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Thank goodness for substack. I have never been a twitter user. I have a life. With substack, I get to read uncensored, well thought out discussion.

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Not sure I would lose sleep over what a pack of blithering idiots would be saying. They have lost all credibility outside of the idiot echo chamber.

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I bought the book, hardcover, for 3 reasons:

1. In the post covid era I want my dollars supporting journalists that actually investigate. They have families, they deserve to eat, have a roof over their head etc. Happy to pay more for all the countless hours you put in Alex.

2. Amazon could memory hole the digital copy of your work at anytime.

3. I want some minimum wage masked Amazon worker to have to pick your book off the shelf and see "Covid hysteria" pop off the front cover and maybe -just maybe -think twice about what's going on. Someone who might not otherwise be exposed to your work.

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The CDC on January 21, 2022, feeds to the mainstream press earth shattering news that THREE new studies prove once and for all that the vaccines and boosters have incredible success at stopping severe illness from the Wuhan Virus. I've poured through the news reports, including the Wall Street Journal. Have yet to find a single reference to the people or organizations who ran the studies. Is that not the most important question? Are they a bunch of Fauci's corrupt buddies? Otherwise, why in the world trust the CDC on this based on it abysmal track record?

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Alex, take some satisfaction that you are living rent-free (and vaccine-free) in their heads. You must be right over the target.

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The future of media belongs to Substack (assuming they don't get power-mad and screw it up.). I recently started a 'stack here in Portland, where progressives rule, top-to-bottom. Local media is simply part of the progressive machine. There is no outlet for differing opinions.

So, I started "Portland Dissent." Substack didn't charge me a dime. Less than six months later there are 70 subs, average read is around 220...new subs are around one a day. I never advertised or otherwise promoted the 'stack. Amazing.

Yes, Twitter has numbers--but Substack has the gravity, structure, tools to grow exponentially. Greenwald, Berenson, Weiss, etc...not huge numbers but, far more important, committed readers. Twitter is going to become a room with no dissenting voices; the woke won't have anyone left to beat up (thus those desperate little posts about Pandemia). They will bore themselves to death.

Twitter=yesterday. Substack=tomorrow.

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A whole lot of people freezing their buts off in DC today to fight against encroaching authoritarianism and you’re complaining about critics on twitter. It’s all about you. Disappointing.

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I am very thankful and happy that i never not once had any desire to access twitter

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We read Pandemia. It’s excellent. But I want to point out that there was an anti mandate March in freezing DC today with thousands of brave souls who will no doubt feel the pain of standing against the establishment as well. How much greater if you had been with them. How much greater if all our energies ally?

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I'm reading in the Epoch Times about a 70 yr old man dying on a ventilator at the Mayo clinic and 3 judges in Florida have refused to allow another doctor to give him Ivermectin. The clinic will not let him leave the hospital and give him a 5% survival chance. What happened to the Right to Try Act? Seems to me he fits the criteria. I just don't get it.

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Twitter's traffic is dying. The blue checks are only reading each other for comfort and solace that someone believes their lies. If you doubt it, check their stock price over the last 6 months. If you like to play the market, I recommend Put Options.

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Excellent post as always, Alex. I find it funny how some on here subscribed just to troll you, but hey, their money is good here too! I've never been an anti-vaxxer in the least, but having had 4 jabs and still managing to "hit the omicron jackpot", you have it right - and have had it right since ages ago. Your dissenting voice has been an important one, and the more violently one is shouted down should raise eyebrows (and ears to hear) as to what is being said. Unreported - and inconvenient - truths are still true, at the end of the day. Thank you for fighting to get them out there.

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Eh, don't worry about them. They are a small band of nutjobs. The American people see what has happened with the whole Covid thing. The Twitterverse can stew in their misinformation. Reality will slap them in the face as time goes on.

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Jan 24, 2022·edited Jan 24, 2022

I still think there is a pressing (and big) story in uncovering more about who backed the fraudulent Hydroxychloroquine study that the Lancet only later removed. That is not a college prank. This took some money, effort, and collaboration from several people in the know. This had some element of sophistication, even if sloppy.

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I am now also officially banned from twitter.. a govt official made a comment about Howard Stern changing his tune regarding vaccines and the fact that he’d been paid $4M recently.. I said something along the lines that if you’re for sale, no matter the dollar amount, you were still a whore.. BOOM.. booted off twitter. go figure.

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I know it’s hard to do but just ignore the sanctimonious assholes. Their followings are ignorant dumb asses or they wouldn’t be following the shallow asses.

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