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Thank you Joe for this. It is so insidious to confuse a country of people who are mostly good folks that want to live thread lives in peace. The ignoring of the southern border by this evil administration is another example of what imo is purposeful confusion-it’s open, Joe Biden, how can you not acknowledge this fact? Why do they come in with no Covid shot for a pandemic that’s over while visitors flying in must be vaccinated with a vaccine that publicly doesn’t work? The devil is having a heyday with us. We must find a power greater than ourselves, God, and seek refuge in His promises or we are lost. I appreciated your message in Mary and Martha, btw. Please keep writing ✍️ ❤️!

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Apparently I can’t type to today, sorry for typos 🙄😂

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I reliably make typos myself. Since I had Mrs. McIntosh for 7th and 8th grade English, there's no way I can leave them uncorrected. So I can pass on a valuable tip: See the three little dots to the right of the "Reply" button under your post? Tap on the three dots and you'll see that you can edit (or delete, if you want) your post.

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Thank you!! I sat next to my boyfriend the year I should have mastered a keyboard, that’s my excuse! 😂

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Uh oh. Obviously you had something much more important to study than a keyboard, that year!

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Thanks for this lighthearted exchange. It gave me a laugh; difficult to come by these days.

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Glad you enjoyed it! As they say, "Laughter world round what the go is makes!" Whoops. Wait a minute --

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Is Joe controlled by China? Maybe they have dirt on him. Spy balloons, lab leak, Ukraine war - so many things benefits them. So many other things hurt America - LGBT/racial strife, drugs, green energy, vax mandates, crazy spending.

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Just like we need to stop calling the COVID vaccine a vaccine we must also stop calling these people that are so full of self loathe they think if they could just change who they are they will be happy only to find out life is even worse, the drugs they take and the recreational drugs they use and the mutilation of their body send them into deeper depression, anger and at times violence. We need to stop calling these people transgenders because they are not transgenders. They are just flat out mentally ill and if they do not address what makes them hate themselves so much taking hormones, drugs and mutilating their body will not fix anything but it sure has created some really lucrative jobs for medical professionals (who IMO have mental issues themselves) and big pharma. It is like the morbidly obese that get their stomachs reduce, lose weight, only to gain it all back and generally they gain back more than they lost finding themselves once again morbidly obese but with a lot of issue because of the bypass. They never address the mental illness that caused them to stuff whole pizzas down their throat to begin with. I refuse to call them transgenders. I refuse to call a she a he or a he a she. Until more of us stand up and do the same these people will control every law in the future. Talk about them negatively and you will end up unemployed and possibly could result in jail time. Stop it now before it is too late. We were all warned if we ever accepted same sex marriage it would not stop there and they were right. Sadly, most people cave thinking this will be the end but it was just the beginning. And as I always do I highly recommend doing whatever it takes to educate YOUR children at the kitchen table. The rewards are well worth the sacrifice.

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Karen Bracken,

I am a conservative (independent) woman, and have had gastric bypass. I had the Roux-N-Y. I beg to differ on your comments regarding bariatric surgery. I did NOT have this surgery due to a mental disorder. I had this surgery due to a metabolic disorder after giving birth-13 years later. My body's metabolism never recovered. It was NOT a mental issue, and I really take issue with that statement. Not ALL overweight persons are obese or overweight due to mental issues. I agree some are. I was NOT. My surgery corrected my weight, my glucose level, my A1C, and blood pressure. I had this surgery in 2007. Do I have issues as a result? Yes. I need Iron infusions every year or so. Am I sorry? No. So, do NOT group me in with the mentally ill people calling themselves transgender, etc. I am a nurse, paramedic, and staunch defender of our constitution. I am conservative on most issues, and certainly do not agree with treating medical issues as mental issues. Any qualified physician, bariatric physician should be able to decipher the difference.

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There are always exceptions but they are rare. I have researched this issue for many years and studied many cases. I have several friends that have had bypass and today they are all obese. I did not group the obese in with transgenders (there is no such thing) I used it as an example of how not addressing mental issues does not solve the problems. There is nothing wrong with mental issues. Sadly many people today have mental issues and I believe it is due to the destruction of the family.

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My point being, obesity and being overweight is not always, or often, due to mental deficit, illness or any other mental issue. Sometimes (more often than not) is is due to a metabolic issue. I'm sure you have friends that have had "bypass". There are many different surgeries that today get lumped under the term "bypass". And, that is relevant, due to the side effects of each surgery being different and specific. Many of today's "trendy" gastric surgeries are subject to the patient regaining weight. The surgery I had is not. I was not overweight due to mental issues. However, I could not correct this through diet, exercise, yoga, or any other suggested alternative methods. My body's metabolism had changed to a point that was not correctable by my singular efforts. As stated, I am a nurse, paramedic, and have worked in the ER and on an ambulance for many years. This statement, in particular, is extremely misleading and inaccurate: "It is like the morbidly obese that get their stomachs reduce, lose weight, only to gain it all back and generally they gain back more than they lost finding themselves once again morbidly obese but with a lot of issue because of the bypass. They never address the mental illness that caused them to stuff whole pizzas down their throat to begin with. I refuse to call them transgenders." I 100% agree with you regarding the transgender issues. I'm not trying to be combative or argumentative. I just have issue with the idea that most people who have any kind of weight loss surgery due to due to mental disorders. I don't believe anyone who hasn't tried to persue this surgery has any idea of the screening procedures that are required before being approved for this surgery. I sincerely hope you don't perceive my reply as combative or hostile. I just really try to rally and support those who need, deserve, and desire this type of surgery, and are judged for it. For us, "diet & excercise" will never be very successful.

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Dear Karen and Kim,

You provided yet another example of what I appreciate about the writers on this platform. You didn't pull any punches, nor did you sling mud. No argumentum ad hominem with this difficult, contentious, painful issue. Knowledgeable debating with passion and civility is fast disappearing from the landscape.

Thank you so much for sharing yours.

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I agree w most of what you say however, unfortunately, I believe the entire medical profession is in need of a real ethics board. I sincerely doubt that pre-surgical screening is as rigorous as it might have once been. Follow the money as they say. My sister is a prime example. She has a food addiction problem that stems from emotional trauma in her life. She's been in therapy but as we both, probably know, finding a good one is almost impossible. And I can tell you whoever she was seeing did nothing to help her on any level. But glad that it did help you. There's some hope anyway.

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Letsrock, I am in no way saying that all overweight people are mentally healthy, or only need surgery to "fix" their issue. Just that a large majority of them do have metabolic issues that are significantly contributing, or causing them. There are absolutely those who have psychological issues as a root cause of their weight problem. I totally agree with you regarding the medical profession, and the need for an overhaul. My experience with weight loss surgery was in 2007. Not an extremely long time ago, but look at the changes in our country since then. I absolutely had a rigorous psychological exam and screening before I even was able to begin the process. Is it still that way? I doubt it. However, I do know that many of those who need it are denied it. Instead, insurance pays for a lifetime supply of heart, blood pressure, and glucose medications, not to mention the long list of procedures that usually follow. Examples being cardiac stents, heart bypass surgery, diabetic amputations, and the list could go on. I hope your sister gets the type of help she needs, and finds a tool or solution to help her with the issues she is battling.

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I concur. My sister had a gastric bypass 15yrs ago. I was unaware that before surgery they put you on a mostly liquid fast for 2 weeks. I told her at the time that if she could do that she could lose her weight w/o surgery. I tried my best to dissuade her from it but she went ahead w it. She initially lost her weight but gained it back in the end. She has emotional issues w food addiction and some other health issues. She has had secondary problems from the surgery and does regret having it. And I couldn't agree more w Kim that all ppl who are fat are not necessarily over eaters. There are many health issues that can cause obesity.That is very true, I know. Surgery, of any type, IMO should only be used as a last resort.

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First, I talked about the morbidly obese not "fat" people. And there are exceptions but most morbidly obese people do not have hereditary or metabolism issues they have mental issues. A lot like to blame heredity and doctors endorse that many times. When in fact it is plain old over eating. Again, exceptions to everything but the majority do not fall into the exceptions" category.

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And that's your opinion. Fat or morbidly obese not too far apart. I don't split hairs. There's no ONE SIZE FITS ALL CURE FOR ANYTHING. Strange you never even broached the subject of most of our foods today being over processed and adulterated. Hereditary causes genetics which cannot be denied. Frankly obesity and trans dysmorphia couldn't be farther apart.

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SSRI drugs cause morbid obesity as well as malabsorption.

Something to think about.

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Apr 5, 2023·edited Apr 5, 2023

I agree with much of what you say. I homeschooled my kid and carefully developed her intellect, but her dad insisted on giving her a "smartphone" and sabotaged all my efforts to limit the time she spent on it. Now she's a young adult, and the smartphone results have been very bad. But I've got her interested in Gad Saad's book "The Parasitic Mind" and -- like in our old homeschooling days when I read challenging books aloud to her and we discussed them -- I'm going to read this book aloud to her and we'll discuss it. I'm hoping this will give her a new perspective from which to evaluate her "thinking" about issues where she's been indoctrinated via antisocial media.

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Good for you!

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You are right about the slippery slope of bowing and acquiescing to tyranny.

The rise in mental illness causing dysmorphia may (IMO) have a connection to the rise

in the childhood vaccine schedule. The neurological harms continue to escalate along with chronic health problems as the mandated shots continue. Even up until 1973, the magazine Psychology Today categorized homosexuality with mental illness. This diagnosis only changed with pressure for research funding. Until the 72+ vaccines given to children are stopped, there will be more deterioration in mental and physical health.

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They are finding many of these young people are on the autism spectrum and it a fact that vaccines cause autism. So you are on the right track.

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Along w the myriad of other chemicals we are now bombarded with.

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There's a study I think you'd find informative re: autism and vaccines, aluminum vaccine adjuvants, and many other chemicals in our environments. The author is C.D. Nevison and the report is titled "A comparison of temporal trends in United States autism prevalence to trends in suspected environmental factors." I've give you a link. Be sure to access "Additional File 1" and examine the many additional graphs it contains.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25189402/

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And don’t forget not only the tons of poisonous food additives but especially the hormones shot into our meat supply animals!! 😭

I’m quite sure it’s been documented that these hormones have been causing early puberty etc. My guess is they may contribute to the development of gender dysphoria.

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In 1980, Monsanto came up with an entirely new wheat that grew shorter to prevent lodging by the wind. It also contained an entirely new protein in the germ that was foreign to the world. They had no idea how it would affect the population. Generations of people had bread at almost every meal before that and exceedingly few people were obese. I remember they said they were taking the new wheat all over the world to replace the ancient grains. I’m beginning to see they started this attack on world health a lot longer ago than we ever imagined. And there is also a safe, somewhere underground, I believe in Norway, that stores every known seed in the world. Why would anyone go to such extremes unless something awful was planned?

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👍 Amen

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This ties in well with Dr. Malone's most recent essay on 'Turnings.'

One of the things Yuri Bezmenov spoke about was starting with the children. Once you've changed the way an entire generation of school aged children rationalize and think, you now have control of the minds of the voting aged adults they will soon be.

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Was thinking the same thing, about the connection to Dr. Malone’s post today.

As for the propagandized young generation, it shocks me how insidious it is. Even my two younger kids think so differently than my three older ones, due to what they’re being taught nowadays in school and probably even more so, from social media. I have hope for my younger kids though, as we have long conversations about the purposeful confusion they are being subjected to, but I am very worried for the kids (and that generation as a whole) who have parents who perpetuate the ideologies at home. God help us all 🙏

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You have a unique situation we can almost look at like two different control groups.

Your younger children know not much more than their limited exposure has taught them.

Exposure that consists of a majority of their time spent with teachers and a student echo chamber filled with modern Gender Theory, Critical Race Theory, and a bass ackwards healthcare system.

It's not mind blowing to think this alone could be the only difference between your younger children vs your older children.

It's nice to hear you take a moment to try and unprogram what you can.

Keep up the good work.

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Alynski’s Rules For Radicals, a how-to book dedicated to Satan, says to take over every major institution, education, churches, the nuclear family and government with this confusion method to destroy a nation and it’s culture. It leaves the doors wide open for destruction, chaos, and death (which is the only thing Satan can accomplish).

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Always remember, the devil cannot create, but he does scheme and he does strategize.

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Love to begin reading him again, once he drops his insanely irresponsible suits against Dr. Jane Ruby and the Breggins!

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This is why you tell children at an early age that adults lie..sometimes a lot. But YOU will NEVER lie to them. They will eventually test you on this..trust me, I know..so learn to not lie. Period.

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The Mad Emperor of Ice Cream! There Was such a character? I passed this mini intelligence test by immediately thinking of sleepy Joe the prez of the parlour.

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Exactly who I thought of. Just think, all that great ice cream wasted on him. 😖

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Is the ice cream responsible for 'brain freeze'?

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If only he had a brain.

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He lowers the IQ of the ice cream.

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Can you freeze air?

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It’s the title of a poem by Wallace Stevens.

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

- Voltaire

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Hence all the killers who did the work for Hitler. Hitler killed no one. He had an army of fools who did it for him. Don’t ever forget that.

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...ideologically possessed lunatics is through satire. Trying to reason with them is futile. Through humor and caricature, their absurdity is laid bare so that even the most confused member of our society can see it...."

The only part I disagree with is the "even the most confused can see it."

Fact is, the somnolent wokester idiots have drunk so much of the KoolAid (actually, it was FlavourAid, but who's counting) they will even race to sign their own death warrants. Think trans-gender, trans-humanism; think castrating your 6 yr old boy - the same one who can't go to bed when he wants, cross the street alone, or of course can't drink or drive; think voting for socialism which has NEVER worked, anywhere, ever, and cannot, by definition ever work; think of these hypocrite H8TERS with their "Hate has no home here" yard signs, yet are the biggest haters on the planet.

The only thing these fasco-Marxist wokesters (see https://blaisevanne.substack.com/p/introducing-fasco-marxism) can see is about the same as what the Heavens Gate cult saw... some nirvana lurking behind an asteroid.

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Absolutely and without a doubt John, there ought be no question at this point, even among the most cognitively dissonant among us (and there are still waaay too many :o ), that confusion is indeed the message. Knowing that brings none of us any solace either, it's been frighteningly effective particularly among a dumbed down populace of mouth breathers weaned on MSM :(

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Great post thanks. Long time admirer of Yuri Bezmenov's words on the dangers from within in the United States. He and Thomas Jefferson and the other founding ancestors!

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Apr 5, 2023·edited Apr 5, 2023

Excellent essay! Thank you! I think one key to *not* getting confused is to *not* have a TV. Another is to deliberately read (or listen to) and consider "contrary" points of view. I make a particular point of listening to interviews of people whose opinions contradict those of "well-educated" "progressive" "white" people (even though I could be put in that category myself).

I have certain sources of news that I trust but even then, I don't trust every source to be 100% correct about 100% of topics 100% of the time. I "hold new knowledge lightly" until I've seen it satisfactorily corroborated by at least three sources that I trust.

It's been useful to me, also, to know how cult leaders indoctrinate and control their followers . . . COVID lockdowns and propaganda were skillfully used to create a COVID spikeshot cult in the U.S.

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Your best point is NOT to have a TV. aka the 'boob tube' or 'the idiot box'. ha.

I have one friend who applies the 80/20 rule. Keep an open mind. If we make idols our of our favorite pundits or celebrities, we are more susceptible to becoming ideologues. I enjoy a variety

of sources who are independent and not in lockstep with one another and have no conflict of interests with government or big pharma. Many of the truth tellers have lost their medical practices, and other honors have been stripped from them. It's been eye opening to see the big reveal of those doctors who care more about truth, health, goodness, and love of humanity.

and remember . . . 'safe and effective' is a marketing jingle!

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You make good points here. I'd like to mention one other thing I do (and I strongly suspect you do this, too) -- whenever someone significant is "controversial" -- or "discredited" -- or "debunked", I make a point of going directly to that person's writings, speeches, or interviews to hear what they say. I usually find huge differences between what they actually say and what their critics/would-be-censors claim they say. I often end up respecting these controversial people and valuing their information and opinions. Some examples are Andrew Wakefield, RFK Jr., Scott Atlas, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and Barbara Loe Fisher.

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A good reminder to all of us as we enter into a new presidential campaign season.

It would be easy to get caught in a spin cycle with no escape. Sound bites that repeat in a loop taken out of context are something we can all be wary of.

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So who is behind the misinformation? Its obvious its not an accident, just like the Covid misinformation. Who?

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Khazarian Mafia

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My answer would be the WEF and its allies and stakeholders, which include the largest corporations in the world. They've all bought into a collectivist ideology and part of the attraction is that they get to decide what "the greatest good" is, because in a collectivist society some group has to decide what's best for everyone. So collectivism gives them power; individualism, supposedly the bedrock of the American experiment, works counter to collectivist power structures.

Coincidentally, those who don't go along with "the greatest good" don't get the goods promised by these sorts of societies.

The WEF and allies have already decided they want to take control and they're doing it, and they've employed the best psychologists and public relations firms, etc., that money can buy. The aim is to "build back better" according to The Great Narrative, which is a BS story premised on another BS story, and that second story is the false narrative of catastrophic CO2 warming.

According to current CO2 catastrophe theory, overpopulation is the core issue in the catastrophe. Hence, culling the population makes sense and is justified in the CO2 catastrophe scenario. In addition this leaves fewer people to control.

But as to who is really behind the WEF and whose commands the WEF is following, that's probably a carefully guarded secret. Suffice it to say that some lust after wealth and power and can't get enough. These are the psychopaths that the rest of us can't understand, but no doubt they're out there. Technology gives them even more power. Transhumanism, anyone? It's about more power for those on top.

The rulers of the new collectivism will be the transhumanists and these are the people who'll decide what "the greatest good" is, unless we stop them.

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Yes, the Emperor of ice cream is mad and he has a large following. Leading us to war.

https://elliottmiddleton.substack.com/p/the-short-circuiting-of-the-liberal

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Confusion and chaos IS indeed the goal. Regrettably, it appears to be working...

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Thank you for this link. Abigail Shrier's book "Irreversible Damage" is excellent also. She's been interviewed by Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and others, if you'd prefer listening to reading.

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The military has used it a long time-'shock and awe'.

What breaks the confusion and disorientation is relatedness, attachment, not just ideas.

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Confusion is what Bergoglio, the supposed pope, has been promulgating since he was placed on the chair of Peter. Confusion is from the dark, it has nothing to do w/ clarity or transparency. In the prophecies of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima, Portugal she told Lucia these times would be filled with “Diabolical disorientation.” Another term for diabolical disorientation is gaslighting, imo. One has to have a strong base on which to stand to survive these times intact.

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