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It finally happened
Someone who'd ostracized me during Covid said it out loud: "You were right. Never again."

ALEX BERENSON
JUN 11, 2023

It was maybe the most humiliating moment of my Covid life.

Summer 2021, the Twitter-ban era: a friend of one of our kids came to our house to play. When they realized I - not my wife - was supervising, the child’s parents told us they were uncomfortable and would retrieve their kid immediately.

They weren’t joking. They arrived in minutes. They made a three-point turn in our driveway so they were facing out and wouldn’t spend any extra seconds close to me.

I watched their child run to their car, watched it disappear down the road, thinking: Now my kids are paying the price, too.

Yesterday the mother of that child told me I’d been right about the lockdowns - and about Covid generally. The conversation wasn’t long, but it was long enough. 2020 and 2021 had been incredibly difficult, she said. She didn’t like how frightened she’d become, she hardly recognized the person she’d been, and she felt only now had she recovered.

What if they do it again, I said. You know next winter, or whenever, they’re going to try.

The mom didn’t laugh. She did something better. She smirked. No way, she said. No masks, no lockdowns, she was done with all of it. Yes, you were right, she said, but your tone was assholish sometimes -

I know, I said -

But you know, I feel kind of assholish these days too, she said.

She’s the first person I know personally to flat-out admit I was right. I thanked her, and I meant it. I was surprised how good the vindication felt.

Our kids hang out again now, too.

We’ll talk about the mRNAs another time.

Patrick says

We’ll talk about the mRNAs another time.

Maybe after you are being loaded onto the Paddy Wagon after she pointed out to the Patrol where you were hiding.

Patrick says

I pretty much never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller. Hell, I just leave it in airplane mode in a drawer most of the time.

I would do the same with airplane mode, but kids...kind of hard. Especially right now in summer when they're roaming the town. In a blink of an eye I'll have 10 damn kids here from 10 other parents. Most are well behaved though it's just the calls/texts to send Billy or Fred home from the parents. We caved and the oldest took over an old phone of mine and nephew has one.

Always said before kids they're not getting one until they can drive. lol. Caved in 12 years. It makes life so much easier.

WookieMan says

Caved in 12 years.

You ain't the only one. When I pass the bus stops, I see groups of kids looking at their phones rather than talking to each other.

Make no mistake about it, these phones are, overall, terrible. 8 year olds are viewing porn. Wow. Government always talks about doing things for the children but they can't do anything about porn?

Maybe the government is controlled by people who want children to be looking at porn, people like John Podesta with his creepy child-porn art.

But there is a danger in that the same mechanisms used to ban porn could be used to ban political dissent.

GNL says

Make no mistake about it, these phones are, overall, terrible. 8 year olds are viewing porn.

Are 8-year-olds even interested in porn? Just the giggle factor of seeing someone's butt. "Hey look Mikey, that man is bare!!"

HeadSet says

GNL says

Make no mistake about it, these phones are, overall, terrible. 8 year olds are viewing porn.

Are 8-year-olds even interested in porn? Just the giggle factor of seeing someone's butt. "Hey look Mikey, that man is bare!!"

I remember when porn magazines were displayed in these racks and I was able to pick them up and look through them. I was not even in 8th grade yet. I watched my first porn movie (Stiff Competition) at about that same age. I admit to having had an addiction for decades after that.

No bueno.

Never forget the park ranger in a car with a mask on telling my kids and I hiking in 90+ degree temps with nobody around to leave because we were not wearing a mask. Fuck the libs that posted on neighborhood Facebook about us jumping fence to play in park. Fuck libs for all the stress they caused my family with school closures. Fuck them for putting the last nail into CA. Fuck Joe Biden for empowering companies to fire the unvaccinated.

Thank you libs for going so far that it woke up so many people that the government is out to fuck us.

HeadSet says

Are 8-year-olds even interested in porn? Just the giggle factor of seeing someone's butt. "Hey look Mikey, that man is bare!!"

I don't think it is something to take lightly. Along with porn issues, I ran into more problems in HS. I mentioned it some time ago but, in HS I had more sex than I can remember. It was a boarding HS but, the girls loved to give blowjobs. I never had sex sex. Lots of blowjobs though. Any addiction is a bad addiction.

GNL says

I mentioned it some time ago but, in HS I had more sex than I can remember. It was a boarding HS but, the girls loved to give blowjobs. I never had sex sex. Lots of blowjobs though.

I think people on this blog would be hard pressed to see a downside here. Blowjobs are like crack, only takes one to get you "addicted."

HeadSet says

GNL says

I mentioned it some time ago but, in HS I had more sex than I can remember. It was a boarding HS but, the girls loved to give blowjobs. I never had sex sex. Lots of blowjobs though.

I think people on this blog would be hard pressed to see a downside here. Blowjobs are like crack, only takes one to get you "addicted."

Too much to discuss but addictions aren't good. Also, at that age with those experiences add up to a heightened sense of self importance. It took me a long time to realize that. Think about porn actors. Does anyone think their lives are great?

GNL says

Think about porn actors. Does anyone think their lives are great?

Porn actors are not engaged in sex any more than the Gilligan's Island cast is engaged in remote island survival.

GNL says

Too much to discuss but addictions aren't good. Also, at that age with those experiences add up to a heightened sense of self importance. It took me a long time to realize that. Think about porn actors. Does anyone think their lives are great?

I played in lots of bands with many very talented musicians. One guitar player, who was a finger picking fool (he could nail Johnny Winter or any other guitar player), had become addicted to porn in middle or high school. He pigged out girls because that's what porno sex is like. He was good looking and very personable, but part of him was broken, and it really hurt his ability to have a functional relationship with a woman.

I suppose he was ahead of his time. Nowadays, chicks are all into BDSM and such shit. Still, porno exposure creates an unreality illusion that people are fucktoys. I personally think teh wimmins are more susceptible to this type of brainwashing, but porno is as bad as hetero child molestation for warping the minds of boys/young men as to what sexual relationships should be.

True story - I knew this guy who was a fucking beast (completely ripped), but a damaged, perhaps psychopathic individual. He had been molested by his female babysitter around the age of five. He told me that she made him eat her pussy, but he objected, saying "I don't want to, it stinks!" After enough molestation, he soon got in trouble at school for trying to play doctor with girls. Later in life, he was on a mission to, in his words "Pig out" women. He once got two girls who were sisters high on weed and made them do incest lesbian sex for his amusement.

I think there was a good reason that porn was banned for centuries. It damages minds and emotions. There are some things that many humans should never see because it will warp them in ways they can't control.

stereotomy says

Nowadays, chicks are all into BDSM

I dated lots before I got married, and never ran across any of that. That was long ago, but still.

stereotomy says

porno exposure creates an unreality illusion that people are fucktoys.

Yes, from watching the "hydraulic" movies we used to see on alert, one would think all woman are bisexual. But in the locker room talk over the years, I never heard of any guy who was able to get his girlfriend/wife to go along with a 3-way or do another girl. We were all well into adulthood when on alert, so nobody took the films seriously. They were actually more comical than erotic, especially with all the comments from the audience.

stereotomy says

I think there was a good reason that porn was banned for centuries.

Centuries? I guess you are including books. Porn is actually still banned for under 18, but in this day of computers it is impossible to enforce.

I'm strongly opposed to easy availability of porn for children, but I'm yet more worried that porn will be used as an excuse to eliminate political websites which dissent from the Homo-Globo Empire's absolute control over earth.

Patrick says

I'm strongly opposed to easy availability of porn for children, but I'm yet more worried that porn will be used as an excuse to eliminate political websites which dissent from the Homo-Globo Empire's absolute control over earth.

Any such ban would apply to under 18. It may not be that damaging if under 18 were blocked from seeing political sights. Not optimal though.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/flashback-friday-one-law-for-thee

flashback friday: one law for thee, another for me
a compilation of how seriously our "leaders" took their own rules

Video a bit too long to post.

According to Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times: "Mocking anti-vaxxer's deaths is ghoulish, yes - but necessary."

Heh...! there are no "anti-vaxxer deaths" because the unvaccinated used HCQ, Ivermectin, Artemisin, budesonide etc to treat Covid and never injected themselves with the mRNA toxin! Mr. Hiltzik is hallucinating.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies.[3,6,57] We have witnessed a long list of unprecedented intrusions into medical practice, including attacks on medical experts, destruction of medical careers among doctors refusing to participate in killing their patients and a massive regimentation of health care, led by non-qualified individuals with enormous wealth, power and influence.

For the first time in American history a president, governors, mayors, hospital administrators and federal bureaucrats are determining medical treatments based not on accurate scientifically based or even experience based information, but rather to force the acceptance of special forms of care and “prevention”—including remdesivir, use of respirators and ultimately a series of essentially untested messenger RNA vaccines. For the first time in history medical treatment, protocols are not being formulated based on the experience of the physicians treating the largest number of patients successfully, but rather individuals and bureaucracies that have never treated a single patient—including Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, EcoHealth Alliance, the CDC, WHO, state public health officers and hospital administrators.[23,38]

The media (TV, newspapers, magazines, etc), medical societies, state medical boards and the owners of social media have appointed themselves to be the sole source of information concerning this so-called “pandemic”. Websites have been removed, highly credentialed and experienced clinical doctors and scientific experts in the field of infectious diseases have been demonized, careers have been destroyed and all dissenting information has been labeled “misinformation” and “dangerous lies”, even when sourced from top experts in the fields of virology, infectious diseases, pulmonary critical care, and epidemiology. These blackouts of truth occur even when this information is backed by extensive scientific citations from some of the most qualified medical specialists in the world.[23] Incredibly, even individuals, such as Dr. Michael Yeadon, a retired ex-Chief Scientist, and vice-president for the science division of Pfizer Pharmaceutical company in the UK, who charged the company with making an extremely dangerous vaccine, is ignored and demonized. Further, he, along with other highly qualified scientists have stated that no one should take this vaccine. ...

I might be a prick, but I didn't get the prick!

https://twitter.com/TedNugent/status/1673495421749018625

Victoria Police arresting anti-lockdown protesters.

Patrick says

I would have said, yeah? For what is not specified, so fuck off.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-dont-believe-their

kitten corner: don't believe their yesterday
there's a gaslight hanging over me

in kittengarten today, we learned about how soviet propaganda used to make up lies about history so fast that you could not even trust the news about what just happened.

it sure sounds like a pretty crazy kind of world to try to live in!




thank goodness something like that could never happen here…