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In the Same Storm; Not in the Same Boat

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The problem is we can’t trust anyone anymore.  We can’t trust the news.  We can’t trust that these crazy situations won’t happen again and they will keep happening.

You all know what they did to Trump, and worse, what they did to that dad and those two others who were badly injured was just a warning shot, right?

Stay close to home. Avoid crowds.  If they surround you, do what you have to do to get out of the way.  I need you.  George needs you.  We ALL need you and I’m talking to all of  you. You don’t know what’s going on in their heads or what’s going to happen.

I am becoming more and more convinced that all people were not created equal in the sense that some are literally out of their minds.  There are people who were touched by the divine, made by God (all colors; all races) and there are people, I quite frankly don’t recognize.  I don’t know if they beat the God out of themselves with their choices or if, for whatever reason, they willed the divine away.

But they are not like us and they’re dangerous.  They do not care about other people.

The other week, I got two people in Microsoft who were fairly high up the chain of command on the phone.  They were exceptionally kind and helpful.  I haven’t talked like that with a stranger for the longest time.  I was in tears when I hung up.  And so were they.  It was just so GOOD to talk with people with a heart.

So they’re becoming visible.  We’re not alone.  We need to remember that other people have been through the ringer, too.  So anytime we have an opportunity to be a little more gracious, we can make the moments count.

And there are so many people suffering.  George and I collect $5 bills for the glove compartment of our cars so we have a little something to give to people who need it.  We’re talking about handing out water, canned beans, and tortillas, as well.

I made a pack with God a long time ago, that whomever He brings to me, I will help.  No judgment.  I can’t hand them their life back, but for a moment, maybe, I can bring a little joy into their lives as they have done for me.  And for that moment, all is right with the world between two strangers being tossed around in the strom.

That, I can do and because I’ve been on the recipient side, I can tell you it’s enough.  It’s everything in that moment.

Comments

  1. Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter:

    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-virus-was-safer-than-the-vaccine?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=548354&post_id=147300273&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9atnc&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    The virus was safer than the vaccine. Whoops!

    No wonder trust in the mainstream medical community has sunk from 71.5% to 40.1%.
    Steve Kirsch
    Aug 05, 2024
    Executive summary

    80% of my followers on X are unvaxxed. 20% took the shots.

    I asked them a question: if you had a choice between being infected with the COVID virus or taking the jab, which one would you pick?

    Here’s how they voted:

    ” Steve Kirsch@stkirsch
    The devil appears and requires you to subject yourself to one of the two options listed below.

    Which one would you rather have?

    COVID virus
    97.9%
    COVID vaccine
    2.1%

    9,727 votes ·Final results

    That’s the correct answer. ”

    [What a difference a scam makes…]

    The virus is much safer than the vaccine.

    This is one of the reasons why trust in the healthcare system has plummeted from 71.5% to 40.1% between April 2020 and January 2024.

    And the safety monitoring is so abysmally poor that nobody even knows the relative safety of each of the vaccines! Is Pfizer safer than Moderna? Or is it vice-versa? And where’s the data showing the number? It doesn’t exist! They don’t measure it!!!

    “How can we have vaccinated the world and yet nobody knows the relative safety of any of the vaccines??”

    That is the question an honest health authority should be asking. If you don’t have the numbers, then you are flying blind which is exactly what we’ve been doing for the past 4 years. …

    [Please read the rest of the article on Steve’s substack
    and read the comments – Oh yes! Read the comments!]

  3. “Why Are All Those Racist White Thugs Rioting in England? ”
    https://counter-currents.com/2024/08/why-are-all-those-racist-white-thugs-rioting-in-england/

    ‘ As someone who covers breaking stories under deadline, this much I know to be true: News travels fast online, much of it untrue.

    England has seen a spate of riots over the past couple days. The most unusual thing is that most of the rioters appear to be white. From what I can tell, many of them seem to have been causing a ruckus based on false information. From what I can sense, their rage is genuine and based on what appears to be a ruling class that is entirely hostile toward not only their interests, but their continued existence.

    The match that lit the fire this time around was Monday morning’s mass stabbing at what Wikipedia calls “a children’s Taylor Swift-themed yoga and dance workshop at The Hart Space, a dance school on Hart Street in Southport,” a seaside town north of Liverpool. As of this writing, three girls are confirmed dead: Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine. Five girls remain in critical condition as well as two adults—dance instructor Leanne Lucas and John Hayes, who was stabbed while trying to intervene.

    When I heard the words “England” alongside “stabbing” and “young girls,” my brain immediately leapt to “immigrant perp,” but that’s because I’m a white racist thug.

    Then again, it was only last November that Dublin erupted into flames after a homeless Algerian immigrant stabbed three young girls and a police commissioner blamed the riots on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology” rather than on a “lunatic Algerian immigrant” and “lunatic political leaders who are swarming Ireland with hooligan immigrants.” …

    England appears to be, as the saying goes, on the knife-edge. But is it because all those beer-bellied, loutish, right-wing yobs are racist? Or is it because their overlords clearly place them a rung below the dark-skinned, hostile interlopers who rape and stab their children? ‘

    • Sad. Very sad. But what did our elites think would happen with unlimited open migration?

      • This is exactly what the elites want so they can have their excuse
        to bring in increased surveillance and suppression of free speech.
        The aim is to end loyalty to and identity with particular nations;
        replacing these with supremacy of the state – which they control.

  4. Welcome back! I have to respectfully disagree with the comments that it has always been this way. It has not. What is different is that the rebellion against God is public whereas before it was hidden. This is the end game and to your point it will get worse. What happened to the abomination in Africa for example? Crickets and that reveals the true state of affairs.

    FWIW I have found Fr. Peter Heers podcasts on Revelation to be both inspiring and consoling.

  5. First, welcome back to George and Gail!

    Second, as a public service, on whom to trust:

    It may seem paranoid, however, the entire mainstream or legacy media is untrustworthy about most everything but especially politics. This includes Fox. You even have to check OAN and Newsmax to some extent. We are in full liberal capture of the institutions. So, academia is also utterly corrupted. Thus, your eyes should glaze over when anyone talks about “climate change”, for example. It really is like living in the Soviet Union except for the fact that there was a much greater consciousness in the USSR of the fact that the government was a gaggle of pathological liars. In the US, there are far, far too many people who realize that on A, B and C the government has lied and behaved with utter corruption, yet seem completely unselfconscious about believing them on D, E or F. This has been true about the Ukraine, Israel, China, Iran and, most lately, Venezuela.

    The govt doesn’t just wake up and decide, “On this issue, just for today, we shall tell the truth.” No, they lie at us as if it were free. And they are open about it in certain forums. Mike Pompeo, for example, admitted as much in an interview about his days in the CIA which you can find online.

    Thus, you have to go to alternative/independent media if you want to have any remote idea what is really going on. I check out Monomakhos (of course), the Duran, the New Atlas, Revolver, Doug MacGregor, Larry Johnson, Glenn Diesen, Moon of Alabama, Dances with Bears and Mark Sleboda, among others. The only caveats I will put on any of them are that the New Atlas and Sleboda are jaded black pilled, so their forecast may be darker and more cynical than I would offer (but sometimes they’re right on those as well).

    But, for example, you can’t even google stuff and expect un-doctored results to come up. Of course, there are other search engines . . .

    So, we have entered a dark age. It’s not just that the networks are somewhat biased. Cronkite was biased. Rather was biased and had to resign. No. Now, the media has firmly chosen sides and will fail to report, misreport and lie as a matter of course, deceiving the public in order to protect their ideological kin. No conscience. Of course, no conscience is the norm in secularism, whether it’s Marxism or liberalism in general. No God, no code. Just tell the story right.

    These are the times the Fathers warned us about where everyone would go insane and persecute us for not following suit.

  6. Very well said, my dear.

    I believe last week’s Gospel was about the Gadarene swine. After Jesus healed two demoniacs, the evil spirits asked to go into the herd of swine nearby. Said herd jumped over the cliff, killing themselves. And were the Gadarenes happy?

    No. They asked Jesus to leave.

    Personally, seeing what happened at the Olympics and the whole normalization-of-perversion thing that we’ve been subject to for decades, the phenomenon of the Gadarenes is very real. Sadly, they do hate Christ.

  7. Seems to me that the world has been in a storm since the beginning of human history. For example today, we don’t have to go foraging for food and hunting daily just to survive. We don’t have to invent fire and wheels and clothes.

    The storms are just different. We have to learn to dance in whatever storm God presents us with. . Or another way of saying it is we have to play the hand that we are dealt. Nobody said it was going to be easy. Jesus said we would be persecuted.

    We are not called to be successful, we are called to be faithful. I think Mother Teresa said that.

  8. In my humble opinion, this kind of satanic delusion has been around for a very long time. Holy Scripture and the lives of the Saints have many instances. There are times that I get very angry at what see going on around me but I remind myself of something St. Paisios said. The exact quote from Saint Paisios of Mount Athos is: “What I see around me would drive me insane if I did not know that no matter what happens, God will have the last word”. Our Lord also said something that I think maybe appropriate.

    And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.† For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. (Matthew 24:6-13, OSB)

    Each and every day I struggle to not be outraged at what I see and hear. I remind myself of the words of the Saints and of Our Lord. Have courage! The Lord is with us!

  9. During 2020, being forced to wear a mask when I went out to run errands was painful for the reason you have just described, Gail. I don’t have much of a social life, so I really look forward to mundane things like grocery shopping. I enjoy seeing people, and greeting them and doing what I can to help them if the circumstances for that arise — even if only with a smile; human beings are such precious creatures. I can’t explain that feeling, but to me there is something beautiful about even the most unattractive people. Not being able to engage them with my FACE was truly horrifying. It felt SO WRONG.

    I love this, Gail. It’s a good reminder. When His disciples told Jesus to send the crowd away to go find food, He said no. Do it yourself. That is what you’re describing, I think. Being as human as you can possibly muster.

  10. Steve Kirsch’s newsletter:

    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/a-closer-look-at-the-czech-data-confirms

    ‘ A closer look at the Czech Republic data confirms the mRNA vaccines are too deadly to be used
    Several people have replicated my work and agree with me. I’ll list here the new attacks and why they all fail to explain the data so you can decide for yourself who to believe.
    Steve Kirsch
    Jul 30, 2024
    Executive summary

    In an earlier article (which has links to all the Czech Republic articles I’ve written), I showed that gold-standard record-level data (showed the mortality rate ratio (MRR) between Moderna mortality rate and Pfizer’s was often over 30% and disproportionately impacted younger people. What this means is Moderna is too unsafe to be used. And other data shows Pfizer must be unsafe as well.

    Since then, others have replicated my work showing both mRNA vaccines are too deadly to be used.

    Using Czech data alone, we don’t have 100% proof that all the COVID vaccines were deadly. The findings could possibly be attributed to unknown confounders from an uneven distribution e.g. due to differences in socioeconomic status (SES). One product could be accidentally given to the sick and those more likely to die.

    However, a thorough analysis of the Czech data shows why these explanations are very highly unlikely and why they are insufficient to explain the data that was observed. But critically there are many other data sources we can also use to build a full picture and greatly increase the confidence in our hypothesis.

    Taking everything into account, there is simply no other remotely plausible explanation to explain what this gold-standard official government data shows. It’s devastating to the narrative for this reason.

    Three key points:

    None of the attacks provided a credible alternative hypothesis.

    None of the attacks could point out anything in the Czech data that would preclude the vaccines from being deadly.

    None of the attackers can explain a simple 100% verifiable anecdote like Jay Bonnar’s story. Within 2.5 years post vaccine rollout, Jay lost 15 friends unexpectedly, all vaccinated and 4 died on the same day as their vaccines (and 3 of the 4 were 30 years old or younger). He lost just one friend from COVID. This anecdote is statistically impossible if the Pfizer vaccine is safe (probability of around 5.63e-22). Nobody has ever explained how this story could have happened if the COVID vaccines are safe.

    In this article I will:

    List people who independently confirmed what I found

    List the new attack vectors and explain in detail why each attack fails

    Explain the techniques that people use to deal with the cognitive dissonance when they are confronted with data showing they are wrong.

    This is a long article, but it’s important to address all the criticisms head on. …

    What the reviewers said

    “My conclusion is the same as the others. Using Pfizer as a “placebo” (effectively assuming that it is safe), then all other “vaccines” are harmful – deadly in fact. Now, if you believe that Pfizer is, therefore, the only one that is not deadly, unfortunately, you have failed to grasp the implication of this. What it actually means is that they are all deadly, just some are more deadly than others.”
    — Joel Smalley, data scientist, excerpt from Analysis of the Important Czech COVID “Vaccine” Mortality Data

    “Unless someone can provide compelling evidence of Moderna having been given to those more likely to die in every age group and throughout the vaccination time period, then this is compelling evidence that it was more deadly.”
    — Clare Craig, excerpt from Moderna was more deadly than Pfizer

    “Given that today it is unknown if the mRNA COVID vaccine products offer any benefits, in conjunction with the fact they are known to cause serious harm and death, while evidence continues to build supporting these products cause additional serious harms that are still unconfirmed. Taking this information together it should be obvious these products should be withdrawn from the market.

    The Czech data set you present is clearly concerning and supports prior studies which have suggested Moderna is more harmful than Pfizer, as has been consistently identified in various manners as you refer to in your Substack post.

    The Czech data you present is your best work to date, and you should be proud of it.”

    — Joseph Fraiman, MD …

    Summary

    The Czech Republic data seals the deal. There is simply no way to show how this data is consistent with the “safe and effective” narrative. The fact that there is a 30% increased mortality from the Moderna shot across all age groups during non-COVID can only be explained one way: the shots are deadly.

    The best way to disprove I’m wrong is for all countries and states to publicly disclose their record level data just like the Czech Republic did.

    They will never do that. And they’ll never analyze the Czech data to show it is safe. They want to distract your attention somewhere else. And that is precisely why we need to be like a dog on a bone on this data.

    For example, if you want to know why Paul Offit refuses to look at the Czech data, why not ask him on his X account or his Substack? If you find out, let me know because he’s sure not willing to tell me!

    If we don’t hold these people accountable, nobody will. ‘

    [Please read the original article on Steve’s substack]

    • Thank you for posting this information!

      Must say that it was very much due to George and Gail’s openness, your simple question-asking, your intellectual curiosity about what was really behind the Covid vax push on a scared American public, your clarity of data, and your honesty about WTF was probably going on in 2020-2021 when so many players of dubious character (including “Saint Fauci”) were trying to push untested alleged “magic” vaccines on the population – well, I got much foundational support from this website to ask my own questions and eventually to “Just say No” to a Covid vaccine back then. Want to formally say Thank you! I need to buy you several cups of coffee, maybe a latte every day for a year!!

      By the way, where have you all been for the past few months? Will you be posting details on the reason for the long absence?

      A belated Christ is Risen!!

      • And you listened! You heard us out. You hung in there as we were struggling to discover that which wasn’t being said.

        This is SO FAR beyond a “thank you,” you have no idea.

        Everybody has something they really care about and for us, it is Monomakhos. It comes from LOVE. That you have read the blog, supported us, and written some of the BEST comments this blog has ever known is like we’re drowning in coffee and we thank you, my friend. We thank you from the bottom of our cup!

    • Brendan, my friend, you have never given up, even when I wanted to, as it was just too hard for me to take.

      The blog should know that you continued to send us articles of importance even when we couldn’t post them. I want you to know we read every single one of them.

      You are a true treasure and we appreciate you.