“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Here’s the tell that Qanon isn’t what the media is claiming.
They never refer to a specific Q post. They just claim Q claims certain things or has certain beliefs without even attempting to show proof of their claims.
What’s happening? They’re losing and desperate. And Durham.
Okay, so over the weekend, there was interest in finding a way to explain Que to the uninitiated. There were quite a number of suggested articles, videos, and other resources to get people started in understanding just what Que is and is not. (It’s not a theory, and as far as we know any conspiracy involved is perfectly legal.)
While the resources are good, and the dives are relatively deep, the information is not always distilled into an easily digestible format, or a simple explanation that is really what the general public needs as a counter to the mockingbird mainstream media hit job currently underway.
With that in mind, and…since this writer is a firm believer in making a point using the least number of syllables even if I don’t always practice that principle, I am going to suggest individuals develop an elevator pitch explaining Que in their own words.
What’s an elevator pitch?
Something like this, short and sweet with just enough detail to give the gist of the bigger picture:
Que is a small group of people believed to be military intelligence members posting messages on public chat boards. The messages include lists of questions designed to get the readers to research public information on a variety of topics related to how public officials have been selling out the United States for well over a hundred years, and how entertainment and the mainstream media is used by our enemies to influence public opinion and divide the American people.
Or you could try something like this:
Anything which is effective would be good.
Now, it’s your turn. Please, put your elevator pitch explaining Que in the comments, and please be charitable when critiquing the work of others. We’re all on the same team here.
TL;DR – skip down to “Crucial Experiment” and read how you can prove to yourself that masks cause real and measurable cognitive decline that lasts long after you unmask. NPR and other leftists who say masks don’t affect you and your children are LYING.
LOOK, it’s time to be blunt.
Senility – Cognitive Decline – Dementia – OLD GUY BRAIN – Sleepy – whatever you want to call it, it’s just plain EMBARRASSING.
Double that for a DIRTY OLD MAN.
But there is a much bigger story here, than that the Democrats are running a creepy old codger who is now STUPIDER and more CONFUSED than he is CREEPY. Who is now SLEEPIER than CREEPIER.
The bigger story here is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is performing this sad spectacle of ritual humiliation of America because THAT’S HOW CHINA ROLLS.
Biden isn’t the only one that the ChiNazis are humiliating.
EVERY HUMAN BEING is fair game for the ChiNazis.
Oh, trust me – the Big Brother CCP has its little brother DNC convinced that this Biden insanity is some kind of plan to save their treasonous asses, but that is half a lie for them, and half a lie for everybody else.
The truth is, CCP engages in RITUAL HUMILIATION both because it WORKS to keep people in their places, AND because they ENJOY THE SPECTACLE. The CCP are SADISTS at heart, and they have NEVER encountered a ritual humiliation they don’t enjoy. Their only concern is NOT GETTING CAUGHT, because that reduces the EXTRA JONES and PLEASURABLE PEACE OF MIND they get from knowing the victim is too STUPID to see what is happening to them.
HAPPY SLAVES IS GOOD SLAVES, AND GOOD SLAVES STAY SLAVES.
ChiNazis have all the compassion of Hitler’s SS who RODE ON THE BACKS of black American GIs – forced to crawl on the ground for the Nazis’ amusement.
After having worked with and UNDER a bunch of CCP creeps, who snuck in and took over, I can tell you exactly what is going on with the Democrat party.
Democrats are now the ARM of the CCP in America – a mouthpiece for whatever socialist insanity the ChiComs want to inflict. Every possible hypocrisy will be forced upon us – “rules for thee and not for me” – to get us to knuckle under and accept our “place”.
Biden was a little late to get on the mask train in a big way, which just shows that he’s slow, even compared to various “little tyrant” governors who got there first. Maybe Biden was saving it for his “big opener” after he was assigned Kamala Harris as his running mate.
“I would insist that everybody out in public be wearing that mask.”
Note the subtle combination of CONFUSION and Nazi enforcement reflex in the next one.
“Anyone to reopen would have to make sure that they walked into a business that had masks,” he said.
THAT is some cognitive decline RIGHT THERE. Biden can’t figure out if he’s talking about the store or the customer because he is CONFUSED just by continuous speech.
And if you think Biden is just saying “masks in stores”, think again.
“We absolutely need a clear message from the very top of our federal government that everyone needs to wear a mask in public, period,” he said.
Here is the money quote, that tells you why “Beijing Biden” is so comfortable with the CCP.
“It’s not about your rights; it’s about your responsibilities,” Biden said. He tried to present the issue as a matter of patriotism to protect fellow Americans.
NOW – this is interesting. Watch what Trump says in response.
In a news conference later Thursday, Trump took issue with Biden’s nationwide call for mask-wearing, ignoring that the Democrat urged governors to issue mandates.
“[Biden] does not identify what authority the president has to issue such a mandate,” Trump said, “or why we would be stepping on governors throughout our country.”
Trump added: “If the president has the unilateral power to order every single citizen to cover their face in nearly all instances, what other powers does he have?”
There’s a lot to unpack here.
First of all, Biden’s cognitive decline – just screaming in the second quote. Biden gets confused between the BEGINNING and END of the sentence. That is BAD, and it’s OBVIOUS.
Secondly, note how the media tries to protect Biden here, in essence saying that Trump didn’t say about governors what he said about governors. It’s subtle, but the LyingPress just gets away with it every time.
Joe Biden is pushing a "national mandate to wear a mask" — something we knew he supported, but Democrats claimed he just wanted Governors to do this.
Lastly, note how Trump has gotten the Democrats and the press onto THIN ICE with masks. They sure seem “all in” for masks, don’t they?
Trump never went there – did he? Trump mentioned VOLUNTARY masks from the beginning. He has steadfastly refused to be baited into NON-VOLUNTARY masks, although he has let governors issue what have turned out to be hated and despised mask edicts.
Funny, isn’t it?
In my opinion, Trump gave the Democrats ALL the rope they needed to tie themselves up – and not just that – it was THEIR ROPE – left over from hoarding masks, just like the CCP did. Trump knew the Dems would try to get rid of their masks for CASH, and that they would do it in a bullying and flagrantly despicable style which would be their undoing.
You want to wear masks for the rest of your life? I can tell you exactly who to vote for.
Nope. Trump has BLESSED THE MARRIAGE of Democrats and Masks.
People are going to remember, as they CAST THEIR VOTES TO GET RID OF MASKS.
NOW – I could tell you that Masks are going to be bad for Democrats simply for people hating them, and wanting to get rid of them. But that’s not all.
Masks are going to have their own #LancetGateEffect moment, and Democrats are always going to be remembered as the CCP STOOGES who fell for China’s game of “how can we actually make the stupid Americans stupider?”.
Let’s look more closely.
Rebellion Against Masks on Twitter
I was not originally opposed to masks. I have people I follow on Twitter like yohiobaseball who are vehemently opposed to masks, e.g., Mike DeWine’s mask mandate, and I did not initially go along with their opposition, which was not articulated LOGICALLY, but purely from a FREEDOM standpoint.
The problem was, I was laser-pointered to only look at the GOOD masks MIGHT do in preventing infection by COVID-19. There is some evidence that “masks work” in that respect.
Then, I realized that FLU is actually a much worse problem than COVID-19, and THUS it would be illogical to EVER get rid of masks. That simply doesn’t make sense. The problem is that we are not being logical right now. We didn’t have masks in the past – at a time when we were MORE LOGICAL.
Something is NOT RIGHT with using a “new sub-flu” to make us all wear masks now. What are we missing?
What we are missing is the focus on why we never wore masks before. We are missing the NEGATIVE side of masks.
Why? Because the NEGATIVE side of masks is COMMON SENSE. Masks simply CANNOT help respiration, oxygenation, and COGNITION. They have to hurt – the only question is HOW MUCH.
And THAT is what I “rediscovered” by simply taking my oximeter – left over from COVID self-therapy – and using it to test the effects of my masks.
BASIC. FRIGGING. SCIENCE.
What follows FIRST is a bunch of Twitter “realizations” that masks are problematic, which led to my experiments.
“With numbers diminishing very quickly in Sweden, we see no point in wearing a face mask in Sweden, not even on public transport.” -Swedish State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, 7/28/20
I will reiterate that there is no reason to wear a mask in your Zoom or Skype meetings as COVID-19 cannot be transmitted via webcam. @JoeBidenpic.twitter.com/M0TMyya98p
"Doctors do it" is simply not a health proof – particularly coming from a profession (I have known many) which often requires or encourages an incredible amount of self-abuse, such as sleep deprivation.
The question of mask/brain O2 deficit and CO2 excess is readily answered.
Spread this around – it's pretty neat. Twitter will suppress, but Sweden got this right. American SAT scores will lose 50-100 pts IMO. Slow hypoxia and hypocapnia from long hours in a mask are clear. Oximeter scale scrunches the data, but it's real.https://t.co/FqFlzlv0Bt
HERE is where I really got it. This is when I started EXPERIMENTING with masks and my oximeter.
Wake up! I can MEASURE my oxygen hurt by all 3 of my masks, using my pulse oximeter. It's mild, but it's persistent and long. 97 (sleepy) is not 98 (calm) is not 99 (alert), and 93 is where they take you to the hospital.
One of my best realizations with masks is that THEY can stop ME from convincing YOU with MY DATA that masks cause inevitable cognitive decline, because THEY control our communications.
There are more of us than them; they just control the mechanisms that allow us to communicate with each other – nothing more. Remember that!
It’s all part of “reactive disinformation”, something I realized in October of 2017, during the Las Vegas attacks. At that time, “trolls” (in reality, Chertoff-Hayden cubicle rats) were creating NEW photographic meme disinformation in a continuous fashion, REACTING to each discovery we made, to THWART US on discovering what was really going on.
I began to realize that we needed ways to bypass reactive disinformation. Bypassing reactive information is, in fact, part of what Q does.
Modern internet warfare on Twitter is basically a giant distraction from HONEST debate by bombardment with DISINFORMATION using DISHONEST techniques. I have now spent enough time FREE of “Fake Normal” that I remember what HONEST DEBATE includes – and Democrats are INCAPABLE of honest debate.
Real, regular, good science is literally impossible with people who don’t subject their own “side” to scrutiny, but waste EVERYBODY’S time by subjecting what does not need scrutiny to scrutiny.
The answer is to BYPASS DISHONEST PEOPLE. Shut them out of the scrutiny loop.
Yeah, I can stick my numbers out here and we will argue about them because that is how FAKE SCIENCE works now. Fauci calling remdesivir the new standard when it had absolutely cringeable numbers – THAT is Fake Science right there. How do you fight against that crap? You can’t, unless you can FIRE FAUCI and put Dr. Zelenko in his place. You want to see WAR with Bill Gates? Try THAT.
However, they cannot stop YOU from proving TO YOURSELF that masks cause cognitive decline.
Better still, THAT is science itself. Duplicating results – reality checking – reproducibility.
It’s very “Q”. It BYPASSES the reactive disinformation.
Here is how I described the experiment that YOU CAN DO, on Twitter.
Want to play scientist and convince yourself that these idiot masks cause mild cognitive decline? I call it "bidening". The experiment is absolutely convincing, and you don't have to trust anybody but yourself.
Twitter is absolutely suppressing the hell out of all my stuff, and this tweet is getting it BIG TIME.
That is exactly why I’m BRINGING IT HERE. Let’s dig in.
Subvert masks. MODEL things like….
– stealthy removal – "cheater breaths" – pull out the chin to deep breath – use an oximeter (O2 drops from 98-99 to 95-97) which infects people with the idea that masks cause mild and measurable cognitive decline (they do) – test yourself
The easiest way for me (retired scientist) to convince people that masks cause mild cognitive decline (I call it "bidening") is to get people to simply duplicate my experiments. It will cost under $50. Oximeter is about $40, then get a bandana and several types of masks.
The oximeter scale is not simple linear 0-99 – it's scrunched at the top. 93 is trouble, upper 80s is hospital time.
The scale is 99 (normal alert), 98 (calm), 97 (sleepy, yawning), 96 (groggy), 95 (nodding off). Below that are regions bordering on apnea. Masks drop you 1-2.
If you breathe hard through a mask (hyperventilate) you can keep blood O2 at 99, but you can't function and remember to breathe hard, plus hyperventilating causes CO2 to get weird and you will slow down even if you don't want to. Ironically, COVID messes up O2/CO2 balance, too.
Young & healthy people are more adept at maintaining "decent" (not optimal) cognition with a mask, by breathing hard regularly to keep in the 99-98 region. Exercise and work forces hard breathing, making masks less problematic. Masks are more insidious during periods of calm.
An excellent experiment is to make a LOG of your O2 and heart bpm readings when you go to the store and wear a mask, recording as often as possible: exact time, O2, bpm, how you feel and what you're thinking, how you're breathing, etc. Borderline O2 values get called 97.5, etc.
Bpm values wander, just pick a consistent method of calling them. Be objective – strong standards – avoid bias. Note your breathing, and remember that the busier you are recording, the less likely you'll try to influence the data by "choosing" to breath consciously, vs. sub.
Also remember that your BRAIN oxygen LAGS your blood oxygen, AND your brain oxygen will accumulate deficits, and THAT is where masks worn "faithfully" are really, really bad. The ChiComs and Dems really hosed our kids with these damn things – the BRAIN O2 deficits build up.
As you begin wearing your mask and journaling – objectively reporting in grand detail what happens to you and how you feel, there will be "known indicators" that you will consciously recognize as you go along. Those are very helpful, and your recording them as you go is great!
You will begin to see that you forget the more complex details of your own rules – then you will see yourself forgetting more and more basic things. This will surprise you. KEEP THE EXPERIMENT GOING. Soon, you will forget what you were doing. You will repeat things wrongly.
The best proofs of cognitive decline are the mistakes that you don't catch until later. When you go back and look at the data, you will see when you were literally "bidening".
Keep up the experiment for at least a half hour of mask wear, up to an hour. That will be plenty.
When you remove your mask, keep up the journaling for at least half an hour. You aren't optimally safe to drive for 30 minutes after wearing a mask. I can tell you that I compared driving right after mask removal to waiting a half hour, and the latter showed FAR better driving.
You can wait for Fauci to pimp some double-blind mask study (expect #MaskGate, too!), or you can just do the experiment for under $50 and learn the truth yourself. You can BORROW somebody's oximeter. No matter what, I recommend playing with the device for a week or two first.
I've done experiments with various masks, and I'm absolutely convinced that they shave 1-2 points off blood oxygen, and even more off BRAIN CHEMISTRY, which would likely show up as double digits on an SAT, LSAT, MCAT or GRE test. Masks on kids? RIDICULOUS.
After #LancetGate, and the #LancetGateEffect (which is the extra deaths clearly visible from the fraudulent paper), nobody is going to tell me that science done by average people is any less trustworthy than "professional" science, since now I've done both myself.
Again, the key to doing this experiment is to create an overly elaborate method of recording data that includes very particular ways of spacing, punctuation, grammar, allowed terms, allowed notations, etc. Maybe a list of things to check yourself on, and an order to do it in. Practice it a few times without the mask to validate that you can do it, but right before you put on your mask. Keep these rules IN MEMORY – essentially IN RAM – and particularly your SHORT-TERM MEMORY. Thus, I suggest NOT writing any of these rules down. Force your brain to WORK.
It’s a lot like taking an SAT test, isn’t it? EXACTLY MY POINT. You are forced by both test rules and TIME to keep stuff in memory. We are creating fresh memories, and then watching masks DEGRADE THEM.
You will see FOR YOURSELF that masks degrade your short-term memory, and keep it degraded for a surprisingly long time.
Conclusions
Let me give you some of the “conclusions”.
The most important thing I found is that masks make people FORGETFUL. Not just me – I am now able to spot “mask head” in other people. It’s FREAKY. It’s like being in a science fiction movie and spotting the puppetmaster on people’s BACKS. Or is it a FACEHUGGER?
“Sorry – I asked you that already, didn’t I?”
“Yes! That’s the mask, actually! Masks make you forget stuff.”
One of the very first times I wore a mask in a store, I found myself getting more and more forgetful, going down my list of items. Near the end, I felt like reality was becoming a bit “dreamy”, so I figured I needed to GET OUT AND GET SOME AIR. I then FORGOT the last item – the one that my wife had specifically asked me to get.
Interestingly, that time I not only caught myself SPEEDING on the way home – in a place that I pride myself on NOT speeding – I later FORGOT LOADING THE GROCERIES INTO THE CAR. I had no memories of it. It was FREAKY. I had MISSING TIME. I felt real worry that I had left the groceries in the cart at the store. I had one of those “OMG” moments. I had to search my mind to realize that I had both forgotten to load the groceries into the car, but also I had also just put them away at home.
It was ILLOGICAL, but those were my memories. Of course, MKULTRA works similarly, but let’s not go there now. Maybe another time.
MISSING TIME FROM MASKS. And the effect is beautifully consistent with logic. It takes time – it’s cumulative – it has a latency, and it wears off. It took over half an hour for the effect to build up to where it was making me forget things significantly, and it took about half an hour for the effect to fully wear off.
It’s the mask. It is simply the mask.
Now – not all masks are the same. For me, the bandana is the worst. My numbers go down quickly to 96 or 97, and don’t get back up easily. Rapid breathing doesn’t raise my O2 as quickly as with either a “regular real mask” or my “cheater fashion mask”.
Obviously, I rarely use my bandana any more, except for experiments.
My regular store masks – the normal ones everybody wears – are better, but I still get hypoxia, followed by strong, measurable cognitive deficits with them. However, when I am wearing a mask in a place where I absolutely want to avoid any drama, and my time will be short, I stick to these masks that “blend in” with the crowd.
My “fashion mask” barely covers my chin. Hard breaths get strong oxygen immediately, relieving the hypoxia. That is what I wear when I don’t need to impress any Mask Karens or Mask Nazis.
Another thing is this. Yes, the oximeter scale is “scrunched up” to where meaningful stuff for normies wearing masks is roughly four numbers – 96, 97, 98, 99 – and if you interpret the oximeter waffling between these numbers as 96.5, 97.5, and 98.5, then you basically have 7 numbers you’re likely to see. It’s surprising how much you can prove with just those 7 numbers, but there is a reason for that, too – the COGNITIVE SCALE is also scrunched up near the top.
That is a POWERFUL realization, and NOT KNOWING IT is how the NPR lie works.
NPR has a pro-mask television ad with a soy boy, trying to convince you that “masks make sense” and “masks are smart”. It has a very cunning “proof” that hypoxia is not a problem – the soy boy says they’re not a problem, while showing a doctor in a gown and goggles and a mask showing you an oximeter on “99”, and then the doctor shrugs.
That is PURE PROPAGANDA. It’s not science. What YOU are doing is science, and what you are going to confirm is COMMON SENSE.
SO – that is why I am using the VERY FINE-GRAINED TEST of journaling with lots of little rules that you make up before, about how you are going to record and format your observations. With a small window of numbers that go from nodding off to alert, and a mind that – IRONICALLY – is going soft right when you should be making critical observations about your mind going soft, then it is the SET OF DETAILED PICAYUNE RULES for recording your observations that serves as the fine-grained test of cognitive ability – in addition to how you subjectively feel.
Self- analyzing your performance – being as hard on yourself as you are mentally able to do – will reveal your cognitive decline from masking.
So what’s next?
Well, some of us should not be wearing masks AT ALL. And yet, in my nearest “deep blue zone”, the TDS mayor actually EXCEEDS the regional mask mandate, by not allowing people to NOT wear a mask. You MUST wear a “face covering” into government buildings.
My recommendation in such cases is to wear a plastic face shield, as loosely as possible.
But that is not all. We need to work very hard to UNMASK, and to get around this unhealthy BS which has been foisted on us and our children in the name of health.
So let’s turn to MASK REBELLION.
How To Rebel Against Masks
Help unset the precedent. Violate idiot mask protocols as much as possible up to the point of legal non-compliance.
Masks induce mild cognitive deficits that last after you demask and harm your driving ability. It's damn near a DUTY to begin rebelling against mask nonsense.
People tend to be either “all in” on masks, or “all in” on mask rebellion.
What I advocate is SMART REBELLION. And part of smart rebellion against masks is for us to do back to the commies what they did to us – but OPENLY, PROUDLY, and LOGICALLY.
We need to SUBVERT masks, and encourage others who wish to join us, to join us.
substitute “social distancing” whenever allowed to do so (typically outside stores)
take “cheater breaths” around the mask whenever you feel like breathing harder
pull the mask away when you talk, so that you can be understood
wear the thinnest and least hypoxia-inducing mask you can find
point out “mask head” to forgetful people in a nice, concerned way
use a face shield instead and tell people why
use opportunities to tell people about mask hypoxia
show people your oximeter and explain how it shows mask hypoxia
use the oximeter in public and show people the truth
make your BREATHING FREELY in public very obvious and SMILE BIGLY
Another successful day of shopping without a mask…
I will be getting a face shield shortly, and I will likewise do an oximeter experiment with it. Yeah, it will look stupid as hell, but hopefully somebody will ask.
Real science is coming back, one person at a time.
W
PS – thanks to Dep Pat for this wonderful CLOWN WORLD video!
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From the time that Joshua died until Saul took the throne of Israel, the Hebrew government was not a monarchy like most surrounding nations. Theologians refer to it as a theocracy—”God-rule.” The Lord ruled over Israel, issuing His decrees and governing through prophets and priests. Each major region looked to a judge for what most other cultures would expect from a king. He (occasionally, she) led the people in battle, decided civil cases, and enforced God’s laws.
Samuel judged all Israel with God reigning as king over the Hebrew people. In this way, the Israelites were like no other nation on earth in that they could claim God as their leader, the invisible Creator, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Almighty One who crushed Egypt, parted the Red Sea, and conquered Canaan. But, much in the same way that the wandering generation tired of manna, the people grew tired of the theocracy. Three factors drove their desire for a king.
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This was a pivotal moment in the life of Israel. Take special note of the Lord’s assessment of their decision. “They have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them [8:7].”
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And yet, these days, wherever we look, we see Leftists in their roles of disrupters, looters, attackers, arsonists and anarchists, aided and abetted by corrupt Leftist Mayors, Governors, District Attorneys, Judges, Representatives and Senators exhibiting, on a daily basis, none of the desired character traits. By their fruit you will know them.
And, since the consequences of those Leftist’s actions have a large possibility of greatly negatively affecting our lives, we tend to spend a significant amount of time involved in those matters, either actively or passively.
As difficult as it might be, as this episode of life unfolds, let’s be sure we keep our main focus and hopes for the future firmly focused on things above, for “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails” and “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.”
(@sethjlevy) August 23, 2020
