Yes. I am.

That’s the answer.

The question (asked on X by a podcaster and conveyed to me by Bill St. Clair) was, “Is Claire Wolfe still alive?”

Bill told the inquirer that I was not only alive but still operating and posting on The Living Freedom Forums. Then he politely suggested to me that I should inform the wider world.

So here’s “proof of life,” as Bill put it, and I hope to remain among the living for a long time to come. Since I’m here to announce the (hopefully) welcome news, I’ll take the opportunity to ramble a bit.

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The “Is so-and-so still alive?” question seems to haunt the freedomista Internet. How many times have you wondered that about somebody? Maybe someone who used to be a prolific blogger. Maybe a friend-you-never met from an old forum. Suddenly you notice they’re gone. And you worry and wonder, but what can you do? DuckDuckGo may give you an answer — but more than likely not, especially if it’s someone who posted under a pseudonym.

We found out MamaLiberty was dead because she planned her death and people who knew put the word out. Dear Capn Gooch (a long-time Commentariat member and forum participant who also used to send me delicious Texas apricot-pecan cakes) we learned about only because another freedomista happened to stumble upon his local obituary.

But how many more have we silently lost, and how many more are out there enjoying their lives, happily out of the news-of-the-weird (and isn’t it all pretty weird these days?) spotlight? If you’re one of the latter, please comment on this post and let us know.

Strange, strange world we live in.

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I guess when I announced the end of blogging back in April 2022 quite a few readers thought I’d be right back. I’ve done that before. And I did say I might pop in now and then.

But I confess I’ve barely had the urge at all. Oh, I’m still watching as the world goes insane and The West collapses. My love “Rhett” and I ponder the signs, good and ill and just plain mystifying. To wit:

Is WWIII upon us? Is the tide really going to turn so that DEI and associated wokeness DIES? Will the damn warmongering neocons ever, ever give up their malign fantasies of world domination through US military might (which no longer exists and hasn’t done us much good through decades of strange wars)? Has the equally malign Davos crowd finally rendered itself irrelevant? How many “died suddenly” headlines and damning releases of hidden data will it take before certain movers-and-shakers will be sent a la lanterne?

Is some degree of sanity returning in the matter of sexually mutilating troubled adolescents? Will attempts to regain free speech triumph? Did the recent global deep freeze finally unveil the folly of relying on misnamed “clean energy”? Will the latest disaster finally prompt Boeing to stop bean-counting and DEIing to return to making sound airplanes? Will the FAA be halted in its plans to put mental incompetents, schizophrenics, and murderous psychopaths seeking large numbers and large headlines in charge of air traffic control?

Do the neocons of both parties really think we’ll all magically rally ’round war-mongering Nikki Haley if they spend enough money on her and promote her as the next … um, Jed Bush? Do MAGA supporters, though their hearts are in the right place, really believe that Trump can save us from disastrous decay? Does anyone actually believe Biden isn’t a pervy, belligerent, never-competent, always-corrupt, now-senile puppet?

Rhett and I spend hours a day reading the entrails, trying to learn our fate and the fate of freedom and life. But write about it? Not even a hint of a flicker of a shadow of an urge.

Why? Because I preached my main messages to the choir long, long ago and I got tired of repeating myself. But also because there are now lots of people saying and writing good things that only a handful of us were saying 10 or 20 years ago. And now, thanks to Substack a fabulous number of former mainstream stars (Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, etc.) and former unheard nobodies are having their say for freedom and sanity — eloquently, effectively, and encouragingly.

Weiss has even created a mini media empire that’s drawn in whistleblowers, political humorists, poets, other former mainstream stars, and reporters on the ground in world hot-spots — and encouraged civil discourse among differing voices at the same time. Impressive!

Who needs me, these days? Only Rhett and Trixie, I’m happy to say.

Yeah, sometimes it’s a little odd no longer being “THE Claire Wolfe.” But then, it was always more than a little odd for this happy hermit to be semi-hemi-demi-quasi-pseudo famous in the first place (I was SO glad when the marriage proposals from random strangers and the demands for me to lead the next American Revolution stopped coming in). So my new status in the “Is so-and-so still alive?” category is a fine tradeoff.

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Well, there was one thing I almost wrote about lately, and that I can note in a few sentences (although I would have done it in a whole lot of sentences with dozens of links):

Be of good cheer. Our would-be world-dominators are, above all, WEAK. They may have billions, even trillions, of dollars (and euros) to play with. They may have schemes that make movie supervillains look like gnats by comparison. They may control (or think they control) vast militaries and vast surveillance, psy-ops, murder, and incarceration operations. They may love to think of themselves as the Masters of the Universe.

But personally, they are SO SCARED. They tremble in their fashionable jackboots at the very thought of US. They peer out their heavily fortified windows every day as millions of ordinary folk — We the Deplorables, We the Bitter Clingers, We the Neanderthals, We the Bug-Eaters-and-Serfs-of-Their-Neo-Medieval-Future — perceive and resist the edifice of control they’ve been trying to build. The civilization they’re trying to destroy shows unanticipated (by them) signs of durability while their own castles in the sky crumble.

Isn’t that grand?