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The Lord will go forth like a warrior,

He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.

He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.

He will prevail against His enemies.

— Isaiah 42:13 NASB1995

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David Had To Pick Up that River Rock. "Who" will answer The Lord's War Cry??? just asking for a friend that has bruised turned cheeks sitting in the Feral DC Gulag. My apologies, there should be some Men left in the country, they seem to be as scarce as hen's teeth. Me included,

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And David was a kid!! Geez! His father sent him with food for his brothers who were fighting against the Phillistines. When David got within ear shot of their encampment he heard Goliath proclaiming victory over them, "they would forever be slaves....." Then David arrived and observed the Israelite army...cringing at every word and paralized with fear! What did that little shepherd boy David do? He reminded them who they were! "You're God's Army!! God is on our side, He will win this battle!" They lead him to King Saul's tent when he said he would fight Goliath. Saul told David to wear his armor...too big, too heavy, impossible! Coward King Saul. David refused the armor and went out to handle the giant who was sure he would singlehandedly kill the Israelite army. David retrieved 5 stones from the brook and loaded his sling...ONE STONE...ONE! David took aim and that ONE STONE struck Goliath and did the job an entire army could not! Remember, Goliath had continued to remind the frightened and trembling Israelite army, that they would be defeated and become their slaves. But God! When the stone struck Goliath between the eyes he FELL FORWARD...not backwards....

In death Goliath bowed down to the Israelite army! David's chastisement of the army of Israel surely stung! God was victorious because David, a young boy, trusted God's promises and he defeated the giant Goliath, because he believed he could. God fights our battles, we act on God's direction.

I continue to pray for those in the DC gulag. I pray that God will strengthen them, watch over them and fill them with strength to withstand every arrow! I pray for those who persecute them. I pray for the justice system. I pray that through God's infinite power and mercy, they will be vindicated! I trust God. I know He will right the wrongs. I pray for righteous lawyers and judges to spring up among them as God can indeed change hearts! I pray that those suffering will be encouraged, will not lose hope, and that their resolve will be strengthened beyond any measure one can imagine! Let the light shine into their prison cells and all that hides in the dark be brought out! That truth will prevail!

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There is power in prayer. Too many have abandoned prayer… and God.

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Beautiful! Thank you! Amen!

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So beautifully and perfectly said! Amen! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Yes! He is always with us! No matter what. ❤️

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That doesnt mean that we won't suffer...God was with the hundreds of thousands of Christians persecuted in the first centuries after Christ, was with the even larger number of Christians persecuted in the Soviet Union, etc. Our country may never be the same, but we can pray and perhaps in prayer and repentance, stave off the inevitable. 🙏🙏🙏

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Indeed and Amen. Many are and have been suffering not only from losing misguided friends and family members, being censored, and having careers destroyed. Many are suffering from covid and vax-related injuries and deaths. And yet we are tremendously blessed we’re at least not governed by Islamic fundamentalists who literally kill Christians for being Christians. Before that day comes to America, we should thank and praise God for sparing us the worst persecution, and while we still live, call on His power to help us stand, resist, and change course. Not as if our lives depend on it but because our lives depend on it.

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Amen

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❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

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🙏🏻

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Investigations, interviews, etc...all squashed as most of these players cry out the fauci amendment...I don't know, I don't remember, I don't recall, they made me do it, I never said that, and a thousand other excuses.

None of these perps are going to end up in any serious trouble. As they have lied during the last 3-4 years, so shall they continue to do so. There are NO consequences staring them in the face. The system from top to bottom is broke, broke, broke.

Until I start seeing 20 year minimum prison terms with no parole, I remain highly skeptical of these follies.

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When I watched and they opened their mouths to utter the words “I don’t recall, I didn’t say that, I can’t answer that, I don’t know” blah blah blah….. I lost my cool yelling “LIAR” at my computer screen. Every. Single. Time. Liars, lies, and more lies. You can’t remember? Right. Ppffttt.

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Yup. That was my reaction to the state of union. I’ve Never seen so many corrupt dirty liars …all in one room.

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Countries entered into a hideously asymmetric contract with Pfizer, using their sovereign assets as collateral to ensure silence. I'll believe the Thailand story when I see it.

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I pray I love to see the day!

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If their lips are moving, you know they’re lying…

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Our ways are not God's ways, and we rarely see things go according to our preferred script. What we need to focus on now is the fact -- and it is an obvious fact -- that evil is being unmasked everywhere around us and that the best medicine for an infection, which this is, is to be opened to the sunlight and air. Look at poor Pete, in the picture above, fixing to ruin the lives of two babies, and look at the vindictive bureaucratic retaliation against Musk while the body parts of murdered babies, pulled apart without anesthesia, are marketed and sold at taxpayer expense.

The depth and breadth of evil all around us is staggering, and prosecution, even highly visible prosecution, of this or that perpetrator is not going to have any impact whatsoever on the demonic machinery behind this. But simply ferreting out the corruption and putting it on display in this way, so that more and more people become aware of its sheer, repulsive magnitude, that will first create a hesitancy on the perpetrators to continue behaving like monsters with impunity. Then, at first slowly but more and more quickly over time, we will see the useful idiots realize what they have been a part of, and they will quietly withdraw their support for evil. Finally, some of the fellow travelers will switch sides, if only to join up with the strong horse, and that will leave only the true party members, the sociopaths like the Obamas and the Garlands and the Pelosis, all of whom will go back to their holes to lick their wounds.

That's is what we have been praying for and what we must keep praying for. That, by all indications of the moment, is how this is going to go down.

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Nothing/no one can stop God's will.

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Well put.

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Couldn’t be more clear.

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Light and truth to darkness and lies, you have provided a chance for me to return to reasoned thot and analysis.

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Several congressmen/women mentioned this would be a two year committee. That makes sense because once they finish, they send to DOJ for investigation. They know the current DOJ would do nothing, so they must stretch it out until (hopefully) a Republican is in the White House. Of course, they do have the power to jail people for not showing up for interview.

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I TRULY HOPE. but Good luck. So doubtful

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Luck has zero power. It will be by Divine design that we see good come of any and all of this. May we be strengthened in hope to endure the course!

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Jeff Childers, please please comment on this. Might there even BE any consequences for these people as they are grilled by Subcommittees, etc? Is there even a way that could happen?

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Not with a weaponized FBI and DOJ. They'd be the ones to take up any charges, I think.

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Maybe we just start with making them pay for their own health insurance and a dental plan.

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Not to worry, Gorgo. The BideNATO nuclear war will start soon, and the FBI's transgressions will cease troubling us all.

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What war?

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Ok then, what's to be done? And who's it that does this supposed what? 🙂

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Can you really give an answer to that one, out loud? I'm thinking of Horshack in the back of the room flailing his arms..... Ooo, Oooo, Mr. Carter!

My vote, out loud, not vengeance but rather, justice. Nuremberg 2.0. No bias, no paid advertisers, and very little mess to clean up upon conclusion.

Later Jay

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🗨 Up your hole with a Mello roll 🤣

On serious note, there was a monumental mess left upon conclusion of Nuremberg 1.0, the mess never properly cleaned up (nor intended tbh). A mere façade of Justice 😒 We live very much in its aftermath 🤷

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No difference then and now. The laws are just being completely overlooked like they don’t exist. This EU was and is still illegal. If the so called jabs and Plaxovid treat the disease then they can’t have an EU. This is Why they blocked therapeutics such as ivermectin, hydroxychloriquine and the convalescent plasma. They manipulated every bit of data so sinister.

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Amen! What happened to accountability?? ☹️

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Interesting how lefty organic-food hippies now love GMO shots and demand endless war against Russia. They now get bi-monthly mRNA injections as they tweet praise for the blood spilled in Ukraine.

Fortunately:

Matt Gaetz just introduced a resolution calling for a Russian-Ukrainian peace deal and an immediate freeze to all Ukraine war spending.

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Yes the complete “re-facing” of the left generally can be seen as a mass behavioral operation, and a cultural warfare adjunct. To transform the once peacenik crowd into Russophobes howling for blood is a achievement.

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How they did it is discussed in this post...

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mitigated-and-weaponized-friday-february/comment/12676934

Or directly here...https://open.substack.com/pub/anderdaa7/p/global-warming?r=slvym&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Beyond political power objectives, the disparate factors which influence many to accept CAGW are well studied social phenomena such as; personal wealth, and Institutional wealth. Researchers in many fields know that funding is available for their department if they can attach theoretical CAGW harm to a paper. (There is hundreds of billions of dollars a year available for research and industry) As often quoted Upton Sinclair said “'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Other known and studied bias factors are peer pressure, social and professional shadow-banning, confirmation bias, noble cause corruption, misuse of the precautionary principle, and effective propaganda of repeated and false warnings of doom by many CAGW proponents.

“The terrible truths of these experiments in human compliance and propensity to be beastly stand testament to the nature of the problem.”

milgram showed us how people will harm people if pressured by authority

asch showed us that people will ignore their own senses and perceptions when pressured by peer group

stanford showed us how easily humans can be egged into abuse of power”

As the world grows ever smaller via human technology, human systems and corporations grow ever more global. It is logical therefore that systems of human corruption can and would also became more pervasive and global in scale. The merge of One world Government and international business is not to be trusted. These people endlessly proclaim how they are doing this for the good of the world.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven, yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very “kindness” stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease, is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

– C.S. Lewis

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Well, One Thing is Certain for Sure, THIS CLOWN SHOW WILL END.

How & When are the Varibles. Anyone got a pair of dice???

CYA, All the best, Thanks for your post

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Bolshevik Bernie has left the chat.

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Not so much left and wandering about aimlessly with an N-95 mask on....

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This is so bizarre, I think the same way. What happened? It’s obvious people didn’t just change their mind overnight but they are being led and manipulated. A psyop of the first order

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0bama (and whoever was pulling his strings) happened, coopting the republican misdeeds for use to help the Marxists. That takes money, so they got in bed with multinational corporations and the press. He coopted social media with State Dept GEC for the Arab Spring and the govt got comfortable and took over those platforms using CISA and DHS. He took over our elections with machines, throwing our cash at states to do it, while condescendingly declaring it "impossible" to rig a national election, knowing it was already in the works. I could go on.

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BHO was a senate dead space. His political career was manufactured and he was a puppet placed in the WH. He knows he is a fraud, and he knows we know, but he came out pretty well despite being exposed. Sunshine and truth will be his, and Mike's, undoing.

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All by design

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That’s why the leftist will never stop with their rules for radicals, community organizations like ACORN which I’m sure is operating under different names. It’s world wide. The leftist have been taking a sip of our soda little by little while we went on with our lives. This is deeply embedded with big money like never before. I hope universal law plays out.

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And them got slapped upside the head with 9 inches of Cloward-Piven!!

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Obama is running the show from his "basement".

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He and Valerie Jarrett. 2 blocks from the WH.

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Don't forget Susan Rice.

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5th generation warfare.

The bad news is that US intel is directing the whole thing. The worse news is that it is directed at *us* the citizens of the once free United States. The worst news is that they're EXTREMELY proficient.

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They didn’t change. They were only for those things based on trendiness among people in their groups and now that jabs and war are trendy in those groups, they’re for jabs and war. It’s not based on any actual principles, only based on what is acceptable and the in thing with the group they belong to.

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It's always been able who has the power, for good, mine or yours. If you have the power and i get little gain then I'll protest until ppl see that they want what i want. Then when I get what I want I'll have power over you who wanted me in power and now you protest but we are all old and those who come behind don't know how bad canned food is vs home made and home is too boring and too hard and no kudoos enough to gain power so gimme free canned just enough to make me hate your enemies. 🤪

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So true my patient got a booster in her first trimester and no worries but won’t use all natural products for oral hygiene! I have those who won’t take any meds hate big pharma but say I got all my shots! Mental condition.

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I need to use natural products due to cirs , biotoxin mold illness and many autoimmune issues acquired after a booster shot for work years ago. My boosted mom thinks I’m just being trendy, sigh. Truly cognitive dissonance. I pray for the babies.

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Rosalind. Wow, we have another thing in common. I’m also healing form mold illness and cirs. I’m so surprised to see anyone mention those particular dx! Mine isn’t from a vax. Some other complex of root causes. But hey, I want you to know I understand the struggle. Keep on with the efforts. You’ll find your way. ❤️

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My mold exposure happened about a decade after the jab injury. It’s a blessing to be healing! Slowly but surely.

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Truly inexplicable. Maybe something in the water haha. Fluoride? Elevated intake is neurotoxic and affects cognitive function. I’ve been filtering mine 😃

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Maybe fluoride ! Lol

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Science will save me! Science will kill me!

Selective lab ratting.

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I read that it was us who told Zelensky not to engage in peace talks, and some news recently points to us blowing up that pipeline.

Jesus said: Blessed are the peacemakers. Biden is not one, and with his cronies, take us away from God's blessing us as a country.

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We did blow it up. We threatened it, we did it, and now we brag about it. To me, neocon ideology isn’t much different than commie ideology. Both are built on man’s hubris.

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I don’t think we are bragging about it and they aren’t admitting it. Interesting how Germany isn’t livid maybe that’s why they won’t pony up tanks etc. We so meddle. All SA countries flipped commie. Its the leftist sneaky way to get the pendulum swinging in their favor after indoctrination and covid failures were used to sway voters. Slick SOBs.

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Ukraine refused to submit to rape and it's refusing a peace deal?

Would you agree to a peace deal where instead of getting 2 boosters a year you only had to get one every other year?

You'd refuse, rightfully so. Ukraine was right to refuse too.

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Right, like they had a choice.

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Ukraine did have a choice.

Zelenskyy told Biden no and on the same day told Putin to eat poop.

So you are willing to negotiate with Brandon on gun rights and mandatory covid vaccines?

Okay, that totally will go over well.

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Is that why the comedian trotted off the the UK to ask for more weapons/money from the new King? What a suck-up.

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America did the same thing and ben Franklin spent 2 yeArs in france wining and dining with the French begging for aid.

Winston Churchill spoke before Congress and begged for aid also. He even wore a flat green military uniform, just like Zelensky.

Ukraine needs better weapons to take back territory lost to Russia.

Europe has sent hundreds of tanks. We aren’t doing so much there.

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Tic Toc, there are "other" Players in the World besides just Us. CYA, no time to dilly dalley.

Russia is sending a very clear warning to the neoclowns. Not because they expect the evil morons to heed them, but to give the people of the West one last chance to stop following the wicked satanists down the pathway to Hell.

https://voxday.net/2023/02/09/russias-new-red-lines/

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That's the only solution, isn't it? That the civilian realize that kinetic WWIII and the absolute destruction of civilization is being forced by our so called "leaders" and, through our continued apathy and inaction, we will be the midwife of the end of modern civilization.

Wake up, act or die.

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All over being green and ESG they aren’t stupid.

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Russia is literally throwing men into suicide charges against prepared Ukrainian defenses.

They are incompetent and buffoonish.

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Aaaaand...you're point is???? Oh yeah, that's how shills talk.

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Yep. He trolls all of SS

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Russia's new offensive is a failure before it even started.

Could you atleast pick someone competent to shill for, phil?

The drone videos are horrifying. Men being run over by their own tanks and vehicles as they first one finds a mine then the rest come under 155mm arty fire.

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Sigh...Benny, Benny, Benny. Smh

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Do I have to share the videos airburst artillery tearing through Russian infantryman?

Dozens of destroyed brand new tanks?

Hundreds of bodies?

And not even a single victory, Russian telegram channels are furious

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Same with the hard rockers. Rage Against the Machine is now Rage FOR the Machine.

I've had to adjust my music library and deleted A LOT of these losers.

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Most of those people are just big fakes. It was a veneer, a persona, not actual principles or values.

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I have a gay BIL. He actually left the country to avoid a DWI and hot check arrest back in the late 70s. (My MIL turned him in upon arrival back in the states. 👏) He did the gay bar scene in the 80s-90s (during Fauci's AZT Reign of Terror), long hair, smoked dope ->>SCREW THE MAN, Man! Now, drives a Prius, is "up to date" (5?) on all cv jabs, still wears a mask, has a Ukraine flag on his FB profile, feels sorry for "those poor asylum seeking migrants". His health is truly failing, gained almost 50-70 lbs in 18 mo, has infected, non-healing surgical wounds from 9 mo ago, that just "baffle" the doctors. Facing a "clean out surgery" (whatever that means) soon. But WE are the crazy tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists. 🙄 Yeah, I don't understand, even understanding how propaganda works.

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Wow 😳

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That’s how it works.

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Keep on rockin in the free world must have been a commie front. No way he could turn to this if he was for that.

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Now if the Hollywood twerps would just strike!

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With a few exceptions, Hollywood seems to attract vain, stupid, ignorant people who are easily manipulated by bad players in power.

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Yes! I noticed that. Weird...not!

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Matt Gaetz, I say thank you to you for trying

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Organic food loving hippies now also love war, The FBI, corporations and most of all fall in deep reverence at the feet of THE MAN!

Matt Gaetz has proven to be a stellar bada$$.

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It makes going to Whole Foods a twilight zone experience!

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Going into some blue state is still very Orwellian.

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Yes! This has occurred to me as well...that hard lefties, who fought so hard against GMO food, now think GMO is just fine.

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Meanwhile there was always a Christian generally conservative group also against GMO food and into herbs and natural health -- and they still are. I guess they had a steadier basis for their values. I'm one of them.

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Yes, that absolutely amazes me.

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Would you accept a peace deal over covid shots? Why not?

Russia violated and ignored the first 2 peace deals.

Rewarding a tyrant works out so well.

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You have it backwards but I love that you show up every time this subject is breached

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So you would accept a deal to get covid shots? Noted.

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See my previous answer. Or see Chevrus' words to the unwise.

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So a communist tyrant can be trusted now?

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the FBI MUST be gutted. The CIA MUST be gutted. They no longer serve the people. They are political weapons against the people. There should be no sacred cows. The FBI and CIA with all of their crimes against humanity seem to always just get a smack on the hand but what is really needed is for Congress to end the FBI and one day when we hopefully get a decent real American loving President he/she will shut down the CIA as well as many of the unconstitutional federal agencies like to DoE, DoEd, EPA, HHS and many more need to be shut down completely.

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I totally agree but it's never going to happen. I'm not being negative. I'm just being realistic. It's just like the elections. Does anyone think the 2024 election will not be just as rigged, if not more, as the elections of 2018, 2020 and 2022? To think otherwise is to divorce one's self from reality. It will take a MAJOR push back from the states, lead by the Governors, to make that kind of change and we're not there yet. Clown world will continue as long as the Nazi/Bolsheviks are in power.

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I agree. I know it should be done but I also know it never will because both R and D are on the same side of the fence.

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I will hold fast to the promises of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who will never leave me or forsake me.

God is on the throne! He knows exactly what is happening. He appoints the world's leaders. He knows what they'll do, how they'll act and how it will end. He uses evil people to accomplish good despite what man thinks. He will prevail! He wins.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers Him out of all of them.

Psalm 34:19 ESV

This is my Father's world,

0 let me ne'r forget,

That though the wrong seems oft so strong,

God is the Ruler yet.

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St. Teresa of Avila said, “God can write straight with crooked lines.” Yes, He can!! May no weapon formed against us prosper 🙏🏻

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Yes! The phantom ballot catastrophe must be exposed and stopped, or else 2024 will be a replay of the “81 million vote” nonsense.

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I couldn’t agree with you more. And I too am a realist though often mistaken for a pessimist. ;)

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Ha, love that line. - I'm going to use it. Because after awhile, we even begin feeling like pessimists, when it's just that we know too much. Realists, love it.

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My husband has ALWAYS called me a pessimist, while he, admittedly, is an extreme optimist. When it became clear what was happening, I realized I'm not a pessimist but a realist and always have been.

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There is no uncorrupted agency and few uncorrupted politicians to do the "gutting".

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"

I would have substituted the word "Obligation" for "Right" in Jeffersons timeless document. There is nobody to correct this situation but US. The responsibility for the future is OURS.

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The American people are about as worthless as the government. Most Americans would rather take the easy way and just obey. I am always amazed at how much abuse Americans are willing to take oh and aside from yelling at the TV (which they should throw in the trash) they will do nothing to protect the future for their children.

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This is the biggest problem. The American PEOPLE. I don't recognize them. Especially since, where I live, they're still mostly masked and repeat like robots, "This is a private business we require masks masks are required here" without considering FOR A MOMENT that our country is now lying in the dust and they are the agents of that destruction. When did the American people become Communists?

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Any business that requires a mask does not get my business. Any business that refuses to take cash does not get my business. In the future this will be more and more of a problem but I will eat grass from my back yard before I give in to these genocidal sociopaths. I do not think the American people have become communists......it is worse than that. They have become obedient sheep who would rather be slaves than fight back or disobey. The Christians believe God will not allow our demise to happen but that is not true. God has commanded the demise of many people in the Bible when they turned away from God's word and lived in sin. God expects us to fight the battle on earth to fight against the sinners. He will decide the outcome but it is WE THE PEOPLE that must do the right thing in the eyes of God or we shall feel his wrath.

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I agree, but here in Seattle every single medical establishment (even if there is just a hint of a medical connection) proudly refuses service to anyone without a mask. We don't wear them, but that means we cannot go to a doctor, so we better not get sick (or need physical therapy, or dermatologist). My kids were kicked out by our dentist of many years because I refused to mask them (for 5 seconds crossing the lobby). I have a friend who is worried her cancer has come back but she refuses to mask so she cannot go to the doctor. People who wear masks have NO IDEA the persecution we still endure with this issue of conscience. The disheartening part is the finality and robotic indifference with which these un-American mantras are repeated by the mindless masses. It's sickening.

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Try going to a doctor outside of the communist state of Washington. You might have to travel a bit. I would advise your friend to contact a state legislator but in Seattle you don't have much of chance with them either. There are places your friend could go and get care without wearing a mask. Any doctor that refuses treatment because of refusal to wear a mask needs to be brought up on charges but Americans just don't go there. I know I would be making a phone call before I left the parking lot to a good attorney and file charges with the medical board. They took an oath to DO NOT HARM. You could always put a for sale sign up and move to a more freedom loving state. I did it. Left family and friends behind and moved to TN 13 years ago. I saw the handwriting on the wall well over 20 years ago.

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Ok, here's my great story about that. Hearing aids: In Oregon the Costco won't let you in the testing booth without mask. So I planned to visit my daughter in Bellevue, WA so called their local Costco just in case. Yes, they didn't require mask so I bought new aids there. Then they needed adjustment so on a trip to Idaho I got that done. Now my local Costco does the grunt work, servicing and cleaning, without having received the benefit of the sale. Yes, medical might mean some traveling now but it's doable. Most other basic medical don't require a mask here in S OR even tho it's still a state (fake) rule. I even went to a doc in liberal Eugene and not only no mask, they had the Oregonians for Medical Freedom brochure in waiting room!

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That is the dumbest argument people keep using, I can’t stand hearing it! So if a private business requires female patrons to wear a burka or everyone to wear a bondage dog collar thingy or high heels or overalls to enter (and those are not even MEDICAL DEVICES like masks are!), people would be ok with that?? And I am not talking specialty shops where they could just say, “well I just would t shop there.”

No, regular supermarkets and other stores that most people need to go to for food, medicines, etc. There is absolutely no reason that any private business should tell people what specific items of clothing to wear, let alone a medical device!! (And I know, people use restaurants requiring a jacket and tie as examples but those are mostly outdated and don’t really represent any particular burden to wear).

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