If Republicans were smart (a big "if"), they would not just try to win the midterms, they would try to win 90% of House seats and a supermajority in the Senate. The way to do that is to pummel Dems over the failures of their Covid response and give people the over-the-counter treatments that work. https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/dear-republican-elected-officials
If we were smart (another big "if") we would surround the White House and every public health department in every state and not leave until this government collapses and new elections are called.
A change is gonna come. The bastards have underestimated the power of the human spirit. Massive amounts of people aren't guzzling the kool aid. They seek to stiffle and censor those who aren't guzzling their lies because they see us as a virus and in a sense we are. We are contagious. No vaccine can stop us. Spread the "germ" of freedom far and wide to anyone who will listen. Do not stop. If 20 people call you crazy the next may not and they to will spread the "germ". We will not be defeated. The truth will spread and spread and their lies will become more outlandish. Humanity may come through all of this with lessons learned. Never comply with fascist bastards. We may be ants but collectively we can move a mountain.
"The larger crisis is that bourgeois society is completely incapable of acknowledging its mistakes and making the necessary course corrections."
Substitute "administrative state and media elite" for "bourgeois society" and I will agree with you. The "bourgeois" on the other hand, have seen their world crumble under the administrative state and media elite. middle class owners of small businesses have seen their life's work destroyed be lockdowns, mandates, and constant fear-mongering. Middle class professionals like nurses and pilots have been forced by the administrative state to inject an experimental product into their bodies or lose their jobs.
In fact I think one could make a case that the purpose of all of the bad decisions made by the administrative state and supported by the media elite was to destroy the middle class "bourgeois society".
How many booster shot recipients will still be alive to receive their, let's say, 12th dose? How many children will have perished. How many grand parents will have died. How many?
This is the first time in my life that I have ever heard of so many people relatively close to me and in my circle having heart attacks, strokes, and sudden death events. And yet no one seems to be linking any of it?! Yes the wheels are well and truly off the bus. Fortunately a lot of the parents I know are not giving the poke to their 12-year-olds, Even if they are getting ‘boosted’
The reason you can’t make a point with pro-vaxxers is that they are operating from a belief system and not from reason. In my discussion with a few pro-vaxxers it becomes apparent that it doesn’t matter what evidence I present to them they are unable to take it in, as it would question their belief about the vaccine. I talked to a medical doctor friend about the Canadian Emergency Medicine Specialist Dr. Rochagné Kilian. She was talking about the rise in D-dimer levels in patients after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, and my friend conceded that it would be a good thing to look into. https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-rochagn%C3%A9-kilian-blows-the-whistle-on-c-19-vaccines-amp-d-dimer-levels_G1HDlOxO9odBYqU.html
Dr. Kilian has had her practicing license taken away, which my friend saw as reason to doubt her and I saw as a reason for the medical constabulary to begin a full scale in depth look at the issue. My doctor friend’s comment was that he was sure that if there were a problem it would be looked into. His belief in the medical system will trump any criticism of it.
While some of our eyes have been opened to the fraud, tyranny, and genocide, I have little faith that the masses will turn before we are too far from shore. Not while big brother continues to instill fear which they can readily reinforce with engineered viruses and toxic therapeutics. Not while they continue to twist the narrative and broadcast propaganda 24/7. Not while the masses continue to accept programming via social media and group think. Not while their 401k's are funded, their children are allowed to participate (even if vaccine injured) and big brother promises to take care of them.
It will have to get much worse before enough are willing to storm the castle.
Our hope lies in resistance, but I am afraid we should be prepared to endure much worse before the tide begins to turn.
I'm with you on all of this except the way the term "bourgeois" gets used as a pejorative. The term always meant conservative, prosperous middle class. "Bougie", derived from "bourgeois", is an ignorant mutation you hear today to mean overpriced or pampered. Lenin and Stalin demolished Russia's growing industrial trend, frequently using "bourgeois" as an accusation of excessive privilege that needed weeding out. It could send you to the gulag if you were labeled bourgeois.
The arrogance we have here and now is not coming from what's left of the middle class, it's the overpaid/overeducated suits in media, govt and universities that are due for a takedown. They hate blue collars, and they despise the "bourgeoisie".
I live in a university town with lots of neighbors who teach at the U or are in administration. To these people a furnace repairman might as well be a crustacean. And they are across the board 100% ok with forcing you and your kids to submit to these toxic shots; they are the very first to turn their noses up at the actual bourgeoisie who are largely wary of these clowns and their bright ideas. It'd be nice to find a better word to label the vax juggernaut than "bourgeois".
"The larger crisis is that bourgeois society is completely incapable of acknowledging its mistakes and making the necessary course corrections. Instead of the requisite humility they push for totalitarianism to cover up their shame."
This. Developmental trauma has produced a society with individual and collective toxic shame, that must be exorcised. I think that this might be one of (or even the main) drivers in society - once these dysfunctional people become a majority and they can vote or back something to exorcise their internal shame and anxiety, it's game over. Before that, they are forced to hide it and get by or face themselves.
If Republicans were smart (a big "if"), they would not just try to win the midterms, they would try to win 90% of House seats and a supermajority in the Senate. The way to do that is to pummel Dems over the failures of their Covid response and give people the over-the-counter treatments that work. https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/dear-republican-elected-officials
If we were smart (another big "if") we would surround the White House and every public health department in every state and not leave until this government collapses and new elections are called.
Build Back Better?
I'd suggest the complete demolition of just about every Federal agency and salting the Earth where those institutions once stood.
A change is gonna come. The bastards have underestimated the power of the human spirit. Massive amounts of people aren't guzzling the kool aid. They seek to stiffle and censor those who aren't guzzling their lies because they see us as a virus and in a sense we are. We are contagious. No vaccine can stop us. Spread the "germ" of freedom far and wide to anyone who will listen. Do not stop. If 20 people call you crazy the next may not and they to will spread the "germ". We will not be defeated. The truth will spread and spread and their lies will become more outlandish. Humanity may come through all of this with lessons learned. Never comply with fascist bastards. We may be ants but collectively we can move a mountain.
"The larger crisis is that bourgeois society is completely incapable of acknowledging its mistakes and making the necessary course corrections."
Substitute "administrative state and media elite" for "bourgeois society" and I will agree with you. The "bourgeois" on the other hand, have seen their world crumble under the administrative state and media elite. middle class owners of small businesses have seen their life's work destroyed be lockdowns, mandates, and constant fear-mongering. Middle class professionals like nurses and pilots have been forced by the administrative state to inject an experimental product into their bodies or lose their jobs.
In fact I think one could make a case that the purpose of all of the bad decisions made by the administrative state and supported by the media elite was to destroy the middle class "bourgeois society".
How many booster shot recipients will still be alive to receive their, let's say, 12th dose? How many children will have perished. How many grand parents will have died. How many?
This is the first time in my life that I have ever heard of so many people relatively close to me and in my circle having heart attacks, strokes, and sudden death events. And yet no one seems to be linking any of it?! Yes the wheels are well and truly off the bus. Fortunately a lot of the parents I know are not giving the poke to their 12-year-olds, Even if they are getting ‘boosted’
Bring it on. Thanks to independent thinkers like you and the rest of the Substack crew. Heroes!
https://etana.substack.com/p/endallmandates
My favorite factoid is that 60% of all NBA players are already boosted. Yet omicron is chewing through them like a starved dog eating a raw steak
Toby, absolutely awesome. Spot on.
The reason you can’t make a point with pro-vaxxers is that they are operating from a belief system and not from reason. In my discussion with a few pro-vaxxers it becomes apparent that it doesn’t matter what evidence I present to them they are unable to take it in, as it would question their belief about the vaccine. I talked to a medical doctor friend about the Canadian Emergency Medicine Specialist Dr. Rochagné Kilian. She was talking about the rise in D-dimer levels in patients after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, and my friend conceded that it would be a good thing to look into. https://brandnewtube.com/watch/dr-rochagn%C3%A9-kilian-blows-the-whistle-on-c-19-vaccines-amp-d-dimer-levels_G1HDlOxO9odBYqU.html
Dr. Kilian has had her practicing license taken away, which my friend saw as reason to doubt her and I saw as a reason for the medical constabulary to begin a full scale in depth look at the issue. My doctor friend’s comment was that he was sure that if there were a problem it would be looked into. His belief in the medical system will trump any criticism of it.
https://nikontim.substack.com/
Wow! Spot on Toby. So many people cannot believe these VAERS numbers. How do we convince them this is true?
We are witnessing a genocide of personal agency, a genocide of rational thought, and an epidemic of post-science manipulation of the masses.
The reckoning is going to be biblical.
While some of our eyes have been opened to the fraud, tyranny, and genocide, I have little faith that the masses will turn before we are too far from shore. Not while big brother continues to instill fear which they can readily reinforce with engineered viruses and toxic therapeutics. Not while they continue to twist the narrative and broadcast propaganda 24/7. Not while the masses continue to accept programming via social media and group think. Not while their 401k's are funded, their children are allowed to participate (even if vaccine injured) and big brother promises to take care of them.
It will have to get much worse before enough are willing to storm the castle.
Our hope lies in resistance, but I am afraid we should be prepared to endure much worse before the tide begins to turn.
I'm with you on all of this except the way the term "bourgeois" gets used as a pejorative. The term always meant conservative, prosperous middle class. "Bougie", derived from "bourgeois", is an ignorant mutation you hear today to mean overpriced or pampered. Lenin and Stalin demolished Russia's growing industrial trend, frequently using "bourgeois" as an accusation of excessive privilege that needed weeding out. It could send you to the gulag if you were labeled bourgeois.
The arrogance we have here and now is not coming from what's left of the middle class, it's the overpaid/overeducated suits in media, govt and universities that are due for a takedown. They hate blue collars, and they despise the "bourgeoisie".
I live in a university town with lots of neighbors who teach at the U or are in administration. To these people a furnace repairman might as well be a crustacean. And they are across the board 100% ok with forcing you and your kids to submit to these toxic shots; they are the very first to turn their noses up at the actual bourgeoisie who are largely wary of these clowns and their bright ideas. It'd be nice to find a better word to label the vax juggernaut than "bourgeois".
"The larger crisis is that bourgeois society is completely incapable of acknowledging its mistakes and making the necessary course corrections. Instead of the requisite humility they push for totalitarianism to cover up their shame."
This. Developmental trauma has produced a society with individual and collective toxic shame, that must be exorcised. I think that this might be one of (or even the main) drivers in society - once these dysfunctional people become a majority and they can vote or back something to exorcise their internal shame and anxiety, it's game over. Before that, they are forced to hide it and get by or face themselves.