Well, that’s pretty much it for 2023 … which I’m officially dubbing The Year of The Mindfuck. I’m doing that against the advice of my attorney, who is (a) trying to keep me out of German prison for as long as possible, and (b) trying to stop me from gratuitously alienating whatever remains of my former readership and going totally broke.
CJ - your piece sums it up for me. On every topic. I am still shadowbanned at Twitter and refuse to take a knee. I am still deeply unsettled by the C-19 era and people's blind fealty to authoritarianism and still reeling from the on-going, Western-funded carnage in Gaza and the personal attacks on me for reporting and caring about it. Horrified by the aggressions toward women and children by trans fanatics and on working people by elites. Talk about a mindfuck.
I always believed writing honestly, using my investigative skills and underpinning it with deep humanity was the way through this. But I am now doubting all of it. The free speechers now screaming for censorship. The kindly C-19 dissenters who don't see Palestinian children as human. The outsiders who have hit it big and now elevate themselves further by toeing the neo-globalist party line with massively funded organizations that underwrite huge events that solve nothing. They are performative, as is every solution we think we find. Petitions with elite signatories only, declarations that get no attention unless they serve the narrative -- get us nowhere. Excluding the heroic Great Barrington, of course.
But as a Christian who still believes in magic and miracles --my heart says to keep going and keep it small. Thousands of tiny neighborhood groups, fueled by goodwill are where the power will lie. If I was remaking my life right now I would become a Quaker. ...or something along those lines.
Merry Christmas CJ -- I have witnessed your absolute refusal to say or think what is demanded, even by people on our side and that is where the real courage and critical thinking comes from.
You are, aside from your brilliant and stylish writing, a profoundly decent man -- above all.
Proud to call you a friend and support you in any way I can.
Merry Christmas, chum. Somewhere the lights are shining.
The sick truth about what is being perpetrated on us is too dark to discuss rationally so please keep serving us your "satirical" and "fictional" views as you see it. Some of us will stand with you CJ because we get the joke and are righteously angry about it too! It is painful as we bear witness to the planned injustices visited on innocent people daily.
If we don't try to laugh at it we will drown in tears.
Free Julian Assange. Free CJ Hopkins.
Occupy peace
Merry Christmas to you and your defenders of freedom of speech.
What better way to celebrate the Year of the Mindfuck than to quote from Joost Meerloo’s “Rape of the Mind”:
“The specialists in the art of persuasion and the moulding of public sentiment may try to knead man’s mental dough with all the tools of communication available to them: pamphlets, speeches, posters, billboards, radio programs, and T.V. shows. They may water down the spontaneity and creativity of thoughts and ideas into sterile and streamlined clichés that direct our thoughts even although we still have the illusion of being original and individual.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-menticided-a-12-step)
Wow. That's the most cogent and concise description of the mental V2 attack that was made of the human-made covid virus that I've read. Sanity is a busy street corner which everyone must cross alone, against traffic. Reading your work makes it feel less lonely, and less impossible. Thanks CJ!
I am totally right with you. It is crazy, and getting more crazy. I waited for those Fauci files for months, they never came. I saw people I had thought were for free speech suddenly turn because it was speech they did not like, my Jewish friends have put blinders on so as to not see what is happening in Gaza, I see propaganda everywhere. And then this week I saw people fucking with the constitution to keep Trump off the CO ballot (not a fan, but I think what they are doing to him is unconstitutional) And all my liberal friends cheering and not realizing if it can happen to Trump, next time maybe it is their candidate who gets taken off the ballot. Peoples brains have turned to mush.
For a long time, I've used an old technique - never mind the myriad terms used to describe it - that takes you out of the picture and places you in a position as "observer."
Of course, as long as you're physically here, you are part of it all, but your mind is elsewhere... offshore, off-loading every bit of mindfulness that is spewed from every direction. You inoculate yourself from every spoken pathogen.
In this mindset, you are alone, with your thoughts, and whatever spiritual touchstone that brings clarity. Only distress is in knowing that you can't extricate yourself from the stupid mundanity of repetitiveness - the perpetrators of this endless barrage are indeed stupid, and endlessly self-absorbed. They never tire of hearing themselves spew forth lies with a new spin.
Consider yourself a revenant if you can relate and stay observant to the black hole around you... the microbes will inherit what's left of the planet.
No, I'm not a fatalist - or an "-ist" anything... just standing on my observation deck - please join me.
You're in top form C.J.! Great piece. It seems that this whole German State, New Normal Reich, criminal prosecution thingy has done nothing to dampen your inspiration or derail your shit detector.
Divide and conquer along as many intersectional lines as exist in human culture is how empires prevail. I’ve been watching the Childrens Health Defense Fund intellectuals destroy each other over Israel Gaza. That’s a real shame because they have a lot of capability in fighting the insane Covid medical industrial complex but if they can constantly create internal frictions in any organization that bucks the evil empire, then evil triumphs.
I am a midwestern grandma who posts and reposts anti-establishment themes on X. Now Elon Musk "follows" me. Should I be worried? Will the CIA show up on my doorstep one of these days?
Brilliant work, those of us who believe in humanity would like to make you King, President and Prime Minister. Please appoint Professor Norman Fenton and Dr John Campbell to run the NHS and CDC! Thanks and Merry Mindfucking Christmas...
CJ - your piece sums it up for me. On every topic. I am still shadowbanned at Twitter and refuse to take a knee. I am still deeply unsettled by the C-19 era and people's blind fealty to authoritarianism and still reeling from the on-going, Western-funded carnage in Gaza and the personal attacks on me for reporting and caring about it. Horrified by the aggressions toward women and children by trans fanatics and on working people by elites. Talk about a mindfuck.
I always believed writing honestly, using my investigative skills and underpinning it with deep humanity was the way through this. But I am now doubting all of it. The free speechers now screaming for censorship. The kindly C-19 dissenters who don't see Palestinian children as human. The outsiders who have hit it big and now elevate themselves further by toeing the neo-globalist party line with massively funded organizations that underwrite huge events that solve nothing. They are performative, as is every solution we think we find. Petitions with elite signatories only, declarations that get no attention unless they serve the narrative -- get us nowhere. Excluding the heroic Great Barrington, of course.
But as a Christian who still believes in magic and miracles --my heart says to keep going and keep it small. Thousands of tiny neighborhood groups, fueled by goodwill are where the power will lie. If I was remaking my life right now I would become a Quaker. ...or something along those lines.
Merry Christmas CJ -- I have witnessed your absolute refusal to say or think what is demanded, even by people on our side and that is where the real courage and critical thinking comes from.
You are, aside from your brilliant and stylish writing, a profoundly decent man -- above all.
Proud to call you a friend and support you in any way I can.
Merry Christmas, chum. Somewhere the lights are shining.
The sick truth about what is being perpetrated on us is too dark to discuss rationally so please keep serving us your "satirical" and "fictional" views as you see it. Some of us will stand with you CJ because we get the joke and are righteously angry about it too! It is painful as we bear witness to the planned injustices visited on innocent people daily.
If we don't try to laugh at it we will drown in tears.
Free Julian Assange. Free CJ Hopkins.
Occupy peace
Merry Christmas to you and your defenders of freedom of speech.
What better way to celebrate the Year of the Mindfuck than to quote from Joost Meerloo’s “Rape of the Mind”:
“The specialists in the art of persuasion and the moulding of public sentiment may try to knead man’s mental dough with all the tools of communication available to them: pamphlets, speeches, posters, billboards, radio programs, and T.V. shows. They may water down the spontaneity and creativity of thoughts and ideas into sterile and streamlined clichés that direct our thoughts even although we still have the illusion of being original and individual.” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-menticided-a-12-step)
Wow. That's the most cogent and concise description of the mental V2 attack that was made of the human-made covid virus that I've read. Sanity is a busy street corner which everyone must cross alone, against traffic. Reading your work makes it feel less lonely, and less impossible. Thanks CJ!
I am totally right with you. It is crazy, and getting more crazy. I waited for those Fauci files for months, they never came. I saw people I had thought were for free speech suddenly turn because it was speech they did not like, my Jewish friends have put blinders on so as to not see what is happening in Gaza, I see propaganda everywhere. And then this week I saw people fucking with the constitution to keep Trump off the CO ballot (not a fan, but I think what they are doing to him is unconstitutional) And all my liberal friends cheering and not realizing if it can happen to Trump, next time maybe it is their candidate who gets taken off the ballot. Peoples brains have turned to mush.
That's the best thing I've read all year. The only bad thing about it is the accuracy.
At this point I don't know anything anymore, so I guess I am totally mindfucked?
Anyway merry mindfucked Christmas and happy mindfucked New Year to everyone following CJ substack...
Thanks again for speaking your mind and not giving a damn about what others might think.
Best to you CJ in the upcoming Year Of The Dragon. May we roar and may there be fire and brimstone flown down upon the transgressors of our freedom.
For a long time, I've used an old technique - never mind the myriad terms used to describe it - that takes you out of the picture and places you in a position as "observer."
Of course, as long as you're physically here, you are part of it all, but your mind is elsewhere... offshore, off-loading every bit of mindfulness that is spewed from every direction. You inoculate yourself from every spoken pathogen.
In this mindset, you are alone, with your thoughts, and whatever spiritual touchstone that brings clarity. Only distress is in knowing that you can't extricate yourself from the stupid mundanity of repetitiveness - the perpetrators of this endless barrage are indeed stupid, and endlessly self-absorbed. They never tire of hearing themselves spew forth lies with a new spin.
Consider yourself a revenant if you can relate and stay observant to the black hole around you... the microbes will inherit what's left of the planet.
No, I'm not a fatalist - or an "-ist" anything... just standing on my observation deck - please join me.
Taibbi isn't new to the mindfucking business. He gaslit and ridiculed all who doubted the government's account of the events on 9/11.
You're in top form C.J.! Great piece. It seems that this whole German State, New Normal Reich, criminal prosecution thingy has done nothing to dampen your inspiration or derail your shit detector.
It has indeed been - "The Year of the Mind Fuck."
Divide and conquer along as many intersectional lines as exist in human culture is how empires prevail. I’ve been watching the Childrens Health Defense Fund intellectuals destroy each other over Israel Gaza. That’s a real shame because they have a lot of capability in fighting the insane Covid medical industrial complex but if they can constantly create internal frictions in any organization that bucks the evil empire, then evil triumphs.
I am a midwestern grandma who posts and reposts anti-establishment themes on X. Now Elon Musk "follows" me. Should I be worried? Will the CIA show up on my doorstep one of these days?
Brilliant work, those of us who believe in humanity would like to make you King, President and Prime Minister. Please appoint Professor Norman Fenton and Dr John Campbell to run the NHS and CDC! Thanks and Merry Mindfucking Christmas...
Neither you nor your readers will agree with my view but I view this all as a Satanic operation. Only Satan can do all this with such agility.