87% Is Up There

Cole Turner, a fellow Medical Freedom Leader in San Francisco, wrote a great email and sent it her list earlier this evening

I am glad she shared her thoughts even if I may not agree with 100% of them.

Perhaps 87% of what she wrote resonates strongly with me.

And that is not a dig at Cole for anything she wrote, it is to remind us that it’s unrealistic to expect 100% ideological, or even intellectual, compatibility with anyone.

87% is up there.

I don’t even want to say what the 13% might be because the point of this post is: it doesn’t matter. How on Earth can we all have the same knowledge, especially in a world of mass deceptions? How could we all have the same identical experience which might lead us to the same conclusions? (Answer: We definitely can’t.)

Man, when I think about where I was 4.5 years ago with all my “positions”, most of which were not even truly mine, because I was so indoctrinated and deferred to my entourage for the “correct” opinion. Many of those flew out of the window — and some of them actually one-eighty’d — as I started to learn alternative facts (haha) and walk on the “wake up¹” path.

In 2020, I came to understand, that despite my very curious nature, I had been outsourcing my intelligence. I then started to look for, and pay attention to, people with real knowledge, those who had actually done serious research, those with invariably more context and fewer repetitive talking points, those with nuanced insights, those who weren’t seeking to polarize, and most important of all, those who weren’t part of the bought-and-paid-for corporate media machine. (Subsequently, did I always agree with absolutely everything each one of them said? No.)

87% is up there.

And, I say that again to remind us: what we have in common is much greater than all the differences we find to set ourselves apart. I say this to all humans, even those who might be angry with me for not yet talking about what should be talked about.² I say this especially because we are being trained socially engineered to despise each other based on our opinions and political choices.

87% is up there.

I actually don’t like beer but I do like the words in this meme.

For all theories and suppositions, I reserve the right to change my mind as I learn new facts or absorb new insights, and you might too from doing the same.

Personally, I have been at a loss for just the right words in the wake of this election (selection?) so 87% is pretty good.

By the way, I did not vote for Trump (or even RFK Jr., in the end) but I was rooting for him to win, if that makes sense.

That probably won’t make sense to anyone who knew me in 2016 and who remembers how I — and they — felt when he was elected at the time.

But most of those people have practically all disappeared from my life in any case, so should I really care? (Actually I do with respect to some of them. I did have some really sweet friends that just never saw it but acted like I was crazy).

In 2017, I even wrote a song, NPD (which stands for Narcissistic Personality Disorder), and sang it as if they were words that he would say. On the same album released in 2019, I also made four other references to DT, including a song based on his Grab 'Em by the Lady Parts comment.

Fortunately I no longer suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, a/k/a TDS, which quickly becomes oh so tedious once you see how effectively that was manufactured. And I’d love him to be the guy so many now think he’s going to be, but I’m not feeling certain about that, even though a handful around me are. (Would love to be wrong on that, dear friends!). That said, this was me on Ocean Beach the morning after he effected a clean sweep across the States:

Yeah, I felt a lot of feelings that day. Mostly I was delighted that the party of Scientism™️, the one that demanded censorship, silenced dissenters, bred gaslighters, encouraged virtue signaling, and excelled in hypocrisy; the one that had no qualms about pushing medical mandates on its people, received such a battering across the board.

“America is so racist and sexist!” it was exclaimed for days afterwards

Yeah, right. That must be why the majority of them voted for Trump. Nothing to do with the insane cost of living perchance?

There’s a dozen other things I could say about voting, elections and Government, things that I do go back and forth on, none of which would surprise most of you but instead…

Take it away, Cole!

NB. I made certain sentences bold as they carry the most weight for me.

Hello San Francisco Medical Freedom Folks!

It has been an amazing past few weeks. I think a lot of us are kind of awestruck, still getting used to a new reality, so many new possibilities — so much is happening!

Several friends have asked for my opinion on the results of the election, and I've been musing over it all while absorbing each days new revelations, in between unpacking at our new home (and working my multiple jobs).... 

I will say that I am elated, but not without reservations. Like many others, probably including you, I see this as a huge victory for Medical Freedom. I think it very obviously was us Purple People in the Medical Freedom movement who carried Trump (and with him, Bobby!) to victory in a massive populist wave. We knew that we had become a powerful voting block in the U.S. — now others are beginning to figure that out, too!  :)

I have a unique and precious position in our community of knowing so many of you, and having heard so many of your stories of the Covidtime and its aftermath. I recall so many stories of pain, so much loss — not only our loved ones who died (we lost four loved ones to the jabs in the first 18 months) but so many other unbearable losses. Losses of our friendships, of access to our children, of our livelihoods, careers ... loss of homes, loss of communities.

Covid and its aftermath — the sickness, the jabs, the response — seems to me to have accelerated the unraveling of culture and community in our times, in a massive way. We lost so much of our humanity.

I also recall so many expressions of utter relief and joy in finding our community, among folks who I have met in all corners of the city and Bay Area. "I felt so alone until I came here!" is something I have heard again and again and again since I first started out as County Ambassador for Children's Health Defense.

Coming together in the Medical Freedom community helped us to regain that humanity in so many ways, big and small. This election victory was one of the big ways. This victory was our victory. We showed our strength, and I know it feels good.

Basically I am just saying: I'm grateful for you. For each one of you as individuals, and for who we are as "Medical Freedom, San Francisco". And for who we are as the Medical Freedom community across this nation, and for what we were able to do in this election. Hooray for us! It was YUUUGE. 

And yet, I feel like now, we are in very much a delicate moment, where many more people on all "sides" might begin waking up to reality, or may double-down into their delusion. It feels very important right now to hold fast to the strong community ties that we have built among ourselves over the past four years and more. And to be gracious, kind, and helpful when dealing with our friends and family members who are still living in and enforcing the diktats of Normieville. Despite the blundering cruelty that so many have shown, and all the suffering that has occurred, I feel there is a sense that it would be very harmful to gloat or try to say "I told you so". We need to step back, take a breath, and let them figure it out. ... Right? ... 

Meanwhile in the world of politics, a battle rages. What keeps coming to my mind, sometimes disturbingly, is Game of Thrones -- a series I loved so much I watched it more than twice and read all the books. What I fear we have coming up soon is essentially the real-life version of "The Battle of the Bastards". So hold tight.

Catherine Austin-Fitts, as usual, had what I find the most compelling analysis of Trump's win that I have heard so far: 

I'll wrap up with a quote, and a question.

Here's the quote, which is from a book I am reading by Rudolf Steiner titled Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms, in which he is speaking to his "followers":

"We can no longer indulge in any sectarianism whatever in our movement ... The present time makes it necessary for us to rely on each individual... but each one bearing the full responsibility for what they represent in reference to our movement. ... What is to be advocated today must be of a nature that can be represented before the whole world. It must be free in word and deed of any sectarian or dilettante character. We should never allow fear to deter us from sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. ... Many people may certainly say, "How am I supposed to inform myself about what happens today, when the course of events has become so complex, when it is so difficult to deduce the inner trends of facts from the symptoms?" However, this should not lead to the Charybdis of doing nothing; it should induce us to steer the correct course; namely, to make of aware of our obligation to be in harmony with world events as far as possible, using all available means."

Here's the question: 

So ... What do YOU think about Trump's win?

Published with Cole’s permission.

Screenshot of Cole (with her permission, too.)

And what do you think about what Cole said?

ME: Cole, you should start your own Substack!

1. I always feel a bit hesitant to use that phrase mostly because I will obviously never know how much I don’t know. (God knows, I could be 68% “asleep” right now and not know it, ha.) But also because it sounds arrogant.

2. I want to do it justice.