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Jeff Childers's avatar

ERRATA

— Clarified Abbott's letter is from 2022 — the action was all yesterday. (I'd originally included the date in the screenshotted letter but removed it for brevity before posting.)

— RAND Paul properly named

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J Hess's avatar

Still begs the question...if he made this declaration almost a year ago, why has the situation at the TX border continued to get worse? Why is he tweeting about agents cutting the wire instead of arresting them?

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YYR's avatar

States can expel feds if they want. Seems like the obvious next move. Other states may need to send national guard reinforcements to shore up Texas. But the rest of the border is wide open.

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Chevrus's avatar

At some I imagine that citizens are going to say enough is quite enough. Mass deputization? Dunno, but millions streaming across the border cant go on indefinitely.....

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

has been going on for 50 years or so in Europe, to a point that even 10 years or more ago, some German school children were molested by Turkish immigrant children, they being more than 70 % of the population

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

that woman from NM certainly won't be any help. I am pretty sure no help from AZ either. CA is out of the question. Any others?

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Amy C.'s avatar

DeSantis had stated last year that FLA would send their national guard to help Texas defend the border. Is offer still on table?

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

no idea but he is probably the only one to help. I am not familiar with the govt in Miss, Ok, Al or any of the more inland states. I doubt if our Kemp GA would lift a finger.

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Concerned mom's avatar

NEW YORK SHOULD SEND THEIR NATIONAL GUARD TO TEXAS, OR CONTINUE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING A SANCTUARY STATE!!!

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

and all the rich people from martha's vineyard who refused the illegals ! and all the other cities that want to let them in, but don't want them there in their cities ! It is no secret that lots of criminals come into the country. I have nothing against decent people, I have 3 mexican families in our small street, they are very nice, hard working people. But that are the ones the govt is targeting and the crap keeps coming in.

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MsReid's avatar

And I heard today that there is some kind of program where illegals in Mexican towns can arrange to be flown to any city of their choice in the U.S. Is that right?? How is this possible???

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Don’t doubt that at all; “someone” is bussing them to various places. Seems it’s small towns (or was) bc they have less clout to shout from roof tops.

In our small town a mom of elementary school age children told me that every week another”migrant” student shows up. Trickle. Trickle.

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CAM's avatar

I don't think states can arrest Federal agents who are acting within Federal jurisdiction (the national border) without express authorization from the Federal government. That said, they can certainly block access within the state to any resources and/or roads to get to that border, thereby making it highly inconvenient for Federal agents to go about their activities. There are likely a whole bunch of agreements between Texas and the Feds that were created over the years to address these matters, but we'll see what shakes out.

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Elaine Seinfeld's avatar

DEFUND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

You mean defund the Lobbyists.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Will never happen--unless we go to war! They have the "nukes"...so guess who would "win"!

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GG's avatar

An AI poem in the style of Dr. Seuss:

Shooty shooty pew pew pew!

Let's all learn what guns can do!

Liberals in the USA

Love to nod their heads and say,

"You bought your guns from a store!

You can't fight a civil war!

Fight the army, you will lose!

They have jets and tanks to use!"

That's not where the story ends!

They have homes, and kids, and friends!

Tyrants threaten you with bombs?

Just remember: they have moms!

You can't live inside your jet!

Can we find you? Yes, you bet!

You'd send soldiers and marines

Up against AR-15s?

They're outnumbered ten to one.

That is why I need a gun.

Don't forget, because it's true:

Government is scared of you.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Beautiful thoughts and wittily arranged; however the people behind the curtains calling the shots around the world could care less about killing mothers and children. They are BEASTS - not humans! I know now that, in the Bible when it mentions the "Beast" (the cartel/cabal/technocratic powermongers) and the "False Prophet" (MSM) are working overtime to DEpopulate the entire world. It is dreadful and satanic--and only Yeshua...the TRUE "LION KING OF JUDAH" will be able to clean up the "mess" that humans have made of His creation.

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Roger Beal's avatar

He or she who can hack F35 avionics, that's who will win.

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Annie's avatar

Texas teenagers? 😂

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Neil Kellen's avatar

a handful of box cutters took down the twin towers

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Grandma Bear's avatar

So they say.🧐

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Amuzed_Traveler's avatar

like most everything else, I've become skeptical of that claim

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Annie's avatar

Nah, they probably "lost" those too

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

I just watched a Netflix series called Ingobernable. about the Mexican political/crime/cartel entanglements. This is a trailer and it's not in English but the series is dubbed in English - this might explain a lot of what goes on between Mexico & the U.S.... Here is the trailer:https://youtu.be/vOnnAs2NfUQ?si=1d5sjzqtiboba5bo

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daverkb's avatar

Jurisdiction is always over an area of land defined by borders. Federal jurisdiction, strictly speaking is Washington, D.C., federal lands like fort, military bases, etc. Since the Federal Government is apostate its organic constitution, the Federal Government assumes these days that its projection is everywhere. And I'm sorry, the Commerce Clause is not an unbridled excuse for the Federal Power to do all the unconstitutional things it does.

In any event, agents of the Federal Government has to cross state borders to enter into a state.

This matter of jurisdiction requires a lot of looking into, especially where the Federal Government is concern. And as to how things really work.

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CAM's avatar

Right, which is why I pointed out that the state can block access through their jurisdiction, though there may be longstanding agreements stating that Texas cannot, under any circumstances, inhibit that access. I'm sure this will all come to light as litigation ensues. I'm also curious just how far the Federal jurisdiction extends from the border; 1/2-mile? Been years since I did any work down there but recall they have some arrangement.

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J Boss's avatar

I'm not sure that's right. Posse Commitas act was intended to force the federal govt to request permission to enter a state to assist. Just tell them we got it.

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devoalan's avatar

That's a state border first, not a federal border.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

Aren’t there special provisions concerning the terms of Texas statehood? Different from all the rest? I believe Texas was the only sovereign nation to become a state.

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J Boss's avatar

Does this really matter at this point? It's not like Grandma Garland enforces the law. He enforces tyranny, which respects no law.

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Carolyn's avatar

They the FBI have no authority at the border. What they are doing is breaking the law. Vandalism,,destroying state property..adding and abetting...preventing a state from protecting g its citizens

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Dick's avatar

Just a few thoughts here on the Fed govt. vs Texas NG re the border.

—-The Fed govt is already violating their first constitutional (highest Law of the land) obligation to DEFEND the border as well as disobeying other standing laws that comport with these obligations.

— The state of Texas is lawfully ENFORCING the above.

— Posse Comitatus

(???)

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So, Would the administration deploy either regular armed forces or another state’s NG? Of course. They have already demonstrated their disregard for the Constitution and constitutionally lawful legislation and SCOTUS rulings. Why would they do differently here?

The question to me is whether the soldiers would honor their oath to the Constitution and what could ensue. Fine points of law are in play, along with the lives of an already beleaguered and betrayed people.

That’s for greater minds than mine to tackle. I hope and pray that right will be done.

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CAM's avatar

We've used US military along the Border in the past; I was part of one of those month-long deployments where we used both Infantry on the ground and helicopters in the air (AH-64 and UH-60) running night missions to assist Border Patrol. We operated out of Ft. Huachuca, which was close enough to the border where we didn't require lodging to be provided by the state or anyone else (Posse Comitatus). Our Rules of Engagement were that we could not so much as fire a weapon in their (illegal migrants or cartel militia) unless we were actually being shot; not just "shot at" but actually hit by opposing fire.

It's a slight tangent, I know, but relevant in the sense that folks often argue about whether or not to send military to the Border, whether it's legal or Constitutional, moral, etc. We've done it before (my unit was neither the first, nor the last) and the public was never aware.

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Dick's avatar

Thank you, Cam. I appreciate your voice & experience.

Just to clarify, I know that military has been and can be at the border. But this time the state troops would be defending the border and the fed troops would be there to stop them from defending their state. (Long overdue, at that, as we all know.)

I thought we were discussing that possible confrontation.

What are your thoughts?

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

My thoughts exactly - why?

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Roger Beal's avatar

Why? Because Texas' governor is Abbott, that's why.

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A splinter in your mind's avatar

Probably because he is bought and paid for just like every other ‘politician’ in the USSA?

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Mrs. Miau Miau's avatar

Also, Dr. Umair Shah is a “He”.

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T Kosse's avatar

So, does that negate your earlier comments?

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Jeff Childers's avatar

No. The declaration was made in mid November 2022, but Abbott has been slow to act. Conservatives have complained it was only a paper tiger (which is why we haven't discussed it much before). Abbott's actions yesterday show the prior declaration is (now) live.

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Annie's avatar

I think now that the rinos led by the Bush cabal have been defeated and exposed as the traitors they are with the acquittal of AG Paxton, Abbott better move his rino butt bigly. MAGA is not backing down. AG Paxton has let them know he's back. Go Texas patriots! FJB and F the rinos too!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree! Had the same thought. I wondered how much the Paxton acquittal played into the timing of this.

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BBS's avatar

Yeah, it put Abbott on notice. Isn't it disgusting that the people in charge, basically, have to have a gun put to their heads before they will do their job.

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Peter d'Errico's avatar

metaphorically speaking...

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Hello300's avatar

I bet Paxton composed the letter for Abbott’s signature while he was on unpaid leave during the trial. Edited:UNpaid

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Lori's avatar

Paxton claimed on Tucker Carlson’s Twitter interview that Paxton was on UNpaid leave since Memorial Day.

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Annie's avatar

Big time.

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Chelie's avatar

Agree, you just said what I was going to.

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Mary H.'s avatar

Abbott has been all talk and no action up to this point. I just read about an immigrant city north of Houston near the Woodlands called Colony Ridge . It is the fastest growing development in the US right now with over 70,000 illegals and is the size of Washington DC !!

Why would Abbot allow this !!?

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Shari Ray's avatar

Glenn Beck reported on it… where’s the outrage???

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Mary H.'s avatar

EXACTLY!!!

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Annie's avatar

He is a rino.

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KateT's avatar

Money!

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FreeBird07's avatar

Blackmail??? Do they have pictures or something of nefarious activities???

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Mary H.'s avatar

Perhaps Texans should start impeachment process for not upholding his oath of office?

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Freebird's avatar

I remember this declaration from 2022, but then - nothing. We’ve all been asking…What’s going on? Why has Abbott taken so long to act upon this? The timing is interesting to me, in that immediately after Ken Paxton’s acquittal, which brought forth a substantial uprising of conservatives in Texas…suddenly Abbott acts! He knows that we’re not happy with his leadership or lack there of.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

Yes, the Paxton impeachment has been going all year. Then they suspended him from working for 3 months leaving Texas without an AG. Paxton was neutralized for most of 2023. This is crippling when fighting the Fed gov.

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Carolyn's avatar

Convenient wasn't it

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YYR's avatar

Or he has his AG back online to fight the upcoming WH legal challenges...

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Freebird's avatar

Possibly. Although he’s been weak and shown a RINO skin in other areas. He went along with far too many imposed covid restrictions. Our Texas rules weren’t draconian blue state by any means, but they were much worse than they should’ve been and harmful to small business. It reminded me so much of the go-along to get-along style of Bush, which I’ve learned to detest. That’s been the making of the Uniparty situation we have in government.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

The Uniparty started with the "Elder Bush" who--if you remember-- was Director of the CIA as well as the head of the RNC for many years. He was a despot in "sheep's clothing". I at one time thought of him with high esteem because of his valor in WW II! NO MORE!!

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Dick's avatar

…and in the process all the enemies-of-the-people in Texas were exposed for everyone to see.

I suspect Paxton was blocked from executing his NG deployment. Someday we’ll know. But in the meantime, his exportation of people now overwhelming the sanctuary states was yuge.

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Credenda's avatar

Go Texas!!!

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GG's avatar

Do you think the delay in action is what allowed him to make his announcement yesterday where the Biden administration couldn't do anything about it? I guess what I'm asking is, did he allow that time to go by for the Biden admin to do egregious things like cutting razor wire while Abbot himself sent illegals to sanctuary states? I heard Tucker Carlson complain bitterly about Abbott's lack of action, saying he could have secured the border ages ago but didn't have the will to. I am curious if the Abbot admin was just allowing the Biden admin and federal government to hang themselves before he acted? I can't decide if waiting this long is shrewd or stupid.

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Padrig's avatar

Do you think that Abbott's timing has anything to do with the recent acquittal of the Texas AG?

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Sunlover's avatar

Does anyone ever wonder if the Handmaid’s Tale is actually going to turn out to be fiction?

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Sunlover's avatar

LOL - I meant turn out to be non-fiction!

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TriTorch's avatar

The Anthem of SADS Victims

Vaxxer, Vaxxer, so obsessed, wore your mask and took your tests

Still got Covid, every strain - spike proteins in every vein…

Short of breath at twenty four, "Dr. Fauci, give me more!"

Swollen heart at twenty five, "thank Moderna I’m alive!"

Heart attack at twenty six, prayed to Pfizer for a fix.

Vaxxer, Vaxxer, death is lurking,

Doctor says, “That means it’s working.”

Died of SADS at twenty seven, all good Vaxxers go to heaven

Obituary headline noted: "Anti-Vaxxer Dies of Covid."

Family is quite dismayed, but they don't feel one bit betrayed

They all claim, “Its for the better – Without the vax, he would be deader.”

—Anonumous (Modified)

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Jeff Childers's avatar

👏

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Sal_Peenx's avatar

Wow!!! Yes yes for the applause. Great poem. Sarcasm reigns in the age of BIZARRO MEDICINE AND well...EVERYTHING. I LOVE THE ANTI-ANTI VACCINE phraseology. BRILLIANT!

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Thats the poem I have been looking for....for a front lawn sign. (will need a few backups as it will get removed by some vaxxer no doubt)....

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Clara's avatar

Watch out for bike riding liberal arsonists under cover of darkness.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Need cameras trained on that sign!

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Roger Beal's avatar

Gunsight cameras might level the playing field quicker.

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RunningLogic's avatar

😆

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Susan Banks's avatar

Put it on your Roof!! Haha

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Debbie Beatty's avatar

1984 has been in practice for the entire history of vaccines. And governments, for that matter.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

Cool shirts!

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Hello300's avatar

Got my shirt in black. Fun to wear and fun educating the young who are the ones who ask me about the little known Orwell school.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

got that one - and all of the sharyll attkissons and mark oshinskie and 2 from Jeff's and last week a Novax Djokovic. Still looking for more LOL

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Susan Clack's avatar

I just copied/pasted that to Facebook. I’m sure it’ll go over like a poot in church, but anyway...thank you for posting it!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️🔥🔥🔥💔💔💔

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Cecilia's avatar

Susan Gluck if you poot in church you have to sit in your own pew.

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OnTheJump's avatar

Facebook'll remove it in......half a day.

"Community Standards", dontcha know.

Half a day - because they're slow.

For a poem like that, you'll have to pay.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

wonder if elon would allow it. but i am not on either facebook or twitter

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Susan Clack's avatar

Ahhhhh, you are a poet! I did not know it. But your feet did. They’re Longfellows!? Sorry, I had to come back & edit my comment. 🤪🙁🙁

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FourWinds's avatar

I'm printing this and hanging it up (off camera) at work. Bets are open for how long it will take for it to come down.

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TriTorch's avatar

FourWinds, here is the full original before I extracted the white meat and polished it a bit. You may find something worth adding from this to the version you post. My money is on it lasting on the wall at your office ... 3 minutes ... tops:

“Vaxxer, Vaxxer, so obsessed, Wore your mask and took your tests. Still got Covid, every strain, Spike proteins inside your brain… Short of breath at twenty four, Dr. Fauci, give me more!” Proteins tangle and misfold, Myocarditis taking hold… Swollen heart at twenty five, “Thank Moderna I’m alive!” But there’s no cure for the clot, Getting worse with every shot… Heart attack at twenty six, Prayed to Pfizer for a fix. Vaxxer, Vaxxer, death is lurking, Doctor says, “That means it’s working.”… Died of SADS at twenty seven, All good Vaxxers go to heaven. Obituary headline noted: Anti-Vaxxer Dies of Covid.”… His family is quite upset, But they’re alive, at least as yet. And, they say, “Its for the better – Without the vax, he would be deader.” Anon

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Dick's avatar

Just omit this:

“Obituary headline noted: Anti-Vaxxer Dies of Covid.”…

His family is quite upset, But they’re alive, at least as yet.

(Too wordy. )

Now ends with:

…“Died of SADS at twenty seven,

All good Vaxxers go to heaven.

…And, they say, “Its for the better

– Without the vax, he would be deader.’ “

~Anon

Fixed???

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Peter d'Errico's avatar

agreed... That line meant to be ironic exposé of corporate media, but adds possible confusion....

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Dick's avatar

Yep. Not confusing to me, but out of sync w/ the sense and meter. I like the flow much better with it simply cut.

Maybe anonymous will write another & run with it.

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Levans's avatar

The last part doesn't make sense but the rest is great

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Melissa S's avatar

The last line is the best part!

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Susan's avatar

They believed the lie that without the jab, they would be dead.

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CStone's avatar

But it says ‘anti-vaxxer’

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Susan's avatar

ALSO: Those who have died of Covid, despite getting numerous injections, they label it as non-vaxxed to scare people into getting vaxxed, look this up, I have heard it multiple times now already from several sources. They lie about his status and good luck getting that narrative to change!

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FourWinds's avatar

Very cool, thank you!!

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RunningLogic's avatar

😆

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Susan Banks's avatar

You gotta put a camera on that?

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FourWinds's avatar

No, what I meant was a lot of my work area is on camera so the bosses can see who does what, but part of the employee area is not on camera. If I hang it up where it is off camera, no one will know who did it.... but then again, they might, because I have not made my opinion about the scamdemic a secret. 😆

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RJ Rambler's avatar

SAD but True.

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Jenn's avatar

Is that a pun? 😆 Oh, wait, that would be SADS but true.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Thanks for noticing. 😁

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Bitesandpieces's avatar

Copied for future use. 👏👏👏👏

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CStone's avatar

MYbe one change.

Vaxxer, vaxxer dies of covid, instead of anti-vaxxer......?????

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TriTorch's avatar

That stuck me as wrong at first as well, CStone, until I realized it's actually a deliberate reflection of the never-ending backward lies from the media surrounding this scam. These images sums it up nicely: https://tritorch.com/degradation/mediaMindControl10.jpg

https://tritorch.com/JournalismsNadir.png

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Peter d'Errico's avatar

yes... thoughtful line, but still potentially confusing...

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On an island's avatar

Love love love it!! Truer words have not been spoken.

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Sherry 1's avatar

Love it - SO true about no-one in families SAY what cause of death IS. I surmise that Pharma gets to these families FAST and pays them off b/c of the ‘celebrity’ platform. Pharma made Billions off the -don’t call it a Vaxx- injections sold worldwide. Tax dollars paid to develop it and b/c Governments bought them, taxpayers paid also for the privilege of being poisoned. Quite the deal for Pharma.

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A splinter in your mind's avatar

I searched for a 'rebuttal' to your excellent poem and found the following:

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/poetry-prevention

LOL, if the strength of an argument is to be measured by the excellence of its prose, you've just scored a huge W. :>)

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RunningLogic's avatar

That is amazing, thanks for sharing!

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Debbie Beatty's avatar

Most excellent!

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LH01's avatar

Brilliant!

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Jean James's avatar

Love this!

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JW's avatar

Excellent! Bravo!!!

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ENCmd's avatar

😭

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Donna in MO's avatar

Oh the tide IS turning on the DEI issue. About ~30 of us (not nearly enough, but progress) sensible people showed up for a presentation by our city's D&I (they took out equity as they decided that was a polarizing word) committee, that ended with a recommendation to hire a BELONGING Strategist for $125K. One of my council people (her name is Faith, she is the youngest one too!) tore into them - 30 MINUTES of Q&A as to their report and recommendations, despite efforts by our lefty mayor to shut her down, we in the gallery clapped loudly throughout and protested his interference. 5 more of the 8 typically weak kneed Council people then took courage, and threw in their own less than enthusiastic remarks. The Belonging Strategist position went down in flames. Oh this isn't over. The mayor is now going to hold a 'work session' in the hopes we go away and stop paying attention. (Not if I have anything to do about it) Faith was not on the Council when this D&I Committee was formed in 2020 during the Summer of Peaceful Protests, and NOT ONE person on the council voted no on forming this committee. PROGRESS!

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Susan Catherine's avatar

At first I laughed at the title "Belonging Strategist" then threw the title into my search engine. That's actually a THING! Good lord. Thank you for putting any fear aside and fighting the hard fights! You're an inspiration.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Oh and my bad, a friend sent me a text and her auto correct changed it to Bologna Strategist! I had said that is what I would call it from here on out and forgot to change it.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Who knew auto correct had such great "freudian slips"!

My favorite one was in a memo I was typing up for our "outbriefing" session after a rather tense IG audit of our particular division of a certain 3-letter federal agency. I typed, "The Outgriefing Session will be held in the main conference room... " Several of my co-workers were highly amused when pointing out my typo. This was back long before there any such thing as auto-correct. We had just gotten typewriters with the correctable tape in them! (Still didn't catch the mistake before the memo went out!) 😂 🤣 Admin folks thought they were fantastic! I became proficient enough to make a mistake, hit backspace, correct and keep right on typing. Ah, the good old days when technology made you life easier, not more complicated, and didn't have the possibility of destroying your life, a la social media, debanking, etc.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Donna in MO's avatar

Yes, tech cuts both ways for sure. And I don't even know what an outbriefing session is but do know grief is part of the equation whenever 3 letter agencies are involved.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Amen to that! In a nutshell, an outbriefing is where the auditor tells you all the ways they found that you have screwed up, and you had better fix the problems or next time you are really going to be in trouble. Sound familiar to anything going on with any government entities today?

Mrs. "the Knife"

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YYR's avatar

BS.

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space's avatar

Bwahaha!

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Roger Beal's avatar

A bologna strategist would actually be a real job. Gotta plan carefully for amount of garlic, correct shade of pink, thickness of rind, diameter etc etc. Such decisions cannot be simply left to chance.

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FreeBird07's avatar

Ewww...bologna! 😆 🤣 😂

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RunningLogic's avatar

🤣😆

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Donna in MO's avatar

They keep changing the words. DEI in our school district is now Belonging and Dignity.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

I recently saw a Belonging Dignity sign posted in a school yard in front. I didn’t realize it was reimagined DEI. This is sneaky evil.

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Donna in MO's avatar

yes, they are re-writing the dictionary. This city council presentation included a paper handout with a glossary of terms that would be right at home in Orwell's 1984. Too bad you can't share attachments on here. But it is making the rounds big time on local social media groups so that is blowing up in their faces.

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Amy C.'s avatar

Another one after DEI, was SEL - Social Emotional Learning (more new lingo to confuse).

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Donna in MO's avatar

Yes, that one actually rolled out first in our district, it sounded so supportive and even some of my more savvy friends embraced it at first. People caught on so changed to DEI, that one started getting pushback, so its now Belonging and Dignity, because it's easy for them to call detractors uncaring and mean.

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Amy C.'s avatar

exactly!

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space's avatar

I am trying (and failing) to not roll my eyes. "Belonging and Dignity" (hurls)

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

But I’m sure some of us “belong” more than others 😏

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Neil Kellen's avatar

Belonging: you belong to the government

Dignity: keep toeing the line and you will be fine; step across it and you will pay

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Shari Ray's avatar

You’ve got to be KIDDING!!!

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Donna in MO's avatar

From the district website:

Dignity Meetings/Teams

Student Dignity Team: To engage LSR7 students in collective conversation about dignity, belonging and inclusion in our school system. Hosted by Assistant Superintendent of Equity & Student Services and held 3x a year.

Staff Dignity Team: To engage LSR7 staff in collective conversation about dignity, belonging and inclusion in our school system. Hosted by Assistant Superintendent of Equity & Student Services and held 3x a year.

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OnTheJump's avatar

🤮

ENOUGH!

We passed 'ridiculous' quite a while ago, and absurd is still in the rear-view mirror.

Holy Crap - we're in ....THE TWILIGHT ZONE !!

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RunningLogic's avatar

*Snort*

Dignity?? Such dignity in being chosen for a job or given easier work because of one’s skin color 🙄

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CStone's avatar

Wow

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Tom's avatar

"BELONGING"

What else would you name a position meant to create Marxist division?

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Donna in MO's avatar

One of our formerly weak council people remarked on the dais that we would be better served by having a UNITY strategist instead of promoting divisiveness, which got him loud applause from our crowd. Funny this guy is probably the most conservative guy up there if you talk to him one on one, but he owns a local insurance biz and so typically plays for the middle so as not to lose clients.

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WP William's avatar

keep funding and serving Commies, they tell Republicans not to feed resentments; what the Fk is their entire racist manipulation programming about if not RESENTMENTS?

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Emumundo's avatar

Belong- whether you want to or not.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

That title does not mean what most people think. Think: the government owns you.

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

Perhaps an homage to Big Mike’s best selling book.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

This is really, really good. You guys are inspiring!

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Donna in MO's avatar

And I will note to everyone else, regardless of where you live. We have been fighting the 'start local' fight for 3 years now. Faith won her election in 2022 using the leftist playbook. Run as a platitude sharing moderate, then step on the gas once elected. We got 2 school board candidates elected in 2022 using this strategy as well, but our 3 candidates this year ended up losing by a nose as the porn in the library issue they took a stand on, led to the leftists calling them book banners. The headline only reading public bought it. I heard book banners at the doors over and over. The left does this in EVERY race in our purplish area. People vote for them as they are 'so nice' and then they turn nasty once they win.

VET your local candidates everyone!!!

I am sure our area is not alone in being victims to this strategy. We have to follow their playbook and stop calling these fake moderate conservative candidates RINOs. (Faith was called that when she ran as she got endorsed by the police and fire unions, fortunately that helped some on the left vote for her and that overcame the purist's objections). And its really encouraging that she is only in her 30s. Helps overcome the 'oh you old folks are out of touch' trope that is often trotted out in these battles.

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Annie's avatar

Give the books as birthday or baby shower gifts to every leftist or dem you know. They will be shocked but hey, they support this crap. Here you go.

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Donna in MO's avatar

This April we are not going to talk about the books, the DEI or any of those issues in the campaign. That can come after they win the election. It's too hard to educate people in an election that only 14% voted this year (and that was an improvement over 12% last April) campaign budgets are very lean, and people have short attention spans. We are going to talk about school safety (discipline issues are a growing problem), reading programs and .whatever other non controversial issues come out of our citizen survey we are running right now. Granted, we can't control candidates stepping in it, but that is our goal.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Those electorate turnout stats explain exactly how this country got where it is today.

"A republic, if you can keep it."

Can I keep it, Mr. Franklin, if I sit at home and play video games or polish my boat or argue about gender for a living?

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Donna in MO's avatar

Biden won only 4 precincts in our city in 2020. Guess which precincts have DOUBLE the overall turnout in local elections? Yep, those 4. Another point I keep hammering. What is the trope about having to hear a message 7 times before it sticks? Now, hearing that with social media that number is even higher. VOTE IN YOUR LOCAL ELECTIONS!!! Some in the legislature want to push moving local elections to November to help turnout. I am against that as I don't want a bunch of uninformed people picking candidates based on the number of yard signs they see.

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OnTheJump's avatar

Good plan. Good luck.

In a perfect world, reading a month of LIBS OF TIK TOK posts should sway 'em .

But we couldn't be farther from that 'perfect world'.

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Sunlover's avatar

Smart.

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YYR's avatar

Buy used to deny the authors/publishers revenue if possible.

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Annie's avatar

Agree. I just want to shove their prog values in their faces.

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Sunlover's avatar

In Ontario Canada it was reported that a school district decreed over the summer that school libraries must remove ALL books written before 2008 and evaluate every one according to whether they fit in with the current curriculum before going back on the shelves. Apparently this task was so overwhelming schools chose to just send the books to the landfill.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Love this idea 😆😂

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Think of what would happen if more conservatives put some effort into our cause! We can all find excuses for why we can’t get involved and that’s why the left has helped society devolve to where we’re at today. God bless you Donna!!

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Donna in MO's avatar

I swear, if one more person tells me they don't have time to get involved I will scream. I get that some this is a legit excuse. Conservatives tend to have jobs, families, and church involvement which is all laudable and good. But our lone warrior on the council, and our 2 fighting school board members are all young, have full time jobs AND young children. I get tired just thinking about their schedules. If we all do a little it can add up to a lot. I watch committee meetings online while I cook dinner, I send emails while I eat lunch. You can find the time if you are motivated. Just don't tell me about your weekend of binge watching Netflix and follow that with a complaint about some local issue.

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YYR's avatar

Not having kids in public school is NOT an excuse. This is a societal problem. Homeschoolers, private schoolers, seniors and recent grads will have to live with the consequences!

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Donna in MO's avatar

Mine graduated 10 years ago. But as I tell people over and over, so goes the school district, so goes the community. We had one of the top rated school districts in the state ~15 years ago. Oh people still move here for the school district as the PR machine spins 24/7, but despite our population continuing to grow, enrollment is actually lower than it was 10 years ago. Private schools have waiting lists. Homeschooling groups and co-ops are flourishing. Property values are tied to school performance - failing schools still equals failing home values. Local election voter turnout in the last 3 years is over 60% people over age 50, young people don't pay attention much. So I repeat the home values argument over and over.

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YYR's avatar

My Cobb County, GA school Superintendent did an awesome job at our school board meeting in response to objections to pulling a few groomer books. It's been a fight, our county has been under assault, his response was #WINNING: https://www.cobbk12.org/_ci/p/89456

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Donna in MO's avatar

WOW!! Can we steal Chris Ragsdale!? Our superintendent is a total shill for this crap. My sister and her family used to live in Cobb county (Kennesaw) - we used to love going to visit there, it's a beautiful area - although the summers are just as muggy and miserable as they are in MO, lol. Sadly her hubby got shoved out of his job in a merger and ended up taking a job in So Cal and had to put their kids in private schools as there are no Ragsdales there.

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RunningLogic's avatar

That’s so encouraging!!

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

I’m printing your comment here and your comment below and sharing it with my Oregon GOP at our upcoming conference.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Our county GOP has 2 factions - the newish people who just started getting involved in politics in 2020 and they are 'take no prisoners/eliminate RINOs' folks. I call them the purists. And then there are those of us who have been in this game for many years who are more pragmatic - our county is half red to purple suburbs with a lower population than the deep blue KC metro. Hard core conservatives CANNOT win running with those messages in our county. We had an excellent county exec candidate who had been on the legislature for 8 years and had made friends with some of the moderate Ds in town. She got primaried by a purist and managed to defeat him, but the purists still attacked her in the months leading up to the general and she lost to a very corrupt D (that there is now a recall petition circulating against). I 'get' that we are a very red state (in the rural areas) but what resonates in the statewide races is NOT going to play in the local. I wish we could talk sense into some of these people. Some are starting to come around but I am dreading 2024 if we don't get it together soon. Our team on my city and school board race is about 90% there, although there are a couple who still want to push the book issue next year.

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Roger Beal's avatar

The beauty in your approach is in your appropriating the left's trojan horse tactics, as you stated in an earlier comment. Paraphrasing a tad: Campaign on the soft DEI issues, then after elected burn it down. That's straight out of Saul Alinsky ... The One would approve.

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Yes, our candidates got pulled away from the trojan horse strategy this April - thinking if enough people KNEW what was going on with the books they would win. Many on our team agreed. Didn't work, too many people were ignorant of what is really going on and just bought the 'book banning' argument hook line and sinker. But our city and school elections are 'non-partisan' which means most people, save the handful who are really engaged, do not actually know the parties of the candidates. The left used that to their advantage in the decade before covid and got entrenched in not just non partisan elected offices, but in committees, commissions and so on. I saw it and tried to get people engaged, ran in 2018, but lost to a long time incumbent who claims to be an R but all in on things like affordable housing and road diets and such. It took covid to motivate them and now many freaking out saying how did this happen!!! Now I just say, we didn't get here overnight, and will not fix it overnight. Just have to keep building on little victories.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Awesome strategy! So well thought out!

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Donna in MO's avatar

Sharing as other local areas need to learn from this. I guarantee our situation is not unique.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I agree and very much appreciate it!!

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Annie's avatar

Awesome 😁 I ridicule our human resource dept and it's nasty female head for its dei. I am waiting for them to call me out. Bring it on b*tches!

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Donna in MO's avatar

I talked to a guy at a business networking event yesterday who got out of the HR field due to all the rot that he was told to push. Sadly he is in the job market, in his 50s and having a hard time pulling off a career switch.

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Annie's avatar

I have put myself in the cross hairs of their wrath because if I lose my job, oh well. I am fighting for what's right and for those who can't afford to.

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Donna in MO's avatar

I have been self employed for 23 years. Granted my income is not what it would be if I had a w-2 job (mainly as I spend too much time on political stuff) but given the shots, the DEI and the other stuff people have to put up with these days, it's a trade-off I am willing to make. Kids are grown and we don't try to keep up with the Jones's.

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Roger Beal's avatar

And ten to one you feel more contented and joyful inside than do any of those Joneses.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Amen! I know people who say they can't afford to lose their job who also have so much stuff in their 2 and 3 car garages that they can't fit their cars in there.

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

There are groups out there who post about jobs for people who don’t follow the narrative, don’t get the jab, etc.. For instance, this is the Clay Cross link. https://timetofreeamerica.com/no-jab-jobs/

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Donna in MO's avatar

Rats, I failed to get his card. Hopefully he will be at next month's event.

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Well, Clay Cross is the ultimate business networking conservative consultant. He should check around on their website too.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I’m sure they wouldn’t dare,, they know they’d lose because you’re too bad*ss for them 😁

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Kim D's avatar

Thanks for your courage and for your stand for freedom.

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Emumundo's avatar

Asch conformity experiment at its finest! It only takes ONE brave person to stand up to change the tide.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Great job, Donna, and keep fighting! We can’t let up for a minute! I appreciate everything you’re doing!

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Donna in MO's avatar

I have to say, this win was super critical. Our little band of warriors was shrinking due to a seat flipped D in Nov state race, April school board race, and a property tax relief bill getting defeated in the county. People were starting to throw up their hands and lose hope, me included. Hundreds and hundreds of hours and not making progress. People are now fired up. I bet we get double the crowd at the work session.

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MaryAnn's avatar

God is on the move!

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space's avatar

Bravi, bravi, bravi! WELL DONE!

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Copernicus's avatar

Yay for you guys! Keep up the good work!

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cat's avatar

Bravo!

Is that a "work" session or a "woke" session?

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Donna in MO's avatar

A friends auto correct changed belonging to bologna. So a woke session to discuss the bologna strategist.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

That is wonderful news! What state and city?

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Donna in MO's avatar

Lee's Summit, MO - it was a 6 hour meeting but Faith's part starts at the ~3 hour mark at https://lsmo.granicus.com/player/clip/3959?view_id=18&redirect=true&h=171b49ee6afcd6a2e91eade39a0f7596

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daverkb's avatar

Excellent! This method is the best approach!

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JP Spatzier's avatar

Awesome work

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Dick's avatar

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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RunningLogic's avatar

Excellent work, bravo!! 👏👏👏

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”

— John 3:19-21

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

— John 8:12

NASB1995

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Susan Seas's avatar

Perfect scripture for this mornings UN news! What they do is the darkness is coming to light. Praise God 🙌🏻 Lord continue to protect us from this evil.

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

“Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.”

— Jesus, in Matthew 10:26

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Lorita's avatar

Amen!

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RJ Rambler's avatar

He has already for eternity. We are only seeing the shadow of evil. Hell is where evil dwells ALONE.

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Kim D's avatar

When the dark deeds are exposed and brought to LIGHT, Satan and his minions must change course. Onward Christian Soldiers always comes to my mind and as the hymn goes, At the sign of triumph, Satan's host doth flee, On then Christian soldiers, on to victory!

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Roger Beal's avatar

One little word shall fell him.

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Shawn Pitcher's avatar

I think its important to be aware and recognize that we all cast a shadow while walking in the light. Thus evil always follows us yet can serve as a motivator to keep moving forward.

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Mary H.'s avatar

AMEN! Be the Light !!

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CStone's avatar

The Light that shined in Goshen, while Egypt was covered in a darkness that could be felt.

Ah-mazing!!!!

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

Thanks for the reminder of that. I had to go back and read it again. Never mind that I just read it earlier in the year! 😝🙄

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C Rabbit's avatar

It's NOT an "anti-vaccine political movement". It's a common sense movement based on provable data that the vaccines do not work as intended and in fact are killing people. Everything need not be political today.

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Alison Smith's avatar

But it is based along political lines. Liberals and ultra liberals are rabidly pro-vax now. Conservatives are opening their eyes to what vaccines really do and how big pharma benefits from them.

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Janet's avatar

I was pretty liberal and a dem and saw the crap coming our way. I turned off MSM April 2020. I already knew about many of the health sector lies concerning treatment’s, nutrition and pharmaceuticals. It was a slow process but by august 2021 I was red-pilled. Took off the mask for good and let the truth roll all over me. Maybe I’m rare since the only others I know personally like me are conservatives or GOP. However, I see a Uniparty and repudiate both sides. Our salvation will not come from politicians. Rand Paul? He got attention and likes. Preening for his tribe. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Most, if not all here anyway, have gone thru some great awakenings or at least some shakings where we’ve either changed our minds on many issues or solidified positions in areas we questioned for quite some time.

Injections for one (probably the main one from which many others flow).

My then 10-11yr. old son was prescribed allergy shots (he’s 50+ now) after extensive allergy testing. Not a whiner he really complained abt the shots (they burn!); after investigating I’m told it’s the Thimerosal which is a preservative which ultimately was removed. But what replaced it? I’m sorry to say I don’t remember. I had trusted medical “experts” but the crack had opened somewhat.

Fast forward; I learn that aluminum is usually 1st ingredient listed in cv19 shots & many other vials of whatever. Wait! what? Years ago we learned to avoid aluminum- choose deodorants with no aluminum which is linked to Alzheimer’s.

All to say the covid nightmare has more fully awakened many to the diabolical alliance of Big Pharma, the once trusted medical community, & our not on our side government.

Liberal, Conservative, Independent- we are now more educated & aware; fool us once....

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JSR's avatar

Thimerasol is still used in some vaccines... the flu vaccines and others.. they usually rename things to confuse and cover.... for example polio= transverse myelitis= guillien barre...

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CStone's avatar

Thank you for this information.

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Janet's avatar

Agreed. The awake are forming a group, awake in even different ways, but awake nevertheless and there is more power in this. Together we will win. My 51 yr old daughter only got a few vaccines but her kid—the works. I believe my grandchild was injured neurologically by the HPV. No one should ever get these. Also the Prolia jabs for bone density. I researched because I may be offered that by a doc. They are potential nightmares. Also, they make bones denser but more brittle. Plus a host of even more scary problems. A class action suit is being assembled on these. I had allergy shots for awhile in the early 1960’s. No more jabs ever. Your child is blessed to have you awake. I was told by my daughter last year to not send anything about any of this anymore. At least she hasn’t disowned me. My sister did but apologized and stopped shunning me but I have to be careful about what I say around her. She’s got a mouth on her and is in thrall to CNN.

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Fred's avatar

Strontium ranelate (the only one that works for osteoporosis) had some excellent studies before it was banned, ostensibly because of increased pulmonary emboli and heart attacks. IDK; can theorize how it might, but don’t really believe it. Used to be recommended in EU; now only with exception. Went the way of the active component of red yeast rice.

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Fred's avatar

Articles at your request. :)

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On an island's avatar

That’s exactly about the timeframe in early 2020 when everything turned upside down for me too as a moderate liberal. I was somewhat of an antivaxxer before, but now i’m a proud antivaxxer and solidly conservative. It’s been a real awakening with many unsettling days!

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MaryAnn's avatar

I have watched a young couple keep their child jab-free. It has been a constant battle to ensure the child’s participation in group activities, school enrollment, lessons, etc. I admire their vigilance. 🙏🏻

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Fred's avatar

Please share any insight on how they manage this. Pvt docs and home school; anything else?

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MaryAnn's avatar

Mom is a stay-at-home mom—she left her job when the on-site daycare would not allow their daughter to attend without all childhood jabs. That was the beginning of the challenges. Being grounded in their faith, they have a support system of like-minded families. Those families pool their knowledge base about religious exemptions, which organizations are accommodating to ‘pure blood kids’, etc. Their daughter takes dance lessons and that keeps her busy outside of school.

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JSR's avatar

Courage like a lion!

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Jen's avatar

There's most definitely a uniparty. It's always encouraging though when you see the traitors on our side getting booed. It means people are awake and see it on both sides.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Should you ever desire to make a deep dive into the history of the UniParty and how it has (among other things) weaponized most government agencies against the populace, start here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/

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Annie's avatar

Welcome to the critical thinkers. 🥰 Your observations are 💯.

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Read through Naomi Wolfe’s substack, the early posts where she recognizes that she’s on the wrong side. She gets publicly flogged but comes out stronger on the other side.

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KGer's avatar

Rand Paul is a windbag, I stopped listening to him long ago.

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

I like Rand more than just about anyone in the Senate! He speaks out on our behalf; took Dr Feces to task many times.

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Bryan Dair's avatar

He had Fauci down for the count, and he let him off the hook.

Fauci lied in Congressional hearings, but was never held accountable.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

I *used to* like Rand Paul. Supported him for years, including his 2016 presidential campaign.

Then he said (paraphrase) "We just don't have enough evidence to impeach Pres. Biden."

Never again. He's a fraud.

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CStone's avatar

Rand Paul, same as Trey Gowdy.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Yep. A little less talk and a LOT more action.

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ENCmd's avatar

Would be good to listen to the answers of those he questions in hearings. His actions help humans. That’s all I care about in an elected person.

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Roger Beal's avatar

What started the "Covid mess" was the decision by the US government, nearly two decades ago, to fund gain-of-function research and offshore the work, in order to hide dangerously anti-human activities from a disapproving Congress. The Covid mess has sweet eff all to do with crypto. Please do your homework.

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Jeff C's avatar

I don't think they are rabidly pro-vax, but are rabidly in favor of doing what they are told to do by the leftist leaders. It's not just the vax, but all the "public health" measures (masking, lock downs, distancing), support for Ukraine, teaching perversion in schools, etc.

Once the orders come down, they dutifully fall in line regardless of how insane or nonsensical the order is. They are completely consumed by fear and have lost the ability to think for themselves. And when the "experts" say a certain behavior is required to allegedly prevent something awful (covid, Russian invasion, trans suicides, etc.) they lap it up without a shred of critical thought.

The vax thing is just a side issue. Virtually none of the libs have actually studied the vax issue in any depth and could give a coherent defense of their support. It's just what they've been told to do by those in charge, so they do it.

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Jen's avatar

That's exactly what I think. I don't think they think about anything critically at all before they hop on any and all ridiculous bandwagons. You put it on the news? They'll do it. It's shocking and horrifying to watch. But these shots are russian roulette. If there are truly 20% taking them every time a new one comes around there won't be a large base of them left for very long.

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Jeff C's avatar

I work with a fellow chief engineer, a bright and nice guy with a PhD. But he's a liberal (though he generally keeps politics to himself at work) and dutifully follows every public health order. He double masked when told to by the media and was one of the first to get a booster.

When the covid hysteria ramped up about a month ago, he again dutifully put on a mask as he was told to do by the media. However, no one else did. We had a big design review that week and he was the only masked person in a room full of fifty people. People couldn't hear what he was saying and of course he looked ridiculous. It lasted about three days then the mask disappeared and hasn't returned.

So there is hope for liberals (as opposed to neurotic brain dead leftists) and peer pressure does work. Many of these people are followers and will stop if other people refuse and they feel silly and isolated.

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Celayne Jones's avatar

I (cruelly) like to make the masked repeat themselves at least once, maybe twice or thrice. They may think I’m just old and deaf, but there’s always the faint hope they if enough of us do it, they will figure it out.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I do that too 😆

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Roger Beal's avatar

Brilliant! Educating libs via embarrassment!

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Jen's avatar

You're right - there is a distinction between liberals and leftists. And there is maybe still some hope for liberals...look how many have been red pilled just from covid. Still, I am having a hard time with those that won't stand up when they know in their hearts something is clearly wrong. This stuff happening with the children for example...that should be an obvious one for them to take a stand and yet they are not standing up to leftists and allowing them to continue to mutilate young children and read smut to them in the libraries. They know it's wrong and yet they say nothing.

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Jeff C's avatar

As Matt Walsh says, we live in the Age of Cowardice.

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CStone's avatar

I see barely a smidgen of difference between liberals and leftists. And RINOS are demonRATS who ran as Republicans then vote as RATS. They never were Conservatives. We need to run true Conservatives as ‘middle of the road’ RATS,

as one commenter shared above. Take back control.

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CStone's avatar

It truly is spiritual.

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Becky's avatar

Had dinner with three liberals, one of whom lives in France. She described how the government there “let people go outside” for 30 minutes each day during lockdowns. I was about to say what utter rot that was when I realized the others at the table were nodding in approval, saying how wonderful it was that the French government cared so much about its citizens. I went ahead and condemned the action, but they all knew I was unvaccinated and a conservative, so they just smiled knowingly among themselves as if communicating “what else could you expect from Becky!” It’s the smirking self-righteousness that blocks their reasoning, I think.

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MayBella82's avatar

My BIL is one of the smug ones and makes comments to me ... I just ignore them. He got jabbed a little over a week ago and is now in ICU. Has been since Sunday. He was healthy prior to the jabs. If they told him in the hospital, he needed another booster, he would do it. It boggles the mind!

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Jeff C's avatar

Maybe it's just me but I don't put up with people who smugly needle or try to shame me. I would never do it to them, why should I put up with it when they do it to me?

I don't argue with them but cut them out of my life. Period. Fortunately my wife and I are in total agreement on this. If people can't be civil to one another, can't respect other's personal opinions, and can't control their mouths for the sake of family serenity, then they get the persona non grata treatment. End of story.

My sister is a well-meaning liberal but we all agree to not talk politics and be respectful of each other when we are together. I love seeing her as she's a thoughtful and bright person. We just don't talk about stuff that might upset each other. Seems pretty simple to me.

Life is way to short to put up with abusive buffoons. I don't understand this idea that we are supposed to smile and just take it when people are obnoxious to us. Don't argue with them, just leave if they keep it up. People that try and make other people feel guilty are manipulating SOB's and are acting in bad faith. No one is obligated to put up with this.

All I can figure is many people were raised by parents (or Catholic school nuns in my case) who tried to manipulate them through shame and guilt and have never gotten past it. I was fortunate that I recognized the pernicious effect of it as a young adult. Now when I see it, it's an automatic red flag that the person is toxic. We leave immediately.

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Jen's avatar

wow, sad. See what I mean? That 20% that is still seriously taking the death shot after all that we've seen...their days are numbered. We shouldn't even fight with them.

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Becky's avatar

I’m so sorry. We all have stories like this, but it is no use sharing them with the jab takers because EVEN WHEN IT HAPPENS TO THEM they won’t connect the dots. It’s an article of faith with them, but sometimes I think they are happy with little “t” truth while the rest of us are looking for big “T” Truth.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Wow that’s so sad 😕

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Jen's avatar

ugh, I can't stand that smug self righteousness. I've seen that so many times myself. It's the grown up mean girls club. Well, we'll see how far that gets them in these coming years. Hope they enjoy their little cages with their 30 minutes a day of sunlight. Disgraceful.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Same!! That smugness makes me want to throw things 😡

And I know lots of French people who were the same way. One even responded to someone who characterized those measures as “dictatorial” by telling her it wasn’t a dictatorship because people could still criticize the government 🙄

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Annie's avatar

That 20% is in God's hands now.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Sadly I have conservative friends & family who are captives of the covid shot scam. They aren’t ok w/ schools/libraries promoting perversion, thank goodness.

But the “live & let live” times may be gone for most. Apathy is what got us here.

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Jeff C's avatar

I'd guess that your friends are slaves to fear and aren't serious about their Christian faith (assuming they call themselves Christians). The biggest differentiator I've seen between the "conservatives" who buy into the covid fear mongering versus those who don't is trust in God.

Just being a conservative isn't enough to protect one from the constant fear-mongering psy-ops. Those who honestly believe that God is in control, and He has a perfect plan (as the Bible clearly states), are pretty much immune from this stuff.

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STH's avatar

My 96yo mother in law, a devout Catholic, has had every shot and has lived in fear all the past 3/4 years. My husband and I are shocked at her lack of faith. The psyop ran very deep.

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Jeff C's avatar

I was raised Catholic (am an evangelical now) so it's not my place to question people's Catholic beliefs. But I'd ask this, she may be devout but does she trust God? Does she truly believe He has a perfect plan for her life and at death she'll see Jesus? People who truly believe this do not live in fear in my experience.

My father has probably missed Sunday mass less than a handful of times in the last several decades. Yet he is miserable and always complaining. He thinks gossip and bad-mouthing others is a sport. I can say this as an example as no one here knows him. He is as "devout" as they come but Jesus is not Lord of his life based on his behavior. I continue to pray for him.

I mention this as there's a big difference between attending mass to check a box vs. trusting in God. Many Catholics particularly of the older generation (in my experience, not all of course) think they earn salvation through their acts, such as attending church. They are "devout" but never truly submit to God and trust in Him.

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Annie's avatar

Same here. I call them rinos. They are apathetic. They have paid for their apathy.

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JSR's avatar

Some people are hypnotizable... others aren’t... it’s very clear now

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RunningLogic's avatar

Completely agree, well said!

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MaryAnn's avatar

Sounds like a game of ‘Simon Says’.

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Sam's avatar

I saw it happen after Bush left office. The people who were anti war during his tenure flipped to pro war once Obama started continuing the war of terror and invaded and destroyed Libya before he moved on to Syria and other countries.

Anti drones during Bush because of so many civilian casualties to pro drones during Obama because drones saved US lives.

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CStone's avatar

Timothy chapter 3. See if this describes where we are today:

But understand this, that in the last days hard times will come— for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, hardhearted, unforgiving, backbiting, without self-control, brutal, hating what is good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to an outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people! For among these are those who slip into households and deceive weak women weighed down with sins, led away by various desires, always learning yet never able to come to the knowledge of truth.

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TT's avatar

It began in earnest with Trump. MSM (CIA) demonized him so completely, all they had to do was brand an issue onto him, and then the lemmings would be conditioned to have an automatic response against that issue, no thinking required, automatic reaction formation. Now, the “devil” has been expanded to all conservatives or Republicans or MAGA or far right, etc. Media sets up the boogeyman with this issue (anti vax in this case) and the automatons are programmed to vehemently adopt the opposite side.

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RunningLogic's avatar

And the opposite with Obama. No matter what he said or did they had to praise him. Lest they be accused of being a racist!

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Peregrine's avatar

Pretty soon, if it has not happened already, all not-a-progs will be labeled as worthy of re-education camp. All 70% of us.

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Jeff C's avatar

Yup.

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Jen's avatar

I say let them take their shots at this point if they want them so much.

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Alison Smith's avatar

Yes, but they keep trying to force all of the rest of us to take them too.

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Jen's avatar

I hear you - but they are going to lose that fight. Because for most of us it would take a lot more than the threat of not going on a cruise or losing a job to force that death spike into us. Next time they'll need to bring deadly force if they're ready to do that.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

In 2021 there was a push to drop health care and health insurance for people who did not want the shot. They were coming up with multiple ways to punish. Punish.

Get in a car wreck. Oh your not vaxxed. Sorry can’t help you. That extreme position was looming and very possible at that time.

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Jen's avatar

Great point...and whenever people now say "it was never forced" - they're being so disengenuous. There were many ways they were coercing people. Organ transplants were denied. You're right, we have to stay vigilant with this and fight back against every single way they try to use force or coercion or even those silly bribes.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

My wife and I recently decided to forego health insurance entirely.

Saving tons of money and defunding the Medical-Pharma industry at the same time.

WIN-WIN

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Freebird's avatar

I can see that day coming. I have an advantage health plan which works with Medicare. I receive a call almost daily…which I don’t answer. I know they want to ensure that I’m up to date on all things to protect my health. When, and if they learn that I reject those health care measures, my insurance may be history.

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RunningLogic's avatar

The insurance thing has become such a scam 😕

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Why don’t you call the administration and tell them to stop harassing you. Tell them you do not approve phone calls from them? Get it stopped and it’ll help a lot of others also.

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MaryAnn's avatar

Exactly. Reminds me of adolescent cliques—the cool kids are jabbed.🙄

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Except the children, we do what we can to wake up parents.

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FourWinds's avatar

I say let libs believe in their own "science" and take all the kill jabs they want. I have neither the time, energy, or an ounce of determination to stop them. I also just don't give a flying rats behind any more. It's their life and they can screw it up if they want.

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Annie's avatar

I ask all of them now why they're not getting the boosters or new vaccine. Come on! Why aren't they following the science now? They are quiet. Good. Hopefully they realize how dumb they sounded and foolish they were.

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Annie's avatar

Agree. Encourage them to get any and all shots. Cull that herd.

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MaryAnn's avatar

The jabs were politicized the minute then-candidate Harris said she would not trust a jab created by the Trump admin. The Left sowed the seed of division. Now they reap.

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Shawn Pitcher's avatar

Yes! Peel away the anti-vaccine label and what you find is a very strong and healthy an anti-monopoly/anti-fraud movement.

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SA's avatar

Whelp, I guess we can call ourselves up to date on common sense. Imagine being so addicted to a drug that it changes your outlook on life, makes you fearful of others, and drives you to want more. We do have a public health crisis in this country and it’s the vaccine addicts.

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KGer's avatar

I wonder if it’s the same addiction the hollyweird elites have with so much plastic surgery. I’ve seen some attractive woman and men disfigure their faces almost to the point of being unrecognizable. Do they not see what’s it’s done others that have gone before them? Common sense isn’t so common anymore.

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MayBella82's avatar

Nicole Kidman and Meg Ryan come to mine... they were so beautiful and now, their skins has been pulled so tight they don’t even look like themselves. It is a shame.

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

Here in the US, we have 3 natural groups of unvaccinated populations: the Amish / Mennonite, the Hasidic Jews, and some subgroups of Mormons. The US Gov could quite easily do comparative studies on these three groups versus the vaccinated populations. They don’t because they don’t want to know.

But the difference is obvious and startling: extremely low cases of auto immune disorders, autism, allergies and asthma, neurological disorders, etc. And these groups are not dying or contracting any of the diseases that supposedly only the vaccines can prevent.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Plus those three groups are fundamentally immune to all the agendas TPTB spew, because those three groups live off the media grid. Enviable ....

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LW's avatar

Yes! Let’s start saying that in our conversations at every turn. One of their big weapons is having us fight! ...Then refuse to talk with each other.

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rolandttg's avatar

Big Pharma itself has said categorically there is no such thing as a safe vaccine

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CStone's avatar

Proof?

Never heard that line from any of them

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SB's avatar

Yes! I also posted that apparently common sense makes you a conspiracy theorists these days.

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Lisa's avatar

Geert Vanden Bossch(sp?) had an interesting substack yesterday warning about how the new "variants" are problematic.

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Cailin63's avatar

Correct

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LuAnne's avatar

As a Texan, I've also wondered why it's taken Abbott so long to do this. Maybe it is the case that he's been carefully charting. Timing-wise, I wonder if he purposely waited until Paxton was acquitted and is now back to work (he was barred from his AG work since last May). Abbott knows the federal government will fight this declaration and Paxton has a great track record fighting against Biden edicts.

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MCN's avatar

Just got an email notifying me that Tucker Carlson has an interview with Paxton on X. Can’t wait to listen.

Abbott needs to enforce E-Verify to discourage illegals from coming. Can’t work, they move on. Look at Florida

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LuAnne's avatar

I watched the interview last night. It was pretty good. What's really been an eye opener for me is finding out our Republican majority house is really being run by a handful of rino's who have been handing over house powers to democrats. For years. After looking deep into this Paxton witch hunt, no one can now convince me the Biden administration wasn't behind it.

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Peter Schott's avatar

That's not surprising if you pay any attention to Phelan and the people he picks to lead committees and such. Ironically, the impeachment hearings came _very_ shortly after Paxton called on Phelan to step down. (and sadly, far too many reps with an "R" voted to impeach on the scantest of evidence)

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LuAnne's avatar

I don't believe it was because Paxton called out an obviously drunk Phelan. The Phelan led witch hunt against Paxton began back in March with a behind closed doors investigation. It all started in secrecy way before the drunk thing.

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Peter Schott's avatar

True, but that definitely came up _really_ quickly after he said that. I'm sure there were a lot of things Paxton was doing that the RINOs didn't like. Going after big pharma, child abuse, etc. All of that sort of thing. But it's still crazy how quickly the vote was called after he called out Phelan.

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LuAnne's avatar

They put a gag order against him from the beginning so while they were leaking to the press like a sieve trying to crucify him in the court of opinion, he couldn't say anything to defend himself. I wonder if he called out drunk Phelan out of sheer desperation. But you're right, the timing is suspect.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Now take the next analytical step: Ask yourself who is running the Biden administration?

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SLien's avatar

Obama?

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WilliamD's avatar

Shooting down the Paxton impeachment fiasco was definitely a watershed moment. Abbott deciding to go forward with his illegal immigrant war is no doubt related. The America First conservatives in Texas have all the momentum going forward, and the Bushies are on their way out.

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Natalie's avatar

I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but here's Tucker's new episode, an interview with Ken Paxton: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1704665052031172641

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BBS's avatar

I don't know. The invasion at the southern border was going on for years before Paxton was impeached. I have lots of questions about Abbott.

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LuAnne's avatar

I have questions about Abbott too starting back when he jumped on the lockdown bandwagon. He loves to brag about all the big corp businesses he brings into Texas but zero acknowledgement about the thousands of small businesses he literally put out of business. I also believe it's helping to turn our state blue.

I could go on & on about other big red flags I see.

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YYR's avatar

You mean moving large businesses and their employees from CA to TX is turning TX blue?!

Sounds like another conspiracy theory.🤔

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

When Governor Perry was going to California to encourage people and businesses to relocate to Texas because of the low taxes and great places to raise a family and run a business, I thought, "Uh oh! Has he not seen what has happened to Washington and Oregon?" That disaster just crept up the coast until the entire West Coast (or Left Coast, and boy, is it ever!) was destroyed by the lefty loony policies that they (Californians) brought with them. I was very concerned that Texas would go the way WA and OR did. I know the Dems have wanted to turn Texas blue for a long time.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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MayBella82's avatar

I think it was harder to get people behind it when there was a lot of women and children. Now, it is military-age, healthy young men. It feels like an army is crossing the boarder and not people looking for a better life. IMHO.

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RunningLogic's avatar

The better life thing is such a crock, they may be looking for one but chances are they’ll be trafficked and abused and not have a better life at all 😕

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Roger Beal's avatar

It IS an army: Look at what just happened to Lampedusa: https://youtu.be/WPQV6sgyzss

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Levans's avatar

Could it just be that it is SO HARD to believe our government is so inept? So the delays are just due to waking up from a long slumber and barely able to believe your eyes ? We as citizens are struggling to organize and get up off our comfy couch because we keep thinking someone is going to fix this and alone we couldn't do anything anyway. Idk. It's all so messed up.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Was Abbott also a proponent of the "green energy" crapola in Texas - the strategy that froze thousands of taxpayers last winter when the flimsy renewables-reliant grid failed?

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BBS's avatar

I don't know. All I know is that I regularly sent him money to build the wall, until I realized he was doing nothing.

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space's avatar

I betcha that's it, or at least partly.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I’ve wondered this as well. Testing waterd as to the climate so to speak politically… really CYA…. but also to have Paxton behind his back in support!

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William's avatar

This announcement also helps explain the timing of the Colony Ridge reports last weekend. e.g. https://www.amren.com/news/2023/09/the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants/

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SB's avatar

Good point. Would've had no support the last 6 months to fight the feds in court without Paxton.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

100% agree. The impeachment threat was brewing all of 2023. The threat likely neutralized much action.

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Woody's avatar

"Hotez says he’s tried to cure conservatives of their delusions, nobody will listen to him: “I can’t get any engagement out of anybody.”"

Joe Rogan offered a venue for Peter Hotez to cure a conservative medical expert, but Hotez declined. Even Peter doesn't listen to himself.

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Jen's avatar

Hotez is gross. Have you looked at that guy? I wouldn't trust him with the healthcare of a gerbil.

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Jeff C's avatar

He is something isn't he? It takes a real contempt for others to brazenly flaunt such a slovenly appearance in public.

Self respect should compel people to brush their hair, apply personal grooming, and wear clean clothes. But even if one has no self respect, other people have to look at him. You would think he'd at least make himself presentable for their sake. Nope.

He's like the public health version of the "people of Walmart" videos.

Edit: Probably a bit too harsh and uncharitable there in my last comment. But I really don't understand people who think they have the authority to tell others how they must live their lives when they are so slovenly themselves. This particularly applies when they attempt to force it on others via the law.

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Melissa S's avatar

He is the John Fetterman of the health expert overlords.

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Roger Beal's avatar

But he does dress a tad better. Trying real hard right now to picture Festerman sporting a bowtie ....

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Melissa S's avatar

I can picture it. It reminds me of Lurch, who was also fond of bow ties.

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RunningLogic's avatar

🤣🤣

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Dianne Denson's avatar

Not too harsh 😁

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RunningLogic's avatar

“He's like the public health version of the "people of Walmart" videos.”

🤣😆

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SoundTruth LightLoveConnection's avatar

💯....and gerbils .... 😂.... although in all sincerity, gerbils are indeed worth protection.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Didn't Hotez refuse Steve Kirsch's invitation to a debate? "Cannot get engagement out of anybody" my foot!

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Annie's avatar

As Aaron Rodgers would say "Get your 5th booster Hotez!" 😄😂

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Susan Catherine's avatar

He (Hotez) just wants to be a crybaby. I can't stand listening to that guy.

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LW's avatar

Yep

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Janet's avatar

That face wouldn’t cure me of anything but looking at him or listening to him and I was healed of that a long time ago. Go back into your rat hole Hotez.

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KGer's avatar

I’m only to happy to stay delusional! Dear Dr. Fraudtez can have all the jabs I declined that should make him feel safe and secure.

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Cynthia Ford's avatar

Yep, I was just thinking that. This is how they tell the Big Lie and Orwell Memory Hole things even over the course of a few short months. Rogan had millions up to the charity of HOtez' choice if he would debate RFK jr on his show just last summer. Hotez, invested up to his beady eyes in pharma and involved in gain of function, slunk back to his puppeteer masters, and came back with some dissembling about not giving RFK jr "a platform," which is another woke shibboleth, platforming and deplatforming.

Such a total load. RFK jr radiates integrity and buff health, so that Napoleon-complex hideous little murderer with hair as bad as Kim Jung Ill (or however you spell it) would've looked like an obvious symbol of the ill health he represents. What I can't get over is how these people are financially invested in the death and maiming. Like IBM and Merck during the Holocaust. "Engagement" my posterior. Maybe we could enlist the migrants being flown in by the cartels to human traffick and deliver fentynal to kidnap him, but it would no doubt be like The Ransom of Red Chief.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief

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YYR's avatar

He was on Rogan and made a complete ass of himself. Rogan pressed him on his own bad eating and health habits. It was gold.

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Tom's avatar

"cure conservatives of their delusions"

By Poisoning the Well? Either Hotez knows this is a logical fallacy and is not acting in good faith, or he is not competent. In either case, I cannot ever believe his advice.

One more reason why it's not possible for me to ever give informed consent.

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

I know many think the border craziness and seeing Democrats go beserk thinks we have a chance getting the White House in 2024... but I don't think so. I live in Maryland and my 16 year old just got his learners permit - not a driver's license. He received a voter registration card in the mail. We laughed... and then I stopped laughing. I looked into into it and since 2016 18 states have enacted Automatic Voter Registration. My son's ballot is now "created". What used to just be the Motor Voter law has now been widely expanded. When I saw Pennsylvania's governor announce he had enacted it a few days ago... I knew that meant Pennsylvania was going blue for sure in 2024. I can't help but think this expansion has a lot to do with the extreme number of "historic votes". I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong on my assumptions... but I fear I am right.

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Kim D's avatar

Probably has something to do with illiegals being able to get driver licenses as well.

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SB's avatar

IDK how the heck illegals get DLs in NC because you have to have a social security card if you've never had a license. IDK, maybe they actually have a license from whatever country they were in but I doubt it.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

I can’t “like” your information but love that you posted such information. This is terrible & started w/ motor/voter. Every action is progressive; give it to Leftists... they are more savvy & move their agendas much better than traditionalists/conservatives.

I was horrified at motor/voter & it should have been rescinded asap. The slippery slope continues.

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Heather's avatar

At least we know the voters have ID’s now so they can’t claim that people can’t show ID because they don’t have them (I’m NOT saying this is a good program - it’s awful and should be banned as a practice)

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space's avatar

Hardly surprising that my bluer-than-blue state of CT is also on the list.

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

Permanent lock on the state. Maryland goes blue, but it has three areas that skew it blue. I guess they decided it was time to put a lock on it as well in 2018.

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CStone's avatar

Well that’s.........discouraging.......sigh

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Ying Li's avatar

Not only the illegals. I had been a graduate student with an F-1 visa for several years, then an H-1 visa, after which I got my green card. Two years ago I got my citizenship and started voting. However I got my Driver License 22 years ago as an F-1 student. This means now all the visa holders or green card holders will have the right to vote.

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MaryAnn's avatar

Someone will use your son’s voter reg. No worries. 😡

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

With all the under 18 kids getting licenses - or in my case just a permit- no one would think to track their ballot, assuming it is generated for nefarious purposes.

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WilliamD's avatar

As long as illegals cannot get driver's licenses, automatic voter registration is a far more positive thing than you might think. The Left currently spends hundreds of millions of nonprofit dollars per year on targeted voter registration. Automatic voter registration completely defangs those efforts. There are hundreds of thousands of politically disengaged unregistered voters in Central PA who break MAGA. As James Carville once said "Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a lot of Alabama in between."

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Can hope, I guess. But anyone can register online or in person in Alabama. We have a huge influx from south of the border (plus blue staters who bailed out & found more space, lower cost of living, sugar white beaches, pristine lakes, mountains & hilly countryside, & Southern hospitality.)

At registration one must fill in home address (no PO Box) but no one verifies they actually live there. Only check of address by registering agency is to designate voting station.

As for citizenship, check the box... or not. No verification done (where’s Homeland Security?). Any false info submitted is under penalty of law. Never ever heard of a case brought forth.

I’m sure other states are similarly situated.

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CStone's avatar

Read Leviticus 26.

It’s amazing how we parallel exactly those words.

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SLien's avatar

With this automatic voter registration it creates maybe another mail in ballot the Dems can use to “count” after they know how many they’ll need to win. That Tucker interview with the TX AG was pretty spot on.

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

No way is the Pennsylvania governor doing something to help Republicans.

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SB's avatar

NC does something similar. I think they did have a box to check to pre-register my son when he got his license. Technically, I guess it isn't automatic.

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Exactly right. Let illegals get a drivers license and I bet they are automatically in. Or the system can be finagled so they get ballots.

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Copernicus's avatar

Questioning vaccines is politically motivated?

Talk to Naomi Wolf. Or Robert Malone. Or Steve Kirsch. Or, perhaps, Pierre Kory. All big D donors. Formerly. Haha.

As for me and our family, it is a matter of our own personal, yes, personal not public, health. We question all health matters, and especially the ones we aren’t supposed to question. Just wish we had been questioning more and earlier.

Thank the Lord of heaven for his protecting us from the clot shots. I am so grateful.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

I was appalled when HR started asking about our personal health decisions. They said HIPAA did not apply.

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Heather's avatar

I still cannot understand how HIPAA doesn’t apply...I was never “encouraged” to make my employees take the jab due to the size of my business but my plan was to have employees acknowledge whatever the government said - that they were aware of it and not have them tell me one way or another if they were vaxxed because it’s none of my business

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Copernicus's avatar

And, apparently, it doesn’t.

HIPAA is really an acknowledgment of all the legal ways that our health information may be disclosed. Read the policies. It’s stunning.

Currently, anything related to national security or the health of the president can be legal cause for disclosure of your so-called private health information. I am not making that up. Also, they can use your information for research. Without your consent. Not making that up either.

They’ve lied to us, yet again.

Meanwhile physician offices and hospitals spent thousands of hours trying to figure out how to avoid displaying your name on public sign in sheets or patient white boards, allegedly for our privacy.

Ludicrous.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Has Senator John Fetterjab been replaced by an imposter?

Impersonating a federal official is a felony.

https://twitter.com/johnrich/status/1703602350823211390

Also Fetterjab's slobby wordrobe features Carhartt clothes. Carhartt mandated all employees must take the jab or be fired. I see a lot of Carhartt clothes on conservatives (Youtube, etc) and I tell them to put a black sharpie 'X' through the Carhartt logo or stop wearing them altogether.

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Donna in MO's avatar

I saw a lot of comments on X about him being a fake Fetterman on the last link Jeff shared, agree he has a double.

Similarly, I am amazed at how many of my conservative friends still wear Nike shoes and clothing, after the Kaepernick issue. But I get it, not everyone shares my passion for boycotting stuff. Other than bud light, not sure it does any good, but can't hurt either.

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rolandttg's avatar

do you shop at Amazon? It's all nothing to me.

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Martin's avatar

I have to order lots of things - parts, repair kits, whatever for my work. Years ago Amazon was always the cheapest. But a few years ago that changed. Since it’s for my job I’m obligated to get the cheapest best thing, but far more often than not I can get the identical thing for less including shipping from somewhere besides Amazon. You just have to look around for it.

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Donna in MO's avatar

I quit AMZ when they cancelled hosting for Parler. That being said I have made a few random purchases. In 2 cases, I tried to make a purchase direct from the manufacturer (a lid for our turkey cooker that we broke, and my mom's specific probiotic she takes) and both times said 'out of stock' on their website. Called their 800 numbers and was told both times, oh you can still buy it on AMZ. So it looks like smaller companies outsourcing distribution to AMZ which is NOT a good trend.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Target has worked …

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Seeking Grace's avatar

@BFM I saw a comment where he was called “Insteaderman”! Perfect.

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CStone's avatar

Love it!

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Alison Smith's avatar

There is a New Fetterman, and he is a poor copy of the original.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

A poor copy? Better looking? Dresses better? Speaks better? Or worse? 🤷🏻‍♀️😆

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Alison Smith's avatar

Poor copy because "they" are not even trying that hard to make sure the doubles look like the original!! Look at all of the fake Bidens.

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Michele's avatar

100%. The new Fetterman, the new Hamlin--THEY DO NOT CARE. "Here's a big dude, put him in a hoodie and tell him to stutter. Here's a black dude, put him in a uniform and tell him to make that heart thingy with his hands. Don't worry, we're burning up Lahaina next, those moron plebs have stopped looking over here anyway! We're good to go!"

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CaplT's avatar

And speaks English perfectly. Must have been a muuracull.

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CStone's avatar

Exactly. He speaks perfectly.

I figure the wiring went bad on the original.

The hump is gone, he speaks well.....even though he tries to speak like Fetterman, he can’t do it.

Or......don’t block me man......the demon didn’t want to inhabit such a entity, so it bailed.....and the original just ‘poof’ed and they had to replace the body. I mean, they can appear as ‘angels of light’, so........

I actually think we have a lot of these ‘entities’ in power.

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Phillip Zinni III DO FAOASM's avatar

Agree. A friend gave me adidas shoes for my birthday. I painted over the adidas name. It's my quiet and peaceful protest.

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Carla's avatar

While it could be weight gain, the eyebrows are different yet the ears look the same. The mustache though...

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Rosalind McGill's avatar

No tattoos either

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

Look very closely at those ears...they are NOT the same... The chin isn't either... Body double, not so much...

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JW's avatar

And he is lumpless.

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Peace's avatar

The furrows above his eyebrows look the same. The ears though . . .

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CStone's avatar

The hump is missing, the gibberish now is obviously an act, the pointed head.

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Bitesandpieces's avatar

Double trouble!

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Some were bought before knowledge and given as gifts. Worn with shame. 😑

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I have 3 pairs of Carhartt shorts--one is patched (with a large patch); the other two have frayed hems. I have worn them for 20-25 years.

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Michele's avatar

Because Carhartt gets a ton of biz from unions, and we all know how pro-freedom the unions are these days....

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David A's avatar

Jeff quptes..."On Monday and Tuesday, the United Nations was poised, literally on the brink, with no further action required, of approving a gigantic international agreement packed with horrifying, civilization-wrecking, dystopian measures collectively called “Agenda 2030,” which included marxist bon mots like Smart Cities (*formerly known as ’15-minute cities’), farming reductions to save the climate at humankind’s expense (i.e., kill the Kulaks), draconian limits on fishing, family-abolishing trans policies, Orwellian “emergency pandemic health powers,” and more."

Global Warming science is 40 years old, and the evidence against it is overwhelming. (Where do you thik the evidence against the vaccines will be in 40 years?) Therefore a well written summary of the science and the politics is the BEST red pill for family and friends that will still consider your perspective, those kind folk that never hear anything but the MSM. Cosnisder to share this always FREE not a newsfeed report, as it opens minds, and leads to reconsidering a host of subjects.

https://open.substack.com/pub/anderdaa7/p/global-warming?r=slvym&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Jeff C's avatar

And virtually everyone of the countries that stopped this (Russia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe) we've been officially told to hate by the US government at one time or another over the last thirty years.

It's been quite an eye opener to realize how much we've been lied to over the decades. All that brainwashing that we were required to hate these countries because they despised and threatened our "freedom". In reality, we were required to hate them because the wouldn't put up with the US Government's BS.

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Michele's avatar

Yeah, that list blew my mind...and then I said, "well, duh, Michele."

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David A's avatar

"It's been quite an eye opener..."

That is certainly true for me. I know the US has been a target for many decades, and the foundational ideals of the US ( if followed) are the greatest threat to any tyranny.

In retrospect the "Russia Russia Russia" cries of the statists and the false Trump - Russia accusation was clearly to keep rational nationalism from winning the day. Trump even had S Korea behaving.

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Bingham22's avatar

Indeed. I have been saying this for a while now: I think there are two wars between power right now…The NWO (Babylon: UN, USA, Allied Powers) VS the BRICS Nations…both are vying for One World Government status. Neither are good or morally upright, but one is significantly deadlier to the continuation of the human species than the other.

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Eli's avatar

Jeff C -- WOW. Your comment was an eye opener indeed.

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LW's avatar

Follow Dr. Meryl Nass on all things WHO (and so much more). She covers extensively. Here’s just a very few of the most recent Substack posts on WHO (2nd-4th links below)

She also has a whole series posted at this first link if you scroll down to W.HO. Chronicles

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/

https://open.substack.com/pub/merylnass/p/who-welcomes-historic-commitment?

https://open.substack.com/pub/sovereignty/p/eleven-nations-step-into-the-breech?

https://open.substack.com/pub/merylnass/p/webinar-on-the-un-and-its-pandemic?

If you don’t know Dr Nass I believe you’ll want to. She’s a Maine internist Who has had her medical license stripped, a bioterrorism expert going back to Anthrax who has testified before Congress, and is starting up Door to Freedom to help people /group as all over the world fight tyranny. She is trying to raise $50k now to hire someone. Can we help?

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space's avatar

I would donate to a multiplier for her defense.

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Cynthia Ford's avatar

I just became a paid subscriber to her substack to support her, but I'd contribute to a multiplier. She's a brilliant analyst, like Mr. Childers.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Yes I’m wondering if we could multiply her

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Kalinda's avatar

You know what I want on this or any stack? Something I can do, as an individual, to stop this. I did not vote for the person in the White House. Even if I did, I did not vote to get encapsulated in some group think nonsense. None of the representatives voted for this as far as I know. How is it that these "International Agreements" get agreed on without any input from anyone it affects?

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Donna in MO's avatar

I was only 11 when this happened and don’t remember it, but Guillain-Barré was a side effect of the swine flu shot in 1976. Back then, 60 Minutes used to do actually reporting. And the gov pulled the shot. My how times have changed. https://youtu.be/f1jV3tJ2Lqw

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

My neighbor became paralyzed from the flu shot just before Covid. She still uses a walker when she walks around the neighborhood.

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Donna in MO's avatar

How sad! I was literally considering the shingles shot in 2019 as my mom has had shingles twice and was miserable, but my husband's uncle had a bad reaction to it, they thought it was a stroke but diagnosed as something I can't remember. Decided not to get it after all. Of course now I would never consider any shot.

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Donna in MO's avatar

"a good example of the fallibility of expert opinion and the fallibility of government." Yes! Can't say we weren't warned!

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

Wow, a strongly worded GOP letter PLUS strongly worded tweets to go with it - what next, a strongly worded speech???....🙄🙄🙄

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

Paxton’s impeachment put the breaks on a lot. It may have been a factor on this issue too. Paxton was prosecuting voter fraud and suing the Fed. Imagine if he had been removed and they put P Bush in as AG.

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End tyranny's avatar

Abbots letter is from 2022. He's hardly done a damn thing. Cartels pay his bills.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

The GOP has a "strongly worded letter" template that they recycle again and again and again....

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End tyranny's avatar

Yup. All the worlds a stage.

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JW's avatar

And all the words are staged.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

😂😂😂

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Oliver Closov's avatar

It's what the GOPe does best -- bitch and complain. And ask for money.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

And our ballots.......

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Seaquinn's avatar

^^this

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Researchers “alarmed” to find DNA contamination in Pfizer covid-19 vaccine

Buckhaults, who has a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, said “there is a very real hazard” that these fragments of foreign DNA can insert themselves into a person’s own genome and become a “permanent fixture of the cell.”

https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/researchers-alarmed-to-find-dna-contamination

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

No, really? "A hazard", he says. Some of us figured this out two years ago, dummy!

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Tom's avatar

No independent auditing of quality control - - yet another reason I cannot possibly give informed consent.

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Cynthia Ford's avatar

I'm a little suspicious of this as he praises the mrna platform so highly. Is this a limited hangout to jettison the covid shots but keep mrna. Pharma is building new mrna factories on every continent. I don't really know enough to know if mrna is intrinsically bad, I just make that assumption until I hear otherwise from someone who actually cares about humanity.

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

“The anti-vaccine movement is on the rise. The White House is at a loss over what to do about it.”

“I can’t get any engagement out of anybody.”

Serial Psychopathic Scammers Stumped by Skepticism over Ceaseless Sanctimonious Swindling

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

"Serial Psychopathic Scammers Stumped by Skepticism over Ceaseless Sanctimonious Swindling."

Today's challenge: Say it ten times as fast as you can.

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Janet's avatar

I don’t think i can say it as fast as it is actually happening. 🤔

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

😂 Zing!

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Peace's avatar

Hotez with the lack of engagement - didn't someone try to set up a debate with Hotez and he refused to "engage" in the debate?!

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Tom's avatar

It's not a lack of engagement he's complaining about. He uses the word "engagement" when he means compliance.

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Michele's avatar

In his psychopathic apparatchik mind, engagement means ¨Let me explain, and approve or else¨!

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Tom's avatar

"We need to have a conversation" means "I'm going to talk, and you're going to listen."

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Michele's avatar

YESSSSSS! Or else! Hahahaha! No balls to debate RFK but enough to go after us Useful Eaters!

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Peace's avatar

Tom - That sounds right!

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Yep, not even for $600k for charity as of the writing of this post:

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/will-the-anti-anti-vaxxers-ever-acknowledge

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Verve's avatar

“In lieu of being out front on the issue, public health officials have been turning to the community leaders who helped them spread the word about the Covid-19 vaccine. That includes leaning on respected conservative officials and pastors.”

Ah yes, the Margaret Sanger Maneuver.

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Tom's avatar

"respected"

"conservative"

"pastors"

The use of each one of those words is meant to reinforce a lie.

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