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Jeff Childers's avatar

ERRATA

— The Idaho bill already passed and was signed. I missed the dates in the wee hours this morning as I slipped it in at the last moment before publishing. It *takes effect* on July 1st.

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Garden Lover's avatar

This is fabulous news!

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Big E's avatar

Adding some info…

The most awesome Idaho Medical Freedom Act, S1210, passed on April 4, 2025 and becomes law on 07/01/25. Details here: https://tinyurl.com/3n756wxy

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Al Victor's avatar

Hey Big E,

I read your Substack too. Glad to see you’re part of the C&C Army.

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Jenny Holmes's avatar

Yep, we have a great set of legislators, especially in north Idaho (excluding Sandpoint).

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Karyn Simmons's avatar

Thanks, I was just about to explain that. 🙂 I appreciate your work!

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Al Victor's avatar

Oops, just saw this update. Thanks.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

I had mentioned my dad passing last week after a final stroke put in a coma from he didn't recover.

Thank you to the many many people who expressed sympathy for the loss and for acknowledgement of how many similar stories are repeated for people who were healthy before the Jabs and then went downhill fast afterwards.

After being here for gosh, it seems over 4 years now, I'm fortunate to be in such a knowledgeable and supportive community.

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RunningLogic's avatar

We don’t always agree on everything BFM, but I appreciate you and am glad you’re part of the C&C community! My sincere condolences for your father’s passing. As you might remember, I lost both of my parents one less than a year after the jabs and the other a year and a half after that. And my brother was killed because of the lockdowns. So I definitely feel and share your pain and anger. Praying for the peace and comfort that only the Lord can give 🙏

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Jeff S's avatar

Sadder than sad, RL. Condolences.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you Jeff ❤️

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Freebird's avatar

RL, you’ve suffered more than your share of losses. God be with you friend. 🙏

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you Freebird ❤️

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ILoveherbs's avatar

RL, praying for peace & comfort, for you as well. Along with the many others who have lost someone, regardless of circumstances. 🙏🙏🙏

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you for your kind words ❤️

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I couldn’t agree more on the sentiment. BFM, we are very sorry for your loss!

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Garden Lover's avatar

That’s a lot of loss, RL. I’m so sorry. Big hugs and light to you and your family.

I lost my mom during the plandemic. It was rough. Losing that many loved ones so quickly would be incredibly hard.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you ❤️ It’s definitely tough to lose 3/5 of your close family members within 3 1/2 years 😞 And that’s not even getting into the “lesser” losses of friends, school, and people you previously thought you could trust. It’s definitely not been an easy 5 years I😕 I’m grateful to have this wonderful community for support and laughs 😊 It definitely helps.

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Garden Lover's avatar

I should say so. I lost a 20 year friend in the plandemic because I posted something that she disagreed with. She told me to either remove it or we were no longer friends. Honestly, that’s not a friend. And I get why she was offended by it, but the correlation was real.

However, I made new friends as a result of all the craziness, members of this group included. It would have been much, much harder without everyone.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I definitely can relate to that.

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ACroneintheWoods's avatar

I don't know how people can afford all the deaths. Death is very expensive, so many hidden costs, and so much time involved to take care of it all. The funeral home charged extra for having a service on the weekend. I was stunned. What a scam!

My sister's passing is the first I have had a hands on approach, in the past I am helping out, but not doing the legal/financial stuff. Thankfully, I am not the executor, but the work that it takes is mind boggling. My family has made some mistakes that I will always regret, but nothing I can do but to forgive and let go as best I can. It took five years for my sister to complete all the work involved w/my mother's passing, and I never really understood or appreciated every thing she had to do and did w/grace. Now she is gone, I so wish I could tell her thank you for doing such a great job for my mom.

There is a booklet called 5 Wishes, local Hospices usually have it. It is far cheaper than the attorney route, at least it is some guidance on paper. I do wish Churches and other groups would take the bull by the horn and get people involved in planning for their demise. Something like 65% of Americans do not have anything at all written. Even if a person has little money their last wishes should be recorded.

I am sorry you have lost so many loved ones especially in such a short amount of time. I feel as if I need a support group to be able to freely discuss what a Covid death is like. Online helps, but a Covid AA group of sorts to attend would be fantastic.

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RunningLogic's avatar

You make a lot of good points. It is definitely complicated and not easy to deal with.

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Rosemary Mills's avatar

As an old, mostly retired RN and veteran, with more than 30 years of Homecare and Hospice nursing experience, let me tell you that most people even to this day, refuse to think about or talk about their coming death. It is sad but true, even in those who profess to be Christian. Anyone who can help their relatives begin the discussion and process of planning ahead needs to do that! Advance directives and Living Wills as well as regular estate wills can be downloaded free for most states. You can use them to help your discussions.https://www.fivewishes.org/five-wishes-sample.pdf

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ACroneintheWoods's avatar

It is sad, but true. One of my problems is finding disciplined time to sit and do it, some of it is cut and dry, some of it isn't, like I learned w/the DNR. Thank you so much for posting the link! And thank you for your years of service in caring for people. My mom was an RN, and my dad was a preacher. Growing up funerals were part of the lifestyle, like weddings and baptisms.

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Vicki's avatar

Can you post the 5 Wishes or where we can get it?

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ACroneintheWoods's avatar

You can get it off Amazon for $35.00, but I would check w/your local Hospice if you have one in your area. If not, call some Hospice websites and see if you can find one that would mail you a copy. They usually have access to them for free or a small donation of $3-$5.00. It is a little booklet type thing, and it is harder to fill out than one would think which is why I think a group effort would be helpful, to swap ideas or have discussions to help make decisions. Even sitting down w/a friend over coffee, doing it w/my family is not helpful.

The local hospitals here have something similar called, Advance Care Planning, they are free, but not nearly as nice as the 5 Wishes format, and they offer zero help in filling them out. Words have meaning and are tricky when it comes to dealing w/the medical people. I have a legal DNR, but I learned at my last surgery it wouldn't apply because I was using a surgery center and not a hospital. If I coded they would call an ambulance and send me to the ER, by then who knows what shape I would be in? They were freaked that I even brought up the topic.

Perhaps Jeff knows, but I have been told you don’t need an attorney for a last will and testament, a written signed document and witness is supposed to be sufficient?

Anyway, I hope you can get one w/ease. It is a very helpful and thought provoking tool. Something written down is far better than nothing written down is how I see it. My sisters' passing has prompted many conversations, like at the mechanic, he told the story of how a woman left everything to the SPCA. It was cut and dry, she said her kids didn't need her house, but animals needed care.

https://www.amazon.com/Five-Wishes-Starter-Kit-documents/dp/B08HVJMG11/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1VM23AB1BE7ZN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.URksSzbwG1UYuAKF6suEomlz_dcf3ebVwUUrRtgQKgrrOfbJ5_hxSqpI0SkUAHGQFs48ealbgPDzNFvUjrZc2uURmS5jq6HcwoRkxU7aZC_cljbfWH2k2ZzqNIPF_7b7ZgualEB1FoxY15ajAfwqLXCZh80jisyW5aHkDlHWY8QHmuZr_hQs5KBucNLdOgHp.jCv-uKLWrYW5Qev8hQ2Du1IZ479MiCe4LRNeImZyKCQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=five+wishes+document&qid=1746592327&sprefix=Five+wishes%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-1

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Porge's avatar

So sorry RL, I was not aware of your parents and brother...my sympathies friend 😔

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you, Porge ❤️ I don’t want take the focus off BFM. But I feel compelled to talk about this as much as possible because people need to know how many people suffered losses because of all of the stupid and evil Covid policies.

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Porge's avatar

I agree RL, we do need to talk about this, I also know of at least 5 people who were affected by the vax. 3 elderly but healthy with quick onset dementia and died shortly afterwards. 2 young, one college student with sudden case of seizures, the other in early 30's sudden onset seizures ( both healthy and athletic). I myself only took one Pfizer and have vision problems since.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I agree. And your examples are all very sad 😞 But it can be tough to bring it up in some cases. I have a friend whose husband, in his 50s, got one jab and had a bad reaction so didn’t get more. He got turbo brain cancer last year and died within a few months of diagnosis. I’m convinced the jab was a factor but haven’t bright it up with my friend. It can be a delicate subject 😕

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Porge's avatar

I realized that I made a huge mistake by taking one shot. I just wish more people would wake up and see the vast amount of evidence out there.....but alas we are a minority in our substack community. 😒

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Sherry 1's avatar

I am SO saddened to read of such loss. My prayers are with you. 😔🙏

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you, I appreciate your prayers ❤️

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Truth 101's avatar

😪🤬🙏

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Gabriella's avatar

💗

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Janet's avatar

Extending my Sympathies. These are profound losses. 😢🙏🏻

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you Janet ❤️

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JCrutcher's avatar

So very sorry for your losses, as well.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you ❤️

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Levans's avatar

Wow so sorry !

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you.

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Truth 101's avatar

Sorry to hear about your Dad. A friend's son-in-law just passed from brain/lung cancer. Mid-fifties. He went from having some peripheral vision problems to gone within about a month. I'm guessing he was fully protected from covid though.

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AM Schimberg's avatar

Just heard this morning of my mom's cousin passing from very quick progressing lung cancer, a late 60 year old non-smoker. Makes me wonder.

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Freebird's avatar

AM, in today’s world I’m past the point of wondering. My first thought at hearing of an unexpected death is…it was the jab.

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Bandit's avatar

Or a new pop up autoimmune diseases.

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Not Me's avatar

Same thing in my family

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RunningLogic's avatar

😞

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Freebird's avatar

These stories are beyond sad, especially the deaths of people in their 40s and 50s. I know of at least three in the past year. Two of them from heart attacks. This should not be happening!

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Lori's avatar

Yes they are. Young people should be able to grow old and older people deserve to see their grandchildren and enjoy their golden years. What has happened lies at Satan's minions feet.

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NoVA mom's avatar

My daughter’s friend recently had a heart attack and survived - she had just gotten married a month ago at the ripe old age of 24 😞

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Freebird's avatar

That is tragic!

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Doug's avatar

There is a certain comfort in knowing that one is NOT dying from Covid, but from something else...

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RunningLogic's avatar

So sad 😢

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Janet's avatar

My sister is having some eyesight issues and other problems. She has taken them all. So has my other sister. My daughter already ha a tiny brain growth (inoperable) for 10 years. They check it but so many of us are living life afraid of that one phone call. She wanted to make sure her dad and I were home 2 weeks ago because she wanted to talk to us. I lived in fear for a whole day. Without the courage to ask if this was bad news. Thankfully it wasn’t.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Hugs and prayers for you. It’s hard to deal with all of this.

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Amy C.'s avatar

I have witnessed vaccine injury in close friends/family, and always hearing of so many new deaths/illnesses, etc. It has gotten to the point where I am afraid to reconnect or ask people how they or their family are doing anymore..... almost PTSD feeling.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Wow! :(

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I am so very sorry for your loss. You’re in my prayers as you grieve.

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Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

Many condolences.

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Marsali S.'s avatar

I’m terribly sorry for the loss of your Dad and what you all went through. Doubly so, that it was due to the vaccine that was forced upon us. There will be accountability, one day.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Sending prayers.

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Susie & Security's avatar

Based Florida Man, I like to believe that God had a special job set aside in Heaven for your dad, and God called him Home for His greater need. God bless you and your family. You are loved here! ❤️

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Ed Thorrens's avatar

So sorry for your loss! I pray blessings over you and your family in Jesus’s name.

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Juliann's avatar

I am sorry for your loss! Prayers for comfort and peace from our Lord.

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Sarah Bee's avatar

I’m so sorry to hear of the loss of your father. Sending condolences

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Patti's avatar
May 6Edited

I’m sorry for your loss ❤️ it’s not ever easy.

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Doug's avatar

My condolences, sir.

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Sandy's avatar

So sorry for your loss.

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DianeKay88's avatar

Thank you for your kind words.

I'm so sorry your dad passed in such a tragic manner.

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Janet's avatar

I think I missed that. So very sorry for your loss, BFM. 🙏🏻

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Phillip Zinni III DO FAOASM's avatar

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Thanks Jeff for allowing comments today from us non-paying subs!

That Shiloh Hendrix case is interesting on how the 9 year old that was stealing from her baby bag was being called 'autistic' to gain sympathy. But those somalians run a scam where many of them claim their kids are all autistic to get more gibs.

Also many cities in MN require at least 17% of their apartments to be rented to somalia/Section 8 types, which helps flood them into the safe (i.e. White) areas. And of course the crime goes up.

Like in Shiloh's case where one is stealing from her while a somalian man (rumored to be a pedo) is hanging out at the playground recording people there.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Yes, I ran across this story over the weekend, and bad behavior on both sides makes this a tricky one to opine on. That being said, I did click on her givesendgo at the time and it was rather appalling to read some of the comments of those who donated - definitely crossed the line in terms of actual racism. Did not click on Anthony's but Jeff's screenshot seems to show the same.

Perhaps what we need is my friend Ron Freeman's book - Rethinking Race - written by a black man who grew up during Jim Crow and his premise is that we should focus on how far we HAVE come rather than re-litigating past injustices. https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Race-Better-Than-Believe/dp/B0DN88MKFT

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Based Florida Man's avatar

We need the ability to live separate.

White people should be able to live among their own just as other groups are able to do. Black crime is so out of control and just getting worse.

Black women now commit more murders than White men. https://x.com/crushmarxismnow/status/1918844975443235250

The rest of us shouldn't have to tolerate them in our communities with this type of criminality.

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barbara ford's avatar

I think it is more that folks w shared values should be able to live alongside each other. That kind of “separated” community seems pretty good!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes shared values is more important than anything else!

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Based Florida Man's avatar

There's over 1.5 BILLION Indian people.

They could easily swamp any White majority country, like is happening in Canada, Australia, Ireland, and England.

When Ireland is only Indian people, is it still Ireland? Of course not, even if they have 'shared values'.

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RunningLogic's avatar

No place on earth has ever remained what it always was in terms of population. I agree that the recent immigration has been too much and too fast but it’s impossible to prevent movement of peoples over the long term. This has happened for millennia.

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Lori's avatar

I like this. I would run mad if I lived near fanatical libbies.

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

↑ This is exactly the sort of ugly retro-racism that's been encouraged if not manufactured, by those out to divide and conquer us. (The "like" isn't from me.)

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Doug's avatar

I work with a decent, hard-working, soft-spoken black man who's never killed anybody.

We shouldn't tolerate criminals in our community, no matter what "color" they are. But let's acknowledge that criminals come in every color.

I prefer to judge a man by the quality of his character.

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Shelle's avatar

During the summer of George Floyd, I recognized and shared with friends and loved ones that this spectacle they made of Floyd was going to increase racism in the long run. There was an initial shame many whites felt, but the whole thing was presented so dishonestly and one-sidedly that a backlash was inevitable.

It made me very sad to see what was ahead because I have black people in my family and friends I deeply love. I knew it was all going to get a lot more complicated to have harmony. And here was the general population just going along with it, feeling virtuous, while actively making things worse! I wish we could wake people up to the manipulation and go back to having it normal to have great relationships with people of different racial backgrounds.

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May 7Edited

My disengagement with any MSM was so complete that summer, that I had no real idea that was even going on. A complete blackout. I was outside most of the time walking, hiking, painting nature, bird watching. I just saw 2 friends outside my home at times. I realized later I was not propagandized nor battered with Covid lies. It was one of the best summers of my long life. I didn’t miss anything on retrospection. Problems for me began when the jab crazy took over. That was not going to be avoided. Plus I saw my former democrat party turn into something toxic and twisted beyond repair IMO. I was dumbfounded by this racial turn on a dime.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree. There are many people who identify as black (since I don’t believe in race that’s how I’m going to put it) who are very frustrated with the subset of people who are criminals and moochers. The fact that more voted for Trump than last time is proof that you can’t put people in neat categories. It’s ridiculous imo to generalize across a population of millions of people.

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Doug's avatar

I view willingness to engage in that sort of generalization as a sort of intelligence test.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Knock yourself out.

I'm choosing to live among my own whenever possible.

Just like most of the world does.

It's only White communities that get 'diversity' forced upon them.

Access to Whites is not a 'human right'.

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NoWay's avatar
May 6Edited

Biden is white. I’ll bet whoever was really running the government the last four years is white.

Soros is white. Schwab is white….

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RunningLogic's avatar

How do you know who is “your own”? Is there a test or a card for that? If someone is “half white”

do they get to be included? What if you find out that someone who you think is white based on appearance is actually not, according to how you define the races? Do they get banished?

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TCB's avatar

Another case of the exception proving the rule. “I know a decent hard working black man” is newsworthy.

No one feels the need to specify they know a decent hard working WHITE man.

I agree we should judge each other on our character. But it’s naive to ignore stereotypes exist for a reason.

See statistics on black crime, black IQ, black net taxpayers, pick your metric.

The first step to solving any problem is recognizing the problem.

For what it’s worth, I agree 100% with Jeff C this whole thing fits the psyop pattern. Stay frosty my friends.

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Doug's avatar

Okay, the statistics support the stereotype - no denial from me. But to extend those statistics and stereotypes to their logical limit by saying "whites and blacks should live separately, because blacks are criminal by nature" is a fallacy that is disproven by ONE exception. So is the idea that all white men are decent and hard-working - we all know exceptions that disprove that assertion.

So psyop, yes. Let's all keep cool heads.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Whites are being ruined in the countries they settled from nothing. And libs and 'do-gooders' allow it. Find me some videos of Whites or Asians doing what Blacks do every day here:

"Blacks on bus beat the shit out of small white girl"

https://x.com/Sultanknish/status/1867267654748106993

"a bӏасk dumps water aӏӏ over a Wһitе student, destroying his computer."

https://x.com/BlksOfTikTok/status/1919223388641341929

"Black medical worker violently beats elderly white patient"

https://x.com/LxxLatin/status/1918462667062149120

(there's TONS of these)

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Johnny-O's avatar

Be mindful of the algorithms and what Jeff said - they are brewing up the race wars for us peasants.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Always have been. It's the Dem platform.

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Mitch's avatar
May 6Edited

true, but I've never in my life seen a group of whites beating up a lone black person, or any white stomping on the head of a black person when they're down.

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Jacquijacq's avatar

And who will be attacking whom ?

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Tom Cashman's avatar

It worked a trick for them back in 2020-2021, so you can bet they are going to go back to it now when they are completely lacking real ideas... watch this space, and watch the MSM get all worked up over it.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

These are criminal thugs created by gov overreach. Coming to every community near you if we allow welfare to continue to infect our education, food buying, parenting, etc etc.

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

🎯

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Jeff Lynn's avatar

Settled? The white man settled this country? It took quite a bit of violence to 'settle' this country against Hispanics and Native Americans and to discard that bit of history does a great disservice to all of us. Learn from history is to ensure we do NOT repeat it but apparently some forgot or failed to learn the history of this great nation, made great by races the caucasian mistreated in the past.

Apparently not all races have gotten past those atrocities. Victimhood has become the hill many will die on; white, black, red, brown and yellow skinned.

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My Favorite Things's avatar

This country was NOT made great or rich and powerful by reds & browns. White people have made this country prosperous and powerful.

White people are much less than 10% of the worldwide population, yet they have contributed more than any other race to the betterment of mankind. Whites are the minority race of the world.

How many people realize whites have given the world most of the things that make life wonderful such as: electricity in your home, air conditioning, the internet,

computers, GPS, trains, cell phones, airplanes, cars, bikes, motorcycles, television, movies, cameras, sewing machines, refrigerators, washers and dryers, museums, masterpieces of art, music and literature, antibiotics, travel to other planets, among many other things. 

White people have immensely elevated the standard of living for all races of people.

More white people have sacrificed their lives and limbs during wars to help people of various colors and religions than vice versa.

How many people know what primitive lives other races would be living without the inventions and interventions of white people?

People should be taught about all the excellent contributions that white people have made in this world.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Yes, settled. The Indians fought savage wars with each other and did nothing to settle meager portions the land they inhabited.

Whites created water supplies and sewer, etc and and a legal system enabling thriving communities.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

And the Hispanics and Native Americans were busy fighting amongst themselves long, long before Anglo saxons arrived on the scene.

‘We didn’t start the fire.’

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

So you choose to disregard the actual history you espoused. lol. We wypipo took this country from the Indian. Made it ours. It’s true. But to then say they had everything to do with building our current country, is foolish.

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DianeKay88's avatar

I agree, I consider this part of the Tail-Wagging-The-Dog Syndrome.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree. It plays right into the hands of those who wish to control us. Plus how do you even decide who qualifies as “white” anyway?? No one ever seems to be able to give specific characteristics that make someone definitively white or black or whatever. It’s all nebulous and vague. I think we need to stop walking into this trap to divide us and refuse to acknowledge this made up idea of race.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Running, if people can’t, or refuse, to define what a woman is how can they define anything? It’s all manipulation and I’m tired of it all. Thank goodness for C&C where we can share frustrations and speak openly.

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RunningLogic's avatar

At least a woman has an actual biological basis with chromosomes and reproductive organs. Races have no such clear definition.

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FH's avatar

To your point, I worked with a man for about three years, who I never thought about his race… He had light skin, blue eyes, and was I ever surprised to learn he was a card carrying black man (his words, not mine).

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RunningLogic's avatar

Exactly. I think the idea of race somewhat equates to some kind of “purity” of lineage which I just don’t think exists in reality.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Well, you can. But you can’t force it on others who are so proud of their color.

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RunningLogic's avatar

You can what? I’m sorry, not quite following your thought process here, my apologies.

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alongername's avatar

One very interesting fact would be to find out where the black athletes and celebrities that make millions of dollars annually choose to live .

I doubt you will find them in the inner city .....

I wonder why that is ??

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Mitch's avatar

their white wives would never let them live there, lol.

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alongername's avatar

Like in everything, some generalizations are true, some are not . Certainly the word "every" doesn't apply ...... but experience and common sense does play a part in forming opinions .

Here is a great opinion from Black superstar Charles Barkley . His outspoken "truths" piss off a lot of Blacks. I admire him for daring to be different.

"“We as Black people are never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other Black people. When you are Black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other Black people,” Barkley said.

“For some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not Black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good Black person. It’s a dirty, dark secret in the Black community."

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Jesse Jackson said he would cross the street if approached by a group of young black men at night.

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Jacquijacq's avatar

While those comments may seem harsh, they are factual. When my great grands came here they moved to a neighborhood of nyc that was populated w others from their European region. It was for safety. Staying with your own kind guaranteed a certain amount of security. It was only in the next two generations that family ventured into the “American” neighborhoods as after two gens, they had in fact become American themselves. I really don’t see any assimilating and w regard to blacks, they don’t seem to have the same moral compass. Sorry if that’s harsh but reality is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Willing Spirit's avatar

It’s a difficult conversation that must be had. Reality will not change with fanciful ideologies.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Simpering woke low-IQ Karens like you are a far bigger problem.

Imported Somalians, Haitians and other groups of primitive, violent and smelly animals are part of a very nefarious agenda to weaken this once-great nation.

You live in a fog of denial and MSNBC inspired idiocy, so STFU.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

All manufactured by crisis actors. Funded by Soros to divide.

https://rumble.com/vzgmya-the-george-floyd-false-flag-psyop.html

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alongername's avatar

The sane, free, loving world is getting destroyed like a triple decker sandwich:

The (mostly white) psychopathic globalists on top .....

The mostly "people of color" welfare and drug society on the bottom .....

And the getting squeezed out hard working people with honorable ethics ,

of all colors....... stuck in the middle . And definitely feeling the squeeze !

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RunningLogic's avatar

That means you’d have to live with the AWFLs 😬😆 And all of the woke condescending European liberals here because they can’t find jobs in their own countries. No thanks!

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

You’re sounding kinda Israeli to me. They want a place where they can live among their own.

Now if European people asserted anything similar, whether in Europe or the US or any country with a majority Euro population, well….. we know how that would be handled.

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Mitch's avatar

"Civil Rights" legislation and judicial activism eliminated our Constitutional right to Freedom of Association.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Seriously. It is a difficult but necessary conversation.

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Truthseeker's avatar

Right.

I follow this great therapist… and she said the people who benefit from therapy are people who go to therapists to improve their lives and make a plan forward…

and she contends- people who stay in a ‘rumination loop’ … never get better.

I think she is spot on.

These people in ‘rumination loops’ become the people stuck in the past- forever - never moving forward to something better …

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Doug's avatar

I've been in therapy for limited periods a couple of times in my life. Not for rumination, but for some outside perspective and for gaining some tools to see things differently. I was lucky - the guy I went to both times was great and very supportive of the limited-time-therapy idea.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

The AI is getting real good at this too - medical advisement and mental therapy too. Quite interesting.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Oh yes I definitely can see that point!

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Donna in MO's avatar

Yes I had my teen daughter in therapy for anxiety issues/panic attacks, but then also insisted on a few 'group sessions' as it became obvious that she was pinning a lot of her issues on me as opposed to focusing on what SHE could do to get a handle on it. Therapist was effective in helping her identify that blame shifting was not moving forward and that my/our (hubby and I) telling her 'no' and/or placing restrictions on her was not 'mean' but in her best interests. Her default setting was assuming the worst of people - thus creating a doom loop that triggered anxiety when things didn't go her way. She was not completely 'cured' of that - she still has a hair trigger at being offended, but at least it salvaged our mother/daughter relationship.

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Juju's avatar

You were more blessed than we were. Our daughter actually refused to continue counseling because the therapist just repeated everything we were teaching her. She wanted to hear anything but what we say, but we always spoke the truth to her with love and wisdom. She didn’t want that because it wasn’t convenient to the story she was writing.

In her adult years when we started to become estranged and she lived two states away, we asked her to pick any therapist of her choice and we would drive the 5-1/2 hours twice a month to counsel with her and repair our relationship. She said “no, because you always end up convincing the therapist to see it the way you want them to.” 🤦🏼‍♀️ I truly don’t have that kind of power, but I do deal in and am devoted to truth, even if it hurts me personally, and that’s a threat to anyone that wants to fabricate stories. Of course truth comes out in therapy, and if you’re someone that is unafraid of it one might assume you’ve “brainwashed” the therapist. 🙄 That was ten years ago and we have been estranged ever since.

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Truthseeker's avatar

I’m so sorry to hear this. The pain of trying to help a loved one- who won’t accept help… is a very deep pain and grief

The most skilled therapist I ever hired - refused to see minor children alone. He said- if the child could solve their own problems- they wouldn’t be here to see me.

He was a very brilliant and wise man and really truly helped my son through a very terrible and challenging period

And I now believe this. Minor children should never see a therapist alone. It should be family therapy…. Because they are going to need our help to get better.

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Donna in MO's avatar

So sorry to hear that. I will say 'repaired' in that once she moved out for good

we did get together every 6 weeks or so, but she and hubby moved to Minneapolis last May, ~6 hours away, so more just phone calls from time to time now. Topics of conversation are limited - she is a socialist and woke, so have to avoid political topics/landmines as a condition of keeping the connection intact.

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c Anderson's avatar

👍 I’ve seen a psychologist trying to gain the trust of a child by actually siding with the child to the detriment of the parent/child relationship. Malpractice! I think half the professionals in counseling need to get help themselves.

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Juju's avatar

This is so true. One Christian therapist I got close to once shared with me it wasn’t her job to speak truth to a gender confused child, but to ensure that they felt “loved” and accepted. I told her that falsely implies that every parent is failing to do that already and it wasn’t fair to the parents, or to the child. If a child won’t listen to their parents and those parents are as loving as you can be, they need to hear the truth from somewhere else, and for many only their therapist can do that job. And the Bible never tells us that truth should come second to love. Too many Christians take, “and the greatest of these is love” to a radical, out of context degree. They are intertwined and God makes clear we cannot have one without the other. True love always speaks the truth and helps someone to see it and deal with it. She disagreed vehemently with me and it was became clear to me that she was defining her whole worthiness on having a “loving heart and nature”. Sometimes the truth hurts and others see that as “lacking love,” but that doesn’t make it any less of the truth or any less worthy of admiration for speaking it. I admire truth speakers just as much as I admire loving souls. They must go hand in hand.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree. Also we need to just outright reject the whole idea of race. It’s a totally made up construct not based in specific definable characteristics. No one can really ever say what particular things make a someone black or white or Hispanic or whatever, “you just know.” 🙄 And the fact that they’ve been adding and changing classifications is also a red flag that it’s all made up to divide people and pit them against each other. I personally have decided I’m not playing that game.

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Juju's avatar

If we are fighting each other over racism, we aren’t fighting the rogue and corrupt leaders among us that wish to rip away our freedoms and take our money.

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John A George's avatar

Divide and conquer. England used it to rule the world for centuries...

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Based Florida Man's avatar

If you replaced everyone in England with peeps from India, then you'd no longer have England.

So it's not a game. Unfortunately this 'I don't see race' trope is a technique to erase White culture.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Broadly speaking you’re not wrong, but it’s not so much a race thing as a culture thing. You still cant draw a clear line between “races” regardless.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

I beg to differ. Sickle cell disease is a genetic disease that is confined to individuals whose ancestry can be traced to sub Saharan Africa and who have both abundant melanin and kinky hair. I have none of those features.

I used to troll forms that asked me for my race by self identifying as black, African American or whatever. I am adopted, so I can legitimately assert that given what you are saying, even though my adoptive mother was a bona fide DAR, &Mayflower Daughter.

I had to quit that trolling when I was diagnosed with hereditary hemochromatosis and genetically tested to be homozygous for the Celtic gene that causes it.

There are dozens of similar genetic variants/diseases with similar ethnic exclusive distributions: Amish, Mennonite, Ashkenazi Jews , etc.

Eric the Red was not South Asian, nor Oriental, he was Scandinavian.

I think that we should just end all racial preferences, take the line & box out of the census form (or suppress the results), but the race grifters & race baiters will never let that happen.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Ok so there are diseases and certain things that can be tied to ethnic backgrounds. Ethnic groups are not races. Races seem to be based on loose groupings of people with somewhat similar ethnic origins. But I am not sure eastern Africans for example have as much in common with western Africans as all that. Features and skin tones vary a lot across these groups. And if we do admit the existence of races, then do we test people genetically to determine what race they are? And which categories do we use? The three original ones or the expanded modern ones? I would like to see a specific, biology based list of all of the characteristics that make people part of one race and not another. So far I haven’t seen anything like this. Even ethnic groups have variations and influences from outside. People have been migrating and intermixing since time immemorial. I just don’t see how you can pin down something like race in a way that makes sense and isn’t intrusive.

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Lori's avatar

Let's make it easy. We are all of God's race for He made us in His image!!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Ideally yes 😊

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Bryan Dair's avatar

So, we should all be invisible then.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

People have been sorting themselves into groups forever, long before genetic testing was even a gleam in Margaret Sanger’s eyes.

Yes, we are all God’s children, but people sort themselves by appearance, language, accent, dress, etc.

Each group thinks that they are superior as evidenced by the language they use to describe themselves as opposed to outsiders. It’s a variation Greek & barbarians, Jews and goy.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Sure they have. Because that’s a natural thing, to seek people with whom you have something in common. But it’s not always based on appearance.

My contention is that this is an artificially created category that just adds to the division. You’re right, people love to feel superior to other people whether it be based on money, lineage, intelligence, religion, attractiveness, whatever. This is just giving people one more way to do that. And as I can see, most people just eat it up. I just don’t see why we need to add one more artificial category to encourage this. We already have plenty of other ways to separate ourselves.

There are a lot of so-called “white” people that I have pretty much nothing in common with except similar skin tone. And some “black” or “Hispanic” people have a more similar skin color to mine and more similar features than some “white” people do. I just don’t think these categories make any sense. Clearly a lot of other people do, although they seem to be unable to adequately explain how these racial categories make any sense.

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True story: A white man (let’s say Tom) went to Mexico and murdered a Hispanic (Juan) man. Tom placed Juan in Tom’s car and set it on 🔥 so the body would be unrecognizable.

Tom and his wife wanted to cash in on Tom’s large insurance policy. It was their idea of a get rich quick scheme.

Forensic scientists were able to determine that the body was not a white man by analyzing a tooth. 🦷 Tom was caught, and can be seen on an old episode of Forensic Files. There are differences in the races. It’s been proven scientifically. There is nothing wrong with having different races.

If you look at pure bloods of different races, you will learn that only the white race can make babies with various eye & hair colors. All other races can only make brown/black eyes and hair.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Ok so maybe there are some characteristics but if they can only be proven by forensic analysis and if it is just eliminating one category but not specifying exactly which “race” it was, that’s not super precise. And so how do we then separate people like BFM proposed? Do a forensic analysis on each person and give them a card proving which “race” they belong to? That’s kind of creepy and dystopian imo 😕

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My Favorite Things's avatar

In Tom’s case, the scientists specified the dead man was Hispanic. I have not talked about separating races or talked about giving cards.

There are different races/breeds of humans just like there are different breeds of birds, dogs, cats etc. Humans are part of the animal kingdom too.

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RunningLogic's avatar

That’s not quite an appropriate comparison in my opinion. Breeds of animals have strict criteria that they need to adhere to and breeding that needs to be proven before they can be declared to be part of that breed. Humans mostly don’t have that, maybe with the exception of “royalty”. And a lot of animals are mutts, random combinations of breeds.

And that’s kind of my point. We don’t have the equivalent of “purebreds” for humans. Most people are a mix of ethnic groups to one degree or another. We’re mutts.

I’m not saying that people don’t come from different places or don’t have different physical features. I’m just saying trying to neatly categorize us on the basis of those characteristics is not realistic and has historically only been used to pit people against each other to the benefit of those on power.

Also can you provide a link to the Tom/Juan case? I am just curious as to what process and criteria those scientists used.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

You are hung up on proving something on the basis of some biometric data. That is not how the world works, unless you are in the tradition of the antebellum South where race depends on being free of or having 1/256th heritage.

There are people groups (nationalities?)(ethnicities?)and then there are groups of groups (races?)

How about your mother’s or your prospective mother in law’s assessment?

‘She(or he) is/is not our type? That is where the rubber meets the road day to day and defines how high a bar the prospective mate has to hurdle in order to be accepted and for long term family harmony.

As someone said here, all the other stuff is BS, designed to have us fighting each other so we don’t have energy to fight our true enemies.

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RunningLogic's avatar

That’s what I mean. By acting like race is a thing, we are buying into the idea that it is somehow strictly definable. It’s nebulous. It’s by and large a perception and a feeling that can change from person to person. I don’t think we should be basing policies on that.

And I agree that focusing on race is taking our attention away from we should be putting it.

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Harry Golata's avatar

Race is one thing; mixing cultures is the problem. The one that establishes itself with bold, cocky expressions intimidates the more civilized Japheth backs down. Sad.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Some cultures definitely are less compatible with others.

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Johnny-O's avatar

I don't think anything is difficult about it. You treat fellow humans with dignity and respect - especially children. If someone is not doing the same to you, it isn't a green light to engage in their crappy behavior.

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Aloha50's avatar

And from my perspective, don't murder people by stabbing them in the heart.

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Paul Clough's avatar

From my perspective, don't murder anyone.

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Donna in MO's avatar

My point is - following someone around while filming them as you provoke them is NOT acceptable (as is the broader trend of trying anything you can to 'go viral') and confronting a child who's misbehaving is NOT acceptable either - you find the parent. (as I did when a child at a playground shoved my daughter off the swing many moons ago) Neither side showed good behavior - it seems that we as a society are 'breaking down' to our base instincts vs showing restraint, there is a lot of pent up anger, and this case seems to be a proxy for the state of human relations these days.

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David A's avatar

I like that we should focus on how far we have come. The hypeing of "racism" for political reasons go far further back than 1916, as this great black patriot said in 1863...

“Let me tell you something. Do you know that you have been deceived and cheated? You have been told that this government was intended from the beginning for white men, and for white men exclusively; that the men who formed the Union and framed the Constitution designed the permanent exclusion of the colored people from the benefits of those institutions. Davis, Taney and Yancey, traitors at the south, have propagated this statement, while their copperhead echoes at the north have repeated the same. There never was a bolder or more wicked perversion of the truth of history. So far from this purpose was the mind and heart of your fathers, that they desired and expected the abolition of slavery. They framed the Constitution plainly with a view to the speedy downfall of slavery. They carefully excluded from the Constitution any and every word which could lead to the belief that they meant it for persons of only one complexion. The Constitution, in its language and in its spirit, welcomes the black man to all the rights which it was intended to guarantee to any class of the American people. Its preamble tells us for whom and for what it was made.” Frederick Douglass (June 1863)

https://anderdaa7.substack.com/p/does-absolute-power-corrupt

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

You might recall that women of any race also could not vote without a specific amendment.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

And were quite content in the main in seeing to it that their man represented their interests by their control of the meal table and the bed, usually with subtle ways such that the man was not aware of such guidance.

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

Spoken like a man ...

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

Lisa, I can’t speak like a woman, I am not mentally ill, & I am satisfied with my top half finishes in road races, so I feel no need to compete in the women’s division.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Why did men have the power to begin with?

It's an interesting question.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

And then life improved dramatically! Wait…….

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Freebird's avatar

I’m not familiar with the book you recommend Donna, but I will say that I believe Obama reversed all the progress in race relations made by MLK. And now we have the problem that Jeff spoke of today, bad actors fomenting division for their own nefarious/evil purposes.

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Lori's avatar

If humans would only remember that God made us all and race does not matter. It is that easy. There is bad in all people and that comes from Satan, not from being a certain race. I always remember one of my favorite lines in the movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner when Sidney Poitier says to his father, ""You see yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man." And there it is.

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Mitch's avatar

true, but pattern recognition can save your life.

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Lori's avatar

Will respectfully agree to disagree.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

NO ONE wants to move to majority black areas.

All these years and they can't help but ruin any area where they become a significant part.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

For your safety, you might want to rethink that.

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Lori's avatar

We will respectfully agree to disagree.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

You haven’t been around a lot of young black men today, have you?

Sidney Poitier went the way of Martin Luther King and wanting to be judged by character, not the skin color.

I believe the vast majority of us would be very happy to judge by character alone, but we’ve been long prevented from doing so.

If another white student had stabbed that Texas athlete over a minor territorial dispute, we would have declared that barbaric character and fully supported prosecution.

But since that wasn’t the scenario, we don’t see character being judged.

Something very different and disturbing is happening and the injustice is palpable.

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Lori's avatar

and God will have the final say.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Without a doubt.

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Padrig's avatar

Race: The human race is one. There are no separate races of people. The word itself didn't come into use until the 1560s. Before that the word was used to mean "groupings of wines with a characteristic flavor" or "people with a common occupation." I propose we stop using the word "racist" and instead substitute the more appropriate word "evolutionist" or at least redefine the word to mean: "Atheists that believe mankind was not created by Yah but rather evolved into distinct kinds of which some are evolutionarily superior to others."

If I may coin a phrase, what we have here is a problem of "Placism."

This is the inevitable outcome when people are moved from one place to another without adopting the cultural standards.

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Glen's avatar
May 6Edited

You're spot on! Unfortunately, the only way I know of to redefine things is to get liberals to demand it. Somehow they manage to pull that off with frightening regularity.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Feel free to move to the 'hood to show your virtuous race-free filter.

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Padrig's avatar

The Hood: I have lived in the ghetto. It was terrible. I claim no virtue on the subject. It is when the ghetto was displaced and started spilling over into other areas that things got even worse.

My point is one of culture. Skin color is immaterial.

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PermieGeek's avatar

Unfortunately, autism is much higher among the Somalis in the US. People of African decent react differently to the measles vaccine and need a lower dose. The MMR vaccine is responsible for a more autism in black people. The solution could be as easy as making 3 vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella and giving a smaller dose of measles vaccine based on genetics. There's a documentary on CHD that features the problem.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

There's threads on twitter where the somalis themselves talk about most of them haven't had any vaccines.

And in Somali itself autism has been mostly non-existent.

So.. it's mostly a scam they use.

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CHop's avatar

It sounds like your friend has it right. And your feelings reading the comments is exactly what the psyop intended. If a story like this is picked up by the MSM and has instant wild traction online...and has video so you will believe what your eyes see, question it. They use GoFundMe and the like to launder money & raise funds and in this case with the comments, to fuel the psyop There may be some comments that are real & knee jerseys to what others have said, but most likely the majority came from some CIA contractor. They showed us that they do this in Breaking Bad when they laundered their drug money through "anonymous" donations.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Con artists frequently use kids to do their dirty work.

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Jeff S's avatar

Like Fagin in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Same thought!

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Irunthis1's avatar

I read somewhere that the accuser was a convicted pedophile who should have been arrested for being in a park WITH CHILDREN in the area... Not sure but if true WTH.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Jeff's suspicions that the beatification of St George was a PsyOp to help elect Biden with a Summer of Love take on more weight when we consider the political agendas of one of the leading actors in the case. And now Shiloh's case. Both in the same state. Coincidentally?

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. He was a progressive MSM firebrand congressman from Minnesota for many years, and took on a leading role in the DNC after Pres. Trump was first elected in 2016. As DNC Vice-Chairman, he and Chairman Tom Perez went on a two-year long national profanity tour, spouting F-bombs and incendiary comments in their racist dog-whistle stops around the nation vowing to remove 'racist' Trump from office.

We can't forget that Ellison is a disciple of the Nation of Islam's Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the virulent white devil-hating, US-hating organization that has proselytized inside US prisons for decades.

After the DNC profanity tour Ellison announced he would seek election in Minnesota as state Attorney General. A highly unusual career move for a politician. Considered a step down from Congress.

The down step didn't make much sense for a politician who had invested his time in Congress to build a national profile and following.

Unless...

There was some other agenda that was in play.

Suspicious foxes and C&C's author knowing that background about the state's top prosecutor see the George Floyd story as a plug-and-play operation. As Jeff shared, custodial deaths of criminal suspects aren't uncommon. Ellison knew this. Build the plug-and-play app and the 'victim' would come.

The smell of a PsyOp is unmistakable in the George Floyd story. And the police lives ruined and the riots were collateral damage. The hatred and division was the goal. The fuel to drive the narrative for political advantage. And now another Minnesotan. Hmmm?

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Maybe another Soros Marxist plan carried out. The damage that man (along w/ Gates) has done to us is legend.

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Lori's avatar

Yes, both are demon seeds imho.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Well said. We also had Minnesota’s Walz as the VP candidate 😕

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

Thank God he did not get in to do more damage. Poor Minnesota -- my sister and brother in law both have their concealed carry licenses and he always goes armed. She says that it is pretty obvious that there is voting fraud which is why Ilhan is still representing the Somalis in congress.

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CHop's avatar

Spot on...it's usually the same areas because they have "their" people in charge. I believe the coroner in the Floyd case was the same one who did the autopsies of many famous people. They just shuffle him around.

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Anthony's avatar

Not convicted, but accused. I believe the charges were dropped "in the name of justice". At least, that's what Matt Walsh said. I recommend watching his monologue about it.

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Tonya's avatar

I'm not so sure the Somali-autism connection is a scam. There is a definite racial component to autism risk. One of the things the CDC tried to cover up was a greater risk to African-American boys from the MMR shot.

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PermieGeek's avatar

Because Somalis have such bad reactions to MMR almost every family has autisic child(ren) happening directly after MMR vaccine.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Would be an interesting focus area for scientists... if we ever get back to honest work from them.

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PermieGeek's avatar

There is a documentary about it on Children's Health Defense, the org RFK started. The scientists doing work on this were shut down (go figure). Hopefully RFK will fund this research to continue

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CStone's avatar

Though I am from Kentucky, in this case I might as well have been from Portland. I have sacked all social media except for Substack and YT, mainly due to inner ear problems. So, even though I had seen headlines, I had not read or watched anything about it.

I’m dizzy enough, without the drama.

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JT's avatar

Not sure what this comment, no comment, comment thing is all about.

I choose to fund Jeff directly by sending him $100 every Christmas plus I also join the multipliers often, but $600 a year is beyond my reach. I enjoy offering an occasional observation, but if silence becomes the order of the day, I’ll respectfully, but regrettably hold my tongue.

So, if this is the last time I’m able to say this, I’ve enjoyed you commenters…you are a respectful, thoughtful, caring and often funny group and I’ll miss being able to add my two cents. JT

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RunningLogic's avatar

It was just Jeff forgetting to change the settings from Sunday’s subscriber only post. It happens occasionally.

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JT's avatar

Oops, thanks for the clarification RL

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Coalburned's avatar

Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, George Floyd, and now this. MN is a mess.

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PEL's avatar

Like Colorado it used to be much better. Turning blue seems to never be a good thing. They are getting close to trying that in Arizona. Our senators are both ridiculous. And don’t get me started on the governor and AG!

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Bard Joseph's avatar

All of these large donations coming from Soros.

Both stories involving crisis actors as in the George Floyd scam.

https://rumble.com/vzgmya-the-george-floyd-false-flag-psyop.html

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DC's avatar

My brother has Multiple Sclerosis and never could even apply for housing because the waiting list was always closed. I drove around to the apartments that accepted the voucher program, and everywhere I went, it was already filled mostly with foreign nationals. Meanwhile, he lost his appeal for Social Security disability upon renewal. They claimed he could work in fast food, even though his MS flares often send him to the hospital and leave him unable to walk for extended periods during recovery.

Now he’s been homeless for years, and he’s not receiving any money because he never got a court hearing notice in the mail. I pray for him every day while he’s out on the streets with no way to keep his MS medications cold, no Medicaid, and no real help. It’s heartbreaking.

At the same time, people crossing the border illegally seem to be welcomed with open arms and resources. He tried to get free legal help with the renewal and recertification process, but couldn't find anyone so he had to figure it out on his own. I just want to help him get off the streets, but I’m barely making it myself trying to raise a teenager in a small home. At this point he doesn't even know what to do to try to reapply for social security disabilty.

It makes my blood boil that the housing waiting list was closed and that he couldn’t even apply because so many noncitizens had already taken the spots. BTW, this was during the Obama administration, and I was told they were kicking people off the rolls and adding newcomers on the rolls for "PTSD." One man had a triple heart bypass, and they denied his renewal.

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JBell's avatar

Living with you or another family member was not on the equation?

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DC's avatar

No, his brother lives in the North and my brother didn’t want to move and I only have a small two bedroom house and there was four of here at the time. There is no room at all, we are already over crowded with one bathroom. Plus he required a wheel chair ramp and I don’t have the money to support him, we are barely affording groceries. The only option for him was move up north, but he didn’t want too. Maybe one day he will change his mind. Not like he has anything holding him back in the area.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I’m so sorry. That is not right at all!! I wish I knew a way to help 😞

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John P. Wallis's avatar

Deport every single somali imported by Nobama. One big ass mistake America.

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Carlos's avatar

Thanks to Barry Sateoro relocating programs of Somalies in the northern states.

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Ellen's avatar

Sasha Stone has a good post on this, actually in response to an earlier piece she did on it. Note the first sentence:

"I remain skeptical that the donations for Shiloh are 100% legit. I still suspect there were forces at play, like the Lincoln Project, for example, put forth by people who want to see MAGA and Trump disappear forever from American life. Their only play is that MAGA is full of racists. What better way to show America how true that is than with a fundraiser like that?

It feels like January 6th all over again. The campaign ads write themselves.

For me personally, this is a moral line—a test. I know what is right and what is wrong in my heart. What she did was wrong, but it doesn’t correct the wrongs made by the other fundraisers. Most people are good people. Hate bubbles up in us because of our tribal impulses to fight back by whatever means necessary."

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RunningLogic's avatar

I think her theory is quite plausible. You can see how easy it is to use race to manipulate people.

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Austin the Pug-puppy's avatar

I'm rather curious why us "non-paying subs" were not allowed to comment on Monday's post. I'm hoping it won't be a progressive thing that, eventually, it will turn into a Pay-To-Play kind of thing.

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✝️✝️✝️

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.

I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God

Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield;

The LORD gives grace and glory;

No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

O LORD of hosts,

How blessed is the man who trusts in You!

— Psalm 84:10-12 NAS

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Happy you are back, after “no comments” Monday🙃and just in case, I have subscribed to yours📖

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Aw, thank you Carol!

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Hi: praying for you this morning!

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Thank you Juliann!

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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 for His healing hand to touch you in a loving caress...come, Great Physician, and stand at Janice's bedside while you restore her to perfect health. Give her your PEACE so that she may give YOU all the GLORY....in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen. 🕊️🙏🏼💖👑🙌🏼

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I would appreciate prayers that the doctors see what they need to see. Had a brain MRI this morning and have brain CT tomorrow, with a couple other tests pending. I am allergic to contrast dye so they are trying to avoid giving it to me.

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Have just offered prayer for the health of your brain, for your patience and trust, to the Great Healer.

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Thank you!

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Praying for you!

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Thanks so much!

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Praying for you!

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We are all holding you up in our prayers and sending you so much love. You are very dear to God Janice and He is by your side. Godspeed.

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Thank you for your sweet words and prayers!

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🙏

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Thank you!

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Praying!! 🙏🙏🙏

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Thank you.

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🙏

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Roger Beal's avatar

Speaking of GOF research: The University of Pittsburgh annually hosts a “Pittsburgh Speakers” series. The first person taking the podium this year, on 8 October 2025, is Dr. Anthony Fauci. The human cockroach will speak at Heinz Hall in downtown.

Kathleen Janoski, maybe you can round up a few righteous Yinzers and bring torches and pitchforks to greet the little turd.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I would have to find some sane people. Most of the folks I know took the DeathVax...and they love Fauci. Tried to have a serious conversation with several of my providers at the VA about covid being a bioweapon, and the shots being dangerous, and I was either just dismissed or treated like a nutter.

BTW, I just got my power restored yesterday after 7 days without it.

Cause? A line of thunderstorms. Not a hurricane. Not a tornado. Not an earthquake,

Many seniors and disabled were trapped in apartments with no elevator working, no way to charge their wheelchairs and medical devices.

But our DEI mayor is more concerned about illegals and defying ICE.

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Robin Greer's avatar

That's inexcusable! But nothing will make it better until the majority of people realize the wrong people (for whom they voted) are in charge. Same thing is happening in Nashville. It's so messed up. They are trying the Philadelphia model...drive all sane people out of the city to the surrounding cities.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

We have a mayor's race this year. The libs in Pittsburgh will still vote for the Dem idiots, just probably a different one.

Our County Executive is a progressive female. She raised the county property taxes 36%. Wasn't a surprise because it was mentioned during her election. And the idiots still voted for her.

The mayor in Pittsburgh publicly stated he will not cooperate with ICE. We just had a drunk illegal, who didn't speak English and needed a translator, kill 2 women when he drove the wrong direction on one of our major highways.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Literally, sounds just like Nashville. The mayor there was out in front of the cameras over the weekend, because ICE and TN Highway Patrol did a sting and detained over 100 illegal immigrants and sent them to a holding facility in Louisiana. Of course, the typical left-wing agitator protestor types were there crying a river along with the mayor who wants to raise property taxes by 35%. The mayor actually had the audacity to claim in an interview on talk radio that the amount some people pay may go down. The talk show host was needless to say flabbergasted at that display of mathematical mental gymnastics.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Most of us are very worried that the city will raise our property taxes. The city has decreased revenue because of empty office spaces downtown.

So...they have to make up the deficit somehow, and the homeowners will get zapped.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh city schools are crap.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Unfortunately, tt's like this in all the blue cities. Seems like they can't help but follow the same roadmap right over the cliff. It's like there's a sign right in front of them that says, "Bridge Out Ahead" but they just keep driving at 90 MPH till they go over the cliff.

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mary's avatar

Breaks my heart to see what has happened to Nashville and the surrounding areas. My ancestors helped to establish that area in the mid-1700s and 1800s. I blame the music industry for bringing in the leftist from CA to change the demographics. Sad.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Grew up there and it's nothing like it was when I was a kid. Tragic destruction of a once great city.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Duly noted that a mayor from the political party which mandated covid lockdowns and work-from-home, is now surprised that office towers stand empty and property tax revenues are in the crapper.

A good fiction writer would never have a lead character as ignorant as any one of these progressive mayors - the readership wouldn't buy it as plausible.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I used to say that someone could write this stuff up as a soap opera and no one would watch.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Only “liking” this because it’s good to have the information.

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Juju's avatar

Scary thing is they have gotten very good at having fake Republicans run on the conservative ticket for controlled opposition. We think we are electing someone that believes as we do but once they are in office they vote with the democrats most of the time. Then the Dems say that is “democracy” when really it is fraud.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Republicans definitely need to do a better job vetting their candidates.

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Margaret Allison's avatar

What is sad about Nashville is all or majority of Davidson County is Nashville! No wonder people are moving. My husband lived in the area for years until we married. I was still working so we chose the great state! Alabama! Also I saw that Mom got to her appointments! She is only 99+!

For a good read from the Bible about our relationship to each other, Acts 17: 24-26. The apostle Paul on Mars’ Hill. Different races with different cultures after God confused the languages but any race can give another race the life giving blood to save a life.

Thanks, Jeff Childers, for letting me comment. I have reached my subscription limit as a retiree! Closer to 80 than 70!

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

And the globalists want to move us to a digital currency? HA!

Your mayor is a an idiot. Seven days without power is unacceptable. If I didn’t live almost 3 hours north of you I would join you in protesting Fauci.

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Beckadee's avatar

I was thinking about you when those storms went thru and heard about the widespread power outage. Glad you are back up.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Thanks.

About 9,000 still without power.

Had to throw food from 2 refrigerators out. So many people can't afford to lose the precious food they have.

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Beckadee's avatar

With hurricanes occasionally blowing thru my area, in 2021 I bought a small Honda eu2200i generator to keep my perishables safe. I can pick it up and set up when needed. Little pricey at around $1100 or so but gives me piece of mind.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The only thing we had going in our favor was that it was not in the dead of winter, or summer with temps in the 90s.

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

When we moved to our current residence and I was still working (so we could afford it) we installed a generator that automatically kicks on when the electricity goes out. Definitely a good upgrade.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Same!

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Johnny-O's avatar

Where do you live Kathleen? If it makes you feel any better, I live in a solid majority conservative town in AZ, and I would say most people here are at minimum wary of the clot shots. On another topic, I'm often pleasantly surprised at how many are aware of the poison being sprayed in our skies. We all live in our own little bubbles....

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I live in Pittsburgh...I am 5 miles from the Butler shooter's house.

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AM Schimberg's avatar

Where are you at Johnny? I'm also in AZ. Prescott, which is HIGHLY conservative.

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Johnny-O's avatar

I’m also in Prescott! Are you the Schimbergs with the azure drop? If so, we do know each other…..

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AM Schimberg's avatar

My BIL and SIL

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Johnny-O's avatar

Good folks!

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PermieGeek's avatar

I didn't know Prescott as highly conservative but fortunately my daughter was at Yavapai college when Covid hit as they had no mandates, vax or mask, unlike most colleges in the country.

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AM Schimberg's avatar

I think the county is like 75% Republican.

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PermieGeek's avatar

I'm in AZ and actually looked into "chemtrails" because I kept getting ads on Spotify for McCain smearing his primary opponent as "chemtrail" Kelly.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

That would be funny to gather a bunch of your peeps to go to the Fauci presentation just to find out they are admiring fans. Doh!

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Everyone I know took the death shot...of course, 6 of them have already died.

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Susan Clack's avatar

☠️💔☠️💔☠️

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Doug's avatar
May 6Edited

Shades of Stockholm Syndrome...

Welcome back to the land of the land of the energized, Kathleen.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I will be honest and state that the loss of power was starting to affect my mental health. At some point, all you want is a cold drink and some clean clothes.

One morning I got up at 4 am and thought, "now what?" It was pitch black outside and my only option was to read by flashlight.

I was at least able to escape to a friend's house in New York. But, that didn't stop the worry I had for those seniors and disabled who were trapped in their apartments with no power.

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Doug's avatar

I think if I lost power for four days I'd just pitch a tent in the backyard and pretend I was camping.

Bless you for your concern.

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Susan G's avatar

Sorry to hear you were one of the 315,000 Duquesne light customers affected, and glad to know your power is back. Seven days is a nightmare. Is Corey O'Connor better than the current useless pos? Live in the burbs but what happens in the city is important to all of us.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Corey O'Connor is a nepo baby. His dad was a long time politician. Corey is pretty progressive and he is hiding some of it to appeal to voters who are disgusted with Mayor Gainey. Gainey publicly stated that he would not cooperate with ICE. Nothing like being stupid. Just a short time ago, a drunk driver, driving the wrong way, killed 2 women in a head-on crash. His name was Pedro something. As soon as I saw his full name, I guessed he was an illegal. He couldn't even speak English and needed a translator. Of course, local news did not report he was an illegal. I saw that tidbit of info elsewhere.

Now back to Corey. He recently participated in a demonstration supporting trans rights. Wow, as if that is the most pressing issue in the city. The streets are full of potholes, snow removal was abysmal this past winter, and gun violence has increased downtown and in the neighborhoods. Car thefts are through the roof and the police force is not up to full capacity.

But...there never seems to be a strong Republican candidate in the race.

The citizens of Pittsburgh are participating in their own demise.

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Susan G's avatar

So, different face, same lousy policies. Suicide by vote.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

"Suicide by vote."

Epic comment.

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Susan G's avatar

Thanks.

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Lori's avatar

Glad the lights are back on foryou Kathleen!

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Thank you. It was a real eye opening experience.

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Jpeach's avatar

My Mother and Sister n Law live in Pittsburgh and had the same experience. Their public water goes out every other month.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I think losing water is even worse than losing power.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I’m embarrassed for my university. Of course, they are still offering faculty training seminars for how to handle trans students in the classroom. So there’s that.

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Jeff S's avatar

That university is the Pitts...

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Yes it is. I began sensing something was terribly wrong the day after Trump was elected in 2016 when we got an email from the then Chancellor to turn over our class time and allow students to grieve the election results. I refused to do that. Many of my colleagues caved.

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Robin Greer's avatar

That's unbelievable. 😳. Well, I take that back, given what we know now, that's totally believable.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I could hear the English professor in the next room talking about how the election had been stolen from Clinton. She had no business saying anything about it in a class that was supposed to cover American literature. But she had the chancellor’s permission. So.

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Robin Greer's avatar

I cannot imagine working in such an insane place as a university.

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Doug's avatar

We were in tech rehearsal for a play on 2016 election night. What an embarrassing sight - all those whiny actors crying and sniffling, and the director too. My wife (the Stage Manager) and I (the Sound Designer) had to sit around while everybody had their little moments of grief.. I was just glad Killary was defeated. I didn't have any expectations with regard to Trump at the time. I wasn't deranged then and I continue not to be now.

All those people bitched about Trump for the next four years. But their lives were better under Trump than they were under Biden, even though every one of them would deny that. Pitiful...

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RunningLogic's avatar

That’s so ridiculous, they definitely earned the “snowflake” moniker 🙄

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Roger Beal's avatar

I did half my undergrad studies there, many years ago, before finishing at CMU.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I graduated from Pitt...after I retired from the Navy.

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Carol M.'s avatar

Are they still doing all the “research” on aborted babies? 😰

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I would guess so. Several Republicans in the state legislature tried to make it illegal but nothing ever came of it. I suspect they were told to shut up. Pitt has a lot of power in Harrisburg and very quickly the matter disappeared from public view.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Probably...they are just hiding it better.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

My dad was a CMU graduate. Great education there and in its music program. My late husband used to tell the story that Pitt students got off the street car in front of Carnegie Tech so people wouldn’t know they were actually Pitt students. And, the Cathedral of Learning was for years called Bowman’s Erection, the chancellor who had it built.

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Roger Beal's avatar

My dad was VP Development at CIT/CMU. He and my mom met at Pitt, and the Bowman joke was a fave of their generation!

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

So happy to hear that the Bowman joke lives on. 😁

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Ugh!

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Susan G's avatar

As an alumna of the University of Pittsburgh, I am embarrassed and ashamed. Funny thing, though. I graduated 52 years ago and nevet became involved with alumni activities. I do not remember ever receiving correspondence from the university. But six months ago, I began receiving emails, soliciting donations and my involvement. I have no idea how they ever located me, as my degree is in my maiden name.

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Carrie's avatar

Regarding Fauci, there’s a cute song Sad Little Man by a group called Five Times August. The video is great! It’s a spectacular mockery of a devil.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Maybe he’ll be joined on stage by those Pitt scientists who sew rat hair onto aborted babies they collect from Magee Women’s Hospital. It’s fitting that they would show up to support the primary funder of their work.

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cltwilson1's avatar

Actually, it was babies' scalps being sewn onto the backs of rats.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Oops. I mixed it up; sorry. I DO remember, though, that Pitt never denied it was doing this. The formal "admission" was that Pitt was following all federal guidelines.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

And the aborted babies may have still been alive when the scalps were harvested.

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MnmMom's avatar

😭😭😭

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cltwilson1's avatar

They would have to be! How else would the blood capillaries have been viable to connect…😭

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Beckadee's avatar

I've already encouraged her to go- said I would pay her bail! It would also be kind of fun to have the Inaugural C&C Army Reunion there. We could all get arrested.

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Roger Beal's avatar

The ad in the Pittsburgh newspaper for the Pitt conference suggests that one must buy a ticket for the entire series, at about $350.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

But of course. It's an effective way to prevent protestors from showing up.

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Susan G's avatar

If only our side paid its protestors.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I can’t locate your comment on being a Pitt alum, so I’ll respond here. To find you, they probably have a small army of work study students who scour the internet to find new donors. They bother my husband also even though he never attended Pitt. I assume they got to him somehow through me since I had listed him as my emergency contact.

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Beckadee's avatar

Good grief.

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JW's avatar

Fauci is the 2025 Jim Jones look alike. His followers will be bleating.

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Jpeach's avatar

Blue Liberal Speaker series are a series of Scam Fund Raisers for the High Profile Criminal and Woke Universities. 6 months ago Liz Cheney spoke in my area. My liberal highly educated and credentialed neighbors paid hundreds of dollars to attend. They couldn’t stop bragging about the speech. We live in alternative universes but, in the same neighborhood.

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Lori's avatar

Don't insult the cockroach. What fauci is, there are no words in language to describe.

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John P. Wallis's avatar

Hopefully some rxtoncts Fraudci before October. Maybe God himself will do the honors for US.

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Graphite's avatar

"The human cockroach " 🤣

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Roger Beal's avatar

Please credit our host Jeff Childers for that moniker.

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Roger Beal's avatar

The mere fact of Fauci's invite tells us that the human cockroach has zero fear of retribution nor of legal repercussions for his actions while heading up the NIAID. Trump's DOJ oughta send Lil' Tony a clearer message ....

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JW's avatar

Our only hope is if Mr Autopen's pardon gets nullified.

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Maha's avatar

Or State AGs prosecute him at the State, not Federal level?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Fauci knows nothing will happen to him...hence, his speaking tours in this country and around the world.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Yes. AG Bondi is smelling worse and worse... she arrogantly said the Epstein file now have no projected date of release... as in "never".

Controlled by AIPAC, like most of Trump's Cabinet. The most obvious assclown was moron Waltz, who, rather than be fired in disgrace, got a UN gig where he can hang with other corrupt swine...

Douchebag Kellogg should be next... and Kash used to bellow like a brave bull... now he squeaks like a mouse...

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Lori's avatar

I am having second thoughts about Bondi too. I hope I am wrong.

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Lori's avatar

for now Kathleen. fauci has not met God yet and His judgment will be fierce.

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Roger Beal's avatar

My takeaway from the Shiloh story? Do not allow EITHER GIveSendGo OR GoFundMe to handle our money. Their management attitudes appear to reflect two sides of the same dirty coin.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

GFMe ireturned my donation to Canadian truckers against medical mandates. I won’t give them a penny— ever.

I wish I had the skill set to create my

own GiveSendGo type thing.

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Nick's avatar

Yep. They did the same to me. I will never give another penny to a corrupt crowd fund platform.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

That must have come after they had decided not to send the collected funds to the truckers, but hold on and decide where THEY wanted to send your contributions.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

YES! I happened to donate on the cusp of that little fiasco amd was all prepared to fight to the bitter end, when my

$$ showed up back on my card.

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Juju's avatar

Maybe GiveSendGo turned off both fundraiser comments, but as Jeff reported they made sure it would be impossible to find the real fundraiser for Shiloh, and I don’t remember them doing that for the murderer at all. I find it sick that the two cases are even being compared. They are not the same at all, yet GiveSendGo spent how long helping the glorification of the stabbing in the heart of a white boy?

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Robin Greer's avatar

Sounds like they wanted to allow the racists comments from both sides to stir up racial tension. Divide and conquer.

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Lori's avatar

I used to trust GSG but not anymore.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Agreed. givesendgo runs the same DEI crap as the others, just under a 'Christian' guise.

They are leagues better than goFundme but they can't help but chimp out to the lefty mobs.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

"Chimp out"...

Piercingly accurate.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Methinks a tip of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's red hat is in order ....

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Tom's avatar

We should do a GiveSendGo and a GoFundMe to amass venture capital to start a non-woke competing company.

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Doug's avatar
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I wonder what would happen if I started a GiveSendGo campaign to fund GoFundMe, and then did the reverse on that site?

Maybe I could initiate a feedback loop that would destroy both organizations...

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I’d say most of the Trump voters would get behind that and you’d be an overnight success.

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John P. Wallis's avatar

Trump should ban any GoFundMe type venue from supporting racist fucking murderers.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I’m glad we can comment today. Yesterday was a little boring. I enjoy most comments and thoughts

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Woo hoo! Comments are fixed. I was having withdrawal pains!! :-)

Anyhow, I wanted to try to connect some dots concerning yesterday's story about the fired "Doctor".

I submit the $2 Billion a year being paid to Harvard with our taxpayer's money was to provide a diploma mill for leftists like the fired "non-Doctor". Credentialing the lunatics - with Harvard's pedigree, affixing the "Doctor" title - so they get immediate "legitimacy" and can then get hired into corrupt "admins" like obama's and biden's to do the work of anti USA globalists and their underlings already in the deep state.

$2 Billion of our money per year can buy a lot of "diplomas" and "titles" and bone crushing rules (like the vaccine mandates this evil monstrosity created). Imagine these "doctors" spread out all across the federal and state governments.

And POTUS shut it down, now you know why the wailing and gnashing of teeth. And lawsuits. I hope someone is checking all the other "ivy league" diploma mills.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Many non-ivy league schools also became diploma mills when they realized they could reap an endless supply of "free" money from the government via student loans. I saw people in the 1990's with ridiculous degrees who could barely read or write. Trying to train people with worthless degrees can be quite challenging.

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Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Yes. I wanted to share my gratitude about the firing of the fake doctor. Loved Jeff calling her a bureaucratic barnacle. Had me in stitches. 🤣

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Dave Slough's avatar

I thought C&C had a policy change

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LMWC's avatar

I thought the substack genie had gotten Jeff!

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RunningLogic's avatar

He just forgot to change the settings from Sunday’s post, I think.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I know, was kidding around But I do enjoy hearing the thoughts of compatriots

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Me too.

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Bryan Dair's avatar

I was a little surprised to see how many of us

are 'free loaders'.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I donate when I can. So not monthly but I try

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Lynn46's avatar

I wish Jeff would allow Ko-fi. I donate that way to my favorite substacks as the budget allows.

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LMWC's avatar

I believe the Somali invasion of Rochester, MN, and Minneapolis started long before Resident Autopen. That was the work of Obama and Co. Friends who live there say there are parts of Minneapolis you don’t go into that are Somali conclaves. How do you think Ilhan Omar keeps getting re elected.

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NAB's avatar

100%. And Ilhan is very open about representing the interests of Somalia, not the US.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Let the games begin. I’m kinda looking forward to settling this one way or another

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Susan Stephens's avatar

I read years ago that Obama orchestrated the enclave of Muslim Somalis by bringing them here en masse then settling them there creating a congressional district win to his liking. Diabolical but effective on his part. I remember my shock when I learned she was elected! How on earth do we get Muslims elected into offices of influence?

Study Islam & it’s apparent those believers aren’t playing around. Infidels (us) are to be conquered or eliminated. This holy war is sanctioned. Yes, some Muslims seem moderate or even westernized. But beware bc lying is allowed according to their religion & Imans …. it’s righteous bc of who they are at war with….infidels.

They have little to no allegiance to any country like ours but only to the teachings of Islam.

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Aloha50's avatar

Trump administration needs to bring in en masse the South African white farmers

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

To Minnesota. lol

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Sir Jeff Morency, Ph.D.'s avatar

Mohamed, the founder of Islam was terrified when a demon first appeared to him. Later, he said it was Michael, the Archangel which helped him write the Quran. It's all demonic. No wonder they try to take over the world and eliminate God's people. Muslims in Iran and Syria, say the the US and Israel are the great Satan and the little Satan, respectively. In this they refer to themselves.

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Susan Clack's avatar

This is why I call them Dhimmicrats. They sold their souls to the Muslim Bro'hood back in the days of Obummer.

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Graphite's avatar

Allah is 'the great deceiver' whereas Jesus Christ is 'the way, the truth and the light'

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Maha's avatar

"Moderates" are apostates in the Muslim "religion". (It's a military campaign, not a religion.) Look at any conflict involving Muslims where "moderates" were advising restraint. The French Algeria War, the British mandate under the Mufti of Jerusalem, the fate of Egypt's Anwar Sadat. Each time, Islamists simply murdered the moderates. Islam has no debate chamber, no parliament, no Congress. It has violence and submission. That's it.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

I fully agree... and hope YOU realize that jews are exactly the same.

Doubt it? Watch and learn: https://www.bitchute.com/video/2UE1jb50v0cO

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jewel's avatar

apparently she also pays for votes

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Yes, Boy Barry Obongo hates America... which is why he imported so many primitive neanderthal parasite stink-bomb losers.

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Kay Conway's avatar

I live in the Rochester, MN area. The Somali “invasion” began long before Biden. The progressives here, have put racism front and center. They love this fight and have made it their righteous mission.

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FlatEarthFlyer's avatar

Somalians have been cleaning and catering airplanes, and working on the ramp at MSP for a couple decades now. They have complete and sometimes unmonitored access to all commercial airplanes there. Ask yourself how those original non-papered refugees were able to pass FBI and DOJ background checks like the flight crews and other American airport workers are required to? Several such workers have been arrested at MSP in years past (because I remember the incidents when they happened at the time), but I challenge you to find the stories in the media anymore…

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Maha's avatar

Yes. Somalis were hired in mass at SeaTac Airport as well, apparently in response to 9/11.

Overall, the Airport security had lost their minds after 9/11. TSA would code harmless American travelers regularly for "additional screening". Blue haired ladies from Nebraska were wanded for explosives. My family was lined up in a separate area to have my daughter's teddybear run multiple times through x-ray. I asked the agent if he didn't want to just truss my child up and run her through x-ray as well, since he wasn't getting much from the teddybear. Meanwhile, Muslim men speaking on their phones in guttural Arabic were walking by our line guiding "women"? in burkas to their gate.

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SB's avatar

Yea I read years ago about towns in MN where the entire local government is Muslim and mosques have taken over the churches where the Islamic calls to prayer are heard broadcasted over speakers in downtown

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PEL's avatar

Yep this is on Obama to turn it blue. Otherwise why send people from Africa to such a cold climate? At the time naive me was baffled.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Good morning from Pittsburgh where I finally got my power restored yesterday after 7 days without it.

Alex Jones was right. If the grid goes down, civilization would not last 2 weeks.

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Jeff S's avatar

Seven days? What country is this?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

It is a 3rd world country.

Line of thunderstorms came through last Tuesday.

Not a hurricane or tornado or an earthquake.

Local officials and the power company, with a straight face, said it would take 5-7 days to restore power, like it was a totally normal occurrence. And we should just accept it and not complain.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Unbelievable. Glad it’s back, but my goodness! 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Yes, totally unbelievable.

We have a lot of apartments that are for seniors and the disabled. Their elevators were not working without power, and they could not charge their wheelchairs or medical devices. Prisoners in their apartments.

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Susan Clack's avatar

Makes me think of that movie "Legend" (post-apocalyptic zombie movie with Will Smith). The zombies were living in the cities, sheltering in the concrete jungle of apartment buildings. The survivors of the civilisation-killing virus lived far away in the country ... I'll take a rural lifestyle any day! Because our cities are slowly being zombie-fied every day. ☣️☠️☣️☠️☣️

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NormaJeanne's avatar

If Philly was out of power for 7 days, the National Guard would have to be called in by day 3. The city would be burning. Looks like Pittsburgh is at least better behaved. This incident seems like it should have been a bigger news story in PA. If not for your comments, I wouldn’t have known about it. I’m sure our wonder boy governor is on it though. Right?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Gov. Shapiro showed up but did not call out the National Guard.

But, hey, he is the guy who thinks 20 stab wounds, including to the back of the head, is a suicide.

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JW's avatar

Sure seems like a lot more "SEVERE THUNDERSTORM" warnings this year already than I recall in the past. Weekly warnings here in GA seem to be the norm.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Weather weapons.

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mary's avatar

Don’t forget Hunga Tonga! We knew the weather would be crazy for 5 years after the eruption. And we knew they would bury the lead and blame it on “climate change”. Of course the contrails are to blame too. Anything to drive the globalist agenda.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Definitely Hunga Tonga. Talk to a real climate scientist, and you find that eruption was history making. Truly human history making, but it wrecks the medias narrative when they insist on fear porn weather predictions due to CG!

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Maha's avatar

Well, if you follow the Space Weather observers, they tie weather anomalies to solar activity, and to the shifting magnetic poles. Many people that know more about this than I say this is why Zuckerbucks is building an underground bunker in Hawaii.

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Susan G's avatar

No, it is what I call weather hysteria. Better to stoke climate crisis.

The storms that went through Western PA last week missed me, luckily, and I can see downtown Pittsburgh. We had very high winds (>60 mph) and many neighborhoods are heavily treed. And our power lines are mostly above ground and our infrastructure is old.

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Robin Greer's avatar

That has only happened in our area after major ice storms or tornadoes.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I went through a hurricane when I lived in Florida, and it didn't take this long to restore power.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

I’m gonna guess it was much tougher for your linemen up there. You need climbing gear just to get to some neighborhoods there. Kids lived in new Ken for a while about eight years ago. I couldn’t imagine doing linework there. It’s insane. Here in Florida first,it’s the flattest state in the nation. Our highest hill I believe is at 45? Feet above sea level. And our linemen have been dealing with storms every year since ponce. So I’m gonna cut your guys some slack. I saw a lot of photos from family in natrona hights, Breckenridge, Butler, and they got hit really hard. So I’m not trying to be a prick, but I guess I could see seven days with the damage I saw.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Funny thing, there was very little damage in my neighborhood. No trees or wires down.

From what I have been hearing is that the power companies have been depending on contract workers more rather than regular employees. Even just a few years ago, the power company would trim the trees that were entangled with the power lines. No more. Was talking to the neighbor behind me and she submitted a request to have a tree cut down two years ago and is still waiting. It is a huge tree and too close to the power lines.

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Tamsin's avatar

They are softening you up for "a line of data centers came on line last Tuesday"...

except soon enough, the data centers will be allowed to have small modular reactors, "pocket reactors", independently of the grid.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Good morning! What a mess...7 days without power. Someone needs to be fired!

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

It's Dem lib run city and county.

There is one Dem state rep who wants answers on why it is taking so long to restore power, but in her interview with a local news station, she is blaming climate change for the weather.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Sounds like she just wanted to be in front of the cameras to make it look like she was concerned. I just can't take it when they start with the climate change idiocy.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I did contact her via her website to thank her for efforts to find out why it took the power companies so long. In her district, there is a VA facility where I get some of my appointments. This facility has long term care for veterans, many of them are in wheelchairs and use medical devices that need to be recharged. Someone on X answered my question on how this VA facility is coping, and the answer was generator power, but everything is running at 50%.

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Robin Greer's avatar

People on O2 concentrators would be hard pressed to say the least, but in Nashville, you can be placed on a medical necessity list to supposedly speed up the power restoration process. We found that having well connected people in your neighborhood made the process lightening fast.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The power companies have a medical necessity list.

They just didn't pay attention to the list.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

🙄

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Sir Jeff Morency, Ph.D.'s avatar

I was told before it happened that it could be up to 10 days. Glad power is back. Looks like it was planned.

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Nicki's avatar

We had an ice storm in northern Michigan last month that left us without power for a week. Others were not so lucky and they waited weeks. It’s pretty terrifying how vulnerable our systems (and thereby we humans) are.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Glad to hear this.

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SB's avatar
May 6Edited

Yea I kinda laugh at the preppers. Almost every “the world is ending” book I’ve read, people end up running for their lives leaving all their stash behind within weeks/days.

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rural counsel's avatar

"Her bad decision in the moment to curse out a stranger’s child on a playground might be understandable and forgivable, maybe even easily forgivable, but it is definitely not laudable. It is only polarizing."

Polarizing may be the best thing that comes out of this. I'm not the only one done with tolerating aggressive black criminality and antisocial behavior. Fatigue is turning into something more dangerous.

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jmsmithmd's avatar

Do not let them play us. Listen to Jeff, be careful. Think.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Look up violent crime stats by race.

Who's playing?

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Susan Clack's avatar

Yep--I saw such a chart on YT video last night when someone was refuting what Ilhan Omar had spewed: that white men were doing "ALL the killing" in our country. HA. FAAAAAR from it, sister. Asians were at the bottom of the chart. Then whites. And it went up from there. I shan't say which demographic group was firmly in the lead...🙄🙄🙄

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Abiding Dude's avatar

🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵🐵???

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Susan Clack's avatar

Wagging a finger in your direction, Dude ... 😉🙄🤐

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Abiding Dude's avatar

I din do nuffin!

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Been thinking for a solid sixty years about this. The last twenty has cemented my beliefs.

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Scott's avatar

Indeed. If her community has turned into a sinkhole of Somali crime, that explains (not excuses) her behavior, especially in light of the fact she had a previous black boyfriend.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Unfortunately, for many people, this type of language is just the way they talk. It's normal everyday life.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Black people talk to each other this way! It’s in the rap music and songs black artists make for crying out loud! But if a white person says it the whole world screeches to the end with wailing and gnashing of teeth. Oh brother! I don’t personally use that word, but I don’t use a whole lot of other words either. I’m so sick of this. Over it. And I’m not even convinced the whole story is real and not just another set up. Maybe she was in on it too. A scam from the get go. My understanding is her use of the word is not on video? Just his claim she said it? Suspect from the get go. People donating need to wake the hell up.

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Robin Greer's avatar

It's definitely suspect whenever something gets this much traction.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

And no proof other than the guy making the video. We are so gullible or stupid.

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Jeff S's avatar

Sticks and stones...

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Robin Greer's avatar

Unfortunately words can hurt the soul very deeply only those wounds are never seen.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

The black boyfriend story was a false hit.

Even Jeff's link showed that.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

The way that the black community, with their sloth, welfare abuse and violent criminality... damages this country and its citizens... most of them, if truth was told... resent and despise whites. Their average IQ is around 70, look it up... which explains the fact that a large percentage of them have never acclimated or succeeded in this nation... even with massive pseudo-advantages.

Using the "N" word should be far more accepted and ubiquitous.

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Juju's avatar

I’m disgusted that the punishment never fits the offense and is polar opposite for whites vs blacks. It’s ridiculous to try to destroy someone’s life over an insulting slur and then claim “words have consequences”. Not those severe of consequences! And if so then that’s where the true problem is, not with the slur. The hate isn’t seen in the reflexive slur, it is seen in the consequence. Maybe embarrassing her on the internet would have been sufficient for her lack of control, fine, but when you submit death threats and harass her to destroy her entire life? That’s something different than a consequence. That’s evil hate. She didn’t try to destroy that kid’s life, she called him a name - but they are trying to destroy hers.

The level of backlash she received was out of proportion to her offense, and it was what Anthony deserved for stabbing another kid in the heart. Did he get that? No. He got reverent support. Did Daniel Penny get the support he deserved? No, he got hate. Evil is good, and good is evil; darkness is light, and light is darkness; bitter is sweet, and sweet is bitter! We are in a very unjust, clown world.

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Timbo Slice's avatar

Reading the GFM portion of this article just makes me shake my head like a bobblehead doll. How did we become this stupid as a society? Thanks Obama, for setting racism back 100 years with your lies about Trayvon Martin, kicking off BLM and killing any progress made. Jackie Robinson and MLK must be a tornado in their graves at this point. Shameful. God help us.

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Dave Slough's avatar

Obama started the “killing of cops is okay” the fateful day in Dallas where snipers on rooftops were shooting our LEOs

Both Obama and his henchman errr AG Holder condoned the attacks

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Big 0 also poisoned the well and arguably obstructed justice when he said, "The cops acted foolishly" for arresting Gates for breaking into his own house. The cops had obviously reasonable cause, but Snake in Chief never missed a chance to trash the Blue.

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Maha's avatar

Indeed. Obama came out of the gate plowing destruction and division. He was rooting for a race conflict, and a future battle of government branches with his communist appointees.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

He said he & his administration would “transform America.”

He succeeded.

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Aloha50's avatar

I hear this often that Obama set back race relations but the reality is, before Obama race relations were bad and getting worse. Blacks hating whites has been on the increase for a long time, long before Obama

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Timbo Slice's avatar

Maybe, but Obama made sure that narrative stuck. He was our first black president and yet, he used race as the lynchpin to secure another election and to keep America from ever leaving racism far behind. He's a Marxist and as Jeff pointed out, that is the Marxist manifesto.

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Dave Slough's avatar

When one is married to a person who hates whitey this is what you get

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Maha's avatar

Obama took a flame thrower to a smoldering ember. He took every opportunity to fan the flames rather than dial down the rhetoric.

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Sherry Fariss's avatar

Excellent take on the Shiloh Hendrix story. Ultimately the evil one wants division. We need to watch out for this in every arena: men and women, interracial factions, rich and poor, etc. it doesn’t mean we agree with something wrong, but we have to avoid getting sucked into the victimhood narrative or the groupist ideologies. No one truly wins a “civil” war.

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RSgva's avatar

Yes, I agree with Jeff that there are players behind the scenes who seem to profit from egging on one side against another. Sowing division is indeed a historic Soviet/Chinese objective, but also a classic play by domestic forces trying to destabilize a government.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Isn’t dividing a nation or culture one of the listed goals of Communism?

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Denise's avatar

In another article, there was a list of donations to Shilo and there were a lot in the $thousands. Who makes those kinds of donations?

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Robin Greer's avatar

That's a good question. Who or what is behind the $$$$$

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Soros?

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Aloha50's avatar

God bless them. Do you happen to know if the black murderer hadsuch donors?

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Oh hell yeah

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Robin Greer's avatar

Amen!

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Marsali S.'s avatar

Well said. Thank you 🙏

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It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

What is Mike Johnson and John Thune doing? One of the things that 2024 was about was getting single issue bills passed. When Trump comes up with a clear Executive Order, like the gain-of-function one, someone in the House and Senate should present it to the right committee to then bring it up for a vote ASAP. No need for weeks of hearings to work on "comprehensive" plans, which is just a legislative way to slow walk any change and have it die on the vine. A Paul Ryan tactic. Especially when an EO is a "NO" EO, meaning "stop doing what you have been doing", there is no need about funding or defining new departments in the government leviathan. Just stop the activity. And if they want, they can put in some boiler plate about the head of the impacted agency/department figuring out budget impacts and to define and present to the appropriate DOGE rep for further review. Logically, if we are stopping government work, there should be some savings anyway.

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NAB's avatar

It's incredible to watch the inaction of Congress. I really think they are still in the mindset that once Trump is gone, everything will revert back to the way it was and so they are not going to do a thing to cement any policies that they think smack of "Trumpism" or "MAGAism."

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Maha's avatar

I have always observed the most dangerous demographic in America is not the violent offenders converting to Islam in US prisons, or the paid Antifa idiots in the streets; it is a Congress member threatened with term limits or shutdown of the gravy train. Trump threatens rank and file Republicans in Congress with less ill-gotten largesse, and so they are slow-walking everything that should be STAT.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

The Trump Agenda was overwhelmingly voted for in Nov. 5, 2024! By Republicans, Democrats (some former Dems), Independents, completely new first-time voters!

What part of this do Thune & Johnson not understand??

We have majorities in each house (granted Senate has too many RINOs, but it’s Thune’s job to pull them in) which should be sealing the deals on ALL of Trump’s initiatives. To do less is a betrayal to EVERYONE who voted for him & his promises kept. I won’t forget.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Yup. This is all gonna backfire with these RINOs running the show. Further down in the comments I posted a quote from Dennis Lynch from today’s newsletter expressing just this issue. Without Congress to do their jobs this will all be undone next election cheating. Hard to get too excited about what Trump is doing without legislation to make it stick.

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Tom's avatar

Also, they need to include an "or else" clause in the "no more" bills, and then enforce it.

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Steve Stevens's avatar

Thune and Johnson are both POS!

Johnson, who claims to be so religious and morally better than everybody is actually the opposite!

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AM Schimberg's avatar

Very Pence-ian

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

About all those free cell phones for illegal immigrants: shouldn’t those phones be able to be tracked to their owners’ locations? I mean, they can be used to keep track of the rest of us, can’t they?

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Surely. The outrage is endless. We pay for illegal immigrants literally coming and going and hanging around in between. Jeff should scratch the line "DHS can now slowly increase the $1,000 stipend, to convince more and more migrants to self-deport." Me too. The last thing we need to do is suggest illegals could hold out for a better deal.

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Tom's avatar

And this fact will eventually be used to justify funding for surveillance infrastructure.

I'll bet anyone here a circulated silver dime.

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Jeff S's avatar

"Circulated silver dime?" Hahaha.

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Tom's avatar

It’s only a bet if there is actual money at stake!

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

Worth about $2 if real silver.

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KPL's avatar
May 6Edited

this is a beautiful essay (on CNN of all places—looks like the “shutting down schools was the necessary and only moral response” wall at CNN is finally crumbling) from a high school senior, reflecting on going through adolescence in the shadow of COVID. It’s amazing. The truth of what we did will come out when the kids are old enough to write about it. Well worth a read.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/health/teen-covid-effects-essay-wellness

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Kim's avatar

My daughter is a high school senior. This is insightful. As a mom and teacher, I definitely see that generation as much more conservative now. The Covid lockdowns shaped kids and it backfired. They don’t want to comply. They no longer trust the government or “science”. Thank goodness for that.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I feel so bad for the kids. All that fear mongering that was foisted upon them, along with the rest of us.

When I was a kid, I was fearless. Never occurred to me that something bad would happen to us as we walked to school, rode our bikes, roller skated down the sidewalks, sled riding down the middle of the street, drinking from a garden hose, etc.

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Denise's avatar

…rode our bikes everywhere and went to dime stores outside the immediate neighborhood, played baseball in the street (a family had only one car and it wasn’t there in the daytime)….

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Kim's avatar

Yes, growing up now is much more difficult than when I grew up. It’s sad to see as a teacher. All this protecting kids has caused them to not develop properly in every way.

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Jamie's avatar

As a kid, I learned the only thing to fear was humans…

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Jeff S's avatar

Diligent delinquents, we drank from a Rheingold bottle, when possible.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Boone's farm here. Some were more fearless and drank Mad Dog 20/20.

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NAB's avatar

Agreed. My last child is also finishing up his senior year (as a homeschooled student now). The older generations have no idea how conservative and based younger Gen Z is (especially the boys, but I see it more and more in the girls too). My son is a God-fearing, freedom-loving, America First patriot, gym-bro and so are all of his friends. I can't wait to see what they all do as they enter into the social and political arena.

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Kim's avatar

I agree! They bring me hope. Some of them are a little lost, but I still have hope.

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CHop's avatar

Absolutely! Many Gen Zers are very aware of the BS

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deathcap's avatar

I mean for what it's worth, it shaped a lot of the adults too.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

My son is teaching at a Catholic high school (freshman and sophomores) and it is so sad the state of these kids who were in lockdowns during their formative years…..they write like 3rd graders, they can’t form a paragraph essay at a high school level, they CANNOT follow simple directions for assignments and they think their behavior is excusable or should be overlooked. Some of their Parents are no better. The damage is beyond what we even hear about.

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NAB's avatar

We sent my son to a private Jesuit college-prep school for 9th and 10th grade starting in the fall of 2021. The counselor at that school told me that even there, with very supportive parents and kids all from pretty privileged backgrounds, kids were academically, socially and most importantly, behaviorally (and emotionally) regressed. He said that he automatically subtracted 3 years from a kid's age when dealing with him for a discipline issue.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Smart. The reality of today. My son also said that the kids from the wealthy families there are the ones who don’t try and expect to be pampered. The kids who have parents working two jobs to pay for them to be there work the hardest. Not covid related, but just another sign of how far we have fallen.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Covid destroyed the fabric of society.

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shayne's avatar

Maybe compared in some way to the children who grew up during WWII.

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CHop's avatar

My kids learned the power of the governors and all about religious exemption law. It was also a food exercise for my son on how to avoid authoritarian overreach. He was in college during 2020

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NAB's avatar

There was a movie back in the 80s, I think, called "The Day After" and it portrayed what the world would be like following a nuclear war. There is recurring scene of one young boy riding his bicycle through his neighborhood streets when the survivors are trying to build some sort of life among the ruins. I thought about that scene frequently when my then 13 year old son would ride his bike through our neighborhood in the Spring of 2020 looking for people with whom he could interact. I don't mean to equate a nuclear holocaust with Covid lockdowns, but the silence and the empty streets were unsettling.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

I don't like this article because as an overprotective homeschooling parent it is clear that 1. She wasn't protected by her parents from critical thinking and from fear mongering 2. She thinks that she needed more peer power.

Sorry but I think she's got the wrong take away.

Covid SHOULD have made ppl see how controlling gov schools are and how peer pressure exudes over public school far beyond adolescence. This IS THE PROBLEM WITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It's not education. It is mind control indoctrination and you can't even see what it's done for you unless you can be punched out of it.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Covid had the element of surprise. Because of the draconian lockdowns that occurred with such rapid speed, people didn't have the time to appropriately analyze the situation.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Public School has been a major problem for over thirty years. It's not really a surprise except to ppl who are still indoctrinated into the school culture of appreciation.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

...or unless you do not have kids in public schools.

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el bicho palo's avatar

just so you know, if you would like to post a neater looking link, you can throw away everything after (and including) the ?

in this case https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/02/health/teen-covid-effects-essay-wellness

the rest is just tracking

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KPL's avatar

Thank you!

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NAB's avatar

Absolute gut punch, Pecos. Found myself sobbing at the end.

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Granny Annie's avatar

Heart-wrenching. For those of us who have hearts...

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Powerful.

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Temcol's avatar

Good morning C&C Army! From SoCal!

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Dr Linda's avatar

Morning from Mid-Mo

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