Wednesday Open Comments

I just checked the dashboard, and I see no Wednesday post.  So, Texpat, if we’re unseeing each other again, feel free to reschedule this one if you wish.

I found this Substack article from a commenter in the C&C about a week or so ago.  The commenter had talked to a pharmacist about the whole jab situation, and the pharmacist said we were in a democide event, and the pharmacist wished the public would be aware of what was happening to them.  Here are excerpts from the Substack “Unorthodoxy” by Franklin O’Kanu (there is an audio link at the Substack if you want to listen to the whole article):

Democide refers to “the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command.” What’s interesting about the term is that it can cover a wide range of deaths, such as forced labor or extrajudicial summary killings, but it can also be mass deaths due to governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect. Understanding the term in this light is where things get interesting.

“Governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect can include withholding aid during disasters, or failing to act in situations where the government has a duty to protect its citizens.” 

Franklin also points out that democide can also take other forms, such as financial.  So when Biden’s policies result in a poor economy or social structures that can lead to death, that can be classified as democide.

  1. We have a term, idea, or concept that most people have no idea exists (democide), and 
  2. This act isn’t black or white but can come in many forms and warrants further examination.

Even more rare than ‘democide’ is the term ‘menticide’. GPT4 also estimates that less than 0.1% of the population is familiar with it. Menticide refers to “the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s or group’s mental or intellectual faculties, often through propaganda, manipulation or coercion.”

Gee, does that sound familiar??  It sounds like the Democrat modus operandi.

GPT4: Yes, menticide can be used in conjunction with democide. Menticide, or brainwashing, is a process that can alter or control the human mind using certain psychological techniques. It can reduce a person’s ability to think critically or independently, allowing for the introduction of new, unwanted thoughts and ideas into their minds, as well as changing their attitudes, values, and beliefs. In the context of democide, a government could potentially use menticide to manipulate its population’s perception of reality, making them unaware of the atrocities being committed. This could be done through propaganda, censorship, misinformation, or other forms of psychological manipulation.

/snip

…Governments have become run by political assassins who no longer care for the citizenry but rather care only for political control, upholding the political class, and overall retaining their power, and if democide can be used to maintain power, what better way to do so than by using menticide?

The author acknowledges that climbing out of this pit of double-cides won’t be easy, but here are the steps he lays forth:

  1. Know your enemy – once I concluded that this world was not as it seemed, I decided to dive deeply into history, unlearn what I was told, and learn what is out there and how the world operates. … Once we know our enemy by tracing their steps, we’re that much closer to defeating them.
  2. Know yourself – in my book, I also discuss knowing ourselves, and we need to know our strengths and resources. Our education, or better yet, indoctrination system, has gone hard to ensure that the divine nature within us, with freedom, skills, and resources, never comes to light. These resources have been buried deep beneath years of social programming and propaganda… when we begin to awaken to the notion of the power we each have, we can start using our power to create the reality we want – one where we are no longer under the threat of democide. I’ve written the following articles to help such as: Critically Thinking Parts 1 through 3How to Use Your Brain, and many, many more.
  3. Know your focus – lastly, once we know who the enemy is and our strengths and resources, the next step is to use our powers and skills to create the life we want to live. This area is where I focus on the seven pillars of life. By focusing our resources on these seven pillars and doing this daily,…we begin to fashion reality for ourselves, what we want it to be.

This analysis is why democide and menticide exist. To cull the population and keep us under control. On a deeper note, this is actually a spiritual attack manifesting in physical, but that’s a deeper, more philosophical dive…

I’ve always held that the ills we face today are the result of spiritual attack.

Anyway, it’s good to be able to label that evil which we face.

Comments

55 responses to “Wednesday Open Comments”

  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    R.I.P. Willie Mays, 93

  2. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    re o/c topic: This has been the primary method(s) of the CIA from the beginning. I can’t help but think that the CIA has been evil all along and most likely the leadership actively worships satan.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Busy, busy, busy….
    Mornin’ Gang

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just saw this Clown on the local TV and is it just me, or does the Bidet cabinet remind you of the Stars Wars Bar scene?
    If trump somehow manages to beat the steal at least his cabinet will all be qualified people, not chosen by gender, race, ethnicity, or LBGTQZULBR549 status. ~SIGH~

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Finally getting a little bit of the rain that has been hooplahed.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Willie Mays, the Say Hey Kid, was one of my boyhood heroes. I was an outfielder and so was Willie. He was a man among men and a native of Westfield, Alabama.

    The Catch was a baseball play made by New York Giants center fielder Willie Mays on September 29, 1954, during Game 1 of the 1954 World Series at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, New York City. In the eighth inning, with the score tied 2–2, Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz hit a deep fly ball to center field that had the runners on base poised to score. However, Mays made an over-the-shoulder catch while on the run to record the out, and his throw back to the infield prevented the runners from advancing. The Giants won the game 5–2 in extra innings, and eventually the World Series. The Catch is regarded as one of the greatest plays in baseball history.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Seeing Texpat’s @ 7:13 AM, this is in the news over here;

    MLB at Rickwood Field: Everything You Need To Know

    Rickwood Field is the oldest professional baseball park in the USA. It opened in 1910, two years before Fenway and four years before Wrigley. When Comiskey Park was demolished in 1991, Rickwood Field officially claimed the title of the oldest ballpark in the country.

    The stadium was built to house the Birmingham Barons of the Southern Association, but it was also the long-time home of the Birmingham Black Barons, who played in the Negro Leagues from the 1920s to the 1960s.

    Last summer, Major League Baseball announced that two teams, the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, would play a regular season game at Rickwood Field in 2024. Nearly a year has passed since that announcement, and finally, MLB at Rickwood Field is almost here.

    FWIW; I was shocked to find out that Rickwood Field in Birmingham was the oldest MLB Park in the country.
    Oh and emphasis mine.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Great story. It looks like they have had to postpone the game until 2025 if I’ve read the article correctly.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Her Highness was struck with terrific sciatica the day before Mother’s Day, May11th. As someone who has had chronic back problems for 42 years, I know something about sciatica and recovery. It is a slow process of recovery and the body eventually adjusting to the cause. I’ve been through enough ruptured discs to know.

    Her condition has not improved and gotten somewhat worse. She cannot bend over for any reason and barely walks. HH has a spinal MRI on Friday and I suspect she has some kind of problem that may only be solved by surgery. Wish me luck on that one because she is difficult patient.

    Meanwhile, I am doing all the errands – bank, post office, cleaners, groceries, drugstore she would normally do in addition to the fact I’m in the middle of a time consuming project. These are the reasons I have not been frequently posting here recently.

  9. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    I’ve almost finished my first cuppa – guess I should see what the rest of the world is doing… or not 😉

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I haven’t seen any commentary from Mharper in a while . . . Is she ok?

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I’ve been thinking about calling her. The last time Shannon and I saw her, we were setting up her computers, but she had no power to test the setup.

      Shannon – when was the last time you talked to her?

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby took a look inside the exhaust system on my car, and shore ’nuff, he found bits and pieces from the cheap catalytic converter that we had tried earlier clogging it. It should have been a simpler diagnosis, but since we’re not professional mechanics (though Hubby said that, in hindsight and indeed at the beginning had considered exhaust issues), it was a much longer and frustrating experience that it should have been.

    I’ve spent hours researching what is out there for purchase. I was surprised at how many good late model options we had. I’d like something a little bigger than what I have, but my Kia Soul has been a darn good car for my needs. Hubby pointed out that he’s getting better and maintaining the vehicle, and now we have some extra parts in case we need them.

    I said that if we can keep the car running and just drive it until it dies, I’d rather have those thousands of dollars earning income for us instead of being spent on another car. I can set a little bit of money aside from that income for the day that we really need to get a new car. Hubby agreed, so I think we’re keeping the current car once he gets her running again. I probably should splurge on a thorough detailing though. She needs a good cleaning.

    When the day comes that Hubby’s not able to maintain my car, then I’ll probably go buy something newer.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Happy news! Hubby just removed that problematic part of the exhaust system and the car drives just fine (just louder) now. I just ordered the replacement part and I should be mobile again sometime Saturday.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Tedtam, the one part you should never go cheap on is the catalytic converter. Spend the money for top quality if you can.

      1. Tedtam Avatar
        Tedtam

        Yep, learned that lesson.

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It gets worse for Texas Children’s and the DOJ. Via Christopher Rufo…

    New whistleblower says Texas Children’s is illegally billing medicaid for transgender surgeries on minors.

    Haim now faces up to 10 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for trying to protect children from monstrous doctors who are destroying their lives for profit. But Haim has vowed not to be silent and to fight against the charges against him.

     

    Bravery like that, in the face of the full force of the federal government, deserves our admiration, of course. But it also inspires others to come forward. This morning, Christopher Rufo, the reporter who first told Haim’s story, announced that this is exactly what happened, as he teased a new report from a second whistleblower.

    Later this afternoon, Rufo broke the story on Twitter and in the City Journal. The new whistleblower, Vanessa Sivadge, is a nurse at Texas Children’s and what she had to say is every bit as devastating to the medical malpractice taking place at that hospital as Haim’s was.

    At City Journal:

    Then, the following year, she breathed a sigh of relief. Under pressure from the state attorney general, Ken Paxton, Texas Children’s CEO Mark Wallace said that he was shutting down the child gender clinic. But it wasn’t true. Mere days later, it had secretly reopened for business.

    And business was booming. Doctors, including Roberts, Paul, and Kristy Rialon, were managing dozens of pediatric sex-change cases, performing surgeries, blocking puberty, implanting hormone devices, and making specialty referrals. They were motivated not only by ideology, but by hope for prestige: they were saviors of the oppressed, the vanguard of gender medicine.

    Sivadge soon had seen enough. She read my investigative report exposing Texas Children’s sex-change program, which relied on testimony from Haim, and reached out to share her own observations.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      The “doctors” involved, along with upper management should never breathe free air again.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally getting to the C&C:

    Good morning, C&C family, it’s Wednesday. We’re halfway through! Today’s essential news roundup includes: scientists become even more baffled as multi-pandemic strikes the jabbed world; Biden announces biggest expansion of illegal immigrant rights since DACA, sort of, not really; Disney continues controlled demolition of Star Wars universe; and terrific Kentucky Title IX decision joins Louisiana’s recent, similar injunction against new Biden trans-friendly rules.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Post Covid, all kinds of illnesses are worse all over.

    Well, not everywhere. Bloomberg’s research, compiled from over 60 organizations and public health agencies, revealed that 44 countries and territories have each reported at least one disease resurgence at least ten times worse than pre-pandemic baselines. The prosperous germs include viruses, bacteria, fungi, rare ones, common ones, across the whole spectrum of infection.

    Who’d’a thunk it? The jab just keeps giving and giving and giving…

    what is is giving is the problem!

    Bloomburg actually got very close, admitting that immune systems of millions have been affected. But by what? I don’t know whether to laugh or scream, but they are blaming lockdowns. LOCKDOWNS.

    Sadly, there will be minions, I mean millions, who will (want to) believe that crock of stuff story.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The $320 million temporary floating pier built by the US military off the coast of Gaza is being dismantled, an epic Biden Administration failure.

    Touted by US President Joe Biden during his 2024 State of the Union address as the means to “enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day,” the dock has functioned for a total of just 10 days since it began operations.

    Just think how much those groceries cost at $32 million dollars a day.

    and,

    Once the humanitarian aid was offloaded to special warehouses on the Gaza shore after its arrival on the pier, independent contractors and United Nations agencies were supposed to pick it up and deliver it to Gaza civilians. 

    That didn’t happen.

    In fact, almost none of the humanitarian aid that arrived via the pier ultimately made it to its destination for the same reason humanitarian aid delivered via the land crossings since the start of the war never reached the civilians for whom it was intended.

    The trucks were — and still are — intercepted and hijacked by Hamas operatives and Gaza gangs, who take what they need for themselves and then sell the rest to allied merchants who make a profit selling the aid at premium prices to civilians in the Gaza markets.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m putting a half batch through Fred. My home grown tomatoes are delicious, but while sitting on my counter to finish ripening, they are developing bad spots; or they get ripe and like avocados, rush quickly past that point to “too late!”

    So, I picked through my stash to find the ripe ones and sliced them up, avoiding the bad spots. (Had to throw some of them out altogether.) I’m going to dry them and keep them for future sandwiches. I like putting dried tomatoes on my sandwiches because they don’t make the ‘wich too wet and drippy. They transport well, too, so if I pack sandwich fixin’s for a road trip, that’s one less thing I have to keep refrigerated. And snacks. They’d make great snacks, but I save them for other uses.

    I found some keto bread and hamburger buns at the store, and I just enjoyed my first hamburger in quite a while. The bread products have gotten better, and they buns are only one net carb. I have some smoked Angus hamburger patties that I got one one of my rare Sam’s runs, and this first one out of the bag tastes pretty darn good.

    I should have enough for an Elsa run soon, too.

  18. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Today’s is our 59th wedding anniversary, and how the years fly by so fast. Dinner out to celebrate looks like we might to have to put it over a day or two when the sun comes out.

    Not 5 seconds after the last word was typed the downpour started. Well so it goes.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Congratulations!

    2. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      Congrats!!! Sorry that rain is trying to ruin your parade 😉

    3. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Joyeux Anniversaire as they say down in Lafayette.

    4. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I forgot I first got married 42 years on this day, Juneteenth. It didn’t work out, but it was still a good day to get married.

  19. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Fifty-nine years, wow. Congratulations!

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It feels like southeastern Texas out there. 98 Real Feel with 75% humidity. The brand new central AC system died where I was working and when it got to 86 inside I left.

  21. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Thomas L. Friedman (white guy) can kiss my [spoiler title=”CENSORED”] Can’t say that [/spoiler] . He is an antisemite [spoiler title=”CENSORED”] NAZI [/spoiler] , has been an antisemite [spoiler title=”CENSORED”] NAZI [/spoiler] and he does not know what he is talking about.

    American Leaders Should Stop Debasing Themselves on Israel

    My patience is wearing very thin with these people.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I was blocked behind the paywall. I WILL NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES. They can go suck a dog’s butt

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Thomas Friedman is despised by the Left because they’re positive he’s an in the closet rightwing authoritarian creep. He is despised on the Right because as Alexander Cockburn says, “Thomas Friedman is the silliest man alive.” There is a relatively small group of NYT readers and NPR listeners who hang on every word he writes or says because they don’t have the intelligence to have any original thoughts of their own.

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    In Houston yesterday, the nurse from Texas Children’s I talk about in @ 12:07 PM today, Vanessa Sivadge, had FBI agents show up at her front door. Christopher Rufo of City Journal has the video she took. I can’t tell whether she and her husband allowed them to come in the house, but I would have handed them my attorney’s card and told them to leave. I’m really beginning to hate these people for the evil they represent.

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    GJT, this is for your pothead acquaintances.

    Colorado’s legal marijuana business is at least one toke over the line as a massive decrease in sales has led to store closures and layoffs across the state.

    Politico recently reported that Denver’s 3D Cannabis dispensary, where Iraq War vet Sean Azzariti became the first person to legally buy recreational marijuana, has “temporarily closed.” But the boards on the doors and windows and the dismal state of the parking lot make the closure appear much closer to permanent.

    plus this,

     But sales are shrinking and with them, revenues. I’d add that the tax revenues were maybe not what some boosters told us they’d be. “Colorado collected just over $274.1 million in commercial marijuana taxes and licensing fees in 2023,” Denver’s Westworld reported in March, “and has tallied a little more than $43.5 through the first two months of 2024.”

    For a state that spent $38.5 billion last year, $274.1 million in taxes — shared in part with local governments — doesn’t amount to much. It seems like a long time ago when the hippies were saying, “Just legalize it, man, and we’ll close the deficit!” But to be fair, the hippies were probably stoned out of their minds when they came up with that. 

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a post from 12 years ago about Thomas Friedman when 40 years ago he was a foreign correspondent for NYT. He was in Lebanon during the civil war there instigated by Yassir Arafat and the Palestinians. I’ve taken the liberty of more than fair use doctrine here, but it’s just too great a story.

    All credit and props to Irregular Expression and their writers.

    Cockburn writes of a time in 1984 when his younger brother, Patrick, was in Beirut as the Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times. Friedman was doing the same job, for the New York Times.

    One day, the pair returned to the Commodore Hotel, the place where most foreign journalists were staying, after a bloody day in the field – Lebanon was in the midst of a civil war. Friedman went upstairs to write his copy, Patrick found his way to the bar and sat down with a glass of whisky.

    A little while later, a Shia gunman entered the bar and proceeded to smash all the bottles in the premises. He did not spot Patrick, who was, according to Alexander, left with two conclusions: one, that “journalists drinking Scotch were unlikely to be viewed with fondness by the fundamentalist gunman”, and secondly, “he was drinking the last Scotch likely to be consumed in the Commodore for quite a while”.

    According to Alexander, when Friedman descended later, Patrick told him about the incident. A few days later, it duly figured in one of Friedman’s despatches. But by the time Friedman wrote his first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, in 1989, the incident had morphed into something that happened to Friedman! I checked it – you can find Friedman’s deceit on page 225 of the book as published by Fontana Press. “My first glimpse of Beirut’s real bottom came at the Commodore Hotel bar on February 7, 1984… I was enjoying a quiet lunch in the Commodore restaurant that day when…”

    Alexander put it down to Friedman’s monumental conceit. He is probably right.

    But this is also fraud, pure and simple. It follows in the great American tradition of stealing and then calling something your own.

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We’ve had a slow, soaking rain since 11am, but a heavy downpour since 3pm.

  26. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Slow rain here most of the day, so far only a smidge over 2 inches. I suspect there are areas near us that have had more. Happy that the outdoor things got taken care of this morning.

    We will postpone the anniversary dinner until tomorrow or whenever the rain stops.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I guess if you’ve waited this long another day or two won’t matter, eh? 😉

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Why would 2 documents sent as attachments to gmail from an Apple computer to a Windows computer come out as pure gibberish when opened there ? I’ve sent docs to that computer before with no problem.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The West has lost its mind. You don’t have to read between the lines to know these were Muslim boys probably from Libya or Algeria.

    French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday denounced the “scourge of antisemitism” and called on schools to hold discussions on racism and hatred of Jews after three boys were charged with raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a Paris suburb.

    …denounced the “scourge of antisemitism” and called on schools to hold discussions on racism and hatred of Jews…

    Oh, yeah that will do the trick. Macron is a weak, gutless, stupid little man.

    The young girl told police that she was approached by three boys who raped and beat her in the northwestern Paris suburb of Courbevoie on Saturday in an incident that French authorities have described as a hate crime. According to French media, the assailants called the victim a “dirty Jew” and uttered other antisemitic remarks during the brutal gang-rape.

    A police source told AFP that one of the boys asked the young girl questions about “her Jewish religion” and Israel, citing the child’s statement to investigators.

    The boys — two aged 13 and one 12 — were arrested on Monday and indicted on Tuesday.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If anybody calls Harper, let us know. We worry about her.

  30. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sounds like French President Emmanuel Macron should send a sternly worded fax. :D: :D:

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Until I saw the guy in front of me throw it on the belt at the grocery check out, I’d never heard of fully cooked bacon.

    I tried a package this week. It seemed to be reasonably priced. Three strips, 20 seconds in the microwave. Pretty nice. My nightly spinach caprese salad is vastly improved with those bacon crumbles.

    I’d pretty much given up on bacon. I’m not a fan of frying it in a pan and just don’t want to use the big oven anymore.

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just called MHarper’s phone number, and had to leave a message. I asked her to call me back or post here so we’d know she was okay.

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This trigger finger that I’ve developed on my right index finger (not the original on the left hand) is brutal. I’ve managed to work around it, but I can see how some folks’ fingers get “frozen” in place. The first one is very, very, very slowly improving, so I’m just going to try to wait this one out and see if it gets better. Really don’t want to cut any tendons if not necessary.

    At least my thumb injury is better. I’ll take those wins wherever I can get them.

    I never had problems like this with my hands before. I wonder if someone’s not happy that I’m promoting prayer with all of my rosary making. Working the beads is not challenging on the hands at all, so I don’t think that has anything to do with it. It may be the way I’m sleeping – I tend to want to curl my hand under head/pillow at night.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Texas A&M vs Florida in the Men’s World Series right now. 4th Inning. 2-0 Aggies. Pretty cool play if you can get ESPN.

  35. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Happy Anniversary Adee! 59 years what a milestone, the big 6 0 next year.

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Do let us know when you here from mharper. Her last post over yonder was on March 21 she posted a picture of Bill the cat.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tedtam
    Ah, yes. The evil sleeping wrist curl. I have considered wrist splints in the past, but haven’t done so. Yet.

    Some online experts call it genetic. Some call it a precursor to carpal tunnel problems. I’m pretty certain that isn’t my problem.

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      I’d go ahead and try the splints before it gets worse… I wish that I had done so earlier in the process so as to avoid the dreaded carpal tunnel AND ulnar nerve transposition surgery on both arms…

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        The first time I saw the evil sleeping wrist curl was when, at 16, I mopped floors in a nursing home. It looked so painful.
        Little did I know, 50 years later…

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No.no.no.
    This is Bill the Cat.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One last downpour out here right now.

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