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Welcome to a new edition of Tubularsock’s GUEST BLOG SERIES and once again Dianya is back. Tubularsock is responsible for the title because Tubularsock thought it best summarized the thrust of the article. Happy reading. Is there hope?

The Threat of the Fear of “Trump-Again, OMG”!

My good friend exclaimed yesterday. “The thought of Trump again as President sends my nervous system into shambles! Did you listen to Bill Maher?”

My friend went on to tell me about Maher’s recent prediction—that
Trump is scheming with a vengeance to retake the U.S. Presidency in 2024. Maher had explained in some detail how he thought Trump could pull this off.

I listened to Maher last evening (LINK) and his ideas do indeed point to a possible scenario. (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cR4fXcsu9w)

One of the great fears I hear expressed around “Trump-again” is “the dire threat he would pose to our Democracy.”

Trump is unquestionably a madman—in or out of the Presidency.
Don’t get me wrong: I do not want him back!

BUT—WE ARE ALREADY LOSING or threatened with losing OUR DEMOCRACY!

In our terror over the Corona virus, the mass of the population has been giving up its long established rights held in our Declaration of Independence such as:

“The right to LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS” . . .

And those of the our Constitutional Amendments:
“The right to FREEDOM OF SPEECH”. . .
“The right to FREEDOM OF THE PRESS” . . .
Just for starters . . . I could go on and on . . .

Steven Donziger’s prosecution by Chevron’s Kangaroo Court has also shown us
LOSS OF “THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY”.

This is, however, not my focus in this article—I just could not pass by mentioning it as another travesty of denial of Constitutional rights— completely ignored by the mainstream press. For more info see: https://www.freedonziger.com/) Note: this will lead you to a “Page Not Found” press “GO BACK HOME” on that page and the link will open. Don’t know why.

The MANDATING OF VACCINES as a condition of employment threatens our “RIGHT TO ‘LIFE’ “ (food and shelter and health-care) and to “THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS” (a fulfilling life).

The MANDATING of VACCINES means our giving up the LIBERTY
of our right to choose what we do with our bodies (cf. Roe vs. Wade).

The PRESSURE TO VACCINATE THE ENTIRE POPULATION—with Big Pharma’s vaccines allowed as THE ONLY WAY through the pandemic that has terrorized the population has brought about LOSS OF “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” (as one group of alternatively-thinking doctors and scientists after another is de-platformed and disallowed from U-tube, with articles and information grossly suppressed and disallowed.

(Even RAND PAUL, U.S. Senator, who is pro-vaccine, but also pro-choice has been de-platformed from U-tube!)

The PRESSURE TO VACCINATE THE WHOLE POPULATION with Big Pharma’s vaccines allowed as THE ONLY WAY through the pandemic has brought about the LOSS OF “FREEDOM OF THE PRESS” , as journalists and reporters are threatened with job-loss and funding-loss to, for instance (until recently), even SPEAK of Ivermectin (an anti-viral alternative to the injection).

I recall Krystal Ball of “Breaking Points” telling her audience several months ago how “courageous” she and her journalist partner had to be to even HAVE an investigative journalist on their show SPEAK about just the EXISTENCE of Ivermectin!

The PRESSURE TO VACCINATE THE ENTIRE POPULATION with Big Pharma’s vaccines allowed as THE ONLY WAY through the pandemic has let me personally experience a threat to “LIFE and LIBERTY” as I, like many, chose through intuition and research to not take the vaccine and instead got a doctor’s prescription for Ivermectin to use if needed.

The AMA-licensed medical doctor had to be “underground” (it was like dealing with Al Capone and the “Speakeasy” days of prohibition). And even with my doctor’s prescription, “Joe”, the pharmacist at a local pharmacy, self-righteously and pompously refused to fill the prescription, saying, “This looks like it’s for Covid. I won’t fill it. You can get the vaccine here.”

SCARY TIMES!

And we’re giving up our American SOUL, the strength and DECLARED INDEPENDENCE of which this country was founded on, as we see doctors and scientists and reporters held to the narrative they are told to follow, gagged and terrified for their jobs, and the population pitted in division into an intolerant “your side” and “my side”.

Becoming absorbed in the fear of a “Trump-Return”—as I see it— at this moment— would bring the danger of getting lost in “THE FEAR OF THE RETURN OF TRUMP” while not remaining awake to what is going on right now, right before our eyes—the threat to losing our “INALIENABLE” RIGHTS” —one by one.

If we allow ourselves to get lost in “THE FEAR OF THE RETURN OF TRUMP” and blind and deafen ourselves to the loss of our “INALIENABLE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS” that is unfolding and/or being threatened with unfolding right now, we WILL be losing what is left of our Democracy . . .
. . . and it won’t be TRUMP taking it away!!!!

“Trump will take away our Democracy” can become a gauze that will continue to veil the awareness of those not yet awake to our Democracy being challenged — right now— with erosion before our eyes— right now.
Terror of the virus and the need to “fight” the terror has already proven itself a gauze over the eyes of a population mesmerized by fear.
And absorption in “the threat of Trump-again-as-President” can add just one more layer of gauze, keeping our attention off what is transpiring NOW.

Now just one minute.

Just how DOES ANYONE fall for this?

First: If you are fully vaccinated you can still catch Covid.

Second: If you are fully vaccinated you can still pass Covid to others.

So exactly what is the logic in mask wearing?

In the California Capitol in Sacramento there is an increase in Covid cases among the staff.

So now MASKS ARE MANDATORY AGAIN. FOR EVERYONE.

But why weren’t masks not mandatory anyway for everyone?

First: If you are fully vaccinated you can still catch Covid.

Second: If you are fully vaccinated you can still pass Covid to others.

ANY QUESTIONS?

Unvaccinated legislators and employees are REQUIRED to be tested for covid twice a week.

Vaccinated legislators and employees have been asked to be VOLUNTARILY tested for covid twice a week.

And yet:

First: If you are fully vaccinated you can still catch Covid.

Second: If you are fully vaccinated you can still pass Covid to others.

Now just what is wrong with this picture?

Well, ahhh, ok.

Well, at least real science would keep track of “breakthrough infections” to study just how well the covid vaccine is doing …….. right?

WRONG!

California has aligned itself with the federal Centers for Disease Control Prevention, which stopped collecting nationwide data on mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 cases last month.

Thereby assuring no real evidence of just how effective the covid vaccine happens to be.

Ahhh, the mysteries of “true science”.

BUT WHAT WE DO KNOW:

First: If you are fully vaccinated you can still catch Covid.

Second: If you are fully vaccinated you can still pass Covid to others.

Wow, thanks for clearing that up Tubularsock!

POPPY MADNESS?

Since 2002 the United States has spent $8.6 billion just for the “war” against Poppies in Afghanistan and this year (2017) poppy production is UP, UP, UP! Another great job accomplished by good ol’ America!

 

 

And the stated reason is that the Taliban, which banned poppy cultivation when it ruled Afghanistan, (you know BEFORE we attacked them and started this ENDLESS war) is now involved in running its own factories, refining the lucrative crop into morphine and heroin for exporting abroad. Mostly to Europe and Canada.

Most American heroin comes from those bad-hombres’ in Mexico!

And much like in Vietnam, the CIA is up to their chinny-chin-chins in running drugs as usual. Tubularsock might as well mention the big banks that launder the money too, so as not to leave anyone out.

Ok, just to be complete the picture, many members within the entire “democratic” Afghan government find a way to get a cut as well. Isn’t that what democracy is all about?

You see it is a Narco-state after all!

 

Afghan farmers are paid about $163 for a kilo (a little over 2 pounds) of the black sap from raw opium. Once refined the price is about $3500. But by the time it is shipped to Europe it wholesales for $45,000!

According to the United Nations in 2016, Afghanistan, which produces 80 percent of the world’s opium, made around 4,800 tonnes of the drug bringing in revenues of three billion dollars.

 

NOW DO NOT WORRY!

The U.S. has worked diligently to coerce local poppy farmers to shift their crop from poppy cultivation to “legal” alternatives such as wheat, barley, mustard and melons.

The result was that those “legal” crops are more difficult and expensive to successfully cultivate and yield much less at market than did their previous illicit poppy plants.

As one farmer put it, “If we plant two bags of wheat, then we’ll have just enough money to buy the seeds to plant another two bags of wheat. […] We’re going backwards. Of course we’re angry at the government.” (Common Sense For Drug Policy 9/6/17)

Of course, as would be predicted, those areas that were driven from poppy production in turn are the same areas where terrorism activity increased.

Surprised? Push people to the wall and you get a response.

All in all, the U.S., lost the Vietnam War, and has LOST the war in Afghanistan. And yet Orange Tweet Trump just like Step-en-fetch-it Obummer before him has entered deeper into the quagmire.

And all that leads to this future conversation: “Mommy why did daddy die in the war? Oh honey, like I’ve told you before, to protect the Opium Trade.”

So now you understand why the poppy is used as a symbol on “Memorial Day”!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HEALTH MY ASS!

Now this is the part that Tubularsock, each time, has to step back and ponder why the American population is so dense.

It is not that it is so complicated and it is literally exposed RIGHT OUT IN PLAIN SITE.

It isn’t that it is covered up in some tricky way or anything but there it sits like a cougar on an overhanging rock SINGING IN ENGLISH, ALOUD.

WOULDN’T YOU’D THINK THEY WOULD NOTICE?

Oh. And it doesn’t have to do with political party affiliations either. Both Republicans and Democrats don’t even think twice about it. They always AGREE and just VOTE YES.

Yet the American population just seem not to care or if they do care they don’t do anything about it. It really is a remarkable mystery when you stop and realize that there are 322,762,018 of us VS only 535 of them in Congress.

So with ALL HEALTH LEGISLATION whether it was pre-Obama-Care, Obamacare, or TrumpDon’tCare Care the same thing is agreed upon.

Now you know this. Everyone knows this. And when it is brought up in any conversation it is ALWAYS dismissed with “well that’s government for you”.

Tubularsock has been sent chain-emails about it.

Tubularsock has been sent petitions to be signed against it.

Tubularsock has been sent protest gathering information to stand in opposition to it.

Even in this last election cycle at a town hall meeting when this topic came up a Congressman’s answer was to suggest that if you have a problem with this THEN RUN FOR OFFICE if you want good quality health care.

And he even got some laughs.

Well, Tubularsock wasn’t at this town hall meeting. If Tubularsock had been at this town hall meeting Tubularsock would have said:

 

OVER THE TRUMPAZOO EDGE?

 

 

 

 

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CARLY’S DEAD STEP-DAUGHTER

If you watched the 2nd Republican Debate (debate being a misnomer) you found all the same boring, empty minded drivel as per usual. No surprises there.

But what really stood out to Tubularsock wasn’t Donnie Trump and the Art Of The Bull Shit or the Sad-Sack monotony of Jeb Bush’s my brother “kept us safe” in contrast to the twin towers and building #7 coming down in a controlled demolition as George the Stupid spent his time reading about a goat.

No, what took the cake for Tubularsock was Carly Fiornia’s MY DEAD STEP-DAUGHTER!

Now Tubularsock would be compassionate but Carly is totally and completely FULL OF SHIT and she had the nerve to display her total lack of concern and caring for Lori, her dead step-daughter, by lying to the American public about Lori’s death.

Lori died in 2009 and yes it is sad and yes compassion is due but to use her death as an example as a call for opposition to marijuana is plain disingenuous on Carly’s part.

Here is the truth:

The death of Lori HAD NOTHING to do with marijuana! PERIOD!

Lori died from an addiction to “. . . abusing prescription drugs, alcoholism and bulimia.”

Now if Carly had come out and said that the pharmaceutical companies and the alcohol producers were to blame for her daughter Lori’s death at least she would have identified the correct substance abuse Lori suffered from.

But no Carly LIED! She said earlier this year that she was against recreational and medical marijuana legalization because it “. . . lands very personally . . .” to her step-daughter’s death.

But forty-four people die from prescription drug abuse A DAY in the United States but marijuana has NEVER resulted in an overdose fatality!

THAT IS NEVER! But you didn’t see Carly call for more oversight on handing out prescription drugs now did you.

Carly also said that we are “. . .  misleading young people when we tell them that marijuana is just like having a beer. It’s not.” And THAT is true. It is worse. Almost 90,000 people a year die abusing alcohol! But you didn’t see Carly calling out for more restrictions on alcohol now did you.

No Carly Fiornia, used her supposed loving daughter’s death to gain false political points for an issue that has nothing to do with her step-daughter’s death.

TALK ABOUT WALKING ON LORI’S GRAVE! Which may be some insight why Lori was so lost.

And then all that “gateway drug” bull shit and all that “. . . the marijuana they smoke today isn’t like the marijuana Jeb smoked forty years ago . . .”!

No, the marijuana one smokes today in places where it is legal has been tested and separated into different types of “highs”. So as in the past one could never be sure what they were buying off the streets under legal pot smoking that risk has been removed.

So in truth, smoking legal pot is safer than 40 years ago!

BUT PRESCRIPTION DRUGS WITH DOCTORS AS PUSHERS ARE FAR MORE RISKIER TODAY THAN 40 YEARS AGO. And that is due to the fact that the FDA is in bed with big-pharma and profit wins over safety.

And as for that factious “gateway” drug argument, did you know that EVERY person who drinks water dies sometime during their lifetime?

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