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Narcotics

by Medron Pryde on July 18, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I was on narcotics for a month many years ago. Some guy pulled in front of my motorcycle and I broke five ribs. I was wearing a helmet and leather jacket so I didn’t become road pizza, but I still broke five ribs and that is painful. So my doctors prescribed me narcotics for the pain. The first result was that I could not drive for a month. The result I didn’t notice at the time was that I lost the ability to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. Long form writing was impossible. I couldn’t hold a thought together for that.

The really weird thing happened at the end. I’d been working to get myself off them by not taking them over the weekends. But I still needed them when I went to work. And as the workweeks went on, I needed them more than I did earlier in the week. By the time the last Friday came along, I was basically mainlining all my painkillers on the dotted line for recommended times and doses. And I was still looking for more relief. I still hurt. But my narcotics had this little line in the prescription. If taking 1 is not enough, take 2.

So on that last Friday morning, as the pain was not going away, I took 2. I remember the cloud descending. The cloud is a common way it is described by people who get off narcotics again. It’s this thing that slips between you and the world. I described it as being one step removed from the world and looking in. I told my mom what it felt like, and she said that she didn’t want me taking them anymore. I said neither do I.

And so I didn’t take them that weekend. And that hard pain never came back, so I didn’t take them again. And in a few days, I started to be able to think again. To hold long-term thoughts. To be able to write. I value my ability to think too much to ever want to go on them again. Because I really wasn’t myself while on them. And that is another thing people who have gotten off narcotics say. Narcotics change how we think. Make us something else than we really are. Beware of them.

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The Epstein List

by Medron Pryde on July 17, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Epstein List is not a single document with a list of the people who did bad things with Epstein. It is a collection of documents and files used in the various trials and investigations from New York to the FBI headquarters and beyond. And based on the actions and words of those in Washington DC, something about those files has changed in the last few months.

I think either Trump or someone close to Trump is in those documents now. To be clear, he has always been in the documents. He was a rich guy in New York and Epstein was a rich guy in New York. They went to the same parties, and Trump took flights on Epstein’s jet. A lot of people did that back in the day. Less did as news of the Epstein Island started leaking out, but back in the old days, he was just another rich guy who had a jet that people flew on from time to time. And it’s well known that Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because Epstein got handsy with young girls.

But based on the way people in Washington are acting, something about how Trump or someone close to him is in those documents has changed in the last few months. Firstly, if there was any damning evidence in those documents before the election, Biden’s people would have used it against Trump to stop him from winning the election. And Trump answered question after question about releasing the list with a yes back before the election. So he fully believed there was nothing in it that could hurt him back then. But now Trump is doing everything he can to call it something like the Russia Hoax, a Democrat Party dirty trick, and his inner circle that used to call for publishing it isn’t anymore. While the Democrats that used to say it shouldn’t be released because it might unfairly incriminate innocent people are now loudly calling for its release.

That tells me something was inserted into the Epstein documents after Trump won the election but before Trump became President that will hurt Trump in some way upon release. We know the Obama administration sabotaged Trump’s first administration after that election, and the Biden administration did the same to the second Trump administration.

And they seem to have told key Democrats whatever they did here. I very much expect whatever it is to be leaked in the coming days, weeks, or months. Whenever the Democrats think they can milk it for the most advantage. Assuming I’m reading the tea leaves correctly of course.

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Success or Failure?

by Medron Pryde on July 16, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Does this sound like a success or a failure? Say your team does something. After you do the thing, the people in charge get promotions and the people they were in charge of get from a week to a month worth of suspensions. Would you say that the people in charge succeeded at something while the others failed at something? Or would the whole project be considered a success or failure? Maybe it succeeded partially, but not all the way? Maybe it succeeded but some people didn’t like it? What do you think?

Now that you’ve thought about it, consider this. This is exactly what happened to the Secret Service agents who were guarding Trump the day he and multiple others were shot at Butler. And a firefighter was killed. So… was that day a success or a failure according to those in charge? To know that, we need to know what they were supposed to do. So… what were they supposed to do? Why did the people in charge get promotions? Why did the others get slaps on the wrists?

Was it a success, a failure, or something else?

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Marijuana Grow Houses

by Medron Pryde on July 15, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Marijuana grow houses are not good for a neighborhood. Especially the illegal ones manned by illegal aliens. And with 20 millions illegal aliens smuggled in over the last four years, there are a lot of illegal aliens to man them. California. Oregon. Colorado. Maine. Wherever they are.

The grow houses ICE has been kicking into in California are an example of this and worse. Because they also have children working in them. Actual younger-than-teenager children. The three hundred thousand kids that crossed the border and disappeared? These are the kinds of places we can rescue them from if we just keep looking for them. Or we can leave them to keep doing that or worse.

They aren’t picking strawberries here. It’s marijuana. Think about it.

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Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself?

by Medron Pryde on July 14, 2025 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself has been a meme since the day he didn’t kill himself. Based on all the information we had, we knew he was an intelligence asset of someone who arranged for underage girls to be transported for the sexual gratification of both himself and others. All of this information came from Department of Justice documents or people. We knew all this.

The Right has been calling to release the Epstein List for years, because we wanted to know who was dicking around with little kids. The Left has been largely yawning at the whole affair. The Right knows the Left’s best allies dick around with little kids so it made sense to us on the Right that they didn’t follow it. Now the Department of Justice tells us through a leaked memo that there is nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. And the Trump administration is trying to walk away from the whole thing.

Which leaves all of us wondering what the heck is going on. Is the information that came out before a lie? Or is this new information a lie? Is the real truth some combination of it all? We don’t know, and that is causing everybody to get pissy. Either there’s no evidence of anything, or there is. Which is it? Was Epstein just a pedo with no coconspirators? If so, what about the court filings saying he was? Was Epstein an intelligence asset? And if so, who did he belong to? And is there a ring of pedos linked to Epstein that is being covered up right now?

All the information we had before, based on court filings and named sources, suggests there is. Why does this new information say otherwise? There’s too much conflicting information right now, and I don’t think the Right is going to just shut up and take it, just because the government is doing its best to say there is no story and move along. The Right doesn’t move along very well after they’ve sunk their teeth into something.

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