The bullshit’s piled so high that I can’t stay on top of it.
Apologies.
MCM
Author: MCM
A great conversation (at least I think so) with James Delingpole (he thought so, too).
Because my face and voice are out of sync, you may want to listen to it without watching it.
Remembering My Mother
For Bibi, and Jeremy
Celia Farber 1Aug 20
On August 19, 1999, my sister Bibi and I lost our mother, Ulla, without warning.
Her death made no senseâI mean it was shocking. After leaving me a phone message, she suddenly vomited blood and died, still on her feet, in her bathroom.
It was August 22 before we got somebody into the apartment. On the evening of the 19th, I started calling. Woke up the next day, continued. I called and called and called and called and called and then started smashing the phone into the floor. I called myself into a frenzy: Every hospital, police station, neighbor, even reached her neighborâs son in Saudi Arabia, somehow, but no answer. No momâs voice. The trauma of calling and calling and calling is seared into my memory, and has forever changed my relationship to phones, ringing phones, not being able to reach people.
I woke up Sunday morning feeling I had a truck on my chest and knew that would be the day we got the truth I had, in a way, avoided with my web of phone calls going everywhere and anywhere. I remembered that Mom had called the friend who watered her plants, from Barryâs fax phone in his kitchen. The phone company gave us the number and when she answered, she said: âI havenât heard from Ulla since she got back from New York and I have been worried too.â
Thatâs when I knew. She would never not thank her friend who took care of her plants right away.
âI have the key, Iâll go over,â Viola said. âCall the apartment in 10 minutes.â
I called my father and asked him to take a cab over immediately, as I knew I was not capable of making that last phone call. I never really stopped to think how Barry felt about it. I just told him he had to make the call, and he did. And as soon as I heard him say in Swedish, âHi Viola, this is Barry callingâŠâ I was hanging onto the inside of the door frame, trying to disappear into the wall, when I saw Barryâs jaw go down as it does when he is trying not to cry, and he said the word ânoâ in Swedish, over and over.
Mom had just returned from a 3 week visit to see us in New York. She hadnât even unpacked her suitcase. All the details about that shattering day are as vivid as if they happened yesterday. But perhaps I no longer need to âtry to describeâ it.
Better to describe her.In the photo above, she is teaching me how to skate, probably in Central Park. You can see her spirit in that picture.Once, around 2010, a book agent asked me to write a book about my life and when she rejected it she said Iâd written a book about my motherâs life. Wellâyes. I did. Because my mother is how I think and see the world. So of course it was about her. My mother was the eventâI was the shadow. Something like that.
The book agent even asked, via email, if I wanted her to recycle the paper my novel was printed on âforâ me. I thanked her, and said yes, can you believe that? Then I went into fetal position for 2 days, and never attempted âfictionâ again.
I donât like writing, fiction, books, book covers, any of it!
That agent asking me if I wanted her to re-cycle the manuscript âforâ meâThat is exactly the kind of hideous thing my mother would never do. Those tiny cuts people inflict. No, no.
Not Ulla. If Ulla was going to cut you she would use a large blunt instrument and you would not be confused. This part of her I am not intending to soft-soap because it was unbelievably harrowing when she went nuclear.
She was also very effusive in her enthusiasms, (I think she was Greek, somehow) praises, obsessions; When it was time to have a rage, the paint came straight off the walls and there was no wolf-smiling to contend with.
My mother told me she had saved my life, and that my father repeatedly tried to have me killed. The reason I was a so-called journalist was that I know how to listen to people. Thatâs another thing I canât forgive: People who donât listen.
âCopper,â said Dr. Joan Matthews Larsson, when I sat in her Minneapolis office, circa 2013. âCopper?â
âYes, your mother had excess copper. Everything you tell me sounds like excess copper.â
I immediately accepted this theory.
When we write about our parents we âspareâ them, but really, we love them. Youâre allowed to love a goat, a machine, âlove is love,â etcâ but youâre not allowed to love an âabusiveâ parent. What about a traumatized parent?
Itâs normal to love your parents.
Not, I would argue, because they were either good, or great, or kind, or non-maimingâbut because they claimed us, shaped us, stayed with us.
My love for my mother had a desperate quality. I only ever wanted to usher her out of rages and back into happiness and hope, our dream world of some kind of âhouse in the countryâ when the war was over. (The war with my father which was not really a war he was engaged in.)
There are two things I struggle to forgive, one is coldness and the other is: People who never let you know how they really feel. How they actually really feel, I mean. Ulla did this all the time.
Ulla had no filtersâshe could rage, laugh, be the most loving person in the world or tear you to shreds, but never did you not know how she truly felt. I think this is why I survived it all. She taught me how painful it actually is to be human, because it is. And if your mother didnât fall down drunk, sob, break things, set herself on fire, as mine did, maybe she didn’t actually tell you the truth about how painful it is to be human. Because it is.I saw a human being, all my life, not a âmother.â Isnât there something to be said for that? Probably Alice Miller would call this âsparing.âI began that (rejected) memoir with a story that haunted me all my life: When my mother was growing up in central Sweden, in the mountain region of NĂ€rke, during the war, her grandmother Evelina, (a tobacco industrialist) had managed to get her a red bathing suit, which she cherished. I think it was made of wool but Iâm not sure. I just see the redness, as a radiant, lingonberry red, an impossible to get-hold-of-during-the-war red.
She was 8 years old. On the first day she planned to wear it, she hung it on a hook in the changing room by the lake and somebody stole it. My mother was devastated. She cried her eyes out, but there was no getting it back.
I was never able to recover from this story, and I still havenât. That bathing suit has been wounding me my whole life.
I wished I could go back in time, to that changing shed by the lake in NĂ€rke, and quietly put the red bathing suit back on the hook where it was supposed to be.
Then go back to waiting to be born as Ullaâs second child.
My thinking was, maybe this would close the portal, through which so many of her later losses came. Everything may have turned out differently, if she didnât lose that bathing suit during the war.
Iâm not being silly. Iâm not being materialistic either.
Do some people just get their bathing suits stolen and others donât? Was there a malevolent spirit involved? Something that came after her?
I always delete the passages about her actual death, and what happened to me, what happened to Bibiâitâs too much, even 23 years later. When we told Bibi, when Bibi learned of it, she was working a gig as a stilt walker at a childrenâs fair upstate. We drove up to tell her in person, but didnât have any way to first get her down off the stilts and then tell her, so she had to find out while she was up there, in full costume, wig, long sparkly blue eyelashes, and children waiting for her to blow balloons. It was my father, myself, my son Jeremy, 5, and my then husband, Bob, gathered at the bottom of her stilts, looking up at her and trying to explain. I remember her tears through the sparkly eyelashes, and thinking: âThis you will remember, forever.â
She said she would change and meet us in the bar. Sheâd been checking her messages on every break, as Mom had been missing for 3 days already. My father tried to cheer me up on day 2 by saying: âMaybe she ran into a friend and went to the country for the weekend.â I told him she would never do that, and wondered why he thought she would do that. Mom would never ever ever do that. Return from New York to Sweden after a 3 week visit, and go off for a weekend with a random friend the same day she returned? I got mad at him, quietly. For not knowing her.
Granted theyâd been divorced for almost 30 years. His second wife would do something like that.
My mother was inconsolable. Through this profound wound, (and in it was sexual abuse, violence, abandonment, divorce, a father being sent to prison, committing suicide, nobody showing her real love, the warâŠand thatâs only what I know about.
To whom am I writing?
Maybe my sister, maybe my son? Maybe my friend Anne, who always asks: âWhat would Ulla say?â when we get confused and lost.
Anne has decided: âUlla was always right.â
She carries two photos Iâve given her, of Ulla, in her wallet. If those two ever met they would definitely stay up all night talking, and they would decide Iâm kind of lame.
My mother spoke to me about the kinds of things that came out in 2016, Wikileaks, The Podesta Files, when I was 7. She always said I had to âwatch outâ and keep my eyes open, and listen to my inner voice.
This not a story about a âwonderfulâ mother or a âterribleâ mother. Itâs a story about Ulla.
âUlla was always right,â Anne says, though she never met her.
But I still have to think about this.
No, she wasnât.
You know The Who song âI Can See For Miles?â Ulla was like that.
She saw things other people didnât see, and she had electrical fires in her brain, also known as epilepsy. She developed epilepsy after a head injury sustained in a near plane crash.
Oh that reminds me of a great Ulla story.
She was a Pan Am stewardess in the late 1950s, in New York. Once, she smuggled a few cans of her belovedâsurströmmingâ out of her native Sweden, and attempted to bring them to New York via Karachi, but chickened out and put them in a garbage can. âSurströmmingâ means âsour herringâ in Swedish, but itâs not sour, itâs fermented, itâs clinically rotten! It comes in bulging cans that hiss when you open them and the smell is so vile, the stuff is literally outlawed outside Scandinavia. No exaggeration in any of that.
The way Ullaâs mind worked was: âSmuggle several cans of surströmming through Pakistan, why not?â
Well, in the heat, in the outdoor airport garbage can, the cans exploded. She was well on her way out of there when she learned they had closed down the Karachi airport due to âexploding sewage pipes.â I assume she never confessed.
She always had schemes, ideas, things we just had to do, like this, and I was her defender and partner in crime, as I virtually had no mind of my own. Bibi had to balance out the irrationality, frankly, the insanity. There was no man, no husband, no father. Same thing three generations back, on my motherâs side. I think they socially engineered all this manlessness in Sweden a good 100 years before they got it going here.
It was a kind of trend, in the early 60s, for brilliant Jewish men to marry Swedish women, almost on a lark of some kind. I am the byproduct of this post-war trend. It really really didnât work and was highly irresponsible. I wake up every single day to a mind that still has no idea which language to think inâan alien lost between cultures.
Once I found a letter from my father to a divorce lawyer, over 20 pages long, typed, detailing how he suffered being married to my mother. (They divorced when I was 3.) He made a huge stink of the fact that when he tried to bring his boss home for dinner, âUlla would be carving a Viking ship out of a cantaloupe at 11 pm with no food served and the boss passed out from cocktails.â
Part of me feels like: So?
Wasnât anybody thrilled to see the Viking Ship when it was done?
I guess not. Imagine these bosses, coming over unannounced for dinner in the early 1960s, and expecting miraculous meals, proofs of feminine organization and calm. Meatloaf and peas? Barry should have understood that no Swedes ever serve dinner in this sudden American way; They plan dinners for weeks.
The only thing I knowâseriouslyâabout my parentâs married domestic life, is that they timed Barryâs eggs to a record they hadâ a rendition of Rule Britannia! I mean to say they put the record on every morning, on a sunken record player, and Barry insisted his eggs were never quite right unless this took place.
Thatâs the only âscene from a marriageâ I have, and I love it more as time passes. Society centrifuges away its âwastefulâ gestures, along with its beauty, humor, eccentricity, and inside this time capsule, Barry and Ulla are in their old Upper West Side kitchen, timing Barryâs eggs to Rule Britannia!
My son pleads with me about this traitâthe âover-doing itâ trait.
We go back and forth.
Another time, we had the Viking ship story in reverse:
Ulla told Barry âcompanyâ was coming, and it was âfamily,â so he should hurry home from work. He came home from the radio station, she was wearing a gown, hair coiffed, the house was gleaming, candles lit. He asked who was coming for dinner? He recited every relative on both sides of his family, into third cousins once removed, she kept shaking her headâ and finally, after what he swears was hours, and the candles sputtering out, he cottoned on and his jaw dropped.
âI didnât say when they were comingâ Ulla said, in her bouncing Swedish accent, so full of excitement and innocence.
The relative was their first childâ my sister Bibi. That was how Ulla chose to reveal her pregnancy to Barry.
Oh world, world, lost crazy, colorful, world of things that werenât to do with âtransmissionâ or âriskâ or âvaccinesââ please come back. Well, as long as we are remembering Ulla, we are back there, and things are still funny. The terrifying aspects seem all the less important, while the funny parts only more important with each passing day.
I no longer care. No longer âmind.â No longer yearn for âself esteem.â Or a âchildhood,â or the right to have been close to my father. I just want their world back. Even their bad night with the gun, Barry handcuffed in a tuxedoâhauled off the jail. End of family but beginning of Barry sleeping better, which is all he ever said when he spoke of that first night in jail.
I donât want my childhood back, make no mistake; I want the world of individuals to come back, and save us from these boring masked zombies, obsessed with ârisk.â
Ulla wasnât like these mothers today on Instagram who are so crazy about their kids and never seem to even get mad at them.
Ulla was more the Scorched Earth type. Zero pandering. No apologies. Dark visions, shocking accusations, but somehow or other, I think it was character building.
She was a Red Cross nurse, in Sweden, and a Pan Am stewardess, in New York. Barry Farberâs glamorous Swedish wife, briefly, then an embattled divorcee going up against Roy Cohn. (!) Hence the sudden and in no way planned or warned about move to Sweden.
I guess, Iâm really just trying to entertain you. This doesnât have a purpose, a reason, other than to say how over time, we see our parents differently, appreciate them more, forgive them more.
Many of the surviving legendary anecdotes about Ulla come from the man she battled with the hardestâher husband, my father.
Barry was never one to not tell a great story about a person, over and over. Some of his Ulla stories:Once Ulla was working an overnight shift in a mental hospital in in Sweden, when she heard heavy footsteps approaching down the corridor. She was alone on the ward. The heavy steps came closer and closer until he was standing before her. He had committed rape, this much I know, and was a very large man, but with an underdeveloped IQ. Heâd gotten loose.âMay I lift your skirt?â he said slowly, in a deep, gravely voice, to Mom, alone, backed against a wall.
What did she do?She smiled the brightest smile she had ever smiled and answered:âYes⊠of course you can. But not today.ââTomorrow?â he said, smiling broadly, with hopeful delight.
âYes, tomorrow,â she said, and slowly placed him back in his straps, and walked him back to his room.
My father loved, loved, loved people who could stay calm and think on their feet like this, who could deploy a kind of psychological jujitsu and figure out how not to hurt someone.
He also told a story that was his favorite Ulla story, for reasons that will become clear. Bibi was a toddler, and had locked herself into a hotel bathroom in Atlantic City, which, horrifyingly, had an open window. The way Barry told it they could hear Bibi climbing toward the window. Barry just went unconscious, white as a ghost, hystericalâand who can blame him? But Ulla did this: She called through the door: âBibi, do you see the chocolate bar in the bathtub?â [Barry must have been calling hotel security at this point.] Bibi could be heard pausing. âNo,â she said.
âBibi itâs there. Donât you see it?â
âNo.â
âWell, I hid it extra carefully so you had better keep looking, Bibi.â She kept this up for the critical few moments.
BOOOOM!! Hotel security kick down door, Bibi is scooped up.
I love to imagine their hearts in that moment.
Another story Barry told was the time she, as part of her test of nerves for her nursing degree in Sweden, had to carry an amputated leg down a long corridor. I donât think any of us could do that. I mean of course we couldnât.
Also there was the timeâŠthey were in Cuba, a man was standing on the beach shaking his head and saying âsharks,â in Spanish, looking at a man out at sea seeming not to be doing so well swimming. Ulla dove in, swam out, brought him back under her arm. Another time Barry told of, they were in communist Yugoslavia, at an train station, and a man was beating his donkey with a stick. Ulla turned furiously to Barry and said: âAre you going to let him treat that animal like that, and not do anything about it?â
Barry would comment: âHere we are without passports, in Communist Yugoslavia, in the late 1950s, and your mother wanted me to start a brawl with a farmer over his treatment of his animal, can you imagine?â
I can.Once in Copenhagen, Denmark, at an amusement park called Tivoli, she saw a âgameâ that involved mice having to stand on their hind legs and reach for strings. She flew into a rage, denouncing the cruelty, and marched us out and back to the hotel. We never went to zoos or circuses. She wasnât de-sensitized. She was a strange combination of brutal and empathic. Her most epic quote was something she said to me about 6 months before she died, while setting her hair in rollers, in her kitchen in Karlstad, Sweden.âThe only things I really regret in my life are the times when I did not show enough love.â
She was quite right. Those really are the only genuine regrets.
There was the time she brought a 7 ft pine tree, a Christmas tree, from Sweden to Barbados as a Christmas gift to her dance teacher Willie. Why do all these details strike me as more and more improbable as I write them down, and yet I witnessed them. I remember when the thing came out on the conveyor belt half wrapped in burlap sack.
Ulla wanted things to be fun. And so do we.
During thunderstorms in New York, on Broadway, she told us to put our bathing suits on and go out into the storm. Just to splash around and probably get ourselves ionized and charged. No over-protective parenting. Parental alienation? Off the charts, no apologies. I had to hide my love for my father, or perish. I hid my love for him in what I call a âghost heartâ that sort of drifted out to sea. I learned to have her feelings. I actually think we shared one nervous system. Whatever she felt, I felt. My life revolved around quelling her anger and raising her hopes. Again, I actually think this is rather natural and normal. Itâs just not how things are in todayâs world, where parents are like discarded Amazon boxes.
Ulla went through a phase of needing to get us into the Sahara desert so we could see the stars properlyâthis was when I was 14, and we lived in Sweden. She did this on a nurseâs salary, working 3 jobs. I salute her for thinking in this way.
She absolutely loved Tunisia.
We went back to Tunisia a second time, and brought Bibi, the next year. This time Mom had scoped out a âparadise islandâ we were to make a special uncharted trip to. None of the buses, boatsânone of it bore any relation to any information we had gathered. We were one Swedish woman and two teenage girls in sundresses alone in an Islamic country by darkening roads. Lost, in a word. Then I got a massive, massive ear infection. Things happened that caused our guardian angels to have to work overtime. We wound up begging the police to let us stay the night in the police station in Sfax, but settling for a broom closet in a hotel lobby, or was it a small room? I remember Bibi not being amused and me being in too much pain to blame Mom. The next day we were somehow airlifted back to our hotel and I got medical attention. And Mom was chastened, that time. She admitted she was truly truly scared. I was always too out of it to be scared, as if I had some kind of stuffing material left where my brain was supposed to be. Mercury, I suppose.
Well, guess what? The stars were astonishing. When you laid down on your back in the Sahara desert at night it was as though they were right over you, like you could reach out and touch them.
I am planning to get out of this Covid prison zero-joy mentality soon and get myself to North Africa. Iâll pick up my son, and his girlfriend, in Andalusia, and Iâll tell them about the stars in the Sahara desert. This time we will have a 6 ft 2 male with us.
Nothing is wrong, reallyâthings are just waiting to turn. I wrote this because Ulla, it turns out, was the opposite to and the antidote to Covid. The boring, frightened, lifeless, accusatory, piddling, stingy, passive aggressive, mirthless, humorless vicious mindset that is âCovid.â She was its antidote.
Jesus, Ulla didnât even call an ambulance when she was actively being possibly poisoned to death by a mushroom she mistook for a safe one. She just endured the violent expulsions from her whole body and waited to see if she would die. No, she didn’t care what I felt about it. Once when a plane she was flying, as a stewardess, lost both engines over the alps in Switzerland, she got very still, and just thanked God for everything she had been given in life. I actually had the identical thing happen, with her, and my son (as an infant) en route from Puerto Rico to New York. Our plane just started falling from the sky. I did as Mom had instructed, started thanking God, and hoped my son didnât wake up before impact. As I was focusing on this prayer, Mom was actually demanding a cocktail, even though the carts were crashing all over. I think she may have scored us two small bottles of vodka, as that plane fell, and fell, and the Puerto Rican ladies called out to a litany of saints. Because I felt as she did, I wasnât afraid. Mom had persuaded me that fear of death was for ninnies and losers and people with no imaginations and no sense of God.
My son was always the heaviest sleeper. He slept in my arms, as the plane fell, as the ladies screamed.
Then it stopped. The plane stopped falling.
We had passed the test, somehow.
Ullaâs lesson was so sound: You donât thank God when things go well, you thank God also when they donât, even more ardently.
She loved real people, she hated snobs, she liked people who had tender souls, like the Tunisian man on crutches, who she met at a bank in Ărebro and invited to our home for Christmas.
Photo below is me in Tunisia, on a camel, circa 1979.
In Saudi Arabia, by the way during MERS, the camel farmers kissed their camels when the BBC came around, and sang to them, to show they had no fear of catching âMERSâ from their camels.
Can somebody tell me why, how, when, we agreed to stop living?
In Ullaâs honor, letâs have fun again. Letâs not let them get us to agree to these socially re-engineered Covid souls. Letâs get back to being peopleâthe way we were.
San Diego Residents and Community Business Owners Withdraw their Consent and Confront Board of Supervisors Over Vaccine Passport Proposal
August 17, 2021 | Sundance | 161 Comments
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/17/san-diego-residents-and-community-business-owners-withdraw-their-consent-and-confront-board-of-supervisors-over-vaccine-passport-proposal/
KUSI News in San Diego is reporting on significant push-back from the local community as citizens confront the County Board of Supervisors on proposals to mandate vaccination IDâs.
KUSI â [âŠ] âHundreds of businesses have already signed a Business Equality Pledge and posted a Proclamation pledging not to discriminate. Citizens are also signing a petition to refuse to comply with these arbitrary and unconstitutional requirements. The rally attendees are not anti-vax, but they are simply against all medical mandates.
The community members and leaders were fired up, and to put it simply, directly called out the San Diego County Board of Supervisors for their overreaching rule, telling them to their face they have forgotten their oath to protect the constitution. (more)
Click on the link for the rest.
UK to phase out landlines by 2025
Hugo makes as powerful a case as one can make for a quixotic causeâbut maybe not all that quixotic, if we consider the one hazard that he does not discuss.
Aside from their addictiveness, and their enablement of a surveillance grid the likes of which the world has never known, there’s also the toxicity of EMF, which makes cell phones far more dangerous physically than Big Tech/Wireless (and, therefore, the media) want us to know. On this I strongly recommend the work of Arthur Firstenberg; and if you do a search on News from Underground, you’ll find much other useful stuff as well.
While people largely seem blasĂ© about the likelihood that their cell phone calls are all precisely catalogued, their searches and transactions and their every chat recorded, they’re likely not to be indifferent, if it were properly reported, to the proven carcinogenicity of too much cell phone talk with those hot units pressed against their users’ heads, or of users (the tacit drug analogy is apt) carrying their iPhones in their pockets, or sleeping next to them when they’re plugged in and chargingâa danger that’s been variously underplayed, blacked out or “debunked” by “our free press,” exactly as the latter did, from the Twenties well into the Seventies, with the effects of cigarette smoking on the heart and lungs. Just as Big Tobacco was allowed to call the editorial shots because of all it spent, throughout the media (including major medical journals), on ads for cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco, so do Verizon, Apple, Samsung et al. now wield the same suppressive influence (as does Big Pharma) on the Fourth Estate, so that few people know enough to use their phones less often and more carefully.
That may now change, since Children’s Health Defense scored their big legal victory against the FCC, which will now have to deal more honestly with this widespread, andâwith 5G on the near horizonâever-worsening health hazard; and so it’s not at all far-fetched to predict that people may become more cautious about cell phones, once (or if) the press starts doing its job (assuming that’s not too far-fetched a notion).
And if people do rethink their overuse of cell phones, and the health hazards of 5G, and WiFi overall, it might then be possible to garner mass support for keeping landlines on the market, they being far healthier (and less easily surveilled) than cell phones. (I have a landline, and use ethernet cables to connect my laptop to the Internet, in order to “stay safe” at home.)
This is something to consider, as long as we’re still free to talk about it.
MCMÂ
LANDLINES BAN By 2025 / Hugo Talks Some More #lockdown
LANDLINES BAN By 2025 / Hugo Talks Some More #lockdown
Visit the post for more.On Thursday, August 19, 2021, 09:06:00 PM CDT, Mark Crispin Miller <markcrispinmiller@gmail.com> wrote: Who says?
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 8:16 <> wrote: They WANT you on your cell phone. Why? Cell phones are not only good for surveillance, but for knowing your EXACT location if they want to do an invisible electro magnetic aerial strike on you, but they can also listen into your call in REAL TIME … as you’re conversing. So if you’re making plans… they will know what you’re doing and where you’re going as you’re making the arrangements.That might cause problems.
Why would anyone apply to a college costing $49,000+ in annual tuition, and $15,000+ for room and board, and requiring COVID-19 “vaccination”?
So is Quinnipiac trying to shut down? Do theyâthat is, their trusteesâwant to downsize, and sell off their real estate? Or is this just the same fanatical stupidity that’s overtaken schools all over?Â
“Who’s on first?” (COVID version)
EXACTLY!
Abbot and Costello on Vaccines.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLOâS âWHOâS ON FIRSTâ updated version …
Bud: âYou canât come in here!â
Lou: âWhy not?â
Bud: âWell because youâre unvaccinated.â
Lou: âBut Iâm not sick.â
Bud: âIt doesnât matter.â
Lou: âWell, why does that guy get to go in?â
Bud: âBecause heâs vaccinated.â
Lou: âBut heâs sick!â
Bud: âItâs alright. Everyone in here is vaccinated.â
Lou: âWait a minute. Are you saying everyone in there is vaccinated?â
Bud: âYes.â
Lou: âSo then why canât I go in there if everyone is vaccinated?â
Bud: âBecause youâll make them sick.â
Lou: âHow will I make them sick if Iâm NOT sick and theyâre vaccinated.â
Bud: âBecause youâre unvaccinated.â
Lou: âBut theyâre vaccinated.â
Bud: âBut they can still get sick.â
Lou: âSo what the heck does the vaccine do?â
Bud: âIt vaccinates.â
Lou: âSo vaccinated people canât spread covid?â
Bud: âOh no. They can spread covid just as easily as an unvaccinated person.â
Lou: âI donât even know what Iâm saying anymore. Look, Iâm not sick.â
Bud: âOk.â
Lou: âAnd the guy you let in IS sick.â
Bud: âThatâs right.â
Lou: âAnd everybody in there can still get sick even though theyâre vaccinated.â
Bud: âCertainly.â
Lou: âSo why canât I go in again?â
Bud: âBecause youâre unvaccinated.â
Lou: âIâm not asking whoâs vaccinated or not!â
Bud: âIâm just telling you how it is.â
Lou: âNevermind. Iâll just put on my mask.â
Bud: âThatâs fine.â
Lou: âNow I can go in?â
Bud: âAbsolutely not.â
Lou: âBut I have a mask!â
Bud: âDoesnât matter.â
Lou: âI was able to come in here yesterday with a mask.â
Bud: âI know.â
Lou: âSo why canât I come in here today with a mask? … If you say âbecause Iâm unvaccinatedâ again, Iâll break your arm.â
Bud: âTake it easy buddy.â
Lou: âSo the mask is no good anymore.â
Bud: âNo, itâs still good.â
Lou: âBut I canât come in?â
Bud: âCorrect.â
Lou: âWhy not?â
Bud: âBecause youâre unvaccinated.â
Lou: âBut the mask prevents the germs from getting out.â
Bud: âYes, but people can still catch your germs.â
Lou: âBut theyâre all vaccinated.â
Bud: âYes, but they can still get sick.â
Lou: âBut Iâm not sick!!â
Bud: âYou can still get them sick.â
Lou: âSo then masks donât work!â
Bud: âMasks work quite well.â
Lou: âSo how in the heck can I get vaccinated people sick if Iâm not sick and masks work?â
Bud: âThird base.
No wonder it’s gone viral. (We are not alone.)
Corbett rightly urges us to brace ourselves for some BIG “terrorist” attack, and/or assassination, and/or hugely crippling act of cyber-sabotage, by some new imaginary underground of feral (Christian?) rednecks, maddened by “conspiracy theories” (about the COVID “vaccines” and Biden/Harris’s “election”), and maybe, too, a few “al Qaeda” zealots sprung out of the chaos in Afghanistan, all the plotters linked obscurely to the Kremlin.
The possibilities are endlessâas is the malevolent ingenuity of those intent on jerking us around until we’re either dead or perfect slaves. In any case, whatever shock-and-awful story They next hit us with, so as to “explain” whatever horrorÂ
They will have covertly planned and carried out, we must all be emotionally ready for it, not believe a word of it, and not stop digging into it, so we can prove that it is just another pack of lies.Â
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“Graveyard of Empires” Claims Another Victim
Corbett ReportAug 14, 2021, 10:59:36 AM
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
August 14, 2021
https://www.minds.com/CorbettReport/blog/graveyard-of-empires-claims-another-victim-1273294968689004552
The war in Afghanistan is over! Long live the war in Afghanistan!
Yes, in case you haven’t heard, the US Armed Forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan at the end of the month and NATO’s “Resolute Support” missionâwhich took over from the NATO combat mission that ended in 2014âwill wind up at the same time. And now, exactly as predicted, everything is chaos. And by “everything,” I mean everything.
The Taliban is quickly taking over the country. This story is developing by the hour so it will doubtless have moved on by the time you read this, but as of press time the Taliban have already seized half of Afghanistan’s provincial capitalsâincluding Kandahar and Herat, the second and third largest cities in the country respectivelyâand are on their way (inevitably, we are told) to capturing Kabul itself. The US military has given up defending the country and is now launching “over-the-horizon” strikes from Qatar and the Persian Gulf and using drone strikes to destroy its own artillery and armoured vehicles, which are increasingly falling into Taliban hands.
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