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Last night I listened to Megan Kelly's interview with new FDA head Dr Makary and he said something that highlighted a truth which caused me to realize something that's very obvious but rarely stated. Government bureaucrats have created a governmental system that is designed to fail; intentionally.

Dr. Makary is a non bureaucrat so a couple of weeks ago when he moved into FDA HQ and surveyed the scene, he discovered fiefdoms all throughout the dept as well as related dept's like CDC etc. No departments communicated with each other. No communication of information is like no circulation of blood.

The good Doctor deserves our support!

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Lori's avatar

I think I just fell in love with Dr. Makary....

But yesterday, amidst a shower of proposed reforms, Dr. Makary said that as soon as legally possible, the FDA will remove all pharma reps from advisory boards and replace them with patients and family caregivers. THIS IS AWESOME!

Dr. Makary also called for a moratorium on animal testing (2:29). “God did not make these animals on planet Earth for us to do cruel things to them and subjugate them,” he explained. He thinks computational models and lab-grown organs can handle most of the heavy lifting. “Those models should be replacing animal testing.” GOD BLESS THE ANIMALS!

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Based Florida Man's avatar

I love eating tasty animals, but they should be treated well throughout their life.

Same for testing - let's find new ways.

Glad to see progress for our animal kingdom colleagues!

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Kay's avatar

That is the ethical approach to eating meat. A farmer once told me how he killed his beef cattle: walked up to them in the field as they grazed and shot them in the head. They dropped dead, and the other cattle never had a clue (cows not being the intellectual giants of the animal world). No fear, alive and content, then instant death. That’s one reason we buy our meat and poultry from small farmers.

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Lori's avatar

In the slaughterhouse they know death and you can see it by monitoring vital signs. Cows are quite intellectual but most do not notice since they do not share enough time with them. Glad you support small farmers, Blessed Easter to you.

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Dawn B's avatar

Yes the cows know and release adrenoline and we eat it. It isn't good.

My husband hunts and it is important to get the kill shot right away or it does something to the meat.

FYI it is why I never buy kosher. This needs to end but people don't know.

Attention: VERY kosher gruesome cow slaughter!

https://www.bitchute.com/video/OaMVKG4qJxYG

https://www.bitchute.com/video/zRHz9MNleR4W

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Lori's avatar

Yes, Kosher slaughter is one of the worst. Glad you are aware of hormone release etc. CAFO meats are horrible for humans. Thank you for posting. I cannot watch that as it will make me viscerally ill. Blessed Easter Dawn to you and yours.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Yes, Kosher slaughter should be banned.

Same nasty people behind circumcision(a crime!) on innocent baby boys.

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Vaughn Cassidy's avatar

I am not sure about the biochemistry, but you are right about the meat. I have hunted turkeys for nearly 30 years and I can tell you if they smell a rat more than 30 or 40 seconds and you shoot them their meat is drawn up and tough. Also, since you are hunting them during the spring when they are mating, if you shoot them when they are really wound up and think they are about to mate with the decoy they also are drawn up and the meat is quite stressed out. If you shoot a turkey that is rather contentand just hanging out, the meat is literally relaxed, and it actually taste better.

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Dawn B's avatar

We recently bought property and see chillin turkeys on it all the time with our trail cams. I heard wild ones are gamey tasting though. Looking forward to the woods even though I have been next to the south FL beach my whole life.

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MaryAnn's avatar

My sister worked in a slaughterhouse in the early 70’s. She soon became a vegetarian.

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Lori's avatar

Thank you for sharing MaryAnn. It was beyond brutal for me and I will never forget it. The processors also did not follow instructions and they would seed the carcass with E. Coli bacteria from the GI tract which is why there are so many recalls on ground beef etc. I wish I could unsee what I had to witness. Beyond the pale.

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Susan Seas's avatar

I became a vegetarian when my Mom explained to me that the Turkey was a Bird. Very tough situation in a meat raising and hunting family 😅😅😅

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Cousin Clem's avatar

Excellent. I buy my meat from local farmers that feed and care for them humanely but I think they still go off to a slaughter house for the end. Probably because of the insane USDA regulations on butchering we have here and in many states that make it very difficult for small farmers and provide support to large industrial animal production.

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Kay's avatar

Yes, that’s a huge problem.

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Cathie's avatar

It's the same with pigs. There could be two pigs standing around eating, and one pig won't flinch when the other is shot.

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Kay's avatar

Interesting!

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Lori's avatar

Yes, God created the animals and loves them dearly. They are a part of His divine creation not to be tortured or abused. Blessed Easter to you BFM but next time, would you be so kind to leave out the..."love eating tasty animals...." part. Thank you most kindly.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

You know Jesus himself ate fish and lamb and other critters.

But hey, I enjoy a fine bean-burger too. With a slice of avo.

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Lori's avatar

I know and I tell God everyday the animal sacrifices were not a good look in the OT and NT and that the animals are innocent and should have been left alone. Not sure what He thinks of that but I cannot change my heart on that subject. God made me and He knows this too. Avo and bean burger is yummy too. I did a rotation at a few slaughterhouses and it was beyond gruesome. I was crying the whole time at what the animals were actively going through and what was done to them. I was sick everyday through that 3 week rotation.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Compared to the sacrifice of the Son of God, animal sacrifices were nothing. They pointed the people to the coming, in their day, crucifixion.

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MaryAnn's avatar

Yes. God used the skin of an innocent animal to cover Adam and Eve. The first sign of what was to come. Easter is upon us. Blessings abound!

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Animal sacrifices to a "God" is never "nothing"...

They represent a primitive mythology of appeasing a brutal, sadistic and blood-thirsty "God".

JMHO... of course.

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Lori's avatar

It should not have happened IMHO. Period. God and I will hash this out in time. Until then, you do you and I will do me. Thank you CC. Blessed Easter to you.

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Dean's avatar

Your theology rejects huge swaths of the Bible including Romans 10:9 and 10 which is perilous to the soul who ignores them.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Yes,, humans MUST live in fear of broiling in hellfire for eternity... most "religions" run the same SCAM... brings in a ton of loot...

You don't seem to be much different from the Aztecs, to me.

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Lori's avatar

Dean, thank you for your comment but I have no peril to my Soul. I will continue to communicate with my Lord as I do no matter what anyone else says. Please take care of your own Soul and leave mine to me. Blessed Easter to you and yours.

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John Carswell's avatar

The fate of your soul is not up to you. The fate of you soul is up to God. You are either saved, or you are not, and there is nothing you can DO to determine its fate.

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Jamison's avatar

Have you read Job? God is God, and you’re not. But, I do understand. I, too, love animals, and nothing gives me more sleepless nights than animal abuse.

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Lori's avatar

Yes I have read Job and find it disturbing that God let Satan do his thing with Job. It hurts my heart to read about it. God already knew the outcome so frustrating at the very least. I have expressed my discontent over this with God and that whole scenario. Thank you for loving the animals as they are part of creation like we are and are a joy to behold.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

So you think God is wrong, correct? If so, why do you try to talk to Him? From my vantage you seem to be a humanist who identifies as a Christian.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Judge not... or broil in hell.

Forget that part?

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Lori's avatar

I talk to Him all the time and I never said He is incorrect. I said we will hash it out. I don't pay attention to being labeled as something. God knows my intentions and my heart/Soul. You label me what you will, it does not matter to me and I do not care what humans think to label me. Wishing you a wonderful weekend, Blessed Easter! Bye CC:}

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Abiding Dude's avatar

The Hebrew God demanded them...

Do YOU find His demands to have been abhorrent?

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Lori's avatar

I find it hurts my heart/Soul to their core. I cannot understand all that God does and will have to accept the fact I will most likely never know or understand His actions.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

This and much more, was enough of a problem for me to become an agnostic.

IF "God" wants to condemn me for that... I'm OK with it.

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Anita from Tucson - Now In MI's avatar

Two movies on the subject incapsulate it for me (concerning the slaughterhouse);

Earthlings

Temple Grandin

I am not for the disrepect of animals lives in slaugherhouses, and would like all animals who are raised for human consumption to be humanely slaughtered.

Having said that, I can't afford Meriweather Farms and Prepper Beef, at this point in my life, even though I need the protein in my diet.

After the Flood, God told Noah and his family to add meat to their previously all vegetarian diet. I don't know if that is necessary now, but it was at the time.

I respect you for doing what is best for you, Lori.

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Lori's avatar

Thank you for your comment Anita. I met Temple Grandin! She is amazing and is all about animal welfare for CAFO animals and others. She is a Light in the animal industrial complex. It was an honor to meet her and talk with her for a little while. This is a topic that I explain to God I will agree to disagree with Him on the sacrifice of animals and eating them. He made me so He understands my stubbornness on this subject matter. Heavy sigh. Blessed Easter to you and yours.

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Anita from Tucson - Now In MI's avatar

Blessed Easter to you and yours as well.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Never met Temple Grandin, but sure heard a lot about her in my autism classes.

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Lori's avatar

I would not have realized she even had autism had I not known before meeting her. I would have thought she was just quiet. I will never forgot our meeting as she is one of my heroes.

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liz's avatar

Im so tired of the vegans. their issue is literally /ALL THEY /SEE. I am descended from NATIVE AMERICANS who ate meat. All Os need to eat meat to stay healthy. Please litigate this issue on your own fora and quit subjecting the rest of us to it.

Peace out and HAPPY EASTER to all.

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Lori's avatar

And I am tired of the likes of you so please litigate your issue on your own fora and quit subjecting the rest of us to it. Peace out and Happy Easter to all. And I never said I was a vegan.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

You sure like to put up your dukes, eh?

Happy Easter!!

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Lori's avatar

Only when one is insulting/condescending to me first.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Actually eating the innocent lamb WAS THE WHOLE POINT and He is, to those who don't get it, a "bad look"...not that they really care.

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Lori's avatar

No lamb for me, yuck. One sacrifice was enough for a lifetime.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

No "lamb of God"??

If you do not partake of that sacrifice... you roast... no?

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Lori's avatar

I do not go to church so do not take communion. I have in the past but do not know if that counts to God. So if I die before you, I will try to send a signal and let you know what happened! Egads.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Yes, put in a good for this poor agnostic, will ya? :-)

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Your Christian God demanded animal sacrifices for MANY MANY years, prior to his sacrificing his own son... according to dogma... right?

Imagine how many sheep, lambs, doves, etc, etc were killed to appease Him! Blood thirsty, a bit? Passover-like?

Almost like the primitives sacrificing humans to THEIR "Gods"... no?

Is not communion still the eating of Christ's actual flesh and drinking his blood (according to Catholics), to re-live the blood sacrifice... or at least representative of that (for other Christian dogmas)?

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Lori's avatar

Heavy sigh, God is truly a mystery and parts of the Bible make me very sad for humans and animals alike. I still can't believe God would sacrifice the 1st borns of Egypt as they were children, babies. Most were not even adulterated yet. That is a very hard pill to swallow. Adults are one thing, children, babies are another IMHO. Another heavy sigh. Blessed Easter or Passover to you AD, whichever you celebrate.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

that is why I am very happy to be an agnostic.

Have a fine Easter Weekend!

PS: Passover?!!?!? Not hardly! Some more harsh truth:

https://x.com/SamParkerSenate/status/1809683142275658155

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Lori's avatar

Ok, agnostic it is although I hope someday even with the harshness in the Bible you reconsider. But I certainly respect whatever you feel. I assumed you were Christian bc your profile pic reminds me of what Jesus may have looked like. Foolish me, I know.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Why reconsider? I am here if God wants to call on me.

My pic is of Lebowski, from the movie. But yes, I agree, and find that a bit humorous...

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RJ Rambler's avatar

This is evidence that you don't know God. God is not a man. He is the Creator and He's made a plan and written a story that includes us and is far away and above us. Thankfully He has left many evidences and even a Book about who He is and what His plan for humanity on Earth is about. There's much more that He has done and is doing outside of our ability to know.

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Lori's avatar

Of course He is a man in Spirit form and the Creator RJ! And I do know God, quite well in fact. But yes to all the other comments you made! Enjoy your evening!

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liz's avatar

we can and do support the END OF THE HORRIBLE SLAUGHTERHOUSE CONDITIONS and animals living healthy happy free lives and still live and let live. without all the guilt and manipulation, hey?

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Amen. I think slaughterhouse nastiness needs to end and animals should be raised in optimal conditions, with the cost of meat reflective of their proper care.

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Dolce Far Niente's avatar

God made us, and our teeth clearly show we are designed as omnivores.

As a farmer for many decades, I respect your feelings about food but don't endorse them. Please respect the eating habits of others.

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Lori's avatar

I nowhere said I did not respect the eating habits of others. It is not for me. Farmers slaughter all the time so I believe in most cases they are immune to the killing/pain animals go through. It is understandable. Enjoy eating what you wish. As far as our teeth, we do not know exactly what they were like when God created Earth. It may be they adapted/changed over time.

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Dean's avatar

Lori….I can imagine the conversation you stimulate during refreshments at Bible study. 😁

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Lori's avatar

I do not go to church nor Bible study. I have found too many fanatics at churches over the years and have given that up. My church is outside in nature, with the animals and God. Though I would agree that the conversation I would bring up would be stimulating and out of the regular regimen of Bible studies. Have a blessed weekend!

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Janet's avatar

I feel Gods presence and magnificence in Nature. It’s kind of my church. All the churches near me bowed to the so called experts and governments so that I can barely walk into them anymore. Maybe I will someday, but for now, my daily school, so to speak, is in Gods creation. I have had lovely conversations with other hikers. Moments of true discernment and joy. Little miracles displayed when I ask Him if I can see something different or what does He want me to know today. God is good—all the time. My last Bible study had too many woke liberals spouting pro abortion and isn’t it great you have a trans grandkid. I will tell them what it really is when I go next time. Blessings. HE IS Risen. Eat what you like.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Your comment reveals the sad state of the church in the US. The vast majority seem to have a lot in common with the kind you describe, there's no point going to them.

Equally sad for me, I live near several churches that are conservative, they teach and appreciate the Bible, but they seem to want to avoid utilizing what they learn from the Bible. I find that to be at least as frustrating as the liberal churches. I could go on for a while on this topic.

These are interesting times we are living in. That's one reason I enjoy the "Thru the Bible" programs. McGee is good, he's funny, and he is imperfect. I'll yell at him some times given some of his perspectives; he grew up during the depression and died in the 1980's. But when it comes to the true lessons of the Gospels, the man is spot on.

Most people try to bring God down to their level. Personally, if I could bring God down to my level He would be no better than me; I wouldn't waste my time. But God can't be brought down to our level, and we can't comprehend Him and everything about Him. He is too massive and amazing, yet He loves us enough to send His Son to die, and be raised, for us. I can't grasp it mentally but I cling to it spiritually!

I feel very sorry for, and don't understand people who want God to be like them.

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Janet's avatar

So well put. You put into words some of what I feel. I look into the sky and the mystery of it all takes my breath away. That He knows me and Christ cares for me. It’s the unknowing that actually calms me. The unknowing that helps my faith. The words I can’t express because who of us really could? The Holy Spirit must speak for me. Pease and blessings.

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Lori's avatar

Love this Janet. Another kindred Spirit that revels in the joys of Nature and what God created. It is the best church I can think of. Blessings to you also on this Holy Weekend where God made us clean and forgiven. Indeed, He is risen.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I think in Lori's religion of self, she does all the talking.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Genesis reports that we became meat eaters after the Flood.

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Lori's avatar

I believe staunchly it was not God's intention for us to feast on any kind of flesh until we fell. What passages are those you speak of as I would like to read them WS? God and I will just continue to agree to disagree on this subject matter. It is our sore point.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I ‘Duck, Duck, Go’ed the question; in Genesis when was man first permitted to eat meat.

https://bibleask.org/when-was-man-first-allowed-to-eat-meat/

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Lori's avatar

Interesting. I am reading through the Bible but in the NT right now since it is Holy Week and reading Psalms. I will have to journey back through the Bible's OT to see how accurate that is. I am one of those I prefer to see it straight from the horse's mouth so to speak! Thank you for the info. Perhaps I will start at the flood to find the passages! Blessed Easter to All!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

The internet has such wonderful resources for the Bible now.

I had my own bad experiences that separated me from any desire to explore anything ‘Church’ related. But there came a time when I hit rock bottom and this Prodigal Child had to claw her way up and go Home.

I didn’t trust anything to do with anybody explaining things to me at that time either, so it was just me and the Word.

It’s so good to have it at my fingertips on the internet now.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I spent about 5 years as a vegetarian in my hippie days. 50+years ago

Cooked and prepared food mostly guided by The Ten Talents cookbook. (Seventh Day Adventist author) I remember very tasty experiences.

That book is still available on Amazon, but quite expensive!

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Cousin Clem's avatar

Not just teeth indicating we are omnivores. The digestive tract is designed not as an herbivore's but as a carnivore and the enzymes we generate are designed to accomodate this. Fossil records provide indication of early man's teeth. They didn't change that much.

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Lori's avatar

Thanks CC but I would need to see the fossils myself along with the enzymes if they are preserved. Appreciate you and your comment as always though!

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Dean's avatar

😂

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Kay's avatar

God explicitly gave us animals to eat after the Fall, but we are to treat them well. We are free to follow our own convictions concerning carnivore vs vegetarian diets, but we aren’t to judge those with different convictions.

One of my favorite bits in Leviticus is the law that they cannot seethe a kid in its mother’s milk. Jewish tradition takes that to mean not mixing milk and meat, but the wording is very specific. I think it means what it says: do not be so hard hearted as to take a baby animal from its mother and then use the mother’s milk to cook it.

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Lori's avatar

Kay, where does it say that explicitly in the Bible? I was reading Genesis today and I it may be that different versions have slightly different translations but this is what I read in Genesis 1 ; 29-30. God said: "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food." This was before the Fall so it seems to me God's intentions were always for us to eat plants/fruits etc. If you can find the passages you refer to after the Fall, I would so appreciate that. And who is judging anyone's diet? Thank you Kay!

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Kay's avatar

Sorry, it’s in Exodus. I’m reading Leviticus right now. Anyway, it’s Exodus 23:19. It’s just plopped in there, without any apparent relationship to the previous commandment. It could mean that the Israelites were not to slaughter an unweaned animal, but that also would be kind to the animal’s mother.

Yes, before the Fall no animals were killed and eaten, including by the predators. The changes following the Fall were obviously profound, in us and in the animals. God instituted animal sacrifice for sin at that time because He clothed Adam and Eve with the skins, and later Abel sacrificed a lamb and was approved, while Cain brought the fruit of the ground and was not approved. I extrapolate that people began eating meat then, but God explicitly saying that every moving thing that lives shall be food for mankind did not happen until after the Flood (Gen. 9:3).

We know from Gen. 2:17 that death was the penalty for sin. It’s the kindness of God that He permitted animal sacrifice to substitute for human death. One of the horrible things about pagan religions was the practice of human sacrifice. All animal sacrifice points to the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

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Lori's avatar

Thank you for that verse. I am content knowing that God's real intention from the beginning was for us to consume only plants and fruits for food before we fell and that is what really matters to me; his first intention and first plan of action. It was also His first and true intention that there would no need for animal sacrifice either as there was no sin before we fell. I believe the verse that says the penalty for sin is death means a Spiritual death, not actual human sacrifice when anyone sinned. If that were the case, the world would have been emptied in hours. I have no doubt that God is saddened by animal sacrifice otherwise He would have asked Adam and Eve to do that right from the start and He did not-Yay!!! He made allowances for us bc we are gullible and selfish. As I always say, He should have stopped on Day 6 after He created the animals as He would have less headaches and stress! As far as human sacrifice, to me, it depends on what the person did to deserve that. If they were killing people like today's serial killers or pedophiles, then good for the pagans-and eye for an eye. If it was just for sacrifices to pagan gods, then they blundered most horribly. Anyway, on a happier note, Blessed Easter to you and yours Kay!

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Kay's avatar

The penalty of death for disobedience meant both spiritual and physical death. God did not create us to die. And there would have been no point in creation if He had not created humans. He made us in His image, and He didn’t do that with the animals. Much as we love the animals, it is a mistake to value them more than humans. I often say that I like animals better than I like people, but liking is different from valuing. If I had a choice between saving an animal or a person, I would have to save the person. God is the one who assigns value to His creation, and He has placed us first.

Human sacrifice was very different from capital punishment. It was the innocent who were killed, often quite horribly.

If you have never read Perelandra by CS Lewis, you might want to. He had an excellent understanding of these things.

May you and yours have a blessed Easter. The Lord is risen!

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Lori's avatar

We will respectfully agree to disagree on some issues Kay and that is ok. Take good care, stay healthy and Yes, The Lord is risen!

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Paula's avatar

We have a small holding and raise our own cattle and sheep. Our home-kill butcher does exactly what Kay’s farmer friend mentioned and the result is happy animals who live a good life and have a quick, painless, fear-free death. And the meat is spectacular!

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

There was an in depth study done on deer meat in nys, decades ago when I hunted. The bottom line was this, after studying hundreds of kills. The meat from an animal that literally was killed by a head shot, was the most tender by far. And an animal that had to be tracked more than a few yards was literally crap, meat all tough. Killing a dear with a bow was the worst. They even tested road kill. I haven’t been able to find it, it was study done by a college up there before all colleges became retard factories.

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Astragale's avatar

Agree.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

🤦🏼‍♀️😭

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Dick DiTullio's avatar

This is why I only eat chocolate. "It's for the cows".

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Lori's avatar

I don't know if you are being sarcastic, but if not, I would bow at your feet as I love chocolate too and it was such a nice thing to say although unrealistic! I appreciate you saying it nonetheless. Cows truly are soulful animals and feel very deeply. Cheers Dick!

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Dick DiTullio's avatar

No sarcasm. I am a brother chocoholic. Unfortunately. But I do make repeated promises to stop eating sugar. It lasts until I finish the sentence.

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Lori's avatar

I know exactly what you mean. It is my only true addiction:{. I was going to give it up for Lent; that lasted less than one day. I am ashamed of myself. One of these days.....(yeah right!). Have a good weekend Dick. Stay safe and healthy:}

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

😜

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Astragale's avatar

I agree.

They should STOP the cruelty to animals. Dreadful lives & pain for so many of them.

And good for Makary if he goes ahead & pushes out the drug pushers.

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Emily 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼's avatar

And Megyn’s description of her mixed feelings walking through the building - looking at the people who made all the crappy decisions

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Emily 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼's avatar

Give yourself a treat and check out this video made by a fellow C&C’r about the jab fallout… https://x.com/MdBreathe/status/1912126055453749495

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Barbls's avatar

This happened early 2022 with my cousin when he was admitted to a Fargo hospital with a cardiac event. The ER doctor asked him if he'd had the covid shot, and when my cousin said no, the ER doc said Good, don't get it.

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Chris Fox's avatar

What a truth hero! God bless him ❤️

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Robert Kershaw's avatar

Definitely worth watching!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Oh, my!

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annademo's avatar

Dr. Makary is a surgeon. In his line of work, failure is not an option. I hope he cleans out the FDA cesspit STAT.

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Lori's avatar

Amen to that!

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J Kaz's avatar

But the Covid jabs are still on the market

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AZGal55's avatar

And I keep wondering why. I have seen Walgreens commercials showing a pregnant woman and her grade school aged son getting their flu/Covid shots at Walgreens. We all know these are neither safe or effective yet they are still allowed to inject this experimental drug into people and probably without proper consultation of the risks and facts. People should be free to sue at this point.

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Bradley Lewis's avatar

Yeah, and if they don't get revoked and at least some relevant people do not pay a price, then everything else that will be positive that gets accomplished will be over-shadowed within a system in which it's just a matter of time before another sellout establishment figure is put into the theatrical role of president and a similar operation is put into action again, and likely with even more extreme agenda.

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Cousin Clem's avatar

the PREP act gives them the freedom to avoid all lawsuits. That's why congress extended it. Congress serving their benefactors, not us. The PREP Act is like the blanket pardons that Biden passed upon his son and criminals like Fauci.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Yes, that fact, my three mask and six foot yardstick are all that's keeping me sane ...... hahahahahahahaha 💉💉

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

😂

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Gary's avatar

I think all government is the same, Federal, state, and local. They all want their own circle of power to "be somebody". Tell the surfs what to do and when. Most people cannot act to benefit others, they prefer control. They want to give a "hand out" not "hand up" so the surfs depend on them.

I just keep praying Trump and his team can continue, as I think we are on a great trajectory if they can keep going. finally a government that cares about the people which is of course why all the slander and resistance.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

It's an interesting time to be alive. It seems the people opposing the Trump efforts are not just angry, I believe it is becoming obvious they are literally, clinically insane. Their behavior doesn't have any hint of rationality. Just look at the leaders of the UK, France, Germany & the EU. They are rattling their sabers, positioning their countries to fight Russia.

Ukraine lost with the help of the US, once the US leaves, very soon I hope, the rest of Europe is delusional if they think they can change the tide of the war. Western insanity will likely prove fatal I'm afraid.

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AZGal55's avatar

when we see how people behave in our current times I think of these verses from Romans 1: 28-32 Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care—worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best! (The Message version of the Bible)

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Trump pretends to be pious... but he fully supports Israel's mass-murder and land thefts. His bombing of Yemen is a blatant war crime.

Most Christians still support Israel too... which is damned disgrace... do YOU condemn those evil scumbags?

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John Galt (MAHA/MAGA)'s avatar

I am particularly glad he mentioned the microbiome. Anecdotally, one solution is to avoid sugar, seed oils. and highly processed foods. The next level after that is to add probiotic foods such as L. Reuteri homemade yogurt and Kefir to your daily diet. I recently did all of these to treat a gut health problem and so far so good. YouTube is chock full of information about the yogurt and kefir.

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Lori's avatar

Kefir rocks but can give a lot of gas to people trying it for the first time! Thanks for posting!

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Thanks for posting this, I just read it. This statement "Justice will soon be served to them.", if true, should really start opening people's eyes; I hope!

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Well, that’s pretty exciting, why is nobody talking about it? Why are the New and Improved news companies not covering it.? It’s huge news. I’ll have more confidence in this if I see some news coverage

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Thank you for this! So important.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Thanks. I have started sharing

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Great observations!

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Sometimes the obvious is hardest to notice.

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FH's avatar

“Government bureaucrats have created a governmental system that is designed to fail; intentionally.”

Steve Bannon introduced me to a phrase that describes this intentional degradation. I cannot recall the second word in the phrase, the first word is revolutionary.

The phrase explains how Leftists/Globalists/Communists want institutions to fail, and people to suffer so much, that the people clamor for a solution, any solution. You know the rest of the story. Been written many times.

I am struck with, on this Holy Weekend that coincides with Passover and Patriots’ Day, how long the effort has been in place, to create Utopia on Earth - Samuel Adams referenced “communalism” in a quote I ran across some years ago.

The effort is surely the most destructive force on Earth. It requires denial of God, of any Power Greater than humans. This denial leads to this, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

Matthew 24:12 KJV

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I'm a fan of the late J Vernon McGee and his "Thru the Bible" program. He's currently going thru the OT book of Amos. In yesterday's program he was talking about how Satan isn't found in dens of iniquity or liberal churches, he has won those already. He is found in churches that teach the Word of God.

McGee then said something that hit me. He noted the Last Supper in the Upper Room may have been the most Holy event ever, and even then & there, Satan was in the room; uninvited.

So we should understand Satan always seeks to destroy; we should be prepared, not surprised.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

YOU follow the OT... which is ancient Hebrew/jew mythology...

Perhaps you need to learn more about the jews...

https://www.bitchute.com/video/2UE1jb50v0cO

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Based on your apparent limitations with reading comprehension I'll take a pass on considering your suggestions. Thanks tho.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

What, specifically are you gibbering about?

More info for dullards (like yourself)

https://x.com/SamParkerSenate/status/1809683142275658155

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Vaughn Cassidy's avatar

OK, I agree with you about the system being designed to fail because that is rather obvious but the question to ask is why? Why design a system that is intended to fail? Where is it failing? If it is failing on every front to protect the citizens of the country, then the citizens of the country must be perceived to be the enemy. Then you have to ask yourself why again. Why are the citizens considered the enemy?

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Debbie's avatar

Thank you, Jesus, for dying for me and all my fellow humans. We did and still do not deserve it, but we are eternally thankful for your grace and love.

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Lori's avatar

Yes we are on this blessed Good Friday.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Amen to that!!

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Robin Esau's avatar

Amen✝️

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Justin's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GijSuQM5OU

"Gethsemane" sung by a children's choir and the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.

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Susan Daniels's avatar

Beautifully sung and visually stunning.

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John Carswell's avatar

They can sing as beautifully as the angels, but until and unless they confess that Jesus is God, their songs mean nothing.

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Sir Jeff Morency, Ph.D.'s avatar

Yashuah (Jesus) said 3 places in the Christian Bible that He is NOT God.

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John Carswell's avatar

Please point out those three supposed places. The apostle John said He is God "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS God." Jesus Himself, said, "I and the Father are ONE", and "Before Abraham was, I AM". The pharisees set out to kill Jesus because of, among other things, His blasphemy in claiming to be God. So please inform us where He said that was not true.

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Justin's avatar

Perhaps you are uninformed. They do confess that Jesus is God, creator of this world, Savior and Redeemer. There is also a God the Father, which Jesus Himself referred to numerous times as going to His Father, or praying to His Father, or the voice of God witnessing of his Son, Jesus Christ at His baptism.

I encourage you to look further.

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John Carswell's avatar

I suggest you do some research and read the words of the Bible, not some commentary or non-Biblical writing that denies or waters down the Word of God. In your response itself, you prove that the Mormons are poly-theistic, referring to at least 2 gods. That is NOT Christian; that is an apostate cult.

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Justin's avatar

I would extend to you the same courtesy, as "Christianity" was redefined in the Council of Nicea (325 AD) in order to appease several religious factions. And I, for one, find it odd that someone who professes to follow Jesus Christ gets to "gate keep" that a fellow follower of Jesus Christ is "not Christian". To clarify what I said above, Jesus Himself told his disciples to pray unto the Father in my name. Make of that what you will.

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John Carswell's avatar

"Redefined" Christianity??? I don't rely on the council of Nicea or any other council or pope or cult leader to tell me what Christianty is. I READ God's Word, and I know what it says and what it doesn't say. If you read the epistles, mainly of Paul and John, we are told to call out heresies, which I guess is what you mean by "gate keeping". If we do not call out heresies, then the souls of those who ascribe to those heresies are in jeapordy. As I said in another response, Jesus Himself said, "Not everyone who says unto me, 'Lord, Lord' will be saved...."

And read and absorb the meanings of the following passages: Proverbs 30:5-6, Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 12:32,

Galatians 1:6-9 (“As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.”)

Matthew 24:24 (“For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.”)

Revelation 22:19 (“And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.”)

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Abiding Dude's avatar

I encourage you to read Biglino's "The Naked Bible" and look further.

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Justin's avatar

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. - 1 Peter 1:3

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Christians are around one third of world population.

Try not to be such a judgemental, simpering assclown.

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John Carswell's avatar

Matthew 7:21 - "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." In other words, not everyone who calls himself Christian is actually Christian. Yes, Christians make up 1/3 of the world's population, but only God Himself knows how may of them are Christians. Your choice of words in your response certainly leads one to think are you doing the will of the Father. Only God can answer that question, but it might be a good idea for you to search your heart.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

You forgot to read Biglino... your weak faith is a joke.

Search your own heart.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

That was lovely…thank you, Justin.

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CMCM's avatar

So beautiful.

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Rose Carson's avatar

Happy Easter!

He is risen!!!

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

Yes, and an important and courageous message here on what would Jesus do:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-would-jesus-do/

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Save us from the antisemitism, please. Jesus was and remains a Jew, whose second coming will be in Israel.

Who dares presume he would stand with Hamas in the war they initiated on October 7; with the slaughter of Jewish families and the taking of hostages to parade through the streets of Gaza?

For shame!

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

White House just admitted that covid was a lab leak.

Link to the website including image of Fauci's pardon. Is an arrest coming?https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/

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Lori's avatar

Yes and we all knew that and told everyone 4 years ago......

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Yes.

I just remember when I asked one of my providers at the VA if he thought that covid was a bioweapon, and he looked at me like I was a nutter.

Won't forget that look on his face when I asked the question.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

"always check with your doctor before using x medicine"

uh... ya. They're idiots.

Interesting how we are so empowered now by all of these great internet sources.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The VA provider I was referring to was actually also in charge of treating veterans who were suffering from the effects of having covid, or having long covid. How can you treat someone if you don't know the origins of the disease?

I told him he should try ivermectin to treat those patients.

Definitely have a "note" in my medical record for being a "problem."

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Lori's avatar

I have those notes too as I go on a tirade on the industrial medical complex when I see a doc which is rare and then tell them they should have been brave and tell the truth and shame on them. Does not go over well but I don't care. Time they hear it.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

It's a badge of honor when we get a 'note' in the system for speaking against The Narrative.

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Lori's avatar

Yes it is and shows we have moral courage to speak up even if those around us think we are crazy.

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shayne's avatar

Better to be a problem than the cause, eh.

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CHop's avatar

In the words of the Democrats, "Make good trouble." 😉

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Is “long covid” still being used instead of the “vaccine”?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

VA never admitted that there were problems with the DeathVax.

The VA is still offering the DeathVax to veterans including pregnant veterans.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Thanks for the link...great song!

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Did you ever hear "You Missed" by the same artist?

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God Bless America's avatar

Tom McDonald? Powerful music… 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

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Lorita's avatar

Us too...

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Abiding Dude's avatar

LOL!! Bravo!

99% of doctors are Big Pharma puppets (and aholes, IMO)

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Good for you KJ

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RJ Rambler's avatar

🤭😝

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David Cashion's avatar

I'm still thinking we are under a "Limited Hangout"

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the Virus was developed in and released by USA. China is the scape goat.

Some of the military men that were supposed to go to the Military Games in China did not go. They stayed home sick with covid like symptoms.

Also they never traced the source of the early breakout on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

Bit I'm a nutty conspiracy theorist.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Ralph Baric's lab at UNC Chapel Hill worked with the Bat Lady of Wuhan juicing up the coronavirus.

Baric's lab also developed the death drug Remdesivir.

If he didn't get you with the covid bioweapon, he was gonna get you with the "cure."

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Alice Ball's avatar

Yes, Kathleen, it was Baric’s lab at Chapel Hill. Baric is a leading coronavirus researcher, and so they tapped his expertise. I am not convinced that Baric understood the evil scheme he was in, I think it’s more likely he was manipulated. Considering that the virus researchers all knew it was created in a lab from things like it’s furrin cleavage site that does not occur in nature, but all lied under pressure from NIH leader Francis Collins, it’s an absolute miracle we know what we know, in direct opposition of the government and their handmaidens in media.Working with Fauci and Collins and the bat lady, who got the original virus from the caves in China with help from Peter Daszak, the truly nefarious scientist of Ecohealth Alliance. And the military is the head of this particularly long snake. When Obama banned GOF research in 2014, it was quietly moved to Wuhan. I am torn if it leaked due to the sheer incompetence of their lab, or if it was intentionally leaked to take down Trump. Our government seems to be quite good at being both incompetent and evil, so I suspect they are both possible. I have not heard of any link between Baric & Remdesavir, I thought that was all Fauci.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Baric is a murdering psycho.

He knew what he was doing.

In an interview with a foreign journalist, he admitted to being able to do insertions without a trace so they could not be traced back to him.

Here is the link to Baric's lab at UNC Chapel Hill bragging about creating Remdesivir with Baric's fat murderous face:https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/remdesivir-developed-at-unc-chapel-hill-proves-effective-against-covid-19-in-niaid-human-clinical-trials/

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Debra Nolasco's avatar

What most people do not know is that Fauci changed the end-point for remdesivir mid-way through the trial to make it appear as if the drug was effective. This was learned through a FOIA request of internal e-mail by the Epoch Times.

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Astragale's avatar

Yep.

Fauci, Collins, Birx, Baric, Daszak.

All must be held accountable.

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Alice Ball's avatar

Good to know!

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Never forget kristian Anderson uc San Diego , he knew and zipped his mouth .

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Alice Ball's avatar

Yes, I remember. He was in that virus research group who all commented that it obviously came from a lab and then reversed his position along with all of the others once Collins told them to do it.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Exactly Alice Ball … he sold his soul.

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Astragale's avatar

Or was it “intentionally leaked to take down Trump”?

Yes.

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Lori's avatar

They are now doing the same at a lab in the Netherlands but now it is GOF on Avian Influenza.

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Emumundo's avatar

I’m pretty sure it was developed by our military, sent overseas when Obama disallowed GoF research on US soil and it was sent from China to 3 labs in the US a year before the pandemic. One of the

labs was Rocky Mountain Labs in Montana. Fauci is up to his eyeballs in this, as is Biden. There’s a photo of Biden at Wuhan in 2014 when he was giving them $14 million.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Paid for by NIH, DoD, DARPA, BARDA...and probably other 3-letter agencies.

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Sheri veley's avatar

Correction on that, siphoned from the taxpayers.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

We paid for our own destruction.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Then turned the Bioweapon on us to depopulate. Never forget we the people, EVER.

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Truth 101's avatar

It is hard to fathom and somewhat understandable why so many are blind to it.

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jewel's avatar

it could have come from Hunter's Metabiota labs in Ukraine

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MarshaLouise's avatar

I’m still waiting for this fact to be revealed.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

On this same vein of thought…Then please tell me what my twin brother “came down with” in late December 2019 - early January 2020? He had a three week “flu like illness” and was quite ill. We live in Southern California. We are in our early 70’s.

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Robin Greer's avatar

That's when my mother and sister got it... December 2019. And I know exactly where she got it. We were eating out and she picked it up from our waiter who was wearing a coat inside. I called him out for being sick. He said he was just cold. Yeah right. Anyway, my mom did 2 rounds of steroids and antibiotics and she was fine. She never officially got "Covid" after that. And she had many medical conditions which the experts would have told her would have been an automatic death sentence if she had gotten "COVID."

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Truth 101's avatar

Biden illegaly concealed knowledge of US soldiers likely contracting covid in Wuhan in October 2019.

“Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/04/09/biden-admin-hid-that-us-soldiers-caught-covid-in-wuhan-before-pandemic-declared-n3801604

https://substack.com/@t101/note/c-107397454

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Alice Ball's avatar

Early on, Victor Davis Hanson was talking about the West Coast having already had Covid in the fall of 2019, probably due to travel from Asia and China specifically. I personally believe China was covering it up for months before it was finally talked about in late 19 and early 20.

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Mehitabel's avatar

Me too. I visited SoCal for a week around Thanksgiving in Nov 2019 and came down with a nasty “flu-like illness” around the time I returned home to Oregon in early Dec. I spent a miserable week in bed, got over it and moved on. Every time I suggested to family and friends that I might have had an early case of COVID, I was told it couldn’t have been so. But since that time, I’ve managed to avoid catching it, despite being exposed to my (all vaxxed) family members, who all came down with it over the next couple of years. I still think I had it, or something very similar, in Nov 2019.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

I’m sure you did. It was prevalent on many flights at the time, well before Christmas and after, with lots of loud coughing, sneezing and indications of public malaise (‘flu, cold, er, covid).

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Cindy's avatar

I got it in October of 2019 as did a large number of fellow employee's (which is where I got it from) I worked with in the state of Washington. Symptom's of struggling to breath, coughing for at least 6 weeks, lack of smell and taste, stuffed up head and chest (so basically a really knarly cold). Went to doc and they prescribed a steroid due to no sounds of air flow in the left lobe of lung. No improvement so just rest and vitamin C and waited it out. Missed a total of 3 days of work.

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Stephen Dedalus's avatar

I believe your testimony (and the testimonies of others in this sub-thread) is sincere, but ask yourself, if your “knarly cold” had happened in the absence of a subsequent government/media campaign that preordained Covid based upon faulty PCR and error-prone antigen tests, would you still be so certain? I’m 63 years old and in my decades of life I’ve lived through many, many communicable disease epidemics, many of them presenting exactly the same symptoms as those of “Covid.” For example, the “loss of taste and smell” that was somehow ascribed to “Covid” is actually typical to all respiratory infections in which the nose is swollen and clogged since it’s actually the olfactory that is responsible for the vast majority of what we nominally call “taste.” I’m not saying that Covid from a Wuhan lab leak is not a possible explanation, but, as strange as it may sound, there’s actually no direct evidence (again, as a lifelong career analytical chemist I can assure you PCR and antigen results are NOT determinative of disease) that what everyone “experienced” was in any way related to a real or imagined virus from a bio lab in China. As such, we must accept the possibility that the whole Covid response was something more akin to medieval Catholic Indulgences—massive profit selling a non-solution to an imaginary problem. As strange as it may sound, it’s actually plausible that the whole thing was a war game with fake props to determine whether bio weapons can be considered as practical tools of war. The props became real in the unwitting minds of the participants using the power of suggestion and coordinated propaganda.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I remember hearing the symptoms of Covid 19 and saying, ‘those are the symptoms I’ve experienced with flu or colds all my life!’

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God Bless America's avatar

Sept 2021… both the hubby and me had the coof… nasty flu. 😬My husband ran 102-103 fever for 11 days. I only ran 101 for 8 days. No taste or smell. We laid out in the sun everyday and took horse 🐴 paste. Never had coof again. It was so scary because we were NOT GOING TO THE HOSPITAL and we felt so helpless and alone. We definitely made the right decision… Stay away from hospitals… 😵😵😵

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Willing Spirit's avatar

The only difference seemed to be people were being advised to do nothing - no treatment- until they were so sick they needed to go the emergency room.

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Stephen Dedalus's avatar

The “tell” was when the number of annual influenza cases registered by hospitals in my county (San Diego) was nearly exactly replaced (when measured by historical numbers) by Covid “cases.” For anyone understanding the underlying target of PCR—common genomes—it was completely unsurprising. The whole scamdemic was sustained by a massive GIGO.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

A James Joyce fan! I wasn't expecting that.

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Stephen Dedalus's avatar

Covid Credo:

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use---silence, exile and cunning.”

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

If I had not read "Ulysses” first, I might have found very little triumph in "Portrait," Dylan’s “serve somebody,” or Joshua’s “choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.”

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

It was one giant Psy-Op created by the DOD, and it’s attendant ‘programs’ in coordination with the 3 Letter ‘intelligence agencies’, the CDC and MSM. It was a “fear porn propaganda exercise” to see how fearful they could make people, and ‘they’ fell for it.

Then they had this “vaxxine” in the works, to roll out with the assistance of Big Pharma, which they dutifully paid to develop.

They created such a climate of fear that everyone fell for all the BS. They didn’t question or wonder if this EUA mRNA ‘shot’ would even do anything. They believed ALL THE LIES.

Some say it was a depopulation mechanism the whole Plandemic/Scamdemic. Nothing would surprise me as to the origins of the reasons it was done, but it was. And now 5 years later and people just “want to forget” and go on. Sorry that ain’t happening. As they say…”more truths shall come to light”.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Agreed.

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Shelle's avatar

I never lost taste and smell with any illness until I got Covid. It was very distinctive, because then, not only did I lose taste and smell, but things actively tasted and smelled rotten. This happened to my husband too. He tested positive for covid, I never bothered to test. But I am sure that Covid was real. I never experienced an illness like it. I've had many flus. But Covid seemed especially damaging in it's early form. I think it aged people a bit as well.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

There’s more to this than most realize. Thank you, Stephen.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

People still do not appreciate the health (recovery) benefits of both vitamins C and D3 (with K2).

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Brian Crossley's avatar

My son and I had a mysterious illness in Oct. Nov. 2019.Side affects since. I have been seeing doctors ever since looking for cause of internal bleeding.They are at a loss and I am considering kicking them all to the curb....NO ONE has even looked to my covid history....

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MarshaLouise's avatar

You were one of the early victims, I’d guess.

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Queen Hotchibobo's avatar

My pastor’s wife got it around Thanksgiving 2019 also. Super tired and lost taste and smell.

She’s thin, so no complications, but we know what it was. SW MO. Ground 0.5?

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

I say , look up ⬆️, they spray the skies with poison. ☠️

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God Bless America's avatar

Sulfur dioxide… aluminum… barium… strontium… what could go wrong?! 😡

They spray all the time here in north Alabama. Sickening! 🔥🔥🔥

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MarshaLouise's avatar

But now Trump (with RFK Jr) is taking down NOAA and others. They’re onto it.

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God Bless America's avatar

I sure hope you’re right… 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 I know they did some legislation up in Tennessee to stop all of this… We are close enough to the state line that I see them continuing to spray in Tennessee. It makes me wonder if their legislation didn’t have any “teeth” with it… 🤨

I say a prayer every single time I see them spraying us… 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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David Cashion's avatar

Crop dusters don't fly at 38 thousand ft.

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Rosie Langridge's avatar

Some poison that makes you ill with those symptoms. There are plenty of toxins they can use and plenty of different ways to deliver them to you.

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Paige Green's avatar

A friend’s son got seriously ill in January 2020 for a couple of weeks (college age man, in Michigan). My friend and her parents helped care for him, his friends visited, and none of them got sick. That’s when it was really nasty but not as contagious, allegedly.

My sister, prone to bronchitis with multiple co-morbidities was also sick with the worst round of “bronchitis” she’d ever had in February that year. Went on for several weeks. My friend and I speculated in April 2020 if it was possible they both had Covid. Neither did anything fancy, just treated it with SOP and both recovered.

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Truth 101's avatar

Biden illegaly concealed knowledge of US soldiers likely contracting covid in Wuhan in October 2019.

“Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/04/09/biden-admin-hid-that-us-soldiers-caught-covid-in-wuhan-before-pandemic-declared-n3801604

https://substack.com/@t101/note/c-107397454

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Sal_Peenx's avatar

At this point, nothing would surprise me.

However, NOTHING will ever let me forget the treatment-denying-hospital protocols that murdered millions and the concerted effort by people in authority (NY Governor for one) to make more and more death happen to spread fear. All thanks to the captured lying media. All of these accessories to murder need to face prosecution. Maybe our Legal General, Sir Jeffrey, can explain how we all can connect the dots for every jury so that all perpetrators face conviction. When you choose a a career in journalism in the US of A ignorance as a defense DOES NOT EXIST FOR YOU. IT IS YOUR JOB TO LAY BARE THE TRUTH. You missed the mark -on purpose. ADIOS!

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Tim R's avatar

Agree on the limited hangout idea. Also agree both Americans and Chinese were trying their damndest to make killer viruses. I just don’t think it’s doable. I have come to believe there was no “novel”, “risk additive” virus exploding around the world in winter of 2020. Instead I think there was a doctored up “sequence”, and a nonspecific PCR test that diagnosed almost anything as COVID. Add to that no early treatment of flu symptoms, deadly ventilators, killer remdesivir, and presto- chango , you have a “Pandemic”!

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David Cashion's avatar

I definitely agree, we had a plandemic. The full scope ?

We have barely scratched the surface.

I figure we will know, around the same time we figure out who fired the magic bullet.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Same here, David…Chinese diversion.

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David Cashion's avatar

Even with Trump back in, I'm not willing to blindly accept any theory from our government.

If they say UFOs are real, it means they have craft that fly like UFOs.

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Grandma Bear's avatar

You shouldn’t be surprised, especially if you follow the work of Katherine Watt and Sasha Latypova here on Substack.

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David Cashion's avatar

I will ck them out, I have never read of my possible theory.

I think have read some of Sasha.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Most revealing…the DOD participants - she has evidence.

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Professor Lulu Fuzzbean's avatar

word in china says 422 MILLION died during the pandemic...

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Alex's avatar

I say an on purpose leak!

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Dolce Far Niente's avatar

I disagree that it was on purpose. Covid was a fairly ineffective pathogen with a low mortality; clearly a lot of work still needed to be done to make it a good bioweapon.

It was turned into a disaster because of the RESPONSE to it, not because the disease itself was so bad. Although I suppose it's possible it was deliberately leaked, albeit prematurely as an anti-Trump weapon.

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Juju's avatar

One theory behind deliberate leak is that it would allow the plan to mandate a vaccine onto our country and the world - the vaccine was the bio weapon, not the virus. Without the leak there would be no conditions to promote and enforce the real bio weapon.

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Robin Greer's avatar

And it would allow for mail in balloting once they had all of their protocols in place.

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Susan L.'s avatar

^^^^THIS^^^^

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Astragale's avatar

The EU had its “Roadmap to Vaccine Passports” on its website in 2018.

Which means it was in development for a while before that.

The “Roadmap” was ALL about:

overcoming vaccine hesitancy;

controlling information;

controlling people.

No concern about illness or death or grief. Nothing about treatment or cures.

Just CONTROL & INJECTIONS

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On an island's avatar

The fact that the Wuhan virologists became ill first seems to suggest that it wasn’t intentional, but with how manipulative China is I guess anything is possible.

And what’s super suspicious to me is all the pre plandemic simulation exercises, the worldwide lockstep response, the mass gaslighting and censorship of questioners and dissenters, and the faster than ever rollout of the ‘miracle’ death vaxxes. Because of all that and more, i tend to believe it was very intentional and premeditated.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Or the “virologists in China became ill first” story is another story, just like ALL the stories that were really lies, that we have been told for over 100 plus years.

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JSR's avatar

👆🏼👆🏼🙌🏼

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Classic Rider's avatar

Yes, it has a low mortality rate for the whole population. However, the rate is appreciably higher for older people. And China has a huge problem with too many oldsters to take care of. The US and Europe also have this problem, but not as severe as China. A new pathogen like Covid could provide relief to the governments dealing with caring for an aging population. And beyond a doubt, our government and especially China would have no problem killing a substantial number of there citizens.

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Susan L.'s avatar

Ugh. And that culture used to respect the elders, right?

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Jacquijacq's avatar

I respectfully disagree. It was I. Purpose for a two fold objective: China wanted to squelch the Taiwan beating drums and USA deep state wanted to squash Trump. What’s a few dead bodies to these disgusting creatures?!?!?

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Bee Aware's avatar

Actually, COVID was the means to inject technology into the human body. The people who received the mRNA technology injection are now broadcasting BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). The "father" of this Bio-Cyber Interface, Ian Akyildiz, goes so far as to say that without the introduction of Covid which was purposely released, they could have not achieved this as quickly as people would never agree to it. But, by using fear, they were able to get 70 - 80% of the population to accept the "Safe and Effective vaccine ".

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Fred's avatar

Nothing else was stopping those pesky Hong Kong protests. The CC P nat’l security law, passed without worldwide outrage, supports the intentional theory. IDK, but it certainly was circulated before the acknowledgment.

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Covfefe Lady's avatar

Exactly. Intentionally leaked for an agenda. Not an accident.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

And probably made at Ft Detrick MD, by some very evil swine, including some DOD types...

Released in China... intentionally?

So many patents of stuff like the death-jab "vaccines" long before "Covid" ever showed up...

RFK does NOT have the stones to release ALL the REAL truth!

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WP William's avatar

lab "leak" my ass

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MarshaLouise's avatar

You may be suggesting a “limited hangout”.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Arrest 🙏🏻 Please, Please, Please 🙏🏻

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Based Florida Man's avatar

paging Pam Bondi... please leave the Fox News desk and come back to work...

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Bard Joseph's avatar

Not sure to trust it.

Or if Covid ever existed.

Just the flu.

Funny that all flu data disappeared.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I believe covid the bioweapon exists.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

The bioweapon was the shot

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Both were bioweapons.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

Viruses dont exist and not contagious. The only poison is in the shot.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I don't spend time with people arguing whether or not viruses exist.

It is a waste of time.

I do know that bioweapons exist.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

IMO, the Covid flu was certainly genetically manipulated to be more deadly, thus yes, a bioweapon.

But, again IMO... the original Delta variant was very nasty... but the following mutations were not nearly as much... maybe an unintended design flaw...

But the entire point of the Covid/Flu... was to get masses to take the previously designed jabs... and THOSE are VERY deadly and certainly bio-weapons.

RFK refuses to call for them to be banned... he is no hero, and Trump's similar refusal stinks too.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

The “bio weapon” was the shot! Not the fake SARS COV2 “virus”!

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Maha's avatar

As far as if covid ever existed, there has been a rise of "there are no viruses thinking" being promulgated by seemingly intelligent people, but perhaps I am just anxiously holding on to my virology classes as not a waste of time.

Flu data disappeared because it was diagnosed as COVID. Heck, in hospitals, death from acute trauma was attributed to COVID if possible. ER doctors were told at Harborview in Seattle to list as many deaths as possible as COVID. They WARNED patients whose loved one might die their death would be listed as COVID.

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Robin Greer's avatar

$$$$$$$

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CMCM's avatar

So many lies, everywhere you look. Unfortunately, way too many people believed the lies. Some have paid for blind belief, and some are paying for it now, and some will pay for it in the future. The only ones who will not pay for all this are the perpetrators like Fauci.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Pray without ceasing🙏🙏🙏

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AnnB's avatar

That is very interesting that this is posted on the WH website……..maybe disclosure has started

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KBB's avatar

Admitting it was a lab leak and blaming "Chyna" probably comes easy for Trump. Now let's hear him admit he was hornswaggled by the Fauxi cabal and stop bragging about being responsible for Operation Warp Speed. That will be hard for him, but it would gain him a lot of respect. It's the only really big thing I think he gets wrong.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Beating a dead horse is so unattractive.

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MaryAnn's avatar

And ineffective.

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John Carswell's avatar

I thought he had stopped talking about it. He hasn't admitted to being fooled, but he has to know that he was.

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KBB's avatar

I think he has largely stopped talking about it but has yet to admit he was fooled. I've read that RFKJr and others just paddle around the subject with him and stick to topics where he is more amenable to advice. It's a difficult thing for anyone to confess to having been fooled, but at some point he will have to. Meanwhile, acknowledging the lab leak is a good first step.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

His support of Israel is also a huge error and is appalling.

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KBB's avatar

Respectfully disagree.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Are you jewish?

See if you can refute this:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/2UE1jb50v0cO

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KBB's avatar

My religion requires no justification to you. May you find peace in your heart.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

There is no justification for your Satanic religion, Judah. Over 100 countries figured that out... and expelled your ilk.

https://rumble.com/v457fgc-jews.html

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Donna Oliphint's avatar

Yes, please!!!

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CMCM's avatar

None of this was a surprise to me. My son was a student at UC Davis in CA in Fall 2019. That university had somewhere around 4,000 Chinese students at that time, a great many of them from.....WUHAN. A lot of students started getting sick in October-November and my son and his girlfriend did too. At the student clinic the doctors were saying "Something weird is going around and we don't know what it is. They said they had never been sick quite like that, and it took a couple of weeks to feel better. I didn't get suspicious until January and I started paying attention to the cruise ships and Seattle nursing home sicknesses and deaths. Then I heard China had released a genome of the virus and I thought it was very odd they could do that so quickly, and then all info about that mysteriously disappeared from the internet. I also heard the comments of Kristian Andersen and other European scientists stating that from the genome map it clearly looked like it was human created due to the furin cleavage site that could only occur by human intervention. Then all that stuff disappeared too and I couldn't find it again. My suspicions were on high alert from that point on, thank goodness.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

The "lab leak" is an attempt to divert attention to the MAKERS of Covid... and they are the DOD and CIA, Ft. Detrick, Fauci's fiends, etc...

Look at the MANY Covid-related patents which were in place long before Covid hit...

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The "lab leak" destroys the bat and pangolin wet market fairy tale.

It's a start to tell the world this was engineered, and not found in nature.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

True... just saying IMO, Covid was made here... and likely released in China at their lab.

We may never know the truth... which is sort of sad...

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

❣️❣️❣️

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

And that’s not even close to the truth.

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Erin Fight's avatar

Yep. Under vax daddy's watch. I maintain that he is either evil or stupid. Aaaand...his association with Paula White Cain and her government position should give everyone pause. Where the hell is DOGE???

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

My finger is a little sore from so much refreshing this morning! Happy Good Friday everyone. Jeff, thank you for getting this to us on holiest of days. My morning is now complete!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Happy Good Friday!!

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Susan Seas's avatar

Help, Help Has Saturdays substack gone to only for paid subscribers?? or is that an error?

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

No! Just this week because of Easter. Today’s Saturday edition I believe is for paid subscribers. Only as Jeff is taking a break and the day off to celebrate our Lord’s resurrection. Hope that helps!

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Susan Seas's avatar

Thank you so much! I panicked 😅😅😅

Absolutely wonderful for him to take a break and celebrate the Resurrection! 💗✝️💗

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RunningLogic's avatar

—“C-section births and early antibiotic use became popular, both of which deplete microbiome seeding in infants.”

And don’t forget formula!

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Juju's avatar

🤦🏼‍♀️😖 All three of mine were C-sections because my body never dilated even a mm. They would have died otherwise.

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NAB's avatar

I know how you feel, Juju. Four of my five required pitocin even though I was 2 weeks post-due date (I suspect some women just have naturally longer gestation periods but that causes problems too as three of my kids were in the 9-10 lb range). And induced labor is awful. It took forever to reach full dilation. I managed to avoid C-sections but we all do what we can do. I'm glad your babies were okay!

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Andrea Leshok's avatar

Similar story here with my 5 NAB. All inductions.

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Mehitabel's avatar

These stories sound so familiar. My first boy was 3 weeks overdue when the doctor tried to induce. But he was a happy little camper in there, with apparently no intention of coming out. So when we had achieved an unimpressive 2 cm dilation after 8 hours of induced labor, the doctor said it was time for a C-section. Yes, please! The whopping 12-1/2 lb baby they pulled out surprised everyone. Especially the doctor, who apologized to me every time I saw him for the next few years for attempting the induced delivery. In the early ‘80s, most old fashioned docs still didn’t do normal deliveries after a C-section, so all three of mine were delivered surgically. C’est la vie.

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Susan L.'s avatar

Same here. Disturbs me, though, when I hear new data on the microbiome not transferred during c-sections. My 3 seem fairly healthy at this point.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I believe in doing the best we can and leaving the rest up to God. Miracles happen every day and we should not fear the less than perfect situations.

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Mehitabel's avatar

Mine seem reasonably healthy now as well. Although number three got a somewhat rockier start when the doctor, relying more on his “superior knowledge” than my experience with my own body, scheduled the C-section 3 weeks early. The poor little thing spent his first few days in the NICU with too much fluid in his lungs. And come to think of it, he was the one with more doctor visits and health issues in his early years.

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sooz's avatar

Same here. 3 C-sections, 3 healthy babies, breastfed, who have matured into healthy adults. In another time, the outcomes might not have been so positive and I am thankful for the doctor who chose to deliver that 1st baby surgically. I'm also a "Susan L." btw. :)

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Susan L.'s avatar

Agreed that my first one needed the C-section, due to distress affecting heart rate, etc. Not sure about the other 2, but that was the practice at the time….V-backs were not done to any extent if you had already had a Caesarean. Oh, and my nickname is “suze”! Ha!

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Mehitabel's avatar

Could it be Susan thing? Me too.

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ReadingRainbow's avatar

I would say not vaccinating would more than make up for it. Or at least reduced vaccination.

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NAB's avatar

When I hit 42 weeks with my third, I questioned my doctor about the size of the baby. He assured me, "this baby is maybe 7 lbs, at most. Your frame won't permit a really big baby" Hah! When he was finally born (with the assist of the vacuum), he weighed 10 lb. 6 oz. and the nurses all gasped. One said, "well, whoever told you this was going to be a small baby doesn't know what they are talking about." That person was holding my son :). Apparently I just grow big babies (and to answer the question I frequently get - no gestational diabetes present despite multiple checks during pregnancy).

I've known one woman who gave birth to an 11 lb. baby but 12-1/2??? Wow.

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Mehitabel's avatar

Yeah, in retrospect, I have to say, thank goodness the doctor didn’t insist on a vaginal delivery of that giant baby. I fear the lasting effects could have been serious for both of us.

Funny that your doctor gave you a guess of 7 lbs. When I asked my doctor at my last regular visit how big he thought the baby would be, he gave me what I later realized was probably his stock answer, ‘average size, 5-9 lbs.’ At the time I was guessing at least 10 lbs.

I’m pretty sure that 12-1/2 lb boy was just destined to be that big. Dad was 6’6” and mom, just over 6’. And boy, was his dad ever a proud papa!! He loved to stand at the nursery window and listen to people asking ea other, “have you seen that really BIG baby?” And he’d just smile and say , “That’s my boy!” That boy grew up to be 6’6”, just like his dad.

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NAB's avatar

Great story! Yes, it seems that baby was destined for bigness :)

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RunningLogic's avatar

Sometimes it can’t be helped unfortunately 😕 But American doctors are mostly incapable of managing births without interventions because that’s how they’re trained. So a lot of times, C-sections and other measures might have been avoided but doctors don’t want to or don’t know how to. We have a pretty high C-section rate in this country and I am not sure it’s really justified. But again, there are definitely cases where that is the only option.

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Margaret Allison's avatar

Well put Running Logic. My daughter made the right choice with her second child. The Dr told her so. The almost 18 year old would not have made it without a c-section. Sweetest grandchild. So considerate. Everyone is different and that’s what the medical profession needs to remember! Closer to 80 than 70 with a retired RN license because of the COVID debacle!!

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

ACOG guidelines and malpractice lawyers , can be an issue. Please , I’m an obstetrician, I do not do Csections unnecessarily. Yes, there are some bad ones, with high rates and they go in front of a quality and ethics committee. I don’t want to argue with anyone, nor can I speak for some of these healthcare providers.

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RunningLogic's avatar

What do you consider “high rates”?

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

About 20% . The indication for section must be well documented. Some providers are higher some lower … documentation is key .

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RunningLogic's avatar

I find that interesting, since the average rate in the US is around 32%. Sounds like where you are is more conservative.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Some hospital systems have a more robust quality program for optimal government reimbursement for lower Csection rates .

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NAB's avatar

As someone who works for a med-mal defense firm, I can confirm that the prospect of being sued for "failing to recognize and perform a c-section" weighs heavily on the minds of providers. In my ten years of experience now at the firm, the vast majority of providers don't treat c-section casually at all. There are patients, however, who actually request c-sections for convenience.

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MaryAnn's avatar

My first grand was delivered naturally by a nurse midwife. That little pumpkin had a knot in her umbilical cord but it was kept loose by God’s hand until after delivery when the midwife showed us the cord. Miracles happen every day.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Well put.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Also , hospital reimbursements from the government, and Csection rates go hand in hand ( quality measure ) and hospital systems are required to report rates .

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JSR's avatar

The baby comes into the world the way it’s supposed to.. no need to beat yourself up 💐

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D m's avatar

Thank God for you and your children! This is a situation that absolutely warrants a c-section. No question, modern medicine has its place just not in every place.

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WP William's avatar

WOW, now that's gotta be a case study for OBGYN community!.. or is that not uncommon? You should wear Service Ribbons for Exemplary Valor on Mother's Day!

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Juju's avatar

I spent 14-22 hours with each trying to first dilate with the assistance of dilation inducing meds given at the highest doses, and after 22 hours the most I dilated with my first was 1mm. They were shocked. Lol

The labor pain when you can’t dilate is beyond the ability to articulate. I think it’s less painful when your body operates like it’s supposed to and dilates naturally and properly.

By my third we just scheduled the C-section a week before the due date to avoid all that, but as Murphy’s Law would have it my body went into labor a day before 😆. They could barely tear me off the floor of the doctor’s office reception area because I was in such tortuous pain. And I have a high tolerance for pain physically. Nowadays I don’t have a high tolerance mentally after going through all that.

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Peter Mac's avatar

My wife also had a high tolerance for physical pain, but after 15 hours of labor and still only partially dilated, her vitals started heading south and the doctor called it... He let me stay by her during the resultant C-section, and I'll never forget seeing him pull our 11.5 lb "little man" up and out (and he was smart/skilled enough to open her up horizontally to minimize muscle damage, rather than vertically as her mother had been when she delivered).

But I'd never seen her so utterly spent, and she was a strong and very stubborn woman. I knew her well enough by then to recognize that, on some fundamental level, she'd truly had it and just didn't didn't care anymore; stay or go; come back or leave it all behind...

I knew they were concerned - the tell was having the anesthesiologist stop by every 5-10 mins to make sure everything was ok - and this went on for awhile, plus they'd whisked away our son almost immediately...

So I did what any loving husband would do, I'd prayed to Jesus like I'd never done before "Please Lord, Thy will be done, but Please let her live, and I promise to never do this again!" (Of course I meant getting her pregnant, I'm not that... well, I don't need to spell it out, do I?)

Needless to say, she lived, and yes, considered having another one, but I reminded her of my solemn promise and well time took care of the rest...

We used to think he'd set a record at the hospital, but one of the nurses blandly mentioned that they'd already delivered a 12 lb baby in the past, and had heard of even larger ones elsewhere :-o

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Aimeslee's avatar

Yes, torturous. Very low abdominal pain + butt pain. I could only dilate 3 cm after 24 hours before agreeing to a C-section.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Sounds like a huge ordeal all around 😞

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Lorita's avatar

Mine too...

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PamelaZelie's avatar

Me too, Juju. It’s not that uncommon.

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WP William's avatar

GMO Soy isn't better than mama's milk?

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Tonya's avatar

Discussion about the autism prevalence press conference is ramping up much more today. Here's my take:

Imagine hearing a government official on TV talking about a hurricane or a tornado who says, "Homes were damaged, lives were lost," and instead of feeling compassion for those families affected, you said, "MY home is fine! None of MY friends and family were killed!"

That's what's happening in the wake of HHS Secretary Kennedy's speech about the CDC's autism prevalence report.

Just because 'not every' person with an autism diagnosis suffers in the same way, that doesn't mean we should deny the suffering of the ones who do.

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The Obsolete Man's avatar

Yes, the autism advocacy groups are especially riled up about this. They’re all pointing to examples of high-functioning autistic people like it’s some kind of gotcha moment.

Kennedy isn’t talking about autistic people who struggle but can get along and even thrive in society. He’s talking about the profoundly autistic who are unable to care for themselves or communicate with others. These advocacy groups know this and are intentionally trying to discredit him, as though autism was a lifestyle and he’s hurting their public image.

Do they not want to figure out what’s going on here? It’s disgusting.

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Skeptical Actuary's avatar

On X there were many people (and bots and shills) twisting Kennedy's words to make it sound like he was saying ALL autistic people were severely disabled.

Kennedy specifically said about 25% of autistic children are nonverbal, and his comments about kids never having a job, going on a date, or even going to the toilet unassisted were specifically about a subset of those 25%.

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ItsMeAgain's avatar

Somebody is making money, so...

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Donna Oliphint's avatar

AMEN! I just had a discussion with a friend of my daughter who has a child diagnosed with autism. The child is pretty high functioning, and she took offense. She’s done “tons of research” and follows “real scientist,” so she’s offended that “someone who has no idea what he’s talking about” said they would have some answers by September. I told her I couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t be ecstatic for anyone to put a huge spotlight on it.

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MaryAnn's avatar

Same. My friend, (mother of an adult son who is low functioning with autism), has extreme TDS so anything that has DJT’s hand on it is poison in her opinion.

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Donna Oliphint's avatar

They’re all saying, “My child doesn’t need to be fixed,” while at the same time talking about the difficulties of raising an autistic child (before RFKjr.’s announcement.) Yes, it’s right they would love their child and see many delightful qualities. And yes, there’s probably no cure for those with autism, but do they really not want others to avoid those same difficulties?

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Skeptical Actuary's avatar

On X, Elizabeth Warren said RFK Jr's statements were all "lies" and called for him to step down. She had ZERO specifics.

On X the commenters are largely unscreened, and a lot are nasty, but there were a lot calling her out for the large amount of money she gets from pharma, and asking what in particular she didn't like about Mr. Kennedy's statements.

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Kate Finis's avatar

The "MY home is fine!" comment reminds me of the reaction to Covid shutdowns 5 years ago. I expressed anger and dismay at how so many people's lives and livelihoods would be badly disrupted - and some friends (in comfortable retirement like me) replied, " Oh no, WE'LL be fine!" I was gobsmacked.

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Evans W's avatar

Happy Friday everyone.....enjoy this before we get to the stuff that'll have you hurling your computer through the office window. https://x.com/Soaringeagle45/status/1911942365008343528

Harvard has hosted racially segregated graduation ceremonies for every group except whites and Jews, in violation of the Civil Rights Act. Trump has every right to withhold funding until Harvard stops practicing racial discrimination and desegregates its programs. When it comes to the Harvard discussion, I'll be siding with Bill Ackman. https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1913202174361849951

I'm sorry, but when it comes to this El Salvador shitshow, the idea that we have ANY politicians flying to ANY country to do photo ops at their prison is completely insane. Republican congressman Riley Moore looks like buffoon in the thumbs up photos of guys that would dismantle him in about 11 seconds. And just as I was thinking I couldn't hate a congressman more than him, we've got photos of shit for brains Senator Chris Van Hollen drinking margaritas with wife abuser, alleged MS-13 gang member and illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Is there a way we can trade both of these jackasses in for a hand full of hard working imprisoned El Salvadorian supermax prisoners......word has it, Amazon is short on delivery drivers. https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1913034697501798453

Oh……and Trump's comments about shipping 'homegrowns' down south to Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, I have to say that sending mass murders and kiddie rapists to another country doesn't sound like the worst idea in the world. After all, Democrats have been allowing other countries to send theirs to us for decades. https://x.com/Ohio_buckeye_us/status/1901770708134334575

Bernie & AOC have been out beating the bushes for the working man. Of course after each beating they hop on a private jet to head over to the next beating. This is what showing the man looks like folks! Any questions? https://x.com/WCdispatch_/status/1913055404944224299

Happy Easter everyone! While I’ve never really been a real religious guy, I'll say that going back to a regular Easter with kids looking for eggs and singing hymns on the White House lawn celebrating Christ's return in comparison to the previous administrations 'Transgender Day of Visibility' is refreshing. After all, I don't recall hearing about some dude that resembled RuPaul hanging with Jesus in vacation bible school. https://x.com/MikeRogersForMI/status/1912556583353217395

This thing of Progressives/Democrats pushing for more violence & civil unrest is unsettling to say the least. Here is a substack post from George Mason University econ PhD student, Nicholas Decker, that is circulating widely with leftists and on here, X & BlueSky with hundreds of thousands of likes and reposts. The essay titled “When Must We Kill Them?” that calls for lethal force against the Trump admin & his supporters. So I'm just gonna say the quiet part out loud here......this is not a road that these people want to go down. It won't end well. At all. https://x.com/captgouda24/status/1912662152986402931

Tulsi Gabbard announces the release of files related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: 'What we have just released here today is 10,000 pages that have been sitting in boxes within the National Archives.' Here is RFK Jr in his own words about what he believes happened to his father. https://x.com/AnnaRMatson/status/1913211150516297871

And before we get off RFKJr, let it be known that he’s going to beat every bush and kick over every rock to find the cause of autism. Full stop. https://x.com/endtribalism/status/1913060915336949906?s=46

So are we really doing the middle aged & elderly, wealthy, mentally unstable, white women & beta men 'Hands Off!' thingy again this weekend? Wasn't one pathetic display of how unhinged these people are enough? https://x.com/Evans_Wroten/status/1913037336553595356

Trump Border Czar, Tom Homan was invited on to Morning Joe to explain the border laws. Joe Scarborough looks like someone just kicked his dog. Its pure gold. https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1913201114524033205

How do you not love Thomas Massie? Here he is talking to Winston Marshall and explaining how our corrupt sack of shit members of congress get around the rules that are put in place that are supposed to prevent them from being corrupt sacks of shit. The lesson here.....they are all corrupt sacks of shit. https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1912291455122698701

Unfortunately I saw this, so now you have to. https://x.com/Blue24Pct/status/1912690104323219690

You don't hate the media enough - you think you do, but you don't. https://x.com/Evans_Wroten

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LMWC's avatar

My reply was going to be, if not for the 24/7 lamestream media and that is starting to include conservative pages like Epoch and Daily Caller no one would hear or care about Van Holden and his junket or Harvard.

I do hate the media about as much as I can or want to.

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Justin's avatar

It's too bad the senator wasn't in-processed, so he could be VERY close to the person he professed to care so much about. You know... working WITHIN the system. (for all the good that does there)

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Emumundo's avatar

Thomas Massie is an honest member of Congress. I’m sure there are a few others but it’s a short list.

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Juju's avatar

Great links. On fire comments 🔥🔥

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WP William's avatar

Colorado Dems and Violent Leftist-Activist Groups teaming up for next few years to agitate and and "protest" with aim of intimidating and pressuring Republican Counties and Districts and ultimately to unseat officials who are resistant to Progressive spending for More Dem Voter shirking classers to live in Gvt-subsidized housing, and Sheriffs who drag their feet with More decriminalization, Sanctuary State policies, and new requirements to register and track gun owners as well as enforce proper Pronoun use in their communities.

CULTURE WAR INTENSIFYING 2025!

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Lori's avatar

God is with us always and will be there to sustain us. I will not fear but will defend my family with all I have.

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WP William's avatar

Yes, these virtuous demons and fools are throwing off all restraint and are emboldened by their Lawless, Inciteful Political Leaders, Influencers, and Hate-Preachers.

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Lori's avatar

Keep faith in the Lord for vengeance is His and He will avenge the wrongs done to those that follow Him and His words. They will be punished severely.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Oh and a PS…the first video “Getting Down’ was the best! 😉🤣🕺🏻💃🎤🎸

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Jay Horton's avatar

Massie Power!!!

Later Jay

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Wow quite the rundown Evans W…. Very good! Read through all the links!

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Thank you for the accurate commentary and excellent links, Evans W.

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Runemasque's avatar

Wow!

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Karmy's avatar

A blessed Good Friday to you all at C&C. Jesus died for our sins so that we may have eternal life with Him.

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Robin Esau's avatar

There is no greater love than this💜

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Robin Greer's avatar

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

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DenverDad's avatar

Why doesn’t the President mention Jesus? I hear God a lot, but don’t recall Jesus being mentioned. We need a Christian paideia in this country, like Pete Hegseth wrote about!

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Margaret Allison's avatar

Denver Dad, the email I received from Todd Starnes, President Trump mentioned Jesus all through his address about Holy Week! I copied and pasted it because our President put Jesus back in His rightful place on the Christian calendar.

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D m's avatar

Let it be, they are one and the same- the trinity (don’t forget the Holy Spirit)

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DenverDad's avatar

Deism is not Christianity. Deism is an ideology. Margarine isn’t butter; similar but vastly different. Even Satan believes in God. Christians believe in Jesus.

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Karmy's avatar

Jesus is God.

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DenverDad's avatar

But saying Jesus is God, but God is not Jesus. Jesus is our savior. God is a trinity. Jesus is God the Son. The creator of all. God the Father is what is revealed when one says God. Say Jesus and mean it. Jesus is our savior. God is holy and just. When someone says New York, it means two things and to say New York is crime ridden means NYC, not upstate NY. Jesus is our King. God is our father. There is a difference and distinction.

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John Carswell's avatar

Except that Jesus is God in the flesh. He is not separate and distinct from God the Father, not did God create Him. Read the first chapter of the Gospel of John. He spells it all out for you: "In the begininning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word Was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." Apparently, you do not comprehend it and are therefore in the dark.

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DenverDad's avatar

You missed my point. May God bless you with open eyes and ears, may the peace of Jesus Christ be with you and may you and your family have a blessed Easter.

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John Carswell's avatar

I reread your post, and I think you are correct; I did misread it. Although to be fair, the first sentence was a little confusing, at least to me. Thanks for your Easter wishes, and I offer the same to you and your family.

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Judy Ogden's avatar

He did, though I’m not positive—hopeful though—that he actually wrote this. Still praying!🙏✝️🙌

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114333582402241548

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DenverDad's avatar

But I want to hear ‘Jesus’ from his lips, verbally.

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John Carswell's avatar

He mentioned Jesus by name and by "position" (son of God) several times in his remarks at the dinner at the White House.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

I heard Trump just yesterday speaking the name of Jesus more than once. You must have missed that.

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DenverDad's avatar

Excellent! Thank you for sharing.

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Classic ☕🦠:

"During the Autopen era, conservatives were forced to swallow a long, revolting series of tattooed men in dresses and luggage thieves who received prominent federal appointments."

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Contemplating the most life changing weekend in all of history, my friends, and praying this Good Friday profoundly touches our humanity while we anticipate the joyful glory of Easter morning.

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Garry Blankenship's avatar

I like Rubio's enough is enough. Without it escalation is the only remaining option. Escalation could spell doom for the entire planet. I had not earlier recognized this, but the Ukraine/USA minerals deals places us / the USA heavily vested in the region to the extent it may not be just our money Putin has to fight. Harvard neither needs nor should be getting any Federal support. The cancer industry, more succinct the cancer research industry, is mammoth. The fact is escaped that all the money thrown at finding a cure to cancer is a futile investment. The money is in not finding a cure. Hence non-patentable remedies will never be researched; unless and until our current administration. Evil is being found and extinguished almost daily now.

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David Cashion's avatar

Bannon hates the mineral deal.

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richardw's avatar

Who is the beneficiary of the deal? Do the minerals become property of us gov? Of course not, it will go to military industrial complex and black rock. US troops will be there to protect from Putin and die doing their duty to protect the gangsters.

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David Cashion's avatar

I'm holding my opinion until I see the deal.

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carily myers's avatar

If you read up on this subject, all of the "minerals" are in Russian held areas. The Eastern side of Ukraine holds them. I think the "deal" is just to get the U.S. near the war zone to prevent Putin from attacking them.

It's to buy time to get a real deal for peace.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Correct. Stop the cancer marathon walks, races, etc. it’s not removing cancer.

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Jpeach's avatar

Infuriating! Van Hollen meets with MS13 gang member Kilmar Garcia over Margaritas in El Salvador yesterday. Then, does an interview with Maddow to further the Maryland Man Hoax. The only people buying this Hoax are brainwashed liberals.

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Carolyn's avatar

He should be met upon return to the US with charges of treason and impeachment

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Here…hold my margarita.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Paid for by the taxpayers no less 😑

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Covfefe Lady's avatar

Yes, especially in disregarding his own constituents suffering, but the trolling factor that resulted is brilliant!

1. Bukele + Trump admin now prove Kilmar Garcia is bodily fine. Not mistreated.

2. A sitting Democratic senator is now on camera having margaritas with an illegal alien declared to be a member of MS-13.

https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1913034250170802197?s=61&t=SC_N7lxZ7QXzAgiq6p8yQg

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Peter Schott's avatar

Great news for the FDA changes. The food pyramid / perfect plate should have never been implemented, let alone lasted for decades. I still remember when "ketchup" was classified as a vegetable so it could count as part of that nutritious school lunch. I hope that gets done sooner rather than later, but suspect it's going to have a lot of fights with the big food industries. (Made even harder with all of the attacks on real meat for protein these days.)

And who knows? Maybe we'll see some dots connected soon for jabs and ... other health issues. We can only hope there. :-/

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

I was invited to give a “cooking for two”demonstration for seniors on a nationwide podcast a couple of years ago. I talked about the fallacies of the food pyramid and “My Plate.” Needless to say, I was NOT invited back.

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Tom's avatar

I could use a "cooking for two" demonstration, but it would be for just me.

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Robin Greer's avatar

So you'll have leftovers. 🙃

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Peter Schott's avatar

Sad, but the history behind that is pretty bad to start with - that whole "7 nations" nonsense and then the insane push to do away with real foods. The nutritional experts who were working on the recommendations apparently were stunned when the guidelines were revealed, because they weren't even close to what they'd put forward.

I'm a product of that as well - I enjoyed all of those carbs over the years because they were tasty, but hardly healthy. :(

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Covfefe Lady's avatar

But I’ll bet you planted some seeds! 🌱👍🌱

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Lori's avatar

Yes and I have fallen head over heels in love with Dr. Makary!

Dr. Makary said that as soon as legally possible, the FDA will remove all pharma reps from advisory boards and replace them with patients and family caregivers. JUST PERFECT AS IT SHOULD BE

AND MY HEART'S DELIGHT

Dr. Makary also called for a moratorium on animal testing (2:29). “God did not make these animals on planet Earth for us to do cruel things to them and subjugate them,” he explained. He thinks computational models and lab-grown organs can handle most of the heavy lifting. “Those models should be replacing animal testing.”

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WA Lunch Lady's avatar

Having an audit by the government this week to make sure we are serving compliant “meals” to our students. I am very hopeful that RFKjr. can rework our meal component requirements before my visit on Wednesday. 🤪

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Our school’s healthy breakfast: 2 chocolate muffins, packaged fruit, milk. Sugar overload. First thing in the morning 🤯.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Good morning!! First 😁

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Uncle Juan's avatar

You win! 🏆

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RunningLogic's avatar

Just lucky this morning I guess! 😁 I happened to check Substack just when the round up appeared!

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Lorita's avatar

Your blessed day!

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My Favorite Things's avatar

❤️🌷❤️

Happy Good Friday!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Happy Good Friday to you too!

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Emumundo's avatar

Ow, you were on top of it this morning. I’d check to see if Jeff had posted, go read something else and then try again. You’re tenacious!

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RunningLogic's avatar

No just lucky lol 😆 Good timing 😁

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

Lol! It's a very short window... you're there, and then you aren't...

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RunningLogic's avatar

Right?? 😆😁

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RunningLogic's avatar

—“It was another thumb jabbed in Democrats’ eyes. Gary Shapley is the senior IRS investigator who blew the whistle on the Services’ slow-walking of the Hunter Biden investigation.”

Ha!! Love this 😁😂

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Beckadee's avatar

And don't forget he's the placeholder for ole Billy Long!

https://youtu.be/AvALgOjojOI?si=A1lYJ9buMUpEiVLE

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Funny.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

I also read that Kash Patel had named Matt Gaetz as special prosecutor to investigate the Biden Crime Family…life gets better.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

re: "Is corporate media’s obvious avoidance based on trying to defuse “vaccine hesitancy,” or is it something more sinister?"

Covid - SARS-COV2 - was released intentionally because they knew what it would cause - upper respiratory infection in humans and they knew how they were going to present it - as naturally occurring in order to lock down every society and impose global marxism. It was most especially aimed at taking out Trump- who as everyone knows by now, is an existential threat to global marxism - which is dictatorial control of populations using the CCP model so that the elite could have the world and we would be their subjects. So, with the pLandemic, you could change how the US votes, "just in time" for the 2020 election - the timing was not an accident nor was it coincidental. And through wholesale mail in ballot fraud the coup de'tat was completed, Trump was thrown out of office, and the biden admin installed by the global marxists.

I think we also have to remember that part of their effort is to the massive depopulation of the world. Is it far-fetched to believe that the mRNA vaccine is really a poison whose purpose it is to result in wholesale murder of the human race? Which could be managed to ensure which populations got the hot dose vs the placebo? And while doing that, steal billions and billions and billions of dollars, which were paid to pharma who in turn kicked back large portions to the media over lords and government actors/collaborators like our government is infested with - in order to stay in power over us.

I think it is something way more sinister, projected as vaccine hesitancy, so they never have to admit any of the above and they can continue destroying us at the DNA level with their poisons. Am I crazy?

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carily myers's avatar

No, you're NOT crazy!

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Holy Mollie! Remember Bill Gates and Fauci saying it came from bats or bad-meat markets?

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

tony human cockroach fauci and bill walking crime against humanity gates (I refuse to capitalize their names) are in the pLandemic up to their eye balls. There must be accountability for these two motherfuckers. And by accountability, I mean deep investigations, prosecutions, and long term prison sentences. They have conspired for decades. They are both evil monsters. They cannot be allowed to walk away from this, I dont give a damn what Resident Autopen's "signature" pardon says to the contrary for fauci. I don't think biden signed, it was signed by one of the corrupt evil people running the illegitimate "admin". Wasn't cabbage on vacation someplace when it was signed in Washington D.C? If it was signed legally by the autopen, there would need to be back up documentation which would conclusively prove that Resident Cabbage authorized the use of the autopen to sign it? I mean wouldn't you legally need a case-by-base approval to use the autopen, especially for such critical documents as a pardon? I'm not talking about certificates of retirement or some other meaningless document.

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On an island's avatar

WOW! 😮

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Now that is cool! Thanks for pointing that out.

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