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Now we know who is who and what is what.

“As my listeners and readers can hopefully attest, I have been on a lifelong quest to understand human nature and human behavior. I am sad to report that I have learned more in the last few years, particularly in 2020, than in any equivalent period of time. One of the biggest revelations concerns a question that has always plagued me: How does one explain the “good German,” the term used to describe the average, presumably decent German, who did nothing to hurt Jews but also did nothing to help them and did nothing to undermine the Nazi regime? The same question could be asked about the average Frenchman during the Vichy era, the average Russian under Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev and their successors, and the millions of others who did nothing to help their fellow citizens under oppressive dictatorships. These past few years have taught me not to so quickly judge the quiet German, Russian, etc. Of course, I still judge Germans who helped the Nazis and Germans who in any way hurt Jews. But the Germans who did nothing? Not so fast. What has changed my thinking has been watching what is happening in America (and Canada and Australia and elsewhere, for that matter). The ease with which tens of millions of Americans have accepted irrational, unconstitutional and unprecedented police state-type restrictions on their freedoms, including even the freedom to make a living, has been, to understate the case, sobering. The same holds true for the acceptance by most Americans of the rampant censorship on Twitter and all other major social media platforms. Even physicians and other scientists are deprived of freedom of speech if, for example, they offer scientific support for hydroxychloroquine along with zinc to treat COVID-19 in the early stages. Board-certified physician Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who has saved hundreds of COVID-19 patients from suffering and/or death, has been banned from Twitter for publicizing his lifesaving hydroxychloroquine and zinc protocol. Half of America, the non-left half, is afraid to speak their minds at virtually every university, movie studio and large corporation — indeed, at virtually every place of work. Professors who say anything that offends the left fear being ostracized if they have tenure and being fired if they do not. People are socially ostracized, publicly shamed and/or fired for differing with Black Lives Matter, as America-hating and white-hating a group as has ever existed. And few Americans speak up. On the contrary, when BLM protestors demand that diners outside of restaurants raise their fists to show their support of BLM, nearly every diner does. So, then, who are we to condemn the average German who faced the Gestapo if he didn’t salute Hitler or the average Russian who faced the NKVD (the secret police and intelligence agency that preceded the KGB) if he didn’t demonstrate sufficient enthusiasm for Stalin? Americans face the left’s cancel culture, but not left-wing secret police or reeducation camps. (At least not yet — I have little doubt the left would send outspoken conservatives to reeducation camps if they could.) I have come to understand the average German living under Nazism and the average Russian living under communism for another reason: the power of the media to brainwash. As a student of totalitarianism since my graduate studies at the Russian Institute of Columbia University’s School of International Affairs (as it was then known), I have always believed that only in a dictatorship could a society be brainwashed. I was wrong. I now understand that mass brainwashing can take place in a nominally free society. The incessant left-wing drumbeat of The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and almost every other major newspaper, plus The Atlantic, The New Yorker, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, all of Hollywood and almost every school from kindergarten through graduate school, has brainwashed at least half of America every bit as effectively as the German, Soviet and Chinese communist press did (and in the latter case, still does). That thousands of schools will teach the lie that is the New York Times’ “1619 Project” is one of countless examples. Prior to the lockdowns, I flew almost every week of the year, so I was approached by people who recognized me on a regular basis. Increasingly, I noticed that people would look around to see if anyone was within earshot and then tell me in almost a whisper: “I support Trump” or, “I’m a conservative.” The last time people looked around and whispered things to me was when I used to visit the Soviet Union. In Quebec this past weekend, as one can see on a viral video, a family was fined and members arrested because six — yes, six — people gathered to celebrate the new year. A neighbor snitched on them, and the celebrants were duly arrested. The Quebec government lauded the snitches and asked for more public “collaboration.” Snitches are likewise lauded and encouraged in some Democrat-run states and cities in America (Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in March: “Snitches get rewards”) and by left-wing governments in Australia. Plenty of Americans, Canadians and Australians are only too happy to snitch on people who refuse to lock down their lives. All this is taking place without concentration camps, without a Gestapo, without a KGB and without Maoist reeducation camps. That’s why I no longer judge the average German as easily as I used to. Apathy in the face of tyranny turns out not to be a German or Russian characteristic. I just never thought it could happen in America.”

I don’t think congress voting to impeach matters. I just want to know, what needs to be done now?

Watching the movie “Shooter” with Mark Wahlberg. This line really stood out. It’s so true, especially with the RINOs switching sides on us.

I have in the past been using safari and chrome and obviously want to put that to an end. What’s the safest browser out there?

I don't know if you frens are all familiar with Signal, but some tech/coding frens have looked through it and it all appears much safer than the FACEBOOK owned Whatsapp. I've switched and its pretty user friendly. Highly recommend it as the encryption is apparently loads better.

From someone who really knows their shit:

"the reality is the vaccine is being tried out on the weakest in our society, who, if something goes wrong, are in no position to complain about this. Is that not so? and the shit is if it does go wrong, and they die, it will not be known if it is from the vaccine or from their general health status. this is a fact. and to the society and all, our elderly are 'out of sight so out of mind and disposable'....Worse, in normal times, the family has good access to our elderly but not any longer because of this illogical and non-evidence based lockdowns that have no data or science to back them up and all, 100% across the world fail and each time its 'let us lock you down a little harder this time, just a little harder' and each tome the cases failure up as we re-open for it will never work, has never worked...we simply delay the inevitable....we now cant even see our elderly...so they are set up to die alone with evidence that their dementia escalates due to the restrictions from COVID, and then with a vaccine that may kill them...I have already read about two cases of people who took a parent away from a nursing home, and almost had to kidnap them in order to manage to do that. It's heart-breaking. its horrible and raises serious questions. I am saying only those who need it like elderly should be offered it once they are fully informed of the benefits and harms, but the more I think of it, I cant agree. we cant take 12 years that is needed for safety for a routine vaccine or drug, and say it is safe in 3 months??? moreover, already the first glean of the published work is raising methods and other questions. they are talking about vaccine for people not even in the trial...they are talking about vaccine for kids...under no circumstance should a child, any child, get vaccine unless they are high risk of death from some conditions...why? the risk of infection and severe illness or death from COVID is basically zero, so small...children do not get ill form covid or die, thats a fact and settled data. no reasonable healthy adult, to me up to aged 70, with no conditions, who are healthy should get vaccine...why take something into your body that we dont know how the mRNA platform will work long term, we have no experience with it, when we are at very low risk of illness if infected? why? it makes no sense."