Chuck

Architect/Engineer/Tinkerer

Built my own home.
DIY everything.
On a homesteading quest.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Why is the food most likely to make you sick also the cheapest on the shelf?
It is not an accident, and it is not the free market.
It traces to a farm policy set in the 1970s, summed up in four words from a Secretary of Agriculture: "get big or get out." 🧵

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.

46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Jeff Bezos on NYC spending:

"If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."

[Chuck @Amish_Energy]

@ElofsonJess They're dumber than hell. And obscenely annoying. On the upside they taste good and butcher out 3-4 lbs.

[Chuck @Amish_Energy]

@ZubyMusic First few Christmas make that abundantly clear. Box forts and other contraptions get used for months. Toys hardly get touched.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived.

He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent.

He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine.

Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report.

The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs.

Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug.

The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller.

By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific.

This is the system that exists today.

The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured.

The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity.

The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead.

Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop.

The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed.

The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries.

It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it.

You are the customer.

The corridor is where you live.

[Chuck @Amish_Energy]

@OldHollowTree Slacker.

[Chuck @Amish_Energy]

@Tradermayne T-rex arms

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

@vonderleyen Don't forget the 3 hour lunch

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Rep. Tim Burchett calls to hang all child predators.

[Chuck @Amish_Energy]

@X9_redux Cattle panel roof with cross braced ratchet straps is great way to build a cheap roof. Just make a shelf with 2*4 on 2*6 to hold the panel bases.

[Chuck @Amish_Energy]

@Oilfield_Rando All of them, don't be a muppet.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

This is the best video on X right now.

Nothing else even comes close.

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

Pam Bondi, the Epstein files, “aliens are real”… and what’s that other guy’s name again?

[kevin smith @kevin_smith45]

You ever think the reason food is so expensive

Is because like 50 million people are getting it for free

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Time for a dose of political Narcam

At some point there is going to be a reckoning with the truth. It’s time for us to stop being the batteries for the machine that is the Epstein class.

We need to understand that we are the fuel for their corruption and abuse. It’s our tax dollars that are paying for it all, while they laugh at us behind our back.

The pitchforks should already be out, so you have to ask yourself why they aren’t. It’s because we’re not prepared to reach for them yet. So what does that say about us? We can’t even stop spending despite knowing that it would be the answer to stop this tyranny.

It’s time to pause and ask the question, ‘What do we want?’ If we want it to end we can make it happen in a month, yet here we are. It’s time for a splash of ice cold water on the face.

It’s our aversion to inconvenience that has allowed them to rape and pillage society in order to satisfy their greed, and we are the ones saying thank you as we stand in ordered lines to enter their extortion chamber.

Great piece once again from @thematthewcooke

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/92diphFa0n

[The Artist known as Jess @ElofsonJess]

Pam Bondi should be fired and investigated
Kash Patel should be fired and investigated
The American people are done with bullshit and the coverups and the lies
heads on spikes
one way or another America will have the truth and we will have justice
Good luck
Long Live The Republic

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

That's like saying the Justice system only works if the Criminals stay in power 🤔

[Truth Troll Official™️ @truthtroll_X]

Psychologist:
“Why did you pick that one (young girl) and…why did you select that person?”

Offender:
“No I waited and I watched, I tried to find the happiest kid so that I could steal her soul…”

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

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