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Roger Beal's avatar

Democrats "need someone to tell them what to think" ... good work, American education system. That statement's truth is the roadmap leading to today's disfunctional, delusional progressive culture.

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Annie's avatar

Yep. That's why the leftist outlets are hemorrhaging viewers and readers. #1- people are waking up. Red pilled or whatever. They don't believe the prog narrative anymore. #2 - There wasn't as many dems as thought to begin with. Bots, fake ballots, illegals voting, usaid buying subscriptions, cable subscriptions propping up these same shows, ballot stuffing, and massive censorship of any view except the prog narrative- just a few.

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Jeff S's avatar

It's like you could read my mind!

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Bitsy54's avatar

Wonder if the Died Suddenly Shot has helped to cull DemonRat Rolls?

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Teresa Carstensen's avatar

Well, I know it's also wreaking havoc on GOP Conservatives who were duped into a couple of shots before becoming resolute in what that poisin was/is. In my own family...an 11 yr old afflicted with cancer (chemo, surgeries, the whole bit), and my husband suffered a massive stroke which has left him one-handed and unable to speak. There will be no real justice in this life.

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Cheryl Caraglior's avatar

I'm so sorry, Teresa.

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Bitsy54's avatar

I’m so sorry to hear that, Theresa. I pray you find a way to unwind the damage done to your husband and the dear child. No one should ever be coerced into taking potions or doing procedures.

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Leo's avatar

I think that mess was The Turning Point.

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Monterey's avatar

Indeed

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Astragale's avatar

Bitsy - interesting point…

Have Dems been disproportionately injured & killed by their love of injection mandates? 🤔

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SD Scott's avatar

I’d like to see some statistics on that - is this where the extra 26 million blue voters from 2020 (and no time before or since) disappeared to??

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Would have been gone long ago without all the above.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Bam!

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Mitch's avatar

what percentage of educators are registered Dem? Must be at least 90%

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Peter Schott's avatar

My oldest just started student teaching. One of the cohorts expressed their anti-Trump leanings pretty soundly, but my daughter didn't bite - just let her rant and moved on. At least that was in private and not in front of the kids, but still - she's in for a long period of dealing with that in education. :/

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Willing Spirit's avatar

The last place I worked in education, I started in 2014. During the 2016 presidential campaign, someone placed a Time magazine with a cover showing a dripping wax candle bust of Trump with the words, ‘Melting, melting!’ in a prominent position in the break room. I threw it in the trash.

Passing that way again later, I saw someone had rescued it and it was back on display. So, this time I buried it under some coffee grounds and banana peels and that’s the last I saw of it.

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Bitsy54's avatar

I loved my Obama roll of toilet paper….really aggravated my Libby CA neighbors who came over to enjoy my pool

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Fun!

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Peace's avatar

You were just doing your part to ramp up composting in the break room:) Those banana peels and coffee grounds needed some dry paper matter.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I know. Too bad it was just a slimy Time Magazine.

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Eloise Runels's avatar

Make sure she knows she does NOT have to join the union!

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Ceashel's avatar

DEI was infiltrating the school district where I taught (and retired from) as early as 2010. Tough to be a Republican or even a centrist in that ecosystem.

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Debra's avatar

Isn't a swamp an ecosystem? :)

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Monterey's avatar

Tell your daughter that we're all glad she's there teaching.

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Annette kimball's avatar

I will pray for her!

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Melissa S's avatar

Good question. Asked Ai:

K–12 Teachers: Many identify as moderate (43%) or liberal (29%); voting trends skew Democratic

Teachers’ Unions (proxy for sentiment): 80–95% of political donations go to Democrats

University Professors (Overall): ~48% registered Democrats vs. 5–6% Republicans (~8.5:1 ratio)

Professors (Humanities/Social Sciences): Ratios often exceed 10:1, sometimes up to 40:1

Professors (STEM): Ratios closer to 4:1 favoring Democrats

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Jamison's avatar

When I first started teaching, a mentor told me that if I wanted to be a professional, then I should join the professional organization. When I found out what the unions do with all that money, I stopped.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

When I taught, it was the only

insurance available. IF some bizarre thing occurred in your classroom and you, the teacher, was

blamed, right or wrong, the union was your insurance if you were fined. I knew at 24 it was a bad move but it was then only

move at that time.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

In Florida some conservative individuals formed a company called PEN (Professional Educators Network) to provide legal assistance without the leftist baggage. I was a member for many years until I retired.

Given the insanity out there, I think the legal insurance is very necessary. Evil teachers are left somehow to do unimaginable things, but the innocent get attacked over figments of crazy people’s imagination.

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Monterey's avatar

Recently in a Seattle suburb it was revealed that the school district paid a pedophile teacher $70,000 to go away quietly. Illustrates your point quite well.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Of course if they know you’re conservative, I don’t know how much help you’d get from the commie lawyers if you have to depend on the teachers’ unions.

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Marie's avatar

They recently reported Randi W. spent $100,000 in a year on private limousine services. While we all drive 20 yr old cars.

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Jeff S's avatar

I don't believe it. AI can kiss my ASS.

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

Same here in Canada. Decades ago during my undergrad studies, I attended an info session on my uni's teacher training program. No one smiled. The ones leading were arrogant and standoffish; in retrospect it had the dark feeling of being a communist party meeting, as described by Whittaker Chambers.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

precisely. I know 1 teacher from my history who is a Repb

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Willing Spirit's avatar

That would be my anecdotal experience from working amongst them.

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RidgeCoyote’s Howling's avatar

I think once an ideology rises to 90%, it becomes totalitarian, i.e. 100%.

Conformity to the party rule is absolute or they have the political power to eliminate you speedily.

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

That was exactly the intent of the Left taking over public education 30 years ago a la Gramsci.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

Longer than that. My dad was in education. I distinctly remember him warning parents at a PTA meeting in a tiny town back in the early 60s. He was passionate about honesty in teaching.

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MzReid's avatar

Maggie, my ex husband was a high school teacher back in the 70’s and 80’s, When our daughter announced that she wanted to be a teacher, he sat her down and talked her out of it. At that time, he could see the writing on the wall.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

I know women my age and older (50+) who depend on the Grey Lady to tell them what to think…totally brainwashed…

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Debra's avatar

I have to admit I am totally dependent on C&C for my daily dose of knowledge and logic.

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Linda Sartain's avatar

Perhaps a better word than "dependent " could be suggested. Maybe you enjoy the fresh perspective and valid information from C&C.

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Monterey's avatar

At least the person who writes C&C is actually sane.

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Marty Kiner's avatar

My sister prefers The Meidas Touch which is a collection of never Trumpers from way back in his first term. Oh and The View. My friend gets her information from GMA. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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MzReid's avatar

My lifelong girlfriend told me the other day she makes it a point to never watch FOX. She HATES FOX…. “it’s not news!”. Her source of what’s going on is CNN, MSNBC and People magazine. She admitted she NEVER reads books. She hopes Trump dies, and she wants Gavin Newsom to be President!!!! And SHE was one of the smart ones when we were in school. I will never understand how some people “roll” given what’s right in front of our faces. Sad.

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Lori's avatar

My condolences. Run like hell away from that piece of work.

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CMCM's avatar

My sister-in-law is a TDS afflicted Dem voter who is multi-vaxxed. We were driving her somewhere the other day and had the Fox channel on the radio. She blurted out "Trump is a dictator!" I then asked her to tell us why she thought that. Unsurprisingly, she couldn't really formulate a specific reason, he just IS one, she said. I asked where she gets her news....she finally admitted she watches CNN. My husband and I hit her with a barrage of facts about DJT and all the lies perpetrated by CNN etc., but I could tell she had switched off her limited functioning brain cells at that point. She didn't* argue (*couldn't argue) and she lapsed into silence.

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Marie's avatar

Yes one of my (former) life-long friends just posted that "Trump is a dictator!" These people seem to have lost their ability to think and reason. The brainwashing takes hold, apparently.

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MzReid's avatar

It makes me so sad that this country is in such a MESS and I blame Barack Obama and the fiends that picked him, groomed him and put him there. It’s scary to see how the media can fabricateLIES and that so many people are so quick to believe them because, you know, “the Orange Man”…..totally brainwashed. The proof is there that Trump is doing some amazing things FOR THE COUNTRy and FOR AMERICANS, but I honestly KNOW if he came up with a cure for cancer they would still insist he’s a dictator and needs to be dead. Very sad

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Susan V's avatar

Why are you still with her- I guess the sex must be great???

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MzReid's avatar

I’m a straight FEMALE. I guess your reading comprehension isn’t so good, eh?

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Susan V's avatar

Wow take it easy -no need for the nastiness and sarcasm!! An LOL response would have been kinder! I don’t think I’m the only one on this thread who was thinking you were referring to a girlfriend/ boyfriend relationship. God bless

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Garden Lover's avatar

What will they do if The View is canceled? I will celebrate. LOL

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Contrary to Ordinary's avatar

Not if but “when”…

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Garden Lover's avatar

Your lips to whatever station owns it. (I don’t watch so I have no idea. LOL)

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CMCM's avatar
Aug 22Edited

There will be demonstrations, wailing and gnashing of teeth.

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Garden Lover's avatar

Like the toddlers they are. Many will celebrate.

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Annie's avatar

OMG!😲

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Politico Phil's avatar

Exactly right! Thanks to "progressive education". But guess what? Gen Z, the twenty something year olds, are bucking the trend and rejecting the liberal brainwashing they have been the victims of. Now if the old geezers like me could just take a cue from the youngsters and recognize they have been lied to for 50 years!

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LMWC's avatar

Covid was truly my “Come to Jesus” moment as far as the fact my government had been lying to me all of my adult life. It made me fall on my knees and know that God is in control and I am not. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but it also showed me I can love my country for the majority still believe it’s worth having.

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Debra's avatar

I was so blessed to have my eyes and ears opened during Viet Nam. Four young men from my tiny little Oregon County gave their lives. (710 died from Oregon and the total population of the state was about 2 million). A few years prior JFK had been eliminated and then a few year later Watergate blew up. I voted as a Republican at age 18 and have not looked back.

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Garden Lover's avatar

Whether it was refusing to do my hair and makeup or shave my legs in high school because my mom was pushing me to do that 🤪, or something larger like protesting the mandates, or just forming my own opinions and not following the crowd, I have been a rebel my entire life in some sort of way. My entire is family is like that on both my mom’s and my dad’s side. We have a few that are brainwashed, but the rest of us? Nope.

Sometimes, I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact we have 4-5 American revolutionaries as ancestors. We might just have been born that way by default. LOL

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Politico Phil's avatar

Amen

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

SO glad you wised up!

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alongername's avatar

They couldn't fool me . One of my "teachers" was George Carlin .

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Jeff S's avatar

He was great.

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CMCM's avatar

When I go back and listen to some of Carlin's routines, he was so right on the mark about things, observing behaviors that are still going on. No way he was a Dem.

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alongername's avatar

I too am amazed how right he was.... almost prophetic about many things.

Pretty sure he is looking down and saying " I told you so ! "

Would be fun to hear his take on AI ! Myabe something like " humans have finally reached the level of dumbness that the Masters can now just use a machine to control them ( along with the hand held devices which have already sapped any brain activity that was still present... if any )"

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I didn’t realize it in the

moment but he helped me form my ideas abt VACCINES when I was maybe 15! His thing abt accidentally taking a midol, which was now facing through his body looking for ovaries to console was hilarious. I now know human fetal cells are in all vaccines, like HEK- Human Embryonic Kidney cells. I’ve often said I believe the skyrocketing rate of autoimmune disease is partly on account of BODY cells being injected into baby’s bodies via vaccines! HOW does the little body know to mount a defense against polio yet NOT mount a defense against … it’s own BODY? It’s like the midol inside a guy…

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CMCM's avatar

I am around a fair number of Gen Z kids and they are surprisingly aware of the B.S. they've been fed and they definitely reject the Dems and liberal progressives. That said, while a certain number of them are apparently very pro-Trump, others are disdainful of both parties and say they want to remain "outside the system" at this point.

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Jay Horton's avatar

Yepper! Feels pretty good too!

Later Jay

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Susan Seas's avatar

Apparently, we have quite a few still thinking for themselves as noticed Tuesday at Costco, where a larger percentage were back in masks. Oh wait …

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Jeff S's avatar

I'm gonna start wearing one: The Mask of Zorro!

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alongername's avatar

The Lone DeRanger

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Jeff S's avatar

Haha.

I am not alone.

We are not alone.

The bogeyman under my bed is not alone, either.

"Turning Japanese," by The Vapors:

"Everyone around me is a total stranger

Everyone avoids me like a psyched Lone Ranger

Everyone..."

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Lori's avatar

Love the Vapors!

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Jeff S's avatar

Saw them live at a club in Palo Alto, CA, near Stanford U, in my salad daze. Wild night. They were great. Played that song, of course. Loud. Nonstop dancing. My ears and hips still hurt, I think. Have you seen them?

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

😝😝😝

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Susan Seas's avatar

😆👍🏻

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MzReid's avatar

The Mask of ZERRO! LOL

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Jeff S's avatar

Er, MzReid, I think your spell checker isn't enabled.

- Diego de la Vega

~ <- The Mark of Zorro

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MzReid's avatar

It was a play on words, there, Jeff.

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Jeff S's avatar

Oh, I know. But, I had to respond (riposte). I appreciate your humor.

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Annie's avatar

Yeah. They are scared. They got the vaxx and many boostered. They virtue signaled their "I follow the science" status and looked down at us unvaxxed. Now they are sick, got covid again, and are starting to hear the safe and effective narrative probably isn't true. The masks didn't work the 1st time and they won't work now. As usual it is all performative and virtue signaling.

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Melissa S's avatar

re: "and are starting to hear the safe and effective narrative probably isn't true". I doubt that. A small percentage of the Koolaide drinkers, yes. But from my vantage point, any negative information about the jabs is either automatically deflected from the ears or goes in one and out the other. And yes they are getting sick, but putting the clues together, not many.

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alongername's avatar

those getting sick are running ........ to get more shots !

truly an example of "you can't fix stupid "

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Garden Lover's avatar

What’s the definition of insanity? 🤪

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alongername's avatar

If at first you don't succeed ........... try, try again ...???

( that might be good in some situations .......... or fatal in others )

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Lori's avatar

On Steve Kirsch tonight, VSRF Rumble, embalmers showing all the massive clots pulled from jabbed bodies of all ages. Unbelievable if we were not living it.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

We’ve had many people

wearing masks for awhile

now.

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Susan Seas's avatar

We always have some, but I realized I saw more.

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SH's avatar

Hmm... wonder if they are still using the SAME dirty masks?

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Susan Seas's avatar

🤢

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

And these same people believe SIDS is actually caused by babies sleeping on their tummies with blankets. These people slowly smother themselves with masks…

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CMCM's avatar
Aug 22Edited

Just today a man (40-something probably) in a mask was checking people out of the Costco exit door...when my husband and I walked past him I said to the hubs, "Guess we know how he votes!"

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Big E's avatar

We attended a “conservative” school board meeting last night. The people and administrators are nice, considerate, and care about the kids.

But…one topic was an upcoming tax levy. We were the only “citizens” in the room. We attend nearly every meeting in person, so our faces are familiar.

The discussion centered around:

- “Marketing” the levy properly to the “patrons” (their word for property taxpayers) so we would approve the levy with little analysis or thought. It’s all about marketing, not true need or return on property taxpayer investment.

- Reclassifying original categories on the levy language to make them more acceptable to patrons (again, gullible voters). Very leftist to rename something to make it more palatable.

- Stating that those who are against levies in general or this one in particular are “not in support of the kids.” Perhaps some of us believe that the expensive, failing, underperforming public education system is failing everyone, despite constantly pouring more money and more rules and regulations into it. Math and reading scores remain in the trash heap, but the sports teams are popular and they just bought lights (mostly through donated funds) for the football field so they could play night games in the freezing cold.

- Keeping the levy language high level and as vague as the law allows so they would have wiggle room to move the budget items around after levy approval.

- Hiding and re-phrasing special education (SPED) budget items, which would cause discomfort if brought up to voters directly (last year, the school suffered a big SPED scandal that involved lawyers and other ugliness). SPED spending is a major chunk of the total budget.

- NO ONE ASKED THE IMPORTANT QUESTION: Why do we have such a high need for SPED in the first place? (Could it be childhood vaxes?)

- Rounding the original request from $400K to $500K at the last minute because they figured voters would understand “inflation happens” ($100K since the last levy 2 years ago! Really?) and the dollars per thousand of their home valuation wouldn’t be “all that much” of an increase. They literally pulled the higher number out of the air during the meeting, because they could.

We were the only household who regularly attends school board meetings, so they assumed we were 100% on board with the levy and the increase. They kindly asked our opinion. One of us said we weren’t ready to venture an opinion (in reality, we were spitting mad about the above). The other said the initial proposed increase to $495K seemed “cheesy” so they upped it to $500K. Again, no analysis of actual needs.

All this happened in a state and district where:

- Governor just asked for across-the-board 3% cutbacks to EVERY area EXCEPT K-12 education;

- Governor / legislature spends an enormous amount of money on a post-secondary corporate/education giveaway program called Idaho Launch;

- Local school just announced a free breakfast and lunch program for the entire school because enough families qualified as low income under a federal grant (and what if that dries up? What about the culture of dependency being created? Should everyone get a free breakfast and lunch because only some wouldn’t eat otherwise?)

- Another staff member was needed for a grant-funded “Community Schools” program that will cost a bundle as its progressively diminished funding dries up. See Umbrellas, Community Schools, United Way & School Board Meetings: https://tinyurl.com/234fnjs4

- Topping on the cake — state Superintendent of Public Instruction just made a move to shift K-3 reading to AI rather than human teachers (you know, those highly funded teachers that the legislature keeps offering more and more money to every year). Soon no kid will see a human face providing instruction, but we’ll continue to pay anyway.

- All the while, they are deferring maintenance on HVAC and roof systems, assuming plaintive cries of “poor” will score big bond issues when requested.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, but it gives you an idea how — even in a conservative school district and supposedly conservative state — taxpayers are considered to be patron piggy banks who can be duped into approving anything.

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Roger Beal's avatar

They call you "patrons" ... around here the buzzword is "stakeholders".

Our red county in N E Georgia has a 7% sales tax, and (as home prices are at champagne-bubble levels) onerous property taxes. The county commissioner just floated a proposal to raise that 7% to 8% with the additional one percent being labeled a "floating local option sales tax".

Usually local option taxes are earmarked and sunsetted, tied to specific projects. This one, however, is proposed as an alternate way to collect operating funds for our public schools, and thus offset (reduce) property taxes somewhat. No public feedback has appeared to date, as the ink is barely dry on the proposal. But it's a most interesting proposal and, if the limitations on funds' uses are ironclad, one which I will support.

Property owners got no choice, but sales taxes are paid by everyone spending retail money in the county - homeowners plus renters and visitors.

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cat's avatar

What gets me is that their leaders only know how to "resist." Maybe people are tired of them refusing to work with Republicans on ANYTHING. They continue to be a humongous block of illogical obstruction. That doesn't work in the real world of wheeling and dealing.

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CMCM's avatar

Their operative word is "FIGHT". Except they don't really know how to fight.

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cat's avatar

Yep, they fight for the sake of fighting.

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Michele Wilcox's avatar

Don’t know why I’ve been putting it off but this post was my cue. It’s exactly like Jeff writes, I’ve been silent about my views and it’s been shocking how many people have said things to me assuming I would agree with them.

All I needed is to do at one point was question Biden’s intellectual capacity and my sister screamed at me in horror “Are you a republican?!” Like it was the worst thing you could ever be.

Well, guess what? I’ve been privately voting for the other side for while and the time has come to hop off the donkey. Hee-haw!

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Big tell .you are a Republican is your sense of humor; your last sentence brought a chuckle!

Rush Limbaugh always remarked that Dems (liberals) has no sense of humor. That they always seemed about most everything.

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CMCM's avatar

That is SO true! And it's why the leftie late night "comics" haven't been funny for years, why SNL is no longer funny. Just look at the faces of the people behind whichever Dem or activist is speaking at any event....a miserable looking bunch of people who seem depressed, angry, unhappy, and unable to find the humor in anything. People you wouldn't want to talk to for more than a minute.

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Michele Wilcox's avatar

Never occurred to me before but I think you’re right! Sadly I didn’t listen to Rush Limbaugh back in the day. Might have sped things up some.

The left is so anxious and in earnest that they lost their sense of humor long ago. This applies to my friends who I no longer think are any fun. Sad!

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SH's avatar

I've been of the opinion that is not a donkey, it is a jackass

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Michele Wilcox's avatar

Indeed!

“It’s time to jump off the jackass” is a much better slogan. I think I’ll put it on a t-shirt.

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Monterey's avatar

Shortly after Trump got into office again and USAID was being rightly torn apart, i realized that the Democrat Party has been held together with lies, propaganda and taxpayer dollars.

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Momcat's avatar

and maybe there is no one to tell them what to think because USAID has folded, grant funds are drying up & there is no money to fund democrats misinformation campaign. Does anyone think that Obama, Biden, Bush, Pelosi, Soros, WEF, etc, etc, etc, are going to spend their OWN money to fund democrats?

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Scott's avatar

There are some repubs like this, too. My mother, for one. I love and miss her, and I've become WAY more conservative over the years, which would make her smile, but she did tend to off load her thinking a lot to folks like Rush Limbaugh.

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william howard's avatar

I don’t want to say, ‘The death cycle of the Democratic Party,’ - well I'll say it - the democrat party is the modern day version of the WHIGs and will suffer the same ending - when democrats only platform is "we're not Republicans" - who can blame their (former) supporters for abandoning them

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Debra's avatar

I have not watched the Matrix movies for years but wasn't there a scene in the end sequel where everyone was unplugged from the destroyed Matrix and wondered how they would ever think for themselves again? I sincerely hope these people learn how to think independently again. I am sure many have some value in our American society.

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CMCM's avatar
Aug 22Edited

I'm not entirely sure they CAN learn to think because perhaps they were never able to think in the first place. And that would explain why they became Dems. I say this in all seriousness.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Can our countries 250th birthday next year awaken these sleepers?

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Matt L.'s avatar

Suggest all C&C readers check out Ruy Teixeira’s The Liberal Patriot substack essay drop today. He’s a sane Democrat who states D’s need (several) “Sister Souljah” moments to have any hope of righting the ship. States the D party is toxic because voters no longer trust the donkey on base moral issues. He’s giving it the ol’ college try to try to avoid D’s going over the cliff.

Ruy cites Damon Linker’s (true, IMO) observations:

“ W]hat liberals need to do to defeat right-wing populism…[is] to moderate on culture. That means on policies and moral stances wrapped up with the old culture war (like trans and other gender-related issues) as well as in other areas of policy that have a strong cultural valance—like crime, immigration, and DEI. This isn’t just necessary because Democratic positions on these issues are unpopular at the moment. It’s also crucial because culture is more fundamental than politics: It sends a signal to voters about where a politician or party stands on base-level moral questions. When voters become convinced that a specific politician or party has bad (or just sufficiently different) moral judgment, they lose trust in that politician or party. And then other, more superficial policy commitments don’t matter…”

I’m reminded of an old Yiddish proverb:

‘If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over’

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alongername's avatar

The BIG problem with "politicians" is ......... they are great at changing their positions to achieve a goal (election)

But anyone with a brain and some life experience can tell that it's all a lie .

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nancylee's avatar

Why do people read this Substack if not to tell them what to think?

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

News. Not propaganda. Huge difference. Also…there is much to be learned in the comments. Like who the trolls are…

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Nice jab, Nard!

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

🤣

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Jeff S's avatar

Ditto.

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Debra's avatar

Oh great, now we have Nancy and Karen.

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nancylee's avatar

My training tells me that what we accuse others of, would be useful to root out in ourselves. I believe that guy jesus said something along the same lines, about the mote in our own eye. but just call names. thats much faster and easier

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nancylee's avatar

just thinking along the lines of some guy who gave a sermon on the mount including And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

but probably not germane these days

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Susie & Security's avatar

Jeff gives us a legal perspective that we cannot trust anyone else to provide. I personally have learned a lot from his postings.

Not to mention, he cracks me up! 😁 Always a fun read.

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Debra's avatar

Why would we not trust a man who put out the ACTUAL covid numbers in 2020 when no one else would? He has earned my respect with his intelligence, determination for truth and his wonderful sense of humor. Y'all ought to go back and read his newsletters from 2020, 2021 and 2022 if you have not been a follower since the beginning.

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Jeff S's avatar

Yes!

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shayne's avatar

Jeff doesn't tell me what to think. He brings information and I either agree or disagree, based on my own intellect, experiences, education.

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alongername's avatar

C&C is IMO a really good summary of what is going on . I certainly give Jeff and his team a lot of credit .

Still.... there are some readers that I find who still cling to the herd mentality , even getting nasty at someone who "dares" to speak against the favored narative . THAT, imo, tells me that not everyone here is as "enlightened" to the idea that FREEDOM of speech is what we all should cherish . Here is a great comment from someone that i will share :

Delightful Designs

1d

"people, who supposedly have social skills, should understand that we all are different. They should be able to communicate and respect them rather than get offended or avoid people who are socially different. "

The problem there is humans are some sort of flock or herd animal. Think of chickens, any deviation in behavior or looks gets a chicken pecked by the others. Paint marks on o chicken will get it pecked to death. Dyeing a monkey's fur pink will get it killed by the others. Conformity is what makes a group safe. I have been pecked a LOT. It gets called other things in humans, but pecked is the best analogy. Another is crab bucket mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality ANY deviation from the norm is a punishable or medicateable offense in this culture. If you look at any counterculture group (goth kids, as a random example) there are rules to stay within that grouping too. Dress right, act right, or get outcast or corrected .... or pecked, in my words."

alongername: i did not cave to the group . That is why I did not get coerced into taking the covid jab . But I'm alive and well ..... into my 70's now

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Leo's avatar

alongername - thanks for re-posting this very important observation about Herd Mentality/belonging/pecking.

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SD Scott's avatar

This survival-based characteristic has been thoroughly studied and used to manipulate us, rest assured.

Anyone appealing to contentless name calling & demonizing is employing it.

(As in, media coverage of Trump, etc. Huge tell.)

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Susan Stephens's avatar

I’m counter-culture to a lot of Twitter libs (& some here on Substack). I’ve been called things w/ words that shocked my senses. Vicious. Vulgar. Condescending.

In my experience I rarely see a conservative use raw language in a debate or difference of opinion.

Wonder if others here have had any similar experiences.

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SD Scott's avatar

I often wonder whether those are paid wind armies - or bots. But I guess with some people, the bot is implanted in their heads. Media mind control.

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alongername's avatar

There is a Forum here in Thailand that i used to frequent , and your experience pretty much mirrors what goes on there with the "debates" you refer to .

One side (conservative attempting to present opinions) ...... met by name calling and ad hominem attacks from the opposite side.

I no longer enter such combative discourses . Just a waste of time and risk of getting upset .

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nancylee's avatar

appreciate you standing up for the idea that we could question our own actions/reactions. amused, sort of, that I was instantly called a troll. jesus himself, as near as we know, suggested And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

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Susie & Security's avatar

Nancy, sorry you got beat up for asking a good, debatable question. The negative responses are a poignant example of the "us vs. them" mentality on both sides of the aisle that continues to degrade unity across these United States.

Usually we are more civil than this, but we got carried away this time, applying assumptions to your intent - similar to the way some Democrats treat Trump supporters.

Regardless of any difference in opinion, you are a fellow human, also made in the image of God, and your questions are welcome.

Please forgive the community for the disparaging comments.

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alongername's avatar

You are correct . I certainly did not appreciate how quickly the mob jumped all over you . Crazy thing is ..... you weren't even asked to explain what you meant .

Even if your explanation was not one that others liked (if or if not ) ...... the immediate attack was imo not nice at all .

I think some others might agree ......... but choose to stay silent.

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nancylee's avatar

lol the whole thing kind of proved my point . . . its my experience that most people want to be part of a team/tribe/herd

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

He does a good job explaining complex subjects into easy to understand terms.

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Annie's avatar

A source of information from Mr. Childers and other C&C readers. It's one of many sources I follow to get a sense of what's happening. In the end, my gut instinct is what I go with. That and my faith in God. 🙂

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L  Young's avatar

I read C and C because it’s interesting, then I think about it. Sometimes Jeff sees things from a perspective that I didn’t see so I think about that. Usually he sees things in a more positive glass half full light than I do so I do more thinking……usually after reading his daily post I view the current national or world issues more hopefully.

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

Same here. His perspective is good to have. And he is nearly correct on things too I’ve noticed over the years…

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Susan Stephens's avatar

AMEN! I’m guilty of being the 1/2 glass. YES! Jeff has a gift of always leaving his readers with hope & good cheer!

Like Rush Limbaugh (I call Jeff the Rush of Substack especially when introducing someone to C&C) he is honest & realistic about the not so good but at the same time putting it in perspective & even showing how it can be an impetus for good to come. As he’s done faithfully re: Covid & its tentacles.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Is that your reason for reading C&C, nancylee?

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Adele Weeks's avatar

Jeff publishes stories the corporate media censor. That's a big reason to read C and C. It is like Just the News. You know more about what's really going on.

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Debra's avatar

and then you do your own research!

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Lori's avatar

and still waiting for her answer....tick tock..

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Daily Growler's avatar

Before 2016 and Russiagate, I WAS a Dem, and so I've had a lot of experience being told WHAT to think. What Jeff and some other independent media offer nowadays is something different--it's information. Does Jeff have his own biases? Sure. See, for example, his coverage of Palestine/Israel. But he doesn't lie about the facts or tell people what to think. Indeed, he encourages readers to do their own research and educate themselves.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Well stated!

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

You just outed yourself as a liberal. Only a liberal would think we read something to be told what to think…

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Beth's avatar

What an odd worldview. It really shows where you're coming from Nancy lee. Why do you read this sub stack? I read about 15 different columns a day. Not to tell me how to think, or what to think, but how to think about the world from multiple perspectives. If you read substax to have them tell you what to think, I feel really sorry for you. That's a very sad life.

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Jamison's avatar

Seriously? Is that why you read it?

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Same tripe libs used regarding Rush Limbaugh listeners. We didn’t care. We got news, news about other news, his intelligent perspective to ponder, & his great sense of humor. We loved how he used absurdity to point out absurdity which drove libs nuts (because they took it literally!)

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Lori's avatar

Oi Vey already.

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

“These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”

— Jesus, John 14:25-27 LSB

✝️✝️✝️

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

A friend of mine is in the midst of a difficult battle against a deranged and dishonest legislator here in Colorado. I shared yesterday’s Bible verse with her…it gave her strength. Thank you💗🙏.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

God’s Word never returns void. It’s LIFE & light & hope.

Your friend is blessed to have you as a good friend.

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TriTorch's avatar

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” —Teilhard de Chardin

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

Apparently I am not as well read as I should be, so I will be looking up this person you quoted.

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TriTorch's avatar

Here is a related quote from someone a bit more mainstream:

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. —Hendrix

Thanks for keeping the love alive Janice

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Well Hendrix was a very close friend of another Janice (Joplin)--just a bit of useless info here--LOL!)

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TriTorch's avatar

=j

That made me beam, thank you Sharon

Still, I’ll take Janice P over Janice Joplin any second, minute, week, month, year, decade, century, millennium, epoch, megaannum, googleplex, or Graham's age. =)

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

But god bless her soul; I'll never forget her, just sweetly being herself on Dick Cavett, then cruelly upstaged by glamorous Raquel Welch, whose Hollywood demeanor shut out any cross-conversation that Janis offered.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

What in the world is a "googleplex", Jayson--guess I'll have to research that term--LOL!

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Jamie's avatar

Me too Janis!!!

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Janice, no need to waste your time on Teilhard de Chardin - Roman Catholic Jesuit mystic.

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TriTorch's avatar

So what you're effectively saying is: Even the devil can cite scripture for his own purpose?

Still even a stopped clock is right twice a day. That quote is on target. If only we could harness love like that...the world would be almost heaven.

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Tom's avatar

One drop of poison in a glass of water makes it un-drinkable.

The most dangerous lies are surrounded by the truth.

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TriTorch's avatar

If you have a barrel of sewage and add a teaspoon of fine wine, you get sewage. But if you have a barrel of fine wine and add a teaspoon of sewage, you still get sewage.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Hey “that’s your opinion man”! You never know perhaps Mr. de Chardin’s writings could be her “cup of tea”. And it seems like he’s not yours! 😉🤔

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Margot Wooster's avatar

De Chardin’s ideas are not compatible with God’s Word, and if Janice or any Bible-believing Christian chooses to read, she will quickly see that.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

What I’m addressing here is your POV as to what “God’s Words” are or “any Bible-believing Christian chooses to read” statements. That is about YOU. She can decide for herself. We spend our entire lives being told “what to think”, “how to act” and what to do. We need to move into a sphere of thinking for ourselves here, not based on any “authority”, God or otherwise.

We are all quite different in our orientation or “belief in God”, a “Higher Power” or what have you. Some of us “believe in God” or a “Higher Power” greater than ourselves, but don’t necessarily ascribe to the “Jesus Christ/Christian belief systems”. Yes Jesus was a prophet of his time, but was he THE son of God, remains to be seen in my mind? The prophets like Buddha, Mohammed and any other “prophets” from various spiritual paths, I believe were also sons of God.

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

He’s a French Catholic priest. He lived in China and other places, always living with other priests. He seemed to change countries according to who his favorite priest friend was. His book on the human phenomenon is obtuse and dense and pretentious and nonsensical. I kept his book over 20 years constantly and doggedly reading a few hours here and there. I never could find anything worthwhile or mystical in it, so I finally donated it to the Salvation Army hoping someone else could discover what I could not. He did ask a few good questions, though, and I think he was just a fad from the fifties, like the hula hoop.

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Janice, do not waste your time on Teilhard.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

That’s a far better explanation of why de Chardin is not “worth one’s time” reading, rather than the one ascribed by Ms. Wooster.

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Lori's avatar

Janice, you are well read on the authors of the most famous Book in the world so...

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Tom's avatar

TriTorch, Teilhard de Chardin sets off every discernment alarm bell that I have. Do a deep dive . . . He is not what he seems. A Jesuit of Jesuits.

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J D Luca Lee's avatar

You nailed it down. A Jesuit of Jesuits is what he is: Primacy of adaptation to the culture over Preservation of the Truth. The pattern of Jesuit missionary efforts often begins with apparent success through cultural adaptation, only to result in outcomes that replace Christianity’s core with foreign elements, ultimately threatening the integrity of the “True Religion.” Look back what happened in Ming dynasty when Jesuit’s mission seemed successful beyond expectation, and then how it was vanished completely, what happened in Japan when their mission seemed unbelievably successful, so much so to be called “Christian Century”(1549-1650), and then completely erased, and what has been happening in the Jesuit found universities in the States. Have I mentioned Jorge Bergoglio, who should not have been entrusted with Petrine Ministry?

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Herodotus II's avatar

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's two major works are The Phenomenon of Man (Le Phénomène humain, 1955) and The Divine Milieu (Le Milieu Divin, 1957). He was a paleontologist and Christian theologian. Very worth reading.

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Herodotus II's avatar

Second suggestion, after reading Tritorch's essay: The Screwtape Letters -- CS Lewis (dedicated to JRR Tolkien)

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Edward Drass's avatar

It did not go well for Prometheus the first time man brought fire to earth...

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TriTorch's avatar

The power of love makes the power of fire look like a chump…

John 13:34-35

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

Or do you imagine Jesus did not know what he was talking about, Edward?

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Edward Drass's avatar

Sir, you misunderstand. It was man's pride and hubris that defied the gods and brought fire to earth, only to receive deserved eternal punishment. That free will was not unlike original sin. God is often represented as Holy fire, we welcome its purification. “But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” – Malachi 3:2-3 As Christians, we have already received God's purifying fire through the Holy Spirit, and His love, which we share as a sign of our belief. To interpret Teilhard de Chardin's quote, it seems man has done these things himself, and pridefully offered them back to God, when the Name is the source of all things. We can offer God nothing but our love. The love we receive from Him we share with others as a sign of our love and belief in our Savior. Thus, I never question my Savior's message, or His intention, and I posit that de Chardin misrepresented it in his poetic statement, if that is really the message you wished to convey by posting his quote..

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TriTorch's avatar

I'm sorry but no, here is how this works:

This life is a test.

Will we stand out among our peers, or will we fall into wrongdoing?

Common has little value (those that fall prey to the flesh and do what most others do).

Rare is priceless (those that can withstand the storms and temptations of life, and do what is right because it is right).

Imagine that we are in a flour sifter in God’s kitchen, and we are being shaken around. This shaking represents our trials in life.

Almost everyone has a uniform soul profile - smooth and round - they are the ones who fall right through. They are legion. Common.

The ones that are not common - meaning their soul profile is unique - do not fall because they do not fit through the holes in the sifter. They are rare and special.

God is literally panning for gold.

Be ordinary and make choices based on what feels good to the flesh (gluttony, lust, wrath, envy, greed, sloth, pride) - just like almost everyone - and you end up falling through the sifter.

Be unique and make choices based on what is right (humility, charity, chastity, gratitude, temperance, patience, diligence), and you do not fall. You are the gold left after the soot has fallen.

God has given you an exceedingly minute moment on this earth to prove yourself through your good deeds, and in doing so gain everlasting life in heaven. Your century here is a mere speck on the endless horizon of eternity, and by using that precious time to focus on and peruse earthly pleasures - rather than being a force for good - you are making an incredibly bad bargain with what you would stand to gain otherwise.

Yes, your time here barely registers in the context of forever, but what you do during this time is extraordinarily important in the context of your soul.

Make the choice to be the gold. That is all it takes. And then go on to live with God.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Enjoyed very much the interaction here. Could you explain a bit more on your vote of Salvation, please?

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Jay Horton's avatar

Darn nice. Good on you.

Later Jay

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Janice's avatar

I just want to say that every day I read this newsletter and when I finish I scroll down and always see your post about God and it makes me smile. Not just because or your post about God but also because it’s from someone who shares my name. ❤️-Janice F

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MOMinator's avatar

Beautiful words this morning, Janice. ✝️💟

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NancyP's avatar

Perfect choice of scripture for today!

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Jeff S's avatar

That's another good one.

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JT's avatar

I wonder if anyone has considered changing the definition of "vaccine" back to what it was originally before it was changed in order to accommodate the mRNA shots?

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Astragale's avatar

JT - they also changed the definition of pandemic.

Before, it involved many deaths. They changed it to many «cases». 😏

They also changed herd immunity. Before, it was the result of enough people recovering from an infection. Suddenly it also involved enough people getting the “safe & effective”.

ALL the definitions they corrupted to enable the plandemic need to be restored to their original true form.

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Susie & Security's avatar

That's a great idea, JT! I looked up the CDC definitions, then and now:

- 2019: produce immunity → protect from disease (prevention)

- 2021 to present: stimulate immune response (broader, doesn’t guarantee prevention)

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

And an “immune response” can be deadly…depending on the severity…

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CHop's avatar

By this definition, cats and pollin are vaccines.

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Susie & Security's avatar

You offended Mr. Fuzzy Slippers. LOL.

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SM's avatar

I think it is an incredible waste to “research” the Covid vaccine harms at this point. Is that supposed to be progress?

Just end the EUA and get rid of them🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

Rescind recommendations for any vaccine without adequate safety studies.

Ban mixing different vaccines without safety testing.

Injecting people with vaccines is NOT healthcare. It is not prevention. It is intentional bodily harm until proven otherwise.

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Steve Stevens's avatar

The uniparty doesn’t want that.

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Gloria Magee's avatar

Actually, maybe change to an accurate definition as there has never been a real vaccine and we have been lied to for millennia. That might be asking too much…. 😢

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Kathy's avatar

Yes! Great idea!!!!

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Fabes55's avatar

“Nobody’s telling us what to do next. We’re just left here, stunned.” The democrat/socialist ideology summed up in one phrase.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

May the Democrat Party go down in flames.

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Lori's avatar

I must add, in hell.

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Skenny's avatar

Have they not seen the legendary and inspirational Gavin Newsom trolling and memeing? It's a joy to behold, especially if you don't have kindergartners of your own.

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

And then there’s ICE and CPB casually rounding up criminals right outside Gavin’s “rally.” Gold, solid gold…

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Matt L.'s avatar

Sasha Stone substack panned Gavin’s trolling beautifully yesterday.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

@Skenny- for those who are curious about Newscum’s unbelievably scummy memes-Don Surber today

https://open.substack.com/pub/donsurber/p/newsom-goes-loathsome?r=8sw74&utm_medium=ios

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MarshaLouise's avatar

And Newsom’s performances have some Dems truly excited, to wit: Charlemagne the god was overly excited to see real promise in a potential Dem leader running for president. The guy is truly mesmerized by Gavin- most regrettably.

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Natalie's avatar

If anyone listens to Steve Bannon's War Room, they'll know that the Texas legislature is actually caving to the Dems by adding only 5 House seats when they could legitimately add 10. With all the big talk from Gov. Abbott about what he was going to do if the AWOL Dems didn't return immediately, he did nothing, and the RINOS welcomed the Dems with open arms. I'm not from Texas, but it sounds like the Republicans in the Texas House are actually Dems in Republican clothing, and for a state that Trump won by 14 points, it's a real shame.

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Deb's avatar

It is a very sad day in Texas! Yes, the Democrats actually run the state government as a whole. Dems are allowed to CHAIR some of the committees and many of the so called conservatives are no better than their counterparts! The representative for my area/district is a wild in sheep's clothing (just my opinion). He has been placed as the chairman on a very powerful committee and regularly buries legislation that the speaker does not want to see the light of day!

And the fact that nothing has happened to the dems that fled the state without any meaningful repercussions speaks volumes!!! There are very few true conservatives and have any backbone at all within the Texas Legislature!

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Deb, did you mean wolf in sheep’s clothing? Grrr. I’m an Oklahoman and we have a lot of the same problems with such people!

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Deb's avatar

Yes, I did! Dang autospell. Thanks for the correction!

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Jay Horton's avatar

SPELL CHECK is Satanic!!!

Later Jay

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alongername's avatar

Split Cheeks are Sardonic .....

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Porge's avatar

🤣

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Bitsy54's avatar

Same stupidity exists in Corrupt Columbia, SC RINO purple state.

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Ruth H's avatar

So true. The map could easily been rewritten to gain 10 seats, but they caved to Dems objections and only went with 5. Burrows as House leader only because he needs Dems vote to remain as leader is the main reason why our legislature isn’t doing as well as it should. He’s a snake. Gov Abbott is all talk. 👎AG Paxton is going after Beto, but it’s a slow judicial course of action and I can’t wait for Beto to pay for his crimes along with breaking the first TRO taken against him. Cornyn trying to act bad ass because of reelection hopes. I’m hoping Paxton mops the floor with him.

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

Why should we be surprised? So many RINOs. It’s been said many times that the GOP coffers always build up when the Republicans are in the minority, thus the incentive to either stay out of power, or if they do return to power, turn it into a very short term win.

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LHuff8's avatar

That explains a lot.

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Starsky's avatar

Tried to warn y’all. They did the same thing in Arizona. Redistrict “by Independent committee,” where you have one Democrat, one RINO (who is really a Democrat), and one Independent (who is really a Democrat). Republicans lost BIGLY.

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Cabogirl's avatar

Small steps … better than nothing.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

We should stop capitulating to the RINOs.

Need more agitation and in the streets action.

Picketing would be a good start.

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Patti's avatar

That angers me! Do not say it unless you have follow thru! Same party.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Was wondering about that

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Willing Spirit's avatar

“ A “preference cascade” is a concept coined by Timur Kuran (Private Truths, Public Lies): when individuals privately disagree with the dominant narrative but stay quiet — until enough people break ranks, and suddenly everyone feels free to express what they already thought. Think of the Berlin Wall moment: for decades, people grumbled in private, then overnight the whole edifice collapsed because everyone realized they weren’t alone.”

This is how I’ve envisioned the swamp draining; slow, slow, then a massive burst.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Two years ago--was it three?--Jeff continually offered us hope, promising that the truth would begin to leak out, by slow drip at first, then faster dripping, until the drips coalesced into a slow flow......and then, the torrent.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I believe a whole lot of people just want to sit at the “ cool kids” table and once it moves in their minds, so do they.

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SD Scott's avatar

Matthias Desmet said there’s 40% in the middle who just go along to get along - with 30% true believers & 30% dissidents flanking them.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Sounds right

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Starsky's avatar

Q said it first.

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Annie's avatar

Agree 💯 An evil and artificial man-made dam failing. All the progs floating lost downstream without a life vest. Oh well. I have no sympathy for them.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Good image. I have just as much sympathy for them as they have for us.

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Rehabmom's avatar

If Epstein pedos are prosecuted there would be a massive burst as the swamp would be exposed.

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Richard Whitney's avatar

Start with Bill Gates. We already know he's guilty, so what's stopping them?

Mrs. RW

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Kristina the Short's avatar

maybe his ex-wife can assist :-)

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Leo's avatar

Are you kidding? It is his $$$.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I’m sure. Probably pretty much the same people now being exposed in the RussiaGate coup.

For some reason Democrat judges keep blocking release of Epstein Grand Jury testimony.

We know this; Bill Barr just testified that he has seen no evidence of any involvement by Donald Trump.

Testimony of (I believe the victim who recently committed suicide) was that although Jeffrey Epstein claimed that Donald Trump was his friend, she never saw him anywhere near J.E.

So Demonrats’ hopes of using this to bring down, slow down Trump are fading fast. Of course, they would be very hard hit by prosecutions. They definitely don’t want release of information; but they very much want to keep the topic alive so they can claim that every action Trump takes is just to distract from his supposed role in the scandal.

In truth it subtracts from the resources needed to prosecute the coup. It is a weapon being wielded by the Leftists.

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Rehabmom's avatar

Trump needs to call the Dems bluff. Start by interviewing the victims and start pressing charges. Trump needs to turn the Epstein nightmare into his weapon.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

You don’t care for Trump do you? He would never do enough to satisfy you, would he? You take no happiness from what has been accomplished so quickly do you?

Who were you hoping to have for President?

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Rehabmom's avatar

I care more about children being abused even now, because NO ONE has been prosecuted and the pedos are still out there. These compromised politicians, judges, business owners, etc. are the reason nothing changes in Washington. They do not have America's best interest in mind. Instead they do as they are told to.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Democrats are using the Epstein war cry as a weapon against President Trump.

Jeff Childers has opined that going after the very rich and very powerful for their association with Epstein would be an exercise in futility.

They have access to armies of lawyers, international resources we can’t even imagine and the ability to tie the Trump administration up in so many legal knots that nothing else could be accomplished.

This is what the Democrats want; Trump inescapably stuck in this tar baby of legal entanglement.

As noble as going after them in this way might seem, it is not an intelligent way to go about it. But emotionally, it’s an issue that strikes home with very many people. And Democrats are trying to exploit that.

The Trump administration is working on the issue of pedophilia. There are so many other urgent issues on the table that news of that work gets muffled in the cloud of activity. And of course the media is not going to print anything favorable to President Trump.

If one is salivating to get specific people and see them punished; Bill Clinton, Bill Gates…God will see to them. I believe they’re living in hell already.

What good is vast wealth, when one has had to varnish their conscience so heavily to mask guilt, that one can’t feel anything else either?

Bill Clinton has grandchildren. Have you ever seen any indication that he enjoys them?

I hope you are just a person with concerns and not a Demonrat Operative. I would hate to think I just wasted this chunk of time.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Love this Willing!!

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CecilRhodes's avatar

Brandon Straka's walk away movement has been going on since 2018. Closing in on a decade. Sounds to me like they are in a panic because the cheating won't work at scale, not that they suddenly care about actual real voters.

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Doug Young's avatar

About my own political conversion, yes, I was a registered Democrat in 2016 & had been for 30+ years, but couldn't stomach voting for Hillary, and went for Jill Stein, the Green party candidate, mostly because she supported bodily autonomy (you know where that's going to lead me). After living through the horrors of the COVID response here in Insane Francisco, I went for Trump in 2020 & 2024 (but did work on the Kennedy campaign here - wow that turned out great!). Now I'm full-on MAHA/MAGA and won't ever be turning back.

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PermieGeek's avatar

I always identified with the left but actually only voted for Ralph Nadar. I'm now registered as an independent and wear a MAHA hat.

When I was commenting to county commissioners against vaccine Mandates, the women who spoke before me said she worked for Libertarians and her phone was ringing off the hook with Democrats wanting to register as Libertarians.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Me too! I left the Left in Obama’s first term, didn’t vote in 2016, and shortly after registered as a Republican. I’m MAGA/MAHA permanently.

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Doug Young's avatar

Barack drone-bomber.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

In contention with Biden for one of our worst presidents.

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Doug, God bless you for not voting for Hillary! Can you even imagine where we would be now if she had won?

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Kristina the Short's avatar

I think we'd be learning Chinese and grieving our stolen children.

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Heather B's avatar

If the Republicans are indeed flush with cash I wish they would put some in Winsome Sears’ race against Abigail Spanberger for Virginia Governor. It is so painful to watch the endless Spanberger ads and signs and to see the polling numbers. 🤮

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

Agree! The state houses and the state legislators are massively underfunded, in terms of campaign resources. I have a friend running for State Delegate in NJ as a R and she is getting no support, funding or otherwise, from the NJ Republican Party.

The state level candidates are crucially important and could really use the support of the RNC, in addition to any individual voters.

https://www.ditzelandgonzalezforld5.com/

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

As a Virginian, it looks like Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA “analyst” (spook) is the likely winner.

Winsome Sears is not the strongest candidate and it didn’t help that she came out against Trump in early 2023 running for a second term. The D party is very strong here (and I do not trust our voting systems here)

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Virginia is a suburb of dc. Nothing more.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I lived there for 8 years.

It is a cesspool of liberalism, overpaid federal government workers, and the Beltway Bandits that work for the Military Industrial Complex.

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MnmMom's avatar

Sad to hear this.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Polls LIE.

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Jenn's avatar
Aug 21Edited

I think the same way. I think Virginia Rs will get smoked if they don't start doing damage control. I wish they would demolish Mark Warner as well. That guy is a walking-talking worm. The Republicans could use a demoralized NoVa but it seems pretty quiet as of now.

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Jenn's avatar

Also, I think there would be huge traction if they ran on a Doge the out of control NoVa counties notion. Everywhere I go, folks are down right angry about the tax increases.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Way too many illegals in N. Va.

MS-13 was a huge problem even back in 1991.

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Jenn's avatar
Aug 21Edited

I had no idea that gang has been here this long. I wonder why they have such a hold?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Not sure. When I was first transferred to DC area in 1991, it was the first time I even heard of MS-13.

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SD Scott's avatar

The gang does jobs the govt can’t dirty its hands with.

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Chris's avatar

Respectfully, I think you & everyone else gets the Fed Governor story wrong - since the Fed is one of the relevant regulators, having regulatory issues (including potentially criminal issues) with them is much more disqualifying than if she had the same problems but worked at NASA or NLRB etc. To illustrate my point by analogy, judges are also lawyers (usually), but a judge who had problems w/ the Bar that could well lead to his or her disbarment isn't just an ordinary lawyer in trouble w/ the Bar. With judges, we usually use the "appearance of impropriety" standard such that even the appearance of an issue is enough. Isn't that more like what's happening here? I mean even if the Fed clears her, it's a bit like the judge's clerk saying there's no problem. Um, okay but why would we trust the clerk? Effectively, there's nobody who can clear her because they're all her subordinates in one way or another. At best, she did something really really stupid (like changing her mind on her primary residences within 2 weeks & getting mortgages on both). But I can't imagine how her own subordinates can investigate & clear her. Any agency or person involved in mortgages would be under her influence at least. She has to go unless she can demonstrate w/ absolute certainty that there's nothing here. TL DR: burden of proof is on her.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

🎯

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CitizenKC's avatar

"Three days ago, the Police Union reported that since the federal surge of law enforcement in DC started, crime has actually fallen, and dramatically."

Now that we've gotten street crime in DC under control maybe it is time to turn law enforcement attention to the white collar crime that goes on inside the Congress and the Executive branch. Both branches of government are inhabited by criminals who use insider trading to get rich, and who take bribes for their votes from agents of foreign countries (Israel) and from 'defense' contractors to keep the wars going.

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Observer's avatar

Charles Ortel did sterling work on the finances of the Clinton Foundation, a hub of many things.... add George Webb and Michael Mc Kibben and see what comes forth....

https://sonar21.com/declassified-fbi-files-expose-19-hidden-clinton-foundation-bank-accounts-where-did-the-money-go/

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Observer's avatar

Some skulduggery revealed in the link below.....

https://www.clintonfoundationtimeline.com/

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Jeff S's avatar

Let's round up a posse.

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SB's avatar

Yea I’m still waiting for those truths to be exposed. I REALLY want to know how the likes of Joe and Jill Biden became millionaires when the only jobs they have had is government employees. And last I checked working for a community college like Jill is practically a volunteer job the pay is so low.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Approximately 20 years ago my state, after holding a referendum, joined other states that sponsor lotteries. In the run-up to the referendum the selling point advertised to be justification for a lottery was to fund a college scholarship program for state residents.

At the time I would listen to a local talk radio program and the host was skeptical about the benefits of the lottery but he knew it would pass easily; it did. But before the vote one day I called in and suggested that if it passed, instead of funding scholarships why not have the state start an emergency fund so if & when major emergencies happened the state would be able to address the issues without federal involvement. The host liked the idea too but we knew it would never happen. The next few years after the lottery passed the state colleges all enacted multiple double digit tuition increases.

I say that to ask, what would happen to "education" if states started to do that? What if they stop funding scholarships and institute an emergency fund? I know it won't happen but maybe it should. This morning I see yet another article with the Governor of North Carolina complaining about the federal government's responses to last year's Hurricane Helene.

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Melissa S's avatar

Same with pot legalization. Will help fund education. Didn't happen, and the politicians who said it would, conveniently have forgotten. Nobody ever brings it up...

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I wonder if any states publicly audit their lotteries. We should insist that they do so annually.

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SD Scott's avatar

Do any states audit their own governments???

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I suspect some at least give the appearance of audits but I couldn't name any. Good question!

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Susan Seas's avatar

Road improvement taxes too. Recently drove through three states Washington roads were the worst and have the highest road taxes!

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Jeff S's avatar

Continuous road construction, but nothing's ever finished. We even have a "Future" highway, according to all the signs: the North Spokane Corridor. Yeah, I got yer future highway...right here!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I wonder about the impact of millions of illegals on the roads has had on our highway systems. I assume they weren’t a factor in the original planning.

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Jeff S's avatar

That's a tough one to gauge. The answer is definitely not, "none."

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LMWC's avatar

If you notice the states under blue control all have the same modus operandi. Lotteries; all to help education. Michigan has one. Marijuana legalization to help fund education now approved. Gambling approved all over our state and online gambling is everywhere. Nearly every major college sport and the pros have gambling as deciding every issue now. It has become a trillion dollar behemoth. Always follow the money.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Too stoned.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

They are all liars. Oregon blathered on and on “it’s for the kids” blah blah blah. That’s how they get braindead sheep to vote yes on their scams. It’s ALWAYS for the kids 😒 LIARS 🤥

It has NEVER been for the kids or anyone else but their own pockets.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

When you hear it’s ‘for the children’ you can know you’re about to get scammed.

I wouldn’t want to stand in their unrepentant shoes before God after using the children.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

George W (or was it his father?) gave $1000 per household (was it for education $$? --I don't remember)--and my alma mater, surprisingly, very shortly afterward upped its tuition by....$1000.

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WP William's avatar

Colorado Dems dipping into "emergency funds" to cover part of their reckless spending as they reward their voters and donors along with legitimate spending

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

That would be a risk especially because it would be a very wealthy fund, attracting all sorts of crooks.

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Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

Back in the early ‘80s, the Nevada casinos and gaming industry funded the effort to get enough signatures to put a referendum on a state lottery on the California ballot. I traveled on business and saw this in multiple towns and cities. The pitch was that lottery revenue would be spent on education.

Why were the Nevadans funding the effort? Because California agreed they’d prohibit anyone except Indians from building casinos in the Golden State.

The referendum went on the ballot, of course, all the well meaning citizens voted for it, and in the end, they’d been played. Lottery funds as well as the budget for more than 1,000 school districts were controlled by the legislature in Sacramento, under the leadership of Willie Brown (that Willie Brown who mentored Kamala) and lo and behold, Brown diverted the revenue elsewhere.

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James Hambly's avatar

And simultaneously, quietly, states started cutting back on traditional education funding, redirecting that money elsewhere, so the net effect was no additional money towards education.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Illinois?

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Janet's avatar

That old “money for education” scam happened in Illinois too. Later I read the gambling money always disappeared into the general fund, never to be seen again in education. But we’ve got a huge new Hard Rock Casino near me in Rockford. Somebody’s getting moola.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

😞

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gail driscoll's avatar

Two comments today

1. The use of “primary residence” in a mortgage application should also flag residency requirements. Is Cook registered to vote in both locations? Which location is her driver’s license? Is she using Homestead tax advantage in both locations? Is she renting out one of the properties & taking depreciation?

2. Lower party registration affects donations but it will also affect the number of people voting in the primaries. If people are leaving the Ds because the party has become too extreme that will leave only the most “progressive” folks nominating candidates…which puts the party further left. Look at NYC & Minneapolis as examples of the Democrats future tickets.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

On the primary residence issue: A look into where all this cash is coming from to support and maintain these properties. From a government salary? 🤣

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Jeff S's avatar

Grift.

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James Hambly's avatar

I thought Putin’s gift of the motorcycle was pretty cool. And for those that don’t ride, there’s not a biker alive that wouldn’t love to have a Ural. The bike screams adventure.

Between Melania’s heartfelt letter, and Putin’s unexpected gift, they are signs that perhaps the walls we’ve built are cracking.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

That gift meant something to me. Someone’s heart was touched.

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Jeff S's avatar

That guy's motorcycle didn't run because it was "too" tired.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

And how about that low IQ grandson of JFK who is posting videos mocking Melania. Caroline Kennedy must be proud.

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Lori's avatar

caroline is a piece of work herself. apple does not fall far from tree.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I always expected more from her. And her kid.

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Lori's avatar

Same.

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Leo's avatar

James, yes - dunno why Jeff C. dissed the bike...

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Craig Kisciras's avatar

And......just breaking, more bad news for Big Tish James. A NY Appeals Court has just thrown out the $464 million judgement dealt to President Trump.

As Jeff often remarks, TAW!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes!!!!!!!!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Hallelujah!

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MOMinator's avatar

Morning C&C!!✝️🙏🏼💟

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shayne's avatar

Good morning!

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

“Fewer and fewer Americans are choosing to be ..." associated with the party of perverts, treason, election cheating, child mutilation and incompetence.

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Kathy's avatar

Don’t forget censorship.

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

Right. How could I have omitted that one!

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Lori's avatar

yes, put simply, dems have cooties!

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