At the national level that's true (with the exception of Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Bill Posey and a few others). At the state levels there are many Republicans who are real gems (small r libertarian republicans) who are fighting every day for personal freedom.
My sister is convinced her son developed Tourette’s also after the MMR vaccine. He is 12yrs old.
Apparently there is a family history of adverse reactions to vaccines on his Dads side. A family member is profoundly disabled after a childhood vaccine.
My sister is devastated. Words cannot describe he self loathing.
So when I see that kind of sign, I send the "BLM activist" a note asking them if they REALLY care about black lives, and are they ready to do something about it? And to watch the movie to learn more.
Toby's article here is a great candidate for the same kind of action. All of the points he makes are excellent. Choose the ones that are most important, and next time you see a "we believe in science" sign, or one for a D candidate, send your letter not only to that house, but to the two neighboring houses. Because people probably talk to their neighbors.
I live in a red-leaning area so I'm not overwhelmed by these signs, but keeping stamped envelopes in the car makes the job easy, just add an address.
Like you, I worked a lot of elections for Dems in the past. I have a lot of former friends still in it, but they all seem broken. Mentally I imagine, but I really can't relate. I don't see how the Democratic Party recovers from this, how can they? They will have to have a leader who rips off the mask, and that's not going to happen. They will limp into '24 clinging to the Executive Branch, and then lose it all.
The Democratic Party has officially rebranded itself. The party formerly known as the Democratic Party is now known as the Pharmacratic Party with all its Pfizer Blue Pharmacrats in Pfizer Blue states.
It seems to me that the idea of being "woke" goes all the way back to Plato’s allegory of the cave. From Wikipedia:
"In the allegory, Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world."
Democrats see themselves as the hero in Plato's allegory, the philosophers who set themselves free via the natural and social sciences and political consciousness-raising — and come out from behind the wall to see the world as it really is.
The terms awake and woke are signifiers of this self-described ability to see the world as it really is and they are woven throughout Democratic Party discourse.
Alas, in point of fact, Pharma is the puppet master casting shadows upon the wall and Democrats are still chained inside the cave and just imagine themselves to be free. It's sad really, because the truth is so obvious and freely available to anyone who wants liberty.
Similarly, the Buddha (ca. 400 BCE) became awakened through deep meditation to see reality as it truly is, not how it appears to be. Deep meditation refers to the five physical senses temporarily switching off through a natural process of stillness and only the mind or sixth sense remains. Enlightenment and awakening are synonymous in this case. Unfortunately for the Demos, they are just fooled by their own delusions. They are still very much watching the shadows on the wall.
When my first was born 27 years ago, the on-call pediatrician explained that Hep B is a sexually transmitted disease and that the Hep B vaccine given at one day old should protect my baby for between 5 and 7 years.
I explained that I viewed it as my job as a parent to make certain my newborn wouldn't have sex in the next 5 to 7 years.
So imagine Ron DeSantis wins 2024. Is he really going to blow the lid off the vax/Autism debacle? That's the sort of revolution we need. However, I fear that's too much of a colossal disaster no president wants on their watch. And how long before all Republicans are hypnotized by pharma? Money talks. Lobbying HAS TO GO! And so does all the pharma funding to our so-called health agencies. Otherwise we just ride the vicious merry-go-round.
I don't even recognize the Democratic Party anymore. They will not survive the moveable middle leaving. Time is running out for them to do the right thing. They need to take on the issue of medical freedom, civil rights, vaccine safety, and ethical science now!!!
The Democratic Party playbook is now this strange hybrid of Stockholm Syndrome (love for their Pharma captors) and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (keeping their base chronically ill in order to make them dependent on the sickcare provided by the Party).
Never mind the fact that the one-time "party of the working man" has now become the party of the private-island, coastal elites. Today's democrats seem so completely divorced from the reality of working-class folks who live in, say, Cleveland, that it's nothing short of astonishing.
No one seems to remember that it was the Obama administration that created the current airline cartel by allowing the airlines to merge into a handful of "too-big-to-fail" mega-fleets. Same with banking, pharma, and other industries. They've literally created monsters that are too big to govern. So these monsters govern us instead.
I would add that, as horrible, corrupt and mendacious as the GOP is, the DNC is just that much worse in every way. Time to shit-can both parties. If I were a DNC apparatchik, looking at the impending bloodbath at midterms, I would put off the end of the foreclosure/eviction moratorium until just before elections, so as to dump the whole mess into the GOP's lap. Same with the presidency in 24. Lose deliberately to make sure the GOP takes on the shit storm that is on the way.
The Hepatitis B vaccine is one that many people, even with kids, are surprised to learn is for an STD. Why would they give a newborn baby an STD shot? That doesn’t make any sense, but no one has ever been able to answer that question. My answer, it’s obviously corruption. To boot, I believe they need a booster for that shot after a few years…would appreciate anyone else’s feedback on what I’ve written here.
As an aside, I’m practically becoming a single issue voter myself in regards to medical freedom. As someone said, that is the hill to die on. Unfortunately there aren’t many politicians fighting for that issue.
"I’m practically becoming a single issue voter myself in regards to medical freedom. As someone said, that is the hill to die on." 1000% behind this, Deired.
The mothers can and usually are tested for hepatitis b. In Europe as I understand it, most countries only vaccinate if the mother is positive, which is fairly rare and also makes some sense. Here, we vaccinate all kids, even premies. One nurse wrote that when they give the hep b shot to premies they bring over the code cart because so many of them go into cardiac arrest. I don’t know if this is true, but what the hell are they doing vaccinating one day old premature babies if the mother isn’t positive? Hep B is overwhelmingly transmitted through sex and IV drug use. Babies are far from being a high risk group and I believe the shot wears off in about 12 years. Very concerning.
The Democratic Party has never been the "lesser evil", they are an auxiliary subdivision of the same evil. To understand the political system, one must step back and regard its operation as an integrated whole. The system can't be properly understood if one's study of it begins with an uncritical acceptance of the 2-party system, and the conventional characterizations of the two parties.
In terms of defending the general population against the depredations of the sadistic Pharma/Big Tech/Wall St. business consortium, the Democratic Party gave up that ghost many moons ago.
Their threadbare act as the "Party of the People" serves not to defend the well-being of the population, but merely to persuade ordinary citizens that within the official political system's framework, there's at least some faint hope for eventual "progressive change."
The Dem Party doesn't exist to fight for change, but only to pose as a force which one fine distant day might possibly bestir itself to fight for change. Thus the whole magic of the Dem Party -- the essential service it renders to the US power structure -- lies not in what it does, but in its mere existence: by simply existing, and doing nothing but propping up big business, it pretends to be something it's not.
As long as the Dem Party exists, most Americans will believe we have a "democracy" and a "choice" in how we are ruled. They will not despair, and will not revolt, as long as they have this hope for "change within the system." From the system's point of view, this mechanism serves as the ultimate safety valve -- it insures against a despairing populace, thus eliminates the threat of rebellion; yet guarantees that no serious change to the system will be mounted, because the Dems weren't designed to play that role in the first place.
For the Democratic Party to even begin to serve as a vehicle for opposing the absolute rule of psychotic billionaires, it would at a minimum have to be capable of acknowledging the conflict that exists between the interests of these dangerous lunatics and the rest of the population; and of expressing a principled determination to take the side of the population in this conflict.
A party whose controlling elements are millionaires, lobbyists, fund-raisers, careerist apparatchiks, consultants, and corporate lawyers; that has stood by prostrate and helpless (when not actively collaborating) in the face of stolen elections, illegal wars, torture, CIA concentration camps, lies as state policy, and one assault on the Bill of Rights after the next, is not likely to take that position.
Aiming this at Democrats is not quite right. This should be aimed at politicians in general. In the US, many Republicans have supported this either implicitly by not fighting tooth and nail against it or by voting for some of this stuff and pushing vaccinations like they are a get out of jail free card. Republicans are made to look better than they are by people like DeSantis, but I wouldn't trust them if I was an American. Unfortunately, up here in Canada, all of the parties are exactly the same (except PPC, which was a protest/anti-O'Toole/momentum building vote rather than a viable option). We have been abandoned up here
It is my impression that the DNC and the GOP are identical in their total disdain and , indeed, disgust with the proles they rule over.
At the national level that's true (with the exception of Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Bill Posey and a few others). At the state levels there are many Republicans who are real gems (small r libertarian republicans) who are fighting every day for personal freedom.
My sister is convinced her son developed Tourette’s also after the MMR vaccine. He is 12yrs old.
Apparently there is a family history of adverse reactions to vaccines on his Dads side. A family member is profoundly disabled after a childhood vaccine.
My sister is devastated. Words cannot describe he self loathing.
I wish your family well. Merry Christmas.
VERY good essay, Toby. Thank you very much for your insights.
❤️ 🙌
This is a small candle... but it's still a candle...
Many people have BLM signs in their yards. But I bet most don't know about about Williamn Thompson and the coverup of vaccine injury for black baby boys (the story told in the documentary Vaxxed: https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Vaxxed-From-Cover-Up-to-Catastrophe/821170 )
So when I see that kind of sign, I send the "BLM activist" a note asking them if they REALLY care about black lives, and are they ready to do something about it? And to watch the movie to learn more.
Toby's article here is a great candidate for the same kind of action. All of the points he makes are excellent. Choose the ones that are most important, and next time you see a "we believe in science" sign, or one for a D candidate, send your letter not only to that house, but to the two neighboring houses. Because people probably talk to their neighbors.
I live in a red-leaning area so I'm not overwhelmed by these signs, but keeping stamped envelopes in the car makes the job easy, just add an address.
Every little bit.
Like you, I worked a lot of elections for Dems in the past. I have a lot of former friends still in it, but they all seem broken. Mentally I imagine, but I really can't relate. I don't see how the Democratic Party recovers from this, how can they? They will have to have a leader who rips off the mask, and that's not going to happen. They will limp into '24 clinging to the Executive Branch, and then lose it all.
Yep, I think you're exactly right.
the same article can be directed at climate activists and scientists
The Democratic Party has officially rebranded itself. The party formerly known as the Democratic Party is now known as the Pharmacratic Party with all its Pfizer Blue Pharmacrats in Pfizer Blue states.
The blue pill party in more ways than one.
…”Stuck on Stupid!” (just another way of saying the same thing)
It seems to me that the idea of being "woke" goes all the way back to Plato’s allegory of the cave. From Wikipedia:
"In the allegory, Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world."
Democrats see themselves as the hero in Plato's allegory, the philosophers who set themselves free via the natural and social sciences and political consciousness-raising — and come out from behind the wall to see the world as it really is.
The terms awake and woke are signifiers of this self-described ability to see the world as it really is and they are woven throughout Democratic Party discourse.
More details on the allegory here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
Alas, in point of fact, Pharma is the puppet master casting shadows upon the wall and Democrats are still chained inside the cave and just imagine themselves to be free. It's sad really, because the truth is so obvious and freely available to anyone who wants liberty.
Similarly, the Buddha (ca. 400 BCE) became awakened through deep meditation to see reality as it truly is, not how it appears to be. Deep meditation refers to the five physical senses temporarily switching off through a natural process of stillness and only the mind or sixth sense remains. Enlightenment and awakening are synonymous in this case. Unfortunately for the Demos, they are just fooled by their own delusions. They are still very much watching the shadows on the wall.
When my first was born 27 years ago, the on-call pediatrician explained that Hep B is a sexually transmitted disease and that the Hep B vaccine given at one day old should protect my baby for between 5 and 7 years.
I explained that I viewed it as my job as a parent to make certain my newborn wouldn't have sex in the next 5 to 7 years.
Problem solved.
What a perfect response.
So imagine Ron DeSantis wins 2024. Is he really going to blow the lid off the vax/Autism debacle? That's the sort of revolution we need. However, I fear that's too much of a colossal disaster no president wants on their watch. And how long before all Republicans are hypnotized by pharma? Money talks. Lobbying HAS TO GO! And so does all the pharma funding to our so-called health agencies. Otherwise we just ride the vicious merry-go-round.
All good points! 🙌
I don't even recognize the Democratic Party anymore. They will not survive the moveable middle leaving. Time is running out for them to do the right thing. They need to take on the issue of medical freedom, civil rights, vaccine safety, and ethical science now!!!
The Democratic Party playbook is now this strange hybrid of Stockholm Syndrome (love for their Pharma captors) and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (keeping their base chronically ill in order to make them dependent on the sickcare provided by the Party).
Never mind the fact that the one-time "party of the working man" has now become the party of the private-island, coastal elites. Today's democrats seem so completely divorced from the reality of working-class folks who live in, say, Cleveland, that it's nothing short of astonishing.
No one seems to remember that it was the Obama administration that created the current airline cartel by allowing the airlines to merge into a handful of "too-big-to-fail" mega-fleets. Same with banking, pharma, and other industries. They've literally created monsters that are too big to govern. So these monsters govern us instead.
Sad!
I would add that, as horrible, corrupt and mendacious as the GOP is, the DNC is just that much worse in every way. Time to shit-can both parties. If I were a DNC apparatchik, looking at the impending bloodbath at midterms, I would put off the end of the foreclosure/eviction moratorium until just before elections, so as to dump the whole mess into the GOP's lap. Same with the presidency in 24. Lose deliberately to make sure the GOP takes on the shit storm that is on the way.
😂🤣😂 SPOT ON!
♥️♥️♥️ This!
The Hepatitis B vaccine is one that many people, even with kids, are surprised to learn is for an STD. Why would they give a newborn baby an STD shot? That doesn’t make any sense, but no one has ever been able to answer that question. My answer, it’s obviously corruption. To boot, I believe they need a booster for that shot after a few years…would appreciate anyone else’s feedback on what I’ve written here.
As an aside, I’m practically becoming a single issue voter myself in regards to medical freedom. As someone said, that is the hill to die on. Unfortunately there aren’t many politicians fighting for that issue.
"I’m practically becoming a single issue voter myself in regards to medical freedom. As someone said, that is the hill to die on." 1000% behind this, Deired.
The mothers can and usually are tested for hepatitis b. In Europe as I understand it, most countries only vaccinate if the mother is positive, which is fairly rare and also makes some sense. Here, we vaccinate all kids, even premies. One nurse wrote that when they give the hep b shot to premies they bring over the code cart because so many of them go into cardiac arrest. I don’t know if this is true, but what the hell are they doing vaccinating one day old premature babies if the mother isn’t positive? Hep B is overwhelmingly transmitted through sex and IV drug use. Babies are far from being a high risk group and I believe the shot wears off in about 12 years. Very concerning.
The Democratic Party has never been the "lesser evil", they are an auxiliary subdivision of the same evil. To understand the political system, one must step back and regard its operation as an integrated whole. The system can't be properly understood if one's study of it begins with an uncritical acceptance of the 2-party system, and the conventional characterizations of the two parties.
In terms of defending the general population against the depredations of the sadistic Pharma/Big Tech/Wall St. business consortium, the Democratic Party gave up that ghost many moons ago.
Their threadbare act as the "Party of the People" serves not to defend the well-being of the population, but merely to persuade ordinary citizens that within the official political system's framework, there's at least some faint hope for eventual "progressive change."
The Dem Party doesn't exist to fight for change, but only to pose as a force which one fine distant day might possibly bestir itself to fight for change. Thus the whole magic of the Dem Party -- the essential service it renders to the US power structure -- lies not in what it does, but in its mere existence: by simply existing, and doing nothing but propping up big business, it pretends to be something it's not.
As long as the Dem Party exists, most Americans will believe we have a "democracy" and a "choice" in how we are ruled. They will not despair, and will not revolt, as long as they have this hope for "change within the system." From the system's point of view, this mechanism serves as the ultimate safety valve -- it insures against a despairing populace, thus eliminates the threat of rebellion; yet guarantees that no serious change to the system will be mounted, because the Dems weren't designed to play that role in the first place.
For the Democratic Party to even begin to serve as a vehicle for opposing the absolute rule of psychotic billionaires, it would at a minimum have to be capable of acknowledging the conflict that exists between the interests of these dangerous lunatics and the rest of the population; and of expressing a principled determination to take the side of the population in this conflict.
A party whose controlling elements are millionaires, lobbyists, fund-raisers, careerist apparatchiks, consultants, and corporate lawyers; that has stood by prostrate and helpless (when not actively collaborating) in the face of stolen elections, illegal wars, torture, CIA concentration camps, lies as state policy, and one assault on the Bill of Rights after the next, is not likely to take that position.
Aiming this at Democrats is not quite right. This should be aimed at politicians in general. In the US, many Republicans have supported this either implicitly by not fighting tooth and nail against it or by voting for some of this stuff and pushing vaccinations like they are a get out of jail free card. Republicans are made to look better than they are by people like DeSantis, but I wouldn't trust them if I was an American. Unfortunately, up here in Canada, all of the parties are exactly the same (except PPC, which was a protest/anti-O'Toole/momentum building vote rather than a viable option). We have been abandoned up here
I have a separate letter to Republicans here:
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/dear-republican-elected-officials
But yes, point taken.
Missed this one! Great :)