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Andy's avatar

‘You have to wonder if CNN takes direction from the CIA…’ I think it’s called “Project Mockingbird.”

DQ's avatar

Different outlets are the “leakers” for different government agencies. Over at the conservative treehouse website it is well documented which agency works with which particular news outlet. If you search their archives,

you will find it there.

Sydney's avatar

From CTH:

The State Department leaks to CNN

The CIA leaks to The Washington Post

The DOJ/FBI leaks to The New York Times and Politico

DHS domestically leaks to the Wall Street Journal

The NSC leaks primarily to Axios and Politico (New York Times secondary)

The Pentagon leaks to Fox News, the Wall Street Journal (Axios more recently)

Kash Patel leaks to John Solomon

DNI leaks to the Wall Street Journal

Ron Anselmo's avatar

All the world is a stage.

Mike Ware's avatar

Thank you Sydney! I just found out recently how compromised Solomon is. I used to really like him. Like Glenn Beck, nobody, and I mean NOBODY, gets to start their own media conglomerate without the approval of the cabal!!!

Jim Hogue's avatar

I interviewed Solomon many years ago. It became obvious how protective he was of certain entities.

Jim Hogue's avatar

And that doesn't count the CIA and employed by the NYT especially.

DQ's avatar

Thank you. I was just too lazy to pull it up.

MCL's avatar

Fauci is a metaphor for The Blob. Liars all.

Lugh's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-AUOrNPuY

Pokimane buys herself an engagement ring. She is the person she is most engaged with, right?

Skenny's avatar

Did all of Fauci's previous perjuries before Congress occur prior to the pardon??

In any case, I simply look at it like, "What would happen to me if I did what he did?" I expect the inside of a jail cell would be some part of the answer.

Visceral's avatar

His pardon was novel in three ways. It covered crimes he had not been charged with. It was a blanket pardon for all crimes dating back to 2014 and it was signed by an autopen in DC while Biden was in another state. Hunter also got a pardon back to 2014. What exactly happened in 2014 that has all of these scoundrels worried?

Rick's avatar

Metabiota is a Hunter Biden Rosemont Seneca funded venture in Ukraine that funded gain of function research there. On the Russian border! It all started there in 2014.

Damn the torpedoes's avatar

The bio labs in Ukraine were a large part of Russia’s reason to invade.

MarshaLouise's avatar

Why I still stand with Russia, a Christian nation, that don’t burn and close churches as Zelenskyy does in Ukraine.

Visceral's avatar

So is this the bio labs in Ukraine that seems to be a third rail?

Bill Bradford's avatar

YES! This far down the rabbit hole, be aware, it's apparently a bottomless rabbit hole, and at a deep level, directly connected to all other rabbit holes. Most of the 46 known U.S.-funded Ukraine biolabs were deliberately placed near the Russian border, as part of NATOs effort to provoke a Russian invasion. As far back as the 1800's British invasion of Afghanistan, Global Geopolitics has been called "The Great Game", by the major national and corporate players. Remember in the 1600's, it was the "Massachusetts Bay Colony COMPANY"....but i digress. Sort of....

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

You are hovering right over the truth, Bill. Rabitt hole indeed.

Mike Ware's avatar

Seems to be. And Wuhan

Bill Bradford's avatar

Wasn't Wuhan also the first Chinese city to go full 5G? There's a clue....

Jeff Keener's avatar

This might answer your question. The Obama admin cut funding to GOF research in 2014 due to concerns about accidents in the CDC lab with handling deadly pathogens. During the recent hearing, Sen. Paul talked about this and alleged that living fetal tissue was being used to test novel viruses and that this was why the research was moved (and funded) to Wuhan and maybe other locations where the methods are not banned. The inference is that Fauci was knee-deep in this.

https://www.science.org/content/article/us-halts-funding-new-risky-virus-studies-calls-voluntary-moratorium

Ben R's avatar

Living fetal tissue to test is the real reason they fight so hard to keep abortion legal.

Jeff Keener's avatar

A Modest Proposal to Settle Abortion and Solve Poverty:

Legalize commercial fetal organ harvesting. It's the perfect cottage industry for young women, especially for those in college to earn spending money or for those who want to augment income from other sources or for those who simply don't want to work and just lie around all day. Perhaps men can also take part on a commission basis?

JohnAZ's avatar

A novel pardon for a novel virus?

Someone should write a novel.

JHK?

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Not novel. Ralph Baric had the cure in 2011.

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Hunter was caught with his hand in the cookie jar at Burisma in the Ukraine...

Greg Pustover's avatar

You mean he (Biden) was in the state of confusion?

Edward Hughes's avatar

Bio weapons labs in Ukraine perhaps?

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

That Trump chose to honor the autopen pardon for Fauci by the Biden admin must begin to show the many pro-Trumpers here that he is and always has been in on the con. Trumps pardons for many of his Zionist friends for white collar crimes demonstrates the presidential pardon process is a money maker for them.

Inisfad's avatar

Really? So where is the investigation that Biden DIDN’T know what was being signed by auto pen? Presidents have used the auto pen since its invention. There is quite a grey area as to whether Biden was aware….are pro-Trumpers that ignorant that they don’t understand that there would need to be an investigation, signature by signature, as well as cognitive tests on Biden, month by month to declare his level of awareness? Hopefully ‘pro Trumpers’ are more sophisticated in their understanding.

Visceral's avatar

You can’t delegate pardon authority. As for where is the investigation, it’s ongoing. One of the reasons they fought so hard to release the Biden tapes from his interview with his biographer was to show he was a vegetable. The deep state has learned they can run the country if they can get a vegetable elected. That’s why they really want AOC in 28.

Inisfad's avatar

IMHO, I think Kamala Harris is going to run again…AOC will be Newsome’s VP pick. In any event, there is no proof that, at this point in time, will hold up in court, that Biden delegated pardon authority, was a vegetable, etc. You need actual analysis and exams for a court case…not just opinion.

Visceral's avatar

There’s no proof he didn’t. He wasn’t in the same state when it was signed.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Keyword: Hopefully

Trump's spent a lot of time criticizing Biden for many issues, but once in office he is basically doing the same things. No investigation suggests, despite his arguments about incompetence, he wants the same ability to hide behind such notions as "Presidents have always used autopen since it's inception" argument you present. It's not about autopen, it's about corruption, and those who are willing to accept corruption and criminal activity when it's "your" guy. N'cest-ce pas?

Inisfad's avatar

I stopped giving your response any credence after I read that ‘Trump is basically doing the same things.’ Either you have no idea of what is going on globally, or you just don’t understand what he’s doing.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

LoL! If you stopped reading then why did you send this idiotic response?

Please, oh please, enlighten me with your superior understanding of why Trump is draining our military resources on wars we have business being involved in. Please tell me why he is draining our SPR when his war on Iran, whom never attacked us, has closed the strait and is steering the ship of state into what is now looking like a depression with food famine, energy depletion and societal and economic destruction of the USA. Please tell me the strategy here, that makes any sense.

Visceral's avatar

He would have fired RFK by now if so. Trump is a Fox News Boomer. He thinks Warp Speed was great. We’re not going to get justice on Covid from a Boomer. They’re the ones that demanded everyone else destroy their lives to spare them. Justice is coming from a younger man with an axe to grind

P. Robert Thorson's avatar

The polarization of Americans by the puppet masters uses the generation labels to divide and conquer, along with race, gender, "politics", education, class, ethnicity, and other factors. Boomer "leadership" is controlled just as tightly as any other generations' talent, but Boomers (and Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush) found themselves at the helm during the critical period of history known as The Long Emergency. Boomers do have a lot to answer for, but then again so do adults of all generations over the past 60 years. Boomers were lied to and manipulated too in their younger years.

Fauci is a reflection of a country in moral decline. A country that allows, as JHK would say, an environment where "everything goes and nothing matters". How else can it be explained that such an obvious evil and incompetent person, devoid of integrity or honor, be promoted and allowed to maintain such a critical position of power when a pandemic was created? It's an indicator of how deep the corruption runs, and of how many citizens in this land prefer not to be bothered, and so look the other way.

Fauci should be swinging from a lamp post - along with many others guilty of crimes against humanity. And chances are, when an honest appraisal is made, most Americans have a share of the blame - since most have failed at the role of worthy citizenship.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

I disagree. It wasn't just Fox boomers. Seniors were inundated initially by fear as they were all told to get it or die. For them it became existential, this was driven by MSM, government: state and federal, downstream it was the business community who forced compliance and it became mandatory for most working people. Get the jab or lose your livelihood. The other factor were the zealots, mainly from the left, who used intimidation and shaming to achieve compliance or peace within the family and they attacked those who chose not be vaccinated. Remember the shaming of the unvaxxed?

MarshaLouise's avatar

As JHK said, and like some of my relatives, who were retired (at least 5-6 families), there was nothing to threaten them other than they were just “credulous”. But they “wanted to do their part”, or some such stupid reason.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

What do you mean nothing to threaten them with? The MSM made it clear seniors were most vulnerable and without the vaccine they would have little chance of surviving. So, in that case yes, they were credulous. The credulous were those who were vaccine/mask Nazi's and mainly the trust the science crowd..

Visceral's avatar

I agree. All the MsM had death counters showing how many people were dying. Trump however is a Fox News boomer.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

I agree, as a non-reader he is likely a Fox News boomer with a hard on for the babes they send out to gaslight their audience.

Kelly Reardon's avatar

Dr. David Martin is proposing that Fauci can be charged with domestic terrorism under the Patriot Act:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XHGk8EwjY

6 min video

Il faut savoir ~'s avatar

People are waiting for redress and accountability. To this I sent the video to the WH (pres and vp) and my 3 reps. Dr Martin is correct to call this whole affair a cover up. Thanks for sharing this.

JohnAZ's avatar

It still bothers me, why Wuhan China?

Visceral's avatar

Because the world military games were happening there in the fall of 2019. Perfect way to infect and weaken the finest soldiers in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games?wprov=sfti1

Mike Ware's avatar

Thanks, I had forgotten about that

Jeff Keener's avatar

Wuhan because the methods & practices used for GOF research are banned in the U.S.

Scott Kinghorn's avatar

Because the USA can't invade China but also the US is also to blame as research into weaponizing the virus was done and financed by the US. Just my theory??

Bill Bradford's avatar

I rate your theory as TRUE. Monday, Sept.10, 2001, SecDef Donald Rumsfeld admits at the Pentagon news briefing that a recent Pentagon audit discovers $2.Trillion "missing"....And DOD was heavily involved in the Covid1984 Plandemic-Scamdemic....connect the dots....each dot is a conspiracy FACT, not "theory"....

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

Is that a rhetorical question, John? I suspect we all know the answer(s). 😉

JohnAZ's avatar

My point is, if Covid is GOF work to develop a bio weapon, why do it in the belly of the beast? I thought China was an enemy?

Bill Bradford's avatar

The "enemy" is NOT "China", or the Chinese people as a whole, - it's the 70 million CCP members, almost 100% Mandarin-speaking Han....Do you really want China to be MORE like North Korea?....

JohnAZ's avatar

Actually, Bill, the biggest enemy is domestic. China is just encouraging the locals.

What has NOKO done in the past few years? They have so many problems.

ezinmn's avatar

In 2019 Trump had several enemies, all with motive to release a deadly virus. China saw Trump as in impediment to their global expansion, the Democrat Party needed to stop his re-election chances, and Big Pharma had a vaccine ready to sell to the world. What began as a benign effort to study bat coronaviruses in 2014 seemed to have morphed into a worldwide pandemic, likely by design.

Scott Kinghorn's avatar

I like Dr. Davis Martin's explanation in Plandemic.

Jeff Keener's avatar

Two elements of the COVID story emerged during the hearing last week that were new to me.

1) Gain of function research uses aborted baby organs (livers, lungs, skin, etc.) to graft onto mice on which weaponized viruses can be tested on living human tissue. This practice was banned in the U.S. in 2014, thus the research was moved overseas to foreign countries where there is no ban (China, Ukraine, etc.). This is why Fauci's pardon goes back to 2014 and why all involved didn't want the public to know what they were doing and therefore, the phony bat soup story.

2) Much of the funding for GOF research is financed by USAID, which, with the assistance of the CIA, launders the money through a labyrinth of NGOs to obscure its origin and intended destination (like the Biden family LLCs).

JohnAZ's avatar

On one, not surprised. The people who favor abortion cannot figure the humanity of fetuses. They are chunks of meat to them.

JohnAZ's avatar

Where is the empathy for the millions of aborted human beings that is showing up for Covid victims?

Lugh's avatar

Or for the children of Gaza? You can't find any human sympathy for them, can you?

Jeff Keener's avatar

Good point. After all, Hamas can't help it if there's a school on the other side of the wall of their rocket battery or that their sniping positions are next door to families with children.

JohnAZ's avatar

Yeah, right.

Hamas has sacrificed the Palestinian populace for generations to support the scum in Tehran. The shoot rockets from schools and mosques knowing full well that Israel is going to come and get them. They are working on a stupid world population while sacrificing a poor population that buy their bullshit.

Ben R's avatar

Lugh has no compassion for the side he hates and does not understand that the side wants to live so much that they are willing to kill to stay alive.

They are willing to even sink almost as low as what they fight.

Bill Bradford's avatar

....maybe check in the Lost&Found? It might have been turned in there?....

Jeff Keener's avatar

To make it worse, GOF research requires organs from babies aborted at 5 months of life or later.

JohnAZ's avatar

Disgusting, a real measure of the evil of the abortion group.

James M.'s avatar

This is the issue that broke our institutional consensus more than any other. To address this deficit they (media, researchers, policymakers) would have to account for their own distortions and acts of cowardice and conformity.

If they were strong enough to do this we wouldn’t be in this place. This is a moral failure (cowardice), and that should be emphasized ceaselessly. We are ruled by cowards.

https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/quietly-correcting-the-covid-narrative

Mike Ware's avatar

Grifters and thieves

Ron Anselmo's avatar

They should be shackled and sentenced to a life of robot polishing.

Rich Mohlmann's avatar

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

Te Burt's avatar

Carlin: "It's one big club, and we ain't in it."

DQ's avatar

Ah, love Choen. Such a poet and prophet.

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

That could be lyrics for a song.

Bill Bradford's avatar

Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows", in case you're not being sarcastic....

Paula Kroll's avatar

They are just that.

Lugh's avatar

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. That's exactly what they did.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Who do you consider as the "good guys" who lost?

Tom's avatar

If the law allows all this what is it really? What is law??

Mitch's avatar

the law, selectively applied, isn't law at all

JohnAZ's avatar

The law is vomit from corrupt government.

Glitterpuppy's avatar

The question for the time.. why bother? Other than common ethics. I am fed up with all of them.

Steve (recovering lawyer)'s avatar

The quandry in which Fauci has found himself is that the "pardon" only applies to federal crimes committed prior to the date contained in the pardon language. By accepting the pardon, Fauci ipso facto admitted that he committed federal crimes, but asserts he has been immunized against prosecution for them. Technically, the "pardon" removes his Fifth Amendment privilege because he is no longer in jeopardy (in the legal sense) for prosecution. That is Black Letter Law. Thus, his profession of immunity under the Fifth Amendment is without a legal basis and he could be subject to a contempt sanction, including incarceration, if the Congress so declares. But the "pardon" does not apply to non-federal crimes (nor to civil liability) outside its sphere of immunity, so that state prosecusions would technically remain possible (although most statutes of limitations probably apply to create a separate defense). So far, despite statements from various state legal authorities have been made indicating that investigations into his potential liability have been or will be undertaken, nothing concrete has occurred. Nonetheless, he could assert with some technical accuracy that he is still in legal jeopardy and that claim would require litigation which would likely consume years to unfold. I do not think any prosecutorial authorities will want to undertake that course of action, largely for political reasons. I believe that Fauci will die before any prosecutions are mounted. Likewise, I believe that he will not be declared in contempt, and probably will not even be the subject of contempt proceedings in congress because of political considerations as well as his age. I therefoe conclude that Fauci's only likely jeopardy is from His Maker, whose perfect justice will be inescapable.

JohnAZ's avatar

Is Fauci the latest Epstein? So corrupt and widespread that the fallout from his activities in government and the wealthy will never be prosecuted fully.

Lugh's avatar

His pardon was given by a president both senile and fake (he won by cheating). Nothing he signed is valid.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Assuming there is a "maker." Don't get me wrong, I hope there is a maker who will one day dole out eternal punishment for the evil doers enriching themselves at the expense of the innocent. But, from my observations, God gives a lot of deference to the wicked. A LOT of deference to the wicked which tells me two things. 1. God cannot act because God is not all powerful. 2. God doesn't want to act because God is off playing golf with his buddies, God is dead, or God has given up on humanity.

Bill Bradford's avatar

There's at least a 3rd option. God gave humans FREE WILL. So God ALLOWS US to learn from our mistakes. Something like that. God DOES NOT act, BECAUSE God is all-powerful....and, God's power IS within us all....at least 1/8-billionth of it....

Cankerpuss's avatar

Or perhaps God CANNOT because any action that would deny free will to God's creation would be contrary to God's law. If God violates his own law, God is then a liar and if God is a liar then how would anyone want to have faith in that God? In short, if free will is a core principle of God for his creations then he cannot violate it which then means God is not all powerful.

This actually makes sense to me.

1/8-billionth. Such a tiny number.

SheilaB's avatar

God is sovereign. Satan is Rex Mundi because God decreed it, for the time being, but is on a leash. Everything will work out as planned and justice will be meted out to everyone. Trust the Plan only applies to God, not to politicians and other grifters. And no, God cannot lie. Christ is coming back - some think we have no more than 10 years, not that we are meant to try to predict when. But signs are there.

Cankerpuss's avatar

Thanks SheilaB. I appreciate your faith filled words and I admire your faith.

Bill Bradford's avatar

Um, violating his own law would make God a hypocrite, not a liar.... And, if God chose to destroy his creation, there's nothing either of us could do to prevent that. It's easy for you to say God's not all powerful. So what? He's way more powerful than both of us put together. And, if you're OK with your beliefs, then I am, too! Yes, 1/8-billionth.... Makes me LOL!....

Cankerpuss's avatar

Hypocrite, liar, is there any noticeable difference? Both would cause the subjects to lose faith in him.

"It's easy for you to say God's not all powerful."

If there is a God in the vast cosmos watching over everything I can guarantee that my opinion about God is about as valuable to God as the opinion of the tiny sugar ant I smashed on my kitchen counter last night is valuable to me. God doesn't care one whit about me and my opinion but if he did give me free will then I certainly have a right to express it.

"He's way more powerful than both of us put together"

Duh. I never insinuated that I was more powerful than God nor have I ever even though such an absurd notion. I'm merely postulating a theory as to why God gives so much deference to the wicked and the filthy at the expense of the innocent and the pure.

I certainly do not claim to know anything regarding what or who God is. Just sharing some thoughts and conclusions that I have drawn over the years and countless observations. If my opinions are offensive to you, please accept my apologies. I don't mean to offend anyone much less tarnish or otherwise mock their cherished beliefs.

I do believe in God and consider myself to be a devout Christian, though, I am a doubting Thomas and I struggle to understand many things that occur in this world. So, I ask questions.

Glitterpuppy's avatar

Sounds reasonable. Maybe for the best. We have other more pressing work.

Robert Jacoby's avatar

"His reputation is more important to them than anything."

I don't think so. I think they hate the country so much, and they hate Trump so much, and they hate anyone who disagrees with them so much, that they're ready to do any sort of maliciousness or violence to get their way. They're like little kids having a meltdown in the grocery store because mommy didn't buy them a candy bar.

Bill Bradford's avatar

"Hatred is like drinking poison, then waiting for your enemy to die.".....

Robert Jacoby's avatar

Neat sentiment, for a bumper sticker. The Left has gone completely off the rails in the Trump era. It was bad before, for sure, but the riots during his first inauguration were eye opening. Back up before that to his rallies where people were attacked for just attending them. Part of the problem with the Left nowadays is that they're so close minded; they simply can't tolerate opposing points of view. Watch the Charlie Kirk videos of him trying to reason with students on college campuses and you'll see first hand how the Left "thinks."

Robert Jacoby's avatar

Oh. And some things do deserve a type of hate aimed at them for correction, if possible.

Bill Bradford's avatar

See? All those loony-lefty bogus "hate crime" laws have twisted our consciousness. What outrages and infuriates the angry leftist just makes me yawn. They're drama queens. Performative. Artificial smoke machine smoke, with no fire. They have given true hate a bad name, and discredited themselves to the more well-balanced & rational among us. How much more can I agree with you, Robert? Like my local City Councilor, whose response to Kirk's murder was to post on FaceBook and call Kirk a "piece of shit". Really, dude? I can't respect the "left", or Dems, anymore. Not since I read Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution....btw, I'm a registered independent voter....

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Zing! well put, Bill.

Bill Bradford's avatar

I can't and won't take credit for coining the phrase, but I strive to embody it, and am a much happier man for it.... But not that nothing & nobody is hate-worthy, tho!....lol....

Jeff the Original's avatar

What makes you think that Fauci hates our country? He just spent a lifetime serving the country.

Your comment about hating people who disagree with him sounds more like Trump than Fauci.

Jim's avatar

I’ll disarm that for you; The earlier commenter brought up Trump.

Robert Jacoby's avatar

Re-read my comment.

Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Ah, I'd say he was serving himself, not our country. Why blame Trump for an ideology built on hatred which is promoted by the now properly name Democratic Socialist Party which is really the CPUSA in disguise.

Glitterpuppy's avatar

He spent a lifetime serving himself.

John Schrauth's avatar

The Dana Bash tirade and breakdown while supposedly "interviewing" RFK jr. this weekend demonstrates Taibbi's statement perfectly. She raged at Bobby for refusing to endorse all of the Press' preconceived and immutable "facts." I don't recall whether or not it was "CNN State of the Union, brought to you by Pfizer."

mitchell delmar's avatar

Mr. Kunstler’s sharp eye for falsity is equaled only by his sharp tongue. Where else can you enjoy the meal he makes of Mockingbird Media, using savory pejoratives such as “baleful,” “moiling,” and “pettifogging?” Delicious.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Kunstler appears to speak with a forked tongue to me.

Kelly Reardon's avatar
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James Howard Kunstler's avatar

You're banned for trolling this blog with your poem.

Kelly Reardon's avatar

In private messaging with James, he has acknowledged that the ban was a mistake and he has apologized to me for it.

Here's what he wrote to me:

"Well, I have un-banned you and I apologize for insulting you. My only explanation, perhaps lame, is that I have to process a lot of commentary on the blog and I made the wrong conclusion that you were re-posting the same poem that other commenters were complaining about."

James showed a lot of integrity when he acknowledged that he got this wrong, and I thanked him and let him know that I appreciate his apology.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

Well Kelly, thanks for all this unsolicited information. Let me start with the first sentence, if I may. Please don't think I'm a grammar Nazi, but it is considered improper to end a sentence with a preposition.

There is a reason private messaging is called private messaging. Both parties generally operate under the assumption, that the message is indeed private. Jim may not cotton to the fact that his seemingly private message, intended for you, was broadcast far and wide. I could be mistaken. Personally, I would consider it a gross faux pas and a breach of privacy, if not accepted etiquette as well.

On to the poetry. Jim is a fierce defender of 1A, one of the many reasons he is loved, admired and respected, across all media platforms, in addition to his superior intellect and nearly unmatched writing stills.

That said, I'm sure he would (privately) agree, that as wonderful, talented and exciting as your husband's poetry is, there are certainly more appropriate, poetry-related sites on Substack, where your husband's talents can be more fully appreciated - Jim's Clusterfuck Nation blog may not be one of them.

"You're banned for trolling this blog with your poem." ~ JHK

More likely, in Jim's haste, he meant "poetry" in lieu of "poem", but he's just too considerate and kind to say so. Another redeeming quality he possesses.

Thanks again Kelly, if your husband does choose to frequent another, poetry-related blog on Substack, please let us know.

Kelly Reardon's avatar

Well Ron, "all this unsolicited information" was given because you took it upon yourself to leave a comment thanking Jim for banning me, and I wanted to let you know that the ban was a mistake.

The only reason the communication with Jim (that I quoted to you above) was in private messaging in the first place was because of that mistaken ban.

Jim also told me that he spent half an hour going through this comment section and also the "backstage" management settings at his stack, but that he couldn't find the comments and that had prevented him from being able to put up a (public) notice that I was un-banned...Substack certainly does some strange things sometime...

It was Jim's intention to clear this up here himself...publicly...

And since I respect him and his time, I thanked him for his efforts and did not ask him to spend anymore of his valuable time continuing to look through these comments.

The entire (private) exchange that I had with Jim showed his integrity, compassion, & highlighted that he is the kind of man who cares about doing the right thing. Your concern above is admirable, but once again, based on what Jim wrote to me, he intended for there to be a public notice here, from him, clearing up this situation.

On to the poetry...

How many people, in this comment section for this article alone, quoted song lyrics? Aren't song lyrics (when there's no music) essentially poems?

Some people are acting like I posted some random abstract artsy piece of poetry that had no bearing on the subject matter of Jim's article.

So let me describe what I posted in my comment another way: rhyming commentary that directly related to the article's subject matter.

Some people in the comment section here at CFN apparently have poor reading comprehension skills (including not being able to tell the difference between DIFFERENT rhyming commentary). Some people here just want to spread misery...and there are apparently some anti-free speech, pro-censorship people here in the comments of CFN as well. But from what you wrote above, it seems like you value 1A...as do I.

Personally, I think that there are many people out there (and here in this comment section) who did not stand up against or speak out against the lockdowns, "vax", etc and that now they are angry (including at themselves) and they are lashing out at others.

I bring this up because one of the commenters last week, here at CFN, went on a deranged rant of comments, falsely accusing me of directing people to a monetized YouTube channel & falsely accusing me of posting the same poem (rhyming commentary) again and again here at CFN. That person seemed especially upset that I had posted some rhyming commentary here at CFN, after having already posted it on Jeff Childer's stack, which I did...but he also falsely accused me of posting it at a stack by Suber? or Surber?, which I did not as I do not know who Suber/Surber is.

When I posted "Safe & Effective?" in the comment section at Jeff Childer's stack, that poem resonated with so many people and many asked if they could share it with others, and my husband & I gave them permission to do so. I know that at least one person has shared that poem on other substacks. So some of the postings of that poem that some people here at CFN may have previously seen in other writers' substack comment sections may not have even been MY postings.

In response to a comment under that posting (that I did make) on Jeff Childer's stack, I gave a (partial) summary of what my husband & I lost when we spoke out against lockdowns, the "vax", etc. Apparently, there are many here in the CFN comment section who did see those comments on Childer's stack...and again, I think some of them are angry and lashing out because they themselves did not stand up to the plandemic tyranny.

That bit of unsolicited information is just my theory on ultimately what this whole poetry-inspired clusterf*ck has really been about.

PS. Thank you for your kind words about my husband's poetry.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

Thank you, Kelly, for clearing all that up.

Bill Bradford's avatar

It's your blog, so I support your decision, James. Is it because it's eye-rolling juvenile? Too off-color? Can this be a teaching moment, to help the rest of us be better contributors & readers? THANK-YOU, and KEEP UP the GOOD WORK! (Yes, I'm worried that I might suffer the same fate! But I hope not!....)....

Ben R's avatar

She has posted it at least a half dozen times in the last week, and that's just here.

Several posters commented on it Friday, and she got upset about it.

Bill Bradford's avatar

THANK-YOU, Ben! Now I support James banning her even more! Glad I missed it the first time!

Kelly Reardon's avatar

Apparently many people here seem to have poor reading comprehension skills. Over a couple of articles here at CFN, I have posted 3 DIFFERENT poems, one time each. This is the first time that I posted this poem "Pleading the 5th" here, in this comment section. For the record, the other poems posted were "Safe & Effective?" and "Pandemic Amnesty?!"

Why would anyone here care if this poem, or the other different poems, were also posted in other writers' comment sections? Not everyone follows all the same substack authors and not everyone looks at all the same comment sections.

In private messaging with James, he has acknowledged that the ban was a mistake and he has apologized to me for it.

Here's what he wrote to me:

"Well, I have un-banned you and I apologize for insulting you. My only explanation, perhaps lame, is that I have to process a lot of commentary on the blog and I made the wrong conclusion that you were re-posting the same poem that other commenters were complaining about."

James showed a lot of integrity when he acknowledged that he got this wrong, and I thanked him and let him know that I appreciate his apology.

Bill Bradford's avatar

I'm generally anti-censorship, but James is the final say here on his blog. He banned you, then he un-banned you. I'm ok either way.But IMHO, your "poem" was Off-color, and eye-rollingly juvenile. I thought it sucked. IMHO.... That's all.... "IMHO" = "In My Haughty Opinion".....

Ben R's avatar

Well, he fixed the issue. Congrats.

Kelly Reardon's avatar

1st time posting this poem here, Ben.

The other posts were DIFFERENT poems.

In private messaging with James, he has acknowledged that the ban was a mistake and he has apologized to me for it.

Here's what he wrote to me:

"Well, I have un-banned you and I apologize for insulting you. My only explanation, perhaps lame, is that I have to process a lot of commentary on the blog and I made the wrong conclusion that you were re-posting the same poem that other commenters were complaining about."

James showed a lot of integrity when he acknowledged that he got this wrong, and I thanked him and let him know that I appreciate his apology.

David M. Edwards's avatar

Fauci needs to be in prison and then Executed

Te Burt's avatar

I have a favorite vision of his being held in 14th century (guessing there) stocks on the Mall before we hang 'em - in public. After he crawled across glass. After being publicly flogged. I know: Barbaric. So was killing 21 million worldwide (latest # I heard - anybody got better numbers?) -- for what? 2 billion permanently disabled. What's to debate? There isn't a punishment that fits this level of insanity.

JohnAZ's avatar

Yet, since Covid, what has been done to shut down further research labs? What have we heard? Dustin Hoffman said it well, “They want their weapon”.

Bill Bradford's avatar

Stocks were used here in America as recently as the 1700's....just saying....

Cankerpuss's avatar

All of his wealth needs to stripped from him and returned to those from whom it was taken. All of his misdeeds need to be preached from the rooftops, across all teevee screens and on all phones as if it were an amber alert. He is then forced to become a vagabond living on the streets and anyone who is caught giving him sustenance is likewise severely punished. This man is the worst of the worst. The dreg of society. A horrific monster who has learned to game the system and destroy other people to pad his pockets and benefit only him.

It will NEVER happen.

Composter 69's avatar

A true leader would humble himself in the aftermath of an epic failure against humanity.

JackStrawWichita's avatar

I'm always amazed at the passivity of Americans, which is quite contrary to what we see on a daily basis, but we all know people who died or were adversely affected by the vaccine, and yet there has been no vigilante actions against the perpetrators.

One would think that some father who watched his son or daughter die of a heart attack at 17 would just plain lose it. Yet, these mass murderers walk around freely, still seeking adoration, and showing their disdain for other humans.

I'm not advocating violence, but rather amazed that we haven't seen any.

ArnoldF's avatar

Americans have lost all their courage to do the difficult and right things needed to save what the founders wanted.

Cankerpuss's avatar

They still have it too good to warrant any action for change. Simple.

John Schrauth's avatar

I would guess we have been dumbed down by all the TV crime shows to believe the good guys are kicking butt on our behalf with 99% certainty. The few who slip by are taken care of by Mark Wahlberg in "Shooter" or Chris Pratt in "Terminal List." Reading the local Police Blotter of course tells a much different story, but folks like us are apparently the only audience for such real news.

Jeff the Original's avatar

I knew of several people who died of Covid. I know not a single person that died or came close to dying due to the vaccine.

Why would I be interested in vigilante violence?

It seems like you guys are all stoking fear based upon yet another bad conspiracy theory.

Mothertrucker's avatar

How did they die? Untreated or treated with “rundeathisnear” and ventilators?

William Bogert's avatar

4 friends, all from the same large family. The family got together and voted to take the vax, or not. Those four took it. All of them dead from pancreatic cancer within 3 years. They were previously healthy as horses. Don't feed me that "it's a conspiracy" bullshit, dude. Pull your head out of the mainstream media's ass and take a look around.

Jeff the Original's avatar

That's a great story. Do you mind providing some dates, names and locations for it? Sorry...I don't just believe everything on the internet.

Do you have some evidence that somehow it was related to the shot?

William Bogert's avatar

They all died between 2022 and 2024, after they took the jabs. No I'm not going to give you names of family in my small town. And no, there's absolutely no proof, just a coincidence huh?

JackStrawWichita's avatar

I think you missed the point of my post.

Jeff the Original's avatar

I think you missed the point of mine then...

Thomas Madden's avatar

I had a good friend who refused to get the vaccine for years. He then got involved with an awful woman, who drained him of his money, got him involved in a bizarre religious cult, and convinced him to get the vaccine. He died of a stroke within 60 days. He was in his 40's. I honestly wish that illnesses and deaths caused by the vaccine were a "conspiracy theory".

elysianfield's avatar

Tom,

Any naked pics of the "awful woman"? Does she have a sister?

Ron Anselmo's avatar

E - we need her (and her sister) for the Bringing Reno Project. We need to get a move on. Let's shoot for end of 2027.

Lugh's avatar

Reno is to be the flashpoint for the 2nd American Revolution?

elysianfield's avatar

Ron,

Excellent idea! I like the way you think.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

Oh, and need I remind you? We need your "Valentine" also.

Lisa's avatar
Aug 3Edited

"One question that the public badly wants Secretary RFK,jr. to answer: how come you haven’t pulled the mRNA Covid vaccines altogether?" - This needs to happen (along with Fauci being voted in contempt of Congress). - Maybe then some who continue to play the 'vaxx saved lives' charade will admit to being duped, and those in the medical profession/media whose 'advice' harmed others can attempt to atone for their sins.

Gwennie's avatar

'Not going to re-litigate covid'. You can't 're-litigate' what hasn't been litigated in the first place!

David "JC" Penny's avatar

Excellent again. However, looking at the way you framed this, you more or less answer your own, closing question with a previous, false positive:

"One question that the public badly wants Secretary RFK,jr. to answer: how come you haven’t pulled the mRNA Covid vaccines altogether? Everybody knows. "

"Even the super-hyped-up cat ladies, nose-rings...."

Just because you wish it doesn't make it true. Those cat ladies believe it is "safe and effective" now more than ever. The reason the Vax hasn't been pulled is because the majority still want it to be true.... It would like telling people that seed oil is bad for them... oh. wait...

And, perhaps big Pharma has an extinction event facing them if they lose their state-sponsored amnesty.

Meemanator's avatar

It's easier to fool some folks than get them to admit they were fooled

DQ's avatar

Yes, still haven’t reconnected with my granddaughter, or her two sons that I have never met, all because I would not get the vaccination. Sad what has happened to families. They live less than 30 miles away.

Meemanator's avatar

We lost a couple of friends and I have relatives who lost close family. So sad. And unnecessary.

Ben R's avatar

Buyer beware: they will sell you the very poison that eventually kills you.

Sugar and corn syrup, anyone?

Meemanator's avatar

Always follow the money

Demeter's avatar

The foolishly deluded also believe that Fauci can do and did no wrong. He should be honored for his "science". It's enough to make me sick; my friend and neighbor praising Fauci.

Jeff the Original's avatar

If you actually followed the MSM...you would see a whole bunch of people who start their reporting typically with a statement like "Nobody was perfect in their response to Covid including Dr. Fauci..."

I swear that you guys just come here...make shix up about others (or repeat what others have made up)...then you all think it must be true because there's strength in numbers.

Our response to Covid wasn't perfect. Get over it.

Demeter's avatar

"Our response" to COVID was nothing less than fascist propaganda to force a New World Order on all peoples. THEY did the "making shix up" (afraid of the truth, Jeff?) in a naked quest for permanent feudalism. Get over yourself.

Ben R's avatar

He is a dyed-in-the-wool lifelong Democrat pretending to be a former GOPer reformed to now support the DNC.

Mothertrucker's avatar

The response to covid was rehearsed just a few months prior to the “outbreak”. Have you not heard of Event 201? What wasn’t perfect was the wishy washy recommendation-mask, no mask, 3 masks. The 2 weeks to flatten the curve that morphed into months was the carrot stick dangled to give people hope whilst they were being strung along.

complex Craftsman's avatar

Your people have really shit the bed on this one , I'll be surprised if you can keep the cork on the genie bottle this time , I think there's a serious shitstorm a brewin that hasn't quite set in with people yet , but gradually the magnitude of it is settling in and MSM's stable of snotty little chicks thinking they can just spin their way out of the reprecussions will be wishful thinking , That tactic worked for a long time but at some point people catch on . This is a big Fing deal here and I don't think people are going to move on , But nice try . Things are going to seriously shake on this and it way past time .

Jeff the Original's avatar

All I can say is that if what you are claiming was true...I'd be concerned too. The problem is that you guys only believe the media sites that tend to be biased and provide you what you want to hear.

I'm actually a pretty skeptical person so I simply don't buy all these claims about the shots being dangerous or having accelerated cancer rates.

JohnAZ's avatar

It would be an admission that the Deep State is responsible for murdering as many people as the great genocides. All in a war against a virus that killed as few folks as the flu. Remember that the hospitals were IDing flu cases as Covid.

Meemanator's avatar

Also gun shots and knifings and other illness, because there was a US bounty paid to hospitals to claim as many deaths as possible on covid.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Why would a big pharma promote a product that kills or maims their customers?

Are you envisioning their board of directors who batted around ideas like..."Hey...let's start a pandemic that kills and maims people so we can 'invent' a vaccine that does the same thing!"?

Your conspiracy theories really don't meet the simplest of chuckle test.

Lugh's avatar

Because if you have to take or be ruined, most will take it and they will reap huge profits. And hiding behind this normal but horrendous psychology are those who want to reduced the population of the human race.

The "pandemic" killed very few. It was a feint to get people to take the real killer, the Jab. You're not very good at this.

Ben R's avatar

Lugh speaks the truth at least in this regard.

Much like they want a transgender once they pull that trigger, they are a lifelong patient to sell poison to.

All the crap the mRNA shots mess up in the form of "inflammation" a bottle of pills that always multiplies to dozens of bottles of pills.

Some to mask symptoms and some to work on symptoms from other pills.

I know someone on four different pills to deal with Cholesterol.

FOUR!

The goal is to get you on as many pills as you will tolerate.

complex Craftsman's avatar

Its "good for business" ( repeat customers ) , and the fact is that most people have bought into it for so long its not really all that outragious to think the purveyors of this system would grow more arrogant and careless the more they got away with what they were doing . Also in a sense its understandable that they hold us in contempt for being so easily duped and paying such an egregious price ( our health ,our lives ) just so we could continue to believe the nonsense they peddle /They had our permission ? That's how they roll ,as for myself at 63 I take an 81 mg aspirin a day and have held these unconfirmed suspicions about our sick care system for decades now , But I am a weirdo so?

As for the Fauci testimony in front of Congress , I think this thing is huge and people haven't quite realized how immense the reprecussions are going to be going forward because people are still mentally digesting it , What does it mean ? It means what we few crazy people have suspected for a long time , it means none of these people that hold the high places in our institutions should even be trusted to mow our lawns . The collapse of whatever faith still remained in our institutions . Because they aren't] going to do shit about other than hope it goes away like always , Well at some point that just doesn't cut it anymore . may God have mercy on their souls

Meemanator's avatar

Dang I am running out of conspiracy theories - the old ones came true. Have you ever paid any attention to the big pharma drug ads on mainstream TV? When it gets to the part about the potential side effects - and on rare occassions death. Given that the US is the only country that allows drug companies to do mainstream advertizing to the public when the public can't get the drug without a prescript? And they openly admit all the ways the drug can potentially harm you? Well, think of this - big pharma doesn't care who sees the ad. They pay the broadcaster millions and in exchange they get to set the narative.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Capitalism isn't perfect by a long shot (no pun intended). When the bottom line is what everyone is concerned about...some decisions are going to be made that are good for the top and not so good for the bottom of the pyramid.

Mothertrucker's avatar

Some would think the killed would be collateral damage while salivating over anticipated profits from “the cure”, and drugs to treat the injured. Others would think those killed was a plus in culling the population aka Gates.

Meemanator's avatar

I guess I have never been able to make sense of Gates being both openly supportive of reducing the population and also promoting a vaccine that is supposed to keep people alive. Inquiring minds want to know.

Ben R's avatar

They called the initial virus the boomer remover.

William Bogert's avatar

Go research Modernas history. Research who owned the stock before their vaccine got approved. Funny they had 11 failed drugs before they the vaccine was miraculously approved. But do your research there buddy. When the coincidences start running into the thousands, I get just a tad suspicious.

Jeff the Original's avatar

Ok...I did some research. Failing drug trials is the norm for pharma companies. 10-15% approval rate. With all of the increased (federal) funding and insight on an exact Covid strain to address...these were factors that led to a fast tracked drug creation, trials and approval process. Moderna had 10 years of research already invested so they were very poised to make this specific product quickly especially given the ultimate high priority and the "money is no object" environment they were in.

Seems like a reasonable explanation to me...unless your prone to conspiracy theories.

Jo Waller's avatar

What you describe is professionals conspiring to make money from a disease they couldn't have known was coming.

Jo Waller's avatar

That's exactly what the board of directors did. They sat around wondering how to create a demand for a pan-coronavirus vaccine. Not only that, they have normalised mRNA as a legitimate treatment for all sorts of other drugs. Cue a mystery new set of common and wide-ranging symptoms coming out of China (a little side dish of sinophobia). Cue a PCR technique that cannot be validated and picks up proteins, never been shown to be part of a virus, seen in healthy people.

Vaccines have always harmed people but the present ones don't kill you, they just created markets for more drugs.