• The introduction
• Printing presses, mimeographs, and owners
• People who DRS — who Don’t Read Shit
• The annual flu shot LOL fraud decades in the running
• …So nothing is new
• My point about the bright side
• Cake icing conclusion

There’s no serious dispute that global life in general has been a disappointment for over a couple of years. Liars abound who assert it hasn’t affected them, or they did even better…as though the only time they’re really well off is when everyone else is shackled. Good for them, right?

And what’s the message, there? Your life was totally wrecked while, ‘I got better and prospered, what’s wrong with you?’

‘Uh, lost my job, wife did too but flipped burgers for takeout while I watched the two babies and tried to find something on the internet. Then we defaulted on the mortgage and one of our cars got repossessed. But props, man…’

Even though the last two years have cost me over $200,000 so far, the far deeper cost has been to my general psychology. No, I’m not really talking about the fact that for 20 years I did the Go-USA domestic thing and settled down; then in late age-50s, got out of that gig, set off in early 2020 to nomad the world, and then Covid—totally dashing every aspiration down to electron microscope levels.

Crazy strike of bad luck for me but as we say here in Rawai, “We live in Rawai!” Thailand may not be the best place in the world to endure, but all in all, it was tolerable and generally, I could still get anything I wanted 24/7—just with a bit more effort and ingenuity, at times. And even though most cuties are masked, most aren’t fat, either…

I managed to make the best of that and still am. …Just had a 20-minute fun and funny vid-chat with my girl. Her and her sister (double and triple jabbed) are holed up in a room in Surin, about 5th day of Covid. Bad cold symptoms, so far as I’ve seen. Can’t get a cold anymore. National and international news, now. It’s recorded in a data center. Very bad. Just so.

But what of everything else?

I recall as though it was yesterday, 1989. I was a 28-year old Navy officer who’d just returned from living in Japan for five years where during that time, I rented beach houses and travelled all over Asia. Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, et al. As a young man, my chief pursuit when off the job was Asian women.

Hundreds.

So it’s no surprise that when I returned to Thailand as a single man once again at the age of 59, Asian women were a substantial part of that calculation. It’s the one large area of the world where women see men far differently than most anywhere else I can think of. It’s just so, and we like it.

A 20-year old girl in this culture thinks nothing of bedding down with a 60-year old, if he can manage to make her a bit curious or horny.

To know how to do that is easy. You simply have to understand that they have zero Jesus baggage and act accordingly. They have deep cultural and familial norms and traditions. Just, zero Jesus—don’t know him from Adam. Makes a profound difference.

…OK, at 555 words, that’s it for the intro. The numbers are 8,000 newsletter subscribers, 1,000 free members, and 200 paid members.

The remainder of the post is for the 200. It’s the next in the Prosper Anyway series.

…As a sub-intro, peeps, isn’t it a bit weird to even understand what’s going on, at all?

Step back.

Going way back, there was this hope, right? that the truth outs, sets you free, etc. It’s what that printing press was all about. Right? Yet here we are hundreds of years later and anything can be published by anyone and can be viewed by anyone.

So how come we’re not free, like all that plant stuff that floats in the wind?

The simplest answer is that neither you nor I own the “printing press.”

Most of us own mimeographs, if that. Even if we owned a printing press, we would have to ensure judicious usage, with some form of promotion of politicians or corporations on every page. Then it gets distributed far and wide and then everyone wants to be in the printing-press business.

I trust you’re following the metaphorical drift.

The point is that everyone was wrong, have been wrong for hundreds of years, have been wrong through thick and thin over the last decades, and have been wrong over the last two years and everyone is still fucking laughably wrong.

ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.

ABOUT. FUCKING. EVERYTHING.

…I read this curious and interesting piece this morning by a guy, Chris Bray. He did tons and tons of shit in terms of the Irish and “Troubles” with Great Britain going way back and for fucking years. You can read the details, it’s not long, and I think it’s because his point illuminates what I just wrote above.

Without wading back into the exceptionally complicated details of that long controversy, I learned two things from the experience that have never left me.

First, as I traveled to Boston to go to court, and as I wracked up PACER charges downloading legal briefs and judicial orders, I would have email exchanges with newspaper reporters who wanted me to tell them what had happened. I would shoot back an email message that said, “Judge’s ruling attached,” and they would reply, “Yeah, saw the attachment, what does it say?”

Over two years, through events in a trial court and in an appellate court, with multiple parties pursuing complicated and divergent courses, reporters would not read. They wouldn’t read the 40-page legal briefs filed by the lawyers for all the competing sides, but they also wouldn’t read a three-page order from a judge. They would not read, period. They wanted the tl;dr, in a sentence or two. “Yeah, what’s it say?”

In our own moment, I remain extremely confident that the flood of bullshit like this…

…is being slopped out by people who DRS — who Don’t Read Shit — about the topic they cover. Somebody in a government agency shot this dude an email message that said COVID VACCINES ARE MIRACLE DRUGS EVERYONE SHOULD GET THEM, and he said to himself, “Miracle drugs, got it!” We’re plagued by an army of people who pour “information” into the world based on two Twitter posts and a text message, after a full three to five seconds of deep thought:

My guy at the CDC says the vaccines are great, so.

It’s a good read, not long, interesting.

A next thing is something from The Arrow’s last issue, #66. Mike Eades got an email from someone who actually looked into the FLU SHOT. See, it’s ubiquitous, now. It’s what everybody’s supposed to do every year. It’s not even a vaccine, anymore. It’s actyually the biggest vaccine piece of dog-doodo ever in terms of effectiveness (though likely better than all the current jokes and their huge adverse effects). Apparently, the flu shot isn’t particularly dangerous. It’s just financial fraud.

Mike didn’t go into the links, but I read them. It’s laughable.

1. Why have three long-running Cochrane Reviews on influenza vaccines been stabilised?
2. Featured Review: Three updated Cochrane Reviews assessing the effectiveness of influenza vaccines
3. Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults
4. Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children
5. Vaccines for preventing influenza in the elderly

It’s a goddamn joke. The first link basically says, ‘we’ve been doing this stupid shit for 20 years, nothing has changed, we’re not updating this pile of crap anymore.’ The second link gives the links to the studies, and the last three are the studies.

The one for the kids seems to show some benefit in terms of preventing infection, concluding that 5 vaccinations prevent one infection. OK, maybe. But then what about next year? Flu shots for life? I’ve never had one, 61 years and running. For healthy adults, only 71 injections to prevent a single case in a healthy adult. For the old folks, about 30 jabbed to prevent a single case.

Keep in mind, this is in the context of annual jabs.

Complete fucking bullshit fraud. Any honest person knows it.

…So it was no surprise when on the very heels of reading Mike’s latest, this is the next thing:

FDA Floats Moving COVID-19 Vaccines to Flu-Like Model

U.S. regulators say an orderly and transparent process should be outlined for changing the composition of the COVID-19 vaccines, with the process ideally being adopted by countries around the world in addition to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The model in place for annually updating influenza vaccines can inform the process, officials say.

“The strain selection process for determining the composition of seasonal influenza vaccines may provide a general outline for the approach needed for updating the composition of COVID-19 vaccines to address current and emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants,” the FDA said.

The influenza vaccine model is based on predicting which variants will be circulating in the future. WHO leads the effort, voting on the composition of the vaccines to be deployed in the northern hemisphere five to six months later and the southern hemisphere three to four months in the future.

Regularly repeating business is always better than one-off sales.

What’s My Fucking Point?

It’s that this has always been going on. The flu vaccine has been around since 19-fucking-42. It became the annual flu shot some years later. It has been administered to nitwits and fools for fucking decades. People with arms, no brains. They do what they’re told. Super high percentage of Democrats, I’m certain.

See my fucking point?

I do not think there’s anything new going on except the advent of full-participation of media. Meaning, phones and social apps. It keeps coming down to that. There would not have been much of a pandemic but for iPhones and Androids.

It is abundantly clear that this new phenomenon that’s come of age over the last decade is being highly leveraged. Multitudes have prospered enormously from it. I’ve said before that it’s a fantastic tool, just like a hammer. You can build a house or bash in a skull.

…But pretty much all we hear now is the awful, every day.

Pause and think about that, for a bit. Think about what that means. To credit, millions and millions pretty much use their devices exclusively for fun stuff, educational stuff, business stuff. That’s building the house, not bashing in skulls—even your own.

So it’s simple.

The many destructive elements in society have licked chops for a decade while honing abilities to activate with this newfangled tool, and all in connection with legacy media.

The only problem is that they’re fucing toxic to all life on planet earth and it is becoming increasingly apparent by the day.

I see the reckoning coming every day. It’s hard now not to see some instance of “lifelong Democrat” finally getting a brain. Every damn day. …Like not 5 minutes before I began to finish this draft.

More bad news for Covid restriction lovers! Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a long article headlined, “School Reopening Mess Drives Frustrated Parents Toward GOP.” The sub-headline blames democrat party defections on Covid restrictions: “So disillusioned: Covid restrictions are weighing heavily for Democratic voters who say their party officials left mandates in place too long, with devastating consequences for their children.”

The article reports on a series of former lifelong democrats who admit they voted straight Republican in the last elections and plan to keep on doing it.

Just a couple years ago, Pelosi was confidently predicting that the democrat party was poised to finally achieve permanent party dominance. This article suggests she was WAY off. The Journal noted that “interviews with New Jersey voters revealed that some Democrats’ breaks from their party last fall were neither flippant nor fleeting.”

One of those interviewed was Gina Genovese, a longtime Democratic voter until November, when she cast her ballot for Governor Murphy’s unsuccessful Republican challenger. Ms. Genovese was the state’s first openly gay mayor in 2006 when she presided over Long Hill, N.J., as a Democrat.

But Genovese told the Journal that she was turned off by her party’s support for mask and vaccine mandates, which she viewed as violations of personal freedom. Last year, she helped pay for a lawsuit that tried to strike Governor Murphy’s school mask mandate. This year, she has repeatedly turned down fundraising requests from the Democratic Party. “Democrats have left me so disillusioned,” she said.

Ms. Genovese described herself as “far-left” on global warming and gay rights, and admitted it was a tough decision to support Republicans during the pandemic. But she said she would probably back Republican Thomas Kean for Congress this fall. “Everything is a balance,” she said.

Rachel Keane, a 35-year-old registered nurse and mother of two in West Orange, N.J., said she had never voted Republican until last fall, when she straight Republican on her ballot, right down the ticket. She admitted she was worried about what her liberal parents would think about her switch, but described her decision as an awakening. She had always supported democrats without a second thought, but her anger over the governor’s mask requirements for children made her question that loyalty.

“I knew I wasn’t going to vote for Murphy, but wasn’t sure if I was going to leave it blank or what,” Ms. Keane said. “Then I just got angry and in the back of my head I thought, ‘F— you!’ And I voted Republican all the way down the line.”

56-year-old teacher Donna Davis said she had been a lifelong Democratic voter until the pandemic, when the Republican push to keep the economy open made her more receptive to conservative candidates. When schools started mandating masks and pushing vaccines, she didn’t want to do either, or to return to the classroom, and thought her teaching days were over—until she heard about an alternative learning center defying the mandates. She also supported Gov. Murphy’s conservative challenger and plans to vote Republican this fall.

I told you in 2020 these local governments would eventually regret all the mandates. So.

So this is the bright side.