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Jeff Childers's avatar

ERRATA:

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Juju's avatar

❤️❤️ Hello my besties! Dang my morning coffee just isn’t the same without y’all.

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Tom's avatar

I was inconsolable for a short while there.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

All good, I cleaned both my storm door windows in the last hour.

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Valerie's avatar

😂

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Uncle Juan's avatar

That is why… I was waiting…

Maybe this was prohibited access.

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Ruth H's avatar

😂😂😂

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Uncle Juan's avatar

I was wondering about something like prohibited, totally hidden files that were bank files that had multiple trillions of dollars hidden in them.

Just a thought.

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nancylee's avatar

called offshore banking

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liz's avatar

ooh I like your thinking !

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¡Andrew the Great!'s avatar

Gave me time to fix and reinstall my video doorbell, and season my new cutting board.

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

FBI/CIA/NSA/DoD/etc. appear to be (as you & others are suggesting) rogue organizations, playing by their own rules. We're just here, along for the ride.

Hardly different than highly toxic/abusive families where exposing the truths could end up being more dangerous than clinging to the lies.

Eventually, even at the possibility of horrible costs, the truth must be disclosed.

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Susan Clack's avatar

On the day when I was the very first like, too....arrrrggghhhh

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Jeff S's avatar

Thank you!

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Valerie's avatar

A substack glitch? That’s your move? 😂😉

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Irunthis1's avatar

Here’s to hoping the discovery of the deep sentinel files will finally lead to some serious criminal charges for all the crap that’s been going on starting with russiagate and ending with some big names behind bars for life. I won’t hold my breath but there’s always hope!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes I am very encouraged by that, too! It makes a lot more sense that the whole justice process has been slowed down by this. And as a bonus, the deep staters who hid this information got to sit back and watch the Trump supporters tear him down and get suspicious about whether they were all talk and no action and fight amongst themselves 😕😑

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DS's avatar

I'm one of those! How long have we heard those "Gotcha" discoveries from Jim Jordan and James Comer. From the cheating of the voting machines to COVID to the Hunter Laptop. I am one of those "doubters" of when is something, or someone, going to be held accountable? I'm still not holding my breath. The Republican Party including the controlling Senate and Congress need to grow some kahuna's.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

The GOP is a bunch of Trey Gowdies. All hat, no cattle.

Like to prance and prattle.

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Susan Clack's avatar

I hate to agree ... BUT 💯! 😡

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

I view Trump 2.0 as a third party administration.

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Tom's avatar

I'll see your kahunas and raise you a pair of cojones.

Maybe even THREE cojones . . .

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Kate Finis's avatar

🤣🤣

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Janice LeCocq's avatar

Not holding my breath either….

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Yeah and while they’re at it, congressional Republicans might get some subpoenas mailed out to all those people who hid Biden’s dementia. What on earth are they waiting for?

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LMWC's avatar

I saw it on this substack as people that claimed to have voted for Trump the first time, did not want him running again. They would not admit that 2020 was stolen or if they did believe it, thought there was no way he should try again.

I remained steadfast in him as I had seen him at rally’s and knew his love for this country was true.

My hope is that Elon has left DOGE to go more undercover, and that those he left behind can crack the “Access Prohibited“ code. Maybe that is what is behind the mystery of Patel and Bongino and Epstein’s suicide.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

I'm with you on this. I'm going to stay for the ride.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

The fighting among themselves

aspect is seriously troubling. . Who tears down their nice house with their own hands??!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Apparently lots of people are willing 😕

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David Roberts's avatar

Including charges against those who created that sub-strata.

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Jeff S's avatar

Someone in the Deep State is going to find a way to destroy or corrupt those files, I bet.

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Tom's avatar

"Because those files don't conform to my belief system, I reject them."

sarcasm / off

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M and L Borich's avatar

This must happen and DOGE can do it! 👍

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JasonT's avatar

Those files include pictures of Republicans in compromising positions; so no charges...

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MaryAnn's avatar

And info on why building 7 dropped without being hit by a jet.

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Wendy Leonard's avatar

and other buildings in the area never mentioned.....3-6

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Julia Price's avatar

We may here of suspicious deaths soon

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ANN THOMPSON's avatar

As a mother of 3 white boys, I cannot in my lifetime imagine that I will ever vote for a democrat again. To let the party as it now exists back in the fold goes against every fiber in my body and soul. I have seen my teenage son suffer the most with lockdowns and the feeling of worthlessness. They did much harm to so many young boys and men.

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TW's avatar

Being a boy mom has been incredibly frustrating! I too have 3 boys and we have tried to help them stay as rough-and-tumble as possible but still learn to be gentlemen. We've embraced the small towns around our big city, since they stayed sane during covid and our boys could grow up without the nonsense. Now that they're not little anymore however, we are looking toward the future where they will be Godly hard-working men of integrity, but how do we help them find wives that aren't nuts? That is going to be the limiting factor for our society, female insanity (and i say that as a woman).

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Robin Esau's avatar

Those ladies are out there and their parents have been praying for God to raise up these young men. Be encouraged!

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neener's avatar

My granddaughter is one of them, trying to find one with integrity out in the weeds!

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alongername's avatar

tell them that anyone with a bulge in their throat or in their pants is NOT the right "lady" for them .

......or a mustache hahaha

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MarkGW's avatar

My daughter is looking for real men, so they are out there.

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MayBella82's avatar

My son found one … and my daughter is one. She has found a masculine man too. Pray and give it to God.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree!!! I never voted Democrat before anyway, but after the past few years, there is no way in h*ll I would ever even consider doing so!!! 😡

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alongername's avatar

Let's not forget......there are still lots of Rinos that need to be weeded out . The sooner the better .

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Jake's avatar

Cornyn is 22 points down here in TX. It's a start.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree!

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S.P.H.'s avatar

Term limits across the board. 8 years and out!

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Chevrus's avatar

It’s almost as if there was a sinister plot to make them so disgusting people leave in droves….well….it worked.

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Tom's avatar

There is also a sinister plot to make those who join with them complicit in their depravity, one small quantum at a time.

Just compromise a little bit.

Just a little.

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Chevrus's avatar

Cultural Warfare is a Helluva Drug….

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Chevrus's avatar

Motive….Means……Aaannnnnd Opportunity!

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Valerie's avatar

Amen!

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Jeff Lynn's avatar

I would like to report that I NEVER voted for a democrat but then that would not be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; I voted for Mitt Romney!

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MaryAnn's avatar

Jeff L: confession is good for the soul. 😂

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Cheryl Schroeder's avatar

😂 I forgot about that. Guess I voted democrat once too.

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Politico Phil's avatar

It seems obvious to me but, I remind myself, what do I know? All I see is a continual slide into oblivion that is picking up speed like the greased skids of a toboggan. The Demoncrat Party has lost all legitimacy with legitimate American citizens. On top of that they are broke and in debt. What big money is going to throw good money after bad? Look for the American political system to become a one-party system with the uni-party neocons banished to Europe. Can't happen quick enough.

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Karmy's avatar

When the Democrat party removed God from their platform in 2012 their slide into depravity began. God will not be mocked!

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Politico Phil's avatar

Actually, I think they were just coming out of the closet and admitting what had become obvious to everyone.

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Jeff S's avatar

Never underestimate them, though.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Yeah... like cockroaches.

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Lori's avatar

Please don't insult the cockroaches!

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

😝😝😝

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Tiny basket of deplorable's avatar

🤣👍🏻

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Indeed. A lot of foreign $$$ behind them. The Demos are the weapon being used to destroy this great nation.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Notice any corporate website's complete lack of White guys. Even my local credit union site's have 75% blacks and weird-hybrids. And inter-racial crap.

They want this to be reality so bad.

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Tom's avatar
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To tacitly allow bullying, and then make a "safe space" for those who are convinced they want to be castrated to avoid that bullying, is unconscionable.

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Jack Bergeron's avatar

The Democrat Party is the party of slavery, Jim Crow laws, the KKK, lynchings, segregation, United States citizens of Japanese ancestry internment camps, LGBTQI … abortion, Russiagate, Russian Derangement Syndrome and TDS. Anyone who still claims to be a Democrat today and/or will still vote for any Democrat needs to have his/her/its patriotism questioned and his/her/its head examined.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

At the rate the Dems are bleeding men, you won’t need to say his/her/its anymore; it’ll be just the hers and the its who need examined.

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Jeff S's avatar

I voted democrat once, in a nightmare.

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alongername's avatar

funny that you mention nightmare . I just woke up from one ( middle of night here in Thailand) . But...... it was not political . Old age related. Was dreaming that I was attempting to drive at night, but couldn't see .

oh boy ...............

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BeadleBlog's avatar

The democrats harmed males (and females) of all colors. Just fostered a 5th grader for 6 months and she lost kindergarten and 1st grade during covid. Spent the time helping her catch up. I will never vote for a democrat again, and I've pretty much split the ticket my 40+ voting years.

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CStone's avatar

I hate to be the one to break it to you.

The RAT party was ALWAYS what it is now. Look at which party voted 100% AGAINST freeing the slaves, started and funded the KKK, wrote Jim Crow Laws and then went on a murderous killing spree. Look at who voted against allowing freed men to vote……and raged against giving women the right to vote

All they have done is take off their white hoods, and finally their covid masks. People should have been able to see what they are, because of what they have always been. But they are masters of deceit.

I’m glad your eyes have opened, but many are simply willfully blind.

Welcome home!!

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Craig Kisciras's avatar

The other "structural problem" for the Dem/Marxists is the utter lack of any leaders that are truly "Men"; ie, looking and asking masculine, having normal testosterone levels and a fully functional 3-piece set. Who are the Dem "men"? Tampon Tim Walz? Doug Emhoff? Joe Biden? Barry Soetero?

Dylan Mulvaney? Chuck Schumer? Hakeem Jeffries? All are weak, phony, stupid and wimpish. Then there are the "policies" they support.

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RunningLogic's avatar

And don’t forget fake!! They supposedly “support women” yet behind the scenes abuse them, demean them and discriminate against them 😡

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Chevrus's avatar

Yeah it’s like a cointel-MK-haywire party! All the forced agendas and double standards have finally come full circle and the result is a b loopy mess. And my dear old mum still recites the party line: “They just didnt come out and VOTE!!”

Because in the most hotly contested presidential election in US history, the Blue team just walks away from the polls…uh-huh.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

The Dems had a ton of illegitimate "votes", but not enough to overcome the REAL votes for Trump this time.

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Bill Campbell's avatar

No, Dave, They had a ton of illegitimate BALLOTS. And the generation of those is still at the core of the election integrity issue.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Bill - exactly, that's why I put votes in quotes.

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Ballot harvesting.

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Chevrus's avatar

Yeah it’s pretty clear that is the case…”but it was the free’est fair’est election in history” ….Riiiiiight,

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Lynn46's avatar

Make you wonder how many REAL votes there actually were.

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Jeff S's avatar

They abuse them in front of the scenes, too.

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RunningLogic's avatar

On occasion but mostly they’re sneaky about it until someone catches them in the act and outs them.

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Tom's avatar

How can one support what one cannot define?

"Personally, I support the quantum superposition of subatomic particles."

"Liar."

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RunningLogic's avatar

Well they used to be able to define them yet still didn’t support them.

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MayBella82's avatar

They support men in women’s sports. Real men protect women from these weak men.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Exactly.

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CStone's avatar

Have you ever seen Schumer’s ‘wife’?

He isn’t pretty.

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FlatEarthFlyer's avatar

Neither is Alan Alda’s…😳 While I don’t think she’s a man, I have a sneaking suspicion that there are a lot more men who have/are pretending to be women in this world than we can imagine. And it goes back a long ways. For instance, look up the Jewish actress named Lisa Golm (one letter off from “Golem”), who starred as the mother in the 1951 movie, The Hoodlum. Then look up Hope Emerson, who starred in several movies from the 1940s and 50s. She was 6’2” and weighed well over 200 pounds. People always like to point to the fact that someone may not have a noticeable Adam’s apple, but doctors have been doing tracheal surgeries since the mid 19th century, and many men don’t have a noticeable Adam’s apple to begin with. I think we’ve all been played for a LONG time when it comes to men passing themselves off as women.

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CStone's avatar

I agree. We watch a lot of British shows, and so many of the women look like men.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

Craig, if this CHICK don't get you to vote Dem, it means you are fatphobic and lesbianphobic:

𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚: 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬

Pronouns Kg/Ib, literally RFK Jr's BIGGEST critic, everything is BIGGER in TX, please don't eat Harry Sisson & more Democrat activist Olivia Julianna memes - will she win back young men for the Dems?!

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/fatsteria-best-democrat-activist-olivia-julianna-memes

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Tom's avatar

"Fatphobic." "Homophobic."

There's a difference between "phobia" and disgust.

There's a difference between "phobia" and pity.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

You forgot Kamala's boy, oops, I mean, hubby..

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Craig Kisciras's avatar

Nope, I included him as well. Dougie Emhoff.

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Chevrus's avatar

Karmella is awesome…..wait….who?!

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Jake's avatar

You forgot Mayor Pete. I guess he's currently in the lead for the Dem Pres nomination. I hope so.

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Astragale's avatar

Craig, please don't forget little Pete Buttigieg (I understand - he IS forgettable.)

Or the smooooth Gavin Newsom with his slick hair and phony smile.

What role models...

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neener's avatar

You forgot to add Jerry Nadler.

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PJ's avatar

You forgot "Mayor Pete" and his molded "breasts" LOL 😱

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CStone's avatar

Yeah. He was ‘chest feeding’ his and his husband’s baby.

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RunningLogic's avatar

So insulting towards breastfeeding mothers!! 😡

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

And what about Harry [“I'd f*ck you raw after the wine tasting..."] Sisson? a real man's man!:

𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚: 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐒*𝐱 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬

When Harry Sisson messages you ("I'd f*ck you raw after the wine tasting..." 🤨), how do you do fellow straight men 🙄, DNC Chair David Hogg is going to be mad and more Harry Sisson s*x scandal memes!

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/pridesteria-best-harry-sisson-s-x-scandal-memes

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

David Hogg and Harry Sisson are secretly dating.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

Worst kept secret............................

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Salt's avatar

The only ones I can think of are Corey Booker, Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newson (no matter how slimy he may seem, he is a very charismatic person).

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FlatEarthFlyer's avatar

Charismatic in a Mephistopheles sort of way…

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MaryAnn's avatar

The Chicago machine is poised to run Rahm(bo) Emanuel—I don’t think Billion $ Jumbo JB has a chance after the bigger mess he has made of IL .

Rahm does not fit the current dem profile. Will be interesting if he is morphed to be a girly-guy or if the party will let him lead as a regular guy.

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Craig Kisciras's avatar

You are, of course, referring to the former ballerina queen.

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Kathi M's avatar

You mean having men parading in women’s clothing around Bidens White House didn’t entice young men of any race to vote for Dems? What about men entering and winning races their sisters and girlfriends entered? Or take the shots or lose your livelihood! Hmmm…$20 million, please!

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Chevrus's avatar

Oh right I forgot about that….definitely a massive torpedo….with an accent on ‘pedo’….

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Tom's avatar

"Look at my Speedo."

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Tiny basket of deplorable's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🩲

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Chevrus's avatar

I would also accept: banana hammock or budgie smuggler….

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Carol Brizzolara's avatar

I was just inside the top 20 today. I feel like I won the lottery: Maybe I should buy tickets. Anyway, I wonder if the powers that be will share the deepness of FBI discovery beyond Sentinel’s baby pool of information. I just need someone to tell me when to pop popcorn so I can better enjoy the show.

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Irunthis1's avatar

I think comments are (currently) only open to paid subscribers —-trying to keep this at the top so it can be corrected quickly.

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Phillip Zinni III DO FAOASM's avatar

Yay! Blessings Jeff and C&C Family!

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Rick Kaullen's avatar

Prohibited Access… If the FBI is doing it you can bet that the CIA thought of it first. Especially after having their secrets exposed in the ‘70s. Some more work for the cybermasters at DOGE.

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Chevrus's avatar

And you just know it’s been that way for decades…..that’s the thing with token investigations and limited hangout, it just trains them to be more sneaky. Unless heads literally roll, its back to the sneaking and sabotaging

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alongername's avatar

I always thought that my high school heart throb was the first one to come up with :

"Prohibited Access ! "

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Jeff S's avatar

Er, you too?

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alongername's avatar

ha ha ...... but, i finally found the combination to the safe . wink

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

The Senate report on Nellie Ohr has a whole section on it. This will not work any longer.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Amen to that!

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Irunthis1's avatar

Jeff I’ve been notified by someone that your comments are only open for paid subscribers—-upvote so he can hopefully see and correct!

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Irunthis1's avatar

PROHIBITIONS—-no comments for you!!! 😂 hat tip @Juju — this is a problem with Substacks default settings I’ve read somewhere…it defaults to comments open only to paid subscribers which is just Orwellian you ask me.

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SadieJay's avatar

I am wondering if a paid subscription can be considered a "retainer"? Asking for a friend.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

Depends on the setting he has for the post template he is probably using OR for the entire Substack... although Substack will have hiccups....

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I made it back after doing chores, so all good, except my comment is very low now, lol.

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Cheryl Stoker's avatar

I’m not a paid subscriber yet here I am.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

I rather enjoy no bots or provocateurs...

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Irunthis1's avatar

I do too…but it appears to me that a great deal of the comments that I enjoy are not standard paid subscriptions—some may pay what they can via Ko-fi and many may not be able to swing the $50 a month which is fairly steep for someone raising a family, struggling financially, just starting out or on a fixed income. My observation is that they offer way more value here than is subtracted by the occasional sour pus or bot. IMO of course.

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Juju's avatar

I can’t do the $50/month but I want to support him as best I can, so I LOVE that I can pay a $5/month subscription through his other option. (Bottom of every article has a link.) I’m OK with not having the “Substack subscriber level” perks and missing out on Sunday newsletters.

But I am curious if all of us that don’t do the full $50 subscription were able to do it at $6/month like other stacks, wouldn’t that volume be enough that it would easily exceed what $50/mo of just a few bring in???

However, there is the brand value to consider. Jeff is certainly top notch professional journalism even if he is a lawyer by day, and C&C is top tier. Having a top-shelf subscription price reflects that.

Yet, Tucker Carlson charges $60 for an entire year … for full access.

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Oma's avatar

Jeff’s time and knowledge is worth every penny he charges. Also his kind heart allows us to give what we can when we can. I’m so thankful for that.

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CarO Lyn's avatar

Jeff’s $50/month is not something that he selected. Has something to do with how he started on substack. He has said that he isn’t able to change it.

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Juju's avatar

Aw that’s a shame. Thanks for letting us know. So glad he lets us do it the other way as a subscription giving.

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Robin Esau's avatar

I pay monthly at a budget-friendly price for me as well. 😊

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Jamie's avatar

Thanks Juju!

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Tired Climber's avatar

Or as in the family of two retired seniors, you have paid for the year’s subscription but only one person has the “title” of paid lol. The “unpaid” subscriber has to wait until the “paid subscriber” is through reading in order to ‘say’ anything! It’s like being in detention lol!!

Mrs. Tired Climber, aka Oma

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

The same with our Epoch Times subscription.... it goes to one email, but if it is open on my phone hubby can't read it until I close that email...

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Beckadee's avatar

lol

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Patty's avatar

I want to add that $50 is about what two retired seniors would drop on a meal out. Or a monthly date to the movies. This is of much more value.

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Oma's avatar

Patty, you nor I could ever put a dollar amount on what we benefit from Jeff’s daily post. So we never complain about the yearly subscription fee. Never. We just factor that in our monthly/yearly out-go, which we do, while also participating in the “multipliers. We still eat “out” whenever we want to but never go to the movies; a waste of money. But I also know that not all retired seniors are in our place financially. Maybe a multiplayer for a very worthwhile C&C reader who would like to read Sunday’s post and participate as a paid subscriber? Like to contribute, Patty?

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Tom's avatar

What if we did a multiplier to fund someone deserving?

We could multiply someone who's comments are most useful.

And then pay that back to Jeff, for his hard work.

Like a scholarship.

A self-licking ice cream cone, but for GOOD.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

Spend some of your good money and go and see The Last Rodeo, an Angel studio production. It is worth the $38. we paid two weeks ago. The theatre was full and we all cheered at the end! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Have since heard from others who agreed that it's an entertaining movie with a great message.

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Essay33's avatar

After seeing the grossly obese self described "queer Latina" obnoxiously touting herself as the sort of Democrat who will bring young men back to their party, I think they're utterly and completely oblivious to reality. Let's hope they keep going off the cliff.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

I agree. It's a steep price to pay, especially as a retiree. I can handle a few days of this kind of comment section. Maybe Jeff decided to see if we'd fight amongst ourselves or get along better than ever...

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Beckadee's avatar

if only we had Ben2nn's onboard especially today with Jeff's Ukraine segment.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Yep, he had me going yesterday, and I just left a link to a Substack on this subject.

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Jamie's avatar

Now I gotta go look at comments from yesterday. I often miss comments these days!!!

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Tom's avatar

Programmer: "It's important that our software is scalable."

"ai": "You can say that two times."

Programmer: "You're an Indian dude, aren't you."

"ai": "You have caught me with one red hand."

Programmer: "You should be ashamed of yourself."

"ai": "I'm standing here beside myself with shame."

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Chevrus's avatar

Just so you know I am laughing……out loud.

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Tom's avatar

I am also splitting my sides in two with the laughter!

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MaryAnn's avatar

😂😂😂 Tom—thank you! My former, now deceased, husband used that “I’m standing here beside myself…” line many times. Thanks for reminding me!

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Tiny basket of deplorable's avatar

Tom, you’re as sharp as a marble in that one😂. I just heard that for the first time the other day from one of my insurance clients. He thought it was great that I cracked up.

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Tom's avatar

"If evidence was willfully concealed using database tools designed to frustrate discovery, it might be criminal."

It's absolutely illegal to classify criminal activity. To wit:

Executive Order 13526

Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations. (a) In no case shall

information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail

to be declassified in order to:

(1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;

(2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;

https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html

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Irunthis1's avatar

Finally!

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Irunthis1's avatar

Jeff someone just notified me that comments are only open to paid subscribers just FYI. (This would explain my spot here at the top lol )

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Tom's avatar

I still credit you with the win.

Even more since you support Jeff with a subscription!

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Tom's avatar

It seems that young men want no part of a party that is in favor of castrating them.

Democrats are shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

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Chevrus's avatar

For encore I am going to tell you how much you suck, shame the crap out of you and turn a segment of the population against you because of your EthnoCultural Identity. Now come over here and play nice.

They tried to turn men into emasculated Karens, but the ones that did get turned are a screaming example of what not to be.

Soooooooo……..backfired?

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RunningLogic's avatar

😆😁

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Kitkat's avatar

yay! Thanks for fixing the comments section. I love the read, but also learn so much from the C&C family as well. :D

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Cary Percle's avatar

"actually turned out to be 700 sweaty Indian programmers in a Mumbai data center-slash-curry takeout counter."

What a classic line. I literally laughed out loud!!

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Valar Addemmis's avatar

The crazy part about the Ukraine strike is it is literally risking nuclear war.

Why were the nuclear bombers out in the open? Treaty compliance. We let them see ours, they let us see theirs.

Ukraine’s strike gave justification for them to go dark, even before positing whether they had western assistance with the strike.

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Tom's avatar

It satisfies Russia's criteria for a first strike, per Russian doctrine.

For reassurance, I recommend Psalm 91.

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MarkGW's avatar

“Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day. Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you. Just open your eyes, and see how the wicked are punished.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭91‬:‭5‬-‭8‬ ‭

Love it

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Tom's avatar

Amen!

Dwell in the shelter of the Most High!

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Double Mc's avatar

My understanding is that international law requires nuclear bombers to be visible. Does any country hide at least some of theirs? Maybe. Wouldn't be surprised.

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