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16 Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 30

January is almost over, and we’re only just dropping the first memes of 2023?

We can only apologise. But don’t worry, because today we’re here to post memes and chew bubblegum…and we’re all out of bubblegum.

I know you’re all probably devastated, betrayed, and desperate for memes…so let’s dive right in.

1.

Can’t we just go back to 2019? It wasn’t so bad in hindsight.

2.

There’s a pun about stocks in there somewhere.

3.

A lot of miles in the “stoves=guns” joke.

4.

Well, then I guess…the second one?

5.

People out there mashing the red button like it’s a Street Fighter special move.

6.

We all know it’s going in the food supply eventually.

7.

Rolling eyes and chuckling under your breath is also acceptable.

8.

This absolutely happens…naming no names.

9.

Now available with a pre-roofied ten-year-old in the trunk.

10.

As the AI art craze ushers in the age of the machines, they reveal their one true weakness…

11.

Just keep pulling the lever, it will work next time. Promise.

12.

The first 10 million years were the worst…

13.

Davos kicked off with Uncle Klaus spinning his Wheel of Misfortune

14.

Live look at Greta’s “arrest” at her “protest”

15.

Turns out they were kidding about the happiness part.

16.

We can all agree this is the way to go right? Maybe we can get a bulk rate.

BONUS: Bob Moran on Jacinda’s surprise goodbye

And finally…

When the hero was the villain all along…

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Robertito
Robertito
Mar 12, 2023 4:04 PM

#11: Does anyone remember when the colours of the Republican and Democrat parties switched between 1980 and 1984? Didn’t think so. Republicans True Blue to Red.
Election night coverage on YouTube verifies it.
MSM conspiracy? It happened with One Voice.

QuiescentTraveler
QuiescentTraveler
Mar 16, 2023 5:00 AM
Reply to  Robertito

Yes. Dems in the 1980’s were anti-nuclear, anti-war, pro-socialism, pro-police, pro-welfare reform. Republlicans now have 3 inverted pentagrams in their party logo — so there’s that.

TRM
TRM
Jan 29, 2023 12:50 AM

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Captain Spock
Captain Spock
Jan 26, 2023 5:40 PM

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krzltf
krzltf
Jan 25, 2023 5:01 AM

So this is finally happening… 😱

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niko
niko
Jan 24, 2023 7:50 PM

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niko
niko
Jan 24, 2023 7:15 PM

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George Mc
George Mc
Jan 24, 2023 3:45 PM

The Times now venturing further into sci-fi and explicitly so:

“A superfungus could be the next global health threat – so are we ready?

Cordyceps is the real-life fungus at the centre of dystopian drama The Last of Us – just how dangerous are such pathogens?”

For those who don’t know- and that includes me- The Last of Us is apparently a horror game franchise. And since the media have clearly been given full permission to cross over into fiction, I’m guessing it won’t be long till the Walking Dead, the Triffids and the Daleks will be announced as real.

George Mc
George Mc
Jan 24, 2023 5:05 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Sorry – it was the Telegraph. Not that it makes much difference:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/superfungus-could-next-global-health-threat-ready/

“If you type ‘zombie ants’ into a search engine ….”

And why would you do that? Never mind, let’s press on:

“…you should brace yourself for a nasty surprise. You’ll find videos showing the industrious little critters becoming possessed, controlled and ultimately torn apart by a fungus called Cordyceps. Its spores do not kill immediately; instead they seize control of the ant from within, marching them up trees and shoots…. Finally, in scenes reminiscent of the sci-fi film Alien, the fungus bursts from the ant’s exhausted corpse, raining fresh spores onto its healthy colleagues below.

In this way, a single zombie worker ant can be used by the cunning Cordyceps fungus to wipe out an entire colony.

When I first stumbled across one of these videos on Twitter a few years back I was sceptical.”

But I’ll bet that didn’t last!

“It all sounded a bit unlikely. But it is true; zombie ants possessed by fungi really are a thing. One of the first to report on the phenomenon was Sir David Attenborough ….”

Well there’s a surprise.

“….in a film broadcast by BBC Earth some 14 years ago. It shows the Cordyceps fungus infecting the “bodies and minds” of bullet ants … “There are literally thousands of different types of Cordyceps fungi and, remarkably, each specialises on just one species”, says Sir David ominously.”

But we are running out of steam in this boring factual mode and so ….

“Now jump to The Last of Us, a TV adaptation of the eponymous video game which, say its makers, was inspired by the Attenbourgh documentary.”

Taking up its cue from Sir David then.

But note that even in the fictionalised version we are eager to get “the sciencey bit over” and get on to humans possessed by the deadly etc.

Vital question:

“Is the Last of Us a load of old hokum or could it, like the 2011 film Contagion, prove horribly prescient?”

Yes that oddly “prescient” Contagion movie! 

But our hack horror porno merchants are forced to take a slight retreat: 

“Fortunately, Cordyceps cannot infect humans today and is highly unlikely ever to do so. …However, there are fungi that regularly infect and kill humans, and scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about them. … Fungal pathogens are a major threat to public health as they are becoming increasingly common” and also “becoming a public health concern worldwide.”

Cue list of terrible fungal tragedies. But the conclusion:

“And the good news? So far no known fungal infection has been linked to zombie-ism.”

A little visit to Wiki,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps

Nothing so sensational here. Indeed not a very long article at all. And it too seems to be weighted towards the fantastical:

“In popular culture
 
The Cordyceps fungus is depicted as a core plot element in the video game series The Last of Us …. and its television adaptation”

We also hear about a “novel The Girl with All the Gifts (2014) and its film adaptation (2016)” in which “a mutation of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is responsible for an infection which infects humans and causes the collapse of civilization”.

So we are now on the verge of the total abolition of any difference between fact and fiction.
 
 

John Pretty
John Pretty
Jan 24, 2023 6:06 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Are you trying to say that cordyceps is a fiction George because David Attenborough presented a programme featuring it?

I agree with your last sentence, but the problem is surely that too many people no longer know who or what they can trust.

As you are demonstrating!

(PS: the downvote wasn’t from me.)

George Mc
George Mc
Jan 24, 2023 6:51 PM
Reply to  John Pretty

You know JP I really don’t get why some people seem determined to misunderstand me when I try to make myself patently clear. I never said or even implied that “cordyceps is a fiction ….because David Attenborough presented a programme featuring it”. Indeed the ontological status of crdyceps is not an issue. I assume it exists. What I am questioning is the kind of impression this newspaper is trying to give about it. And note that Attenborough isn’t quoted in connection with imparting “zombie” characteristics to this fungus. (Though I do acknowledge Sir David’s eagerness to get on the climate/bio death/Malthusian bandwagon.) 

Nor do I know if Attenborough said “There are literally thousands of different types of Cordyceps fungi and, remarkably, each specialises on just one species” ominously unless we are supposed to assume that there is something ominous in the idea of each strain of this fungus singling out one species.

My point is that the entire article is sensationalist fear mongering and, as with covid, there is a concentrated effort to ominously imply as much as can be ominously implied.

John Pretty
John Pretty
Jan 24, 2023 7:40 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Fair point, but George, the written word can be misunderstood.

So I do my best always to be straightforward in my questioning.

I have not been “determined to misunderstand you.” I asked you for clarification. Straightforwardly. That is all. There was nothing hidden in what I was saying.

All that was required is for you to say “yes, that is what I am saying,” or, “no, you misunderstand me.”

I’m not trying to catch you out or anything.

I’m not perfect, I do misunderstand people at times. And people do misunderstand me at times.

And I do think my point stands. The issue here is very much that people (yes, that does include me) no longer know what or who to trust.

John Pretty
John Pretty
Jan 24, 2023 11:12 AM

I appreciate that you’re not going to pay attention to what I say on this matter. I know that you will think you know best. You might even downvote me for this.

But #6 !

Sigh, I shake my head. This is what happens when governments roll out novel “vaccines” (that aren’t really vaccines) onto a semi-educated public.

Now, I need to stress that I have not had any of the Covid jabs. And nor will I do so.

However, I am no more concerned about mRNA in steak than I am about protein in steak.

There is a reason why these jabs are injected and not taken by mouth. In the centre left of your body you have a large vat of hydrochloric acid called the stomach. It can deal with it. The stomach breaks it down.

I’m just trying to be helpful guys. It’s okay, I know you’re not listening, it’s alright.

MehNotGreat
MehNotGreat
Jan 24, 2023 2:08 PM
Reply to  John Pretty

Not everything gets broken down into harmless stuff in that vat though.

John Pretty
John Pretty
Jan 24, 2023 5:57 PM
Reply to  MehNotGreat

Of course not. But mRNA and protein do as they are normal parts of your diet.

mRNA contains four building blocks and protein twenty.

What part of “your stomach can deal with it” did you not understand?

I said it because I meant it !

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Jan 24, 2023 4:21 PM
Reply to  John Pretty

And you have a bleeding gum or you bite your tongue ?

I’ll admit I’m not 100% up on the science but if they are going to go to the expense of putting it in food you can be sure it’s for a reason.

And it won’t be public health.

John Pretty
John Pretty
Jan 24, 2023 5:59 PM

mRNA is already in your food you numskull. It always has been. It’s a normal part of your cell biology.

What is not normal is the alien mRNA that has come from the covid virus!

Did I not say that your stomach can deal with it? I think I did.

Your food does not enter your bloodstream from the mouth.

I know you’re scared. But this is not something to worry about. Far more worrying is what is coming in blood transfusions.

Edith
Edith
Jan 25, 2023 2:46 AM
Reply to  John Pretty

Yep. I wonder how many people have a clue what the protein is that has been injected into them? I too suspect we would be much safer eating it….being synthetic it may just pass on through.,..we are already eating nano particles of plastic regularly…

George Mc
George Mc
Jan 24, 2023 6:59 AM

“Cervical cancer fears follow drop in HPV vaccinations during pandemic”

(The Times)

Which is another aim of the covid fraud. Deviation from normal service, scaring people away from their regular treatments – all leading to a huge accumulation of unnecessary early deaths.

Sophie - Admin
Admin
Sophie - Admin
Jan 24, 2023 7:03 AM
Reply to  George Mc

The whole cervical cancer “vaccine” thing is a giant scam anyhow. In fact you could say the same for most cancer screening programs – and indeed the whole cancer “treatment” industry.

dom irritant
dom irritant
Jan 24, 2023 6:26 PM
Reply to  Sophie - Admin

i agree, for the last 5 or so years every year i have been asked to come in for mouth cancer screening by my dentist or rather the company he works for. which i have dutifully ignored. who wants to know they have cancer when the national homicide service are going to toxify your body far worse to kill your cancer than any cancer will imho…….talk about smash a walnut with a sledgehammer.
if i ever suspect anything of the sort i will take my chances with either or a mixture of cold pressed hempseed oil, drinking your own urine, noni juice, alkalising diet, high thc/cbd cannabis oil regime etc etc etc
fk pig pharma and his rancid petrochemical death concoctions

WorkingClassHero
WorkingClassHero
Jan 24, 2023 8:28 PM
Reply to  Sophie - Admin

The cure for “cancer” has been known for many decades. It’s called prevention.

When one stops drinking liters of methylated spirits and eating food which has so many chemicals in it that it has a use by date of two years, then the cancer is rare.

sabelmouse
sabelmouse
Jan 24, 2023 11:10 AM
Reply to  George Mc

what sophie said. look up the irish parent group regret re gardasil. nor is it proven that hpv causes cancer and most certainly not proven that hpv vax reduces cancer.

Penelope
Penelope
Jan 24, 2023 6:35 AM

Sometime ago,  Texas and Florida passed laws allowing social media to be sued if they stifle different viewpoints. The US Supreme Court is to hear 2 cases in which families of persons murdered abroad contend that the murders occurred due to recruitment, etc permitted on Twitter and Youtube.

The two matters both bear on censorship, as do algorithms and advertisers.

We’ll have to wait a bit to see what legalistic issues are brought forward.

Luís
Luís
Jan 24, 2023 3:41 AM

“Flat earth”? Those ignorants never used a telescope in their entire lives, they never research the plane and boat connections between what they call “edges”.
I always tell them to research plane and boat connection in the Bering Strait, between eastern Russia and Western Alaska. They should talk with western alaskans!!!

James
James
Jan 26, 2023 9:58 AM
Reply to  Luís

There are no edges in a flat earth model except Antarctica is the outer ring. Nowhere near Alaska I’m afraid so don’t know what your on about.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Jan 26, 2023 12:57 PM
Reply to  James

Presumably the outer ring is the edge, it just has a lip of ice and stuff?

Has anyone actually mapped out the continents on this disc-shaped flat earth, and then tested this against flight paths etc?

Presumably Australia and Argentina are many, many more thousands of miles apart than they would appear on the erroneous ball earth that we’ve been labouring under the delusion of for so many years?

On a flat earth the most direct journey between any two antipodean locations near (what we erroneously refer to as) the earth’s ‘equator’ would always be over the North Pole. East or West wouldn’t be a similar journey time at all, like it is on a ball earth, it’d be many, many thousands of miles further. You could infer all this from flight plans in the Northern hemisphere alone.

On a ball earth it’s possible to travel due East/West and still travel in a straight line (ie. not deviating to the left or right). You couldn’t travel east or west on a flat earth without, presumably, either hitting the earth’s lip or, if revolving around the N.pole, travelling in an observable arc.

This east/west arc, similar to the earth’s curvature, should be detectable. In fact, on a flat earth, it should be far more easy to detect this East/West curvature, since the horizon won’t be impeding your view…

Similarly there would be no left/right curvature if travelling North.

It’s all very easily testable. Why is no one doing this research? A2

TomUSA
TomUSA
Jan 26, 2023 5:01 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

A surveyor’s transit or laser level and a mirror set up across a lake of 1-2 miles breadth on a still day will easily settle the matter. In one mile there is a drop of more than 8 inches.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Jan 26, 2023 5:31 PM
Reply to  TomUSA

I’ve seen this contested. Atmospheric lensing, which isn’t a fixed phenomenon but which changes day-to-day with humidity and atmospheric pressure etc, means that our view over the horizon can sometimes extend much further than the geometry of the planet should allow. This often gets used by proponents of flat earth as evidence the earth isn’t behaving as a ball earth should.

I would love to work the other way around, personally, and ask those convinced the earth is flat to prove their hypothesis.

Please produce accurate atlases and let’s compare these to observable flight plans. There can be no geodesic lines on a flat earth, so please demonstrate an East-West curvature along the equator.

Other things like this.

Please charter a boat to the Earth’s outer ring and take your iPhone with you, or if this isn’t possible for some reason (I have a feeling it won’t be lol) then demonstrate why it’s not possible with repeatable scientific experiments etc.

A2

antitermite
antitermite
Jan 23, 2023 11:39 PM

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Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 24, 2023 1:51 AM
Reply to  antitermite

“The mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the fire house. The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber padded paws.
Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the hound and let loose rats in the fire house areaway. Three seconds later the game was done, the rat caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentle paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.” 

dom irritant
dom irritant
Jan 24, 2023 4:05 AM
Reply to  antitermite

boleadora to robots

Albert Anderson
Albert Anderson
Jan 24, 2023 5:31 AM
Reply to  antitermite

What atrocity can they commit that willing humans, i.e., soldiers, cops, pigs, government, etc., already have done and still do? Four dead in Ohio. One million dead in Iraq. Two million dead in Vietnam, etc., etc. When was the gun invented? It’s been that way since. It still comes down to humans. They’re the evil fuckers in the equation.

dom irritant
dom irritant
Jan 24, 2023 4:07 AM
Reply to  antitermite

cut from the same cloth as that vampire t. bliar

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 24, 2023 3:02 PM
Reply to  dom irritant

Just look at this guy.

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dom irritant
dom irritant
Jan 24, 2023 7:04 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

exactly bliarferatu le vampire
it’s the same look as that mummified rockefeller pic that scooper relentlessly plugs

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 24, 2023 9:32 PM
Reply to  dom irritant

It’s look of pure moral and spiritual derangement.

Manjushri
Manjushri
Jan 24, 2023 11:07 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

At first glance I thought that was Jimmy Saville!

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 25, 2023 2:48 PM
Reply to  Manjushri

Cut from the same cloth!

Ort
Ort
Jan 25, 2023 9:07 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Gee whiz– Blair is starting to look exactly like that portrait he’s been hiding in the attic!

Terje M
Terje M
Jan 23, 2023 10:38 PM

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Terje M
Terje M
Jan 23, 2023 10:37 PM

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Terje M
Terje M
Jan 23, 2023 10:36 PM

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Mr Y
Mr Y
Jan 24, 2023 6:08 PM
Reply to  Terje M

But isn’t nazi the new nice? Or is that just the Ukraina version?

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Jan 23, 2023 10:33 PM

Some really good memes here – my faves: 1,4,5,10,12,13, 14.
6 was gross, so was Bob Moran’s cartoon.

The Telegram vid was dark and funny, and very likely spot on, except that Elon is another puppet, not the master behind the mask.

Terje M
Terje M
Jan 23, 2023 10:33 PM

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Terje M
Terje M
Jan 23, 2023 10:30 PM

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TRM
TRM
Feb 24, 2023 5:23 AM
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Terje M
Terje M
Jan 23, 2023 10:29 PM

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Grafter
Grafter
Jan 23, 2023 10:16 PM

PMC Wagner – Best in Hell 2022 (English subtitles

https://odysee.com/@Iceisnice11:8/%F0%9F%8E%AC

tonyopmoc
tonyopmoc
Jan 23, 2023 8:59 PM

This maybe fake, especially the detail. At first I laughed, then I found it sad – whether or not the player on the pitch apparently having a convulsive heart attack (jabbed?) was faked or not.

Official Excess Death Rate in Germany nearly 40% above normal – last week in 2022 I can’t laugh about that.

https://twitter.com/nocontextfooty/status/1617506678953639936

Ananda
Ananda
Jan 23, 2023 8:27 PM

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Stepford Hives
Stepford Hives
Jan 23, 2023 8:54 PM
Reply to  Ananda

It’s her bitcoin wallet.

Hector
Hector
Jan 23, 2023 9:51 PM
Reply to  Ananda

Who is this person? (I haven’t watched Top of the Pops since 1979)

Jen
Jen
Jan 24, 2023 9:50 AM
Reply to  Hector

Miss Ecuador at the 2023 Miss Universe competition.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 24, 2023 9:33 PM
Reply to  Jen

Miss El Salvador.

Jen
Jen
Jan 24, 2023 11:35 PM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Thanks, sorry I got the two countries mixed up.

tom beveridge
tom beveridge
Mar 15, 2023 8:49 AM
Reply to  Hector

you haven’t missed anything.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Jan 23, 2023 10:34 PM
Reply to  Ananda

Hideous, on two accounts.

Jen
Jen
Jan 24, 2023 11:37 PM
Reply to  Veri Tas

You obviously didn’t watch the whole national costume parade.

Jen
Jen
Jan 24, 2023 11:38 PM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Sorry, the link failed. Here it is.

The most hideous costumes were Miss Ukraine and Miss USA’s costumes. The Americans think they own the moon already.

Stop The Prison Mentality
Stop The Prison Mentality
Jan 23, 2023 10:44 PM
Reply to  Ananda

Pretty sure she is the Canadian contestant, the bulge is a female penis, FFS that should be obvious, and she’s got a pretty tight scrotum, maybe had a bit of anti-dangling work done there.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 24, 2023 9:34 PM

I think it might be a clitoris.

Mann Friedmann
Mann Friedmann
Jan 25, 2023 5:45 AM
Reply to  Ananda

She may just have a large clitoris.

Ananda
Ananda
Jan 23, 2023 8:23 PM

Covidiots. Best of compilation

https://twitter.com/i/status/1494461087906938881

Ananda
Ananda
Jan 23, 2023 8:22 PM

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SoTexGuy
SoTexGuy
Jan 24, 2023 12:19 PM
Reply to  Ananda

Can someone please put Elon’s head on that guy?!

WorkingClassHero
WorkingClassHero
Jan 23, 2023 8:01 PM

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Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Jan 23, 2023 10:36 PM

I think we all know someone like that.

niko
niko
Jan 23, 2023 8:00 PM
WorkingClassHero
WorkingClassHero
Jan 23, 2023 7:57 PM

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George Mc
George Mc
Jan 23, 2023 7:31 PM

After the shock-horror “Putin has it in for the LGBT+ crowd” this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-64371662

“Beyoncé has returned to the stage for her first live performance in five years – but not everyone’s excited. The US megastar headlined the private concert in Dubai to mark the opening of luxury hotel Atlantis The Royal. Despite a strict no-phones policy at the exclusive, 1,500-seat gig, footage of the show flooded the internet. Many fans were thrilled to see the return of Queen B, but others weren’t happy because Dubai has strict laws against same-sex relationships.”

And all this after “Renaissance, her latest album, has been celebrated for “honouring black queer culture” and taking inspiration from LGBT icons.”

So the mighty B makes an album celebrating the LGBT+ thing, then stages a concert for the first time in 5 years in a country notorious for its anti-LGBT laws, “bans the phones” but then suffers “leakage” via phone over the internet. This coinciding with “Russia: Putin’s Kremlin targets LGBT in new crackdown”.

Total news management.

WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 7:54 PM
Reply to  George Mc

what is your point?

George Mc
George Mc
Jan 23, 2023 9:57 PM
Reply to  WillianHill

Presentation of all international affairs and matters through the lens of woke-“Leftism” for the bourgeois consumer academic class who control the media and arrogantly assume that this projection will sway the thinking of the entire population. Beyonce being a pawn in their game.

It’s really not hard to figure out.

dom irritant
dom irritant
Jan 24, 2023 4:14 AM
Reply to  WillianHill

what is yours!?!?

Thiekbalj
Thiekbalj
Jan 24, 2023 1:57 AM
Reply to  George Mc

“Willan” gonna die on this Shill I mean hill

Thiekbalj
Thiekbalj
Jan 24, 2023 2:00 AM
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niko
niko
Jan 23, 2023 7:22 PM

Ardern’s Legacy:

The New Zealand Government Reaches for Total Medical Control

Excerpts:

Just before Christmas, our Government introduced the Therapeutic Products Bill for its first reading. Public consultation is being rushed through the summer holidays here in the southern hemisphere and closes on February 15th.

If a Natural Health Product is found to benefit a serious illness (such as lemons which benefit scurvy), according to the Bill it should be classed as a medicine. Consequently, according to the letter of the new law, only doctors will be allowed to prescribe lemons. Joking apart, most foods benefit serious illness. You might think there is no need to pass a law classifying them as medicines, but according to the government you would be wrong.

80% of drugs are in fact derived from the properties of plants. For years pharmaceutical companies have been trying to patent medicinal plants and secure a monopoly of their supply and use. But this effort largely failed in the patent courts. The remedy for pharmaceutical companies is contained in the Bill being introduced by our Labour government. If a plant is used to make a medicine or the molecular structure of any of its compounds is mimicked by a medicine, then the use of the actual plant should be restricted.

The situation at the border is very similar. If a herb benefits health, it will be a medicine and therefore cannot be imported except with a permit. Border officials will be very busy examining packages and if they find anything healthy, tossing it in the bin.

This Bill represents an attempt to impose a modern medical/pharmaceutical straight jacket on the process of medical choice. A straight jacket that will no doubt be administered by people who are unfamiliar with and even opposed to natural medicine. The apparent intention is to drive people towards pharmaceutical-based medicine. It is worth noting that modern medical misadventure and misprescription is the third leading cause of death—hardly a direction that deserves a monopoly.

Penelope
Penelope
Jan 24, 2023 6:42 AM
Reply to  niko

Yeh, I think oregano & turmeric are on the list of medicines.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 24, 2023 9:38 PM
Reply to  niko

How about a bill that lets people be their own doctors and treat their own illnesses as they see fit.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 23, 2023 7:01 PM

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WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 6:28 PM

You’d think the ‘alternative media’ would be desperately trying to organise mass protests, mass civil disobedience, petitions, strikes, union action, if, as they say, we are all being mass murdered in a genocide……but no, they are just asking you to ‘klick the subscribe button’.....as they tell you how you are being murdered. Alex jones tells you to vote Republican……like it solves anything….Funny that.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Jan 23, 2023 6:59 PM
Reply to  WillianHill

Yes, funny how it’s always someone else’s job for those who like to come on here and vent. 🙄

Let’s stop giving each other a hard time. This war has always been about information. Even those who have done no more than speak their truth to their nearest and dearest, and that’s literally all, have done a whole lot.

All the people who went proper Covid authoritarian bonkers (and we all know at least one) who were forced to reject the facts you put in front of their face had to WORK at doing that, and this was energy that they couldn’t put into demanding more Covid concentration camps.

So let’s be kind to ourselves. We’ve got this. We’re not fools and I for one don’t need yet more counter productive fear or self loathing piled on. So kindly let’s cut that out. Thank you. A2

WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 7:38 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

I’m not happy how ‘venting’ acts as a sedative to opposition, and seems to breed inactivity.

I do vent, but I also march & demonstrate in my locality, even when it was unfashionable.

I’m simply asking where is the ‘freedom movement’ and why is it not mobilising, I believe I know the answer to that, there are some people and groups in the way, blocking it by sucking the oxygen out of the room.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Jan 23, 2023 8:35 PM
Reply to  WillianHill

there are some people and groups in the way, blocking it by sucking the oxygen out of the room.

Might some of those groups be unwitting and frustrated people, complaining and shaming rather than sharing and uniting?

WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 9:08 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

No.

hotrod31
hotrod31
Jan 23, 2023 8:38 PM
Reply to  WillianHill

… “there are some people and groups in the way, blocking it by sucking the oxygen out of the room.” … It might be worth reading Sam’s comment again.
Keep smilin’.


mjh
mjh
Jan 23, 2023 9:38 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

Thanks for that Sam! I am a bit tired of the constantly negative and often nasty comments by the person you are here responding to. That person’s comments are so frequent they are hard to avoid — and just maybe it would be a good idea if most of just didn’t reply to them for a while, even in a civil or even friendly way…because it only seems to encourage him/her to say even more nasty stuff. And everyone: Maybe we can all just think for a minute or two before we comment? And maybe not write in things when we are drunk or high? Let’s try to build each other up and not just cut each other down.

WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 9:45 PM
Reply to  mjh

You people spend all your time insulting people who disagree with you, like me, you can do nothing else. And here you are again insulting me. you are absurd.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Jan 23, 2023 10:48 PM
Reply to  WillianHill

Mjh didn’t call you any names, and yet you call them ‘absurd’, thus making their point for them! Don’t create a situation in which you’re the victim of something you’ve generated yourself. 😅

You’re welcome to comment here. But things can’t descend into name calling so easily and so often. It seems to follow you around atm.

Let’s just chill out. I hear your frustrations but this isn’t a productive way to vent those frustrations. In fact you’re achieving the very thing you set out criticising.

A2

George Mc
George Mc
Jan 23, 2023 10:03 PM
Reply to  mjh

Totally agree. This guy just causes grievances. Which is ironic considering that this is what he accuses others of. Orwellian reversal.

I have a feeling he is another incarnation of old DunGroanin.

dom irritant
dom irritant
Jan 24, 2023 4:21 AM
Reply to  George Mc

ie an ai limpet

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Jan 24, 2023 4:37 AM
Reply to  dom irritant

I’ve asked WH not to call names and not to respond in kind to name-calling, so I’m requesting that we cut down on abusiveness. It’s getting a bit out of hand, turning into regular shit-slinging fests under every piece lately, not really fair on the authors. Thanks for understanding, A2

Albert Anderson
Albert Anderson
Jan 24, 2023 5:40 AM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

True Sam, but it’s because of this entity called Willian. I’ve been around, been doing this over 20 years, and this is a classic troll. Doesn’t mean he/she isn’t acting totally on his/her own, but it is a troll. Just like other disturbances like censorship on Google or whatever, you have to deal with real trolls that disrupt the total continuity of your purpose. It’s not just about name calling with this troll, it’s about attacking your blog. Just my two cents. I’m as against censorship as anyone, so I understand the predicament. Good luck to ya.

dom irritant
dom irritant
Jan 24, 2023 7:23 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin

apologies i thought i was being diplomatic and possibly on target

Frankensplean
Frankensplean
Jan 23, 2023 6:25 PM

your caption for #9 though…  😅 

Jeffrey Strahl
Jeffrey Strahl
Jan 23, 2023 6:16 PM

OK, 2 good ones, that’s an improvement over previous outings, so i gave it a 4, above the consensus.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 23, 2023 6:52 PM
Reply to  Jeffrey Strahl

Just out of curiosity, which two do you think are good?

Jeffrey Strahl
Jeffrey Strahl
Jan 24, 2023 5:17 AM
Reply to  Pilgrim Shadow

Actually, on second thought, 3 good ones. Greta, Klaus spinning the dial, the 2 party system.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 24, 2023 2:46 PM
Reply to  Jeffrey Strahl

Thanks for answering. I also like the Greta one, along with 5, 12, 15, 16 and the Jacinda cartoon.

No doubt there would be a lot of differing opinions on which ones people find funny.

Paul Prichard
Paul Prichard
Jan 23, 2023 5:45 PM

Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2023-01-21. Europe excess deaths up 30%. 50m jabbed Americans may have serious Heart Damage. Biometric surveil (blog, gab, tweet).

Seansaighdeor
Seansaighdeor
Jan 23, 2023 4:50 PM

That Bob Moran cartoon is just disturbing.

Hemlockfen
Hemlockfen
Jan 23, 2023 6:13 PM
Reply to  Seansaighdeor

Still laughing………

banana
banana
Jan 23, 2023 4:26 PM

constructive resistance

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPG89HV3/

WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 6:14 PM
Reply to  banana

Logic is so important, which is why they don’t teach it now.

Cela
Cela
Jan 23, 2023 3:37 PM

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Thomas L Frey
Thomas L Frey
Jan 23, 2023 4:36 PM
Reply to  Cela

She looks better on fire.

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Jan 24, 2023 6:06 AM
Reply to  Cela

Looks like Greta is being consumed by fire !
A clever way of depicting a witch being burned alive at the stake.
And she is daring the guy ( though i suspect the words were put into her mouth).

Maxwell
Maxwell
Jan 23, 2023 3:34 PM

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Lorie
Lorie
Jan 23, 2023 10:20 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

ok that’s the best one so far.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 23, 2023 2:58 PM

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Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 23, 2023 2:55 PM

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Marilyn Shepherd
Marilyn Shepherd
Jan 23, 2023 2:10 PM

My is OFFG so obsessed with demonising Greta? What the fuck did she ever do to you.

Snutts
Snutts
Jan 23, 2023 2:21 PM

She’s a nasty little hypocrite shill bitch, for starters

Ananda
Ananda
Jan 23, 2023 2:46 PM

They need to tick the woke alt right box.
They call Greta arrest a fake – which it is.
But the woke alt right would never say rebel media reality tv scripted show with fake CEO antonio banderas in Davos GCHQ tela vivi was staged. no no no.

Tom
Tom
Jan 23, 2023 8:44 PM
Reply to  Ananda

If you were a dissenting Aussie you wouldn’t be suggesting that about Avi.
I’ve been following his reports since before he was with rebel and was with TR news (around 8 years).
You might want to do a little more than a quick google of his name to come to that conclusion.

If you were a dissenting Canadian I’m sure you wouldn’t be saying that about Ezra either.

I agree it’s hard to tell what is real or not as the propaganda is strong but I can assure as someone who has been watching Avi closely for along time that he is not a fifth columnist.

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Jan 23, 2023 10:30 PM
Reply to  Tom

Ok, but it is noteworthy that they were able to enter and wonder around Davos intercepting various key elite personalities/figureheads. A2

Sam - Admin
Admin
Sam - Admin
Jan 23, 2023 10:27 PM
Reply to  Ananda

What is woke right? Is this a thing now? Feels like an oxymoron if it means anything at all. And no, no one here has a problem suggesting that Rebel media being allowed to enter and wonder around the Davos summit isn’t a little unusual. A2

stella
stella
Jan 24, 2023 10:53 AM
Reply to  Ananda

“But the woke alt right would never say rebel media reality tv scripted show with fake CEO antonio banderas in Davos GCHQ tela vivi was staged.” it crossed my mind when I watch the video.It is very strange that they let these journalists close to Bourla.

WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 2:46 PM

Her handlers wants us all dead.

Straight Talk
Straight Talk
Jan 23, 2023 3:23 PM

Greta is now 20 yrs old, no longer a child. Yet, giggling is her answer to basic questions at Davos. She just destroyed whatever it is her job is as an “activist”:

Greta Thunberg WON’T ANSWER Basic Questions About Climate Change

George Mc
George Mc
Jan 23, 2023 4:32 PM

She signed up for the Woke-Pope-mobile. Or perhaps she was drafted into it. Either way, she gets the superstar treatment. Whilst “giving a masterclass in protest” i.e. appearing under just such a headline.

Thomas L Frey
Thomas L Frey
Jan 23, 2023 4:34 PM

Are you saying that everyone in the world, except the global cabal, should be tracked for their carbon footprint and that data should be used to ration a person’s access to food, utilities, transportation, and the environment?

Nick Baam
Nick Baam
Jan 23, 2023 4:37 PM

Personally speaking, I like to see 12-year-old girls grow up.

Cynicon Implant
Cynicon Implant
Jan 24, 2023 2:24 AM
Reply to  Nick Baam

Apparently, irrational anger stunts one’s growth.

Hamish
Hamish
Jan 28, 2023 1:59 AM

How dare you?!

Marfanou
Marfanou
Jan 23, 2023 7:43 PM

I know Marilyn and they shout about limited hangouts and theatre and puppets but so much viteiol for such a young un x

Lorie
Lorie
Jan 23, 2023 10:25 PM

I don’t hate her, but read Cory Morningstar’ series: “the Making of Greta Thunberg” if you haven’t already. Greta’s really just a front, and an actress. And a kid, too, so we can cut her personally some slack, but she’s fronting for the whole evil kit & kaboodle.
https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/

Lorie
Lorie
Jan 23, 2023 10:26 PM
Reply to  Lorie

Thats’ “the Manufacturing of GT” not Making.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Jan 23, 2023 10:47 PM

She’s leading the young generation astray. She and the many other mediocre, senile and otherwise sick politicians and role models that are telling us what to do or not to do need to be sidelined, not glorified and “followed.”

Our civilisation is devolving, for crying out loud! If we are to be led, then let it be by people who are smarter, healthier and morally superior to us.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
Jan 24, 2023 2:57 PM
Reply to  Veri Tas

“Blah, blah blah.”

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Jan 24, 2023 10:06 PM

81 down votes ! groupthink ? hivemind ?
M – What’s the secret of your success provoking the herd ?

Violet
Violet
Jan 23, 2023 2:02 PM

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WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 2:50 PM
Reply to  Violet

That’s the Newtonian theory of truth, the Quantum theory of truth is that it is only true if nobody knows it, because as soon as you know it, it becomes untrue.

Stop The Prison Mentality
Stop The Prison Mentality
Jan 23, 2023 4:27 PM
Reply to  WillianHill

But in the real world, The Science™ is actually in a quantum superposition whereby it is both true and false simultaneously and does actually break the laws of quantum mechanics, and any conceivable probability, by consistently turning out to be untrue whenever is it scrutinised.

Thomas L Frey
Thomas L Frey
Jan 23, 2023 4:44 PM

The fact that physicists have observed, that visual observation of quantum particles influences their path, is not conclusive evidence that this is the case at all levels of matter.

Just a brief examination of the history of constants reveals that even those so called “constants” are an average of observations across the globe and that the observed value of those so called constants varies.

Does a falling tree make no sound just because a person is not there to observe the tree falling?
When you walk into a restroom and smell foul odors, are those odors only there because you smelled them or because someone else smelled them?

Truth is truth, no matter what.
We don’t know what we don’t know.

Stop The Prison Mentality
Stop The Prison Mentality
Jan 23, 2023 4:53 PM
Reply to  Thomas L Frey

Awesome, thanks for taking my shit waaaaaaaaaay too seriously, and in a meme Monday post too.

WillianHill
WillianHill
Jan 23, 2023 6:06 PM

it wasn’t yours, it was mine.

Joshua
Joshua
Jan 23, 2023 5:03 PM
Reply to  Thomas L Frey

If a blue haired feminist says something and no one is around to hear it, is it still incoherent bull shit?

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Jan 23, 2023 9:24 PM
Reply to  Thomas L Frey

The odors are in the loo because someone farted. Simple !

Thomas L Frey
Thomas L Frey
Jan 23, 2023 4:33 PM
Reply to  WillianHill

So what you are saying is that when someone is hiking in the woods, and they come across a felled tree, they should assume it fell silently, and even if there is no evidence of a human causing the felled tree, they should assume a human did it.

So how was your WEF Young Leader’s experience at DAVOS?

wardropper
wardropper
Jan 23, 2023 10:05 PM
Reply to  WillianHill

Thank Heaven real life has no use for Quantum Theory . . .

I’m beginning to think Bill Clinton’s priceless comment comes from the same stable:

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the – if he – if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing . . .”

Mr Y
Mr Y
Jan 24, 2023 8:51 AM
Reply to  WillianHill

> That’s the Newtonian theory of truth, the Quantum theory of truth is that it is only true if nobody knows it, because as soon as you know it, it becomes untrue.

How the heck is that kind of “thinking” going to be helpful?