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Delightful Designs's avatar

" we now have a whole lot more folks in official positions looking specifically at vaccine safety— compared to precisely none before."

Finally! As someone who was vaccine injured and has never felt that anyone cared at all about it, I'm overjoyed! I wouldn't wish the things I have fought with from this on anyone, especially not a child.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I’m so sorry you had this happen to you 😞

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Delightful Designs's avatar

Thank you :D

While most of it has been hellish, in some ways it did some really neat things to me. When the social issues were horrible bad, the Asperger’s type patterns led me to withdraw from social contact and read obsessively, and, having no social things that I was learning let me put a LOT of data into my head, and have time to learn things, make things, do things. If you look at how much time most girls spend learning social skills, imagine all of that time spent learning at my own accelerated pace.

I did learn some social skills later, I say I learned them like an adult learns a foreign language, I'll never be fluent, I have an odd "accent" but I can usually function okay. And I know how to ask for help when I am not coping with a situation. I still fail badly quite often, it's not instinctive for me, but I understand people more than the "normal" folks do sometimes, as I have studied behavior patterns in an attempt to understand WHY people were doing such STUPID things. So relating to other people is almost all intellectual for me, but I can generally cope. It's never casual and easy, and on bad days I just avoid people. It hurts less.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I love that you can see the silver lining in all this!! What a great perspective you have!

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LMWC's avatar

I agree! I keep finding silver linings in the whole covid mess. Every year a few more. It brought me here and it brought Faith back to my forefront.

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rolandttg's avatar

In the past 2 years or so, I have learned practicing gratitude, or finding the silver lining in everything as you say, is the single most important thing people need to do in life to be happy. Only took me 70 years to learn that

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Karmy's avatar

Hah Roland! I too am still learning at my advanced age but we are always evolving as I believe God wants us to keep leaning into Him and follow His direction on how to live through Him.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Amen to that! 🙏

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AJF's avatar

rolandttg, my mother always said, "everything happens for a reason" When we were young we didn't really get it. Now that I'm old I love this. It's led me to see the good in all situations. For example, my granddaughter spills something...I see it as an opportunity to clean the table. I never get annoyed or angry when life happens.

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rolandttg's avatar

Oh, I still get annoyed, but I get over it so much faster now.

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RunningLogic's avatar

That is definitely the way. I’m not always as good at it as I’d like but I try!

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rolandttg's avatar

the longer you do it, the easier it gets. I have finally been able to find the good in even the worst things that have happened to me in my life.

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

I'd ask RFK Jr. to please change "safer" to "SAFE" (which I don't believe is possible when it comes to the poison needles). How is it okay to gamble on any kid's life with a "safer" vaccine? This enrages me.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

“HHS announced the task force will focus on promoting research for making vaccines safer.”

How to make vaccines safer? Get rid of all of them.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I prefer safer because it implies they are not 100% safe. I believe this is important for clarity.

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SteelJ's avatar

Yes, "safe" is unachievable. I don't want to hear such lies, that it's possible to do the impossible.

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Leo's avatar

SteelJ, Kennedy isn't anywhere saying that it is possible to make them 100% safe.

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Peace's avatar

The 1986 Vaccine Act actually is partly based on the court's statement that vaccines are "unavoidably unsafe" so there is that . . .

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rolandttg's avatar

Per Pharma's own words. Tell that to all the vaccine lovers you know

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Kathy Sincere's avatar

A quote from mother activist Laura Hayes, commenting on Age of Autism today:

"This announcement by HHS is a tacit admission of the dangers of vaccines, because the stated goal is to make them “safer”. A claimed prophylactic, given to pregnant women, and thus babies in the womb, newborns, infants, toddlers, young children, and teens should NOT come with pages and pages of direct adverse effects, from permanent disability, to lifelong health issues, to the less admitted but nonetheless occurring SIDS and death in utero. Such products need to be eliminated, not continued. Vaccine makers have lied since their inception. Liars lie. They have lied in the past, and they will lie in the future. And the vaccine devastation will continue.

I just read this disturbing quote from a recent X post by Kennedy, as reported by Louis Conte in a 7-29-25 article on The MAHA Report:

“Kennedy noted that his uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy, stated, “when ... children are the victims of an appropriate and rational national policy, a compassionate government will assist them in their hour of need.””

Secretary of HHS Kennedy thus just referred to our nation’s vaccine program as “an appropriate and rational national policy”, as this quote was regarding Kennedy’s vow to reform the VICP. Again, vaccine injuries and deaths are admitted to, but instead of putting a stop to them, the focus is to supposedly begin “quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals”. What compensation is there for an independent life turned into a dependent one? For health turned into chronic, never-ending illness? For self control turned into self aggression and aggression against others? For fertility turned into sterility, and never bearing children? For normal cognitive functioning turned into severe brain damage? For a previously-healthy baby tucked in at night turned into a dead baby by morning?

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Truth Seeker's avatar

The autism debacle was crystal clear way back in the days of MMR and DPT. Due to Covidiocy the issue is front row and center.

Very very simple. Health does not come from needles.

End of story.

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Joyfulgiver's avatar

"Health does not come from needles..." or any pharmaceutical...it's all a crap shoot and sadly too many people have bought the Kool-Aid because it's easier to swallow than doing the hard work of getting healthy, through diet and exercise.

Pharmaceutical companies spend a TON of money on advertising, but if people would sit through the ads long enough, they would realize that the ads are designed to glorify the drugs and overlook the consequences of how those drugs can do more harm than good. Then you have the pill pushers (sales reps) who think they know more than the doctors out advising them (bribing) them to sell their products. It's all a vicious cycle.

It's an oldie but worth listening to an ex-Pharma sales rep telling his story. https://undergroundwellness.com/327/

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Gabriella's avatar

I so agree with everything Laura Hayes says.

Is this posted on her website-Age of Autism?

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Kathy Sincere's avatar

Here is the link for AoA. It is not Laura Hayes' website but she posts frequently. If you click on "Special Reports" on the top of the Age of Autism home page it will give you editorials from Laura Hayes. https://www.ageofautism.com/exclusives.html

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I see where you’re coming from but I do think that’s kind of the point. RFK knows they aren’t safe. He also knows so many will cling to them as though they are safe. “SafER” is really

a better word here.

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SteelJ's avatar

Yes, the last thing we need is to feed the illusions of so many brainless people who have always thought, and still think that vaccines are safe.

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David Nelson's avatar

Remember! "The brainless do vote."

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Truth Seeker's avatar

RFK knows that none are safe and why. He has identified two heavy metals that are deliberately included. Removing them effectively cobbles and bank rupts the purveyors. You are correct// Health does not come from needles.

The fact that millions believed this lie, unfortunately is on them.

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Jackie Ferruzzo Horton's avatar

The key is choice. Tell parents the real risks vs purported benefits. Parents never get this info unless they do a deep dive into books like Dr Paul Thomas book Vax Facts. Most will choose none when they see the huge risk vs the amazing health outcomes of unvaxxed children and adults.let the free market or choices (given ALL the info) do it's work.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Human relationships are fraught with peril even among we non-Aspy folks. I am kind of direct, to the point person, and have stepped on toes, hurt people's feelings or been called insensitive and totally not meant to be. We all have our strengths and weaknesses and giving grace to our fellow travelers can be hard. Sorry you have not been on the receiving end of that more often. And bless you for seeking silver linings. We could all be better at that.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Years ago I read that by definition a gentleman is a man who never *UNintentionally* offends another.

I aspire to this.

If I offend, it's intentional.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Donna- kindred spirits. I’m the same

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Donna in MO's avatar

I tend to hang with people who are not thin skinned and easily offended but managed to give birth to a daughter who is. We are getting along at the moment but it's been a struggle the entire 32 years.

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Dena's avatar

Difficult relationship, but I bet you learn from one another.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I think it’s a generational thing. You have to walk on eggshells, choose your words carefully, and accept that the relationship is mostly on their terms. It’s sad, less respectful than children, even adult children, are to their parents.

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Karmy's avatar

Same for me Donna. I’m learning to be kinder if that’s the right word.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Saying what is on your mind is easy...stopping to think before you talk is a little harder for me. When in doubt I keep my mouth shut most of the time, especially if I want to preserve the relationship.

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John of Oregon Fame's avatar

Karmy, sounds like the fruit of the Spirit.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

I think you're wise on the avoid people conclusion.

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alongername's avatar

In Thailand the average person (which is the vast majority) just goes around minding their own business....... smiling at their neighbors and a simple greeting of "where you going ...pai nai " , or where've you been .

Just a simple and friendly acknowledgement . Westerners "complain" how shallow Thais are . Thais see westerners as complaining people who are too serious. How many of you meet someone and think they're great company.... until it all turns sour? (familiarlty breeds contempt)

KISS works well in life ......... though its a shame it has to be that way

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Dawn B's avatar

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

Like you wrote, it gave you opportunity to read and learn, and different... those kind of people are golden IMO and the kind I'd rather have as friends.

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Delightful Designs's avatar

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

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

So no, "should be able to" is a mental construct, and this behavior is on an instinctual level.

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rolandttg's avatar

Well put. A friend just stopped by to say hello and bring flowers to my wife who recently fell and tore her quad tendon. She said she reluctantly went out to dinner with some friends she had not seen in a while , and went home totally depressed. She said all they talked about was all the people they knew that had cancer. When I said "I"ll bet most of them were jabbed " (she isn't either) , she said "yes". Then I said none of them have connected the dots, have they. She said No.

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Rightly So's avatar

Speaking in the context of Covid and "the shots," the inability of so many within the tribe to think critically, or for themselves (herd mentality) led them over the cliff every time. And to this day one can still see these 'herders" who continue to wear a senseless mask, even when riding a bike or driving alone in a car. Things that make you go, "Hmmm." Society is a mess and not well. Or, is it just me?

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Truth Seeker's avatar

There are exactly no people who have different accounts.

Those who falsely believed health can arise from needles,

knew exactly nothing about health. There really is stupidity,

it surrounds us.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

learned something new again here on substack.

I had never heard of crab bucket mentality before. Amazing.

I am one of those who stands out, says the unsayable. . . yep, pecked a lot.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Crab bucket mentality is a perfect explanation of the race baiters and victim peddlers in our society today. If the crabs can crawl out they won't follow the leader any more.

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Dawn B's avatar

DD, you are right about us being herd animals. I prefer animals to people most of the time. No joke.

However we should be better than the monkeys but sadly, many people are not.

I taught elementary school for over 25 years and remember certain ones that were different and encouraged my class to look out for them and be patient… lots of ways to do that…

It is easy when they are young before middle school but then the need for a herd kicks in and fear of not conforming sets in.

Did you find a couple people to keep in your inner circle? Its all we really need. Less than 5 IMO.

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JW's avatar

You are a true "rising above" hero. If the rest of the population could see just a fraction of what you do, think of how wonderful it would be.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

You succeeded at making lemonade. Behavior pattens study is akin to the study of false beliefs. It would appear that the injury was a direct result of a false belief, but the response was to awaken the thinker behind the thoughts.

As you mention the common thread is stupidity.

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Delightful Designs's avatar

Something that's interesting, and I don't have a link right now, is there was work done that showed vaccine damaged kids face/eyes change. In my infant pictures my face/eyes didn't look like they did by the time I was 3, and how they look now. I look at people sometimes, and can see how many of them show that pattern. It's disturbing. I hope they learn to use that work to identify people so they can be helped.

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Juju's avatar
Aug 16Edited

My youngest son had that happen to him. By age 5 he looked fully autistic even though he was like you, on the spectrum with some features of both ends but very high functioning, and he has a pretty high IQ. Today at age 24 he definitely still has those changes to his face and eyes even more so that everyone notices it.

Incidentally it was his fifth birthday vaccines that caused him to wake up the next day a completely different person.

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Laura Kasner's avatar

I’m so sorry Juju😢

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

My girlfriend's three boys, ages 3, 4, and 5 all got the MMR vax on the same day... and differing levels of autism became their diagnosis...😭😭😭

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Truth Seeker's avatar

all due to the false belief that health comes from needles

Totally was avoidable.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Is this the son you are helping to get settled next month? Now I get it.

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Juju's avatar

Yes Karen. Thanks for making the connection. ❤️ He’s fairly independent because I let him alone for college and was proud how he was the most responsible of the four guys he lived with even though he has multiple diagnoses. We aren’t really wealthy enough to help protect him from larger tragedies or issues that could really devastate his mental health, so he’s certainly not sheltered from all hard knocks the way it might seem to others on here. But I do try to do anything that is within my power to help where I can. He has had a very, VERY rough interpersonal life that left him spiritually and emotionally scarred. (Adults in our school district and neighborhood emotionally abused him as often as his peers - pretty much nonstop.) But he’s really, really smart and learns fast, and I think that makes him more responsible than my other two ever were. He also has a deeper faith in God, and I think moving him to Christian schools in middle and high school helped with that.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Well, I have to admit that at first I thought you were crazy to go there for a month but later in the day it dawned on me. So I think if you had said you were helping your special needs son it would have made more sense to those who thought it was too much.

You’re raising a fine young man from the sound of it. Good choice moving him to a Christian school. What a horrible environment he was in.

Btw, we hear all the time about mothers going on job interviews with sons these days, or, I was in the fine jewelry business and moms would come in with their sons to ‘help’ with the engagement ring purchase. Dictate or control is more like it. I think people have a knee jerk reaction if they don’t hear all the story.

Anyway, good luck to you both in September! 🤞👏🏻 🙏🏻

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Kristi's avatar

The book is Crooked by Forest Maready. Sadly, we realized this must be what happened to my son as we could get no answers when he was an infant. He is now 32.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Look into serious heavy metal detoxes. They have changed lives.

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Kat's avatar

IV Chelation will pull out all heavy metals. Beware you’ll need to replace essential minerals like calcium magnesium Zinc copper etc.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

incorrect, EDTA is a weak chelator at best.

There are much better, less expensive, alternatives.

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Delightful Designs's avatar

Thank you, that's what I wasn't coming up with. Some of that information is out on the net somewhere too.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

CROOKED by Forrest Maready

There are so many people damaged and there’s so much damage people do not connect to vaccines, people have no idea.

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Luzzie's avatar

Excellent book, isn't it?

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Yes!

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Delightful Designs's avatar

Thank you, that's what I wasn't coming up with. Some of that information is out on the net somewhere too.

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Loretta's avatar

I think the Midwestern Doctor talks about this reality, too. She uses it in her practice.

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LeadCPA's avatar

I agree with your pronoun "she"....just a hunch on my part.

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Loretta's avatar

I had the same hunch... Until...

I read an interview of Dr Pierre Kory, who knows them both personally, and he refers to her as "she".

https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/an-interview-with-my-two-favorite

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Jessica Libolt's avatar

From what I can tell in this transcript, the “she” is the mutual friend of Steve & AMD. But, I do tend to agree that AMD is likely a woman.

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CMCM's avatar
Aug 16Edited

I have somehow felt that from the beginning as well. Can't be sure, of course. The style of writing sometimes.

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EMME's avatar

WOW! I often wondered myself as to, he or she?? Mostly, I figured the answer was “he” … well it makes not a difference, I am always fascinated by the wisdom of the Midwestern Doctor!!

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Truth Seeker's avatar

everyone loves a renegade MD

"she" gets many thing right, but some things like water filtration,

are way out of "her" knowledge set

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Amy's avatar

She sure writes like a "she." I appreciate her in depth discussions. However it often takes a whole lotta words to even begin to get to the point. Whew.

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SteelJ's avatar

I always called AMD "he" until my wife pointed out so many things that point to "she". My wife sees a lot I don't, lucky for me.

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Monterey's avatar

Exactly. I sussed out she after mwd said things like" I just love..." and "some girlfriends and I...". Of course, men don't talk like that.

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SteelJ's avatar

"men don't talk like that". But women do. I should have seen it too but my man brain read right past it, she could not miss it.

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InquizitiveOne's avatar

Ditto

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Peace's avatar

Agree on the she for MWD. She made mention of some personal medical issue that could only occur in a "she" - wish I'd kept the reference!

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Karmy's avatar

Yes I read that article. Prior to vaccines peoples faces were symmetrical. After vaccines you could see crooked smiles or eyes. They showed pictures and it was fascinating to see the differences. This is not the article I read but it talks about the issue.

https://www.forrestmaready.com/are-you-crooked/

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I was just having to take a photo of myself for something and looked at my eyes. One was kind of closed more than the other and I swear my face looked different on one side. When I was taking it, everything felt even and fine from my perspective. I’ve had a LOT of vaccines up until a half dozen or so years ago from working in healthcare for a decade. They shot us up with everything. Makes me wonder now…

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Truth Seeker's avatar

you are describing neurological assault as causative for asymmetry

A more compeling case was made by Dr. Price of Price Pottenger due to

dietary choice...

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Lori's avatar

Reminds me of the study of Iridology which is fascinating.

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Luzzie's avatar

Yes! Years ago when iridology was popular I had my eyes read and interpreted. Certain markings indicated that I had liver issues, which was confirmed by medical tests. Well, one day while on a flight, a man next to me asked if he could tell me something that he noticed about my eyes. He's a surgeon, and he noticed that many of his patients that have liver issues have the same eye markings. So I told him about iridology!

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Lori's avatar

it is really astounding what our bodies can tell us and if docs would only be willing to incorporate modalities like this in practice which are non invasive! I plan to have mine read too!

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Amy's avatar

There is a certain "look" and set of mannerisms and body postures that often make me think, that person isn't quite right. There's something off about their neurological system. I often can't quite describe it. I see it more and more.

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Dawn Ceylong's avatar

Yes!! So many children look somehow different nowadays

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Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Denise, sorry to hear this. Don’t know if you’ve seen this article on autism, but it resonates with your experience: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/stop-calling-it-autism-start-calling

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Delightful Designs's avatar

Not sure if that comment was meant for me, as I'm not Denise, but yes, VIE is the word for my issues. I generally tell "normal" people, who are not going to understand the difference "I'm on the autism-Asperger’s spectrum, but I'm not either one of them, parts of both plus other stuff" That's enough for them to realize I'm not just weird, I'm broken, and I can tell them what exactly I need them to help me out with, as I'm obviously not coping with something or I wouldn't be bothering to tell them.

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Lori's avatar

Hi DD, I truly hope you do not see yourself as broken.

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SteelJ's avatar

Right, as if any of the rest of us are so friggin' together. She sounds pretty high up on the humanity scale to me.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Have you done a heavy metal detox— with bentonite clay or TRS or one of many detoxes?

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Delightful Designs's avatar

Many many many times. I do all kinds of things that help. That's a lot of why I function as well as I do.

The problem is the damage was in parts of the brain that the learning takes place at a certain stage of development. That's why I have had to learn to function around the damage, and why it's not natural to me.

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LesC's avatar

Thank you for this link. It hits home for me and my youngest daughter. It personally explains a lot of my behaviors. I stopped self medicating 30+ years ago and also refused medical treatment. I choose the spiritual path, which required no explanation for my behavior and thoughts. It is fascinating to read and develop a deeper understanding.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

There are thousands just like you.

IF it was a covid vaccine injury, I highly recommend finding REACT19. They are a group of covid vax injured people who pool resources and share ways to fight for help.

Hang in there and PLS tell your story— here or somewhere!

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LesC's avatar

Not a Covid Vax injury. I stopped getting vaccinations in 1998 when I left the marine corps. I’ve never let the VA medical facilities give me any shots. I got the flu every year for 20 years with getting vaccinated. Since 1998 I’ve only had the flu twice.

My autistic behavior started while I was a toddler. Older brothers and sisters were born in Schenectady, NY. I was born in Pittsburgh, PA. I bet the vaccine schedule in the two states were different in 1960.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I thank you

from

the bottom of my

heart for your service and I’m so sorry serving our country comes with so many shots. It’s ridiculous. And I bet you are correct in thinking Penn & NU jad different vax schedules.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Let’s fix this problem for humans first and go on to our beloved pets. I’m starting lesson #2 today in Will Falconer’s rabies course. He points out that dogs behave differently after rabies vaccination. They can display very mild symptoms of rabies yet appear fairly normal, or we think they’re normal. A couple of examples: eating indigestible things like sticks, rocks and fabric. Also ‘drinking’ out of the shooting sprinklers. It’s a saliva thing. Anyway, just barely into the course, but he illustrated behaviors of vax injuries perfectly.

I am not writing this to take away from Delightful Designs but hoping it adds to the discussion. The problems with our pets are right before our eyes if we just look. There are just more chances for interaction than with humans. But if we look at our interactions with humans with a different perspective it will help all of us.

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Delightful Designs's avatar

I quit giving my cats shots after two had seizures. Somewhere I saw (details may be wrong) that in 2012 the rabies shots were reformulated and lots of animals react now that didn't before.

And yes, animal vaccine injuries are very relevant :D

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Karen Bandy's avatar

At the risk of sounding like that bot, they are putting mRNA in some rabies shots. It’s a product by Merck. I don’t know about the 2012 change but I’ll look into it.

My cats are indoor cats but only got their first rounds of shots. I feed birds so don’t feel right about letting them out, and there are coyotes and owls around too.

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Renee Sommers's avatar

Guys…watch this. https://x.com/saikate108/status/1956300841905701262?s=46&t=HrjIVpMY-LOd752yqNAprA

It explains why we may have suddenly developed allergies. I’ve always been allergic to walnuts, but I am now allergic to pistachios and almonds. Back in the early 2000s I had a tetanus shot, before I knew better. I lived out in the country surrounded by almond and pistachio trees. This is honestly the only thing that makes sense is to how I suddenly developed this allergy.

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Jennifer Beebe's avatar

I’m so sorry you were injured! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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JCrutcher's avatar

Very sorry you have lamentations of the shots.

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

— Ephesians 3:14-21 NASB1995

✝️✝️✝️

(Shared on here almost three years ago but worth sharing again.)

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MattD's avatar

Some day we will fully comprehend His glory…what a day that’s will be indeed. ..”the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge”. Thanks Janice for always pointing me back to Christ. Congrats on your newest little!

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

Amen! And what an eternity that will be. And thank you! Baby is precious and all are doing well.

Speaking of Christ, you might want to read my latest post, Messages from Heaven.

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MattD's avatar

Yes I read that yesterday and it is something I often think about. I have letters from my Great Grandfather routinely closing with the line “I am looking forward to the day when we shall all (our whole family) be reunited again and what a celebration that will be!” So that is one thing that I expect and look forward to in Heaven. I want to meet GGrandpa too…

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

What treasures you have in those letters! And awaiting you in heaven.

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dusty1530@comcast.net's avatar

Praise the holy name of Jesus. Until we meet face to face - side by side - sitting at the right hand of the Father as joint heirs.

Sharon Skygrl

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Ditto!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

The apostle Paul is certainly the master of the paragraph length sentences. Rich and full.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Came here to say the same thing. Maybe it's just me but I really struggle reading Paul's letters as his run on sentence writing style means I will read it 3 or 4 times and still not sure what he is saying. I am a lector at my church and groan when my passage to read is one of Paul's letters. I 'think' his passage above is "I am praying that God will grant you faith so that Jesus will dwell in your hearts and thus His glory will be manifest in the Church forever" But it took me several read-throughs to get there.

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David Nelson's avatar

Let's be fair! Paul was a tent-maker(?). "Run-on" sentences, while no doubt 'the norm', pre-punctuation, had not yet then been analyzed-to-death, let alone made it into "The Elements of Style"--which TOO was still centuries upon centuries away. The strongest argument for withholding judgment on St. Paul the Great is to ask if "something might have been lost in translation" from the language of his original epistles.

(And here's another! try to imagine for a moment what EDITING was for him... what his writing ENVIRONMENT was like... ...and still--he did it, for love of us.)

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

He did it for the glory of God and his love for us.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Oh I am not disparaging him - he is the epitomy of "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" I am just saying I personally struggle to get through his writings.

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David Nelson's avatar

And you know me well enough, Donna, to know I was no way disparaging you... My comment was by way of trying to picture, again, what a REMARKABLE "Saint" he was.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Indeed he was!

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DR CD's avatar

READING, MAN IN WHITE by JOHNNY CASH LEFT ME APPRECIATING APOSTLE PAUL'S WRITINGS ALL THE MORE. AND WHO KNEW JOHNNY CASH WAS SUCH AN EXPERT WRITER. I HAVE BEEN SENDING IT OUT FOR GIFTS. HAS ANYONE ELSE READ THIS AMAZING BOOK?? DOES ANYONE KNOW OF OTHER SIMILAR BOOKS??

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Coolguy 007's avatar

Paul was not an apostle.

He did 'apostolic work', but no as an apostle.

Historic fact.

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Lone Star exile's avatar

Sorry, I do not agree, and neither did Paul:

Romans 1:1

Romans 11:13

1st Corinthians 1:1

1st Corinthians 9:1-2

Galatians 1:1 (my personal favorite)

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Coolguy 007's avatar

He declared himself to be an apostle:

"Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you!"

He was a tax collector for Roman Emperor, then turned merchant.

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Concerned mom's avatar

Matthew was the tax collector. Paul was a highly educated Pharisee (Acts 23:6 & Philippians 3:5 and his encounters with the Risen Jesus certainly designate Paul as an apostle... "by the will of God" Eph 1:1 OR DO YOU THINK he was just fibbin' and self aggrandizing???

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DR CD's avatar

WONDERFUL SAINTS!

SO YOU ARE NOT LED ASTRAY BY HINDERING SPIRITS:

SCRIPTURES EVIDENCING PAUL WAS, INDEED, AN APOSTLE.

GALATIANS 1:1; ROMANS 1:1; I CORINTHIANS 1:1; I TIMOTHY 2:7;

I CORINTHIANS 9:1-2

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Coolguy 007's avatar

None of cited texts provides evidence toward Paul's "apostolic" status.

To be considered for apostolic status a man had to have been with disciples the entire time of Jesus' ministry and to have been witness of resurrection.

Paul did not meet criteria. Matthias did.

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Concerned mom's avatar

I beg to differ...re-read his letters...

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

“Abundantly beyond”! Thank you, Lord!

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Hallelujah! The goodness of God goes beyond our wildest dreams.

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Mpup's avatar
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God’s love for us is greater than life itself. We know this because He would sacrifice His only Son so that we might repent and seek Him with all our hearts. His Word is Truth sanctify them in the Word.

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Jamie's avatar

“being rooted and grounded in love”

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RunningLogic's avatar

🙏🙏🙏

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Cookie Dee's avatar

Worth sharing often, bless you

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Annie's avatar

Wow! 3 years. Thank you Janice for sharing scripture. It has grounded me and kept me sane. 🙏❤️

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Jamison's avatar

Such beautiful words!

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Fred Richmond's avatar

Worth sharing if only because I wasn't here 3 years ago to see it..🙂

One of my favorite passages. Thanks

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Austin the Pug-puppy's avatar

Christ was crucified when he was 33, which started the Church Age. The Church Age will be 2000 years old in 2033.

Any thoughts?

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

Almighty God is very long-suffering. And He keeps His promises.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Come quickly Lord Jesus! We’ve been waiting so long!

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SM's avatar

Amen 🙏🏼

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Astragale's avatar

NYT “advocating for scrapping the Constitution and putting the military in charge”.

Really - these Democrat journalists don’t see the glaring irony of saying TRUMP is authoritarian. 😱 😳

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Willing Spirit's avatar

There’s none so blind as those who will not see. They are truly hopeless and it is not possible to hate them enough.

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Astragale's avatar

Just occurred to me that if the Dems got their way on this, they’d have Milley in charge of the military.

And he of course would be taking his orders from Xi. 🤪

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Annie's avatar

Agree 💯 The military is not their creature anymore. The traitors of which milley was one of the biggest have been purged. More to come but it is happening.

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David Nelson's avatar

The WONDER is that the Democrats DIDN'T round us up when they were in charge!! (We'll always have their "inordinate, blinding, pride" on our side.)

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Taiga Rohrer's avatar

After years of "defending democracy", "democracy dies in darkness", on every matter which was not hardcore leftist, did they drop the pretense? After all of the absolute ironic gas-lighting hypocrisy, the sole principle of the Demoncrat party, they are calling for a coup and dictatorship so they can win... Nope you cannot possibly hate the propagamedia enough. These people deserve more than scorn, tar, and feathers...

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Kat's avatar

The Nazis and Dems are limbs from the same diseased dying tree. Eventually it will fall (fail) and all will hear its last dying gasps!!

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Kathy's avatar

Yes! And almost totally obliterating the Bill of Rights during the plandemic.

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Graphite's avatar

Hate the sin, love the sinner...

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Carol Brizzolara's avatar

It astounds me. They think they are so right, and that everyone will benefit under their ideas and plans. They also don’t get that a majority of Americans voted FOR the other guy, so they would have lost the last election anyway, and we all know that Trump won last time with a highly corrupted vote—pray that the next one is better!!! Lastly, on gerrymandering, just look at the D states with NO conservative representation at all even with a 20%-40% conservative base in their states. It is INSANE how sold out they are to THEIR plan and no dialogue or disagreement allowed!!!

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WP William's avatar

Maybe they'd enjoy National Guard oversight of ballot counting in their new unicameral, judicial-Democracy? Let's face it they are in favor of a Party Machine running the show (with a half dozen shadowy puppeteers at top),then everything else is just a mask to convince the masses that participation matters. Media is the controlled mouthpiece for the entire transaction, so why not float these ideas while Trump is boogeyman-in-chief, they will be progressively built upon as needed and NYT knows this.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Isn't that EXACTLY the way the Soviet Union functioned? And now that the Russian people have finally buried that hideous regime (at great cost), our "protectors of democracy" want to resurrect it right here in America. NATO was formed to fight Soviet Communism and now that the Russians themselves rejected the Soviet Regime, our erstwhile NeoCons want to impose their own brand of Marxist tyranny on America and the world at the point of a gun. Does anyone see the irony in this?

Fair question: If an objective alien from another planet were to be asked, which country on earth is rightly called "the land of the free", what do you think the answer would be?

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Annie's avatar

And these stupid presstitutes throw around big words, like authoritarian, not even understanding what the words mean or the irony of their pronouncements. A large majority of people do not care what they have to say.

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

In Jeff’s post titled ‘sledgehammer’ on Thursday, TriTorch put up an excellent comment where he described the dangers of the use of the military in America. And in in response to one of the replies to that, TriTorch said this;

“You should probably watch the video in the OP Dave. Also see my reply to WP. This is by design. It is not benevolent. And if allowed, it will lead to a headlock stranglehold by DARPA. Which of course is the reason for it.”

And in response to him saying it was all by design, I replied to him with this;

“If this all is actually by design as you say, TT, then the use of the military on the streets of good ole USA was in the plan, even by the Democrats. I guess, then, it’s bound to happen, no matter what”

A wise man once said “if you wanna know why somebody did something, look at the outcomes of what they did.” So for the last four years, I was watching this invasion of tens of millions of criminals into this country, facilitated by our government and, sadly, financed by us taxpayers. I witnessed an unprecedented increase in the amount and the violence of the crime in this country and an increase in the laws that facilitated that crime and also protected the criminals. I wondered then, as I watched all of this happening what would be one of the outcomes of it. It seemed evident to me during the time that this was happening, was that the Democrats’ (and some republicans’) plan (design), other than getting voters that would vote for them, was that in order to save the cities they would have to deploy the military because military deployment in the face of these astounding happenings was gonna be unavoidable. It was gonna be essential. There is simply no two ways about it, it was gonna happen one way or the other. The Democrats wanted to use the military against us, that was their plan, their design,

…however, it appears that it may not have been God‘s design.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

That’s scriptural. Man will and always has plotted masterful takeovers. God looks down at them from on high as grasshoppers and he laughs at their plots.

He turns that meant for harm into good for his own.

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

You impressed me with your statement WS. Most people know God as vengeful, always putting his wrath on us. Very few are aware of his capacity for laughter, and how sometimes our stupidity just makes him laugh, and does not fill him with wrath.

…however, I wouldn’t say it is joyful laughter that results from our stupid plots

…’tho I do believe that some of the things we do cause him to laugh with joy

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

And under this president, I haven’t seen or felt any evidence of losing my livelihood because I didn’t want a foreign unknown substance injected under duress into my body.

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James's avatar

They simply want to replace one “authoritarian” with their own very real authoritarians. It was never about “defending democracy.”

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Kathy's avatar

They (and the globalists who run them) are so dangerous, all wrapped up in a fake cloak of civil rights and pro-environment.

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RunningLogic's avatar

They really don’t 😕

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Inverted Pyramid's avatar

The Summit was masterfully organized… the long red carpet walk allowed for the B2 and escorts to be able to fly directly overhead.

Well done Mr. President!

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

And one FB “friend” was furious that Putin got the red carpet while the green blob was kicked out! It made me laugh hysterically while unfollowing him.

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Inverted Pyramid's avatar

… maybe if Zelenskyy could actually dress like a President, he’d be treated like one. The problem Zelenskyy has is that short men don’t fair well in suits, they end up looking like a “mini-me”.

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

It’s too late for that, a suit won’t help him now

… he should go back to playing the piano

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Just not with his pecker, please!

Do we know if he has children? Maybe he doesn’t know what it’s really for 🧐

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

Yeah, WS, Jeff’s nickname for the little ‘z’ was spot on

… ‘penis pianist’ (Mr. Childers is a master wordsmith)

…and the world would be blessed of God if ‘z’ never knows what it’s for

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JW's avatar

First rule of business...Dress for success. He did not get that memo.

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Kathy's avatar

He is a mini me!

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Horizons's avatar

Our local dem group on facebook was going on and on about how "Trump made American troops kneel before Putin!" I saw the photo: several soldiers were at the base of the plane stairs, putting down the red carpet where Putin and Trump were later photographed. You just cannot make this stuff up...

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Temcol's avatar

B-2s were an excellent message I think!

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Putin laughs at them... his hypersonics/Oreshniks are unstoppable... missile tech that we don't have.

Even Iran has hypersonics, as Israel found out the hard way... Israel's "Iron Dome" air defense, along with the US Patriot missile and THAAD defenses we gave those vicious swine... were useless against them.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

My man, Trump, doesn’t do anything half-azzed!

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Mark D.'s avatar

Wow, just a few months ago Our Democracy was sacred. Now the left wants to scrap 250 years of republican government. It’s almost enough to make you think they have no principles and only care about power.

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Jake's avatar

We have a Republic, if we can keep it....

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Jaci's avatar
Aug 16Edited

Why is it so difficult to stop calling the US a democracy? Look up the word and see why the Dems indoctrinated us to use it! We are a Constitutional Republic!

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DR CD's avatar

YES, THANK YOU. A SIMPLISTIC WAY TO PUT IT IS "DEMOCRACY" IS MOB RULE. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. TO PREVENT THE POPULATION OF THE CITIES TO EXCLUSIVELY DICTATE. PRAY CIVICS WILL REAPPEAR IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUMS.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Were...

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

I heard this a long time ago;

“a democracy is when a majority of citizens vote for people that go into government and do whatever they want. A constitutional republic is when a majority of citizens vote for people that go into government and do only what the people want.”

… restrained by a constitution that keeps them under control

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Graphite's avatar

If only it worked as it should! The government in Canada are ignoring ours as well 😒 🇨🇦

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

If only Canada was one of the United States of America, With the protections of our constitution. At least we have a chance to turn our government around,

… I’m afraid you Canadians are SOL

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Stacy's avatar

Maybe it’s just a sly bit of subconscious marketing: Who better to run a democracy than democrats? What good are republicans to a democracy?

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

Thank you for correcting. I cringe when they blab about “democracy.” And you just know they have other facts wrong if they can’t even get our form of government correct.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Had...

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LuAnne's avatar

The word "democracy" that democrats scream into the 🎤 every 5 minutes is not the kind of democracy most people think of. Mike Benz explained this a few years ago and now I can't un-hear it and it's why I want to hurl every time I hear it.

I'll try and find the video. There are several others who have touched on this, too.

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Janice Neikirk's avatar

Absolutely CRINGE! We are a Constitutional Republic!!!! Democracy is MOB RULE! Auuuuugggghhhhh!!! 😫😫😫😫

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

So then in reality, Janice, America has been a ‘democracy’, in your sense of the word.

America has been ruled by a MOB for the last 115 years, at least.

I would like to see it revert back to a constitutional republic before I leave this world

… or better yet, a benevolent dictatorship, under God

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Willing Spirit's avatar

In a sense, it’s democracy that elects the representatives for the republic.

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

Not exactly, WS. It’s the majority of the citizens that elect representatives in a republic.

It is also the majority of citizens that elect representatives in a democracy.

The fact that a majority of citizens voted for something doesn’t make it a democracy.

Janice Neikirk (above comment) said a democracy is MOB rule and I was just playing off her words. (Which is why I put ‘democracy’ in quotes)

…see Guy White’s comment (note: in the movie, it was humorous, it is meant the same way here)

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Guy White's avatar

“Democracy”… You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. 😁

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

Haha! Inconceivable!!!

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Mary H.'s avatar

It’s classic Marxism. Repeating and changing the meaning of words to suit a narrative.

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth .

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FH's avatar
Aug 16Edited

Exactly. Once the tactics of Marxist ideology in all its iterations are seen, they can’t be unseen.

I poo-poo’d “all this nonsense” about communism & Marxism until I began to understand the tactics.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Like misspelled words and bad grammar.

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Kathy's avatar

Yes! I believe that he said that their idea of “ democracy” is bureaucracy, the intelligence agencies, the NGOs with their money laundering and soft power used to overthrow other governments, and of course, the oligarchs and Blackrock, State street,

and Vanguard. All these things make up what Mr. Benz refers to as “The Blob”, a term that he did not himself make up, but rather comes from the intelligence agencies themselves. And of course, many of these things fund the war machine.

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AJF's avatar

Thanks, this is good

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Jaci's avatar

Dan Smoot

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WP William's avatar

should ANYONE on the Right express the same exact sentiments....Leftist-NYT would showcase their FASCISM and hang it upon Trump....and they would do it tomorrow without batting an eye, even as they spout off about the merits of dismantling individual "rights" in favor of modernizing a Progressive Dictatorial Democracy.

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SD Scott's avatar

AKA communism

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SB's avatar

I just realized that the midterms will be following on the heels of the 250th anniversary of our great nation. Yea, I be the leftists are running scared. It’s going to be another historic making moment, how badly the left loses in the midterms.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Almost…in the words of guvner Newscum, “Wake up, America!”

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Mary H.'s avatar

Almost ? 😝

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Mark D.'s avatar

I like to understate things 😝

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

But I like your point, just insert “constitutional republic”

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

Not exactly, WS. It’s the majority of the citizens that elect representatives in a republic.

It is also the majority of citizens that elect representatives in a democracy.

The fact that a majority of citizens voted for something doesn’t make it a democracy.

Which is why I put ‘democracy’ in quotes)

…see Guy White’s comment (note: in the movie, it was humorous, it is meant the same way here)

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My Favorite Things's avatar

Good to know that someone is finally looking out for children’s safety, instead of just exploiting them for profit.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I am disgusted that the safety committee was ended in 1998!! 😡😡😡

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Guess who was president then? Bill Clinton.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

The Clinton's were professional bribe-takers.

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Beckadee's avatar

And Epstein claimed to be a co-founder of the Clinton Foundation- article can be found on Fox News.

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Rob's avatar

Clinton? Follow the money....

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Always 💰💰💰

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Rob's avatar

Funny how that works isn't it?

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Or the bodies.

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CHop's avatar

And Tipper Gore birthed the "mental health" in kids agenda.

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SM's avatar

The only thing he did in office was Monica and other little children on Epstein Island.

Also, he lied to the entire country under oath plenty of times.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yup 😡

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Jeremiah Davidson's avatar

Oh yes, one of the fruits of that tree in the garden

… the tree that God told us not to eat from

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Astragale's avatar

Says it all really.

The villains closed the safety ctte as they started ramping up the number of lucrative shots they could force into children’s bodies. 😡

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RunningLogic's avatar

And as the injuries started getting too numerous and frequent to ignore 😡

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Jeff S's avatar

Ridiculous!

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I wonder if anything would be different if for the last year & a half +, every time Zelensky is mentioned in any news reports, or discussions of elected politicians, he was called Former President Zelensky. He isn't the legit President of Ukraine and that should be made obvious every time his name comes up. He should be relegated to the Joe Biden Memorial Waiting Room!

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Jenn's avatar

I think the same thing. Why do they, including President Trump, keep calling him with his former title? He is, like Jeff says, a martial law dictator because he won't even undo that and hold elections.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

He won't hold elections because he knows he would lose, big time!

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Jenn's avatar

Exactly. Lose bigly.

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SB's avatar

Speaking of authoritarianism…

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Good morning Mr President, Counselor Childers, Drs, Truckers, Custodians of freedom, retirerees, Essential workers, friends and family, that's most of y'all.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Adding Campers 😂

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Guy White's avatar

Good morning ‘Murica!

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phlyme's avatar

The power of yesterday’s meeting between the two most powerful men in the world. Was awe inspiring. Just my humble opinion. I was deeply moved.

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Juju's avatar
Aug 16Edited

It was!

But I was thoroughly disgusted with even Fox News preconference coverage bringing on every past administration “expert” (even Pompous Pompeo,) and congressmen that have always pushed the hateful deep state narrative about Putin. Every word and every sentence they spoke was dripping with vile hatred for Putin and reminding us what an “evil, wicked, dictator” he is, in order to frame the viewers perspective before listening to Trump and Putin. It didn’t work on me. I’m not saying Putin is an angel, but I refuse to believe that those that lied to us about everything else all these years aren’t lying about Putin. I think they have more allegiance to Europe than America.

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

I felt just the same way. They present Putin like the equivalent of Stalin. He may be a lot of things, but he isn't that. Perception is a funny thing. We damn him for looking to the best interests of his country in the face of NATO's slow enroachment toward his borders. In any other circumstance that would be praise-worthy. Never forget we overthrew Ukraine's legitimate government, which got along with Putin, to replace it with what they have now.

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Kathy's avatar

💯

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Robin Esau's avatar

I noticed the same. Tired of Fox pretending to be "balanced" and "fair," as Brett says.

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Juju's avatar
Aug 16Edited

Most of the time the shows I watch are.

But for some reason for this coverage they reverted back to their preTrump obedience to some other power. I’d prefer to watch the other news outlets like Real Americas Voice, etc., more but I realized why I don’t: they inundate me with really long commercials to even start watching! I can’t get right to the live program, and they often interrupt with the same. But I can record Fox shows and each starts out with a good 15 mins of news before a single commercial is seen, and I always fast forward through the 5 min long commercials after that. It’s easy. Granted the live coverage of an event on the alternative news channels is without interruptions but like RSBN they shrink down the video so that the advertisements are 70% of the screen.

I wish the conservative outlets would do things differently. It’s not easy for me to enjoy them.

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DR CD's avatar

FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE & BLOCKER IN CHIEF DURING DJT’S FIRST TERM WAS, LAST I HEARD, ON THE BOARD OF FOX. DOESN’T THAT SPEAK VOLUMES.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

That’s why I dropped cable many, many years ago. The only Fox I see is YouTube clips.

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SD Scott's avatar

Super insulting the appeal to emotion rather than reporting facts.

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Lori's avatar

I agree. Few men in govt are angels but tired of hearing these wazzocks drone on and on about Putin.

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Kathy's avatar

I noticed this as well. Meanwhile, the neocons and the war machine love a proxy war. The Russians were promised back in I believe 1990 that NATO would not move 1 inch to the east. Meanwhile, since then they have added 14 countries and moved 1000 miles. The war machine did not care for the ending of the Cold War.

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Jacquijacq's avatar

Watch Kudlow on Fox Business. He gets it. He lived it

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Taiga Rohrer's avatar

Same impression, I tuned Fox to hear it because I figured they were "the lesser of evils" - note to self: (wrong), but after carefully listening to Putin and Trump's speeches, I was in absolute awe of Fox's neocon whores spin it as something completely different from what the Presidents said, declare the meeting a failure, the deal (although T&P never went into detail) would be rejected and was a waste of time, the US should give Ukraine all of our money and weapons, and of course Putin bad.

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Beckadee's avatar

That neocon is Jacqui Heinrich who is about to marry another neocon Brian Fitzpatrick- congressman out of PA

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MarshaLouise's avatar

You got that right.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Yes! They definitely put the hate on Putin as they waited for a report on the summit.

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Juju's avatar

What was so weird is Fox hasn’t been like this for a while now. I was shocked to see them pull these traitors out for their input. It’s not representative of what their news usually covers or how. Was it a glimpse of their real face??? Or is someone at Fox still able to pull certain deep state strings when they want to?

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Coolguy 007's avatar

The Alaska meeting was an obvious failure. Fox anchor was right in that.

Nothing has been accomplished - results may have been the same with few emails.

Putin, a botoxed goblin, scored big. A war criminal treated with the red carpet and a flyover, disgusting.

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Jacquijacq's avatar

I agree on Pmpeo. I also think I saw comment from BOLTON! 🤮

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Jacqui Heinrich also angered me when she did the typical CNN schtick of Trump not being able to meet Putin, meaning Putin had the upper hand because Trump was weak. She changed somewhat later when a point was made to give her a different perspective. Yes, Pompeo was CIA Director when Comey, Clapper and Brennan were given approval to follow Obama’s commands to change the intelligence. He’s in it with them. A most unlikeable fellow, but popular with Fox still.

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Donna in MO's avatar

International news is NOT a strength for me - I struggle just to keep up with US stuff but getting a bead on Putin is really tough. I will say he is a survivor in a land where the long knives are always within reach and no one can be trusted. (actually pretty much like the US now that I think about it).

We used to participate in a local non profit that facilitated youth diplomacy State Department funded visits of various groups who'd come to the US for 2 weeks to learn about our institutions and be hosted in the homes of people here. We'd drop our guests off at a meeting point and they'd spend the day learning about things like local governments, small business, non-profits, etc and then we'd pick them up in the evening, dinner, etc plus 2 weekends that were open. In 2014, we hosted 2 young women from Russia and Ukraine. We were told to not talk politics with our guests, and so mostly didn't go there. But one night at dinner somehow Putin's name came up and the women from Ukraine made some kind of dismissive remark about him and rolled her eyes. The Russian woman lit up - like fire shooting out of her eyes and she yelled "don't say bad things about Putin!" You could hear a pin drop in the uncomfortable silence that ensued before someone changed the subject. I now wish I had broken protocol and spoken to the 2 young women more about the relationship between the 2 countries. They got along with each other but both seemed a little guarded. Did become FB friends although neither is on there much. Did reach out on messenger when Russia invaded and the Ukrainian woman responded a few weeks later and said she had gotten married and moved to Hungary a few years after her visit; most of her family had gotten out of Ukraine long before. She didn't elaborate and I didn't press it, just said I was glad she was safe.

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Richard Whitney's avatar

Your Ukrainian was probably from the west of Ukraine, maybe even the former Hungarian part of Ukraine.

WW1 and WW2 changed a lot of borders over there in Europe.

Ukraine was created in 1922 as a Soviet republic, and then parts of Hungary, Poland, and Romania were added after WW2.

Funny how the US media now tells us that borders are sacrosanct, and must never be changed, right? They insist on keeping the borders that Lenin and Stalin created in order to create Ukraine.

Anyway, the east and south of Ukraine are Russian lands that were put into the new soviet back in 1922. If you had a visitor from there, you would have probably gotten a different reaction. They are the ones who rebelled against the US-backed 2014 coup, and refused to live under the new coup government. That is when the war started, because the new coup regime in Kiev sent troops in to kill them, and they have been occupying the areas ever since.

Mrs. RW

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Donna in MO's avatar

Thanks for the context. We hosted guests from 11 countries over about 10 years, Covid killed the program for 3 years and DOGE probably cut it back, they are still hosting some but wanted us to host teenagers and we were like, we're too old for that, our kids are grown and gone and they want to hang with people their age.

But really didn't learn much from our guests about geopolitics. Most were HS or in their 20's so even if we asked we might not have gotten much. Have learned more about the US role in Ukraine since the war started though.

And I get it about the borders, both of my mom's grandparents were from Bohemia & Moravia, an area that's changed borders a lot and is now called Czech Republic.

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Juju's avatar

What’s difficult is realizing that the US media isn’t the only media lying to its citizens for as long as they have. All the others have too and for many, many years. The Ukrainian government has lied to theirs too. Personally I believe Putin when he says he just wants his country left alone. I don’t see him as wanting or needing to “take over the world”. That kind of crazy accusation is what is usually fed in a narrative to elicit specific desired emotional responses. Like calling Trump another Hitler. I do believe he wants certain territory to protect from the EU and NATO encroaching on their borders. After all that we were lied about, they probably lied to us about Russia even worse all these years. The “why” is because fear controls people and allows those in charge to do certain things they want to do without much protest or objection from us. Give us a villain so they can hide all their corruption behind their dealing with that villain.

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Donna in MO's avatar

I do remember his speech during the 2014 Olympics there where it did kind of sound like empire building was his goal, but tend to agree that a lot of the villainization is contrived by the deep state and media.

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Juju's avatar

I bet if it’s spun the right way Trump sounds like empire building right now too to other neocons around the world. The left tried to boogeyman him to us because of it too. He was teasing about buying Greenland (a good idea too) and then making Canada a state. And all the “we’re the hottest nation around, we’re number one, everyone needs our markets” (he’s not wrong) but it all could sounds like world dominance when really it’s enriching and protecting his own country. Why can’t Russia do the same without being labeled a conquering villain? I’m new to the analysis of international affairs, so maybe there is a lot more I’m not seeing. But I question what people tell me because their perspectives were curated by our neocons and the media. They are simply spewing reasons that were fed to them or they are respewing what they were feeding the rest of us. Our media has created harm beyond repair in this country.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Amen. I am pretty clueless on geopolitics so I just don't trust anything as I don't know enough to vet it.

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John Riker's avatar

I don’t know why President Trump continues to feed Sean Hannity, he doesn’t need him anymore than he needs the MSM. He should stay as far away from him as he can. That goes for the sorry replacement for Rush Limbaugh Buck and Clay. An awful lot of the conservative talk show people seem like controlled opposition.

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Donna in MO's avatar

YES - I don't watch TV but do flip around talk radio in my car. The ONLY true covid contrarian on the air during the height of the madness was a local guy who actually did an early morning show in Philly and then was on the air late morning here in KC. He did not get the shot and interviewed guests and took calls from skeptics. His show had great ratings and seemed he was 'going places' and got some fill in gigs for some nationally syndicated hosts. But ended up chucking it to take a role with a school choice non-profit as he felt called by God to push back on the indoctrination he saw happening to his school age kids. I still tune in to the various talk radio stations in the car as it's a quick way to get updates on breaking news, culture war battles and the like but there are none who really stand out as truly independent thinkers. Hannity gets on my nerves with his attempts at trying to sound 'every man' - "I worked construction"... phony!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Sean Hannity and his ‘tick tock’ crap.🤮. I can’t believe he hasn’t been tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

And on top of it all, imo, Hannity is not too bright.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Dumb as dirt; couldn’t pour pee out of a boot.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

❤️❤️❤️😂😅🤣

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Jeff S's avatar

It appears they didn't just sweep things under that red carpet, either.

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

"Trump is making a plate for Ukraine to eat". HA! Trump to Zelenskyy: "and you'll eat it! There's starving people in China, y'know.......or Ukraine...where ever"!

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Annie's avatar

Agree 💯 And zelensky better watch it. After their last meeting- whew!

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AM Schimberg's avatar

You will sit at the table until you finish your peas!

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

and no dessert!

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RunningLogic's avatar

😂😂😂

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Tonya's avatar

“Critics said resurrecting the panel could be another way for Kennedy’s HHS to undermine public confidence in vaccines and redirect or stop investments in childhood vaccines.”

The denialism by the government that vaccines are anything but necessary, safe, and effective is actually what undermines public confidence in vaccines.

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RunningLogic's avatar

When it’s plain to people that there have been injuries and deaths and yet the government, Pharma and pro vaxxers still are claiming “safe and effective”, it’s pretty hard not to lose trust isn’t it 😕

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Jeff S's avatar

It's not hard. It's easy to lose that trust.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes, you’re right. What’s hard (if not impossible) is getting it back.

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Tonya's avatar

And they certainly can't get it back the way they are trying to go about it—with "better messaging".

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RunningLogic's avatar

= better lying 😑

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PamelaZelie's avatar

Impossible to regain it for most of us.

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Stephen Dedalus's avatar

Yes, but stop and think about. The whole vaccine injury compensation scheme that was setup in the 1986 Act is an implicit acknowledgment by the government that injuries will indeed happen as surely as the sun rises in the west. So the most central point of controversy is not the risk or even the risk/benefit of this or that vaccine protocol, but rather the mandates. In a recent interview on American Thought Leaders (Epoch TV), Dr. Malone explicitly restated this principle when he acknowledged that our public health paradigm is completely captured with utilitarianism; and that the evil of the Covid response will happen again unless and until we confront the false ethic of utilitarianism. When the government says that, yes, some may die that the majority may live, therefore vaccine mandates are “good” (good = what is “good” for the greatest number), THAT’S UTILITARIANISM. It’s a collectivistic theory of ethics that is completely contrary to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Therefore, even an accurate, fair-minded, non-conflicted panel of experts as an overlay to an otherwise utilitarian public health framework is still hopelessly unconstitutional and evil. Indeed, “public health” itself is an undefined and undefinable concept, since the public is but a random collection of people who may or may not share common health values. It’s tempting to place all the blame on our corrupt politicians and greedy corporate interests, but the Covid saga showed us that actually large majorities of Americans support utilitarian ethics together with altruistic ethics (e.g. “it’s my moral duty to submit to an unwanted and unwarranted medical intervention in order to keep grandma safe”) to everyone’s detriment.

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Seek Objectivism. Learn it. Practice it. Teach it.

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Tonya's avatar

I completely agree with you about the concept of "public health". It is not, nor could it ever be, a real thing.

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Stephen Dedalus's avatar

Ha ha. *sun rises in the east.

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-TobeorNottobe-'s avatar

Excellent points. Healthcare is almost a morality as well. You are seen as immoral if you choose not to get certain treatments or see a doctor multiple times a year for “checkups” or “physicals.” Since when did we need a doctor finding every little thing “wrong” with our bodies to throw pharmaceuticals at said “wrong” things to make them function worse than before? When you think about it, it’s the oddest way to live. Shouldn’t WE decide when we need a doctor based on what our bodies are telling us?

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Stephen Dedalus's avatar

It’s worse than that. With the implementation of mandatory socialized medicine starting in 1964 (Medicare) and then continuing to today’s Obamacare-like programs administered on the state level, we now also find ourselves in the position of being forced to pay for SOMEONE ELSE’S decision about when THEY need to see a doctor and to then pay for a treatment plan devised according to the whim of SOMEONE ELSE AND THEIR DOCTOR with the doctor being more and more the salesman for Big Pharma. As it is written: The sins of the fathers are visited upon the third and fourth generation. Well, here we are, three or four generations removed from a “public health” policy initiative based primarily upon upon envy of those who can afford healthcare (Thou shalt not covet); and appropriation of your neighbor’s property by government coercion—Medicare tax (Thou shalt not steal).

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes I have heard that term used as a description for this mindset and agree with all of your points.

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webstersmill's avatar

Denialism by the government undermines not only public confidence in vaccines, but public confidence in government institutions in general. Pronouncements are met with well-earned skepticism and doubt.

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Kathy's avatar

If they were so safe, they would not be doing everything that they can to hide The Vaccine Safely Datalink.

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Annie's avatar

Yep. I and my entire extended family have ZERO trust in the government and medical community regarding medical issues. My sister and I have apologized to our adult children for getting them vaccinated as children. They in turn are not vaccinating their children. Even over the counter medicines are scrutinized. We are now a family of due diligence. Homeopathic and natural remedies are our "go to" first.

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Kathy's avatar

Fantastic! I’m envious. I’m basically the only “ black sheep” in my family. But I am damn proud to hold that role!

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KB's avatar

I probably should apologize to my children. I definitely will before they get to the point of having children. Today I would ask a lot more questions before letting a doctor inject my babies with stuff.

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Annie's avatar

Our children forgave us. God bless them.❤️ They said we did what we thought was right at the time. However this solemn apology made our children realize that they needed to do their due diligence. To not make the same mistake we did with their children. So I encourage all parents to do the same. It started the conversation on a level that noted the seriousness of the apology and that they never make that same mistake. We are stronger as a family for it.

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Lori's avatar

So good to hear this Annie.

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Taiga Rohrer's avatar

It's interesting how a vaccine safety panel would undermine public confidence in "vaccines", but not sudden or prolonged death, censorship, mandates, kickbacks to "doctors", and reassurance the safe and effective label without any evidence is all you need...

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes exactly, great point!

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SM's avatar

Denialism is the government’s only way of managing the country.

Data manipulation, covert corruption, money laundering, paid protests, embezzlement, bio terror weapons used against citizens, and child s3x trafficking.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

PSALM 16:1-2A AND 5, 7-8, 11

Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;

I have no good apart from you.”

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;

you hold my lot.

I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;

in the night also my heart instructs me.

I keep the Lord always before me;

because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

You show me the path of life.

In your presence there is fullness of joy;

in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

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MaryAnn's avatar

I love the Psalms, particularly those written by David. Knowing his story and knowing God chose him to lead gives context to those verses. Our God is an awesome God!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

“He reigns in heaven above’”

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Susan Clack's avatar

🙏🏼😇✨🙌🏼👑

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RunningLogic's avatar

Good morning C&C fam!!

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

top o the morning to ya, RL!

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My Favorite Things's avatar

Running,

🏃‍♀️ Nice to see you’re first 🏃‍♀️

Any plans for today?

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RunningLogic's avatar

Went for my run already but maybe go to a movie or something. It’s been so hot here that it’s hard to get up any energy to do much 🥵

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Jeff S's avatar

Take a hint from Jeff C: stay inside with the AC and watch a funny old black and white starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein." It was my father's favorite. Frankenstein's monster was played by Glenn Strange. Strange? Haha.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Perfect name lol 😆

My brother and I used to watch all of the old black and white shows of comedy teams like Abbott and Costello and Laurel and Hardy on Sundays. They were hilarious! Such great memories!

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Juju's avatar

Those were my favorites too!

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Jeff S's avatar

My father liked A&C, but not L&H. He didn't like The Three Stooges, either. A typical New Yorker, he loved the Dead End Kids (AKA The Bowery Boys). My mother loved Ma and PA Kettle, if she could sit and relax for a few minutes.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

Ah, you don’t hear much about the Bowery Boys. Used to watch all their movies.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I’d forgotten about Ma and Pa Kettle! I introduced my kids to The Three Stooges a few years ago and they loved them! 😂 I like them more as an adult actually, especially certain episodes like the one where they pretend Moe is Hitler 😂

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Guy White's avatar

Speaking of B&W classics…How about Young Frankenstein? First known usage of the word “schwanzstucker. 😁

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Jeff S's avatar

That's a good one, too.

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Stacy's avatar

My man! Nice to see someone ride in with a Mel Brooks suggestion. 😎

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RunningLogic's avatar

Love Young Frankenstein!! 😂😁 So many great lines!

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Valerie's avatar

Good morning!

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Jeff S's avatar

Are you first today?

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RunningLogic's avatar

After Janet 😊

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My Favorite Things's avatar

My oops. Didn’t see her post 🙂

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Robin Esau's avatar

Good morning🌻

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FrankInFL's avatar

Oh, yeah? Well, the same to YOU, buddy! ;-)

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Thank you, Jeff, you’ve done it again with brilliant and humorous insights. Thank you!!! For me, the photo of Trump and Putin says it all: two happy guys, not enemies! Of course, they have to let this play out, because if they had announced a “done deal” without Ukraine being present, well, you can just imagine the heads exploding….

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

Well, Margot, one or two heads seem to be exploding on here today.

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Astragale's avatar

On Monday when the Ukrainian comedian goes to the Oval Office, the POTUS should hang him upside down by his combat trouser legs & shake him till he agrees to a PEACE DEAL!

The warmongering EU elite control Zelensky, no doubt with support from US Dems. They want WW3. Who knows why but they do - they say Russia must be broken into pieces & that would mean WW3.

Hope Trump lays down the law to the little squirt & gets the war ENDED.

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Astragale, as to “who knows why?” The Bible says the devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy - and that is what his followers love to do. Regarding Monday, we always have something to look forward to! What a time to be alive.

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Lori's avatar

That is why every morning I say to God, I love you and tell Satan to kiss my arse!

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Jeff S's avatar

I tell The Evil One to kiss my "fat" ass, which isn't really fat. Yet.

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Susan Seas's avatar

🤭

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Dunboy2020's avatar

Yup. Trump is saving Zelensky’s nation and Z and the EU are actively trying to sink it. To what end I cannot figure…

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SD Scott's avatar

In a word: plunder.

Lindsay Graham has admitted it on camera. He’s interested in the $13 trillion of liquid natural gas under the soil of Ukraine. Thus the depopulation.

Much more at stake if Russia is broken up & looted.

This has been going on a long time.

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Kathy's avatar

Imagine the falling birth rate in Ukraine, after most of the young man have been killed.

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Richard Whitney's avatar

It's been falling since 1991, but now it's the lowest in Europe.

Mrs. RW

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Kathy's avatar

$$$

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

How anyone takes that obvious deep state puppet Zelensky seriously is beyond me. The public really believed what they were told and sold.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Russians will fight to the last man or woman.

The EU and many in the US, do not understand their resolve.

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Kathy's avatar

26 million Russian soldiers and civilians killed in WW2. It makes them a little touchy about their borders.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

When I visited St. Petersburg in the mid-1990s, there was a monument to show how close the Nazis were during the 900-day siege.

Between the siege, Stalingrad, the tank battle at Kursk, and the battle for Berlin, people should pay more attention to the Russia mindset.

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The Alaska Summit – And Here We Go Into September

We are watching the initial dog & pony show where Trump parks nuclear-capable jets on both sides of the red carpet and then has a B-52 flyover. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has prepared to test a new missile in a move aimed also to show force, which is expected from both sides. This is just for the camera as if either leader is somehow unaware of the other’s capability.

Russia’s unstopable 9M730 Burevestnik (known as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall by NATO) is a low-flying, nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile whose range, according to the Kremlin, is unlimited. Putin boasted that it was “invincible” and could evade American missile defenses when he unveiled it in 2018. Thus, these immediate tests are a reminder to Trump of Russia’s nuclear arsenal. The people who seem to ignore this are the Western Media...

....Every single journalist who puts out this constant hatred is a traitor to humanity... They are all pushing us into World War III, and no matter what I do, I cannot stop it. The Computer will be right. So, let’s just be prepared. Next year is a Panic Cycle. The UK says it is ready to send peacekeepers into Ukraine who will then instigate WWIII, claiming Russia violated whatever agreement. Europe is stuffed. The EU will never survive beyond 2030...

....We are reaching the point of no return.. The EU, Britain, and Zelensky will NEVER accept any peace deal with Russia, no matter what... The EU is not sustainable... Socialism destroys everything it touches because it seeks to alter human nature...

...The EU has allowed all of these migrants in in preparation for World War III. They assume these people will follow orders and be their vanguard into Russia. They may discover that they turn on the EU and take the spoils for themselves. History has a nasty way of repeating itself because people make the same mistakes all the time.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-alaska-summit-and-here-we-go-into-september/

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PamelaZelie's avatar

“Every single journalist who puts out this constant hatred is a traitor to humanity... They are all pushing us into World War III, and no matter what I do, I cannot stop it.”

I agree and add the EU which can’t wait to get us all into war.

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"Trump is trying to deal with the DEVIL – Zelensky, NATO, EU, UK, and the Neocons who tried even to assassinate him to achieve their lifelong goal of conquering Russia and China for world domination...

"...All the fake analysts who keep screaming de-dollarization focused on US debt are blind to what is taking place outside the USA. The US economy is holding up the entire world. The EU and Britain are collapsing. Look at what Marxism has done to Europe. It may have been like light beer, fewer calories, but drink too much and you still die from liver failure. The socialist agenda in the UK is destroying its future since Starmer took office. There is NO HOPE for Europe surviving. They need this war as a distraction ot else the herds of their oppressed economic slaves will suddenly wake up when all the promises of pensions fail to materialize. There is a local Venezuelan who had to come here to stay with his family. The government pays his retirement, but it will buy at best a cup of coffee. He would starve to death thanks to “socialism,” and the same is unfolding in Europe..."

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/trump-tries-to-cut-the-baby-in-two-open-your-eyes/

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Temcol's avatar

Won’t there be an election if the war ends? He won’t be able to cling to the power position he has. I think this war is about that! He is getting rich off this war, sacrificing the lives of the Ukrainian people and pocketing the money he has received instead of using it for war. When and if it ends, he will sail off in his yacht to live somewhere he cannot be touched. Russia could have Ukraine, all of it, after he leaves; he doesn’t care about them. He won’t stick around for the recovery and rebuilding. There probably aren’t enough men left to sustain the society and bring forth enough children to repopulate. He has wrung it out.

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KCwoofie's avatar

I think War is a way to siphon money off of the coffers. With no accountability.

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Doohmax's avatar

Do you think any of the reporters harassing Putin about civilians getting killed will ask Xi how many Uyghurs did you kill today?

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WP William's avatar

but these "journalists" can't conceive such ideas, to them, Xi didn't invade anyone, he's simply tidying up the meddlesome undereducated, science-denying, deplorables within his own borders who don't fit into today's China

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Doohmax's avatar

As one Obama staffer stated, “These journalists are 27 years old and they know nothing.”

They basically run with whatever story is popular with the cool elite crowd.

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

Is that the same reason they ignore Syrians killing of the Christians and the Druze?

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Willing Spirit's avatar

And the fact that on top of their own wars, Israel is the only nation helping the Christians and Druze. Yes.

Israel Stops Genocides

https://youtu.be/c8EDCpUdGZk

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PamelaZelie's avatar

How about asking Big Pharma how many people they kill, each day, with their poisonous jabs.

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Anita from Tucson - Now In MI's avatar

Exactly, line up and stumble all over each other to ask big Pharma, "will you stop killing civilians", are you going to stop killing women and children? When will you stop using "chemical warfare"?

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Kathy's avatar

And “ properly prescribed” drugs that kill over 100,000 a year.

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

I just read “waiting to be arrested at night: a Uygher poet's memoir of China’s genocide” I will never think of the Uyghurs in the same way. Of course, that’s what reading is all about.

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