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Follow Don Jr on twitter here.
“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”
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I want to thank those who are opening a trackable browser and clicking these DFT links. I appreciate you making this advertising thing work, but moreover, I appreciate you taking time to try and help me by doing this. Ads should be starting soon over there from what I hear, which means we will have made an enormous accomplishment – we over here will have officially become a big fat hairy carbuncle on the ass of the system, bleeding off its resources, albeit in small amounts. I have no idea how long it will last, but with time, DFT might be able to help a lot of places like this one out in the same way. Also, while you are over there, look at the ads. I have seen a great Optics Planet ad for NVGs and shooting supplies. Don’t click on stuff just to click, because the advertiser will see too many clicks per IP visit and just log your IP as a bot and discount your traffic and clicks. They are sharp. But if you are going to buy something you see over there like NVGs, or something from Optics Planet (I have bought through them, and they are great), and you get whatever it is through clicking the ad every once in a while, it looks good for the advertiser and DFT. Thank you again.
DFT – Consumer Price Index Comes In Cooler Than Expected
DFT – Oil Falls Off Building Inventories
DFT – Binance Halts Withdrawals Of USDC Stablecoin, Amid Surge Of Withdrawals
DFT – China Files Complaint Against United States Over Chip Ban
DFT – EU Again Fails To Agree On A Gas Cap
File under – We are not locked in there with them, they are locked in here with us – An anon on 4Chan who is under surveillance says he is storing his secret files with reams of sissy hypno vids:
you want to see my secret notes FBI man?
you watch so much sissy hypno you put tongue out when you hear bell.
i will bimbofy FBI man before he gets my secret passwords
Interesting idea. If you are going to be the target of an FBI raid, fill your hard drives with sissy-bimbo hypnosis videos, so the agents who have to go through it end up coming to work the next day in miniskirts and full makeup, and sticking their tongues out and rolling their eyes every time they hear a bell. Or fake-watch it with ear-plugs in yourself in binges, while your gangstalking monitor is watching over your shoulder, then ding a bell while you are in the grocery store and look around to see who responds. And from that article I linked to a ways back, you can’t undo that shit. Based FBI-bimbofier anon may be on to something.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will propose ranked choice voting to state legislature. This is why you are better with a Democrat than a traitor RINO. The RINO is just as much of an enemy, because he is Cabal too, and he weakens your own side.
Florida officials refuse to respond to substantial election fraud evidence presented.
Young voters who have been critical to Democratic successes in recent elections showed signs in November’s midterms that their enthusiasm may be waning. Wait a minute, I thought it was the young who helped them win… Would they bullshit us?
From here on the Seth Rich FOIA case:
FBI records boss Michael Seidel is claiming that [Rich’s] computer is only a physical object, not an “actual record,” and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act… As it happens, those are not the only devices the FBI is harboring.
On February 21, 2020, the body of Philip Haney, author of See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad, was “found deceased” in Amador County, California. He was killed by a gunshot to the chest.
The Amador sheriff “reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist in analyzing documents, phone records, numerous thumb drives and a laptop that were recovered from the scene and Mr. Haney’s RV. Those items and numerous other pieces of evidence were turned over to the FBI. The FBI has performed a forensic examination of these items…”
Two years later, the Amador sheriff reported no new information on the case, and the FBI has yet to reveal what was on Haney’s laptop, thumb drives, and such.
Crazy stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report – a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order. A one to two minute read, and interesting.
Accounts for vaccine creator Dr Robert Malone and cardiologist Dr Peter McCullough are the latest to be reinstated to Twitter. And yet, Vox Day still banned, the anons on Q’s board all report their Q-twitter accounts are all banned. Which means, I would bet Malone, and McCullough, are not just randos, and normal citizens who happened to become big names talking about the vaccine. I would bet they have some association – as Masons, as domestic surveillance, as intel agency assets, some Secret Society plugin, which made the machine pick them to be the voices of the opposition to the vaccines. Which would mean when you saw their posts, those were scripted.
Elon Musk reportedly to compete with Paypal with new Twitter payment processing dystem. Can you imagine how awestruck our Glowies were looking at China’s WeChat, where somebody says the wrong thing on the message forum, their social credit score drops too low to use the app, their pay-app shuts off, their gas and electricity get turned off for non-payment, they can’t call a cab, and they can’t buy food for their family? Think they will say the wrong thing a second time?
Jonathan Turley’s take of the FTX arrest is interesting – “As a criminal defense attorney, my reaction to the arrest last night remains unchanged: this is the first time that I can recall where prosecutors moved aggressively to stop a defendant from making self-incriminating statements. His testimony would have been entirely admissible and likely devastating at trial. I previously wrote how Bankman-Fried was doing harm to his case by speaking in the media and to Congress. So why would the Justice Department move to stop the self-inflicted damage?… The curious move led many to question whether the Biden Administration was eager to prevent questions on Bankman-Fried’s political contributions and associations. “
Prosecutors are claiming that FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried made millions in ‘illegal’ campaign contributions—this is aside from the money transparently given mostly to Democrats. Fox says he and others donated under other names to get round campaign limits, and so far the $40 mil they say he donated will just be the tip of the iceberg.
FTX CEO confirms he’s investigating Bankman-Fried’s politically connected progressive parents.
Binance sees withdrawals of $1.9 billion in last 24 hours, data firm Nansen says.
USA Today wants to help Republicans, turns out a poll telling us most Republicans don’t want Trump to run. Trump will be the candidate, but we need a very public win on election integrity before then. As it stands, there is a sadness melding itself into the next run on our side, that we have everything we need to have a blowout election and get a great President, but the cheating bastards control the system and there are no consequences to whatever they do.
Washington Times Op-Ed – There is no ‘better choice’ than Trump.
Leaked documents indicate over 300 members of far-right paramilitary Oath Keepers may be current or former DHS employees, Project on Government Oversight reports. I would think DHS is pretty elite in the intel game, so all those guys would likely know about the surveillance. IMO, if you know about the surveillance, you are not going to join a group like that, even trying to do it secretly, and thereby alert the surveillance you may be a problem child in need of some tender loving attention from the neighborhood crew.
Dems propose forcing ICE to release thousands of illegal immigrants as part of spending package.
Officials at Fort Stewart, Georgia, have released more information about the victim of a Monday morning workplace shooting that saw part of the installation locked down. Sgt. Nathan Hillman, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear specialist from Plum, Pennsylvania, was the victim. Not the only shooting on a military base:
U.S. Northern Command says it has increased security measures at its installations following the deadly shootings aboard Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii. From the link: “A Saudi Arabian military student shot and killed three and injured eight more with a handgun Friday before being killed by sheriff’s officers… Friday’s attack at Pensacola followed a shooting spree Wednesday at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii, where a sailor shot and killed two Department of Defense shipyard workers. The gunman was identified by Pentagon officials as Machinist’s Mate Auxiliary Fireman Gabriel Antonio Romero Friday. Romero took his own life during the incident.”
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed legislation protecting same-sex marriage.
Biden falsely says he cut national debt by $1.7T — after increasing it $3.7T.
Massive fire breaks out at NYPD impound and evidence warehouse in Brooklyn. Lots of evidence going missing? Where was Weiner’s laptop kept?
Minnesota science teacher claims cell biology lessons are part of ‘capitalist indoctrination.’ See, they went too far, and revealed the truth accidentally. Nobody could possibly be crazy enough to believe this. And while this could be an isolated nutjob, we have seen enough of these, that I do not think so. So why push it? They want to make the kids who are not in the conspiracy helpless, uneducated idiots. The whole, math is racist, science is transphobic, Shakespeare is triggering, and history is misogynistic, and all the testing racist – those are all the conspiracy trying to explain why they are not educating the next generation, and why they are sabotaging their development. They are now progressing from fucking over select kids, to fucking all children, so the kids of the conspiracy will be the only ones even partially educated. The question is where are the children of the Secret Society being educated in secret? Especially given they are spending a lot of time doing surveillance duties. I almost wonder this is a product of the degeneration of the secret society. They have spent so long just riding on the fact they are in the secret society, and developing spook skills, their abilities in the academic fields have atrophied, and this is now necessary, just to even the playing field.
Fauci: our society is becoming anti-science – ‘We are experiencing the normalization of untruths.’ Or alternately they just do not want the masses educated enough to tell when guys like Fauci are full of shit.
Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee held a recent equity summit that included a governor-appointed state education agency telling other state agencies that concepts like “objectivity” and “individualism” are rooted in “White supremacy culture” and should be rejected in favor of “indigenous relational pedagogy.” What makes more sense – somebody believes that bullshit, or, that is their cover story for carrying out their orders from the conspiracy to sabotage the system?
COVID vaccines raise mortality rate by 26%, analyst reveals at Sen. Ron Johnson’s roundtable.
21 year old Tennessee basketball player out for season with blood clots.
Ex-CNN producer and Andrew Cuomo buddy John Griffin pleads guilty to child sex crime.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signs bill replacing ‘alien’ with ‘noncitizen’ in NYS law.
Democrat-run New York City loses 16% of top taxpayers.
John Fetterman to appear in Netflix movie starring Christian Bale.
There is no “breakthrough”: NIF fusion power still consumes 130 times more energy than it creates. Turns out the “X” laser input which yielded 1.5X fusion output, took 200X of electricity to power the laser. And the hurdles to get “X” laser input to produce 201X fusion output are enormous.
Former US pilot held in Australia accused of breaking US arms controls by training Chinese pilots.
Pope warns he has seen ‘omens of even greater destruction and desolation’ for mankind.
Gun-loving Bolsonaristas challenge Lula’s pledge to disarm Brazil.
There are mass arrests happening in Brazil…as we learn more we will report. Concern for civil war.
New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on youth buying cigarettes. I am at the point where this makes me wonder if there really is something good for you in cigarettes.
England moves to restrict transgender procedures for kids as Biden doubles down.
Gun-loving Bolsonaristas challenge Lula’s pledge to disarm Brazil. Lula intends to disarm the population. From the piece – “When four federal police officers came to arrest Roberto Jefferson, a close ally of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the veteran politician made clear he was going nowhere. “Run,” he told them. “You’re going to get hurt.” The former federal lawmaker then threw three adulterated stun grenades at the police and sprayed their armored car with over 50 shots from his Smith & Wesson 5.56 mm assault-style rifle. “
Global poll finds nearly 4 in 10 people believe climate change is natural.
U.S. close to providing Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine -officials.
Zelensky names price for Ukraine’s winter survival: seeks $840+ million in donations. The man is shameless.
November 2022 NICS checks up, firearm sales steady.
Gallup: Americans name ‘government’ as nation’s top problem in 2022.
Former anti-Trumper sees the light, donates $500k to Trump-supporting super PAC.
Spread r/K Theory, because the FBI should stick the tongue out when it hears the bell
“U.S. special counsel Jack Smith, who remains in Europe where he is recovering from a bicycle accident..”
That was no accident.
wouldnt be surprised if sodomy was involved
On the GOP twitter celebrating the birthday of the National Guard, this person left this message:
kimT @kimT9410 Replying to @GOP
Happy birthday to the National Guard who had to be called in to protect our Capitol from GOP terrorists.
Ahhh, my “fellow citizen”. There are millions more out there just like her! “GOP terrorists”. —and how are we to “come together”? Protesting a stolen election–and now you are a terrorist. Boy, don’t you love the gaslighting here! Way to cover one’s tracks!
I have zero desire to come together with these soulless animals. I want their blue cities destroyed, and the bloodstained rubble forever haunted by their tortured spirits.
Merry Christmas! 🙂
You cannot live in peace and harmony with people who believe in controlling everything about you and who disagree with you on so many fundamental issues.
They can’t live here anymore.
The fight of Good vs Evil was always about the Stupid.
Good tries to guide & educated the Stupid.
Evil tricks & bribes the Stupid, then uses the Stupid to crush the Good
Irrelevant since we can’t tell the stupid from the evil at this point.
They can all go be stupidly evil somewhere else.
This is a very good point. I’ve wasted too much time trying to help the stupidly evil with nothing to show for it. If there’s a reliable way of distinguishing the two, I’m all ears. But I don’t think it’s humanly possible. One of the major themes of Proverbs is that trying to help scorners and fools is fruitless. Even Jesus Christ taught about the damage that results from giving pearls to swine.
Ha!
Stupid are easy to spot. They believe the nonsense.
That’s why the evil so often pretend to be stupid.
AAnd you can’t tell the difference.
Re: cigarettes
The spike protein (S1 or S2, can’t remember) reprograms the macrophage
to not die once it envelopes the spike protein.
Nicotine “re-sensitizes” macrophages to normal death cycle, killing the tricky spike.
Can’t have that, now, can we?
I seem to remember something about that hitting the news in mid-2020. Then it was “debunked”, of course.
Jonathan Turley’s take of the FTX arrest is interesting
Turley’s take is on the money. Hide the corruption.
“Crazy stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report – a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.”
From the thread:
“Mudge realized that a data center failure could potentially cause the permanent loss of all of Twitter’s data. He shared this fact with senior leadership, who instructed him not to put it in writing for the Board.
A few months later, that exact eventuality almost came true, and only herculean effort by Twitter engineers prevented “permanent, irreparable failure.”
Oh noes, whatever would we do if Twitter (or any social media company) lost all their data?
Imagine the harm to absolutely no one. They’re all a blight on humanity.
The wise are going to have to start secretly hoarding school science books if they want to have knowledgeable children. We may have to go back to having secret cellars with books in order to escape being hunted down by roving packs of witch hunters.
Re: “sissy-bimbo hypnosis videos”
Maybe someone with knowledge of effective ones could put up a link list so we could download and have an efficacious affect efficiently constructed as a force multiplier…
I still think chaining a couple of seasons of “Green Acres” to continuous play would drive any watchers crazy after a while.
Re: The Justice Department’s special counsel Jack Smith has issued subpoenas for the secretaries of state in Georgia and New Mexico
Won’t this require real evidence being put into the record? Is the worm about to turn through a back door?
I saw this article this morning and thought you might enjoy it.
Thanks for all you do, a Great place to start the day with all the news that is ignored or suppressed.
MSG Grumpy
https://www.diogenesmiddlefinger.com/2022/12/or-maybe-theyre-just-paranoid-and-wrong.html
Thank you!
“…Some have come to believe something like ‘The Trust’ is already operational in the USA…”
This is what I believe. It’s fairly obvious with all the agents in Jan 6 and the proud boys and all over.
> Hundreds of migrants released to sleep on streets of El Paso
Lots of stories in history about Texans and their mettle
They need some right now
Now that we have been fully encompassed in an information warfare environment (Info Wars, whether comped or not, was onto something), the available troops get smaller every day as so many dumbed down people enter the battle space and the effective ones get beaten down. It gets harder and harder to be effective as technology advances exponentially. What is the solution to stay in the fight? We need thought leaders we can copy off of, saving time and resources, making each of more effective, stopping each of us from trying to reinvent the wheel, when it is so much more effective to just change tires as needed. We need effective templates and plans so we can copy and not reinvent. I know my time and resources are limited, but I have skill and intelligence enough to make use of what others can supply.
He’s going to have about a minute of screen time and exactly one line, and it will take an entire long day to shoot just his shots. The crew will hate him after this.
the fine folks of Braddock PA already hate him. just as that movie crew soon will. yeah? so? politicians don’t give a shit what the rubes & proles think.
Well, at least they aren’t being handed to a country with a history of using SAMs to shoot down an airliner.
Excuse me, I’m being told there’s an update.
This isn’t just an enforcement measure. In fact, it hardly is at all, since most coyotes don’t use border crossing points. This is pressure on the Mexican government to start doing their part. The inspections will continue — and slow cross border shipping to a crawl — until Mexico starts doing its part to stem the flow. We did the same thing under Trump, and that was when Mexico suddenly started cooperating.
A disturbing part of the US auto manufacturing industry is located in Mexico. Detroit just assembles stuff nowadays.
In the 1960s Detroit started outsourcing parts production to Illinois and Indiana, which were cheaper than Michigan. Then they found they could get it done cheaper in Canada, and so they moved a bunch of production there. In the 1990s they used the “maquiladora” system with Mexico, which gave substantial tax breaks for moving production to Mexico.
I don’t know how much production they’ve moved to China, but I’ve noticed a whole lot of “factory” replacement parts say “Made In China” now.
As I am a voter against rather than a voter for, and I cannot in good conscience give my vote to a Democratic partyt candidate, Mr. Trump probably will get my vote.
I do not particularly like Mr. Trump – to me he is “meh!” – but I think Mr. Biden is hollow and therefore a ventriloquist’s dummy. I think those closely around him are running the country into the ground, where Mr. Trump is a lease on life for the country.
so looks like Brazil military was a bunch of old hopium
just 2 more weeks
Real coups are always sudden. No time to prepare, defend or even repent.
Turkish coup did that, and got hung out with their asses in the breeze.
That’s the thing — if the military steps in for Brazil, that’s the counter-coup. The coup has already happened.
“ you can’t undo that shit.”
I want to use a step between here and permanent damage. I’ve sent emails between my accounts, saying “Hey surveillance, you don’t have to be a voyeur creep” and “Hey surveillance, If you learned a different skill set, you could get a respectable job. Then you won’t have to enforce tyranny”. I have a sign on the wall behind my break area with the first message, so they have to see that frequently, if they’re watching. I want to continue with things about the employment security that some trades have, and the demand for workers. I hope to have my artistic projects seen, to live a life that is satisfying and occaisionally enviable.
I’ve mentioned here before AC
Tobacco raises testosterone.
It probably went some thing like…
Gov wants us dead
Gov takes mucho £€$ in taxes on tobacco
Gov wants us to stop smoking?!
Tobacco raises testosterone that’s why.
Soyboys incoming÷
(Now where’s my lighter?”)
Do you have more information as to how tobacco raises testosterone?
Another case of Occams Penis!
yes, Vaping is also a major factor imho.
Smoking tobacco leaves by pipe is best. IMO instead of the chemically adulterated Cigars and Cigarettes.
“The question is where are the children of the Secret Society being educated in secret?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alumni_of_Institut_Le_Rosey
(boss tier)
If in the US, then maybe hiding in plain sight, at high schools where everyone is Cabal? Or in equally exclusive group activities with an innocuous offical cover in their free time. AC’s idea of training camps at resorts in Florida also makes sense.
Catholic schools and Jesuit colleges are the number one source of cabal’s civil servants and public administration employees.
All you need are “magnet” schools, where you pull kids out of surrounding schools and send them there. They only show up at their assigned, official school for roll call, then they get on the bus to the magnet and return just in time for the last bell.
My high school was sending kids to magnet schools when I was there in the 1970s. I was intensely curious as to what these schools were, what they studied, and how they got chosen. Nobody – not other students, not the teachers, not the “counselors” – would ever answer my questions.
Generally, once someone went into the magnet system, they were there until they graduated; they were only in their assigned school a few minutes per day.
Not all magnets. I went to magnets for junior high and high school. I’m pretty sure there were cabal kids there, but I guess I was already off-track enough that they didn’t need to screw with me too much. I was just happy to not be in the violent local school fighting every day.
There were a few students that I never really thought “belonged” there, and they were likely plants. I doubt the percentage was more than gen pop, though. It seems more like my magnet was containment rather than training. I get a different vibe from the TAG magnets, which were “harder” to get into and seemed to be full of Them.
I got in with test scores. Placing in the top 0.1% of the state makes it hard to tell you “no” for a magnet. Everyone I knew in my elementary school who wasn’t a complete dunce and bothered to apply got accepted. (We had a principal that encouraged literally every student to apply, and the vast majority never bothered.)
Since I went to a magnet for junior high, everyone I knew was already in the program, and didn’t all get the exact HS magnet they wanted, but all ended up in a HS magnet (like applying for colleges). I decided to go to the vocational magnet, to study technical drafting. Didn’t get that, got my second choice, R/F/TV. Worked out for me better than I think drafting would have.
Re: Those shootings in Australia. Looks like the system is going for a twofer. They get to brand anyone supporting anti vaxx sentiments as dangerous, and they garner immediate sympathy for the police, after Australian police behaved abominably during the scamdemic.
A similar thing happened the UK when it came out the crimes of Jimmy Savile were covered up by top police officers, suddenly 2 female police officers were shot dead and the accusations regarding Savile just disappeared.
Nothing is ever what it seems.
Pope warns he has seen ‘omens of even greater destruction and desolation’ for mankind.
Either he has been watching the Omen movie series or he actually sits at the table where these things are being planned. I tend to think the latter.
My thoughts exactly. He clearly follows the god of this world, not God in heaven or Jesus Christ, so his “prayers” to Satan are probably met with a direct breakdown by the big bad himself.
Or he gets visions from demons.
There ain‘t no Pope bruv.
Sede vacante .
George R.R. Martin / Game of Thrones
AC wrote a very long comment late in the day yesterday that most of you might have missed out on. There was a reference to Game of Thrones, and I think it’s culturally influential enough to write about.
My knowledge of GOT is very superficial, but I think it’s just nasty people being nasty to each other. Western education makes people dumber, and this is a project to make them behave selfishly and criminally, too – “Cabal behavior is okay, anon.”
Interestingly, Jack Posobiec used to be a GOT blogger:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/nz85kg/how-this-game-of-thrones-blogger-made-his-way-into-the-white-house
Martin biography
His mother’s family had once been wealthy, owning a successful construction business, but lost it all in the Great Depression, […]
a DNA test on the series Finding Your Roots showed him to be 53.6% “British and Irish”, 22.4% Ashkenazi Jewish, and 15.6% “Broadly Northwestern European”.[19][20]
did alternative service work for two years (1972–1974) as a VISTA volunteer, attached to the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation.[31]
What exactly did he really do during that time?
Martin’s own chess skills and experience allowed him to be hired as a tournament director for the Continental Chess Association, which ran chess tournaments on the weekends. This gave him a sufficient income, and because the tournaments only ran on Saturdays and Sundays, it allowed him to work as a writer five days a week from 1973 to 1976.
Financially credible? Were most of those tournament directors in their 20s?
he supported Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the general 2016 United States presidential election, and criticized Donald Trump during the election and following her defeat, commenting that Trump would “become the worst president in American history”.[174][175][176][177] In response to fans of Martin who compared Trump favorably to characters from A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin doubled-down on his criticism of Trump by making the case to his fans that Trump shares many personality traits in common with King Joffrey, a near-universally-hated character from the series, concluding that “Trump is a Grown-Up Joffrey.”[178][179][180][181]
In May 2019, Martin endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020.[182]
One of the biggest ‘imaginative’ people out there, and his politics are completely trivial – compare that with fellow fantasy writer Vox Day’s far more complex takes.
Much like every “prolific” writer of the mainstream for the past 100 years, GoT always struck me as GRRM reliving his shitty childhood over and over while sprinkling in a dash of his own murder and rape fetish material. Every father figure and strong male is either a drunk, abuser, rapist or is killed violently in front of their kids. Every woman, especially mother figures, is a cheater, a slut, essentially a man or again dies violently in front of their children.
That’s not even to mention the ultimate example of an author self-inserting as the smart boy secret king via the fat useless fuckhead Sam Tarley who somehow is actually a super badass warrior despite being 500lbs and sickly but is also a genius and certified fedora tipping simp everyone hates except for the “main” character.
>New Zealand imposes lifetime ban on youth buying cigarettes. I am at the point where this makes me wonder if there really is something good for you in cigarettes.
Always thought this, never cared enough to give it a rip. Living in prime tobacco regions there was definitely a coordinated push to get people off of growing their own personal smoking tobacco and instead sell it to giga-corporations that would lace it with god knows what bullshit chemicals.
I also have the personal control experiment of two grandfathers who were avid smokers their whole lives. One grew his own tobacco, sold most of it, saved some for smoking. The other only bought cigarettes pre-made.
Take a guess who died of lung cancer and who died naturally 20 years later.
ought to be easy enough to find out – although I’m predicting beforehand that the relevant stats will be ridiculously hard to get
if you’re old enough, you remember a world where **most people** smoked. it was everywhere: cig commercials on TV, with catchy jingles for the kiddies to memorize; it was a world where magazines were about 100X more important and popular than today, and every other page had a cig ad; everybody had a cig while they were driving somewhere; cig vending machines were everywhere – put a quarter in, get a pack out and nobody even thought to give a shit about how old you were because why would they; kids could run down to the corner store to buy mom & dad a carton of cigs and no one gave a hint of a damn about it (yes, really); ANY restaurant you walked into and I mean EVERY ONE, from Burger King on up had a handy ashtray right there at the table for your smoking convenience, etc etc etc. if you’re not old enough to remember all this, you may think I am exaggerating. I promise I’m not. 75%+ of adults smoked, and nonsmokers were kinda rare kinda oddballs. OK?
nothing at all like today, right?
so I wondered what ‘lung cancer deaths USA 1955 vs. 2015’ might look like? logic says they should be down like 90%…. but I’d bet they’re not. I’d also bet the science liars have a handy explanation for that that still includes the idea that cigs are baaaad, m’kay?
update: I stand corrected. went looking, and found the stats easily enough. {they were never on Page 1, but they’re there} it’s interesting. per “Lung dot org” lung cancer/death rates – which we all associate with cigs – have done some seriously weird shit. in 1930, they were ‘X’ {am using the ‘male’ rates, for obvs reasons} in 1960, very close to Peak Cig Use, they were about 9.5X. which kinda makes sense, right? Cig jingles on TV! (most of which I can still remember perfectly, 50 years later, which is unsettling) after 1971 or so, it was {{decided}} that Cigs Were Bad – they were banned from TV advertising (!) – this was also the beginning of the no-smoking section in restaurants, etc. etc. Strangely, the death rates kept going up: from 43.7 ‘deaths per’ in 1960 to a peak of more than double that in 1990. WTF, right? but then, finally, they began to fall – maybe because by 1990, IIRC, most folks didn’t smoke. they’ve now fallen steadily to where today, where smokers are considered pariahs and thus few and far between, they’ve finally collapsed to the 1930 rates: ‘4.3 deaths per.’
EXCEPT THEY’RE NOT. I lied. the ACTUAL # today is ‘40.1 deaths per.’ about what it was in 1959, and still 9X what it was in 1930. this despite the fact _nobody smokes anymore._ weird, huh?
Benny smells a rat, boys
They put 100’s of chemical additives into those cigarettes. Pipeweed smoking like how Tolkien used to do is far comparatively healthier.
I smoke a pipe, grew about 10 plants this year fior the first time.It’s a learning experience, I’ll do a few things different next year. I’m smoking some of the crop now.
While I was growing it, people who grew it commercially years ago stopped and told me things about it. I’ve read that Tobacco has a lot of insecticide on it, and I wouldn’t be surprised. What is also has is a chemical to stop leaves called suckers from growing at the base of each leaf stem. These little leaves can slow the growth of the upper leaves on the plant. The upper leaves are higher quality than the lower, and I can certainly vouch for that as of last night. I had already been smoking leaves from lower on the plants; but last night I went and got a whole plant hanging in the barn.
The guy who told me about this chemical chews, it’s his opinion that this chemical is what causes problems.The seeds are tinier than you would believe, and that’s the biggest problem I had. The sprouts are really small and delicate until about3 inches tall. Seeds are like $5 for 1000. I let some of mine go to seed, I now have 50,000 seeds probably. Too small to count.
The family of a friend of mine had been tobacco farmers since the 1840s. They made a living at it for generations, until “big tobacco” started freezing them out in the 1970s. They hung on until just after 2000 before saying “screw it” and getting out of that business.
You can’t just grow tobacco and sell it. Over the years the county, state, and Federal governments have horned in until the paperwork is unreasonable. The FDA, DEA, and ATF are looking over their shoulder all the time, plus a dozen state and local agencies, all wanting fines, fees, permits, inspections, or reams of paperwork. And then you can’t just sell it in commercial lots; you have to go through “exchanges”, and you can be frozen out of those at a word from one of the big players.
He once said, “If we were making guns or plastic explosive, the paperwork would be similar, except we wouldn’t have to deal with the FDA and DEA.”
Re: Fauci and ‘misinformation’.
I feel such hate for that man. I doubt public health will ever recover from this, at least for the percentage of population who didn’t lose their minds during COVID. They changed the definition of vaccine to one that could reasonably include prophylactic supplements, just to push the shots which turned out to not prevent infection or transmission. I also seem to recall articles scoffing at the notion of natural immunity, i.e. already had COVID, got the antibodies, therefore I don’t need a vaccine, and that anyone saying that was science-illiterate. It’s abundantly clear at this point the vaccines did not stop infection or transmission which should have immediately made all mandates moot, but there are still some mandates in place. Not to mention that the risks of taking the vaccine appear to greatly exceed the risk of death from COVID, for the vast majority of people. Masks didn’t work and that apparently was known for many years, but went out the window with COVID. Lots of us out here are laypersons in this field but we aren’t illiterate. I can read studies too. But they never address the studies people bring up that contradict their latest proclamations, or if they do, there’s always something supposedly wrong with the study. The studies they cite are, of course, perfect studies with no flaws at all.
“…It’s abundantly clear at this point the vaccines did not stop infection or transmission which should have immediately made all mandates moot…”
And it is entirely possible that this vaccine is a major danger to everyone on the planet, with clear evidence from other vaccines.
This chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous
I am at the point where this makes me wonder if there really is something good for you in cigarettes.
Note in the article: “The law does not affect vaping, which has already become more popular than smoking in New Zealand.”
It’s not about cigarettes but what they’re putting in the vape pens the kids are addicted to and creating a cleaner gateway behind their parents’ backs. These kids are buying them from stores when they’re in middle school. I know this as a fact. Shopkeepers across the US simply don’t care as long as the transactions are off camera (Cabal run, for sure). This instantly destigmatizes weed vaping even more. There’s no more smoke, no more smell (the kids intentionally choose flavors that don’t smell much). This is going on in every suburb. It’s not just the porn fairy. Beware the magical vape dealers EVERY kid is told about continually starting from when they enter middle school.
Yes, there’s something very strange with vaping. I’m a smoker, and I tried vaping looking for a more economical and socially acceptable method. And it’s all just very weird. I found it very harsh on the throat and lungs, for one.
“…vaping looking for a more economical and socially acceptable method. And it’s all just very weird. I found it very harsh on the throat and lungs, for one….”
I quit smoking cigarettes a long time ago,maybe ten years or more.Eventually I went back to using a product called ariva dissolvable tobacco (great stuff which was like a hard candy you could dissolve in your mouth)which is a pellet of pressed tobacco that due to a specific type curing takes out most of the carcinogenic products. Unfortunately they keep making it hard to get products that are not bad for you. I went to another product called snus from Sweden. There’s a ton of different ones but all of them by law must be cured a specific way in Sweden which vastly reduces the danger.
https://tobaccobusiness.com/fda-grants-first-ever-modified-risk-orders-to-general-snus/
I used to use general in the silver can and Lucky Strike. Yes they have Lucky Strike snus in Sweden and it taste like it but…no more. Trademark problems… Of course somehow they changed the law so it was once again hard to get and US companies jumped on the snus name but with none of the same legal safeguards.
This whole time I would intermediately use tobacco products “if” I could find something not as dangerous, otherwise I just suffered.
I took up vaping and found much the same as you.
Here’s what you have to do to make it work. I’m talking about salts. Most of the salts have 50mg of nicotine. You need to go down to 38 mg or so, it will make a big difference. And the last part is difficult. You have to find a salt that is not harsh or bothersome. This is difficult, There must be many, many thousands of these. I have found a couple and of course they changed regulations where I can’t get them or they go out of business. I’m now looking for another that works. Sigh. I’m thinking next of going to some brand that has no taste at all if I can find it.
I stopped using flavors at least 8 years ago now. At this point, I can’t stand flavors. As far as nicotine solution (including salts) go, I finally found a reputable place that reliably ships throughout the states: Nude Nicotine. I’m sure there are others. Personally, I’m down to 0.5mg, maybe less. Three lifetimes of nicotine now fits into a tiny little bottle and you can find pharmaceutical grade PG or VG in plenty of locations.
For anyone else having trouble with vaping: A vape “hit” should be extremely similar to the “throat hit” you get with your cigarette. The key is to dial in the proper variables so you can get the “hit” you’re looking for. The basic variables you experiment to dial in the “hit” your looking for are: nicotine type (freebase/classic vs. nicotine salts), nicotine strength, airflow of the draw of your tank, coil resistance (as in ohms), and voltage/wattage (depends on the battery setup you’re using). This involves some research and experimentation that many smokers simply don’t go into the trouble to do.
I’ve found that it’s best to start with “mouth-to-lung” (MTL) tanks (preferably with adjustable airflow) that uses coils at around 1.4-1.6 ohms (set between probably around 10W-14W depending on personal preferences) for those trying to quit smoking. I like tanks from Aspire for beginners, like a Nautilus GT mini. A full setup nowadays (which would include the aforementioned MTL tank and a battery with variable voltage/wattage) is quite cheap compared to even 5 years ago, anywhere between $30-$80. Those tiny vape “pods” you see everywhere are okay, but you won’t be able dial in the primary variables that you will want to control to get your preferred “hit” apart from nicotine strength: airflow, coil resistance, and voltage/wattage. If you run unflavored, a good premade coil will last up to 3 months depending on how much you vape..
Eventually, to make sure you don’t have to buy coils, you might want to start experimenting with what are called rebuildable tanks like the Kayfun Prime (my personal favorite). That way you can build your own coils. I also use rayon (cellucotton) as my wicking material instead of cotton because the material lasts much longer. But with rayon, you have to pack it in the coil real tight and make sure the lower edges of the wick are tapered off. You can find guides online. A good coil can last for years and years. You just change the wicking material once every few months if you notice flavor dropping.
Absolutely do not get the fancy “direct-to-lung” machines that pull huge wattages. They’re for people who went the deep end. These guys can pump 150+ watts into huge low-resistance coils to vaporize as much liquid directly into their lungs as possible. This is so that they can exhale HUGE clouds of smoke. These modern “cloud chasing” setups are not for new vapers. If you try vaping these like a cigarette, you’re in for a terrible experience.
If you really don’t want to do the research (market is currently very fragmented right now because of the crappy regulations), then go to a local vape store and ask them for a “mouth-to-lung” setup with adjustable airflow that uses 1.4-1.6 ohm replaceable coils. Then find the nicotine type and strength that works for you. Then find a supplier and start getting used to the unflavored stuff. Once you get used to unflavored, you’ll never go back.
I also forgot, the ratio of PG (propylene glycol) and VG (vegetable glycerin) of the vape liquid you are using is the sixth basic variable to dial it in.
As to something good in tobacco, well, nicotine is some interesting stuff. I love the feeling it produces. Very calm, focused, enjoyable. I think it makes me less excitable, more willing to think deeply. The mentally ill, particularly those suffering from anxiety, schizophrenia, and paranoia are real nicotine fiends. Perhaps related, nicotine is chemically quite similar to niacin (nicotinic acid) that Linus Pauling reported as being an effective treatment for various psychiatric problems, notably schizophrenia. He was smeared for this of course, even though his work brought him two nobel prizes. Most mental illness ultimately stems from anxiety that’s become out of control, and niacin (and nicotine) seem to be calming to the mind.
My guess is that cabal wants everyone on edge, impulsive, anxious, and worse.
Funny that you brought this up because I embarked on yet another quit a couple of months ago. Having tried every method out there without succeeding longer than a few months, I stumbled onto some of the orthomolecular stuff and some theories about niacin after I tapered myself down for a month then quit, but only lasted about 2 days before caving. I’ve stayed at the low point of my taper or lower since then and in mid-November began adding in flush niacin, which seems to be the safest option. I started with 300 mg and am now taking closer to 2000 mg throughout the day, plus B complex and additional B1 (thiamine). As long as I keep it going, I have almost no cravings at all and easily keep myself at about 5 cigarettes a day. I previously smoked 2 packs a day. I’ve found numerous testimonials online of people who used this method and had very little of the insomnia, anger, anxiety, depression, and so on that plagues most quitters. At least a few of them were like me, where using any other method, from NRT to cold turkey, results in weeks or months of those unpleasant (or unbearable) mental symptoms. For me, those emotional symptoms last for the duration that I am quit, which is why I eventually start back as I can’t stand it.
The idea is that smoking somehow replaces niacin (nicotinic acid) in the body among other things and unless you make a point of taking extra niacin (above the RDA), you may find it nearly impossible to stop smoking. I don’t even know if that is true, but I also don’t care, as long as it works (and it seems to help tremendously) and isn’t harmful. Supposedly some forms of niacin can cause damage if taken in high doses, so I stick with the flush form. I don’t mind the flush, it turns out, plus it’s an interesting phenomenon and I am trying to understand why sometimes I flush so strong I turn bright red from head to toe and other times I don’t flush at all. I’m still learning about it all.
Anyway, my next quit date approaches, and I am hoping that this time I have all the tools at hand to endure going to zero nicotine. At least one testimonial I read, the person quit easily once they started taking flush niacin, but went off the niacin for a couple of weeks and found the emotional symptoms and cravings returning, even though they’d quit 2 years previously. Abram Hoffer has some interesting books out there about treating people with high dose niacin and discusses what he called vitamin dependency, certain individuals whose body biochemistry requires higher amounts of certain vitamins due to genetics or to some illness or major stress they experienced previously (e.g. he discusses some POWs he treated who had been nearly starved over several years).
“USA Today wants to help republicans, anon!” Kayfabe rocks!!
of special interest is the added section at the end… re certain recent ye events – http://mileswmathis.com/opioid.pdf
The RINOs in the 1900s:
It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent, Northern conservatism. This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation.
What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is to-day one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will to-morrow be forced upon its timidity, and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition.
It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always—when about to enter a protest—very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its “bark is worse than its bite,” and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance.
The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy from having nothing to whip. No doubt, after a few years, when women’s suffrage shall have become an accomplished fact, conservatism will tacitly admit it into its creed, and thenceforward plume itself upon its wise firmness in opposing with similar weapons the extreme of baby suffrage; and when that too shall have been won, it will be heard declaring that the integrity of the American Constitution requires at least the refusal of suffrage to asses. There it will assume, with great dignity, its final position.
-Robert Dabney 1871:
https://www.hiddendominion.com/robert-dabney-not-much-has-changed/
> Fox News turns out a fake poll saying, Biden tops Trump but trails DeSantis in national poll’s potential match ups.
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Fox: “We’re your conservative news source!”
TRX: “Ballocks.”
Bystander: “But they *said* they were conservative!”
TRX: “Double ballocks!”
Bystander: “But Obi-Wan Kenobe, they’re our only hope!”
TRX: “Do you have *any* news sources that aren’t mass or “social” media?”
> I would think DHS is pretty elite in the intel game
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I always have to do a mental shift when I see “DHS” in some articles. In my state, “DHS” is the unemployment office. Which would be a good place for Homeland Security functionaries to wind up, come to think of it.
Same way with BLM, which always parses as “Bureau of Land Management” first.