I'm afraid WILL happen here is more on the mark now. Absent valid elections I don't see any peaceful way to remove the megalomaniacs who've installed themselves in DC. I'm not going to let those self serving, mentally disturbed monsters subjugate me and I'm not willing to get into a long, profoundly damaging fight so, although costly, I've decided to end exposure to DC; which means ending US citizenship regrettably. I truly hate being forced to leave the US. DC is the problem, not America.
Agree it’s DC. But it’s a really big country with some good places. I’m puzzled why you want to leave. For one, the grass only seems greener on the other side of the fence. For another, we need people here who still love this country and are willing to stand up against the nonsense.
There are fundamentally wonderful communities across our nation, but DC has jurisdiction over all of them. I've been doing my homework and, for my circumstances at least, there is absolutely a way to enjoy a free, peaceful life by leaving. I understood what was happening when vote counting stopped in swing states which were about to determine the election, followed by in your face ballot box stuffing (how could any reasonably astute person not understand??). So, again, how does one stand up for our nation, peacefully, absent valid elections? I wish those who remain the best, including of course many family members and friends, though I'm not at all optimistic for them. Perhaps I should note I was a combat arms soldier in my younger years, which may be one reason I don't want to get caught up in a serious fight. There are too many beautiful, peaceful, free places in this world to choose that path at this point in my life.
There are other ways to fight. Gentle ways. But I for one have decided to make my stand here for better or worse. There are wonderful places elsewhere in the world however, so I hope you find a place you love.
I love my country, I know I can never really be anything but American. I love my countrymen. It has absolutely nothing to do with the stupid morons now in office. I've traveled enough to know there are big flaws in every country and imbeciles in charge. I'll stay here and go down swinging if I have to. Not going to let the likes of the Plucky Beagle Torturer run me out.
I agree. As awful as things currently are, it’s only worse elsewhere and I think many Americans still hand a lot of fight left in them! We must stay strong!
There's no were else to go that's better. No matter how bad it is here it's worse in every other part of the world (i play video games w lots of people from all over the world, & they tell me this).
Besides, we need your vote. Don't leave now, else we certainly can't elect people who can change this (if everyone has this mindset). U can have it in ur pocket as a last resort, but at least give the American people & the constitution time to see if we can overcome this. I agree with your sentiment, but i think u are giving in too fast.
Hang in there for another few years, with ur plan ready to go. U can also move to Florida or Texas & away from the craziness, as an option (tho i realize that takes finances & not everyone has that capability. I know i don't have the ability to move to another state right now).
I assumed there were no better options most of my life, when there was really no reason to think of leaving, but having now done some careful research I know I was wrong. The options aren't realistically available to everyone but there are absolutely wonderful options outside the US for some Americans. However leaving in a well planned fashion, even in my relatively simple case, is no small feat. I figure it will take 4 to 5 years, although I'll move much faster if it looks like DC is going to try to bar the door to keep the average Joe under their control; as authoritarians are inclined to once they seize enough power. Everyone must look at their particular circumstances and make their own choices. This isn't a one size fits all option.
agree with twztid13, there is no place to go. Learned it moving out of NJ to Southwest VA. If it takes over in DC, it'll take over everywhere. If they can try out the jabs in unknown places in Africa, they can reach you. More so, because if they find you out there, there will be even fewer other humans to either help you or witness whatever they do to you/us. We have to reach and educate as many people first, and if that doesn't work, we have to fight where we are. We might gather in places like Texas, Florida, Tennenssee, wherever, but eventually we may need to fight. But first we need to make these people see their sickness, or at least anyone who isn't gone.
We all must take a stand as in make our OWN choice. It's the GOD given right of the individual to make such a choice. Having an opinion on the matter is one thing, but choosing to to say something like a "Real American" would do this or that. How is that any diff than what the commieCRATS are doing with fear porn they spew and trying to divide people? Jeff to me sounds as if he has used his critical thought and reasoned all out as he should and for him he has made the choice to leave. Its not like he does not support all his friends and family he is leaving behind. Just sayin...
I for one will go down with the ship if need be. I've never once considered remotely leaving the greatest country in the world! USA USA USA and will fight for it's premise of "being" as originally laid out by the forefathers in breaking from the tyranny across the pond...
The term "real American" alludes to those who believe in America as an idea and ideal. Nothing to do with dividing people; rather it's more about bringing together all those people who treasure the highest ideals of this experiment known as America...no matter from whence they hail, whether native born or immigrants (legal immigrants).
Just stop. People told me the same thing when I left California for Tennessee (best decision ever, BTW.) I wasn't willing to sacrifice my family for a hopeless state where most people are content with their political situation and overtly hostile to those who aren't. My family and peace-of-mind are worth more than their ignorance and general nastiness.
I was born in the US, lived most of my life in the US (some overseas) and served in the United States military. But I'm also cognizant of present realities. While wishing all peaceful, freedom loving people the best I'm going to act in a well informed, rational fashion. US elections are no longer credible, I refuse to be subjugated by self serving authoritarians in DC and no I am absolutely not going to get involved in a long, dreadfully damaging fight. That leaves one real world option; moving to a life of peace and freedom elsewhere (that used to be the United States).
Well, some folks are scared, with good reason. BLM can riot, and the VP helps them make bail. Then again, some folks attend school board meetings, and the DOJ calls them terrorists. There's a long list of abuses by Joke Biden's wingman, but we do what we can in our own way...and maybe a little more. So keep your dukes up, and watch their left hook.
Where will you go? The whole world closed at the same time. Tell me what countries are free? Don't believe those youtubers telling you about how fabulous other countries are. They aren't. And in other countries, people will see you as a rich American they can rip off.
I believed that to be true until I looked. Those who have a realistic opportunity to leave must do their own homework to find what suits them. Plus the set of opportunities depends on unique variables but the countries tend to be smaller, some less developed and some highly developed. Incidentally I don't look rich, because I'm not, and I won't be an American any more.
You will always be an American. Outside of the USA, people will see you as a walking ATM. They will love bomb you and it will cost you real money, they even got me! There is no such thing as assimilation, the rest of the world is not as inclusive as America. Outside of America, you are there to support everyone you meet. I've lived outside of America for 3 and a half years, because it's more affordable as a retired person, but when I spent a month in San Diego recently, it was heaven compared to every other place. So expensive though. I don't look rich either, but everyone can tell you have a little more than locals, and they want what you have. You are not special, it happens to everyone, even me, even you. Will you believe me or people who make money from peddling their conferences and bogus services? My advice is the best, and I don't charge!
BTW an easy way to get a general sense as to the opportunities, and challenges, is to view some of the many videos available at the Nomad Capitalist channel. But details specific to each individual require considerable homework, unless you can afford to hire someone like Andrew as a consultant.
I was going to discuss Nomad Capitalist. There are so many shills on youtube, Andrew being one of the worst, who make money from misrepresenting the crappy countries they want you to move to. Here is the truth about most of these countries. Yes, you can make an exciting video about the modern, trendy beach bars. But walk a few blocks into the real country, and you will be shocked at the horrible infrastructure, the poverty, the begging, the scams, the lack of real shopping and fresh food, etc. etc.
I was suckered into moving to Albania immediately after retirement. There was a Facebook shill promoting the Albanian Riviera town of Sarande. Several other shills who lived there provided more info. Tirana, the capital city, is a shithole, but Sarande was worse. You can't get fresh food there, the farmers market is filthy and disgusting, doing the smallest errand involves middlemen and bribes, etc. While I was there, a young woman on our FB group was held hostage by her employers at the beach bar, and FB people gave her advice on how to leave. She left Albania, another victim of the hype. She was lucky not to be trafficked.
I left Albania suddenly, because my Albanian landlord, who was recommended by someone on that same FB group, started harassing me about paying my utility bill, which was not mine, but huge, obviously for the whole building. There was a group of men in suits waiting for me outside. I put the landlord off, and left on the ferry to Corfu. I'm not a deadbeat, but if I had stayed, I would have paid that huge bill which wasn't mine, because it's better than getting slapped around by those guys in the car.
People came to the glamourous Albanian Riviera from cruise ships, they wanted to have lunch at the beach cafes, which were empty because the locals knew not to eat there. I saw tourists eating in those places, they didn't look happy. Whenever I went out to eat, I was served undercooked frozen food. Albanians will boast of their cafe culture. The cafes are actually bars. They serve coffee, but most people, men in track suits, drink alcohol, even in the morning.
I had similar experiences in Montenegro and other shitholes recommended by Andrew. I never hired him, but please be careful. If you look him up, you will find many consumer complaints. He takes people's money but doesn't do the work. You're on your own.
The developing world is worth traveling in, I'm in Tijuana now and like it, but Mexico is not anything like the USA. Hot water is a luxury. Tap water is dangerous, you have to sanitize everything you eat. Put toilet paper in the garbage, don't flush. Watching videos by shills is not research. Good luck.
Jeff, is there one country in particular you'd prefer to live in? There are many I wouldn't mind especially since I'm retired and wouldn't need to be employed but once living elsewhere I might not feel the same way after learning of the local political situation. Of course one can always ignore politics and just live your life but that could be done here as well as so many do. Imo I would not advise giving up your citizenship until you've been somewhere else for a few years. At one time I considered Australia or New Zealand but recent covid events soured me on those countries. Freedom of speech seems worse than here in many European countries. I guess the question is where wouldn't you feel subjugated?
You didn't ask me, but let me share a concern. I'm now in Mexico, because I happened to be in Europe when whole world closed at once. I had great difficulty getting out of Europe, because the discrimination against Americans, especially unvaxxed, was over the top. The authorities at Sofia airport and CDG in Paris went out of their way to keep me off my flights, finally let me on at the last minute. When I got on the plane to Mexico, I felt like an escaping political prisoner.
The lesson here is that all governments have been bought by the same people. You can't trust any government, USA or other, to respect your human rights. One day you're enjoying the beach, the next day the beach is closed. Or whatever Herr Schwab says. So IMO, the best country is the one where you have a peer group and some high profile politicians who will protect you. In any foreign country, you're on your own, and many hate you for the actions of the US govt. In Montenegro, there were places that wouldn't serve me pizza because of what NATO did to their brothers in Serbia. I had nothing to do with that and opposed it, but an American abroad is responsible for everything. If you can't be sure of getting pizza, will you trust the gov't to respect your human rights? The EU is every bit as evil as the US govt, the difference is that in Europe, you don't have political rights, while in the USA you have a peer group and a human rights infrastructure, and most restaurants will serve you.
Until you spend time abroad, you will never have any idea of how your status is affected. In tourist areas, the tourist is a cash cow, everyone will be nice, but walk a few blocks away, and you have no rights. I'm in Tijuana now, it has a lot going for it, and I can walk to San Diego if anything changes. If you want to start somewhere, try TJ, in Playas, near the beach. Very nice, safe neighborhood, family friendly, not as rough as downtown. Not so good with plumbing, but much safer than the EU.
I remember traveling when the Vietnam war was ongoing and seeing many Americans pretending to be Canadian with the maple leaf flag sewn onto their backpacks or jackets.
Then stay, support your fellow citizens in pushing peacefully for a Convention of States, using Article V of the US Constitution to take back power and restore state sovereignty! Join us!
Yup. They need to find as many "domestic extremists" as they can - it's the Dems' only hope for the midterms. And if they can't find any real ones, they'll just make some up:
Beagle torture? Pushing deadly Remdesivir that was even too dangerous for Ebola patients? Quashing IVM and HCQ? Directing the coverup of GoF research and sliming the real subject matter experts? So many reasons to hate this evil prick.
Evil is the most accurate word for him. It makes me incredibly happy to see this - at least knock the little dwarf down a notch or two. I think I hate him more than I've ever hated anyone in my lifetime.
Millions. Happy fingers - down to one functioning eye as a direct result of the lockdown. Have a detached retina?? It needs immediate surgery - not, "our center is closed for Covid."
We flew out of Seattle last Thursday after 24 years. Moved the family to Texas. Never thought I’d see the day, but we’re happy as hell. Washington is such a beautiful place, but there’s a real darkness in the people there. I know that sounds dramatic, but it’s the only way to describe it that makes sense. The PNW has turned nasty over the past few years.
I'm from the south but used to live in Oregon. That area of the country has taken an extreme turn for the worse. A LOT of mental illness there and moral superiority. It's so sad because Oregon and Washington especially are beautiful areas with (previously) kind people.
Still kind people here. It has gotten bad though from liberal voters. But listen to those boo’s! That means people ARE paying attention & know that Fauci is a big, fat liar. It’s not scientific but proves it for me. There’s still hope for Seattle - at least baseball fans are still Americans!
I've visited Seattle, Portland, PNW. What (in your opinion) has made the PNW so insane since covid? I mean... it seems more insane than liberal NYC and suburbs... ???
Welcome to TX. I’m in Austin and while there are plenty of “liberal” nuts in Austin proper it’s still way better than the east coast and the area the illiberal nuts hold is small.
Thank you! We’re in West Houston until late October, then Katy. And as a native upstate New Yorker and Washington state transplant I agree with you, Austin is till more tolerable than both places. Very glad the kids will grow up here.
They suffered because of lack of vitamins ( D,C, mineral Zinc, etc ) in their diets, genetic propensity for poor kidney function ( diabetes ) so the Remdesivir killed them more quickly and more frequently then other races and thirdly they trust Western doctors ( or did ) and tend to be a little over kill in running to a hospital or clinic with an injury or sniffle. Then they are captured by being given a fake Covid text ( PCR low and behold Positive - go figure , Gates and Soros bought the test manufacturing company ) and off they are wheeled in to make the hospital $ 30,000. per head. They are particularly unsuspecting because they trust, and tend to be more gullible ( I don't want to use this word but I cannot think of a better one right now).
Bless their innocent hearts. I hope they have learned for the next go round of injections, which is ramping up now. They are the " Covid Injections " because they CAUSE " " Covid "
I just read an article with CEO of Whole Foods & he is a good conservative, pro-capitalist. We need more that think like him. Socialism sucks! Update: maybe he’s not “ conservative”, used to be a hippy guy, but understands the benefit of free market. Competition is good & one world economy only benefits 1%. It’s like slavery. Don’t buy into the lies.
Funny. I’m a native Long Islander. I spent two years in Troy, NY before transferring schools.
You’ll be safe in Houston and Katy just stay away from the medical center area. People seem to like the woodlands a lot too. I’ve been here 12 years and spent much time in Houston.
It’s true that Austin is Seattle wannabe but only in the urban core which is small and Gov Abbott saved us from some of the idiocy of Major Adler (a-hole).
Actually, you are 100% correct. The best place is really the place that has a small liberal core, usually in the center of the town, but not enough liberals to ruin the place. That usually happens in medium sized towns.
Hi - I’m still living in Seattle, but getting ready to pull the plug too. We’re just trying to decide if we’re moving to a different state or across the state. Good luck to you!
Totally. We were out in Puyallup and spent most of our time around Tacoma. As you said, not as bad as Seattle proper but in our opinions noticeably worse from when we first arrived in the late 90s. There was a real “live and let live” vibe back then. Now, not so much.
we also just left Blue Silicon Valley, CA for Idaho on Monday. Lived in the Bay Area for 40 years, but finally broke when we weren't allowed to see our families due to Covid, but it was totally encouraged that we could protest with others and cause damage to local businesses because of "social justice." That and seeing drug users shooting up in parks where my kids play on the playgrounds. Took us a year or so to arrange it, but we finally left. So far, LOVING it here. Congrats on also escaping!
Good luck to you! Congrats on the move. It’s amazing to me how many people I know personally who have moved in the last couple of years. Virtually everyone I know who isn’t deeply progressive is talking about making a move soon.
It's how we felt when we moved out of Michigan last November. I grew up there, lived most of my life there, and still love the state, its lousy pro sports franchises, and most of its people. My company is based there and I have family there but the thought of going back gives me extreme anxiety.
Like your description of Washington, it's no longer the place I grew up in. Knowing that enough people in Michigan happily support Whitmer, Nessel and Benson and that all three will most likely be re-elected fuels my reluctance.
And that was one of the big deciding factors for us, watching people we know vote blue and then complain about the fallout, but continue to vote blue no matter how badly those policies were hurting them.
A lot of people assumed I strutted away from Washington with both middle fingers in the air. Not the case. I really didn’t want to leave. If we didn’t have kids, we probably would’ve stayed and just kept to ourselves for the scenery and the food.
be wary of the Katy schools - they have a lot of liberals too. We moved farther out west to escape them. The small towns don't have the educational amenities but the small school sizes and hometown teachers more than make up for it. My kids were at the top of their class and still stuggled a bit starting out at college (a&m), but they caught up and are fine now. Definitely worth it to me.
You might want to rent a car till you get your new plates. I wouldn’t worry too much about a teachers political bent: liberal or not. One of my girls (went to private school), and one of her teachers in her high school years was a communist……I mean it was in her DNA. Well, our daughter absolutely loved this teacher…….they would have huge arguments over democracy or communism or just the way of thinking. All you really want in a teacher (in my humble opinion) is someone who teaches you to think.
I think that would be a great experience. Unfortunately the liberal activist teachers I've heard about at the colleges (there are even some at tamu) expect you to parrot back their ideas to them and not argue with them or you will get a bad grade. I think times have changed and the teachers on the left will no longer tolerate dissent.
I don't want my kids quarantined either, and I doubt there is really any way to do that short of homeschooling. Where we are there are definitely liberals but they are more the working class hispanic and african american liberals. I think we have much more in common with them than we do the white elite big city liberals. And our schools aren't free of the activist teacher types, but I knew who was who and kept the conversation going at home with my kids if they were in those classes. That's the best we can do. They have to be prepared to handle that when they're out on their own.
and it's true - we all glare at the drivers of cars with CA or NY plates - Washington and Oregon probably get it too. We don't want to lose our way of life here.
Thing is, people like me are moving here because we align with this way of life. Not because we want to change the way of life. That’s why I’m confused by the glares. We chose this place because it aligns with our values. I expected more of a “welcome home” than a “why are you here?” But again, if that’s my biggest complaint…
We did it for our kids, too. We just wanted them to experience normal schools and normal people. We're in a county that never locked down nor mandated anything.
Our friends still in Michigan firmly believe that everything is normal there and don't understand why we moved. I told them to wait until Gretchen Redux and then decide how "normal" everything is.
ejsmith …. And Rashida Tlaib … if you want an ear full .. read Eric Starkman !! Benson’s husband is in bed with Stephen Ross U of M school of business.
I’m orig. from Michigan too. I’ve always wanted to go back, but now I can’t see that happening unless something drastically changes. So many of my friends I fear have been psychologically damaged since Covid plus many sick with ailments out of the blue and they won’t even consider that it might be from the vaccine. Very sad!
The Midwest city where I lived saw many move to Seattle. Often they came back and forth. Yes, extremely dark. They hate tradition. They hate any good. They see misery everywhere. My son lived there for a few years then after having been gone for 10 years, went back to see it. He said it was the haves and have nots. While sitting having coffee, the homeless were tapping on window and terrorizing customers. My son loved Seattle many years ago. He was horrified and it really changed him. He saw evil.
I was born in Seattle and have lived in Western WA for many, though not all, years. I used to look forward to going to Seattle for a day of amusement but now I avoid going into that filthy, decrepit, crime ridden city unless I have no choice...and then I leave as soon as possible. Most all areas around Seattle, outside the urban sprawl, are still beautiful and peaceful.
I recently spent 10 days in Seattle (suburbs, actually). I was surprised at how mean and angry the people were in general. I grew up in the suburbs of a gritty mid-western city and have lived/worked in another for the past 25+ years and I travel to/through all portions of the socio-ecnomic strata of both. So, I am not pollyannish about normal human interaction nor am I expecting everywhere to be like Mayberry, RFD. No friendly greetings as people passed while strolling along. Just plain mean road-rage type stuff for normal driving (i.e. taking turns so 2 lanes of traffic merging to a single lane type stuff). The person I was with hailed from Seattle but has lived in the mid-west for most of adult life. Also very put off by the rudeness and meanness of Seattle peeps. It did not align with fond growing-up memories and the physical beauty of the place.
That's a great description. I have noticed something similar with my old friends who never left Manhattan. They don't seem to want to laugh at anything anymore, except approved topics. They have incredibly homogeneous views that mostly revolve around hating those seen as deplorable. It is a little like the creepy planet in A Wrinkle In Time.
We fled as well after 50 years. To Arizona. Still spend summers up here but that will probably change too. Walking to our car after that Mariners game was like a scene from a horror movie. Huge rats everywhere at least 5 people shooting up on the sidewalk, stepping over tents to get to our car and garbage everywhere. Seattle used to be a beautiful city. Now it is a nightmare.
I’ve lived in and around Seattle my whole life. What really changed things for me was the protests last summer. After the CHAZ/CHOP thing ended, one of the BLM factions protested every single day on a different roadway. They often stopped traffic on I-5 and I-90. They wouldn’t let ambulances through. They recorded themselves doing it day after day after day. After months of this, it finally petered out on its own. The cops and city officials did absolutely nothing about it.
Secondly is the drug use out here. I live in a very middle class area, which now feels like a ghetto. The grocery store I shop at has a group of guys dealing drugs every day in the parking lot. It’s not hidden or anything. The other store near me closed one of their doors, has hired armed security, and built a turnstile at the entrance. I don’t feel safe going to the grocery store - it’s crazy! When I mention my concerns about crime to people, they dismiss it. That really gets me. I’m not an alarmist by any means, but I can’t believe how much people will defend the indefensible out here. I think it’s time for me to go elsewhere.
People's brains have been wrecked by partisan politics. It was the same in SF. The rumors are true, the whole South of Market area, aka former health tech capital of the world, smells like human feces. But people feel like they would be giving political cover to some imagined bogeyman if they admit it, so they just avert their gaze and claim it's still a great place to be.
If anyone saves SF it will be the mostly Chinese immigrants who care more about their well being and quality of life than standing on some BS virtue-signalling ceremony.
"If anyone saves SF it will be the mostly Chinese immigrants who care more about their well being and quality of life than standing on some BS virtue-signalling ceremony."
And not to be stereotypical, but their community is very much like the Chaldean community in the Detroit area. Nothing was handed to them, they appreciate the opportunities this country affords them, they busted their asses for everything they have, have the most to lose, and will do anything and everything necessary to preserve it.
Yeah we were in a middle class area in Washington near a military base. Over the past few years our grocery store became a tweaker hangout and home to a homeless encampment. And the week before we left a guy OD’d and dropped dead in the middle of a main road. Unheard of for that area. Graffiti everywhere, it’s pathetic. And all they can talk about is Trump and anti-vaxxers. Just pathetic.
this is why we all have our guard up in Tx. We don't want this to happen in our towns. There are already a ton of panhandlers in katy but thankfully no "camping" so far that I've seen
The comments on this area of the "bulletin board" (below "Susana") depict more truth of the world than the mainstream media does, much more I mean. Many cities have their characteristic psychoses, in which politics lives next door to crime, each faction oblivious to the other. They think there is some "liberal paradise" in the neighborhood. Walk through the area. See if you can find any such thing. There is a kind of a false evaluation of what the real America is, that you are supposed to buy into. If that liberal environment does not really exists, then what does? The kind of information on this part of the website under Berenson's name has to make it out to the greater outside world and shame these people who keep trying to prop up a wrong version of how stuff really in in the world. We need truth-tellers. (p.s. I am trying to get a newsletter together; this is really slow, plodding work but I have two recent newsletter articles up now that reflect some of my current thinking).
Not all of the PNW has turned dark and nasty - mostly just Seattle and Portland. Gosh, I wonder why? Maybe "defund the police" and "support Antifa" has something to do with it. The rest of the great PNW is mostly conservative. Wanna see Trump 2020 signs? Drive on most country roads 30 or so miles away from Sodom and Gomorrah and they are everywhere.
True. Unfortunately those areas don’t set policy. There’s plenty of sane people in Washington, no doubt. But the scourge in Olympia that fomented neighbor vs. neighbor for the last three years sets the tone. We could ignore it until it affected daily life during the lockdown, then it became untenable. Now it’s just got a different vibe. Like when one party in a relationship violates the trust of the other. We can never go back to normal in my mind.
"Like when one party in a relationship violates the trust of the other. We can never go back to normal in my mind."
This is well said and how I feel with my community. I live in WI, and the Gov here was mostly kept in check on Covid by the legislature and the WI supreme court. However, I'm in Madison and the community did their best to make up for it with draconian Covid policy. First day of school this September will be the first day my child attends school without a mask since March 2020. I now carry a level of distrust and resentment toward neighbors and the community at large for allowing this. I'm ready to get out, but got to convince my better half.
Left 11 months ago after living in Kitsap county for over 20 years. Thought we would be safe over by the military bases from the darkness. But, I was wrong. The the formation of the Office of Equity was the final straw for me. I saw what that sort of groupthink has done to South Africa. I now understand how the Jews felt during the rise of the Nazis and their darkness in Germany. We moved to the east coast of Florida to escape. Have been blessed with a Governor in Florida that is trying to protect the citizens. The best of luck to y’all.
We lived in Seattle in 1969 ad 1970, and our daughter was born there, and went back a number of times as we still had relatives there. It was just lovely in the PNW at that point in time, and we loved Seattle. You couldn't pay us to go back there now, not even for a quick visit.
Today I had a non-urgent doctor appointment with a dermatologist. I walk in and they have a mask sign on the door, the nurses are wearing masks, and they hand me a mask. I told them I don't trust any doctor who is still doing that and it is irrational, and I canceled and left the office. We all can all say no to crazy.
that's a tough choice too - dermatologists that take new patients are hard to find, at least in my area. And the available appts are usually a year out
I think it's a federal regulation masking in health care facilities, but please correct me if I am wrong. I generally do not patronize businesses that require masks.
Actually, I went to a different big healthcare facility today to get medical records and there was no mask requirement, and I saw about 10-20 percent of people wearing masks. Most of the staff did not. And better yet, I went to another doctor office today (grouping my visits) and there was one medical assistant with a mask and I told her supervising nurse that I was not comfortable with masks and she asked the assistant to remove it, and she complied.
Yes! I’m asking any employee wearing a mask serving me to remove it. I tell them it makes me uncomfortable. Some do some don’t. If they don’t, I wait for another employee or leave the store
I don’t know if it’s a federal regulation. I went to my dentist in a large city yesterday. Dentist and hygienists all masked, but not receptionist and no signage demanding that patients wear them in the lobby. My chiropractor, though, still insists on masks, temp and oxygen level check before services because a he’s “health care”. I really like this guy and have gone to him for more than 10 years, but I’m not going back. It is crazy.
Most of the people I know love being abused by the State, including by this little monster. If he told them to mask up today, I've little doubt 80%+ of the city would. There's probably 5-10% that still haven't taken off their face diapers.
Yeah, even in Florida. Wife and I took our kids to see a movie this weekend and it was about 15%!
What's crazy is a lot of them were teenagers/young adults OR the worst...parents without one on and having their kids in tote with their faces muzzled!
I’m in Seattle too and I have to hope it’s getting better. Even the most dedicated mask/vaccine advocates are getting fatigued, I mean we are going into year 3 and masks/vaccines haven’t worked.
I’m in Seattle as well, and I’m hoping/praying it gets better. I’m simultaneously looking to go, the question being whether I’m going to Eastern WA or a different state altogether. I’ve recently started disconnecting myself from people/things that continue to push the vaccine/mask nonsense. For example, I’ve been friends and had a working relationship with a local woman for many years. Covid has become her. It’s all she talks about, it’s all she thinks about. She talks at me rather than with me and assumes I’m in full agreement with her. I finally decided to break up the work relationship and distance myself from it. I just can’t stand the constant complaining about the unvaccinated and people “not doing the right thing.” Once I made the decision, it’s like a huge weight has been lifted. I didn’t realize what a downer it was to listen to her week after week. I’m leaving gracefully, not making it about her or covid, but I already feel so much better!
Likewise, I’m coming to the conclusion that some friendships are not worth keeping. I love the person, but we’re just in such different places that I feel the things we used to have in common are no more. I’m not formally breaking up with my friends, just not making as much effort anymore. I feel like the cords that keep me tied to Seattle have been getting severed one by one - sometimes by me, and sometimes by something else. I probably never would have left Seattle if the last two years hadn’t happened. Now, I’m mentally in a place where I’m ready when the door opens. Good luck to you.
Your second paragraph sounds like my husband and I. We've been in Seattle since 1987. It's not the same place I loved. We have been slowly losing friends too -especially over the past 4 years. We keep our mouths shut about politics. The closest we come to outing ourselves is to play devils advocate sometimes-which is probably enough to out us as non believers. I see things posted on FB or Twitter by people I know. So much pointed hate and arrogance about politics and weird self righteousness about masks and vax. We'll probably move too. Idaho looks pretty good to me. If we leave, none of our "friends" will care or miss us at all. The Seattle "freeze" in action.
We keep quiet, too, but I think that leads everyone else to the impression their views are universally accepted, no matter how kooky, which means the kookiest ideas become universal.
I had a hard time biting my tongue the other day. A friend who lived out here 20 years ago was coming back for an evening on his way back home. And, he wanted to get all the people together he knew back then. Well, 3-4 of them are lefties I haven't seen in years and, surprise, surprise, are looking to move out of the city itself because it's so disgusting. One said he's looking in my neighborhood. There was absolutely no self awareness.
I wanted to slap him, but that wasn't the right move on an old friend's brief visit.
Not with our grown kids & their kids. Still masking. And now they have 🦠 Hmmmm. As they try to figure out where they got it, it’s so hard not to say…from the spike in YOUR bodies!
I wish it had been a stadium full of children, 5 years from now, when they figure out they're the ones who are going to pay the long-term cost of this abomination.
Maybe we end up in a situation where the ideal weight of a fart goes from zero lbs to something else. That can get messy.
Whole lotta these evil people be sharting their pants right now. I think the shit is gonna be slung around enough between the perpetrators that regular folks are gonna be able to "smell" the wicked shit hitting the fan.
Once they do; I think folks are gonna get angry about the poison they were served . I think they'll be looking to serve shit sandwiches.
His explanation was even more hilarious: he practiced at an elementary school.
It's perfect allegory: Although the data was publicly available, he couldn't even be bothered to find out how far away the plate actually was -- then he made an idiot of himself when he used that faulty knowledge in the real world.
I thoroughly believe that all the withheld and suppressed vaccine injury information will explode and be revealed if Trump is the nominee. That is the only card left to get rid of him, and I think they are holding it until the end after nothing else works. Technically, he pushed for them, so you could say he is the Covid vaccine father. It won't matter if Biden and crew are the ones that pushed them and resulted in jobs lost and enlisted leaving the military in droves. If the masses were gullible enough to believe a newly invented vaccine was 95% effective.... telling them Trump is to blame will be a piece of cake. They will wait until he is the nominee to have all the information come out. Technically, the info is out there now; over half the country has no idea it exists because their news sources don't tell them.
Let’s see…..Warp Speed Vaccine development, Fauci was under Trump. Trump had his opportunity to listen to truth, but RFK Jr’s influence was ignored and his group disbanded. Trump’s a total idiot. How about someone with a functional brain like DeSantis (sp).
Does it matter? The raid on Mar a Lago was a message to conservatives. "We'll do whatever the f**k we want. All you can do is take it or prove to everyone you're an extremist domestic terrorist".
Yes, that is their message loud and clear, and it does matter and whatever side of the aisle you're on it should be extremely concerning the use of these tactics.
But despite their message and their attempts to intimidate, the ability to indict somebody goes beyond tossing somebody's house. As you said this has been in play for years and they have yet to make anything stick to Trump or his family.
My point was it doesn't matter because it's all bullshit anyway. This was all about the message and the distraction. They are setting up the situation that "justifies" the vote counts that keep them in power.
Nobody has been looking for the mechanism used in the last election. But the Jan 6 committee and every time the MSM uses words like unjustified or outrageous or any of the other adjective used to discredit anyone that questions the validity of the last election shows me there is a mechanism they are hiding. Everyone is so caught up in the theatre they've stopped looking.
Very good point. And it's very scary and sad our country is in such decline. I've heard that it was discovered illegal aliens are now openly on the voter rolls in North Carolina and be giving driver's licenses and this is all another part of the plan that's being used that will ensure future elections run their way.
I seriously hope America at large wakes up and notices. There may be indications of that. It appears in the primaries over the last several weeks that many Trump backed candidates are winning, including over incumbent Republicans. You also have some large Democrat donors questioning their own party. Steve Kirsch, who has a great Substack about vaccine injuries and how bad the COVID-19 vaccine is, is a mega donor for the Democrats and now he is saying he doesn't feel that same way. He was on Tucker Carlson last night, Brian Kilmeade was in for Tucker. Apparently he's given over $20 million to Democrats in the past and said that it was Fauci and Biden, the CDC, NIH, and FDA, that broke his trust and totally have lied about what he calls the most dangerous vaccine ever. He never mentioned Trump at all and reading the comments on his stack, I'm a subscriber to that as well, it doesn't appear there's a whole lot of Trump loving people, but trust is wavering for the Democratic party.
I was going to talk a little more about the passage of the IRA, but in (actual) breaking news, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort today. I’ve previously talked about how the FBI is now simply a political weapon (and maybe always has been), but the openness in which the administration engages in their political war is shocking. From the blatant political persecution of the 1/6 prisoners to the ‘domestic terrorist’ designation of concerned parents and covid ‘misinformers’, this administration is sending a clear message — oppose us at your peril. After all, if they can go after a former president, what chance do you have?
What do you think the 87,000 new IRS agents funded by the Bumble Back Broker Inflation Reduction Act will be doing? It’s not to audit the 700ish billionaires in the country — it’s to attack dissenters the way that Obama attacked dissenters in the Tea Party. There’s a reason that Democrats unanimously voted down an amendment that would ban new IRS funds from targeting people earning less than 400,000 a year:
It’s the same reason that they want to be able to snoop on your bank transactions if you make more than $600 in transactions IN A YEAR: complete control. (Ask Runnin’ Justin about that sometime) Even if you’re completely innocent and eventually exonerated, the process is the punishment. Just like a bumpy ride back to the police station is a ‘lesson’ for the town drunk, an IRS audit or FBI investigation is a ‘lesson’ for those who dare stand up to Joe Biden
You are 100% correct on the 87,000 new IRS agents. In fact their new hire posting reads in part, "Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary. Be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments."
(I heard that the listing was taken down/changed but haven't verified if that is in fact the case)
This is like Lois Lerner on steroids! Why exactly does an IRS agents need to carry a firearm and why would they be executing search warrants and have dangerous assignments? All part of a plan to never lose again.
I totally agree. I’ve been predicting that for a year. They’ll trot out every vaccine injured person to claim that Trump did this and we need MORE regulations to make sure it never happens again.
Interesting. And so true that you could easily not know about vaccine injury if you didn’t seek out the information. Same as with the actual risk of covid. Amid all the hype, it was hard to find the information that this virus was not all that dangerous for the vast majority.
The minute Trump can be associated in a negative way, all the vaccine embracers will forget the Biden mandates, canceled people and military members lost and pivot and blame Trump. All cable channels will trot out one vaccine injured person after another. The Twitter, Facebook and YouTube suppression of any negative remarks about the vaccine make sense when you see this possibility.
And isn't it sad that people will be so duped! Yes Trump put operation warp speed into motion but it was Fauci et al that overseed the development and the trials and the data and everything else that they falsely and deceitfully put out.
Sociopaths have no emotional reaction to other’s opinions or pain. He is just tone deaf to considerations like these. This behavior is diagnostic. We must never underestimate our ability to be fooled again by “people” like him.
The few wokester yuppies in Seattle who went... The booers are from the small rural towns as those would be the majority of the people who might still go to games...
No kidding! But you would be surprised at how many empty nester kulaks (farmers and small businessmen) from surrounding communities might still go to games or take grandkids...
He’s like that bad cough that keeps lingering and you hate it because it won’t go away. You begin to wonder if you’re stuck with it forever and then voila, you’ve kicked it. I’m hoping he’s kicked soon…so far that we never see him again.
We were at that game but missed Fauci's first pitch and were shocked later on when we saw him on the big screen as they announced he was in attendance. A bunch of Yankees fans in front of us stood for him! We of course booed very loudly and heckled those fans with a little more gusto the rest of the game. A crazy extra innings game which ended in victory. Go Mariners! Boo Fauci!
Fauci is the biggest FRAUD on the planet. Lies about everything. Even lied about his ability to throw a baseball. He’s en embarrassment to all MANkind.
Never mind the booing….who is clapping for this guy? What exactly has he done to invoke such feelings of warmth amongst these people? He represents the very worst type of evil that has delivered suffering and misery to millions throughout history. He’s incompetent, corrupt, cunning, deviant and entirely without any semblance of a moral compass. He’s part of a gutless cabal made up of politicians, media figures, celebrities and useless bureaucrats that are responsible for countless wrecked lives and suffering. You feckless hand slapping seals. When you ultimately feel the consequences of your mindless boot licking I wonder if then the reckoning will will be accompanied by deep regret.
That look at the Nationals game though. Just depressing time of tyranny. All those players masked, stands empty, and announcers making excuses for one of the most embarrassing first pitches in history from supposed super baseball fan Fauci.
Being a member of the autocracy, Fauci is painfully unaware of the lack of respect he has engendered. The CDC has allowed Fauci to continue his loathsome pursuit of self aggrandizement. The resulting implosion has ruined the reputations of America’s public health institutions.
Went to one of Inslee’s town halls back when he was a senator and was slack-jawed watching him do partisan bashing. Realized then, he is no statesman and just another partisan operative.
He has infiltrated Canada, manipulating tactics with Trudeau. Suddenly Moderna is the elected injected over any long standing Canadian vaccine developers, despite the injuries caused. Thinking this is about profit gains via public market stock vs private.
Oh, God. I’m so, so sorry……….Canadians, resist if you can. Unfortunately, I think, especially with Trudeau still there, it’s a losing battle. Trudeau is just as demeaning as Fauci.
Just the fact that he makes these celebrity appearances tells me he is egotistical and has no sense of shame or self-awareness. The man clearly suffers from some psychological disorder of which I am not qualified to diagnose.
Can you imagine how difficult it was for him to labor in anonymity all these decade while knowing that he was saving our lives every second, every minute, every hour of every day. It must’ve been maddening. It obviously was maddening because he’s gone mad.
Hopefully he will be his last time doing this he should lose everything for what he has done. Fauci imaginary imagination his at 5 years old are people to affraid to speak up and say to him that what you see and hear is not true!
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The FBI was probably in the stands taking pictures of the booers.
Sounds crazy but eventually tyrannies become that paranoid and fearful of the population.
Plenty of historical examples. It CAN happen here. Let’s not let it.
I'm afraid WILL happen here is more on the mark now. Absent valid elections I don't see any peaceful way to remove the megalomaniacs who've installed themselves in DC. I'm not going to let those self serving, mentally disturbed monsters subjugate me and I'm not willing to get into a long, profoundly damaging fight so, although costly, I've decided to end exposure to DC; which means ending US citizenship regrettably. I truly hate being forced to leave the US. DC is the problem, not America.
Agree it’s DC. But it’s a really big country with some good places. I’m puzzled why you want to leave. For one, the grass only seems greener on the other side of the fence. For another, we need people here who still love this country and are willing to stand up against the nonsense.
There are fundamentally wonderful communities across our nation, but DC has jurisdiction over all of them. I've been doing my homework and, for my circumstances at least, there is absolutely a way to enjoy a free, peaceful life by leaving. I understood what was happening when vote counting stopped in swing states which were about to determine the election, followed by in your face ballot box stuffing (how could any reasonably astute person not understand??). So, again, how does one stand up for our nation, peacefully, absent valid elections? I wish those who remain the best, including of course many family members and friends, though I'm not at all optimistic for them. Perhaps I should note I was a combat arms soldier in my younger years, which may be one reason I don't want to get caught up in a serious fight. There are too many beautiful, peaceful, free places in this world to choose that path at this point in my life.
There are other ways to fight. Gentle ways. But I for one have decided to make my stand here for better or worse. There are wonderful places elsewhere in the world however, so I hope you find a place you love.
I love my country, I know I can never really be anything but American. I love my countrymen. It has absolutely nothing to do with the stupid morons now in office. I've traveled enough to know there are big flaws in every country and imbeciles in charge. I'll stay here and go down swinging if I have to. Not going to let the likes of the Plucky Beagle Torturer run me out.
Also agree voting is not a trustworthy way to change anything here.
Jeff...all of your points are so very valid, and I for one would not blame anyone for wishing to leave if they choose.
I agree. As awful as things currently are, it’s only worse elsewhere and I think many Americans still hand a lot of fight left in them! We must stay strong!
There's no were else to go that's better. No matter how bad it is here it's worse in every other part of the world (i play video games w lots of people from all over the world, & they tell me this).
Besides, we need your vote. Don't leave now, else we certainly can't elect people who can change this (if everyone has this mindset). U can have it in ur pocket as a last resort, but at least give the American people & the constitution time to see if we can overcome this. I agree with your sentiment, but i think u are giving in too fast.
Hang in there for another few years, with ur plan ready to go. U can also move to Florida or Texas & away from the craziness, as an option (tho i realize that takes finances & not everyone has that capability. I know i don't have the ability to move to another state right now).
I assumed there were no better options most of my life, when there was really no reason to think of leaving, but having now done some careful research I know I was wrong. The options aren't realistically available to everyone but there are absolutely wonderful options outside the US for some Americans. However leaving in a well planned fashion, even in my relatively simple case, is no small feat. I figure it will take 4 to 5 years, although I'll move much faster if it looks like DC is going to try to bar the door to keep the average Joe under their control; as authoritarians are inclined to once they seize enough power. Everyone must look at their particular circumstances and make their own choices. This isn't a one size fits all option.
agree with twztid13, there is no place to go. Learned it moving out of NJ to Southwest VA. If it takes over in DC, it'll take over everywhere. If they can try out the jabs in unknown places in Africa, they can reach you. More so, because if they find you out there, there will be even fewer other humans to either help you or witness whatever they do to you/us. We have to reach and educate as many people first, and if that doesn't work, we have to fight where we are. We might gather in places like Texas, Florida, Tennenssee, wherever, but eventually we may need to fight. But first we need to make these people see their sickness, or at least anyone who isn't gone.
Real Americans, no matter what country them came from, don't run away from a fight when the Republic needs them.
We all must take a stand as in make our OWN choice. It's the GOD given right of the individual to make such a choice. Having an opinion on the matter is one thing, but choosing to to say something like a "Real American" would do this or that. How is that any diff than what the commieCRATS are doing with fear porn they spew and trying to divide people? Jeff to me sounds as if he has used his critical thought and reasoned all out as he should and for him he has made the choice to leave. Its not like he does not support all his friends and family he is leaving behind. Just sayin...
I for one will go down with the ship if need be. I've never once considered remotely leaving the greatest country in the world! USA USA USA and will fight for it's premise of "being" as originally laid out by the forefathers in breaking from the tyranny across the pond...
The term "real American" alludes to those who believe in America as an idea and ideal. Nothing to do with dividing people; rather it's more about bringing together all those people who treasure the highest ideals of this experiment known as America...no matter from whence they hail, whether native born or immigrants (legal immigrants).
Just stop. People told me the same thing when I left California for Tennessee (best decision ever, BTW.) I wasn't willing to sacrifice my family for a hopeless state where most people are content with their political situation and overtly hostile to those who aren't. My family and peace-of-mind are worth more than their ignorance and general nastiness.
Big difference between moving from state to state and abandoning your country.
I was born in the US, lived most of my life in the US (some overseas) and served in the United States military. But I'm also cognizant of present realities. While wishing all peaceful, freedom loving people the best I'm going to act in a well informed, rational fashion. US elections are no longer credible, I refuse to be subjugated by self serving authoritarians in DC and no I am absolutely not going to get involved in a long, dreadfully damaging fight. That leaves one real world option; moving to a life of peace and freedom elsewhere (that used to be the United States).
I haven’t seen any fight yet, Rosie. Only people accepting the tyranny
Well, some folks are scared, with good reason. BLM can riot, and the VP helps them make bail. Then again, some folks attend school board meetings, and the DOJ calls them terrorists. There's a long list of abuses by Joke Biden's wingman, but we do what we can in our own way...and maybe a little more. So keep your dukes up, and watch their left hook.
Where will you go? The whole world closed at the same time. Tell me what countries are free? Don't believe those youtubers telling you about how fabulous other countries are. They aren't. And in other countries, people will see you as a rich American they can rip off.
I believed that to be true until I looked. Those who have a realistic opportunity to leave must do their own homework to find what suits them. Plus the set of opportunities depends on unique variables but the countries tend to be smaller, some less developed and some highly developed. Incidentally I don't look rich, because I'm not, and I won't be an American any more.
You will always be an American. Outside of the USA, people will see you as a walking ATM. They will love bomb you and it will cost you real money, they even got me! There is no such thing as assimilation, the rest of the world is not as inclusive as America. Outside of America, you are there to support everyone you meet. I've lived outside of America for 3 and a half years, because it's more affordable as a retired person, but when I spent a month in San Diego recently, it was heaven compared to every other place. So expensive though. I don't look rich either, but everyone can tell you have a little more than locals, and they want what you have. You are not special, it happens to everyone, even me, even you. Will you believe me or people who make money from peddling their conferences and bogus services? My advice is the best, and I don't charge!
BTW an easy way to get a general sense as to the opportunities, and challenges, is to view some of the many videos available at the Nomad Capitalist channel. But details specific to each individual require considerable homework, unless you can afford to hire someone like Andrew as a consultant.
I was going to discuss Nomad Capitalist. There are so many shills on youtube, Andrew being one of the worst, who make money from misrepresenting the crappy countries they want you to move to. Here is the truth about most of these countries. Yes, you can make an exciting video about the modern, trendy beach bars. But walk a few blocks into the real country, and you will be shocked at the horrible infrastructure, the poverty, the begging, the scams, the lack of real shopping and fresh food, etc. etc.
I was suckered into moving to Albania immediately after retirement. There was a Facebook shill promoting the Albanian Riviera town of Sarande. Several other shills who lived there provided more info. Tirana, the capital city, is a shithole, but Sarande was worse. You can't get fresh food there, the farmers market is filthy and disgusting, doing the smallest errand involves middlemen and bribes, etc. While I was there, a young woman on our FB group was held hostage by her employers at the beach bar, and FB people gave her advice on how to leave. She left Albania, another victim of the hype. She was lucky not to be trafficked.
I left Albania suddenly, because my Albanian landlord, who was recommended by someone on that same FB group, started harassing me about paying my utility bill, which was not mine, but huge, obviously for the whole building. There was a group of men in suits waiting for me outside. I put the landlord off, and left on the ferry to Corfu. I'm not a deadbeat, but if I had stayed, I would have paid that huge bill which wasn't mine, because it's better than getting slapped around by those guys in the car.
People came to the glamourous Albanian Riviera from cruise ships, they wanted to have lunch at the beach cafes, which were empty because the locals knew not to eat there. I saw tourists eating in those places, they didn't look happy. Whenever I went out to eat, I was served undercooked frozen food. Albanians will boast of their cafe culture. The cafes are actually bars. They serve coffee, but most people, men in track suits, drink alcohol, even in the morning.
I had similar experiences in Montenegro and other shitholes recommended by Andrew. I never hired him, but please be careful. If you look him up, you will find many consumer complaints. He takes people's money but doesn't do the work. You're on your own.
The developing world is worth traveling in, I'm in Tijuana now and like it, but Mexico is not anything like the USA. Hot water is a luxury. Tap water is dangerous, you have to sanitize everything you eat. Put toilet paper in the garbage, don't flush. Watching videos by shills is not research. Good luck.
Jeff, is there one country in particular you'd prefer to live in? There are many I wouldn't mind especially since I'm retired and wouldn't need to be employed but once living elsewhere I might not feel the same way after learning of the local political situation. Of course one can always ignore politics and just live your life but that could be done here as well as so many do. Imo I would not advise giving up your citizenship until you've been somewhere else for a few years. At one time I considered Australia or New Zealand but recent covid events soured me on those countries. Freedom of speech seems worse than here in many European countries. I guess the question is where wouldn't you feel subjugated?
You didn't ask me, but let me share a concern. I'm now in Mexico, because I happened to be in Europe when whole world closed at once. I had great difficulty getting out of Europe, because the discrimination against Americans, especially unvaxxed, was over the top. The authorities at Sofia airport and CDG in Paris went out of their way to keep me off my flights, finally let me on at the last minute. When I got on the plane to Mexico, I felt like an escaping political prisoner.
The lesson here is that all governments have been bought by the same people. You can't trust any government, USA or other, to respect your human rights. One day you're enjoying the beach, the next day the beach is closed. Or whatever Herr Schwab says. So IMO, the best country is the one where you have a peer group and some high profile politicians who will protect you. In any foreign country, you're on your own, and many hate you for the actions of the US govt. In Montenegro, there were places that wouldn't serve me pizza because of what NATO did to their brothers in Serbia. I had nothing to do with that and opposed it, but an American abroad is responsible for everything. If you can't be sure of getting pizza, will you trust the gov't to respect your human rights? The EU is every bit as evil as the US govt, the difference is that in Europe, you don't have political rights, while in the USA you have a peer group and a human rights infrastructure, and most restaurants will serve you.
Until you spend time abroad, you will never have any idea of how your status is affected. In tourist areas, the tourist is a cash cow, everyone will be nice, but walk a few blocks away, and you have no rights. I'm in Tijuana now, it has a lot going for it, and I can walk to San Diego if anything changes. If you want to start somewhere, try TJ, in Playas, near the beach. Very nice, safe neighborhood, family friendly, not as rough as downtown. Not so good with plumbing, but much safer than the EU.
I remember traveling when the Vietnam war was ongoing and seeing many Americans pretending to be Canadian with the maple leaf flag sewn onto their backpacks or jackets.
Then stay, support your fellow citizens in pushing peacefully for a Convention of States, using Article V of the US Constitution to take back power and restore state sovereignty! Join us!
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It IS happening here...and we voted our way in. You don't get out of a tyranny by voting.
Tyrannies don't become tyrannies by trusting their population, especially where voting is concerned.
Yup. They need to find as many "domestic extremists" as they can - it's the Dems' only hope for the midterms. And if they can't find any real ones, they'll just make some up:
https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/press-release/whistleblowers-fbi-leadership-pressuring-agents-to-artificially-pad-domestic-terrorism-data/
I know you're kidding, but Dems now doing what they do best - poke the bear.
They're just itching for everyone else to start something...never mind...it's them. Always.
My first thought also!
And the IRS.
My daughter was at this game and joined the chorus of booing. 👏 She’s well versed at 18 yrs old on why he deserves to be booed.
Was it his history of AIDS testing on Orphans in New York that set them off?
Beagle torture? Pushing deadly Remdesivir that was even too dangerous for Ebola patients? Quashing IVM and HCQ? Directing the coverup of GoF research and sliming the real subject matter experts? So many reasons to hate this evil prick.
Evil is the most accurate word for him. It makes me incredibly happy to see this - at least knock the little dwarf down a notch or two. I think I hate him more than I've ever hated anyone in my lifetime.
Or, maybe the AIDS drug testing on 1,000 of Africans?
Or his experimenting on beagles by cutting their vocal cords and allowing flies to swarm all over the dogs.
Maybe it was the $Milliions he got to turn monkeys "trans." Or abusing dogs.
Millions. Happy fingers - down to one functioning eye as a direct result of the lockdown. Have a detached retina?? It needs immediate surgery - not, "our center is closed for Covid."
Wish she had a megaphone speaker!
We flew out of Seattle last Thursday after 24 years. Moved the family to Texas. Never thought I’d see the day, but we’re happy as hell. Washington is such a beautiful place, but there’s a real darkness in the people there. I know that sounds dramatic, but it’s the only way to describe it that makes sense. The PNW has turned nasty over the past few years.
I'm from the south but used to live in Oregon. That area of the country has taken an extreme turn for the worse. A LOT of mental illness there and moral superiority. It's so sad because Oregon and Washington especially are beautiful areas with (previously) kind people.
Yeah Oregon is a way sadder story than Washington. Heartbreaking what happened to Portland.
Still kind people here. It has gotten bad though from liberal voters. But listen to those boo’s! That means people ARE paying attention & know that Fauci is a big, fat liar. It’s not scientific but proves it for me. There’s still hope for Seattle - at least baseball fans are still Americans!
I've visited Seattle, Portland, PNW. What (in your opinion) has made the PNW so insane since covid? I mean... it seems more insane than liberal NYC and suburbs... ???
Drugs and stress, I think.
Welcome to TX. I’m in Austin and while there are plenty of “liberal” nuts in Austin proper it’s still way better than the east coast and the area the illiberal nuts hold is small.
Thank you! We’re in West Houston until late October, then Katy. And as a native upstate New Yorker and Washington state transplant I agree with you, Austin is till more tolerable than both places. Very glad the kids will grow up here.
Austin is filled with mask wearing Fauci fanatics.
It’s not so bad anymore unless you’re in central market, Whole Foods or other illiberal magnet. Even that’s not too bad.
Latinos are curiously some of the most frequent maskers but that community suffered disproportionately due to obesity and poverty mostly
They suffered because of lack of vitamins ( D,C, mineral Zinc, etc ) in their diets, genetic propensity for poor kidney function ( diabetes ) so the Remdesivir killed them more quickly and more frequently then other races and thirdly they trust Western doctors ( or did ) and tend to be a little over kill in running to a hospital or clinic with an injury or sniffle. Then they are captured by being given a fake Covid text ( PCR low and behold Positive - go figure , Gates and Soros bought the test manufacturing company ) and off they are wheeled in to make the hospital $ 30,000. per head. They are particularly unsuspecting because they trust, and tend to be more gullible ( I don't want to use this word but I cannot think of a better one right now).
Bless their innocent hearts. I hope they have learned for the next go round of injections, which is ramping up now. They are the " Covid Injections " because they CAUSE " " Covid "
This is a Psych Ops in Darwinism
https://rumble.com/v1f09rz-avi-baraks-interview-with-viral-immunologist-dr.-jessica-rose.html
I just read an article with CEO of Whole Foods & he is a good conservative, pro-capitalist. We need more that think like him. Socialism sucks! Update: maybe he’s not “ conservative”, used to be a hippy guy, but understands the benefit of free market. Competition is good & one world economy only benefits 1%. It’s like slavery. Don’t buy into the lies.
The problem is they are there... ready to by activated by CNN or MSNBC.
Be careful, they look like normal humans!
Austin is going downhill and fast as a "sanctuary" city. It is really WEIRD.
Katy must be paradise compared to Washington state but still too shitliberry for me. I’m thinking Tyler
Tyler is nice.
Keep stopping by Tyler on road trips out of Houston. Definitely growing on me as a better place to be.
Funny. I’m a native Long Islander. I spent two years in Troy, NY before transferring schools.
You’ll be safe in Houston and Katy just stay away from the medical center area. People seem to like the woodlands a lot too. I’ve been here 12 years and spent much time in Houston.
It’s true that Austin is Seattle wannabe but only in the urban core which is small and Gov Abbott saved us from some of the idiocy of Major Adler (a-hole).
And the food is wonderful.
Actually, you are 100% correct. The best place is really the place that has a small liberal core, usually in the center of the town, but not enough liberals to ruin the place. That usually happens in medium sized towns.
Actually, there are beautiful places in every state...it's just that leftists and politics ruin the living conditions. Good luck in Texas.
And ugly in every state, absolutely. We considered Texas our “least worst” option. Thanks.
Hi - I’m still living in Seattle, but getting ready to pull the plug too. We’re just trying to decide if we’re moving to a different state or across the state. Good luck to you!
Come east, my friend! We did! I love a “neighbor’s” sign at the entrance to her farm…WELCOME, and if you aren’t, you’re within range!
We may join you soon! We’re waiting until the end of the year before starting the job hunt again.
Its strange but I know what your talking about. I am down in Tacoma and its not as bad as Seattle proper.
Totally. We were out in Puyallup and spent most of our time around Tacoma. As you said, not as bad as Seattle proper but in our opinions noticeably worse from when we first arrived in the late 90s. There was a real “live and let live” vibe back then. Now, not so much.
Sadly, the dream of the '90s is no longer alive in Portland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8BsX3IIa4
we also just left Blue Silicon Valley, CA for Idaho on Monday. Lived in the Bay Area for 40 years, but finally broke when we weren't allowed to see our families due to Covid, but it was totally encouraged that we could protest with others and cause damage to local businesses because of "social justice." That and seeing drug users shooting up in parks where my kids play on the playgrounds. Took us a year or so to arrange it, but we finally left. So far, LOVING it here. Congrats on also escaping!
Good luck to you! Congrats on the move. It’s amazing to me how many people I know personally who have moved in the last couple of years. Virtually everyone I know who isn’t deeply progressive is talking about making a move soon.
We fled the bay area for Utah, just arrived this month. Loving it so far!
It's how we felt when we moved out of Michigan last November. I grew up there, lived most of my life there, and still love the state, its lousy pro sports franchises, and most of its people. My company is based there and I have family there but the thought of going back gives me extreme anxiety.
Like your description of Washington, it's no longer the place I grew up in. Knowing that enough people in Michigan happily support Whitmer, Nessel and Benson and that all three will most likely be re-elected fuels my reluctance.
And that was one of the big deciding factors for us, watching people we know vote blue and then complain about the fallout, but continue to vote blue no matter how badly those policies were hurting them.
A lot of people assumed I strutted away from Washington with both middle fingers in the air. Not the case. I really didn’t want to leave. If we didn’t have kids, we probably would’ve stayed and just kept to ourselves for the scenery and the food.
be wary of the Katy schools - they have a lot of liberals too. We moved farther out west to escape them. The small towns don't have the educational amenities but the small school sizes and hometown teachers more than make up for it. My kids were at the top of their class and still stuggled a bit starting out at college (a&m), but they caught up and are fine now. Definitely worth it to me.
p.s change your license plates asap
Good to know about the schools. We signed up for Katy Christian Academy for this year, just in case that turned out to be the case.
I don’t want my kids quarantined from liberals, mind you. Just activist liberal teachers who want to program instead of teach.
And yeah, soon as our stuff arrives we’ll get our new plates. Felt that a few times already. Kinda disappointed in the hostility tbh. Seems petty.
But that’s my biggest issue so far, so I’m content.
You might want to rent a car till you get your new plates. I wouldn’t worry too much about a teachers political bent: liberal or not. One of my girls (went to private school), and one of her teachers in her high school years was a communist……I mean it was in her DNA. Well, our daughter absolutely loved this teacher…….they would have huge arguments over democracy or communism or just the way of thinking. All you really want in a teacher (in my humble opinion) is someone who teaches you to think.
Our daughter got straight A’s and a conservative.
I think that would be a great experience. Unfortunately the liberal activist teachers I've heard about at the colleges (there are even some at tamu) expect you to parrot back their ideas to them and not argue with them or you will get a bad grade. I think times have changed and the teachers on the left will no longer tolerate dissent.
I don't want my kids quarantined either, and I doubt there is really any way to do that short of homeschooling. Where we are there are definitely liberals but they are more the working class hispanic and african american liberals. I think we have much more in common with them than we do the white elite big city liberals. And our schools aren't free of the activist teacher types, but I knew who was who and kept the conversation going at home with my kids if they were in those classes. That's the best we can do. They have to be prepared to handle that when they're out on their own.
Ok, I’ve got my stupid hat on, but what is a Katy school? Also, you are right about changing license plates…..I had to chuckle on that one.
and it's true - we all glare at the drivers of cars with CA or NY plates - Washington and Oregon probably get it too. We don't want to lose our way of life here.
Thing is, people like me are moving here because we align with this way of life. Not because we want to change the way of life. That’s why I’m confused by the glares. We chose this place because it aligns with our values. I expected more of a “welcome home” than a “why are you here?” But again, if that’s my biggest complaint…
It’s how we feel here in AZ. We are still pretty red and fear the transplants will bring their politics with them.
Katy, TX. Town west of Houston.
Thank you!
sorry - he mentioned earlier in the thread that he was moving out to Katy eventually. Thats a suburb west of Houston
Thanks……..I have removed my stupid sign.
That took a lot of strength.
We did it for our kids, too. We just wanted them to experience normal schools and normal people. We're in a county that never locked down nor mandated anything.
Our friends still in Michigan firmly believe that everything is normal there and don't understand why we moved. I told them to wait until Gretchen Redux and then decide how "normal" everything is.
Hope your kids are safe from guns in your “normal” schools. Those “crazy” Democrats want to get rid of guns! Now isn’t that a crazy leftist idea 😝
Damn right…..that’s a crazy leftest idea. Don’t mess with Constitutional rights, period.
ejsmith …. And Rashida Tlaib … if you want an ear full .. read Eric Starkman !! Benson’s husband is in bed with Stephen Ross U of M school of business.
Tlaib's a nutcase. I'm not surprised about Benson's husband.
I’m orig. from Michigan too. I’ve always wanted to go back, but now I can’t see that happening unless something drastically changes. So many of my friends I fear have been psychologically damaged since Covid plus many sick with ailments out of the blue and they won’t even consider that it might be from the vaccine. Very sad!
The Midwest city where I lived saw many move to Seattle. Often they came back and forth. Yes, extremely dark. They hate tradition. They hate any good. They see misery everywhere. My son lived there for a few years then after having been gone for 10 years, went back to see it. He said it was the haves and have nots. While sitting having coffee, the homeless were tapping on window and terrorizing customers. My son loved Seattle many years ago. He was horrified and it really changed him. He saw evil.
I was born in Seattle and have lived in Western WA for many, though not all, years. I used to look forward to going to Seattle for a day of amusement but now I avoid going into that filthy, decrepit, crime ridden city unless I have no choice...and then I leave as soon as possible. Most all areas around Seattle, outside the urban sprawl, are still beautiful and peaceful.
I recently spent 10 days in Seattle (suburbs, actually). I was surprised at how mean and angry the people were in general. I grew up in the suburbs of a gritty mid-western city and have lived/worked in another for the past 25+ years and I travel to/through all portions of the socio-ecnomic strata of both. So, I am not pollyannish about normal human interaction nor am I expecting everywhere to be like Mayberry, RFD. No friendly greetings as people passed while strolling along. Just plain mean road-rage type stuff for normal driving (i.e. taking turns so 2 lanes of traffic merging to a single lane type stuff). The person I was with hailed from Seattle but has lived in the mid-west for most of adult life. Also very put off by the rudeness and meanness of Seattle peeps. It did not align with fond growing-up memories and the physical beauty of the place.
That's a great description. I have noticed something similar with my old friends who never left Manhattan. They don't seem to want to laugh at anything anymore, except approved topics. They have incredibly homogeneous views that mostly revolve around hating those seen as deplorable. It is a little like the creepy planet in A Wrinkle In Time.
Nice reference!
We fled as well after 50 years. To Arizona. Still spend summers up here but that will probably change too. Walking to our car after that Mariners game was like a scene from a horror movie. Huge rats everywhere at least 5 people shooting up on the sidewalk, stepping over tents to get to our car and garbage everywhere. Seattle used to be a beautiful city. Now it is a nightmare.
I’ve lived in and around Seattle my whole life. What really changed things for me was the protests last summer. After the CHAZ/CHOP thing ended, one of the BLM factions protested every single day on a different roadway. They often stopped traffic on I-5 and I-90. They wouldn’t let ambulances through. They recorded themselves doing it day after day after day. After months of this, it finally petered out on its own. The cops and city officials did absolutely nothing about it.
Secondly is the drug use out here. I live in a very middle class area, which now feels like a ghetto. The grocery store I shop at has a group of guys dealing drugs every day in the parking lot. It’s not hidden or anything. The other store near me closed one of their doors, has hired armed security, and built a turnstile at the entrance. I don’t feel safe going to the grocery store - it’s crazy! When I mention my concerns about crime to people, they dismiss it. That really gets me. I’m not an alarmist by any means, but I can’t believe how much people will defend the indefensible out here. I think it’s time for me to go elsewhere.
People's brains have been wrecked by partisan politics. It was the same in SF. The rumors are true, the whole South of Market area, aka former health tech capital of the world, smells like human feces. But people feel like they would be giving political cover to some imagined bogeyman if they admit it, so they just avert their gaze and claim it's still a great place to be.
If anyone saves SF it will be the mostly Chinese immigrants who care more about their well being and quality of life than standing on some BS virtue-signalling ceremony.
"If anyone saves SF it will be the mostly Chinese immigrants who care more about their well being and quality of life than standing on some BS virtue-signalling ceremony."
And not to be stereotypical, but their community is very much like the Chaldean community in the Detroit area. Nothing was handed to them, they appreciate the opportunities this country affords them, they busted their asses for everything they have, have the most to lose, and will do anything and everything necessary to preserve it.
Yeah we were in a middle class area in Washington near a military base. Over the past few years our grocery store became a tweaker hangout and home to a homeless encampment. And the week before we left a guy OD’d and dropped dead in the middle of a main road. Unheard of for that area. Graffiti everywhere, it’s pathetic. And all they can talk about is Trump and anti-vaxxers. Just pathetic.
this is why we all have our guard up in Tx. We don't want this to happen in our towns. There are already a ton of panhandlers in katy but thankfully no "camping" so far that I've seen
Goodness, that sounds absolutely horrible. How can anyone think that's normal?
True of most cities, sadly. New Orleans is ruined. Same with NYC. Sad.
The comments on this area of the "bulletin board" (below "Susana") depict more truth of the world than the mainstream media does, much more I mean. Many cities have their characteristic psychoses, in which politics lives next door to crime, each faction oblivious to the other. They think there is some "liberal paradise" in the neighborhood. Walk through the area. See if you can find any such thing. There is a kind of a false evaluation of what the real America is, that you are supposed to buy into. If that liberal environment does not really exists, then what does? The kind of information on this part of the website under Berenson's name has to make it out to the greater outside world and shame these people who keep trying to prop up a wrong version of how stuff really in in the world. We need truth-tellers. (p.s. I am trying to get a newsletter together; this is really slow, plodding work but I have two recent newsletter articles up now that reflect some of my current thinking).
We all wish you the best of everything.
You as well, thank you 🙏🏻
Not all of the PNW has turned dark and nasty - mostly just Seattle and Portland. Gosh, I wonder why? Maybe "defund the police" and "support Antifa" has something to do with it. The rest of the great PNW is mostly conservative. Wanna see Trump 2020 signs? Drive on most country roads 30 or so miles away from Sodom and Gomorrah and they are everywhere.
True. Unfortunately those areas don’t set policy. There’s plenty of sane people in Washington, no doubt. But the scourge in Olympia that fomented neighbor vs. neighbor for the last three years sets the tone. We could ignore it until it affected daily life during the lockdown, then it became untenable. Now it’s just got a different vibe. Like when one party in a relationship violates the trust of the other. We can never go back to normal in my mind.
"Like when one party in a relationship violates the trust of the other. We can never go back to normal in my mind."
This is well said and how I feel with my community. I live in WI, and the Gov here was mostly kept in check on Covid by the legislature and the WI supreme court. However, I'm in Madison and the community did their best to make up for it with draconian Covid policy. First day of school this September will be the first day my child attends school without a mask since March 2020. I now carry a level of distrust and resentment toward neighbors and the community at large for allowing this. I'm ready to get out, but got to convince my better half.
So we’ll said.
Left 11 months ago after living in Kitsap county for over 20 years. Thought we would be safe over by the military bases from the darkness. But, I was wrong. The the formation of the Office of Equity was the final straw for me. I saw what that sort of groupthink has done to South Africa. I now understand how the Jews felt during the rise of the Nazis and their darkness in Germany. We moved to the east coast of Florida to escape. Have been blessed with a Governor in Florida that is trying to protect the citizens. The best of luck to y’all.
Jay Inslee has ruined the greatest state in the country. I never thought I'd see it.
Are you watching Fox right now
The answer to that question will ALWAYS be "no". (I don't watch TV except live sports) What's going on?
AG GARLAND ANY MINUTE
I would not go near the place.
We lived in Seattle in 1969 ad 1970, and our daughter was born there, and went back a number of times as we still had relatives there. It was just lovely in the PNW at that point in time, and we loved Seattle. You couldn't pay us to go back there now, not even for a quick visit.
Today I had a non-urgent doctor appointment with a dermatologist. I walk in and they have a mask sign on the door, the nurses are wearing masks, and they hand me a mask. I told them I don't trust any doctor who is still doing that and it is irrational, and I canceled and left the office. We all can all say no to crazy.
Thank you very much for doing that.
To wear a mask is to prolong this nonsense.
Exactly! Just say NO. It is your right.
DO NOT COMPLY!
This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This.
MORE OF THIS!!!
Pray plan prepare RESIST !!!
Bravo!
that's a tough choice too - dermatologists that take new patients are hard to find, at least in my area. And the available appts are usually a year out
Good for you!
WELL DONE! Two thumbs up.
Bravo!!
This is the way.
Ooooh! GOOD for you………you have loads of character.
I think it's a federal regulation masking in health care facilities, but please correct me if I am wrong. I generally do not patronize businesses that require masks.
Actually, I went to a different big healthcare facility today to get medical records and there was no mask requirement, and I saw about 10-20 percent of people wearing masks. Most of the staff did not. And better yet, I went to another doctor office today (grouping my visits) and there was one medical assistant with a mask and I told her supervising nurse that I was not comfortable with masks and she asked the assistant to remove it, and she complied.
Yes! I’m asking any employee wearing a mask serving me to remove it. I tell them it makes me uncomfortable. Some do some don’t. If they don’t, I wait for another employee or leave the store
I don’t know if it’s a federal regulation. I went to my dentist in a large city yesterday. Dentist and hygienists all masked, but not receptionist and no signage demanding that patients wear them in the lobby. My chiropractor, though, still insists on masks, temp and oxygen level check before services because a he’s “health care”. I really like this guy and have gone to him for more than 10 years, but I’m not going back. It is crazy.
He drank ALL the Kool-aid …
I don't think it's federal. There are no masks at all at my dentists office, just when they are looking in your mouth (I appreciate those masks 😆)
Bad breath blockers! My dentist and dental hygienists have been doing it forever. One of the few valid uses of the masks. Very few.
🙌🙌 TO SAYING NO TO CRAZY!!
I've done that a couple of times myself. Did they charge you for the appointment?
I hadn't given them my credit card in advance so no.
Unfortunately, I live in the Seattle area.
Most of the people I know love being abused by the State, including by this little monster. If he told them to mask up today, I've little doubt 80%+ of the city would. There's probably 5-10% that still haven't taken off their face diapers.
Yeah, even in Florida. Wife and I took our kids to see a movie this weekend and it was about 15%!
What's crazy is a lot of them were teenagers/young adults OR the worst...parents without one on and having their kids in tote with their faces muzzled!
I don't know whether to puke or scream.
Truly sad.
Keep wondering if T-shirts that state: No risk to kids
would actually get them to take them off.
A lot of the kids are in a Patty Hearst situation foisted upon them by their parents.
I wonder what type of adults these children will turn into?
So sad.
Fear combined with narcissism is a powerful elixir.
I want to get a shirt that says “take that filthy mask off!”
I want to hand them a tin foil hat. Just as useful and stylish.
When I see these people, or those walking alone, outside, masked, I realize: that one is lost forever.
I think you're right
Some of the kids seem to choose it. Perhaps it’s a virtue signal, or perhaps they believe it helps somehow.
Yeah. I totally agree.
I wonder how we end that? Do we, as adults, call that out?
Tricky situtation.
Programmed by MSM and social media. Social engineering at its worst!!
I’m in Seattle too and I have to hope it’s getting better. Even the most dedicated mask/vaccine advocates are getting fatigued, I mean we are going into year 3 and masks/vaccines haven’t worked.
I’m in Seattle as well, and I’m hoping/praying it gets better. I’m simultaneously looking to go, the question being whether I’m going to Eastern WA or a different state altogether. I’ve recently started disconnecting myself from people/things that continue to push the vaccine/mask nonsense. For example, I’ve been friends and had a working relationship with a local woman for many years. Covid has become her. It’s all she talks about, it’s all she thinks about. She talks at me rather than with me and assumes I’m in full agreement with her. I finally decided to break up the work relationship and distance myself from it. I just can’t stand the constant complaining about the unvaccinated and people “not doing the right thing.” Once I made the decision, it’s like a huge weight has been lifted. I didn’t realize what a downer it was to listen to her week after week. I’m leaving gracefully, not making it about her or covid, but I already feel so much better!
Likewise, I’m coming to the conclusion that some friendships are not worth keeping. I love the person, but we’re just in such different places that I feel the things we used to have in common are no more. I’m not formally breaking up with my friends, just not making as much effort anymore. I feel like the cords that keep me tied to Seattle have been getting severed one by one - sometimes by me, and sometimes by something else. I probably never would have left Seattle if the last two years hadn’t happened. Now, I’m mentally in a place where I’m ready when the door opens. Good luck to you.
Your second paragraph sounds like my husband and I. We've been in Seattle since 1987. It's not the same place I loved. We have been slowly losing friends too -especially over the past 4 years. We keep our mouths shut about politics. The closest we come to outing ourselves is to play devils advocate sometimes-which is probably enough to out us as non believers. I see things posted on FB or Twitter by people I know. So much pointed hate and arrogance about politics and weird self righteousness about masks and vax. We'll probably move too. Idaho looks pretty good to me. If we leave, none of our "friends" will care or miss us at all. The Seattle "freeze" in action.
Very similar experience and conclusion.
We keep quiet, too, but I think that leads everyone else to the impression their views are universally accepted, no matter how kooky, which means the kookiest ideas become universal.
I had a hard time biting my tongue the other day. A friend who lived out here 20 years ago was coming back for an evening on his way back home. And, he wanted to get all the people together he knew back then. Well, 3-4 of them are lefties I haven't seen in years and, surprise, surprise, are looking to move out of the city itself because it's so disgusting. One said he's looking in my neighborhood. There was absolutely no self awareness.
I wanted to slap him, but that wasn't the right move on an old friend's brief visit.
Not with our grown kids & their kids. Still masking. And now they have 🦠 Hmmmm. As they try to figure out where they got it, it’s so hard not to say…from the spike in YOUR bodies!
What a narcissist. WHY does he insist on making so many stupid public appearances? People detest you Fraud-ci!
I wish it had been a stadium full of children, 5 years from now, when they figure out they're the ones who are going to pay the long-term cost of this abomination.
Because a lot of people bought into the fear narrative he was selling. He may not realize it’s gotten so old now it’s starting to smell.
Maybe we end up in a situation where the ideal weight of a fart goes from zero lbs to something else. That can get messy.
Whole lotta these evil people be sharting their pants right now. I think the shit is gonna be slung around enough between the perpetrators that regular folks are gonna be able to "smell" the wicked shit hitting the fan.
Once they do; I think folks are gonna get angry about the poison they were served . I think they'll be looking to serve shit sandwiches.
Imagine being so naive that you would clap the very epitome of a corrupt, lying psychopath
And...mass murderer.
Can’t even throw a baseball. This guy sucks at everything.
Well, the FDA still called it a strike...
Good one!
No, he's an an expert liar and charlatan.
I was about to say just that. He's very good at committing crimes and then lying about them.
His explanation was even more hilarious: he practiced at an elementary school.
It's perfect allegory: Although the data was publicly available, he couldn't even be bothered to find out how far away the plate actually was -- then he made an idiot of himself when he used that faulty knowledge in the real world.
Oh this is very very very good !! Bravo to you SC !! 🤣
At last, at last. There’s someone who’s a worse thrower than me!
I thoroughly believe that all the withheld and suppressed vaccine injury information will explode and be revealed if Trump is the nominee. That is the only card left to get rid of him, and I think they are holding it until the end after nothing else works. Technically, he pushed for them, so you could say he is the Covid vaccine father. It won't matter if Biden and crew are the ones that pushed them and resulted in jobs lost and enlisted leaving the military in droves. If the masses were gullible enough to believe a newly invented vaccine was 95% effective.... telling them Trump is to blame will be a piece of cake. They will wait until he is the nominee to have all the information come out. Technically, the info is out there now; over half the country has no idea it exists because their news sources don't tell them.
Let’s see…..Warp Speed Vaccine development, Fauci was under Trump. Trump had his opportunity to listen to truth, but RFK Jr’s influence was ignored and his group disbanded. Trump’s a total idiot. How about someone with a functional brain like DeSantis (sp).
That's a sane argument...good thing we got The Dummy running things instead.
A better choice for sure
Agree 💯%
Umm they are about to indict Trump and start arresting any Republican supporting him. He won’t even get a chance to run.
Indict on what?
Does it matter? The raid on Mar a Lago was a message to conservatives. "We'll do whatever the f**k we want. All you can do is take it or prove to everyone you're an extremist domestic terrorist".
This has been in play for years.
Yes, that is their message loud and clear, and it does matter and whatever side of the aisle you're on it should be extremely concerning the use of these tactics.
But despite their message and their attempts to intimidate, the ability to indict somebody goes beyond tossing somebody's house. As you said this has been in play for years and they have yet to make anything stick to Trump or his family.
My point was it doesn't matter because it's all bullshit anyway. This was all about the message and the distraction. They are setting up the situation that "justifies" the vote counts that keep them in power.
Nobody has been looking for the mechanism used in the last election. But the Jan 6 committee and every time the MSM uses words like unjustified or outrageous or any of the other adjective used to discredit anyone that questions the validity of the last election shows me there is a mechanism they are hiding. Everyone is so caught up in the theatre they've stopped looking.
Watch 2000 Mules - enlightening for sure. Mark Fuckerberg paid for unmonitored drop boxes …
Very good point. And it's very scary and sad our country is in such decline. I've heard that it was discovered illegal aliens are now openly on the voter rolls in North Carolina and be giving driver's licenses and this is all another part of the plan that's being used that will ensure future elections run their way.
I seriously hope America at large wakes up and notices. There may be indications of that. It appears in the primaries over the last several weeks that many Trump backed candidates are winning, including over incumbent Republicans. You also have some large Democrat donors questioning their own party. Steve Kirsch, who has a great Substack about vaccine injuries and how bad the COVID-19 vaccine is, is a mega donor for the Democrats and now he is saying he doesn't feel that same way. He was on Tucker Carlson last night, Brian Kilmeade was in for Tucker. Apparently he's given over $20 million to Democrats in the past and said that it was Fauci and Biden, the CDC, NIH, and FDA, that broke his trust and totally have lied about what he calls the most dangerous vaccine ever. He never mentioned Trump at all and reading the comments on his stack, I'm a subscriber to that as well, it doesn't appear there's a whole lot of Trump loving people, but trust is wavering for the Democratic party.
You've got that right.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/covid-data-the-ira-and-political
I was going to talk a little more about the passage of the IRA, but in (actual) breaking news, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort today. I’ve previously talked about how the FBI is now simply a political weapon (and maybe always has been), but the openness in which the administration engages in their political war is shocking. From the blatant political persecution of the 1/6 prisoners to the ‘domestic terrorist’ designation of concerned parents and covid ‘misinformers’, this administration is sending a clear message — oppose us at your peril. After all, if they can go after a former president, what chance do you have?
What do you think the 87,000 new IRS agents funded by the Bumble Back Broker Inflation Reduction Act will be doing? It’s not to audit the 700ish billionaires in the country — it’s to attack dissenters the way that Obama attacked dissenters in the Tea Party. There’s a reason that Democrats unanimously voted down an amendment that would ban new IRS funds from targeting people earning less than 400,000 a year:
It’s the same reason that they want to be able to snoop on your bank transactions if you make more than $600 in transactions IN A YEAR: complete control. (Ask Runnin’ Justin about that sometime) Even if you’re completely innocent and eventually exonerated, the process is the punishment. Just like a bumpy ride back to the police station is a ‘lesson’ for the town drunk, an IRS audit or FBI investigation is a ‘lesson’ for those who dare stand up to Joe Biden
You are 100% correct on the 87,000 new IRS agents. In fact their new hire posting reads in part, "Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary. Be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments."
(I heard that the listing was taken down/changed but haven't verified if that is in fact the case)
This is like Lois Lerner on steroids! Why exactly does an IRS agents need to carry a firearm and why would they be executing search warrants and have dangerous assignments? All part of a plan to never lose again.
I checked the page and the deadly force line is gone, but the requirement to be legally allowed to carry a firearm is still there.
Lol
They’re trying hard
I totally agree. I’ve been predicting that for a year. They’ll trot out every vaccine injured person to claim that Trump did this and we need MORE regulations to make sure it never happens again.
Interesting. And so true that you could easily not know about vaccine injury if you didn’t seek out the information. Same as with the actual risk of covid. Amid all the hype, it was hard to find the information that this virus was not all that dangerous for the vast majority.
The minute Trump can be associated in a negative way, all the vaccine embracers will forget the Biden mandates, canceled people and military members lost and pivot and blame Trump. All cable channels will trot out one vaccine injured person after another. The Twitter, Facebook and YouTube suppression of any negative remarks about the vaccine make sense when you see this possibility.
And isn't it sad that people will be so duped! Yes Trump put operation warp speed into motion but it was Fauci et al that overseed the development and the trials and the data and everything else that they falsely and deceitfully put out.
Sociopaths have no emotional reaction to other’s opinions or pain. He is just tone deaf to considerations like these. This behavior is diagnostic. We must never underestimate our ability to be fooled again by “people” like him.
Or worse, they enjoy others’ pain and suffering
NEVER AGAIN!
Sadly, that’s what the world said after the Nuremberg trials. History repeats.
You are right. I've tried to use this bs as an opportunity to teach my kids to think for themselves...and to question everything.
It's served me well in life.
There should be some sort of mandatory class for that.
Have you ever seen this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE
When I was growing up everyone had to watch this.
Shit happens fast. I knew it would as soon as the masking started. History is not kind to societies that attribute death and disease to others!
We are all "others".
Great video, RG
watch it if you haven't...when you get time. I know you work your ass off.
But it is truly chilling.
I just finished watching it . It’s is chilling
No, haven’t seen this, but will watch. Thank you 🙏.
Another good one is “The Wave”. Main website: https://www.thewavehome.com/
And my all-time favorite for these times: Noncompliant Movie: https://libertyfirstsociety.com/noncompliantmovie/
Thx. Me too. I'll watch after I wrap up my day with a cocktail in hand!...;]
Who are the sycophants clapping?
The few wokester yuppies in Seattle who went... The booers are from the small rural towns as those would be the majority of the people who might still go to games...
If they can afford $500 to take their kids
No kidding! But you would be surprised at how many empty nester kulaks (farmers and small businessmen) from surrounding communities might still go to games or take grandkids...
Sycophancy is their favorite word in the c19 Gnomenclature!
Worse. OVERHAND claps.
Pacific Northwest liberals.
And Seattle was once a nice working-class town - like SF and Portland.... ruined by techies and post-grads...
Hahaha!
He’s like that bad cough that keeps lingering and you hate it because it won’t go away. You begin to wonder if you’re stuck with it forever and then voila, you’ve kicked it. I’m hoping he’s kicked soon…so far that we never see him again.
Shouldn't he be in Wuhan cooking up the next pandemic?
What's the latest now...langya??
No, that's lasagna, I think. It's the Shrew flu.
With any luck, he will get the headlines that he deserves in the next Congress.
Gonna take a miracle for that to happen.
We were at that game but missed Fauci's first pitch and were shocked later on when we saw him on the big screen as they announced he was in attendance. A bunch of Yankees fans in front of us stood for him! We of course booed very loudly and heckled those fans with a little more gusto the rest of the game. A crazy extra innings game which ended in victory. Go Mariners! Boo Fauci!
Boo Fauci AND beat the Yankees? Christmas in August!!
I booed from 1700 miles away. Hope he heard me, that bum.
May the gods punish him to the fullest extent.
Ha! Fuck that guy.
My thoughts exactly!
Fauci is the biggest FRAUD on the planet. Lies about everything. Even lied about his ability to throw a baseball. He’s en embarrassment to all MANkind.
No self awareness what so ever. What an ass.
Never mind the booing….who is clapping for this guy? What exactly has he done to invoke such feelings of warmth amongst these people? He represents the very worst type of evil that has delivered suffering and misery to millions throughout history. He’s incompetent, corrupt, cunning, deviant and entirely without any semblance of a moral compass. He’s part of a gutless cabal made up of politicians, media figures, celebrities and useless bureaucrats that are responsible for countless wrecked lives and suffering. You feckless hand slapping seals. When you ultimately feel the consequences of your mindless boot licking I wonder if then the reckoning will will be accompanied by deep regret.
He’s the leader of a very brainwashed cult. All they see is a prophet or a savior. In their minds Fauci will save us all.
That look at the Nationals game though. Just depressing time of tyranny. All those players masked, stands empty, and announcers making excuses for one of the most embarrassing first pitches in history from supposed super baseball fan Fauci.
It gave me chills...in the worst possible way. 2020 was unbearable.
SAME. And RAGE!
Being a member of the autocracy, Fauci is painfully unaware of the lack of respect he has engendered. The CDC has allowed Fauci to continue his loathsome pursuit of self aggrandizement. The resulting implosion has ruined the reputations of America’s public health institutions.
Fuck Fauci.
Fauci is better at baseball than practicing the scientific method.
Which is to say, he sucks.
hahaha. hahaha!
Galactic!
The video says it all… 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐏🐏🐏🐏 👀📣
Lying, and spying, and booers, oh my.
Maskers, and vaxxers, and freedom bashers, awry.
I laughed at the stupidity 😜; then I cried with fluidity 😭.
Sanity prevails, only when Fauci and friends are in jails.
Damn that was good on short notice!
Thank you 🙏
Come to Florida and try that fauci
Not even the FBI could save him down here!
Dare I say; he may be treated like those beagles he tortured?...]
You mean Dr. Mengele
Angel of Death
He needs to do time.
this man disgusts me.
Lock him up and throw away the key
Drown him
You might be super rich...
I'd rather not be hated for committing grave sin. (I actually liked to be hated for speaking truth. Kinda amusing)
Ouch! It's almost unbearable looking at just one picture of that gnome... let alone a 2 minute video!
Thanks for ruining my black panther party!!
An “oofus” pitch from the doofus Doc in Seattle 🤪
The real question is “ why was he chosen to throw the first pitch?”
It's SEATTLE. Ground zero commie country
Went to one of Inslee’s town halls back when he was a senator and was slack-jawed watching him do partisan bashing. Realized then, he is no statesman and just another partisan operative.
Inslee is top 5 worst governor in the nation. Easy.
Well, his "throw" at the Nationals game was aimed halfway up the 1st base line... must be a weird elementary school with the plate way over there.
Vaccine issues aside - the intentional suppression of alternative Covid treatments killed thousands - that is the real story.
Bless his heart..
If anyone should know how to make a pitch, it's him. But as we see, even his pitches are garbage.
Best part was on the local broadcast, a group of Seattle teenage girls flipping him off. There’s hope!
i'll cheer when i see him behind bars
He has infiltrated Canada, manipulating tactics with Trudeau. Suddenly Moderna is the elected injected over any long standing Canadian vaccine developers, despite the injuries caused. Thinking this is about profit gains via public market stock vs private.
His name is touted all over msm here.
🤢
Oh, God. I’m so, so sorry……….Canadians, resist if you can. Unfortunately, I think, especially with Trudeau still there, it’s a losing battle. Trudeau is just as demeaning as Fauci.
Just the fact that he makes these celebrity appearances tells me he is egotistical and has no sense of shame or self-awareness. The man clearly suffers from some psychological disorder of which I am not qualified to diagnose.
I believe the psychological term is psychopath.
Can you imagine how difficult it was for him to labor in anonymity all these decade while knowing that he was saving our lives every second, every minute, every hour of every day. It must’ve been maddening. It obviously was maddening because he’s gone mad.
Hopefully he will be his last time doing this he should lose everything for what he has done. Fauci imaginary imagination his at 5 years old are people to affraid to speak up and say to him that what you see and hear is not true!
Anthony -
I view the people who cheered as children...they should be treated as such.
MLB should be ashamed of themselves!
Every single part of Contrived19 has been about the money.
That includes all professional sports leagues.
How many athletes took a stand on principle?
A couple handfuls out of all the professional leagues. Wasn't many.
And he looks like a Nazi war criminal. He looks like evil incarnate... Not good
I BETTER DO MEME POST #6 FOR HIM SOON! ;) E.G.
COVID Satire/Memes/Jokes: Best Fauci Memes (Dr. Death Has COVID Again!)
- SARS-CoV-2 meets its maker (again), must be Putin's or DeSantis' fault, 40 years of Dr. Death, Wuhan lab rat, Beagle lives matter, China syndrome, remembering AZT, and more Fauci memes!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/best-fauci-memes-dr-death-has-covid
He is a Prig. Fauci, please be kind and go away.
After getting booed I bet Fauchi longs for the good old pandemic days when the stands were empty!
He's bowlegged as hell. On top of being 4'3".