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TriTorch's avatar

The fake hospital bombing was a success. Everyone on one side of the binary mind control apparatus known as politics got their two minutes of hate.

Cue the next fake atrocity so everyone on the opposing side may get theirs.

"Whoever controls the media controls the mind" --Jim Morrison

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These are distractions meant to keep us dancing while the world burns. The bad cat explained it well a couple of days ago:

"woke and global boiling and covid and the ukraine and every form of hyper-aggressive inclusivity insanity are not ideologies of belief for elites, they are circuses to dismay, daze, and distract you because pretty much no one can pay attention to what’s really going on when they are watching their daughter get slide tackled by a 200 pound guy in a sports bra on a high school soccer field or they find out their 3rd grader is being read sexually explicit books by drag queens who give twerking lessons." —https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/wag-the-deficit

It's difficult to form a coalition and mount an action to save the world when the ultra-distracting bread and circuses reach a fever pitch. Cue the fever pitch drama and the resulting unchallenged the new world disorder.

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Another TriTorch out of the park hit.

It's watch the Hama/god-State Clown World Conflict. Don't look who really is choreographing the show. Don't try to find the loot changing hands. Don't question the god-government and their US lobby. Forget the border, mRNA in the food, suspicious fires ... forget anything destroying your homes and family. Just let the pre-programmed Atrocity Manipulation push your buttons. Folks! Be the Good Puppet on a string, just like with our Covid Show!

Okay! One wonders! One wonders who initiated this abortion unraveling of a new false not exactly what it appears to be thing? The usual suspects? For now, the only thing certain is that Iran and the Arab countries are not willing to be fooled again, or so it seems, at least so far ... because nobody is bitting down on the baited hook. And just maybe this is what disconcerts the Israeli government powers that be. Maybe they are backing back from The Program because the script is not working out like it is supposed to? And this unsettles them big time. I mean ... who in their right mind wants to be sucked into another US disaster?

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

Wow, great two comments here TriTorch. Do you ever watch Darkhorse podcast? At the end of their 197th (I think that’s the correct episode, where they mostly talk about the WHO treaty BS) Bret goes somewhat into his theory about the binary mind control, and suggests we don’t know enough yet about ‘mass formation’. Your initial comment here is encapsulating that concept perfectly. Well done! (I’m not attributing the full concept to Darkhorse, just stating a parallel)

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TriTorch's avatar

Thank you for your comment RebeccaGrrrl. I've definitely heard of that podcast and good things about it, but I realized politics was mind control during the Brett Kavanaugh televised show trial which was clearly a stage production by the uniparty. During COVID the contrived political mind control became so unmistakably crystal clear that I wrote a short article about it here: https://tritorch.com/folly

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Dick's avatar

Sir, your link led me this morning to not only that very brief read, but to the wealth of other writing on your website (tho’ I often visit your substack). I hope to eventually read and save all on the site & to share with others.

What else I read, following ‘Folly’ was your packed & loaded: “The COVID-19 Lockdown Shakedown Breakdown”(https://tritorch.com/shakedown/ , 3/22. It’s a primer about cv19, early 2020 — but not just). It was a needed reminder in succinct form (with items I had forgotten, not known or understood only dimly.) of the well-coordinated and executed cv19 machinations, some key players, past like but failed efforts, and how cv19 initially went down — only this time with far greater success: they more fully controlled more spheres, money and shills.

It’s like looking at a focused and magnified area in detail of a master‘s painting that lends fresh insight to the whole in front of us. The two pieces read back-to-back this morning added much toward comprehending the immense story, and to thinking about it — even though I’ve known these things well! Being led through them again in this form and structure, is a fresh reminder of things we must not ever forget.

The duping of the masses with Cv19 as a part of the whole, summed up in your brief “Terminal Delusion”, (https://tritorch.com/folly/) is a clear admonition. Also to never let it be forgotten. We have so much in plain normal living to distract and then the machinations exploiting our own natures in a barrage from all sides. Sometimes it’s an overwhelming effort to just elude the mind-catchers.

Rembrandt (my favorite) told stories and truth in his works, in both his paintings and sketches; each work in both in its whole and elements is rich in meaning. Strokes and lines are sure, quick and suggestive and yet deftly to the point. like the facts, quotes and insight you present.

Thank you, Tritorch. Glad you’re here. Glad I found your site. Information, truth, awareness, is a protection, though not the end. It’s good to remember that despair and fear of these powers is also a trap. I pray that you, and we, will arm our souls to battle that.

Stay well. God Bless you and yours, may your work reach many more with success.

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TriTorch's avatar

What an amazingly jaw dropping response to those articles, thank you very much Dick. I will send this to my son =)

Making a difference is such a good feeling!

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Dick's avatar

I am glad! And honored. You’ve been hard at it, in sbstk. posts, engaging here in comments and now I learn of your website. Thanks, good knight, for your kind response. It encouraged me as well.

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Mary H.'s avatar

“In war , truth is often the first casualty “

Winston Churchill

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

So good, so simple. I wish I knew these kinds of quotes so well they came to mind in moments of need! Thank you.

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Jenn's avatar

Same. I can't even remember Bible verses well nor a funny joke. I am always amazed when someone can rattle off a verse quickly. And especially, these days, my brain (and seemingly everyone around me) can seem to remember simple words during conversation. I think it's brain overlord X a million.

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RU's avatar

From today's article: "Maybe this kind of thing has been going on for a long time, but ever since covid, media’s constant lying has become especially obvious and irritating."

One thing I've had to come to terms with is that we live in a sea of propaganda and lies. I don't know when it started, but it seems to have started a long time ago. For example, our media constantly lied about Lenin, Stalin, and the USSR, pushing articles saying the USSR had more rights, freedom, and due process than the US. While they were executing people by the truckload and dumping them in mass graves. Very brazen lies.

The more I've processed the last 8 years or so (since Trump entered the scene, really), the more I've realized: it's all propaganda.

Take a look at the "viewership" numbers for outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. Outside of 1 or 2 hour-long slots, they have less viewership than many Substacks and podcasts. No one watches them except people stuck at the airport. How do they afford all that on-air "talent" and associated overhead? Why would any advertiser spend ad dollars on that, unless there was a kickback of some kind. Who can provide that kickback? My guess, all taxpayer money being routed to advertisers through government-sponsored propaganda "private" companies.

What about culture/art? Also, all propaganda. Just one example (could easily talk about movies, TV, visual art as well), do we really think that rap - and its glamorization of black gang culture - just happened to organically arise just after racially-motivated socialist/communist forces had taken over all the meaning-making institutions of the West? Do we really think an upper middle class ballet dancer dressed up as a gang member was authentic and legit? All propaganda.

What about the "healthcare" industry, which actually seems to be making people sicker and recently put out a new food pyramid chart with Coco Puffs on it. While feeding people anti-depression meds that they know can't work because the proposed mechanism of action was proven by every study ever done on the topic to be non-existent. I could go on and on with healthcare alone. All propaganda.

Education? How about we spend more per student than just about anyone in the world and get some of the worst outcomes. Most of our urban centers are filled with kids who "graduate" high school not being able to read, write, OR do math. Can't do even one of those. They do feel aggrieved, however. For the wrong reasons, of course. They should be mad at their school and teachers, and probably the lunch ladies feeding them Coco Puffs, but instead are mad at the world for made-up grievances. They know nothing about how their world or their government works. And then enter the workforce and the ranks of voting citizens.

Unbelievably huge problem. And thank you to anyone who noticed all this decades ago and tried to sound the alarm bell.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

Yea there’s so much deception and irony that being aware is a burden. Sometimes I wish I could become blissfully ignorant again.

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Jenn's avatar

No, you really don't. But I understand what you are trying to say. We really don't want to be blissfully ignorant... And, really, I don't think anyone is blissfully anything these days. I think most are scared and disturbed yet also hopeless and unable to actually improve their situation. Jesus is capable of sustaining us, we can just ask Him and He can calm our turbulent hearts.

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Renee Marie's avatar

Grace from God. Grace is absolutely amazing. I wish it could last 24/7.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

But it does, it really does!

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Renee Marie's avatar

Grace for me comes when I have intention and pray, which for me is a necessity for Grace. I have had it. God wants you to get closer to Him.

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Sherry 1's avatar

Totally ditto that comment!

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Art's avatar

Regarding the education system, there is an excellent book called “The Underground History of Education” by John Taylor Gatto (former Teacher of the Year in New York, of all things). It’s out of print but can be bought used and there are free pdf files on the ‘net. You won’t regret taking the trouble to find and read it.

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Politico Phil's avatar

When my son had his first baby, I gave him that book. He now has two more babies and he and his wife have decided to homeschool.

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Fred's avatar

What part of the country? Kids returning from Sicily soon, sans jabs of all kinds, so homeschooling is a must.

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Politico Phil's avatar

We are in Fl

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Fred's avatar

Thanks! No job openings there but Virginia with Youngkin and Sears might be a possibility.

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ILoveherbs's avatar

TriTorch, thank you for the link.

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Dick's avatar

Rich resource, this. Thanks so much!

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JacquelineP's avatar

I love Gatto - discovered him in the early 90s when my kids were young and i was embarking on homeschooling. Such an important voice!

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Natalie's avatar

Same here. He was one of the homeschooling heroes who gave us all the courage and the rationale for teaching our kids at home. A couple others were John Holt and Raymond and Dorothy Moore. I was just in a bookstore this weekend and found a new version of "Teach Your Own" by John Holt, updated by Patrick Farenga, who worked on the journal "Growing Without Schooling." I have every issue!

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Kristi's avatar

His book Dumbing Us Down is still in publication and is excellent.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes, I read that and it was an eye opener on many levels!

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Dena's avatar

Yes, Trump’s winning & “losing” elections woke us up. Some to the truth, others caught tds. Then the COVID lies & lockdown craziness. Bottom line - tptb do NOT like us, they hate us. Believe it. As long as we shut up, keep paying taxes & fund their wars they’ll only continue to manipulate & lie to get more.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Trump circa 2018: "It's not me they are after, it's you. I'm just in the way."

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Dena's avatar

Trump has been consistently right ever since coming down the golden escalator.

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Concerned mom's avatar

We didn't KNOW HOW RIGHT HE WAS and continues to be in THIS REGARD!!!

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Well on education I believe it started with no child left behind. Once that started grade inflation began. Its a sad state when people start lying to protect their job/career/domain. Meaning schools pressured teachers so schools weren’t downgraded and teachers felt the pressure when they couldn’t get kids to perform…. hence grade inflation. Lies lies lies. Kids that can’t do it passed. They should have been held back. I saw it in 2000 when I was in grad school and many in FL could not write a clear sentence or write a 3 paragraph paper with a solid argument.

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Emumundo's avatar

Florida used to “grade” their schools every year. If a school failed twice in a row I think the students were eligible to go someplace else ( I think, it was a while ago). Anyway, an elementary school in town failed the first year. The second year when the grade came out there was a huge celebration! Yaaaa! They got a D+. I knew a teacher at the school and she said that every year kids would disappear before the testing. The kids were here illegally , usually spoke no English and were mysteriously deported before the testing. Bill Bennett famously said that if an outside enemy did this to our education system we would consider it an act of war. And that was 20 years ago. Schools now are free babysitters so women can work and pay taxes to the machine.

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Fla Mom's avatar

They still get grades, but kids/families don't have to wait to jump ship - the Legislature passed a law this year that gives $7,000+ per child (equivalent, roughly, to what the government schools get per child) to families to use for any legit educational setting:

https://www.fldoe.org/schools/school-choice/k-12-scholarship-programs/fes/

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I was schooled in CA. But I was referring mostly to the black athletes in FL college. However, I clearly remember all but 3 students could barely write an articulate thought.

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TriTorch's avatar

It's funny how the devil inverts everything.

'No Child Left Behind' was - literally - "Most Children Left Behind".

"Race to the Top' was 'Race to the Bottom'

The perverse incentives guaranteed these outcomes. Teachers were slipping into locked rooms where bubble tests were held to be sent to be graded, were carefully opening the sealed bunches with exacto knives, changing the answers to the correct ones, and then sealing them back up again just to make sure their schools got funding.

The powers that shouldn't be know our psychology inside and out.

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CStone's avatar

It actually started with LBJ, with his communistic view of the “Great society’, then when Carter was President creating the Department of Education (“Hi, I’m from the gubmint and I’m he-yer to hep “.....in his peanut farmer voice.). Then along came Bush.......who called himself a Republican, but was as bIG A DEMONRAT as Clinton.

These puppets take the long view. Demons are very patient, whereas God’s people are impatient to get back to doing things right.

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RunningLogic's avatar

It started long before that. But definitely got worse after No Child Left Behind.

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Susan Stephens's avatar

Goals 2000

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korigon's avatar

In 2012 I was taking an online course at college with a very good academic reputation. I had 6 months to take the course and do in aand take a proctor exam. A lot of things personally happened during that time. Was barely able to study for the test and it was very hard. Left thinking there was no way I passed. Got the grade in the mail and I got a B! Couldn't believe it.

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RebeccaGrrrl's avatar

I did some brief reading about the education system in the US, starting back in the late 1800s... I goes back to the inception, I believe. Bring the farm kids in (hence summer vacation) and get them and the city kids to think the right way. Integrate the immigrants. They made it sound good. But upon reflection, I think that’s where it started.

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daverkb's avatar

It's all been lies for well over a century ... and lying has always been more the norm than truth when it comes to 'the government'.

Washington telling the country in his Farewell Speech 'to stay out of other peoples business' around the globe had one big benefit largely under-appreciated. That is ... what one 'stays out of' never requires lying about.

Great post! Thanks!

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AJF's avatar

Ironically just speaking with a university prof who mentioned many of her students have not mastered basic math.

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John Bugni's avatar

Heard about this book "180 degrees. Unlearn The Lies you've Been Taught To Believe" from C and C commenters. Fits right in with this discussion. A real eye-opener. Must read in my opinion

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Susan Stephens's avatar

“And thank you to anyone who noticed all this decades ago and tried to sound the alarm bell.”

Groups like Eagle Forum & people like Phyllis Schlafly

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Exactly why I'm voting RFK Jr. despite his ludicrous virtue signaling on reparations. He's the only candidate who seems to be taking the Deep State Intel takeover of our govt. seriously.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

Can you imagine what the "Department of Phony Guilt Assuagement" created to administer reparations would look like? It would be "deep state" on godzilla level steroids. So RFK Jr lost me completely on that thought.

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Doug's avatar

He lost me last week after going full tilt on supporting Israel on a war against Palestine. Right after he won me by declaring "Independent" status. I guess he's not as "independent" as he would have us believe. For my part, I support peace on all sides.

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TB's avatar

I would be interested to see someone explain how to achieve "peace on all sides" when one side wants to, quite literally, genocide the other. How can Hamas be removed from power in a peaceful way?

(None of the above should be taken to imply that Israel is above criticism either, by the way. It's just that they haven't explicitly stated an intention of wiping out the Palestinian state, the way Hamas has about Israel.)

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RunningLogic's avatar

“Department of Phony Guilt Assuagement"

Now if that isn’t a spot on accurate name for it!! 👍

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Name Redacted's avatar

I read something recently that began to reveal his radical leftist ideology. He wants a 3% mortgage interest rate for everyone with presumably the difference between the real rate to be paid for by the government (i.e. us, the taxpayers). So much for the marketplace. Bottom line, more control over us by the government.

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CMCM's avatar

RFK Jr needs to be publicly challenged on his reparations stance. I like a lot of things he says and stands for, and certainly not everyone can or will meet any of our standards for a candidate. But he needs to answer loudly and public about this one thing.

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Doug's avatar

Yes, the government is taking enough of my paycheck already. I personally did not benefit from the "sins of my fathers" - I'm not willing to pay one red cent to the descendants of those supposed sins.

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Daily Growler's avatar

I agree. I am highly suspicious when any US media, or anyone else, for that matter, characterizes RFK's "stance" or "position" for us. I have yet to read an accurate portrayal of anything RFK has said. He's smart and articulate, and if he's running for president, he should be able to explain what he believes. Unfortunately, since he is subject to media blackout and smears, it is difficult for him to get his message out. I'd recommend attending one of his live rallies and asking your questions.

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Daily Growler's avatar

RFK, Jr. on reparations:

https://youtu.be/uJInDnBFSbQ?feature=shared

I suspect Breitbart and NY Post want to tank RFK's independent candidacy.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

He doesn't have a "reparations stance." What he proposed - and what I sincerely disagree with - was a non-race based assistance (read: more welfare) plan to those at the bottom incomes. It didn't have anything to do with reparations for descendants of slaves.

But since he's the Intel-Deep State's sworn enemy, the mainstream media pushed it as "reparations" to dissuade conservatives like you and like me from noticing that the GOP has kept ZERO of its propaganda promises to conservatives.

More Rich Men North of Richmond psyops

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Paige Green's avatar

I recently listened to an interview of Feargus O’Connor Greenwood, author of probably the largest compilation of the lies and propaganda we’ve been conditioned to believe, and how to reverse them. It’s on my wish list to purchase.

https://books.google.com/books/about/180_Degress.html?id=5CcK0AEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description

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randall stoehr's avatar

When you change the way you look at things,

The things you look at will change! Wayne Dyer

Forever remember to Question all "AUTHORITY" RMS

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Mary H.'s avatar

“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

Philippians 4:8

Stop focusing on the lies …

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Leah's avatar

That passage was the focus of our women’s Bible study last night. Such a good one. 🙏🏻💞

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Jenn's avatar

Yes!! This is the VERY top thing!

In fact, since I spend a great deal of time reading C&C and the comments, I will write this verse down on index cards and tape them in various places throughout my home and car so I can remember to focus on Jesus and that I am to be lamplight to a dark world. Thanks Mary H. 💕

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Mary H.'s avatar

❤️

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Connie Benn's avatar

That was a reading a few Sundays back. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

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LS Woodruff's avatar

One of my favorite passages! And yet, can be difficult to balance when taking your eye off of the enemy can be detrimental. Ultimately, our trust that the Lord is in control and on the throne needs to be our focus.

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Jamie's avatar

That is a good point 🙏

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randall stoehr's avatar

Can I get an "AMEN" sister? ;-) ’Et cum spiritu tuo’

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Carolyn’s Rae Of Sunshine's avatar

One of my very favorite quotes by Wayne Dyer!

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FourWinds's avatar

If anyone is looking for a hobby, learning to study photos and spot fake ones is a good hobby to have in this age of misinformation, I mean lying. The people who can do that are the reason the early photos of Chinese supposedly dropping dead from "the virus" were found out to be fakes. Trust me, after doing it for a while, you'll spot them immediately, even when on a TV screen where you can't study them for long. You won't be able to unsee the fakeness.

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Ned B.'s avatar

Your Beliefs + Mainstream Media = INVISALIGN.

Just as your teeth are, over time, molded into line with constant pressure by an invisible apparatus, so are your beliefs.

https://nedb.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-invisaligns-your

“The purpose of mainstream media is not to inform you, but to conform you.”

- Ned B.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Great analogy

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nancylee's avatar

and he should know since his father was George S. Morrison, who commanded the fleet during the Gulf of Tonkin incident* that led to an escalation of the Vietnam War

*false flag

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Vietnam ( Indochina) conflict began way before that.

That just escalated it for the benefit of the MIC.

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

And... amongst other thing's, the WEF controls the MSM.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Interesting that Israel said they were going to bomb it.

I guess they didn't get around to it?

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Special Ted's avatar

I've saved a screenshot from Hananya Naftali, Israel's 'digital spokesperson' (on twatter/x) that is time-stamped 10/17/23 at 2023hrs:

"BREAKING: Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas base inside a hospital in Gaza. A multiple number of terrorists are dead. It's heartbreaking that Hamas is launching rockets from hospitals, Mosques, schools, and using civilians as human shields."

This tweet was supposedly deleted minutes later. Make of it what you will, I'm just passing on information.

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nancylee's avatar

and he should know since his father was George S. Morrison, who commanded the fleet during the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to an escalation of the Vietnam War

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Get Real's avatar

TriTorch...What did I miss? R U saying the hospital bombing was Fake.?

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TriTorch's avatar

Get Real, check out Jeff's coverage in today's update about halfway down the page. It starts with:

" The Wall Street Journal ran a followup to the Hamas General Hospital story yesterday headlined “U.S., Experts Say Evidence Suggests Palestinian Militants’ Rocket Hit Gaza Hospital..” After all that hoopla, it was just a friendly-fire casualty, with some cheap European cars hardest hit."

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daverkb's avatar

The minute this Fake Thing started and when I saw the headlines and especially the 'pictures' all doctored up and composed to pose, I figured ... "Oh, here we go again." And the cinch of the thing, all the Suspect Media was screaming out the exact same thing like a rifle shot on cue.

Thank God we are getting a good C & C read on this today! A credit to Jeff.

It is possible that this thing is being walked back now because the propaganda roll out is not working like it once did, and as 'they' anticipated it would. Israel may be in the process of walking this back for this reason ... and for smelling another big US 'policy' failure in the making. And not working put too well for Uncle Joe Pervert as was planned.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

So after all the US Experts comments on covid and gender identity, we're going to believe them on this???

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TriTorch's avatar

Based, we've reached the point in our Orwell story where the reality and fiction have merged together - at least when it comes to the fourth estate.

The only thing left to do is stop believing their unrelenting crocodile tear manipulative lies and focus on putting our own houses, communities, and souls in order.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Believe the Bible. All the rest is, in the end, just noise.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

I couldn't agree more. Thanks!

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TB's avatar

It's not so much that the US experts are reliable, as that "US experts" - at least ones that get quoted in newspapers - seem to be frequently pro-Palestine, so if they're admitting it's friendly-fire that suggests the evidence is strong enough that it can't be in any way spun into "Israel did it".

Besides that, there is also video on the internet of a rocket being fired from Gaza and appearing to malfunction in the air right above the hospital and the fire/explosion occurs just a second or so later, so that's consistent too.

Maybe there's more details that would change my perspective, but for now the odds seem to favor the "Hamas rocket misfire" theory.

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BuelahMan's Revolt's avatar

Was the Mosque bombing faked, as well?

Nuseirat Mosque in Gaza, killing displaced people seeking shelter.

https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1714661580774711804?

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WP William's avatar

American Universities should post honest virtuous signage; HATE FREE ZONE, Jews and MAGA Republicans NOT WELCOME!

Now the NPR and Academics are claiming the nuances and gray areas are difficult to navigate and understand (perhaps meaning Blame White Capitalist Climate Killers and excuse terrorist killers of color) explore and sort through the complexities; the varied and Non-Binary Views of the Palestinian Issue etc etc etc. They hate when their LEFTIST Groups infight and immediately run cover to excuse and obscure their actions and words as being the result of controlled Right-Wing manipulation and misinformation and Rightist peddled emotional intellectual ignorance upon the victims

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daverkb's avatar

Weird ... although some what predictable longer term, that the Division Operation divide and conquer would some day come back an bit the hand that sowed it.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

It's weird the fault lines that have developed.

*shakes head*

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Raphael's avatar

What sophistry are you spouting, nice try.

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WP William's avatar

Sophocles a true hero of mine; if only i could aspire to the level of media and government officials, and corporate advertisers in this regard. I'll keep trying--spouting

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???

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TriTorch's avatar

He was certainly wrapped up in it. If anyone would know how much power the media holds over the minds of the populace it would be the son of that man - a son who somehow managed to rise ubiquitous stardom.

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

... which brings David McGowan's book, Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon, to mind. If you haven't read it, McGowan's thesis is that the whole Laurel Canyon music scene that produced The Doors, The Byrds, et al., was a psyop.

McGowan points out Jim Morrison's pedigree, that Steven Stills may have been Spec Ops in Vietnam in a prior life, that many of the other prominent members of Laurel Canyon society came from families with military and/or intelligence ties. McGowan also brings up how Miles and Stewart Copeland hail from a family with established intelligence ties and suggests that the tentacles of the so-called 'deep state' are firmly rooted in the entertainment industry.

No shock there and which may explain Taylor Swift. The book's a difficult read - at least it was for me with my limited attention span - but worth looking into.

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Neil Kellen's avatar

hmmm...Taylor Swift as a dumbed down psyop...makes a sad amount of sense...

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

"Taylor Swift as a dumbed down psyop".

Outstanding. Like Mao's legions of teenage Red Guards clutching their Little Red Books and beating college professors into ideological submission, Biden's puppeteers and the DNC will look to summon waves of enraged 'Swifites' to enforce compliance.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Gives a fresh meaning to "Swift-boating". Sorry, Jean-Jacques Kerry.

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RunningLogic's avatar

The cultish devotion to these entertainers does seem very ripe to be used and abused for manipulation purposes 😕

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Elaine Russky's avatar

Tucker recommended a book, "Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties," by Tom O'Neil. I haven't finished it yet. He theorizes that Manson was working for the FBI.

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John Cougar Misanthrope's avatar

Interesting take and worth reading. Thanks for the recommendation. I've read similar theories about Jim Jones and the People's Temple cult. I've come to accept that they probably weren't simply groups of isolated nutters as we have been led to believe in the ensuing decades. (Check out The Devil's Chessboard for a great take on the Dulles brothers and the 'deep state').

McGowan didn't quite go that far, as I recall. However, the whole Laurel Canyon scene as he depicted it was fraught with incestuous personal relationships between principal players like the aforementioned Morrison, David Crosby, Steven Stills, Dennis Wilson of Beach Boys fame, and the Manson Family with the intel community superimposed.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

One of my best friends was the radarman on that destroyer. He personally told me it was all bullshit and the torpedo attack never happened - just as the Pentagon Papers confirmed.

Back then I was all pro-VN war like any "good" conservative. But somewhere between the Tonkin Gulf Incident and attacking Iraq for 9/11 I began to wise up.

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These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

— 1 John 5:13-15

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”

— Jesus, Matthew 7:7-8

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

— James 4:3

[A]nd whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

— 1 John 3:22

(LSB)

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I always eagerly read The Word bits you share with us in the C & C "army", Janice! Thank you so much!

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

Yes me too! I look forward to them and usually read twice just to really get the meaning.

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Jamison's avatar

We had quite a discussion in my ladies’ Bible study group last week. Can prayer change God’s mind? He has a plan that will not be thwarted, I know. It was an interesting question. Any insights? I think the key is asking in God’s will.

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WilliamD's avatar

I believe that God has a certain plan for if we pray and repent, and another plan for if we don't. It's not a matter of changing His mind, it's a matter of convincing Him to enact a certain plan.

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Dena's avatar

Yes, in reading Jeremiah, God through the prophet several times appeals to the backsliding Israelites to change their ways so that he won’t have to punish them.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

Yes, I often think of Jonah and the repentance of Nineveh.

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Sarah Bee's avatar

Yes, in HIS will

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

I suggest doing a word study/verse search on the word “relent” in the NAS or LSB.

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Bandit's avatar

How about what to search in a different version? KJV

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

In the KJV, the word is translated "repent."

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

It's a discussion that can make one's head spin for sure! God knows everything, so He knows what He's going to do. So if He already knows what He's going to do, how does changing His mind fit in to that? I don't think our finite minds can grasp the concept.

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TB's avatar

Regarding God's plan, I know one theologian has given the analogy of God as a chess player: he can allow you to take your own moves, and respond depending on your moves, but because he is the ultimate Power and Intelligence, no matter what moves you make He will still ultimately bring about the end result that he desires. It may just be more or less pleasant for yourself in the process, depending on whether you work with Him or against Him.

(And others have pointed out that when we pray, we should in the end be praying for what God wants, not what we want: "Your will be done, on earth as in heaven", and "If it is possible, let this cup pass from me... but not my will but Yours be done".)

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Fla Mom's avatar

A former pastor of ours said we simply hope that our prayers are caught up in His purposes.

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RunningLogic's avatar

This is very timely, thank you as always Janet!! 🙏❤️

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crystal01681's avatar

“Asking” must be for the betterment of ALL. In His hands, He knows how to deal so that all will come to Light. However, we are impatient at times and want instant gratification. In this way, we must be prepared to fall a few times until there is a resolution to the crazy around us. This is planet Earth after-all. Pray anyway. Pray for PEACE and LOVE for ALL. This is the ultimate goal.

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crystal01681's avatar

Justice takes many forms and is different for each individual. True justice encompasses LOVE and PEACE for everyone.

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Sarah Bee's avatar

Thank you for the scripture Janice- this always encourages me to open my Bible 💗🙏

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Lorita's avatar

Thank you Janice for the reminders in God's word. Yes, I like to keep in mind we do win, it is a war between good and evil, and we win! Keeping my mind on the "real issues" of life like loving God with everything I have and loving my neighbor which is one way to end a divisive spirit and of course praying. By the way I know I don't do this perfectly but God is still very good.

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Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

He will if it’s His will.

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RunningLogic's avatar

—“We must set federal dollars aside to rebuild Black infrastructure.”

What exactly IS “black infrastructure”?? Do they have a separate infrastructure from everyone else’s somehow?? This just seems bizarre to me. It’s a hard no from me on reparations. There have been so many programs in the last few decades to help out and give extra preference to black people, that I think this idea is just a boondoggle. I don’t see any way that it could be acceptable to all Americans, especially since there are many other groups who experienced discrimination over the last two centuries.

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Michele's avatar

I for one am thrilled he came out in favor of Reparations.

Why?

Because it is an absolute deal-breaker for so many. If anything is going to steer conservative voters away from him, I think it would be that.

And yes, "black infrastructure" [and do not get me started on the capitalization of black, that is a whole 'nother ridiculousness]--so I guess that counts East Palestine infrastructure out? What about Lahaina infrastructure--too brown or yellow, there?

Reparations for blacks is one of the stupidest ideas that's been floated and re-floated in recent years, one that reveals the total absence of critical thinking, logic, and common sense of all of its supporters. Same here: HARD no.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

Totally agree. He lost any support from me. I like that he’s critical of the experimental shots, but nothing else in his thinking is accurate from what I can tell.

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c Anderson's avatar

He is a climate change guy (human caused) who believes there are too many people on the planet. What more do you need to know?

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Sunlover's avatar

I thought RFK was more concerned about environmental pollution and how that is affecting health, food security. My understanding from what I’ve heard him say is that he isn’t a climate change denier, but does dispute that CO2 is the source and that the zero carbon solution is going to effectively mitigate it. He may not be perfect, but on this issue I do think he is more common sense/scientific rather than ideologically driven. On the issue of reparations though, I cannot support that. That’s a money pit that will make some people rich, but do nothing or harm most.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

I'm calling bullshit. Cite where he has said there are too many people on Earth.

RFK may be a lot of things, but the insinuation that he supports depopulation is a bold-faced lie.

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Michele's avatar

I think you leap to a false equivalency.

"Too many people on the planet" does NOT necessarily equal "We should kill the excess humans."

It could also equal "We should all eat less." Or, "We should all live in 15 minute cities and not own cars and never fly anywhere." or, "Like Bulgaria, we should have four-hour blocks of time during which the electricity is shut off."

There are plenty of "acceptable" (to climate-change-true-beleivers) solutions to "too many people on the planet." You don't have to jump to "depop" and take the focus off "too many."

Which, are there?

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

There are definitely NOT too many people on the planet, as even a casual drive across the Midwest will definitively show.

Every person on Earth would easily fit within the borders of the state of Texas leaving the rest of the planet completely empty.

And we’re facing a population shortage where the birth rates are not keeping up with the rates of deaths.

Bottom line our population across the world is in steep decline.

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shayne's avatar

Absolutely. I've been waiting for something like this. It's too bad. I really like him. Not enough to leave the MAGA camp, but enough to listen to what he had to say. No more.

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daverkb's avatar

I like him too. And I appreciate his accomplishments. However, the Liberal Baggage (climate, now reparations, etc.) is a nightmare for me. It's the kind of stuff which got us into this Liberal turned Radical Commie insanity ... a little at a time. And then it all came crashing down.

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laura-ann Knox's avatar

Don't you think that maybe, just maybe, this little RFK "selling point" was inserted BY the GOP in collusion with the RFK people to ENSURE that voters from their party absolutely DO NOT defect to RFK?? Hmmm?

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree.

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daverkb's avatar

I thought the same thing. RFKjr still siphons off votes from the Rad Wing of the Uni-Party. 'Conservative' votes return to Trump.

And besides, RFKjr should know that there is strictly speaking no injured party. All the slaves are dead. And for there to have been an injured party back in the day, slavery would have to have been illegal ... as in against the Law. It wasn't. And it was not no matter what one wish-fulfilment may be or might have been as pertains the subject.

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Lynn46's avatar

Not only that but didn't most of the freed slaves receive reparations at the time, 40 acres and a mule.

I could be wrong.

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daverkb's avatar

Something like that. And how many took up the offer, I don't know. I forgot all about that. Bit O believe you are right.

The bottom line is that there is no longer any right or wrong, good or evil, in fallen America. Only lying, looting and cheating and ripping everything up ... a recipe for utter disaster.

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Freebird's avatar

RunningLogic- I agree with a hard no on reparations. Anyone who still believes that blacks are “disadvantaged” must not have any access to media. Despite being less than one third of the population, they dominate sports and entertainment. It’s difficult to find a TV commercial with anything other than black faces. For the last 50 years, since the beginning of affirmative action, they’ve received advantages over whites in jobs and education. Changes needed to happen, but as usual, the solutions made by politicians were not the best by a long shot.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Forget media and limelight. Just look around. So many racially picked people…. not for their quals. But to check a box. Esp in education positions!

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Shari Ray's avatar

NAILED IT !!!

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Ripple's avatar

Actually only 13% of the population, or around 1/8.

Someone unfamiliar with the reality of the USA could look at our media and conclude that blacks -- excuse me, Blacks -- are 50% of the population.

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Michele's avatar

Yeah. I really noticed it in commercials after Obama got elected. All of a sudden it was like, hooo whee, we gotta have every single ad have a black person.

Of course, did every ad have to have an older person? or a person in a wheelchair? LOLs. Even somea the browns--excuse me Lah-tincks--got shafted, if you look at it per portion of the population!

Though REI is definitely signalling hella virtue in the body positivity space with their 300lb hikers.

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Freebird's avatar

Yes, I knew that it was somewhere around 13%, but I was in a rush and didn’t take time to look it up, so I threw a generous percentage out there. And I’d say that if an alien surveyed our media they’d conclude that our population is more like 85% black, not 50%. 😂

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MayBella82's avatar

Blacks have the highest % of abortions of all races and at the pace they doing so will not even be consider a minority in the future.

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Sharon Wood's avatar

Yes. The advantages they were given in the last 50 years often put other ppl at a disadvantage. But ppl were willing to endure it or had to by law. Now, another huge additional reparation is too much. I was at a store today and another store a few days ago. Why are 4” nails tolerated? Slowed her down checking me out at the register. Another at the grocery store has locks hanging all down his forehead blocking his eyesight & view. Also slows him down checking me out. When I was young, I would never have thought of doing those things over my ability to do my job efficiently!!! Now, for some reason, its just fine and tolerated.

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Tom's avatar

His Marxism is showing.

It's a divisive tactic. His former party undermined "capitalism" until it was unrecognizable. Now he wants us to believe that only the state can allocate resources "equitably."

When one is too busy trying to decide whether to stand in the line where there is no bread and the line where there is no meat, they will be far more likely to comply with whichever tyrant is sitting on the throne.

Proverbs 13:23 (ESV)

"The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice."

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daverkb's avatar

The Soviet Union used to be the 'stand in line' thing, and now my wife is constantly complaining about things she wants being stocked hit or miss, empty holes on the shelves here and there. Look at the Russian Federation and the shelves are all jamb packed. There are now young people born after 2000 who have no memory of the Soviet horror.

I fear our Soviet experience is just beginning unless something dramatically reverses.

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Michele's avatar

I was in a Home Depot last week and was surprised. Of all the places to have empty shelves, I would NOT expect it to be "lockdown exempt" HD. Very disturbing.

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Cynthia Ford's avatar

It could be that his platform is bait and switch, but if we steel man (https://constantrenewal.com/steel-man) those statements from his website, particularly "and other victims of persecution,"

that could encompass those who lost businesses due to lockdown, people of all races who've been persecuted, including white people (Sacklers, opioids), victims of human experimentation, vaccine injuries, losses due to mandates, J6, lawyers and doctors, people thrown from universities for critical thinking etc. There was a particular attack on black farmers a ways back, which has now morphed into attacks on all small farms by Big Ag. No way to know except perhaps by asking RFK jr. at a town hall. Many of the "equity" preferences are traps to vaccinate Africa and the common sense Tuskegee literate black people.

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Vicki's avatar

Well....this is certainly not the ONLY left leaning stance RFK Jr. has so.....he believes in

drilling bans

fracking bans

nuclear bans

green subsidies

gun control

abortions

high taxes

high spending

single payer

funding the WHO

increased visas

military cuts

amnesty

birthright citizenship

in exchange for voting him in, we receive feeing vindicated about vaccines

Um, yep.....hard no!

Trojan horse, anyone?

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daverkb's avatar

Maybe just a radical Socialist who happens to be right on Vaccine injury? True Believers actually believe the world system which they have been taught and grew up in.

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Freebird's avatar

Vicki, so you’re saying that a Democrat by any other name would be a socialist? Pretty close.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Trump is polling very well among black people.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Sure he is.

Trump will lose in the most historic landslide when half the GOP and all of the Independents and Democrats vote against him

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

TDS much. 😂🤣😂😂🤣😂

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mary's avatar

Nailed it. He is a great guy and I appreciate his passion regarding vaccines but I could never support him for president.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Again, that's a LIE. RFK wants to ban abortions before 13 weeks.

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WP William's avatar

HE needs to be on the ballot in EVERY Blue and Purple State there is!!!

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Harold Saive's avatar

Yeah but...how many in his family were killed by guns?

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Butterfly2510's avatar

How about reparations for people in Lahaina and other places like Paradise, CA where DEW weapons were used against our own citizens?

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Michele's avatar

Or how about reparations for every job applicant who has to read something like this in the description: "We are especially interested in hearing from persons from historically underrepresented populations, the marginalized, or who have lived experience of discrimination based on protected categories, etc."

Sure, you can tell a tale of poverty and/or struggle and/or adversities overcome to get where you are, but everybody knows this language is code for "white/straight resumes to the bottom of the pile"!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Could be . I’m just wary of these kinds of proposals because I think they can easily get out of hand, even if well-intentioned 😕

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KBB's avatar

He can't help it. There's just too much D in his DNA.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Bwahahaha! Well-said.

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JustANobody's avatar

While whites are the minority or will be. We don't have White Pride Day or Month for that matter.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Whites are just 8% of Earth now, and falling faster than any other race. Very sad.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Where does RFK think all this money for reparations will come from? We are deeply in debt already and on the verge of financial collapse. Even with his strong stance against the vaccines, which I do appreciate,

I still wouldn’t have even considered voting for him.

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RunningLogic's avatar

💯!! So many reasons NOT to do this! We need to stop dividing people into more or less arbitrary categories against each other and work for the benefit of all! And spending money we don’t have doesn’t benefit our country as a whole AT ALL!

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Jen's avatar

I am losing all hope of us avoiding a complete financial collapse at this point (which I think is the goal honestly - to usher in their NWO, they will bring us to our knees). The disaster they've created with the pandemic spending, the inflation, the Ukraine aid...it's too much now to not all be leading somewhere.

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daverkb's avatar

The stock market/financial collapse is going to happen. It's only a matter of timing, of when 'they' want to pull the trigger. And pull it to advance their purposes ... which are multiple, and non-linear.

For example, they want a digital currency. So yes, pull the trigger for that. BUT ... they also may want to keep The Pivot away from Woke to remain trending. And so, the timing? It may be 'pull the trigger' sometime ahead of the election 2024, meaning at the end of this year or in the beginning of next year ... and then blame it all on the Wokes, on Biden the puppet incarnate. In fact, the entire purpose of the Biden Pedo Pete presidency may have been to make things so bad, so incompetent looking, so insane looking that the tons of Radical Dem voters bail, get so disgusted that they are willing to abandon Woke ideology in huge numbers just to save themselves. If so, then the whole exercise has been perhaps wildly successful. AND THEN BRING BACK THE SOLUTION. The solution is to keep The Pivot trending and install 'a conservative' presidency with saner public policy. The Pivot is an existential necessity for the real Money Power because they see the world now slipping out of their control grasp. Something 'radically' different has to happen or else the whole train wrecks.

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Jen's avatar

That's a really interesting prediction. I hadn't thought of that. I do see that many were alienated with the forced jabs (recall the original antivaxxers are lefties after all, so they were suddenly homeless and became a bit redpilled). The economy is trashed and inflation is out of control, which is knocking out the center/independents (anyone left with a brain, basically). And you have this hatred against Israel where you see some Jewish people waking up and wondering where their home is now.

But you're right, I think the solution they're going to sell when everything collapses and people are begging for help...will be an authoritarian regime that controls our every move. I think they want digital payment systems so they can control everything we do by shutting off our cash if we step out of line. And I believe universal basic income will rear it's ugly head...can't have anybody making real money and becoming prosperous, can we?

I'm reading a book now about this English scientist who was a Eugenicist in the 20's and how he partnered up with the rich over here to sell these awful ideas (Rockefeller & Carnegie) and to hear them talk is absolutely stomach turning. They really feel like the masses are essentially unthinking morons who must be kept from procreating (enter birth control & planned parenthood)...almost like they're describing dogs. At one point they're sitting around joking about how euthanasia is somewhat "unpalatable to some who don't understand things as well as we do". Just sick. And it made me realize, they have not changed one bit. They really think these things. My hope is that enough people wake up in time.

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daverkb's avatar

'They' really do think these things. I know from this from my family's class background. Not the highest of the high, but high enough to occasionally bump into some of these 'elite' people. Years ago I even knew some Rockefeller girls, but really extended family and low on the Rockefeller totem pole and yet high enough that their divorced mom didn't have to work. And they were not exactly living in the slums, not by any means. Today these girls would be in mid-late forties for one and early fifty-ish for the older sister. Time flies!

But it is not just old money. There always are a lot of rising stars ... and blurred lines as to who is whom and to what degree. With some there is definitely a bit of 'there's the animals and then there's us' mentality. It is usually never out and out stated. But nonetheless, that delineation is there if even pushed to the background. And kind of fluid. But if you have seen this stuff, you know what it is when one see it. And imagine, if some of these people lost their money and status, their security, do you think that 'they' would still be whistling the same tune? Probably very few, nil to next to no one.

'They' do think of us and treat us as cattle or sheep ... or chickens with heads cut off and running about panic-like (as with mass covid hysteria). And they certainly don't mind stampeding the cattle so long as 'they' themselves aren't trampled under hoof. However, there are 'elections' and the voting wildlife has to be steered, controlled. And this is good and bad. The good is that elections are from their standpoint an excellent control mechanism. The downside is that all animals are not the same, and so the more intelligent 'life forms' also have to be managed. And this takes some work ... and eventually some of the more intelligent ones have to be bribed, incentivized with cushy jobs, grant money, high salaries ... even for non-essential Woke jobs. Think all the Woke climate stuff, green energy which could not exist without government incentives, subsidies.

Even so, I sense that The Game is slipping away from the grubby hands of the Apex Elite, and they know this. The Middle East debacles and Afghanistan were catastrophe. But the Ukraine with Sanctions and Swift System failure set the capital on the column of failures with Walk-Away and BRICS Plus ... and none of this was in The Plan. And so there is A Pivot walking back of some things, a change of course to restore balance, control and so on. But it may be to late to restore the glory days of the 20th Century and the heights of US power in the 1990's and up to 911. And regarding all this and whatever materializes from walking things back, we may get a tad of cultural,social and political relief ... but we may well be on the other hand savaged by a financial and/or stockmarket collapse. And we still have amide all of this the problems ensuing of 5th Generational Warfare being waged on this. Whatever it is, it won't be an easy ride.

The important thing to always remember is that nothing on the Great Stage is for our benefit. And if we want to rid ourselves of our chains and blinders, we have to know who we are and what we want for ourselves, for our families immediate and extended. And not let them continue to get away with defining things for us by all the means as are currently in their possession (education, media, political figures, cultural promotions, all manner of lies and obfuscation).

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Michele's avatar

This seems entirely possible.

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daverkb's avatar

All kind of combinations are possible. Things evolve and then must be reassessed. Anything said, posited by me, is strictly tentative. It is a three ring circus. The big center ring is the 2024 election, the big determiner. If the Radical Commies win, then the forces of the 2024 coup d'etat will have won and they will consolidate ... and it will get very ugly for us. If the present Pivot in place keep trending because of a roll back candidate (someone like Trump) wins 2024, we will get relief. And from there it depends upon which policies are put in place and if those policies are design to reindustrialized and if the border becomes a real border.

Lot's up in the air now.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I agree, the goal is probably complete financial collapse to usher in the NWO and a totalitarian government. I’m no longer confident that the majority of citizens have the will or the ability to fight back; There are too many lazy, ignorant numbskulls

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RSgva's avatar

I think there is a middle ground somewhere here. Individualized reparations are anathema to American principles. In fact policies going backwards in time also seem against the “ex post facto” principle. In my East Coast city, rather than improving housing for poor people, they are busing homeless to panhandle, and creating requirements on new buildings to house “low income” and ex convicts, in areas that used to be redlined 100 years ago. This kind of deliberate “payback” is not going to make anybody happy except the faculty lounge and local “community organizers”.

HOWEVER I think RFK and Trump both have said the nation’s infrastructure stinks and has been neglected by our elites for years. True. It’s shameful. What’s different are the arguments made for addressing it. RFK’s is pitching to Democrats at the moment, invoking past injustices, but not necessarily planning some kind of “proportionate” compensation. I am in wait and see mode on this.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I just tend to think that, based on past actions and their outcomes, the federal government getting involved in this kind of effort usually means a lot of money wasted for very minimal or even negative results.

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RSgva's avatar

Yes. Agree. Implementation is key because recently there’s always a trough with an invitation to “come and get it“. The post Ww2 Marshall plan was based on a PLAN and based on specifically identified local needs (eg oxen) instead of creating endless corruption opportunities through grants. Recent example: the Biden Infrastructure Money is now going to subsidize ugly cell towers and solar farms all over the countryside. Did anybody really want or need that?

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Emumundo's avatar

It’s the DoD plan. They seem to have money for anything they want.

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RSgva's avatar

Can you point me to any articles/corroboration for this? I’d like to trace the money a little bit.

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Bandit's avatar

Yes, as he mentioned, are we to build new banks that are specifically for blacks to replace what was before? Schools specifically for blacks? Stores?

That just sounds like segregation to me. And how are the people that were effected by the Jim Crow laws supposed to prove they were effected by the Jim Crow laws? Since that was mentioned as to how it would be determined as to who would receive the reparation funds?

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Michele's avatar

They already have this at workplaces--"affinity groups".

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Bandit's avatar

Yep. Segregation. Voluntary segregation. All groups are equal, but some groups are more important than others.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes and what if the people who were harmed are ALSO descendants of those who benefited?? How do you objectively measure loss and benefit? How do you figure all of that out? It just seems like a recipe for another boondoggle government program that will waste money in order to virtue signal and “just do something”😕

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Roger Beal's avatar

Try to answer your questions by examining just one individual: Donald J. Harris. Certified POC, from a slave-owning family, father of the soon-to-be-multimillionaire VPOTUS.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yeah that doesn’t answer my questions, it only creates more 😆

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Exactly. MANY other groups including Native Indians who would be angry. Never mind, where and when does it end? If we give reparations it will never end.

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Lorita's avatar

Because of the nature of good vs evil and what has transpired, I think we all need reparations but I think it will come from God's hand and it will be perfect. I don't mean in heaven, I mean "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, ON EARTH as it is in heaven."

Psalm 2:8. Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

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Lisa P's avatar

I think he's referring to things like the Jackson water problem. They've had the money to fix the leaks - they just refuse to do it.

Considering 1/2 or more black people live in red states, I don't really have a problem with it. Blue states would continue to fund red states. RFK already came out about 2-3 months ago and said he was against cash reparations. He's for low-interest loans and government boondoggles, which is the same-ole, same-ole. People read headlines and not the article. But it won't happen. RFK Jr wants to win, but he may well just end up helping Trump more than himself.

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WP William's avatar

Not enough profit or political currency to fix things like water and food and medicine, roads and bridges in USA; just making them worse or allow deterioration until a crisis needs a high visibility good fix for Political credit and accolades to go around and further entrench the benevolent overseers of the Private-Public Partnership to remedy any and all problems for the little guy.

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Lew's avatar

Well said!

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Politico Phil's avatar

Here's a logical question. If previous generations of blacks were prevented from building "infrastructure" due to discrimination, how is handing out free money to blacks today that will be spent on consumer goods and lotto tickets going to build "their" infrastructure?

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RunningLogic's avatar

And how is *their* infrastructure somehow separate from everybody else’s infrastructure??

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Fred's avatar

And is that the same largely black infrastructure that was destroyed during the”summer of love?” Or the CA mansion purchased by BLM at $3m more than a mystery buyer paid only a couple months before. Pretty good return on investment, wouldn’t you say?

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Martha's avatar

Following, is the article from the NY Post. First, note the headline. They used "reparations", which is a loaded word. The article, and the campaign website/RFK Jr. actually inject some nuance into the discussion. Read the article, use the embedded links, and judge what he is doing for yourself:

RFK Jr. comes out in favor of reparations, carving out lane to Biden’s left

https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/rfk-jr-comes-out-for-reparations-forging-lane-to-bidens-left/

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RunningLogic's avatar

“RFK Jr. will find ways to offer this redress that are legal, fair, and win the approval of Americans of all races.””

I want to know specifics. Also I cannot understand what he means by “black infrastructure.” I don’t see that they have a separate infrastructure from everyone else so how would this work??

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Martha's avatar

I agree. We don't have enough information to conclude anything, much less what RFK Jr. is actually proposing. The "announcement" is pure campaign propaganda, meant to sway voters, and it seems to have done just that...

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Irunthis1's avatar

My guess as to the intent of such titles and little information would be to sway the black voters that Biden has ALREADY LOST over to Kennedy *instead* of to Trump, despite the black famous faces who have said out loud that they support Trump. Only way to do that is to dangle the reparations $$ and hope it sticks on a few.

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Roger Beal's avatar

RFK Jr: Once a Democrat, always a Democrat. Like a good little party man, he's trying to slow the tide of black voters who are moving to support Trump, by waving candy and shiny things before their eyes.

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WP William's avatar

Let's start on a couple easy ones first; let the Black guy take his white neighbor to small claims court and get a judgement for Reparations the correct way; legally PROVE it. But polling and prodding and "governing" with anonymous largesse is the better way to further destroy and divide us. R.Fk is a ninny not a leader. How much $$$ do the Crow owe the Sioux and the Sioux owe the Pawnee? Start small and work ever larger, C'Mon Lefty Scum dare you, Kennedy MUST owe reparations to Mary Jo Kopechne's family and relatives for what his drunk and irresponsible Uncle Ted did to his father's campaign worker; plus $$$ to Marylin Monroe's relatives for how his own Father and Uncle John abused and Me-Too'd her. Pay up bro!

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Michele's avatar

Wanna really break their brains?

Tell 'em about...Indians that owned slaves.

Excuse me: Native Americans that enslaved persons of African descent.

Now who pays who what, in this one?

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WP William's avatar

even the Boys from the South who fought in New Mexico 1846 were astounded by how the Navajo and New Mexicans conducted slave raids on each other. Thank God slavery NO LONGER exists anywhere, thanks to the UN and other fine organizations

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

“I’ll brief you tomorrow, no need to watch the horrifying spectacle.” THANK YOU, JEFF!

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Temcol's avatar

Taking one for the team! Thank you Jeff!

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

It’s Halloween season, and as for the horror show tonight, I’m here for it! Stockpiling Carmel corn and wine...

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

Please add your thoughts and impressions tomorrow for us. Many, myself included, don’t have the stomach for it.

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Peace's avatar

Nard - I know what you're up to - I've seen the CBD Caramel Corn and I recommend mixing the CBD corn with regular Caramel Corn so you don't overdose while you're viewing the horror show tonight:)

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

How did you know I live in the deranged state of Colorado 🤣🤣?

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Peace's avatar

I "hear" it's available in other states, locally on the shelf. I have big ears:)

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FourWinds's avatar

Yep, I'm on that one, too. I used to be horrified. Now it's "that's fake!". If it's fake, I can stomach it. Just like a horror movie.

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Tom's avatar

"Stockpiling Carmel corn"

It's a candy-corn economy, though.

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Tom's avatar

I recommend Jeff keeps a puke bucket at the ready.

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

lol! Great idea!

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TB's avatar

Well, it turns out he just gave a speech from in the office, not saying anything you wouldn't have expected. Things like, "Russia = Hamas, give more $$ for ukraine as well as Israel" and so forth. Oh, and "money for foreign wars means we give them our old equipment and use the money to replace it with new stuff Made In USA[tm], see I'm MAGA too doncha know!". The usual political stuff.

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Brad's avatar

The mainstream media spent Tuesday throwing every basic journalistic practice out the window in pursuit of a sordid little narrative that has led to mass protests and riots around the globe, attacks on Jewish symbols, and the cancelation of bilateral meetings between the president and his counterparts in Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority. By uncritically spouting incredibly weak propaganda without evidence, they've turned up the temperature and made peace all the more unlikely.

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/the-real-misinformation-merchants

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Donna in MO's avatar

They don't WANT peace.

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SB's avatar

Exactly. No peace until every Jew is wiped off the planet. Sounds a lot like Hitler to me.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Many more Palestinians have died than Israelis.

Sounds a lot like Ethnic Cleansing going on by USA and their greatest 'ally'.

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Special Ted's avatar

Hi SB...Did Hitler really say that, or is this a comparison of Arabs and Nazis in their dislike of all things Jewish?

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Renee Marie's avatar

No one wants peace. People can’t even get along in daily life at the store, in traffic, at work. It’s funny if it wasn’t so serious. Peace starts with EVERY individual.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Now THAT is the truth. Too many people not willing to give others the benefit of the doubt and too many always looking out for number one, even for really minor relatively unimportant things 😕

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS AT PLAY... 😉😉😉

Middle East War Conference Call Transcript (Tales From the Great Reset)

- I secretly eavesdropped on a Middle East war conference call b/w various leaders waiting for the Americans to pay them. Needless to say, they are getting frustrated waiting for their next handouts!

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/middle-east-war-conference-call-transcript

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Emumundo's avatar

I read your article. It’s great but I don’t think it’s satire. All these government leaders on a conference call planning their strategies around when the US coughs up money and jets. The only people who don’t see this are sadly Americans.

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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

You are right................

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Julie Ann B's avatar

It’s disappointing that there are people who still watch and believe mainstream media but it shows there are still a lot of sheep in our country and abroad.

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Brad's avatar

Agreed!

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Renee Marie's avatar

Julie I’m 60 last week. When I was 40, I threw my television away. Because it’s all bs. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining!

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Roger Beal's avatar

I demand reparations from the lying media for the cities and the commercial property insurers who've suffered billions of dollars in damages at the hands of riled-up rioting leftards.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

None of you guys decry the attacks on Christian symbols.

They will spit on Christians in Israel who try to be public with their Christian worship.

Shall I drop a dozen videos examples?

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Renee Marie's avatar

Israel is more apartheid than most people realize. Do your own research. I take no sides. I simply want Truth.

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Special Ted's avatar

BFM, please do provide the evidence. Not that it will change anyone's mind who refuses to think critically, but for those who will face their fears and observe evidence without bias. Someone yesterday commented that this statement was 'silly', but I was seeing reports of this actually increasing just weeks ago.

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Brad's avatar

How is that even relevant.

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Special Ted's avatar

When it comes to 'Israel', it's ALL relevant. Just ask anyone who views Bible prophecy as Israel-based. They think the Bible is about Israel. But, the Bible is actually Jesus-based, from start to finish, and ALL prophecy is Jesus-based.

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JacquelineP's avatar

Thanks for that link - excellent article! Have signed up for more!

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Harold Saive's avatar

I was surprised by this 2023 Gallup Poll last March the found more Democrats sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis - https://tinyurl.com/3j4mjm7k

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Brad's avatar

Yes, I actually cited that poll in this post I recently wrote about how the Left is failing the moral test presented by Hamas's barbarity:

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/the-left-is-flunking-the-moral-test

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Israel carpet bombs Gaza 'animals'.

The majority of which are under 18.

I'd say that is barbarity.

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Brad's avatar

"Carpet bomb." Sure, bud. If Israel wanted to, it could flatten the entire strip in 24 hours. But it hasn't, and it won't. Why do you think that is?

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Based Florida Man's avatar

It looks like that now, 'bud'.

Haven't you seen the pics?

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Brad's avatar

You think pictures of destroyed buildings equals "carpet bombing," bud? Please do explain.

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Emumundo's avatar

Just read your post. Good work.

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Emumundo's avatar

And we fall for it every time. Has anyone gone to RFKjrs website to see what he actually said? Why do we think the NYP Is telling us the truth?

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WP William's avatar

worked like a Hamas wet dream

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WP William's avatar

the media likes when people kill people

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

the media, spreads hate and discourse with pleasure. That incites people to do horrible things.

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Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

I don't believe the media is inanimate, it is able to grow on its own, through ignorance & knowledge. Where as guns aren't living items. They can be used for hate, of course or good.

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Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

Too simplistic

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Harold Saive's avatar

Media supplies the ammo

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Mark St's avatar

And the targets

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Kinda like guns...

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Jen's avatar

I know first amendment and all of that...which I fully support. But at some point they are so completely culpable and irresponsible that they are essentially yelling FIRE in crowded movie theater.

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Renee Marie's avatar

And it’s up to people to say, “I ain’t playing anymore!”

What if “they” had a war, and no one showed up?

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Jen's avatar

I love that idea!! That’s exactly what needs to happen and I guarantee it’s their single biggest fear. I bet this is why they are losing their $hit with only 2% taking the new vax. It proves we can resist their mental manipulation and we are defying them.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

🙄🙄🤯

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Andy D's avatar

From what I've read (I haven't read/watched/listened to/etc mainstream media for years)...RFK is a pro abortion/'climate change'/gun control democrat.

No thanks.

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Hello300's avatar

I agree. All three point to a hard NO.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

A cool Trump vid. With !Jeb!

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"On February 6, 2016 at the GOP Debate, Dr. Ben Carson didn’t hear when NBC called his name, and he stood by himself. When Trump name was called, instead of walking to The Debate Stage like other candidates, he stayed with Dr. Carson until they called his name again."

https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1713717481628389685 56 sec vid

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RunningLogic's avatar

Very classy ❤️

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Laura Kasner's avatar

It certainly was.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Wow, I don’t recall seeing that! Thanks for sharing! Once again, DJT does the right thing waiting with Dr. Carson while the other deep state RINOS follow like sheep rather than pointing out the obvious mistake.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Yep, Teddy Cruz and !Jeb! just rush by without a care.

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Sarah Bee's avatar

Great video

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Marsali S.'s avatar

Nice!

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Beth Graham's avatar

Everyone listen to RFKJR speech. I jumped the gun until my husband smartly went to the source. It’s poor reporting.

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Runemasque's avatar

Always the best advice. Go to the source, not the rephrase. Could you share what you heard, what you got out of it, or even the link to the speech that you listened to?

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LW's avatar

Which one? Link please?...thanks.

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Susan W's avatar

I'm just going to toss this out there because ... Yesterday I was in Publix - where I am every single week - when I notice that ALL the females working in the Deli Dept. were wearing hijabs instead of hairnets. That only amounted to 5 employees in the entire store but still. Never saw it before. I found it weird and slightly unsettling.

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on the doss's avatar

Do they handle pork? Or do they refuse to serve same?

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Susan W's avatar

My husband asked the same question.

Oddly enough they were slicing all the meats. I know because it was a long wait and I watched. They were wearing gloves so maybe that makes a difference. Or maybe they were just virtue signaling. But it was still weird.

(edited for atrocious spelling...)

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TB's avatar

As far as I know, it's not forbidden to handle it, only to eat it? Not that I'm an expert or anything.

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Lew's avatar

What city?

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Susan W's avatar

Ft Myers, FL

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Datagal's avatar

The FDA DIDN’T COUNT the children that died after being jabbed?!

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rolandttg's avatar

Point. Jeff. "Corporate Media is so unreliable it’s truly a miracle — mirabilia dei — that anyone still believes anything corporate media says."

Counterpoint. Einstein. "There are only two things that are infinite. The universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the universe".

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Thank you Foy quite literally making me spit out my ☕️😂.

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nik's avatar

pure gold

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Dr Linda's avatar

“I know what you’re thinking! You’re wondering whether the FBI is going to track the all these insurrectionists down using advanced image analysis”

Holy Cow!! You actually read my mind. Well done : )

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WP William's avatar

Each and EVERY SINGLE Democrat Candidate for any and every office needs to be asked publicly if they're in the 32% of Americans approving of JR Biden's hard work. Let them squirm and weasel and double-talk excuse their way with that before asking anything else. THEY ENJOY the EROSION of AMERICA. In FACT every candidate needs to answer--even NON Partisan School board and Town Trustee can't-idates should be asked, "Based on current polling of Americans.....and Boom--Do YOU approve of Biden's job performance? YES or NO are the only answers allowed."

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes I’d like to see this too.

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SB's avatar

Ditto

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Donna in MO's avatar

I would give a lot to understand the mind of the so-called 30% or so who still give him a positive approval rating! Is it possible to have your head buried that deeply in the sand and still be alive?

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FourWinds's avatar

I'm not even sure I trust those numbers. I bet they are lower. If I survey 100 people on the streets of Columbus and 99 out of 100 say Biden needs to go, then I can still claim 30% if I only count 3 total votes, including the one for him. Ok, that would make it 33%, but I think you know what I mean. :) Then again, maybe 30% of people who took that survey are really that brain dead. Or maybe they are just dead. Dead people can vote, you know.

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JustANobody's avatar

Polls are fake. Just like his support. Meant to make us think a certain way. Just like with the jabs!

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Mark St's avatar

As a whole, surveys and polling isn't fake. I've worked in the industry for a couple of big name companies.

The difficulty is getting a representative sample of sufficient size. The vast majority of people don't want to take a survey/poll or just don't answer an unknown number.

Getting reasonably accurate results is better than striking gold for these companies.

Given all of that, I don't trust many results and dismiss the under 1000 respondents polls out of hand.

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Donna in MO's avatar

I've volunteered for a friend who works for a 501c4 on one of their 'day of action' call a thons. They are running polling ahead of the 2024 election. Uses an autodialer program I pull up on my laptop. If I sign in for 2 hours I am lucky if I talk to 6-8 people, skews elderly. But then again, over 50 are the highest % voters too. At least in my area, especially in local elections. But yeah people rarely answer their phones. I do run some informal email surveys as part of projects for business clients, been doing it for 20 years, and response rates drop every year, even when they know the sender. People are surveyed out or don't trust that its confidential.

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

I think the number is accurate. My own immediate family of my two parents my brothe and me, I'm the only one who thinks Biden is doing a horrible job, they give him lots of wiggle, "well, covid, inflation started under Trump, Russia, etc." it is maddening out here in California.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

IMHO they are not critical thinkers but did hard Dems who never see anything wrong with their party.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Giving up that halo that comes from being a virtue signaler is hard.

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RunningLogic's avatar

“Is it possible to have your head buried that deeply in the sand and still be alive?”

🤣😆

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Donna in MO's avatar

New meaning to the term 'walking dead', LOL.

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Jen's avatar

They won't be for long if they keep listening to this administration

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Tom's avatar

“FDA concludes that the known and potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks of COVID-19 infection.”

Among the potential benefits, did they consider the benefit of "not having one's livelihood destroyed?" Is that a benefit?

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WilliamD's avatar

"FDA concludes that the known and potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks of COVID-19 infection.”

This is a nonsensical statement because the potential benefits of COVID 19 vaccinations literally ARE the avoidance of the potential risks of COVID-19 infection. It's like saying that the marginal benefit of eating a donut outweighs the marginal cost of not eating a donut that you already have.

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Tamsin's avatar

The weasellyist word is "potential": the potential benefit of X outweighs the potential risk of Y.

A potential benefit of X is that you do not die; a potential risk of Y is you do die. Not dying outweighs dying, therefore X outweighs Y.

Any potential benefit can be entertained.

Any potential risk can be manufactured by running the numbers until they scream DEATH.

Is weasellyist a word?

Also, the word "known" lets them not know what they do not want to look for in the data, either way.

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Tom's avatar

If only we had a "method" where we could quantify the risks and benefits and not have to guess. Perhaps we could call it something-ific. The something-ific method has an inspiring ring to it. Just what that "something" is, I guess we'll never know.

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Fred's avatar

Yes, weasellyist is now a word in my vocab!

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Tonya's avatar

Just remember - "background rates" are a measure of rates of conditions within the general population, who may also have been damaged by other pharnaceutical products.

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Copernicus's avatar

Yeah. Wait for “background rates” to be adjusted upward here in a year or two. Just as they changed the decades long standards for infant and childhood developmental milestones when they realized toddlers during co vid were now severely speech delayed. 😠

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

It was so infuriating when they did that - I remember feeling absolutely flushed with emotion when I read that they had changed the milestones. It was published around the time of an incident I had at Costco: I was standing in line behind a young father and his, oh, 2-year old(ish) toddler. The little one kept staring, just seemed mesmerized by me. I would smile and wave and make funny faces and this little guy never blinked, cracked a smile, laughed (as babies/toddlers usually do when someone makes funny faces) - just nothing. The father glanced at me and moved away a few feet.

That is when it dawned on me that I was the only one not wearing a mask. This poor child didn't know what to do with someone with an exposed face engaging him with smiles and silly faces. It broke my heart. And then I remembered the article about the gov changing the early childhood milestones - just sickening to observe in real time the damage done to these precious babies.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Copernicus's avatar

Oh, that is sickening.

And actually even more disturbing in light of the so-called Still Face experiment that I’ve recently learned about. Look it up (or read a description… I personally don’t think I could bear to watch it). Has to do with the significance of face to face interaction and engagement between an infant and mother in the formation of attachment and regulation of one’s nervous system.

The literal trauma inflicted upon the brains of these sweet children the last 2-3 years, forcing them to dissociate, at some level, from their God-given biological and developmental NEED for live, human, FACIAL interaction. May God help those children. 🙏🏻

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

I actually watched that video around the same time the childhood milestones were "re-vamped." It was devastating to watch this baby try to get a reaction from his mother, who just a minute ago had been laughing and playing with the little guy. He could not understand why she wouldn't react to his playful gestures. It did not take long before his face crumpled up and he started bawling. Now multiply that one child by how many millions of babies/toddlers around the world the last three years.

There are simply no words....

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Lynn46's avatar

😭😭

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Susan Catherine's avatar

"For me, I’m just glad RFK is in the race so the vaccine issue stays on the table." Couldn't agree more--that and that our government agencies are corrupt as well as how our soil/environment/water are being poisoned by chemicals. I disagree with him on the reparations and most likely climate change policies. Those are big disagreements in my book. I'll stick with the right.

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Runemasque's avatar

I think we also have to be precise about what it is that our approval, dismissal, or judgment is based upon. We cannot know and follow everything, but, we can try to notice if we, for example, discount someone based upon a blurb in Coffee and Covid VS listening to the full speech and examining the platform and historic precedence. I don't have time to do all of that, but, I'm trying to notice in myself upon what I base my impressions and determinations. I personally feel like I want to research what RFK said, has done, etc because I don't feel comfortable discounting his climate ideas until I find out more. It is a really important question, and tell, because we don't want to trust those who buy into narratives which seem more clearly evidenced as manipulations. RFK has made himself so incredibly accessible to alternative media forums that I suspect I could find a deeper picture of what he means regarding the reparations, climate, etc.

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