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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

For the Lord will not abandon His people,

Nor will He forsake His inheritance.

For judgment will again be righteous,

And all the upright in heart will follow it.

— Psalm 94:14-15 NASB1995

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Psalm 90

R. (1) In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

You turn man back to dust,

saying, “Return, O children of men.”

For a thousand years in your sight

are as yesterday, now that it is past,

or as a watch of the night.

R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

You make an end of them in their sleep;

the next morning they are like the changing grass,

Which at dawn springs up anew,

but by evening wilts and fades.

R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

Teach us to number our days aright,

that we may gain wisdom of heart.

Return, O LORD! How long?

Have pity on your servants!

R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,

that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.

Prosper the work of our hands for us!

Prosper the work of our hands!

R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

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Ellen Komorowski's avatar

Janice- I love that scriptures that you find. They are perfect!

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Iron Horsey's avatar

It could be a long while in the cold or the the sand dunes. The Lord doesn't say it won't.

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LuAnne's avatar

What's your point?

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

Maybe the point is that God doesn’t promise we will be free from hard times. We know this though. And trust He will be with us through it all…He does promise that!

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Gaye's avatar

He doesn’t promise weapons will not be formed against us; he promises they will not prosper.

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LuAnne's avatar

I have a pretty good understanding of it. I was just asking a particular commenter.

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

Yeah I know. Just trying to inject a little truth. 😀

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Dr Linda's avatar

I was wondering as well. I guess I missed the point. Janice I understand. : )

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daverkb's avatar

Maybe the point is that we should just ignore Professional Disrupters, as being, er ... pointless.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Well played

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Barbara Benecke's avatar

Maybe the fact that Joe showed up 30 minutes late for the funeral had something to do with his seating. Total lack of respect, but what’s new?

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

He arrived in the UK with a 15 car motorcade - trip probably costs taxpayers 8 figures and then there are the carbon emissions - paging Greta!

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Janet's avatar

Sickening excess. I expect it of the monarchy but disgusts me with our pseudo monarchy.

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Pam's avatar

Actually the monarchy, i.e. King Charles was who requested dignitaries use buses where possible rather than private transport.

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Tory's avatar

No, not Biden, he was not going to use a bus. He did his own motorcade, came late… 30 minutes. He did it his way.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

It was all that oil on his windshield. That could make anyone late 🤣

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Dr Linda's avatar

Maybe the traffic ham from the 15 car motorcade created a traffic jam? Only kidding, being a smart aleck.

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Peace's avatar

Were these vehicles shipped over from the US? If so, how were they transported ?

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Roger Beal's avatar

On one of the USAF's windmill-powered C5A aircraft.

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Dr Linda's avatar

😂

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

YES - POTUS travels with his own convoy... Either in the body of air force one or in a second plane....

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Janet's avatar

What? He did get to drive up in a car though to the internment service at Windsor. Most had to get on a bus. But maybe he deliberately missed the bus. He’s excellent at “missing the bus” on so many crucial issues. Deliberately or otherwise.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

he kept looking for the short bus...

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TSumm's avatar

He insisted on taking Amtrak.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Of course he did!

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Janet's avatar

🤣🤣.

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Lisa P's avatar

He had ‘the beast’ flown over there. He never had any intention of riding with other foreign leaders on a bus.

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Janet's avatar

Maybe he was afraid of getting covid again. Since the jabs work so well.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

the "hair sniffing" risk was just too great to put him on a bus with others... :-)

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Joe was at the bar singing show tunes with Justin Trudeau. Ever the perfectionist, Fidelito became frustrated with Joe's out-of-key singing and wrong lyrics so he and and his entourage split while Joe was in the Men's Room, leaving Joe without a ride. An embarrassed Joe summoned his security detail which commandeered a double-decker allowing Joe to make it to the funeral, albeit late. Thus, the seat in the back.

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Janet's avatar

🤣🤣🤣. Took him awhile to find the door out of the women's room as well.

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OnTheJump's avatar

Sniffing hair takes a bit of time, give him a break.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

❤️so many foreign heads of hair….

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OnTheJump's avatar

....so little time. 😎

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Janet's avatar

🥴. Indeed.

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Great point. Joe's all about DEI.

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

😂😂

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Jodie Westin's avatar

That was my understanding as well, he took his own car as he couldn’t ride the bus and then got stuck in traffic and was late. He was on time for George Floyd’s funeral.

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YYR's avatar

He lost his pants.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

NO - seating arrangements are complex as first there is the family and then other royalty (e.g. Queen of Denmark as Europe's next longest reigning queen who I am sure descends from Victoria as well but I think she was also some how a much closer relation to Prince Philip as the Greek and Danish-Russian royals are also closely related) and then commonwealth country heads... I suppose British politicians also get seated closer.... WE ARE NOT SO IMPORTANT FOR EVERYTHING...

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Fortified City's avatar

He already late

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Dr Linda's avatar

I thought the same thing. No violence intended.

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OnTheJump's avatar

.......thought he had already missed it.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

❤️

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

I noticed no masks in the funeral picture. Yet in Oklahoma USA yesterday at a PT appt, the “security guard” was waiting for me **when I came out of the restroom** to hand me a mask. I had gotten on the empty elevator, gotten off in the empty hallway, and entered the empty restroom. He told me to make sure I wear my mask in the hallways. After my appointment I told him he didn’t need to chase me down to the bathroom next time and not to be ridiculous.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I would say “really??”, take the mask and keep walking. If they double down and I really wanted the PT I would then put it on my chin. If they persist I would find a new PT that doesn’t require masks. I’ve been done with masks for anything for a very long time. In fact the only place I ever complied was on airlines if I sensed I’d be kicked off if I didn’t wear one.

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

When I checked in and the receptionist tried to give me one, I said “I have one.” Which I did, in my hand, with no intention of putting it on. Funny thing is that it is a very thin cloth mask that I cut two layers out of. A tech at a different appointment asked me to pull it up, said she was being careful because of being 6 months pregnant. I guess critical thinking and science are no longer required subjects in med tech programs, nursing school, or medical school. So many things I wish I would have said!

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cat's avatar

You obviously don't live in a blue state. In WA for example, you cannot be in any medical facility of any sort without a mask. No exceptions. Good for you for living somewhere where you have a choice; not everyone else has that right.

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Janet's avatar

I’m in a blue state too. It’s going to last forever. I’m sure of that. I do have an unmask that allows breathing but that doesn’t deal with the tyranny aspect. I’ll play it by ear. I could feel just a bit dizzy? Just enough to plead full breath.

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

I’ve learned that some buildings say “we ask that you wear a mask” and some even have removed the mask signs completely. I also don’t put one on even if it says it’s required just to see what happens. My sister in Missouri said at the hospital the admin told employees it’s up to them whether they wear a mask or not.

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SadieJay's avatar

I think it all depends upon the health care conglomerate that each facility is tied to. St. Lukes and St. Al's in Idaho all require masks and are militant.

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Janet's avatar

My system doesn’t require masks as hospital patients. Which I was for 2 nights a week ago. Staff does of course. I didn’t wear one as I left I think. I wasn’t really sure I even had a face right then from the painkillers. 🥴🥴😱.

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Bono's Mullet's avatar

Boise area?

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SadieJay's avatar

Yes...now, it could be just for show in the front areas, as that is where I was waiting for Hubs to have ortho surgery. He said that in the back nobody said boo about a mask.

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Janet's avatar

They all require it here. I will be starting PT next week. I forgot about that. Ugh.

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Kitkat's avatar

I had PT for several weeks here in Commiefornia. Masks Required signs all over the place, and all the little sheep complied. Not me! Walked right in and did my PT. No one said a word. I clearly had my "don't mess with me" game face on.

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Janet's avatar

Might try that. I can do the face.

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laura-ann Knox's avatar

In Cali also. . . Had an appt with my primary, went to pharmacy and med records in same building. Harassed everywhere but didn't wear one. . . Subsequently got a letter threatening termination of care if I caused any more trouble in the future. . . She's getting a subpoena from me.

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Janet's avatar

Go for it. Time to push back with legal papers.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Ooh will you keep us posted on what happens?? I am so sick of this coercion and overreach, I love seeing people push back!

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Bono's Mullet's avatar

Excellent. That’s what we need!

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Joyfulgiver's avatar

But, but, but...Joe declared C0v1d over.

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

I guess they didn’t get the memo.

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Janet's avatar

Good. Just make them feel ridiculous. I’m using crutches at the moment. I’ve already used them to keep a dog at bay. 🤔. I have used “I know your boss requires you to do this but tell the boss I refused the request and will confirm that”. What can he do then really? They have backed down. But why in the hell I need to do that p1sses me off.

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Dan McDunn's avatar

Too much! I want to rejoin Twitter just to comment on that Newsom Fella. We have lost a dozen families in the last 12 months and it’s all about the covid vaccine mandates. AB 2098 (that’s the misinformation crap law) goes into law and we are out. Newsom is pure evil. He’s the ultimate villain straight outa central casting. Just a better looking version of Trudeau operating from the same set of instructions.

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CaplT's avatar

Everyone - Keep a list of all the things Gov Newt is doing to California. He wants to do to the same to the rest of the US.

Don’t infect the rest of the country with California’s stupidity.

The Newt is a silver tongued devil like Bill Clinton and Obama, the privileged nephew of Nancy Pelosi. She paving the way for him.

Voters have short attention spans. When he throws his hat in for 2024, remind everyone what would be in store.

Some of Newt’s damaging actions:

Banned gas powered engines of any kind:

not only lawn mowers, but also emergency generators, cars, trucks, and diesel- trucks, trains.

All electric.

Eliminating natural gas for heat and cooking.

Electricity grid is fragile, cannot sustain current usage even with non electric cars and trucks.

Withholding Covid relief felines from people who needed them.

Destroying small businesses, 40% of which were black owned. But preserving Hollywood from lockdowns because anything connected with Hollyweird is an “essential service.”

Dines out with lobbyists while state was locked down. Travelled outside the country during his travel ban.

Exempted a union from mask mandates bc of their donations.

CA lost population and major businesses for the first time under Newt.

Abortions allowed by non doctors. With no doctor supervision.

Legalized taking license away from any doctors who disagree with party line in medicine.

...So much more...feel free to add to this.

We need the reminders as ammunition against his Build Big Burdens plans.

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CMCM's avatar

Pretty boy Newsom is a political animal, but he's seriously stupid and has the intellect of a snail.

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Suzanne's avatar

Yep. We left last fall for the freedom of breathing unmasked in NV.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I can’t see him as good looking because the evil in him supersedes any handsomeness that might be there. He is ugly on the outside because he’s ugly on the inside.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

One thing I have noticed about a standard Trump strategy is to not reveal things even if revealing them could improve his situation in the short term. He seems to like to let his opponent drag out their, um, "error" (I won't use another word that rhymes with cupidity) because they like to do so loudly and in public - because it's "Orange man bad". He eventually relents and corrects their, um, "error" after they have looked "error prone" long enough.

This may or may not be the case here, but it wouldn't surprise me.

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Jeremiah 32:27's avatar

Trump discusses this with Hannity. Listening to Hannity is not my favorite thing, but it was worth it to hear Trump agree with Jeff that Presidents only have to think it and it is declassified. 😉

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/09/21/president-trump-discusses-the-mar-a-lago-raid-with-sean-hannity/

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CaplT's avatar

Saw that. I don’t usually watch it either but Trump’s conversation was interesting.

Much better than a headline or 1 minute click bait “news flash.”

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Donna  P's avatar

Is this the same interview that Trump tells Hannity "I declassified everything"?

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Jeremiah 32:27's avatar

Not sure, probably

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

My Vanderbilt nugget I wanted to write yesterday: Exactly a year ago, my son and I attended one of their university tours. We sat down in a room with everyone else and a Powerpoint presentation was rolled out by one of the young admissions officers. The very first slide was about their absolute, 100% support for BLM. The very first slide! We all know that colleges are crazy left... but my son and I were not at all expecting that. We found a way to exit the tour shortly thereafter. Over my dead body was I going to pay for that place.

We ended up visiting around ten schools last fall, and most had tamped down the crazy left proclamations. Except for Vanderbilt. As a side note, everyone needs to know that the admissions offices at the schools are overwhelmingly populated with 20 somethings (mostly girls) with purple hair and in all likelihood woke up that morning identifying as their cat. Remember this when your son or daughter is writing their college essay. The "aggrieved" admissions kids love victimhood, so play to it in any way you can. They love it - and it will greatly boost your application. My son played along (with mom's instruction) and he is at a top ten. Probably not learning as much as he would've there twenty years ago, but that's another matter :)

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I’m not so sure that playing along is such a good strategy. That’s why we’re in this mess today. I wouldn’t want my child in a university like that because he will be playing along throughout the very expensive process of getting a degree instead of getting a quality education that teaches truth and prepares students to be productive, contributing members of society instead of woke, unthinking robots for the left. It’s past time to get a spine and stand up to this woke crap!! Playing to get along is allowing this sick ideology to flourish.

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Ellen Komorowski's avatar

I agree with you Julie Ann. If there was a mass exodus from the universities and they started to lose tons of money, that might just change their minds about the woke ideology that they are pushing. Plus degrees are so overrated now. We need more plumbers, small machine repairmen, heating and air conditioning workers, etc .......we need to start sending our kids to trade schools. They make excellent money and there is no wokery pushed there that I know of. When everything crashes, these will be the people to keep society going. Education is not what it used to be. Simply my opinion.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I concur. Why do we continue to pay them outrageous sums to destroy the minds of our children? Why?😥

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CMCM's avatar

Because the parents continue to pay for it because they want the status of the university name and degree for their children.

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Truthseeker's avatar

I agree

I told my daughter when she applied

If you wanna a school with a label you’ll have to pander to the wokensess of the admissions board

And her reply was-

Screw that. I’m not doing it.

And as a result… she landed EXACTLY where she should be… she’s not subjected to all that BLM, CRT -BS in every class….

In fact, she was in a Justice and civics change class the other day and said mom you’d love this quote …

the professor just said, ‘The right to dissent without penalty is one of the most fundamental tenets of a free and open society’

That’s the education I’m going to pay for…

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RunningLogic's avatar

Oh that’s awesome! Now there is a professor I can respect 🙂

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CMCM's avatar

These universities are highly HIGHLY overrated. My son went to UC Davis in California. They've hired a lot of well known professors in his field, but in general they don't teach their classes....nooooo, they're too busy. Graduate assistants teach rather a lot of classes there, so that's what you are paying the big tuition for. One quarter he had a grad assistant emergency hire who was teaching an important math class and he had never taught it before. My son says he got better teachers who taught their own classes in our local community college. Also, several of his UC classes had as many as 700 students in them. Same class in community college would have a max of 30.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

Bet you won’t see woke leftist crap in trade schools 🙄😉

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

We can't let them push us out, either. Taking the high road and removing ourselves means we lose any chance of influence and we just essentially hand everything over to them.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I just wouldn’t even be interested in a school like that for my child. If the admissions office is full of purple haired woke dummies the rest of the school is as well. I’d send my kids to Hillsdale College or other colleges who truly educate rather than indoctrinate.

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Jeff C's avatar

Yup, same thing here. The idea that one has to pretend they are a crazy leftist to fit in seems like a terrible life lesson, particularly for someone so young. I get the idea that sometimes you have to work the system, but if the system demands you spout delusional nonsense then maybe it's time for a hard break.

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

I'm not saying tell your kid to be a crazy leftist. I'm simply pointing out that, as most writers know... know your audience. The college admissions office is not a particularly bright lot, so it is easy to tell them what they want to hear. That is what I mean by "play the game".

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Jeff C's avatar

Fair enough but I wonder how many kids have the maturity to make the nuance you describe. Play the game but don't end up selling your soul is difficult enough for most middle-aged adults.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

We will have to agree to disagree on this. God’s Word says “reject every kind of evil” 1Thess 5:22

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Ellen Komorowski's avatar

Agree with you. We have to quit capitulating! At some point, we have to stand up and fight against the tyranny and for many that means making a sacrifice!

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M VARR's avatar

You dance with the devil,

the devil don't change,

the devil changes you!

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

That’s a good point.

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

But at the same time, the other comments make me feel better about letting those schools rot out.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I’ve been waiting 50 years now to see your influence appear.

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Shae's avatar

Twenty-two years ago, we paid $40K/year X4 for our daughter to learn values completely opposed to our values. (Stay at home mom, doctor dad who made work change to be at home more, & kids raised in a believing home) I wish we had been more prescient. She is estranged today. We continue to pray for her.

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Linda Sartain's avatar

She'll be back. Y'all are great parents.

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I pray she finds her way back home to you 🙏🏻 These are the stories we hear that allow us to understand that the college years are still very formative for young people… and parents need to be aware of what they are learning and thinking even during this time when they are pulling away from you and developing their own sense of self

Be consistent in your messaging to her. Slow and steady frequently wins the race with the developing brain.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I pray she will wake up and return to the fold. Remember the story of The Prodigal son.

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KatLee's avatar

Heartbreaking.

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Martha's avatar

💔🙏

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Shae's avatar

Thank you, Martha.

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Shae's avatar

Thank you for the encouragement!

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KatLee's avatar

This seems like a “playing with the devil” strategy. A conservative friend’s daughter who spent much money to send her daughter to a local Christian school through 12th grade, decided to go to a state college in Tennessee. After three years of college, this beautiful young lady now streaks her hair blood red, has one of those cow nose rings and wears pentagrams on her ears and neck. The indoctrination is insidious, even if hidden.

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LuAnne's avatar

Sounds promising! My grandson tells me the same. He got into a little bit of trouble last year (his senior year) when one of his teachers demanded everyone choose new pronouns. He came up with Norm/AL and as any living being would have predicted, she was mad. I snickered about that for days and was completely impressed with his smart assery skills. He graduated in May and his chosen field is Firefighter/EMS. Incredibly proud of him!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I love that! I guess she wasn’t powerful enough to cause him serious harm or she would have.

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RunningLogic's avatar

That is great! Kudos to him! I have heard a lot of snickering from young people about the pronouns and the 56 or whatever genders. A lot of them see through the BS, which is encouraging.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

From your lips to God’s ears! May it be so. The pendulum is so high now, it either has has to come over the top, or swing us back to the Victorian age.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I think some of it is just the pendulum swinging back. A friend of a friend who is very democrat left diehard woke has a daughter who “rebelled” against her parents by becoming a conservative Christian. At some point, people see that what is promised by the left and the scaremongering warning are really baseless.

Some young people are seeing those around them engaging in all of the supposedly “liberating” activities and discovering that they aren’t any happier or more fulfilled or better off—quite the contrary in fact. So they are putting two and two together and deciding that they aren’t buying what that ideology is selling.

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daverkb's avatar

Eventually, and we have reached this point, that these Woke Crazies just look too unbelievably dumb unbelievable. And thanks for the word 'cringe!' Love it!

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AB's avatar

Great point. There’s hope

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Jeff C's avatar

Unnatural hair color is a pretty good indicator for mental instability in my experience, not foolproof of course, but helpful. It's like a poison symbol on a container of household cleaning chemicals. Be wary and interact at your own risk.

Agree with Julie Ann B's comment below that playing up to their insanity really rubs me the wrong way. If that's what it takes to get in then I'd question if my family belongs there in the first place. Not a hypothetical as I have a son in twelfth grade and we need to make some decisions soon. No need to flaunt ones conservativism but pretending one is an insane leftist to get favored status seems almost certain to be counterproductive in the long run. I don't have a good alternative yet and need to get this figured out ASAP.

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Frab's avatar

My nieces attend Pensacola Christian College. Christian school, zero wokeism. The girls are very happy with the school and their experiences there. Just an option to consider....

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Jeff C's avatar

Thanks for the suggestion. We're on the west coast and hoping he stays local and are currently looking at Cal Baptist and Concordia University (LCMS), at least for the first two years.

There is zero chance we'll send him off to some Ivy-covered wall indoctrination center for four years just so we can brag to others about the prestigious university he's at. I get the impression from talking to other parents in our area that's their primary motivator. Hope they don't live to regret it.

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RunningLogic's avatar

The Fire website has a free speech rating of colleges and universities, that might help you make a decision.

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Dana's avatar

Have you considered Grand Canyon U?

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AB's avatar

May I suggest the honors programs at the big southern schools? Our kids have fared well there. No need for a ‘woke’ application. Ole Miss, Bama, South Carolina etc. Then again, they all graduated at least a year ago. It would still be my strategy today for a lack of other options. Florida schools churn out a different breed unfortunately. I’m glad we still have time with our little ones.

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FedUpDeb's avatar

James Madison University seems pretty normal.

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daverkb's avatar

Maybe lower key Woke Conservative given that the area overall, save a few cities, is Red.

One JMU guy there told me he was studying Sustainable Engineering (maybe mechanical?) And a county supervisor who taught there was really a Woke Globalist type, although he was posing as a 'conservative' Republican. Woke Marxists are very good at 'toning it down' when they have to give due to prevailing conservative attitudes wguke still working their stick.

JMU, while not Harvard or Yale, I'd still say that appearances can be deceiving.

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Diana (Somewhere in Maryland)'s avatar

Having conservatives "stay true" and send their kids to third tier schools - which may or not be all that normal anyway - and watching the left fill the top level is taking an L for our side.

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Thoughtful's avatar

I respectfully disagree. Taking the "L" is losing our kids to this evil - which is the result of putting them where they are marinated in leftist propaganda and encouraged to conform. Your child may end up with a piece of paper from a Top Ten in a few years, but then will be rejected from any Big Tech, Big Media, Big Corporate, Big Pharma or Big Law job he or she desires unless he or she CONTINUES to "play the game" right through his or her 20s and 30s. At some point it's not a game anymore and he or she is part of the problem. Honesty and honest living requires courage to be different and demand integrity. No piece of paper from a university or job opportunity is worth your integrity.

We have to start leading the way for our kids and encouraging them to build their own way forward. The faster we do this en masse, the better our kids' opportunities will become. Oh... and they won't be destroyed from the inside out.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Good point. The going along to get along formula for success does not end with a diploma. It continues in all career fields.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

You’re making the assumption that conservative or Christian parents who send their children to lesser known schools that give a traditional classic education are “third tier” schools and that is wrong. They may not be as well known or historically “elite” but that doesn’t make it a school that won’t provide a quality education. What the “elite” schools do is indoctrinate students with leftist propaganda at a huge cost both economically and morally. Honestly, it’s past time to stand up against this evil!

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Boze's avatar

Not a good argument, SiM. Who is defining "tier"? Top level? What is the purpose of attending university anyway? Think deeper.

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Jeff C's avatar

This isn't aimed at SiM as I don't know his (her) motivation, but I get the distinct impression a big reason people send their kids to "top tier" universities is so they can tell their friends their kid is at a top tier university. It's almost always the first thing out of their mouths when you ask how their kids are doing, if they don't bring it up first.

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RunningLogic's avatar

There is also the networking and prestige aspect for job applications and starting salaries. Not my thing but I know some find it important.

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CMCM's avatar

Honestly, if I had been there the MINUTE he said the comment about supporting BLM I would have stood up and walked out of the presentation. Whenever I see a store with a "support BLM" sign in the window I refuse to go inside and patronize them. I'm beyond sick of all this, and BLM is a fraudulent organization.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yeah those supporting an organization that has only enriched its leaders and done NOTHING for ordinary black people are beyond stupid and are only virtue signaling to other people like themselves.

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

I can appreciate the old desire to have a kid at a school like that, but not any more. By the time your son is out of there, the value of that diploma may be much much less. And as well, what kind of connections is he making while there - meaning what kind of people is he ‘swimming’ with? I’m just wondering what a parent things about these days. What is the actual value of that school?

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Tracy Bishop's avatar

Did you hear that DeSantis........Newsom needs a few plane loads too.

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Kitkat's avatar

Make sure to drop em in Malibu and Newsom's gated hood!

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Chip Murray's avatar

And, just like that, Madison quotes began flowing from all three branches! Hallelujah! :-)

#LoveTheSmellOfC&CInTheMorning!

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Politico Phil's avatar

states (Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming). Add Texas and you have a pretty good starting list for a “Free States Coalition.

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Politico Phil's avatar

I posted the Putin comment below late last night. We already have an organized platform for pushing back that has authority as well. This platform is each of our States. This is the genius of our Founding Fathers and the built-in means to push back against tyranny. They knew we may need it. Secession, the "Free States Coalition", is a very real power they built into America.

Re: Putin

We need to stay the f*** out of his business

Not our fight

Leave him alone and stay in our lane

I'm sick of USG world domination bullshit

Lead by senile woke wannabe Bolsheviks

It's just money and power trying to be world dictator

And it'll end up in WWIII

That's what I'm saying

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SadieJay's avatar

Haha..you think you are sneaky, but they find you anyway. I agree. Not just with Russia, but the world. If we spent all that air money on the USA we would be in excellent shape. Can you imagine the admin announcing that they are sending 60 billion dollars to local municipalities to clean up their areas and enforce the laws and take care of the homeless? Take care of the border and hunt down all the law-breakers that are here now? Imagine the outrage!

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Politico Phil's avatar

Oh My God, what a world that would be! And how simply that could be done. And the world would thank us for leaving them alone. Keep saying it SadieJay!! Maybe - just maybe - if we get a real red wave and get someone in there who will put everything on the line and take no prisoners, it could be done. But it's gonna require a HUGE push back.

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Politico Phil's avatar

I never was any good at being sneaky lol

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RunningLogic's avatar

Except if the bureaucrats get their hands on the money, the problems will still never be solved and will just keep asking for more 😕

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

He needs to stay out of business

That doesn’t concern him.

Like Ukraine.

We don’t have a right to rule Mexico. Neither does he.

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Martha's avatar

In terms of the permanent injunction, what about the other 26 states?

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

My state is on there. I’m proud of texas.

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Jayhawk Gal's avatar

This is my morning treat. I love C&C. Sundays are sad without it.

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

I'm learning more legal lingo from this blog than I have ever learned from watching all those "crime dramas". One of my favourite crime series is Goliath on "prime" T.V. - the bad guys go down and the good guys win. My favourite season was # 4, if I'm not mistaken, where "big pharma" goes down. The cast of characters was awesome, much like the cast of characters in the C&C army. Have an awesome day y'all. Cheers!

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Jeff Childers's avatar

I loved the series, it's actually very accurate except that they vastly accelerated the normal pace of litigation (for dramatic purposes). I heard they have real lawyers advising the show runners.

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Alan Davis's avatar

So Hollywood made season 4 before 2020 tyranny, crazy that the truth was allowed to come out. Best episode was #5. The ‘kids show’ marketing opening was exactly what happened with covid. Re-watch that first 10 minutes

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Lone Starr's avatar

I loved the season 4 finale. Not sure how realistic some of the courtroom drama was, but it was a very entertaining show. It's too bad they ended the series.

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Melanie Eccles's avatar

Yes, I want more, I found all four seasons very interesting - I really liked the characters and I thought the acting was great.

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SadieJay's avatar

I am looking forward to "House: The Cov!d Reboot". Can you imagine THAT show??!!!

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MsReid's avatar

You mean like the old show "House"? If so..... no!!!! LOL!!!

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Lone Starr's avatar

OMG, that would be amazing!

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SadieJay's avatar

If anyone takes that and runs with it on alternative media, I want my cut for the brilliant idea. And....I could probably do a little script writing too

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MsReid's avatar

Melanie, thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking for something positive "out there" instead of all the dark crap pouring out of the "entertainment" industry. Yay!!! Time for Good Guys to win!! :)

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SadieJay's avatar

There is a super show called The Detectorists if you like British. Hubs and I loved it.

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Frab's avatar

Just a warning that this show got pretty dark especially the 2nd season.

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MsReid's avatar

Thanks for the warning.... so noted. :)

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Kitkat's avatar

I will have to check it out. I ditched my cable awhile back, and always looking for something good to watch via streaming services.

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Shae's avatar

You were great on the FLCCC webinar last night!

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JustANobody's avatar

Can you provide the link if it's not too much troulble? Much appreciated!

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Shae's avatar

https://covid19criticalcare.com/flccc-weekly-updates/.

It will be at this link by later today or tomorrow. It is also on Odysee.

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JustANobody's avatar

Thank you kindly.

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JO's avatar

For what it's worth, Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round. So much for the first round having the best picks.

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Mark Geiger's avatar

Newsom is such a... well, I'll refrain from getting into that, because it would only lower me.

To continue with his sportsball analogy, however, the 'plan' in California is not only NOT attracting many first round draft picks, but costing the state their own players, while bringing in a pile of UFAs that nobody else in the world is even looking at.

Brilliant!

The cold reality is that California, like the US, is such a big financial entity that it is really hard to completely destroy it with any real speed. What we are seeing with both, however, is a long slide into economic ruin, while the sheep cheer and the politicians and other elites pillage openly and freely in order to feather their nest while there is still the opportunity...

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

California's economy is basically government transferring money generated from inflated asset transactions e.g. stocks, tech IPOs, property etc + the usual services (fast food, Wal-marts etc) needed for 40 million people. There is NO real economy beyond agriculture which they are targeting for destruction... Mfg is, for the most part, long gone along with anything remotely to do with resource extraction like timber or oil-gas...

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Mark Geiger's avatar

Let's not forget the infusion of covidcash that is also helping to prop them up.

There was a time when they had an incredible economy, back when I was growing up there. Affordable housing, a primary education system that was a model for the country, a solid secondary education system that was respected, decent taxes, a tremendous and diverse (in a good way) economy, and it even ran in the black, with hundreds of millions of dollars in reserve.

Now, it's a craphole, a joke. I left a long time ago, and you couldn't pay me to live there now. There are still good people there, but the mega-nutjobs are in the cities, and they overrule everyone else...

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LuAnne's avatar

Unless someone remaining in CA is benefitting from the upside down CA policies or...they're mega rich and can afford to hold out for a while longer, I can't understand why anyone would remain there.

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Mark Geiger's avatar

Same reasons people stay anywhere, I suppose; friends, family, roots, memories, businesses, maybe they don't have the means, and sometimes it's as simple as 'the devil you know vs the one you don't'.

I cut bait and left without looking in the rearview mirror, but that's just me...

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Marnie's avatar

On my way out of CA now. Leaving behind good friends, fantastic weather and beautiful scenery, but none of that is worth the tyranny and I’m still a free American, to be able to pick up and go elsewhere.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Sadly true. I use to live there also. A beautiful state - ruined.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

You also forgot mail in voting.....................

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Kitkat's avatar

And Dominion voting machines. We are so screwed in this state. Born and raised here- and can't wait to jump ship.

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Mark Geiger's avatar

Well, that's just one of the ways they cement permanence to what has already occured. Mail in voting is just a result of a long-term slide towards the bottom, not a cause of the same. It didn't take mail-in voting to wreck Prop 13, for instance; this has been ongoing since the 70s...

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

They are always having propositions on the ballot to weaken Prop 13... Look at the recent Kansas proposition on abortion that even had lawyers confused as to what it mean't.... Combine that with a failed education system and many low information or non-English speaking voters...........

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Politico Phil's avatar

The woke Blue states will continue to sink further and further into the financial red ink and Gov's like Newsome will simply go hat-in-hand to the Fed Gov't to support them. This means taking the resources from the successful Free States to support the broke-ass woke states. At some point, the "Free States Coalition" will have to separate themselves from this arrangement. This is the same scenario that caused the secession in 1860.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Let me complete that sentence: "tool".

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Steve McQueen's avatar

Biden sitting in the back at the Queen's funeral was because Commonwealth countries come first, followed by other countries. There's a standing protocol around these things.

Perhaps Trump has some explanation for not addressing the ugly fact but people need to realize, he has a history of acting upon bad legal advice. His recommended special master was a deep state operative, FFS! He doesn't always take the best advice and will trust people he's known despite their bad advice.

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Jeff C's avatar

Love the man but I get the distinct impression Trump takes advice from those who flatter him in the moment rather than a longstanding track record. I don't see him changing much at his age.

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Linda Sartain's avatar

I think Trump is a Master at the game; cards, 4D chess. He only had to "Decide" what to declassify. He didn't have to inform anyone. He's getting the other side to show their cards. Brilliant. You should know that he would never have classified docs that he wasn't covered for having access.

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Alison Smith's avatar

I agree- he is trying to force the FBI and DOJ to show the world some piece or pieces of evidence- like Hilary's lost emails or proof of the election steal.

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Bobbi's avatar

Biden was seated in the 14th row because he arrived late. He refused to take the bus provided and was in his motorcade with his beast, and his limo, stuck in traffic.

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Steve McQueen's avatar

Maybe arriving late pushed him back a few seats but he was in the back because Commonwealth countries go upfront, of which there are 56.

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Alison Smith's avatar

Trump is dumb like a fox- he knows exactly what he is doing.

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Steve McQueen's avatar

Not really. He's made some terrible mistakes choosing personnel. People that have been close to him have said how he'll take bad advice if it comes from someone he trusts. I don't think he's a dumby, he just puts his trust in people when he should otherwise seek a second opinion.

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Linda Sartain's avatar

Maybe there was purpose in having those You say were bad choices around for a while.

You submit opinion that you aren't privy to knowing if it's based in reality.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Orange man bad swims like a feather and floats like a rock, but he’s still the champ🤷🏻‍♀️

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Paul Ashley's avatar

The best first round draft choices go to the teams that performed the worst. Is Newsome admitting something?

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