THE LIGHT BULB INITIATIVE

It’s taking some folks longer to come around but I knew they would eventually. This is not a partisan issue this is a sustainability issue. Reality doesn’t care about your political leanings or your world view in general; it is what it is regardless. You can protest it. You can censor it. You can pretend that it’s not there, but in the end reality always wins. After 24 months we all moved from the absurd into the ridiculous. Anyone left still trying to hold onto the 2020 narrative either looks completely detached from the truth or they are exposing themselves as the self serving opportunistic monsters they’ve always been. Man never had the ability to stop a virus. We were always going to have to learn to live with it. What was in our power and what has always separated us as the superior earthbound species is our technology. We knew early that this 🦠 disproportionately affected the chronic diseased, the elderly, and the immunocompromised. Good news, that is a very specific very small part of our global population! We can protect them. We have it within our capacity to allocate enough resources to care for them but, for some inexplicable reason, that’s not what global leadership decided to do at all. Common sense would ask, “why the deviation from historical viral pandemic strategies?” What’s even more eye opening is, “why was anyone who asked the first question censored, defamed, and ridiculed?” Hold on it gets worse. It turns out that all of the 2020 advocates of common sense were completely correct and after 24 months, one by one, people are waking up to the truth, or at least asking questions (which they never did before they just followed obediently), and the truth tellers are still being censored. Understand that this is just the beginning and it’s going to get much much worse before it gets better. Collectively we have chosen to abandon the natural order of things and nature is nothing if not unforgiving. ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/REAL-TIME-WITH-BILL-MAHER_LIVING-WITH-COVID-e1dcq4t

First of all allow me to say that this article offended me deeply. Their narrative is preposterous and is absolutely demeaning to black Americans. They admit that they didn’t even research equal factors across multiple categories and simply found a disparity between white applicants and black applicants and then jumped to the conclusion, as Marx would have, that this disparity is do to discriminatory practices based on race. I realize that Marx attributed disparities to class and not race, but his modern followers interchange race and class based on which is more beneficial to their cause of destroying order. What this research does expose is a fact of life that we are all subject to no matter our race, economics, ideology or political leanings - and that reality of life is; we are all a product of our individual choices. You want to do better then choose better. You want to be better then choose better. Stop blaming others for what you are responsible for and stop waiting for someone to come save you when you are unwilling to save yourself. https://tucson.com/news/national/black-mortgage-applicants-nearly-twice-as-likely-as-whites-to-be-denied-study-says/article_054a8ba8-8962-5f75-b4b8-6c07d58a5d43.html?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/BLACK-MORTGAGE-APPLICANTS-NEARLY-TWICE-AS-LIKELY-AS-WHITES-TO-BE-DENIED--STUDY-SAYS-e1d4b3p

In the last 18 months I’ve seen, and sometimes reviewed, many articles that 5 years ago wouldn’t have made it to publication and the so called journalist authors would have been thrown into a padded cell. But today the mentally ill are granted privileges while the critical thinkers are dehumanized. Although mentally compromised individuals can be found on both sides, (right and left), it is the left that has learned to weaponize these exceptionally confused brothers and sisters for their own purpose - and the purpose of the left is chaos. I hypothesize that this ideology of chaos attracts and seeks out these lost souls. A perfect example of this would be the Joker in The Dark Knight movie. He sought out the mentally ill. He preyed on the mentally ill for no other reason, but their usefulness to his cause. At one point he used a mentally diseased man to blow up the police station facilitating his escape. Of course the man did not survive this, but the Joker, like the left, has no reverence for life, let alone human life. This is how I see the left; they prey on the mentally ill, get them to agree to implant explosives inside their own bodies (figuratively of course) and then they send them to the front lines to rain havoc on their arch enemy - order itself. The fact that the chaos worshiped by the left will destroy them as well is inconsequential. I believe Alfred said it best, "some men just want to watch the world burn." https://www.theblaze.com/news/leftist-writer-abolish-parenthood-for-equity ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/ABOLISH-PARENTHOOD-TO-ACHIEVE-EQUITY-e1d2ltj

I do not understand how punishing the law abiding for the unlawful acts of criminals will curb criminal behavior. Furthermore, taxing the law abiding for protecting themselves from said criminals only places more revenue in the hands of the very leaders that misappropriated the funds they had into policies that didn’t diminish gun violence in the first place. And to add insult to injury, your asking gun owners to carry insurance because gun violence is costing your citizens 442 million a year. Let me get this straight; gun violence is perpetrated by criminals and costing lawful citizens over 400 million a year and your solution is to squeeze even more money out of your citizens? How exactly is this policy going to affect gun violence? Are these leaders that inept or could it be that their personal mission, in spite of what they say, is not protecting their constituents at all. All we need do is look to states with strict gun laws and review how those laws have addressed the underlying problems behind gun violence. I believe the goal is and has always been the disarmament of the American people. Why? Because an armed populace poses a threat to the Democrat’s agenda for centralized power. They do not care how many casualties litter their city streets. They can’t protect you, they don’t want you to protect yourselves, their policies set violent criminals loose upon you, and when your 3 year old is shot in head while sleeping in the back of your car, they tell you the solution isn’t harsher punishment for monsters; the solution is keeping you from lawfully possessing the same level of force that the beast who killed your baby possessed illegally. https://www.theblaze.com/news/san-jose-gun-fee-liability https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/biden-nyc-week-discuss-gun-crime-mayor-adams-82491532?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/SAN-JOSE-CA-DEMANDS-GUN-OWNER-PAY-LIABILITY-INSURANCE-AND-ANNUAL-FEE-e1dhro4

Universal health care sounds like a fairytale because it is, just look at the adverse affects Medicaid and Medicare have had on our health care system. It is socialized medicine, although universal health care sounds a whole lot better, in the end what it is forcing every citizen to do is pay for the choices of another and that will never ever be “equitable”. Somehow the expectation that you take care of you and your family and I take care of me and my family is somehow selfish and lacks compassion, but you forcibly taking what I’ve earned to pay for the care of someone else regardless of the circumstances that placed them in that position, is some how not theft, but humanitarian 😳. Universal health care is just as unconstitutional as universal wage and will only serve to destroy the spirit of America that was forged by brave souls who forged their path with their own two hands. It pleases me that the bill failed do to a lack of support, but know that this will not be the last we hear of it. The authors of this movement fancy themselves pioneers of justice and equity, but in truth they are bandits on the individual citizen’s road to prosperity. https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-universal-healthcare-fails ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/UNIVERSAL-HEALTH-CARE-BILL-FAILS-IN-CALIFORNIA-e1dqll6

Just like with Florida and New York supplying us with a comparison between the 🦠protocols implemented and their resulting data differences; now we will have the opportunity to see the comparison on an international scale between countries. So many prominent global leaders chose which experts they were going to allow a voice and which ones were to be silenced. This shows that science was never a priority. And if science wasn't the priority in a novel global pandemic, then what was? Truth always floats to the top and time has and will continue to reveal who was on the right side of this war on common sense. https://www.theblaze.com/news/denmark-covid-critical-threat-society-pandemic ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/DENMARK-DECLARES--NO-LONGER-A-CRITICAL-THREAT-TO-SOCIETY-e1dj2uv

You can see that there’s something wrong, I’m asking that you not ignore it. You can see that there’s something missing, I’m asking that you not pretend that it is there. You can see that things aren’t quite right, I’m asking that you acknowledge it and fight for it. You can see all of these things because they are not hidden. It is on display for the whole world to see. At this point, if you do not see this, it is because you are either purposely protecting your ignorance or you are a willing agent of chaos. https://www.newsweek.com/robert-lamay-washington-state-trooper-jay-inslee-covid-vaccine-mandate-dies-1674275?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/WHATS-MISSING-HERE-e1dkml1

Minimum wage is yet another cancerous socialist policy that externally perverts the free market negotiation between potential employee and potential employer. Socialism inevitably causes more harm in contradiction to what it sets out to do because it must assume that human beings are inherently evil in order to justify its utility. For example; minimum wage is necessary because without it employers will pay wages below the value of labor provided by their employees. This is not only an unfounded assumption, it is a very bleak outlook on the realities of the human condition. For giggles, let’s say that this is true and people are inherently bad, in that case the “Free Market” strategy would be best, as no matter the character flaw or intention, one still needs to produce and provide value to prosper - generally speaking. Socialism, by contrast, does not require value to be sustained. For this reason alone it incentivizes greed on a much larger scale than you will ever find in free market capitalism and it incentivizes low productivity and meritocracy goes out the window. In spite of the adverse historical impact of socialism people are still advocating for it believing themselves to be righteous. I suppose ignorance truly is bliss. The truth is, even though we humans are infected with the seed of evil, we are inherently good. I ask that you watch a group of young children play together. You will not find malice. You will not find racism. You will not find discrimination. Children, as they grow up, are taught to nurture their seed of evil or cultivate their seed of good based on reinforced values provided in home first and then in their communities. Socialism is ‘miracle grow’ for the seeds of evil and should be abandoned to the halls of history and never allowed to see the light of day ever again. https://www.theblaze.com/furnace/after-getting-slapped-in-the-face-with-reality-following-massive-minimum-wage-hike-a-city-council-finally-gets-its-act-together ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/REALITY-SLAPS-PORTLAND-IN-THE-FACE-FOLLOWING-A-MASSIVE-MINIMUM-WAGE-HIKE-e1cv1q4

The unconstitutionally centralized government creates tragedy and then says, “if you grant us more power we can save you.” First, you created the problem and second, we never needed you to interfere in the first place. They have been refining their rhetoric for hundreds of years using words like, “the greater good” and “fair share”, it’s always unfounded and ridiculous. Adams says that it’s NYC against the killers and that was the most coherent truth I’ve heard him utter since he took office. Yes Mayor Adams it has always been the law abiding against the criminals, but instead of equipping your citizens with the means to protect themselves in the fight you just acknowledged existed; your solution is to ask the government for more help. Help that they’ve historically been unable to give when it comes to drug trafficking, human trafficking, and yes even gun trafficking. I’ve got an idea, how about we mix it up for a change and try a different approach. I know this may seem radical, but how about we actually practice the 2nd amendment as it was intended and stop leaving our citizens helpless. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/22/eric-adams-guns-crackdown-00000024?_amp=true&utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/ADAMS-CALLS-ON-FEDS-TO-CRACKDOWN-ON-GUNS-AFTER-NYPD-OFFICER-KILLED-e1dbf5q

You can always tell whom the elites deem threatening to their agenda by how their controlled media outlets cover a particular person and/or institution. Unfounded accusations are made, edited segments are presented out of context, and hyperbolic language is used to sensational the entire narrative (or lie). It is an act of desperation that exposes their cowardice for all to see. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/politics/robert-f-kennedy-nazi-germany-offensive-anti-vaccine-speech/index.html?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/CNN-SAYS-RFK-JRS-SPEECH-WAS-OFFENSIVE-e1dea7g

When did you realize that there was more going on than what you were being told? When do you begin to notice obviously biased media coverage proliferating throughout our country on repeat? These questions have been on my mind a lot lately and I thought, "hey, I might as well ask it." ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/WHAT-WAS-YOUR-BREAKING-POINT-e1d9bit

Where does one begin when evaluating the worst president in American history? Do you review his disastrous immigration policy that devalues U.S. citizenship and compromises the sovereignty of our borders? Or, do you discuss his treasonous foreign policy that abandoned American nationals to terrorist while at the same time arming said terrorist with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of our own weapons of war? Maybe I begin with his inept self serving domestic policies that continue to cripple our economy, institute inflation the likes to which we haven't seen in decades, and unemployment caused by monetary incentives not to work. I know, I could begin with Joe, the leader of the free world, declaring that it isn't about freedom anymore it's about the greater good - that sounds like communism to me Joe, what's up with that? No, I've got it, I can talk about how the current president of our United States is purposefully dividing our country into vxxx and unvxxx after repeatedly declaring that his main focus was going to be unity. I guess "unity" just means compliance in the authoritarian dictionary. And after we finish discussing his divide and conquer strategy we can discuss his unconstitutional use of force and coercion on the citizens he was hired to advocate for. The only thing Chinatown Joe has accomplished is an all out attack on our American way of life. He is a racist. He is a opportunistic sociopath. He is a mercenary who is up for sale to the highest bidder (China) and he believes that I'm not black because I didn't vote for him, but you did though, didn't you? This is the historically deplorable man you wanted running the show. I didn't vote for him because I knew that this is what he was going to do to my beloved country and I knew because, when he did poke his head out of his basement, he told everyone that this was what he was going to do to my beloved country. You just weren't paying attention and that was by design as well. The goal was to keep us all emotionally charged, confused, and distracted. No one in their right mind would vote for their own destruction, but in the end, that's what all of you did.I'm not sure what's worse; that he accomplished all of this in 1 year or that we have 3 more years of his totalitarian regime. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bidens-report-card-year-accomplishments-stalled-priorities/story?id=82331377&utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/BIDENS-YEAR-ONE-REPORT-CARD-e1d76il

Are we now expected to believe that people of the world and the United States specifically, find centralized power more trustworthy than having power in their own hands? Are we expected to believe that trust in China surpasses trust in America? First of all the autocracies do not allow their subjects a choice - everything within the state and nothing without. This research stands as an absurd propaganda piece for willing subjugation. If you wished to be ruled over be my guest. Go find yourself a dictator to follow, I hear Governor Newsom is holding interviews for new surfs everyday all day, but I will not be joining you as I was born with common sense, courage, and self respect. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/590117-trust-in-democratic-governments-at-record-low-survey?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/AUTOCRACIES-OUTDO-DEMOCRACIES-ON-PUBLIC-TRUST-e1d5pa8

The level of hypocrisy required to be heralded as a hero while at the same time inciting division amongst the saved, is enough to make one’s head explode. Allow me to elevate Dr. F’s confusion; unfortunately you are not the hero of this story you are the villain. Heroes don’t divide our country and then advocate setting one side against the other. Heroes don’t place their needs above the needs of the populace. Heroes don’t lie to protect themselves. Know that we were always going to have to learn to live with this 🦠. These experts, politicians, and institutions are pivoting so hard how are you not questioning everything they sold to you prior to their abrupt turn around? Have you really not been paying attention? Please tell me that you are not as stupid as they expect you to be - as stupid as they need you to be. These people hate you! Dr. F hates you. He is only an expert in taking care of Tony. If it were up to him he’d have all of us on Big Pharma’s 🍼 for the rest of our lives. “A Super Vaccine”! What is he talking about?! Quick question, “why are boosts necessary in the first place if the original product performed as we were told it was going to perform?” Dr. F would is counting on you forgetting that he himself said that the 💉was going to provide immunity. It wasn’t just him either; Dr. Walensky, Mr. Biden, and even the CEO of Pfizer made the same claim. They want you to forget but I got the receipts. They want you in the dark, but I’m turning on the lights. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dr-fauci-covid-us-omicron-b1991252.html?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age/9bhg-hcku https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mVFigo0zmKcKXfCVfzkjo?si=z2B5L-ZZTPeKz2pZmbaiNQ

This stands as yet another manipulative use of power by a prominent figure that is walking in lockstep with the rest of these global elites that have proven, by their actions, are masking self interest with humanitarianism. I don’t see a spiritual leader offering compassionate guidance, I see a person in a position of great power using shame to coerce compliance. Coercion is aggression and aggression is unjustifiable against another human being period. Anyone that uses shame under the guise of leadership, exposes their lack of respect for the individual sovereignty of the people they’re responsible for leading. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/pope-covid-vaccines-health-care-moral-obligation-82175414?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/POPE-ON-VACCINES--SAYS-HEALTH-CARE-A-MORAL-OBLIGATION-e1d1ak2

There are factions within our leadership that legislate as if they were 6 year olds throwing tantrums. In the make believe world of a toddler there are no consequences to actions taken and what they want is what they want when they want it. 6 year olds do not understand cause and effect. Clouds are made of ice cream and when it rains it turns into cool aid. “No little one that is not how the world works.” “But why not”, says the toddler? “Because of reality.” “Well then I don’t like reality if I can’t get what I want”, the toddler screams! “Unfortunately little one, reality doesn’t care about what you want.” The toddler rolls around on the ground kicking and screaming, “that’s not fair that’s not fair that’s not fair!” https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/us/police-officers-line-of-duty-deaths/index.html?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/INTENTIONAL-KILLINGS-OF-LAW-ENFORCEMENT-OFFICERS-REACH-20-YEAR-HIGH--FBI-SAYS-e1d07bd

These ridiculous measures were never going to be sustainable and anyone with common sense could see that. Couple that with the fact that mitigating efficacy of said measures have been proven statistically insignificant. In other words, “we made the cure worse than the disease.” “As long as we can save one life”, well what about the increase in suicide and overdose? This is what happens when ideology is chosen over reality. But one can only run from reality for so long before it comes to collect. Health officials allowing 🦠+ staff to continue working if symptoms are mild sighting staff shortages (“you mean the shortages created by your absurd mandate?”), is yet another example of inescapable reality. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it common practice to go to work if you only had the sniffles? So in spite of this being “the worst pandemic in our history” we are ending up right back were we should have always been - THE REAL 🌎 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-hospitals-letting-infected-staff-members-stay-job-82184760?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

The director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said, and I quote, “the overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities,” adding that, “Really these are people who were unwell to begin with.” Even though she said this to defend the efficacy of the 💉because death is not a mild symptom, this statement coincides with the information on the CDC website under COMORBITITIES AND OTHER CONDITIONS with regards to total US 🦠 fatalities; that for over 5% of deaths 🦠 was the only cause written on the death certificate. For the remaining fatalities, their was an average of 4 additional conditions or causes of death. These numbers for both the 💉, given by the CDC Director and the total fatalities for all US cases, regardless of 💉status, would suggest that Dr. Walensky is correct in her assertion that, and I quote once again, “really these are people who were unwell to begin with”. In light of this statement it is my hope that we can finally begin to discuss what is truly the driving force behind the majority of 🦠fatalities in our country, quell the 🦠alarmism that has paralyzed our way of life, and begin to implement measures to actually save lives, if of course, our main priority is saving human life. UPDATED: 01-11-2022 CASES: 61,886,922 FATALITIES: 839,500 6%: 50,370 94%: 789,130 https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/cdc-director-75-of-covid-deaths-among-vaccinated-had-four-comorbidities/article_40f5d6fe-7266-11ec-a82f-a707e7963183.html?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/CDC-DIRECTOR-75-OF--DEATHS-AMONG--HAD-FOUR-COMORBIDITIES-e1cql88

There is a pattern forming, you just have to open your eyes and pay attention. I'm not asking you to believe anything that I say. What I'm asking you to do is objectively look at all the available data and let truth, not ideology, inform your decisions. There is a concerted effort to withhold, suppress, distract and misinform the populace for the purposes of personal gain. The key phase here is "personal gain". Ask yourself, "who stands to benefit the most? Who has benefited the most? Who is benefiting the most?" It is clear that it isn't the citizens of the United States, it isn't the scientist and doctors countering the prevailing narrative, and it isn't even the global populace - who in some areas are facing draconian measures. Real talk, what in the last 24 months has been made better by any of these measures? There is a minority of evil sociopathic individuals that want us trapped on their plantation where they feel we belong. And it doesn't matter that it's built back better, a plantation is still a plantation. ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/AOC-RECOVERING-AT-HOME-AFTER-TESTING-POSITIVE-e1cp246 https://people.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tests-positive-covid-19-coronavirus/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

The specific guideline that the algorithm, not a real person, claimed I made was: “Claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO)” Of course what was said specifically within my content by me was not provided. I have submitted an appeal of which I am 2 for 3 in the win column, so we will see. Either way I will be more careful moving forward (speaking in code) so that I can get all of the information out there not just the information they’ve decided is credible. That practice, by definition, is misinformation on the part of YouTube. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785

In spite of what’s most probable I always leave a bit of room for hope. I say this to acknowledge that I was hopeful that the Supreme Court would perform their duty in protecting the rights of the American citizen, but unfortunately, I was incorrect. This hearing has confirmed my hypothesis that all three branches of our once great nation have been compromised without exception. The desires of the few have overwritten the inalienable rights of the many. The only way through this storm of tyranny is for the many to seize what is theirs by the right of birth. That is not to suggest that we stop litigating, protesting, and voting; what I’m saying is that if you are not standing your ground in conjunction with the above tactics - we will lose far more than we win. I believe this is the reason those who love themselves more than their country, stole power in the first place. They say for evil to prosper all that’s required is for good men and women to do nothing. If this were ever in question, I say the last 24 months have dispelled all doubt. I am standing my ground. Whether you join me our not, I am standing my ground. The dark shadow that is overtaking this world is not world I wish my children to endure. I have to fight for them. This shadow calls for us to abandon truth, abandon liberty, abandon reality - and call the resulting dark a utopia. If by utopia you mean confusion, debauchery, lies, violence and chaos, then yes it will be a utopia; a utopia of flame and no one will go unburnt. I am a man. As such I was born to protect and provide. How can I continue to call myself a man if standing before the shadow I am too afraid to shine. https://www.ksl.com/article/50323838/supreme-court-skeptical-of-bidens-workplace-vaccine-rule ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/OUR-JUDICIAL-BRANCH-IS-COMPROMISED-e1cm7ag

The last 24 months has tested our civilization like no other time in my 46 years. Throughout the course of human history, unimaginable brutality has been present on every continent populated by man - now it is our turn. What will we do? Will we rise to the challenge as our ancestors did (made evident by the fact that we are all still here) or will we allow this to end us? I for one believe in us. I believe in our capacity for good. How can I not? Where once there were men enslaved, I witnessed their children lead the country that once denied their father’s were men at all. We are better today than we were yesterday and we accomplished this together. We are being tested and this final exam will unite the righteous. There will always be monsters in the dark and the useful idiots that aid them in their devouring of all that is good. But as many monsters as there are hiding under our beds and in our closets - they will always be exponentially outnumbered by the warriors at the gate. Those strong enough to stand their ground in the face of hurled stones are not defiant, they’re principled. The irony is that it was the monsters that divided the country, weaponized one side against the other, and then provided the stones. All the while those with calloused hands from gripping the rocks tightly have fallen so deep under the monster’s spell that they celebrate every bruised body they help to create. Even so I still believe. The warriors at the gate have not faltered and their numbers grow with every stone thrown. Our bodies may be bruised, but we are unbroken and we are still standing. ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/THE-SILVER-LINING-e1cjl6e

Cuomo’s defense attorney said, and I quote, “I was told that after a thorough investigation — as we have said all along — there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken.” The most significant part of that statement is “no evidence that laws were broken”. It was a policy coming from his admin that facilitated the death of thousands, of course no actual law was broken, but that’s a technicality do to the workings of our government. When considering the government, and the power it holds, the question is one of accountability. To say that former Governor Cuomo broke no laws is disingenuous at best. Once again the question is - is he responsible? From implementing a policy placing the most vulnerable at risk at a time when we had confirmation on what that meant to refusing to pivot once the bodies began to pile up and then purposefully misrepresenting the numbers once his ineptitude was exposed - suggests to me that not only is he responsible, but he is aware of his culpability and doesn’t care. https://www.theblaze.com/news/nursing-home-deaths-andrew-cuomo https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/no-charges-for-cuomo-admin-after-manhattan-da-closes-nursing-home-probe-spox/3476973/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/NO-CHARGES-FOR-THE-FORMER-NY-GOVERNOR-CUOMO-e1cgrfl

If you come upon a thirsty person hanging from a ledge and you give them a sip of water and keep walking, you didn't help them at all. ON PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/lightbulbinitiative/episodes/KEEP-IT-IN-PERSPECTIVE-HELPING-THE-BLACK-COMMUNITY-e1ci4rp

Riot: a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd. Insurrection: a violent uprising against an authority or government. Time: * 2020 Riots: Over 100 days * Jan 6 Riot: 1 day Damage: * 2020 Riots: 2 billion
 * Jan 6 Riot: 1.5 to 2.5 million
 Fatality: * 2020 Riots: 47
 * Jan 6 Riot: 5 but only 1 on site - unarmed and killed by an agent of the state. 
 Law Enforcement injuries: * 2020 Riots: over 2000 in first few weeks
 * Jan 6 Riot: 140
 Arrests: * 2020 Riots: 10,000 in first 5 days following Mr. Floyd’s death - charges dismissed, bailed out by entertainers and politicians including Kamala Harris among others.
 * Jan 6 Riot: over 500 - held without bail, some in solitary confinement
 Lasting damage * 2020 Riots: thousands of businesses lost, economy crippled for decades to come
 * Jan 6 Riot: back in session the same day