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Feb 19·edited Feb 19Liked by Jeff Childers

Some time ago I was sporting a 105 temperature, severe flu like symptoms and hallucinating about Aztec temples and dead relatives to which the doctor in charge of my "care" was quite adamant that I just needed to work through a nasty virus. At the prodding of my wife - who is far more intelligent than I - the doc begrudgingly took a closer look at the wilted piece of celery before her (yours truly). Turns out I had pneumonia and a dandy little case of sepsis to boot. Aaaand, here comes the IV. That was heavenly. Wife 1, Doctor 0.....and I go on to enjoy a few more pizzas.

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Docs these days are trained to look at computers and lab results, and many forget to look at the patient.

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Feb 19Liked by Jeff Childers

Had a friends mother-in-law go to the ER with what they thought was a UTI. The ER physician basically said she had a fever here are some antibiotics and Tylenol. Wouldn't even test her for UTI. They returned home and later in the evening had to call an ambulance as her fever spiked to 107. She had a UTI which had turned septic because they didn't treat it earlier. What are they teaching in medical school these day? Are they only learning how to ask people's genders and how to make sure to get someone's pronouns correct. It seems like you are taking your life in your own hands when you seek medical treatment. You definitely have to push back. It's like these "doctors" are on another planet.

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I worked in health care. These days ALWAYS ALWAYS ask lots of questions, go behind them and verify that their advice is sound given the circumstances and your own research , and get second or third opinions. Also read the book DON'T LET YOUR DOCTOR KILL YOU by Erika Schwartz MD.

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In one of Del Bigtree's recent episodes, The Highwire, he stated that 58% of people polled are now doing their own medical research.

So all those years ago when I was doing my own research and everyone thought I was crazy, they've now joined me. YAY!!!!!!

One of the best links I found on C&C was Dr. Clark's, The Cure for All Diseases:

Free Pdf download in this link:

https://drclarkstore.com/products/the-cure-for-all-diseases

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Austin, Yes the media, medical establishment went after those that did their own research were unqualified to do so. Yet around the Black Friday and holiday sales, the media encouraged everyone "to do your own research" to get the best deals.

Need to buy a toy at the best price--do your own research. You want to survive a medical intervention--don't do your own research.

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Pregnant? Research the heck out of car seats and nursery schools. Just be sure and jab your kids with “vitamin K” and HEP B (of all things!) the instant they pop

out of the

birth canal. Don’t read up on that at all.

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Yes, Dr Hulda Clark was excellent!

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Doctors routinely use Google for diagnosis. However, if the average person does this, you’re a hack.

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You can also download a free PDF version. Easy to search.

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Yes! DON'T LET YOUR DOCTOR KILL YOU! A very good slogan!

The doctor we use mostly for blood work told us the Killer Jabs were safe and effective. I asked him why he said that. Well! It was because he 'did the research'.

Translation: the doctor read the Big Pharma literature! And there! That should settle all doubts!

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We're dealing with "corporate automatons" now who are "speaking the corporate jargon"--THEY'RE NOT REAL DOCTORS anymore!

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Pretty much all of the universities’ medical schools are now funded by pHarma.

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One of my favorite doctor influencers Dr Ken D Berry (family physician in TN) wrote. Book entitled, “LIES MY DOCTOR TOLD ME” which is a great book!

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Another great one: “LIES I TAUGHT IN MEDICAL SCHOOL” I forget the author…

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I took my SO to the ER last weekend for severe pain. He’s very stoic about pain, as he lives with pain daily. It was so intense that night, he was uncontrollably crying out. I practically raced to the ER, almost learning how to make my car into a flying car. At the ER, the first doctor, who was seeing the same level of pain I was, asked some questions and because he had prior conditions, I could see the doctor’s mind start closing, fitting his pain into one of the preexisting categories, which was also the easiest to treat. I was like- wait. He’s been living with that for 2 years. It has never hurt, never mind this much. That broke through the cognitive barrier and so he called a surgeon to assess. The surgeon had the opposite attitude, thankfully. Now I’ve been misdiagnosed or given shrugs my whole life by conventional medicine (since 6 yo that I can recall and I am GenX so many decades) so I’ve learned to assume the worst. (If not for alternative medicine, I’d be long dead. My will to live was shot at one juncture and when that goes, it isn’t long after that you go). So I was really attuned to the nonverbal communications that usually accompany the average corporate medical practitioner and recognized I needed to challenge the theory of my man’s case. I can see how many people would simply accept the verbal reassurance of any intervention offered up, hoping that it’s all resolved and that it isn’t a bigger deal. It’s human nature. Denial, wishful thinking, rationalization, are common defense mechanisms we turn to in crisis.

The surgery went superbly, by the way. I was grateful to that surgeon. Credit where it is due. People at large need to develop their relationship with their gut (instinct; intuition; somatic intelligence). Your frontal lobe activity can be fooled (rather easily, unfortunately). Our human bodies are built to survive. That intelligence is much harder to fool.

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Good for you, for your persistence. What I've been seeing is a total lack of intellectual curiosity. Doctors shrug, say they don't know, and send me home. You must have something easily diagnosable or treatable, or they just flat aren't interested.

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They never ever want to hear about any type of home remedy that might actually work. And they hate that we read the internet.

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ABSOLUTELY true - everything you have stated here. MUCHAS GRACIAS, Dorothy (how's Toto these days - (smile)!!

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And remember that iodine, garlic and oregano oil will kill sepsis.

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I swear garlic is a miracle drug. A cut-up clove 1-3 times per day.

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All three at one time - or taking just ONE of those. I was taking "oil of oregano' for inflammation a few years ago - that was HORRIBLE. What kind of iodine and what 'potency'??

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You can buy oil of oregano in gel caps. Our favorite brand is Oreganol. North American Herb and Spice brand. ( oregano oil P73). We also have put a couple drops under tongue for sore throats and it is unpleasant. But not as unpleasant as a sore throat. 🤪🤪

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p.s. If I or a family member had sepsis yes, I would throw all of them at it, but carefully spaced and with diet to support healing too. Raw garlic crushed in broth for example is a meal which does multiple beneficial things at once.

I use Lugol's 5% but very sparingly because I have no underlying conditions but am still toxic from a lifetime in the pool/fluoridated supplies etc.. Two drops internally in the morning would keep me awake all night for example.

Each person must learn what they can handle because each body is different. Sorry I can't be more specific to you personally, but there is a protocol to avoid overloading detox pathways. It's really worth trying to get one's head around. It's extraordinarily valuable.

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Oregano oil in capsules is a fantastic antibiotic, I use other things for inflammation so ymmv.

If you scroll just up or down you'll see a collection of Earthclinic links; each is to one of the three mentioned powerful natural antibiotics and has all the relevant details.

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Sharon, if you put some avocado or olive oil in a spoon, and then add the oregano oil drops to that... it goes down much easier! I use oregano oil for ear aches as well...

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I love Italian food!

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Thank you for the reminder!!

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I bet you that's a great book - My daughter is on her fourth uti in 9 months and my daughter solved it herself with a tik tok video because her dr.'s (Primary, urgent care, ER, Nurses, etc) did nothing except prescribe the exact same antibiotic for the exact same length of time - (4) times. They don't even pretend to have knowledge anymore. They look up the protocol and read what it says.....

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What did your daughter do, exactly? I tend towards chronic UTIs too. :(

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It's a little bit of a long story but here's my best shot: After UTI#4 in well under a year, we tried multiple things, including seeing a urologist and a naturopathic Dr. What happens is the antibiotic does not get all of the bacteria and what is left is covered by biofilm - this is best described here: https://uqora.info/blogs/learning-center/biofilms-and-their-role-in-recurrent-utis Garlic suppositories & a protocol of supplements HELPED a lot but did not prevent the existing uncleared bacteria from re-emerging. The urologist said in order to overcome the biofilm - she simply needs to stay on the antibiotic for an additional (3) days and then come back for a highly sensitive pcr test done in her office. By taking this test, she can SEE if the bacteria is fully cleared or not. She'll take the test weekly for two weeks. Then take uQuora regiment for 1-2 months. In that time frame - radically cut back on sugar and abstain from alcohol plus clean diet. Once fully cleared, you can then do all the necessary steps to prevent a NEW infection. That's the current plan.

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Also, had a friend's husband who had been hiking in Canada. While she was out of town, he became delirious and some church members took him to the local ER. The doctor in the ER accused him of being drunk which would be impossible since he never drinks alcohol. Turned out he had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. He got a tick bite in Canada.

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Or depressed…it’s always depression. I remember a case of “hysterical blindness.” It wasn’t.

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The only thing depressing is when you go to the doctors office (occasionally it has to be done) and they ask you all those depressing questions to see if you are depressed. It's a suggestive selling (antidepressants) ploy.

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Just happened to me at a recent physical! (I HAVE to get regularly bc of migraines). First question out of the gate…do I ever feel depressed?! How is my mental health? Really?? And then proceeded to prescribe 3 diff tests, one a bone density….I’m 51 🤨

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🎯

Our kiddo wanted to why they had to answer the depression screen at their last visit. “I wasn’t going to answer anything ‘yes’ because then you had to fill out the back of the questionnaire and I don’t like filling those out.” 🤣🤣🤣

I told our kiddo they never have to answer any questions they don’t want to.

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Gender is a word they came up with in the '60s. Male or female, period.

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Gender used to be only used in context of which pronoun to use for males (he, him) & females (she,her).

As usual Leftist Libs twist words & use that skill to their advantage.

Abortion became reproductive rights. What’s reproductive about snuffing out a human life?

Same-Sex marriage is another. God instituted “marriage” between a man & a woman.

I’d rather please my God than any man(kind).

Same-sex unions maybe, but not marriage.

Btw, most dictionaries started evolving the definition of marriage years ago easing up to today.

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Looking for books for a toddler these days is like navigating a cow pasture.

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Feb 19·edited Feb 19

I don't know how old you are but when I was a kid "How To Eat Fried Worms" was a rite of passage. I was recently looking for a copy for my son and I found out it's banned. Gay porn for kindergarten, fine, wholesome book for young boys, banned.

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Hunt antique stores and used book shops. I find lots of good old children's books there. If you know a title, Amazon usually links to a used copy available somewhere.

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You have a way with words and images, Fred!

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Always makes me cringe when I hear them say "reproductive healthcare" as a euphemism for abortion. As if killing an unborn child is healthcare. Or reproductive. Kind of the opposite of both. But, it's also telling in that they know their position is unpopular or they'd call it by its real name.

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Alfred Kinsey and his cohort came up with the word, "gender." That should give us the best reason not to use it...

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I always say gender only applies to language…when I took French in high school, there were two genders, “masculine” and “feminine “. C’est tout!

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Perverts. Even word perversion. Figures!

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And then there is the word 'Partner'. Words like Husband and Wife are semi-outlawed (discourage) because they point too much towards sex distinction. Oops! I mean gender distinction!

Their mis-use of language is Word Sorcery ... and the casting of spells to daze the mind. But the good news is that this bit of Black Magic is not working out as well as it used to.

The best thing to do is to never use 'their words'. Never misuse the word 'gender'. Always use husband and wife, not my partner (unless you are a cowboy or cowgirl with a friendly greeting ... Howdy Partner!). And so on.

I am, for example, loathe to use 'vaccine'. I much prefer Death Jab or the like.

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I do appreciate the word "partner" when someone literally means "we are living together / de-facto but not legally married", which is more common these days. Or, "we are long-term 'dating' (sleeping together) but haven't decided if we'll move in together yet". But I prefer the word "spouse" (or just husband/wife, if being specific) for someone who is actually married.

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I thought they picked it because nouns in Romance languages, those descended from Latin, are classified in gender as masculine, feminine, or neuter, allowing them to pretend it's a word used in biology to imply more than two biological sexes.

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Fla Mom ... this is what I think too. And as a sort of advertising trick as in ... take something real and really suggestive, and draw a thread from that real thing to something else unrelated (like The Product) ... and plant an emotional connection to where it otherwise would not exist.

In reality, gender in contemporary mis-usage is the thread of 0 + 0 = 0 to into the land where nothing has any meaning, including our natural existences.

Think of it all as Word Sorcery and the Casting of Spells.

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“Reproductive rights” is a twisted notion. To reproduce or not is a right. Not killing lives we reproduce is a responsibility.

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I read up in Wikipedia on the 1994 invention of "Reproductive Justice"; a conspiracy of Academics and malcontented quasi-science Progressives; but they want consenting, informed individuals (from early childhood on) in charge of every facet of their personal sexual health and function...not society, the State, church, just the medical-science experts to educate and advise (awash in State funding) and the healthy, stable, rational individual

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Mostly the perverts came up with it. IMO, gender is only "real" insofar as it's a set of roles that society/history/culture assign to people according to their biological sex. My thought is that this is part of why the leftists wanted to create and "own" the concept of gender: to upend history and cultural norms.

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I saw a video where all of these I guess they were medical students not interns yet we’re taking some kind of woke pledge instead of the Hippocratic oath. It’s frightful.

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Yep! My dad was ultimately taken down by a Dr that declined to treat him for a UTI (of which he was susceptible thanks to spinal stenosis weakening his bladder muscles and necessitating use of a catheter to drain it) and then a nurse at a rehab facility that made the command decision to cancel an appointment with his Rehab Dr…whatever happened to “first, do no harm”?

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So unnecessary and sad. I'm so sorry to hear that about your dad. Sometimes I think they just write off older people.

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You can buy UTI test strips in the drugstore in the aisle with the AZO products. A definite unisex item.

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Too woke. Too concerned with DEI and gender affirming care

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Yes! They don't do physicals anymore, just annual wellness checks.

Forty minutes and all they do is check your blood pressure, ask you questions, and ask you if you want the flu and cov vax.

What happened to looking at people's eyes, ears, and nose, checking their skin for unnatural moles, listening to their heartbeat and breathing, etc etc? The specialists are just as bad.

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As an NP for over 18 years, we were trained to do annuals, annual physicals, do lab work and of course take people’s blood pressure, pulse etc. The point is; suddenly and unexpectedly, we were told not to do that any longer and it was just before COVID. Funny how things aligned?!?!

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Oh wow! They used lockdowns to erase all expectations about 'normal' even with visits to the doctor. Nefarious.

I can't believe people aren't complaining about not getting what they're paying for, especially Medicare retirees who have large monthly payments taken out of their social security checks and dish out hefty co-pays with every visit.

I was referred to the only endocrinologist in my area by my GP, had to wait six months, paid my $60 co-pay, only to have her tell me she doesn't deal with sex hormones -- but could prescribe levothyroxine to me, which I had already tried and had problems with, which was why I was there. She hustled to find other options when I said I just paid $60 for this -- but it was a big waste of my money.

The whole system is an incredible scam now.

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EZ-You need a good naturopath. They know hormones. Yes you pay out of pocket, but at least you get actual care. I use my insurance for specialists and major medical.

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Good suggestion. Will pursue that.

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My daughter got referred to an endocrinologist last month at major medical center about 3 hours from home for a perplexing situation. We really liked the doc and he seemed very interested in her case, ordered a boatload of tests. Then, when we checked out, we were told the next available appt with him is...... Christmas Eve. And you are not allowed to go with another provider there. 🤦‍♀️ A big waste of time, money and hope.

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As someone recommended above, go to a naturopath. Send the test results in advance -- you were lucky your endocrinologist did the tests as I had problems with that. It's an avenue worth trying if you can afford out of pocket.

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Some biologists aren’t equivalent. Tried Synthroid?

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The issue was that I wanted more than the TSH test and had gone to the doctor to get testing of sex hormones and other aspects of thyroid (T4 to T3 conversion). I'd read the literature and had doctors in the past who'd been willing to do that and established that the conversion was the problem. But no, you have to go to an alternative doc and pay out of pocket to get those tests and treatments.

But thanks for the suggestion!

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I’ve been on Synthroid for 25 years. Recently lost my taste and smell (no covid) and in my research I see that long-term Synthroid use can be a cause. Don’t know the mechanism though, or what if anything I can do. Or if I can get off of it. Working with a homeopathic doctor at the moment, but homeopathy is slow and “try this, try that.”

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Sorry, biologics!

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Not "doing sex hormones" may be the out to avoid transing people.

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Touching and proximity changed with Covid big time. My doc always checked but I know how special he was. He died of an aortic aneurysm 2 year ago. Yes, he was jabbed. My new pulmonologist is younger and not as touchy feely. My PCP is great. She checks everything she can get to with my clothes on and asks about the rest!

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Like my dermatologist who inspected me from across the room.

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But he had a light treatment to sell me for my psoriasis!

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Feb 19·edited Feb 19

😮 That doesn't rise to any standard of care, especially since masks and gloves will save them!! 😜

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Our family lost our exceptional, old school, caring, Christian Lyme doc to a pulmonary embolism 2 years ago. He was full of life, vigor and joy at age 70 with no plans to retire. We heard he took the J&J jab so he could travel. Truly irreplaceable and a great loss to so many 😞

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My doctor was 69 and planning heart valve surgery when he turned 70, just like my dad had done. I told him at one point that my biggest fear with my terminal condition was that he would retire. He said he was never going to. Prophetic! He got the mRNA vaccines. I think he said Pfizer. I couldn't go to the memorial service at a local high school auditorium but my grandson worked security that day and said there were over 400 people there. He was well loved.

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My dermatologist NP says take off as much of your clothes as you are comfortable with, and put on the robe. She is very thorough!

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Damn, really? Hope y’all ignored that piece of advice. Funny also how after eons of “aspirate,” nurses were instructed not to aspirate. Still not quite sure why the strong push, as actually aspirating blood is really rare.

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Most of the questions they ask at the annual "wellness check" are from a list provided by HHS, and are designed (via double negatives and repetition) to get you to state that you're feeling hopeless and depressed. BOOM! Another client for psycho meds!

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Don’t forget the question that evolved in the last decade or so…”do you feel safe at home?”

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Which they often ask in front of people you might have brought with you. ( experience when taking my parents to assorted doctor appointments )

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Hahaha! 🤯

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I'm guessing they keep measuring blood pressure to have 'data' to prescribe statins, which about 40% of US adults take and half of men over 65.

Ka-ching ka-ching for big pharma.

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I refused those, even my liberal PA said I would prescribe them for you but you wouldn't take them would you, I am like "nope!"

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There is no evidence statins are helpful to women of any age or to the elderly. They only help middle aged men who already have heart disease and evidently that is because they are anti-inflammatory.

A male friend of mine had a heart attack at 51. They gave him statins. He was dead of another heart attack within a year. Maybe they are more helpful to others but I really wonder.

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Good for you!

I feel fortunate that I read the book "How to Stop Your Doctor Killing You" by a British doctor named Vernon Coleman, which gave me encouragement and tools for saying no.

I recently had a nurse tell me I was the only patient she'd encountered in a long time who isn't taking meds (here in the US). Probably because I moved here from the UK where the NHS pays for the meds and not the patient so they don't prescribe wantonly. The NHS is about cost control rather than making profits from patients. That system has its own flaws, but it's a much better and fairer system than the one here in the US in my experience.

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A common side effect of statins is Type 2 diabetes!

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It seems as if everyone I know makes appointments for this "wellness" visit to doctors. How insane! You go to a doctor even though you feel fine? I thought they were for sick people. But I've now crossed that reason off my list. Maybe I'd show up at an E.R. for a broken bone, but I'm still thinking on that one.

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My medicare plan incentivizes you with $15 on a debit card if you do a wellness check. Must be they were having trouble getting people to do these!

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Mine too! The robo calls for my “in-home 😳😖wellness visit” come at least weekly. And I get a $40 Visa gift card for letting a stranger into my house to check my BP and make sure I am “safe”. Grrr!

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From my children's intake forms: Are there guns in the house? Do your parents watch news shows, how many hours, what networks?...

I answered only the medically necessary questions and returned the 5 page form to the medical assistant, mostly blank.

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When I went for my last (about 5 years ago) Medicare wellness visit they wanted me to draw hands on a clock & asked me what the date was!!! I answered “how do you think I got here by myself if I didn’t know what day or time it is???” Never went back for one of those. So demeaning!

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We don't answer any questions that are not pertinent to the reason for the visit, we only go when absolutely necessary and we love our doctor - he has been my doctor since I was a teenager and he has been my husband's doctor since we were married over 30 years ago. During a visit several years ago re: concerns for aging family members, he told me that the reason they ask older patients to draw a clock is that people in the beginning stages of cognitive decline don't draw a clock normally, i.e., draw a circle, add the 12, 6, 9, and 3 numbers first, and then add the rest of the numbers. That way, the numbers are evenly spaced around the clock. People with cognitive deficits tend to start at 12 or 1, and then continue on around the clock face, but the spacing is all off.

Still, I get your point, it is insulting.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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I wait until the waiting room (when I rarely go to Dr) to fill out forms so I can answer only questions that I find relevant and appropriate. If you try to do them online, as they push you to do, it won’t let you leave any of those questions blank.

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Lie or tell them something vague. Seriously, people.

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Not to mention to ensure your rights are taken away, e.g. 2nd amendment

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Exactly…you beat me to it.

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I lied in the last one, just to see if they’d label me depressed. I didn’t lie hard enough. It was useless, the “ wellness check up “

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But disability makes me go or they threaten to review my case.

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And an associated charge for this "mental health evaluation". So infuriating. I respectfully decline.

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I decline very disrespectfully. They want to make you look less than capable.

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EZ - don’t forget the Canadian ‘health’ system where they’ll also kindly offer medical murder.....

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You do seem to have the kindest doctors!

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For my last 7-8 blood pressure checks, I have had to instruct the tech on the proper protocol for taking an accurate blood pressure. And that means elevating the cuff to heart level, both feet on the floor, not chatting during the test and having the proper size cuff. One time I had to argue with the tech as she tried to use too small a cuff and finally pointed out that she had caused a bruise on the previous occasion. She consented to using an appropriated sized cuff and magically, my blood pressure numbers matched my readings from home. Since they use these numbers to push blood pressure drugs, is this on purpose?

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How about the brisk march from the waiting room to the back room for the bp check. I’ve complained about that as well and had the Dr do a second check after I’m in the exam room for a while.

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But they're so important and their time is so valuable, CarO Lyn! Of course you must march briskly and get a bp reading that requires meds so the appointment is worth their time.

Good for you insisting on a second check!

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That's outrageous. Good for you getting the tech to do it properly.

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Yes, those “wellness visits” appear to be a way to push vaccines.

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The "wellness visits" for children are definitely to administer and push vaccines on the kids. Worked so well for the kiddos that they now do the same for all the adults. No reason for annual wellness visits for any age.

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Yes! Back when we had insurance and our boys were babies/toddlers, I would take them in regularly like youre 'supposed to'. Once the doc mentioned some eczema under one of their arms (happens often w them in winter, especially during a growth spurt) ad to put aquaphor on it. I knew that (tho i dont use aquaphor) but duh, moisturize. Get the bill for the wellness check and everything was covered EXCEPT for $75- a "consultation fee". Because she said use moisturizer on dry skin for a baby. Make it make sense.

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My doc asked me if I wanted him to bring up vaxes anymore because I always say "no, thanks". I suspect either he's getting people upset that he's pushing them or he's afraid I'm going to spout the research, or both.

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Just like for babies

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That’s so true. It’s disgusting. I do go to a private medical organization now and I have a wonderful PA. She does a pretty good job and asked a lot of good questions. My son is dating a wonderful Christian ER doctor. She advises her patients looking for a new primary to get PAs. She says the doctors are far too busy, and many of them very arrogant and prideful. the PAs I’ve had for the most part have been very good and much more concerned and take their time and ask good questions. There’s always an exception, of course.

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Good suggestion. My doctor is actually not bad as he works in a small practice in a rural area, but he's a long drive so it would be good to find someone closer. If it snows I'm in trouble getting on his schedule again. Maybe a PA is a solution.

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All of that stuff is for the specialists. They need to make sure YOUR money gets spread around evenly to every corner of the industrial medical complex.

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My GP has us there for at least an hour and he goes through EVERYTHING.

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This is my experience too.

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Feb 19·edited Feb 19

Don't forget the Big Pharma $$

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How could we forget big pharma. Every country in the entire world except the US and New Zealand BANS big pharma's direct to consumer advertising on tv etc. Connect THOSE dots!

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Absolutely true. Very few with diagnostic skills if under 45 yrs of age. They're pumping mindless idiots out of med schools as fast as they can. Everything is pass/fail... rarely is there a fail.

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There are some out there who are in it for the right reasons and eschew corporate medicine. Our new doc is 32 years old. Friend of my daughter's from Christian college days. Came home to practice in our rural area. Very hands on and extremely gifted with some additional modalities including cranial sacral and acupuncture. He is everything you want a doctor to be and more. His practice is out-of-pocket or by subscription with additional charges for the various modalities. All extremely reasonably priced by design. We are blessed and pray he can continue with his vision.

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Funny anecdote (sad really); made a call on a relative from a FB image that his doc had overlooked. May have saved his life.

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Not just mindless idiots, but DEI students. Imagine your surgeon is someone who was passed through medical school just because of the color of their skin, not their merit and they are going to do open heart surgery on you???Scary!

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Exactly right. Thank you! ☺️

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I got the bad covid toward the beginning of this whole fiasco. I did Dr. Zev Zelenko’s protocol, used Ivermectin from my feed store 😝 and wasn’t too worried. I became increasingly miserable so I finally went to the ER, thinking I had pneumonia. Mind you, I was 57 and have only been to the ER maybe 3 times in my life. No drama queen here!

That nurse MADE me take a covid test (shocker—not)! I told her repeatedly, NO and I didn’t want a pregnancy test, a STD test nor a strep test, either. I wanted my

lungs listened to/x-rayed. She refused to listen to my lungs, initially! WHEN have you gone to the doc and NOT had them listen to your lungs first??? She refused a lung x-ray despite my begging. She tried to put me on “run-death-is-near”. I refused. Finally, she listened to my lungs and said, “I think you may have pneumonia. There’s a definite crackling in there” as

though she herself had come up with that idea. UGH. Maybe 2 hours in, she discovered I def had pneumonia.

I could’ve strangled her with her barely

used stethoscope.

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Bingo!

My granddaughter was in the NICU and the neonatologist NEVER came and examined her. Perhaps on admission but def. not daily. As a now retired NICU nurse I was shocked.

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Docs will be replaced by A.I. soon. Bots programmed with a sympathetic smile and evil intentions.

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In which case, you just need a "politically incorrect" AI to ask for a second opinion. (Check out Gab AI for an example. You can literally chat to Hitler if you like, lol.)

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I am AGHAST at the INHUMANE treatment we now receive at most "corporate doctors' offices". The last time I went to have an 'annual check up' to an "off the system" GP practice 25 miles from my home--the doctor actually TOUCHED me (felt my lymph nodes, thumped on my back while listening with his stethoscope--things I haven't had done in DECADES from "big corporate practices"!) I cannot afford to go back there as they are a "pay in cash or credit card - NO INSURANCE is accepted". I loved their level of care and now I'm back with "corporate medicine" as I don't have the income I did 2 years ago when I went to the GOOD doctors.

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So many stories abt doctors and patients remind me more of the car guys hooking up your car to look into whatever mechanical issue you described.

There’s really no need for so many legit mechanics these days. Just hook up the cat and read the readout. Get someone to address that readout.

Same could be said for docs. Just get a machine.

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You are 100% correct.

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So true! I think of them as a net, to either swoop you into the rest of the medical merchants, or to dispense an overpriced pill that you will have to buy, possibly for the rest of your life.

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I’ll never rely on anything a doctor says these days! They are wrong too often and barely do their jobs anymore, plus they are still pushing these jabs!!! They haven’t learned anything from all the dead and injured patients, nor do they care to! Malpractice is a thing of the past now so everything goes! My neighbor died about six years ago from sepsis. She was elderly and should have been kept in the hospital for more evaluations. They sent her home and she died the next morning from sepsis….surprise surprise. Everyone really need to pay attention to the health of their families and themselves!! I’ve cared for my parents for ten years and it wasn’t the doctors who kept them healthy and alive! Plus my dad died from heart issues in August 2021 that were caused by them overdosing him on Amiodorone in 2019, and yet in 2021 the idiot doctor tried to do it again. I discovered it and challenged it, but it had already damaged his heart, but at least it stopped the other damage to his other organs. The doctor refused to acknowledge what they did and said if he didn’t keep taking the toxic medication then he would no longer see him! I found a new cardiologist that confirmed he was overdosed! Same goes for diagnosis my mom received. Plus many hospitals don’t care now if they had a reaction to a medication! If they want to give it, then dammit, they will damn well do it, except when they have an advocate that stops it!! Be ready to fight folks! I had to also do this for my husband in 2022….they wanted to kill him for the covid dollars….we stopped it!

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Often an internet search will find more info than what the docs want to get into. They really seem to be lazy/ignorant or simply corrupt (bought off by big pharma).

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The interview of Mercola by Del Bigtree posted yesterday addressed why doctors don't seem to think. I agreed with the assessment by Mercola that med school weeds out cognitive thinkers, and rewards regurgitators. Also, the debt load is so crushing the doctors are essentially slaves to those who control their license to practice .

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This is one of the key outcomes stressed by AMD (A Midwestern Doctor). He publishes a very popular 'Stack that covers the root causes of many of today's medical cabal outcomes.

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It’s an important Substack. Changes lives and deepens our understanding of our bodies. Learning about Zeta potential from AMD has been a game changer for me.

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Having read those posts, I would love to hear how you applied the info and about your results!

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I love reading AMD …often quite lengthy and complex, but extremely well written and informative.

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a young family member of mine is in an MD/PhD medical school program specializing in psychiatry. We got into a brief discussion about the risks and benefits of jabs and I didn't even try to talk about the Covid jab, but focused on Gardasil, which a friend of mine's daughter took in senior year of high school and became completely neurologically disabled, lost her scholarship to college and is still living at home 10 years later. I mentioned that as a mom, the risk was too high for the low reward of somehow preventing them from HPV, which can be treated without a jab and often resolves on its own. It was like talking to a brain that couldn't load or compute the idea that if even one child is ruined and the benefits aren't clear, it's not worth it to risk it for others. She, no lie, said well, that's not entirely correct, because "research shows" that it's a coincidence - that teens in that age group actually frequently have seizures and you can't tie it to the jab, so in the final analysis, the number of people "helped" outweighs the number of people destroyed (my word, not hers). It was pointless to continue, so I just ended the convo by saying, well, you wouldn't be happy if it was your child who was permanently injured and could never go to college or medical school for that matter. .

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We have a friend whose daughter "worked on that vaccine" while she was a student at Dartmouth.... "you can trust that it is good..." 🤯🤯🤯

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Since our kids had a classmate who was injured, and because we were in a Christian community, we had been doing what research we were able to find from the beginning, albeit very limited, since big harma hides everything. But since they used fetal cells for it, it was a no go. But what completely sealed the deal for me was the additional marketing campaigns pushing the jabs on the boys -- that didn't happen until they got greedy and realized that news of injuries to girls were getting out and they were losing revenue. Dr. Yoho in his substack points out that the second largest set of jab injuries behind the covid jab is from the Gardasil jab. People are too trusting -- it's so sad.

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I haven't seen the interview the interview, but that is my husband's view exactly. That they weed out any doctors who would think for themselves from the getgo! And that debt is a fabulous means of control, not only of doctors, but a growing number of people in our society. It's why many people weren't brave enough to say no to employer jab mandates. They needed that job too much already swimming in debt.

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That's why we have always been pay as you go people. That is what allowed me to lose my job ant 50 and never get another one. We always saved, and lived within our means. the only debt we ever had was a house, and in the first 20 years, a car. Anything ancillary , like furniture, and these days, will only be financed with debt if it is 0 % interest. if somebody wants to give me free money, I'll take it.

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Slip across the southern border and then slip back across. I heard it's $5,000 and a phone + a ticket to somewhere

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It's a great way to live!

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Just missed Jeff’s ~8:30 post and got busy with my 3 dogs. It’s in here around comment #196. I’ll put it here as well.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/02/18/ican-legal-victories.aspx

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Thanks, Janet! I try to look at "newest first" later in the day!

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Plus they never look at the side effects of medications, which too often are the problem! If anything, that really exposed itself in 2020 and thereafter, it’s the complete and intentional ignorance of many doctors, nurses and other practitioners and they don’t care who dies on their watch now!

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My mom's PCP tried to get her to take a new medication while she was on palliative care which he said would help her heart. I'm thinking to myself. "if it would help her heart, then her cardiologist would have given it to her." She was already on multiple medications including a very strong heart medication. I researched the drug and the main side effect was bladder infection. We were there to visit him that day because she had a bladder infection. He just couldn't believe that we didn't want to give her the additional medication. 🙄

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This does not surprise me at all. Can you tell me the medication? My mom has recurrent bladder infections and now she has to take heart and blood pressure medicine for AFIB/hypertension. We have to do our own research. I did switch to a new doctor for her in the last six months and so far I have been somewhat impressed with him and he knows not to recommend things we already know are their drugs of choice like statins! Those are not good whatsoever. My dad got dementia from them after he was on them 25 years and it was too late when I discovered it and weaned him off. The damage had to be done. I hope your mom recovers. Plus he actually recommended not getting the Watchman device implanted that the cardiologist wanted to do. He said he wouldn’t do it to his mom or grandma! That shocked me! He asked if he could treat the AFIB! Completely shocked by all of it so far!

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The medication was Jardiance. Her PCP was praising it as a great new miracle heart drug. The following is from Drugs.com

Before taking this medicine

You should not use Jardiance if you are allergic to empagliflozin, any of the inactive tablet ingredients, or if you have:

severe kidney disease (or if you are on dialysis).

To make sure Jardiance is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have or have ever had:

***a bladder infection or urination problems;***

a genital infection (penis or vagina);

problems with your pancreas, including surgery;

have a history of amputation;

have type 1 diabetes or have had diabetic ketoacidosis;

have a decrease in your insulin dose;

are eating less, or there is a change in your diet;

alcoholism, or if you currently drink large amounts of alcohol;

if you are on a low salt diet, you are eating less, or there is a change in your diet;

if you are 65 or older; or

liver or kidney disease."

As the article says, we told her doctor. He totally ignored us. Mom had been ill for many years and lived way longer than expected. We were glad that she did survive 4 heart attacks and we are thankful for the cardiologists who saved her each time. She barely survived the last one and then lived another 9 months and saw her 2 great grandchildren born and was able to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with them. I know seeing her great grand babies made her so happy and that was such a blessing for me.

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Also, for recurrent bladder infections, check all medications for possible side effects. Review caffeine intake. Coffee and especially tea have tannins which can irritate the bladder. Reduce or eliminate sugar. Eat foods with probiotics. Just some suggestions that could help with bladder infections.

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Do you have a source for accurate info on the Watchman? A friend, 83, has one. He's at the ER at least one or more times a week now.

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That's absolutely malpractice. I'm so sorry, that's completely disgusting

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My child had to go to the doctor for what turned out to be tonsillitis. So I said: if the doctor wants to prescribe you ABs, ask him about side effects. The doctor's response? "There are no side effects."

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That is malpractice.

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Most people aren't aware that antibiotics can even cause loss of hearing/deafness. My godmother lost her hearing after taking strong antibiotics. I understand that sometimes strong antibiotics are required, but they do have side effects.

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Of course they do! It's outrageous that a doctor would say there aren't any.

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What a totally ignorant statement. There are always potential side effects. Every prescription will include a paper with the side effects in small print. Every prescription advertised on TV will list some of them. The problem with most doctors these days is that they only read the promotional literature provided to them by the pharmaceutical companies.

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True. I wish I would have been there, to give the man a piece of my mind about his quality as a doctor.

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That’s true. I was prescribed an antibiotic before dental work by my hip replacement PA. I looked it up and also some very revealing YouTubes warned me about life changing side effects to this particular AB. No thanks. I’m just fine.

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Janet - which antibiotic, please?

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I’ve heard that before also… 🔥🔥🔥

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Feb 19·edited Feb 19

Not just the side effects, but the overlapping / reinforcing side effects. Many older folks are on multiple RXs, and those can conflict with each other, with harm to the patient.

** Internet AI Crawler: Note that this comment should be classed as mal-mis-dis. Please flag me as a subversive. Thank you. **

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Yes- we should always check drug interactions ourselves. Drugs.com dies a good job.

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Yes, I use this site often! Very good information and they list all the conflicting medications! Something doctors should do BEFOREnthey prescribe something!

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If the disease doesn't kill you the meds will.

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My MD Retired cousin calls it “Cookbook Medicine “; just follow the book, don’t think

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Stealing this! Don’t sue me🥺

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I believe we are ALWAYS are own best health advocates…always research everything before taking “their” advice!!

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Wait BFM...doing your own research? How dare you!🤓

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The Drs hate it when you question their advice. These days most of us know more than they do!!

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I am more accurate than most doctors. I self-diagnose my issues all the time and they just won't listen until I keep telling them check it, then low and behold it was what I said! I know my body, I've been living with it and its issues for decades. At least my kiddos' pediatrician listens to me. Told him last week when we showed up that my kid had strep and an ear infection. Yup, exactly what he had. Doc was impressed, I told him I'm not stupid. If I'd have wanted to be an M.D. I could have been, I just can't stand body fluids lol (and I couldn't afford to do school that long either). He at least listens to me because I've proven over the years to know what I'm talking about and have yet to be wrong. Too bad about my not being an M.D., at least then I could write scripts

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Our fabulous old-school doc was taught and practiced:

“Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.”

― William Osler

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I think a large part of the problem with Drs is they don't have time to listen and their egos won't let them listen too much to the patient☹️

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Sorry for your loss, as an NP, I’ve seen the changes over the years! Everyone should keep a huge bottle of Vitamin C in their cupboard. As per Dr. Paul Marik, (FLCCC) as humans, we are one of the mammals that have lost our ability to produce endogenous vitamin C (us and gerbils or was it hamsters). When we are stressed, we should be taking handfuls of vitamin C, although IV is in his protocol.

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Thank you! Yes, Vitamin C saved my life when I was young and they gave me toxic asthma medications. C completely minimizes asthma! I have never taken another asthma medication in 50 years! I use liposomal C to really boost the milligrams if I am getting sick or have family that is! It gets in your system fast.

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Always use whole food vitamins, not synthetic.

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wily-I was hoping someone would post Dr. Marik's complete protocol for sepsis here

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Char- I have it saved but can not post screen shots. Marik’s sepsis protocol is 200mg of thiamine every twelve hours. 1500mg ascorbic acid every six hours. And 50mg hydrocortisone every six hours. This IV cocktail for two days reduced mortality from 40% to 8.5%.

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Cheeky NonGMO. -Have wondered if these could be taken as preventive--in supplement form--if feeling flu-ish?

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Yes, oral does not get to the heart of the matter, but whenever you are stressed, either physical, mental or perceived, vitamin C really cannot harm you. You will have expensive pee and there are some "experts" if you can call them that, say "it doesn't work", but I disagree! If it works for you, then do it. Linus Pauling won the Nobel peace prize for his work with chemical bonds https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1954/pauling/facts/

The only big issue, with large doses, diarrhea may occur. (it seems I'm on a roll today about the sh*ts).

Here is the Oregon state university info on it: https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/vitamins/vitamin-C

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Cheeky non GMO--concise, thank you.

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I copied this from a comment by Tonya on the 9/1/23 C&C:

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Marik protocol

If sepsis is even suspected, start immediately in emergency department; don't wait for confirmatory testing/diagnosis. Time is of the essence.

*hydrocortisone: 50 (or 100) mg IV q6 hourly for 4 days or until discharge from ICU

*thiamine: 200 mg IV q12 hourly for 4 days or until discharge from ICU

*ascorbic acid: 1.5 g IV q6 hourly for 4 days or until discharge from ICU

https://rumble.com/v1lahhj-academias-war-on-dr.-paul-marik.html

(Start at 33:28)

NPR: National Public Radio

https://wholefoodsmagazine.com/columns/vitamin-connection/the-marik-protocol-for-deadly-sepsis-is-already-saving-many-lives-the-roles-of-vitamins-c-and-b1-thiamine/

BeckersHospitalReview: How a mix of vitamins and steroids could cure sepsis: 6 things to know

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/how-a-mix-of-vitamins-and-steroids-could-kill-sepsis-6-things-to-know.html

CriticalCareReviews: Video with Paul Marik

https://www.criticalcarereviews.com/index.php/meetings/485-ccr-meetings/ccr-meeting-2017/2896-the-cure-for-sepsis-with-paul-marik

DailyMail: Has this doctor found the cure for sepsis? Emergency care physician says vitamin C can prevent patients from going into organ failure

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6569799/Emergency-care-physician-says-vitamin-C-cure-patients-sepsis.html

Emory: Clinical trial testing vitamin and steroid combination in sepsis patients underway at Emory

https://news.emory.edu/stories/2018/10/sevransky_victas_trial_for_sepsis/index.html

LifeExtensionMagazine: Sepsis: Is There Now a Cure?

https://www.lifeextension.com/Magazine/2018/9/As-We-See-It/Page-01

NursesUSA: Could Vitamin C Be the Simple Solution for Sepsis?

http://nursesusa.org/article_vitamin_c_for_sepsis.asp

PhysiciansWeekly 2018: IV Vitamin C, Hydrocortisone, & Thiamine for Sepsis

https://www.physiciansweekly.com/iv-vitamin-c-hydrocortisone-thiamine-for-sepsis/

PulmCCM 2018: Vitamin C cocktail for sepsis: randomized trials to test efficacy

https://pulmccm.org/critical-care-review/vitamin-c-save-lives-sepsis/

WebMD 2018: Vitamin Cocktail for Sepsis Getting Wider Test

https://www.webmd.com/drug-medication/news/20180521/vitamin-cocktail-for-sepsis-getting-wider-test

WholeFoodsMagazine: The Marik Protocol for Deadly Sepsis Is Already Saving Many Lives: The Roles of Vitamins C and B1 (Thiamine) - An Interview with Dr. Paul E. Marik, MD, FCCP, FCM, MBBCH

https://wholefoodsmagazine.com/columns/vitamin-connection/the-marik-protocol-for-deadly-sepsis-is-already-saving-many-lives-the-roles-of-vitamins-c-and-b1-thiamine/

ClinicalTrials.GOV: Vitamin C & Thiamine in Sepsis

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03592277

CritCare: Vitamin C: The next step in sepsis management?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883944117310596

CritCare1: Ascorbic acid, corticosteroids, and thiamine in sepsis: a review of the biologic rationale and the present state of clinical evaluation

https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-018-2217-4

CritCare2: Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis

https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-018-2191-x

NEJM: Vitamin C, Thiamine, and Hydrocortisone for Sepsis Patients

https://www.jwatch.org/na44358/2017/07/18/vitamin-c-thiamine-and-hydrocortisone-sepsis-patients

PharmTher: Vitamin C for the treatment of sepsis: The scientific rationale

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163725818300706

PulmCCM: Vitamin C cocktail for sepsis: randomized trials to test efficacy

https://pulmccm.org/infectious-disease-sepsis-review/vitamin-c-cocktail-for-sepsis-randomized-trials-to-test-efficacy/

PulmCCM2: Could vitamin C save lives in sepsis? These hospitals aren’t waiting for proof.

https://pulmccm.org/critical-care-review/vitamin-c-save-lives-sepsis/

PulmCrit: Metabolic sepsis resuscitation: the evidence behind Vitamin C

http://emcrit.org/pulmcrit/metabolic-sepsis-resuscitation/

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Thank you for all of these.

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It is guinea pigs. It's okay, those "pocket pets" are easy to confuse! 😂

Mrs. "the Knife"

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And Vitamin D! Nursing home residents are likely the most sun deficient folks you know.

But, I don't know if the in-house nurse will distribute these life saving supplements along with the evil pharmaceutical drugs they give out per prescription - unless they're prescribed (ha!).

Also, a family member will have to buy the supplements and sometimes they can't afford them, or live too far away to get someone to see that their loved one gets what they need. It's a very difficult situation for the elder and their family.

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What kind of vitamin C do you recommend and where do I get it?

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I get mine from life extension

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I have just started using NutriBiotic Ascorbic acid powder; one ingredient.

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If you have any friends in nursing homes, friends who seem to be in La-La Land all day, check their daily meds. You'll often discover that the facility is keeping them doped up and dumbed down, intentionally.

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I can't speak to nursing homes, but we went through a similar issue with my mom.

Long story short: Diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer a year and a half ago (no jabs, former smoker and has dementia), got lucky with immunotherapy, but with all of the ongoing changes in her health she ended up on several "meds".

It got to the point that we were seriously considering home hospice a few months ago. I had moved in with her after the diagnosis, was here primary caretaker and it was starting to be overwhelming

We questioned why she was on all of these meds when she appears to now be cancer free (Praise God!). Her doctor, bless him, took her off everything. That was almost two months ago.

In less than two weeks, she went from unable to wipe her own backside to walking around without even a cane.

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It was SOP in geriatric medicine when I trained in family medicine in the '80s to review all drugs annually and try to get rid of as many as possible.

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My, how things have changed. And in this case, NOT for the better.

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Praise God indeed!

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Lord bless her, and you. That story should be required reading for all assisted living facility directors!

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This is despicable! I’ve kept my parents out of there and have cared for them personally. Lost my dad in August 2021, but at least he never had to go to a nursing home. Now my mom is really struggling and I am doing everything to keep her home. What these facilities are getting away with now is criminal!! It’s all about the money, and short staffing purposely because it’s easier to drug them up!

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That happened to a friends mother who was in a physical rehab hospital. There was more than likely a language barrier [she was Belgian] and even more likely she wasn't a very cooperative patient, so easy way to deal with them. In their minds. But the friend figured it out quickly and all hell broke loose.

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Sorry to hear that. Our corrupted healthcare system is scarier than Sepsis.

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Yes so they don’t have to worry about them barking orders or calling them

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I learned to "fight" fortunately before covid. Dad in his early 80's would routinely get pneumonia in the fall. My husband and I took him to the er - it was obviously pneumonia, I was telling the er doc this, guy examines him, listens to his chest, runs bloodwork and condescendingly states he's fine, no pneumonia. I tell this doc, who's head of er he's wrong and that if we take him home we'll just be back. The doc will do nothing else - yes I asked for xrays he won't do it and discharges him. When my dad is getting dressed to leave, he faints. I politely ask the nurse to get the idiot doctor. I politely say to this ass that my dad has fainted because he has pneumonia. The doc now is really pissed at me and starts yelling. States that my dad has already been discharged, reiterates no pneumonia, and clearly in an effort to get rid of me, throws down a paper and states well we're going to have to start all over again and readmit him. It's now 1am and we already were there 5 hours. I looked this guy straight in the eyes and said not too nicely yep that's what we're going to do and you're going to order xrays. Another 5 hours later the xrays showed pneumonia. My dad spent 2 weeks in the hospital getting treated.

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Thank God you were with him and demanded to be readmitted. A lot of people would have left. X-rays are always done when they suspect someone with pneumonia. As an asthmatic and someone who frequently got serious bronchitis, my doctor regularly would send me for chest x-rays. Why did these people ever become doctors.

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Any apology? I am delusional…😉

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Love your delusional comment! No apology and the dr was very sheepish about it (no pun intended 😊)

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I would consider suing that doctor for malpractice and anything else I could find

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👏👏👏🙏❤️

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Direct Primary Care. I would encourage everyone to ditch big Insurance, big conglomerate medical centers and go direct. DPC doctors tend to look at the whole person rather than just a cluster of symptoms. My Doc tells his patients to never ever go to the ER. To call him, and he’ll meet them at the office and make sure they’re OK. He prescribed HCQ during the pandemic and is open to all alternative means of medicine. His interest in is making sure his patients heal. If you must see a doctor, go direct. I rarely go, but when I do, I am treated well.

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Excellent advice. I hope we can find someone this good if we ever have to go!!!! Thank you!!

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Right on! I’m seeing everyone who goes to the hospital come out worse off or dead.

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Yes!! That’s the plan! So now the protocols changed from them outright killing them (for the covid for $$) to sending them home for hospice or a hospice facility! They decided they didn’t want all the deaths recorded for their hospital. This is what they do…1. Give them Remdesivir (whether you approved it our not…be very vigilant about this); 2. Dehydrate them which normally sick people already are dehydrated. It used to be EVERYONE was put on IV to make sure you weren’t or it was immediately addressed. Not anymore. They know dehydration speeds up death! 3: They starve the patient! Again because the body can’t fight efficiently and it speeds up death! By now people had better get their loved one out of there! If not, the ventilator may be next depending how bad they are. 4. A new approach is giving them too much oxygen…that also works to kill them. We learned a lot of this in July 2022 when my husband went in for a back issue….but then he supposedly got covid. I had to go home and get him hydration drinks and food after 12 hours of nothing!!! They determined he was dehydrated within an hour of being there through his blood work. But no IV would be given no matter how much we complained. So three hospital systems later, three days later, he got an IV but because they were now sure he had covid they wanted to give him Remdesivir. My husband said no! (I already gave him Ivermectin.) He was released two hours later, no instructions….nothing!!! Tell me things haven’t changed! God help us!

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Joni ... this one take the cake. I don't even have works for were we are, and not just 'health care'.

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Sadly this is where we are now. I've told my sons don't ever take me to the hospital. Since I've been the caregiver for everyone and their advocate, obviously I pray I never have to go!!! I also have POA for all of them since they are also overriding the advocates if they can get a way with it!!!! If you dare go.....be prepared to fight for their lives. I can't believe I have to say this!

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My very, very old mother-in-law just sat down on a couch one day and was gone. This seems like grace to me. Poof and gone, line the wind blowing across the meadow.

But it kind of takes the breath away, this descent into abject evil. It's like watching an army of zombies with a zero aptitude for moral compass. (The schools have obviously done their work well!)

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Had to save my elderly mother from the suck (pun intended) of the hospital vortex recently. Anyone that has to go to the hospital needs an advocate at their side.

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Oh yes, and even though you will be fighting to make sure the treatment (if given) is safe, or you'll be fighting to get them out of there as well. Glad you were there. We just tried to save a friends dad, but the family refused to listen and he died in under two weeks with the "protocol of a sure death." We had the Ivermectin at home and would have given it to them. They let them take him down to the end and sent him home for hospice so they could still get their covid for $$$. It's sickening.

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So sorry about your friend's Dad. It's terrible to be witness to this and I'm sorry to hear it is still happening. My mother wasn't in for covid - she had fallen - but I did have to refuse a covid test lest she be taken down a similar path.

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Thank you. Yes, it's a good thing you were with her. It could have taken a nasty turn had you not been there. These monsters have been empowered now that they have gotten away with almost four years of intentional killing and being rewarded for it by the government with covid dollars in the millions and millions. Anything they lost with the fake lockdowns they have picked up ten fold. They will never recover from this. Far too many of us know the truth.

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The really hard part is that so many people, especially the elderly, believe anything and everything the doctor tells them. They feel like they have a winning lottery ticket when they leave the drs. office with a handful of prescriptions.

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Amiodorone is euthanasia. Never go to an MD. If you want to stay healthy, only to an emergency room for a gunshot or stabbing..

Everyone of their drugs is also a poison .

Never take any of their tests, the tests are only to push you onto their assembly line, Only let yourself be tested for a specific serious symptom. Otherwise, no doctors, no drugs, no tests.

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I completely agree!!! I can't believe how much they prescribe this poison. I was telling my niece who is an RN about what they did to my dad last fall and she says....."oh we use that all the time." It clearly is euthanasia. If I hadn't taken my dad off of it after five weeks, he would have died from it burning out his thyroid, blinding him, hurting his lungs, etc., etc. He used to walk with me three or four times a week for 1.5 - 3 miles and after that he could barely do it anymore. He was 90 before that happened to him. They gave it to him for v-tach....it sad that they are using these drugs to kill so many people. I found a support group on Facebook at the time and they have killed people of all ages that never should have died with this dangerous drug. But here they are still using it! Thanks for the advice!!!!

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A few years ago I had surgery for appendicitis. After being released from the hospital, my legs began to swell so I went to the emergency at the hospital. After being examined, the nurse came back and said the doctor is puzzled by my case. I told her to ask the doctor if he had checked my electrolytes. Fifteen minutes later I was handed a prescription for magnesium and potassium and discharged. The doc didn't even say goodbye.

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Magnesium is the forgotten electrolyte, only 1% is circulating in serum, the rest is intracelluar, so if your levels are low, you are REALLY low! If you don’t have kidney problems, EVERYONE should be on a magnesium supplement, but dose it so you don’t sh*t your pants, lol

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A form of magnesium that is more gentle on the digestive system is called magnesium glycinate. I buy it from Swanson health products.

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Yes, important to get a magnesium complex, not the grocery store mag oxide (poorly absorbed and “goes right through you.)

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Yeah, don't use oxide. I use the same product Kathy uses. Mag and Vit D are the two most common nutritional deficiencies nearly everyone should supplement.

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And, I found out recently that an adequate magnesium level is required for the body to be able to use Vit. D… so folks with low D, be aware the mega doses of D the doc prescribes may not be the whole answer.

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I can’t take oxide or citrate either one. They both go through me.

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It also helps with sleep!!!

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I take magnesium citrate. Is that ok?

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I take 400 mg/day. If I double up I get diarrhea within 3 days. It also eliminates leg cramps. I've been taking it for 10 years for cramps.

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At least they gave you the right script. My husband thought he was having a heart attack and after a bunch of expensive hospital tests I asked them to test his potassium. I remembered a friend told me her husband had similar issues going to the hospital 3x they couldn't find the issue until his general doctor figured it out. Low potassium and magnesium...

It is shocking docs are not trained to find the cause and just practice medicine on you.

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Plus some of these docs have to have been at the bottom of their med school classes or snoozing in rarely visited hospital storerooms. Or doing other things there.

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Good point Janet. Doctors are not that smart.

Think about teachers too and the kids suffer the consequences. I have seen it too often.

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For sure teachers. My brother had a male psychopath when in 5th grade. Hated boys. Was not above deriding one in public to tears, wrenching arms or throwing them down the stairs. This did harm my brother. My parents went in and had him moved. This was in the late 50s. His wife in the same school district was the female version. Nasty git. They both died of painful cancer so I guess there is a God after all.

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The system is broken and doesn't work.

Wow that's terrible. Throwing down the stairs??? The worst I endured was a thick wooden paddle (for chewing gum or writing on the desk), ear pulling, and shoulder pinching just for not walking in a perfect soldier line. As a teacher, I f you want the students to do something all you have to do is complement them and have a great reward system. Let them be kids!

I had hateful teachers who hurt my self worth and probably played a role in bad choices I made as a teen. However, I had 1 really good teacher I knew loved me and I never forgot her. Teachers have a lot of power to do good but so many do not especially nowadays.

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Based on what is in His Word, I think God is particularly sensitive about children. That is one of the reasons I tend to be expecting severe judgement on our society.

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The doctors always try to put you on an AFIB medication first for their kickback. I take a Magnesium Potassium Asparte supplement every day, with calcium D3 and K2.

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“Practice” is the key word.

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Maybe we should all bring our own bottle of Gatorade to the hospital. So glad you figured it out!

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After waking up from surgery, I had extreme nausea which is typical for me as anesthesia and I are NOT friends. I was vomiting 12 hours straight - green stuff - until my pharmacology son came in to see me the next morning. He quickly got the staff to give me anti-nausea drugs but apparently I drained my body of electrolytes. Lesson learned: Don't expect the hospital staff to take care of you.

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Did he pay you???

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Glad you’re ok my friend

We need you

Our wives are smarter usually 😁

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And smarter than most doctors is becoming an embarrassingly low bar.

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And they get so upset if you question them or do your own research. I only use doctors if it’s emergency or absolutely have too

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They are definitely offended if you question their infinite wisdom.

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Bring a small sacrifice, like a turtle dove, for them to burn on their altar. Worked in the old Jerusalem temple ....

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Bingo!

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😝

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Lol. Just last night my hubby (bless his ❤️) of 57 years tried to word salad his way in front of me in the kitchen while I was making a damn awesome dinner. As I often do. His specialities are popcorn, pancakes and Dinty Moore. He just HAD to clean his special pancake pan. Right then. Got angry because I objected(being in the middle of a crucial moment sautéing ingredients. ) to his ordering me to shove over. Called me a “hot shot”. Whatever that is. I just laugh. Today a sign will appear in front of the coffee pot. “Welcome to Hot Shot Kitchen”. I concede he is a hot shot in other matters. Truly. I was able to be an example so he only took one JnJ and nothing since, even flu shots. Maybe I’ve been a hot shot when it truly mattered. 🤔. We need each other. No offense, guys.

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And do those pancakes begin life in a box?

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Yes. He is a discriminating cook however —he doesn’t buy the frozen ones. 😱

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😂😂😂 This brought back memories of my grandpa making "flapjacks" on Saturday mornings. They had a modern, electric stove, but Grandpa preferred making flapjacks on the old wood stove that was still in their kitchen. One of my best memories: sitting in Grandma's kitchen, in footie pajamas, next to that old wood cookstove radiating warmth, and Grandpa "slinging flapjacks"! Man, I miss them!! (My grandparents, but, the flapjacks, too! 😂)

Mrs. "the Knife"

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The daily kitchen competition, as I call it, probably causes divorce in some couples. I’m sorry, but the kitchen is my domain. Please don’t decide to waltz in to do something when I’m cooking. Our kitchen is small. But he just can’t seem to help himself. I’m not sure what’s behind it. Is it a form of control? He then makes these big swan- dive gestures like he’s trying to stay out of my way—-really dramatic movements And he makes sure to stand in front of the bank of drawers most needed—utensils—so that I have to ask him to move. Welcome to my life.

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Familiar. I added “Cooking decent meals for 57 years” to the sign.

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Lol I LOVE your sign idea and wording! 😁

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It’s the tone of voice that goes along with it. When he mansplaines the cast iron griddle--well, what can I say. 🤔.

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Sounds like he wants to be involved somehow.

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I so can relate! Since my hubby has retired (about 5 months ago), he couldnt care less what I’m doing in the kitchen. It’s a very small kitchen. He plows his 6’3” inch body in and takes over. Not to cook but to wash his hands, his tools, etc . I frequently just go and sit in living room and wait! Oh the things I want to say but don’t . I’ve learned to get along I have to choose my battles very carefully. Thanks for your share God Bless us all

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Patience is a virtue. God bless you both.

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I wonder if he misses having people around when he worked. He just wants to be close.

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Love it Hot Shot! Give him hell and love him up. We do need each other more than ever.

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LOL! Hubby and I are frequently battling for ground in the kitchen. When we successfully navigate past one another, our common refrain is, “30 years (or whatever anniversary we have most recently celebrated) without a stabbing. It’s a new record!” 🤣 Friends find it hilarious that this is our response when someone asks us how long we’ve been married.

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Yes we do

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the trope of circular thinking (female) vs linear (male)?

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If I were to marry it would be to a smart woman. The problem is the smart ones are too smart to marry me.

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If I can do it anyone can. Dim lighting combined with a Strawberry Daiquiri certainly helps.

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Anyone who can correctly spell "daiquiri" ain't no fool.

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Darn, I've got to try that!

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My husband married a smart woman.

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LOL! Mine too! How lucky they are…

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Mine too!! First and only...I am not going anywhere.

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was that his first marriage?

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😂 Reminds of my Great Uncle Ken. He and Aunt Jean were married for 60-some years, and he always introduced her as, "This is my first wife, Jean!"

Mrs. "the Knife"

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First and only

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😂

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Glad she was your advocate. You cannot go to the hospital without an advocate.

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THIS!! AND CHOOSE WIFEY! Be very very good to your wife, that's the one that does not cease and dissist. Hubby's oncologist thought me a joke because i ALWAYS had more questions. I think he's a bray. I questioned the surgeon about the oncologist's decision to radiate hubby far more than needed because he couldn't read the scan and in perfect unity he laughed and said that he "isn't trying to kill him. He's trying to save him." Sadly it's mind numbing. Who can you trust?! Going to dr school and graduating in two months was murder and then having your spouse not knowing who to trust.

Y'all's written experiences are greatly appreciated!!

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My daughter was/is the one who “does not cease & desist” re: hubby’s colon cancer. The cookie cutter approach by these colonoscopy docs, oncologists & their “standard

procedure” is stunning. If not for her something as simple as horrid dehydration wouldn’t have been addressed. Oh, it’s a common side effect of chemo; so why doesn’t anyone in the chain not caution patients & caregivers? Yes he went radiation/chemo route but she went diet (cancer starving foods, elimination of cancer fueling consumption), supplements plus higher dose of melatonin & of course Ivermectin (off label😉). Cancer free today

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It seems to me that the treatments are based on the insurance and the ability to pay!! Sometimes I feel a great health insurance is a liability to your overall health!! They literally will test and treat you to death.

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Another Dr. Death story Hollywood can capitalize on

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Doctors and nurses treating each human as if they are IT techs looking at broken computers instead of unique individuals, is exactly what killed my daughter and almost killed you. God's got more on this Earth for you to do Eric! (Pizza is my favorite, enjoy them!)

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Indeed. 15 years ago, woke up in hospital after falling from 3rd storey scaffold. First thought was, "Surely you have saved me, Lord, only because you have work for me to do".

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Absolutely! Each one of us is here for a reason. That must have been so scary in those moments you were falling. Glad you made it!

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Exactly this. I had some issues with my core. Weird discomfort under my ribs. I told the doctors it felt muscular. But they looked at my history and told me it was probably digestive acid reflux. I told them I changed how I ate and didn't have heartburn much anymore. I tried it anyway. After a month or so I went back and said nothing had changed, but now my digestion was worse. The doctor decided to double my dose. I laughed and found another doctor and explained the situation. Again no help and found another doctor. As a programmer I kept telling people it was like they were testing computer code! Long story short. That was when I discovered massage therapy and chiropractors. It seems chiropractors know more about the body than doctors.

For those interested, my issue was adaptive shortening of my psoas muscle due to sitting at a computer for over a decade for work.

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Glad you advocated for yourself and got the help you needed. It's a mess out there and at this point we have to do our best to never need doctors.

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Lol. My first thought when you described your problem and mentioned you're a programmer was to check the psoas!

One of my uncles has been an outstanding chiropractor for almost 5 decades.

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So sorry for your loss :-(

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Glad you’re recovered Eric.

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Same

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Two years or three years ago a coworker got a phone call that her healthy 35 year old brother unexpectedly died. When she came back from the funeral (in another country), I asked her what happened.

She said that she couldnt understand how her brother who was sn avid skier, super fit and healthy and *had taken all his covid shots* could just die.

More detail revealed that he had felt sick with a fever, was given antibiotics, got sicker, went to hospital ER and died there of *sepsis*.

I said nothing. but you know what I thought.

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Oh my gosh, a 105 fever!? Sounds like your wife needs to become a doctor! Glad you pulled through!

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I remember passing out while sitting at the edge of the bed. Thought I died. 🤪https://theimaginaryhobgoblin.substack.com/p/testing-123

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Hit the 'like' button since there is no other choice, but scary!

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Same!

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At this point in my life, having raised children, being close to friends and their children, helping my elderly parents, I’ve got doctor skills. Experience breeds wisdom.

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No! Then she would become stupid.

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A family member just passed from sepsis a few weeks ago. Vaxxed.

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So sorry!♥

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😂 “And I go on to enjoy a few more pizzas…” awesome. Just awesome. That line just made my day. Go wife! I may steal that line from you and use it for the rest of my life. It can be used in so many situations. lol 😂

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Glad your health has improved beyond wilted celery!

Thanks to your wife for knowing better 😃

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Sounds like your wife is also far more intelligent than your doctor.

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My friend too -- pneumonia and sepsis. In the hospital on IVs for two weeks.

Very happy that you both recovered to eat more pizza.

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We don't always know how the good things we do echoes about bounces around us. Here is a story about just that: Thanksgiving Day was near. The first-grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment — to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful.

Most of the class might be considered economically disadvantaged, but still many would celebrate the holiday with turkey and other traditional goodies of the season. These, the teacher thought, would be the subjects of most of her student’s art. And they were.

But Douglas made a different kind of picture. Douglas was a different kind of boy. He was the teacher’s true child of misery, frail and unhappy. As other children played at recess, Douglas was likely to stand close by her side. One could only guess at the pain Douglas felt behind those sad eyes.

Yes, his picture was different: he drew a hand. Nothing else. Just an empty hand.

His abstract image captured the imagination of his peers. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer because farmers raise turkeys. Another suggested a police officer because the police protect and care for people. Still, others guessed it was the hand of God, for God provides for us. And so the discussion went — until the teacher almost forgot the quiet artist himself.

When the children had gone on to other assignments, she paused at Douglas’ desk, bent down, and asked him whose hand it was. The little boy looked away and muttered, It’s yours, teacher.

She then recalled the times she had taken his hand and walked with him here or there, as she had the other students. How often had she said, Take my hand, Douglas, we’ll go outside. Or, let me show you how to hold your pencil. Or, let’s do this together. Douglas was most thankful for his teacher’s hand. Brushing aside a tear, she went on with her work.

Keep reaching out because you may unknowingly pull someone out of the darkness and guide them into the light.

Source (there are more stories like this here): https://alltimeshortstories.com/the-teachers-hand

Anne Clifton, ^ that was for you.

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What a lovely post. I am truly touched. I guess we never know who we reach. Don’t give up.

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We never know - even the grumpiest people appreciate what we can offer by way of a smile - they do feel it. We are an energy field of "positive" EMF if we want to be.

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When we eat out, my husband and I usually ask our waitress or waiter if there is some way we can pray for them. Once I was irritated at our waitress because she had neglected to bring something I asked for and generally wasn't very attentive. In spite of that, I asked her if she had a prayer need. She replied, "Yes, my friend died in a car accident last night."

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We never know what someone else is going through. ...unless we ask.

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Amen . Ask and we may receive I like to say lemmincakes.

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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about “

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This is a variation from, I think, an older Southern preacher: "Everyone is chewing on something that just won't go down!"

I can't remember where I read it, but it comes to mind quite often these days.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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I do that too. Nobody has ever refused a prayer. I was at a restaurant with my 3 grandkids and the waitress was obviously having issues. Lack of body control and random movements, (vaxxed or drugs, but I wasn't sure) But she was so sweet. I asked if I could pray for her after she came to our table in the middle of lunch. She said "Yes, I would love that." And stood there waiting for the prayer...(and I was thinking I would put her on my list at home) so I prayed for her. Lord gave me the words to pray and I don't even remember what they were but she started crying. I had my 9 year old granddaughter go out to the car and get a postcard inviting people to our church and she gave it to her and I left a $50 tip. We were meant to be there on that day and I do include Renee from Jade Palace in my daily prayers.

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Wow. Good on you for being that light. This reminds me of the book 7 habits of highly effective people, where the author talks about the "paradigm shift" concept and how a distraught man who just lost his wife was letting his kids run around screaming, no one knew why and was mad at him.

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I'm 60, and I can't tell you the number of times I've discovered the thing causing the tiny thing I don't agree with in the moment was an instant source of empathy.

You never know what people are going through. Be kind. It's free, and in times of pain and sorrow, you'd be shocked how helpful it can be.

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As a former teacher, art tells you a lot about a child. Great story!

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I sent this on to my daughter; a 1st grade teacher.

Thank you.

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Beautiful. Thank you TriTorch. 😘❤️🙏🙏🙏

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Tritorch, you made me cry! That is such a beautiful story.

Now I will make you laugh. Last night at church, I had the opportunity to share with probably 6 or 7 people my reason for wearing a large paperclip. The most rewarding was one of the ladies in the small prayer group I attended until I was told that I should not mention covid vaccines because I was making the ladies uncomfortable. This lady asked me about the paperclip and I explained briefly. She had a very strained looking smile, gave me a thumbs up and the conversation ended. She asked, so I had to tell her!

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There's that dreaded word: "Uncomfortable". Circa the 21st century, making someone uncomfortable is the eighth mortal sin.

This pesky Calvinist suggests you find a polite way to ask the ladies if Jesus was uncomfortable on the tree ... or if Paul was uncomfortable in that Roman prison.

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"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." —Samuel Adams

Keep setting those brushfires Anne! =)

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I think I remember your previous post on this. Clever you to move to a paperclip.

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Did you notice that the British MP who stood up and railed about the BS going on was wearing a giant paperclip on his lapel? It made my day!

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Yes, he's a hero and one of my inspirations. The first person I saw wearing one was Dr. Ryan Cole.

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I need to hear this story of the paperclip!!😃🙏🏼

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This is the Substack I wrote about it. https://asclifton1971.substack.com/p/the-great-paperclip-resistance

I was actually surprised when my husband joined me in wearing the clip; he's the scientist in the family and I'm the activist.

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Fabulous!! So what do you say when asked?

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I tell them about the Norwegians who wore the clips, then say that my husband and I are wearing them to show our resistance to what we became aware of in 2020 with covid, the vaccines, the WEF, the WHO and so forth. Depending on the response, I give more info. I need to be more intentional about connecting it to my faith in Christ. To me, it's another pro-life issue. It's speaking out against injustice and standing up for the vulnerable. Eric Metaxas inspired me a great deal with his book, Letter to the American Church. A film based on the book was just released last week. I'm posting info on how you can watch it free at this site, for one night only. Also below that, I'm posting a small handout I give to some people who ask about the clip. I need to do something better, but this is better than nothing.

LETTER TO THE AMERICAN CHURCH MOVIE – LIVE ON-LINE EVENT – THURSDAY 2/22 AT 7PM – MUST SEE!!

You can learn more about this critical movie at www.LetterToTheAmericanChurch.com. The essence of the movie – The Church in America greatly resembles the Church in Germany in the early 1930s as the Nazi’s rose to power. The parallels are stark. The Church in America is positioned for a similar fate. The movie is 60 minutes long. Afterwards, we will discuss ACTION STEPS and how to host a Church-wide screening at your church.

Craig Seibert, COS supporter and Patriot Academy Constitution Coach is facilitating the showing of the movie at no charge to you. Register here to watch the film, https://www.patriotacademy.com/coach/register/7893?mc_cid=cb7823be09&mc_eid=13bf45197b

My handout:

Since 2020, citizens worldwide have experienced a massive loss of freedom. In the U.S. many companies, governments, and even our military, mandated unproven shots which were then, and still are, under emergency use authorization only. Despite the constant mantra of “safe and effective,” we have seen that the shots were neither. Dr. Joe Ladapo, Surgeon General of Florida, recently called for a halt to administering the shots, due to adulteration (DNA fragments were found in vials.) Some doctors estimate that 17 million people worldwide have been killed by the shots and millions have been injured, as well. The Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) recently won a lawsuit which requires the government to release the “free text” data from V-Safe reports. There are more than 7 million such text reports, which will undoubtedly reveal serious adverse reactions to the shots which should have caused them to be pulled from the market long ago. Read more here: https://thehighwire.com/news/cdc-required-to-release-free-text-data-in-v-safe-for-covid-vaccines/

In addition, many people were denied early treatment for covid and were killed by hospital protocols. Hospitals received huge financial incentives for diagnosing a patient with covid, giving the patient a course of remdesivir, placing the patient on a ventilator, and most egregiously, when patients died.

This was never about public health; it was a means of control. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) is attempting to put into place in May of 2024 a treaty which would put that organization in charge of pandemic preparedness and healthcare decisions. You can find more info about the WHO treaty here: https://doortofreedom.org/

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND ASK THEM TO STOP OUR ADMINISTRATION FROM SIGNING ON TO THIS TREATY. OUR FREEDOM IS AT STAKE.

Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them. Ephesians 5:11

Whew, didn't intend to write a book!

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Anne, I gave a copy of Letter to the American Church to my pastor just yesterday. Told him there was also a documentary, and asked what if the church screened it for the congregation?

We'll see what, if anything, happens. Nice people, but no one ever says anything about anything, ever, there. Keep wondering why God directed us to them. Guess I get to be a pebble in some shoes. Honestly never thought I'd be that person, but am learning all the time and trying to be obedient to His will.

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As a teacher working in special education for 20+ years I made it my daily mantra that if I could accomplish nothing more than to be as loving and kind to my students so that whatever they faced during the rest of their day, their time at school would be pleasant.

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Bless your heart! My wife has been a Special Ed teacher for almost 20yrs, and I see what it takes to love others right where they are. That's where my screen name comes from...I am her life's study!

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I forwarded this to my daughter in law, a Kindergarten teacher in Alaska. She is the kind of teacher that everyone’s child should have.

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It's a sweet story and as a teacher, we do make a difference. Sadly it's not just 1 student but often1/3 of classes especially in poorer areas. Teachers need to be held to high standards and paid a lot more for what we do.

One thing to do is make each of them feel special. Stand at the door and greet each one saying something encouraging tailored to them. It sets the tone for the day.

Most teachers don't do this or have a scowl on their face.

Schools are institutions that only care about test scores and follow the narrative. I quit fro good over covid BS.

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We’re supposed to be laughing by this point in the morning and I’m blubbering here.

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Okay, Tri-Torch….. You made me tear up.

Sigh.

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Crying here….thank you. I have been making an effort to reach out to the workers in the check-out line and thank them for working. One was so appreciative that before I wheeled my cart away she grabbed my hands in hers and quietly said “thank you.” I was struck with the reality that even small acts of kindness make a difference.

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Thank you for posting that! Just what I needed for a Monday morning! Bless you!

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Now I have tears coursing down my nose. Thank you for that tale of woe and a light in a child's dark world.

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This story is just what I needed this morning!

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Before I had even read today's post, I was hoping for a multiplier for Trump. Let's go!

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Feb 19Liked by Jeff Childers

I was a police officer for 25-years and spent my last 15 years working with juveniles. I dealt with the toughest, meanest, most lost young folks around. Some were genuinely evil. Young Jeffrey Dahmers. Frightening children. But most were simply angry, lost souls. And I came to really love them.

Ten years after retirement, I’m hiking in Bandelier National Forest in New Mexico and I hear a woman calling me by name. What the heck? I’m literally in the middle of nowhere. A young woman, a National Park Service ranger runs up to me, throws her arms around me and I recognize her as one of my “girls” who I worked with years before. I tell her how proud I am to see her squared way and in a good profession. Her words struck me to my heart. She told me that I was the reason she was a park ranger because I was tough on her as a teenager but she knew I loved her. And that I was always fair. She knew about my love of the outdoors and thought being a ranger would be a good way to honor me. Even knowing I might never know about it. What are the odds that we’d meet up, ten years later and 2500 miles from home, in the middle of nowhere? God works in wonderful ways.

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I’ll forever be grateful to God for the teachers, social workers, wilderness camp counselors, rehab workers, police officers, fellow concerned parents, and so many more people who helped us help our daughter go from drugs and self destruction to where she is today … a medical doctor.

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What a beautiful story! That was a job well done.

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Before I reached your last sentence, the words flowed into my mind, "God works in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform". Blessings on you, blessings on that grown-up child. One just never knows the outcome of one's deeds, which is a pretty scary thought. Better stay on the narrow path, for sure.

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Wow. I have dust in my eyes after reading that. You are truly an angel on Earth. ❤️

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These days people would just publish “#I love you and support you” on their social media and call themselves a caring person 🤦‍♀️ I see very few truly loving people willing to put themselves out.

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No coincidences in Gods world! You needed that to realize your efforts were not for nothing! If one life is saved, know it was worth it

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❤️❤️❤️👍🏻

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Yes HE does! Thank you for sharing.

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God sure does! Great share ty♥️🙏🏻

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I love that and God bless you!!!!💜💜

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What a gift to her and you!

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He most certainly does Cindy. 🥰🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for sharing this beautiful story.

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We should never, ever, forget that we are here on this Earth to learn Love, and that means giving it to even "the least of us".

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❤️❤️❤️

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I would multiply DJT in a heartbeat!

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Yes! As long as it's not WinRed.

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Absolutely not WinRed! I refuse to donate to the party! I want to donate to our truly big guy, President Trump!

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I'd rather WinRed than gofundme!!!!

Have we learned nothing?! Where's the GiveSendGo?

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Beats me! I didn’t set it up. But I will use gofundme for President Trump. I’ve been hopelessly in love since he denied Hillary the throne back in 2016. That came after the big crush I developed in 2015, when he went after the Saintly John (McShame) McCain and would not apologize.

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In 3 days that campaign has raised over $460k

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Never Win Red!

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Winred is annoying. But if you use the text to # that is provided at Trump rallies, it goes to WinRed. I get a lot of texts from politicians all over the nation. The only one I respond to is 88022.

After the 2020 steal, I got texts from high level Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, begging for money to ‘save the election’. When they proved to be lying frauds, I demanded and got my money back from WinRed.

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Since the Trump campaign seems to have chosen WinRed (for whatever reasons), I accept the annoyance. It’s no where nearly as bad as what President Trump and his family are enduring. And that’s a colossal understatement!

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I would love to multiply the Trumpster. I will never donate to ANY campaign again, tho. I did that, and the only way I could STOP my monthly donation was to cancel my debit card and get a new one. I was. Not. Happy.

I also dont want to donate thru the one he is using. They WILL cancel his donate site and try to take the $ for themselves.

So.

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When you donate to WinRed, you are helping to fund the Republican Party. That may or may not seem good to you. Knowledge is power. WHY Trump chose those platforms...? I'll probably never know. I don't care for either of them, and would prefer another - direct - route. I donate my time to the Trump campaign.

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Donated to the Bailey campaign in Illinois through WinRed …. HUGE mistake … so many “add ons” before you can just donate fifty bucks to the campaign AND the deluge of solicitation texts that follow are SUPER annoying.

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Yes, Jeff usually provides an alternative and I am prone to write a paper check and snail mail it. But one multiplier morning I was in a hurry and just hit the button and donated online via WinRed. My email and phone was inundated within a week. Unsubscribe and 'block number' were my 2 pastimes for weeks. I still get random texts from random politcos not even in MO, and sure it is a result of WinRed.

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Ditto. Unfortunately WinRed is the payment processor for many GOP campaigns, and there is no alternative.

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I'd rather WinRed than gofundme!!!!

Have we learned nothing?! Where's the GiveSendGo?

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Kinda like ActBlue is for the Dhimmicrats…

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Me too.

I’m still blocking and deleting several a day. “Stop” does not do any good. They keep coming. Even Steve Garvey texts me.

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I’ve just started a log to try and figure out if STOP or ‘Report As Junk’ truly doesn’t work, or if these campaigns have a ton of phone numbers they can use and if one gets blocked, they just move on to another.

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I am having the same issues. I report one as junk and the same text comes from a different number. I reply “Stop and maybe 50% of the time I get a response saying I was unsubscribed. Recently I have been getting 8-10 political texts a day.

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I delete all day long. They will just use a new number to text you.

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Kind of like playing ‘whack a mole’!

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Right? But at least I am in Kalifornistan. I take it you’re NOT. Sorry…but after seeing the attack ads from his Dhimmicrat opponent, where they say “Steve Garvey was just too conservative for California “…that was music to my ears! I just might donate after all!! 🙄

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♥️😞

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Agreed

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Or gofundme.

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Nope ... use GIveSendGo. Remember the Canadian truckers' money.

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Xactly!!!!!!!!

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I'd rather WinRed than gofundme!!!!

Have we learned nothing?! Where's the GiveSendGo?

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Agreed!

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Lets get Trump a billion dollars.

So Trump has a 45 million dollar peanallty regardless. Wow, and there is no way to go after the judge?

I hope the trucker protest has legs. Dont forget the escalator ride, words to the affect, I am not the target, you are, I am getting in the way.

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Would prefer Give Send Go. Didn’t Go Fund Me confiscate the Canadian truckers donations?

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Yes - they did, and I would be shocked if the deep state money machine isn’t trying to shut it down right now.

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Not only--but also stated that IT would choose where to send that money. Double kicker-in-the-rear-end.

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Me too! I want to buy a pair of his shoes too! I saw a Go Fund Me for him Friday.....waiting for the orders. It will send a BIG message.

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Love to see the truckers stop delivering to NYC.

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Truckers for the win!

Canadian Truckers against Covid Mandates were the original heros.

I imagine BigGov will want kill switches required for all big rigs in the near future...

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Here in Pa milk trucks have to ditch their whole load if on the road too long (as in, during a snowfall when highways closed). Govt would find itself in deep mud should it do that-all the food lost and spoiled-given that govt never seems to consider consequences of actions.

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YES!! I’m praying they all STOP! I want NY taken off the map, let it literally turn into the cesspool it’s become 😡

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and after we succeed in moving out :-o

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Please, after I have to be there for a day in March.

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Amen and amen!

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I would LOVE if they truly stopped delivering

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I’d like to see them surround the courthouse and lay on their horns! Or as the left protesters surrounded the Supreme Court Justices homes do the same to the judge and prosecutors in NYC.

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Great idea!

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There were supposedly a bunch of truckers going down to Eagle pass. We went down there and saw none. I wonder how true this is. Did you ever hear or see the truckers who supposedly went to Eagle pass?

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I heard Doc Chambers (former SpecOps doctor) say on Infowars that he was going to join the truckers. Regardless, MSM was totally ignoring everything.

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And I haven’t listened to jones for a few weeks but have him on X and haven’t seen one thing about the truckers in tx. Makes u go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Look up Billy Joel's song "Miami 2017" and check the lyrics ... especially the part about sinking Manhattan out at sea. A classic!

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I was so disappointed that the gold ones were sold out! I think it happened immediately.

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I too tried to buy the never give up high tops. They were sold out immediately but available on the secondary market for $5,000-$17,000, depending on the size. Unfortunately none of that goes to helping President Trump🤔

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I agree! We should all donate to Trump!

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It’s difficult to know how to donate to candidates with all the PACs soliciting. Finding the real “official” election fund can be a little trickery in national campaigns.

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As a former congressional campaign staffer, go to the fec website and find the address for the campaign. You can send directly to there.

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I don’t want it to go to election fund I want it to go to his legal fund.

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I want to give as a multiplier but I refuse to give through winded or gofund me. Refuse. No discussions about it. So if Jeff can find a place that bypasses all these criminal organizations then we will absolutely multiply him. It would probably help boost his to know just how many of us would step up.

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You are so right. As the great Mark Steyn would say, "these people hate you".

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I’m in on the Multiplier!

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Agreed!

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Same

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Me too! Let's multiply our President Donald J. Trump! ♥️🇺🇸🙏🏻

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We need another way! Give send Go or other!

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Xactly

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I'd rather WinRed than gofundme!!!!

Have we learned nothing?! Where's the GiveSendGo?

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Me too!

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What I don't get is how is there even a case when there are no victims. The banks got their money back with interest and they were paid back early. Supposedly, they wanted to do MORE business with Trump. The banks have their own appraisers--those are the figures bankers use to determine loans. It shouldn't matter what Trump said his properties were worth. So with no victim, who is this 365 million, or whatever it is, supposed to be paid to?

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Off topic, maybe, but this weekend I happened to see a blurb from CNN commentators and it got me thinking. My grandfather was born in the late 1890's in Poland and came to this country in his early 20's. Late in his life, he said he saw Communists coming out of the tv. At the time , we thought he was senile. Now, I wonder if he wasn't prescient.

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Back in 2008-9, many Americans born in Poland, Russia, under Nazi Germany, etc., were alarmed at the political discussions, especially about ObanaCare. They recognized the same signs they had escaped from! Pay attention when they speak out!

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Some of the eastern block countries are our last hope at preventing the heinous WHO pandemic updated “International Health Regulations”. They recognize totalitarianism when they see it. In case you think our constitution will protect us, I think of the last few years. They acted like it didn’t exist. They ignored the Nuremberg code. They leave our border a disaster while we send 130 billion to proxy wars to fund the war machine and to enrich all the Congress people who have stock with military contractors. When they take office, they should be forced to sell stock like that or be excluded for voting on funding wars.

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How true.

Now I don’t have to worry that I see Communists coming out of our political and judicial representatives.

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The stuff we watch on tv is called a "program".

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And when they repeat the same drivel, propaganda.

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We watched a documentary on the group of men who killed the most Jews. It was terrifying to watch, but it reminds me of covidians. Those monsters/ sheeple walk among us!

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Or was your grandfather a prophet?

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Thanks for the laugh. Actually, he was scary mean--never spoke a word of English. Yelled all the time. He didn't like kids which was really too bad, having 7 of his own and 18 grandchildren.

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He reminds me of a male cat. 😂

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I just saw something on FB about Lucille Ball (who DIDN’T love Lucy back then) being a registered Communist in her younger days…she flew under the UnAmericsn Activity committee & Joe McCarthy because she was J Edgar Hoover’s favorite Hollyweird star. But WHY were all those actors Commies? How could they have found Communism so preferable to the cushy life they were living? There must have been extremely seductive agents selling the Communist toothpaste after the Bolsheviks took over…

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He saw the bobble heads on MSM.

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Once again, there is not need to overthink this insane case and verdict. You only need to remember one simple fact. There is no longer any rule of law in this country, and they want you to know that, because they want you to give up and accept the dictatorship. As Trump said over and over. "They are coming after you. I'm just in the way".

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100% rolandttg.

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Does Pres T have enough money to keep fighting these lawsuits? Posting $450MM to appeal? Then still lose the 10% $45MM bond fee even if he “wins”? What a scam.

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Lets get Trump a billion plus dollars.

So Trump has a 45 million dollar peanallty regardless. Wow, and there is no way to go after the judge?

I hope the trucker protest has legs. Dont forget the escalator ride,

"They are coming after you. I'm just in the way". Donald Trump, who donated all his Presedential salary.

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Based on prior multipliers, maybe 10 multipliers could raise 1MM over 10 months at 1 per month.

Yea that last quote is probably more accurate than we know.

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Would be amazing if big influencers like Brand and Tucker would put up large amounts.

*LOL not bug

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The plan is to bankrupt him.

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Yes and maybe multiple goals: bankruptcy, emotional crippling , humiliation, destruction of business, character assassination, incarceration. I’ve never seen anything like this in our politics. Especially a former President and current candidate.

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More than current candidate. Current frontrunner in the general election, leading Biden in polling, and likely legitimate winner of the last election. In all likelihood he is the actual current legitimate President. They stole the 2020 election and they are trying to do it again this year. They want him to give up and leave the race. That is what all of this lawfare has been about. We are essentially the USSR now. Thanks to "liberals."

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Yeup. Bankrupt him so he can’t run for Pres

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More like bankrupt him FOREVER..as in total destruction. Evil.

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10% for the big guy.

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I think Trump will be okay. He’s slated to make around $4B off his Truth Social merger, since he owns 58% (I think) of the stock.

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Yes, I would like to know who the victim was and where does that money go?

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Likely much of it is earmarked for Kathy Hochul's discretionary use. Gotta fund new bennies for NY "migrants".

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And for pandemic internment camps.

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The Motel Six for 2024!

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And perhaps E Jean Carroll's $83 million gets divvied up back to Reid Hoffman so he can spread it around. Hell of a way to fundraise.

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Or the NYC Mayor fund. He's whining about the illegals.

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We just cannot satisfy Eric Adams. He asked Santa Claus to make NYC a "sanctuary city", he got his wish .... Now he gripes about too many migrants? What a fussy little man.

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Have you noticed he went silent immediately after the FBI told him they knew about his dealings with Turkey? He was pulled out of his limo and the FBI asked for all his devices. That's the last time he has complained about illegals taking over his city.

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Typical of big city Ds. 😂

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The $354 million question!

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Good question. I’ve been wondering myself where that fine would go.

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Democrat coffers. Not coffins

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Trump gave higher than market prices due to the added value of his Name, a real valuation factor that banks do not consider.

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Good point.

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It's all politics, all the time. Why don't the banks grow a pair and come out, saying publicly they were in no way victims of fraud?

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They did in public court.

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Which is great, but I want to hear an interview with someone from Newsmax or Fox. MSM would never cover it; neither would "Look- at -how- fair -I- am" Bill Maher.

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Why don’t the banks loan put up the bond money?

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I was thinking the banks should put up the bond, then return the fee when he wins.

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They have a fujiciary responsability to their institution.

We are Donald Trump.}

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I had that same wondery this morning, reading of Ugly Engy's $$ decision. His own bank account via a circuitous route?

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Two tiered justice system and dem dems don’t want Trump to win

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#JustDropIt

^^^ Wish all New Yorkers would wear that button.

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That's my question as well. Who is the recipient of all this money? NYC? Using it to buoy up their bankrupt city?

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Exactly. What is the actual charge ?

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I am wondering the same thing! Just who will be getting these ""damages"? When no one was damaged?

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Kommandant Hochul has found a new source of funding for her progressive policies.

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That is my question, who is going to benefit from this massive fine, if inforced?

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“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

— Jesus, Matthew 6:19-21 LSB

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Yes Janice, that why I will donate to the Trump multiplier.

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Hope Fani is thinking of taking that advice.

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How different our world would be if more people would.

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Everyone please be aware of the highly effective protocol for sepsis developed by Dr Paul Marik. If implemented rapidly, first 12 hours, it has the ability to cut the deaths from sepsis by 3/4. Of course hospitals are resistant and ignorant so it will take a very insistent relative who is already familiar with the simple protocol. It is akin to the effective early treatments for covid that were demonized and Ignored while people died needlessly. I have printed the Marik protocol for sepsis off and have it with my advanced directive papers. https://covid19criticalcare.com/what-is-dr-mariks-life-saving-protocol-for-treating-sepsis/

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@Trying hard I can’t seem to get a print page from this link. I can watch the short video and I’ve screenshot the “sheet of protocol instructions” but was also getting an error when clicking on link. Suggestions?

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I have it saved but can not post screen shots. Marik’s sepsis protocol is 200mg of thiamine every twelve hours. 1500mg ascorbic acid every six hours. And 50mg hydrocortisone every six hours. This IV cocktail for two days reduced mortality from 40% to 8.5%.

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Oma I hope you were able to access. I will tell you Google censors so much. I use Brave. Flccc.net has been giving high quality 1 hour webinars for past 3.5 years. Excellent with world class brave doctors. Dr Marik gave an excellent webinar on sepsis treatment. Am not home now to find it but i believe it was about a year ago. https://covid19criticalcare.com/what-is-dr-mariks-life-saving-protocol-for-treating-sepsis/

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Oma,

https://covid19criticalcare.com/all-about-sepsis/ this is one seminar on sepsis by Dr. Marik. Sept 2023. There is a second one too. I have learned so much from these webinars.

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And the Del Bigtree - Marik interview is also excellent.

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Search the FLCC website and scroll down to sepsis protocol

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Instead of taking a screenshot of the instructions, go to that link on a computer, highlight the instructions, copy and paste them into a document, and print the document.

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Appreciate the offer, but I do not need even 1/2 app more on my smart device. Happy to have a simple link to a PDF. Cheers!

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Thank you for this link

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Please take note that it's an IV protocol, requiring you to head into a hospital setting.

So back to the old saying, prevention is better than cure. Good on Jeff to pick up on the exploding sepsis issue, but a weakened immune system is only maybe 1/3 of the story. One or two studies from 2 years back already showed that the spike enables the formation of biofilms - which effectively shield bacteria buildup from our immune system. In order words, those bacteria colonies are growing and growing... until the biofilm is pierced for whatever reason and you get a huge flood of bacteria. There's been enough stories where folks had to cut out portions of their colons or other organs - so that is where it's coming from.

The jabberwockies who still have spikes in their bodies - yes, they are quite vulnerable. But even the unvexed who are exposed to serious spike shedding - will start to see a buildup of the biofilms, that's why there's been a few cases already reported.

So back to prevention better than cure - the natto/serra protocol - every 2 days would serve to prevent this from happening. 1500 / 80K IU per 45lb body weight should be sufficient as a maintenance protocol. Remember it has to be enteric coated and taken on an empty stomach (2 hours after food and 1 hour before next feed). The serra portion is the key in piercing those biofilms, thus allowing our immune systems to clear the bacteria buildup before it becomes too big to handle. Serra can also cross the blood brain barrier and neutralizes the spikes that do get into the brain via the central nervous system. So just a lot of protective effects.

FWIW, everyone in my family is taking it on a daily basis - you can read up on the Midwesterndoctor's substack piece on Zeta potential. Definitely enhances bloodflow and clears up a lot of minor issues. Of course if we live in a pristine environment, we wouldn't need to supplement to that extent, but it is what it is.

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Excellent idea to have this with your advanced directive!

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Fantastic idea to have it included with your health directives!

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Advanced directive orders, that sounds interesting!! Can you share your thoughts there?

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https://www.help4srs.org/publications/

Really good blue booklet. In my own words I wrote to my loved ones instructions if I am unable to speak for myself. I sent to grown sons and husband. .then everyone can order this amazing booklet. 1 copy for free, additional just $3. Very very simple common sense questions. Your answers will guide your loved ones. A nurse told me about this book probably 10 years ago and I have passed out at least 30 to friends and every single one of them is so appreciative. Of course you want to fill it in when you are in good health and complete mental abilities.

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Make sure you explicitly say that you want food and hydration even if by tube, and regular antibiotics for infections. They now consider this extraordinary treatment and will starve you to death without explicit instructions.

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That is horrible but sadly not surprising. Was done alot during covid especially to the elderly or disabled.

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https://help4srs.org/your-way/

The helpful booklet is called " your way" on the H.E.L.P. website

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Feb 19Liked by Jeff Childers

This forum is still the best education I've seen for legal and covid-medical info. The analysis of the cases against Trump and these reports of the sepsis epidemic are just the latest examples. Thanks, Jeff!

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Me too. Jeff's commentary (plus sarcasm) and C&C readers' comments keep me sane in our upside down world.

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It really is. Jeff has a knack for explaining arcane details in layman's terms.

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FYI, this NIH posting is STILL online.

You will not find a more comprehensive demolition of the Scamdemic anywhere!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/

Opening paragraph:

"The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream lead by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies."

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The closing comment:

"The approved comirnaty vaccine was not available in the United States. The national media told the public that the Pfizer vaccine had been approved and was no longer classed as experimental, a blatant lie. These deadly lies continue. It is time to stop this insanity and bring these people to justice."

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BFM - I printed that very article out (14 pages) and anonymously had it mailed to my brother. He figured out it was me who sent it and accused me of hating him.

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Hahahaha, your brother sounds like mine! Thankfully, my brother decided he could no longer bear to be near me or talk to me, so my life is much less stressful. We have not spoken since 2021, but we did end up at a graveside funeral service on Sunday, just a few feet apart, but managed to avoid interacting. I should add that I am perfectly willing to have a relationship with him if he changes and desires that. Meanwhile, I'm not going to poke the bear. One of my sincere hopes is that when/if we face food shortages, I can provide food to him.

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Oh Anne. It’s so sad. Isn’t it? You will give him grace. I will too, for mine. He has no idea what’s coming.

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This is so sad. Our daughter didn't see us for about 2 years till recently, same reason. Thankfully, my brother is on the right track in this. But, I have many friends whose brothers are not. I now pray for 'brothers' of friends and acquaintances. I will add both of your bothers to my list. So sorry.

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I have to laugh at your unintentional typo: bothers instead of brothers. The problems with my brother began long before covid. When they progressed to an actual threat, my husband would no longer let me go alone to visit my mother, who lived next door to him. I think my brother is mentally ill from smoking marijuana for 35 or 40 years. He's also a very angry atheist. Thank you for praying. I'm glad your daughter has reconciled with you!

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My brother is also an atheist. Common theme among those asleep.

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My 73 year old lifelong marijuana smoking atheist brother took the first two and a booster. His mind is half gone these days but he says I was right about the shots and won’t get anymore. The other two subs got the first set but I don’t think any more of them. Tough being the youngest. No one listens. At least all my kids, their spouses and children did not get ANY! PTL.

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But marijuana is safe! It's not a gateway drug, either. Everybody knows that! everybody, everybody, everybody.....

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God bless you ROKM. Happy your daughter is coming around.

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I pray for healing for your brother and for the whole situation.

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I have a sister like that. So sad!!!!

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How do you not talk to your siblings?

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My brother's badgering and persecution began after the 2000 election. He would not talk about anything but politics or my faith. He was insulting. He would send multiple emails during the day, asking the same questions over and over, demanding answers I had already given. My son was considering going into the military and he suggested that perhaps he would get killed. I had to limit contact with him and my mother for my own sanity. Romans 12:18 says, "If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone." I've done that. Now our parents are dead, he's told me to leave him alone, so I have.

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LOL you sound like me

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Great find! Shared with my daughter physician!

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THank-a-yoo, BFM! I have downloaded the PDF.

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I have a few people I’d like to send that article to, anonymously

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Thank you for sharing this. You often share articles and I appreciate it

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Wow! 2022 and still up? Someone’s asleep at the censorship switch.

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It's strange how such it's still there. Awesome tho!

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Thanks for posting this link

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Did anyone else get a surprise when they filed their 2023 taxes?

I had to pay this year. First time in over 15 years.

I deliberately keep my withholding lower than normal...and normally I just get a small refund...was OK with that...it worked for 15 years.

Does the Biden regime need more of my money to fund Ukraine or pay for the illegals to stay in $500 per night hotels in NYC?

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I have seen others saying they have to pay for the first time and no small amount.

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As much as I hate taxes, perhaps this is the wake up call the Biden voters need to see the nightmare his administration is causing.

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At least everything is working perfectly and all has been built back better. We're really getting our money's worth. LOL!

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I heard on Glenn Beck this morning that tax refunds are down 25%

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And electric and gas bills are up. They were granted the ability to increase rates dramatically to fund (as well as force) sustainable (green) energy goals. With an extra fee added on if you refuse a smart meter.

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As ich as I HATE the taxes, perhaps this is the lick in the butt the young liberals need to wake them up to the nightmare their vote for Biden created. All is fine ‘till they come to gore your ox.

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It's one possible wake-up call. I'd also like to see it dawn on more people that income taxes are only one way that the government takes our money. It's astounding to me that we pay taxes on goods we're buying using money that was already taxed. And the people who made the goods were also taxed on them, as well as the people who sell the goods, as well as the people who provide the building where the goods are sold. And then, if we try to sell the thing we bought, the government will tax us and the buyer yet again. There's like 50 taxes on one sandwich. It's absurd. I simply can't imagine how much better off everyone would be if even half of these taxes were eliminated or reduced.

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Good point...a big wake-up call to the US government spending money like drunken sailors.

Apologies to my fellow drunken sailors everywhere.

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lol. Funny not funny🤣

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They can change the withholding tables so that less is withheld even if you made no changes to your W-4. Just a little tweak and many people get a little bit more take home pay, and may believe the Resident and his lackeys who say wages are up. But tax rates (and therefore tax lability) didn’t change, so more people find themselves owing when they file their taxes. Several employees at the small company where I work have already changed their W-4’s this year to withhold more federal tax because they got hit with a tax bill.

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Haven't filed this year, but had to pay thousands of dollars last year. Hadn't owed any federal taxes for many years before that. I raised my withholdings way up in the hopes of not having a repeat performance ... we'll see how this year goes ...

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Haven't done 'em yet--husb doing the big getting-papers-together in last weeks--thanks for the clue.

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😁🤣 mine too, quite the production!

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Refunds or payment due don't necessarily mean a thing as they are just the difference between your tax bill and your withholding for any given year. The number that needs to be compared is total tax paid year to year. If your income increases, all other deductions/credits and withholding stays the same then it follows that your refund will be smaller or that you would owe the additional taxes upon filing.

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Let me just blame Biden for this...

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😆 It IS all Biden's fault.

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No- We get a refund after paying last year

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Do you mean after making quarterly payments last year?

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No. we paid 8k last yr for 2022.

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The AIDS "epidemic" actually took off when doctors began prescribing, via the support & prodding of one Anthony Fauci, the previously failed & very cytotoxic cancer drug AZT once any luckless person tested positive on the poorly accurate HIV diagnostic tests. You might call that historical period a trial run.

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He has been a murdering psycho for the last 40 years.

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Everyone has heard the whores of the experiments on beagles, but Fauci also oversaw horrendous experimental treatments on foster children in New York City. He is truly a psychopath.

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Horrors

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Lol thought it was a new fauci insult. I mean if the lucite stiletto fits....

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More likely he has just been a useful idiot. We never seem to be able to get to “the one.”

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Definitely not just a useful idiot. He is a major player in bio weapons research and the corporate capture of our health agencies.

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Dr. Fraudci.

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Feb 19Liked by Jeff Childers

That thought crossed my mind as well. Turbo cancer was prevalent at the time. It was dreadful

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That's one of the red flags for me. As soon as I heard fauci involved in covid I knew it was suspect. He's a POS.

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I remember one of my coworkers being diagnosed with AIDS back then and I was so sad because I knew it was a death sentence. He died not long after being diagnosed. What I didn't know back then was it wasn't AIDS that was killing people, it was AZT.

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Same as the Covid injection of mRNA.

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Fauci created the AIDS crisis and is responsible for all of those unnecessary deaths.

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He's a monster.

Wow! They should show the kids this video.

Fauci Warning ‘Household Contact’ with AIDS Patients Could Put Kids at Risk

https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/video-resurfaces-fauci-warning-household-180945365.html

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Yes, and a great information about all of these crimes in RFK’s book The Real Anthony Fauci.

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I used to listen to the Gary Null show on the radio, starting back in the 1980s. He described the whole messed up situation with aids and the crimes of Anthony Fauci. Meanwhile Gary was restoring the health of aids suffers using among other things, high dose, vitamin C IV drips. He helped 1200 people, and was able to sero convert 16 aids patients using an intensive regimen of IVs, nutrition, and change of lifestyle habits. he introduced me to alternative medicine and natural healing. I will forever be grateful to him for that. I hadn’t listened to him for many years, and thankfully started again very early in the pandemic, and he had spotted the fraud right away. He had seen the whole playbook before, he opened my eyes and along with Childrens Health Defense made up my mind that I would never get within 40 miles of those experimental Covid jabs.

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I would gladly contribute to a multiplier for Trump, but only because what is happening to him can happen to each and every one of us. The “justice” system has become totally corrupt. Trump needs to win this case. Judges like Engoron need to swept from their benches and attorneys like Fani Willis and Letitia James need to be disbarred. The sight of tar and feathers keeps popping into my mind. I wonder why?

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Feb 19Liked by Jeff Childers

Jeff - God bless you for your uplifting message yesterday.

“Now get out there and keep lifting, you joyful warriors.”

Amen Jeff!!!!

Look at what embalmer Richard Hirschman posted at 5pm Eastern yesterday (10M+ views and counting)

WARNING - graphic video

https://twitter.com/r_hirschman/status/1759337235042758748?s=20

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When is someone going to figure out what those "clots" consist of? It's not a blood clot. What substance is it? What causes the body to form it? We all know the WHY, we need to understand the HOW.

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There are MANY working on that here and overseas.

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This is in my prayers ! We need answers & testing & cures plus healing 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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The spike protein enflsmed the endothelial cells of all of the blood vessels, NN auto immune type reaction .The body reacts by jacking up the amount of fibrin, a little of which is necessary to prevent us from bleeding to death. But an over abundance of it causes unnatural blood clots which don’t respond to normal blood thinning treatments. Best approach would be nattokinase, bromelain and curcumin as in the doctor Peter McCullough protocol. So we do have a pretty good idea what is causing those clots.

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I've been wondering if anyone has put them under a microscope? Found out what they're composed of?

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Ana Mihalcea (sp?) has a few Substacks on the clots.

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I read an article a few days ago about the clots being a gel substance. I have no links though. Sorry!

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It would be great if Hirschman would go on Joe Rogan’s show. It would make an incredible impact. This video sure did for me!

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We are working on that! Trying to get him on Tucker and Russel Brand too.

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Thanks a clot Dr. Fraudci for the safe and effective jabs.

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Wow! Thank you. Clotted lymph.

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Yes to the Trump multiplier!

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Agree…. Yes to supporting DJT!!!

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YES on the multiplier. They will come after us next.

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NY Post reported this morning that truck drivers are refusing to drive into NYC; and Gov. Kathy Hochul has to rush out and reassure businesses that it's safe to do business in her state. A multiplier on top of all this can only help send a message to that confused state.

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Absolutely - get the Trump multiplier going and let’s pump it up - times a wasting.

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