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Why are they calling the wrangling for speaker dysfunctional? Government is supposed to be a hot mess of debating and demanding and compromising! I am loving this sense of actually waking up!! Read the stories from early days in the country - you’d have duels, fist fights, etc. British Parliament used to be crazy raucous. When they’re rowdy, they’re alive and are doing their dang job. I LOVE it!

Also, we need more Hillsdale-style schools!!! Go Florida!

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Whenever I read news of a self-righteous jabs taker who is previously on record scolding or hating on people like me, and then dies suddenly, I try and try and try to not listen to that evil little self-satisfied voice that pops into my head saying 'serves 'em right.' But it gets in. Just a little. And I feel shame for my lack of empathy. Just a little.

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Well, it’s hard to know how all the concessions will actually play out... will McCarthy keep his word.

That said, it’s kind of nice, after reading about the vigorously heated debates in the colonial House of Burgesses (Virginia, Patrick Henry and company) and the Continental Congresses (someone sent to summon a key supporter for declaring independence, who raced in on horseback muddy and wet from his all night ride, I am sorry I can’t remember the names, but Jenny Cote will, if she reads this), it’s nice to see some vigor and manliness coming from some of our elected representatives. No offense to the women who also held the line.

We need exactly more of this. Stand firm on principle. Debate. Real change. Although capping 2024 spending at 2022 level is not really the change we want to see. Can’t they repeal some of the loathsome omnibus? And what happened to the concession limiting bills to only one subject/bill? THAT definitely needs to happen.

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Ramos isn’t a β€œreal” trans woman. HAHA! No one is! Way to go, Rene.

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"............ a lot of trans activists who are outraged and appalled and insist that Ramos isn’t a β€œreal” trans woman."

a " REAL Trans Woman " ............... now THERE'S an oxymoron if ever I've seen one.

(almost as comical as a "safe and effective" covid 19 'vaccine'. ALMOST.)

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Not one of the "concessions" will ever be honored or carried out. Cap spending levels in 2024 at 2022 levels? LMAO on that one. Together, the leftist dems and mccarthy's RINOs will continue to send the country spinning out of control on a long slide into the abyss. Nothing has changed in the DC Swamp.

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Twitter blew up with Ivermectin trending hard. Here's a compilation:

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ivermectin-is-trending-1/

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Some really great news, at last. Thank you, Jeff Childers! Matt Gaetz should be next Speaker, but since only one person has to request it now, he could take over sooner rather than later! At any rate, the concessions are a great step in the right direction and may help right our leaky American ship.

Attorney Tom Renz 1/7/23 reveals some bombshells in his Substack titled "BOMBSHELL: The DoD Made COVID & the Damar Hamlin Story Plus the BioWeapon Vaccines | 'Died Suddenly' Is Going To Be With Us For A Long Time": https://tomrenz.substack.com/p/bombshell-the-dod-made-covid-and

Finally, Thursday 1/5/23, The Highwire's "EPISODE 301: PANDEMICOLOGY" covered U.S. Turning Away from Shots; NFL Safety Collapses; Twitter Files Update; ICAN Lead Attorney Deposes Godmother of Vaccines, Gets Shocking Admission; The Coming Famine W/ War Correspondent; The Greater Reset with Guests: Peter McCullough, MD, MPH, Michael Yon, Derrick Broze:

https://thehighwire.com/videos/episode-301-pandemicology/

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Remember those COVID-19 death counters that ran on all of the major cable news networks 24/7? Imagine if they replaced those with #VaccineDeath counters.

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I was very interested in the New College news. Way back in the 80's I was interested in going there since it was near my family home. However, even then, it was very liberal. It was a hippie environment in a preppy world. A professor there told me she did not believe in homework - and that was 40 years ago! I quickly moved to a less liberal private college in Central Florida. These folks will need to do an entire overhaul of the college, as it has only gotten worse. I think once they are able to do that the student population will come, just as the professors are already applying.

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I, for one, am proud of the Republican Party for what occurred. Disagreement and debating should be acceptable in our country. The alternative of the Democratic Party is agree and comply or you’ll be cancelled, smeared or even worse.

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Good for DeSantis re: Reedy Creek. Disney is the example, if he backs down then he'd be done. Every day I'm amazed how DeSantis follows through with what he says.

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πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ˜„πŸ˜„ High 5 and kudos to you, Jeff! You outdid yourself today. Wow! "It could have been worse" and the taco bell chalupo reference are only 2 of the great items in today's blog. I grinned the entire time reading this, twice. I know I will be rereading again. Your pen was sharp and very witting today. Always a good read but today was superb! 🀩

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Regarding moms,

(1) declaring oneself female doesn’t make one female, so of course it doesn’t make one automatically a mother. Of course, we all know that.

(2) don’t for a minute pretend that a dad (male) can fill with equal finesse and grace the role that a mom (female) fills in the life of a child, anymore than I as a mom can fill the role my husband fills in the life of our kiddo. Two distinct and vitally important, God-created roles. We still laugh that when our kiddo was about five months old and began to say β€œdada,” kiddo still called for MAAAAMAAAA when there was a need for food, comfort, or just being held. The pattern remains even now, many years later. πŸ˜†

And I will happily ask my husband to speak to kiddo when kiddo is just not listening to mom, needs a dad’s convincing that no, x, y,or a really is not a good idea, or wants to talk about guns and knives and cars. I can listen. But I just don’t care as much as my husband. πŸ˜€

One of the reasons that divorce is so disruptive is because it disrupts the kids’ opportunities to have both mom and dad together in the same household. And yes, I fully recognize that divorce is sometimes an unwelcome and unwanted necessity, so no need to go there.

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You got me all excited when I read a Democrat called the $1.7T bill bad for our children and grandchildren. I thought, HALLELUJAH, a Dem seeing the HUGE issue of National Debt, again, as the Dems once did decades ago...

Then the let down: she's a Freedom Caucus Republican. National debt is a tenet here... deep sigh...MOVING ON 🀣🀣

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