40 Comments
Mar 16, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Don... A truly touching review of the state of dysfunction that we live with. It IS getting worse - and, rapidly. I try to be optimistic that total collapse will bring a new beginning and the next iteration of Humanity will be better. ...But, oh, the pain on the way to the far side! None of this is your fault and you did the best anyone could possibly do with a difficult situation and a disintegrating society. No guilt. No shame. Regrets, yes, but you did well! Peace and Hope!

Expand full comment

Donald, I must thank you for sharing your personal feelings. We are of one mind. Also, I can truly empathize with your frustrations in dealing with people who are lazy and unmotivated, and who have absolutely compassion for others. Unfortunately, this is the world we live in.

I was born in 1949. In the 1950's, we did not lock our doors and children made up stuff with other kids to entertain themselves. The were no video games to hypnotize and make us obese couch potato fantasy obsessed losers. There was Gunsmoke and Highway Patrol on tv and the good guys always won and were great role models. We played lots of unorganized baseball and hiking through the woods that was always fun and safe and didn’t need any intricate planning or organization. Most of the fathers, like mine were vets from WWII and were made of something entirely different than what the men of today are made of including me. If we had to fight WWII using the people of today as soldiers to protect the US, we would now be speaking German or Japanese. I believe the 50's were the best to me.

Expand full comment
Mar 16, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Never apologise to and of and why your are writing. Scrolling down is always an option or just leaving your site. This is your site, fill it with whatever.

Even if it is hard to read as sad things mostly are for me I am so sorry for your loss of your brother Ricky. He must have been a wonderful person with his own character that you sometimes less admired him for. That is a part of life that we all walk. Do not linger in the things you did not do, stay in thought with the goofy stuff you did do.

You loved him and you love him, that travels far.

Many thoughts to you in this difficult moment and in this shitty of times. It will get better, on that I am certain.

♥️♥️

Expand full comment
Mar 16, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Donald, thank you for sharing with us what youre going through, and this process.......... Totally feel for you.

Expand full comment
Mar 16, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

I am so moved by your raw, honest emotion. I am sincerely sorry for the loss of your brother and all the encounters since then that are making it more difficult. God Bless

Expand full comment
Mar 16, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Donald, I'm sure most of your subscribers, myself included, are in your corner. Thanks for sharing this sad reality with us. Truly sorry for the loss of your brother and the loss of competent, considerate customer care on so many levels, in so many areas!

Expand full comment

Nearly every counselor I know is an emotional basket case. They could never help where help is actually needed. I think that having someone simply listen is very helpful. I'd be glad to listen, if you'd like.

Expand full comment
Mar 16, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Very sad with what you have had to deal with Don😥. I can really understand your frustration, anger. etc. in a situation like that. You have done extremely well to do what you have done for your family. Let's hope in the not too distant future our world will be blessed with more love, more peace and more joy.

Expand full comment
Mar 17, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Don, I am truly sorry for what your brother had to endure at the hands of the medical bureaucracy and now you with the government idiocracy. You were there for your brother, even though at times you probably did feel like banging your head against the wall. But he knew you loved him. And God knows. I'll be praying for you.

Expand full comment
Mar 16, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

I guess we really can't complain about Social Security. After all, they gave us a 5.9% increase even though inflation is running at 8-10% and they only took about $22 out of that for medicare. And besides, if you calculate what the raises for inflation should have been since 2000, they are only about 30% behind. No worries...it is only a matter of time before this entire socialist system collapses. Thanks for the heads up. As the government becomes ever larger, they become much less effective, if they ever were.

Expand full comment
Mar 21, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Please, don't apologize, it is part of sharing our humanity. For me it got me angry at first, realising that it's the same here (Aus) with the "social services" has always been like that, as if only the most stupid, uncaring, unkind and indolent qualify to work there. All other "services"? It the same, more time than not it just leaves you wondering how those people even gained employment. But because it is so ubiquitous it kind of becomes reality, like this is how it is now, implying how it is supposed to be. I've observed that it is older folks like myself still reacting to it, with younger ones just accepting it. I guess they're probably are like that themselves. Some at least.

So I think it is in part at least, process of de-humanazing and de-moralizing, like in small steps but, it's getting there. Loss of overall kindness and tolerance and such. Got me thinking about my own "exit" and how I could reduce the burden of it on my sons. Thank you for sharing your feelings however painful. My thoughts and best wishes to you Don.

Expand full comment

Hi Donald,

In the off chance you read comments on older posts I would like to share similarities with you.

I would also like to take the opportunity to thank you for speaking the truth as you see it. My family, what's remaining probably classify me as a 'conspiracy theorist'. A term implemented by the CIA to discredit exposure of their corruption along with other nefarious reasons.

I also thought that I was one of the few who see the medical establishment for what they are. "Frauds".

The following I wrote to a month or so ago on the same topic and I feel it's part of the ongoing discussion.

First off I would like to thank you for spreading your light, especially concerning the pitfalls of the allopathic medical industry along with the Psychiatry industry.

I see them, Psychiatry, as one of the same because they promote the use of drugs that are by-products of the petroleum industry for treatments for almost all disorders.

Besides my personal interactions, which have been few as I've been blessed with great health for my entire life (64), I started my own research (late 80's) into the Psychiatric industry when a few government appointed doctors started diagnosing my younger brother with schizophrenia along with manic depression (now called bipolar) after only a few relatively short interviews with him. Well needless to say they proceeded to prescribe a drug regimen for his remaining days with Prozac being the most prevalent and detrimental. From there I started down the rabbit hole of so-called miracle treatments from the aforementioned organizations. At first, being naïve I trusted them because my own mother was a highly respected RN in our community and even taught at the local college, I wanted to help him in any way I could by possibly supplementing the treatments along with moral support. I bought many books all written from accredited Dr.'s and only much later found out how biased the material was. Well soon I found that it was a short road and felt I had nowhere to turn and accept all that was being presented. Remember we didn't have the internet so medical research was somewhat limited. My brother passed away in 1994 and I had more questions than answers.

Moving on to the 90's, my sister was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, is when I came to learn about the evils in western medicine.

Please understand that I don't categorize most people as evil as I believe they all had noble intentions to go into their respective profession but were, and still are, corrupted by one of the most influential criminal orgs being our healthcare system.

I started researching possible causes in the early days of the internet and found one of the links to the affliction which is possibly neurotoxins. That led me to aspartame. And from there I started reading about the criminal aspects of the FDA along with major corporations like Monsanto and how the players from both sides of the aisle are the same team.

(1)Since aspartame was first approved in 1974, both FDA scientists and independent scientists have raised concerns about possible health effects and shortcomings in the science submitted to the FDA by the manufacturer, G.D. Searle. (Monsanto bought Searle in 1984).

My sister has had diminishing health to the point of mostly bedridden about 6 years ago to placement, much to my dismay, in a nursing home in the past year as my brother-in-law couldn't provide the 24/7 care she now needs within the medical institution.

(1) https://usrtk.org/sweeteners/aspartame_health_risks/#history

Also in the past year my older brother chose bypass heart surgery over fruit and vegetables because, science, the doctor recommended it. I bought him a copy of Dr. Esselstyne's book,

How to stop and reverse heart disease. May not be the exact title but I read it 7 years ago and it changed my lifestyle.

Also I think it would be wise to investigate the introduction of polio on the human species in correlation with chemicals released on populations such as DDT. (2)

An update to the story, my sister sadly passed away eight days ago.

God bless you and your family Donald

Expand full comment
Mar 17, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Your brother's medicide is a tragic yet a classic case of how medical mistakes are now the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. It is an even a higher rate once you factor in the legally prescribed pharma protocols that kill many softly and slowly, but are not considered "mistakes". Sugar, alcohol and tobacco all get a free ride in this realm.

After the settlement process, many of us end will end up envying those who have passed on!

I am confident that in our next existence we will not have to deal with unintelligent, uncaring bureaucrats. For now however, we can take solace in that fact that the bot on the other end of the phone really has a pleasant voice...

Expand full comment
Mar 17, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Don... Stand strong! We need your voice. R.

Expand full comment
Mar 17, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

Most big companies and all government agencies do not have and do not want competent, intelligent people any more. The stuff that is routine and runs on autopilot via computers tends to work fine as long as no sand gets in the gears. When that happens and you must contact them, good luck finding somebody that can help you. The people you talk to may even want to help you and may even be caring and intelligent, but they do not have the resources, training, authority, or access to their company's systems to actually do anything.

This is all by design. I don't pretend to know why, but you hear things about cost savings and whatnot that don't really add up. These same organizations keep adding more and more staff to do less and less work so it's hard to buy that. I'm retired from an engineering section of a very large utility. When I started in 1985, even the smallest communities had a one-person office with competent employees giving professional, personal service to their customers. When I retired, customer interactions were all online or maybe a kiosk. Not even large cities have a place for customers to talk face-to-face to someone. Trying to accomplish anything other than just paying your bill is like getting teeth pulled, yet the head count is far higher than when I started and the IT investments have been in the tens of millions.

This is what I see almost everywhere now. In a lot of ways, the opposite of progress.

Expand full comment
Mar 17, 2022Liked by Donald Jeffries

very very sad and thank you for sharing your pain with us. If as above so below holds true, the level of incompetance, corruption and sheer stupidity by our free world leaders has infected the populous. Nothing gets done right anymore.

Expand full comment