[ExI] etymology of just a piece of paper

[John Clark]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 3:14 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


>>>…So vote for candidates who promote freedom.
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*>>…I do. You don't.  *
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> *> John this is a puzzling comment coming from one who openly opposes
> TwitterX,*
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*I'm not saying people shouldn't be free to use TwitterX, I'm saying it
would not be wise to use TwitterX for anything other than light
entertainment. Very light.   *

* > which is the world’s medium for free speech. *
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*So is the wall of a stall in a public bathroom, and both are full of shit;
a good example of that would be the following.*

*> TwitterX is our friend.  Without it, we likely would not know of today’s
> bombshell revelation, which we are learning for the first time today:*
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*Bombshell? More like a wet firecracker. What did you expect? Never in the
history of the US has a major new drug vaccine or medical procedure been
approved without somebody talking about hypothetical negative side
effects. *


*> This leads to an obvious question: Why are we just now hearing of this? *
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*Because there was nothing new in it and something needs to be new and or
unusual for it to be considered news. That's the reason why neither CNN nor
Fox interrupts their programming with special reports saying that a fully
loaded 747 landed perfectly safely at Heathrow airport after encountering
no problems whatsoever.  *



> *> 27 May 2021 was over five years ago.*
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*Yes, we know a lot more about Covid and the vaccine than we did five years
ago so today it's even clearer than it was then that the risk of taking the
Covid vaccine is tiny compared to the HUGE risk of not taking the Covid
vaccine.*

*Now here is something that was only posted 20 hours ago that may or may
not turn out to be a bombshell, it will take time to know if it is but it
won't take five years.  *


*People vaccinated with the mRNA Covid vaccine that had melanoma, lung or
brain cancer live twice as long as the unvaccinated
<https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-vaccine-mrna-cancer-survival>*


*John K Clark*
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