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The only way this could've been better is if Trump demanded Colombia to rename all coffee imports as Covfefe!

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BTW: Does anyone else feel like they're getting lazy in seeking info from other sources because Jeff does such an incredible job of distilling the need to know? It's seriously cliff-notes for news.

I didn't even know about the details of the Colombia smack-down until this morning.

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I read other sources but you’re right, I feel like Jeff gets to the essential every day!

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And NOBODY does it FUNNIER than Jeff!!!

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For sure. He's top 3 with Yuri and Gato

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C&C very quickly became my fav Substack.

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Wholeheartedly agree with you.

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I got those references!

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They’re baaaaaaaaack. 🤣🤣🤣

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One of the funniest LOL today is.. "rule of law is thinner than a mosquito’s wing."

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Saves buku time

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I get email alerts with all the major headlines all day long from the NY Post and the Epoch Times. I open and read many of them. So I have often seen the major headlines twice by the time I get Jeff’s post. That being said; his email is the absolute best and the highlight of my news intake BY FAR.

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What I've been doing is getting Jeffs overview and then going to my other favorite authors who just focus on one of the subject matters Jeff outlines.

It's been working for me. I feel like I'm better informed than ever before and literally saving 1-2 hours per day.

Plus I just love joking around with all the funny peeps here.

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I finally paid for online Epoch Times. With CnC I feel entertained and informed. Along with ZeroHedge.

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Agree…the best ‘news’ is often found in the ‘Comments’😉😜

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Same here, I usually already have seen the news from Epoch Times but always enjoy Jeff's wisdom and snarky take on things.

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SNARKY...especially when things get discombobulated (It's in the on line dictionary)!

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Same here as well, but unfortunately Epoch Times seems to still be getting a lot of their info from "Reuters or AP", but they have had some of their own stories again, without the "contribution" from those regime/corporate media sites.

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Well, it would if I could convince myself to skim the comments! 😂😁🤣

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I think you meant beaucoup. Though perhaps it's something different - like Amok Time.

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Buku means "a lot" in Vietnamese

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Interesting! There is a good chance that it is derived from the French as it was French Indo-China for quite awhile.

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I assumed he was just using a creative spelling 😆

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Could be, like when i creatively spell inslee "jackwagon".

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It proves why we come here asap, as we watch and await this terrific blog.

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I did read Epoch times; they had a story. Actually as well a good synopsis of Vance’s interview.

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“I don’t care Margaret!”

And another: “CAN you HEAR YOURSELF, Martha??”

I have a feeling we may be in for some ‘good ‘uns’!!!!

I hope he runs for President in ‘28 and chooses Trump as his VP! (Would that not be the funnest thing to happen….EVER???

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It would be funny, but not wise. If Vance were to become the front-runner, he would need to pick another rising star from the conservative movement, not someone without a chance to become his successor.

These will be hard years for Trump - we've seen every president age considerably while in office, and Trump will be no exception. Besides, after turning the country around and providing us with the possibility for future great leadership, I think Donald will deserve a well-earned break from politics, no?

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Some people are wired differently - battles give them energy instead of draining them. Trump is one of those.

Trump has done a great job of setting up the MAGA movement for long term success with the youth of his cabinet and other appointees. With the exception of RFK Jr, the youth of this group is so unlike the aged Democrat party.

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If he wants. But I would love to see him still involved in running the country. He makes all those other ‘Presidents’ that were on the stage look like a bunch of pansies.

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Trump didn't seem to age since his first term. If anything, he has gotten better, like fine wine. He could give FDR a run for his money in the multiple terms department, imo. And Vance is in the running for most useful VP. Most VP's don't do anything memorable.

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Oh I agree but the thought of how Democrats’ heads would explode at that is pretty entertaining!! 😆

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Maybe Ramsaway?

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True about the aging of presidents on the job...Obama is a good example. He is really looking worn and tired about now. All this said, I was just noticing yesterday that Trump actually looks healthier, perhaps slightly thinner, and much better overall than he did in 2020. Not being a lifelong drinker or smoker is probably paying off in better health at his age, an age when many in his age group are totally falling apart. I wonder if his excessive Diet Coke habit must be some sort of evidence that the diet sodas aren't as bad as they say! 😆

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Also, I think he wouldn't be allowed to be in the succession line for Continuity of Government, and that might be an error as well. It's usually a good idea to think about what if something happens to the President.

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Don, Jr. then! With dad as chief advisor

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I LOVE his comebacks - just like a real person would say to an idiotic question!! I love JD and what he stands for.

With Trump hitting his stride & JD I feel as tho we are at an American Revolution 2.0

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Likely as close we will ever get to “Jane, you ignorant slut.” Oh well!

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That would be absolutely hilarious!!!! 😆🤣 Master level trolling 😂😂😂

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Please, please, Lord!😂🤣😂🤣😂

I promise never to get tired of winning!

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I am sure Trump cannot run as Vice President. What is the VPs job? To become President, which Trump CANNOT do.

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I don't think there's anything in the constitution to prevent it. But he won't. Melania wouldn't let him.

Plus, no way is Trump going to share the stage. But make no mistake he'll be the architect of policy for the populist movement until the day he dies.

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I just hope he is for real

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Can’t happen, but a brilliant idea!

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🤔😅

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Vance is excellent!! So calm and poised, quietly going for the jugular! 😁

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Absolutely perfect balance to Trump.

I hope the dems don't learn a damn thing. That way he gets the presidency in 28', followed by DeSantis in 36!

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I hope I live long enough to see it! That would be wonderul for my kids & grand kids to have conservatives give them opportunities to thrive like we did in the 60's & 70's. Democrats have ruined their futures.

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By that point we could have Barron Trump.

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The Deems are in serious jeopardy in CA... due to their insane malfeasance.

Still... if that vile deviant maggot Schiff got elected... who knows?

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I love it when he uses their names. Educate me JD..

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Personalized in their faces pushback. Awesome!

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Margaret is a self-important journalist who thinks she’s there to debate Vance. The hubris of the elite is unbelievable. She believes her opinion is worthy of the viewers’ time. I hope he starts calling them out on their poor interview questions and follow up debate. Better yet, avoid low quality journalists like Margaret.

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Conservatives should no longer have anything to do with obviously corrupt, partisan, radical swine in the media.

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Those elites are on both sides of the aisle.

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There are, that is true, but more prevalent on the left side of the aisle within the regime/legacy/corporate media. Hannity on the right side comes to mind as one who can't let his guests speak and talks over them all the time. He is one of the two reasons we stopped watching corporate Faux News (the other being the 2020 election steal). RINO Paul Ryan on their Board of Directors is a reason why we will never go back.

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Just curious, and if you reply I hope I can find my way back to read it. I’m getting old really fast, lol.

Have you ever wondered, now that we know where the Cheney’s really stand…..

Was the shooting of Dick (and he really is) Cheney’s hunting buddy really an accident? Or was his friend a man of principle of whom Dick was afraid …..and shot him as a warning….to keep his mouth shut?

I have been wondering about this for a long time.

(I had to post/delete, post/delete post again to make corrections, as I do not have an ‘edit’ button)

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Just got it. I like the bullet point presentation and I can click where I want.

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Cliff-notes, true. Maybe C&C should be renamed JeffNotes.

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I read about it as soon as it happened on X.

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Well it looks like the Colombian president entered the FA part of FAFO...and bailed like a little beeeeooch....

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Us too. Twitter (X) consistently has the news out faster than any other outlet.

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That's why we're winning, and why the media is throwing tantrums.

We can destroy their narrative from a million different accounts in real time.

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Jeff's roundups are super touchstones. X is first-hand access to a huge variety of thinkers and whackos. I'm for both.

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I also get hot up to the minute real life news on X.

Hours after Columbia had caved, I was listening to News-talk Radio while driving, and a CBS “news clip” reported that Columbia refused flights!

How far behind the MSM lags. SAD! 😂

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So true. If you want to immediate information, X is the place.

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Check out theconservativetreehouse, my other go-to. It turns out that Colombia's biggest export is long-stemmed roses, and what's right around the corner? Sundance has been ahead of everyone for over a decade.

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Someone was bemoaning that there would be no flowers for Valentines, thanks to Trump. It's like murderers, rapists, sex traffickers, thieves, drug dealers, et al, are acceptable just to keep getting flowers and coffee. Shallow minds...

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And a particular type of Colombian white sugar.

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more like depraved?

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Trump should send every single one of the gleaming talking-heads a bouquet of flowers for Valentine's Day.

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He could order flowers and chocolate from Denmark and call it a down payment on Greenland.

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Following Sundance allowed me to pull the plug on all TV back in 2015. Never looked back. He doesn't sugar coat anything but I learn so much.

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Brilliant observation.

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I do have a habit of hopping on X a few times a day to see what's trending. FAFO was trending yesterday afternoon, NO IDEA if he really did put this out on Truth or not, but it did give me a big time laugh! https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1883605199312568332

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He DID post that

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Wow, mean tweets are BACK!!! I have a Truth account but don't really have time to get on one more thing, and couldn't find my password so didn't look to see.

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Here’s a screenshot from my Truth Social account of his account 😊

https://ibb.co/RvwGQTv

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Hahaha.

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can we tweak FAFO? FOOL around and find out? The original is such a great adult saying, but then the kiddoes pick up on it, & you're slapping mouths right & left....

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Or you could wash their mouths out with soap.

I'm told that Palmolive has a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor.

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I see what you did there. 🤔😀

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Yeah that's what we do in our house.

Now when I'm not in the house I'm not perfect....;)

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What is FAFO? 🤔

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Fook around find out

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Thanks! I was going to ask.

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He has discovered AI images!! This next 4 years are going to be lit. 🥳 💥

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More likely - Barron has! LOL

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Mr Jeff’s commentary and analysis (with a healthy dose of snark and daily vocabulary lesson) are indeed unparalleled. For a regular dose of updated current events — and no longer trusting Fox News — I check in with Breitbart throughout the day. Of course you get some “conservative bias” in their reporting but even that is welcome. They were reporting that the Colombian president had capitulated to Trump while my friends were still telling me about the confrontation over the flights. To be fair, the interval between events was only a few hours. I think we need to coin a new term: “Trump Speed.”

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American Thinker is a great source too fyi

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Bookmarked, thank you!

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That would be faster than the speed of science!

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Or “Trump Time” !!!

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Valentine’s Day is ruined, roses will be twice as much! 🤣❤️

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Oh no...cries the medianemy.

They really think flowers are more important than child trafficking sex slaves.

Disgusting evil vermin

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Of course they do, 300,000 missing children is small potatoes to them.

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I let my husband off the hook for Valentine’s Day years ago. It doesn’t mean much but commercial guilt buying. (Just me)

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How’s he doing Janet?

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I don't bother until I've read and digested Jeff's work.

WHERE does this man get his energy?

HOW does he do this morning after morning?

I am lifting him before the LORD GOD for health, safety, strength, inspiration and encouragement... even while I humbly thank GOD (with some tears of gratitude) for giving us another chance!

Also praying for Revival...

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He probably sleeps like I do -midnight to 4.30.

Sucks sometimes...but has its benefits.

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Agree! I’ve been spending WAY too much time on X, I should just wait for Jeff to drop the news. Honestly though, better than watching any sporting event, my popcorns almost gone and we just got started!! 🤭

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It's addictive. If I don't set myself a time limit, it's hard to shut down. But it's a great source of LOL and proof that we have a lot of good, smart people in this country.

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Agreed. How does that man do law work, take care of his father, do the family-thing, research, scope out sources and write - and still go on vacations!!!? Also, I still thought Columbia was having us take back planes and illegals!

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Right??

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A glimpse of the truth that “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).

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But there’s so much more going on out there. Find a good conservative, news source, and pay attention! Then it’s fun to read Jeff’s take on the news you just read And see if you caught what he did

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I agree Ryan, I was not fully aware of these happenings until C&C this morning.

AND - I learned a new word - jeremiad. So appropriate for these times.

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jeremiad

/jĕr″ə-mī′əd/

noun

A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.

Jeremiah, often called the 'weeping prophet,' wrote the book of Lamentations as well as being the deliverer of God's rebuking words in the book of Jeremiah. He was quite persecuted for delivering the unwelcomed truth in HIS day.

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Validation that the Spirit moves among us. I read this just this morning: "I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes” (Jeremiah 5:14).

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Yea. I didnt look word up cause I didnt like the look of it. Then I broke down and did and now I realy, really dont like it.

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and does it with some real comedy gold, like the Sopranos therapist bit!

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Exactly, Ryan!!!! As I was reading today's post I had the same thought - Jeff brings the most pertinent info - and then some.

And I like the behind-the-scenes info too.

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I saw it on X. That’s my other main news source besides our dear Jeff Childers!

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The fear psyop over the cost of Colombia coffee beans was hilarious to me.

My dad used to use a figure of speech whenever I was talking about what mattered the absolute least in a situation, “What’s that got to do with the price of rice in China?”

Well now we have the current day version! “What’s that got to do with the price of coffee beans in Colombia?”

🤣🤣

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I always heard the price of tea in China which seems to fit even better.

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It was “the price of tea in china” in our house.

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Lol never heard tea or eggs with that phrase, too funny, must depend on where we grew up? 🤷🏼‍♀️ But price of rice has better alliterational flair. Hee hee

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In our house it was, ‘the price of cheese’….Being English we didn’t joke about the price of tea. 😉

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In our house, tea was a volume measurement. “We wouldn’t do that for all the tea in China.”

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Oooh that's a good one

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I still say that! 😂

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I’m bring it back!

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I used to hear “what has that got to do with the price of eggs?” but I haven’t heard this phrase used in years - maybe because the price of eggs was a clear indicator of how bad inflation and our economy was!!

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Hakeem Jeffrey’s tried the price of eggs against Trump last week. Insinuating that because the price of eggs is still high Trump’s first week actions were unsuccessful.

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How dumb do you think his children would be if he procreated with Mazi Hirono?!

I'm not sure what happens when you breach zero IQ.

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They’re trying so hard to use their old strategies and finding that without the entire government, bureaucracy and media to provide cover, it just falls flat.

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Maybe soon: If a halfwit brays into the clouds, and no one is listening, is he still making a sound?

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I just fantasized briefly about spectators in the House gallery suddenly lobbing rotten raw eggs down onto the floor below, pelting all the Dhimmicrats with some well-deserved reminders of why Trump got elected. 🙄

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That saying is actually prescient though - something we took utterly for granted decimated by poor decisions.

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The best organic eggs in the store were 8 dollars. My local chickens pecking around outdoors are $4.00. I tried to pay the owner more, but she refused. I’m praying for these cluckers.

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My mom said ‘tea in China’. 😉 Even closer!

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These aristocrats are so out of touch. Hubris is their demise

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Better coffee from Sumatra and Jamaica anyway!

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I get mine from Honduras? I believe that where MyCoffee comes from.

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my mom always said, "What's that got to do with the price of tomatoes?" to get me back on the subject at hand...

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Wow, I heard that as well. i forgot all about that response

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Tea in China, and cost of beans or potatoes, when I was growing up.

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Ours was always “the price of beans.”

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I like the price of shrimp in Kansas.

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My Dad would say those same Words!! So funny

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I can’t wait for Trump to put Zelensky in his place. Instantaneously strip the little Totalitarian Dictator of all his stolen American Taxpayer wealth.

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I want answers.

Who told Zelensky to torture and deny medical care to American citizen Gonzalo Lira? Who told Zelensky to let Lira to just die in an Ukrainian prison?

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Agree 💯 Yep. Liro was abandoned by the corrupt biden regime to be tortured by zelensky.

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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark should probably now be Ukraine instead cause it’s rotten.

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I think it might rhyme with Pantony Finken and Mctoria Fool.

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Read a report of many Ukrainian officials crying that their house in the LA area burned up. Hmmmm Imo I think we paid for those. Talk about corruption.

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One of many crimes his regime is responsible for.

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Three letters ma’am. C I a

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And we haven't heard jack notta about Ukrainian Biolabs of Doom.

Maybe RFK Jr can have the NIH and whoever give us some status reports?

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Given that they whacked the general who went to the UN about it….

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Hasn’t Putin put out an arrest warrant for Fauci? Don’t think a pardon works over there.

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We can hope! Fauci is the most evil person- Russia knew the labs needed to be destroyed and he did that first, some say the real reason for the conflict.

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It's all a scam to make money.

Zelensky and Putin had it all worked out...but...no... the war mongers insisted on Nato for Ukraine.

Does anybody think Zelensky would turn that down? Why would he? His country is getting billions from us and he's skimming. And then we'll give him billions to rebuild his country.

It will all end with what he and Putin agreed on:

Ukraine gives a little land and they don't get into NATO.

But billions will be made...maybe trillions if it drags out 5+ more years.

They played to his ego and wallet.

Seems obvious

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I want to know more about the audit of the funds given to Zelenski. The outrage is going to be epic.

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You'll need to subpoena the Biden family for those details.

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You'll have to investigate congress and the DOD... Probably not going to happen.. still waiting for the pentagon to provide an audit...

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Pretty sure We The People deserve answers. That's what the politicians and elite are most worried about...not the hundreds of thousand deaths for unnecessary junket of a war

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Zelensky can always go back to playing the piano with his pee pee....

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Hahaha! His tallywacker!

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I keep seeing posts making the rounds about kickbacks to American politicians from Ukraine being exposed but can’t confirm it from a reliable source as yet. Might be wishful thinking/made up but I’d love to see evidence! I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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I think the last time I, personally, saw the connection being laid out was when The Clinton Foundation was being investigated for its pay-to-play. The biggest donor was a Ukrainian oligarch, if I remember correctly.

I don't know if there are good sources that exposed other money connections, but I think that much of the money for Ukraine goes to sources that funnel money back to donations to Democratic candidates for office.

Revealing this money laundering is just one more thing on the to-do list that I, for one, will be keeping my eye out for.

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I hope to see that too! Though I know the people involved will fight tooth and nail to prevent proof of their misdeeds from coming out!

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And hundreds of thousands of dead men. What a waste.

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Ryan they lost that money back to America. We’ve been watching a Movie Ryan.

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Yup. The world's not over. Just the illusion

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Strip, then RETURN as much of that cash that is not already parked in Biden and WEF pockets. That is OUR money.

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I don’t care if it’s parked in Biden or WEF pockets. Get that too.

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He stopped all foreign aid to Ukraine.

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I believe Zelensky even has a mansion in Florida. What's up with THAT, right?

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I wish we could strip Zelensky of his wealth; also Pelosi, Fauci, Becerra and all those other a-holes who have cleaned up the past five years!!

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I’ve heard he is just an Actor helping Trump. But we will find out very soon

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I want to see his Florida mansion up for sale!

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And make him dress decently when he meets with the president of the United States.

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Agree! No audience, with DJT, or TV cameras until he shows some respect.

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Love it! ❤️ The visas against the party elite and the threat to stop electronic funds transfer from US to colombia is what made them cave. FAFO - it's my favorite acronym now. Now all the parasites in Latin america know.

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Here's how one X-user described the difference between Trump 2.0 administration dealing with this situation and any other administration:

https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1883653586032238739

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Hilarious. Now if we can get 4 years + with this approach.

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That is absolutely perfect breakdown.

None of this is hard tbh

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Laughing out loud really, & I don’t do that often.

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That would’ve been absolutely hilarious!!! 🤣😆

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I'm glad he got Colombia to back down - I like their coffee.

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All the criminals we're shipping back can get their ass on the hills picking coffee beans. Feel that wonderful sun on their skin in their own homeland.

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Do you really want criminals in our food supply chain, lol?

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There are coffee beans sold that are dug out from monkey poop. Quite expensive I hear.

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You think they are not there already?

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okay, more known criminals, lol

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Okay, that brought a chuckle. You should share that in Scavino's Instagram.

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🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻

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😆❄️🔥

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We need to use El Presidente’s personal plane! Sweet!

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@Ryan- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

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This I recall to my mind,

Therefore I have hope.

The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,

For His compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;

Great is Your faithfulness.

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,

“Therefore I have hope in Him.”

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,

To the person who seeks Him.

— Lamentations 3:21-25 NAS

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Great is Thy Faithfulness

My favorite hymn.

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My mom’s too! It became precious to her when my older brother had cancer as a five year old and was given a 20% chance of survival. This song never fails to bring tears to her eyes and mine whenever we hear it or sing it.

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(My brother did survive and is now in his 40s, married with five precious kids of his own.)

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I so wanted to ask, but was afraid of the answer!!!

GREAT is His Faithfulness!!!!

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I know God is faithful no matter our circumstances - we have had opportunity to praise him even in great loss - but this particular story had such a happy ending!

All glory to God!

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Susanna, I understand this. So thankful your brother thrived! "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" holds a special place because my mom wanted it sung at my dad's funeral in 2001. Even though he died of cancer, we felt the Lord's presence with us throughout his sickness. I wrote this poem early one morning after being up with him in their living room as he tried to get comfortable in the recliner. We had been making decisions, wondering how long the hospice phase would last, wanting to see around the corner, but not being able to. He passed away only a few weeks after I wrote the poem. I hope it blesses you. No matter what, He is with us.

Grace for the Moment

Grace for the moment

I know God provides

In the midst of my trials

His sweet grace resides.

Grace for each moment

Not a moment too soon

The moments unfolding

Like a flower in bloom.

Each petal revealing

True joy or deep pain

He showers His grace

Like a gentle rain.

Each drop full of promise

Of care for my need

My prayers for His grace

Are answered indeed.

—Janice Powell 2001

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Wonderful!

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Lamentations...

written by Jeremiah, whose writings are where we get the word "jeremiad"*

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*https://search.brave.com/search?q=does+the+meaning+of+the+word+jeremiad+refer+to+the+book+of+lamentations&source=web

Thank you, Janice, once again!

Always,

Anita

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I learned a new word today! Thanks Anita. Jeremiad. I certainly could have used that word a lot during the last administration! 😉

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I did not know that! Thank you!

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Never heard that one! Very cool.

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Brought to you from the same people who brought us the Talmud:

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Talmud-anti-Christian

Perhaps the jews are just kidding???

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Praying for RFK Jr confirmation- and that Trump will expose the big pharma grift and the geo-engineering of the skies...

I encourage everyone to listen to this in depth interview he did in Jan 2022- 3 full years ago. He most definitely is going after big pharma, it's just going to be more difficult than calling out Big Food- I encourage everyone to listen to this. People forget his family started Special Olympics and he details blow by blow how vaccines began causing irreparable neurological issues and autism back in the mid 80s and how he saw it in real time. He also goes over many other things. He has a mission even at the expense of being ostracized by his own family and democrat peer group

https://rumble.com/v631zpz-replay-episode-61-robert-f.-kennedy-jr.-the-man-who-built-a-movement.html

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We have to watch Carr though - he wants to tie 5G to health, and preys upon veterans trying to get them "equal access" to healthcare...Since when did the FCC care about health?

https://romanshapoval.substack.com/i/155103539/carr-cares

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It appears we are moving to satellite which would negate the cell towers. It's health, but it's also business and full coverage in remote places

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I hear you - what if "full coverage" is the cover story for full surveillance, tracking, and control?

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Absolutely. I just see them pushing it. Elon coming into disasters to set up satellite and today, backwoods skiers rescued because of satellite.

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Today backpackers and skiers can rent a satellite phone for emergency calls; that capability has probably been available for at least 20+ years. Elon does not have all the satellites.

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Gotcha. Elon profited very well from Asheville NC. Here's a piece I wrote on that fyi: https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/asheville

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It's an "internet of things," you see . . .

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exactly! not people.

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Tracking/surveillance is already happening unless you take steps to block it.

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Absolutely - anything you use / suggest in terms of blocking?

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Nope. My adult children use VPNs but I am not able to afford those so I just acknowledge the surveillance and give it to God.

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It's still EMR.

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They're already looking at 6G technologies...

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Uggh.

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This is a very informative page, Roman. Thanks for the post.

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Thanks so much Sub! Glad you see the value. What did you like most?

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"preys"?

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Thank you - typo - i've adjusted.

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RFK Jr. Confirmation hearing on Wednesday...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jrs-confirmation-hearings-5-key-health-topics-watch-rcna188934

"On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to appear before the Senate Finance Committee for the first of two confirmation hearings as President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

If confirmed, Kennedy would have sweeping control over a suite of 18 agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

“This is the most important hearing of all of Trump’s Cabinet picks,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. “The HHS secretary has enormous power over domestic health care, global health and directly oversees tens of thousands of scientists, doctors and nurses.” "

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"In particular, Kennedy's views and past statements about vaccines have been scrutinized by both GOP and Democratic lawmakers. " LOL

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The physical health and the financial health of the United States is dependent upon RFK getting confirmed.

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It's the most important item left on Trump's todo.

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I'd say of the World

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People are going to be disappointed in him. He's more about going after food companies than big pharma, from what I've seen so far. However, I am completely open to being wrong (and I hope I am) on this front.

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He’s not more about going after food. Though he is just as passionate about it as he is vaccines. There were strategic moves they had to make to even get this far. I refuse to jump the gun in judgment of him. I think they are very smart and know there is still a deep divide on the vaccine issues in this country because of all the propaganda and waking more people up to the truth is not an overnight activity. He needs to get confirmed FIRST if he is going to have even the slightest chance to get close enough to change what caused that propaganda in the first place. But pre election and pre confirmation is not the time to do it. You just shoot yourself in the foot. I don’t just want him to give us a voice, I want him to succeed too. Patience grasshoppa

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Yes! I would add the "deep divide" on vaccine issues still tilts very much pro-vaccine. We'll have to wait and see. Much as we get tired of hearing that!

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Good for you wanting him to succeed.

Do you imagine that the powers that be listen to you? I'm just wondering.

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Me personally? No. Absolutely not. All of us collectively? Yes.

And … I also believe that unlike our human leaders God listens to my prayers “personally” just as clearly as He listens to us all collectively. Yes I believe He intervenes and causes the “impossible” to happen. I won’t discourage my fellow patriots with my words. I will always choose to use hope and action until the day my breath is taken from my body. Then I can stand before God one day to say I did not give up nor lie down, nor cause my brothers or sisters to stumble.

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Well said.

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What a gracious response, Juju.

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Juju! That’s good. Positive and optimistic! II Timothy 1:7.

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My suggestion is that we celebrate what’s going on and don’t look for what could go wrong. Because, for Pete’s sake, we’ve had a few years of bad news. Why do we want to look for more?

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Agreed, Kathy. The negativity is strong around here. I understand we're all so jaded, but good grief, let's enjoy the wins while we have them.

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Fear only the Lord. Then, look for what could go wrong, being anxious for nothing, so that we can hold this administration to account.

Operation Stargate, the planned AI purveyor of surveillance and mRNA could be worse than the Patriot Act, by orders of magnitude.

And this is not a "hot take." These are things that we have had plenty of time to analyze, given that people like Yuval Harari and the WEF haven't been able to shut up about these things for years.

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I don't celebrate anything the powers that be do. Because it's always part of a bigger agenda that I won't be celebrating down the road. I tend to look at patterns and history, not "gimme" moments.

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My guess & my hope is that he is keeping quiet about drugs and vaccines until he is confirmed because of the $$$ & power of big Pharma. Everyone who is clamoring for Bobby to show his hand now doesn’t know how to play poker and probably has problems with premature ejaculation.

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Right you are. I'm hoping the same. My guess is a bit different from yours. I'd have to say it's "undecided". You are dead right that if he wants to expose the vaccine cartel/religion for the pack of lies and corruption it is, he'd be a terrible poker player to trot that out before being confirmed. I don't expect or want him to be suicidal.

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Too many in the GOP are big pharma shills and he needs their votes so I expect him to be rather muted regarding his vaccine beliefs during confirmation hearings. But once he gets in that could change. Remember Trump denounced Project 2025 during the campaign and now look what's happening.....looks like Project 2025.

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"Could" being the key word here. I remain unconvinced.

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Mary Rose, you're trying to steal my joy, today. 🙂 I know things aren't always what they seem. I know we have plenty of reason to be suspicious. However, I am reveling in the victory that God has given us through this election and am going to continue to pray for these warriors who are willing to do battle for us in the White House and Congress. We have so much to celebrate right now.

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That you imagine this is an attempt to do something to you personally is really bizarre. Hopefully you don't continue to allow others to dictate your moods by leaving their experience-based opinions.

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You might consider reading his book, “The Real Anthony Fauci.”

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Ditto

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I have it.

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Did you read it though? Just wondering.

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I really don't know what you're trying to get at, here. What does it matter whether I've read RFK's book? You know nothing about me, my history of knowledge, how long I've followed RFK's organization, etc. You & the others assume ignorance out of everyone who doesn't agree with you. Guess who also does that? Woke Jacobin commies.

It's sad you don't get that you're the exact carbon copy of them. "My side good! My side is beyond criticism!"

It's so stupid.

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I Think nobody is perfect obviously but he did this extremely in depth interview with VSRF (Steve Kirsch's organization) back in January of 2022- 3 full years ago- he most definitely is going after big pharma, it's just going to be more difficult than calling out Big Food- i encourage everyone to listen to this https://rumble.com/v631zpz-replay-episode-61-robert-f.-kennedy-jr.-the-man-who-built-a-movement.html

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I do not think that is true. He has to get his foot in the door, and people are not so reactive over food issues as they are over the religious devotion to vaccines. Try going to the website children’s health defense if you have not already. He will do everything he can to promote transparency and informed consent.

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But one action can lead to another...big food, then I pharma🤞🙏

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Ah I see we found another glowie. No comment about having to back to the office full time?

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Another bizarre comment - what is a glowie?

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I think Big Ag and Big Food are just as important as Big Pharma. I can avoid pharma. It’s much more difficult to avoid food, even though it’s just as poison.

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Did NBC forget about the Supreme Court's decimation of the Chevron doctrine? What are these sweeping agency powers of which the Georgetown U. director speaks?

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Jenna McCarthy nailed it today! A great read and call to action. https://open.substack.com/pub/jennamccarthy/p/whos-behind-the-move-to-

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Great read. The poison we are up against is our own Republican senators. The very gall of these repeatedly elected turncoats, almost always the same ones just PO’s me. Thanks for sharing Jenna’s take on Bill Gates and the man who thinks he is god. He is not. He isn’t the first to think it and won’t be the last. None of them come to a good end.

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Link appears to be incomplete and won’t open for me.

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Thanks for the link to Jenna. Good one.

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Thanks for posting this! Great read and I will pass it on.

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Yes Verve, I would love to see more attention to the geoengineering. Nobody talks about it!

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The Highwire has done great shows on it. Go to their website and use the search.

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Thanks Kathy

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The next 48 hours we need to be active with all of the senators. Find out their x names and their phone numbers. Post to them on X and call their phone numbers to urge them to confirm RFK without delay. DJT was elected by the voters along with his agenda and selectees. The holdouts especially.

They are tasked with representing their constituents NOT themselves.

The constituents have been clear. To vote against RFKJR (also the other 2 last selections) betrays those who put the senators in office and will not be forgotten.

Phone numbers and who is against RFKJR:

https://x.com/scottpresler/status/1883556073959047468?s=46

Call today! not tomorrow (the post was from yesterday by Scott Pressler)

On X: (not sure I have everyone)

@HawleyMO

@SenJohnKennedy

@LyndseyGrahamSC

@SenatorLankford

@SenKatieBritt

@SenatorBudd

@SenCapito

@JohnCornyn

@Mike Crapo

@SenJoniErnst

@SenatorRicketts

@SenHydeSmith

@SenstorRisch

@SenJohnThune

@SenThomTillis

@SenTedCruz

@SenTomCotton

@SenJohnBarrasso

@MarshaBlackburn

@JohnBoozman

@MikeBraun

@SenBillCassidy

@SenatorCollins

@SenKevinCramer

@SteveDaines

@SenatorFischer

@SenJohnHoeven

@SenLummis

@LeaderMcConnell

@SenMullin

@LisaMurkowski

@PeteRicketts

@SenatorRounds

@SenDanSullivan

@SenatorWicker

@SenToddYoung

@RandPaul

@SenatorHagerty

@SenRonJohnson

@SenMikeLee

@RogerMarshallMD

@MarcoRubio

@Eric_Schmitt

@SenRickScott

@SenTuberville

@JDVance1

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Please pray, and also call and email your senators. Do it today. It’s so easy. You will likely be leaving a phone message, but if a person answers, they are always very polite.

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Both my Reps are Democrats, I'm so sorry. I apologize for Michigan!

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If RFK Jr can even do 20% of what he would like to do, that will be a huge success.

Don’t get me wrong, I hope he can do much more than 20%. But first he has to get in.

And then he will have four years. If he does get in, he’ll probably save a lot of the big stuff for the end of his term. Because if he tries to do it earlier, they could take him out like they did his father.

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Agree💯

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Amen!

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I am concerned that he will get through.

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You don’t want RFK to be confirmed?

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It COULD be read as she HAS A CONCERN, and it's that he gets through.

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Possibly she mistyped omitting the word “not”?

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That’s what I assumed.

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"Seriously, who—if anyone—is still using rabbit ears to watch the news?"

Actually, not all of us have streaming services - we have an old non-smart TV and plan to hang onto it as long as possible. Granted, don't watch hardly at all, but it is handy for weather, sports and occasionally local breaking news. We'd find an alternate if it went down, but I do think that 'public airwaves' - one you can access without having to pay someone still has some level of value. But the networks do deserve all the disdain they are getting.

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Same. We cut the cord years ago. It wasn't really a statement, although even more than a decade ago the lack of substance on cable TV was obvious. It was financial as much as anything. Not spending $100/month is a major savings. We do have a dumb TV and antenna but it won't bother me one bit to see local station licenses pulled. They're more useless than national networks. They are uniquely capable of combining the propaganda and vapid brain-numbing content with untalented presenters and amateurish production. It's like these people have never learned how to pick a phone to ask a question, opened a book on grammar or public speaking. They're just terrible at selling the lies and even worse at reporting local things that they should be doing.

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" They're just terrible at selling the lies..." Reminds me of the local newspaper, when I was 10 y.o.

Vietnam was getting fierce. At least every other day, the headline trumpeted another great "body count" of dead Vietnamese. Anyone remember that gruesome metric? Every couple of months, there would be headlines about more troops being sent to Vietnam, and later accompanied by headlines about some Congress people questioning this. But the headlines kept trumpeting victorious bodycounts, and the troops kept leaving for Asia.

Anyone think this does not raise questions in the mind of a 10 y.o.? If we were winning, why did we need to keep sending more troops? No one seemed to be explaining that.

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Just imagine the fact that after the vaccine mandates in 2021, there was an increase of mortality of 60,000 people in the 18 to 44-year-old age group. That’s one year! It took 10 years to kill that many Americans in Vietnam.

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I have a SmartTV sitting on my wall that is never on. I think I'll give it the heave-ho. I used it only to watch movies I streamed from YouTube, but now I hardly even do that.

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I have a ROKU and watch Rumble, RAV, Frankspeech, and many more on my large screen.

I didn't pay for the TV (inherited it) and it's the same model used by military in Tucson I've been told by someone there in the military at the time he told me that.

The ROKU was a gift from a relative.

Sometimes I like to see things on the big screen.

If I didn't have wifi, I wouldn't have any use for it though.

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Gee, I thought you were describing Canadian television news which has a large portion of the country brainwashed with lies and BS.

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in the meantime Trump & RFKjr. could put a dagger into the heart of the MSM by banning advertising by big Pharma - the MSM gets 70% of its revenue from drug advertising and the US is the only major country in the world that allows drug companies to advertise - let the layoffs and bankruptcies begin

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YES!! I am at my 86 YO mom's place several times a week and she has that TV on from the minute she gets up until she goes to bed 'for noise' and the number of pharma commercials on daytime TV is staggering. It's why the newspeople never pushed back on the covid BS - didn't want to slay that goose laying the golden eggs.

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Probably all have investments in it too 😑

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That is at the very top of my Christmas list, especially since Trump already pulled us out of the WHO.

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I have a digital antenna. I use it when the internet goes down. Very much lije rabbit ears. 🙂

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I didn't know there was such a thing, might be a good thing to have.

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I have an emergency battery-operated portable tv in my emergency supplies, but have never used it.

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I need to learn how to do this

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Even on our smart TV we have an attic antenna to tune into local stations in weather situations etc. tbh I used to enjoy GMA before they became so woke. Now I don’t watch any current TV.

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I don’t have cable tv but a new version of rabbit ears consisting of a flat panel that plugs into a 2015 tv. It does get quite a few channels including the national ones but it would be fine with me if the whole thing went away.

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How do you put aluminum foil on the ends if they're not rabbit ears??

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well, yes, that is what we have, not an actual antenna.

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We have 4 TVS, Two I use with computers and 2 to play DVD movies on. No satellite TV and No local TV. When I stay in a motel I can rarely find anything on their TV's that interests me.

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It cracks me up that many comments to your comment use the term "rabbit ears." I'll bet the farm that the younger generations have no clue what that means. 😉😆

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We have one that we use to watch one local channel when espn or others black out our local hockey team games. It’s kept the hubs quite happy. Plus it’s nice when the power goes down because it’s hooked to our small portable solar system.

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I ended my cable TV service over ten years ago. I got one of those small electric roof antennas that I had wired into the house and connected to my not-smart TV, and can change the position remotely if needed based on conditions. It picks up broadcast signals from a few stations in St Louis, and a Create TV station in Springfield IL. The only one I ever watch is Create, for the cooking shows mainly. I get my news from Substacks, Truth Social, and a few citizen journalist channels on Rumble. Also I watch RSBN and Trump YouTube Channel live streams on my laptop.

And I get my weather info on my NOAA weather radio, and from Ryan Hall's YouTube channel.

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Ryan Hall is great! The Y’all Squad helped so much in the aftermath of hurricane Helene.

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There are only 10 groups who own all the tv stations and 5 groups who own all the radio stations.. The FCC allowed them to consolidate under "GOP" control. There are VERY few independently owned stations anymore.. IMO they need to break it all up and find buyers for local markets that cater to those markets... It's against my belief in market freedom but corporate cronyism with government help has led us to this juncture.

They should all fail but the market is too skewed for it to happen.

Maybe the people can claim emanate domain, that be awesome!

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Maybe there’s a way to keep them while also ending the major networks’ excessive control?

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They could do that now. There's nothing in the law that says a local station has to affiliate with a network. Many markets have an independent channel or two. The issue is budget. They need eyes on their screens to justify ad sales. So the networks sell content that drives ratings and ad rates, which the local station needs to stay afloat. There's anti-trust and monopoly laws that dictate ownership, such as the number of stations one entity can own total and in any one market. So the actual networks may own their stations in NY and LA but all the local stations are not and can change networks or not use one at all, if they want.

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Why didn’t those antitrust laws limit Soros buying up so many?

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He purchased radio stations, not local TV stations.

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Yeah I know but I’m assuming those antitrust laws cover both TV and radio

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Good question! Maybe they didn’t want to enforce those laws 😑

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Yes, I am not tech savvy enough to fully understand all of this, but I do object to the idea that one could buy a TV that would not work unless you paid someone to access channels. I guess you could make the case of 'public safety' - for example if I get a notice on my phone that we have a tornado watch, I will flip on the TV to the local coverage just to get a bead on whether it's a legit risk for my area (tornadoes are highly localized and warnings are issued for an entire county) or in the case of the blizzard we had, knowing what roads were closed/things that were cancelled. We used to have a decent local news station, head anchor was a conservative but he got elected to Congress in 2022 (Mark Alford) and it's been downhill ever since.

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You can buy an indoor antenna and install it yourself. Cost is $30 or less.

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Ditto!!!

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I still have a digital-to-analog box, too, in my emergency supplies (remember when the government handed those out for free in the analog to digital conversion period?), and rabbit ears.

I went without internet, cable or satellite TV for many years because I couldn't justify the money.

I don't like the idea of government taking away another communication channel...

but I'm technically a boomer, so what do I know? : )

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We can’t deny we are living in a darkened age, but it’s up to you and I that we can make the difference!

“Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,”

‭‭Galatians‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/114/gal.1.3-4.NKJV

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I hope this is my future, may I live to see God's grace in making a difference.

Isaiah 58:12 And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;

you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;

you shall be called the repairer of the breach,

the restorer of streets to dwell in.

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JD Vance is so great at handling the media and dismantling their narratives!

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/01/26/jd-vance-blasts-catholic-bishops-n2407353?

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He’s the new Rhett Butler. “Frankly [Margaret], I don’t give a damn”

Ok ok he was nicer saying “I don’t really care”

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Lol, poor Scarlett, aka Margaret. She just wants to think about it tomorrow.

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There are some great memes out this morning about that interview. Here's one:

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1883882449652113849

Margaret Brennan is sort of the "Longhouse" personified.

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Someone please make a meme with the above theme. JD/Rhett and Margaret/Scarlett. It would be epic. Wish I could do it.

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I did! Hee hee

https://ibb.co/4jD62Y4

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Good one juju!🤣

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I might want to learn how to do that, Juju!

What fun!

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I’ve been making memes for well over a decade now and most were to make my family laugh about our own home. There’s some hilarious ones that still put us on the floor laughing when we return to it. That folder on my phone has over 1,000 of those kinds of memes. Lol.

Then I made them for various video games I play to make others laugh that I played with. That’s a huge folder too. Some of my best work in there, but of course context is only understood if you play that game too.

I’ve just started to make them for politics as I’ve only recently in the past year started getting involved again. My mind literally sees everything as a meme template, 😆 so of course I see it with politics now too. Some would say I have inappropriate humor or instincts. I don’t know if I’m immature looking to humor or they are just pious. Verdict is still out.

Politics is a different situation tho because unlike family, or a gaming community, my posts aren’t seen by anyone really, so my memes aren’t either or they get stolen. I honestly believe my X account was shoehorned into a back dusty corner by some lib moderator. They don’t censor, they limit exposure. I get wayyyyy less views today with a basic paid subscription than I did with a completely free account. Anyway, memelords are hard to compete with and if you’re a tiny nobody account like me your humor gets lost in the ether. Lol. Glad I have you guys to share with tho!!

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Oh my word that's awesome! Great job!

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Stellar!!!!!!!

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🤣🤣 that’s a great one. Lolol

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😆

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I made it into a meme:

https://ibb.co/4jD62Y4

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Nice! But it really should be this scene (from a huge GWTW fan 😬):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sV2sW5rhD0s

Doesn’t lend itself to meming very well though, since you can’t see her face when he says that line.

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Here you go RunningLogic, just for you. 😊 More simple and hard to tell the period or movie, but at die hards will recognize the scene, and … you will have it. Heh heh

https://ibb.co/PD15Wgw

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Ooh, love it!!! 😍 Thank you 😁

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Yeah I tried to work with that one first. But it was hard being the back of her head.

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Totally get that!

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😆😁

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One of the BIG reasons I do not give to our USCCB or to the annual Bishop's Appeal, is because of how much money Catholic Charities receives from the federal government. We all know that if a charity is accepting federal dollars, it will be forced to compromise its beliefs. I absolutely agree that THE CHURCH should, due to its mission, help those in need especially the widows and orphans, but they should do so independently of the government. I don't understand why that is a controversial view. A Twitter/X user made a searchable database for federal dollars awarded to charities. If you search the word Catholic you can see what percentage of a charity's funding is from federal dollars. Catholic Charities is receiving massive amounts. See here:

https://joeisdone.github.io/nonprofit/

It allows you to search for any charity.

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When the 'church' and the state merge (NGO's, grants, 'charitable' organization) you get State Religion. And the money flows create dependency having nothing to do with the Bible. Protestant or Catholic, both are very corrupt now.

When I was politically active, I noticed that the Catholic dissenters were everywhere, and putting the 'Protestants' hopelessly to shame. They were at town halls, on all manner of government comment pages, and so on. And Good on them.

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Agreed.

I keep my donations very local and/or very personally-tied...so that I can vet exactly how the money is used.

It was after watching Poverty Inc (a documentary in the style of Food Inc) that got me to refocus and take a more proactive approach to donations. https://www.povertyinc.org/

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"Charity begins at home" and "Love your neighbor" are baselines and the most effective starting points. Like Jeff says, local, local, local.

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Plus it gives a shared sense of community and more accountability compared to anonymous and/or governor funded giving from faraway, faceless people.

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Same. The vast amount of our donations are to local charities with which we have a personal connection.

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And, I always check the Lepanto Institute as a charity watchdog. So many organizations provide lip service as charity and promote evil practices.

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I really wished he would have flipped the script entirely and put the focus on LEGAL immigration. The fact that it’s so dysfunctional creates a natural desire to work around it. Make Legal Immigration Great Again

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Well that is true but the absolute legions of illegal immigrants are not here because of that for the most part.

And there is also the perverse incentive that illegals get all kinds of freebies that legal immigrants don’t.

Definitely need to overhaul legal immigration though.

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The point is that the left has re-framed the issue calling them "undocumented" and based the whole thing with false compassion while making you out to be a racist if you resist. Putting everything back in a legal construct clarifies the issue and down with all that marxist crap

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The left says all kinds of stupid things, like "unhoused." We should not use the new-speak.

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Oh yes I agree with that part. Glad Trump ordered them to be referred to as “illegal aliens” again.

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I absolutely agree. I am trying to help my Ghana translator of 10 years immigrate to get a job with a small local company that hasn’t been able to fill the position for several years (so meets all the criteria for legal work, & haven’t been able to.

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It’s insane isn’t it? 😞

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Happy Monday!!! I am still giddy after the inauguration!

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Me, too, and every day, the news brings on more giddiness! I'm just soooo freaking happy!!! Probably made all the more amazing by the last 4 years of Hell we survived!

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BTW, Karoline Leavitt's twitter is good for Trump happenings. Basically she's following his travels and showing clips and shots from each one. Good summaries from the inside.

https://x.com/PressSec

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I'm ALMOST convinced to set up a twitter account. Relatedly here is an interesting article from Yuri about substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/yuribezmenov/p/trump-derangement-substack-profit-analysis?

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Imagine that, full transparency!

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Thanks. I'm now following her.

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She's impressive.

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Awesome, thanks for the tip!

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To rein in MainStream Media is simple. End pharma advertising since the US is only one of 2 countries that permits it anyhow. It is very politically correct to end Pharma advertising. Then stop most non-essential government advertising on MSM. These are MSM's two greatest sources of income. You can then watch the near bankrupt MSM wither and disappear all on their own.

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Yes! Then New Zealand will be the only country to allow it maybe doctors will have to learn more when their patients come in with pharmaceutical demands.

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Who needs movie night when you can watch Trump?

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Lol. That's hilarious. Exactly.

This is going to be the best 4 years of just trolling the media and the Bluebonic Plague

This is god-tier trolling by our awesome VP.

I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!!!

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/01/26/jd-vance-roasts-cbs-host-for-whining-about-aghan-refugees-i-dont-really-care-margaret-n2184846

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Bluebonic plague! Nice. “I don’t really care, Margaret” is the new “Bye, Felicia.” Few things are more inspiring than people who refuse to dance back and forth across the line between right and wrong.

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More popcorn please! 🍿

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🌞Good Morning Jeff! So thankful for C&C and day 7 of seeing what Trump administration is doing next. 🙌

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Now that President Trump has ordered Federal workers to leave home and return to work I am looking forward to receiving my USPS mail on a daily basis again.

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Oh how you do dream on ..... 🎯

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Yes, what happened? It was a sudden change. I would like to know of any investigation into this, because it also happened in Europe. All of a sudden snail mail that used to take two days was taking seven.

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“Getting rid of telework just means you want to take a dagger to the heart of federal workers and the federal government.”

One can pray this is true.

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His lips to God's ears!

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Yes, and “encourage like-minded federal employees to vent.” Their big mouths prove who they are, and the Great Winnowing continues. “Therefore this is what the Lord God Almighty says: “Because the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes” (Jeremiah 5:14).

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That Columbian fracas ended so quickly it barely had time to make the news! Reading Trump’s Truth Social statement, I think if the Columbian president hadn’t caved, and publicly, FAST, his own government and elites would have about paraded his body in the streets to ensure the threatened sanctions did not happen.

This was a big deal to show that - again - this admin is not playing games.

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Colombian president was caught in photos out with a tranny.

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For real??!!

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“God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another” (Romans 1:24). Gustavo says, “You will never hear or read a transphobic word from me.” Seems to me, if we don’t condemn sin, we are complicit.

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Thanks

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Kathleen, I know you don't just make stuff up.

That's quite a statement, lol.

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I wouldn’t even know she was a trans woman just by looking at her.

Looks like she got some pretty crazy cosmetic implants.

Crazy world we live in.

Thanks, Kathleen,

Anita

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"We ain't playin'": Trump

I can't stop grinning ear to ear about the Columbian throw down!!!

Don't Mess with the US, the adults are back in charge!

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I *REALLY* wanted to see the smug CNN anchoress sever her optic nerve but the link appears MIA. If you have it, I would much enjoy watching that. ;)

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I in no way believe the numbers from 2017 and therefore do not believe the numbers for 2025. I’m pretty sure it’s more like 75-78%?! Maybe 90% 😁

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Oh I see enough liberals tearing their hair out with anger and frustration to believe it’s definitely not 90%.

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Me too!!!

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The pollster Richard Baris seems to agree with Reuters. Baris has called the last three presidential elections more accurately than bigger, better known pollsters. (People's Pundit @You Tube or @Locals)

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Thank you for indulging me! 🤣👏

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Also, for those who prefer to stay off X:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/tds-full-swing-cnns-kate-bolduan-struggles-reality/

you can watch the video imbedded in the article without leaving it.

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Super Happy commenter beat me to it. In the X clip, it's at 2:33 where she almost injures her eyeballs. In this YouTube clip, it's at the 1:00 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAG4Z_AwNfs&t=41s Her severe TDS causes the symptom of profound eyerolling and doubt over the news that Trump's popularity is soaring because he's actually keeping campaign promises, and doing it quickly.

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💪💪💪

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How is it possible that these people STILL don't get it? Her reaction of disbelief is precisely the reason they lost and they refuse, absolutely REFUSE, to engage in any self-reflection. Keep it up, smug CNN anchoress. Keep. It. Up.

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The federal "work-from-home" contract that I am familiar with requires that if a child is present in the home there must be another person there caring for the child. I worked with a woman in the 90's when the work from home programs started. She brazenly falsified her work reports and was caring for her children during work hours. Naturally, when her work began popping up on timeliness reports she got caught. They gave her an offer she couldn't refuse: quit and return her pay or face federal prosecution. She quit and had to return what she had been paid over the months that she had been working from home.

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I just commented that my husband had an employee like that. He didn't want to return to the office because he has an autistic child at home. They also fired employees for double dipping. It was common for people to work 2 full time jobs. When they do that, one job always suffers.

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Pretty sure most of us are thinking; they should be happy they even have a job.

The obvious solution : Shut up and Go find someone else who will allow you to telecommute otherwise go back to work like the rest of the world.

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