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Scott MacInnis's avatar

Hey Jeff I love your work ethic. I love you sense of humor. I love your optimism. I’m a recovering life long liberal. I just paid the most money I have ever paid for a subscription to your newsletter. I look forward to it every day. My media avoidant wife has also come to enjoy your stylings. Thanks for all you do.

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Bill Campbell's avatar

Welcome over from the dark side, Scott. There is truly a disturbance in the force.

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reality speaks's avatar

Enjoy the journey with the rest of us formerly ignorant souls who have woke up to the fact that the MSM lies about everything

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Robin Greer's avatar

One reason to be thankful for COVID. The number of people who were awakened to the lies all around us and I include myself in that group of people. I was conservative but I had no idea how much the media and the government lied.

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Annie's avatar

My pastor spoke of that subject. Book of Mark where the betrayal of Jesus is related. Even though He was betrayed, by lies and unjustly, He awoke the world to The Truth. We all have been awoken including these young men. Joy and blessings to you all. ✝️❤️🙏

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Tom's avatar

Judas: "We could have sold the perfume and given the money to the poor."

Think of the poor! Think of the children! Line my pockets!

Judas was stealing. False scales are an abomination. There is ample food in the fallow ground of the poor, but because of injustice, it is swept away.

If someone is promising a cheap favor, they're probably lying.

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Dorota's avatar

And I grew up in communist Poland, shame on me for not connecting the dots sooner.

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SusanMc's avatar

It’s hard to comprehend the levels of evil out there. The first time I was introduced to the WEF & their agenda I could scarcely process such a diabolical evil. One aware you never forget & you become more & more cognizant.

From time to time someone will comment asking about the burden of knowing compared to the bliss of La La land.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Glad you came around. It can be hard to see through such deep propaganda.

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Rick Olivier's avatar

💯%

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Lisa Ca's avatar

❤️

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PrsctNative's avatar

Welcome to the club! We’ve got T-shirts- literally!!🤣

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MeeMaw123's avatar

We do? Where can I get one?

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Fred's avatar

Wish he had a black v-neck T with ¾ length sleeves. Long sleeves get in my way too much.

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Karmy's avatar

That’s why they made scissors! Be stylish and create your own design.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Send an email to request that! I said they should have Bella hoodies a while back and was able to buy one in April!

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Jaci's avatar

Swag at the bottom of post

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Oklahoma voters: tomorrow, Wed. 10/30 is the first of 4 days you can vote early at your county Election Board.

While you're doing so, please vote out all 3 Ok. Supreme Court justices (Kauger, Gurich, & Edmondson.) These three have blocked EVERY pro-life legislation passed - even AFTER Roe v. Wade was overturned.

It's time for them to go

Show them the door by voting NO to retention.

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T Hines's avatar

Absolutely. Can't wait to vote.

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SusanMc's avatar

Go Oklahoma!! Right the wrong!

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Cathy's avatar

Welcome to our coffee club

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Verve's avatar

Welcome to Scott and your Better Half, from a former University of Colorado, Boulder, Liberal!!! It was glorious when I woke up smelling the C&C coffee! And C&C Fam - just fyi Steve Bannon has been released from federal prison and is doing a live show on Gettr: https://gettr.com/streaming/p3cuaxb1d34

Also he's going to give a press conference at 3 p.m. EST Eye opening election strategy!!

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L1's avatar

Just ran into an old friend from that area who is still lapping up the MSM. I am praying for him and his family to recognize truth. He has become so brainwashed and angry. It’s Extremely sad to see.

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SusanMc's avatar

They can’t see the irony of Kamala’s “joy” campaign when Libs of all stripes devolve into the opposite of joy. Do they ever realize how angry, bitter, mean, negative they are?

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SusanMc's avatar

Rush used to point out the contrast

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Cynthia's avatar

Oh how I miss Rush.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Mega dittos to that!! 😂🤣

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Verve's avatar

They have all devolved into a very sad victim culture. I will pray for your friend and his family as well.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Finally! I can’t wait to hear from him!

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Colleen The Queen's avatar

Cut my walk short to be home at 9:59 so I could watch his whole show!!❤️ Here I sit now waiting for his press conference. I'm a Steven and C&C junkie.

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Beth Bart's avatar

Welcome to the C&C family!

Happy Good Morning! 🌞☕️

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Dr Linda's avatar

I look forward to your good morning. Alan’s as well. I assume it’s here.

I hate it when I am late for good mornings. : )

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Valerie's avatar

Good morning Beth!

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Beth Bart's avatar

Happy Good morning Val! ☕️☕️

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Valerie's avatar

😁☕️🥣

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Happy Good morning, Beth! ☺️

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Beth Bart's avatar

Happy Good morning Mrs. The knife, have a wonderful day☕️☕️

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Thank you! And you as well!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Verve's avatar

LOL hellooo Mrs. "the Knife" - this never gets old! :)

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Hello, Verve! To misquote the old Folgers ad, "The best part of waking up is C&C in your cup!" Do I dare admit that - horrors! - I don't drink coffee? Tea, Earl Grey, hot (hat tip to Jean-Luc Picard) is my go-to. Let's just keep that between us, and not tell the others. I would hate to be kicked out of C&C because I prefer T&C!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

You need not worry St. Alia the Knife, we are conservatives, not bullies. lol I have found myself checking several times in the morning to see if Jeff has posted.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Oh, I know, and I am grateful I found y'all back in 2021-ish. I have a family full of coffee drinkers and they have a little fun at my expense! 😂🤣

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Verve's avatar

Mrs. "the Knife"! Die hard coffee drinker here, but for you, T&C All the way! Love Earl Grey and love me some star trek as well - have a wonderful day!

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Glad you got the reference! I am probably dating myself! 😂🤣

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Robyn Welch's avatar

Me too! Coffee was always for adults, and I never really grew up enough 😉 I prefer green & black tea brewed together, with ice. While I read C & C.

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Tio Nico's avatar

For forty years I was a hardcore tea lover.. high quality stuff from all over the planet. I still love it, but... twenty years ago this month my best friend made me a cup of coffee that rocked my world... and continues to do so. Insead of reflexively spiting it out as he wretched stuff I expected to find in my mouht, I savoured every drop, finished the cup, handed it back o him and DEMANDED h mak me another, NOW. He taught me the basics of roasting and I had to figure it ou.

Good coffee should be smooth (NOT harsh or bitter),sweet, flavourful, and if you have to "learn to like it" you are not drinking good stuff. Find some.

You won't find it at the sign of the green mer-thing, nor the faux dutch windmill (used to, but the quality failed to scale with the growth) In my area, about 75K folks, only one shop gets it close some of the time. The other dozen or so, well, they tried, some. In Seattle there are fewer than half a dozen who really do it right. Portland boasts one, with a small handful that hit it often enough to warrant the risk. The other couple hundred? Well, look elsewhere.nBest is to find a good roastery and buy whole bean, then learn to brew it well yourself at home. Or office... there are a very few brewers that consistently produce an excellent brew IF you have good coffee going into it and brew it well. . These are not the cheap things you find at the Home Cheapo.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Tio Nico, growing up & living in the Pacific Northwest (Puget Sound area) I am very familiar with Howard Schultz's coffee houses - in some places literally one on every corner. I grew up in a family of coffee drinkers - my father and his father drank the stuff black. For years my family tried to get me "to come over to the dark side!" My sister literally used those words. I said, "No thanks, I have seen you people without your coffee, and I don't need to get addicted to the stuff!" The usual reply was "how do you know if you haven't tried it?" So one day, very unintentionally, I tried it, after a fashion. The Seattle area has a well-deserved reputation for being gray, rainy, and cold for a good portion of the year, generally Jan 1 - Dec 31, with some random bits of sunshine occurring during June, July, and August. Well, I used to head over to our little on-site snack shack at work during the 2:00 p.m. slump for a grande chocolate caliente. On this particular day, I got all the way back to my desk before taking a big swig of my beverage. !Que horror! It was not a chocolate caliente, but a grande mocha! Now, I have a dilemma: I can't offer it to anyone, because I have already had some of it. I could just pour it down the sink in the ladies room, but then that would be a waste of $3+ (in late 1990s' coin). So, being a frugal kind of lass, I proceeded to drink it to the last drop. By the time I left work at 5:30, the taste had not gotten any better and I had an awful stomach ache. So, in my book, I did give it an honest try, and even with all that chocolate I still couldn't stand the taste.

Tio Nico, gracias for sharing your experience. I will concede that it is possible that there are ways of preparing coffee to produce something palatable to those of us who love the smell but can't stand the flavor. Maybe one day I will run across such a concoction. Have great week!

Mrs. "the Knife"

P.S. Mr. "the Knife" thoughtfully brought me a cup of hot chocolate once with just a teaspoon of coffee in it. I asked him why he had ruined a perfectly good cuppa hot cocoa; he wondered how I could even taste it, that miniscule amount of coffee? I told him that I hadn't ruined my tastebuds with mega-watt hot sauces! 😂🤣

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Tio Nico's avatar

quote: those of us who love the smell but can't stand the flavor.

That was me and everyone else that could no drink the stuff until.......

Here is a secret, rather well guarded: if it smells wonderful and tastes beynd wretched, IT WAS NOT BREWER PROPERLY.

Once you have tasted that, the properly brewed cup, your eyes will be opened. HOW COULD THEY have messed things up so badly for so long?

Easy.. ignorance or lack of attention to details. The first is easier to cure than the second.

The smells carry the good parts of the flavour, but if it tastes wretched it is because of the errors in brewing that introduce harsh acids, oxidised (sour) aromatics,and so on, things that do not affect smell much but ruin taste.

I chuckle at all the "blended drinks" that are so popular now.. traces of bitter/sour coffee drizzled in amongst some super sweet and/or artificial flavours out of a bottle. Many of those things are on my "refuse to put into my mouth" roster.

I used to know of a handful of shopes in the seattle area that did it right, cinsistently. But I've not been in that forsaken place since before the covidiocy and even before the CHOP nonsense.

One shop that pretty cnsistently got it right is here:

From the street that goes up the steep hill under the bridge betwen the two parts of the Seattle Cnvention Centre, head UP the hill a few blocks and cross over before you get to the Sarbux Experience joke. Pass that by, and continue up the hill, the street on your right hand. After another block or two the street takes a marked curve to the right (south) and there, on the apex of the curve, is what used to be a great shop. Go on in and ask for a "pourover" of their best single origin coffee. Sit down and see what they bring. If you do not rave over it in surprise, they have fallen off the wagon. If that doesn't work, head the rest of the way up the hill to Broadway and head north (left) INtinnabouhalf a ile. Past the art college, for sure. Café Vivace is somewhere on the right but it hs moved since I was last there. Look it up online. David Schomer literally wrote the book on Espresso, is a legend on the subject, has been at the root of mahy of the signficant innovations in espresso as a craft. Mos of the time his folks are on top of their game. Ask for a single origin Americano.. an espresso shot in hot water. Nothing but water and coffee in your cup. If done correctly it will astonish you and please you. If they have options as to which coffee you'd like to try, tell them you want something fruity and/or floral, smooth and sweet.

Try those places and report back. IF they are still on their game, you will enjoy it. If you don't, well maybe they've gotten sloppy.

Personally my go-to brew method is the venerable much misunderstood and mal-used French press. I have managed to knock the socks off seasoned industry pros, and VERY fussy home explorers. That is, IF I can roast the coffee myself several days prior to the brewing.

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WA Lunch Lady's avatar

Thanks for the info on where to find good coffee in the area- I’ll screenshot it for future reference if I ever decide to go back into Sea-town.

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SusanMc's avatar

Try Caramel Macchiato coffee! My fave flavored coffee. I drink a Keto version as my morning breakfast.

I like other flavored coffees too. Mostly black until I discovered monk fruit sweetener. Not bad stuff in it. Coupla drops will do it.

I enjoy teas too; peppermint is a fave.

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Tom's avatar

Tio: The green mer-thing is notable in its implications. A forbidden mixture has taken place. A crossbreeding of humanity and strange flesh. Also, it costs an arm and a leg, leaving one with only flippers, which one should not have.

I'll take cheap store brand over that stuff. The branding is there for a reason.

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Tio Nico's avatar

Howard never was in the business of selling coffee. He was all about selling two things:

the white//sweet they put into the drink to mask the wretched coffee they provide, and the "experience: of sitting for too long in one of those places. Spending money, of course.

It is not possible for anyone to roast two million poi=unds of coffee a week in one machine and have anything but a near-worthless commodity necessitating drowning it in "other stuff".

They used to serve decent tea way back when, and there was an attempt to create a new division showcasing amazing high end teas. I have spent some time with the folks that were involved in that venture, including at the cupping table with them. BUT the green folding things did not properly align (anyone surprised?) so it was scrapped. They used to have drinkable tea served there, several options, but they went for cheap rather than good. Then they bought a solid brand of quality tea (Stash) and ran that into the ground. Its been a few years now since I have been IN the places at the Sign of the Green Mer-Thing.

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WA Lunch Lady's avatar

Tio care to share where to go. I’m in King County.

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Guy White's avatar

Red pills go good with coffee 😁 I only wish Rush were still with us (I miss him every day) so you could also enroll in the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies to help complete your transition. But what I love most about being a C&C member and reading Jeff C’s intelligent, evocative and snarky posts is the faith component on bold display in the comments every day. It’s such an encouragement! Praying that you will now also influence those around you who are seeking the Truth and might be afraid to cross over. They’ve been deceived for so long!

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Kitkat's avatar

Welcome Scott! This is an awesome community, I'm so glad you found us.

Personally, I can't start my day without first reading C&C. Plus all the comments.

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Irunthis1's avatar

Welcome Scott! This is, hands down, the best substack and comment section on the internet today. I’m glad both you and your lovely wife are enjoying it as much as we are!!

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fineart2day's avatar

GM, and welcome!

Be sure to restack and generate more eyeballs👀

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My Favorite Things's avatar

Scott MacInnis,

❤️ this!

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RJ Rambler's avatar

🎉🥳❤️❤️

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rolandttg's avatar

Better late than never

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

WELCOME to the RIGHT side, Scott!

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Charlotte's avatar

I feel privileged , Mr Bezos, to get my news from an attorney in Florida who kindly reads papers like your biased crap and then reconstitutes it back into news!

I was laughing when Bezos said his paper hires some of the finest journalists, oh you mean like that Qatari agent that the Saudis killed? Or the number of staff who have one foot in the cia building too like Robert Kagan - husband of Victoria Nuland? I’m sure those folks working for your paper couldn’t possibly be setting some sort of narrative LOL

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Juju's avatar

I have a big problem with his letter. It had me fuming the second Bezos posted his letter and I’m like a dog with a bone about it when I see anyone give him any credit for it.

He stated in it:

“Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions”

This includes X - as well as amazing news sources like Substack! And Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly etc. So … they are all spreaders of misinformation and they are to blame for our lack of trust in newspapers, NOT the fact that MSM like WaPo doesn’t report the truth and spreads more misinformation and disinformation than anyone else does. That’s what he believes according to how he wrote the letter.

He stated before saying that, “We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased.”

So … he doesn’t admit they are failing on the first requirement? Only the second one?? Really?? That’s gaslighting and blaming all of US listening to all of these sources we read/watch every day for why we don’t trust them anymore.

He doesn’t state the media is biased, he states we “believe” it is biased. So THAT’s the problem, not them. He only cares about changing what we believe, not their actual biases.

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Lynn's avatar

I noticed that too and I was equally infuriated. But no matter, since it will be difficult to change a liberal's mind - and those papers are for the libs. I find it more amusing that Bezos thinks anyone cares what he says, because I sure don't.

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Verve's avatar

Amen Lynn. And it must bug him righteously that no body cares what he thinks. He's tried to ignore it, but we do not give a crap. I pray that more people stop using Amazon.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yup, his money and power can only go so far. He can’t make us care about what he thinks and he can’t make us agree with him.

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Dr Linda's avatar

He is about money. We are going to see a lot of this nonsense. I don’t trust him; wait yes I do. I trust he is about money.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Yep. Squishy libs are scrambling to be on the right side of history. Bless their hearts.

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DAM on the beach's avatar

Yes JuJu. I thought the same thing. Bezos is laying the groundwork for further censorship.

I might have believed him if he sid he was firing staff and hiring conservatives.

But no. He merely wind because his particular brand of bias was not being accepted.

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Annie's avatar

I do think part of his move is to have the staff quit so he doesnhave to pay unemployment or a severance benefit package.

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RunningLogic's avatar

And possibly in CYA mode too.

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Janet's avatar

Yeah. I read that. Rolled my eyes. Just the usual clap trap.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Same. Eye roll. No point in getting worked up about it. In the isolation and privacy of reading, any elevated blood pressure or stress hormones on my side only hurts me, doesn't do a damn thing to change their relentless manipulation tactics. Awareness is enough, and then... focus on being/creating the change I want to see in the world. To that end, this was a new one on me. Started in 2020 by an Aussie guy - God knows they had it worse than in the States; still do. Yet the point is local. https://www.astandinthepark.org/ None near me so I might be forced😉to spearhead in the middle of a blue enclave. Gulp!

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Trilby's avatar

He blamed others for the lack of trust in Big Media. Total BS.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Typical member of the leftist commie klub. Always blame someone else for whatever thing that they do wrong.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yup it’s their typical MO. It’s never their fault and they never question themselves.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

The hallmark of a cult.

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CHop's avatar

Amazon holds the cloud services for the FBI. The FBI did him a favor in avoiding a lawsuit and so he has to do the same elbow rubbing for them.

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Verve's avatar

Wow! The state runs deep.... my new year's resolution is to reduce my amazon purchases to a trickle

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Dorota's avatar

I avoid Amazon completely. Go directly to seller even if it costs more.

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Barbls's avatar

Yikes. I had eliminated Amazon completely in 2020 and 2021, but gradually have used it more and more. That stops again today.

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CitizenA's avatar

I can no longer remember the details but wasn’t it Amazon that help demolish Parler; a free speech social media site that I had throughly enjoyed. Or was it AT&T? 🤔 Parler’s eventual comeback, with free speech restrictions I believe, has been a shadow of its former self.

Anyone remember the details?

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Andrea Leshok's avatar

Yes they cut their cloud so they couldn't run anymore.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Exactly and his readership won't go up until they stop lying at the behest of the Democrats. Covid peeled back the blinders. There's no going back.

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Maureen ODH's avatar

Juju…. 🎯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Dawn B's avatar

Yes... You broke the BS down even more.

They are changing our thinking and inserting their nuanced agenda into everything. We must have a critical eye on everything. It may sound like negativity but it really isn't. We are always searching for mistakes to make sure that whatever we do is right, from writing a paper to waxing the car.

I choose to continue looking for errors as a critiquer and use the Bible as a guide.

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Juju's avatar

Yes. I trust the Holy Spirit to guide my heart and mind as I absorb and analyze the words of others. I can’t say I’ve never been mistaken, but I recognize it’s His spirit when I have an instant surge of caution within me. In those times I reread slowly and usually it jumps right off the page. We really can do nothing well without Him as we can with Him.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Amen!!

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Dawn B's avatar

1000%

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79SmithW60's avatar

Amen! 🎯

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daverkb's avatar

I don't imagine that people get hundreds of millions from the CIA for doing the opposite of what the CIA wants. For starters.

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Annie's avatar

Agree 💯. He still cannot admit that a majority is calling the msm media's BS out.

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Dawn B's avatar

The big wigs never admit wrong doing, only spin it and point the finger.

big pharma, hospitals, educational institutions, big ag, "accidents" and "events," 3-letter agencies cover up etc.

It is what it is. God knows it all.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Yes, and they can't hide from the fact that God knows it all, as much as they want to believe that they can be like Him. They are sadly mistaken... Praying for their conversion.

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Dawn B's avatar

I am praying for those determined to never repent, that God smotes them now… However, if He doesn’t they must be needed for some reason we can’t understand. It’s hard to pray for them when there are so many suffering because of them.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Right with you Dawn. I should have wrote what was in my brain at first, which is that I am praying for those that have an ability to convert (nothing is impossible with God, as the conversion of the thief on the cross next to our Lord and the conversion of Saul into Paul teaches us), not the demons which seems to make up the majority of them (demons have no soul, thus they are non-convertible).

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Carrie's avatar

I caught his subtle “misinformation” quip too.

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cltwilson1's avatar

Use this as an opportunity to pray for him. Because of his wealth and position, he holds great sway. We are better than bashing and kicking to the side of the road, IMHO.

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Juju's avatar

I agree, although I don’t feel like I’m kicking him to the side of the road. I do feel led to make sure we are all aware of what was really in his words before too many misinterpret what stage he was setting. That’s an important step.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Yet another 🎯!!

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Totally agree. Christ's final mandate to Christians: “Make disciples” (Matthew 28:19). He never said, “Avoid challenging prospects.”

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Dena's avatar

It seems EVERYTHING about Bezos is fake.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Yup, sometimes when I look at him, he even looks like some sort of android, much like Zuckerberg started looking like an alien. Very strange.

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shayne's avatar

Yes, I was pissed off with his take on alternative media, too. But then I don't have billions to spend and think of myself as God's gift to humanity.

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Tonya's avatar

Jeff Bezos: People don't trust us, even though we are telling the truth. They are listening to lies from independent sources that are not us. We promise to hire a few token "conservatives" to convince people we are trustworthy and unbiased, even though we will change nothing about the way we operate. That should fix things.

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Beckadee's avatar

I guess we know where Liz Cheney's next gig will be. lol

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carily myers's avatar

lol, agree

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Good afternoon!

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

I’m thinking dangling, when she’s convicted of treason!

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Inverted Pyramid's avatar

Bezos is a brilliant opportunist and businessman!!

... but he is average, at best, when dealing with the public.

Bezos doesn’t separate himself from any other newspaper, he talks in terms of ’us’ when referring to lack of trust. When the going gets bad, he puts WaPo in with all the other rags which is a clear sign of cowardice without original actions. This was an opportunity to redefine his newspaper instead he whined about his lack of impact on the electorate.

Nothing is worse than a wimpy billionaire.

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Tonya's avatar

“he talks in terms of ’us’ when referring to lack of trust”

Great observation!

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Verve's avatar

Award winning comment, right here Tonya! Brava!

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Tonya's avatar

Thank you.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Excellent and accurate translation of the message he really sent!

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Tonya's avatar

Thank you.

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Sarah Bee's avatar

Yes, can we please fact check these “fine” journalist and see where their webs connect too!?

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Verve's avatar

And who they're married to!!

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carily myers's avatar

"Follow the spouses".

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william howard's avatar

or Jennifer Rubin who tells all the LA Times reporters to walk away from their newspaper because it won't endorse the Cackler but opps won't apply the same principle when her paper does the same

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Geez--I missed that element of Kagan--thanks!

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MOMinator's avatar

I believe Kagan quit, after the non-endorsement. LOL

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

He did. On Friday.

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79SmithW60's avatar

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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Neil Kellen's avatar

"Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions..."

There is so much wrong with this quote.

1) off-the-cuff podcasts are frequently done by well informed individuals unafraid to engage in topics of discussion that are verboten to the politically correct and the elite

2) social media posts are accurate far more than they are inaccurate

3) real life feedback is not "unverified"

4) can quickly spread accurate information that is attempted to be hidden by those in power

5) can create unification when truth is disseminated

Bezos only understands that no one trusts the media. He also won't admit that there are very good reasons people use and trust social media and citizen journalists.

As an "elite" I'm not sure he is even capable of "getting it".

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MOMinator's avatar

This! It’s what had me rolling my eyes. Thanks for more gas-lighting, sir. 🤡🙄

Sounds like he’s encouraging censorship, doesn’t it?!

Pretty sure the 80% market share in the 90s was a result of there was NO OTHER CHOICE.

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Jeff C's avatar

Its propaganda but I think people are getting too worked up over this. It's a spoon full of sugar to help the medicine go down. Bezos is buttering them up to get them to see his message, "your job is so important you must appear impartial to maintain credibility".

This is a clear good thing and a sure sign Bezos thinks Trump is going to win. Just take the W.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I agree. He says what needs to say for HIMSELF. It’s a game. He thinks he’s smarter than us. I’m not falling for it, neither will most who read C&C.

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carily myers's avatar

Perzactly-he really does think we're stoopid. Talk about living in a bubble.

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Freebird's avatar

Yes, basically all he said was that they won’t admit to or change their bias, but they don’t want to go ‘on record’ as choosing the losing side of history.

And that’s why the dinosaur media is all but dead.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

I agree; take the W. But don't be fooled that it is honest and authentic.

You made a VERY important point: "appearance of impartiality": not "impartiality".

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Bill Campbell's avatar

MSM editors, publishers and billionaire owners can't help themselves, Neil. Despite trying to convince us otherwise, he had to slip that propaganda pablum in there.

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Dawn's avatar

"off the cuff podcasts" What a slap at really good investigative journalism done by people who actually search out the truth of things!

Bezos is such an entitled little butt wipe. Whiny little, prideful cockroach. Well, pride goeth before a fall. There are a bunch of various parasites out there who have a very big fall coming and I bet they don't bounce any better than I do!

Love the fact that his gas lighting is obvious and y'all are calling him out on it :-)

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Annie's avatar

Yeah. 34 million views of Rogan and Trump for 3 hours is "off the cuff podcast." 😉

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NAB's avatar

That many views despite the search results being manipulated both on YouTube and Google.

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Freebird's avatar

Right, and it’s maddening that Rumble, seems awkward and poorly done. I would leave YouTube in the dust if the alternative worked as well.

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carily myers's avatar

lol, like

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Neil Kellen's avatar

But tell us how you REALLY feel about Bezos! :-)

btw...it is a good characterization of him...

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Maureen ODH's avatar

Neil, excellent and accurate list… “1) off-the-cuff podcasts are frequently done by well informed individuals unafraid to engage in topics of discussion that are verboten to the politically correct and the elite”… add in that many are former actual main stream media displaced “fired” journalists like Tucker, Megan, Clayton Morris, just for a few, others are highly credited former military like Shawn Ryan and Col Douglas MacGregor, and Gen Michael Flynn… so many bring their vast credited expertise to a forum we the people didn’t have before, Substack certainly a far more reliable source of information than the government’s propaganda tool media… just a reminder… Steve Bannon gets released today 💥🎉🎊🍾 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/29/steve-bannon-prison-release-00186005?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Mc1olrqJ9VI00fkjiW1v1fWyv6cjPCxJiiOFYotQiKrgY4O8gOr7kv0U_aem_JB7XyZ5mMAxSKUOYwaxwbg

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Yay! For Steve Bannon!

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Maureen ODH's avatar

💗🙏💗

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NAB's avatar

So excited to see his return to the War Room!

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Tim R's avatar

One screen, two movies. To Bezos we are the problem, not his partisan purveyors of propaganda. We, on the other hand, see Pravda on the Potomac (WashPo) for what it really is.

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MaryAnn's avatar

Tim—👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Michelle Dalsing's avatar

Maybe if the Podcasters state, "this came from an anonymous expert in their field" or "someone close to the WH" or "someone not authorized to speak" it would hold more weight. Aren't those the MSM sources?

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NAB's avatar

Great list! ALL this and we all just lived through the last almost 5 years now and we've seen with our very eyes that the supposed "off-the-cuff" podcasts were right and the vast majority of theories maligned by the MSM as "conspiracy" were true!!

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Guy White's avatar

Breitbart has a comprehensive list (and it’s HUGE) of all the media hoaxes we’ve been subjected to, along with links to their reported stories that debunk every one. It’s really shameful to see what “journalism” has become: activism. Check it out. This list ought to be trumpeted over every “alternative” news outlet everywhere so even liberals could see the truth. Just don’t tell them what the original source was!

Axios Admits Establishment Media Lost Control of Election Narrative

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/28/axios-admits-establishment-media-lost-control-election-narrative/

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william howard's avatar

leftists like Bezos don't seem to understand that when you abandon all common sense in favor of dogma people will turn away - thank God for the podcasts and substack et al

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Valerie's avatar

Very well said!

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Deb's avatar

He and so many of his fellow ilk choose not to understand. They continue with their blathering hoping that some young ignorant minions will agree with his dribble to stole his ego! Disgusting!

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Fabes55's avatar

Yeah, I think the conspiracy story score is heavily tilted in favor of the conspiracy story!

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MaryAnn's avatar

Those ‘off the cuff podcasters’ have their name and credibility front and center and don’t hide behind an editorial banner. May God bless each and every brave podcaster speaking truth.

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SM's avatar

Ironically, elitists lack the fundamental comprehension skills necessary to understand how to think for themselves 😂

They only believe they are elite because they were told to believe it by the same people siphoning their money. They’re too stupid to realize they’re as disposable as a used face mask!

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Juju's avatar

Just another reminder to friends who don’t live in a swing state. We NEED you to vote! Don’t be complacent thinking, “ah it’s a blue/red state it won’t matter” because it DOES matter.

1) There are some states with a key amount of electoral votes that may turn red if enough of us vote. They really might turn this election more than any other.

2) Trump needs the popular vote too! Without it they will surely contest the election in court to kingdom come. But with both the electoral college and the popular vote it pretty much shuts them down and the election would be over. We need to keep pushing and stop believing our states won’t make a difference. They DO.

So vote please. Your state matters just as much as any state!!

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

I'm currently standing in a very 'yuge' line to vote early in my red southern county as I write this.

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Dr Linda's avatar

I did that last week in mid Missouri. It was a looong line.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I never realized you lived in Missouri! We’re in Cass County! We voted early due to a trip to AZ (where we currently are). There were 15 Trump signs on our street alone at home and 2 Kommie signs. Praying for a too large to rig Trump victory!

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RunningLogic's avatar

DonnaMO is also in the KC area!

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

While you are waiting watch the Trump Rally at MSG. It will inspire you and everyone around you to keep waiting, however long it takes, to cast your ballot in person.

Good on you JCM, for doing what is necessary!! Tomorrow, it's my turn.

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

No lack of inspiration here. Also, I believe I would be thrown out if I was caught watching a political rally on my phone. The whole "election interference" thing.

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JF's avatar

Thank you

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Very good Juju. There is a chance a blue state or two, may in fact turn red. Please vote, PLEASE VOTE. Please do not mail in your ballot unless you have absolutely no other choice. Best practice is to carry your mail in ballot in and drop it in a ballot box if you live in a state where you only have mail in. If you have mail in and walk in voting then walk in, tear your mail in ballot up in front of an election worker and vote in person. Remember, mail in ballots get "anonymized" after they have performed their bullshit signature verification, making it simple for a corrupt election worker to switch your mail in ballot with a ballot that has their choices instead of yours. Remember, mail in is wholesale election fraud on steroids, a process created to massively manipulate the vote.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

^^^^^^THIS, all day long and twice on Sunday.

I'm gobsmacked by all the states that promote vote fraud through the mail in ballot.

Don't be a sucker.

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carily myers's avatar

The frickin USPS endorsed Kamalal! Really? Oh, yeah-the mail in vote is safe.

You don't think every mail "person" knows who on their route is a preferred voter?

Exactly-don't be a sucker.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Right Fred!

They don't just promote it, they use it to stay in power over us.

If by chance we can somehow win this s_Election (Personally, I think Divine Intervention is our only hope), we must immediately remove mail in ballots once and forever or we can never have a verifiable, certifiable election ever again.

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Janet's avatar

Well said. I’m in a blue state mainly because a giant blue toxic blob sits on Lake Michigan.

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Clara Strom's avatar

Same in WA state. Seattle area is the toxic blob. The Eastern side of the state is red.

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Guy White's avatar

Be careful about taking your ballot to a Dropbox, apparently they can spontaneously combust. No, I take that back. Large concentrations of marked ballots are now a target for arsonists. What method of voting will you trust now?

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Janet's avatar

I voted early today in my town. Straight GOP.

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Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

Same in Oregon. West side blue East side red.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Been there, escaped that.

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MOMinator's avatar

LOLOL pretty sure I live 2 hrs south of that toxic blue blob, in the smaller yet equally toxic area of IL. The rest of the state is very red…hubby and I like to drive the back roads and count all the Trump/Vance signs…they are EVERYWHERE! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Janet's avatar

I’m in the upper red area near Wisconsin. Lots of trump signs so less triggering. Lol. I go to Wisconsin for gas. It’s usually 50 to 70 cents cheaper a gallon. 🙄🙄. Very red.

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Juju's avatar

I’m in a super blue Chicago suburb, and there are no signs in our entire neighborhood except for my 4’ signs and one other house at the top of the street who took courage from mine I think. So two Trump/Vance homes and nothing else on display. There are few Harris signs in one of the lowest income neighborhoods in our city, but I saw a Harris campaign worker going door to door there so that must be why. Wonder how they get people to support her? If I were them I’d want Trump! She won’t do anything to improve their life. Our Republican committee around here is pretty ineffective. They never even return calls when you want to volunteer. That’s a huge part of their problem!

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MOMinator's avatar

I seriously think Illinois wrote the book on government corruption…

Obama was “trained” here, right? And Pritzker? Ugh.

But I have hope! 🙏🏼 it will be glorious to see hellinois turn red!

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Juju's avatar

Yes! Exactly. Although I take solace from the fact that Charlie Kirk came from here too. 💃😊

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RunningLogic's avatar

And Reagan!!

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Juju's avatar

Oh I didn’t know that one! I guess I always assumed he was born in Hollywood 🤣🤣

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RunningLogic's avatar

He was born in Tampico and lived in Dixon for a while. And went to Eureka College.

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Janet's avatar

Richard Daily Machine. Governors in prison, money in shoe boxes, Yada yada. I call our current gov PRICKster.

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Juju's avatar

Like that one 🤣

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daverkb's avatar

Few Harris signs. That could be a big 'silent majority' tip off that Harris support is lackluster, or a least not Dem what it used to be.

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LMWC's avatar

That would be just the opposite in my rural Michigan county. We have a number of retired Union workers from the now defunct foundries, and there’s always one or two Democrat signs at these places but now I am seeing Harris signs at places I have never seen before. I think it is a ploy to make us believe rural Michigan is going blue.

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daverkb's avatar

Yeah! And we, in the larger picture, are seeing things we have never before seen in a Selection Season. I live in a red area in Virginia, all but Roanoke City. Things are fairly normal here and as to be expected.

In Virginia, we have a nominally pretend Republican governor who appears to be on the Trump train. Therefore, it is possible that Virginia might turn electoral college for Trump. I say possible because Virginia might have been Trump in 2020. I say this because I saw the same 'late night' pattern vote shift in Northern Virginia and I suspected massive voter fraud for Biden going on.

Guess we will see what we see real soon.

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Sharon's avatar

was in an “artsy” town in Orange County, CA and saw several very small Harris signs that had my husband and I laughing hysterically - they read “Obviously Harris”

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Stariel291's avatar

Haha! I was thinking the “giant blue toxic blob” was Gretch the Wretch🤣

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Juju's avatar

That made me choke on my coffee. 🤣🤣🤣

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Is the blob's first name "Gretchen" and do she and her husband own a boat on Lake Michigan? Ah, you're referring to Chicago, another giant blue toxic blob.

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Janet's avatar

Naw. The one that has sad Bears wandering around right now. I do like the Art Institute but haven’t been there since before Covid. When that jerk mayor wouldn’t let me eat my usual bagel and cream cheese while downtown I crossed the whole place off my list. I try to use Milwaukee airport now if possible. A real jewel of an airport.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

A beautiful state ruined by the left.

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Janet's avatar

Yup. My red county has beautiful conservation district sites. That’s where I stay sane.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

I’m in IL 🤦🏻‍♀️ it’s so blue, especially my area, it’s almost black. BUT I will be voting! Yes one big black box for DJT and the Unity party. I will also be praying that miracles happen. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Never ever relinquish your right to vote even when you think it won’t change the outcome!

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Trish's avatar

Voted Red all the way in my RED State.

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JF's avatar

You are blessed. And we thank you

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MiBellaPJ's avatar

I’ve always voted early but this year, I’m in CO helping my daughter and missing early voting. I return to TX on Nov 4th and will be at the poll early on Election Day. I’m trusting God to ensure “all goes smoothly and well on Election Day.” I love this Republic and am a forever fan of DJT. We need Trump/Vance and all great patriots to #MAGA and #MAHA. 🙏 As well, I am forever grateful for JC’s wonderful C&C post each and every day and the comments are an added blessing! 🤍

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Vince's avatar

It would also be helpful if Trump gets the majority of the total popular votes across the entire USA, not just the electoral votes.

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Juju's avatar

Exactly. The Democrats are now focusing on the popular vote as a strategy to not certify the election. We need to win that!!

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Yes indeed

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RI Daisy's avatar

Did my part in the tiny state, Rhode Island. Pushing for the popular vote!

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Lisa Ca's avatar

💕

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DAM on the beach's avatar

Yes JuJu. Plus, down ballot votes for Red candidates.

And the judges!! So crucial.

As Mr. Childers said, research who appointed the judge and retained them if it was from a republican/conservative/America first governor.

If not, give them the heave ho.

By the way, I tried to get my Republican executive committee to pay attention to the judicial Candidates to no avail.

They are crucial as we can see in these lawfare escapades.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

And what do you recommend when every single judge is a LIB?

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KBB's avatar

Here in not-a-swing-state deep-blue New Mexico, Trump is coming tomorrow (Thursday) to do a rally at the Albuquerque airport. Why in the world, in the final week of the election, would they "waste" resources on poor, misguided New Mexico? Because they think they might win it! So very important to Vote Red (up and down the ballot) and Vote Early, no matter where you live. Just because you're not in a swing state, doesn't mean you can stay out of it.

And if you are anywhere near ABQ, here is the info on how to attend the rally:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/f0bae41d-e835-4877-9998-90390482686e

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Mo's avatar

I agree , Juju.

Also, there are lots of propositions up for votes. The dems in ny are trying to change our constitution in an underhanded way. We must vote and we must know what props are on the ballot.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I’m actually hoping that CA goes red like it did with Reagan. One can hope!

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L1's avatar

Yes! ALL of our votes matter! Complacency is what got us into this mess. We can’t sit back and think my state or county is a done deal. We all have to show up and do our part! You know who was ranked first in election integrity right before the 2020 election- Georgia! And look what happened. We can never be complacent! Get out there and vote and take your friends with you.

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LeadCPA's avatar

Good point on the popular vote. I am a consistent Calif voter although I know it is irrelevant for presidential purposes. This point needs to get out to those conservatives in blue states that believe their vote won't matter in the electoral college.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

But I also think if all the conservatives get off their butt and act like it does matter it could change. It could!

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sunsandwind's avatar

I'm in BC, Canada. Our provincial election is coming down to a decision where one small area will swing the election. Last I checked, the difference between the two candidates was 19 votes. That will have been updated by now but, yes, your vote could win make the difference.

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sunsandwind's avatar

37 votes difference now. There will be a recount still. Point being, your vote matters.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Wow

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Trilby's avatar

After that MSG rally, I think NY is in play, which would be a sea-change! I'm pretty excited about that.

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NAB's avatar

If you listen to the pearl clutchers (including, sadly Megyn Kelly - so disappointed in her take on the rally), the MSG rally may have cost Trump the election!

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Lisa Ca's avatar

cost Trump the election? no way

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NAB's avatar

Yep. That's what MK and her guests yesterday (three middle-aged white guys) were saying. Given the margins in the swing votes, they think the comic's unsavory jokes could cost Trump the necessary votes in swing states.

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Juju's avatar

🤣 Nope! There’s a reason they are called pearl clutchers. 🤣🤣🤡🤡 It will help far more than it hurts. I think social media is seeing to that and I’m seeing videos of people coming out of just voting and saying it was because of the rally!

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NAB's avatar

I think if one comic who told a few off-color jokes is the reason you vote for a cipher presidential candidate who can't articulate a single, original thought, then you get what you deserve. I'm with you, Juju, that the reaction of some on the right is ridiculous.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree. It’s ridiculous how often this kind of thing happens. And yet when the same kind of thing happens on the left (and it does), it gets swept under the rug and… crickets 🙄

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C Rabbit's avatar

A couple of years ago I subscribed to the Washington Post for a year because they offered a great promotional price. I thought I should enlighten myself regarding the left and give them a fair shake. After reading the paper for two or three months, and more importantly reading the comments from the paper's readership, I became convinced that the majority of them have some kind of mental illness. Seriously.

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A classmate of mine from Caltech (I transferred out one step ahead of failing) had a post wailing about the WaPo's non endorsement, wondering if he should cancel his subscription and/or boycott Amazon and Kindle.

The replies were ALL from people that were just as deluded. I made two comments in reply. In one, I mentioned that H. Clintion, John Kerry and Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have explicitly called for limiting freedom of speech, and speculated that newspapers might be bothered by that.

In the other comment, I asked if they had read Bezos' explanation, because none of the comments seems to have referenced it.

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daverkb's avatar

I've concluded that Marxism is a mental illness. First, Marxism is anti-family and that alone is against the natural order. And that one is a big one because all civilizations stand or fall on the cohesion and integrity of the family. And when ideological commitment trumps commitment to the family, then civilizations fall.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Seems like diehard leftists are the result relentless psyops and propaganda exposure.

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Cheryl Caraglior's avatar

Michael Savage has said for years that liberalism is a mental disorder.

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carily myers's avatar

He wrote a book about it titled: Liberlalism is a Mental Disorder!

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JFly's avatar

I used to read it every day cover to cover in print. I thought there were a lot of interesting stories. I gave up when Obama first ran for president and all the articles were cheerleading for him. I finally realized they weren't serious about journalism.

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Dianne Denson's avatar

C Rabbit, Bazinga! 🎯

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Ed Thorrens's avatar

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭55‬:‭8‬ ‭KJV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/1/isa.55.8.KJV

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Robin Greer's avatar

Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? 35 Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again? 36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

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Tom's avatar

"To Him be the glory forever."

There is a period at the end of that sentence. And then an "Amen."

Amen!

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Thanks Ed--that's a really good choice for today

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Lisa Ca's avatar

a favorite verse

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

— Hebrews 12:1-3 NAS

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Yes!! They went before us strong in the Lord. We will too! Arm in arm in truth with Christ before us leading on Christian soldiers marching into war.

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fineart2day's avatar

Running!! ☺️🙏😇

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

I’m kind of walking fast. 😁

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Tom's avatar

Just limping along here.

Engineer by training, and pilot by trade . . . A vector has both magnitude and direction. Direction is by faith. Magnitude is the work that has been done on my behalf.

Janice, your fast walk is notable and encouraging. It's easier to walk on a narrow path than it is to walk through brambles.

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

And since you are an engineer, your comment is too smart for me to understand. 😁

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Tom's avatar

We orient our vector when we turn its direction to the Lord. This is my imperfect internal metaphor for repentance.

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Cheryl Caraglior's avatar

🤣🤣

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Robin Greer's avatar

😉😊

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1Irish's avatar

Every day I ponder on what He did for us…for me!

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Robin Greer's avatar

We should be preaching the gospel to ourselves everyday. At least for me that keeps my attitude in check

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Robin Greer's avatar

❤️❤️❤️

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RunningLogic's avatar

Perfect!! 🙏

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Sarah Bee's avatar

Loving this verse today

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rolandttg's avatar

Margaret Anna Alice suggested I post this on C&C in the hope that it can enlighten people about the terrible price attached to using SSRI's instead of addressing the real causes of depression. She had asked me to wrote a guest post about losing our daughter, and we have been working on it back and forth for several weeks. She is going to write a series on SSSRI's, and I hope our readership will support her . She has lost 106 subscribers since the recent death of her husband. I thank her for suggesting this and letting me post it here. Please keep her in your prayers.

The SSRI Suicides: Ode to Wookie Bear

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/the-ssri-suicides-ode-to-wookie-bear

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I grieve for you, Rolandttg.

And A Mid-Western Doctor did a valuable post on SSRI's perhaps July of '22. The truth will set you free.

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Valerie's avatar

AMD is amazing. I can’t decide if the doc is male or female, what do you think? (It doesn’t matter AT ALL, my brain just likes to puzzle through things that are unknown).

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I vote for female. Why? Doc used the adjective “sweet” as only women use it. And this new focus on bras. Agree fully with content of your parenthesis.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I read virtually everything written by AMD. As a woman (and retired healthcare professional) the articles are thorough, well researched and of great value to those who need or want the information. And I have always thought “she” is a female.

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Valerie's avatar

I agree. Her recent series on DMSO was excellent. My dad, still alive and doing well at 92, used that for years internally and externally, and used it on me when I had pain from being a gymnast in high school in the 80s. I had totally forgotten about the stuff, works well I think.

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MOMinator's avatar

My husband cracked up when I opined that she had to be a woman because her explanations (which are wonderfully detailed) are so long I even occasionally get lost. And I mean that in the best way possible, but hey, we’re built different, as God planned!

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Anita from Tucson - Now In MI's avatar

And then there's the Apostle Paul who really knows how to do a run-on sentence! lol

But the descriptive language is definitely male, so.

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Loretta's avatar

I knew she was female.

However, I believe it was Pierre Kory (sp?) did an interview both of AMD as well as the Vigilant Fox. Pierre knows them both personally. Pierre referred to AMD as "she" and to Vigilant Fox as "he".

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Valerie's avatar

I think I read the Kory interview, that maybe when I changed from thinking AMD was male to female without even realizing I’d read it.

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Carol Brizzolara's avatar

Someone found her on Linked In, I believe. She is female.

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Valerie's avatar

That’s been my most recent theory. Originally I thought a man, but as I read her more her writing has female energy somehow, but I don’t even know what I mean by that. 😂

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MOMinator's avatar

Completely agree

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rolandttg's avatar

She just lost her husband Michael 2 months ago

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Andrea Leshok's avatar

Man I was totally thinking male but I'm guessing I'm wrong. lol.

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Ellen Youngling's avatar

I read it all, and my heart breaks for you and your wife. Your relationship with your daughter may have been strained, but you never stopped loving her, and she knew that.

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shayne's avatar

I read your story on MMA's substack. I haven't cried so much in a very long time. I'm so very sorry for the lose of your beautiful daughter.

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rolandttg's avatar

I don't remember how many months passed before I id not cry at least once a day. Thank you for caring.

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Thank you, rolandttg, for the privilege of sharing Wookie Bear’s beautiful heart and devastatingly tragic end as well as your painfully honest account of your suffering. I hope that together we can help raise awareness about the dangers of SSRIs and perhaps prevent others from enduring a similar fate.

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Robin Greer's avatar

We had a woman in our church whose husband committed suicide after they changed his SSRI. So tragic the deaths caused by these medications.

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Gaye's avatar

Love MAA!!❤️

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Maureen ODH's avatar

100% second your vote…. 💗💗💗 Margaret Anna Alice ✍️✍️✍️ 💗🙏💗

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Neil Kellen's avatar

She is amazing.

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Beth Bart's avatar

Yes, she is amazing. I hope all C&Cs will subscribe & support her.

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Sandy's avatar

As I cried while reading the sad story about your daughter, I received a text from someone telling me she was bawling her eyes out after hearing about the suicide last night of a friend’s son. I sent her your Substack. My husband’s brother committed suicide. Many of us have been affected by this tragic act, but your story was so open and raw and I was so moved. Thank you for writing this and sharing all you went through, continue to go through, and for giving us a closer glance into this painful subject. I recommend that everyone read your Substack. My heart goes out to you and your wife.

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rolandttg's avatar

Thank you for your very kind words. I am so sorry about your husband's brother and your friend's son. One thing I quickly found out when I started telling people about our daughter was just how many people had suicides somewhere in their lives. My wife doesn't talk about it, I do. I'm not ashamed. It is what it is. 100 % of breast cancer is caused by trauma or emotional stress. I know that is where my wife's came from , though thank God, she is fine after we healed it holistically. I cry, I talk, so it isn't bottled up within me, Everyone handles their grief in different ways.

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Laura Kasner's avatar

Roland - interesting what you said about breast cancer. My husband’s father died by suicide when he was around 8. His sister was 2 and was in the home when the gun went off. She says she has no memory of this, but perhaps she does subconsciously. She had breast cancer about 7 years ago.

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rolandttg's avatar

I don't know if you saw the posts I did several weeks ago about cancer protocols, but Mark G. ihas complied the 6 posts into one is going to post that here, perhaps today. Here is the proof he sent me,

https://markstrainofthought.substack.com/p/8c4196db-f6c8-42ae-bba0-f14d49b8aa73?postPreview=paid&updated=2024-10-15T17%3A34%3A05.203Z&audience=everyone&free_preview=false&freemail=true

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NAB's avatar

I am so sorry Roland.

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Dr Linda's avatar

She is on my mind constantly.

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I understand.

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ItsMeAgain's avatar

So sorry for your loss.

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Andrea Leshok's avatar

Rolandttg I'm so incredibly sorry. Prayers for you and for the repose of her soul (Catholics gonna Catholic).

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

Rolandttg, I am deeply sorry for your loss of your daughter. As I read your guest post, this poem came to mind, so I reposted it on my stack. The friend I wrote it for had lost her son and daughter-in-law in what was believed to be a double suicide. I pray for you and your wife that the Lord will comfort you as only He can.

https://jwordsbeyondme.substack.com/p/mountain-of-grief-325?r=15f8sw

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rolandttg's avatar

Beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing that

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Kim's avatar

I pray the young women in our country wake up and realize that people like Harris (no children) and Taylor Swift (mid 30s—No marriage or children) will lead them to an empty life. These people may always be wealthy but they’ll also be empty inside. Many people can’t have children but want to or wanted to, so this doesn’t apply to them. This push to be a “strong independent woman, free from the patriarchy!!” is a lie from the pits of Hell. God created man and woman to be together and to be fruitful. Young women follow these lies until one day they look around and realize they’re in their late 30s and they’re alone, unhappy and they wonder what’s the purpose of it all. Money? So sad.

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Valerie's avatar

Wasn’t it weird when Harris said ‘raising kids’ was one of the ways she made mistakes? I can’t remember who was interviewing her at the moment, but hasn’t she been married to Doug for only 10 or 12 years? Weren’t his kids pretty much adults by then? That was so strange.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Yes! And she has no kids. His daughter?? Looks to be as LBqwerty as you can get 🤦🏼‍♀️ yeah, good influence.

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Valerie's avatar

She is just terrible. Seriously, I would hate it if I even had to work in an office with her, much less have her as president.

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Kim's avatar

Yes! She was doing the Anderson Cooper interview/town hall, I think. When she made the comment of raising kids…I thought immediately, “there’s another lie”. Emhoff’s kids were 10 and 19, so she NEVER raised any babies. Here’s a clip from PEOPLE magazine article on 9/2024,

“The vice president and current 2024 Democratic presidential nominee married her husband in 2014. Doug was previously married for 16 years to Kerstin Emhoff, with whom he welcomed his son Cole in 1994 and daughter Ella in 1999.”

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I dont like her but honestly I think this is a twist of the truth. She said she made mistakes when raising kids. Don’t we all?!

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Valerie's avatar

My only point was… did she raise them? They were adults or close to it by the time she came in the picture. I don’t discount the role of step parents, my husband has been one for 23 years and my kids have a stepmom also. I just think using the term raising was a stretch.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree, and since she does this on every single other subject too… I tend to think it was a stretch in this case. Tim Walz does it too.

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Carol M.'s avatar

Stevie Nicks is a great example of the “emptiness” they feel in late life. Saw an interview with her and she was so bitter! Said “men can reproduce into their 70’s and we can’t”. She aborted Don Henley’s baby back in the day for her “career” 😢

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TW's avatar

What a talented child that could have been! How horrible!

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Sunnydaze's avatar

I commented today (it’s probably at the bottom 😂) on this very issue. It was by design that culture (aka Satan) has countered what God intended.

What do men really want? What God designed them to want. That’s what is bringing them back to the conservative churches!

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Thank you LORD. and I believe many including teens are tired of being emasculated! GO MEN!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Having a spouse and having children is one of the best ways to learn about deep, true, abiding love, trust, and forgiveness. It’s not impossible to learn about them in other ways, but these relationships can teach us so much!! I think it’s much easier to stick to shallow superficial relationships when you have no explicit commitment. And then you don’t learn and grow nearly as much—again, I’m not saying it’s *impossible* to get this otherwise or that that’s the only way to go/be, because I’m sure someone will chime in with an exception, I just believe these relationships can be the most enriching, deepest and greatest learning experiences in our lives.

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Anita from Tucson - Now In MI's avatar

I can't help but wonder how many, if any, abortions Harris and Swift had.

As the saying goes, "Misery loves company."

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Yes. Lies from the pits of hell.

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JEFF,

THIS IS FROM PINELLAS COUNTY! ALL VOTERS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE DQ POTENTIAL TO LOSE THEIR VOTE!

LARRY PEGGS

Jay GundySeminole Happenings

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This past Saturday my wife and I went to the Starkey Lakes Corporate Center polling place to cast our early votes. We went side by side to the registration desks. My person signed me in, gave me my ballots, and during my instruction told me that I needed to sign both my ballots sheets on both sides before submitting them. I repeated back to her “you said to sign my ballots on both sides”. She replied yes. She then completed my instructions and told me I could go the the voting booth. Before leaving her station I again asked, “you said to sign my ballot on both sides, correct”. She again said yes. I joined my wife and we went to the voting booths. I asked my wife if she had received the same instructions regarding signing the ballots and she said no she had not. Nothing in the written instructions said anything about signing the ballots. After filling out my ballots but before scanning them for completion I returned to the registration area and spoke with some persons in a different section and asked them about signing the ballots. I was told absolutely DO NOT sign the ballots. They said any markings on the ballots other than the vote casting would void my ballots. When I told my story I was asked which person gave me those instructions. I pointed her out and went to cast my unsigned ballots. The ladies I spoke with went to talk to the person who gave me the signing instructions. I cast my vote and left but don’t know what the outcome was with the person who gave me the signing instructions. Just for some additional context I am an older white male, and the person who gave me the signing instructions was an older black female. These are the facts about what occurred. Had I not questioned, my understanding is that my vote would have been voided. Draw your own conclusions based on the facts, but be advised to be very careful with your right to vote.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Washington state has had 2 ballot collection boxes set on fire. The Dems know who the voters are voting for!

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KBB's avatar

Boxes burned in Portland and Phoenix also. In the long run, that may turn out to be a good thing, if it forces them to eliminate 24-hour unattended drop boxes. Drop boxes, if they are used at all, should be located inside of government offices and only available during open business hours and visible to staff. Anything less is a open ticket to fraud.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Wow, that is stunning

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Crazy Polack's avatar

Ballot box fires - Antifa doing Antifa, causing strife, mayhem and discord, while giving Politico grounds to yell about far-right fascists interfering with elections. Leftist, Marxist tactics 101.

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Trilby's avatar

I was a poll worker in NYC for several years. Poll workers here attend many classes, always a refresher before a big contest. I must say that most of these people are not the sharpest knives. They try, I guess, but I'm not surprised that a poll worker gave you wrong instructions. It's great that you pushed back and didn't lose your vote!

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Juju's avatar

It sounds purposeful to me

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Politico Phil's avatar

Obviously, there is no place on a ballot for a signature. This is something that is a bold lie out of whole cloth. There is no basis for confusion.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes it doesn’t sound like an honest mistake at all 😕

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Here the poll workers seem to be selected from the same nursing home where the poll is located. (Not really, but they're just as old.)

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JW's avatar
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That is appalling! When voting here in GA I went to insert my ballot into the machine jaws, I thought it was a lot like trusting a cheating spouse who said "I will never cheat on you again, trust me" and over and over again, they cheat.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

I heard from someone in Polk County that after you submit you vote we need to verify the machine cast your vote correctly because the machines were changing the votes. I can’t verify it BUT when we vote this week we will all be asking to verify our vote stayed for Trump.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

❤️

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162.550's avatar

I voted at the same location on Tuesday and didn't get any instruction to sign the ballot. I'm sure you know that you can go to Supv of Elections web site and check to see if your vote counted. I checked mine and it showed that I voted.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Yep. In Oklahoma we have paper ballots in which we fill in a square next to our choice, then feed into a machine which collects and tabulated our choices.

Any extraneous marks outside our choices automatically invalidates the ballot, but it notifies you and spits it back out.

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Crazy Polack's avatar

Same in FL. And with 25M people, the votes are counted by 11pm.

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Ballot box fires - Antifa doing Antifa, causing strife, mayhem and discord, while giving Politico, Yahoo and all the Leftist media grounds to yell about far-right fascists interfering with elections. Leftist, Marxist tactics 101.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Thank you for letting us know about this. I think you should copy your post and put into a document to use as evidence/an affidavit in the event there are any questions about election integrity at that site.

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jmsmithmd's avatar

You may want to take it one step further and inquire how many total ballots were spoiled in that precinct due to marks and signatures. If it’s even one, there should be a lawsuit against the fraudulent instructions and a way to do over. Look at the number of people she checked in and match it up.

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Ned B.'s avatar

I wonder if Jeff Bezos would consider C&C to be one of those "inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions?"

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Based Florida Man's avatar

All of substack is complete misinformation and unverified news to these Big Media clowns.

We talk about ivermectin and fenbendazole curring cancer and other leading edge topics.

Meanwhile they spout things like:

Hillary has a 93% chance of winning, there's 53 genders, and the covid vaccine stops the spread.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

They simply live in an alternate universe. Check out Martin Armstrong's predictions https://usawatchdog.com/desperate-deep-state-wants-war-martial-law-martin-armstrong/

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shayne's avatar

Absolutely!!!!!!

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

THE MSM are the ones spreading disinformation! They are only allowed to regurgitate what the globalists puke out. Like little mindless robots. No, we no longer trust them or listen to that pablum. Bite me Bezos!

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Janet's avatar

I could see that on a T shirt, Katherine. 😀

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shayne's avatar

I'd wear that!

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Guy White's avatar

It would be available on Amazon. The man recognizes a good market opportunity when he sees one.

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carily myers's avatar

lol, like

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RunningLogic's avatar

🤣😆

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MOMinator's avatar

LOL! Speaking my language KJ!

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

If you haven't voted yet or you know a created crisis climate change lunatic who hasn't voted and needs some facts before they do, this is a document you need to read and send to the lunatic. It's a good single source document to debunk the myth of climate change.

Do not vote for anyone, be it a dem, a RINO, an independent, green party etc etc who believes in, and is trying to convince you or anyone that climate change is anything other than an attempt at massive wealth and power transfer.

https://edwin797.substack.com/p/globalist-misinformation-no-the-earth

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

I just nixxed a climate change fanatic for my podcast. As always, I was very polite and just said that I don't do political issues; I'm interested in the human journey. Sure enough he sent back a not very polite email informing me of my lack of education on the topic ( he was actually much ruder than that). Every lib reacts exactly that way. It's so uniform, it's amazing. (Yes, I do have some libs on the podcast with great human stories. The only rule of the podcast is no politics, but their world view is so skewed they can't see beyond it. It's rather fascinating)

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Dr Linda's avatar

I assumed he would. Maybe I’m wrong. I hadn’t considered that. But I don’t think I’m wrong.

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Marsali S.'s avatar

Yes, without a doubt!

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Juju's avatar

He gets it wrong with the voting machines too, ignoring there IS a real problem with the first part: “they have to be accurate.” He only focuses on the trust part that they are accurate. We can’t assume they are infallible and incorruptible. They are showing even in THIS current election that the machines can switch the vote several times before it correctly reflects the vote, (check your printout folks, some ARE switching the Trump vote).

So yes, the second part of our trust matters, but you don’t pile all your efforts onto the second part, you pile them all onto the first part and THEN the trust comes without any effort. They still have it wrong working only on what we “believe” without addressing that there are faulty machines and deceitful programming going on.

I know some people believe all the code should be open source, and there’s truth in the accountability that that brings, but it’s not fair to expect all citizens to have to learn to read code to get their contentment. I may be able to read code but that was my career! We would just be expecting the country to trust only a portion of its populace again, the ones that know how to read code. I don’t want to have to trust a select group of people. I want to trust all on my own from my own observations and research.

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Patrice's avatar

Your words reminded me of the snake Kaa in the old "Jungle Book" cartoon, "Trust in me-e-e-e-e, just in me-e-e--e, Close your eyessss, trust in me-e-e-e".

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Juju's avatar

Good one 🤣🤣👍

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Tom's avatar

Bezos is reminding the "elites" that voting machines have to be accurate when the "elites" know that they are not. The message to the "elites" is that they had better toe the line when the voting results are realized, because the ensuing chaos is the goal.

Fear only the Lord. Glorify Him through what is coming. He is not surprised. His judgement is just.

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jmsmithmd's avatar

If you received a printout with a switched vote, scream to high heaven and get a lawyer involved. Quick!!!

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Beckadee's avatar

Kagan is probably negotiating with the Houthi pirates to harass Bozo and tits on their super super yacht still circling in the Mediterranean. His wife probably had them on speed dial so no introductions needed.

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Trish's avatar

Bingo!

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Good morning, Coffee klatch comrades. MSM lies about everything, so we must be unburdened by what has been. Here is a real report on the love on display at the MSG MAGA rally with photos and videos: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-msg-nyc-maga-maha-rally

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daverkb's avatar

Which Holocaust Survivors? Which Holocaust story version?

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Politico Phil's avatar

I'd say an equal number of survivors of the Nazi camps were Christian.

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Cynthia Ford's avatar

I just read a novel about Jewish kids that were hidden all over Europe, often by Christians, and the efforts to retrieve them and bring them to early Israel, The Boy with the Star Tattoo, so I'd imagine they are counted amongst the survivors. Jewish authors and publishers are being targeted, not for their political ideas, but for being Jews and not being willing to denounce Israel and embrace Hamas. 11 million were murdered in the camps, including gypsies (Roma), homosexuals, etc. There's a famous mountaineer, who was a prisoner of war of the Nazis, who wrote a book about climbing in Scotland, twice, on toilet paper, as the Nazis confiscated the first roll. When he got out, and was asked his advice for life, he said "Find beauty. Be still."

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Yuri, I watched the entire 5 hour event. It was inspiring and frankly, with all the quality speakers, not just Trump, whose speech I though was excellent, gave every one hope that we can in fact save America from progressive liberal destruction. Trump has built a phenomenal team of Americans who will restore our Republic.

EVERYONE must get out and vote and leave no ballot for the cabal to vote for you, they know with precision who has and has not voted and are preparing a last minute drop of fraudulent mail in ballots everywhere - its why mail in ballots exist. Go Vote Early and do it IN PERSON. DO NOT mail in your ballot, the weaponized USPS is ready to steal it, throw it away, give it to a ballot fraud production house to change it. Walk your ballot in. Best practice? Walk it in, tear it up in front of an election worker, and vote in person to to minimize their opportunity to change or delete your vote and maximize the chance your vote will be recorded as you intended.

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AngelaK's avatar

Hubby and I voted on Sunday, *in person*. Yesterday, for some reason, that triggered some people here.

Perhaps anxiety is turning people on each other?

People of faith need to vote AND PRAY, instead of turning on each other by misconstruing other's words.

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Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

Excellent Angela, that should be our mantra for this election: Vote AND PRAY!

If you haven't watched Trump's MSG rally, I highly recommend it. 5 hours seems so long but damn there were so many great speakers who really gave everyone all the reasons they need to GO VOTE. (Vivek R just rocked it, his was worth the time all by itself), and then also Tucker, Elon, so many more and of course Trump, whose speech I listened to twice just to make sure I heard everything correctly - we must get him back in the White House.

Go VOTE! DO IT TODAY. DO NOT wait until election day when they might create a problem which prevents you from voting or puts your ballot in box #3 to be "adjudicated". "Adjudication" is done by election workers (fraudsters) who will change your ballot without you even knowing.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

❤️😇

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I’m very curious what kind of position you all believe Vivek will have? I have a hard time placing him.

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AngelaK's avatar

It was great except for that not funny, cringe worthy comedian. What the heck was he thinking?!? The Latin vote has been courted so much by the Republicans, and in a moment, because of his racist 'humor' could be lost.

Was he planted? Who invited him? 👀

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SB's avatar
Oct 29Edited

I heard the Trump campaign admitted they didn't vet him? What?! If so, it is things like that they do that make me want to boil them all. If they did vet him and still let him on stage is awful, too. What they heck were they thinking?!!! I hope it doesn't cost him the election in the last week here. Geez!!!

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NAB's avatar

I can understand the concern from a political standpoint that this was an unforced error, but I also think it says something about the difference between the two parties in that one is all about censorship and the other is about free speech - even to the point of discomfort. Comedy has been self-censoring for a while now under the new Woke rules and even Jerry Seinfeld, who initially appeared to reject the self-censoring, has capitulated saying that comedy has to consider the sensibilities of the current moment and adjust accordingly. Can you imagine someone like George Carlin saying that? Finally, I know the outrage is over the comment about PR and it being a country of trash, but it appears it sort of is a country dealing with a rubbish issue especially after hurricane Maria. Oh the irony were this joke to turn out to be similar to the "eating the dogs" comment in shining a light on a real problem.

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SB's avatar

Yea, it was NOT good timing and I really hope it doesn't cost him votes. IDK, the media hypes everything so maybe people aren't listening.

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AngelaK's avatar

Thing is, he was not funny., like Seinfeld.

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NAB's avatar

Apparently this is the guy who roasted Tom Brady a while back and that what he did at MSG is sort of his shtick. I agree he is not for everyone and the media can take any offense and ramp it up on the outrage dial so that's unfortunate. But I also think people get numb to the outrage after a while.

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Maureen ODH's avatar

Megan Kelly gives a superior rant about the cringe worthy racist comedian … she also questions what we’re they thinking inviting him… short reel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qzU3h32X2H8

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NAB's avatar

I found her rant a little hysterical and I say this as a HUGE, daily-listening fan.

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Maureen ODH's avatar

Agreed… daily listening fan too… I think she was releasing a lot of self censored emotional frustration, cuz she’s pushed the envelope with guests over gender surgeries on under aged kids too… which I fully agree

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Tom's avatar

A hispanic hailing from New Mexico, it bothers me just a little when I am referred to as a fellow "Mexican" by another . . . latino, I guess. The Spanish my parents spoke was archaic due to the isolation of the population. The Spanish I speak, I learned in public school. I have been mocked by Spanish speakers for using certain idioms.

If one wants to be isolated, this is the way to do it. If one wants to demonstrate the power of their culture, a little grace goes a long way.

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AngelaK's avatar

I admit that I did not know the context of the joke, but still found his delivery not funny. Delivery and timing are everything in stand up comedy (remembering as far back as Bob Hope). It is a talent, which, imo, he didn't seem to have yet.

Perhaps also, it was not in the best place to try it out when you know that it will be deliberately misconstrued by the media, and anything negative right now could sway 5th grade level votes. (Sadly, a good portion of the country)

Personally, I love ethnic humor. Archie Bunker is my favorite tv character because of it, and Jerry Seinfeld and Joan Rivers were the best comedians imo.

(Re: Joan Rivers: talk about offensive humor ! )😉

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Jpeach's avatar

The MSG MAGA rally was a dagger to the heart of the liberal elites of the NYC metro area. Their spell over the People is over. No amount of media hit pieces will change that. The genie is out of bottle.

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Julie Young's avatar

Great write-up, Yuri, as was the Substack you linked by Konstantinos Kisin.

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Patti F's avatar

We were at Hersheypark on Sunday. My husband had his MAGA hat on. Numerous people stopped him to comment (all good). The most surprising was the young group of 20-somethings who stopped him, one shook my husbands hand, they all gave a thumbs up. We were both surprised, but happy, to see that from a group so young.

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Pamela Krueger's avatar

I’m in blue WA state and have encountered happy strangers decked out in MAGA. I pray this is a good sign because this state is presently insane. Seattle, is unwell.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Pamela, that is good to know! We are in WA as well; pretty much the only place we see MAGA regularly is Eastern WA. There have been a few MAGA signs here and there in the Puget Sound area, but I am not sure I have seen anyone wearing MAGA gear. Seattle is indeed unwell. I would go so far as to say it is very nearly on life support. Sigh. It was a beautiful city back in the day. Mr. "the Knife" and his friends used to catch the bus into Seattle (from Bellevue) and go hang out at the Pacific Science Center or Pike Place Market. Alone!! As Junior High-aged kids!!!!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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SB's avatar

I've heard several professional sports figures are showing up to press conferences after the game and such wearing MAGA hats.

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Cathy's avatar

So good to hear. We need Pa!

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Trilby's avatar

Fantastic!

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Given that Hershey Chocolate and the med center so dominate that town, that's a great sign.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

" inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions." So, Mr. Bezos, you think it is only "social media posts" which can be "inaccurate"? And what of "unverified"? When so many news sources are coming from "name withheld" because so-and-so didn't have permission to speak publicly. And perhaps you think that legacy media cannot spread "misinformation and deepen divisions"--exempli gratia: "safe and effective"--that's misinformation. "Trump is literally Hitler"--that certainly deepens divisions (to say nothing of those large mouths being incapable of recognizing the difference between "literally" and "figuratively" --a usage which bugs the heck out of me).

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carily myers's avatar

like!

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Rob D's avatar

Endorsement of presidential elections is the reason why we hate the media? How about endorsement of: Fake sky is falling climate agenda. Fake pandemic. Fake "safe and effective" "vaccines". Fake masks. Chopping children's genitals off and putting them on puberty blockers. Racism. Fake "Far right extremists". Fake gun violence by people who legally own firearms. I could write several pages of the "endorsements" by the media that explain the reason we hate them. Endorsements of elections is only once every 4 years, the rest of this crap is never ending and in our face 24/7 365.

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Juju's avatar

Yeah endorsements for a candidate isn’t even on my radar for why I despise them all 🤣

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carily myers's avatar

However we hate the MSM-it's not enough. CIA/FBI controlled media.

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NormaJeanne's avatar

And that’s just "news" they report. Censorship by omission is also why I avoid the dying legacy media.

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John Ransley's avatar

Cut the coax!

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RunningLogic's avatar

🎯🎯🎯

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Tuco's Child's avatar

Bezos biggest customer is US Government, he is hedging his bets.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Yep.

All of our major media has been coopted by the US Government and it's Intel agencies through payments, direct and indirect.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Bingo!🎯

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