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Juju's avatar

I want to give everyone a heads up to something we all need to be more aware of now. Yesterday evening a bad actor created a Substack profile to impersonate me and it was very convincing. I believed they were going to try to cause me trouble on the Substacks that I read by posting comments that would hurt my reputation and interactions with all of you.

They added a “u” to the end of my “JustJuju” (JustJujuu) and stole my profile picture. They copied my profile description/about me blurb almost exact except they changed the word “God” in my profile to “Jenna McCarthy”. (This all went down initially in the comments of Jenna’s Side when we were dealing with a troll.)

They liked all my notes so that they appeared under “likes” and at first glance it made the account look legitimately like it’s mine because I DID write those notes. But at closer look you’d see they were not under “posts” or “notes” where they should be, but instead were under “likes.”

You won’t be able to tell that it’s not me posting because the accounts look absolutely identical in the comments section, and almost identical in the profile. You have to tap on the profile and check the account name after the @ sign. Mine is @justjuju. Any variation of u’s or j’s or even t’s would indicate a fraudulent account.

But how many of us during the busyness of our day double check each other’s profiles while reading comments to ensure we are really who we say we are? Yeah, as if we need THAT slowing us down. 🤣

Several Substacks that I read have become very popular and well-known, and that is drawing to them people with ill intentions that seek to undermine our solidarity or sow ugliness within the respective communities. Impersonating the more vocal among us to ruin reputations looks to be a potential tool now.

Speak up if this ever this happens to you so that we can all be vigilant about your posts for a while and report the impersonators when we see them. We may not be able to do that all the time with everybody’s account, but surely we can help when someone speaks up, as many of you did for me last night. ❤️

As of late last night it appeared the account impersonating me was deleted. But for now any comment that you think is by me but seems “off” double check the profile and check the spelling to be sure (JustJuju). Please report any impersonation you see. (Three dots in the upper right of anyone’s profile has a report option.)

The biggest problem we face is anyone can create an imposter account for any of us and so long as they “block” us first we will never see any of their comments and never know they are posting in our name, so we won’t be able to protect or defend ourselves, but everyone else will still see them. That’s a problem in my book. In an ideal world (and well written computer code,) their posts should ONLY disappear if WE block them, not the other way around. So for now we have to reach out to each other and ask folks to keep their eyes open and double check profiles of our posts when we think someone is impersonating us.

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TriTorch's avatar

Thanks for the heads up Juju. You must be doing something right to be targeted like that. It brings this wisdom to mind:

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -Unknown

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Dr Linda's avatar

Agreed! I couldn’t have been more precise

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Patti's avatar

I like that quote

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Donna in MO's avatar

Wow, so sorry you are dealing with that. Sad that we have to question EVERYTHING these days. Longer term ramifications could be stacks get locked down and limit posts to subscribers to avoid the hassle of constantly battling trolls. I am an admin on a 5k member conservative FB group and we have spent untold hours going back and trying to root out fake profiles and fake conservatives - our group is private, but the infiltrated trolls screenshot posts and comments and then publish them all over their pages, send to employers, etc. I have a D activist coming after me from a comment I made, which was actually something of a complement (someone called her a lunatic, and I replied that she may be a lunatic, but she is very hard working lunatic and we should not ignore her) She was posting on my public profile pic, so I blocked her. So then she started emailing my business email from my website, and I ignored her, so then started messaging me on Linked in and threatening to contact my clients about my political activities so I had to hibernate my Linked in page. These people are nuts, and have way too much free time on their hands. I guess they don't have jobs and families to spend time on??? In the case of the liberal activist, she is a former English teacher who now does community organizing full time....Shudder to think how many young minds she poisoned.

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Kitkat's avatar

Donna- that's insane! I agree, these loons have nothing better to do. No jobs, no family, no interests....except causing problems. Frustrating.

I'm curious...what's the FB group. I would love to join. :D I'm always interested in solidarity with my fellow conservatives.

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Juju's avatar
May 8Edited

Right?! What kind of time do you have to do this? Lol

My husband recommended I create an alt account so I could still see if another account was impersonating me, but I just don’t have the patience or time to spend on creating alt accounts. I already scroll comments too long with my actual account. 🤣 No way am I juggling like that. So to spend your time creating accounts just to harass others? You’d have to either be living in your underwear in your momma’s basement, or be an unemployed leftist lunatic. I’ve not seen a conservative use these tactics. They are ALL unhinged libs. (Unless they are pretending to be a conservative, which is the flavor of the day and easy to spot.)

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randall stoehr's avatar

Undoing what some saboteur performs takes more time than imagined.

Working in a frustrated repairing mode only releases cortisol. Dang it!

Your reporting of such a bizarre happening was gold. A+

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Rosie Langridge's avatar

Lots of the online trolls are paid, doing this 'is' their job

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

100%

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CF's avatar

Yes to this, and the biggest worry. Lots of folks paid to work 24/7 to undermine any change to their prescription.

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Donna in MO's avatar

https://www.facebook.com/groups/324354998945999 When it asks who invited you say Donna in MO so I will know it's you. We get 5-6 requests a day and it's a job trying to sift through who the real conservatives are and who are fake.

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Stacy's avatar

And cat people. 🥰

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

HEY! Don't be hating on cat people! :(

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Susan Clack's avatar

Right? We appreciate cats for their independence and self-sufficiency. Let those drooling dogs fawn all over their hoomins, the little brown-nosers! (Trying to supress my giggles but failing)

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Stacy's avatar

Right?! I’ll stop short of saying my idea of hell is a dog park filled with Jack Russells and things that end in “-doodle”. But only just short. 😆

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Stacy's avatar

I *am* an incurable, unapologetic cat addict! My husband also adores cats, as any man of mine ought to. We only limit ourselves to 3 in my house because hurricane shelters in my only allow up to 3 pets. I was replying to KitKat’s post where she says she’s always interested in solidarity with her fellow conservatives. I appreciate your enthusiasm, tho’.

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

NP. It's sometimes hard for me to identify the comment string and who is replying to what.

My wife and I have 2 adult cats and currently, another 9 foster kittens. We keep the kittens in their own room, so they don't interact with our own cats and they won't get lost somewhere in the house.

It's 'fun' when we go into their room. They all rush for the exit like students 'storming the field' after their team wins a game.

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Eruca Sativa's avatar

But...toxoplasmosis!

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Donna in MO's avatar

Well we have 4 cats.....all former strays

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RunningLogic's avatar

This should qualify as harassment and merit a restraining order. I’m so sick of people doing stuff like this 😡😡😡

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Donna in MO's avatar

I feel like this is a badge of honor for them. One of my friends had one stalking her at her house and she called the police on her and she bragged on one of their pages (that we have a spy on) that she was proud that had 'gotten to her'. My fear is that one of these days these nut jobs are going to mess with the wrong person.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Wow they’re really round the bend 😡 There must be a way of getting back at them. What are their weak points? What are they most afraid of, I wonder? We need to find a strategy to fight back.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Oh it's next level crazy. They threatened a car dealership who had our conservative SB candidates banners up - but he didn't back down, he asked for more banners! We're going car shopping there this weekend....

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RunningLogic's avatar

Good for him—and for you!! 🙌

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Anita Graf's avatar

I honestly think a huge swathe of people are metabolically deranged and literally not in their right mind. As a landlord I have a particular vantage point to see this. Anxiety is crazy high, pain/discomfort/brain fog/depression/aggression, too, and these easily lead to over-emotionality and bad and/or neurotic behavior.

True MAHA is so much more important than people realize. And voter integrity, because I think there’s a ton of shenanigans out there and the bulk of voters are not really lunatics.

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Donna in MO's avatar

I agree. There is a FB group called '(my city) community politics' that I follow but never post or comment on as it is moderated and dominated by a handful of folks who I am convinced all need psychiatric help. It is useful to monitor narrative chatter as it is useful to see what the nutjobs are railing about locally - although most of the chatter lately is not local, it's mostly TDS these days.

But I AM concerned we are witnessing the breakdown of society. A parent got on a school bus and threatened a bus driver last week, a teacher trying to break up a fight at one of our HS ended up in the hospital, and district now has to hire police for security at basketball and football games. These are all things that would have been unheard of a decade ago when mine graduated. Even our HOA (who decided to convert a little used tennis court into a basketball court) is under attack as someone called the cops on some kids not from our neighborhood who were on the court after hours being loud and some liberal nut jobs are screaming racism. We were forced to pay for and install security cameras over multiple such issues a couple of years ago and the footage clearly shows them scaling the gate and also drinking on the court. And we are supposed to just shrug and put up with this I guess?

We live in an outer-ring suburb that used to be conservative and cohesive and is now descending into culture war central. Sad.

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Anita Graf's avatar

I feel this. I am a non conformist in an Ivy League city who used to post everything publicly on Fb and speak freely in our local neighborhood listserv. But these same actors have worked furiously to harm me (I’m a landlord; they got a tenant to sue me…), they put rocks through my front door… And I’m very neutral and measured in my comments, don’t relish confrontation, and I choose my words carefully. I also have many good relationships in the community. But all it takes is a mild thing to trigger the wrong nut (like your you-may-be-a-lunatic-but… comment) and the repercussions are intense.

I have found some peace by judiciously blocking the worst actors, mostly disengaging with a lot of local communication and city politics (seems pointless anyway) and posting more things online to limited audiences. My intention is to change my “frequency” and exist on a different plane.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Gosh, sorry they took it that far. I don't think this troll has actually done any real damage, she is just making threats, although I am getting close to a point where I am just starting to say screw it, if we don't fight back they are just going to keep trampling us.

But same - my posts have always been 'with receipts' - I don't put anything out there that does not have links to back it up and use sources that are either original (like a peer reviewed study or meeting minutes) or from a source that is not automatically discounted, and welcome a debate based on facts. But the minute these lefties start to lose the argument, (or too lazy to find a different credible source) they resort to personal attacks or emotion fueled arguments. (like 'killing grandma' during covid - my liberal daughter literally screamed that at me when hubby and I went to visit my MIL for Easter in 2020)

Like you, I have mostly given up on trying to educate people, especially on FB where logical discourse goes to die, gets worse every year. Oh I still post some local issue things as that is where I spend most of my political time and I will continue to work to support local conservative candidates & elected folks, and I have a lot of people tell me in person that they appreciate my posts but they don't like, comment, or share as they don't want the backlash. Even have council people and SB members who ask me to post things as 'I have an audience'. But getting tired of feeling like the voice in the wilderness.

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Anita Graf's avatar

It’s disappointing to hear about issues like that in MO. I have rental properties in STL too, and a close relationship with my manager there, so goings on there matter in particular to me. Btw, I sent join request to your Fb group.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Just accepted your request - we are on the KC side vs St. Louis side, both 2 blue cities that are a hot mess despite being a red state.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

I learned something shocking/disheartening through this: Substack's "block" feature actually only "mutes" that person for YOU, the poster. They can still troll away on your stacks with abandon--but you won't see their comments (or any of the replies to them). It's a MAJOR design flaw in my opinion, as is the fact that users can create multiple profiles (you can't do that on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or even Amazon), so there's no way to stop them. What sad, meaningless lives these people must have. SMH.

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Juju's avatar
May 8Edited

The common sense approach to blocking that protects both sides would be this (it’s mind boggling so bear with me):

I block you: I don’t see your comments and they don’t interfere with my choice of what I want to see, but you can still see all my posts/comments, yet you can’t interact with them - again my choice. If you try to impersonate me I have to unblock you first to see that activity. It’s my responsibility if I want to be able to monitor that.

You block me: I can still see all your comments so you can’t impersonate me without my knowledge, but I can’t interact with your comments (your choice) - but you don’t see any of mine because you don’t want to - your right to choose what you see. This way I can still see if you are impersonating me.

Unfortunately this is NOT how Substack does it. Recently X instituted this logic and until last night I didn’t appreciate the why. Now I do. No one can hide their impersonation of you behind blocking you.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Good points.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Someone designs a good platform, and demented maroons spend 27 hours a day every day trying to destroy it. That's life in the 21st century ....

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Seriously! :(

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Mary Mc's avatar

Actually, it is VERY easy to create multiple accounts on FB. Because the delete many with little or no warning, I know people with as many as 5 accounts. Since they also get put in jail frequently, they just post from the other account. NONE of them are impersonating or cloning anyone else... just messing with FBs Stasi.

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Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Really??? I tried to create a second one for when I get shut down (happened twice on IG) and they IMMEDIATELY shut it down (and I used a different email address!!). 🤷‍♀️

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Juju's avatar
May 8Edited

That’s because they are soooo intrusive that they can determine your IP address and practically triangulate your home address too.

Years ago I chose to stop using FB for many reasons, but needed an account for a “gaming” account to share with other players in-game artwork that I designed, as well as an occasional Marketplace perusal. I didn’t want to use my old account because I didn’t want to see a lot of other accounts nor did I want them to see me. So I used a VPN, gave NO indication of my real name or location, and made my address 2,000 miles from where I really lived. I used an alternate throwaway gmail account too. That very same week I started seeing under their follow suggestions “someone you might know” and they were ALL people who lived in my real neighborhood! Literally some on the same street as me. That’s when I realized Facebook violates our right to privacy and had some agreement with our internet providers to overcome VPNs as well as agreements with Gmail to identify who someone is and what other accounts they might own and where they live. I was furious. Haven’t used them since.

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Susan Clack's avatar

The FB Fascists are a humorless bunch, or is it another thing we can blame on Hal 9000? (I just decided that will be my new nickname for AI)

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God Bless America's avatar

I bet it’s AI producing all of these fraudulent accounts. So who is behind the AI?

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

“When sitting law enforcement officers become offenders, it undermines the entire criminal justice system. These offenses aren’t only crimes— they’re also fundamental betrayals of public trust.”

If FBI can bury Epstein Files easily under the swimming pool, can not the FBI be surprisingly unable to find any FBI agents who are themselves pedofiiles and or sex traffickers?? Always difficult prosecuting criminals when they work with you.

Strange times.

Puts Blog sites like Substack at potential risk as well I suspect.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Terrible thing to happen to you, thanks for giving us a heads up.

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Dave Slough's avatar

Thanks for the heads up and you must’ve been doing a lot of good if bad actors landed on your profile

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Tom's avatar

Be right back . . .

I'm going to start a shill account: JuJu Two Ju's

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Juju's avatar

🤣 this made me laugh because the account that impersonated me had another account where they harassed me with “oh ok Jew Jew” 🤣🤣 I’m not even Jewish. Lololol

Juju Two Jus is funnnnny

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Tom's avatar

“Jew squared”

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RJ Rambler's avatar

😭😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I echo TriTorch's statement - your Substack authorship is under attack because your message is JUST and RIGHTEOUS - not filled with devious foolishness and pernicious attacks.

So glad you caught the 'thief' and are correcting his/her attempted damage to your authorship reputation.

SHALOM, JuJu!

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

I don’t think anyone would want to wreck my profile. I’m pretty much abhorrent as I am.

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Mary Mc's avatar

me too. 😎

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Juju's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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RunningLogic's avatar

😆

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Sue Kelley's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Uncle Juan's avatar

Thank you for sharing… all of us…we need to keep our heads on a swivel

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Ki Consciousness's avatar

Well, that's alarming. Thank you for the heads-up.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Thanks for the warning! 😳

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RunningLogic's avatar

Ugh wow, yet another thing to have to monitor 😕 Thanks for thé heads up.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Oh and I pretty much only comment here, very rarely on any other Substacks so please lmk if you see odd seeming comments from an account that looks like mine elsewhere! (Or odd ones here that I can’t see, since Juju said she was blocked from seeing the fake posts).

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UncleWiggly's avatar

Do you have any recourse through Substack to get that account removed and that person banned from creating more Substacks?

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Juju's avatar

We did report them within minutes of their trickery but it was after hours so it felt a bit urgent since support isn’t going to get back for a while, so all I could think to do was appeal to the community. The troll liking all my notes to pull them into their fake account is what tipped me off because my notifications blew up like tornado sirens. 😆 They were still trolling Jenna’s Substack when I posted that it was happening and for everyone to report them. I think the pressure caused them to delete the account themselves? Just conjecture but support takes up to 72 hours to reply so … I think they got scared. We knew who was doing it too because of the timing, and their real account came up after they deleted the fake one, showing us their user name, which is usually not the case so we were lucky to get that. Us jumping on it like hungry hens helped. 🤣 Strong community! ❤️ You guys rock.

What rattled us was when they saw in her comment section that we knew it was happening they immediately blocked both of us so we couldn’t see their account posts anymore. I did report these concerns to Substack. A more competent loser would be able to do all this without our knowing and only when others grew ornery with me thinking I posted ugliness would tip me off that something was not right. I made sure Substack knew this blocking feature was not supportive of honest users.

I guess keeping someone from being able to do this again depends on how many throw away emails they create. I’m not sure if Substack knows how to ban IP addresses, etc, which is very doable and I’ve done it myself before when I was an admin for a popular video game - but if VPNs are being used it’s a constant chore to stay on top of and track that individual. I used to keep a spreadsheet of repeat offenders and all their aliases and emails but then I’m tenacious. 😂

So idk the best way to prevent repeat offenses by the same end user. For us? Our community is a reeeeeally good deterrent, and it won’t take long for them to find that out. ☺️

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CeeMcG's avatar

Yikes! So sorry that happened to you and thank you for the warning! It’s sad that there are so many people out there with nothing better to do! 😡

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Truth 101's avatar

Perhaps a pro-Trump profile picture or "anti-vax" profile pic etc. would discourage these "people" from trying to impersonate you. . .

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Maybe end every comment with “Jesus is Lord!”

I’d really like to know if they would imitate that😃

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Janet's avatar

Like a secret identifier. 🤔🤔

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Willing Spirit's avatar

From 1 Corinthians 12:3

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

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Juju's avatar

Oh what a great idea!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I think I’ll use it too!

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Juju's avatar

John 14:6 Jesus said “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”.

Bam

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Willing Spirit's avatar

💥

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Truth 101's avatar

Very good WS.

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.

— 1 Thessalonians 5:21-24 NAS

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Politico Phil's avatar

'"But examine everything carefully..."

Especially good advice in today's world!

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Mary H.'s avatar

Discernment is a gift from God:

Romans 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

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Politico Phil's avatar

Explains a lot, doesn't it?

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Robin Greer's avatar

Related to Jeff's post yesterday:

Ephesians 5: 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; 12 for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light...15 Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, 16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil.

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Wilson Watkins's avatar

Amen, amen, amen, & amen.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Dr. Casey Means never finished her residency.

She has no hospital privileges anywhere.

Kind of like Fauci never treating one covid patient in a hospital setting.

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Bill Campbell's avatar

Kathleen, none of that needed for that position. She left during her residency because of the disgust she had with the current state of affairs in the Pharma-Medical complex. She is anything but traditional, and if you read her book and take the time to listen to her, you'll understand why. Personally, I could give a hoot about having a "credentialed" MD as the Surgeon General. Where has that gotten us? I think her common sense approach to human health is sorely missing and needed.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

She never came out against the mRNA shots.

Right now, that is the most important opinion I want to hear.

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SarahKI's avatar

It is an improvement but I find Nicole Shanahan’s distrust of the siblings to be quite interesting. Manchuriate maha’s?

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Emumundo's avatar

I had never heard of Nicole Shanahan when RFK,jr. chose her as his running mate. I believed all the media of how awful and connected she was. Then one day I listened to her. This woman has a vaccine injured child that she fights for relentlessly. She’s very smart and very compassionate. She’s trying to use her money to actually help people. Yet another lesson I learned- don’t listen to what people say about someone, listen to that person myself.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

She suffered a miscarriage during the campaign. That lead her closer to Christ and she was baptized. Look it up, quite a beautiful story came from her incredible loss.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Yes, and she turned to others outside the medical field to treat her child. Like Dr. Jack Kruse I mentioned before.

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SteelJ's avatar

First time I saw the siblings was a Rogan interview. Casey I liked. With Calley, red flags jumped out all over the place. Maybe Casey is just a much better con than her brother, or maybe she's for real. I don't know at this point.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Notice how Calley is always at Caseys side. She gives that same speech each time. What she says has been said many times before by pioneers trying to protect their children. Zen Honeycut, Moms Across America, Vani Hari, Food Babe, Sally Fallon Morell of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and many more warriors out there over the years. They were often censored. But now we have Tuckers and many other platforms, likeThe Highwire so these people can showcase their work.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I was very skeptical of Nicole at first, but now I think she is an incredibly thoughtful person.

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Holly Champaign's avatar

I'm actually with Nicole Shanahan on this.

Read Casey's book and while reading it, had a very disquieting feeling that it was a psyop to protect corporate interests.

Have read many books on health, by physicians, and this had a very "ghost writer, jump on band wagon" feel. Many other books deserving all the accolades of Ms. Means' are systematically demonized. So why was hers so positively reviewed and she was on all of the top TV shows?

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Aaron's avatar

Ding ding ding. The meteoric rise of these two should have every critical thinker asking these same questions. Why or how in the world did these two "make it" in under a year? The evil bastards play the long game with all of us. I currently believe they are a psyop. That belief could and will change if they get these poison jabs off the kids schedule..I've held my opinion on these two but both of them making into the administration with the dear cult leaders chief of staff being PHARMA..It's an OP and sorry to say but RFK is wholly compromised with something...We the people are getting crumbs...The cult fan group is cheering on our crumbs, instead of holding these people accountable 🤷‍♂️

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Fla Mom's avatar

Are you sure about RFK, or is someone above RFK insisting on the Meanses?

https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/1920308773979353102?t=3MdVSSDVQWcP5in6MSf50A&s=19

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Sundance at TCTH has expressed concerns about RFK,Jr. from the beginning.

He was also concerned about Mike Waltz and seems to be correct.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Good points.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Exactly my concerns.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Agree.

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

These are the right kinds of questions to ask!

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Yes, very good question. WHY? Her book is nothing special.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Her Dad has written a couple best sellers so would have connections in publishing world? And a strange book Jack Kruse made reference, to Blue Flamingo? Abt a gay creature.

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Beckadee's avatar

I saw that post shared. And Nicole saying RFK jr promised her he would not have either of the Means siblings in HHS or similar and so now she doesn't know if RFK jr lied to her and Nicole thinks somebody [not Trump] is controlling RFK jr. Is Nicole being truthful? Who the hell knows.

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CherylBray's avatar

Bobby Kennedy may have a voice but he’s not the final say in a presidential appointment. He did not nominate Dr. Means. My understanding is that Bobby preferred a different doctor (Dr. Kelly from Texas)

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Thanks, very interesting, have a story on this?

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Therein lies the problem. Can’t trust anyone at all these days. Btw playing at Jerry’s tonight, my bride is venturing out with me.

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Beckadee's avatar

You forgot I don't live in Florida. lol

Have fun- don't play too hard!

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Robin's avatar

Jerry's Grille?

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Daily Growler's avatar

Your comment inspires me to want to know more. Although I thought Shanahan was a lightweight when RFK, Jr picked her as his VP candidate, I have come to respect her immensely. Do you happen to have any links to Shanahan's comments about the Means twins? (I'm not trying to put you on the spot. If you don't have any links handy, I'll do a little research myself.)

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Daily Growler's avatar

thank you for posting that link. I found Nicole's comments about someone other than Trump influencing (controlling?) RFK, Jr. especially interesting. Trump is attempting to do what no other president in my lifetime has done, namely, drain the swamp. And he's obviously making compromises. Note how Tulsi Gabbard and Trump had selected Col. Danny Davis to serve as one of Gabbard's key deputies, but Trump wound up having to withdraw Davis's nomination--in that case because of pressure from the Zionist lobby. We can guess who exerted pressure on the Surgeon General choice, but I'm still cautiously, very cautiously, optimistic.

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SteelJ's avatar

Thank you Sarah.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Here is a link to Nicole Shanahan's comments:

https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/1920308773979353102

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MissyCoyote's avatar

I have a whole new perspective on Nicole after watching Allie Beth Stuckey's podcast interview with her. Her story is amazing! And proof that God can change hearts and minds.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube+nichole+shanahan+allie+beth+stuckey&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGeVEaXoc0Ig

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Daily Growler's avatar

thanks for posting this. I think it was a great interview. However, the thing I still find hard to believe about Nicole is that she bought into the California Dem groupthink for so long and didn't even question the Russiagate fraud. She contributed to Biden's campaign in 2020 and sent huge amounts of money to Georgia to elect two Dem senators in early 2021. The scales seem to have fallen from her eyes relatively late, shortly before she joined RFK,Jr. Better late than never, of course, but I am always a little suspicious of the straying power of people who keep their eyes pressed shut for so long.

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Dena's avatar

Nicole Shanahan’s comment on X has me wondering why she feels betrayed by RFKJR because, according to her, he promised Shanahan that Means would not have a MAHA position? This pick is more controversial than Jeff states, with charges that MAHA is full of Marxist individuals. Time will tell - I’ve been impressed by her story & she is a definite upgrade from the prior pick.

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Concerned mom's avatar

I thoroughly enjoyed Tucker Carlson's interview with Calley & Casey Means: How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick ...not that I wasn't aware of much of what they brought up, but to hear them "whistleblow" on Pharma and the Food Industry to the four winds was refreshing.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

yes, I thought that very interesting indeed !

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Patti's avatar

Ya I absolutely loved the Tucker interview but after some discussion and some simple looking up she came out of no where. She didn’t risk anything the last 5 years. I can think of several doctors (if people want a doctor for SG) that have put so much on the line the last 5 years. Lost so much. I’ve been to the Covid litigation conference x2 and several medical freedom conferences over the last 3 years and there was NO MENTION. NO MEANS sibling. I’m not saying she is not what she says but I want a SG that has some serious meat in the game. Not just some skin. I was hoping for Kelly Victory. Solid back ground. Solid voice. Reasonable. Has some sass and doesn’t back down.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Dr. Kelly Victory would have been a good choice.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

What about Dr. Joseph Ladapo?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Dr. Ladapo would have been an excellent choice.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Like Dr. Mary Bowdin who lost it all, over her refusal to back the covid shots. She debated Calley Means, Casey was not available, along with Dr. Jack Kruse on Danny Jones Patreon, also on YouTube and Calley got his ... handed to him.

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CStone's avatar

The other nominee was pro vaccine, pro masks.

Aaaaand…..she shot and killed her father when he was sleeping. She was 13 years old.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

No kidding...Laura Loomer should be hired to do Trump's vetting.

Who in the White House is making these stupid picks?

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Aloha50's avatar

It's Susie Wiles. She's terrible. DeSantis warned team Trump about her. Fox in the hen house.

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Patti's avatar

Holy hell!

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

another autopen on the loose?

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

😱

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

yeah, so pretty much anyone would be an improvement.

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Tim R's avatar

The c19 jabs are clearly a “no fly zone” for the Trump admin. No one who would actually discuss them critically (ex. Joseph Ladapo) gets an admin job. Maybe too much election $$$$ from Pfizer. Nonetheless, Means is a huge improvement from clowns like Jerome Adams and Vivek Murphy

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I don’t doubt there’s big Pharma money. I cannot watch t.v. that’s ad sponsored because of it. But I know many people who do. And anyone I bother to know is at least considered to be conservative.

Maybe because a big part of the nation is not seeing it as we see it. Many Republicans remain emotionally attached to their doctors and depend on their advice. I’m retired, not out and about much, but I’ve seen a few recent personal situations where people were treated for very serious conditions and are singing the praises of the medical establishment.

I’m healthy, no prescription drugs, no diagnoses, avoiding checkups and tests since Covid.

But I don’t know anyone else personally who’s going that route.

I have to come here for understanding voices or hang out with my family.

If people got the idea that we wanted to shut down their doctors and medical facilities, they would freak!

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Juju's avatar

I’m the same. I’m healthy now for the first time in 35 years, no more prescription drugs, no diagnoses, avoiding checkups and tests since 2021. I hope I soon can find a good integrative medicine doctor because I do have a couple minor issues I’d like some help with but I refuse to go to allopathic doctors anymore.

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Gaye's avatar

I am very concerned about the Meanses. They may be spooks, but beyond that have some shady connections. She’s all for tracking your biometric info and I’m not liking the sound of this at all. I’m seeing baggage…

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Good point.

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J Kaz's avatar

The Means siblings are tied to the Rockefeller’s They are a psych op imo

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Agree.

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HBD's avatar

The shots had some efficacy, on balance, for certain cohorts. They were just not the silver bullet for everyone that was advertised. No reasonable doctor should have been against them entirely, under the circumstances. I would be more concerned if she had come out “against“ the jab.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

My friend died 2 weeks after taking the booster.

VA had safety signals triggered 6 months after the shot roll out for myocarditis after the 1st Pfizer shot.

So many injuries and death from the shots reported to VEARS and V-safe.

You got to be kidding if you think the covid DeathVax had some efficacy for certain cohorts.

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HBD's avatar

If you are in your 70s and immunocompromised, Covid is (or was) more of a risk than the jab. If you are a man in your 20s, the jab was more of a risk than Covid. Two different cohorts.

Apparently the younger you are, and the fewer health problems you have, the less reason there is to take the jab. It’s a spectrum of risk, as with most things. I take Omega 3 for an eye condition, but apparently that has some risk of a fib, and I have a bad heart. If I were 15 years younger, I’d reduce or go off the Omega. But I’m approaching 80, and I like to read, so….

I am certainly sorry about your friend, but I am also sorry about John Prine, who was immunocompromised and died of Covid. If he had the chance to take the jab, he probably would not have died.

All vaccines, even pseudo vaccines like the jab, have some risk, though generally small, of adverse results. But you don’t understand the odds if you are in normal health and avoid them.

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Kathy's avatar

According to Steve Kirsch, RFK’s first pick was Dr. Kelly Victory. She has a strong anti-mRNA shot position. Bret Weinstein has said an interview interviews that according to a source close to Trump, he refuses to listen to anything critical of the mRNA shots. Apparently he is what is preventing RFK from removing the shots from the market. I am with the president of most of the things that he is doing, but this is horrible. If he admits to himself that the shots are damaging, perhaps he is afraid that everyone will blame him for warp speed. We know he was lied to. I’m hoping that after he gets many things accomplished on his agenda that he might let the truth come out about the mRNA shots. But meanwhile, people are still getting injured and dying, and children are continuing to receive these shots. At least 9.4 million kids have had Covid boosters. And denying the damage from the shots also makes it hard for us to care for the people who were already injured and disabled.

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William Foster's avatar

Maybe we need to write millions of letters to the President and copy RFK requesting that they be banned along with any other MRNA vaccines from the market.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

its worth a try.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

We already did that. It is called our vote.

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Juju's avatar

But lots of people voted for him that don’t understand what we do about Covid. I think inundating him with letters is a great idea.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

When Trump says from his own mouth that "he was lied to" then I will listen.

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Juju's avatar

We have to take some comfort from how he changed the Covid.gov website, placing his own picture in the center of the title “Lab Leak”. Anyone that does not want to address COVID and staunchly defend their warp speed would never have allowed that page to look like it does now. I think he knows and I think they are strategically biding their time.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

They (Trump people) can pick.

Their pick has to agree to the intense scrutiny and persecution they would face from being the nominee in a Trump Administration.

Then they have to run the gauntlet through a Senate with a dangerously slim Republican majority. You can always depend on Collins and Murkowski to vote with the Democrats. Then there’s the RINO squishes.

We can make phone calls to the senators about who we want.

The other side is even better at calling about who they don’t want.

It’s not as cut and dry as we’d like it to be.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Very astute. Seriouly.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

ACIP approved

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Do you have a candidate that you feel sure you could get confirmed?

Being nominated is one thing, but then there has to be a confirmation.

And I’m pretty sure that a majority of the country is not ready to ditch vaccines and isn’t on the same page as this Substack and don’t share our view of ACIP.

I hope they will get there soon, but that education process is not done.

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M. Dowrick's avatar

News flash. Trump is not making these decisions. Here is the question. Who is?

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JWM_IN_VA's avatar

Susy Wiles

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

The zionist big funders

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MarshaLouise's avatar

I have observed that Trump does not have Doctors McCullough and Malone as close contacts, along with many others who oppose mRNA shots… curious.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Yes look into both. They jumped on our side. mcCullough took all the shots Malone is not who he says he is. For sure controlled resistince. His sicky sweet endorsement of Paula Calley Means is a sure sign.

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Dag Waddell's avatar

https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1920561659979890693?s=46

RFK’s running mate isn’t so sure about Casey.

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Dag Waddell's avatar

Don’t forget that press conference on day 2 with Oracle, that $500 B deal is based on AI and mRNA.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

A friend of mine died 2 weeks after taking the booster.

And the VA is still recommending the covid DeathVax to veterans including pregnant veterans,

The shots need to be pulled.

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Jeff S's avatar

Yeah, we all need more Experts.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

What was her position in the early years when the shots were being forced on people?

Does anyone know?

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Juju's avatar

I know she is against any childhood vaccine that hasn’t been properly vetted and tested via uncorrupted and uncompromised means. She has been vocal against the number of vaccines on the childhood vaccine list. We know clearly how she feels about Big Pharma’s control over medicine and healthcare, so I assume it would jump the stream to vaccines without coming right out to say it. At the time when she was speaking out last year everybody was avoiding the vaccine topic, even RFKJr, because the country is too divided right now (due to the brainwashing) and getting good people in place would be impossible if they openly carried the anti-vaxx mantra - so they just said nothing. We had to read between the lines. I can’t say for certainty how she will come down on this issue, but I feel she is still young and her mind is open to facts and learning and doing the right thing. But does that mean she is incapable of being corrupted? It’s too soon to tell. But given how she basically gave the academic and medical communities the middle finger when she was so close to completing her residency says a lot. She also was raised to follow her heart, instincts, and the truth, even if it leads her against the tide in a serious way. That’s the side of her that I’m rooting for, but again we don’t know how she will fare up against those that wish to compromise her. They are a powerful entity.

She’s definitely a better pick than the previous one, if we only get to pick between the two.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Please give us a link to some of that vocalness on her part.

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Johnny-O's avatar

No, because she didn't talk about it, or covid restrictions in general.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

So many doctors put their medical licenses on the line and spoke out to warn people about the covid protocols and the deadly shots.

Why couldn't Trump pick one of them?

Even Dr. Robert Malone would have been a better choice even though some think he is controlled opposition.

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Patti's avatar

Oh I agree with you. So many risked it all and she comes out no where. I’m not saying there is a conspiracy but I have a list of so many doctors I’d trust over this gal

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

He is.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Thats a good one. But yr right.

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Patti's avatar

Convenient

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Robin Greer's avatar

Interesting...

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Beth Marie Evans's avatar

Well said. I totally agree.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

But her brother is- was a lobbyist for Big Food- Big Pharma and he is the one who does the talking. They most always appear together. If was a favor for someone.

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Juju's avatar

“Was”. He left that just like she left the medical field. He was disgusted by what he witnessed them doing

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

You are echoing what she said which seemed artificial & preplanned?

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M. Dowrick's avatar

What happened to Dr Joe Ladapo? Too outspoken?

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Mat K's avatar

I just watched a Tucker interview with her and her brother. It just didn’t sit right. Eg. When discussing Alzheimer’s, not one mention of the links to Aluminum or other heavy metals. The next Stack I read dissed her as controlled opposition, CIA, was nowhere to be seen in the medical freedom hey days of the early '20s. Possibly installed to distract from vaccination etc.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

They are wolves in sheep's clothing. You can tell by their tone of voice how they roll, no heart-centered intention. Not to mention that they promote irradiating everyone with EMF and tracking us all with smartwatches.

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Lori's avatar

Why would anyone use a smartwatch if they know that is happening?

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Roger Beal's avatar

For the same reason most of America's population is fat, slothful and ignorant: The pursuit of CONVENIENCE as the ultimate goal in life.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Well put Roger. Better it is to make mistakes of ambition, than mistakes of sloth.

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Lori's avatar

True and so pathetic.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Good question Lori. Because most don't know, either b/c they're not looking at the data, or they think it's "tinfoil hat" crazy nonsense. That's my guess.

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Michelle's avatar

I held on to mine for a while because the ability to control my podcasts/music from my arm was so convenient... Finally decided the convenience wasn't worth the real cost, but that took a while.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Thanks for your insight Michelle! Appreciate you sharing that. What was the deciding factor for you in terms of thinking it's not worth the real cost? Was it waking up to the wireless health threat, or more the distraction of the device from your overall life enjoyment , etc?

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Michelle's avatar

It was realizing I was constantly under surveillance with it. It had a "handwashing timer" that detects when you wash your hands both by sound and arm motion. I turned that (and Siri) off, but later concluded I had no real way of knowing that it wasn't recording my every sound and move. I'm not too thrilled about all the wireless effects on health either, but there is no way I can eliminate that.... My family wants wifi on, all the time. Even though I opted out of a smart meter, the digital meter they installed is probably a smart meter too (even though they tell me it's not, and I'm paying $15/month for the "privilege" of having them come out and read it every month), and my neighbors whose houses are just feet away from mine also all have smart meters. They've installed something crazy on the street lights near me. I can't get away from it.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I remember both that very TCN and the flak which followed, to the effect of "how did these two Means pop up out of nowhere". Dunno.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

That is one of the comments I keep hearing...where/how/why are they suddenly so visible?

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Calley was a lobbyist with big connections, so would be easy to get into the fold, get lots of bots spiking his likes on social media, only to promote misdirection.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

My deeper look tells the same. --

There are no heroes. Well, we each have to be our own hero, unrelenting in pursuit of what's true, both in- and outside the constructed matrix.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Dr. Malone, who owns race horses, claims to be inventor of the mRNA, and

was so vicious to Dr. Judy Mikovits when she just asked to see his curriculum vitae, he sued her is what I understand, and what is worse, Del Bigtree supported Malone, the millionaire...

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Thank you for this. I wonder how Nicole S would react to the words of both Dr Malone and Dr Hyman here.

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Jaye's avatar

I'm not excited by her. It all seemed rehashed. I'd heard her info before, years ago.

But no mention of the pointy elephant in the room

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

She is one of these who "borrows" everyone elses information, and gives them no credit like others I know. SS is one and everyone worships her as the glyphosate hero.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Jefferey Jaxsen on The Highwire, did a report on the medical reason given to us all these years, that its amyloid plaque that causes Alzheimers, was totally fraudulent and the work of basically one scientist and his lab. And there we are the American people fretting for our loved ones, and feeding them this harmful garbage expensive pharma drugs meant to abolish amyloid plaque !

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Verve's avatar

She is not the right person for the job- she also comes from a CIA family and I guarantee shes not RFKJ's choice. The deep state is operating in Trump's administration. I don't really care that she has no hospital privileges - it's the CIA background I'm worried about. Joe Ladapo would be the perfect person for this role

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Dr. Ladapo would have been perfect.

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Michelle's avatar

Her dad (Grady Means) wrote a pro-trans children's book, "The Adventures of Felix the Flamingo."

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Oh dear, it just got worse.

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Gaye's avatar

I saw that book but didn’t know her father was the author. The more you know…

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Oh god!

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

exactly. I wonder if that Miriam Adelson, Trump backer. "Republican mega donor Adelson to back major pro-Trump spending group" is the one who is calling the shots and all the ACIP lobbyists? It would be interesting to find a link between Mirian and the Means kids ? Joseph Ladapo, throughout all the pressure, proved to us he is a most ethical and genuine individual who happens to be a physician. And in charge of health in Florida.

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LW's avatar

Is there a resource that documents this background? Would like to read more.

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Verve's avatar

Honestly the whole thing is just crazy because we'll just never know how deep the state is. This was an interesting substack about their background (dad I believe worked for the Rockefellers) but it paints RFKJ in a bad light as part of the psyop - https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/cia-central-casting-the-means-episode

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Any connection to the Rockefellers suggests deep state and trouble.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

She and her brother rage about a new disease "prediabetes" and have a company that monitors glucose. Expect prediabetes to replace autism research.$

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Naomi Wolf brought up concerns about all the data that is collected by that company.

Where does the data go? Is it sold?

Will the health insurance companies be able to purchase the data to raise rates?

What protection protocols are in place?

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Bard Joseph's avatar

What new drug or vaccine will be added to the childhood schedule for prediabetes.

Either you have diabetes or you dont.

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Where is Naomi Wolf. Very quiet lately.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

She is still posting quite a bit on X.

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LuAnne's avatar

Pre-diabetes isn't new and full blown diabetes (type 2) has become an epidemic. Just look around and see how many overweight kids there are these days (almost non-existent in my childhood years). My own doctor told me 20+ years ago that I was on course for diabetes if I didn't lose weight. I think he called it pre-diabetes even back then. I took his advice. It's when I started my journey of healthy eating. I lost over 80lbs and 20+ years later, I've kept it off. Glucose monitors are a great tool, imo. If you don't want anyone to have your data. Buy the old fashion kind.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Similar experience here. When I turned 30 in 1980, I went to a nutritionist for evaluation. Since leaving college, I was experiencing a lot of headaches and eating lots of aspirin. He told me that I was hypoglycemic. I said, "What's that?" Except for the occasional bout with covid (colds and flu), I had always been healthy and never overweight. He said it was low blood sugar caused by a dysfunctional pancreas that is driving the blood sugar too low in reaction to the consumption of sweets. This condition is caused by a lifetime of abusing the pancreas with too much sugar in the diet. He explained how it worked and it all now made sense. It was the sugar-blues roller-coaster.

He told me that was a pre-diabetic condition and that left unaddressed would eventually cause the pancreas to quit functioning altogether resulting in high-blood sugar or diabetes. Well... I saw my dad go diabetic and I wanted no part of that so I set out to eliminate sugar from my diet. Hello!!! Getting off heroin would be easier. OMG, the cravings! He did tell me that sugar addiction is stronger than heroin. He wasn't kidding. Kept falling off the wagon the first few years, which I immediately paid for, but it was a full 10 years before I got to the point where I can say I have absolutely no sugar cravings AT ALL. BTW, it's not just "sugar". Wheat flour products - white or whole wheat - will spike your blood sugar faster than table sugar. It's a full dietary lifestyle change.

My advice: Don't do what I did. Make it easier on yourself. Just go full-on carnivore for at least 6 months. That will kill the sugar monster quickly. There are very good resources on line for reversing diabetes with fasting, carnivore diet and exercise like walking. Look for Dr. Jason Fung and Dr. Pradip Jamnadas.

Oh... and you are going to have to ignore your doctor. He will tell you diabetes cannot be reversed. Simply ask him how much he gets back from the drug company for every patient he puts on diabetes medication. He'll shut up.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Shocker, but a nutritionist consult for my child in the 1990s who was Dx insulin resistant, dismissed my 'argument' about quality of CHOs, processed products (bread, pastas, snacks) vs fresh fruits (fructose metabolism is different, I won't go into it). And, also dismissed my knowledge about aspartame being a neurotoxin, instead recommending it - NeutraSweet - as a sugar substitute. I walked away done, more than done with the system. You scored with your nutritionist. --

For self, Step 1 in awakening came in a moment in the mid 1980s when far from usual I just happened (there are no coincidences) to be home for lunch and heard a talk radio program on health where the guest's statement, "Sugar is poison," stopped me in my tracks. Her rationale superficially touching on metabolic effects made sense (informed by background in healthcare). There was of course no internet for easy research then. Superficial follow up over time cemented the assertion. 20+ years later Dr. Robert Lustig's 𝑃𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑦 where he cited mid-century researcher Yadkin, I think, was extremely enlightening. In the immediate I started reading labels; this was before labels were required to present more depth of nutritional facts, and before the all out PR demonization of fats. Even then it was clear sugar in products was ubiquitous. Watchful and modified consumption from that point forward. One outcome, though I fell prey to the freshman 15 in college I rectified it short term, and over the past almost 50 years have gained a total of 10 lbs. Hm. --

Also, I agree in general where chronic dis-ease is concerned: "...𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳." We are complicated beings. The road to healing is complicated, multi level, places allopathic medicine ingores entirely. Digging deep ain't no walk in the park but, imo, is required for true healing, including in many -but not all- cases complete relief from a condition that drove your healing journey. Never give up. And as always, your mileage may vary. End rant.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Well, I called him a nutritionist but he was not medically trained as a nutritionist. Doctor's would call him a quack. One of my sisters was a dietician for a hospital but all she knew about "nutrition" was the completely bogus "food pyramid" which IS specifically designed to keep us sick.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Ha! Not medically trained. No wonder you got decent advice. Not all quacks are created equal. Thus the ever applicable qualification, Your mileage may vary. Chiropractors and homeopaths, for two, were suddenly quacks when Rockefeller struck oil so to speak. So.

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*edit - The guest on that aforementioned momentous radio broadcast also burned into my consciousness the following statment: It is expensive to stay healthy; but it's a hell of a lot more expensive to get sick. That truth landed in my center. Priority shifting from that point forward. --

One hundred percent, <...𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘴 "𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘥"...> At some point it struck that it was USDA issuing dietary advice, from the four food groups of my childhood onward. Right. That explained a lot.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Yes, thats what you get from most of them. I can testify thats what you get in school and are programmed to tell your patients. We have to call them clients. But based on biochemistry they are wrong. These schools are funded by Big Pharma and Big Ag so they support the party line. And I know dietitians who have lost their license for just recommending good nutrition.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Thank you for commenting, particularly with the distinction of a doctorate behind it. I was indoctrinated myself, but stopped at bachelor's. (What could I possibly know?) Def oft repeated the stock party line with no further investigation when in active practice I'm ashamed to say. It took an unplanned exit from practice, distance + some time to better educate myself. <...𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯...> Hopefully turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Silver linings, etc. My aforementioned unplanned exit, while traumatic at first, was one. And Amen for it. Thank you again!

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Jason Fung is the real deal. Brilliant! and it works. And keto is the way to go for most people. take it from a PhD nutrition scientist and licensed dietitian- nutritionist who has grappled with this myself and in my family. We use berberine for the "prediabetes" along with low carb, and good protein and fats, and stay away from Pharma products.

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Stacy's avatar

👆👆👆Facts impeccably stated. I would only add Dr. William Davis as a resource. His books “Undoctored” and “Super Gut” are not to be missed. Almost all of the suffering (and I do mean suffering) I encounter every shift could have been avoided - can still be mitigated - through the elimination of grains and sugars from the diet.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Right?! One look at hospital food will convince you that they are trying to keep you sick.

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Stacy's avatar

Precisely. There are a lot of people that don’t get paid when we’re not taking meds. I tell my patients all the time, as pointing out that little conflict of interest is one of my favorite things to do. Congratulations on what you’ve done to keep yourself out of the hospital! I know just how hard it is to quit sugar and grains.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

great reference ...

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Bard Joseph's avatar

Create a disease.

Create a drug.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Good call on the old fashioned. Are you aware of how radiofrequency radiation from wireless can spike blood sugar?

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Fla Mom's avatar

Roman, are you aware of any effect on blood glucose of epileptic seizures or their precursors? Electrical impulses are involved there, too. A friend with the diagnosis seized a couple of times recently and his glucose went up afterwards, but not before.

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LuAnne's avatar

No, I'm not. I've never used wireless to monitor my glucose.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Well done!

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

so true !

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Not to mention that these fitbits actually spike blood glucose with radiofrequency.

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

It’s bad enough to have WiFi everywhere, but wearing it seems much worse.

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Absolutely. Thanks Connie. Here's an article I wrote on smartwatches fyi:

https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/why-tracking-our-fitness-isnt-healthy

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Agree. That said, tradeoff having a nonagenarian parent wear a Life Alert device. Sigh.

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Fla Mom's avatar

As a young doctor, I tried to convince a nearly-90-year-old patient to change his diet to decrease his cholesterol. As I matured in medicine, I was grateful that he ignored my ridiculous advice. He'd already exceeded his life expectancy and was living independently with no serious health issues. I hope I can live as long abd as well as he did, and if I do I don't think I'll be taking health advice from very many people.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Ain't life sump'n? That you had the maturity to grow beyond the party line is testament to your inner strength. For me, it took getting out of health care to begin questioning the dogma. --

Me, too, hoping to see the other side of 90. Still a while to get there, but for sure will take with pounds of salt advice from system-trained, system-adhering individuals. (Quietly hoping medbeds are a thing by the time I arrive at 90. Maybe before. -?)

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

I hear you. I guess you can only do what you can. Try reducing the overall EMF of the home they live in/ dirty electricity etc.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Hurts my heart, the habit of standing right in front of the microwave to wait out the brief cook time 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 time. Admonishments fall on deaf ears. <...𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯...> Sigh on repeat. Grief is a longer journey than starting at the point of death. 'Tis what i' 'tis.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Create a problem, offer its solution.

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Jaci's avatar

🔥My a1c was not even at the lowest level of prediabetes, but big red rectangle contradicted the actual results. Blood work pushes the narrative without precision.

Our imaging results are not precise. They say two nodules, biopsy recommended,..no sizes, no location....just rush to have them messed with. Biopsies can cause tumors to multiply. Tumors encapsulate. Why would you let whatever is in there

out? Personally, biopsies get you on the cancer gerbil wheel.

Call the imaging to be specific in size and location. We need to wake up with the continuous testing narrative and how they manipulate us into the system.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

Create the test .

Create the disease.

So much data manipulated to sell drugs and surgery

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Imagine how many people would be unemployed by a healthy population!

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MarshaLouise's avatar

We shall see…

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

prediabetes. we are all in that state. more or less. So like statins were for a blockbuster drug, so now is prediabetes.

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Kathy Lux's avatar

Her story echos many in medicine. Get her book and learn about what drove her to leave a successful residency and search for true healing. She determined that medicine was basically focused on treating symptoms of disease rather than curing the disease. Think about it. Big Pharma and Big Medicine will go broke if we all were healed of sickness. They have a vested interest in keeping us sick. Her book explains it, sometimes quite tediously for a non-medical person, but totally makes sense. I am a retired RN and came to the understanding upon working the floor of a regional hospital for a couple of years, that 90 % of the patients were there because of lifestyle CHOICES. Casey Means’ book, Good Energy, is a prescriptive lesson in getting a handle on our own health. I applaud her selection. She will be a good communicator. Don’t diss her because she did not finish her residency.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Right now the most important question for me is how does she feel about the covid DeathVax?

Any medical professional who is not at least questioning the shots 5 years later is not credible.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

She’s probably not the perfect choice.

The perfect choice would probably not have gotten Senate confirmation in a precarious situation with too small a majority and Rinos voting with Democrats.

This is a game with rules, antagonists, and treacherous traps, not a menu from which the most desirable can be selected.

Sometimes we have to rejoice at a glass half full, celebrate that Kamala Harris is not cackling over us and continue to work for a better future.

IMHO

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Porge's avatar

Does the surgeon general really actually do anything or make any policy? Or do they just go on TV and make fools of themselves.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I suppose it depends on the individual.

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Daily Growler's avatar

Are the covid jabs among the vaccines that Kennedy's shop is compiling data on? If they are, then it may be prudent for them to gather and evaluate evidence at this point, rather than expressing their feelings and opinions. If they aren't gathering and evaluating evidence, then I would encourage the public (that's us) to push for that.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The government already has the data with VAERS and V-Safe.

VAERS is not perfect because the injuries and deaths are under-reported...but at least that is a starting point.

In 1976, the Swine Flu vaccine was pulled off the market with less than 50 deaths.

Covid shot deaths far exceed that number.

Heck, a couple of people get sick from romaine lettuce or peanut butter, and there is a major advisory that goes out and the product is pulled off the market.

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Fla Mom's avatar

I still do. She had less than a year left, and she could have still written her book, started her company, and practiced medicine in a way she thought was right. I'm a former medical residency director, and I'm suspicious about why she quit. Her program would be prohibited from saying anything publicly.

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Emumundo's avatar

At least she knows what gender she is. Remember our last surgeon general?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Yes, Dr. Richard Levine was from Pennsylvania!

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Porge's avatar

You actually mean Dr DICK Levine don't you?😉

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Yes, Dr. Dick.

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Michelle's avatar

While she's better than Richard Levine, she's probably not much better. Her dad, Grady Means, wrote the pro-trans children's book "The Adventures of Felix the Flamingo."

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Neil Kellen's avatar

But she has been nominated for a position with no formal power. That's a huge difference.

I don't know much about Means. I've read few good things and few bad things about her.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Optics.

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william howard's avatar

take a look at the Tucker interviews - all you will need to know

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Daily Growler's avatar

I watched Tucker's interview a few weeks ago. I didn't come away enamored of her, but I also didn't pick up on whatever you believe the interview revealed. What did I miss? (serious question)

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SushiRoll's avatar

I'm leery of ANY information: mis? dis? mal? There are too many entities with special interests trying to nudge our minds for their benefit. I'll enjoy Casey Means until I have a reason not to and I'll trust RFK,J & DJT to keep tabs on her! #MAHA! #MAGA!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Amen. In God I trust with the long game.

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william howard's avatar

getting the country on the track of actually preventing and curing illnesses rather than just managing symptoms with Pharma drugs will be huge for Americans and that is what she is trying to do

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Let’s not destroy the good because it’s not perfect.

Perfect isn’t going to happen in this world.

Nor will hearts and minds be changed overnight.

Many, many people are still dependent on the present medical system and believe they perform miracles.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Those were words. Where were they the past 5 years?

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Juju's avatar

😂 They are really young so it’s not like they were in their careers for a couple decades and then we ask where they were five years ago. Five years ago she was battling whether or not she would finish her residency and her brother was being shocked by what he saw with pharma lobbyists. They were both new to their careers so they don’t have anything notable from 5 years ago really and I wouldn’t expect them to. But I fully understand all those that are worried or skeptical. I see both a reason for concern AND a reason to have hope. I’m still in the middle on this issue. Unusual for someone like me that is usually obnoxiously opinionated. 🤣

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

💯 We all love Jeff, but he is wrong on this (para below). MAHA is far from euphoric. The fact that Nicole Shanahan is not supportive speaks volumes.

The Means sibs came out of nowhere, and were launched onto the scene in a major, highly coordinated and suspicious fashion. Their family history is suspect.

And the notion that, after investing that much time and money in a Stanford medical degree, one would “bail out of disgust” is silly. She and her brother had bigger plans.

The best I can come up with, is she seems to be an improvement over that nitwit. Keep a close eye on her.

BTW — great piece by Debbie Lerman from a few months ago:

https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/cia-central-casting-the-means-episode

“It’s fair to call MAHA euphoric over Trump’s new nominee. Her selection is universally seen as a significant victory for the movement, aligning closely with MAHA’s emphasis on holistic health and its well-founded skepticism toward traditional medicine.”

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MGC's avatar

I'm surprised nobody here has linked (that I can find) to Debbie Lerman's investigation:

https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/cia-central-casting-the-means-episode

https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/the-means-psy-op-continued

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SteelJ's avatar

Thanks I'd seen those, but good time for a re-read.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Thanks for posting those. People get too excited by what someone says without looking behind the curtain.

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SteelJ's avatar

I'm amazed how Jeff compiles so much information and assesses it so brilliantly. So I was surprised too that he'd write that she's "universally" seen as a great pick. Not even close.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Y’all do realize there is a whole universe of factors in picking these nominees? THESE decisions have to be part of the big picture, which goes beyond what one segment of the population currently believes about any one subject. The Left and their media will blast any choice and they don’t really need help from supposed Trump supporters, though I’m sure they’re delighted to have it.

And the nominees have to make it through a Senate with a very slim majority of Republicans and at least two of them (Collins and Murkowski) are de facto Democrats and about a half dozen others are squishy RINOS. And if picked, they will be subjected to further intense negative scrutiny, harassment and persecution in congressional hearings; and some really great candidates may not want to even subject themselves to that. Some greats may be asked and refuse.

If the rules were that the President could have whoever he wanted in these positions with no outside interference (like choosing from a menu where everything is available), and they would be treated fairly and courteously; this would be a different story.

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SteelJ's avatar

Actually, we'all do realize there is a universe of factors. We know someone who made their name as an anti-vax zealot might be a problem, although RFK could be called that. We're not advocating for Andy Wakefield (although he'd be good). The objection I and many others have with the Means siblings is we're not sure they are really on our side at all. Or controlled opposition. To some that sounds like a conspiracy theory, but those don't seem farfetched any more.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Love Dr. Wakefield...he was really punished for just questioning the MMR vaccine.

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SteelJ's avatar

I know. He could do the same thing that got his life ruined today, and probably be OK. So, we've made a lot of progress.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I get the concern. How valid it is, I couldn’t say, given the web of information, good and bad, floating around out there.

What I’m saying is that there is a process here.

Would your favorite choice choose to become a target of the Left?

Would your choice make it through the Senate, given the very thin majority Republicans hold; which can be further thinned by fickle RINOS?

Your choice would face fierce opposition and time and effort wasted.

This has to be considered.

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SteelJ's avatar

You don't know who my choice would be, except not a Means. She may be solid, but she provides plenty of cause to be suspicious. I want somebody who doesn't provide so many clues they may be compromised. Who's compromised? I don't know for sure. But ask yourself these questions:

Does pharma and the captured establishment have the resources to recruit and place their agents inside their opposition? YES

Are they unscrupulous enough to do that? YES

Would it be useful to their goals to do that? YES

So, to think they haven't placed their own people among the medical freedom ranks to foster discord and misdirection is naive, foolish, and almost certainly wrong.

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Regina Restrained's avatar

Agree, MAHA is not euphoric. Many issues with here, I guess we have to wait and see, unfortunately.

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TheDevilWearsBalenciaga's avatar

I love Jeff, but he's also wrong about her company Levels. Jeff said "Dr. Means co-founded Levels Health, a company that produces inexpensive, non-prescription continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) —the “fitbits” of blood sugar— a device the FDA had essentially reserved for diabetics. By democratizing metabolic data, she snatched a tool from the clinical elite and handed it to the public." Levels doesn't produce CGMs at all, it has created an app that uses CGM data and facilitated the prescription (up until last year when FDA approved an OTC CGM) of a CGM. Now you can purchase it through them w/o a script, but they are a middle man, you can also just purchase it thru the manufacturer, Dexcom. Dexcom has been lobbying hard for this. They first got their devices approved for adult T1Ds, then expanded it to T1D children, then expanded it to insulin dependent T2Ds, then non-insulin dependent T2Ds, now finally, OTC. This was all done to increase their customer base (and profits), not as some altruistic democratization of blood glucose data. Non-diabetics have been accessing them through various channels for years. This has been hotly debated in the T1D community and I know because my son has had T1D for 12 years and we've been using a Dex for over a decade and have been part of these discussions. And, honestly? Blood glucose data has been available to the general public for decades - you can buy an old fashioned blood glucose meter and testing strips OTC at any pharmacy or Walmart/Target and test yourself before and after eating and get the same data, it's a bit more ouchy (fingersticks required), but this is actually the gold standard. CGMs are calibrated with meter readings.

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Jessica's avatar

I suspect they are CIA-pharmaceutical aligned plants to distract from the vaccines as the ultimate problem. I believe they were/are promoted in media/our consciousness to sacrifice other issues as “the health problems” we face. The sister never spoke up in the pandemic to fought against mandates or masks or the vaccines. She didn’t sacrifice anything in the pandemic. And I suspect the motivate for her company is purely profit and this column is giving her too much credit. (I don’t think Jeff’s nefarious, just enthusiastic.) The siblings are connected thru their dad to many elites. The brother gives conflicting answers abt how much access/power he has with Kennedy and Trump. And how did someone that young get personal numbers for those 2 ppl so that he cd connect them (when Kennedy threw in w Trump)? Remember Tucker is CIA connected too. (Although possibly he’s fighting inside for the good ppl inside CIA bec surely there are some good ppl in CIA) His dad worked for the CIA and he even promotes a photo in opening credits of his show with him and Jerry Garcia- the Grateful Dead was put tog by the son of the Tavistock Institute and part of the CIA psych-op testing like the involuntary LSD dosing of the whole show “playboy after dark” (I think that was the show). At least this is some of the stuff I think I’ve connected to them. They might be able to do some good and having them distract from the vaccines’s problems might help keep Kennedy alive. But question everything. Including how excited this column can be about them in Childers’s “sarcastic optimism”. I like this column a lot. I read it daily. Im “pro-C&C”! I’m against in-fighting bec the elites want us divided. But still…question everything!

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Ripple's avatar

That the Grateful Dead was put together by the "son of the Tavistock Institute", whoever that is, is complete nonsense. That said, one has to wonder about their early benefactor, sound designer, and LSD manufacturer extraordinaire Augustus Owsley Stanley III, known as Owsley or his nickname "Bear." He came from a prominent political family in Kentucky and that state has an Owsley County.

The band's brilliant lyricist Robert Hunter and their good friend Ken Kesey who helped launch the band with his Acid Tests in the winter of 1965-66 both partook in government-sponsored LSD research at Stanford.

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Jessica's avatar

Hi Ripple, I might have been less than precise in my language and for that I apologize and thank you for bringing this opportunity to clarify this. Eric Trist is one of the primary founders of the Tavistock Institute and his son Alan Trist’s involvement with the Grateful Dead started in the 60s and Alan played a major role in the organizational and creative development of the band—that’s pretty well acknowledged. Alan was a key manager and executive with the Grateful Dead band. And his dad’s work in the Tavistock Institute focused on social engineering and group behavior—and doesn’t the GD have a large involvement with “social engineering/group behavior” stuff?? ;-). So I cannot believe that the son and father had no relationships in their professional lives. The “me” pre-2020 might have believed that lol but I’m more suspicious now about the influence of human relationships on each other. I think it’s reasonable to be suspicious or at least alert. It’s certainly not nonsense. :-)

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Ripple's avatar

You're welcome, Jessica, and thanks for the info about Alan Trist. I had no idea that his father was a co-founder of Tavistock. But there's always the question as to whether children ascribe to the views of their parents or rebel against it.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Yep.

Casey Means Business.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I was going to say the same thing. Yet they somehow had no problem with Fauci 🙄🙄🙄

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Jeff S's avatar

Tony spead the gravy all around.

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C. Wilson's avatar

I watched her interview with Tucker Carlson and then read her book. "They" came after her in a big way. But, they could not take her intellect or drive. We have a warrior Surgeon General. Bet those people are already sweating bullets!

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

She never criticized the mRNA shots.

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Nick Kottenstette's avatar

Well we went from a nominee that cheered on the jabs and banning the unwashed to someone who doesn’t have an opinion on COVID-19 on her entire X platform. It’s almost as if she and her brother are unaware of those injured from the mRNA or vaccines for that matter. It’s about what you put in your mouth that impacts your health, not what is injected into your body. 🙄

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

CIA I would bet.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

🎯

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CherylBray's avatar

It’s primarily a motivational public speaking role that she is well suited for. She has more than enough experience in medicine given her time in medical school plus five years residency. I consider it a plus that she walked away. I don’t understand the sudden obsession with credentials when it’s so clear that those with credentials have failed us for decades.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

RFK Jr. just made a statement. https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1920531616499208409

A lot of rambling and ZERO acknowledgement she is a vaccine supporter (with her silence).

What a load of crap!

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I posted a reply to RFK, "blink twice if you want us to save you."

Waiting for his "hostage" video,

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Probably better educated than the fauch

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JT's avatar
May 8Edited

Not sure about that Kathleen, from what I've read, she got her MD from Stanford but dropped out of her surgical residency program, then went into an ENT practice.

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Johnny-O's avatar

Her surgical residency program wasn't even at Stanford, something she seems to intentionally not be forthright about:

https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/the-means-psy-op-continued

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Yes. The place she trained isn't exactly of the highest caliber for those that notice such things.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Thanks for the link.

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Tamsin's avatar

Yikes. It's a big club, etcetera.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Not sure how that might work without ENT board certification.

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NAB's avatar

You can practice without certification (it's uncommon, but it does happen). Further, certification has become very political. Just check out any of the Certified Boards and look at their policy priorities and tell me that are valuable. Being "board certified" may have once meant something significant, but now it is more and more a hoop through which doctors jump.

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RunningLogic's avatar

And they use it as a bludgeon to make doctors adhere to the boards’ protocols no matter how stupid and harmful they might be.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Thx. I would presume there are insurance implications for a surgeon lacking board certification?

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NAB's avatar

Definitely makes getting insurance more difficult and why certification and indemnification feed off each other.

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JT's avatar

I don't know either, Pat, I just read in the Newsweek link below that she had been a practicing ENT. She had been issued a medical license in OR but apparently let it expire, so who knows what she's really up to?

https://www.newsweek.com/who-casey-means-trump-nominates-wellness-influencer-surgeon-general-2069344

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

I guess I have a few questions. (1) A medical license is valuable and hard earned. Who would let it go so easily? (2) why not tough out one more quarter of residency, just to have completed it? And why not take the boards while everything is fresh in your mind? This opportunity will not come again. (3) Her instant book success is highly suspicious. The book and publicity businesses are highly controlled. How did she get such instant access? Just wondering 🤔

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NAB's avatar

So, you get your MD at the end of med school (4 years). Licensing itself is a state requirement and is earned when you pass the qualifying exam in your state (states will have reciprocity with each other so if you qualify in one state, you will frequently be able to get licensed in other states - for a fee of course :)). Residencies and fellowships are extended training in a specialty which take place after basic med school. All residents in hospitals are licensed practitioners. Licenses are surrendered, revoked or allowed to lapse for a variety of reasons and can be re-issued through a process.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Does one need any post grad work "just" to be a GP these days? I would guess that some sort of residency would be required? Graduating from medical school doesn't position one to care for people. By the way, Robert Malone has a more extensive look at Casey's parh that is worth reading.

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Daily Growler's avatar

If I am recalling correctly what she said in her interview with Tucker, she dropped out of her residency in the final year. As a resident, she would have been "practicing medicine" and performing surgeries under supervision. I'd advise caution in believing much of what appears in Newsweek. They may not be the worst of the Official Narrative Pushers, and they may sometimes (often/) tell the truth, but they're not unbiased, IMHO

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LAE's avatar

Hoping the new Surgeon General pick is not too liberal in ideas. I saw her webpage. She talks a lot about sustainability with packaging of foods. Hmmm…. Dr. Ladapo would have been a great choice, however.

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Richard A.'s avatar

I would like to see Dr. Ladapo in a position of great responsibility, even as he is Surgen General of Florida. He has been brave in calling out the "jabs" and we need MORE Dr. Ladapos in the current Healthcare climate.

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MOMinator's avatar

Yes, I was really hoping Dr Ladapo also!

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Yes. She never talks about vaccines. A bummer that Jeff didn't catch that.

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NAB's avatar

But, BFM, they also appointed Dr. Vinay Prasad to CBER. He is a political lefty, for sure, but he has been outspoken throughout Covid and questioned everything from masks, to social distancing to school closures, to IVM and HCQ (in a good way), to the terrible, terrible decisions surround mandated vaccines especially with kids.

I think Means is more a reflection of the healthy food component of MAHA.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

PLUS, they need to get in position before they truly break out ALL the tools in the shed.

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Francis Keays's avatar

I have been following Dr. Vinay Prasad for nearly 5 years. He was very left, but he has been slowly following actual science and is now far more right than left. After he got tenure, he was more outspoken and less left. He used to be very proud to state that he was a progressive. I think he realized that the progressives got looney and he no longer saying he is progressive. He has a good mind and has critical thinking skills. He is patient focused vs political or pharm focused. He is a good choice for the position.

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NAB's avatar

Yes to all of this.

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M. Dowrick's avatar

Vinay pushed the jabs.

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NAB's avatar

True, as did so many "mainstream" physicians, but he was at least honest about their effectiveness and the potential harm once data began rolling in.

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Valerie's avatar

I’m not a fan of hers. I’ve heard her interviewed on several podcasts and she comes across as someone looking for opportunities to sell her book or CGM. I’m wary of health people who are selling something in general. But I am definitely moving forward with an open mind on it, I pray that she exceeds my expectations.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Casey views food as medicine. I do too. I read her Good Energy book when it came out, about 1 year ago and it changed several of my eating habits in positive way. This after seeing her brother, Calley, interviewed by Tucker. Where Calley railed against danger of Ozempic (that drug paralyzes stomach and must be taken for a lifetime). Casey also gave a takedown of the godfather of hospital residency, a guy named William Halsted, in her book. Halsted was only able to perform multi-week surgery benders w/ little to no sleep because he was a major drug addict. And yet doctors in residency today are supposed to replicate Halsted, but all without the aid of cocaine & morphine that Halsted loved.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7828946/

Casey says she abandoned residency because she would have had to pick a specific and narrow part of medicine to practice - which she saw as only treating the symptoms - and only treating those symptoms AFTER the issue presents itself in the body. She wanted to focus instead on preventative medicine. A whole body approach. The part of medicine that isn’t as $ profitable as the surgery-first approach. But what she sees as much more helpful and authentic.

I am pleased she is Trump’s SG pick. MAHA!

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Here's the problem. She talks about the 'toxic stew' of bad food and environment, but may be put in her role to distract us from the vaccine injuries that plague our society.

https://debbielerman.substack.com/p/cia-central-casting-the-means-episode (credit: Johnny-O).

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Matt L.'s avatar

IMO, promoting whole food eating WAY more important than mRNA vaccine injury. mRNA vaccine injury is important, but that ‘injury’ will age out with older Americans. Whole food eating and its benefits are what make a body strong and resistant to illness. Changing people’s mindset around the medicine (food) we put in our bodies means less fatty liver disease in kids, less pre-diabetic teenagers, and a better overall national health system. I prefer to look at the forest. But I do understand the tree you are presenting.

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I I remember when Michelle Obama was on her organic food kick and she wanted whole foods in every school cafeteria. So in order to facilitate this, she grew an organic garden in the backyard of the White House forgetting, evidently, that people who live in poor high rises around the country have no place to plant an organic garden hence no good food in the school cafeteria allowed unless you were going to a private school. My complaint about this brother and sister is yes their emphasis is on eating right and toxic environments and anti-drug all three very good things, but my daughter cannot afford whole foods and if you go to your basic grocery store and have four or five kids to feed at home you are not going to be able to go to the organic food department and get a head of cauliflower which will only feed two of you. somehow all these books telling us how to eat never tell us how we're going to get enough money together to buy a dozen eggs. They all seem to be written to encourage those of us who already eat well to eat even better. Thank God I can afford to eat better but my poor daughter is having a struggle in the supermarket and she's not alone.

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Matt L.'s avatar

I wholly agree with you. The whole food eating is challenging for low income Americans and I hope this can change. Starting with/ allowing food stamps to ‘buy more’ for healthy foods vs. processed ones. I buy regularly from my local Winco on behalf of local food bank. At it makes me sad to walk aisles there are see so much processed and ultra processed food staring me in the face, and at a low price. Big Food in this country is no friend to the poor.

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I don't get that. A visit to any local ethnic market will yield scads of fruit and veg at great prices. Dried beans and legumes are always great value. Chicken often is a "loss leader" in local markets, pork also. I can get 2 pounds of cheese for $7-8.

So, to me, clean eating is very affordable, if one has the energy to cook the food once it comes home!

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Double Mc's avatar

Hopefully revamping the food stamp program(or whatever they call it these days) is high on RFKJ's priority list. If better food is all they can buy, it's what they'll feed their families. I don't envy families, groceries are expensive.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

That stunt was all about optics. And it worked.

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SteelJ's avatar

I see the COVID vaccine issue as way more important than the bad diet issue. What we eat is a personal choice, nobody if forcing anyone to eat crap. The entire COVID response was forced on all of us, we all paid a price, many were forced to get the jabs or lose jobs or educational opportunities. Free choice is the difference between the two issues, and it trumps all else.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Do you know how many parents allowed their children to be jabbed? Hate to tell you by "that injury will age out with older Americans" isn't true.

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jmsmithmd's avatar

The mRNA injuries will not “ age out” with the elders, as lunatics are continuing to vaccinate the babies and the students, changing genomes and setting up autoimmunity in those victims. MRNA shots need to stop. Now. We have ignored data too long.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Besides Covid shots, which other shots are mRNA - that are regularly given to our youth?

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Beckadee's avatar

The comments there are interesting too.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

A lot of the info on her book was available back in 2008 in Anticancer A New Way Of Life (great read). I agree food is incredibly important, but does she lack depth much less gravitas? I don't know. Time will tell. I certainly wish her well.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Yes, like many truths, they are available at earlier times, but available when very few were ready to listen. They needed to be re-packaged for the current moment. I view Casey’s book (which her brother Calley helped write) as part of the changing zeitgeist, and from her angle that promotes heavily the benefits of whole food eating. Another key insight she re-packaged was the benefit of no eating of anything after 8pm. To allow your body to naturally burn visceral fat w/ each sleep, rather than burning food sitting in belly from late night snack. You know, pretty much what humanity did for its entire history prior to invention of the light bulb. Prior to artificial light, humanity as a whole went to bed earlier, and you can’t eat when you’re asleep. This is why so many people in past were skinny/lean, and today, humanity is over-caloried, insulin resistant and diabetic. Casey understands all this and why she will make a superb Surgeon General.

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Fla Mom's avatar

Well, that's a lie - no one tells you how you must practice medicine, if you set up an independent practice. She would have been a licensed physician; no one forces you to limit your practice the way she implies. Casey could have set up shop as a Lifestyle Medicine physician, or integrative, or any other legally undefined medical term. Why didn't she?

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Exactly right.

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Valerie's avatar

I’m aware, I listened to the Tucker interview plus several others (she was all of a sudden everywhere). I still am not a fan but am hoping to I’m wrong and she turns out to be amazing.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Casey was promoting health wearables (monitoring sugar levels and such) which to me were too much. That said, I have become more regular in getting blood panels done since reading her book, and ensuring that testing included glucose fasting levels. I’m in my 5th decade, accept my mortality fully, but also want to be active into my 80’s. Good eating, sleeping, cardio and circadian rhythm maintenance are the natural path available to most anyone.

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SteelJ's avatar

Don't forget resistance exercise. Lift heavy, compound exercises, free weights for best results. Anything that gets you out of breath in a hurry like shoveling snow, splitting wood, hill sprints, those are the best things you can do. So I think anyway, I'm 74 and doing fine so far. That said, any exercise you'll do is better than none.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

She appeared out of nowhere, lacking "credentials " (not finishing her residency, although I can appreciate her reasons) and voila! Then there's the jab issue. I'm just a bit reticent to be all on board for her just yet.

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Patti's avatar
May 8Edited

I may have to follow your lead and keep an open mind

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TiredCitizen's avatar

"I may have to follow your lead and keep an open mind?!" You should be doing that already!

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Ripple's avatar

CGM?

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Valerie's avatar

Continuous glucose monitor, Jeff talked about it in the digest today.

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Elaine H's avatar

I bet Dr Lapapo would not leave Florida…yet.

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MOMinator's avatar

And as a dad with young children? Moving his family to the infested swamp that is DC? I understand if he’d prefer Florida!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Good point.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Bet he’s been approached. A humble man like him won’t mention it.

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Lori's avatar

Hope he never does.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I had thought Mr. Trump would choose him, but wonder if he decided that Dr. Joe would have more clout staying in Florida and working with the good Governor.

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Emumundo's avatar

I think Trump is trying to stay far away from the vaccine issue. It’s a political landmine considering his involvement. I think RFK,jr will do the heavy lifting on this one.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

This has been my thought also, for several years. If he had come out against the vaxxes, he might/would have lost his would-be supporters who had taken the poison.

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SteelJ's avatar

I suspect the same. And as a self-confessed germaphobe, he's unable to be rational on vaccines and many medical issues. I hope he's offloading those decisions to the right people, and I hope RFK comes through.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

And we don’t know… Trump may have asked.

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Michelle D's avatar

I was hoping Dr. Ladapo would have been nominated as well. He has the wisdom, humility, and bravery for the job (from the little I have seen).

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TiredCitizen's avatar

"Hoping" is not what we need for our government officials Still waiting for those pesky Epstein and JFK files that we were promised to all be released. Paging Patel and Bondi.

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Stacy's avatar

I understand where you’re coming from, but take heart, friend. A lot of chemicals go into food packaging, not just microplastics.

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Michelle's avatar

Her dad, Grady Means, wrote the pro-trans kids book "The Adventures of Felix the Flamingo."

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Yeah, I’d like to see ladapo as kennedys right hand man. That would be a team.

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Ed Thorrens's avatar

The Spirit of God is a gift from God to all who wants to receive it! He moved over the face of the waters on the creation, now He wants to move over your life and all aspects of it.

“The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

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Emumundo's avatar

❤️

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

It's my washer that vibrates and tends to jump and thump during the spin cycle, not my dryer, but I never thought of using a Lego. Thanks Jeff.

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Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

I’m thinking of keeping a Lego in my pocket for that table in a restaurant that I seem to always be seated.

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Jeff S's avatar

I'm sending this information to Housekeeping!

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

Hahaha

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Double Mc's avatar

When I was a kid, Mom would have one of us sit on the washer while it was in the spin cycle.

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J Boss's avatar

Y'all know they have leveling pegs under each corner, right? And that for older washers you gotta distribute the clothes around the drum based on weight after it absorbs water, right? But Lego's are cool, too.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

“If some offenders are neurologically or psychologically incapable of resisting their urges, should we stop pretending they’re “rehabilitable,” and instead prioritize their permanent removal from society? For their own protection as well as to protect society’s most vulnerable?”

yes Yes and YES! my mother used to work with convicted rapists (as a psychologist) and quickly learned that they were NOT rehabilitatable. Neither are pedophiles. Chemically castrate them all and send them to Papillon.

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Emumundo's avatar

The Catholic Church got into trouble because they were told the priests could be rehabilitated. The priests were sent to rehab then to another parish. The mistake the church made was doing this covertly, and many more children were victimized by these priests. Secrets are harmful. If someone is a pedo they should at the very least be outed so EVERYONE can keep an eye on them.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

If priests spent ANY of their free time reading the bible, they’d know exactly how God, you know, their father and very REASON for their existence, feels about pedophilia and precisely what should be done abt those sick priests.

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Emumundo's avatar

I could not agree more.

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

True story.

Protecting pedo priests from criminal prosecution was the FIRST priority of the Catholic Church aka "his holiness" and minions.

#Diabolical

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TiredCitizen's avatar

And that apostate place has told priests in WA they will be excommunicated if someone confesses sex abuse of a child in the fake confessional. And let's not forget how JP2 had Cardinal Law of Boston move to Rome to avoid prosecution.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Deut. 21:22 says those who do this type of crime shall be hanged in a public place.

THIS accomplishes three things:

1. They’re dead, so no more victims AND we don’t have to house and feed them.

2. The people (kids) harmed KNOW they will never be hurt again, and KNOW they were worth the effort put forth to catch and kill the perps.

3. Others who mayyyy have the same heinous tendencies may think twice before acting on them.

God sees and He is not one to mess around with those who harm kids.

The bible also says, if anyone hurts these kids, it would be better that a millstone was hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea. 🌊

He is all, TAKE CARE of BUSINESS when it comes to kids.

Search your fave bible version and any key words like “children” and “hang”. He’s pretty clear.

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Lincoln's avatar

Easy solution…castration for 2nd time offenders. Problem solved.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Hang ‘em high in the public square AND castrate them slowly. Problem solved, and many future problems ended before they begin.

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Juju's avatar

Castration for 1st offenders. Death penalty for 2nd. The penalties must be a deterrent so that there are ZERO offenses.

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Jeff S's avatar

Castrate them all, chemically or otherwise.

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Michael Miller's avatar

no one is un-rehabilitatable with God. Don’t be so quick to throw God’s children away.

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Carrie's avatar

Someone can receive the blessings of finding Christ, but still has to face his earthly consequences. I believe child sex offenders should be given the death penalty bc they have historically been unable to control their urges… and re offend. They are deadly to society. If they repent , that’s great for their soul, but it doesn’t absolve them of the consequences of their demonic heinous past actions on earth.

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AM Schimberg's avatar

Indeed!

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Lincoln's avatar

Carrie…or castrate them.

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GG's avatar
May 8Edited

Man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart.

This cuts both ways. We can look at a man and judging with men’s eyes, decide that he is sincere and rehabilitated. What if we’re wrong?

For the sake of the most vulnerable, we should err on the side of permanently removing these predators from society.

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Lincoln's avatar

Matthew 19:12

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”

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Tom's avatar

A predator that is truly regenerate will bear the fruit of repentance. That might look like telling the truth on the witness stand, and working the mission field in the prison to which he or she is sentenced.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Sometimes the death penalty is the only way to untwist the mind and it is an command that God gave us to live in love in community. Those who steal life must also die. Those who steal relationships must also die. Those who steal goods must return and repay and never steal again. It's what used to be called common sense give to us by the trusted use of Biblical standards which we have despised and are now reaping the consequences of.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Parents don't discipline children so there's no respect for authority. And the government now wants no consequences for criminal behavior and thus we have chaos. God's ways are wiser than man's ways yet man in his arrogance ignores God and thinks he knows better.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Yep. You can’t just hope they don’t reoffend. What would you then say to that child who lived through the sexual

assault or torture? “Sorry Timmy, but we had to be sweet and give that guy another chance. Everyone deserves a 2nd chance, right?”

Nope. Do what I mentioned further up in the thread. It wasn’ t MY idea; it was God’s.

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Lincoln's avatar

Robin…who votes for castration? Problem solved.

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Lincoln's avatar

Castrate them…then rehabilitate them. First things first!

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

I think Satan would disagree.

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Michael Miller's avatar

Hmmmm….Satan or God?

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Both

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Well, if that’s the case, what are we gonna do with the Muzzies, as they breed like roaches and consume all good in the world? Save them? Yeah, but nah.

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shayne's avatar

I'm a castrate the gear and amputate the hands as full measure to stop pedos, kind of woman.

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Roger Beal's avatar

That approach has been used with a few variations in Arab countries for centuries.

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TiredCitizen's avatar

That is why their crime rates are low.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

What crimes are low?

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Sorry you missed the point.

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shayne's avatar

I'm sure it worked, too.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

What I came to say!

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TiredCitizen's avatar

Exactly right. You don't fix those demons. Well, this is a fix, but they would be down like they should be.

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JSR's avatar

lol, just posted the same thing!!🙌🏼🙌🏼

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Based Florida Man's avatar

RFK Jr's running mate goes off on the selection to Surgeon General of a vax supporter.

Others claim that it's simply Trump's choice (i.e. can't blame RFK Jr) but Nicole isn't having it.

https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/1920308773979353102

(If you scan Casey's feed, she talks about healthy food, etc. But NEVER the vaccines. https://x.com/CaseyMeansMD )

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Wow, great find (and worth a sub). Some notables:

"During Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates – a time that coincided with her writing the book – Casey did not post, speak or write anything against the pandemic response, except to argue that all our ills are caused by “metabolic dysfunction” and “Joe Biden Should Declare a Food and Nutrition War.” She did not get cancelled or shadow banned, nor did she lose her job or livelihood. In fact, while millions were losing their jobs and businesses, and while medical professionals who spoke out against Hippocratic Oath violations were censored, cancelled and fired, not only did Casey Means remain mum on these topics, she also managed to rake in impressive investments to her company. As STAT News reported in 2024, Levels “has raised nearly $100 million in venture capital funding in three years” (that would be 2021-2024).

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Based Florida Man's avatar

and...

"...(discussion of food problems)... The problem with this messaging is not whether it’s true. The problem is that it distracts from and dissipates the urgency of the post-Covid medical freedom agenda: exposing the atrocities of the lockdown-until-vaccine response, repealing all the laws and regulations that made it possible, and preventing further injury and death from mRNA vaccine products.

Another huge problem with the Meanses’ message – an intentional one, I would contend – is that it obscures the acute recent rises in death and illness since the introduction of the mRNA shots, by claiming that “metabolic dysfunction” caused by poisons in our food and environment is the underlying cause of everything."

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Yeah, trust is just about out as a word. We’re going to have to come up with another to supplant it. It no longer works. For reasons you just posted, neighbor.

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Emumundo's avatar

Well, I respect Shanahan and Dr. Humphries so I guess we’ll see where this goes. Dr. Humphries would have been a great appointment.

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NAB's avatar

That is an interesting post by Nicole Shanahan. Hmmmm....

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mimi's avatar

Her brother Calley Means is no fan of the vax. We'll have to see.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Well, we can already see. She has books and a long social media history as a record.

Never disses the vaccines. No coverage of the horrible shot schedule for kids.

I'm glad for her campaign to revamp the food supply tho.

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NAB's avatar

This is what I'm hoping, too. (Sorry BFM, I keep responding to your comments but it's because I am on your page, I think). I am going to focus on the many, many good appointments (e.g Makary, Battacharya, Prasad) thus far and hope that her primary focus is talking about food.

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Jeanne Schwass's avatar

I believe Casey is the one who set up the meeting with Kennedy and Trump wherein Bobby decided to jump into the MAGA pool.

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KCrail's avatar

BFD. Means are grifters. Daddy wrote a pedo Childrens book, raised in Rockefeller circles. Invested in biomedical AI. NO!

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J Boss's avatar

Shanahan is locked in on the truth.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Well 🤬 😭

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Raekeduoh's avatar

You might want to check X today. I’m finding many very disappointed MAHA and frontline anti covid vaccine doctors who are very unhappy with Means’s nomination to surgeon general.

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Crixcyon's avatar

Forced vaccinations are now law in Singapore with fines and prison terms for non-compliance during any pandemics. Hope we are not headed in that direction.

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Dianna b's avatar

And guess who just visited Singapore. Bill Gates. To talk about vaccines and the climate. Two things that has increased his earnings over the last few years. Hmmm

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Lincoln's avatar

Bill Gates needs to go the way of his buddy, Jeffrey Epstein. Can I get an Amen?

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Emumundo's avatar

I guess that explains why Bill Gates has been spending so much time there.

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Robin Greer's avatar

That's bad 😳

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Yep.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

They may have gone too far this time picking an influencer instead if a credentialed person.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

Credentials mean nothing anymore, if they ever did : Drs: Peter Hotez, Paul Offit, etc. (speaking as one who has some credentials: MD, cum laude, ABFM, former associate professor). They can be taken away in a heartbeat if you stray from their narrative: Drs: Paul Marik, Pierre Kory, Peter McCullough, Meryl Nass,

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Karen Bandy's avatar

There are so many to add to the list. Notably Dr William Makis in Canada. The government is trying to take him down.

Remember the two docs in California who spoke about natural immunity early on way before the shot rollout? They were de platformed but not after enlightening me, which helped lead to my decision to not take the shots.

I know, I’m preaching to the choir here 😊

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

Yes, there a bunch of figuratively martyred health freedom docs, in this life or the next they will get their rewards.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

Yes, Dr. Maki’s as well.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

fair enough

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Add Nicole Shanahan to that list of unhappy MAGA folks.

I agree with her 💯.

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P Flournoy's avatar

Thank you. The surgeon general is a somewhat toothless position, so let’s hope she has no power regarding pandemic protocol.

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Susanna Bythesea's avatar

I didn’t see yesterday’s post till today, so I’m just commenting on it here - I think we should take all kids under 18 “off the board” (I.e. encourage device-free childhoods). There is no “benefit” to devices in childhood that couldn’t be quickly caught up with later (literally. Research is showing this more every day).

Remember many of us didn’t grow up with home computers let alone smartphones or internet and we figured it out just fine as late teens or adults.

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Tom's avatar

"But how will they learn 'computers'?"

They aren't learning 'computers.' They're learning to consume media.

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Susanna Bythesea's avatar

Astute observation! They’re are not programming - they are BEING programmed.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Totally agree! I saw an interview with an FBI agent on Epoch Times. The woman said her kids were not allowed to have phones because she knew the dangers firsthand.

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Susanna Bythesea's avatar

My kids don’t have phones and we are just starting to navigate computer use with our older kids (11, 12). We have a desktop in the center of our kitchen/living room area where I can keep an eye out. My kids are on zero gaming platforms. Zero kids subscription platforms. Zero devices in bedrooms ever.

But what I’ve noticed as they’ve grown older is that their friends are bringing devices and exposure into their lives. So it really is a systemic issue - many of these kids’ parents think they’re being careful but have already experienced undesired online exposures in their families.

And side note - my kids are missing out on nothing. They play outside, they build “water parks” out of old tarps and lawn chairs in our backyard, they tell stories, draw pictures, write “books” and play all sorts of imaginary adventures…

No technology could improve on the incredible play and growth they enjoy and are being strengthened by without technology.

Un.plug.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

I applaud your child raising techniques. They are blessed to have such fine parents.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Well said and Amen! More time outside and being creative rather than locked into a screen all day and night. If you haven't checked out NCOSE, you could share the warnings from their site with your children's friends parents. I'm so thankful there were no computers in school when I grew up..

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

"... But what I’ve noticed as they’ve grown older is that their friends are bringing devices and exposure into their lives."

That happened to my child.

Horrific consequences.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Parents need to educate themselves and stop living in denial of the dangers that phones and computers represent. I've shared information with parents and they just think I'm overreacting. They truly don't understand the dangers. The things they can see aren't fit for anyone's eyes.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Happy VE Day! Let's take a moment to reflect on history and when we actually cheered Russia.

"Our" appalling ignorance of actual history will only lead to even bigger disasters... for obvious reasons. The worst of the carnage of WWII could have been avoided by negotiating surrender but instead FDR and Churchill demanded "unconditional surrender" in 1943 at Casablanca. And now the EU demands that the Ukrainians fight to the last man, woman and child. Nothing has changed ...................................................

....They did this (at Casablanca) because they understood that the Russians were doing pretty much all of the fighting against Germany, which resulted in the Russian army and civilian population taking enormous losses—the kind of losses that Americans cannot even begin to fathom...

....the war’s most destructive period—and the worst phase of the Jewish Holocaust—occurred between July 1944 and May 8, 1945...

....we Americans have no idea what it is like to be invaded like Russia was invaded by the German military in June 1941. Though estimates vary, it’s fairly well accepted that 27 million Russians were killed in the fighting that followed.

Most Americans and Englishmen today are unaware of the fact that Hitler had no interest in fighting France and England...

VE Day: When America Cheered Russia

On the bizarre contradictions and confusion of recent history.

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/ve-day-when-america-cheered-russia

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Thanks, Phil. Although I was an attorney, I was educated as an historian first.

It frustrates me to see how historically ignorant the average person is - it’s as if no one knows *anything at all* that happened before they were born.

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Politico Phil's avatar

So true... and of course that's all intentional. This was true in my life though I had the advantage of growing up in the 50s and absorbed a lot of history through the movies made about WWII. But after I obtained my university degree, I had to spend a not insignificant amount of time re-learning history and economics. What they had taught me in school was all BS. And this was long before Woke.

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Lincoln's avatar

Thinking Linda McMahon will have a positive influence on educational curriculum…hopeful.

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PeeKaye's avatar

Often I have said, when I hear someone sneer towards Europeans that thanks to US you are not speaking German......well actually its Russia that broke their back.

Not to minimize my Grandfathers roles, but Russia paid nearly the ultimate price to stop the Nazis.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

I would rather be speaking German than being in the globalist mess we are now.

See the comments of General Patton who thinks we fought the wrong side.

The Germans were fighting the Bolsheviks, who run the show to this day...

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Politico Phil's avatar

Now there's a thought. Talk about cognitive dissonance! Turns everything we've been told on it's head.

History is written by the victors (of war).

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TamalpaisRose's avatar

Yes this is what I’ve been learning after I started researching the truth on Zionism, WW2, etc, and why people aren’t allowed to question certain “facts”. It’s been said that after Patton made that statement he was involved in a “car crash” and soon thereafter died. It’s all very tragic the loss and suffering of innocent lives for lies and a global agenda.

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Politico Phil's avatar

I always thought after seeing the movie "Patton" in 1970 - still a must see - that his 'accident' was a bit too convenient. George C. Scott was brilliant. 3 hours long.

By then the globalists were in full gear (starting with Pres. Wilson) and Patton was way too outspoken. They could not allow another Major General Smedley D. Butler calling them out.

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WP William's avatar

The purpose of continuing the Carnage WAS to remake Europe and Asia as the 3 powers and those behind them saw fit. The Occupations, and bipolar world and U.N. WERE the aims of Unconditional Surrender; sure they argue that crushing Fascism and Japanese Militarism (as well as killing off 30% of their young men) so these ideologies could be EXPUNGED of necessity is the usual excuse. Likely the de-Colonialization mess wasn't expected to be quite as messy as it was, but this process gave rise to a convenient Cold War see-saw for the next 45 years.

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Politico Phil's avatar

And that insightful comment brings us right to 2025 and this interview with Todd Callender.

https://maninamerica.substack.com/p/exposed-how-militaries-worldwide

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Politico Phil's avatar

If you haven't listened to Tucker's interview with Catherine Austin Fitts, you really should. Here "The Expose" gives an outline index of the interview with time stamps.

https://expose-news.com/2025/04/30/catherine-austin-fitts-on-the-central-bankers/

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Lori's avatar
May 8Edited

What a fantastic interview. Fitts is spot on throughout all the interview and really has a perfect understanding of what is happening in current events. Solari Report is excellent reading as well.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Much needed history lesson.

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C. Wilson's avatar

I was the lead on a few very intricate cases. One took 3 years. Odd combination, but if you knew my history they make sense. Some were sex cases. One was a multi billion financial case. I was forever being pressured to give updates. I couldn't do that because it would leak to the "enemy." Can't give the opposing general your war plan.

Unless a person has been inside the business of investigations and law, it is impossible to convince people who are coming from the emotional side, that it will take time.

And, I had other cases going at the same time. NOTHING like what the DOJ and FBI now have. They are swamped. We need to pray for these brave men and women who have to LOOK at and hear the most vile digusting material...and then go home to their normal lives every day.

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Sherry Fariss's avatar

I agree. Patience is not a valued enough commodity in our culture. Maybe because of the decades of obfuscation we’ve endured. But if we want the accusations to stick, we have to let our people do the job, pray for them, and exercise patience.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

Prioritizing the arrest of over 200 child predators is more important than reviewing then releasing the Epstein files.

Imagine that - a DoJ and FBI focused on crime instead of politics.

btw...I think Trump is playing folks with his nominations. Gaetz was nominated and quickly pulled. The Surgeon General has now been pulled and replaced. Is this to allow the left to "claim a scalp"., so to speak?

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Susan Catherine's avatar

This is what I was thinking about the Surgeon General nomination. When he first nominated that pro-jab gal, I was wondering what his end-game was going to be.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

So why'd Bondi say 'The Epstein files are on my desk'. And that insane photo op with the (((influencers))) and the empty Epstein binders? Why even go there if she's going to further delay the public disclosure? (note she did the same as Florida's AG as Epstein was in Florida much of the time.

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JSR's avatar

It’s all still a show…

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Ripple's avatar

And just who are these "influencers" and how abiyt you not be coy with those cute triple parentheses and just say that they're Jewish, and they do what they do because they're Jewish and Jewish people are bad by nature? And how would you even know if they're all Jewish or not?

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RJ Rambler's avatar

I think they are arresting the stupid "little ppl" to help them get the big ones. But idk.

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Lincoln's avatar

Never underestimate the strategic moves of DJT. He is always 5 steps ahead of everyone else!

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

These Wall Street experts and their tariff talk are nauseating. I am tired of them.

People shouldn’t need to be convinced that tariffs against China (or any nation) are a good thing. They should have learned their lesson during COVID. We can easily get by without all the cheap garbage that we’ve been arguably addicted to for so long. Make everything in America. Made In The USA is all I want to see on the products I buy from now on.

FWIW, thoughts? She Doesn't Need A Man https://tinyurl.com/333jpums

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Jpeach's avatar

“Made in the USA” should be a product label that must have high credibility. I would gladly pay a reasonable premium for a “Made in the USA” product. We need to see this prominently on Amazon too.

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Penny North's avatar

I would be happy with a whole Amazon ‘Made in America’ shopping section option.

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Emumundo's avatar

When Walmart first came to our area they gave made in the USA products priority over products manufactured elsewhere. I remember seeing a huge sign that said they created hundreds of thousands of jobs by purchasing American products. Sadly, after Sam died, Walmart encouraged manufacturers to move the plants to China to keep the price down.

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Lincoln's avatar

And Walmart was the only store open during the pandemic…China?

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Yesterday label fell off a tank top which I bought from Land's End maybe 20 years ago. Label: Made in USA.

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Emumundo's avatar

Quality products.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

In fact, having put it into the rag bag (it's too big), I decided to pull it out--wearing it today!

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Emumundo's avatar

Nice!

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william howard's avatar

one thing common to all left wing "experts" - they have abandoned, if they ever had any, common sense

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Evans W's avatar

Excellent round up today, Jeff!

As far as I’m concerned, anyone holding dual citizenship should be totally ineligible to work in our government at any level. This should also apply to their immediate family members too. https://x.com/mattwalshblog/status/1906400453333492209?s=46

The papal conclave is officially underway. Here’s the latest update. https://x.com/Evans_Wroten/status/1920289316917448734

I gotta say that I’m pretty happy with president Trumps choice for Surgeon General of the United State, Cally Means, but I'm also a big fan of Nicole Shanahan. Nicole doesn't seem to be so happy about it. I'll be interested to see how this works out. https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/1920308773979353102

If you're still holding out hope that you might not hate MSNBC more than you hate child molesters, I've got some bad news for you. https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1920087272650637723

Antarctica has reversed past trends and is now gaining ice at a record pace. Can someone phone John Kerry and let him know he needs to come up with a new grift? https://x.com/bayagima/status/1919555300266263017

Meanwhile over at Columbia University, the entitled terrorist clan seems to be back to its old tricks of assaulting law enforcement and taking over university buildings. My guess is that if Columbia administration doesn't get this nonsense in check, Trump's gonna send in the skull cracking team.....just sayin. https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1920291102667550988

Poland seems to have had enough out of the EU. Here’s Grzegorz Braun tearing down the European Union flag, wiping his shoes with it, and then burning it. Homie better watch out….he damned near blew himself up. https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1919738691993346256

FYI…..this is the only way I’ll go shopping with my wife. https://x.com/battlebyrd/status/1920435802200322200?s=46

From where I sit, the Shiloh Hendrix story is very simple. It was wrong for the kid to go through her belongings. It was wrong for her to yell a slur at him. It was wrong for the guy to record her. It was wrong for people to make death threats at her. It was wrong for her to start a fundraiser. It was wrong for people to give money to it. People on every side of this thing have been wrong. https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1919465889109262360

So next time you’re at dinner with one of your liberal friends, whip this little nugget out and ask them to explain this to you like you were 5. 19.7% of Gen Z adults in the U.S. identify as non-cisgender (trans, non-binary, etc.) Here’s a graph showing the current rate of social contagion surrounding the gender shit show. https://x.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1913957013073121415

We’ve gone from tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus to erecting a 12 foot statue of an obese black woman which is supposed to help us all confront preconceived notions of identity and representation. This would be hilarious if it weren’t so pathetic. https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1920120757167771736?s=46

I must say that if I was a White House reporter, I’d be a little nervous about Steven Miller fielding my questions. This guy is gutting these ivy league fish like there's no tomorrow. https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1917945940343754756

Now this seems like one of those Executive Orders that I can really get behind. https://x.com/TheGeneral_0/status/1914654483365191761

Ok. I’ll admit I kinda like Marjorie Taylor Greene and all her hell raising, but on April 8th, she bought the stock Palantir. On April 17th, Palantir, was awarded a government contract with ICE. Greene sits on the Committee of Homeland Security. Palantir is up nearly 50%. Probably just luck huh? GTFOH. https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1918757705776304192

And in a surprise to no one, Ye has now gone full Hitler. I'm not shitting you.....his new video is actually called 'Heil Hitler'. This video should be included in the disclaimer of every Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, & Pfizer SSRI commercial. https://x.com/CommanderDeck/status/1920362094202941725

Unfortunately I saw this, so now you have to. https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1877100464891682982

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

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

None of the alleged Cardinals are Catholic because they are Vatican 2 heretics who have apostatized from the Catholic faith.

No one who abjures from even *one* teaching of the Catholic faith is Catholic.

See Satis Cognitum (1896) - Pope Leo XIII

Here’s an article which briefly explores the problem of the fake conclave: https://introiboadaltaredei2.blogspot.com/2025/04/pick-heretic-any-heretic-coming-conclave.html

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Evans W's avatar

This may or may not be the case. We’ll have to see. That said Casey Means didn’t recently just pop up on the scene out of obscurity. She’s been speaking out for the past few years, saying exactly what she is saying and advocating for now. I started paying attention to her over 2 years ago.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

She talks about 'toxic health environment' but omits vaccines.

Like totally avoids the topic.

That's why the suspicion about her.

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Politico Phil's avatar

$$$$$$$$$$

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Dr Linda's avatar

I am pleased to see that Dr. Janette Nesheiwat was replaced. When she was first announced I was tremendously disappointed. I am relieved.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Isn't it strange how such a terrible pick slipped through.

This new lady is leagues better, but provides cover for the vaccine industry. That's the 'only' downside.

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Dr Linda's avatar

She did slip through the regular people. I was very disappointed in the president. I hoped it would be resolved. It was : )

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