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Those Who Remain... G. Michael Hopf.

Hard times create strong men.

Strong men create good times.

Good times create weak men.

Weak men create hard times.

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Glitch in the Code's avatar

There's a great book The Fourth Turning. The Strauss–Howe generational theory. It's a very interesting read goes into detail about this cycle.

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Poor people are obese because they are eating a lot of processed food in packages and cans and are not educating themselves on proper dietary habits and exercise. Plus they are living sedentary lives with phones and internet! I cannot believe how many 20-40+ year old males and females who go to the gym and are obese!

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John Roberts's avatar

When I was in high school in the early seventies, guys and some girls, went to the gym to muscle up, Nobody went to lose weight. Heck there weren’t any really fat people anywhere and the ones we did think were fat, were just not as skinny as most of us.

Look at some old year books or photos from that time period and you will know exactly what I mean.

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Rina's avatar

Good food is expensive poor people buy rubbish because they can only afford rubbish and rubbish makes you fat. And what cost going to the gym nowadays?

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weedom1's avatar

It used to be that people worked. In fact some still do. In the rural temperate climates we work hard and naturally lose weight in the spring and summer and then we chill down and pork out in the winter :-D. The secret to not being obese is to at least keep that natural work cycle going.

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Alicia's avatar

Hardly anyone was fat. You’re right. Just look at pics from that era. Something is in our food or water or — something. It’s not normal.

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Vivienne Mae's avatar

Toxins are in our air, water, earth, majority of products and therefore food and us. The body stores toxins in fat to try and temporarily protect our organs, and message us that we are out of balance with way too many toxins to deal with

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Vivienne Mae's avatar

Feeding oneself REAL food, containing nutrition, like all the vitamins and minerals the body needs to function optimally, including digesting and processing the nutrients and eliminating toxins, can be a challenging, full time job and very expensive the way most live these days.

Literally has nothing to do with having it too easy or soft ... does have a lot to do with not understanding how dangerous it is that we have become dependent on what is sold as convenience by corrupt systems.

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weedom1's avatar

party size bag snacks

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TXR's avatar

I agree. It's beyond individual food choices. For example we moved from lard to seed oils, at home and restaurants, both cheap and expensive. Seed oils are not healthy almost as soon as they are made. Look at children too. What do Amish people use in food prep?

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GabeReal's avatar

It’s because so much of their diet has high fructose corn syrup in it

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Ruth's avatar

At least the gym-goers are trying ;)

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Deb Nance's avatar

At least they're going to the gym and that's a start. Add a good diet and they are on their way to success.

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LD's avatar

The poor don’t have time nor energy to make enough money to educate themselves or enough money to eat whole food. Ever hear of food deserts? It’s common now for there to be no grocery stores in the ghetto & you don’t have time & energy nor money to travel that far so you eat shit from Seven 11 so you have time to eat & sleep before going to work again IF you’re lucky enough to have a job. Ignorance is bliss, huh?

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Debbie Leiweke's avatar

It does take time and money to learn how to be healthy and can be very overwhelming

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Margaret Granville's avatar

Just what the government and pharma want

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llaw555's avatar

I must have missed something. Where is the brilliance?

The poor and a huge percentage of the population are not “fat” because life is easier. What a stupid statement. They’re fat because their food is addictive and toxic and a huge percentage of the population have been fooled by the medical industry to add one, two, 10 drugs to their already toxic diet cocktail!

Too many people are complacent and complicit because they aren’t physically responding to stimuli the way they once did!!

I do agree that consumerism and the brainwashing that media has achieved has made it “easier” for people to want to strive for what’s really not important to their lives,

The whole system has set humanity up to be fat, drugged and disempowered, because if people were to wake up and look beyond what they’ve been conditioned to think, the world would be in OUR hands and humans are powerful beings.

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Riyailp's avatar

Someone said it!! 👏

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Too comfortable holding that tablet or phone in front of their faces instead of engaging with the world around them. I've enjoy watching body cam UT videos. A person won't care that they have been pulled over for a DWI with their kids in the car, but you better not separate them from their phones. Woman had two of her special needs children killed in a house fire (she left them home alone for 9 hours). Her fake tears (not one drop on her face) after police told her were nothing compared to making sure she had her stupid phone.

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llaw555's avatar

Very sad.

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EggManMitch's avatar

If you look, or even just keep scrolling, you will find things that will upset you.

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Carrey's avatar

Exactly. Right @Josie Beug, DVM, CVA?

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Josie Beug, DVM, CVA's avatar

People are like kibble fed dogs. Hangry, obese, never satisfied but too little energy to do anything about it- so lets sit here and chew all our fur off.

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I completely get what you’re saying. I’m in the fitness field so I’ve pretty much heard and seen it all, I also work in “addiction “ and it’s not as simple as “knowing “ which foods are toxic. There are chemicals in processed (I can’t call it food!) processed products, that are known to be addictive. No Surprise, considering the tobacco companies are the ones who got the processed food industry rolling!

There are also drugs western doctors call “medication” that I’ve seen put up to 70 pounds on a person. LITERALLY. Imagine the mindset of someone taking these drugs , gaining 70 pounds and developing high blood pressure at 28 years old.

It has become a more complicated situation.

Humanity needs to get off social media - and yeah- I comment on news articles, but deleted all other accounts-

Get involved in community endeavors or some hobby. It’s more than cookies. Its entire toxic lifestyle that’s been created and there are too many people who feel hopeless.

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Vivienne Mae's avatar

With shedding and all the other ways MNRA is being put into our environments, unlikely anyone is any longer a PureBlood.

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Debbie Leiweke's avatar

Right! "PURE BLOOD" here, but I know that my blood hasn't remained pure, and I can feel the affects. Takes more effort everyday to maintain my health, but one thing that keeps me going is the fact that I did not and will not comply...

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llaw555's avatar

I don’t do “obligation “ I live from the heart.

I’m not concerned about dying. It’s transition just like birth. I won’t live in fear.

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Raven & Dove's avatar

It’s every individual’s responsibility every single day.

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Rosemary B's avatar

I remember years ago, my sister in law told me, while working at GM in Michigan, top job, upper management, she would eat a bag of M&Ms every day. No, not the fun size, the big bags. That is just bad. She was and is not poor. ...and she got mighty tubby. She has two knee replacements!

Almost everyone is FAT. I am trying very hard to stay lean and mean. So that is one of my inner bitches I guess. The other is to stop wasting time with ppl that annoy me. Other wise, you come home with a headache.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

100% agree. if someone disgrees or not sure, look around you when you go to the post office, gas station or grocery store. Americans have become in general unbelievably obese and lazy.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

We have a society where people actively avoid getting out of their comfort zone. One of my guests, Erik Weihenmayer (a famous mountaineer who climbed Everest-Erik, incidentally went blind when he was just 16 years old and has climbed all 7 Summits and solo kayaked the CO River rapids-Let that type of accomplishment sink in for a moment) tells this story:

He divides the world into 3 groups. The groups are fluid. We can all move between them. The first group are quitters. They are self evident. That's maybe 20% of the population.

The second group are Campers. They never, ever want the status quo to change. In all fairness to them, they may be so beat up by life that they are afraid of putting their head outside the foxhole anymore. This is the vast majority of people.

The third group, the tiny minority, are climbers. Climbers are those that take risks, sometimes fail, but live extraordinary, realized lives.

Now Climbers can be Campers (you get to eat ice cream and stream Netflix sometimes) but there is something in them that makes them want to continually push the envelope of creativity and achievement.

Wouldn't you really rather be a Climber? :)

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Not a blind one climbing mountains putting others' lives in danger. Did he use Sherpa support on Everest?

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Actually, it's a great story. He trained for months and selected his teammates-his rope team-carefully. Everyone knew what they were getting into. Erik climbed to the top himself. He's really a remarkable person, and very kind. He came on my podcast when I was just starting out. How generous! Check out NoBarriersUSA.org to learn more if you'd like.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Sorry. I have studied alot about Everest and autobiographies of climbers. Just to state a point, he might have climbed the last few steps to the top, but Sherpas got him up there. Too many thrill seekers who put lives in danger.

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wilson's avatar

I have climbed some big mtns myself, including an attempt on an 8000m peak where an avalanche killed one of us. I agree with your point. On big mtns you can get pretty close to the end of your tether.

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wilson's avatar

I wouldn't climb as a blind man for that reason and also the fact you'd have to rely on other people for everything. but that's just me. Opinions vary.

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Leener's avatar

I believe another big contributor to depression and anxiety is the overuse of cell phones and other smart devices and social media. My pastor shared an article about it recently. The uptick of depression began when cell phones became prevalent.

This is especially true for younger people. They are constantly on their devices.

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Jill Herendeen's avatar

...and cell phones CAUSE OBESITY, as well as diabetes, heart attacks, & lots & lots of other, very serious health-destroying conditions. In NY, around 7 years ago, I recall Social Services handing out free cell phones to anyone who qualified for food stamps.... Not that any doc they're likely to be able to get to, who accepts Medicaid, is likely to be aware that cell phones/wireless EMFs are injurious to anyone's health. I see what you mean about life having become comparatively easy--it would've been a lot more physical work 200 years ago, for most ppl--but OTOH, in just the past 29 years it's become toxic in novel, unprecedented ways that are very difficult to avoid, even if you're one of the few ppl who understands just how toxic our environment has become & knows what needs to be avoided.

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Leener's avatar

It distresses and confounds me how little EMF issues are communicated by the media. Meanwhile we continue to go up. We're now at 5G and 6 is in the works.

I expect the majority of people have no clue about the dangers of EMF. Recently I asked an AI about it. The response basically said there isn't enough data to suggest it's harmful. That's because we aren't studying it enough!

I recently read of one city (can't remember where) that outlawed 5G. There are also a lot of parents upset about cell towers being near schools. But these are outliers. Most people are clueless. I've mentioned it to coworkers and friends. Most are dismissive of it and don't even know what EMF is!

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Jill Herendeen's avatar

re: "not enough evidence to suggest it's harmful": yes, that's the standard (US) response to protecting ALL facets of for-profit "medicine" and telecom, which exist (in the US) primarily for private profit rather than for helping society. In THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW, Firstenberg says that the biological havoc caused by wireless tech IS well-researched, and well-known in Eastern Bloc countries, but universally censored in the West. Makes me wonder whether this was the REAL reason for The Cold War....

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Vivienne Mae's avatar

The book 'The Invisible Rainbow' explains so well how EMF is a huge source of toxins and cause of much poor health, dis ease.

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Jill Herendeen's avatar

YUP

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TiredCitizen's avatar

I happened to have on this morning an episode of "Tribunal Justice." Plaintiff was someone who puts on horse shows and defendant was a participant (or ended up not participating hence the case). The defendent had a full blown panic attack where her mother had to come up to calm her down and then Byrd had to really get her to calm down from her hysteria.

Two issues: she was a millenial mother of two children and they were arguing over $290. Other issue was millenial didn't want to pay her fee because she (1) had a doctor's note which really told nothing and (2) other horse shows let you back out at the last minute so this plaintiff should allow her to do the same no matter the show agreement. This ended up being a two part episode so I don't know how it ended yet, but the girl was having a whacked out "I've never been told no before" anxiety attack and I had to step away from getting ready to see what all the hysteria was about. These are the kids who grew up under the "It Takes a Village", everyone gets a trophy, no winners or losers to hurt a child's self esteem and other crap. Seeds were sown during the Clinton Adminstration and Obama and Obiden harvested those seeds to what we have today.

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David Walden's avatar

Obese also because of cheap high fructose corn syrup

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William Tyndale's avatar

Of course Rogan has an inner bitch. Rogan is a Jersey bro. Home of Fran Dreshire and the biggest complaining bitches in all of America. Jews and Jersey bitches make complaining a competition. Southerners have no inner bitch. Southerners are men.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Hate to tell you, but I have lived in the South for over 50 years and Southerners aren't men. The vast majority have been neutered by feminism and the socialist agenda to destroy America from within.

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William Tyndale's avatar

Any last words, faggot?

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Brewer55's avatar

Don't be an asshole!

I'm in the deep south myself and what TiredCitizen said is largely true. I don't think it is the vast majority but, the de neutered / low testosterone men are in the cities, the 'burbs, and the rural areas, like mine!

It's an epidemic of softness. Too much time on the game console, watching Netflix of NFL draft picks, etc. When the grid goes, it's going to change fast -- very fast.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Excuse me? I made a factual point. What a nasty bot you are. Go away and get a life.

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Alicia's avatar

🤭😂

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Denise's avatar

There is truth to that, but the food being consumed by most people today, because it’s cheaper & marketed at the grocery stores, is devoid of real nutrients. So people are eating more to satiate themselves, but it’s toxic unhealthy shit. And then they swallow it down with a soda or sweet tea perhaps. Our water supplies are tainted with fluoride which fucks up the body on every level, & the nutrients people might be getting is not absorbed properly & therefore the body isn’t able to utilize them. You can really see it. Mental illness is way up since “covid”. It was already a huge problem though. Medical conditions are through the roof. The sheeple keep following orders from their killers. Back in the good ol’ days, people just died more quickly. They didn’t tend to linger with autoimmune conditions, heart disease, cancers, or Alzheimer’s. They also ate farm raised foods. Not processed junk. But the societal pressures to have it all is another factor for sure. Folks need to learn to have reverence for the small pleasures in life. 🙏🏽🥳

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Kristi's avatar

And too many people have victim mentality. People I know that have achieved so much thrive on playing the victim.

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Dave's avatar

I grew up in the 70's and went to high school in the early 80's, and you are 100% correct.

Everyone was lean back then. Even older people who were less active might have a spare tire around their mid sections, but their limbs were leaner.

Back then, obese people were extremely rare, and most people were generally more active than today, and simply ate less, with much less snacking than today.

Things started to change in the late 80's, but it was no where near as bad as today.

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Vivienne Mae's avatar

Everything you mention is a factor AND there are many more factors involved with increase of obesity. Weight management is much more complex than counting calories and exercising which is still a much believed indoctrination that too many still adhere to, and imply is the main issue.

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martin's avatar

"Rogan explained that even though we live in the safest and easiest time in human history.." where is the evidence of that -its a silly statement to make-

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JulieBelzeski's avatar

The evidence is all around you. If you aren’t aware of this, you’re simply showing your ignorance of human history

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martin's avatar

how do you know that the people who lived 1000 year 1500 years ago did not live in the safest and easiest time in history-presumably you have been conditioned to accept history as pushed into you at school etc. Do you really know who built the pyramids etc other than what you were told to accept -my understanding of human history is probably not as conditioned as yours

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JulieBelzeski's avatar

My understanding of human history is not conditioned at all, Sweetie. I get what you’re saying, but we also have plenty of evidence to know what life was like for the average human being in many places of the world throughout different points in time. We don’t have to know who built the pyramids, or how, to know slave labor was real during that time frame and their living conditions were harsh compared to ours. One does not have to “accept” a modern version of every historical event to discern that by and large, the basics of life are much easier to come by in this day and age than at any time in the past. We don’t have to agree that that’s necessarily a good thing, but it’s pretty objectively true by any reasonable standard.

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martin's avatar

Sorry Julie my point is that Rogans statement is given that "in human history" and you say the same thing ..at any time in the past.. is so sweeping and assumes that humanity has evvolved from the swamp and we are now at the pinnacle of human civilisation.When it might well be the case that we are not and in fact are devolving .Anyway forgive me for being contrary

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JulieBelzeski's avatar

I can see how you might interpret it that way, but I don’t agree that ease/comfort equates to being the highest/most ideal state - in fact, or at “the pinnacle”, to use your word. I think that’s what Joe’s whole point was. Just because things are easier now, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a good thing. We may indeed be devolving - but that does not negate the fact that our very devolution could be a result of the ease and comfort with which we attain the basic necessities of life.

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Rondi's avatar

You are joking right? Have you ever really appreciated running water and hot water heaters? Have you ever had to walk miles for a bucket of water and if you wanted it hot, you had to cut the wood, stack the wood, wait till it dried out sufficiently, then fill the wood stove with wood and heated that water? How about heating your house with wood (which we have to do at our cabin). A ton of work is involved getting the wood chopped (and that is with a wood splitter), stacking it, covering it, and on and on it goes. We come back to our primary home with all the conveniences you can imagine, but we actually like to run off to our cabin, work our butts off, chill with a beer in the evening and watch the sunset. Americans actually live better than kings did in the 16th century! We have already been blessed. And maybe that is not such a good thing.

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martin's avatar

have you ever visited a place like Chartres Cathedral?Tell me how they built such a structure at that time with horses carts and hammers and chisels How did they work out the mathematics of the Great pyramid its placement etc Most of what we are told about older history is a lie if you really take a deep and critical look at it so to say that this is the safest and easiest time in history is not factual

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Dave's avatar

I knew my grandparents and great grandparents, and they, and people of their generation, demonstrably lived much tougher lives than we do.

Everything required manual labor, and a serious injury or illness could mean death.

You think being a cute contrarian makes you look smart, but in this context, it makes you look foolish.

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Rondi's avatar

I am having a hard time following this thread. Martin, I don't even know what Chartres Cathedral is. I am not Catholic (I am making an assumption here). And what you are referring to is slaves (I believe). How about your own life? Could you live without running water, gas ranges, gas mowers, electricity, restaurants (which really means that someone else is cooking for you). What if you had to hunt for your meat, could you do that? Or even trap a rabbit for supper? What if grocery stores did not exist and you had to get veg and fruit from your own garden? I believe you are not facing the reality that people (at least in America, but maybe you are not American), have a better life than anyone in history, including kings.

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martin's avatar

Sorry Dave you miss my point-your grandparents and great grand parents -I would not argue with that but to make such a sweeping statement as ..in human history.. is nonsense when there is s strong possibility human history is nothing like we have been told by our mainstream historians.

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Moe's avatar

You have a point - what with TPTB trying a million different ways to kill/control us peasants, with far more ways of doing it than at any time in the past. It's actually quite scary.

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Wild Flower 🐝's avatar

Apropo!

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Debbie Leiweke's avatar

It may be easy, and poor people are fat, but eating healthy is expensive. If you do eat keto/carnivore like me there's still many things that cause anxiety/depression for me like, being sprayed with poison like a bug for one 😵‍💫

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Tim Webb - Agent Of Change's avatar

That’s interesting “positioning” from Rogan 🧐

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Interesting orbiting?

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Tim Webb - Agent Of Change's avatar

Meaning?

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