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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

— Romans 8:5-8 LSB

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Politico Phil's avatar

"...for it does not subject itself to the law of God..."

Funny, how the law of God always seems to be the bedrock for "...the things of the Spirit" yet we spend no effort anymore in the church on Biblical law. Why is that?

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Not all churches!

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Politico Phil's avatar

True that

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Too convicting to the folks sitting in the pews.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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NancyP's avatar

Once again Amen for your choice of scripture today.

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El Gee's avatar

This REALLY says it all. Anyone else in the media talking about this?

ā€œPerhaps the most ironic and hilarious part of this Sheetzy story is that the federal government — including the EEOC which is suing Sheetz for using criminal background checks in hiring — itself requires applicants to undergo criminal background checksā€¦ā€

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Jpeach's avatar

I predict a sharp uptick at all Sheetz locations. It’s the Reverse Bud Lite Phenomenon.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

When I'm out there (central PA) which unfortunately is rare, I always fill the tank at Sheetz--best gas prices. Didn't know it was family owned--a major plus for me.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

ā€œFamily-ownedā€ is now a crime.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Unless you’re part of the Buyden Crime Family

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

The grim truth!

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Anna T's avatar

Not many Sheetz in Lower Maryland but whenever I pass one, I get gas there. And snacks.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

That would be amazing!!

BTW what Is status of Bud Light and Target anyway?

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Need to know--we're approaching the month of perversion--be interesting if "they" tone it down in this election year

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Sherry 1's avatar

Maybe the Hamas terrorist supporters will drown the month of perversion out. Yikes! Competing parades, oh my!

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John infinity N's's avatar

Yup, they just opened a brand new one right near me, took the wife on a few dates there. Subs are good, mozzarella stick burger is good and their tacos are good so far and all less expensive than drive thru fast food. Going to have to double down now.

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HappyWife's avatar

Don't give Sheetz too much credit. Their kids - who work in the company - vote Democrat and had the signs on their lawns.

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Stacy's avatar

Perhaps here we have the opportunity for a conversion experience. Here’s hoping Lara Trump is paying attention…

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Seriously?? Maybe the recent encounter with the feds will change their minds

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HappyWife's avatar

We shall see what political signs are on the lawn this go around. You can guess what was there in 2016.

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TimeIsNear's avatar

LOL! They literally voted for it then. I have no sympathy for them.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Unless they are braindead, they'll grow up.

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Sal_Peenx's avatar

My prediction as well.

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NAB's avatar

Right? Doesn't the EEOC have a comparable alternative for achieving the objective of hiring non-criminals? What kind of proxy evaluation could be used? Perhaps EEOC needs investigating. Grandma Garland, are you listening?

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Irunthis1's avatar

Please keep in mind this is the same government who is suing Elon Musk for NOT HIRING illegals at his SpaceX despite the fact that it is a FEDERAL LAW that mandates the hiring practices at companies that do work for the federal government--and requires them to hire only legally hirable employees...can't make this sheetz up!

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SM's avatar

The actual stupidity of the lawsuit is astounding and hilarious.

It comes from biden’s team because they ONLY hire pedophiles and criminals šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

The use of the term ā€œdisparateā€ is only for non criminals. I don’t care what color you are if you’re a criminal. When you break the law, you deal with the consequences. The disparity is that law abiding citizens have to deal with the repercussions as well.

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Satan's Doorknob's avatar

With the disclaimer that I only know about the trial what Jeff has told us:

Seems the trial could end just a few ways. The most just, of course, would be that Trump is found innocent of all charges. If that’s the case it’ll have the salutary effects of making Democrats foam at the mouth, but also show what a sham the justice system has become.

On the other hand, if he’s found guilty, it would seem to mean that one can face dire consequences for the wording he puts on the memo line of checks he or his assistants write.

Trumped up charges, indeed.

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laura-ann Knox's avatar

He's not going to be acquited. They won't allow it. However, there will undoubtedly be some sort of implosion, a la the Fani Willis mess, or a mistrial, or a hung jury. Good needs to step in using his holy and mysterious ways to derail this witch hunt and get President Trump back where he belongs.

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TB's avatar

My money would be on a narrow conviction, then getting tied up in appeals forever and in the end probably dismissed or sent back down to the court with orders to do it again properly because the judge did something wrong. But who knows... it's the year of interesting news...

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YYR's avatar

Acquittal is not found innocent, and the left will harp on this incessantly if they lose.

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SadieJay's avatar

In 2024 it seems us good folks are ALL guilty until we are proven otherwise. Welcome to the jungle.

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Sarah Bee's avatar

Make it make sense. Oh right — we can’t.

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Dawn B's avatar

Always double standards and they are above the laws they impose on us....

A common tactic they use is they accuse others of what they are doing themselves.

Little people cannot fight them since they have the power, money, and authority. Meanwhile we are ruled and governed by these oligarchs. It is not free and fair but satan is the ruler of this world so.... I figure follow God's laws and get heavenly rewards.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Nothing hypocritical to see here. Move along.

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Erin Montgomery's avatar

Yes. Had to have a background check when I went to work for the VA.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Yeah but they don’t use them. They just require them.

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SB's avatar

I would think that would be fodder for the case to get dismissed?

Btw, we live sheetz, even before I heard this story. Love it more now for the EEOC attack and that its family owned

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SYFY's avatar

Morning my fellow C&Cers. I can really use y'alls prayers as my hubby got laid off yesterday (single income family with kiddos). We really gotta find something quick so prayers are requested.

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Irunthis1's avatar

I have been "let go" from exactly one job in my life. It was the best thing that could have happened to me as it was, in fact, a toxic environment for me at the time. Always remember, when God closes a door he always opens a window--you must focus on this new opportunity he has been given to find the place he *really* belongs. Prayers to you and yours.

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SYFY's avatar

Thanks! We know God has plans, but I still stress for the in between now and those plans coming into fruition time lol

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AngelaK's avatar

Prayers. šŸ™

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Just prayed for an even better job for your husband. Keep the faith and rememeber her still provides our DAILY bread!

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SYFY's avatar

We know God is in control and has plans, just wish it was shared so I knew too lol. I am definitely the worrier and pessimist of the family. Probably why I question and research everything to no end. Too bad I can't research our way out of this mess. He worked there 19 years, wasn't it nice of them to give no notice and drop him after all that time?

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AngelaK's avatar

Apply for unemployment asap.

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MB's avatar

Yes good advice. There’s a processing period before unemployment insurance begins to pay so you need to file the paperwork as soon as possible to get the clock started. SYFY, I will say a prayer that your husband finds an even more engaging and rewarding role.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Sounds like your faith is already hitting a new growth spurt! Prayers up for your family, SYFY.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Wow! Terrible! SMH!

What angela said!

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SYFY's avatar

Thanks. I think the biggest thing is that he has been 'off the market' so to speak with job looking that now he's got to catch up on how it's done these days :P He tends to stay planted wherever he gets hired until they move him out lol So, the next job will be where he stays until they either boot him or he dies (retirement, ha!).

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Lisa Ca's avatar

SYFY I feel you deeply. We are single income fam w little savings and would not make it long.

Please post what your husband does or is interested in and maybe C&Cers will have job opps to share!!!!!

šŸ™šŸ»šŸ˜‡ Now

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SYFY's avatar

He was in the IT field, programming automation or fixing broken automated programs. I know he worked in VBA and UI path, but had experience a long time ago in Java and C++, probably a couple of others too along the way. Also, has a degree in computer programming from univ. Of Phoenix

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Beth Bart's avatar

šŸ™praying for you & your family. May God bless you all.

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SYFY's avatar

Thank you

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Andrea Leshok's avatar

Praying for you syfy! Where are you located? Do you have any kids under 5? When this happened to us in 2019 my husband got another job within two weeks. Praying for something similar for you!

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SYFY's avatar

No, just tweens and teens...you know, the ones in the eat you out of house and home phase....Central FL area, near The Villages. Thanks for the prayers. We most definitely can use it.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

I'll tell our friends in Central Florida, perhaps one of them can help! Praying he'll be back to work quickly!

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SYFY's avatar

Thanks so much!

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Sandy's avatar

Has he looked at jobs at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala?

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SYFY's avatar

Didn't see any IT jobs there, mostly hospitality ones.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Already done.

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SYFY's avatar

Thank you

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NinaG's avatar

Of course! ā¤ļøšŸ™šŸ¼ā¤ļø

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SYFY's avatar

Thank you.

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Jaci's avatar

A former student of mine fell in love at 17 with an 18 year old black felon. He didnt not do any crime, but was told by the court appointed attorney if he plead guilty, his nightmare would be over.

Needless to say, he did not understand the long ranging consequences of that misinformed decision.

He and my former student went on to marry and have five children. They are still together after 14 years working very hard to do the right thing by their children. He is working three jobs because of his felon status. I blame his plight on the attorney and the court system. I am sure that is not an isolated incident.

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Irunthis1's avatar

I do believe that this particular example is not a one-off and that many uninformed, uneducated and stupid kids make mistakes in their youth that they are made to pay for outside the realms of necessary consequences. I believe in second chances and it makes me angry when folks are harmed in this manner. There should be methods in place to have something like this expunged from ones record when one has lived life in such a manner. That said, unfortunately, the reason felons are excluded from normal life is because they are usually pieces of human excrement. When they prove not to be, it should be reversed upon proof of such. I'm glad that he has had such happiness and the love of a good woman to offset this wrong--something for which many people would be eternally grateful as they have never known such peace and happiness, so God bless him and his family!

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Cynthia Ford's avatar

Actually, the other day I was thinking about how during the Loma Prieta earthquake, the Cypress structure pancaked, the above free way onto the lower one, and it was the poor, often felonious, black men in West Oakland who climbed up there and rescued people. They lived in harsh conditions, with drug running and guns and crack, and had seen a lot of violence, perhaps participated in it, but that made them able to walk through body parts and dead people to pull the crushed out of their cars and save their lives. The mayor wouldn't give many of them awards as they had felonious records. I took a mooc on the Prison Industrial Complex, before DEI CRT got full hold of things, and often, they said, accused people were induced to plead guilty, then corporations could use them for totally cheap labor. Victoria's Secret for one. So it is a complex issue, especially if one believes the CIA deliberately introduced crack into the inner cities.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Similar experience in my family, Irun. Our former felon has proven worthy of my trust with everything I treasure, and he’s one of most wise and loving dads I’ve ever met. Redemption is a real thing. Every single one of us should be grateful for that. Reality is also a repeat mis-demeanor-er who abandoned her credibility and doesn’t seem to care. Bottom line, Individuals matter far, far more than classes of people.

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Fla Mom's avatar

This type of thing, along with what can be real racism among some cops, is, I would bet, the genesis of the thinking about the disparate impact of background checks. I'd also bet that most felons, of any color, are real felons. However, legislatures, in their virtue-signaling about being 'tough on crime,' have turned more and more offenses into felonies, when they used not to be so. We were watching some of the more recent 'Cops' episodes a couple of years ago, and I kept saying, "*That's* a felony?!"

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JJ Chester's avatar

Since it has been reported that the total amount of the "Legal Expenses" paid by Trump did not match the amount paid to Miss Stormy, could it be that the checks in question were for a number of services provided by his attorney? I have received itemized bills from attorneys with a total amount due at the bottom line. I would write a check for "Legal Expenses." I assure you that it was not an attempt to disguise the individual services or subvert the law, it just didn't make sense to write 6-8 checks to the same attorney. Should I be worried that DA Bragg might come after me if I move to NYC? (Don't worry, that will never happen)

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Elaine Russky's avatar

No invoices attached to the vouchers?

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JJ Chester's avatar

When I get my American Express bill at the end of the month, I don't write 37 individual checks for the 37 items on the statement. I write one check. The same with a monthly bill from my attorney. We will allocate charges to various accounts based on the itemized invoice, but we write one check.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Plandemic Foreshadowing? Check this 2012 Olympic ceremony in London, featuring NHS nurses doing 'tiktok nurse dances', floating gouls (airborne virus) and a giant Grim Reaper terrorizing the crowd with a big syringe-looking object.

Very covidy creepy. Normalizing us for what was to come?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDvjxm9xPQE

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Jeff C's avatar

The whole Tiktok nurses thing is deeply unsettling. Someone orchestrated it, these bored nurses didn't just spontaneously do it themselves. The message of the videos seemed to be, "We are lying about the pandemic, we are lying about the hospitals being full, you stupid rubes are falling for the whole thing, and we are going to rub your noses in it in the most insulting and demeaning manner possible."

I don't know if it was just chutzpah or something more nefarious used to psychologically demoralize and manipulate people. I'm thinking it's the latter as it's becoming obvious to me we are being screwed with at just about every level. The whole covid farce seemed to increase the pace of an ongoing psy-op ten-fold.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

As a RN with 32 years of acute care hospital experience, I still find it difficult to believe this really occurred in hospitals. We would’ve been fired for unprofessional conduct and I can’t think of a single day in my nursing career where we would’ve had time to do something that stupid. Nor would I have been willing to participate if we did.

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daverkb's avatar

My lesson during the forced gene editing pandemic is how stupid a lot of doctors were ... and more terrifying was how compliant they were, especially in institutional settings. The result is that I have zero respect, zero trust in the medical community except for the really simple stuff like setting bones.

Lot's has been said on this, so I won't bore you with more. But I will say this, I have a lot more respect for many, many nurses. And very often, nurses have a great deal more of common sense.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

My goal is to avoid the ā€œgovernment runā€ healthcare system as much as possible. I’ll get annual lab work or possible emergency care such as broken bones if necessary but overall my trust in physicians and the healthcare industry is zero.

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daverkb's avatar

I often think that if I was a young person and had it to do all over again that I would design my life to have as little to do with the government as possible. (No birth certificate/affidavit registered instead, no incorporations, no marriage license/again affidavit registered, no reliance on any government handouts/ benefits and so on ... as outside of the government as possible).

And so I'd zero out. But honestly, at 75 I'm too tired out as to do much. It's not so much the will, it's energy enough to follow through on things. I now do my jobs in broken down units with rest periods interspersed. Time has changed for me.

Thanks for your reply. And the best to you and yours.

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Bryan Dair's avatar

Doctors would be killing a lot more of their patients if

it were not for the nurses keeping a close watch.

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HFO (thepixieminx)'s avatar

especially in the middle of a pandemic where patients were being housed in the corridors we were told

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NAB's avatar

I haven't read this book yet (it is on my list) but Laura Dodsworth wrote about the use of "nudge units" in the UK in State of Fear. I think the use of tik-tok videos was definitely nefarious.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Good book. I read it in early 2021 when it came out. The US has its own "nudge units" doing the same thing.

I had discovered them, the practice of "Behavioral Science" (BS) was behind the masking campaign as epidemiological non-pharmaceutical intervention, to scare the population to stay apart, explicitly acknowledged in their mandate justification. Epidemiologists are also trained BS'ers as well as virologists. BS'ers lean into human psychology to modify population-wide behaviors by manipulating perceptions. They diagnosed the 'unsophisticated' masses as suffering from "optimism bias." Requiring a Rx of "fear amplification." Enter mask mandates.

The more "sophisticated" elite knew better, but performed theater for the masses when the cameras came on put on mask, camera off take off mask. Remember Gavin Newsome's "I held my breath" in his Super Bowl box photo. Or Obama's unmasked "more sophisticated attendee" birthday party in Martha's Vineyard - while servants were forced to mask.

When Fauci flip-flopped on masks in March, 2020 I knew real, natural and medical science doesn't flip "at the speed of science" based on unscientific observations in a crisis. And launched into my study of why, what type of science it was they were following. And discovered it was soft, social and behavioral science. That can turn dangerous gatherings of mandate protesters into safe gatherings of BLM/Antifa protesters overnight.

When State of Fear came out it was the first published encapsulation of what I had been researching for nearly a year. It introduced me to the description of Behavioral Science as "The science of totalitarianism" by a former member of the UK nudge unit, who was scared for humanity about how effective their BS was. With no respect for limits on its population-wide application. There's actually a UN Achieving Agenda 2030 using BS plan, how we'll own nothing and be happy eating bugs. Using another BS term, "choice architecture" to describe taking away choices like beef (or make them very costly) and replace them with affordable bugs. Alternative protein happiness! Complete BS! Same mind-farkery. Dodsworth's book is a good read, she weaves in the human story impacted by the mountain of BS our government's shoveled on us. And continue to. Vaccines. Gender. Energy. Food. Climate. Elections. Everywhere radical changes in society don't make sense has a BS campaign behind it.

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daverkb's avatar

Interesting.

If one looks behind the curtain at the 'ownership' apparatus (houses, cars, bank and brokerage accounts, securities), we already don't own anything. We have only a slave's access to use called a beneficial use. And 'we' are happy because we don't know any better.

We have not gotten around to bugs for breakfast yet, but we are real close. But don't fret though, because we still have the poisoned food supply. And getting more 'sophisticated' all the time.

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HFO (thepixieminx)'s avatar

and don’t fret because we still have the over and unnecessary medications

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Jeff C's avatar

Have not read Laura Dodsworth's book but need to add that too my list.

Completely agree with your shout out to Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It's one of the few books that really changed my perception of reality. I knew the media was corrupt but thought it was just slanted to advance a political agenda. That book made me realize it was much deeper than that, and that constant fear was being used as an instrument of control. It's an entertaining read too.

What really disturbing was realizing the Right does it too (e.g. Cold War hysteria).

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Elaine Russky's avatar

What exactly is the "speed of science" when we still don't have a safe and effective vaccine, and never will?

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Jeff C's avatar

Have not read Laura Dodsworth's book but need to add that too my list.

Completely agree with your shout out to Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It's one of the few books that really changed my perception of reality. I knew the media was corrupt but thought it was just slanted to advance a political agenda. That book made me realize it was much deeper than that, and that constant fear was being used as an instrument of behavioral control. It's an entertaining read too.

What really disturbing was realizing the Right does it too (e.g. Cold War hysteria).

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Jeff C's avatar

Have not read Laura Dodsworth's book but need to add that too my list.

Completely agree with your shout out to Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It's one of the few books that really changed my perception of reality. I knew the media was corrupt but thought it was just slanted to advance a political agenda. That book made me realize it was much deeper than that, and that constant fear was being used as an instrument of control. It's an entertaining read too.

What really disturbing was realizing the Right does it too (e.g. Cold War hysteria).

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Michael Framson's avatar

The dots are not that hard to connect, once you understand a pattern. Easy for us to see, and blind to those who lack that ability.

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Tom's avatar

"Revelation of the Method."

It's a component of their magick.

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Lee Muller's avatar

Was that you in the video Florida man? Lol

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Valerie's avatar

I LOVE Florida man! Even the weird ones, which was not the case here. We need more quirky, weird people thinking outside the box, solving problems. Team Florida man!

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AngelaK's avatar

That guy was super cool! šŸ‘šŸŒž

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Elaine Russky's avatar

Did you see those muscles?! Not that I noticed. Uh, someone else told me.

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AngelaK's avatar

Yes! Lol.

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Susan W's avatar

To be fair, Florida Man IS a trained alligator trapper BUT he was not "ƶn duty"when he caught that particular reptile. Or so it is posted.

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Janet's avatar

I saw that some time ago. It is truly creepy. I wonder what goodies will be revealed in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony this summer. I will watch with new interest and a barf bag by my side.

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SadieJay's avatar

The symbolism is alive and well, if one knows what to look for. Educate yourselves because it might be the only warning we are gonna get. I said to a friend "Have you noticed all the pentagram jewelry people are wearing now?" She is like "what is a pentagram?" Face palm.

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Laura Kasner's avatar

BFM - I no longer believe in coincidences. That was deeply disturbing.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Based--that is seriously creepy. And the nurses, while the child tries to escape the Reaper, the nurses turning their heads this way and that in synchrony. As in, programmed.

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SadieJay's avatar

Marionettes.

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MOMinator's avatar

So creepy. I noticed the doctors and nurses were puppets…

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SadieJay's avatar

My sister had a dream a few years ago. She saw Jill Biden getting a large trunk out of the back of a vehicle and opening it and getting out a marionette of her husband while the Secret Service stood around her.

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AngelaK's avatar

So, I looked that up and ofcourse Google's usual page of articles 'fact checking' to debunk the 'conspiracy theories' was full.

Their explanation (take it or leave it)

was that the entire show was meant to be artistically bizarre as 'only the British can do' (the Queen on a parachute, Mary Poppins, etc) and that the disturbing grim reaper was a nod or tribute to the creation of the NHS healthcare scheme. šŸ¤·šŸ™„

Even after reading these explanations, I am not fully buying it. I don't know what I think actually because creepy is not 'cool' or of God.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2SO2PH/

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Julie Ann B's avatar

That is really strange and very creepy. I remember watching it at the time and just wondering why they were doing this kind of ā€œentertainmentā€. It just didn’t tie in with the Olympics. The Satanic realm is all around us.

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Elaine Russky's avatar

Yeah, and it's not scary -- It's all for show, since satan can't do one thing without God's permission.

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Sherry 1's avatar

They have taken it down.

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Christy's avatar

I remember that. It was unsettling back than!

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rowantree's avatar

WTF! People were just watching like "yeah, that's normal?"

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OnTheJump's avatar

Tried ti view - "Video Unavailable".........hmmmm.

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Dianne Denson's avatar

What a creepy opening (or closing) ceremony for the Olympics! šŸ˜µā€šŸ’«šŸ‘ŗ

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Elaine Russky's avatar

Isn't NHS the publicly-funded system for Great Britain's health care? Why would they need such elaborate advertising?

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daverkb's avatar

Years ago, I wondered what the hell this 2012 London Medical Freak Show was all about ... and the main disconnect is that the Freak Show had nothing really to do with sport. The second give-away is the Satanic Hypnotizing Monotony of the whole thing.

I still do not understanding how people can participate in crap like the London show or even creepier, the Gotthard Tunnel Opening ceremony. It's like the participants are under a mind cauterizing cast spell.

Predictive Programming sums it up. And the Elites are okay with it.

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John Pullen's avatar

The Bob Peters administration is full of Sheetz!!!

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NAB's avatar

Winner!

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Lisa Ca's avatar

win win!

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Politico Phil's avatar

As for Ukraine, nothing really new...............................................................................

Ukraine’s government is actively persecuting Christians.

That’s not an exaggeration. Ukrainian priests are being thrown in jail for belonging to a church of which Volodymyr Zelenskyy disapproves, and the United States is funding those arrests.

Thanks to dishonest Western media, most Americans are not privy to this kind of information. But they should be.

Lawyer Bob Amsterdam is one of the only people working to stop the Ukrainian government’s rampant human rights violations, and he joined tonight’s Tucker Carlson Uncensored to share shocking details of this underreported story. Click the image below to watch.

Bob Amsterdam tells Tucker:

ā€œSince the passage of the bill in the House, Ukraine has gone into full war mode against my church. They are launching a massive PR campaign internally and again in Washington, attacking the church, attacking me, attacking everyone connected with the church. Because they can't stand the truth to come out.ā€

Bob Amsterdam is an international human rights lawyer who’s been banned from Russia by Vladimir Putin. He says Ukraine is the single most repressive country he’s been to. ā€œThe idea it’s a democracy is a farce.ā€ Once again, they’re lying to you and making you pay for it.

https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-bob-amsterdam/

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Politico Phil's avatar

Yup, it's a full court press. "It's all Russia's fault! Bad Putin!!" Anything to support more of OUR money to another endless war.

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Christy's avatar

Russia Russia Russia.

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Politico Phil's avatar

And of course, dispensational, end times, rapture churches all buy in on it because "Russia is in the Bible". Uh, no, I've read the Bible and Russia is not mentioned by the Lord.

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daverkb's avatar

Ha! Ha! Maybe the Lost Tribe ended up in the Ukraine! And not the City of London?

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Politico Phil's avatar

Speaking of the City of London and the unholy trinity of apex "elites" (British Crown/C of L, Rothchilds/BIS and Vatican), I ran across this today.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5YEBPUNqQj/?igsh=MXdrcjhhdm1pYmZvNQ==

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SadieJay's avatar

Marsha Marsha Marsha is what that reminds me of. Funny. Not funny.

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Christy's avatar

lol. Exact same🤣🤣🤣

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daverkb's avatar

One wonders? Zionist churches? Or Christian churches? They the both cannot possibly be the same!

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daverkb's avatar

Oh! But Mr. Choo Choo (Iron Horsey) says this is not so. it's not the Ukrainians! It's the Evil Putin and a Satanic Chorus Line of Russians who are incinerating churches and declaring open canning season on Christians.

Okay! I'll give it a rest because it is now time to take a time out and sing a patriotic song to our Commie Dear Leaders! It's obligatory! And don't fight it! Do it for fairness and balance!

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daverkb's avatar

Dear Phil Polikico !!!

Yo knows brother! Some of dese major dudes are at times purty convinsing! You know! And dey could git away wiz some of dis big stuff if it weren't for real peoples on da line. I mean thus Indernet! REAL Reporters~!!~~ *special emphasis% REAL, REAL & REAL !!! Reporters !!!

Now Two Noodles! I ave to vunder on hymn some. Hw siaz he's a 'southern' Baptist! Wunder what's da kind! Drag Queen church smotheing Baptist? And would dey be using da short Jefferson unanointed Bible? And wad ever thad be, it must bee one of dem dilly of the Wonder of the World deals!

Yours Truly,

Confuzzed in Roaranoak, Vurginia

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Incorrect-mostly.

You’d be correct if you said Russia was doing it.

I support a church in mikolaiv. It’s a southern Baptist church not affiliated with the government. They preach to soldiers.

Haven’t been shut down or even bothered except by Russian missiles

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daverkb's avatar

Noodles! You've been drinking too many Molotov coctails again. You better lay off the stuff!

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Bingham22's avatar

Good substack content today, but I am hoping for a paragraph or two about SCOTUS decision to dismiss the Kari Lake and Mark Finchem lawsuit without comment, against the use of inherently-and deliberately- flawed election machines.

So much bad news this week, including the news from the Social Security Administration in Texas that over a million suspect voter registrations have suddenly been added…Joe Obiden is apparently using his wholly corrupted Administration to register millions of illegals in key states.

They aren’t going to give up the power they have ā€œrightfully stolenā€ā€¦that much is plain.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Isn’t there time for AG Ken Paxton to look into those millions of new voter registrations and if they’re not legal go after those people and deport them to Cuba or Venezuela??

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

I would also really appreciate an update on election issues.

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Connie Benn's avatar

Seems to me that ever since I graduated from college, most of my employers have run background checks on employees. In my current job, I get a CORI check every year. Generally speaking, if you’re behaving yourself, these aren’t really an issue no matter what you look like.

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LuAnne's avatar

Most police dept's (and probably fire dept's) do more than a background check. When my husband entered the police force several years ago, not only did they do an indepth background check, they hunted down family, friends, previous employers, and anyone they could find to verify his character. It was a 4 month process. And nowadays, most hiring police dept's require access to all social media accts from it's employees.

Maybe someone should check to see how "diverse" Biden’s security detail is?

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Monterey's avatar

Please thank your husband for his service to the public for me. Especially if he's still on the force.

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LuAnne's avatar

Thank you! He's retired now but he's a part time senior instructor for a national police association. They train school resource officers throughout the country. Now that I'm retired, I get to join him on occasion. šŸ˜€ It depends on where he's going.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Well, from the video at Sheetz, they appeared monochromatic. Hard faced, too (as one might expect).

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NAB's avatar

I would think the whole background check is SOP for all workplaces simply for liability reasons alone. Imagine NOT doing one, hiring someone with a sordid past who then goes on to commit a crime on the premises. Now that company is on the hook BIG TIME.

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daverkb's avatar

These days, running a well-run business seems pretty much a crime.

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MaryAnn's avatar

We started running background checks for students applying to health professions, as felons cannot obtain licensure to practice in IL. Of course, the checks were instituted after a student informed the dean, during the final semester before graduation, of a prior felony conviction. (Closing the barn door a bit too late)

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Teaching in public school: FBI fingerprinting required, and repeated state police criminal checks (every 5 years?)

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Penny North's avatar

I had to be fingerprinted for my Texas chiropractic license.

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Emumundo's avatar

I had to be FBI fingerprinted to volunteer at my daughters school. Wish I hadn’t done that.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Yes--that was the beginning of the compliance nonsense. If I don't "misremember" it got so that a husband couldn't even help his wife move into her new classroom before school opened.

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Patrice's avatar

I had to be fingerprinted and background checked and take a child safety class to work for a school, in the purchasing department...for a remote position.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Makes it darned clear that this has nothing at all to do with "child safety". Thanks!

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Connie Benn's avatar

Yeah, I had my fingerprints sent to the FBI when I worked for a major mutual fund company. The CORI is required every three years for school employees & volunteers in my state, but the archdiocese I work for requires it every year.

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🌱NardšŸ™'s avatar

Even our volunteers are fingerprinted…!

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NAB's avatar

Oh good point. I was a merit badge counselor for the BSA and also a CCD teacher at my church. Both organizations ran checks on me.

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Shelly S's avatar

Not necessarily a die-hard ā€œTrumperā€, but I find it very discouraging that he is persecuted so viciously. It’s hard to find anything positive to say about American ā€œjusticeā€, and that makes me sad. Thankful that God’s got it in His hands, ultimately. But in the meantime…….poo. And I’ll stay Colorado girl (= wimp), but will enthusiastically clap for Florida man.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Always remember that if they’re brazenly going after a past POTUS they will gladly go after us!

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Shelly S's avatar

I know—so sick of it. I don’t understand how they can stand themselves.

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🌱NardšŸ™'s avatar

I’m a Florida transplant now living in CO…Florida Man is real. And he’s everywhere! I think some of these CO boys would make excellent Florida men ;). And as an aside, how I regret selling my FL properties…they’d be worth bazillions by now!

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Ed Thorrens's avatar

ā€All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, ā€œWhat have You done?ā€ā€œ

‭‭Daniel‬ ‭4‬:‭35‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/114/dan.4.35.NKJV

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shayne's avatar

And He's my Father. Hallelujah!

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Patrice's avatar

I'm just going to point out here, Jeff, that the Biden admin seems to have no problems hiring criminals, luggage thieves and perverts seem to abound.

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Blair's avatar

As long as they have the right ideology and have no morals, it's all good. Saying "yes" to "The Party" under any circumstance is the #1 qualification.

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RunningLogic's avatar

šŸŽÆšŸŽÆšŸŽÆ

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🌱NardšŸ™'s avatar

But they’re mostly white male thieves…where are the female thieves? The black thieves? Even minority thieves can’t get a break in Biden’s administration. I suppose there’s always Menendez…but he was elected, not appointed.

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MoM's avatar

This regime knew damned well that sending the old man to Sheetz was a threat to the company. They aren’t hiding their tyranny.

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Janet's avatar

Lawfare. It’s coming for you and me too.

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NAB's avatar

Excellent point. "The precious" has rotted what was left of their souls. G-d, please let me never desire any worldly thing as much as these people desire power.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Given the smiles on faces of, and photo-ops taken by, the employees, what's the beef?

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TimeIsNear's avatar

There was another video of people, probably customers, going off on him in the store.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

And they have that right!

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MaryAnn's avatar

I saw one video where people were shouting ā€œF you!ā€ as Pedojoe stood open -mouthed listening to the shouts. But, šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļøcould have been staged/AI’d/whatever. Hard to know what is real…

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Monterey's avatar

That's what I thought. They didn't seem rude to him at all.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Bingo. Exactly how they work.and these two recent ā€œ retiresā€? Yeahthreats on their lives probably. CIA is great.

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OnTheJump's avatar

Saw a post regarding a video, headline appeared quite joyful about the trial proceedings, thus far - in the image for the post was a newsroom shot, and it featured a BEAMING Rachel Maddow. Smiling. Looking happy. Struck me, as I viewed that image for the briefest of moments (she makes me a bit nauseous, tbh. OKAY - a LOT nauseous!) that I NEVER see her appear happy - always appearing in need of an enema......although, I never tune in to her either, lol.

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NAB's avatar

...always appearing in need of an enema...

Snort!

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Beth Bart's avatar

Happy good morning šŸ˜Šā˜•ļø

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Valerie's avatar

Good morning!

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Beth Bart's avatar

Good morning ValšŸŒžā˜•ļø

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Valerie's avatar

šŸ™‚ā˜•ļø

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Happy morning to you.

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Beth Bart's avatar

ā˜•ļøcheers Alan ā˜•ļø

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