Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
I got the call that my cousin had passed just after dark. I had been butchering a hog all day by myself and I was tired and needed a shower, but all I could think of was reaching out to his sons. My younger cousin had been looking after him for the last two years as he slowly disappeared into his dementia and I knew how hard this was going to hit him. I made the call from the bedroom in the dark and stood up against the windows looking out at the leafless trees and distant, rolling hills enveloped in a lead-colored mist.
I hadn’t spoken to him since the last family funeral- we are ten years part and by the time I was heading out into the world he was just hitting middle school- and so we never really bonded closely, but we were familiars to one another over the span of our own lives, family. The phone rang half a dozen times and then went to voice mail so I began to leave my heartfelt condolences. After a few halting words that sounded stiff, the phone picked up and I heard his voice across the distant miles and months between us, desperate and broken.
I repeated what I had just said into the void a moment earlier and then he began to speak, not really to me at first, just a torrent of anguish and grief that rambled on from the horrible treatment of the hospital and worse yet the insurance syndicate and the various agents of Medicare and Medicaid and their endless abuses, to the deep and profound loss he had just experienced, and the sudden hole that had just been left in the middle of his life.
I understood completely what he was experiencing and I leaned my head up against the cool glass and just listened to his words pour out, letting him vent off the emotions that filled him beyond his ability to comprehend. After a while he paused, I could hear the sound of his breathing, deep draughts as if he were fighting a fire with each breath. Weakly he asked, “What do I do now?”
I offered him the only advice I could think of, what we had done in the days after my Mother’s death, I told him that after the funeral that he should get away, find some space where he could get his bearings. I told him to come up to the farm and visit for a while. Hike, bang some nails, stare at the lake, eat some good food and sleep in.
Last week I had a difficult conversation with my aunt. We’d always been very close and she lives out on the coast not two hours away from us. The last time we saw each other was at my Father’s bedside after his operation in the Fall of 2019. We’d enjoyed each other’s company as we always do, gone to a restaurant in Princeton before we all headed home, and then the flu panic came along and our lives went different directions. She believed in the story while we did not and she longed for and clung to the promise that the vaccine would solve our problems the way most Americans did.
And then it came and they got their shots but they insisted that it wasn’t possible to socialize again until we’d done the same, something that wasn’t ever going to happen and the distance between us became insurmountable and our conversations, even by telephone, infrequent and unpleasant for both of us. I struggled with it not only because of my love and concern for those I love, but also because it had once again forced me into a position I neither wanted nor had any part in creating. Powerless is the closest word to describe my state, but something more than that.
These connections we make in life, our families tied by blood and time to one another, the shared celebrations and losses that form the cement that had always kept us together was washed away by a tide of nonsense, fueled by strangers with no investment in our history, no real concern for the struggles and trials of everyday life that are made endurable by our fidelity to those we love. She called me to say hello, but really to once again check on our vaccination status.
When I stated what I had told her in every previous conversation she went on to inform me that we would not be able to come to Thanksgiving again, the second year in a row. There were reasons, of course. Her step-daughter was a teacher in Massachusetts and there were some kinds of prohibitions and concerns about them socializing with the unvaccinated, her children’s colleges were the same, excuses really for a decision which only she and my uncle could make and be responsible for. I told her not to worry, I loved her regardless of whatever choice she chose to make and that I respected her decision as I hoped she would my own.
I told her how much I missed her and offered to bring a turkey down to her and drop it on the front lawn if she wanted me to. I also told her that our door was always open no matter what, no matter when. After some tearful exchanges of our love for one another and the hope that we would be together again at some point, I got off the phone and went back to living life.
I fell asleep early last night and at some point, there was a dream. My mother was hosting a party, outdoors somewhere warm. It wasn’t a place I recognized but everyone was there. My grandparents from both sides were seated together and laughing at some story my uncle was telling them. I could smell smoke from the barbecue and I was so excited to see them all I could barely contain myself, but they acknowledged me as if we’d been together all day, the kind smiles and quick hugs as I passed between them looking at all their beautiful faces; younger, healthy, happy. When I awoke, I held onto it for as long as I could, warm under the comforter with one foot in both worlds.
The telephone conversation between my cousin and I went on for quite a while. He wanted to share the details of his father’s death- he’d fallen on some stairs and hit his head on the floor leaving a terrible gash. At the hospital the x-rays showed that he’d also broken his neck and while measures were taken, there wasn’t a great deal that could be done and within the week, with my cousin at his bedside holding his hand he slipped out of this world and joined everyone who had ever gone before.
My cousin felt a great deal of guilt about it since he was the sole caregiver, but it was simply an accident to an elderly man near the end of his natural life and an inevitability that would have played out sooner or later in any case. I told him not to add that burden to the ones he already bore, that there were plenty of other things to concern himself with but that his father knew well exactly the kind of man he had raised and just how loyal and dutiful he had been even if he wasn’t fully cognizant.
Their relationship had always been a close one and you couldn’t miss the respect that they had for each other over the years. As he began to calm down our conversation ran back to the generation who had already passed. Both of us were lucky to have grown up with both sets of grandparents, in the same town where we’d grown up and we revisited Christmas and Thanksgivings past, our favorite dishes our grandmothers made for us- coconut custard pie, oyster casserole, baked chicken with gravy- and I told him that in my bedroom at the foot of the bed on a small chair I kept my grandfather’s hat as a remembrance of him, the last thing I’d see before I fell asleep and the photos of our common great-grandparents above the bookcase.
He’d recount some episode and I’d fill in a blank and then I’d tell a story and he began to laugh, several times, genuine and out loud, like a steam whistle on a tea kettle. Near the end of the call, he thanked me for reaching out and I thanked him for being my cousin, both of us the better for the exchange. I told him he could call me anytime he needed me, and to come up to visit as soon as he was ready and he promised me that he was going to take me up on it, that I should expect to see more of him and I told him how glad that made me and we said our good-byes. He went back into his mourning in that dark and silent house and I went back into the kitchen to embrace my wife in the warmth and light of our marriage and home.
What has been done over the past couple of years is a crime against humanity. I don’t care which side of the spectrum you find yourself, what you believe or discard, how fearful or fearless you may be, alone or in solidarity with a majority of hundreds of millions. Anyone who fails perceive the cruelty and injustice of forces conspiring to tear apart families, to ruin lives for being lived in accordance with their own conscience, of destroying the means of earning a living, of bribing and threatening to achieve and end no matter what it may be, of the endless lies and prevarications of people who don’t bother to hide their disdain and contempt for those they order about is simply not in the game.
We may be beset by forces that seem unstoppable and hectored into submission at every turn over things which have never caused any trouble in the past for reasons that are never explained but we can still do what we know is right. We have it within us to resist these implacable tyrants by going another way, of reaching out to one another and doing everything that we can to lift each other up, to support and nurture them when they need it and to accept their help and guidance when it is offered.
As I finish this piece, I am looking out the window as the cold rain falls on the turkey flock and I can see the one we are going to have for dinner when my daughter comes home for Thanksgiving. And I have another one picked out that I will roast and deliver to my Aunt and leave upon her doorstep 50 miles to the east of us that same morning. Whether it is eaten or not is up to her, but I will give it to her with all the love I can muster because that is one thing that they cannot take away from us no matter what they do.
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Just beautiful. I have been reading your heart warming articles for a while now. This just stands out how many of us feel.
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Why isn’t there a link to block and remove this crap?
Look guy, your post is akin to littering. You’re mucking up the neighborhood-be GONE!
An excellent essay.
“Si vis pacem, para bellum” –
If you want peace, prepare for war.
We are in a War.
Never forget…wars create death and suffering
There is no “creative destruction” in murder, rape, massacres and genocides.
((Who))) has started this War?
Why have (((they))) done this?
(((They))) have done it to intentionally destroy civilization as we know it.
And remake it in (((their))) “God’s” image…
But (((their))) god is called Lucifer…
Jesus Christ said it of (((them))) best, in John 8:44, speaking on the Pharisees and Sadducee’s,
“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”
Get ready, be prepared, and get right with Jesus Christ, and God almighty.
Or get left…but be ready to take as many of (((them))) with you before you go.
You do realize that Jesus was one of (((them))), don’t you? He was born, lived and died a Jew and observed all the traditions and rules.
It’s not that simple. The Revelation tells us about those who say that they are Jews, but they are not, they are of the synagogue of satan. Research the Khazarians.
There are genuine Jews who fear God and live by love your neighbor as yourself. Be careful about what you say about Jesus, his actions show that he wasn’t a Pharisee or a Talmudist. In fact, the Talmud curses Jesus/Yeshua. He’s the Word who became flesh, the Creator, and the Messiah. Whatever you say about the Jews, I wouldn’t blaspheme Yahshua/Jesus if I were you. Again, research the Khazarians and place the blame where it truly belongs.
In first century jerusalem a true jew according Christ was a believer in HIM.
The jews who say they are jews but are not in the first century were not elect by HIM.
The Khazars didnt come along for a thousand years.
There are no known dna relatives of Abraham Isaac and Jacob today. Its certainly not the people living in Israel today. Heck the Palestininans are more likely to be related to first century jews than the khazars.
In the first century, the Edomites had become blended in with the Jews, and are responsible for the evils attributed to the Jews during that time. I was trying to keep my comment short and simple, but your comment about the Khazars is correct. One may get to the bottom of things faster researching the Khazars rather than the Edomites, I would guess.
The Palestinians and Arabs are Semitic peoples, who are most definitely closer to being related to the jews than the Khazars are.
In addition, God promised Abraham that his descendants would be greater than the number of the sand on the seashore. Maybe the DNA test results are not completely honest. I wouldn’t blame that on Jews, but it sounds like something that the Khazarians would do.
Sorry V, but you’re wasting your time w/ Steverino — he isn’t interested in pursuing what the truth might be
When are you and your fellow village idiots going to comprehend there is a difference between a Jew, a Judean, a Judahite, and an Israelite? A Jew is a follower of Judaism- a follower of the tradition of the elders, a Pharisee.
Thank you, AP. Romans 11 tells us who is considered Israel in our time.
Actually, the symbol of true Israel is the Menorah. The cross is the symbol of the Mithra religion. Remember, the 7 churches in the Revelation are represented by candlesticks. A more accurate translation would have been to use the word Menorah.
A daughter got the not a vaxx, still love her, even if she is stupid.
I would not waste the turkey on Auntie. Something about casting pearls before swine.
Give it to someone needy, decent and a believer, should not be too difficult..
You seem to misunderstand the both the essay and love.
ditto
Like Toad, I vote for giving the turkey (so to speak) to someone more deserving in the here and now (i.e. present times). While keeping the virtue of patience and possibly forgiveness in the future (forgiveness is not quite the right word to use, but it’s almost dinnertime). Said another way: no one has ever found a cure for stupid. Direct your energies where they will do the most good for your loved ones and yourself.
I understand where HSF is coming from. Loved family who are on the wrong side. I have some as most on TBP do. I really do understand and it makes me sad. We will have hard decisions to make and the time is coming soon.
I think the vaxxed are the threat. Non Sterilizing Immunity and Antibody Dependent Enhancement are the paths. We are to quote a phrase, “Ugly bags of water,” old Star Trek episode. These experimental vaccines are killing, maiming and the best part, the mutations, are arriving soon.
HSF’s love for family is admirable.
God Bless him.
Remember when “love for family” was simply natural rather than “admirable”? Well, at least it seemed that way, once upon a time.
My son got the vax (Pfizer) and is now doing a detox. I happen to have some Zeolite in the storage room and he did some other things recommended by the biologist to counter the attack on the immune system by focusing on the spike protein.
He’s always been pretty healthy and the only vaccinations he got as a baby were the ones in the USAF hospital I couldn’t avoid and the ones required by public school when he was in second grade.
He said if his job demands he get a booster, he will go to work for some other company.
I got vaccines when I was young too. Real vaccines that worked and virtually eliminated many horrible diseases that had plagued mankind since the beginning.
Just accept that some people you love, friends and family, will buy into the expert government lies, especially when they are fearful.
I’ve never gotten any flu “vaccine”. As far as I’ve been able to determine, the case rate for flu didn’t go down when they started giving out flue “vaccines”. Does that not mean they were ineffective?
I distinctly recall without any fact check research that the flu vaccines have been determined to only be “ABOUT” 50% more or less effective.
Again the viruses mutate so the jabs are always playing catch up.
Suggest a detailed research of colloidal silver.
Been using it effectively for decades.
I haven’t masked in the past two years except for three occasions to enter a medical facility. I took care of someone with Covid who was bedridden for almost two weeks. No mask. All I have ever used for prevention was simply vitamin supplements and colloidal silver in a nasal aerosol sprayer, always before I went out and usually when I returned home.
Now I read they are saying nasal irrigation even with relatively benign preparations appears to lessen the chances of contracting Covid and being hospitalized. Silver has been used as a germicidal for thousands of years.
One of the things this “pandemic” has done is to effectively obliterate any vestige of trust I had in the healthcare system we have and the medical professionals who run it. I will, for the remainder of my life, do my best to use natural methods of prevention and cure and only seek medical care in case of traumatic injury.
Doctors and journalists have written themselves off as hopelessly compromised and of little value as they have parroted the lies of government and the medical/industrial complex. I believe there are many more like me who have drawn similar conclusion and will act on them going forward.
Include the endless army of corporate CEOs who have sold out their stockholders, employees, and customers.
I’ll ask their advice if I want to commit sappuku.
UD,
I’m a big fan of colloidal silver too. I bought a gallon of it years ago-indefinite shelf life… Much of it is ionic silver sold as colloidal however-big difference. The below site has a great product and good info. Jus, throwing it out there……
https://www.mesosilver.com
In Sept of 2019, TrUmP signed an EO and the Flu disappeared from the face of the Earth. In December 2019 Fauci briefed congress on the executive order claiming a host of government agencies and private companies would work together to create vaccines based on Rna , mRNA , DNA, and nano self assembling technology.
People who have not caught up on the story can catch Dr Ruby and Stew Peters https://www.brighteon.com/2ac97f35-60e7-4f86-a34d-55fc91bd7461
Am watching now… interesting anglel.
What’s an anglel …?
Just kidding, your post may have been before? the Dr. David Bryant video
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—-====
Just got back from local groceries, we saw all but two of the night stocking crew doing all facing, and numerous spots throughout the store where sections were completely void of goods….
There were still good amounts of canned goods, flour, pastas……but the toilet paper isle was only about 50% stocked, and forget about some paper plates…….the secret must be out smart people that have been infected are preparing!
Have you seen this link? I sent it to my 2 older sons, and their wives, who have both taken the injection. It has a lot of good information but each person should do their own research of what he has posted. Some I am very familiar with and other stuff seems not so credible, but he has compiled a lot of information in one place, so takes a lot of work out of trying to figure out things.
https://spikedetox.blogspot.com/2021/06/possible-ways-to-neutralize-covid-vaxx.html
Do the zeolite and chlorella at the same time with no other supplements at the same time, will clean ya right out.
True that. Whether they are related to you or not, people who suck Satan’s d*ck and insist it is a lollipop should be confronted early and often for their misguided but willful worship of evil. ESPECIALLY if they are people who matter to you.
And, if they cross that unforgivable line and demand that YOU suck Satan’s knob too, because they arrogantly believe that they- and their cult leaders – are literally the only God and Truth, then you have 2 choices:
-coddle and reward Satan-worshipers and thereby become a servant of evil yourself; or,
-treat them as you would a rabid dog endangering the uninfected people you love.
To the turkey farmer I say:
Giving thanksgiving turkeys to Old Yeller and letting him infect others in the family without a fight is self-evidently not a good answer.
What happens when your brainwashed aunt does what cult groupies always do and blindly and rabidly follows TV orders to snitch on “anti-vaxxers” so they can be rounded up and put in Hitler-esque death camps?
We are already at ’80 pct VAXX groupie nation’, you think this Cartel-owned bureaucracy won’t grab the total God-like power that is there for the taking by using “100 percent jabbed or death” tactics to get it?
If your aunt refuses to notice that the most VAXXED nations on earth (like Israel) are disproportionately swamped with new COVID cases , while deaths in the countries with no slave mask, lockdown or jab mandates (like Sweden) a faring much better, then she is already a cult-owned rabid dog and should be handled accordingly. – (and if you didn’t try hard to make her notice facts and reason on this world-defining issue, your professed caring for her is fake. If she is beyond reason now, she is a real threat to people you care about who can still be saved. It’s that simple).
You hit the nail on the head. When people are oblivious to cause and effect. There is little you can do to help them. But we try because of our love for them is what HSFarmer is saying.
Thank You
Beautiful
Thank you for that.
Beautiful and touching. I need to make the same call you had with your Aunt this weekend.
Traditionally both my family and my inlaws have shared holiday meals. Thanksgiving has always been at my mother’s and it even included extended family from my inlaws side. It was big, loud, and a wonderful reminder that my wife and I link all those people, and more.
Last year she cancelled because she just wasn’t comfortable with having a house full of people, and that was the beginning of her trip down the scaredy hole. Last summer she declined to watch my daughter play an outdoor sporting even near her home. A few weeks later my family was uninvited to a get together for my favorite aunt & uncle at her house because we won’t take Clot shot.
It’s 2 weeks from Thanksgiving. When asked 2 weeks ago if she was hosting she wasn’t sure. My wife, inlaws, and I discussed the situation. Tomorrow if her answer is anything other than Yes, the celebration of family and blessings will be at my inlaws. She will still be invited but will have an excuse not to come.
This may drop a nuclear bomb on that side of my family but Covid Theatre is done. If she chooses to hole up and be scared of the world that is her choice. We aren’t taking Clot Shot…period. My inlaws have no issue with us lepers and the world will move on even if we have heavy hearts.
I have been fired from Massachusetts General Hospital after 22 years for refusing the shot. Refuse and Resist
Many blessings to you and your family. I remembered this beautiful saying reading your post. God does things for you not to you. You will find secret blessings standing up to this tyranny.
Many resisted. Most couldn’t refuse. Nothing against them. I was in this position for a reason. I had the ability to say no for a reason. I really didn’t have a choice. I was supposed to say no for those that couldn’t. Vaxxing kids sealed the deal. Dennis Gaudet RRT, RN, BS Massachusetts General Hospital 22 years
Yup. The over-the-top push to vax kids and pregnant women really tells you all you need to know.
I worked at the Massive Genital from 2000-2003, too, Dennis. Good luck in your path. As Dr. Peter McCullough says: Be unbreakable.
Love it! Thanks for the laugh:)))
Thanks for your bravery in standing up to the filthy, rotten management! Many of us are in the same situation.
Under current rules in Nova Scotia the unvaxxed, like me, are verboten to participate in any services after the death of a loved one.. Instead as fate has it according to those in charge of plucking the feathers, I should be consigned to the ghetto, to be spoken of in hushed tones as unclean. Not allowed to gather with family at a wakes. Not even allowed in beyond the cemetery gates, when the one who has left, leaves.
And here in Nova Scotia most have no problems with any of that.
Stalin would be proud of the cruelty accomplished in that scene.
Well said. Have you moved to the coastal doomstead yet? Any problems with selling the house?
We sold it the day it was listed. It was almost too easy…
Speaking of family here is the connection to this essay by Scrabble.
To make the deal happen we were forced to sell the house first before signing docs to build the new one. Not ideal but meant to be. As fate would have it, it was lent in a good way on the situation with the problem of finding rental accommodations in the meantime. Because of our predicament we will have a gap of about 8 months between digs.. Not ideal but with the real estate market here as crazy as it is these days, a fella got to strike while the iron is hot or get left out in the rain! There is no telling what things will be like a year from now, the economy riding on the rims as it is, it is only a matter of time before the wheels come off the train!
The bank was probably doing us a favour…
That said we were all set to be holed up in a hotel room for winter. Around here finding a house to rent is a bony fish to fillet of late. Then fate intervenes and a house on my Grandmother’s former homestead comes available to let.
Was it meant to be? Could it be that my Nan is looking out for me again.
I think yes….
2021 has been a transformative year. With so much of it in flux, I credit the change in perspective to a choice to follow the better path to towards a moar stoic life. To stop reacting and start thinking. Slow things down just a bit. Walk with the ghosts rather than run from them.
There was a time when I thought that the essays Scrabble wrote were too quaint. Couldn’t see myself playing any role in any of the scenes he would paint. But things change and now I think I may.
We have all changed a bit in our perspectives, haven’t we. I think about what patriotic fun I had with kids painting rocks for veterans graves, thinking it might help spark some sort of evolution toward adding an “r” to that word.
I have a lot of video from the first days of quarantine, when I decided to drive all over this region taking pictures of the empty fields and empty (mostly) highways. Someday, when it is all gone and we are salvaging what we can salvage, I will show the videos to small children and they will be amazed at what the old world looked like.
RiNS…I can’t stop staring at that Winter Coffee Shop. Reminds me of the Broadmoor in Colorado. My whole family would spend a weekend there around the holidays every year. Will break the tradition this year. Will miss the ambience it provided, as well as all the charming ski towns in CO around the holidays. Trying to find the charm in rural TX now, but I do miss the snow and mountains!
Had a memorial service two states away a month ago. My wife does not travel well any more, so she stayed home to keep the animals as my (unvaxxed) daughter and I drove 16 hours to join the rest of the (entirely vaxxed) family. My daughter and I did not wear masks; neither did the others although the hotel stated they were required in common areas. It was a good time of fellowship, shared memories, eating, drinking, and saying goodbye to my 93 year old stepmother, who was initially distant, but later welcoming. It went much better than I had expected.
Everyone’s expenses were covered but ours. So be it.
Thanks for writing that Deacon. A similar situation awaits me soon with my Dad.
It is good to know that a schmuck like me is not alone…
So be it….
You will soon be mourning all your vaxed relatives.
I have steeled my heart and soul for this inevitability.
To prepare myself for this, I read the Book of Job…
On a regular and frequent basis…
If the Lord takes me before then, it will be a relief and a sparing of pain for me.
Yes.
I hope Saxon that you are wrong as I am the only one not done…
Job 19:22-27
23“Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
24That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!
25For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;
26And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,
27Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
Stalin was a psychopath a cold evil mf. We would be wise to understand that progressives are just like him and act accordinly.
The last three days, I have been reading the book that Stucky recommended: “I’ve seen the end of you.” It is exactly as he described it. It tells of faith, doubt, unsurvivable trauma and cancers, and his personal tragedy while being a neurosurgeon and attempting to fix the broken. As my husband and I often read quietly after the kids are in bed, him with his Jack Reacher novel and me crying my eyes out with that book, I am sure he thought to himself that I should try reading a less depressing genre…
I recommend that book. Its message is similar to yours, HSF. What do we do in the face of tragedy? And why does it happen in the first place? He speaks of God perfecting us in the furnace of suffering, and of having a Hobson’s choice in life: either you get the wonderful and the terrible of life together, or you get nothing at all. And I thought one quote stood out, given the times we live in: “The opposite of faith is not doubt, but it is fear.”
We know one couple who was affected by Covid and its hospital policies. The husband, in his 70s, very ill for many years with diabetes, multiple maladies and, at the end, dialysis-dependent kidney failure. Then, he got ill with Covid. He was admitted to the hospital and nobody was allowed to visit, not even his wife, for multiple weeks. I am not sure if his family was even informed of how he was doing. Well, he deteriorated and then his wife got the call that she could come to say her Goodbyes to him. She went, got all gowned up, which took 15 minutes, and then she was given 30 minutes with him. The nurses left the two alone, but she wanted to do everything “right”, so neither one of them ever took their masks off and she never took her nitrile gloves off. He died the following night and the surviving wife of 52 years has said that the worst part is not that he died but the fact that she never got to hold his hands (without gloves) or see his whole face or kiss him one last time.
I don’t know the weather in NH today, but over here, we had three weeks of glorious, beautiful and mild fall weather, and today the skies opened up and it is pouring out there and looks dreadful and grey. How fitting.
I am so sorry.
We have a glorious day here as well.
She could have held his hands..what stopped her?
As we all know, it is a complex mixture of being a “good” citizen, doing what you have been led to believe is the “right” thing to do, and the realization too late that it was a mistake. Like many parents will feel when they carry their lifeless children to the grave due to a mistaken belief in the benefits of man made synthetic genetic material injected into their tiny bodies.
I hate the word “citizen”. I’m not a citizen; I’m an individual. There is some overlap – I obey the rules of my community that I feel are just, for example – but they are two different things.
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but it is fear.”
Great quote. Thank you:)
This reminds me that the opposite of love is not hate, but fear. While faith is an attribute of love. Doubt is an attribute of fear.
I finished reading Stucky’s recommended book “I’ve Seen the End of You” two days ago.
Great book – even if I feel towards the end, that the author hasn’t taken the lessons he describes, fully to heart himselves. But OK, he’s working on it.
Best lines:
Pastor John: “…the purpose of prayer isn’t to bend God’s will to ours. The purpose of prayer is to bend us to God’s will.”
(Yep, 100% agree. I had figured that one out myself not long ago, after Jordan Peterson talked about prayer in a… functional way, without denigrating it.)
Oswald Chambers: “The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.”
(I never thought about it that way before, but I now see the statement as pure, naked truth.)
Thanks, Stucky!!
So we read the book at the same time, m. It’s almost like a virtual book club, except that I hate book clubs because I do not like to discuss books ad nauseam. By the way, I took your advice and instead of supporting some big box store with my computer purchase, I ended up buying a used Dell Precision 7510, i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD. Like new, super fast and a good deal at $430 on ebay. I love it. Thank you.
Good for you!
Thanks. Enjoy!
(Remember, if it ever becomes necessary you can upgrade it all thew way to 64 GB RAM [inofficially even 128 GB RAM], and
610 TB SSD internal storage [as 2 TB NVMe m.2 and48 TB SATA].)“We can’t stop whats coming”
No Country For Old Men
I am still going to try to shoot it, whatever it is. I advise everyone to do the same.
“Don’t want to get killed for lack of shooting back.”
Unforgiven
“Be nice… until it’s time… to not be nice.”
Roadhouse
You can”t stop whats coming,
But you sure gum it up bad,
Make a mess,
And cost (((them))) dearly…
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
― Winston S. Churchill
What will you choice be?
We are already at the final choice of Churchill’s quote. The’ easily win without bloodshed train “has left the station.
Beautifully written. Sorry for your family’s loss, HF.
It is infuriating to see the damage that has been done to families over the past two years. After a lot of loss in my family the past year, I have vowed not to allow TPTB to come between me and my family. Most of them are crazy, but I don’t care…I would never deny them anything, including a relationship with me.
Thanksgiving is sure to be interesting…probably a lot of F-bombs dropped, but then we’ll hug, say I love you, and continue being the spirited family that we are.
Abbie? I must interject and ask that you honor the TBP tradition of recognizing the Hard Scrabble Farmer (HSF) and not mistakenly address any Hard Farmers (HF) out there awaiting undeserved recognition.
An old running buddy of mine was a stickler for protocol, especially regarding the big dogs of TBP.
That said and notwithstanding what I said, I think you are a marvelous addition to the blog.
Ghost…Good catch! I certainly never intended to heap any accolades on an undeserving Hard Farmer and will be sure to reserve my praise for the admirable Hard Scrabble Farmer (HSF) henceforth.
And, thank you very much for the compliment! I enjoy seeing the pictures you post of your life. Not sure if you saw that I commented on your dog one day…maybe too late so it probably fell off the radar. I, too, have a Pyrenees who looks very similar to your dog. His name is Rebel….fitting for the times, huh?
The “big dogs” of TBP. WTF? Some opinions are more equal than others, kinda thing? Jeez.
Yes. You obviously haven’t clashed with one of the TBP big dogs.
You will if you hang around.
It is worth it. Isn’t it?
It’s hard to argue with you HSF. Love conquers all? I cannot help but believe it is beyond difficult to get people to see the pain they are causing until they feel the pain themselves. Maybe your aunt just needs to be left alone. That seems to be what she is choosing.
My mother in law has been a super freak about Covid since the beginning. Wears a mask in her car and on the beach when alone. Can you say cray cray?
Anyway, she won’t let us come see her but she wants to stay at our place for 24 hours because she is taking a flight from the east coast to the west coast and the airport she is flying out of is near us. What? What changed that she now will come see us but still will not let us come see her? I believe it is the attitude of who is better than who. Plus she is a controlling person. It should be a fun 24 hours. I told my wife that if she were my mother, I’d tell her she cannot come see us until we can come see her. But, that’s just me.
People forget that Totalitarianism (which is where we’re headed) is not a one way thing. It needs an “oppressed” as well as an oppressor to work. It’s all very well being nice and Christian about this, but family members who ban us and exclude us are part of the problem. They keep this thing going.
LOL, it’s the Christians’ fault we’re sliding into totalitarianism!
I’m surprised that you haven’t gotten any downvotes for that comment. Aren’t Christians the biggest voting block in our nation? I’m very disappointed in them myself. They have embraced the fear as well as the lies. Government over God, poison over people. (I am a firm Bible believer, but not a Christian.)
Maybe they got my sarcasm.
It seems to me you are dumping two groups together:
I’m a Christian, but have very strong reservations against (almost) any form of institutionalized Christianity. (Note: The jury is still out for me on Orthodox Christianity.)
I guess that I completely overlooked the LOL. My bad.
I’m glad she’s your MIL, and not mine. But, it’s still good she is coming. In looking at others, we may see our own reflection
Incredibly well-written.
A real gut punch that speaks to what so many are going through these days.
Powerless is the closest word to describe my state, but something more than that.
An incredibly moving story, Marc Moran.
My mother lies in a hospital in Sikeston (any Scott Countians here?) where they are draining fluid from all the organs that retain fluid when they no longer work correctly due to decades of cholesterol medications, blood pressure medicine, in 2006, insulin now up to 4 times daily, a lifetime of fried foods and a deep belief that God is in complete control.
As luck would have it, my neighbor’s daughter is a physical tech who works there three days a week, traveling the 100+ mile round trip because of what it pays. She lives around the corner and down the gravel road. She is working today and is going to check in on my mother for me and talk to her physical therapist.
I think I will go check on her mother now. Geneva is my walking and talking partner whose husband died of pancreatic cancer last May. She also holds a deep belief that God is in complete control.
You have my sincerest condolences for your loss. It is a terrible thing to be completely cut off from the people you once called flesh and blood, kith and kin, loved and beloved.
I think we are seeing exactly how the lines were drawn for the first civil war combined with the Bolshevik takeover of the entire political economy of Russia, nationalizing all industry and farmland and then proceeding to starve the dissenters to death.
Last spring I stopped at the local Veterans cemetery and watched a funeral there. An honor guard stood six feet from the chaplain and the family stood beside the cars. There were only three cars for whom I later learned (by visiting the grave) was a prominent local businessman whose passing should have filled the cemetery with mourners and friends murmuring condolences to the family. And no, it wasn’t Covid.
Look what they have done to our country.
I wish I had a Nickle for every time I was told those words: “God Is in Control.” Then I’d like a dime for every time I thought: “Shit, he’s sure doing a crappy job.” I always go back to what I know and that’s this world and all the other worlds, universes, are created. That crap that it all just wham-boom happened over millions of years is proof that highly-educated folks in suits can still be ignorant morons. I’ve been a professional mechanic for 50 years and any “dumb wrench” knows that nothing just does anything, without the careful and intelligent work of another (like me fixing a car).
I’m old enough that pretty much all my relatives are gone, dead. It is a lot more peaceful and quiet these days. I have a nice girl friend who still has quite a bit of family and to me it is entertaining at how much trouble she always had to talk to me about, concerning them. I had some wonderful aunts, cousins and parents. I remember them and I remember us. And, no one can take that away. Not with Covid Crap or all the Bold-Faced lies those whose salary we pay, lay out to us each day.
God is leaving it up to us, we can make Earth heaven…or hell
In that book I mentioned, the author writes that among the worst things that people told him after the death of a loved one was “He is in a better place now” or “God is in control” etc. The most comforting was a distant acquaintance who said, with sincerity, “I don’t know what to say, but I just wanted you to know that I care.”
Or, or in addition, “We can appreciate the time we had all the more now.”
Regardless of we (humanity) think,
our creator is in control of his creation,
and certainly this seemingly crazy world.
1 Corinthians, 12, 13
“Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.”
YMMV
If this is God in control, I’d hate to think what it would be like when he’s not in control. BTW, I do firmly believe in God. Just not the fairytale God who “has a plan for us”. God created the universe and we abide by its rules, or else. Just like any other creature.
I was born in Scott County……..Kansas.
‘God is in control’…. who’s god?
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—=== Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom. The iron shall cease, the golden race arise, Befriend him, chaste Lucina; 'tis thine own. Apollo reigns.
I’m in Misery… next door.’
This video by the biologist buddy of mine speaks very well to the impact on society Marc has addressed here.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1202821404
And this video is an eye opener.
https://thephaser.com/2021/11/must-watch-presentation-by-dr-david-martin/
Think in another comments I mentioned I am also in SEMO – northern Cape County but close enough to say howdy neighbor. May your mother find better health and peace, best wishes for you and yours
I am with you Marc. Lost my last living uncle last year. I was the Lector at his funeral Mass. Mask and all.
Praise God none of my mostly Deplorable relatives give a damn about anything the Prog disinformation organs say.
Reposted under this title: “To Use Lies And Propaganda To Rip Asunder Family Ties Is A Gross Crime By Those In Power Which, If Justice Is To Be Served, Should Result In Terrible Retribution
And those in power must be removed from their positions and brought to justice.”
“Terrible Retribution” will come from one side or the other.
My sister the doctor, her family, and my sister-in-law the nurse are still true believers after pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in the lungs), which use to be rare but have become much less so since the vaccines, almost killed mom after she got her two Pfizer shots. I won’t cancel them from my life, but the cordial and familial relationships we once enjoyed are fading, particularly with my sister. I’m somewhat surprised she wants to get together over the Thanksgiving holiday, given that I have and will continue to refuse the vaccine and she knows it. Fortunately, it will only be for a couple of hours and I’m sure we’ll both avoid discussion of the elephant in the room.
A great article, HSF, that adroitly covers a lot of sensitive territory in your usual inimitable style. Thanks.
Tell your naive family to watch as much George Carlin as they can.
Or play it for them the next time you get together, and leave it running in the background.
They’ll get a lot of laughs and hopefully learn some basic truths about our (((overlords))).
It’s never too late to teach old dogs basic realities.
Thanks for sharing, HSF.
‘Put a new spin on my day.
As we all know life ultimetly ends in death. We may not like it,and try not to think about it.It comes for us all regardless. Just gives pain. On top of that there is this whole Covid bullshit that is ripping families apart. Perhaps knowing how these people operate. It is being done on purpose. Well I have no doubt. I have not changed a thing of how I live my life. Refused the mask nonsense,will not get the shot,and will celebrate the holidays the same way I do every year. My whole immediate family will not get the shot. However my siblings all lined themselves up,and their kids,and soon their kids. Fortunately, none of them refuse to be around us. They respect our decision. They know better than to try and take me on with the pro-vax shit. I can fillet them. Besides….I think they all have a pretty good idea that sometime very soon. We’re gonna find out who the smart ones and who the stupid ones are. Only thing is.They can not get rid of what they have already done.
Yes, and all family members should be able to respect others’ personal choices and be respectful…if not, the relationship will inevitably blow up..
True, Bilco. It’s of some comfort too to remember that all these psychopaths running this, despite their feelings of immortality and omnipotence, will soon be dead too. I wonder what that evil warmonger Donald Rumsfeld was thinking of on his death bed? I’m sure he was laughing at all the wars he started and the money he made. No-one gets out of here alive.
Amen.
Thanks for that, HSF. So many are seething with anger about the symptoms but have no idea of the cause.
Hardscrabble, you are as great a writer as I can see that you are as a man. Your writing touches me deeply. I follow TBP daily, but very seldom post anything. I couldn’t pass up thanking you for expressing what so many of us feel, and have felt for some time – even long before the flu panic. May God bless you.
The best memories I have involve family outings with aunt rose and uncle Merle, nono lippi and nana Mary, tex and Bernice, uncle Ernie and aunt Jerry, mom and dad and all my cousins. They are all gone now, the family has changed a lot over the last 50 years and we don’t all get together much anymore but we are still a close group with care and love for each other. It feels like the goal of the powers that rule, is to completely destroy the family unit, to turn us all into self absorbed individuals and it feels like they are having some success , but I don’t believe God will let them be victorious . We are a family, all of us. Thank you for helping me remember that.
You’re a nicer man than me. I cut off all my stupid relatives who can’t or won’t see thru this bullshit for what it is. Ditto friends. I don’t have the time for idiocy, no matter the source. Same thing for those who vote Democrat. Buh-bye.
There have to be consequences for their stupidity. No longer having me in their lives is one of them. The natural results of swallowing the lies and taking this “vaccine” will be the bigger consequences, obviously.
I think the beauty of the essay is that he highlights their loss without withdrawing his love or closing his door. I think understanding consequences may be more important than their magnitude.
I get it and I appreciate it. But I just can’t bring myself to be so compassionate and understanding with fking idiots whose incredulity, compliance and obedience to bullshit have ramifications far beyond themselves. It’s like being a passenger trapped in a car with a drunk behind the wheel: I’m outta there ASAP.
Yea, me neither.
Correct. Because they are not just voicing their opinions, which would be perfectly fine; they are directly and indirectly impacting our lives. They are isolating us and also helping the evil people behind this keep it going. If my mother-in-law doesn’t want to see my kids because they are not jabbed, then she is not seeing them ever again.
Absolutely. I suggest you make it abundantly clear to your mother-in-law, if you haven’t already, that she’ll never be seeing her grandchildren again. Let her old bones stew in that broth for the rest of her time on earth.
Consequences.
You either feel love or you don’t feel love. And I’d be lying if I felt love for the members of my family who have insulted me, my wife and my kids because we are unjabbed. I can pretend I still feel love for them, but I don’t. And I’m not a hypocrite.
I’m sorry for your loss. I’m the only one left in my family, except for a vacant cranky brother who is withering away with Parkinson’s. There hasn’t been a relationship there for decades. I took him a homemade turkey dinner on the Canadian thanksgiving as I was alone, as was he. We sat on his porch for awhile, but …nothing much to say really. His voice is weakened and soft, and my hearing isn’t good, so…
I remember happy Christmas get togethers from years ago. Sometimes I think about what you experienced in your dream; I think what it would be like to go back in time and be with them. Your dream was an amazing gift.
Wishing you and the family a happy thanksgiving. You’re making memories for your kids.
Before us great Death stands
Our fate held close within his quiet hands.
When with proud joy we lift Life’s red wine
To drink deep of the mystic shining cup
And ecstasy through all our being leaps—
Death bows his head and weeps.
————————————-
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting
still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.
When something’s let go of, it circles; and though we are
rarely the center
of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous
curve.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You are a Saint, HSF…If one of my relatives told me that Thanksgiving dinner was off because of such ignorant BS, I think that would be the end of the relationship for us and my wife, fully vaxxed, would agree with me…Such rudeness cannot be tolerated…
as far as the Karens, “there is a furnace, thrice heated, waiting” (from an old middle eastern proverb)
This Thanksgiving will most likely be the last time my immediate family is all in the same room at the same time. I have a sister that is coming from Texas and my other sister is coming from Alaska. My parents are both pharmacological disasters with my mother taking 32 prescription pills a day with my father a close second at around 20.
Air travel to and from the remote village that my sister lives in wont go on for much longer. Frankly, I’m surprised she found passage out.
A few elderly uncles that I have will be appearing here as well.
I will not allow anyone to talk vaccines, religion or politics during the 10 days that everyone will be here following a rule my mother adopted after she moved here from Italy as she did not allow anyone to discuss religion or politics in “her” house. That should keep everything civil.
“I will not allow anyone to talk vaccines, religion or politics…”
What?? Do you even KNOW how to celebrate Thanksgiving??
They can’t talk about those things, but they can mumble snide little comments out of one side of their mouth. I mean, that’s what I would do. “Bunch of goddamn communists.” You know, stuff like that.
Sign language works too.
My condolences for your loss. It appears you had a really great call with your cousin, though, and the mutual relief you both felt was evidence of the bittersweet occurrences we so often experience when loved ones pass.
You wrote the following regarding your Aunt and family’s embrace of the Covidist faith:
I fully understand that frustration. I once even researched cult deprogramming and became discouraged at the extensive recovery process involved. Some of the tactics included helping a cult member to identify their authentic identity as opposed to their cult identity. Another means involved sharing information on the cult and demonstrating how the cult member’s power to choose was taken away from them.
In the end, however, it still comes down to the stories in people’s heads. Yet, it seems, the main problems are these: The stories are too big, the lies are too legion, and while affecting the majority of the population all at once.
Madness.
You also wrote:
I do that a lot. Literally and metaphorically.
Thank you for the article. It lifted my spirits on a gloomy day to read the words of one like-minded, seated just beyond the electric glow of the same blue fire.
[just a torrent of anguish and grief that rambled on from the horrible treatment of the hospital and worse yet the insurance syndicate and the various agents of Medicare and Medicaid and their endless abuses, to the deep and profound loss he had just experienced]
———silence
I wish I could dream, or that I would remember one. I’ve had no contact with any cousins for 50 yrs., save one who drove from Atlanta Georgia to pay respects to my dad twenty + yrs ago.
“well, there’s nothing you can do about it, son”
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—===
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
That was outstanding, sir.
Thanks HSF.
HardFarmer,
Thank you for sharing this story. You are a good man.
“What has been done over the past couple of years is a crime against humanity.” Amen
My daughter is a RN in the emergency room of a small rural hospital, and has just been given the ultimatum of jab or job, due to “Joe Biden” mandate. I am helping her with writing a religious exemption. It is a very good job for these rural parts, and she would be lucky to make half as much elsewhere in the area.
I am “in the game”, as you put it, and see what these evil bastards are doing. And I am getting pissed off.
They better be ready for some trouble, the way this is going.
BB used to call him Hard Farmer. I miss BB.
Me too. BB was one of my favorites a true character.
HSF, to me the most cutting theme of your essay is the fragility of our humanity over the passing of time, the cruelest reality of all. It brought back the memories of all of the happy Thanksgiving and Christmas times in my life. All of the relatives who were a part of that have passed on, including some really close friends from my younger days. Now the holidays to me are just a time off during a dark, dreary and cold time of the year. I still go to socialize and eat with friends, but when I leave and get in my car to leave, the hard reality comes back like it never left. The sad thing is we never had any idea of that when we were young, and we acted like it would go on forever. At the age of 57, I now understand that is one of the worst parts of getting older.
Coalclinker, you put that so well. Just like HSF, your words invoked feelings of the old days, when we’d gather and people would come in from the cold, laden with presents, all dressed up, the aunties’ perfume in the air, the laughter, everyone talking at once.
And here’s a shoutout to those generous families who host, and the hard work the moms and grandmas put into making a big turkey dinner. I hope your reward is great, though it’s enough to see the happy faces around the table.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/michael-granata-56-year-old-california-man-dead-10-weeks-after-moderna-mrna-injection-warns-others-don-t-do-it-unless-you-want-to-suffer-and-die
Thank you HSF. Your essay articulated what I am feeling. My wife and I stopped by and visited with my cousin a couple of weeks ago and she invited me to thanksgiving, knowing that I would be alone as my wife is to spend the week with her brother and has not spent time with her side on thanksgiving for the past 35 years of our marriage.
She texted me asking if I was vaccinated as there were others to attend. And with her being a retired teacher that swallows anything the government says I knew there would be problems. I said I wasn’t and made it easy for her by begging off. My new job is an abrupt reality check having not worked the past 5 plus years. Spending all day on my feet doing hard physical labor makes me want to just rest at the end of the day and not drive 7 hours round trip for the thanksgiving meal. But it is a means to an end. The company I had invested our saving went bankrupt last April and we lost what equaled what I earned in 21 years in the navy. So I elected to rejoin the work force in a job without benefits to earn more social security credits and invest the salary into IRA contributions.
subwo – I am sorry for your investment loss. Losses like that are under appreciated. Thought of as ‘only’ material. That is a loss of your sweat, time, life. That it was meant to take care of your loved ones. Know that that loss is appreciated and my thoughts are with you. Dennis Gaudet Revere MA
Thanks Dennis. It was a lot to us, though chump change compared to a sailors pay today. Over 21 years enlisted to officer pay and submarine duty pay with two $16,000 reenlistment bonuses only average out to about $10,000 per year.
I had an early life mentor tell me “when you passionately believe in what your saying, music is added to your words.”
I heard the music while reading your heart-felt note.
HSF,
That was a great essay. Thank you. It feels like the ruler of this world is doing what he can to make us all crazy.
My thoughts at 5 am this morning: there is no doubt in my mind that I would also deliver that turkey. Would I ring the doorbell though, that is the harder question. The risk is to ruin a loving good deed for the giver if it was met with anger and disapproval. But it would harbor the opportunity to maybe see each other in person and exchange a smile over a safe distance of 10 yards of crisp autumn air.
Would you ring the bell? Will you?
I have been debating that question since I wrote that sentence.
There’s nothing that would diffuse the tension better than to see each other’s faces again, I know it. But there’s a part of me that worries it would only make things worse, like I didn’t respect her decision to keep us at a distance. There’s no winning this one.
The turkeys followed me around all day today and every once in a while I’d stop and just look at them wondering if they were hip to the plan, but they just stared back at me, inscrutable birds.
Ring the bell and run back to your car before she answers. Smile and wave from so far away even she won’t be frightened. And if she is STILL afraid? Well, you tried.
Today’s modern doctors are the most notorious and heinous criminals and murderers to ever walk the face of the earth. Evidently they also suffer extreme boredom or are otherwise supplementing their incomes by pretending they star as heroes in modern day crime dramas. And it is only appropriate they do because they are often incompetent as medical professionals and engage themselves with as many alphabet agencies as is humanly possible. Imagine coercing innocent unknowing naive people and children to get themselves injected with serums that contain material taken from an living aborted human baby fetus. All the while breaking laws that have been established and cherished since time immemorial to even include murder. All for a virus that has a 99.98% survival rate. And this not to even mention their past time as grifters.Talk about EViL! Mike Adams does great job explaining the corruption giving doctors the old what for on a near daily basis
https://www.brighteon.com/2c020432-654d-438f-904d-52463c11886a
They’ve managed to clone thousands of Dr Mengeles.
Almost forgot, for those who may be unaware their most current methods of murder other than the serums are the Fauci favorites to include the drug Remdesavir and the ventilator. Other than that if any sort of withholding of medication to exacerbate a patient’s suffering can be accomplished it seems to be a bonus for them and their overlords on a spiritual/pyshological level. On that same note if they can separate families so the patient is completely isolated they seem to get off on that as well.
Amen.
Thank you.
Very touching. However, I don’t have the same ability to forgive as the author of this excellent piece. I find it very hard to forgive members of my own family who would be very happy for me to lose my livelihood and be sent to a camp. Screw them!
That was wonderful.
And the crime you described at the end is all part of the plan
to destroy the U.S. And ultimately western culture.
The family is the most basic and solid of our foundations.
If that can be destroyed or disrupted, all else will much
more easily be destroyed. Genuine evil is going on all around us now.
Be prepared both spiritually and physically to fight it.
The author of this article is dropping off a turkey on his aunt’s lawn which sounds nice but is just a cheap way to ease his guilty conscience. A better gift would be to send her a letter saying ‘Dear aunt, I got the vaccine just for you so we can all be together again.”. This is called self sacrifice much like what the Sacred Heart of our Blessed Lord did when he died on the cross. But this farmer is likely not a follower of Jesus so he has no choice but to act on his own selfishness. Pitiful. Nevertheless I will pray the Rosary for him. Find a good Catholic Church farmer before it’s too late.
Okay, you big lumberjackass… some things are too obvious, even for you.
Troll. Chatbot? Signature Reduction Force?
You left out Horse’s Ass.
My sister in law works in the healthcare field and is adamant about the Vax (my husband got his because he would be fired if he didn’t). She pressured my mother in law into getting it by saying she wouldn’t let the kids come see her unless she did.
Christmas is just around the corner and she’s not sure if she and her kids will come down if I’m there since I’m not vaxxed. Mother in law has already gently broached the topic with me to relay her daughter’s fears.
It’s looking like I may be politely asked to stay home while my husband and son go over or, at best, attend the celebration masked up.
Never would have thought that my right to decide what to do with my body would turn me into an unwelcome leper around the family members who have always showed me so much love and support.
“…my husband got his because he would be fired if he didn’t“
Would you have supported him if he didn’t get the vax and chose to be fired instead?
Downvoter…explain your reasoning.
Do any of these excuse my French “stupid fuqueres” understand it has been two years, and only a tiny percentage have caught the Wuflu, less than 1% have died “with or from” it, shitloads have had it without knowing it and half the people are naturally immune regardless?
That was an excellent question, AA.
Amy, I’m sorry you’re in this position, that’s awful. Like you said, they’ve given you love and support in the past. This stinking vax stuff is where the rubber meets the road. And these situations will be happening all over North America….probably the world. I hope you come through it fine, without bad feelings, which just bring people down. But you have every right to refuse the vaccine….too risky.
Trimethamine is NOW INPFIZER DEATHJAB FOR KIDS.THIS IS DEADLY.NOBODY SHOULD BE GETTING THESE KILKSHOTS PUSHED BY ANTIHUMANS.
Hardscrabble…..
I didn’t go too far down the thread, and stopped off at a Ghost post, then came back up to drop this off:
https://www.rt.com/usa/540223-unvaccinated-americans-family-parties/
The delusion is powerful