongressCritters, if need be, to restructure the Federal Courts to do the following:
a) Eliminate/Relocate ALL federal courts out of the District of Columbia, NYC, and DC metro area.
b) Split courts that control too many states
c) set minimum competency requirements t/b appointed, and code of conduct to stay in their 15 year terms
7) Term limits for all Congressmen, and CPA-like annual financial checks of personal finance of them and All Congressional Staff and Lobbyists
8) All 13 Annual Appropriation Bills must be reviwed for 30 days, before 2/3rds approval by US citizens only, before ANY money can be spent. Bills must be broken down in sub parts of no more than $500 million each. Certification by sponsors and Citizen Commission that all spending is in accordance with US Constitution, under penalty of Prison for false certification.
It's a lovely list of demands that sound desirable, but are impossible to achieve in ONE presidential term. For a hundred years the federal government has been spreading like diarrhea, all across this country, ever since that puffed-up pontificator Wilson decided the government must be run by EXPERTS. Let's consider what would be a reasonable start towards taming and trimming the behemoth, not pie-in-the-sky Christmas lists.
Agreed. Always easy to score performance in hindsight. I have often thought since that time that perhaps, as painful as it was, that maybe there was a well needed life lesson in that event. We learned how even so-called experts were in wide disagreement, we learned how utterly corrupt our government health services were, we learned that the WH wasn’t really in charge of the event, and we all found out what government controlled loss of freedoms were like. Most of all, we found out who the real sheep are.
A lot of lessons were learned. One thing that I learned is how dumb some really smart people can be. I just wish DJT would stop taking credit for operation warp speed. The "vaccines" were already developed, most likely by DARPA. I also learned that we live in a sort of military dictatorship/oligarchy with the intelligence agencies at the top of the pyramid. James Kunstler calls it the blob.
I think we use the terms dumb and smart wrong too often. The expert people who preached the vax were not dumb, just corrupt and in fear of losing very good jobs or being targeted if they didnt go along. One can be very intelligent but still lack commonsense and an ethical base. Your right about the intell folks. They are at the top of the control pyramid. We trained them to overthrow countries and they learned well.
He tried. He tried to get changes through so he could fire upper level bureaucrats. Congress kept him from making those changes. the RINOs and Dem will be joining Feecis in hell.
WE NEED to agree that we won't be led around, that we will be an informed constituency and we will have PDJT's back when the BS nut cases knock on our door. What made any one think they can take our guns? Our homes, our children and worst of all our freedom - WE DID by complying - fight back - is this insurrection- YOU BET Bring it on...no pussy footing.Just Say NO!! (Thx Nancy )
I disagree that Trump thinks he was wrong. Just a few weeks ago he was taking credit for pushing the gene therapy on a fast track to emergency use. Trump was upset that Biden was trying to take credit for that.
The President? One man? I am surprised you are not furious with all of Congress. It is both houses of Congress - the people's house - that make laws. They could have quickly intervened to set rules and overturned unconstitutional policies from the non-elected bureaucrats.
They didn't. They were silent.
The President has a role, but YOUR RIGHTS during covid were the sole responsibility of you and your legislators.
Did you comply? If you did, why? Despite the rules, some refused to comply at all.
I am asking because I don't think nearly as much fault should fall on a single president as you seem to be suggesting. It was all of government, and, it was all of us who were responsible.
I had a saying when my son was younger, "I'm not afraid of anything! I raised a boy to manhood, mostly on my own." That son told his 3 teens during masks and lockdowns, "do all you can do to appear compliant!"
The president took issue with states that chose to disagree with him - see Kemp in Georgia - an unforced error. His dumb personal attack on McCain in Arizona is still paying dividends, though it was not over covid. Trump forgets politics can be personal. There is no indication he either understands this, or cares. It cost him the election in 2020. It is still a major flaw.
Jim, I always enjoy reading your comments and hope to continue to do so, but the 2020 election wasn't lost because of Trump's mouth. It was outright stolen by a multi-functional strategy that involved more than several groups, institutions, and deep state criminal traitors.
It was stolen with a combination of fraud, cyber control, trained and purchased help for ballot harvesting, and perhaps a dozen more things.
Anyone who watched five swings states all close down at 3am for very suspicious reasons only to awaken the next morning to see the skyrocket in Biden votes can only come to that conclusion. Of course, later we got to actually see the video of the election workers pulling large cases of ballots out from under tables and spend those "closed hours of not counting" running and re-running tens of thousand of fake ballots through machines that were never allowed to be audited. (a recount is not an audit of the votes)
The only thing that caused Trump the 2020 election was the fraud perpetrated by the traitorous bastards who get to run things - and threaten those who oppose with blackmail or Arkancide.
And Guliani is now being forced to pay ransom (defamation fees ) to those 2 election workers who are on VIDEO running batches of ballets through the machines over and over.
I live in Georgia. Kemp shut-down Georgia, even though some missed it.
Those of us who REFUSED TO COMPLY; we were treated miserably.
Kemp push the JAB....I know medical personnel who refused the JAB and did a work-around the FEDS, so their offices were not shut-down and their patients could be taken care of.
When I was confronted by the maniacs in medical/dental facilities, I fought back to their self-imposed tyranny. Many were on my side and openly agreed with me.
Don't believe Kemp for a minute, he lies right in front of the camera and written in the Atlanta Journal Constipation daily; no different than the Bezos WAPO.
Kemp is a Never-Trumper and believes he is going to be the next US Senator from Georgia, and wants to be POTUS one day.
No governor was perfect - but in case you forgot Kemp made some moves to open up stuff in April, and he was chided by Trump publicly.
I remind you of this to not say Kemp isn't a weasel, because he most certainly is; but that Trump helped make Kemp a Never-Trumper by attacking him. And therefore losing his "weasel-ness" abilities promoting policies you and I would like, and instead had him working against us. That is on Trump.
I did not comply. I went to work every day and dealt with the public. The cops would have had to drag me out of my business to prevent me from doing my job. I had a sign on the door that said "masks not required", signs that said "schutzmaske macht frei", or "we haven't tarred and feathered politicians in a long time...and it shows". I painted in big letters on my plate glass windows RE-OPEN MAINE END THE JAN-DEMIC! I went to the reopen Maine rallies in Augusta. I sometimes look at the now four year old selfies of me and my now 14 year old son violating every restriction on going to the beach, the Nubble light house and other places. We ran over all the no parking signs on the side of Mountain Rd that the town of York put up to prevent people from hiking the trails on Mt Agamenticus. None of it deterred Queen Mills though. Fuck Mills!
Sorry, shrugged, but this is a misreading on how the government is supposed to function on so many levels. (1) The executive branch is in charge during national emergencies, and the president alone has authority over the entire bureaucracy. (2) The founders gave the executive this power because the legislative branch is a deliberative body and cannot move as quickly as the executive. (3) The real power lies with the states, most of which give the governor authority in emergencies because there is rarely a “one size fits all” solution. (4) The judicial branch has a hand in this both at the state and national level to rein in an executive decision that tramples on people’s rights.
(5) The president has a bully pulpit, and in my opinion Trump diminished it by being on TV everyday and politically blew it because for once his instinct was on the wrong side of this issue once he empowered Fauci & Co. (6) Yes, the American people failed to rise to the challenge, but what do you mean by “all of us” Kemosabe?
"Yes, the American people failed to rise to the challenge, but what do you mean by “all of us” Kemosabe?" I said, ". . . and, it was all of us who were responsible" because in our (supposed) representative republic that is true. Some stood against it and most did not. If you are one who fully stood against it, you are one of the few, brave patriots of the pandemic. Most were threatened by their employer, or school, or other institution so they had to make a hard decision for their families.
You obviously have a better grasp on the breakdown of roles and job assignments than my 8th grade government class understanding of things. However, the emergency authorization to which you refer can't last forever. We understood Pearl Harbor was an emergency and war was immediately declared by the president. COVID in the earliest of days was an emergency (Of their making but that doesn't matter). However, by 2021 and even 2022? Enough was emerging in early 2021 over the Vax to raise alarm. It was no longer the "emergency" that may have triggered early action by the president. Congress had a responsibility (as did each of us) to stop unconstitutional policy actions and set laws to control the over reach. Once war was declared in 1941, Congress assumed their role as law makers. The courts also failed us.
Trump made mistakes. That has been stated here before. For the 10 months he had remaining in office, with all the lies, deception, censorship we now know were used to set up the worst crime against humanity ever, I forgive those mistakes in the early days. He has since made very bold statements about no mandates ever again, no masks, no distancing. I think he has learned.
One last point: Emergency or not, no edict from the president can put the Constitution in limbo. Unconstitutional rules, actions or policies can't hide behind the "emergency" designation. Congress and the Courts have a fully active responsibility to uphold the Constitution even if the president gets to control things for awhile until it subsides.
Good point. My wife and I sacrificed a lot of income to be able to send our kids to college and graduate debt free. They did and they have. Debt free.
I am waiting on Biden to give a 100% tax rebate to me for being responsible and not using grant money to send my kids to college. We are far from "rich" and live a very lower-middle income lifestyle.
I am tired of funding illegals with exorbitant give aways, and the very wealthy who take my money through inflation, the hidden tax.
Alan, it’s not an “emergency” when it goes on for 2, 3, years. So Congress definitely could have played a role, including hearings and subpoenas to challenge the health “authorities”.
Also, Trump was being so visibly present because he was performing a crucial role in preventing panic (Trump was very successful at this) and assuring the public his administration was fully engaged in the most sincere, transparent, and vigorous efforts to solve it.
Trump performed outstandingly with the information he had.
The role congress plays, unfortunately, is how can we enrich ourselves today? All else takes a back seat. They are there, as a closed-door group, that puts on pompous airs for the camera while they glum onto every backroom cent that comes their way.
I never thought it was an emergency from the get go. That’s my point. Trump on TV for hours every day made it one. Just a warm-up for how St. George’s death was all we heard, saw and read about during the summer of 2020. There were a lot of people much smarter than me calling B.S. on Covid in late February 2020. When a president makes the historic decision to lockdown the country and shut down the economy “for two weeks to stop the spread,” he should have been demanding his staff provide some counter arguments to such an obviously destructive move. Those rational, informed voices were de-platformed, de-monetized and demonized much later in the process.
I didn’t disagree. He relied on experts just like the rest of us and he hey lied to him too. He learned a life lesson just like we all did. It wont happen again.
FreeFloridaFemale, first, Trump is one of the most courageous leaders America has ever had—your belief that he was a coward casts real doubt on the validity of every other argument you’re making on this topic.
Your demand for a current apology from Trump is not wise. Sure it might be satisfying to some on the Right who feel entitled to an apology. But you have to realize that half of the country is still very blind about COVID and in no way thinks the public health authorities and Fauci were even wrong. I have relatives that still believe the vaccine is safe and effective.
Folks on the Left could in no way “process” an apology from Trump, and the Left Media would use it as an opportunity to go on a BINGE of painting Trump as a “COVID denier” or something— and HALF THE COUNTRY would think that is true.
Bringing this subject up again would only hurt his re-election chances with independents and that segment of Democrats which is unhappy with Biden.
So the apology you demand would only hurt America’s ability to put Trump in office and fight the lethal attack the Left is pressing on us.
I still have cousins who mask up, and believe that EVs are the way to go.
You are right, an apology from Trump would give them sound bites for the rest of eternity. And there is no point. Right now he cant even string 2 sentences together without the media whores chopping them up into something else.
I am sympathetic with this position. I believe he basically mishandled it and his public rebuke of Kemp in Georgia for opening up too early made sure we lost the senate in 2020. His grandstanding throughout by being in front of the covid response made it impossible for him to backtrack later. It was a perfect storm where Trump's natural inclination to be the showman came back to bite him in the ass. It was his biggest mistake as president, and the one for which he was ultimately almost completely responsible. He knows this, which is why he was so animated to attack DeSantis over covid during the GOP primaries, even though DeSantis was substantially more right that Trump. Trump being so thinned skin about it demonstrates a significant character flaw. No one was going to attack Trump on that point, until he started attacking others.
Maybe and maybe not. Easy to look at it in the mirror and judge or see things differently. I don’t agree about his thin-skin though. Maybe that was the case of the old Trump but you let the government and states attack you non-stop for seven years straight and see just how thin skinned you are. Trump 2.0 is a far more seasoned man.
Nobody is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes and has regret. It is what you do with it that matters and Trump has learned from it and has made changes. He may occasionally give a little too much lip to the press and certain politicians, but he is a one-man army fighting the entire system. He doesn't have many supporters out everyday in the public spotlight flanking him in this fight.
Agreed. The man is flawed for sure but he is one hell of a lot better than anyone else fighting for this country right now. He understands we are not going to win this fight trying to talk sense into the other side. We're past that time now. We need a MMC fighter regardless of age. I'll take Mr. Trump over anyone in second place right now.
Hindsight is always 20/20; Monday morning quarterbacking is about as valuable as hindsight (i.e, rarely); & it is highly unlikely that any one who thinks like we do rather than like they do could, in that position, have guessed the depth of the depravity he faced and stood completely alone against it. The cost of being wrong was too great.
Credit where credit due - Trump did as much as he could to fight against it and lessen the damage.
You have to go back to that actual time, and all that was swirling about and it was mostly fear. If you had been in his position, you literally would have been the only one on the planet, save a couple of others, who took an opposing stand, and he was the President of every citizen in the country and leader of the free world! They excoriated him for just drinking Coca-cola for heavens sake! Imagine how the entire world would have reacted if he’d said “you all are nuts, and we need to do the exact opposite of all that you’re proposing”? They’d have tarred and feathered him. And NO ONE was sure what the hell was happening, or was going to happen in that time period’s atmosphere. It was a total Feardemic, more than a pandemic.
It’s soooo easy to fault him for not being a super hero at that time, but that is unfair to say the least, when ALL the people around him were equally as culpable and much moreso than him, for deceiving him, and creating the mess to begin with.
That “NO ONE” was sure what was happening is true, but when the health officials ignore 100 years of learning how to deal with the risk of a pandemic being tossed out the door, something’s not right. And there were many people much more qualified than me who were calling B.S. on the whole Covid thing in early February. At a minimum, before shutting down the economy, schools, churches, for two weeks, a president should be demanding to hear some counter arguments to what the “experts” were telling him. JFK did that under much more trying circumstances of the Cuban missile crisis. Trump failed on this, historically. I’ll still vote for him, but I’ll never defend him on this issue and stop harping on it if he just acknowledges he f’ed up.
Suzie: he must acknowledge the fact that his “warp speed vaccine” isn’t safe or effective and that children should not, under any circumstances, be injected with this poison. I haven’t seen any indication that he has learned lessons from our National COVID nightmare. Yes - decisions that negatively impacted thousands of small business owners, school age children and seniors in nursing facilities were made from a place of fear. Leadership calls for courage and a love of freedom above tyranny.
Thanks for being a good sport about this, FreeFemale! You do represent the view of a number of people. There has been a lively discussion today about this; always a benefit to get articulate arguments for both sides of the story. Yay for the freedom of speech! Have a good night!🤗
It was a damned if you do, damned if you don't moment. If he would have fought the pandemic madness, he would have had no supporters politically, even in his own party. He would have lost the election without the cheating. Either way he would be campaigning on "I told you so".
I believe the worst you can say about him is that he visibly felt out of his debt, while the medical goons usurped his podium -- and no wonder; he had no medical background, or a scientific one. What he should have done is invite people with different opinions to the White House, to gain a balance -- but this is all quarterbacking after the game.
Former UK Prime Minister Harold MacMillan put it well, when asked what concerned him most in politics: "Events, dear boy, events."
Spot on Chuck. While living in Illinois, it was rare if I wore a mask. The one I did wear was an N-2, a two-ply paper towel with a rubber band around to hold it in place. The looks & comments I got are not printable. I would have wore a mesh bag that grapes came in but my wife dumped it. And the people who yelled at me for going down the aisle the opposite way of the arrows. Lol I had ear buds & just waved to them. When confronted by people I either replied, “no engliss” in an Eastern European accent or did made up sign language & grunted. It felt good to ridicule this dimwits who you cannot reason with.
What should scare the hell out of us is how many went along with this power grab and still believe the government and media propaganda at the time. I still have a meme on my screen saver that pops up occasionally that reminds me of the insanity: Just a reminder... A genuinely deadly pandemic doesn't require 24/7 advertising to remind you it exists. Real pandemics don't need marketing campaigns and endless propaganda... But psychological operations DO.
Bravo, DJL! The scaredemic was an obvious propaganda tool from day 1. Never in my life had I seen the “top health officials” of the country fan the flames of fear instead of tamping down the fear to avoid a panic. It made no sense to me at the time, especially after the country had just gone through four years of Russia! Russia! Russia! So, I was a skeptic for two weeks and then a full blown opponent of the B.S. from late February 2020. I’m probably on at least three domestic terror watchlists. lol
Exactly, the Dems had the crisis they wanted and used every tool they had to smear the Trumpster. Whatever he did whether it was right or wrong, was WRONG in the MSM, Dem Party and all their supporters. He was pretty much alone.
The obviously pre-planned marketing campaign (highly choreographed tic tok nurses dressed in supposedly scarce protective gear) was one of my first clues that it was all staged.
With military NBC warfare training, I knew a virus wasn't going to be stopped by a cloth mask, staying six feet from another person, or a sheet of plexiglass as a barrier. The second clue was the emergency authorization of the 'vaccine,' which did not undergo the FDA testing requirements which usually take years. The third clue was that the 'vaccine' did not work as sold. So, in hindsight, my decision not to get injected with it despite the non-stop propaganda campaign was the correct choice for me.
And let us not forget that so many of our churches--the erstwhile bastions of liberty--were cowed into toeing the government line and stopped holding services. Some did so out of a belief that the government propaganda spewed by the Faucists was true; some did so out of personal fear of coming down with Covid; some did so because they were afraid of being prosecuted, fined or jailed by the "authorities," but all those who did so deserve to be called out for their gullibility, cowardice and shameful elevation of fear over their Christian obligations. Once it became clear that the leadership of our churches lacked the courage of their convictions and were agreeable to bowing and scraping before their worldly masters, rather than their Master, the door was flung open for entry to the degenerate perversion of "inclusivity" becoming rampant today. So what if the Bible declared fornication and homsexual behavior to be sinful, or that there was no Biblical authority for marriage between people of the same sex, or that it condemned the behavior of the transsexual perverts who cross-dressed in a disgusting parody of femininity? The Bible was ignored in favor of the "current thing." Preachers and laity alike desired popular approval rather than Christ's approval. They forgot or more likely chose to ignore the warning provided in James, 4:4 that, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." We have seen far too many "friends of the world" occupying pulpits as well as pews. We need to have more people who live out their Biblical duties and preach the Word in every place, time and circumstance. To those who do otherwise I say, "Christ is King" and as for me, I shall have no king but King Jesus!
James, 4:4 that, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
I wish our new "Christian" Speaker of the House meditated on this scripture today. What he enabled to pass in the House - full term abortion, funding for Ukraine, no wall on our border, green new deal funding, and other leftist programs - was insane. What happened to the man?
I'm a little off-topic, but not by a lot. Johnson was elected to his position because he seemed to be one who would "stand apart" boldly. Instead, he seems to be cowering in fear.
What happened? He has a 4 seat majority with a caucus that isn't nearly as disciplined as his democrat counterpart. Complaints about the new speaker are misguided, and fail to recognize the tightrope he is walking.
Why is it always the republicans walking a tightrope despite us having a majority in the House? You are saying bills can be passed without having a majority in the chamber as long as everyone sticks together? I agree failing to stick together is the problem. So, if the Republicans would stick together - and have a majority position to boot - we should be unstoppable. But we cower in fear because our leader (Johnson) is cowering in fear. A good speaker should be able to create the discipline to stick together. How do the Dems do it? Blackmail?
Johnson is not cowering in fear. You’re asking him to be the super-hero-of the century in “creating the discipline to (get the Republicans) to stick together”. How can he do that when there is a segment of Republicans that in substance probably are paid or blackmailed agents of the Left.
And yes— how do the Democrats stick together in lockstep??? Many are “true believers” in Leftist ideology, but to get 100% lockstep unanimity in votes, there are clearly quite a few Democrats that are deeply compromised—either blackmailed, or threatened with violence, or bought.
I truly believe Speaker Johnson is doing the best that can be done at present with our majority hanging by a thread. If he fails and Hakeem Jeffries takes control of the House, we will be in a much worse position.
TPG, you are right about the root cause in Congress and in pointing out that one man has little ability to change that. Regardless, despite being a nice, Christian man, he is not suited for the job. I am certain he can do lots of things well, but leading the House is not one of them. He needs to be replaced by a Jim Jordan or a Matt Gaetz.
If the Dems have shown us the secret formula to winning - even when they don't have a majority - then I say copy it and return the favor. Most of us are really tired of turning over and losing each fight. I am.
We are in survival mode. We have no choice but to fight like hell to save this country.
Yep, I agree, Jim Jordan was my first choice, and Matt Gaetz would be terrific, but the present reality has been that the “real”(non-RINO) Republicans in the House just don’t have quite enough votes to elect either of them as Speaker.
I’m sure you don’t mean we should adopt the Democrats methods of blackmail, payoffs, and threats of violence to get “discipline” in our ranks.
We can be grateful tho that there is big progress in the MAGA takeover of the RNC. Still lots to clean up and very daunting— but Lara Trump is a gigantic improvement over Ronna McDaniels.
Another way of putting this may be that many church pastors' main priority is to keep their jobs, hence they have all the courage of low-level paper-pushers. And if that's the case, how can we expect them to oppose the garbage that the world is pushing on us?
Most mainstream denominational churches followed blindly.
I admit I contributed to that. I was an Elder on the "Session" of a Presbyterian church and we taped off pews to achieve distancing, provided masks and gallons of Purell at every gathering point in the building, and eventually closed the building going to live stream.
The average age of our congregation was between 75 and 80 years of age. Our Session struggled with closing the service, but couldn't look into the eyes of these faithful members who were scared to death. About half stopped coming before closing was discussed. Thankfully, NOBODY in the church died of covid in the two years we lived like this.
Not to be ugly but religious thinking encourages tolerance and behavior that someone is coming to save. It may be true but until then we must fight back. When they say I am from your government and I am here to help. DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR/ HANG UP THE PHONE. WE did and they didn’t like it but we are here and didn’t vax, mask or follow the mandate. Our doctor reported us refusing the shots, our neighbor reported no masks. We learned who to trust going forward.
Thanks for your note - and I agree. I think what has changed - as you suggest - is people can no longer "believe in the government". This is the generation that saved America in WW2. Government doesn't deserve this kind of citizen any longer.
They have done nothing but stand by, cowering or even abetting and watching (enabling) the destruction of this country from the jailing of the J6r’s, to all the illegal mandates and Covid insanity, to the wide opened border, to the shutting down of our energy, to the explosion of our debt, to the persecution of Trump.
They should hang their heads in shame for all time.
Four years ago, Republican Governor Kemp opened the great state of Georgia for business, (before DeSantis lifted COVID restrictions here in Florida) defying Fauci and Trump. Trump criticized Kemp, but Kemp was right to take a calculated risk and allow Americans the choice to shop, dine, mingle with other humans and enjoy the great outdoors. To my knowledge, Trump has never apologized to Kemp for wrongfully accusing him of endangering the citizens of Georgia.
Maybe. But Mr. Kemp seems to be conflicted on too much. Im still not convinced on what he knows or doesnt know about voting violations following the 2020 election.
Ha! Naive? Me? Been called a lot of things but never naive. You could be right about them. But what does it matter if no one is investigating them and putting them under oath while testifying?
Is anyone really trying to get to the bottom of the election corruption with actual actions? So all we can do is have our hunches and theory's. Unless this changes soon, it isnt going to matter. The good guys have a lot to lose in this too.
I've always believed we are governed by idiots and the Covid lockdowns proved it. In Minnesota, they shut down our gym where we had worked out at least five days a week and occasionally every day for the last twenty plus years. In the meantime the liquor store down the road and the smoke and vape shop next door were open. There was no impediment to buying a handle of cheap vodka bottled by the Dean Phillips (our congressman's) family, a pack of Marlboro Reds, or scratch off lottery tickets. You just couldn't walk on a treadmill or ride a stationary bike during the cold and snowy Minnesota winter.
I live in Charlotte and walked almost daily, during Covid (maskless) and still do. I cannot tell you how many masked Karens, yes all females, would “crowd” me when I crossed the road. They were inside their cars, masked and ALONE. They would stare at me crossing the road and point at their mask. 😷 I would smile and walk on. Wife and I, seniors, have never had Covid. Two shots, early, no boosters, etc.
Spot on. Other than wear a mask when i was forced in order to shop for food and such, I tried to ignore it all. I still took my expeditions out west twice a year. I found that once you got away from the big cities of the east coast people acted far differently toward the virus. That confirmed my thoughts about the virus. It was a scam. America learned a valuable lesson and found out who the truth tellers were. Now, let the government try that again.
All public health officials should be arrested for deliberately putting the health of the public in danger. Anyone who suggests they are a scientist knew by middle of April everything the public health sector was saying was wrong. Masks did nothing to stop the spread, even the vaunted N95 when used by the public did nothing to stop the spread. There is some data that would suggest it contributed to other health problems, especially for the elderly. Mask manufacturers all highlighted in the product detail masks did not stop viruses.
Social distancing did nothing. It was based upon a 19th century suggestion on how to stop the spread of certain diseases. It has never been tested, there is no data to support it anywhere in medical literature. Covid died on surfaces. The Koreans told us this very quickly, after Princeton said the opposite. Princeton was wrong. You surely remember when stores quit spraying shopping carts - because they knew it was making no difference. Exercise and sunlight were good for general immunity system fortification - the public health officials poo-pooed that.
At their trial - if any of them made statements about getting Trump in the past - they should be arrested with life imprisonment - and financially wiped out.
Democracy! As I note on my own page - there are no democrats who believe in democracy, just in power. They messed with all of us - and as Don notes we did nothing. There needs to be payback.
Best to use the information to guide action regarding your current health needs: you cannot rely on any clinician under 40 to know very much actual medicine and you cannot trust any corporate facility to function to your best interests as a patient. The impact of DEI in 5 very short years is nothing less than corrupting in every vital industry. In medicine is could kill you. If you must get sick be very skeptical of anything you’re told and be fearless in asking questions and for evidence.
It is sad, but if you do not have specific knowledge of a doctor's outcomes for his or her patients, going to a minority physician (basically African- Americans) could be hazardous to your health.
That DEI has ruined indirectly the reputation of good minority doctors who had good grades and earned their way into the medical profession still ticks me off. We have stolen their achievement on the alter of passing minorities who had no business being passed based upon some tortured reading of fairness and equality. It was neither. I applaud every time I see a DEI department wiped out, and their practitioners laid off.
There are a fair number of doctors from India in our neck of the woods as well. Unlike their African American counterparts, their grades and academic backgrounds are generally top notch.
My heart surgeon was a young African-American who told me her hobbies were sewing and quilting so it gave me an understanding when she told me surgery was repair work involving cutting and splicing to make things whole.She was AWESOME !
Bezos- you did something amazing* (Amazon) but you’re proving the Peter Principle writ large.
* Got a text last evening that someone broke off a key in a lock where I’m a handy man. Ordered an extraction tool and it came before I got up this morning.
Why do people get rich then think that makes them smart about everything? Zuckerberg, Bloomberg, Mickelson.
Mickleson became a great golfer. Then he figured he should fly his own plane. Then he thought he should figure out his own investments, because professionals couldn’t possibly be as smart as he is.
But back to you, Don. Amen, liberty IS lost in fear. But not in the fear of the Lord, which is healthy (just as learning to fear touching a hot stove is), and, as Proverbs says, is the beginning of wisdom. Beyond that, it teaches/enables us to not fear all else (including death or the gov’t.)
Our church became resisters of that overreach, and God richly blessed us. We had to fight the hospital that my wife works for, tooth and nail, for an exemption from covid vax mandate, and we prevailed.
I could tell you about my fight with gov’t that led to 2 yr fed prison camp paid vacation, but I’ve done that before. I’ll just say that like my favorite fellow prisoner, Joseph, told his brothers- “What you meant for evil, God meant for good.”
Natan Sharansky said it best, with the title of his prison memoir- Fear No Evil
I am inspired by the both of you above me about how to live. My only concern is that it is getting damn near impossible to live in this world and not be a part of some of it. The evil I used to see in "spots" has spread to all institutions it seems. Everything holds the essence of evil.
It's getting really hard to figure out how to stand apart these days.
I had a letter prepared, all properly legal, that if any sanctions or measures were lined up against me for refusing the jab, such as testing etc., ALL such measures would be applied to ALL employees for ALL viral infections. I was prepared to file suit, if needed. No one in management suggested mandatory anything, so I never submitted it. I did submit to being tested twice - I go to the opera twice or three times a years with my elderly Mom, and the facility required proof on not being infected. (And what a farce THAT nonsense was, eh?) I wasn't going to spoil her good time by planting my feet. She, unfortunately, got caught up by the fear-mongering, and acted accordingly. Ugh...I despise the people who pushed this garbage. They put fear and stress upon my dear ol' Mom, and I personally have no forgiveness for them and their sort. Karma will take its course...
I am concerned about the coming months. What will the bastards try this time? You can be sure that they will attempt something. They will only stop when either A,( they have beaten us into submission, or, B,) they have received the equivalent of a stinging rod to their muzzles. Nothing else will be sufficient.
I agree with many here: The Covidians got it completely right for their aims.
For the 1032nd time: Feb 2020, Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama Japan. 3,700 people on board, 800 tested 'positive'(to something), 15 died = .04% fatality rate = same as the flu. Most of us knew the Scamdemic as we saw it. Funny how the CDC flu deaths averaged ~40M per year and dropped to "9M" in 2021... Not.
Do I trust any medical establishment? Not at all. Do I trust medical professionals on the ground? Some, but not many. They all got paid handsomely to follow the Covidians.
Evil creatures such as Fauci only breathe because moral people follow the Ten Commandments.His time
will come ,hopefully soon.The question is what the deep-state has planned for this election cycle.Fool me once ,shame on you,fool me twice I am a sucker should apply this time around. Snap poll seems too simple but Poca-Man is testing info retention?
Fauci had many, many accomplices. They were as informed as he was. They knew. And they did nothing that would jeopardize their jobs. The next debate we have should be about which federal agencies we have that benefit us as currently configured and staffed. But first we need real Americans in our legislative branches.
"We should learn from this because we failed to learn from the London Plague in 1665."
Yes, we should - but by now it is abundantly and embarrassingly clear that we don't, because if we did, we would never have invaded Iraq for the purpose of being an occupying force. The War of Northern Aggression would never have come to pass.
This fact, when met with tyrants, dictator-wannabes, and other bullies, is a lethal combination - see the dwarf Anthony Fauci.
"I hope House Republicans have the intestinal fortitude to publicly shame these charlatans and make sure we never ever arrest another lone surfer for enjoying fresh air, sunshine and killer waves."
That hope is likely shared among all of us, but I believe we're bound to be disappointed - aside from Rand Paul in the Senate, and maybe Jim Jordan in the HoR. You know, the guy who is a minority in the majority - who isn't shy about issuing subpoenas that are ignored with no consequence, chairing hearings that have no appreciable results, but is allowed to proceed with the dog-and-pony show because he's in a safe district? He barks and barks, but never bites.
Otherwise, there is not one Republican in Congress with the spine to call out the public health frauds, let alone hold anyone accountable.
Until there is a massive upheaval and re-alignment of the two wings of the UniParty resulting in two distinct entities responsive to the will of the voters for fear of their very lives, very little of any substance will change.
SCOTUS does appear to be heading in a good direction. In a previous case (maybe Chevron, I don't recall) it told the EPA they can't make up law on their own under the guise of regulations. Giving bureaucracies the ability to create rules that have the power of law is a huge mistake on the part of lawmakers.
Nothing has changed and no one has been punished because those designing and executing the Covid mission didn’t just get it wrong: they pursued the totalitarianism radicals always want. I suggest the current administration is the furtherance and acceleration of those plans. Tactics vary but the objective is the same: power over others for their own benefit. And just for the heck of it
…and mass mail-in voting, which should be outlawed except for deployed military.
The mailed military votes often get ignored and not counted. I think it was 2020, there were bags of military votes found - tossed into some corner - and never counted. Our military is treated like dirt during and after their service. How many spam emails do I still get everyday from a law firm chasing the Camp Lejeune issue? There were others. Agent Orange in Vietnam? And, don't get me started on the VA. What a slap in the face this pathetic government agency is.
I told everyone I know and still do that Medicare for all will suck hard, it is social medicine. You dont want it. They say how do you know? I said the VA is social medicine for the Vets. it sucks ass. Long wait times, lots of cancelled appts and now a messed up electronic records roll out. That literally changes your medical records to being wrong.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/monva-put-veterans-safety-risk-bungled-roll-out-new-health-records
That doesnt include the stellar example of Canada's medical system north either.
…Or Great Britain’s or the much touted Cuban pretend healthcare. It’s plain to see what a disaster it (and all things socialist) is, and yet they persist. All power to the State!
Yeah, the wait on dental appts is like 8-10 yrs. Some poor woman pulled all her own teeth with pliers because she had been waiting better than 5 yrs for them to pull one tooth. The rest had rotted in the meantime.
That's one issue I have with Trump. He gloated about all he did for the VA, yet it remains at or near the bottom of the healthcare list.
He helped, if Congress had just been the littlest bit behind him, he could have built the wall and had the VA cleaned up more.
True.
What he was able to accomplish was almost miraculous considering that the entire bureaucracy in DC is arrayed against any Republican reform.
Also true.
I went to a VA hospital many years ago. I promised myself that I would kick my butt if I ever went back. I am a veteran and I approve this message.
I salute your service and apologize for our government's poor handling of this benefit. You deserve better,
And those who are physically disabled (I, for example, am not ambulatory).
When I was deployed overseas I always had the feeling that my ballots were lost in the mail when Obama won.
All we had to do was show some baytzim and cohesion and we could have not only pushed back against this bullshit plandemic but forced them to desist. But no, we let them single us out, manhandle us and as a group of educated, smart people, who in fact knew better, treat us like the sheep we apparently are.
Reminds me of Churchills comment to Chamberlain after the latter returned from Munich…’You were given a choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war’
Remember that when the riots start this summer and the civil authorities tell you to ‘Shelter in Place’ for your own good. Just like in the plandemic remember, it’s not for your good, its for theirs.
Here is another applicable Churchill line…
“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” …1941
After the COVID tyranny madness I resolved to be ungovernable. This grandmother will never again wear a mask, agree to be forcibly quarantined or “social distance.” I will never agree to vaccinations and I will never trust the CDC, NIH or any other government health organization.
Amen Fellow Grandparent. We need to instill that sense of individuality and ‘ungovernability’ into our grandchildren. I feel our children will be too slow to react to this! We were given the gift of a long life, lets use it!
Chuck, you are so right— all the 60, 70, 80, and 90 year olds in this commenting community do definitely still have a tremendous value to give this history and understanding of freedom to the younger generations.
It is an incredibly important mission, and a powerful reason for living.
And if the police come for you, look them right in the eye and say, "Just following orders, are you?"
And let's not forget that many of us need mail-in ballots.
I’m right there with you grandmother!
Cookie: it’s thrilling to know I’m not alone 😊
Count this grandmother in too!
I suggest, on behalf of all American citizens, that there should be an award, let's call it the "Golden Finger," presented annually to the world's worst healthcare organization: in this case, the United States Government.
Love this, the “Golden Finger”!
Of Fate.
Chuck, a while back I was talking to a new neighbor when his two sons, both in middle school, joined us. I made a remark about Churchill and one of the sons said “who is Churchill”. Their dad and I both looked at each other and shook our heads. We are allowing our history to be erased in our schools.
And because it has been erased, the last generations, from about 50 years old and up, are the last ones who’d been taught it. When we’re gone, it’s gone for good, unless we fight to bring it back.
They were dumbing school down when I graduated, I am mid 50s. I was the last year graduating that required civics.
It’s a tragedy isn’t it. And at a time when we need to point to our Heroes the most.
It brings that fever for melting down the statues of our Heroes into clearer focus now doesn’t it?
Before hopping on here, I was just reading about Churchill's American connection. Sometimes I mistake coincidence for Something the Lord Made.
I’m impressed that you still think coincidence is a thing
You can bet this Covid lockup will never happen again.
50 percent of the country still believes the lockdowns were appropriate. Saw a young lady yesterday walking out of a clinic still wearing her mask. They're not required anymore so why is she wearing it? If you ask her she will quote the Fauci dogma line. Some people are lemmings and won't learn from mistakes.
That half of the country still believes lockdowns were appropriate further reveals the divide our nation is experiencing. There is a dark abyss separating us, carved out by those who put the desire for power over the desire for a great country. These are not necessarily the Rs and the Ds, the Libs and Conservatives, they are anyone whose primary goal is to remain in political office or to maintain their bureaucratic fiefdoms. Our country needs a great (figurative) lopping off of heads in government, and a few other places, if we are to have any hope of narrowing the abyss.
The pandemic provided the Excuse many people who had poor social skills and were unable to hide without being exposed. They could hide, keep people away, have the government create their lives… These are people who may well be lemmings but most likely closet communists. They may not even know.
I think the COVID will look different, not an illness ( we are on to it). Food shortages, ⛽️ fuel price, health care costs. It’s time to dump the tea.
Thanks for your podcast and all the information.
NEVER is a long time. When the memory of this fades, they'll come up with a new gimmick to scare us into complying.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/monva-put-veterans-safety-risk-bungled-roll-out-new-health-records
They already have ~ just in time for the election of 2024.
The Covid lockup will probably not be tried again. But you are correct; efforts to use fear (and loathing) against us will be here forever (also a long time.)
Not entirely certain, but I believe that to be sarcasm...
I would argue that Trump chose dishonor four years ago. He could have been a leader and stood up to Fauci, insisting on freedom for citizens to make their own educated choices regarding the COVID virus. The former president owes us an apology for his cowardice.
What I remember is that he stood in front of the snarling press every day and answered questions and gave updates for as long as it took. Respirators NOW!!! Mandatory masks NOW!!! It seems to me he was transparent and was working with the info given him by these damn people whose jobs were to give him good information, not just the info that would help their stock portfolios. NONE of us really understood 4 years ago the true level of evil, carelessness, love of money/power and actual hate towards regular Americans that our agency leaders had/have. We knew they weren’t good but reality was worse than we could have imagined.
PDJT reacted with supplying respirators, even had a Navy ship up and running in NY to help when that idiot governor and the press howled all day long that he wasn’t doing anything. Remember, PDJT was excoriated every damn day for over a year in all the press for even mentioning ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Anyway, all that to say, he was the first and only elected Republican since Reagan to stand up against the left in his words and actions. And sometimes that’s uncomfortable or embarrassing to hear because normal Americans aren’t fond of controversy, I know I’m not.
Excellent comment, Amy. I’m totally with you.
Amy, I agree. Thanks for saying it. DJT was a business person. He trusted the advisors.DJT believed the same BS we all thought - that we had a government that was half way decent- WE DON"T - BE WARE!! It would be appropriate for DJT to tell the American public- he is not infallible, not placing blame but accepting responsibility for the actions by arresting the Ass-H's that led/ followed the farce. Then have a movement to prosecute any and all of these nut cases that smell of Totalitarianism immediately. These people are criminals and need to be punished, not write books or enrich themselves.
We don't elect Saints- We elect people to the office of president- DJT is the leader we need now and his ability and courage. Imagine how much courage it is taking to return to fight these psychopaths? I didn't listen to any of the COVID crap- they threw me in a nursing home- I left- they are the same people I treat for psychotic, control and sociopathic issues. Controversy is tough but we need it to not get pushed around....DOC
On target.
Thank you for saying it Amy. PDJT was put through hell daily.
Amy you are so right PDJT is an imperfect human but the one needed at this time.I repeat there was only one perfect human and We crucified him,yet he arose from the dead to give us faith.
I do agree with you. We still don’t know the extent of evil we are facing, we always need to remember We don’t know what we don’t know. It’s dangerous. Perhaps, the plan was to make PDJT run and when he didn’t- they changed the plan. Pence was of NO help and my fear is that Christians will be part of the weak link. Unintentional but weak all the same.
You know I struggle with that. What would I have done as the President at the time and with the information I had at the time. Who would I have verify the info and direction he was told was correct on a back channel just in case and how long would I let it go on before I either succumbed to the facts as they were layed out in front of me or go with (if there even was one) the back channel fact checker.
He may own us an apology. May.
I can’t call him a coward!
He was between a rock and a hard place, forced there by the fearmongers. What would have happened had he said, “It’s just a virus. It will die out eventually.” And done nothing? He did what he thought was right. I forgive him for that.
He was surrounded by people who were either plain evil or just plain ignorant, and no one else at one of the most challenging times in our history. His instincts that something was off were right, but he was completely alone in that.
He did what he thought he must do for the people and even then he was excoriated for that. Whatever he did - or didn’t do - he was blasted for it.
He’s not a perfect man, by any stretch, but he was in an extraordinary place at an extraordinary time, like no one else ever before him.
I cut him yards of slack for that.
But he needs somehow to show he now realizes he was willfully deceived by all those around him so that it cannot happen again, and he won’t be fooled again - ever. (Cue The Who….)
None of us knew what was going on at the time. Now we know. We know we can't trust them. Them - the bureaucrats - who exist in their kingdoms long after the politicians have gone. We need to lop off entire agencies. Cut the top 10 levels of heads off the agencies we keep and bring others in to run the shows. We need Term Limits for politicians - and their bureaucratic brethren.
Remember the always-with-scarf Birx? She wrote a book about their collusion----that if Trump defied any of them, they would all resign. Imagine the uproar from the press! He tried----he pushed Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine and what did they say? "He's telling people to drink bleach; that's horse medicine." All uncorrected by the completely corrupt leftovers from the worst president in history, the Muslim Obama. The man who said he would fundamentally change America & has spent from 2008 to 2024 trying to kill us & the country. The disgusting media were all-in, being the Obama-worshipers they've always been. No one thinks Trump is perfect, but he's the BEST FU to the establishment, the media & all of the stupids who believe the lies. Remember the maelstrom they created, all based on lies. The Dems are great at projection and that's what Pelosi, Schiff, Cuomo and all of the bums in public health did 24/7. TRUMP 2024!
All he has to do is put Fauci in prison in 2025 and strip him of every red cent he gained through deceit.
All the mRNA patents from the AIDS era that he used to get money from the Covid scamdemic. Yes. All the money through deceit. He never mentioned any of that. It is just now coming out slowly as government agencies are forced through the courts to answer all the FOIAs they ignored and have been ignoring for the last 4 plus years.
That works for me...
…and by extension, neither will ‘We’.
Remember that Fauci was complicit by funding gain of function research being done in Wuhan. Fauci was covering his own behind by throwing out a bunch of half-assed information and other distractions such as telling us that a vaccine would prevent Covid, masking, etc. while punishing actual doctors who touted the efficacy of cheap, effective treatments such as ivermectin hydroxychloroquine.
Thank you for that grace point. All we have for sure is This Moment.
I’d like his ‘apology’ AFTER PDJT has
-1.2a) Closed the US border,
-1.4a) Deported 25 million Illegal aliens and their US born but not valid ‘US citizen children’, chain families members that chain immigrated
-1.6a) Indicted Mayorkas for violating/not enforcing Federal immigration Law
-1.8a) Indicting the Biden Crime Family under ‘Rep-Sandy’ RICO/FARA/FACTA Federal Statutes,
-2) cut the Federal Budget by 90%’ - $6.3 TRILLION per Year,
-3) retired 97% of Federal workers,
-4 ) eliminated 120% of Federal ‘(democrat and/or red/china) Contractors’,
-5) completel fire all workers at
-the State Department
-the FIB, CIA, NSA, ODNI, Pentagon, DOJ, ATF, US Attys, and all other Black Ops agencies (incl DEI black/brown/gay/trans/pedo/etc/etc/usw….), and make them re-apply for the 50 positions open for the Replacement Agencies, located in at least
-Eagle Pass, TX
-Tularosa, NM
-Needles, AZ
-Dumas, TX,
-Clinton, OK
-Dodge City, KS
-North Bank Grand Canyon, AZ
-Merced, CA
-Calexico, CA
-Opelousas, LA
-Chained Rock, KY
-Paw Paw, WV
-Jumonville Glen, PA
6) Blackmail all the usual CongressCritters, if need be, to restructure the Federal Courts to do the following:
a) Eliminate/Relocate ALL federal courts out of the District of Columbia, NYC, and DC metro area.
b) Split courts that control too many states
c) set minimum competency requirements t/b appointed, and code of conduct to stay in their 15 year terms
7) Term limits for all Congressmen, and CPA-like annual financial checks of personal finance of them and All Congressional Staff and Lobbyists
8) All 13 Annual Appropriation Bills must be reviwed for 30 days, before 2/3rds approval by US citizens only, before ANY money can be spent. Bills must be broken down in sub parts of no more than $500 million each. Certification by sponsors and Citizen Commission that all spending is in accordance with US Constitution, under penalty of Prison for false certification.
It's a lovely list of demands that sound desirable, but are impossible to achieve in ONE presidential term. For a hundred years the federal government has been spreading like diarrhea, all across this country, ever since that puffed-up pontificator Wilson decided the government must be run by EXPERTS. Let's consider what would be a reasonable start towards taming and trimming the behemoth, not pie-in-the-sky Christmas lists.
Agreed. Always easy to score performance in hindsight. I have often thought since that time that perhaps, as painful as it was, that maybe there was a well needed life lesson in that event. We learned how even so-called experts were in wide disagreement, we learned how utterly corrupt our government health services were, we learned that the WH wasn’t really in charge of the event, and we all found out what government controlled loss of freedoms were like. Most of all, we found out who the real sheep are.
A lot of lessons were learned. One thing that I learned is how dumb some really smart people can be. I just wish DJT would stop taking credit for operation warp speed. The "vaccines" were already developed, most likely by DARPA. I also learned that we live in a sort of military dictatorship/oligarchy with the intelligence agencies at the top of the pyramid. James Kunstler calls it the blob.
I think we use the terms dumb and smart wrong too often. The expert people who preached the vax were not dumb, just corrupt and in fear of losing very good jobs or being targeted if they didnt go along. One can be very intelligent but still lack commonsense and an ethical base. Your right about the intell folks. They are at the top of the control pyramid. We trained them to overthrow countries and they learned well.
He now knows he was wrong and that the vaccine is neither safe nor effective. He has yet to admit his errors.
‘He now knows he was wrong’…the operative word imo, is ‘now’. Back then when he was under the gun, what did he know and when did he know it!
He needs to promise us that NEVER AGAIN will he agree with any unelected bureaucrats to shut down our economy, our schools, our lives.
You are correct in all your points, and maybe we’ll get it. I’m sure he sees that now. But remember, We and only We let it it happen!
And as a side note…How’s that ‘Never Again’ thing working out in 2024!
He tried. He tried to get changes through so he could fire upper level bureaucrats. Congress kept him from making those changes. the RINOs and Dem will be joining Feecis in hell.
WE NEED to agree that we won't be led around, that we will be an informed constituency and we will have PDJT's back when the BS nut cases knock on our door. What made any one think they can take our guns? Our homes, our children and worst of all our freedom - WE DID by complying - fight back - is this insurrection- YOU BET Bring it on...no pussy footing.Just Say NO!! (Thx Nancy )
I disagree that Trump thinks he was wrong. Just a few weeks ago he was taking credit for pushing the gene therapy on a fast track to emergency use. Trump was upset that Biden was trying to take credit for that.
The President? One man? I am surprised you are not furious with all of Congress. It is both houses of Congress - the people's house - that make laws. They could have quickly intervened to set rules and overturned unconstitutional policies from the non-elected bureaucrats.
They didn't. They were silent.
The President has a role, but YOUR RIGHTS during covid were the sole responsibility of you and your legislators.
Did you comply? If you did, why? Despite the rules, some refused to comply at all.
I am asking because I don't think nearly as much fault should fall on a single president as you seem to be suggesting. It was all of government, and, it was all of us who were responsible.
I did not comply. And you are correct. Congress was complicit in the tyranny.
You are a brave grandma.
But, now that I think of it, by the time you get to grandma status, there isn't much else to be afraid of. You've conquered most of it.
I had a saying when my son was younger, "I'm not afraid of anything! I raised a boy to manhood, mostly on my own." That son told his 3 teens during masks and lockdowns, "do all you can do to appear compliant!"
The UniParty.
The president took issue with states that chose to disagree with him - see Kemp in Georgia - an unforced error. His dumb personal attack on McCain in Arizona is still paying dividends, though it was not over covid. Trump forgets politics can be personal. There is no indication he either understands this, or cares. It cost him the election in 2020. It is still a major flaw.
Jim, I always enjoy reading your comments and hope to continue to do so, but the 2020 election wasn't lost because of Trump's mouth. It was outright stolen by a multi-functional strategy that involved more than several groups, institutions, and deep state criminal traitors.
It was stolen with a combination of fraud, cyber control, trained and purchased help for ballot harvesting, and perhaps a dozen more things.
Anyone who watched five swings states all close down at 3am for very suspicious reasons only to awaken the next morning to see the skyrocket in Biden votes can only come to that conclusion. Of course, later we got to actually see the video of the election workers pulling large cases of ballots out from under tables and spend those "closed hours of not counting" running and re-running tens of thousand of fake ballots through machines that were never allowed to be audited. (a recount is not an audit of the votes)
The only thing that caused Trump the 2020 election was the fraud perpetrated by the traitorous bastards who get to run things - and threaten those who oppose with blackmail or Arkancide.
And Guliani is now being forced to pay ransom (defamation fees ) to those 2 election workers who are on VIDEO running batches of ballets through the machines over and over.
Whew! And thank you for that.
Spot on as usual Shrugged !
I live in Georgia. Kemp shut-down Georgia, even though some missed it.
Those of us who REFUSED TO COMPLY; we were treated miserably.
Kemp push the JAB....I know medical personnel who refused the JAB and did a work-around the FEDS, so their offices were not shut-down and their patients could be taken care of.
When I was confronted by the maniacs in medical/dental facilities, I fought back to their self-imposed tyranny. Many were on my side and openly agreed with me.
Don't believe Kemp for a minute, he lies right in front of the camera and written in the Atlanta Journal Constipation daily; no different than the Bezos WAPO.
Kemp is a Never-Trumper and believes he is going to be the next US Senator from Georgia, and wants to be POTUS one day.
Give me a friggin' break!
Kemp is a compliant traitor. He and Raffensperger should be removed from office and Raffy should be in jail. He is a corrupt bastard IMO.
Sounds like Mitchy Daniels from Indiana..... gah
No governor was perfect - but in case you forgot Kemp made some moves to open up stuff in April, and he was chided by Trump publicly.
I remind you of this to not say Kemp isn't a weasel, because he most certainly is; but that Trump helped make Kemp a Never-Trumper by attacking him. And therefore losing his "weasel-ness" abilities promoting policies you and I would like, and instead had him working against us. That is on Trump.
Kemp made it clear he was a never-Trumper from the start - which is why Trump probably picked on him.
Kemp did everything he could to thwart the election investigation. He was a traitor from day one. Still is.
I did not comply. I went to work every day and dealt with the public. The cops would have had to drag me out of my business to prevent me from doing my job. I had a sign on the door that said "masks not required", signs that said "schutzmaske macht frei", or "we haven't tarred and feathered politicians in a long time...and it shows". I painted in big letters on my plate glass windows RE-OPEN MAINE END THE JAN-DEMIC! I went to the reopen Maine rallies in Augusta. I sometimes look at the now four year old selfies of me and my now 14 year old son violating every restriction on going to the beach, the Nubble light house and other places. We ran over all the no parking signs on the side of Mountain Rd that the town of York put up to prevent people from hiking the trails on Mt Agamenticus. None of it deterred Queen Mills though. Fuck Mills!
You are a brave man. Perhaps it is what we ALL should have done.
Sorry, shrugged, but this is a misreading on how the government is supposed to function on so many levels. (1) The executive branch is in charge during national emergencies, and the president alone has authority over the entire bureaucracy. (2) The founders gave the executive this power because the legislative branch is a deliberative body and cannot move as quickly as the executive. (3) The real power lies with the states, most of which give the governor authority in emergencies because there is rarely a “one size fits all” solution. (4) The judicial branch has a hand in this both at the state and national level to rein in an executive decision that tramples on people’s rights.
(5) The president has a bully pulpit, and in my opinion Trump diminished it by being on TV everyday and politically blew it because for once his instinct was on the wrong side of this issue once he empowered Fauci & Co. (6) Yes, the American people failed to rise to the challenge, but what do you mean by “all of us” Kemosabe?
"Yes, the American people failed to rise to the challenge, but what do you mean by “all of us” Kemosabe?" I said, ". . . and, it was all of us who were responsible" because in our (supposed) representative republic that is true. Some stood against it and most did not. If you are one who fully stood against it, you are one of the few, brave patriots of the pandemic. Most were threatened by their employer, or school, or other institution so they had to make a hard decision for their families.
You obviously have a better grasp on the breakdown of roles and job assignments than my 8th grade government class understanding of things. However, the emergency authorization to which you refer can't last forever. We understood Pearl Harbor was an emergency and war was immediately declared by the president. COVID in the earliest of days was an emergency (Of their making but that doesn't matter). However, by 2021 and even 2022? Enough was emerging in early 2021 over the Vax to raise alarm. It was no longer the "emergency" that may have triggered early action by the president. Congress had a responsibility (as did each of us) to stop unconstitutional policy actions and set laws to control the over reach. Once war was declared in 1941, Congress assumed their role as law makers. The courts also failed us.
Trump made mistakes. That has been stated here before. For the 10 months he had remaining in office, with all the lies, deception, censorship we now know were used to set up the worst crime against humanity ever, I forgive those mistakes in the early days. He has since made very bold statements about no mandates ever again, no masks, no distancing. I think he has learned.
One last point: Emergency or not, no edict from the president can put the Constitution in limbo. Unconstitutional rules, actions or policies can't hide behind the "emergency" designation. Congress and the Courts have a fully active responsibility to uphold the Constitution even if the president gets to control things for awhile until it subsides.
And yet today this regime issues illegal EOs and the courts tell them no but this DOJ is in the regimes underwear.
Good point. My wife and I sacrificed a lot of income to be able to send our kids to college and graduate debt free. They did and they have. Debt free.
I am waiting on Biden to give a 100% tax rebate to me for being responsible and not using grant money to send my kids to college. We are far from "rich" and live a very lower-middle income lifestyle.
I am tired of funding illegals with exorbitant give aways, and the very wealthy who take my money through inflation, the hidden tax.
Alan, it’s not an “emergency” when it goes on for 2, 3, years. So Congress definitely could have played a role, including hearings and subpoenas to challenge the health “authorities”.
Also, Trump was being so visibly present because he was performing a crucial role in preventing panic (Trump was very successful at this) and assuring the public his administration was fully engaged in the most sincere, transparent, and vigorous efforts to solve it.
Trump performed outstandingly with the information he had.
The role congress plays, unfortunately, is how can we enrich ourselves today? All else takes a back seat. They are there, as a closed-door group, that puts on pompous airs for the camera while they glum onto every backroom cent that comes their way.
I never thought it was an emergency from the get go. That’s my point. Trump on TV for hours every day made it one. Just a warm-up for how St. George’s death was all we heard, saw and read about during the summer of 2020. There were a lot of people much smarter than me calling B.S. on Covid in late February 2020. When a president makes the historic decision to lockdown the country and shut down the economy “for two weeks to stop the spread,” he should have been demanding his staff provide some counter arguments to such an obviously destructive move. Those rational, informed voices were de-platformed, de-monetized and demonized much later in the process.
I didn’t disagree. He relied on experts just like the rest of us and he hey lied to him too. He learned a life lesson just like we all did. It wont happen again.
FreeFloridaFemale, first, Trump is one of the most courageous leaders America has ever had—your belief that he was a coward casts real doubt on the validity of every other argument you’re making on this topic.
Your demand for a current apology from Trump is not wise. Sure it might be satisfying to some on the Right who feel entitled to an apology. But you have to realize that half of the country is still very blind about COVID and in no way thinks the public health authorities and Fauci were even wrong. I have relatives that still believe the vaccine is safe and effective.
Folks on the Left could in no way “process” an apology from Trump, and the Left Media would use it as an opportunity to go on a BINGE of painting Trump as a “COVID denier” or something— and HALF THE COUNTRY would think that is true.
Bringing this subject up again would only hurt his re-election chances with independents and that segment of Democrats which is unhappy with Biden.
So the apology you demand would only hurt America’s ability to put Trump in office and fight the lethal attack the Left is pressing on us.
I still have cousins who mask up, and believe that EVs are the way to go.
You are right, an apology from Trump would give them sound bites for the rest of eternity. And there is no point. Right now he cant even string 2 sentences together without the media whores chopping them up into something else.
I am sympathetic with this position. I believe he basically mishandled it and his public rebuke of Kemp in Georgia for opening up too early made sure we lost the senate in 2020. His grandstanding throughout by being in front of the covid response made it impossible for him to backtrack later. It was a perfect storm where Trump's natural inclination to be the showman came back to bite him in the ass. It was his biggest mistake as president, and the one for which he was ultimately almost completely responsible. He knows this, which is why he was so animated to attack DeSantis over covid during the GOP primaries, even though DeSantis was substantially more right that Trump. Trump being so thinned skin about it demonstrates a significant character flaw. No one was going to attack Trump on that point, until he started attacking others.
Maybe and maybe not. Easy to look at it in the mirror and judge or see things differently. I don’t agree about his thin-skin though. Maybe that was the case of the old Trump but you let the government and states attack you non-stop for seven years straight and see just how thin skinned you are. Trump 2.0 is a far more seasoned man.
Yes. There is A Trump 2.0
Nobody is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes and has regret. It is what you do with it that matters and Trump has learned from it and has made changes. He may occasionally give a little too much lip to the press and certain politicians, but he is a one-man army fighting the entire system. He doesn't have many supporters out everyday in the public spotlight flanking him in this fight.
Agreed. The man is flawed for sure but he is one hell of a lot better than anyone else fighting for this country right now. He understands we are not going to win this fight trying to talk sense into the other side. We're past that time now. We need a MMC fighter regardless of age. I'll take Mr. Trump over anyone in second place right now.
AMEN Redd.
And who will you chose for your next president, pray tell?
Hindsight is always 20/20; Monday morning quarterbacking is about as valuable as hindsight (i.e, rarely); & it is highly unlikely that any one who thinks like we do rather than like they do could, in that position, have guessed the depth of the depravity he faced and stood completely alone against it. The cost of being wrong was too great.
Credit where credit due - Trump did as much as he could to fight against it and lessen the damage.
I will vote for Trump - sadly, I have no choice. He is very wrong about the way he handled Covid mania and he deserves our criticism.
Yes he does deserve our criticism, but not our censure. He is our (and by extension ‘The West’s’) last shot at reversing our decline!
You have to go back to that actual time, and all that was swirling about and it was mostly fear. If you had been in his position, you literally would have been the only one on the planet, save a couple of others, who took an opposing stand, and he was the President of every citizen in the country and leader of the free world! They excoriated him for just drinking Coca-cola for heavens sake! Imagine how the entire world would have reacted if he’d said “you all are nuts, and we need to do the exact opposite of all that you’re proposing”? They’d have tarred and feathered him. And NO ONE was sure what the hell was happening, or was going to happen in that time period’s atmosphere. It was a total Feardemic, more than a pandemic.
It’s soooo easy to fault him for not being a super hero at that time, but that is unfair to say the least, when ALL the people around him were equally as culpable and much moreso than him, for deceiving him, and creating the mess to begin with.
Finally, a real issue to criticize Trump about! He drank Coca-Cola! Nobody should touch that crap.
Now, that funny.
That “NO ONE” was sure what was happening is true, but when the health officials ignore 100 years of learning how to deal with the risk of a pandemic being tossed out the door, something’s not right. And there were many people much more qualified than me who were calling B.S. on the whole Covid thing in early February. At a minimum, before shutting down the economy, schools, churches, for two weeks, a president should be demanding to hear some counter arguments to what the “experts” were telling him. JFK did that under much more trying circumstances of the Cuban missile crisis. Trump failed on this, historically. I’ll still vote for him, but I’ll never defend him on this issue and stop harping on it if he just acknowledges he f’ed up.
Opinions are like a---------/every body has one to use as they deem.
Suzie: he must acknowledge the fact that his “warp speed vaccine” isn’t safe or effective and that children should not, under any circumstances, be injected with this poison. I haven’t seen any indication that he has learned lessons from our National COVID nightmare. Yes - decisions that negatively impacted thousands of small business owners, school age children and seniors in nursing facilities were made from a place of fear. Leadership calls for courage and a love of freedom above tyranny.
PDJT is a mere human FFF
Sorry, FreeFloridaFemale, couldn’t disagree more.
No need to apologize. I appreciate everyone posting today. So many passionate, reasoned opinions - even from those who disagree with me!
Thanks for being a good sport about this, FreeFemale! You do represent the view of a number of people. There has been a lively discussion today about this; always a benefit to get articulate arguments for both sides of the story. Yay for the freedom of speech! Have a good night!🤗
He best stop bragging about the jab.
I must most respectfully disagree.
It was a damned if you do, damned if you don't moment. If he would have fought the pandemic madness, he would have had no supporters politically, even in his own party. He would have lost the election without the cheating. Either way he would be campaigning on "I told you so".
I believe the worst you can say about him is that he visibly felt out of his debt, while the medical goons usurped his podium -- and no wonder; he had no medical background, or a scientific one. What he should have done is invite people with different opinions to the White House, to gain a balance -- but this is all quarterbacking after the game.
Former UK Prime Minister Harold MacMillan put it well, when asked what concerned him most in politics: "Events, dear boy, events."
Spot on Chuck. While living in Illinois, it was rare if I wore a mask. The one I did wear was an N-2, a two-ply paper towel with a rubber band around to hold it in place. The looks & comments I got are not printable. I would have wore a mesh bag that grapes came in but my wife dumped it. And the people who yelled at me for going down the aisle the opposite way of the arrows. Lol I had ear buds & just waved to them. When confronted by people I either replied, “no engliss” in an Eastern European accent or did made up sign language & grunted. It felt good to ridicule this dimwits who you cannot reason with.
What should scare the hell out of us is how many went along with this power grab and still believe the government and media propaganda at the time. I still have a meme on my screen saver that pops up occasionally that reminds me of the insanity: Just a reminder... A genuinely deadly pandemic doesn't require 24/7 advertising to remind you it exists. Real pandemics don't need marketing campaigns and endless propaganda... But psychological operations DO.
Bravo, DJL! The scaredemic was an obvious propaganda tool from day 1. Never in my life had I seen the “top health officials” of the country fan the flames of fear instead of tamping down the fear to avoid a panic. It made no sense to me at the time, especially after the country had just gone through four years of Russia! Russia! Russia! So, I was a skeptic for two weeks and then a full blown opponent of the B.S. from late February 2020. I’m probably on at least three domestic terror watchlists. lol
Never let a perfectly good crisis go to waste...
Exactly, the Dems had the crisis they wanted and used every tool they had to smear the Trumpster. Whatever he did whether it was right or wrong, was WRONG in the MSM, Dem Party and all their supporters. He was pretty much alone.
I roared with laughter, Alan. Thank you.
No worries 😉 right there with you.
The obviously pre-planned marketing campaign (highly choreographed tic tok nurses dressed in supposedly scarce protective gear) was one of my first clues that it was all staged.
With military NBC warfare training, I knew a virus wasn't going to be stopped by a cloth mask, staying six feet from another person, or a sheet of plexiglass as a barrier. The second clue was the emergency authorization of the 'vaccine,' which did not undergo the FDA testing requirements which usually take years. The third clue was that the 'vaccine' did not work as sold. So, in hindsight, my decision not to get injected with it despite the non-stop propaganda campaign was the correct choice for me.
And let us not forget that so many of our churches--the erstwhile bastions of liberty--were cowed into toeing the government line and stopped holding services. Some did so out of a belief that the government propaganda spewed by the Faucists was true; some did so out of personal fear of coming down with Covid; some did so because they were afraid of being prosecuted, fined or jailed by the "authorities," but all those who did so deserve to be called out for their gullibility, cowardice and shameful elevation of fear over their Christian obligations. Once it became clear that the leadership of our churches lacked the courage of their convictions and were agreeable to bowing and scraping before their worldly masters, rather than their Master, the door was flung open for entry to the degenerate perversion of "inclusivity" becoming rampant today. So what if the Bible declared fornication and homsexual behavior to be sinful, or that there was no Biblical authority for marriage between people of the same sex, or that it condemned the behavior of the transsexual perverts who cross-dressed in a disgusting parody of femininity? The Bible was ignored in favor of the "current thing." Preachers and laity alike desired popular approval rather than Christ's approval. They forgot or more likely chose to ignore the warning provided in James, 4:4 that, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." We have seen far too many "friends of the world" occupying pulpits as well as pews. We need to have more people who live out their Biblical duties and preach the Word in every place, time and circumstance. To those who do otherwise I say, "Christ is King" and as for me, I shall have no king but King Jesus!
James, 4:4 that, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
I wish our new "Christian" Speaker of the House meditated on this scripture today. What he enabled to pass in the House - full term abortion, funding for Ukraine, no wall on our border, green new deal funding, and other leftist programs - was insane. What happened to the man?
I'm a little off-topic, but not by a lot. Johnson was elected to his position because he seemed to be one who would "stand apart" boldly. Instead, he seems to be cowering in fear.
What happened? He has a 4 seat majority with a caucus that isn't nearly as disciplined as his democrat counterpart. Complaints about the new speaker are misguided, and fail to recognize the tightrope he is walking.
Why is it always the republicans walking a tightrope despite us having a majority in the House? You are saying bills can be passed without having a majority in the chamber as long as everyone sticks together? I agree failing to stick together is the problem. So, if the Republicans would stick together - and have a majority position to boot - we should be unstoppable. But we cower in fear because our leader (Johnson) is cowering in fear. A good speaker should be able to create the discipline to stick together. How do the Dems do it? Blackmail?
Johnson is not cowering in fear. You’re asking him to be the super-hero-of the century in “creating the discipline to (get the Republicans) to stick together”. How can he do that when there is a segment of Republicans that in substance probably are paid or blackmailed agents of the Left.
And yes— how do the Democrats stick together in lockstep??? Many are “true believers” in Leftist ideology, but to get 100% lockstep unanimity in votes, there are clearly quite a few Democrats that are deeply compromised—either blackmailed, or threatened with violence, or bought.
I truly believe Speaker Johnson is doing the best that can be done at present with our majority hanging by a thread. If he fails and Hakeem Jeffries takes control of the House, we will be in a much worse position.
TPG, you are right about the root cause in Congress and in pointing out that one man has little ability to change that. Regardless, despite being a nice, Christian man, he is not suited for the job. I am certain he can do lots of things well, but leading the House is not one of them. He needs to be replaced by a Jim Jordan or a Matt Gaetz.
If the Dems have shown us the secret formula to winning - even when they don't have a majority - then I say copy it and return the favor. Most of us are really tired of turning over and losing each fight. I am.
We are in survival mode. We have no choice but to fight like hell to save this country.
Yep, I agree, Jim Jordan was my first choice, and Matt Gaetz would be terrific, but the present reality has been that the “real”(non-RINO) Republicans in the House just don’t have quite enough votes to elect either of them as Speaker.
I’m sure you don’t mean we should adopt the Democrats methods of blackmail, payoffs, and threats of violence to get “discipline” in our ranks.
We can be grateful tho that there is big progress in the MAGA takeover of the RNC. Still lots to clean up and very daunting— but Lara Trump is a gigantic improvement over Ronna McDaniels.
Definitely blackmail. They have so much dirt on each other - because they're all so "morally/ethically dirty".
I think they got to him. He has an adopted son that has been in trouble with the law.
Western countries have become fat, lazy, and ignorant. It is the weakness that is right this minute destroying us.
Another way of putting this may be that many church pastors' main priority is to keep their jobs, hence they have all the courage of low-level paper-pushers. And if that's the case, how can we expect them to oppose the garbage that the world is pushing on us?
Agree - the Catholic Church did not have its finest moment during Covid.
Most mainstream denominational churches followed blindly.
I admit I contributed to that. I was an Elder on the "Session" of a Presbyterian church and we taped off pews to achieve distancing, provided masks and gallons of Purell at every gathering point in the building, and eventually closed the building going to live stream.
The average age of our congregation was between 75 and 80 years of age. Our Session struggled with closing the service, but couldn't look into the eyes of these faithful members who were scared to death. About half stopped coming before closing was discussed. Thankfully, NOBODY in the church died of covid in the two years we lived like this.
You’re right, many churches faced the same situation.
Not to be ugly but religious thinking encourages tolerance and behavior that someone is coming to save. It may be true but until then we must fight back. When they say I am from your government and I am here to help. DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR/ HANG UP THE PHONE. WE did and they didn’t like it but we are here and didn’t vax, mask or follow the mandate. Our doctor reported us refusing the shots, our neighbor reported no masks. We learned who to trust going forward.
Sounds like East Berlin before the wall fell but I know it wasn't. Chilling that our government can do such a thing. Keep the fight going.
Thanks for your note - and I agree. I think what has changed - as you suggest - is people can no longer "believe in the government". This is the generation that saved America in WW2. Government doesn't deserve this kind of citizen any longer.
Marxist Democrats used the virus to take our freedom and control us. Most of the GOP let them do it. That’s what you need to remember.
They have done nothing but stand by, cowering or even abetting and watching (enabling) the destruction of this country from the jailing of the J6r’s, to all the illegal mandates and Covid insanity, to the wide opened border, to the shutting down of our energy, to the explosion of our debt, to the persecution of Trump.
They should hang their heads in shame for all time.
And we keep electing them. Something needs to change starting with term limits and a balanced budget.
Amen, Bro. Reddog! Preach it!
Four years ago, Republican Governor Kemp opened the great state of Georgia for business, (before DeSantis lifted COVID restrictions here in Florida) defying Fauci and Trump. Trump criticized Kemp, but Kemp was right to take a calculated risk and allow Americans the choice to shop, dine, mingle with other humans and enjoy the great outdoors. To my knowledge, Trump has never apologized to Kemp for wrongfully accusing him of endangering the citizens of Georgia.
Maybe that is why Kemp let ATL stuff the millions of fraudulent ballots….
That would have been an enormous and selfish over-reaction on Kemp’s part.
…that very attitude is what made McCain vote to keep Obamacare - to punish Trump. He didn’t give a shit about the rest of the country he’d betrayed.
Why should Kemp be any different?
Good observation about McCain! Pure vindictiveness.
Maybe. But Mr. Kemp seems to be conflicted on too much. Im still not convinced on what he knows or doesnt know about voting violations following the 2020 election.
Kemp and Raffensberger led the cheat; don't be naive.
Ha! Naive? Me? Been called a lot of things but never naive. You could be right about them. But what does it matter if no one is investigating them and putting them under oath while testifying?
Is anyone really trying to get to the bottom of the election corruption with actual actions? So all we can do is have our hunches and theory's. Unless this changes soon, it isnt going to matter. The good guys have a lot to lose in this too.
He has not. It has cost him over and over and over.
I've always believed we are governed by idiots and the Covid lockdowns proved it. In Minnesota, they shut down our gym where we had worked out at least five days a week and occasionally every day for the last twenty plus years. In the meantime the liquor store down the road and the smoke and vape shop next door were open. There was no impediment to buying a handle of cheap vodka bottled by the Dean Phillips (our congressman's) family, a pack of Marlboro Reds, or scratch off lottery tickets. You just couldn't walk on a treadmill or ride a stationary bike during the cold and snowy Minnesota winter.
I live in Charlotte and walked almost daily, during Covid (maskless) and still do. I cannot tell you how many masked Karens, yes all females, would “crowd” me when I crossed the road. They were inside their cars, masked and ALONE. They would stare at me crossing the road and point at their mask. 😷 I would smile and walk on. Wife and I, seniors, have never had Covid. Two shots, early, no boosters, etc.
Spot on. Other than wear a mask when i was forced in order to shop for food and such, I tried to ignore it all. I still took my expeditions out west twice a year. I found that once you got away from the big cities of the east coast people acted far differently toward the virus. That confirmed my thoughts about the virus. It was a scam. America learned a valuable lesson and found out who the truth tellers were. Now, let the government try that again.
Got the shots.
Got Covid at least twice after that.
Tomorrow is the angioplasty to figure out how much damage was done to the heart.
Yep, the experts were right… safe and effective….in killing off the population.
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I am very sorry for you. God bless you!
Good luck my friend. God bless.
Thanks
I think I’ll be okay but the ticker was very different after the second Moderna shot.
We are all praying for you my friend.
I pray you have a cardiologist as fine as the young lady Dr. who performed my open heart surgery.She gave me my life back !
All public health officials should be arrested for deliberately putting the health of the public in danger. Anyone who suggests they are a scientist knew by middle of April everything the public health sector was saying was wrong. Masks did nothing to stop the spread, even the vaunted N95 when used by the public did nothing to stop the spread. There is some data that would suggest it contributed to other health problems, especially for the elderly. Mask manufacturers all highlighted in the product detail masks did not stop viruses.
Social distancing did nothing. It was based upon a 19th century suggestion on how to stop the spread of certain diseases. It has never been tested, there is no data to support it anywhere in medical literature. Covid died on surfaces. The Koreans told us this very quickly, after Princeton said the opposite. Princeton was wrong. You surely remember when stores quit spraying shopping carts - because they knew it was making no difference. Exercise and sunlight were good for general immunity system fortification - the public health officials poo-pooed that.
At their trial - if any of them made statements about getting Trump in the past - they should be arrested with life imprisonment - and financially wiped out.
Democracy! As I note on my own page - there are no democrats who believe in democracy, just in power. They messed with all of us - and as Don notes we did nothing. There needs to be payback.
It’s not really pay back, it’s just consequences!
Evil will persist only as long as there are none.
Personal accountability needs a resurrection in America.
Swift and sure consequences would take care of that in short order.
Kids think twice about being naughty when they know it’s gonna cost them big time.
Best to use the information to guide action regarding your current health needs: you cannot rely on any clinician under 40 to know very much actual medicine and you cannot trust any corporate facility to function to your best interests as a patient. The impact of DEI in 5 very short years is nothing less than corrupting in every vital industry. In medicine is could kill you. If you must get sick be very skeptical of anything you’re told and be fearless in asking questions and for evidence.
It is sad, but if you do not have specific knowledge of a doctor's outcomes for his or her patients, going to a minority physician (basically African- Americans) could be hazardous to your health.
That DEI has ruined indirectly the reputation of good minority doctors who had good grades and earned their way into the medical profession still ticks me off. We have stolen their achievement on the alter of passing minorities who had no business being passed based upon some tortured reading of fairness and equality. It was neither. I applaud every time I see a DEI department wiped out, and their practitioners laid off.
Most of my doctors are from Pakistan or India. My wifes Neurologist is an exception but he's over 40.
There are a fair number of doctors from India in our neck of the woods as well. Unlike their African American counterparts, their grades and academic backgrounds are generally top notch.
My heart surgeon was a young African-American who told me her hobbies were sewing and quilting so it gave me an understanding when she told me surgery was repair work involving cutting and splicing to make things whole.She was AWESOME !
Bezos- you did something amazing* (Amazon) but you’re proving the Peter Principle writ large.
* Got a text last evening that someone broke off a key in a lock where I’m a handy man. Ordered an extraction tool and it came before I got up this morning.
Why do people get rich then think that makes them smart about everything? Zuckerberg, Bloomberg, Mickelson.
Mickleson became a great golfer. Then he figured he should fly his own plane. Then he thought he should figure out his own investments, because professionals couldn’t possibly be as smart as he is.
But back to you, Don. Amen, liberty IS lost in fear. But not in the fear of the Lord, which is healthy (just as learning to fear touching a hot stove is), and, as Proverbs says, is the beginning of wisdom. Beyond that, it teaches/enables us to not fear all else (including death or the gov’t.)
Our church became resisters of that overreach, and God richly blessed us. We had to fight the hospital that my wife works for, tooth and nail, for an exemption from covid vax mandate, and we prevailed.
I could tell you about my fight with gov’t that led to 2 yr fed prison camp paid vacation, but I’ve done that before. I’ll just say that like my favorite fellow prisoner, Joseph, told his brothers- “What you meant for evil, God meant for good.”
Natan Sharansky said it best, with the title of his prison memoir- Fear No Evil
… and Solzhenitsyn as well when he warned us: Live Not By Lies.
I am inspired by the both of you above me about how to live. My only concern is that it is getting damn near impossible to live in this world and not be a part of some of it. The evil I used to see in "spots" has spread to all institutions it seems. Everything holds the essence of evil.
It's getting really hard to figure out how to stand apart these days.
You are a stranger in a strange land. Just Let your light shine.
Psalm 23
No its easy. Believe in what is right. The rest is white noise.
Yes, and Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
I think a result of our societal (rapid) decline is the rediscovery of their wisdom thru experience.
Good morning, all.
I had a letter prepared, all properly legal, that if any sanctions or measures were lined up against me for refusing the jab, such as testing etc., ALL such measures would be applied to ALL employees for ALL viral infections. I was prepared to file suit, if needed. No one in management suggested mandatory anything, so I never submitted it. I did submit to being tested twice - I go to the opera twice or three times a years with my elderly Mom, and the facility required proof on not being infected. (And what a farce THAT nonsense was, eh?) I wasn't going to spoil her good time by planting my feet. She, unfortunately, got caught up by the fear-mongering, and acted accordingly. Ugh...I despise the people who pushed this garbage. They put fear and stress upon my dear ol' Mom, and I personally have no forgiveness for them and their sort. Karma will take its course...
I am concerned about the coming months. What will the bastards try this time? You can be sure that they will attempt something. They will only stop when either A,( they have beaten us into submission, or, B,) they have received the equivalent of a stinging rod to their muzzles. Nothing else will be sufficient.
Have a good day, all.
-Kv
I agree with many here: The Covidians got it completely right for their aims.
For the 1032nd time: Feb 2020, Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama Japan. 3,700 people on board, 800 tested 'positive'(to something), 15 died = .04% fatality rate = same as the flu. Most of us knew the Scamdemic as we saw it. Funny how the CDC flu deaths averaged ~40M per year and dropped to "9M" in 2021... Not.
Do I trust any medical establishment? Not at all. Do I trust medical professionals on the ground? Some, but not many. They all got paid handsomely to follow the Covidians.
Evil creatures such as Fauci only breathe because moral people follow the Ten Commandments.His time
will come ,hopefully soon.The question is what the deep-state has planned for this election cycle.Fool me once ,shame on you,fool me twice I am a sucker should apply this time around. Snap poll seems too simple but Poca-Man is testing info retention?
Fauci had many, many accomplices. They were as informed as he was. They knew. And they did nothing that would jeopardize their jobs. The next debate we have should be about which federal agencies we have that benefit us as currently configured and staffed. But first we need real Americans in our legislative branches.
Scarf Lady comes to mind. Never liked her from the Git Go....
She is what we call "a drone". They do exactly as programed.
Don dear, I suspect that today’s post is a test to see who’s been paying attention!
"We should learn from this because we failed to learn from the London Plague in 1665."
Yes, we should - but by now it is abundantly and embarrassingly clear that we don't, because if we did, we would never have invaded Iraq for the purpose of being an occupying force. The War of Northern Aggression would never have come to pass.
This fact, when met with tyrants, dictator-wannabes, and other bullies, is a lethal combination - see the dwarf Anthony Fauci.
"I hope House Republicans have the intestinal fortitude to publicly shame these charlatans and make sure we never ever arrest another lone surfer for enjoying fresh air, sunshine and killer waves."
That hope is likely shared among all of us, but I believe we're bound to be disappointed - aside from Rand Paul in the Senate, and maybe Jim Jordan in the HoR. You know, the guy who is a minority in the majority - who isn't shy about issuing subpoenas that are ignored with no consequence, chairing hearings that have no appreciable results, but is allowed to proceed with the dog-and-pony show because he's in a safe district? He barks and barks, but never bites.
Otherwise, there is not one Republican in Congress with the spine to call out the public health frauds, let alone hold anyone accountable.
Until there is a massive upheaval and re-alignment of the two wings of the UniParty resulting in two distinct entities responsive to the will of the voters for fear of their very lives, very little of any substance will change.
Fauci is the Poster Elf for why we need term limits. Not just for politicians, but bureaucrats.
Highest federal salary. Least public oversight and control. Wielded the most unchallenged power. And did the most damage.
…and reaped untold royalties for the vax which they do not have to disclose.
We just need for congress to do their job and stop relegating.
The Chevron case before the Supreme Court should help.
SCOTUS does appear to be heading in a good direction. In a previous case (maybe Chevron, I don't recall) it told the EPA they can't make up law on their own under the guise of regulations. Giving bureaucracies the ability to create rules that have the power of law is a huge mistake on the part of lawmakers.