They give us our heroes

Legend has it that Rembrandt sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his ability to paint, but then doubled-crossed the devil and put his soul into his paintings.

I imagine that many of you are new to this tiny corner of the internet, almost certainly having been pointed her because of Jonathan Engler’s having shared it. It was pretty cool to have one of my favorite denierazzi praise my writing and as a result have so many other people be pointed to it and echo his sentiments.

I don’t publish as much as I want to - I do did have a full-time job until I was fired by the school system recently, and then un-fired by that same school system when I filed FOIA requests to find out what the real reason was. If you have read The Virus Telenovella, you’ll probably be able to figure out what put me on their radar in the first place.

Interestingly enough, Engler, whom I have followed for some time, has turned up in JJ Couey’s crosshairs as someone who cannot be trusted, which leaves me in a bit of a bind because Couey’s work has had a big influence on how I view the world. I don’t mean to make light of what Couey is experiencing, but it seems every time I listen to a new show, there’s a new person that he worked closely with, according to him, who is not to be trusted and is even actively working against the people.

I have no idea if he’s right about people like Engler or Nick Hudson but he is certainly correct about some of them. Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Bret Weinstein are very clearly and obviously deceitful to say the least. Others I am less sure about and very reluctant to believe to be meddlers, but I need to prepare myself for the fact that he is right. What I mean by that is I don’t care - at all - about whether or not he is right.

Quite a few personalities who I only am aware of because of covid-lizzid people-clownworld and initially thought were on the right side, have later come across as less than truthful. One in particular landed with a pretty emotional thud for me.

I saw Toby Roger’s first post on Facebook and was later so moved by his writings on Substack, I almost felt I had a duty to support his work and became a founding member for three years running. I communicated with him offline about a family member’s pushback against the DC government’s vaccine mandates, as well as my concerns over my daughter having been subjected to the full vaccine schedule. I trusted him.

The first time I noticed his saying something that was just a bit off was when the latest to turn up on JJ’s collaborator turned traitor list, Jessica Hockett, either quote tweeted, or tweet-replied to Rogers. I responded to Jessica something along the lines of, “If Toby isn’t telling the truth, then just to heck with it all.” How could someone who had written such moving pieces, and so eloquently be a meddler? It wasn’t long after that I had an interaction with him on his page. The way he responded was pretty shocking in its dishonesty and personally difficult to come to terms with (going to write about that one at some point).

It’s difficult when we see our heroes fall. James Evan Pilato at Media Monarchy talks all the time about the punk rockers who are now running interference for the state. Bruce Springsteen, hero to the working man and fierce war-critic who told the greatest story ever on stage, made vaccines mandatory to attend his concerts, pushed the whole covid narrative and made a cringy song dedication telling Trump to “put on a fucking mask”. Jessie Ventura, an actual politician who did stuff for the people, became a member of the mask stasi.

I think everyone has experienced this, but especially those of us who knew something was wrong early on. How many months did we spend trying something so silly as to try to convince people with facts and data?

What got me thinking about writing this in the first place was my reaction to watching Neil Oliver’s appearance on the Tucker Carlson show (tweeted out by possible JJ enemy Nick Hudson). Now, I’ve long since known that an appearance on Tucker Carlson just means that you have a message the the narrative makers approve of. You’ll never see Thomas Binder, or Denis Rancourt, or Mike Yeadon, on Carlson’s (or Joe Rogan’s) show.

Oliver seemed a bit different. He’s a hero to our allies in Scotland, and I have always certainly thought he was being completely forthright, but unfortunately in today’s post-covid/lizzid people/clown world, someone who becomes as visible as he has become has most likely been placed there for us.

While I could listen to Oliver wax poetically while rolling his r’s as the day is long, he spent a five good minutes telling one whopper of a lie for Tucker, while the rest of the time I completely agreed with everything else that he said. (another future piece).

The reality is that one of the first warning signs that we should be questioning whatever it is that we’re reading or listening to that we found on Twitter, or Rumble, et.al. is that it’s there in the first place. What message is being pushed, and why is this acceptable? I suppose it’s probably just a matter of time before this particular platform becomes controlled.

The fate of humanity is in our hands, which sounds like the most hyperbolic thing a person could possibly say, and I have to admit that here in South Carolina, it doesn’t feel that way at all, most of the time. Until I start thinking about whether or not that conclusion is actually hyperbolic.

There are a lot of messages out there and even more messengers but it’s important that we make a distinction between the two. Liars may tell you the truth, and honest people may unintentionally deceive you. If Jeffrey Dahmer were to have been known not only for having a direct connection to the vice president as a teenager having been a serial killer but also for extolling the virtues of hugging children, does that mean we should all stop hugging them?

Is the person delivering the message trustworthy and whether or not the message is true are mutually exclusive propositions. I’m not going to stop listening to Tucker, or anyone else because they might be controlled opposition for that reason, but if we put these people on pedestals and make them paragons of truth, we have to prepare ourselves for the possibility that we have done so in error. We have to remember where the real work is to be done and that is in ourselves, in our families and in our communities.

One of my two favorite sayings I’ve read since waking up is, “Your savior is in the mirror.” You can take that to whatever spiritual depth you’d like, but I apply it to this life that I’m currently navigating. I think it can be extended to “Your hero is in the mirror.”

There is only one person who should truly be able to disappoint you.