After they froze a successful GrayZone fundraiser over unnamed "external concerns," GoFundMe became the official poster child for the politicization of economic services
The Canadian trucker convoy was what pushed me to givesendgo, and haven't donated a red penny through gofundme since. They are so busy licking the hands of those that feed and control them to ever be part of the 'answer'.
What the hell happened to these people? There used to be a modicum of interest in the principle of the thing. Now it’s all where you come down ideologically.
Do you think the left was their own worst enemy during the Trump years when they adopted an anti-Trump position, and often became the mouth piece of the democrats to remove him from office? Now no one in the democratic party deviates from their stated goals, not even the Squad, since the 4 are no more then a joke. They fell into line, and so did Sanders, and so did the press, 100 percent, and it continues as they support the nefarious charges brought by democrats against Trump. Oh, he was so good for those in power, and used by them to impose even more power, and used to silence the voices of those that challenge them. If I have not made myself clear, well, they used Trump to implement a more authoritarian state whose policies are not to be questioned or challenged.
C.S. Lewis left behind an unfinished manuscript titled, The Dark Tower that, if memory serves, was published posthumously by his estate. I last read this over forty years ago, but there is one scene in the book that stands out to me.
In brief, there is a humanlike creature residing in the upper chamber of a great tower. This being has a black, pointed horn protruding from its forehead. Volunteers, convinced of great reward, offer themselves to this creature and are set upon and “stung” in the back of the neck. The venom reduces these volunteers to mindless automatons that now obey any command given them by their new master.
You made reference to the squad of four who have fallen in line with the accepted progressive dogma. It is as if they are all reading from prepared scripts.
There is one being called the prince of the power of the air in the second chapter of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.
Some Christians today hold the view that God has slackened the metaphorical leash on this dark, malevolent prince in order to permit him increased power over the people of earth.
Many events and behaviors I have witnessed over the past three and a half years defy any kind of logical explanation. I have never seen anything even remotely close to the level of irrationality currently being acted out across the West.
Whether you believe in the God of the Bible, the deities of the Hindu pantheon or in no god at all, it is impossible to deny that there is someone or something acting on the personalities of human beings that cannot be explained by science.
May I also (very highly) recommend That Hideous Strength C.S Lewis
“Have you ever noticed,” said Dimble, “that the universe, and every little bit of the universe, is always hardening and narrowing and coming to a point?”His wife waited as those wait who know by long experience the mental processes of the person who is talking to them.“I mean this,” said Dimble in answer to the question she had not asked. “If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family — anything you like — at a given point in its history, you always find that there was a time before that point when there was more elbow room and contrasts weren’t quite so sharp; and that there’s going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing. The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a point, getting sharper and harder."
The Adversary has been in charge as of late. God is waiting for His faithful to act under His righteous judgement. Infiltration in the Christians churches has left the congregations in the wilderness and Pope Francis the Jesuit has turn the Vatican over to the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
It’s a mistake to expect science to “explain” things. Science is a process of observation and discovery. If you’re unable to explain something then you need to continue to observe and continue to discover; understanding will follow.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Fox News to pull Daily Caller co-founder and Fox News host Tucker Carlson from air over his release of Jan. 6 footage.This is Schumer's plea to FOX to take Tucker off the air, and just another example of their abuse of power and controlling the narrative.
Carlson released never before seen footage Monday night from the Capitol riot after Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy gave him more than 40,000 hours of footage. Some footage showed Officer Brian Sicknick walking around the Capitol allegedly after he engaged with rioters, while other footage showed Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley leaving the Capitol building.
Schumer said Carlson manipulated his audience.I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actor treat the American people and American democracy with such disdain,” Schumer said. “And he’s going to come back tonight with another segment. Fox News should tell him not to.”
Schumer then argued kicking Carlson off air was necessary to preserve democracy.
This is a major reason why I want to see him re-elected. It will keep the authoritarians and bureaucrats scuttling around in the light. There's no telling how far they'll go to end his political career.
Behead him, punch him in the face, blow up the White House, hit him in the head with a bat. Make a play, let Julius Caesar look like Donald, so he gets stabbed to death in the Senate. They used the hate to mobilize their base, but they know that if he were actually killed there would be an uprising from his they couldn't put down. That's why I think he hasn't been killed.
You're commenting on an article about speech suppression... in support of a guy who 1. tried to label protestors as literal terrorists and unleash the military on them, and 2. wants libel law changed so he can sue his critics.
No one was referring to the left in general, but to those in the media in its various forms, like Amy Goodman who pushed the Russia-gate narrative on her morning talk show, and the Intercept unwilling to publish Greenwald's piece on Hunter's laptop, etc, etc. Blumenthal even mentioned to Mate how the left wing sites had changed during the Trump years. I guess you missed it, like you missed my point.
Amnesty started taking that sweet dosh so its top staff could get the big money. Suddenly they are astroturfing pro-Trans protests all over Britain, Europe and the US with identical signs and swag all designed and distributed by Amnesty.
Like what does political prisoners of conscience have to do with fetishists in women's clothing? Answer: Foundations like those headed by Martine Rothblatt and Jennifer Pritzker who give these NGOs money with these strings attached.
Another of Orwell’s foresights… the ending of 1984 is so tragic to me because it’s absolutely true… these evil people can torture you enough to make you renounce everything you hold dear just to be left alone. Power for power’s sake.
Trump and Covid radicalized the left into accepting bizarre paradigms as virtue. And to be sure, many on the right are quietly going along with it too. They are going to block anyone who falls into any field of "extreme" as defined by them.
Extreme is anything that challenges the official narrative in a dangerous way. Which is way "flat earth" gets a pass.
Trump and Covid were just an excuse for an already radicalized Left to pursue power through any and all means without restraint. The craziest thing is that Democrats are actively pushing all the buttons to get us to civil war so they can claim the high ground and use the military against the citizenry.
Nothing left about what's left in the Democratic Party. Liberals have always opposed the left even more than the right during my lifetime. As I child I remember the CDC, California Democratic Council. The California Democratic party official shut it down because it actually took leftist stands, outside the approved establishment lines. The only thing that makes the Democratic Party 'left' is the framing in the present-day mainstream media.
100%. I'm left. The Democrats represent my positions in NO WAY WHATSOEVER. At this point (the people calling themselves) The Democrats are WAY to the right (on stuff like foreign policy) of (the people calling themselves) Republicans.
I actually think that the "radicalized Left" is a total cut-out, or sock-puppet for Power. Emmanuel Goldstein, all day long. When the shit hits the fan, the blame will be assigned to Lefties, as usual. The DNC, of course, should not be confused with anything Left; they are a "Corporation," and have nothing to do with the "Will of the People."
As far as I know, "the Right" has NOT censured anyone. What has Donald Trump censored? FYI Donald Trump is NOT right wing despite conventional wisdom on the lying media.
But Bush/Cheney was immediately followed by Obama. What did the Constitutional law professor do to re-enforce our 1A Rights and stop the skid? Oh yeah, wiretap Rosen's phone, or something like that. The Obama crowd likes it, likes it, yes they do. Power is cool.
Cheney, and Jeff Bush were primary signatories on the project for a New American Century, that is they are neocons pushing a world wide agenda of war and they are very much behind what is going on in Ukraine and will continue till the last Ukrainian is dead. Oh, how they couldn't depend on the Donald for that, since to their horror he wanted to get along with Russia.
True but the are certainly people on the right who’d do what the Dems are because power. How do we better ID these types without the old labels? Idk. But it’s humans with the desire for power who are the problem and that can come in many flavors
Because of Trumps precieved intolerance, the left, in order to show how diferent they were, took tolerance to radicle new heights. Never mind that in said tolerance were the seeds of an intolerance twice as strong as whatever Trump was supposed to have.
When the Revolution comes to town and demands to know "Who's side are you on?" all principles and morals are replaced by one simple question: Who/Whom?
When you say "these people" in the United States, you mean partisan Democrats. Right now, with everything going on and the "free press" shilling their propaganda, Democrats are power-drunk like never before. This is only the beginning.
The hubris is just amazing. Do they really not understand that one day in the not so distant future the shoe will be on the other foot, and they'll come to rue the precedents they've established during this period?
This is a great question and one that has perplexed me for decades. Look at what Harry Reid did with the Senate Nuclear option. Before that there was the Biden Rule on Supreme Court picks. They do these radical things for immediate benefit and then scream bloody murder when the Republicans turn the tables on them using the very policies and precedents that they started.
I think the difference today is that the mainstream media used to be the power that kept political power in check for blatant hypocrisy. Now the Dems know they can go scorched earth and get cover by the media, and if the GOP tries the same the media will go scorched earth on the GOP.
My perspective is that we finally met the enemy, and it is our media.
They do not understand because they don't believe they will never NOT be in power. They all act as if they never have to try and win an election again.
Trump happened. And there is no amount of cognitive dissonance they can't endure and foist on the public to defend their irrational hatred of that man. I can accept that they need psychiatric help on that score, but cannot accept their killing trust in ... everything to stay in denial about it.
The US freezes the money of entire countries. Can't understand why other countries trust their money in US banks/UK banks in the first place. Can't understand why anyone would use gofundme or PayPal. Can't understand why anyone goes through a third party to donate to reporters or causes they support. The way we've headed, with CBDCs and digital IDs to be forced upon everyone, we're about to lose all control. REFUSE TO GET the next round of shots for whatever pandemic is next. Refuse digital IDs and vaccine passports.
This is the power of public backlash. The first go-around with dumb covid rules, too many people meekly went along with the scam, and a large portion of people who resisted did so quietly by staying home.
Now is the time to get loud and tell the ‘leaders’ to shove their arbitrary and convoluted rules that don’t make a bit of difference in the first place. No to mask mandates. No to mandated testing. No to booster jabs that were authorized without long-term safety data. And most of all, no the idea that the ‘leaders’ have the power to do any of those things in the first place.
"Can't understand why anyone goes through a third party to donate to reporters or causes they support."
Substack uses a third party to donate to Matt and all the others. Unless you mail the reporters cash, you MUST use a third party. And guess whih way all of these service providers lean... pro-gov't narrative.
All these organizations appear to be bought and paid for. Red Cross never was made to disclose what they did with the relief funds to Haiti. And they lecture the common people while they steal the money for the poorest dark skinned people in the western hemisphere. These institutions, even Amnesty International are rotten to the core.
I think they took the administration of the USAID funds. If Hilary had just stolen half the money and used the other half to aid Haitians, it would have practically rebuilt Port au Prince. She could have bought some package water and sewer plantss. GE has fleets of them to deploy for emergencies. If you did nothing else, emergency aid is supposed to stop Cholera and the other waterborne diseases that go with the profile. I saved the pictures of Haitians dying on the ground with their medical supplies were those blue disposable pads with an IV out of them. That was followed by mass graves. Instead of building them infrastructure, they gave them "latrines" which are buckets. Even though they know that eventually a bucket used for waste will be used to carry water, ensuing cholera. These gluttons with their glutton daughter took the emergency fund money from the poorest people in our region, although they already had enough money to want for nothing until they die and into perpetuity for Howdy Doody, their glutton daughter.
People tired to get accountabilty and a person could piece it together from what was known.. A delegation from Haiti came up and openly protested at Clinton sites and still nothing happened, the media didn't "hear" about it. They have been protecting these corrupt politicians before Biden.
This story was publicized at the time and only the "fringe" took issue with it. Now we know that a group of Mengele scientists can kill 6 million humans by releasing a Franken Virus on us, and they are poised to take center stage again for another round. It looks like a large swath of the sheeple want to hope that things will return to normal if they just keep their heads down. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
Hmm. I agreed a lot of orgs haven proven to be (somewhat) rotten. Not disclosing is possibly rotten. Possibly incompetent (in the sense of lost control of the accounting). Can you share more facts? A reference?
The ACLU can't help out with 1A issues. It's too busy suing to get an imprisoned man who murdered a child some "gender-affirming care," according to reporting today. A murderer not get sex-change surgery in custody is "cruel and unusual" punishment per that formerly great civil liberties organization. What explains that?
There's a lot of stuff to be angry about, but, Covid lockdowns aren't it. They were well-meaning and often effective ways of controlling a deadly disease.
There were pros and cons. Go ahead and argue that the cons outweighed the pros, but only an idiot would claim that the lockdowns were literally not effective at curbing the spread of the disease.
I don't give a s**t about the flu. We were talking about Covid. You know that Covid isn't the same as the flu, right?
There is a mountain of statistical evidence that lockdowns were effective at curbing the transmission of the virus. Do you have any studies that you can point to to support your assertion that lockdowns "did not work"? Or do you think that if you repeat it enough on an internet forum, that makes it true?
Even bill gates admitted that Covid was not nearly as dangerous as it was claimed. Of course, he said this AFTER cashing out his vaccine stock to the tune of a $500 million profit.
I live in the Bay area. The vast majority are uninformed. To them, any "authority" that's aligned with the Democrat party can do no wrong. No counter information gets through.
Tell them to spend an evening strolling down Market Street in the reeking shambles that used to be one of the premier cities in the world! Let them know in no uncertain terms that the responsibility for that falls upon the “Supermajority” headed by Gavin Newsom along with Mayor London Breed and Communist DA Chesa Boudin who decided that chasing down Covid “deniers” and shuttering businesses over a manufactured plandemic was more important than prosecuting actual crimes! That was the death knell for San Francisco. I and millions of others grieve for that once wonderful city which I have no doubt will be purchased for pennies on the dollar by Blackrock and Vanguard and turned into a “15 Minute City” with 24/7 surveillance at the demand of the beleaguered residents! Then watch how fast the “homeless problem” will disappear into the newly built Blackrock prisons leased by the Dems to “provide homes” for the sociopaths who now clog the streets.
I left Seattle reluctantly 8 years ago, my husband's long final illness forced us into homelessness and a relocation to hicksville to live with the cousins.
I now realize that was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Same here. When my friends ask for help through GoFundMe, I always send them a message asking if they would consider using a different fundraising app, and where I can send a paper check. We need to let people know, if they want to raise money, they need to use an organization with integrity. GoFundMe steals from people.
Yeah, the trucker convoy was what kept me from donating to the Grayzone fundraiser initially. Glad I didn't throw that money out the window. I haven't heard of the second site they chose, but I am a fan of GiveSendGo.
Yeah they stole my donation to the Truckers too. Give Send Go is the best, but I will donate to the Antiwar one with their site. I use Go FundMe only for family tragedies if they are using the site.
This is why we've been screaming about this issue for so long -- it never ever ever stops at the 'bad' people. Once you allow government -- via law or censorship -- to determined what is and isn't 'allowable' speech, dissent is QUICKLY determined to be unallowed. That's why the First Amendment is first -- without it, none of the other rights matter because you'll never be allowed to speak up.
Edit: The writing was on the wall after what happened in Canada.
The Canadian trucker convoy was what pushed me to givesendgo, and haven't donated a red penny through gofundme since. They are so busy licking the hands of those that feed and control them to ever be part of the 'answer'.
Go Fund Yourself.
Amnesty International sided with Trudeau against the truckers. Didn't say a peep about bank account freezing, much less COVID lockdowns and mandates which were all flagrant human rights violations. Another captured institution: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/amnesty-international-silence-ccp-esg-covid
What the hell happened to these people? There used to be a modicum of interest in the principle of the thing. Now it’s all where you come down ideologically.
I don't think it's even about ideology, just raw power and perceived self-interest.
Do you think the left was their own worst enemy during the Trump years when they adopted an anti-Trump position, and often became the mouth piece of the democrats to remove him from office? Now no one in the democratic party deviates from their stated goals, not even the Squad, since the 4 are no more then a joke. They fell into line, and so did Sanders, and so did the press, 100 percent, and it continues as they support the nefarious charges brought by democrats against Trump. Oh, he was so good for those in power, and used by them to impose even more power, and used to silence the voices of those that challenge them. If I have not made myself clear, well, they used Trump to implement a more authoritarian state whose policies are not to be questioned or challenged.
C.S. Lewis left behind an unfinished manuscript titled, The Dark Tower that, if memory serves, was published posthumously by his estate. I last read this over forty years ago, but there is one scene in the book that stands out to me.
In brief, there is a humanlike creature residing in the upper chamber of a great tower. This being has a black, pointed horn protruding from its forehead. Volunteers, convinced of great reward, offer themselves to this creature and are set upon and “stung” in the back of the neck. The venom reduces these volunteers to mindless automatons that now obey any command given them by their new master.
You made reference to the squad of four who have fallen in line with the accepted progressive dogma. It is as if they are all reading from prepared scripts.
There is one being called the prince of the power of the air in the second chapter of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.
Some Christians today hold the view that God has slackened the metaphorical leash on this dark, malevolent prince in order to permit him increased power over the people of earth.
Many events and behaviors I have witnessed over the past three and a half years defy any kind of logical explanation. I have never seen anything even remotely close to the level of irrationality currently being acted out across the West.
Whether you believe in the God of the Bible, the deities of the Hindu pantheon or in no god at all, it is impossible to deny that there is someone or something acting on the personalities of human beings that cannot be explained by science.
May I also (very highly) recommend That Hideous Strength C.S Lewis
“Have you ever noticed,” said Dimble, “that the universe, and every little bit of the universe, is always hardening and narrowing and coming to a point?”His wife waited as those wait who know by long experience the mental processes of the person who is talking to them.“I mean this,” said Dimble in answer to the question she had not asked. “If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family — anything you like — at a given point in its history, you always find that there was a time before that point when there was more elbow room and contrasts weren’t quite so sharp; and that there’s going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing. The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a point, getting sharper and harder."
It's called social media and it is poison.
The Adversary has been in charge as of late. God is waiting for His faithful to act under His righteous judgement. Infiltration in the Christians churches has left the congregations in the wilderness and Pope Francis the Jesuit has turn the Vatican over to the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
It’s a mistake to expect science to “explain” things. Science is a process of observation and discovery. If you’re unable to explain something then you need to continue to observe and continue to discover; understanding will follow.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Fox News to pull Daily Caller co-founder and Fox News host Tucker Carlson from air over his release of Jan. 6 footage.This is Schumer's plea to FOX to take Tucker off the air, and just another example of their abuse of power and controlling the narrative.
Carlson released never before seen footage Monday night from the Capitol riot after Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy gave him more than 40,000 hours of footage. Some footage showed Officer Brian Sicknick walking around the Capitol allegedly after he engaged with rioters, while other footage showed Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley leaving the Capitol building.
Schumer said Carlson manipulated his audience.I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actor treat the American people and American democracy with such disdain,” Schumer said. “And he’s going to come back tonight with another segment. Fox News should tell him not to.”
Schumer then argued kicking Carlson off air was necessary to preserve democracy.
Schumer is a pig who needs tarring and feathering.
How dare Americans make up their own minds about anything?
100%
This is a major reason why I want to see him re-elected. It will keep the authoritarians and bureaucrats scuttling around in the light. There's no telling how far they'll go to end his political career.
Behead him, punch him in the face, blow up the White House, hit him in the head with a bat. Make a play, let Julius Caesar look like Donald, so he gets stabbed to death in the Senate. They used the hate to mobilize their base, but they know that if he were actually killed there would be an uprising from his they couldn't put down. That's why I think he hasn't been killed.
You're commenting on an article about speech suppression... in support of a guy who 1. tried to label protestors as literal terrorists and unleash the military on them, and 2. wants libel law changed so he can sue his critics.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-protests-governors-call-1.5593413
https://globalnews.ca/news/7557777/trump-antifa-immigration/
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1365/open-libel-laws/
That's pretty awful.
What baloney.
"...used by them to impose even more power..."
So, it's *our* fault?!?!
No one was referring to the left in general, but to those in the media in its various forms, like Amy Goodman who pushed the Russia-gate narrative on her morning talk show, and the Intercept unwilling to publish Greenwald's piece on Hunter's laptop, etc, etc. Blumenthal even mentioned to Mate how the left wing sites had changed during the Trump years. I guess you missed it, like you missed my point.
It's about the money.
Amnesty started taking that sweet dosh so its top staff could get the big money. Suddenly they are astroturfing pro-Trans protests all over Britain, Europe and the US with identical signs and swag all designed and distributed by Amnesty.
Like what does political prisoners of conscience have to do with fetishists in women's clothing? Answer: Foundations like those headed by Martine Rothblatt and Jennifer Pritzker who give these NGOs money with these strings attached.
Yes you got it. NGOs are laundering politics from big money donors.
Another of Orwell’s foresights… the ending of 1984 is so tragic to me because it’s absolutely true… these evil people can torture you enough to make you renounce everything you hold dear just to be left alone. Power for power’s sake.
Yes. Power.
Trump and Covid radicalized the left into accepting bizarre paradigms as virtue. And to be sure, many on the right are quietly going along with it too. They are going to block anyone who falls into any field of "extreme" as defined by them.
Extreme is anything that challenges the official narrative in a dangerous way. Which is way "flat earth" gets a pass.
Trump and Covid were just an excuse for an already radicalized Left to pursue power through any and all means without restraint. The craziest thing is that Democrats are actively pushing all the buttons to get us to civil war so they can claim the high ground and use the military against the citizenry.
Nothing left about what's left in the Democratic Party. Liberals have always opposed the left even more than the right during my lifetime. As I child I remember the CDC, California Democratic Council. The California Democratic party official shut it down because it actually took leftist stands, outside the approved establishment lines. The only thing that makes the Democratic Party 'left' is the framing in the present-day mainstream media.
100%. I'm left. The Democrats represent my positions in NO WAY WHATSOEVER. At this point (the people calling themselves) The Democrats are WAY to the right (on stuff like foreign policy) of (the people calling themselves) Republicans.
Got to agree. But we need new terminology that serves as shorthand. left and right are convenient but inaccurate
I actually think that the "radicalized Left" is a total cut-out, or sock-puppet for Power. Emmanuel Goldstein, all day long. When the shit hits the fan, the blame will be assigned to Lefties, as usual. The DNC, of course, should not be confused with anything Left; they are a "Corporation," and have nothing to do with the "Will of the People."
They were catalyzers for the ingredients already present for sure.
Not too paranoid, not at all.
As far as I know, "the Right" has NOT censured anyone. What has Donald Trump censored? FYI Donald Trump is NOT right wing despite conventional wisdom on the lying media.
You have to go back to Bush Cheney, who's administration laid the groundwork for the abuses today.
But Bush/Cheney was immediately followed by Obama. What did the Constitutional law professor do to re-enforce our 1A Rights and stop the skid? Oh yeah, wiretap Rosen's phone, or something like that. The Obama crowd likes it, likes it, yes they do. Power is cool.
Cheney, and Jeff Bush were primary signatories on the project for a New American Century, that is they are neocons pushing a world wide agenda of war and they are very much behind what is going on in Ukraine and will continue till the last Ukrainian is dead. Oh, how they couldn't depend on the Donald for that, since to their horror he wanted to get along with Russia.
True but the are certainly people on the right who’d do what the Dems are because power. How do we better ID these types without the old labels? Idk. But it’s humans with the desire for power who are the problem and that can come in many flavors
Blocking (as on social media) or ignoring someone is not the same as de-platforming them. The latter is evil and has never ended well.
Ok, agreed, I used the wrong term.
Because of Trumps precieved intolerance, the left, in order to show how diferent they were, took tolerance to radicle new heights. Never mind that in said tolerance were the seeds of an intolerance twice as strong as whatever Trump was supposed to have.
The right is only motivated in defense of what the left is doing.
When the Revolution comes to town and demands to know "Who's side are you on?" all principles and morals are replaced by one simple question: Who/Whom?
Better buy some ammo in case the wrong revolution comes to our doors.
Who/Whom are my chosen pronouns.
lolol
When you say "these people" in the United States, you mean partisan Democrats. Right now, with everything going on and the "free press" shilling their propaganda, Democrats are power-drunk like never before. This is only the beginning.
The hubris is just amazing. Do they really not understand that one day in the not so distant future the shoe will be on the other foot, and they'll come to rue the precedents they've established during this period?
They are clearly not worrried about it, and that has me worried.
Indeed. None of them seem concerned about winning elections anymore.
This is a great question and one that has perplexed me for decades. Look at what Harry Reid did with the Senate Nuclear option. Before that there was the Biden Rule on Supreme Court picks. They do these radical things for immediate benefit and then scream bloody murder when the Republicans turn the tables on them using the very policies and precedents that they started.
I think the difference today is that the mainstream media used to be the power that kept political power in check for blatant hypocrisy. Now the Dems know they can go scorched earth and get cover by the media, and if the GOP tries the same the media will go scorched earth on the GOP.
My perspective is that we finally met the enemy, and it is our media.
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They do not understand because they don't believe they will never NOT be in power. They all act as if they never have to try and win an election again.
Bc they will cheat to win in every election, which they have done for years.
There is only 1 (one) shoe in a Fascist narrative.
Trump happened. And there is no amount of cognitive dissonance they can't endure and foist on the public to defend their irrational hatred of that man. I can accept that they need psychiatric help on that score, but cannot accept their killing trust in ... everything to stay in denial about it.
Man, you just said a mouthful!
The US freezes the money of entire countries. Can't understand why other countries trust their money in US banks/UK banks in the first place. Can't understand why anyone would use gofundme or PayPal. Can't understand why anyone goes through a third party to donate to reporters or causes they support. The way we've headed, with CBDCs and digital IDs to be forced upon everyone, we're about to lose all control. REFUSE TO GET the next round of shots for whatever pandemic is next. Refuse digital IDs and vaccine passports.
Exactly! Now is the time to not do what you're told!
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/now-is-the-time-to-not-do-what-youre
This is the power of public backlash. The first go-around with dumb covid rules, too many people meekly went along with the scam, and a large portion of people who resisted did so quietly by staying home.
Now is the time to get loud and tell the ‘leaders’ to shove their arbitrary and convoluted rules that don’t make a bit of difference in the first place. No to mask mandates. No to mandated testing. No to booster jabs that were authorized without long-term safety data. And most of all, no the idea that the ‘leaders’ have the power to do any of those things in the first place.
A Storm is Brewing
The storm has already begun
What are the ROE?
ROE??
"Can't understand why anyone goes through a third party to donate to reporters or causes they support."
Substack uses a third party to donate to Matt and all the others. Unless you mail the reporters cash, you MUST use a third party. And guess whih way all of these service providers lean... pro-gov't narrative.
USE CASH. BUY LOCAL. DIY.
I donate all the time and don't use those third parties.
All these organizations appear to be bought and paid for. Red Cross never was made to disclose what they did with the relief funds to Haiti. And they lecture the common people while they steal the money for the poorest dark skinned people in the western hemisphere. These institutions, even Amnesty International are rotten to the core.
Didn't The Clinton Foundation raise a lot of money for Haiti?
I think they took the administration of the USAID funds. If Hilary had just stolen half the money and used the other half to aid Haitians, it would have practically rebuilt Port au Prince. She could have bought some package water and sewer plantss. GE has fleets of them to deploy for emergencies. If you did nothing else, emergency aid is supposed to stop Cholera and the other waterborne diseases that go with the profile. I saved the pictures of Haitians dying on the ground with their medical supplies were those blue disposable pads with an IV out of them. That was followed by mass graves. Instead of building them infrastructure, they gave them "latrines" which are buckets. Even though they know that eventually a bucket used for waste will be used to carry water, ensuing cholera. These gluttons with their glutton daughter took the emergency fund money from the poorest people in our region, although they already had enough money to want for nothing until they die and into perpetuity for Howdy Doody, their glutton daughter.
Shameful acts, by people who have no shame. Why aren't these stories publicized across all media?
People tired to get accountabilty and a person could piece it together from what was known.. A delegation from Haiti came up and openly protested at Clinton sites and still nothing happened, the media didn't "hear" about it. They have been protecting these corrupt politicians before Biden.
This story was publicized at the time and only the "fringe" took issue with it. Now we know that a group of Mengele scientists can kill 6 million humans by releasing a Franken Virus on us, and they are poised to take center stage again for another round. It looks like a large swath of the sheeple want to hope that things will return to normal if they just keep their heads down. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief
https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-finds-fundamental-concerns-about-red-cross-finances
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-releases-memo-red-cross-haiti-earthquake-relief-response-finds-red
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/red-cross-haiti-black-hole-accountability-international-aid
They really are and the biggest self righteous hypocrites
Hmm. I agreed a lot of orgs haven proven to be (somewhat) rotten. Not disclosing is possibly rotten. Possibly incompetent (in the sense of lost control of the accounting). Can you share more facts? A reference?
https://www.insider.com/donating-to-american-red-cross-critics-sound-alarms-haiti-earthquake-2021-8
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief
https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-finds-fundamental-concerns-about-red-cross-finances
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-releases-memo-red-cross-haiti-earthquake-relief-response-finds-red
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/red-cross-haiti-black-hole-accountability-international-aid
Red Cross does take your money. Use Samaritans Purse.
They have all lost their way. Now they are regime orgs.
Let's add the ACLU while we're at it.
The ACLU can't help out with 1A issues. It's too busy suing to get an imprisoned man who murdered a child some "gender-affirming care," according to reporting today. A murderer not get sex-change surgery in custody is "cruel and unusual" punishment per that formerly great civil liberties organization. What explains that?
Amnesty’s disgusting anti-ISRAEL posture (pro far left pro-terrorist) showed their true colors long before COVID.
What happened to them? They are captured, too.
They’ve all been corrupted. Sadly, Human Rights Watch sucks too.
There's a lot of stuff to be angry about, but, Covid lockdowns aren't it. They were well-meaning and often effective ways of controlling a deadly disease.
You couldn't be more wrong. Lockdowns did not work and they do not work. Not now, not ever.
The flu season is in the winter BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE CROWD TOGETHER INSIDE. That's when IFLIs - like coronaviruses - actually spread.
You have ZERO idea what you're talking about AND manage act smug about it.
Amazing.
They were not effective and caused learning loss for kids as well as economic devastation. Go hide inside with another booster and mask this winter.
There were pros and cons. Go ahead and argue that the cons outweighed the pros, but only an idiot would claim that the lockdowns were literally not effective at curbing the spread of the disease.
You couldn't be more wrong. Lockdowns did not work and they do not work. Not now, not ever.
The flu season is in the winter BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE CROWD TOGETHER INSIDE. That's when IFLIs - like coronaviruses - actually spread.
You have ZERO idea what you're talking about AND manage act smug about it.
Amazing.
I don't give a s**t about the flu. We were talking about Covid. You know that Covid isn't the same as the flu, right?
There is a mountain of statistical evidence that lockdowns were effective at curbing the transmission of the virus. Do you have any studies that you can point to to support your assertion that lockdowns "did not work"? Or do you think that if you repeat it enough on an internet forum, that makes it true?
Even bill gates admitted that Covid was not nearly as dangerous as it was claimed. Of course, he said this AFTER cashing out his vaccine stock to the tune of a $500 million profit.
Sure. I said that the lockdowns curbed the spread of the disease, not that it had a particular level of "dangerous-ness."
Agreed.
Same here. After that, gofundme was dead to me.
Me too. I'm surprised people still use them. Maybe they haven't been sufficiently publicly shamed.
I live in the Bay area. The vast majority are uninformed. To them, any "authority" that's aligned with the Democrat party can do no wrong. No counter information gets through.
Tell them to spend an evening strolling down Market Street in the reeking shambles that used to be one of the premier cities in the world! Let them know in no uncertain terms that the responsibility for that falls upon the “Supermajority” headed by Gavin Newsom along with Mayor London Breed and Communist DA Chesa Boudin who decided that chasing down Covid “deniers” and shuttering businesses over a manufactured plandemic was more important than prosecuting actual crimes! That was the death knell for San Francisco. I and millions of others grieve for that once wonderful city which I have no doubt will be purchased for pennies on the dollar by Blackrock and Vanguard and turned into a “15 Minute City” with 24/7 surveillance at the demand of the beleaguered residents! Then watch how fast the “homeless problem” will disappear into the newly built Blackrock prisons leased by the Dems to “provide homes” for the sociopaths who now clog the streets.
The same is happening in Seattle and Portland.
I left Seattle reluctantly 8 years ago, my husband's long final illness forced us into homelessness and a relocation to hicksville to live with the cousins.
I now realize that was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
All my life friends in the Bay Area have fretted over ”The Big One”!
Sooner or later, there’s gonna be a quake that’ll make 1906 look like a high school dance, they’d say.
Well, the big one came, it was called the Tech boom, and no one really noticed as Herb Caen’s Bagdad-by-the-Bay ended up flatter than a crepe suzette.
Plus ça change, plus ça change for the worse.
Same here. When my friends ask for help through GoFundMe, I always send them a message asking if they would consider using a different fundraising app, and where I can send a paper check. We need to let people know, if they want to raise money, they need to use an organization with integrity. GoFundMe steals from people.
Me too
Yeah, the trucker convoy was what kept me from donating to the Grayzone fundraiser initially. Glad I didn't throw that money out the window. I haven't heard of the second site they chose, but I am a fan of GiveSendGo.
Agree completely! Acting in accord.
They were unduly canceling folks long before the CA Truckers.
Yep. Just about anyone deemed 'unwoke' lost money to those bastards, even pre 2020.
Don't worry; BlackCock will give them more money...
when will former lefties stop trusting Big Lefty Tech?
Search for Christian crowdfunding sites, and use them.
Me too, Fig! I was outraged with that whole thing plus that woman who led the cause being arrested, etc.
I deleted my gofundme account and sent them a strongly worded letter! I'm sure they were quaking in their boots then! Ha.
Was the money raised for Canadian trucker convoy ever forwarded to them or refunded to donors?
Mine was refunded.
Same
Thanks...I had been wondering because frankly, you never know.
It was about 6 weeks after I sent $25.00.
It's so altruistic what they do though!!l lol 😆
Yeah they stole my donation to the Truckers too. Give Send Go is the best, but I will donate to the Antiwar one with their site. I use Go FundMe only for family tragedies if they are using the site.
This is why we've been screaming about this issue for so long -- it never ever ever stops at the 'bad' people. Once you allow government -- via law or censorship -- to determined what is and isn't 'allowable' speech, dissent is QUICKLY determined to be unallowed. That's why the First Amendment is first -- without it, none of the other rights matter because you'll never be allowed to speak up.
Edit: The writing was on the wall after what happened in Canada.