One of the most depressing things about being a stubborn Constitutionalist is the constant assault on the founding ideals of the country coming from (seemingly) everywhere at once. Milton Friedman once said “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program”, and we live the proof every day.
“Deaths due to the COVID-19 vaccine are being intentionally hidden by the government,”
Regarding your point, the government originally counted ALL deaths WITH covid to get a huge overcount. Now, since many deaths are among the vaxed, almost all agencies make it very clear that most deaths are not FROM covid, but merely WITH. Can't encourage vax hesitancy!
However, the real point on this one is that the government very much DOES hide data about major adverse effects from the vax. None of them will admit to any serious safety signals, even as multitudes of young, healthy people are suffering "sudden and unexpected" deaths. Instead they blather on about SADS, climate change-induced cardiac issues, and long covid in order to distract from “deaths due to the COVID-19 vaccine". So no, they do not get awarded this point either.
I'm so glad you used the airport liquids example. It is one of my favourites to demonstrate just how stupid official policy can be, how stupid the people are who blindly enforce it, how stupid the people are who sheepishly comply, and just how long this monstrous pile of stupidity can continue to grow unchecked except by people like us. How on earth homo sapiens remain at the top of the food chain is a mystery to me.
'Fart-sniffing, South Park style.' 'Old Man Yells at Cloud.' Can't decide which I like more.
And yeah, TSA. Early obedience training. A test, I think, of how much nonsense they could get away with. It worked spectacularly so on to the next level where we put on our own muzzles.
I can’t express to you how much I appreciate the things you have made us all aware of…..that ledge outside my window is looking pretty good to me after reading everything. I won’t jump…..scared of heights and I’d just make a mess. Milton Friedman was great and greatly missed. But, look, you and others are making people aware of things that we might want to just shove under the rug. THANK YOU!
I wonder what would happen if every person, of like mind, on these stacks', took 2 minutes/day to write a letter to your local government/school boards, congressman, senators, etc.?
Then what would happen if you spent another 10 minutes/day following -up?
Change to X ,Y, Z....starts with the A, B, C's
Everyone here can be a change agent. Take one less water break.
" it only takes one slip to create that temporary government program that will certainly turn into a permanent fixture"
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!”
I always enjoy the little nuggets that appear in the news from time to time about the latest little pottery shard an archeological dig finds in, say, what used to be Sumer, and when they finally get it translated it's a fragment of a rant from some disgruntled civil servant pissed about his moron colleagues...
As far as compromising with evil and how much any of us will do with it: they get us through our families. If you've finally got grandma into a supportive housing development where they actually feed her on time and ensure she gets fresh air every day and sleeps on clean linens and doesn't have to share a room with someone whose marbles fall all over the floor hourly, would you risk not being able to pay the monthly charges? Knowing what you got her out of?
Everyone has a choke collar like that in one way or another. The bravest people commenting boldly on Substack about how nothing will make them submit generally have almost nothing to really, truly, absolutely lose.
“Deaths due to the COVID-19 vaccine are being intentionally hidden by the government,”
Regarding your point, the government originally counted ALL deaths WITH covid to get a huge overcount. Now, since many deaths are among the vaxed, almost all agencies make it very clear that most deaths are not FROM covid, but merely WITH. Can't encourage vax hesitancy!
However, the real point on this one is that the government very much DOES hide data about major adverse effects from the vax. None of them will admit to any serious safety signals, even as multitudes of young, healthy people are suffering "sudden and unexpected" deaths. Instead they blather on about SADS, climate change-induced cardiac issues, and long covid in order to distract from “deaths due to the COVID-19 vaccine". So no, they do not get awarded this point either.
Problems should be solved at lowest level possible. States Rights? How about County rights!!@
And family, individual have sacrosanct rights that cannot be abridged... if they are, war could result
And government stops at national level.
Any treaties should be for very limited time, and certainly not Carter Blanche to go to war....your friend country MIGHT be at fault!
No world government. No world government. No world government.
I love my country. I hate UN, WHO, WEF, BRUSSELS all of it
Clearly, you need an agency tasked with reducing the number of agencies...
We'e not living in Orwell's '1984' so much as in Gilliam's 'Brazil'!
I'm so glad you used the airport liquids example. It is one of my favourites to demonstrate just how stupid official policy can be, how stupid the people are who blindly enforce it, how stupid the people are who sheepishly comply, and just how long this monstrous pile of stupidity can continue to grow unchecked except by people like us. How on earth homo sapiens remain at the top of the food chain is a mystery to me.
Dang, M. Sim. Your column today is even better in my re-read. Way to go!
Baseball has its Mendoza line.
And Government should have its Biden line.
1 (one) for 8 (eight) is way below either, I say. (One could argue that technically the bottom of the Biden line has yet to be determined...)
'Fart-sniffing, South Park style.' 'Old Man Yells at Cloud.' Can't decide which I like more.
And yeah, TSA. Early obedience training. A test, I think, of how much nonsense they could get away with. It worked spectacularly so on to the next level where we put on our own muzzles.
I can’t express to you how much I appreciate the things you have made us all aware of…..that ledge outside my window is looking pretty good to me after reading everything. I won’t jump…..scared of heights and I’d just make a mess. Milton Friedman was great and greatly missed. But, look, you and others are making people aware of things that we might want to just shove under the rug. THANK YOU!
OMG! 1984
Spot on SimComm.
I wonder what would happen if every person, of like mind, on these stacks', took 2 minutes/day to write a letter to your local government/school boards, congressman, senators, etc.?
Then what would happen if you spent another 10 minutes/day following -up?
Change to X ,Y, Z....starts with the A, B, C's
Everyone here can be a change agent. Take one less water break.
I would assert 1 for 8 with only the microchip statement lacking any credible evidence. And yet . . .
https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/85704/darpa-displays-human-implant-microchip-that-can-detect-viruses
" it only takes one slip to create that temporary government program that will certainly turn into a permanent fixture"
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!”
—President Ronald Wilson Reagan
I always enjoy the little nuggets that appear in the news from time to time about the latest little pottery shard an archeological dig finds in, say, what used to be Sumer, and when they finally get it translated it's a fragment of a rant from some disgruntled civil servant pissed about his moron colleagues...
As far as compromising with evil and how much any of us will do with it: they get us through our families. If you've finally got grandma into a supportive housing development where they actually feed her on time and ensure she gets fresh air every day and sleeps on clean linens and doesn't have to share a room with someone whose marbles fall all over the floor hourly, would you risk not being able to pay the monthly charges? Knowing what you got her out of?
Everyone has a choke collar like that in one way or another. The bravest people commenting boldly on Substack about how nothing will make them submit generally have almost nothing to really, truly, absolutely lose.
That's the bitter cruelty of it.
Commander bringing the receipts!