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Its true of both parties, or the uniparty. It is Kabuki theatre. They all "hate" each other in public, and then leave and do drugs and get drunk together. And so many here sadly think electing the right people is going to solve our problems. A great article by Jeffrey Tucker points this out (excerpt):
"How do we rebuild? Yes, politics can help. Good court decisions are always welcome. Brave politicians are needed. But none of this is going to accomplish the goal. The great rebuilding will come from within our own lives and communities, as inspired by hope, driven by courage, powered by affection and loyalty, and assured by moral determination. In other words, the answer to the question is all around us, right where we are.
People often ask me for answers to the myriad problems in the world. I’m not the one to give them. You are. Care for your health, your family, your personal finances, your safety and mental well-being. Reach out to others. Be a good friend and neighbor. Assist in the heroic tasks by building a new freedom within your own reach. Become ungovernable by those who have so overreached. This is the path forward."
On Dark Days, I say to my self, "We are totally screwed." On sunny days, I say "There is a pivot going on. There is some hope still." But not matter what, American will never be the same again.
The rot began a very long time ago, well before the days of disco and punk rock. The rot began when Eve plucked the fruit from the forbidden tree, took a bite, and her soulmate, Adam decided he loved Eve more than he loved God, and he, too, ate of the fruit. But be of good cheer, for God sent us a Saviour, and "this is the path forward."
The Vietnam war, the CIA takeover of government, advent of the sexual revolution, promiscuity, normalization of homosexuality, AIDs, and so on. Like the song says: the good old days weren't always good. I think what we're seeing now is just a natural evolution of things/ideas that happened in the 50s-90s.
IMO, what has changed is work ethic. There is none now. It's so pervasive I am losing my own. I mean, if no one else can/will do their job, and every system is broken, what's the point of me doing my job? Maybe this is what Atlas shrugging feels like? I never really understood that concept. (Of course I also never understood how "Good Germans" existed. Now, thanks to "covid," I know.)
Thank you for the link ... Just when you think the tide is turning from the Covid / mandate bs ... THIS. It’s not okay. I wonder if anything will make sense again ...
It's time to dig deep below the surface of what we see and hear from the common influencers. Continuing to peel the layers will lead us to still more questions. I blieve this is the time of individuality and independent thinking. Humanity has a history of being easily influenced and staying securely ensconced within a group. It's scary and uncomfortable, like the first day of school, but that's part of our initiation. Spiritual bypassing and victomizing isn't going to get us to the place our soul is leading us. We must be courageous and brave.
Listening to music from 60s and 70s (my childhood and teen years) is like comfort food for my soul. It brings me back to a different America and a happy place...Maybe it is part of getting older, but nostalgia is predominant in my psyche the past few years.
I wouldnt be surprised if millenials will feel that way in a couple of decades too. The downward slide started then, but the really big change of devolving as a culture, from civilized and God fearing, to the opposite, happened in this 21st century.
Every day brings more angst: today I read that Bezos is helping the WEF to bring us to being fully digitalized: identity cards, currency, etc. I seriously dislike these billionaires with their God complexes.
Angela, I could not agree more. Part of the nostalgia is the revolving door of the stages in aging. But also, there was this. Our time of growing up was better for children, for families. My dad and and his friends, my mom and here friends were all much more solid people by values. The families were more cohesive and had family loyalties. The churches were already pretty far gone, although I had no of the appreciation of this until well into my fifties. Life over all was better. Big cities were overall well run and safe ... almost everywhere on went. Divorce was almost non-existent. I could go on, but I know that you well understand all of this.
When I was a kid, I knew I was an American and I had some idea of what that meant. And we had real silver money still, and I knew a dime, quarter, half-dollar and silver dollar were real and I collected them because they were real and had value. BUT WHAT DO I HAVE NOW?
Nonetheless, I am very fortunate because I have a good wife. And we are united in common understanding of Biblical Faith. Faith and God are a wonderful cement to human relationships.
I remember a big thing my mother used to repeat (I am a boomer and went to parochial school so I dont know if it was of her generation in school or also of mine) but honesty was a big thing..
I always heard how it was taught that George Washington cut down the cherry tree and admitted it to his father because "he could not tell a lie". My mother was of a certain Mediterranean ethnic background, first generation, and was so proud of American honesty which she did not see in the ethnic people of that certain country.
I still remember her getting so upset at the Democrats during the Clinton era because of their lying. Classic marxisn tactic: lie enough times and people will believe it. The favorite book of Hilary in college. The wheels were turning and the American ideal virtue started dying.
Angela, you are absolutely right spot on! Honesty was a big, big thing. And if a store clerk made a mistake by undercharging, people would say so. Honesty was a personal code and children were taught honesty. And if children lied to their parents, they would be punished with a 'go to your room', or a docked allowance, or some such. Adults, most of them, were honest. And being straight shooters is how they got along with trust by their friends. Plus the adults worked together in keeping an eye on the kids. If I did something wrong on Apple Street, it would be in the house on Fulton Street and usually by dinner time. And at which time I hear at the dinner table a stern, "What happen up on Apple Street today?" And I would sheepishly say, "I dunno." And then I would hear an, "I heard such and such happened today. Do you know anything about it?" At some point in this little dance I would learn that 'confession is good for the soul' ... and sometimes that punishment is a 'good thing'. Although I never quite wanted to latch onto that last one.
American medicine was corrupted in the early 1900s by Rockefeller and Carnegie. Greed has infected our country since forever. It’s just been less visible on the public stage than it is now.
I don’t know about this country but I do know that everywhere on earth is just a campground and our real home is not here
You are not alone. I try to focus on what I can deal with and what makes sense. My job, my family, my neighbors, and mostly my faith (not necessarily in that order). THAT'S what can be changed and molded and built upon. Really, there's not much else. If everyone gets this, imagine what a world we would have?
I am old now. I cannot drive easily at night ... and so I don't. I have a lot of trouble with reading small print. And so, the world of my old youthful glory is closing in on me. In some ways, this comes as a relief. In other ways, it galls. But acceptance of age and it's boundaries is an act of grace, and also ... wisdom.
The young will now have to do the heavy lift I once did.
I hear you. I'm 62 and frankly, wish I was older. I have always felt it wrong to wish time away but I'm doing just that now. I cringe at the thought of being young again. I am so ready to move on but all in God's time. I pray there is no such thing as reincarnation. I would be beyond pissed if He sends me back. 😆
I hear you too. I know if I was younger, I'd fight this thing as I once did. But when one can no longer drive at night (among other things), it's time to throttle back. For men used to being men and not taking a lot of crap, this is a hard thing to accept. I imagine for women too.
When the young get old they will have to live in the less free world they are creating. I hope they wake up and turn things around before then. I used to tell my kids be kind to the old person you will be some day because it will happen God willing.
I'd add to that, "get your kids out of public school!" or be really, really, extremely active in the public school environment, in their face, in the school, All. The. Time!
My city/county voted overwhelmingly blue on Tuesday (no surprise there), and yet our school’s information sessions are attracting more families than ever before (charter school). Voter turnout was frighteningly low. People aren’t voting at the ballot box, but they are voting with the choices they make. I feel a slow boil grass roots revolution coming....
Yes, I believe many are looking for alternatives and maybe school choice is the only way they'll be able to achieve those alternatives. However, many are too married to their lifestyle and aren't willing to make the sacrifice or too married to the idea that only a certified teacher can teach. Unfortunately, with inflation currently thru the roof, I can understand many fear giving up a job to homeschool or committing to private school tuition for good reason. I know many with "older" children who still work full-time and homeschool.
Not sure but I’ve read his articles on the AIER site for a couple of years now. I do think someone mentioned him having a Substack recently but would have to find the link.
Jeffrey Tucker makes so many good points in his writing. And was one of the first that I ran across who was standing up against covid, even early on when it seemed like I was the only one actually looking at data and saying "this is the flu; what's going on here?" Tucker was there as well.
"It's true of both parties, or the uniparty. It is Kabuki theatre. They all "hate" each other in public, and then leave and do drugs and get drunk together." Thank you Johnny-O - you just crystalized in real time the absolute truth. This needs to be screamed from the rooftops and if they could *just* release that Epstein list, we'd be able to convert a lot of other people on the fence who are just blind to what's going on.
I think he nailed it. Even before all of the covid scamdemic brought the House of cards down, in 2016 I watched the Democrat convention crown Hillary queen and the head of NARAL speak on having children “when and where” WE want them. She spoke of her two abortions and got thunderous applause. I was so disgusted. No way would I ever vote for Hillary, no way. But the Republicans have had pro life as a plank in their party since Roe v Wade and we had 40+ years of nothing. Over 60 million babies in the U.S. aborted since 1973. But it is good for a fundraiser. I knew when Roe v Wade was tossed by the SCOTUS last year, it was no coincidence. Our 2022 elections in Michigan were centered around choice. It was used to smear every Republican candidate and pass a heinous Constitutional amendment that forces Michigan citizens to pay for abortions up till birth. Michigan had laws on the books to protect against just such evil. They were repealed by a Democratic led legislature, and our governor made sure to sign them into new law on Election Day. The abortion playbook is the hook they will keep on using to get what they want and the GOP is right there with them.
We can't really turn things around at this point. Things spun out of control when corporations realized that campaign donations and lobbyists provided a great return on investment. The Citizens United decision and regulatory capture have massively added to this problem.
The only solution would be massive campaign finance reform, as well as starting all the alphabet agencies from scratch (or just disbanding them). There is no way THAT is going to happen though. Think how much pressure each and every member of congress would have to vote NO on that, and also how much harder the reforms themselves would make for those congresspeople to get re-elected.
And, stop funding the government, ignore any diktats they issue, come to the aid of any fellow citizen that the feds target for arrest or destruction and become ungovernable.
Yes. While it's true that R's don't take advantage of voter frustration, it's not like voters don't clearly see what D's stand for and are rewarding them with their votes. The voting process is corrupt in most states. Real election reform has not been passed and voting integrity and transparency remains nonexistent. Kentucky isn't D statewide, and nor is VA's legislature, which is individual districts, not a statewide referendum. The VA porn star D race wasn't even close in final polls after her porn was reported. But a nail-biter? Yeah. Right.
And don't think R's are going get off the Big Pharma train, no matter how many deaths and public opposition grows. R's are on Big Pharma's payroll every bit as much as D's. Both parties are in lockstep on that. It's We, The People vs Uniparty on the death jabs.
Abbott is going to try to push for another special session for that, though I doubt it will pass in Texas. Even my more conservative friends are saying "no vouchers" without really thinking "hey, this gives parents a choice whether to continue with the public schools they claim to love or go elsewhere". Huge pushes from the teacher's unions against the idea of vouchers.
Vouchers could be problematic. If a voucher gives a school federal or state funding to allow a child into that school, then the state/feds will want to know how that money is being spent. Yes, I know it is technically tax payer money, ie. your money, but once it is in the state/feds hands, they think it is theirs. I would only warn that vouchers better be locked down rigorously otherwise, it is going to be nothing but a door into dictating to a school what they can teach. I'm surprised the left fights it so hard. And yes, I've already seen the future of this. A liberal in my state found out a voucher got used at a Christian private school where egads, 7 days of creation was taught and not big bang and they tried to use it to mandate to the school what they had to teach. You can see where this will go. Someone in a blue state will win the right to that type of mandate. We've seen similar shocking things the last 3 years so don't even try to tell me it won't happen. It will, only a matter of how long. And the homeschoolers with any sense want NO part of it so leave us out of it, no gov't money, ever.
Public schools should be opt in and only people who want to send their children there should fund them. Then we wouldn’t have this giant pool of money controlled by the government that they use to manipulate and coerce.
I don't disagree but unfortunately that isn't how the system is set up and I don't see if truly changing any time soon and I don't think vouchers are the solution. I really feel the only way for the system to get truly changed is for people to walk away. If all the people who are on the right and/or all the people who aren't happy about public schools would just quit them, the schools would be half empty, federal/state funds for them would tank, all the "extra" beaurocrats running the schools would lose their jobs, etc. and then they might finally take notice and make some serious positive change. I know it will require sacrifice but everything worthwhile does.
I don’t disagree in principle but don’t see it happening in reality unfortunately. If people haven’t walked away by now with all the sexual crap and crt and Covid nonsense, they’re probably never going to 😕
Some home-school parents pooled their expertise with other parents, and each took responsibility for teaching certain subjects. Children went from home to home for their lessons. It worked well.
This is absolutely true. Sorry I got behind on comments:).
I think the private school our kids went to would not accept vouchers because of this. I still think it’s a good idea for public school families to give them more influence over school boards.
We can either live with the known consequences of putting the government in charge of educating our children - grooming child porn in the libraries, teaching marxism as the ideal, etc. - or we can take the risk that allowing families to opt out, without being forced, might help save our future. A surety vs. a possibility of things going wrong. Too easy. Florida is about to increase funding in our universal school choice 'scholarship' program, because it was so popular they've already run out of money and can't keep up with processing the reimbursements to families for expenses.
Oh I tend to be in favor of getting my money I paid for school back to use as I see fit but do understand the concerns expressed about the potential strings. We also need to stop calling it “government money” and start calling it something like our tax dollars or our taxpayer payments.
Imagine a system where the government paid a fixed amount, same for any child in the state, special needs be damned, for the parent to use to educate the child any way they saw fit. That could be home schooling. Or it could be private academies that would be free to accept or reject any applicant as they chose and to operate with minimal government control, especially of curriculum.
If white conservatives wanted a Christian school and no other races allowed, why not?
Similarly, if Blacks want to teach their kids about racial fantasies and a Wakanda wonderland, why not?
The only string attached would be that the State would have the right to test the child periodically, same standardized test for everybody, again no exceptions allowed. The test would be only about basic skills: reading, writing, math, etc. Minimal ideology. If the child didn't meet standards (which, let's be honest, would probably be set pretty low), the State would have the right to send the child to a remedial school of their choice.
Of course such a system is politically impossible, primarily because it would minimize the State's, the teacher's union's, etc. power to manipulate the system to their personal advantage.
My proposal would uphold public funding of education; yet allow parents and the free market the maximal freedom to obtain that education. It’d also leave open the option, say, for the wealthy to pay extra for perks.
Other government agencies of any level would, presumably, be free to offer additional services out of their own budgets. This might be a source for the handicapped, special education, or the tutor required for the immigrant child who only speaks an obscure language.
All depends on how they're implemented, but I can see that as a valid concern. I know some places have vouchers, but carry strings with them about how/what the schools should teach as a result. And worst case scenario? Don't use them. I still lean toward supporting them if only to give parents options on where that money goes if the school isn't actually teaching their kids. I definitely _don't_ support the whole "well, you took the money so you have to also ...." strings.
I've seen that with the whole "public schools letting kids who don't attend take part in activities" thing as well. Our taxes pay for those, but so much pushback for letting non-PS kids take part in those activities and so many strings attached when they consider opening those up to outsiders. :/
I actually have come to the point where I think government schools should be opt in and not default and people who choose them and believe in them should pay the taxes for them but no one else should pay a dime.
I love that idea, I’m really sick of paying taxes for schools, I never did have kids.
Just a note about how strong the teachers unions are ... they closed schools for a year or more during covid. In Oregon they got their shots even before old people (and still didn’t open schools). They now wail about how they need more money to bring kids back up to speed. Oh, and kids here don’t have to pass the basics anymore to graduate 🤦🏼♀️
I agree and was more or less playing devil’s advocate because although I understand the concerns, I think we should be able to 1) lessen the overall amount going to public schools (as it is, I am paying into the system yet getting nothing I return and just adding more funding for them). And 2) be able to have our own education funds to do with as we choose. There should be a way to limit the potential of strings attached to the money.
The majority of Republicans are RINOs and useless. They prefer to be the minority party so they can say, "gee, if only we were the majority, we'd change everything". And when they are they don't. They also like it because they keep their cushy jobs and benefits and don't really have to produce ANYTHING.
Would it matter if Republicans took advantage of voter's frustrations? Would it change the outcome of any election? Why do we keep participating in a charade and being disappointed by the results? Participate in the charade, by all means. Just know that true conservatives will never win another consequential election ever again except by an act of God. All evidence points to this country having fallen. It seems to me like everyone believes if they just keep acting like everything is okay, maybe it will be, a kind of fake-it-till-you-make-it act of will. But I don't think everything will be okay here ever again.
I honestly believe that the collapse is in progress. I used to think that it could be saved, but now have a hard time sustaining that hope. Everything is thoroughly corrupt. Get to know your neighbors, they’re going to be important in the coming years.
We're definitely in trouble, but God isn't like us (thank you, Jesus!) 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land." God never breaks His promises. If we want this to turn around, every Christian should humble themselves, get on their knees and pray, seek Jesus, and turn from their sin because He has promised He will forgive and heal us.
Here in my very RINO red state, when our state SOS made his nice PR visit to the central count where I was volunteering to help verify absentee ballots had dotted "i's" and crossed "t's," as I shook his hand I said I wanted to hear his response to the RNC Return to Excellence in Voting. He said, "yes, exactly, thank you all for working here and other irrelevant chatter." This is a guy who campaigned on doing most of what the Return to Excellence in Voting Resolution calls for. And has done almost nothing so far.
Here's the whole thing again, since specific comments can be hard to track back on this platform.
"Here in my very RINO red state, when our state SOS made his nice PR visit to the central count where I was volunteering to help verify absentee ballots had dotted "i's" and crossed "t's," as I shook his hand I said I wanted to hear his response to the RNC Return to Excellence in Voting. He said, "yes, exactly, thank you all for working here and other irrelevant chatter." This is a guy who campaigned on doing most of what the Return to Excellence in Voting Resolution calls for. And has done almost nothing so far.
Incentivizing FAILURE; the National and State GOP, the FBI, the Schools, Neglectful Parents, homeless and addicted, open borders with well-paid lawyers and public assist. benefits to reward global failure....
What we all have to face is that as much as we want to blame corrupt people, stupid and clueless people are even more to blame for the unbearable state of this country. Their lives have been decimated every bit as much as ours have, but even if they do admit things are bad, they find a way to blame Trump. Then they go to the voting booth and sign up to bend over and take it yet again. How bad does it have to get before these idiots figure it out?
I would say it is baffling that the GOP hasn't figured out an EFFECTIVE way to talk about abortion. It is always on its heels with this issue and I'm afraid it is because too few of them 1) recognize the absolute horror of abortion (and it is horrible) and/or 2) even object to it philosophically.
I get that it requires courage to address and that our culture has become so accepting of and comfortable with the practice, but that is because no one wants to say what it really is. This issue isn't going to go away anytime soon, so I've made a decision to support the people on the front lines and to work in a way that offers realistic alternatives to killing babies.
Lol. Yes. I totally said I agree with butchering innocent human beings inside a womb. 🙄. If you read my comment again I said I think there are more important topics. Read it the way you want, but do NOT assume my view on abortion bc I didn’t state it!!!!
I am pro life Bridget. I also think abortion should be a state issue. I also think BRICS, the dollar, China, our border, war with Israel, jab deaths, my grandkids future and many other topics are more important than the abortion issue. I’m not saying abortion isn’t important. I’m saying I don’t think it should be the most important. I can see it’s important to you and that’s fine. I don’t mind debating the importance.
They play the role of "loyal opposition." That's been the case for as long as I've been alive. It's all to make it seem as though big government - including the military - is natural, good, and a reasonable solution to the world's problems. It's why Trump became the phenomenon that he is. The (R) base has gotten tired of establishment/phony conservatives pretending to be conservatives to get their vote, and took over the GOP. As one writer I follow put it: The GOP is our target and Trump is our murder weapon.
I can't understand a woman's desire to have a child, then they dump them off in some daycare center so some undereducated, and indifferent, person care for them for more than 8 hours per day.
Are children just a fashion accessory to those moms?
This is a very judgmental comment. I don’t think we should criticize women who choose to work, or women who choose to stay home, both have value, and each family has to choose for themselves. What works for them. Personally I have always worked. I have very close relationships with my children and have always been very involved in their lives. These generalized ignorant statements are just hurtful and have no merit.
Yes and no. If you've gotta work to keep the rent paid and food on the table, I totally understand. Not judging. It's a sad reality, you're doing what you gotta do, and God bless you-- I hope your life circumstances get better so you can spend more time with your kids.
If you make $100k/yr, "can't afford" to be there for the kids, and you live in a house with 3 bathrooms, you get a manicure every week, a cut/dye every month, and your car is a luxury model less than 5 years old... maybe it's time to rethink your priorities.
And if you simply don't like kids, have serious mental-health issues, and honestly believe your kids to be better off in the care of others... fair enough. Be brave enough to be honest about it. Because when you lie (to yourself and others) about not being able to afford to quit working for a paycheck... it muddies the waters for the rest of us.
We made significant sacrifices so that I could be there for the kids, homeschool, cook, etc. We do this at well under the national average household income, and it takes some strategizing... but it's 100% worth it. Kids are doing really well. But it feels like every time I talk to someone and they find out we homeschool... I get the same kneejerk defensive reaction: "Oh, we could never afford to do that!"-- from people who make at least *twice* as much money as we do. WTF people? You think I can't see that you paid $200 for those shoes and you drive a new car? But you can't afford to be home with your kids? That's f---d up. Where your money is, there will your heart be also. When you say that, what I hear is "In a perfect world, I'd be raising my own kids, but I don't want to sink to your gross level of icky workingclass poverty-- I have standards."
Unfortunately for most women, it’s NOT a choice - they have to work to make ends meet because their husbands don’t make enough to support their family. I know so many women who HATE their jobs and would LOVE to stay home with their kids. And many husbands are just as brainwashed into wanting a wife who works.
Or she’s allowed to have her opinion just like you have yours. Maybe we shouldn’t come on here and call other people ignorant bc they have a different opinion. Maybe that’s less helpful than having an actual debate of why you disagree.
DiAnna, Your comment calling out Kathleen for being judgmental is very judgmental. You are judging her comment and telling her who not to criticize and then you are calling her statements "ignorant." I could go on. . .
And often, it costs as much as their salary, but I don't judge because it is a difficult economy out there.
I think that perhaps women entering the workforce may not have ultimately been a good thing. Just as everything else 'they' push on us, I wonder if the ulterior motive wasn't actually nefarious instead of 'fair and liberating'. .
I quit my corporate job to raise our kids. No regrets. I think we would have a lot less Antifa-wannabees if Dad and Mom gave their kids the time and attention that kids need to grow up feeling relevant.
Kathleen J - Your comment is over generalized. And you’re making a lot of assumptions. You make it sound as if working mothers are glad to dump off their kids at day care. Must be nice for you, to have had the ability to not work outside the home.
I have always been mostly a stay at home mom although I have a freelance professional job. I agree that the generalizations aren’t necessarily helpful. I do wish though, that people would take more of a hard look at what the effects of their choices are. And I also would like to see a change in the work culture that would allow for more options so that women could still work if they chose to but didn’t have a binary choice between working or staying home. Yes there can sometimes be in between options but they’re unfortunately not as common as I think they should be and often limited to certain types of mostly unskilled work. I think that women exclusively staying home and having no outside work skills (at least ones they can “sell” as such) can put women in precarious positions.
I remember my mother saying that in the late 50s when I was born, the experts (who were probably more honest then) said that a 5 year old should only be away from home in kindergarten for a few hours because it is all they can really handle. That is why kindergartens were half day back then.
When you tell working parents that someone else is raising their kids they get really offended and retort that they see their kids all weekend and in the evening 🙄 Yeah, sorry, that really isn’t even the majority of the time your kid is awake over the course of a week 😕 Someone else IS making the daily decisions of how to teach and discipline your kids. You chose to outsource that responsibility.
A colleague told about dropping her little daughter off at (nursery school, I think) for her first day. They had built it up over days, "only 'x' days until you get to go to nursery school!" That night, my colleague said something to her daughter as she tucked her into bed, about going back the next day. Daughter: "You mean I have to go *again?!*" Another colleague, an older woman who had been a mother in bygone days, chuckled and asked how long she'd been in school anyway (figuring it would be like it used to be - a few hours). The answer was 12 hours, 7am to 7pm, because both parents worked jobs with long hours. One dropped her, one picked her up. The older colleague replied, "Well, that is a long time." I was appalled. Her defense is that she was on active duty in the Army, still paying back her time for having had her medical school education paid for. She left the service when she could, but I don't think she ever stayed home with her children.
Kathleen, I often thank the Good Lord for the years I stayed home and raised my three beloved children. The treasure of those years, pure gold, will never diminish or be forgotten.
The problem is men aren’t pulling their weight these days. A lot of women work bc they have to. Men need to get higher paying jobs and devote more time to their career. Men seem to be half mommies today.
The only thing I've done is this life that will have consequences for eternity is having my 5 kids. Wish I had trusted in G-d more and had a few more. Oh, regrets? I have a few...
My mom died more than 2 decades ago. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about her and the sacrifices she made. She felt that being a mom and providing a good safe home was the most important job in the world.
Moms should know that the good things they do make a impact that last a lifetime.
This is horrible in a way but I am that frustrated by this whole stupidity by now: next time I hear a liberal crowing about a woman’s right to choose I will tell them “good, I applaud your limiting the transmission of your flawed genes“ 😑
Good one. I remember confronting a woman old enough to be a grandmother about her vociferous support of abortion. I asked her, “Are you interested in getting an abortion?” Shocked, she said, “oh no, I want that option for my granddaughter.”
Likely had frown lines burrowed into her face. Over time, I have met so many of these women. So angry. And at what? Poor life choices? Reality is not what they were fed and now they will have their revenge? Forgive me if I am off base here. I try to avoid them like the plague.
Same 😂 I probably wouldn’t say them and I feel a little mean about thinking them but as I get older I am just more and more disgusted by how cavalier people can be about ending a baby’s life 😢
According to an interview I recently watched of former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino, 7-8 visits with a pregnant patient and subsequent delivery will net an OB/GYN $1200. One abortion takes 15 minutes so he can make the same amount in an hour. It’s more lucrative to take a life than bring one into the world. 😞
There was a lot of that on our internal company bulletin board website when they were pushing the jabs. I quoted the first section of the Nuremberg Code at one point and it got promptly deleted.
There was a major disconnect between the corporate/HR types and the blue collar, feet on the ground people. The website had up to that point, while open to all employees, typically just been used for brown nosing and @$$ kissing among the laptop class. They had no idea what to do when they started getting flooded with comments by workers who were angry and had no intention of getting jabbed or being subjected to constant covid testing, and were especially not going to change their mind or their principles because the company was bribing with a couple hundred dollars.
An HR bigwig was sent down from a couple hours away to talk to me because I questioned why they were offering a discount on health insurance to jabbed employees. Politely and civilly, I might add. He wasn’t really even sure what he was supposed to say to me — they just didn’t know what the hell to do with 40% of their workforce saying “nah, not happening.” The HR guy resigned his position shortly and left the company shortly thereafter.
They could send me crap but I was not allowed to send the truth. Our daughter asked her father to tell me not to send anything. (I had sent 2 articles). My hubs was in a bad mood and proceeded to use that moment to dump everything that was bothering him about ME. Very hurtful but we’ve been married almost 57 years and I moved on. Ha.
Yesterday my 68yo 3-4xjabbed liberal sister finally paid me a visit after 4 years of driving by my home several times a month, as she was scared to be around her unvaccinated Republican little sister 🙄 She brought up all the deaths she’s seeing. Cancers in 35yo relatives etc. I had my opening and asked “Do you think perhaps it possibly has anything to do with the Covid shots?” Absolutely not! she said emphatically. People die! Colon cancer in young people has been increasing long before Covid shots. There’s no way these shots cause this. 🤡 And I replied “but not at this rate. Especially not in the young.” and she changed the subject. Her children, in their late 30’s are all jabbed. I’m thinking one of them has to drop dead before she’ll consider the shots. Maybe not even then. Very frustrating. STILL
It has nothing to do with science for them anymore. I actually think it never did. One of my very best friends told me not to talk to her about it anymore because she “believes in the vaccine”. I know for a fact that she has never, not once, read or tried to explore anything beyond safe and effective BS put out on the legacy media. I agreed, but said that I was sad because I love my friends and do not want to see them harmed. That calmed her down a bit. We don’t talk about vaccines anymore and I don’t say anything when she tells me about relatives and other mutual acquaintances who are dying or have rare, strange diseases of unknown cause. I’ve had to accept she is of the Branch Covidian sect and there is nothing I can do to stop that.
I was a late in life, change of life surprise Baby of the 60s. My oldest brother who’s now 80 and a lifelong Democrat once called me years ago and immediately told me he just read a study which claimed Liberals are more intelligent than Conservatives. He was delighted to launch into that triumphant allegation rather than asking me how things were going or anything remotely meaningful about my life. That never came up at all. Probably in part because even as a young girl I was vocally pro-life, so what did he care about someone he told another brother was “too close minded about abortion?”
Nothing like Liberal love and kindness, huh? He’s also the brother that expressed unmistakable glee while informing me about another brother’s two aborted children.
I’m not close to this guy at all. Hard to believe, I know. But to his credit at least he didn’t fall for the ClotShot propaganda.
So when it comes to self-interest, some Liberals can see the bigger picture, at least as it pertains to the government.
Sad so many distrust-the-government Conservatives were happily led off to slaughter, isn’t it?
What's even more amazing, IMO, is that The Stupid Party feat. Ronna Romney McDidiot was unable to capitalize on that tyrannical hypocrisy and dishonesty.
But, but, but, that is different!!!! Abortion is about killing the unborn baby, but taking the shot is about "protecting others", such as the already born. Completely different, can't you see it?
"Republicans failed to properly deploy democrats’ heinous history on vaccine mandates whenever against abortion rights arguments. I’m dumbfounded that Republicans let democrats get away with all their insincere “right to choose” nonsense. What are Republicans afraid of?"
They are afraid of doing their jobs. They are afraid of the (((Epstein))) blackmail tapes that will be released. They are afraid of not being able to sell fear anymore -- that would turn off the $$$ flowing in to their coffers.
This is absolutely true. Interned for a super-conservative "Reagan Republican" US Senator back in the day. He was best friends with Teddy "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy.
Wasn't Madison Cawthorne 'canceled' from congress because he spoke about their illicit drug use behind the scenes? I seem to remember something about cocaine and prostitutes.
They put power and money, constitutional principles and moral ordering, the long term prospects of their children, the safety of the people within secure borders ... all ahead of God and Godliness. The history of the Republican Party is at least 100 years of constant retreat under cover of meaningless words.
The Republican Party is also the party of constant warfare and of spending us into ruin. Geo. Bush told us that he was for the New World Order, his words. And his son W Jr gave us The Terror State of Total Surveillance, the effective end of all constitutional rule of law in America. The 'W' in both names is like a oscillating neon sign, first flashing 'Witless' ... and then 'Worthless'. By such and the rest of them, we have been sold into slavery and dispossessed of our inheritance.
Well said. They call themselves "conservatives", but what have they conserved?? The founding principles of limited government? A legacy for Heritage Americans? Law and order? To ask is to laugh.
The sad truth is that at the congressional level, and to a similar but somewhat lesser extent, the Republican Party operates like the mafia. Representatives must buy their way onto committees, so they need big bucks, so they either must be independently wealthy or be incredibly good fundraisers from individual donors or make deals with PACs. Most do the latter. At state level in Florida, all power is held by the Speaker of the House and the Senate President. They control the big bucks needed for election/re-election campaigns. The result is that when they say 'jump,' etc. Individual Representatives don't really represent their districts. The cure for this, which I can't see ever happening, though, is to reduce the number of people per district and so increase the number of representatives. The U.S. Constitution mandates no fewer than 30,000 per House district; the average now is over 750,000 per district. This results in voters not really knowing candidates, candidates not knowing voters, or being able to ignore them, because they have to raise a lot of money from big donors to get elected by a majority of almost a million people, which is very expensive. Why is the House capped at 435 members? Thank the regressive "Progressives;" yet another very damaging bill passed into law in that era (1913, in this case).
I don't exactly see how to do it, as the first move would have to be increasing the number of Representatives, and I can't see them doing that. Too much big money against it. Look what it took just to get a Speaker who would pass single-subject spending bills. I'm so thankful for Matt Gaetz, but you should have seen how many Florida county party chairmen and state committeemen/women expressed anger at him at the recent meeting. Amazing.
I heard several say it was embarrassing, to which I replied I didn't think so, because it was real politics at work, instead of all the fake stuff. No response, just shocked silence, lol.
And that whole era! 17th Amendment (election of Senators by popular vote instead of by state legislatures), Prohibition, Pure Food & Drug Act, Gun Control Act of 1934, and I'm sure I'm missing many others. They were literal, admitted anti-constitutionalists and they still are.
YES!! Selling fear!! It’s insane, and they NEVER do anything about it, how about PUT UP OR SHUT UP! I’m not buying it anymore unless they do something about it.
They are not afraid of anything. They are simply looking out for their self-interest. Nobody insides the Beltway cares about this country or it's people. All they care about is feathering their own nest. Everyone is on the take and everyone is compromised in some fashion. This is the truth.
There is an OCEAN of money sloshing around in the Beltway and the "love of money" has corrupted everyone. Biden (Obama) turned on a fire hose of money supply and has poured TRILLIONS of dollars into the system corrupting everything. They have literally used money to buy the country a communist/fascist political coup. This massive tidal wave of money is only just beginning to affect the American people. This tidal wave will destroy all the wealth of the average American and reduce the American middle class to poverty. The money is already created - it's coming and cannot be avoided. Eventually we will end in complete collapse. Think Venezuela. It will be a long, slow painful death.
Could it be reversed? Yes - but it won't. It would require dispossessing EVERY major political and financial interest in the country. And I mean every interest! It would require throwing the country into the worst deflationary collapse in history for at least six months while the economy re-aligns to reality. Who's going to do that assuming it can even be done? Certainly no one in the Uniparty. It would take a maverick, an outlier, someone independent who is not controlled and willing to risk all he has to get it done. Maybe there is one person that could attempt it but history has shown that anytime there is an actual threat to the established political interests, the problem is solved with a bit of hot lead.
We are still buying into the deception of the "two party system." This is apparent from the comments. There are NOT 2 independent parties. There is only one Uniparty and the "two party system" is a lie that keeps the American public thinking they actually have a choice. All lies.
The fascist system of government has taken over the whole country. This has been developing for decades... at least a century. Think 1860. The communists have captured the Democratic wing of the uniparty over the last couple of decades and slow-rolled a political coup against the American electorate that was fully manifested in 2020. There is no Republican opposition. The Republican wing are fellow travelers and enablers of the communist wing who are motivated by the military/industrial complex NeoCons who work hand-in-hand with the communists against the American people. It's all theater folks. Quit buying into it.
Pollyannas will say this is only "doom and gloom." No. This is reality. The America of the 1960's is gone. It's not coming back. When we resist - when we fight - we fight for something new. We won't see it but for the sake of our children and our grand children, we know we have to fight. The Russian people had to live with the tyranny that ruled their country for more than 70 years and nearly two decades of chaos after the collapse of the Politburo. They have re-established their society to order only in the last couple of decades. Pray that America does not have to suffer as long as they did. Pray maledictory prayers in congregational worship as David did in the Psalms against the enemies of God that He would frustrate their efforts and bring ruin upon their heads. Pray for repentance and reformation within the body of Christ that we may once again become light and salt to society. And pray for our children who come after us.
Our little “Borough” as it’s called in Alaska(instead of County) voted with paper ballots yesterday. We voted last year for only paper ballots in our elections. We are a Conservative place already but the Left has been making lots of noise. I looked at our results this morning and lo and behold, it’s a near overwhelming win for Conservatives. Now if we can just get the rest of the State on board with paper only. I can’t recall when I last used a paper only ballot.
Florida did that last year for the big election day, plus we were all ID verified. The only "Red Wave" by state the US saw. Made me appreciate DeSantis for putting down the law on voting, which stopped a lot of the cheating we see from other states. I do think that if every state had the same precautions, Red would have won the country, like it actually DID in 2020!
She is not a one issue person. She is fight all the alligators in DC. I support her completely. And if she can take one down at a time, so be it... she is going in the right direction.
I’m shocked any Democrat can get elected anywhere but it either reflects the stupidity of the electorate or continued rigged elections, which I actually heard a lot of online chatter about as the results started coming in. And if any rational people still care about abortion “rights” I can only pray that God will have mercy on their evil souls.
I had a patient once upon a time that asked the nurse in recovery room what sex of the baby she just aborted. The nurse responded by saying, “do you have any idea what you just did to your baby? There was no recognizable sex organs when you vacuum out the contents of your uterus”. Enough said, she’s not been right since.
If there were no abortion mills then there would be THOUSANDS of fewer murders and many more healthy citizens! There is forgiveness for all of us in Christ but to those who kept a little one from coming to him he should have a millstone tired around his neck and drowned. I know that I am the worse of all sinners but Jesus saved even me. Run into the flames to save some. 🙏🏼♥️ The harvest is RIPE and night is drawing nearer.
I disagree. There would be thousands more of unwanted, unloved, ANGRY citizens. My mother told us kids pretty regularly how she wished she had aborted us when she had the chance. We all grew up hating ourselves. We couldnt hate her. We needed her. (We all eventually have gone NC with her.)
I am born-again, but it does nothing to fix the deep-rooted self-hatred I have within me. I pray for death regularly. Many, many, MANY of those aborted children would be in the same boat.
I do not agree with abortion for myself. I could never have one. But a part of me understands it.
I'm sad you went through this pain of rejection your whole life. It is traumatic. I'd encourage reading some books on EMDR, a method of trauma healing that rewires your brain. But no one does EMDR to you; EMDR is effective because YOU chose what you want to change. A therapist guides you, but you are in the driver's seat and that makes a huge difference.
After seeing an EMDR therapist for a little while, I learned how to do EMDR for myself and it is an invaluable tool. Never give up on healing trauma even though it feels impossible. God has created the means and we can find and work with those tools. If you think you've failed, try again. Trauma makes us think WE are failures, when, really, it's normal to have keep trying a while before you find sucess.
Agreed. My biological mother absolutely hated me. Her boyfriend at the time (not the biological father) was kind enough to tell me that when I begged him to tell me the truth. I'm glad he did tell me. It matched what I always knew. My parents (adoptive) always told me she wanted me, and I don't think they deliberately lied, but I knew she did not and I grew up absolutely hating myself and wishing I was dead. I suspect that self hatred came from her hatred. She's now dead and while alive refused to admit I existed, so I just sit with the facts. Children born who are hated by the biological mother run the risk of picking up on that, I think. Is a whole childhood filled with self hatred a life? I personally don't think so. I would never wish that feeling on any kid, who grows up to be an adult who can carry that with them.
covering up SIN via MURDER?; very King David move. Every Child a wanted child or the tax-funded executioner awaits. However a woman is jacked up to express that to her own children is ALSO a problem, excusing abortion for mental health issues is INSANE
Unfortunately true. There was a measurable drop in crime 15-18 years after Roe v Wade as many young women aborted their unwanted pregnancies. Teenage girls are often unqualified to care for a child, which leads to the child not being nurtured and having a proper upbringing. It is a complicated issue, it and can looked at from different perspectives.
in many hospitals you can't opt out. I lost a great OB/GYN who was pro-life. he was kicked out of the entire hospital system here because he would not perform abortions.
Please don’t take my comment as a judgement for God, alone, judges. It was more for those that declare abortion as a dental appointment. Yes, he takes your sin and throws it “as far as the east is to the west”.
Funny you use that analogy. It's nearly the same one I used back in the early 1990s, observing the young female soldiers I saw in clinic after having had off-post abortions. I just said they saw it as similar to going to the dentist - not pleasant, but one must do it, for 'health' or something.
I did a little survey of those we treated post-ab, out of curiosity about use of free birth control. A lot of missed pills and non-use of what was freely provided, just as you'd expect out of young people. No wonder we used to use age 21 as the age of majority. Not a guarantee of a working brain, but a little more likely.
Yes it takes 2, maybe not fair - but ultimately the responsibility falls on the woman otherwise SHE pays the price of an unexpected & probably unwanted pregnancy.
Myself and others recently stood on a very busy area as part of a Life Chain event. One woman parked her car, her passenger got out and began snatching signs and ripping them. At another location someone tossed a baby doll covered in simulated blood out a window. They have no problem espousing murder of innocent life. May God help us!
Many years ago, at least 20 I'd say, we stood silently on a sidewalk by a busy road and held signs saying Stop Abortion Now. I remember one person screaming as he drove by, "Kill them all!" Others expressed their dislike in various ways. Demonic!
It is demonic. We used to do Life Chain as well but there was so many obscenities screamed and gestured at us that once we had small kids we stopped. Once they get older we may go again, but it's hard to know you're placing your children in a hostile environment on purpose. It would be very easy for a crazy to jerk the wheel and 'own the horrible Christians'...
Maybe so. Hard to tell these days. And if the whole house of cards came down on us, maybe that would end the funding by debt spending of our self-destruction as a country with an empire. But the suffering and death would be horrific. And maybe that would be worth it, an ending of the ongoing misery.
But I remind myself, because it is all beyond my personal ability to calculate. In the end, we cannot figure everything out by rational thinking processes. And then, being so ... we are all in the hands of God.
These monsters don't deserve to know the joy of raising a child. Perhaps they will all die out like a virus once it has killed all of its hosts and can no longer replicate.
Animal abusers shouldn’t be around animals so you’re right. If they’re willing to kill their son or daughter, imagine what they’ll do to the ones they let live.
I was young and ignorant at one time. I can totally see how Democrats get elected, especially among the college-aged crowd and new voters who've never had to pay for anything. :/
Exactly how I feel...they don’t think they will have answer for this to God when in line at the Golden Gate? I believe this is why so many females are lib...want to hang onto the right to kill their babies.
I loved Jeff's analysis about Republicans not turning pro choice back on the bolshevik party vis a vis jab mandates. Cowards, yes for sure. But also, too damned many were complicit, and they did not want them turned around on them too. All that said, I live in Virginia , and it is NOT a liberal state overall. Northern VA AKA DC for sure, Richmond, Hampton Roads, VA beach, Charlottesville, Williamsburg. Big areas for sure, but the rest is red. Virginia has adopted voting season , mail in ballots, and other obvious fraud measures like most of the rest of the country. You can't overcome that. As long as we continue to allow electronic stealing machines, and all of the other measures that have been allowed to pervert the forms same day vote same day results, it's a lost cause. I mean they even said absentee ballots have to be in by ( I forget the date, but after voting day). WTF?? Youngkin as far as I know made no effort to roll back any of these cheating mechanisms while he still had the opportunity. I said it before and I'll say it again, be wary of embracing "the lesser of two evils, ", with obvious "tells" they are not the white knights we might think they are. I mean former CEO of the George Bush 41 creation Carlyle Group? Do not forget the same backers of Youngkin also back De Santis. This is going to be a very long, uphill battle
Agree. I’m in NoVA - home of Ms Flip off Trump - who won again. As an Independent - I trust none of them. The R’s keep “missing opportunities”...hmm...I suspect they want the same thing D’s want but just at a slower pace. I’m seriously considering moving to a red county - at least my neighbors won’t be in your face radical socialists.... but would still be under ‘blue’ rule. Disgusted 100%
They want the same thing. Long ago I noticed that R and Ds alike attend the same 'focus' groups ... WEF, CFR, Tri-Lat, Builderburgers, etc. It's one giant club and we are not in it. (Slave work the Plantation while the Masters go on trips.)
It still feels oppressive in a pink area. We pushed out a little further just this year but watching the school district lose traction stings just knowing the folks that send their kids to public schools here just don't care enough what happened to their kids' education over the last few years. I was hopeful there would be a better balance of board members this time but NOPE.
I live in northern Maryland and it is the same. Most of these areas are rural and conservative. You'd never know it though, because Maryland is controlled by the very liberal counties bordering DC. I would absolutely love to see that stranglehold broken up by scattering every single government agency in DC all over the country.
The problem tends to be the "big city" areas. Outside of those - people tend to be pretty reasonable. The big cities - mostly just little rational thought about anything. :/
The Biggest Problem is that all major policy is orchestrated from the United Nations, its agencies and designates (like NGOs for example). The Uni-Party is merely Kabuki Theater for the masses.
The UN people are the authors of the creepy grooming sex education initiatives in the UK, and their latest---if you see all those leaders wearing the little rainbow circle pins at conferences---are the Inner Development Goals, intended to replace religion and usher in the sustainable development goals. Totally cult like indoctrination, sort of Scientological, being taught in Europe now. I keep thinking how the Texans were prescient. They've suspected the UN for fifty years, not that they didn't have their pockets of throwbacks like the KKK, but their response to Jade Helm, which seemed over the top, now seems possibly prescient also.
Here's hope; capitalize on it by helping your local Republican Party or club or other conservative group to go into these areas and educate voters; help them change party affiliation; and spread the reality that we do care about them and about their lives.
"The Emerging Working-Class Republican Majority: The coalition that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was no one-off.
"Joe Biden is faltering among the core Democratic groups that were once the mainstay of “the party of the people” —working-class voters of color. Numerous polls have shown Trump reaching nearly 20 percent of the Black vote and drawing to within 10 points of Biden among Hispanic voters. Even if these shifts were to only partly materialize in November 2024, they would signal a lasting realignment poised to upend the party system we’ve known since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal."
How is not voting at all, or voting for the opposition (which are the only alternatives I see if one isn't going to "embrace the lesser of two evils" by voting for the Republican one wishes were someone else), thereby allowing the opposition to take full control, somehow a better option? This is a serious question.
In fact Gov. 'Carlyle' Youngkin had Vote Early ads targeted to Virginia voters plastered all over YouTube. Youngkin is a Trojan Horse NWO man ... as sell out R establishment as they come. He is a part of the fake election system.
I agree that Youngkin is a weak leader, but he did do another thing right In addition to helping our local school boards: he said unapologetically that we must remain pro-life, and not compromise on this most important issue.
Dimwits in Pittsburgh care more about who is coaching the Steeler's offense than who is leading the state! It's a continuous stream of "get me another Bud-light and get out of the way of the tv, I can't see the game" in this sh*thole.
Congratulations! You win an all-expense trip to Kiev, er, Kyiv, er, Kevin, er...whatever. Bring some body armor and your checkbook. Do you have any combat experience? Asking for a friend, who can play the piano in a most unusual manner.
Please call and/or email your Ohio Representative and Senator today. Ask them to:
1. Conduct immediate hearings in the Ohio Legislature to address the ramifications of the more than 50 state laws, which conflict with the new Article I, Section 22 of the Ohio Constitution.
2. Ask that the Ohio General Assembly to immediately pass a joint resolution to replace and repeal Section 22 with a more reasonable framework in the 2024 November election.
3. My own opinion/observation - Seeing the actual language was not a part of our voting experience. Why? Since we have electronic voting, why isn't the actual ballot language shown on the screen before or during the voting experience? I am urging my state representative and senator to change this. I believe this confused the voters. The actual language for local initiatives were directly on ballots and in my opinion, I question whether voters assumed the ballot Summary was the actual language. I am asking that the voter experience should be changed in the future and that the actual ballot language be a part of the voting experience.
They’ve been doing this for decades in Oregon. It’s all on the ballot BUT you cannot understand what a yes or no vote actually means. They purposely confuse the voters into not understanding what their vote actually means. It’s all part of the shameful criminal evil plan.
That is a common trick--around here blamed on legally “required” language. Yeah. We had a library referendum. The first one failed because it was basically gibberish. The second time it was reworded along with better PR and it passed.
I live in Ohio and I think it was made very clear that a "yes" vote on Issue 1 meant you were FOR abortion. I think the reason it passed is because "humanity," as we want to think of it, is dying/dead and gone.
It has become more and more obvious that people are willing to sacrifice their own children. Look at the mess that IS our schools. Look at what is being shoved down our kids' throats. Marxism. Inverse racism. White privilege. The transgender push. Hiding things from Mom and Dad. Porn in the school libraries. Kids who are allowed to come to school pretending they are cats. Look at how parents lined up to inject their kids with unproven, neither safe, nor effective jabs.
What hope is there for the country's future when parents are willing to turn over their own children to the state?
I’m in Ohio too and totally agree! My polling station was all 40’ish and older people (nice size line) it’s not the young 20’s voters showing up voting yes. Can’t believe how many “yes” signs are in our very strong red county. Sad!
Hubs and I spend a significant amount of time with a sample ballot and research any referendums and candidates as well as judges and their past rulings and affiliations. Then we each carry our marked up ballot along so we don’t forget how we intend to vote.
Most don’t bother to read or understand the initiatives. CA voted to allow the legislature unlimited power to raise the already exorbitant gas tax. How about “free bins? - allowed tptb to charge for waste disposal, overriding city charter that waste is already included in property taxes.
No, I didn't. I had a paper ballot though. I thought you weren't getting the verbiage we get on the paper ballot on your electronic ballot. My mistake.
People also need to take personal responsibility to go onto govt websites and read what exactly they are voting for. Have done this for years and it's quite enlightening.
I heard rebuttals from liberals about the implications of a "Yes" vote - including the parental consent. They were saying "but there are laws in place for that ... parents don't have to worry ..."
I'm no attorney, but I'm pretty sure that when a "law" conflicts with a "constitution," the latter wins.
The dimtards use Kamel-toe, knees-up Harris' speech writer to draft the ballot language - they are intentionally a word salad that nobody can understand.
I voted last night and saw some pretty clear language on the screen about what issues 1 and 2 were about. Although I'd made my decision before going, I read it anyhow and seem to remember it was what I'd previously read online. I didn't see anything abbreviated. For "online", I mean I go to sites ahead of time that show the entire ballot issue and I don't bother with sites that are taking a side, even if it is a side I support. I want a clear, unbiased picture of what I'm voting on so I can make a decision based on everything the issue does or could do. So it sounds like I am misreading you here, what was not included? I could be missing something.
My ballot only had the summary that was drafted by the Secretary of State. (I think that is who drafts the summary.) My electronic ballot never showed me the actual language that gets written into our Constitution of Issue 1 or the statue language (46 pgs) of Issue 2.
I know that we are Babylon when voters make it a constitutional right to have a child sacrificed up to birth. All I know is that everyone better get right with God sooner rather than later
"Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him."
Good roundup, Jeff…disturbing results, again, in Pennsylvania as Dims swept state judges seats, will be difficult for any R to win PA next year fir prez and US Senate …wake up fellow Pennsylvanians
Paper ballots, Election Day voting only. And required to appear in person at the registrars office to request an absentee ballot except for those serving overseas.
Speaking of digital...last Friday, and over the weekend, ACH direct deposits were not being put into people's bank accounts. Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and others had "problems."
Too much dependence on digital, which can go supremely haywire.
Too bad all the J6ers didn't dress up like deranged transtards--they wouldn't be in jail now, they'd be free to express themselves at any demonstration they choose!
Dancing with the Trans-Stars could be his next TV gig; He/they are a bit too tall and big boned to pull it off gracefully but low heels, fishnet stockings and a sparkly tiara with matching earrings might help
"I dance more gracefully and am a more beautiful contestant than any of the overweight unattractive women, I WIN BIGLY and the runner up is a chump. Even Melania is a touch jealous."
Here's what abortion politics in the US currently boils down to. People have a choice: They can have public safety, prosperity, a stable currency, thriving communities, good schools, honesty in public affairs, and the rule of law. Or they can have unlimited access to abortion. They can't have both, they have to choose. And in Ohio and Michigan, a landslide number of people chose to throw it all away so that could be guaranteed - in the even that their contraception failed - that they could have unlimited amounts of recreational sex without being burdened by the curse of children. That's all that appears to matter to them at the decision making margin.
My Scripture quote today is therefore from Genesis 6:5: "The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually."
Ronna McDaniels is doing exactly what she’s supposed to do...lose elections. I’m a bit disappointed in Mr Childers. You don’t see anything weird about the elections? You think the American ppl are so dumb that even though the Democrats are off the rails we just keep voting for them? In Kentucky the ppl voted Republican down the line but yet they keep voting Democrat for Governor? None of that seems odd Mr Childers?
It’s what happened in Brazil. Mr Bolsanaro’s Party won throughout the country, yet the ppl voted against Bolsanaro. Have we got it yet? Once Newsom or even Sleepy Joe are back in the White House come Jan 2025 will we finally admit something is wrong? Or will we just think the Republicans were just off message?
If we learned anything it’s that Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis are the poster kids for turning a blind eye to the truth. Will we follow them?
This is my suspicion too. Rigged elections. Banana Republic. Can't say for sure. But on the other hand, does anybody see any accountability anywhere?
??? Yours Truly,
Wondering in Virginia
P.S. By having seen the same 'late night' pattern here in Virginia, I also suspect that Trump actually won Virginia. 'The Late Nighters' in NoVa seemed to have 'delivered'.
I'll be honest -- I belong to one of those nextdoor apps and here locally, in a suburb, SO many people announced their support for Beshear. SO many. Probably the same people who were outraged there was a thread about the sexually explicit books here in the local school district because they wanted to make sure parents have no say in what happens in the schools. I wouldn't believe it either if I didn't see it with my own eyes but yes, even though I think of myself as living in a conservative area, there are obviously many liberals within. I"m not discounting any fraud, just acknowledging what I've seen of how many seemingly brainwashed democrats here were still in full support of Beshear, despite everything.
The same thing happened in NC in 2020. Red counties voted for Republican legislators and judges, etc. and also voted to re-elect our Democrat governor. I spoke to our very-conservative Lt. Gov (R) and he does not believe that was due to widespread election fraud. He said he spoke to many, many conservative voters who voted for the governor because “he did such a good job keeping us safe during covid.” How do we counter THAT?
All the senior conservatives around me still think masks, distancing, closing schools and churches, one-way aisles in stores, destroying all those small businesses, the vaccine mandates, were worth it because it enabled them to survive the plague.
😢 if that’s what’s happening then it’s hopeless. I lived in CA for 25 years and I know what the Democrats model is. It’s where they get to do what ever they want and the Republican Party exist in name only. Isn’t that what we’ve got now?
Not always the case (and sorry I don’t remember specifics), but the top two candidates face off in any run-off elections, even if they’re both Democrats. I still try.
Same forces that made all money and resources go from Ukraine to the middle east. Very powerful lobby. They will not stop until abortion on demand is everywhere. It seems to be a winning issue for them.
And a shameful state of humanity that thinks it’s okay to murder an unborn child but not okay to decide what gets injected into your body. The stupidity of humanity is overwhelming.
That is heartbreaking to me. I worked in OB for 27 years and it makes me cry thinking of these innocent precious babies being subjected to torture and death in what should be the safest place they will ever be in their lives.
I'm sure the "Catholics for Choice" campaign, funded by elite non-Catholics, that placed 30 deceptive and misleading pro-abortion billboards throughout Ohio really had an effect. Warren Buffet should be ashamed of himself for supporting this group. He probably has investments in abortion medical equipment or research that requires fetal tissue.
Infiltration into LDS, Catholic, private schools, the Marxists do not stop, the low hanging fruits were plucked first now they WANT each and every church, community, family, and individual...No Joke Man, they're ALL Our kids! I had a client who met the OBAMya Admin. LDS outreach head; Gov. Polis in CO has done similar "outreach" into religious education institutions. Where's their 'WALL" of Separation that they view as unbreachable???? Neo-Marxists WANT our Faith, Family, and individuals under their direction and control, they want to arbitrate and dole out Freedom, they want to own the Future and are working like an invasive swarm of ants to achieve it on a global scale.
Lutheran Missouri Synod must be the last Protestant Denominational holdout, or maybe they're gone now too, it's an assault by powerful erosive forces. Sickness and false gospels and wolves in the sheepfold indeed! Rob-there's no Hell-Bell, Judah Pro-Choice Smith, The Fairy-God Pope Francis, the Satanic Synagogue, Andy Dandy Stanley, the long list of corrupted and compromised--Billy Graham's Grandscum(?), Falwell, Hillsong, it's everything the Rabbi and Apostolic Crew said it would be.
This article explains how Issue 1 passed in Ohio. 1) 3-1 investment in pro-choice vs. pro-life. The investment for pro-choice was heavily from outside of US and the investment in pro-life was mainly from Ohio. 2) there was also a ballot measure to legalize marijuana which would have drawn out the liberals to vote (they would also be pro-choice with no thought toward the timing of abortion being allowed). https://www.lifenews.com/2023/11/07/ohio-passes-issue-1-to-allow-killing-babies-in-abortions-up-to-birth/
Huh? I'm not getting it. How is abortion a "Jewish value"? No offense to anyone and I am far from a biblical scholar, but I am not following how that makes any sense at all since abortion was not mentioned in any bible I've read, although admittedly I have not read an entire bible. Maybe it's not supposed to make sense.
“Republicans failed to take advantage of voter’s frustrations”
That’s true of pretty much every election. In fact, I think it’s the unofficial motto of the Republican Party.
Its true of both parties, or the uniparty. It is Kabuki theatre. They all "hate" each other in public, and then leave and do drugs and get drunk together. And so many here sadly think electing the right people is going to solve our problems. A great article by Jeffrey Tucker points this out (excerpt):
"How do we rebuild? Yes, politics can help. Good court decisions are always welcome. Brave politicians are needed. But none of this is going to accomplish the goal. The great rebuilding will come from within our own lives and communities, as inspired by hope, driven by courage, powered by affection and loyalty, and assured by moral determination. In other words, the answer to the question is all around us, right where we are.
People often ask me for answers to the myriad problems in the world. I’m not the one to give them. You are. Care for your health, your family, your personal finances, your safety and mental well-being. Reach out to others. Be a good friend and neighbor. Assist in the heroic tasks by building a new freedom within your own reach. Become ungovernable by those who have so overreached. This is the path forward."
On Dark Days, I say to my self, "We are totally screwed." On sunny days, I say "There is a pivot going on. There is some hope still." But not matter what, American will never be the same again.
Too many days I feel that the America I grew up in is totally lost.
Guess we might have to hit rock bottom before this rot is eliminated.
I agree. Can we go back to the 70's and 80's now? Sadly, the rot may not be eliminated even if we hit rock bottom.
The rot began a very long time ago, well before the days of disco and punk rock. The rot began when Eve plucked the fruit from the forbidden tree, took a bite, and her soulmate, Adam decided he loved Eve more than he loved God, and he, too, ate of the fruit. But be of good cheer, for God sent us a Saviour, and "this is the path forward."
Big hair and disco...those were the days.
Of course, we also had the hostage crisis in Iran. 12% interest mortgage rates.
Odd/even gas rationing. OPEC had a stranglehold on the US.
The Vietnam war, the CIA takeover of government, advent of the sexual revolution, promiscuity, normalization of homosexuality, AIDs, and so on. Like the song says: the good old days weren't always good. I think what we're seeing now is just a natural evolution of things/ideas that happened in the 50s-90s.
IMO, what has changed is work ethic. There is none now. It's so pervasive I am losing my own. I mean, if no one else can/will do their job, and every system is broken, what's the point of me doing my job? Maybe this is what Atlas shrugging feels like? I never really understood that concept. (Of course I also never understood how "Good Germans" existed. Now, thanks to "covid," I know.)
True, but it seems like most of people had morals and crazy just wasn't acceptable.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/cdc-makes-big-airport-announcement-facts-matter-5525087
They are coming for us again.
Do Not Comply!
Try to convince others AGAIN ! Not to comply.
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Thank you for the link ... Just when you think the tide is turning from the Covid / mandate bs ... THIS. It’s not okay. I wonder if anything will make sense again ...
It does make perfect sense, you just have to look at it from the Homicidal Psychopath Totalitarian point of view. 😐
Only when they, their ring leaders and their lieutenants are disappeared from this earth will we have peace again. Moderate peace.
Thank you for the warning and posting the link.
M F ers!
You mean like, Have Emergency already declared in 12/2020? My favorite Bug, or Burg. Marburg. YAY <confetti>. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/09/2020-26972/notice-of-declaration-under-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act-for-countermeasures
Oh yes. They promised more of it. More trumped up and contrived " emergencies ".
If someone at the airport or on the airplane sneezes, the sheeple will be all be terrified. Just as they are trained to be.
Only solution is the Elite all have to fly commercial airlines. For safety of course.
Sadly, it is lost. Unless the citizens of Duckville arise from their MSM induced slumber and become aware of the WEF coup.
It's time to dig deep below the surface of what we see and hear from the common influencers. Continuing to peel the layers will lead us to still more questions. I blieve this is the time of individuality and independent thinking. Humanity has a history of being easily influenced and staying securely ensconced within a group. It's scary and uncomfortable, like the first day of school, but that's part of our initiation. Spiritual bypassing and victomizing isn't going to get us to the place our soul is leading us. We must be courageous and brave.
I have noticed that people seem to be afraid to have a differing opinion from the masses.
I think this is right. Even though it's no a very pleasant thought.
Strong men create good times
Good times create weak men
Weak men create bad times
Bad times create strong men
We are in the fourth turning. You are completely correct, do what you can as an individual!!!
Listening to music from 60s and 70s (my childhood and teen years) is like comfort food for my soul. It brings me back to a different America and a happy place...Maybe it is part of getting older, but nostalgia is predominant in my psyche the past few years.
I wouldnt be surprised if millenials will feel that way in a couple of decades too. The downward slide started then, but the really big change of devolving as a culture, from civilized and God fearing, to the opposite, happened in this 21st century.
Every day brings more angst: today I read that Bezos is helping the WEF to bring us to being fully digitalized: identity cards, currency, etc. I seriously dislike these billionaires with their God complexes.
Angela, I could not agree more. Part of the nostalgia is the revolving door of the stages in aging. But also, there was this. Our time of growing up was better for children, for families. My dad and and his friends, my mom and here friends were all much more solid people by values. The families were more cohesive and had family loyalties. The churches were already pretty far gone, although I had no of the appreciation of this until well into my fifties. Life over all was better. Big cities were overall well run and safe ... almost everywhere on went. Divorce was almost non-existent. I could go on, but I know that you well understand all of this.
When I was a kid, I knew I was an American and I had some idea of what that meant. And we had real silver money still, and I knew a dime, quarter, half-dollar and silver dollar were real and I collected them because they were real and had value. BUT WHAT DO I HAVE NOW?
Nonetheless, I am very fortunate because I have a good wife. And we are united in common understanding of Biblical Faith. Faith and God are a wonderful cement to human relationships.
God bless and take good care!
I remember a big thing my mother used to repeat (I am a boomer and went to parochial school so I dont know if it was of her generation in school or also of mine) but honesty was a big thing..
I always heard how it was taught that George Washington cut down the cherry tree and admitted it to his father because "he could not tell a lie". My mother was of a certain Mediterranean ethnic background, first generation, and was so proud of American honesty which she did not see in the ethnic people of that certain country.
I still remember her getting so upset at the Democrats during the Clinton era because of their lying. Classic marxisn tactic: lie enough times and people will believe it. The favorite book of Hilary in college. The wheels were turning and the American ideal virtue started dying.
Angela, you are absolutely right spot on! Honesty was a big, big thing. And if a store clerk made a mistake by undercharging, people would say so. Honesty was a personal code and children were taught honesty. And if children lied to their parents, they would be punished with a 'go to your room', or a docked allowance, or some such. Adults, most of them, were honest. And being straight shooters is how they got along with trust by their friends. Plus the adults worked together in keeping an eye on the kids. If I did something wrong on Apple Street, it would be in the house on Fulton Street and usually by dinner time. And at which time I hear at the dinner table a stern, "What happen up on Apple Street today?" And I would sheepishly say, "I dunno." And then I would hear an, "I heard such and such happened today. Do you know anything about it?" At some point in this little dance I would learn that 'confession is good for the soul' ... and sometimes that punishment is a 'good thing'. Although I never quite wanted to latch onto that last one.
American medicine was corrupted in the early 1900s by Rockefeller and Carnegie. Greed has infected our country since forever. It’s just been less visible on the public stage than it is now.
I don’t know about this country but I do know that everywhere on earth is just a campground and our real home is not here
HALLELUJAH for that precious Biblical truth, Bones!
You are not alone. I try to focus on what I can deal with and what makes sense. My job, my family, my neighbors, and mostly my faith (not necessarily in that order). THAT'S what can be changed and molded and built upon. Really, there's not much else. If everyone gets this, imagine what a world we would have?
I am old now. I cannot drive easily at night ... and so I don't. I have a lot of trouble with reading small print. And so, the world of my old youthful glory is closing in on me. In some ways, this comes as a relief. In other ways, it galls. But acceptance of age and it's boundaries is an act of grace, and also ... wisdom.
The young will now have to do the heavy lift I once did.
I hear you. I'm 62 and frankly, wish I was older. I have always felt it wrong to wish time away but I'm doing just that now. I cringe at the thought of being young again. I am so ready to move on but all in God's time. I pray there is no such thing as reincarnation. I would be beyond pissed if He sends me back. 😆
I hear you too. I know if I was younger, I'd fight this thing as I once did. But when one can no longer drive at night (among other things), it's time to throttle back. For men used to being men and not taking a lot of crap, this is a hard thing to accept. I imagine for women too.
When the young get old they will have to live in the less free world they are creating. I hope they wake up and turn things around before then. I used to tell my kids be kind to the old person you will be some day because it will happen God willing.
The younger people won't abide by this madness forever. And the more extreme things get, the more flagrantly apparent this wicked game becomes.
Skipping Jimmy is a disgrace in a short skirt. If it was long it would have at least covered his hairy manly legs
I'd add to that, "get your kids out of public school!" or be really, really, extremely active in the public school environment, in their face, in the school, All. The. Time!
My city/county voted overwhelmingly blue on Tuesday (no surprise there), and yet our school’s information sessions are attracting more families than ever before (charter school). Voter turnout was frighteningly low. People aren’t voting at the ballot box, but they are voting with the choices they make. I feel a slow boil grass roots revolution coming....
Yes, I believe many are looking for alternatives and maybe school choice is the only way they'll be able to achieve those alternatives. However, many are too married to their lifestyle and aren't willing to make the sacrifice or too married to the idea that only a certified teacher can teach. Unfortunately, with inflation currently thru the roof, I can understand many fear giving up a job to homeschool or committing to private school tuition for good reason. I know many with "older" children who still work full-time and homeschool.
Love Jeffrey Tucker!
I was just reading an article by him in The Epoch Times. He is great.
Does he have a Substack?
Not sure but I’ve read his articles on the AIER site for a couple of years now. I do think someone mentioned him having a Substack recently but would have to find the link.
I’ll look
He writes at https://brownstone.org/
Thank you so much
Jeffrey Tucker makes so many good points in his writing. And was one of the first that I ran across who was standing up against covid, even early on when it seemed like I was the only one actually looking at data and saying "this is the flu; what's going on here?" Tucker was there as well.
"It's true of both parties, or the uniparty. It is Kabuki theatre. They all "hate" each other in public, and then leave and do drugs and get drunk together." Thank you Johnny-O - you just crystalized in real time the absolute truth. This needs to be screamed from the rooftops and if they could *just* release that Epstein list, we'd be able to convert a lot of other people on the fence who are just blind to what's going on.
I think he nailed it. Even before all of the covid scamdemic brought the House of cards down, in 2016 I watched the Democrat convention crown Hillary queen and the head of NARAL speak on having children “when and where” WE want them. She spoke of her two abortions and got thunderous applause. I was so disgusted. No way would I ever vote for Hillary, no way. But the Republicans have had pro life as a plank in their party since Roe v Wade and we had 40+ years of nothing. Over 60 million babies in the U.S. aborted since 1973. But it is good for a fundraiser. I knew when Roe v Wade was tossed by the SCOTUS last year, it was no coincidence. Our 2022 elections in Michigan were centered around choice. It was used to smear every Republican candidate and pass a heinous Constitutional amendment that forces Michigan citizens to pay for abortions up till birth. Michigan had laws on the books to protect against just such evil. They were repealed by a Democratic led legislature, and our governor made sure to sign them into new law on Election Day. The abortion playbook is the hook they will keep on using to get what they want and the GOP is right there with them.
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We can't really turn things around at this point. Things spun out of control when corporations realized that campaign donations and lobbyists provided a great return on investment. The Citizens United decision and regulatory capture have massively added to this problem.
The only solution would be massive campaign finance reform, as well as starting all the alphabet agencies from scratch (or just disbanding them). There is no way THAT is going to happen though. Think how much pressure each and every member of congress would have to vote NO on that, and also how much harder the reforms themselves would make for those congresspeople to get re-elected.
And, stop funding the government, ignore any diktats they issue, come to the aid of any fellow citizen that the feds target for arrest or destruction and become ungovernable.
I hope you don’t mind that I copy and pasted your response on Facebook.
@Johnny-O do you have a link for that article? I would love to read the whole thing!
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/how-to-restore-freedom-5524116
Check out the Brownstone Institute for his writing and more.
It was from Epoch Times the other day...sorry, rushing off to work...
Thanks! I’ll look for it.
I like Jeffrey Tucker also. His writing style is clean, coming from the heart and most inspiring.
“Turning victory into defeat; time after time”.
Limply pathetic and flaccidly predictable.
Dicks!
Could it be Election Ballot Stuffing and other election fraud again?
Noooo! There’s NO EVIDENCE of election fraud. Everyone knows that. Pay no attention to those voting machines behind the curtain!
Yes. While it's true that R's don't take advantage of voter frustration, it's not like voters don't clearly see what D's stand for and are rewarding them with their votes. The voting process is corrupt in most states. Real election reform has not been passed and voting integrity and transparency remains nonexistent. Kentucky isn't D statewide, and nor is VA's legislature, which is individual districts, not a statewide referendum. The VA porn star D race wasn't even close in final polls after her porn was reported. But a nail-biter? Yeah. Right.
https://www.emerald.tv/p/the-voting-machines-just-failed-in
And don't think R's are going get off the Big Pharma train, no matter how many deaths and public opposition grows. R's are on Big Pharma's payroll every bit as much as D's. Both parties are in lockstep on that. It's We, The People vs Uniparty on the death jabs.
“R's are on Big Pharma's payroll every bit as much as D's.”
Yes indeed!
@Just Comment if there are electronics involved, you know fraud was involved. No question.
https://www.emerald.tv/p/the-voting-machines-just-failed-in?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=263063&post_id=138689473&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=x5cpy&utm_medium=email
Yep. I started seeing it back when GWB ran on school vouchers to help families get away from failed public schools.
Did it it happen? Nope.
That began that “red pill” cascade for me.
Abbott is going to try to push for another special session for that, though I doubt it will pass in Texas. Even my more conservative friends are saying "no vouchers" without really thinking "hey, this gives parents a choice whether to continue with the public schools they claim to love or go elsewhere". Huge pushes from the teacher's unions against the idea of vouchers.
" Huge pushes from the teacher's unions against the idea of vouchers.". So by my way of thinking, vouchers must be A GOOD thing.
LOL yep!
Vouchers could be problematic. If a voucher gives a school federal or state funding to allow a child into that school, then the state/feds will want to know how that money is being spent. Yes, I know it is technically tax payer money, ie. your money, but once it is in the state/feds hands, they think it is theirs. I would only warn that vouchers better be locked down rigorously otherwise, it is going to be nothing but a door into dictating to a school what they can teach. I'm surprised the left fights it so hard. And yes, I've already seen the future of this. A liberal in my state found out a voucher got used at a Christian private school where egads, 7 days of creation was taught and not big bang and they tried to use it to mandate to the school what they had to teach. You can see where this will go. Someone in a blue state will win the right to that type of mandate. We've seen similar shocking things the last 3 years so don't even try to tell me it won't happen. It will, only a matter of how long. And the homeschoolers with any sense want NO part of it so leave us out of it, no gov't money, ever.
Public schools should be opt in and only people who want to send their children there should fund them. Then we wouldn’t have this giant pool of money controlled by the government that they use to manipulate and coerce.
I don't disagree but unfortunately that isn't how the system is set up and I don't see if truly changing any time soon and I don't think vouchers are the solution. I really feel the only way for the system to get truly changed is for people to walk away. If all the people who are on the right and/or all the people who aren't happy about public schools would just quit them, the schools would be half empty, federal/state funds for them would tank, all the "extra" beaurocrats running the schools would lose their jobs, etc. and then they might finally take notice and make some serious positive change. I know it will require sacrifice but everything worthwhile does.
I don’t disagree in principle but don’t see it happening in reality unfortunately. If people haven’t walked away by now with all the sexual crap and crt and Covid nonsense, they’re probably never going to 😕
Some home-school parents pooled their expertise with other parents, and each took responsibility for teaching certain subjects. Children went from home to home for their lessons. It worked well.
Love that. I have a friend who did that with her daughter.
This is absolutely true. Sorry I got behind on comments:).
I think the private school our kids went to would not accept vouchers because of this. I still think it’s a good idea for public school families to give them more influence over school boards.
Yes, the school doesn't have to accept the vouchers. Any wise school won't.
Lots of conservatives don’t like vouchers though because they equate it to government control of private and potentially homeschool 😕
We can either live with the known consequences of putting the government in charge of educating our children - grooming child porn in the libraries, teaching marxism as the ideal, etc. - or we can take the risk that allowing families to opt out, without being forced, might help save our future. A surety vs. a possibility of things going wrong. Too easy. Florida is about to increase funding in our universal school choice 'scholarship' program, because it was so popular they've already run out of money and can't keep up with processing the reimbursements to families for expenses.
Oh I tend to be in favor of getting my money I paid for school back to use as I see fit but do understand the concerns expressed about the potential strings. We also need to stop calling it “government money” and start calling it something like our tax dollars or our taxpayer payments.
Imagine a system where the government paid a fixed amount, same for any child in the state, special needs be damned, for the parent to use to educate the child any way they saw fit. That could be home schooling. Or it could be private academies that would be free to accept or reject any applicant as they chose and to operate with minimal government control, especially of curriculum.
If white conservatives wanted a Christian school and no other races allowed, why not?
Similarly, if Blacks want to teach their kids about racial fantasies and a Wakanda wonderland, why not?
The only string attached would be that the State would have the right to test the child periodically, same standardized test for everybody, again no exceptions allowed. The test would be only about basic skills: reading, writing, math, etc. Minimal ideology. If the child didn't meet standards (which, let's be honest, would probably be set pretty low), the State would have the right to send the child to a remedial school of their choice.
Of course such a system is politically impossible, primarily because it would minimize the State's, the teacher's union's, etc. power to manipulate the system to their personal advantage.
My proposal would uphold public funding of education; yet allow parents and the free market the maximal freedom to obtain that education. It’d also leave open the option, say, for the wealthy to pay extra for perks.
Other government agencies of any level would, presumably, be free to offer additional services out of their own budgets. This might be a source for the handicapped, special education, or the tutor required for the immigrant child who only speaks an obscure language.
We refuse to take any state (fellow taxpayer) money because it ALWAYS has strings.
All depends on how they're implemented, but I can see that as a valid concern. I know some places have vouchers, but carry strings with them about how/what the schools should teach as a result. And worst case scenario? Don't use them. I still lean toward supporting them if only to give parents options on where that money goes if the school isn't actually teaching their kids. I definitely _don't_ support the whole "well, you took the money so you have to also ...." strings.
I've seen that with the whole "public schools letting kids who don't attend take part in activities" thing as well. Our taxes pay for those, but so much pushback for letting non-PS kids take part in those activities and so many strings attached when they consider opening those up to outsiders. :/
I actually have come to the point where I think government schools should be opt in and not default and people who choose them and believe in them should pay the taxes for them but no one else should pay a dime.
I love that idea, I’m really sick of paying taxes for schools, I never did have kids.
Just a note about how strong the teachers unions are ... they closed schools for a year or more during covid. In Oregon they got their shots even before old people (and still didn’t open schools). They now wail about how they need more money to bring kids back up to speed. Oh, and kids here don’t have to pass the basics anymore to graduate 🤦🏼♀️
I agree and was more or less playing devil’s advocate because although I understand the concerns, I think we should be able to 1) lessen the overall amount going to public schools (as it is, I am paying into the system yet getting nothing I return and just adding more funding for them). And 2) be able to have our own education funds to do with as we choose. There should be a way to limit the potential of strings attached to the money.
JWB ran on it 23 years ago. Too little too late. Politicians are liars. So I feel like checking out now.
And who can forget the sweaty-armpits, deer-in-the-headlights visit to the southern border?
The majority of Republicans are RINOs and useless. They prefer to be the minority party so they can say, "gee, if only we were the majority, we'd change everything". And when they are they don't. They also like it because they keep their cushy jobs and benefits and don't really have to produce ANYTHING.
Would it matter if Republicans took advantage of voter's frustrations? Would it change the outcome of any election? Why do we keep participating in a charade and being disappointed by the results? Participate in the charade, by all means. Just know that true conservatives will never win another consequential election ever again except by an act of God. All evidence points to this country having fallen. It seems to me like everyone believes if they just keep acting like everything is okay, maybe it will be, a kind of fake-it-till-you-make-it act of will. But I don't think everything will be okay here ever again.
I honestly believe that the collapse is in progress. I used to think that it could be saved, but now have a hard time sustaining that hope. Everything is thoroughly corrupt. Get to know your neighbors, they’re going to be important in the coming years.
The neighbors thing is really good advice. I don't think I really know my neighbors at all and we've lived there for 15 years! Hmmm...
I firmly agree. Sadly I don’t believe all will ever be ok here again. God has turned his back on us because we turned our back on Him! :(
We're definitely in trouble, but God isn't like us (thank you, Jesus!) 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land." God never breaks His promises. If we want this to turn around, every Christian should humble themselves, get on their knees and pray, seek Jesus, and turn from their sin because He has promised He will forgive and heal us.
Republican #FailureTheater
"Oh, we tried, we tried. Too bad, we just couldn't do it."
Here in my very RINO red state, when our state SOS made his nice PR visit to the central count where I was volunteering to help verify absentee ballots had dotted "i's" and crossed "t's," as I shook his hand I said I wanted to hear his response to the RNC Return to Excellence in Voting. He said, "yes, exactly, thank you all for working here and other irrelevant chatter." This is a guy who campaigned on doing most of what the Return to Excellence in Voting Resolution calls for. And has done almost nothing so far.
So yeah, they just won't do it.
That’s sad, so discouraging 😕
I think your comment was cut off somehow.
It was, and then I edited to finish. Weird.
Here's the whole thing again, since specific comments can be hard to track back on this platform.
"Here in my very RINO red state, when our state SOS made his nice PR visit to the central count where I was volunteering to help verify absentee ballots had dotted "i's" and crossed "t's," as I shook his hand I said I wanted to hear his response to the RNC Return to Excellence in Voting. He said, "yes, exactly, thank you all for working here and other irrelevant chatter." This is a guy who campaigned on doing most of what the Return to Excellence in Voting Resolution calls for. And has done almost nothing so far.
So yeah, they just won't do it."
The whole comment is there now, of course, lol. So frustrating.
Incentivizing FAILURE; the National and State GOP, the FBI, the Schools, Neglectful Parents, homeless and addicted, open borders with well-paid lawyers and public assist. benefits to reward global failure....
The plan seems to be working...add legalization (and promotion) of drugs.
No, Republicans failed to ensure that the election would not be stolen.
https://open.substack.com/pub/emeralddb3/p/the-voting-machines-just-failed-in?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=38a8y
What we all have to face is that as much as we want to blame corrupt people, stupid and clueless people are even more to blame for the unbearable state of this country. Their lives have been decimated every bit as much as ours have, but even if they do admit things are bad, they find a way to blame Trump. Then they go to the voting booth and sign up to bend over and take it yet again. How bad does it have to get before these idiots figure it out?
Pretty sure we, and they, are going to find out. That will be my bit solace to help endure the shitstorm headed our way.
It baffles me that abortion is even being talked about. I mean seriously there are SOOoOOOOOO many topics more important!!!
If Republicans would “talk” to their constituents, they would know what to fight about
I would say it is baffling that the GOP hasn't figured out an EFFECTIVE way to talk about abortion. It is always on its heels with this issue and I'm afraid it is because too few of them 1) recognize the absolute horror of abortion (and it is horrible) and/or 2) even object to it philosophically.
I get that it requires courage to address and that our culture has become so accepting of and comfortable with the practice, but that is because no one wants to say what it really is. This issue isn't going to go away anytime soon, so I've made a decision to support the people on the front lines and to work in a way that offers realistic alternatives to killing babies.
Totally agree!!! And most people haven’t seen an abortion performed.
Yeah, violently and legally butchering innocent human beings inside, partially inside and newly outside the womb is so passé.
Too bad you missed 30s Germany, Christy. Your pragmatic mindset would have been richly rewarded.
Lol. Yes. I totally said I agree with butchering innocent human beings inside a womb. 🙄. If you read my comment again I said I think there are more important topics. Read it the way you want, but do NOT assume my view on abortion bc I didn’t state it!!!!
Well, if you can look at it this way, perhaps you’ll see the larger point:
If you can’t make it out of the womb nothing else matters.
There’s a reason why the Declaration of Independence lists we have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in that particular order.
Pursuing it any other way is a non-starter.
I am pro life Bridget. I also think abortion should be a state issue. I also think BRICS, the dollar, China, our border, war with Israel, jab deaths, my grandkids future and many other topics are more important than the abortion issue. I’m not saying abortion isn’t important. I’m saying I don’t think it should be the most important. I can see it’s important to you and that’s fine. I don’t mind debating the importance.
Ok.
It’s all a mess, I’ll say that.
"put not your trust in princes..."
Give your vote wherever you want. But don't give your heart or your hope with it.
They play the role of "loyal opposition." That's been the case for as long as I've been alive. It's all to make it seem as though big government - including the military - is natural, good, and a reasonable solution to the world's problems. It's why Trump became the phenomenon that he is. The (R) base has gotten tired of establishment/phony conservatives pretending to be conservatives to get their vote, and took over the GOP. As one writer I follow put it: The GOP is our target and Trump is our murder weapon.
Ex faucibus victoriae, clades!
quam mihi placent, verba tua (sed veritate, mihi multum displicent)
The GOP is broken. Irreparably broken. The ones who control the party hate the base. It is hard to represent the interests of people you despise.
Repeat after me: Republicans don’t want to win. They enjoy being the minority party, all the grift, none of the responsibility.
They cheat, we don't cheat. So, we lose.
Amazing that so many people who scream about a woman's right to choose, wanted to force me to take the covid death shot against my will.
Corporations love abortion because it’s cheaper than paying for maternity leave and hospital bills for having a baby.
Maybe women should consider being moms instead of being corporate wage slaves.
Nothing wrong with staying home to raise a child.
I did it. There was a close relationship with my daughter and my friends who worked kids to really want to see them very much.
I can't understand a woman's desire to have a child, then they dump them off in some daycare center so some undereducated, and indifferent, person care for them for more than 8 hours per day.
Are children just a fashion accessory to those moms?
This is a very judgmental comment. I don’t think we should criticize women who choose to work, or women who choose to stay home, both have value, and each family has to choose for themselves. What works for them. Personally I have always worked. I have very close relationships with my children and have always been very involved in their lives. These generalized ignorant statements are just hurtful and have no merit.
Yes and no. If you've gotta work to keep the rent paid and food on the table, I totally understand. Not judging. It's a sad reality, you're doing what you gotta do, and God bless you-- I hope your life circumstances get better so you can spend more time with your kids.
If you make $100k/yr, "can't afford" to be there for the kids, and you live in a house with 3 bathrooms, you get a manicure every week, a cut/dye every month, and your car is a luxury model less than 5 years old... maybe it's time to rethink your priorities.
And if you simply don't like kids, have serious mental-health issues, and honestly believe your kids to be better off in the care of others... fair enough. Be brave enough to be honest about it. Because when you lie (to yourself and others) about not being able to afford to quit working for a paycheck... it muddies the waters for the rest of us.
We made significant sacrifices so that I could be there for the kids, homeschool, cook, etc. We do this at well under the national average household income, and it takes some strategizing... but it's 100% worth it. Kids are doing really well. But it feels like every time I talk to someone and they find out we homeschool... I get the same kneejerk defensive reaction: "Oh, we could never afford to do that!"-- from people who make at least *twice* as much money as we do. WTF people? You think I can't see that you paid $200 for those shoes and you drive a new car? But you can't afford to be home with your kids? That's f---d up. Where your money is, there will your heart be also. When you say that, what I hear is "In a perfect world, I'd be raising my own kids, but I don't want to sink to your gross level of icky workingclass poverty-- I have standards."
Unfortunately for most women, it’s NOT a choice - they have to work to make ends meet because their husbands don’t make enough to support their family. I know so many women who HATE their jobs and would LOVE to stay home with their kids. And many husbands are just as brainwashed into wanting a wife who works.
Or she’s allowed to have her opinion just like you have yours. Maybe we shouldn’t come on here and call other people ignorant bc they have a different opinion. Maybe that’s less helpful than having an actual debate of why you disagree.
Bad mother.
And sometimes, it’s the Dad who stays home...
DiAnna, Your comment calling out Kathleen for being judgmental is very judgmental. You are judging her comment and telling her who not to criticize and then you are calling her statements "ignorant." I could go on. . .
And often, it costs as much as their salary, but I don't judge because it is a difficult economy out there.
I think that perhaps women entering the workforce may not have ultimately been a good thing. Just as everything else 'they' push on us, I wonder if the ulterior motive wasn't actually nefarious instead of 'fair and liberating'. .
Women were sold a rotten bill of goods by making them believe "they could have it all."
Ha, ha, want to look like a leftie, compared to me? I think the 19th Amendment was a mistake.
We took on the Communist role model.
1000% women entering work was not good. It was the beginning of womens lib too. So
I quit my corporate job to raise our kids. No regrets. I think we would have a lot less Antifa-wannabees if Dad and Mom gave their kids the time and attention that kids need to grow up feeling relevant.
Truth!
Yes, yes to many moms (not all) kids are like trophy wives. Attachments
Yes
Kathleen J - Your comment is over generalized. And you’re making a lot of assumptions. You make it sound as if working mothers are glad to dump off their kids at day care. Must be nice for you, to have had the ability to not work outside the home.
Get a grip.
I'm retired military...I actually had to work for a living.
I have always been mostly a stay at home mom although I have a freelance professional job. I agree that the generalizations aren’t necessarily helpful. I do wish though, that people would take more of a hard look at what the effects of their choices are. And I also would like to see a change in the work culture that would allow for more options so that women could still work if they chose to but didn’t have a binary choice between working or staying home. Yes there can sometimes be in between options but they’re unfortunately not as common as I think they should be and often limited to certain types of mostly unskilled work. I think that women exclusively staying home and having no outside work skills (at least ones they can “sell” as such) can put women in precarious positions.
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I remember my mother saying that in the late 50s when I was born, the experts (who were probably more honest then) said that a 5 year old should only be away from home in kindergarten for a few hours because it is all they can really handle. That is why kindergartens were half day back then.
When you tell working parents that someone else is raising their kids they get really offended and retort that they see their kids all weekend and in the evening 🙄 Yeah, sorry, that really isn’t even the majority of the time your kid is awake over the course of a week 😕 Someone else IS making the daily decisions of how to teach and discipline your kids. You chose to outsource that responsibility.
That is so sad. Those poor children.
A colleague told about dropping her little daughter off at (nursery school, I think) for her first day. They had built it up over days, "only 'x' days until you get to go to nursery school!" That night, my colleague said something to her daughter as she tucked her into bed, about going back the next day. Daughter: "You mean I have to go *again?!*" Another colleague, an older woman who had been a mother in bygone days, chuckled and asked how long she'd been in school anyway (figuring it would be like it used to be - a few hours). The answer was 12 hours, 7am to 7pm, because both parents worked jobs with long hours. One dropped her, one picked her up. The older colleague replied, "Well, that is a long time." I was appalled. Her defense is that she was on active duty in the Army, still paying back her time for having had her medical school education paid for. She left the service when she could, but I don't think she ever stayed home with her children.
"Nothing wrong with staying home to raise a child." it's the highest calling.
Later Jay
Yes.
Kathleen, I often thank the Good Lord for the years I stayed home and raised my three beloved children. The treasure of those years, pure gold, will never diminish or be forgotten.
Children are so precious...and they grow up so quickly.
The problem is men aren’t pulling their weight these days. A lot of women work bc they have to. Men need to get higher paying jobs and devote more time to their career. Men seem to be half mommies today.
I always tell young women that the warning signs are always there.
Early on. Most people just choose to ignore them.
We are all guilty of hoping the best of people only to have them disappoint us in the future.
The only thing I've done is this life that will have consequences for eternity is having my 5 kids. Wish I had trusted in G-d more and had a few more. Oh, regrets? I have a few...
Your children are lucky to have such a wonderful mother.
Oh my goodness, thank you for that comment, Kathleen. Brought me to tears.
My mom died more than 2 decades ago. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about her and the sacrifices she made. She felt that being a mom and providing a good safe home was the most important job in the world.
Moms should know that the good things they do make a impact that last a lifetime.
Lovely comment.
My Mother told me to keep an aspirin between my legs and never let it fall out! It was great advice.
But isn’t hoping hard on the knees?
Best. Job. EVER.
This is horrible in a way but I am that frustrated by this whole stupidity by now: next time I hear a liberal crowing about a woman’s right to choose I will tell them “good, I applaud your limiting the transmission of your flawed genes“ 😑
Good one. I remember confronting a woman old enough to be a grandmother about her vociferous support of abortion. I asked her, “Are you interested in getting an abortion?” Shocked, she said, “oh no, I want that option for my granddaughter.”
Likely had frown lines burrowed into her face. Over time, I have met so many of these women. So angry. And at what? Poor life choices? Reality is not what they were fed and now they will have their revenge? Forgive me if I am off base here. I try to avoid them like the plague.
Later Jay
I think you’re on target.
That’s where I’d say, oh, your granddaughter who once was in her mother’s womb?
That one?
Or even be meaner and say “yeah you’d be a terrible great grandma anyway” or “yeah she’d probably be a terrible mom anyway with her role models” 😇
That’s when you say, “good, I am glad to hear your family line will be going extinct, don’t want those genes polluting our gene pool anymore” 😛
LOL Those are the thingsI hear in my head as I walk away. I’m never quick enough!
Same 😂 I probably wouldn’t say them and I feel a little mean about thinking them but as I get older I am just more and more disgusted by how cavalier people can be about ending a baby’s life 😢
Or maybe, “good, then there will be fewer of your genes polluting the gene pool” 😑
Mr logic, this is how I'm looking at it.
They would have you believe that.
It’s actually an ancient satanic ritual, sacrificing babies.
Modern day Molech Child Sacrifice.
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According to an interview I recently watched of former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino, 7-8 visits with a pregnant patient and subsequent delivery will net an OB/GYN $1200. One abortion takes 15 minutes so he can make the same amount in an hour. It’s more lucrative to take a life than bring one into the world. 😞
Most abortions now are with RU486...
Like a portable Concentration Camp 😉
A guy in our all employee meeting wrote “my body my choice” in the chat back then. No one, even HR, responded.
The folks that work in HR are not really "people persons."
Michael Scott would agree.
Did you mean people or persons?
Hard to tell which comment you are referring to... when I click on your comment I am not taken back to the proper place on Jeff's substack.
The folks that work in HR are not really people persons. I was trying to make a joke: not people or not persons. Most of them are something else
"Human resources" has always seemed slightly creepy to me. It's like the creepy junk mail I keep getting from Humana, touting "human care."
Most of the ones I met really don't care about the employees.
Epitome of a "make work" job if I ever saw one.
It does help when folks “like” your comment, even if they don’t agree because it adds context to their reply.
There was a lot of that on our internal company bulletin board website when they were pushing the jabs. I quoted the first section of the Nuremberg Code at one point and it got promptly deleted.
There was a major disconnect between the corporate/HR types and the blue collar, feet on the ground people. The website had up to that point, while open to all employees, typically just been used for brown nosing and @$$ kissing among the laptop class. They had no idea what to do when they started getting flooded with comments by workers who were angry and had no intention of getting jabbed or being subjected to constant covid testing, and were especially not going to change their mind or their principles because the company was bribing with a couple hundred dollars.
An HR bigwig was sent down from a couple hours away to talk to me because I questioned why they were offering a discount on health insurance to jabbed employees. Politely and civilly, I might add. He wasn’t really even sure what he was supposed to say to me — they just didn’t know what the hell to do with 40% of their workforce saying “nah, not happening.” The HR guy resigned his position shortly and left the company shortly thereafter.
Thank you for holding your position and beliefs.
It was a time of personal growth — I found out a lot about myself.
And it was not just blue collar saying no to the vaxx. Maybe thinking it was all blue collar is what they want us to believe though . . .
I used that argument a couple of times. It only enraged the covidians more
The ferocity of those covidians amazed me.
Never expected some of the people I knew to turn on me like that...
They could send me crap but I was not allowed to send the truth. Our daughter asked her father to tell me not to send anything. (I had sent 2 articles). My hubs was in a bad mood and proceeded to use that moment to dump everything that was bothering him about ME. Very hurtful but we’ve been married almost 57 years and I moved on. Ha.
Rules for me, but not for thee mentality.
Considering that wacko Dr. Leanna Wen said the unvaccinated should not be allowed to leave their homes.
Yesterday my 68yo 3-4xjabbed liberal sister finally paid me a visit after 4 years of driving by my home several times a month, as she was scared to be around her unvaccinated Republican little sister 🙄 She brought up all the deaths she’s seeing. Cancers in 35yo relatives etc. I had my opening and asked “Do you think perhaps it possibly has anything to do with the Covid shots?” Absolutely not! she said emphatically. People die! Colon cancer in young people has been increasing long before Covid shots. There’s no way these shots cause this. 🤡 And I replied “but not at this rate. Especially not in the young.” and she changed the subject. Her children, in their late 30’s are all jabbed. I’m thinking one of them has to drop dead before she’ll consider the shots. Maybe not even then. Very frustrating. STILL
I'm afraid they will never make the connection.
Prions can be introduced to the brain via the covid shots...so maybe what we are seeing is cognitive decline caused by prions.
It has nothing to do with science for them anymore. I actually think it never did. One of my very best friends told me not to talk to her about it anymore because she “believes in the vaccine”. I know for a fact that she has never, not once, read or tried to explore anything beyond safe and effective BS put out on the legacy media. I agreed, but said that I was sad because I love my friends and do not want to see them harmed. That calmed her down a bit. We don’t talk about vaccines anymore and I don’t say anything when she tells me about relatives and other mutual acquaintances who are dying or have rare, strange diseases of unknown cause. I’ve had to accept she is of the Branch Covidian sect and there is nothing I can do to stop that.
What surprised me was that people who in the past had never even wanted flu shots, were all gung-ho about getting an experimental mRNA gene therapy.
I was a late in life, change of life surprise Baby of the 60s. My oldest brother who’s now 80 and a lifelong Democrat once called me years ago and immediately told me he just read a study which claimed Liberals are more intelligent than Conservatives. He was delighted to launch into that triumphant allegation rather than asking me how things were going or anything remotely meaningful about my life. That never came up at all. Probably in part because even as a young girl I was vocally pro-life, so what did he care about someone he told another brother was “too close minded about abortion?”
Nothing like Liberal love and kindness, huh? He’s also the brother that expressed unmistakable glee while informing me about another brother’s two aborted children.
I’m not close to this guy at all. Hard to believe, I know. But to his credit at least he didn’t fall for the ClotShot propaganda.
So when it comes to self-interest, some Liberals can see the bigger picture, at least as it pertains to the government.
Sad so many distrust-the-government Conservatives were happily led off to slaughter, isn’t it?
Only to happy to be a cog in the wheel of madness!
Become ungovernable!
I just realized that should have said rules for thee but not for me lol
That’s just like saying the vaccinated shouldn’t be able to have kids.......oh wait 😒
Looks like the vaccinated won't be able to procreate.
I’m also fearful that they will, and pass on this horrible potential to their offspring.
THAT'S the point, isn't it?
Although they will claim " this is different " until they are 'blue' in the face (yes, yes - pun intended!), this is the height of hypocrisy.
But what's new?
Hypocrisy is all they know 🙄
Whatever is convenient.
Never seen anything like this.
Of course, you see their point, right?
Kill the inconvenient Baby to make their life better.
Take the suicidal ClotShot along with them to make their life...
Oops.
What's even more amazing, IMO, is that The Stupid Party feat. Ronna Romney McDidiot was unable to capitalize on that tyrannical hypocrisy and dishonesty.
She's Mittens Romney's relative.
Stupid and treacherous is built into their DNA.
But, but, but, that is different!!!! Abortion is about killing the unborn baby, but taking the shot is about "protecting others", such as the already born. Completely different, can't you see it?
Either way...they both result in death.
Yep. Make it make sense!!!!
Amazing is one word for it.
"Republicans failed to properly deploy democrats’ heinous history on vaccine mandates whenever against abortion rights arguments. I’m dumbfounded that Republicans let democrats get away with all their insincere “right to choose” nonsense. What are Republicans afraid of?"
They are afraid of doing their jobs. They are afraid of the (((Epstein))) blackmail tapes that will be released. They are afraid of not being able to sell fear anymore -- that would turn off the $$$ flowing in to their coffers.
their biggest fear: not being invited to the "right" DC cocktail parties
Yup, they are all friend behind closed doors. We are the suckers...
This is absolutely true. Interned for a super-conservative "Reagan Republican" US Senator back in the day. He was best friends with Teddy "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy.
Wasn't Madison Cawthorne 'canceled' from congress because he spoke about their illicit drug use behind the scenes? I seem to remember something about cocaine and prostitutes.
So chummy 😕
They put power and money, constitutional principles and moral ordering, the long term prospects of their children, the safety of the people within secure borders ... all ahead of God and Godliness. The history of the Republican Party is at least 100 years of constant retreat under cover of meaningless words.
The Republican Party is also the party of constant warfare and of spending us into ruin. Geo. Bush told us that he was for the New World Order, his words. And his son W Jr gave us The Terror State of Total Surveillance, the effective end of all constitutional rule of law in America. The 'W' in both names is like a oscillating neon sign, first flashing 'Witless' ... and then 'Worthless'. By such and the rest of them, we have been sold into slavery and dispossessed of our inheritance.
Well said. They call themselves "conservatives", but what have they conserved?? The founding principles of limited government? A legacy for Heritage Americans? Law and order? To ask is to laugh.
Perfect description!
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The sad truth is that at the congressional level, and to a similar but somewhat lesser extent, the Republican Party operates like the mafia. Representatives must buy their way onto committees, so they need big bucks, so they either must be independently wealthy or be incredibly good fundraisers from individual donors or make deals with PACs. Most do the latter. At state level in Florida, all power is held by the Speaker of the House and the Senate President. They control the big bucks needed for election/re-election campaigns. The result is that when they say 'jump,' etc. Individual Representatives don't really represent their districts. The cure for this, which I can't see ever happening, though, is to reduce the number of people per district and so increase the number of representatives. The U.S. Constitution mandates no fewer than 30,000 per House district; the average now is over 750,000 per district. This results in voters not really knowing candidates, candidates not knowing voters, or being able to ignore them, because they have to raise a lot of money from big donors to get elected by a majority of almost a million people, which is very expensive. Why is the House capped at 435 members? Thank the regressive "Progressives;" yet another very damaging bill passed into law in that era (1913, in this case).
Yes the mafia analogy is spot on. And reforming this system would go a long way to helping change things.
I don't exactly see how to do it, as the first move would have to be increasing the number of Representatives, and I can't see them doing that. Too much big money against it. Look what it took just to get a Speaker who would pass single-subject spending bills. I'm so thankful for Matt Gaetz, but you should have seen how many Florida county party chairmen and state committeemen/women expressed anger at him at the recent meeting. Amazing.
Probably because they see their power being eroded if more people push for this.
I heard several say it was embarrassing, to which I replied I didn't think so, because it was real politics at work, instead of all the fake stuff. No response, just shocked silence, lol.
Great response 😁
1913 was a pivotal year considering the establishment of the (((Federal Reserve))) and that Atlanta pencil factory thing.
And that whole era! 17th Amendment (election of Senators by popular vote instead of by state legislatures), Prohibition, Pure Food & Drug Act, Gun Control Act of 1934, and I'm sure I'm missing many others. They were literal, admitted anti-constitutionalists and they still are.
The 19th amendment was one of the worst . . .
YES!! Selling fear!! It’s insane, and they NEVER do anything about it, how about PUT UP OR SHUT UP! I’m not buying it anymore unless they do something about it.
Plus, we have many RINO’s!
They are not afraid of anything. They are simply looking out for their self-interest. Nobody insides the Beltway cares about this country or it's people. All they care about is feathering their own nest. Everyone is on the take and everyone is compromised in some fashion. This is the truth.
There is an OCEAN of money sloshing around in the Beltway and the "love of money" has corrupted everyone. Biden (Obama) turned on a fire hose of money supply and has poured TRILLIONS of dollars into the system corrupting everything. They have literally used money to buy the country a communist/fascist political coup. This massive tidal wave of money is only just beginning to affect the American people. This tidal wave will destroy all the wealth of the average American and reduce the American middle class to poverty. The money is already created - it's coming and cannot be avoided. Eventually we will end in complete collapse. Think Venezuela. It will be a long, slow painful death.
Could it be reversed? Yes - but it won't. It would require dispossessing EVERY major political and financial interest in the country. And I mean every interest! It would require throwing the country into the worst deflationary collapse in history for at least six months while the economy re-aligns to reality. Who's going to do that assuming it can even be done? Certainly no one in the Uniparty. It would take a maverick, an outlier, someone independent who is not controlled and willing to risk all he has to get it done. Maybe there is one person that could attempt it but history has shown that anytime there is an actual threat to the established political interests, the problem is solved with a bit of hot lead.
We are still buying into the deception of the "two party system." This is apparent from the comments. There are NOT 2 independent parties. There is only one Uniparty and the "two party system" is a lie that keeps the American public thinking they actually have a choice. All lies.
The fascist system of government has taken over the whole country. This has been developing for decades... at least a century. Think 1860. The communists have captured the Democratic wing of the uniparty over the last couple of decades and slow-rolled a political coup against the American electorate that was fully manifested in 2020. There is no Republican opposition. The Republican wing are fellow travelers and enablers of the communist wing who are motivated by the military/industrial complex NeoCons who work hand-in-hand with the communists against the American people. It's all theater folks. Quit buying into it.
Pollyannas will say this is only "doom and gloom." No. This is reality. The America of the 1960's is gone. It's not coming back. When we resist - when we fight - we fight for something new. We won't see it but for the sake of our children and our grand children, we know we have to fight. The Russian people had to live with the tyranny that ruled their country for more than 70 years and nearly two decades of chaos after the collapse of the Politburo. They have re-established their society to order only in the last couple of decades. Pray that America does not have to suffer as long as they did. Pray maledictory prayers in congregational worship as David did in the Psalms against the enemies of God that He would frustrate their efforts and bring ruin upon their heads. Pray for repentance and reformation within the body of Christ that we may once again become light and salt to society. And pray for our children who come after us.
Fundamental American truth:
"We are still buying into the deception of the 'two party system.' This is apparent from the comments... It's all theater folks. Quit buying into it."
It's all theater folks. Quit buying into it!
It's all theater folks. Quit. buying. into it!
📢 It's all theater folks! QUIT BUYING INTO IT!!!
Does repetition itself ("safe and effective") increase the volume?
How, how to rewire neurocircuitry...?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/11/doug-casey/imminent-bankruptcy-of-the-us-government/
Bingo!
Cowards!
The Republicans are probably being paid off by Big Abortion just like the Dems.
Our little “Borough” as it’s called in Alaska(instead of County) voted with paper ballots yesterday. We voted last year for only paper ballots in our elections. We are a Conservative place already but the Left has been making lots of noise. I looked at our results this morning and lo and behold, it’s a near overwhelming win for Conservatives. Now if we can just get the rest of the State on board with paper only. I can’t recall when I last used a paper only ballot.
Florida did that last year for the big election day, plus we were all ID verified. The only "Red Wave" by state the US saw. Made me appreciate DeSantis for putting down the law on voting, which stopped a lot of the cheating we see from other states. I do think that if every state had the same precautions, Red would have won the country, like it actually DID in 2020!
That is awesome, very encouraging!
Any idea how you got your Alaskan borough to vote with paper ballots? Sounds like the answer!
It was placed on our ballot last year. Not sure who was behind getting it there.
Congrats to MTG for pursuing the motion to censor Tlaib! Now on to expulsion and deportation!
She could go after the pro-Jab congressmen instead of worrying about the free speech of her peers. This seems like a big 'L'.
Good point
She is not a one issue person. She is fight all the alligators in DC. I support her completely. And if she can take one down at a time, so be it... she is going in the right direction.
I’m shocked any Democrat can get elected anywhere but it either reflects the stupidity of the electorate or continued rigged elections, which I actually heard a lot of online chatter about as the results started coming in. And if any rational people still care about abortion “rights” I can only pray that God will have mercy on their evil souls.
I hope every woman who screams for the right to murder her baby never, ever gets pregnant.
I had a patient once upon a time that asked the nurse in recovery room what sex of the baby she just aborted. The nurse responded by saying, “do you have any idea what you just did to your baby? There was no recognizable sex organs when you vacuum out the contents of your uterus”. Enough said, she’s not been right since.
The evil one convinces a mother to do this. Afterwards convinces her that it’s an unforgivable sin. I pray for her healing through Christ Jesus.
Many pregnancy help clinics offer post abortion healing ministries. Also, available online. https://herchoicetoheal.com/
Please share.
I was friends with a nurse who felt that the dying fetus should be handed to the mother, and not be left in the care of grossed-out nurses.
If there were no abortion mills then there would be THOUSANDS of fewer murders and many more healthy citizens! There is forgiveness for all of us in Christ but to those who kept a little one from coming to him he should have a millstone tired around his neck and drowned. I know that I am the worse of all sinners but Jesus saved even me. Run into the flames to save some. 🙏🏼♥️ The harvest is RIPE and night is drawing nearer.
I disagree. There would be thousands more of unwanted, unloved, ANGRY citizens. My mother told us kids pretty regularly how she wished she had aborted us when she had the chance. We all grew up hating ourselves. We couldnt hate her. We needed her. (We all eventually have gone NC with her.)
I am born-again, but it does nothing to fix the deep-rooted self-hatred I have within me. I pray for death regularly. Many, many, MANY of those aborted children would be in the same boat.
I do not agree with abortion for myself. I could never have one. But a part of me understands it.
I'm sad you went through this pain of rejection your whole life. It is traumatic. I'd encourage reading some books on EMDR, a method of trauma healing that rewires your brain. But no one does EMDR to you; EMDR is effective because YOU chose what you want to change. A therapist guides you, but you are in the driver's seat and that makes a huge difference.
After seeing an EMDR therapist for a little while, I learned how to do EMDR for myself and it is an invaluable tool. Never give up on healing trauma even though it feels impossible. God has created the means and we can find and work with those tools. If you think you've failed, try again. Trauma makes us think WE are failures, when, really, it's normal to have keep trying a while before you find sucess.
Agreed. My biological mother absolutely hated me. Her boyfriend at the time (not the biological father) was kind enough to tell me that when I begged him to tell me the truth. I'm glad he did tell me. It matched what I always knew. My parents (adoptive) always told me she wanted me, and I don't think they deliberately lied, but I knew she did not and I grew up absolutely hating myself and wishing I was dead. I suspect that self hatred came from her hatred. She's now dead and while alive refused to admit I existed, so I just sit with the facts. Children born who are hated by the biological mother run the risk of picking up on that, I think. Is a whole childhood filled with self hatred a life? I personally don't think so. I would never wish that feeling on any kid, who grows up to be an adult who can carry that with them.
covering up SIN via MURDER?; very King David move. Every Child a wanted child or the tax-funded executioner awaits. However a woman is jacked up to express that to her own children is ALSO a problem, excusing abortion for mental health issues is INSANE
Unfortunately true. There was a measurable drop in crime 15-18 years after Roe v Wade as many young women aborted their unwanted pregnancies. Teenage girls are often unqualified to care for a child, which leads to the child not being nurtured and having a proper upbringing. It is a complicated issue, it and can looked at from different perspectives.
Suffering the consequences of one's own choices and decisions is important, but rarely done anymore, at least in the near term.
Mom should see and hold her “Mission Accomplished.”
It sounds as if the nurse was repulsed by the abortion. Why then, was she continuing to take part in the killing????
in many hospitals you can't opt out. I lost a great OB/GYN who was pro-life. he was kicked out of the entire hospital system here because he would not perform abortions.
You could hold a loaded gun to my head and I’d still never kill an innocent human being.
I hope you never have to find out. We are all the most righteous in our own minds until a real test finds us out.
Some women act like getting an abortion is akin to having a tooth pulled.
They feel it is "no big deal."
Tragic! I would not want to be in front of our Lord and Saviour, with that child whole holding His hand and be judged for that sin of taking its life!
Thankfully for me Jesus took my sin and I will have the greatest pleasure to embrace that child!
Please don’t take my comment as a judgement for God, alone, judges. It was more for those that declare abortion as a dental appointment. Yes, he takes your sin and throws it “as far as the east is to the west”.
Well they often compare a baby to a tumor so… 😕
Funny you use that analogy. It's nearly the same one I used back in the early 1990s, observing the young female soldiers I saw in clinic after having had off-post abortions. I just said they saw it as similar to going to the dentist - not pleasant, but one must do it, for 'health' or something.
Birth control was readily available to every female in the military even back in the 1970s.
Easy. And free. No charge for birth control pills and IUDs.
Always thought those gals were just too lazy to take control with their health.
I did a little survey of those we treated post-ab, out of curiosity about use of free birth control. A lot of missed pills and non-use of what was freely provided, just as you'd expect out of young people. No wonder we used to use age 21 as the age of majority. Not a guarantee of a working brain, but a little more likely.
Yes it takes 2, maybe not fair - but ultimately the responsibility falls on the woman otherwise SHE pays the price of an unexpected & probably unwanted pregnancy.
So sad
Myself and others recently stood on a very busy area as part of a Life Chain event. One woman parked her car, her passenger got out and began snatching signs and ripping them. At another location someone tossed a baby doll covered in simulated blood out a window. They have no problem espousing murder of innocent life. May God help us!
Many years ago, at least 20 I'd say, we stood silently on a sidewalk by a busy road and held signs saying Stop Abortion Now. I remember one person screaming as he drove by, "Kill them all!" Others expressed their dislike in various ways. Demonic!
It is demonic. We used to do Life Chain as well but there was so many obscenities screamed and gestured at us that once we had small kids we stopped. Once they get older we may go again, but it's hard to know you're placing your children in a hostile environment on purpose. It would be very easy for a crazy to jerk the wheel and 'own the horrible Christians'...
So sad and true that some are capable of such hate.
Horrific behavior.
BabyKillers are ambitious.
You might get your wish with the C19 jabs ... with sterility embedded in many of the batches.
I guess that would be a blessing in disguise.
Maybe so. Hard to tell these days. And if the whole house of cards came down on us, maybe that would end the funding by debt spending of our self-destruction as a country with an empire. But the suffering and death would be horrific. And maybe that would be worth it, an ending of the ongoing misery.
But I remind myself, because it is all beyond my personal ability to calculate. In the end, we cannot figure everything out by rational thinking processes. And then, being so ... we are all in the hands of God.
These monsters don't deserve to know the joy of raising a child. Perhaps they will all die out like a virus once it has killed all of its hosts and can no longer replicate.
Animal abusers shouldn’t be around animals so you’re right. If they’re willing to kill their son or daughter, imagine what they’ll do to the ones they let live.
It's amazing what growing life can do to change a person though. God is Sovereign, Good, and JUST.
I was young and ignorant at one time. I can totally see how Democrats get elected, especially among the college-aged crowd and new voters who've never had to pay for anything. :/
Exactly how I feel...they don’t think they will have answer for this to God when in line at the Golden Gate? I believe this is why so many females are lib...want to hang onto the right to kill their babies.
The idea of legally killing anyone, even their own son or daughter, delights these inhumane, bully females.
The electorate is a little like Obama comment of Joe the Jerk Biden ... i.e., never underestimate Joe's ability to F things up.
Going to the polling place is like watching children in oversized grown-up cloths going to act out.
God is going to extinguish them unless they change their ways. Murder is murder. Modern day sacrifices to Moloch.
I loved Jeff's analysis about Republicans not turning pro choice back on the bolshevik party vis a vis jab mandates. Cowards, yes for sure. But also, too damned many were complicit, and they did not want them turned around on them too. All that said, I live in Virginia , and it is NOT a liberal state overall. Northern VA AKA DC for sure, Richmond, Hampton Roads, VA beach, Charlottesville, Williamsburg. Big areas for sure, but the rest is red. Virginia has adopted voting season , mail in ballots, and other obvious fraud measures like most of the rest of the country. You can't overcome that. As long as we continue to allow electronic stealing machines, and all of the other measures that have been allowed to pervert the forms same day vote same day results, it's a lost cause. I mean they even said absentee ballots have to be in by ( I forget the date, but after voting day). WTF?? Youngkin as far as I know made no effort to roll back any of these cheating mechanisms while he still had the opportunity. I said it before and I'll say it again, be wary of embracing "the lesser of two evils, ", with obvious "tells" they are not the white knights we might think they are. I mean former CEO of the George Bush 41 creation Carlyle Group? Do not forget the same backers of Youngkin also back De Santis. This is going to be a very long, uphill battle
Agree. I’m in NoVA - home of Ms Flip off Trump - who won again. As an Independent - I trust none of them. The R’s keep “missing opportunities”...hmm...I suspect they want the same thing D’s want but just at a slower pace. I’m seriously considering moving to a red county - at least my neighbors won’t be in your face radical socialists.... but would still be under ‘blue’ rule. Disgusted 100%
They want the same thing. Long ago I noticed that R and Ds alike attend the same 'focus' groups ... WEF, CFR, Tri-Lat, Builderburgers, etc. It's one giant club and we are not in it. (Slave work the Plantation while the Masters go on trips.)
Yes - this exactly! We are caught up in D vs R - but the globalists include all those people. We the people are screwed.
C'mon over. We need to balance out the masses of Washingtoadians who have moved in since they were allowed to work remotely. Still flooding in
And bringing their crappy progressive values with them....
It still feels oppressive in a pink area. We pushed out a little further just this year but watching the school district lose traction stings just knowing the folks that send their kids to public schools here just don't care enough what happened to their kids' education over the last few years. I was hopeful there would be a better balance of board members this time but NOPE.
“Rich men north of Richmond”!!🤦♀️
I live in northern Maryland and it is the same. Most of these areas are rural and conservative. You'd never know it though, because Maryland is controlled by the very liberal counties bordering DC. I would absolutely love to see that stranglehold broken up by scattering every single government agency in DC all over the country.
I've driven through much of it, so I know you are right. Brasilia was a great idea. So is yours.
The problem tends to be the "big city" areas. Outside of those - people tend to be pretty reasonable. The big cities - mostly just little rational thought about anything. :/
The Biggest Problem is that all major policy is orchestrated from the United Nations, its agencies and designates (like NGOs for example). The Uni-Party is merely Kabuki Theater for the masses.
The UN people are the authors of the creepy grooming sex education initiatives in the UK, and their latest---if you see all those leaders wearing the little rainbow circle pins at conferences---are the Inner Development Goals, intended to replace religion and usher in the sustainable development goals. Totally cult like indoctrination, sort of Scientological, being taught in Europe now. I keep thinking how the Texans were prescient. They've suspected the UN for fifty years, not that they didn't have their pockets of throwbacks like the KKK, but their response to Jade Helm, which seemed over the top, now seems possibly prescient also.
Also behind the massacre of the Western World by demographic genocide.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HUklrX2dVk4
https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/
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They love government control and not being responsible for their own decisions and actions 😕
Don’t want to be in the big cities when the shtf.
Here's hope; capitalize on it by helping your local Republican Party or club or other conservative group to go into these areas and educate voters; help them change party affiliation; and spread the reality that we do care about them and about their lives.
"The Emerging Working-Class Republican Majority: The coalition that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was no one-off.
"Joe Biden is faltering among the core Democratic groups that were once the mainstay of “the party of the people” —working-class voters of color. Numerous polls have shown Trump reaching nearly 20 percent of the Black vote and drawing to within 10 points of Biden among Hispanic voters. Even if these shifts were to only partly materialize in November 2024, they would signal a lasting realignment poised to upend the party system we’ve known since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/04/new-republican-party-working-class-coalition-00122822
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How is not voting at all, or voting for the opposition (which are the only alternatives I see if one isn't going to "embrace the lesser of two evils" by voting for the Republican one wishes were someone else), thereby allowing the opposition to take full control, somehow a better option? This is a serious question.
Agree. I don’t understand this pov.
In fact Gov. 'Carlyle' Youngkin had Vote Early ads targeted to Virginia voters plastered all over YouTube. Youngkin is a Trojan Horse NWO man ... as sell out R establishment as they come. He is a part of the fake election system.
Same in Colorado.
Yep. Youngkin was better than the alternative, at least at first blush. But there are red flags...
I agree that Youngkin is a weak leader, but he did do another thing right In addition to helping our local school boards: he said unapologetically that we must remain pro-life, and not compromise on this most important issue.
Dimwits in Pittsburgh care more about who is coaching the Steeler's offense than who is leading the state! It's a continuous stream of "get me another Bud-light and get out of the way of the tv, I can't see the game" in this sh*thole.
Neither is Illinois but for that dark blue shlthole on the lake and the collar counties.
Illinois
I finally got to liked C&C 1st !!!! I tried so many times, but from Florida to NY takes some time.... to get in my phone.
And first comment. Take the rest of the day off, Ed.
Lol!
Congratulations! You win an all-expense trip to Kiev, er, Kyiv, er, Kevin, er...whatever. Bring some body armor and your checkbook. Do you have any combat experience? Asking for a friend, who can play the piano in a most unusual manner.
🤣😆😂!
Damn ! Let's get you a brick wall and a spot light!
And then you got bumped down here.
You can always set it to “chronological” so it’s first again 😁
Winner winner! ☕️☀️
Hahahah! I'm up early and on it like flies on 💩 as soon as I see it come in. Congrats for being first! It is a fun game!
If you are in Ohio....
Please call and/or email your Ohio Representative and Senator today. Ask them to:
1. Conduct immediate hearings in the Ohio Legislature to address the ramifications of the more than 50 state laws, which conflict with the new Article I, Section 22 of the Ohio Constitution.
2. Ask that the Ohio General Assembly to immediately pass a joint resolution to replace and repeal Section 22 with a more reasonable framework in the 2024 November election.
See this news release -
https://aproundtable.org/ohio-roundtable-responds-to-the-election-result-on-ohio-issue-1/
3. My own opinion/observation - Seeing the actual language was not a part of our voting experience. Why? Since we have electronic voting, why isn't the actual ballot language shown on the screen before or during the voting experience? I am urging my state representative and senator to change this. I believe this confused the voters. The actual language for local initiatives were directly on ballots and in my opinion, I question whether voters assumed the ballot Summary was the actual language. I am asking that the voter experience should be changed in the future and that the actual ballot language be a part of the voting experience.
They’ve been doing this for decades in Oregon. It’s all on the ballot BUT you cannot understand what a yes or no vote actually means. They purposely confuse the voters into not understanding what their vote actually means. It’s all part of the shameful criminal evil plan.
Illinois. Well wait! The dead know how to vote the right way wrong.
That is a common trick--around here blamed on legally “required” language. Yeah. We had a library referendum. The first one failed because it was basically gibberish. The second time it was reworded along with better PR and it passed.
Amen from here in Oregon
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I live in Ohio and I think it was made very clear that a "yes" vote on Issue 1 meant you were FOR abortion. I think the reason it passed is because "humanity," as we want to think of it, is dying/dead and gone.
It has become more and more obvious that people are willing to sacrifice their own children. Look at the mess that IS our schools. Look at what is being shoved down our kids' throats. Marxism. Inverse racism. White privilege. The transgender push. Hiding things from Mom and Dad. Porn in the school libraries. Kids who are allowed to come to school pretending they are cats. Look at how parents lined up to inject their kids with unproven, neither safe, nor effective jabs.
What hope is there for the country's future when parents are willing to turn over their own children to the state?
Agreed, it spelled it out clearly.
I’m in Ohio too and totally agree! My polling station was all 40’ish and older people (nice size line) it’s not the young 20’s voters showing up voting yes. Can’t believe how many “yes” signs are in our very strong red county. Sad!
Look up Jonathan Cahn. His books are about what has happened and is happening. Interesting. The demonic spirits are alive and well in the USA.
Reasonable request tho ballot language can be tricky to the point that a vote “yes” can be a “no” & visa versa. I believe this is intentional.
It happens everywhere; usually a Demoncrat tactic. Do the research on ballot initiatives before you head to the polls or you may be tricked!
Hubs and I spend a significant amount of time with a sample ballot and research any referendums and candidates as well as judges and their past rulings and affiliations. Then we each carry our marked up ballot along so we don’t forget how we intend to vote.
We do the same!
Most don’t bother to read or understand the initiatives. CA voted to allow the legislature unlimited power to raise the already exorbitant gas tax. How about “free bins? - allowed tptb to charge for waste disposal, overriding city charter that waste is already included in property taxes.
I had a paper ballot with all the verbiage on it in my neck of the woods in Ohio.
Ditto
You had the 46 pages of Issue 2 on your ballot?
No, I didn't. I had a paper ballot though. I thought you weren't getting the verbiage we get on the paper ballot on your electronic ballot. My mistake.
People also need to take personal responsibility to go onto govt websites and read what exactly they are voting for. Have done this for years and it's quite enlightening.
I heard rebuttals from liberals about the implications of a "Yes" vote - including the parental consent. They were saying "but there are laws in place for that ... parents don't have to worry ..."
I'm no attorney, but I'm pretty sure that when a "law" conflicts with a "constitution," the latter wins.
The dimtards use Kamel-toe, knees-up Harris' speech writer to draft the ballot language - they are intentionally a word salad that nobody can understand.
And this is why I independently research these items (and individuals) prior to going to the polls, and know how I should vote.
I hate an ignorant electorate!
I voted last night and saw some pretty clear language on the screen about what issues 1 and 2 were about. Although I'd made my decision before going, I read it anyhow and seem to remember it was what I'd previously read online. I didn't see anything abbreviated. For "online", I mean I go to sites ahead of time that show the entire ballot issue and I don't bother with sites that are taking a side, even if it is a side I support. I want a clear, unbiased picture of what I'm voting on so I can make a decision based on everything the issue does or could do. So it sounds like I am misreading you here, what was not included? I could be missing something.
My ballot only had the summary that was drafted by the Secretary of State. (I think that is who drafts the summary.) My electronic ballot never showed me the actual language that gets written into our Constitution of Issue 1 or the statue language (46 pgs) of Issue 2.
Same thing in Michigan last year! They’re all using the same playbook...and Republicans don’t know about compromise; we go for broke...and lose.
"Governor Beshear’s re-election, even in red Kentucky, did not shock anyone."
And not one single penny from McConnell's war chest. Again.
We need to eliminate national PACs ability to control where the money goes.
I know that we are Babylon when voters make it a constitutional right to have a child sacrificed up to birth. All I know is that everyone better get right with God sooner rather than later
Malachi 3:16-18 (ESV)
"Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him."
Good roundup, Jeff…disturbing results, again, in Pennsylvania as Dims swept state judges seats, will be difficult for any R to win PA next year fir prez and US Senate …wake up fellow Pennsylvanians
Pennsylvania cheated...again.
Paper ballots, Election Day voting only. And required to appear in person at the registrars office to request an absentee ballot except for those serving overseas.
You probably felt the need to shower afterwards.
Speaking of digital...last Friday, and over the weekend, ACH direct deposits were not being put into people's bank accounts. Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and others had "problems."
Too much dependence on digital, which can go supremely haywire.
But, maybe that is the point.
Texas has been doing that a while too. I’m in Tech and know it’s easily manipulated. I don’t know if voting is worth it anymore.
Anything digital can be manipulated too easily, just like statistics.
Ditto in NEPA - first time not signing the book. Place was deserted.
But happy that I could vote for a "Judge Smail" if only for the Caddyshack reference.
mzlizzi, you can come live in my sh*ithole city of Pittsburgh - we could feel icky together!
How about that idiot just elected County Commissioner?
Stupid Sara kept bragging that "abortion was on the ballot." And she won.
At least we got to keep the current DA instead of that Soros funded Dugan.
"in Pennsylvania as Dims swept state judges seats". Just in time for the General Election next year. How fortuitous.
Too bad all the J6ers didn't dress up like deranged transtards--they wouldn't be in jail now, they'd be free to express themselves at any demonstration they choose!
Donna Trump prances into NY Courthouse to Judge's applause
That would be next level trolling 🤣😂
Dancing with the Trans-Stars could be his next TV gig; He/they are a bit too tall and big boned to pull it off gracefully but low heels, fishnet stockings and a sparkly tiara with matching earrings might help
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"I dance more gracefully and am a more beautiful contestant than any of the overweight unattractive women, I WIN BIGLY and the runner up is a chump. Even Melania is a touch jealous."
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Here's what abortion politics in the US currently boils down to. People have a choice: They can have public safety, prosperity, a stable currency, thriving communities, good schools, honesty in public affairs, and the rule of law. Or they can have unlimited access to abortion. They can't have both, they have to choose. And in Ohio and Michigan, a landslide number of people chose to throw it all away so that could be guaranteed - in the even that their contraception failed - that they could have unlimited amounts of recreational sex without being burdened by the curse of children. That's all that appears to matter to them at the decision making margin.
My Scripture quote today is therefore from Genesis 6:5: "The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually."
Just as in the days of Noah.
WilliamD, I'm quoting you elsewhere. This is a great summary.
And that’s where they fail because they have been taught to believe children are a curse.
continually….
Yes. Well said.
Ronna McDaniels is doing exactly what she’s supposed to do...lose elections. I’m a bit disappointed in Mr Childers. You don’t see anything weird about the elections? You think the American ppl are so dumb that even though the Democrats are off the rails we just keep voting for them? In Kentucky the ppl voted Republican down the line but yet they keep voting Democrat for Governor? None of that seems odd Mr Childers?
It’s what happened in Brazil. Mr Bolsanaro’s Party won throughout the country, yet the ppl voted against Bolsanaro. Have we got it yet? Once Newsom or even Sleepy Joe are back in the White House come Jan 2025 will we finally admit something is wrong? Or will we just think the Republicans were just off message?
If we learned anything it’s that Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis are the poster kids for turning a blind eye to the truth. Will we follow them?
This is my suspicion too. Rigged elections. Banana Republic. Can't say for sure. But on the other hand, does anybody see any accountability anywhere?
??? Yours Truly,
Wondering in Virginia
P.S. By having seen the same 'late night' pattern here in Virginia, I also suspect that Trump actually won Virginia. 'The Late Nighters' in NoVa seemed to have 'delivered'.
I'll be honest -- I belong to one of those nextdoor apps and here locally, in a suburb, SO many people announced their support for Beshear. SO many. Probably the same people who were outraged there was a thread about the sexually explicit books here in the local school district because they wanted to make sure parents have no say in what happens in the schools. I wouldn't believe it either if I didn't see it with my own eyes but yes, even though I think of myself as living in a conservative area, there are obviously many liberals within. I"m not discounting any fraud, just acknowledging what I've seen of how many seemingly brainwashed democrats here were still in full support of Beshear, despite everything.
The same thing happened in NC in 2020. Red counties voted for Republican legislators and judges, etc. and also voted to re-elect our Democrat governor. I spoke to our very-conservative Lt. Gov (R) and he does not believe that was due to widespread election fraud. He said he spoke to many, many conservative voters who voted for the governor because “he did such a good job keeping us safe during covid.” How do we counter THAT?
All the senior conservatives around me still think masks, distancing, closing schools and churches, one-way aisles in stores, destroying all those small businesses, the vaccine mandates, were worth it because it enabled them to survive the plague.
😢 if that’s what’s happening then it’s hopeless. I lived in CA for 25 years and I know what the Democrats model is. It’s where they get to do what ever they want and the Republican Party exist in name only. Isn’t that what we’ve got now?
CA doesn’t even usually have R’s on the ballot. It’s usually 2 D’s.
I'm in SoCal. If there are only D's on the ballot here I will refuse to vote.
Not always the case (and sorry I don’t remember specifics), but the top two candidates face off in any run-off elections, even if they’re both Democrats. I still try.
With the big loss in Ohio to the pro-abortion crowd, you can see what we're up against.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/abortion-is-a-jewish-value-and-should-be-safeguarded-national-council-of-jewish-women-680255
Same forces that made all money and resources go from Ukraine to the middle east. Very powerful lobby. They will not stop until abortion on demand is everywhere. It seems to be a winning issue for them.
And a shameful state of humanity that thinks it’s okay to murder an unborn child but not okay to decide what gets injected into your body. The stupidity of humanity is overwhelming.
That is heartbreaking to me. I worked in OB for 27 years and it makes me cry thinking of these innocent precious babies being subjected to torture and death in what should be the safest place they will ever be in their lives.
That is a horrible and sad truth in describing abortion.
“.......innocent precious babies being subjected to torture and death in what should be the safest place they will ever be in their lives.”
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I'm sure the "Catholics for Choice" campaign, funded by elite non-Catholics, that placed 30 deceptive and misleading pro-abortion billboards throughout Ohio really had an effect. Warren Buffet should be ashamed of himself for supporting this group. He probably has investments in abortion medical equipment or research that requires fetal tissue.
Infiltration into LDS, Catholic, private schools, the Marxists do not stop, the low hanging fruits were plucked first now they WANT each and every church, community, family, and individual...No Joke Man, they're ALL Our kids! I had a client who met the OBAMya Admin. LDS outreach head; Gov. Polis in CO has done similar "outreach" into religious education institutions. Where's their 'WALL" of Separation that they view as unbreachable???? Neo-Marxists WANT our Faith, Family, and individuals under their direction and control, they want to arbitrate and dole out Freedom, they want to own the Future and are working like an invasive swarm of ants to achieve it on a global scale.
I'm so pissed to see my church split on so many issues. This deceptive and evil infiltration happened as quickly as electricity moves.
Lutheran Missouri Synod must be the last Protestant Denominational holdout, or maybe they're gone now too, it's an assault by powerful erosive forces. Sickness and false gospels and wolves in the sheepfold indeed! Rob-there's no Hell-Bell, Judah Pro-Choice Smith, The Fairy-God Pope Francis, the Satanic Synagogue, Andy Dandy Stanley, the long list of corrupted and compromised--Billy Graham's Grandscum(?), Falwell, Hillsong, it's everything the Rabbi and Apostolic Crew said it would be.
This article explains how Issue 1 passed in Ohio. 1) 3-1 investment in pro-choice vs. pro-life. The investment for pro-choice was heavily from outside of US and the investment in pro-life was mainly from Ohio. 2) there was also a ballot measure to legalize marijuana which would have drawn out the liberals to vote (they would also be pro-choice with no thought toward the timing of abortion being allowed). https://www.lifenews.com/2023/11/07/ohio-passes-issue-1-to-allow-killing-babies-in-abortions-up-to-birth/
I’m so glad there are no ‘so called’ Christian groups promoting abortion! Oh, wait…🧐
Jer 10:23
I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself,
that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Correct me, O Lord, but in just measure;
not in your anger, lest you bring me
to nothing.
Of course. I can’t imagine that they would be praying.
The same thing happened in my State of Michigan in 2022. And the pro-abortion turnout assured Gretchen Whitmer's re-election. So sad!
Huh? I'm not getting it. How is abortion a "Jewish value"? No offense to anyone and I am far from a biblical scholar, but I am not following how that makes any sense at all since abortion was not mentioned in any bible I've read, although admittedly I have not read an entire bible. Maybe it's not supposed to make sense.