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Mar 9, 2023Liked by Jeff Childers

Any bill promoting medical freedom shouldn’t be limited to a single disease or virus. What happens when they release another GOF virus? We’d be fighting the same battles all over again. If you are going to do this, do it right the first time.

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I recall the 'Flu vaccine' was mandated for a set of medical workers , and the worker's union agreed to it. The debate was once that mandate was allowed, it could usher in others. And that's what happened with the C19 vax; supposedly the Flue shot precedent opened the door to the others.

But I guess this new bill is too specific to be used in a similar way to stop future mandates?

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We should have fought the flu vaccine being mandated. Just because it didn’t affect us... we’ll, now it does.

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A mandate is not a law, but it gives the appearance of authority. If everyone did not follow that flu mandate and walked away, what would they do?

When people follow and enforce a mandate, then it works like a law. The problem is we all need to NOT comply, and they will comply to US.

They know that people generally just follow orders, hence, we are sheep. When one sheep goes astray, they can attack, but all the sheep, no they have to follow the flock.

They can flock off...

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The problem for individuals is that the government uses our tax dollars to reward businesses and agencies and hospital systems for ruining those who don't comply with the mandates. So a father who supports his family with his job is faced with losing his job or complying. We need to figure out how to garner big enough networks of people willing on the same day at the same time and in full force to not comply.

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Like the huge strikes in Europe!

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I wonder if they have less to lose? Although their strikes didn't change government policy.

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one idea floated during the covid curbside pickup hysteria where grocery workers (defined as critical workers in my state--not essential (legal distinction) were being pressured to comply with all mandates was to overwhelm the dammed stores by giving them EXACTLY what they wanted--no one goes in (for their own safety) without crossing the CoVid "strike line" of customers/protesters and 500+ cars amassed to pick up the curbside merchandise and continued unending onlline shopping that the compliant big corporate supermarkets asked us so politely to participate in. Repeat anywhere and everywhere and the big box retailers and others complying with State Mandated B.S. would have had to choose to stand with their right-thinking customers or completely closed. Of course LEFTIEs could have easily done this had they been Right-Thinking; but the Left-me Aloners on the RIGHT would never make the effort or strive to be impolite to create change or justice.

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Perhaps a group needs a good lawyer to anticipate and steer clear of legal traps. For example, the DOJ has been arresting and charging people for peacefully standing outside abortion clinics. And we know how trespassing and parading without a license laws have been used to incarcerate peaceful protesters. So laws about how and where the government can target individuals for group actions need to be understood and worked around. If people were less threatened by being individually targeted for doing the right thing, they might be more willing to act as part of a responsible block.

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❤️ “flock off”

Fear is also a good control mechanism.

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Especially when the fear is a rational response to a real threat. The real threat being the loss of life, culture and freedom at the hands of storm troopers, not the sniffles.

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Also, the people downstream who attempt to enforce the mandate don't understand the nature of a mandate. I suspect they think it has more authority than it actually does. And people go along with it.

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Dr. Christina Parks testified (August 2021) in Michigan that Vaccines don't prevent transmission, and this new technology is complex. She also said that with the flu, if you get vaccinated in multiple years you are more likely to get severe disease. That brief interview is here. https://youtu.be/Iy3SfGPcPzA She also speaks about the Tuskegee experiment that the CDC conducted between 1930 and 1970. about 9 minutes, worth every second.

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I did try to fight it In 2009 when they tried to mandate the H1N1 vaccine. I went to Albany to protest I can’t say the turnout was great...it was abysmal. Luckily that vax mandate didn’t go through but not because of any altruism but because they didn’t have enough doses or money to push it through. Fast forward a few years and they mandated flu vax or mask up...again no pushback! So here we are...not surprised in the least!

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Adding to what you started...around 2011 the previously ‘free’ annual FLU shot for HC workers became mandatory. One had to file an exemption AND WEAR A MASK, if not wanting the poison! Walking the halls of the hospital all knew who had taken the FLU shot and who had not. A grooming of sorts? A forecast/foreshadowing of what was to come? The rest is more recent hx as the scam hit and EVERYONE in the hospital had to wear masks...hmmm 😑

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Yep. My RN daughter, who refused flu shots, had to wear a DIFFERENT COLOR mask in the hospital, which of course violates one’s privacy re: medical records. Also, she TO THIS DAY still has to wear a mask at all times at work, because she was exempted from the C19 shot.

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Everyone has to wear a mask in healthcare. I’m (stupidly) c19 vaxxedx2 (but NO More) and, of course, am treated as if I’m unvaxxed. Thankfully I’m awake to the scam now (better late than never) and many of my coworkers are also refusing both flu and cv19 shots. But, I’m pretty upset at myself for never ever questioning vaccine, ugh! I got the flu shots because I didn’t want to wear a mask not for my health....unfortunately it never dawned on me that it was against human rights to be forced into choosing between poison or suffocation. It’s amazing when the blindfold is removed 😳

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After I wrote that I just saw Mike Adams/Health Ranger just did a video about the MMS chlorine dioxide. I haven't watched all of it, but here is the link.

Starts talking about MMS/CDS/chlorine dioxide at 12 min mark

https://www.bitchute.com/video/sFl0Lgbkjdqw/

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Thank you for this info. I'm always interested in learning about about alternative health resources since have now become my own doctor. God bless you! 😍

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MMS is great stuff! TheUniversalAntidote.com and mmstestimonials.co

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Christine, Are you detoxing yourself? It would help a lot. Do some research on it.

My personal preference is MMS/chlorine dioxide. You can learn about it here. theuniversalantidote.com

Free online pdf book detailing how to use it.

https://www.jahealthadvocate.com/uploads/2/4/5/9/2459046/mms_health_recovery_guidebook_1_october_2016.pdf

Where to get it...

https://kvlab.com/chlorine-dioxide-products/chlorine-dioxide-kit-w-hcl-activator-NKP-H4

There are other things you can use but this is cheap, effective, and been around for about 100 years.

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Dissolving Fibrins too:

1) Bromelein + N-Acetyl-cysteine (empty stomach)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7999995/

2) Nattokinase (empty stomach)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9458005/ (c19 2021)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5372539/ (CVD 2017)

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Sorry, Dawn, I didn't see this comment! But +2 for MMS. It's great for animals, too!

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Yup. Last year I had to wear a mask at work but vaccinated didnt have to, even though the info about it not preventing transmission was out! Many times I did not and my manager made a comment one day which meant that my medical info to HR (who required it) was not private. I am in Florida too!

in my mind I often thought of saying "but I *identify* as vaccinated! ( Since it works for genders. )🤷

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We identify as 'trans-vaxxed'. LOL

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Her mask should say something like "pureblood' on it, or have a syringe with a red line through it. Or put a Jewish star on it. No vocal expression, but a symbol...

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We had yellow masks...go figure!

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Thinking that the covid "vaccine" is just the tip of the iceberg - I have visions of syringes attacking us from every corner.......

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I agree -- I don't see how everyone doesn't have that same vision after years of this nightmare!!! Just waiting in a vet's office the other day to get my dog's rabies shot creeped me out. Trust in public health??? If someone still trusts the pharmaceutical companies or the medical system/ public health "experts", they haven't been paying attention!!!

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I have unvaxed friends, who still run for their doctor if they get the sniffles. Elderly women, but some men too. They’re terrified that they’ll get pneumonia. And the doctors tell them, “It’s a good thing you came in and we were able to prevent pneumonia.” They’ll never give up that raggedy security blanket.

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The government gives good 'fear'.....

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Pet vaccines are just as bad.

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Yep, too many not paying attention, or suffering Willful Blindness.

....... or other options, I suppose - stubbornness and stupidity. Not necessarily in that order.

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Burden & Mesus - Call it even (2:51) - NSFW (R language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7dPexDeFP8

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Definitely agree with the sentiment!

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If you look on the CDC website, Florida is one of many states that does not require health workers to have a flu shot to work. So anything being required is unconstitutional and overreach.

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I live in Oregon and we are definitely mandated. 😢😐

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Florida people: who sponsored that bill? Who is behind it? That should tell us something.

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This one: https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=78365&SessionId=99 One Colleen Burton, "Republican". Just happens to be Chair of Health & Human Services Committee. Isn't that handy?

These people...What to do about these people?

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*Be* the Republican Party by taking it over from within, the way the socialist/communists have done with the Dem party. How to do that? Attend your county party's monthly (usually) meetings. Volunteer. *Become a Precinct Committeeman/woman.*

Here's what you need to know:

precinctstrategy.com

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It is possible. In our very very blue county, our RINO party was recently taken over and it was spearheaded by health freedom people. We did exactly what you suggest. Got 50+ new precinct men and women, then voted in the health freedom candidate for county chair. We were even able to field 6 reps at the state GOP meetings to change leadership at the state level- our guy won by 1 vote so remember EVERY vote matters. Again we need to focus on local local local!

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Yes! Hubs and I are going to our first Republican Executive Committee meeting tonight -- Santa Rosa County. Tonight will be first reading of Dr. Joe Sansone's "Ban the Injection" resolution. Gotta go local -- and gotta make sure your sheriff believes in and defends individual liberty from the annoyingly ever-present freaks who will just not leave it alone...

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Well done, well done! Thank you!

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Yes! So, good…local, local, local control.

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So you Florida people: this, Colleen Burton, is she a rhino republican, then? Does she have a history of this kind of thing? And would the next move be to contact your reps and have them vote no against this bill? And support the original bill?

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Thanks to commenter, JHenry, we learn that this woman (Eight years in the House, just elected to the Senate) appears to have received nearly $26K in campaign contributions from a trade organization, Pharmaceutical Researchers & Manufacturers of America. This trade organization lobbies on behalf of...wait...

Wait for it...Pharmaceutical companies.

Then this one -- Burton -- comes up with a bill that will compete with Gruters' bill, SB 222. Gruters' bill is comprehensive and protects -- as a basic civil right -- 𝒂𝒍𝒍 medical choices related to all illnesses, but this genius (Sorry...I've just really had it) comes up with a bill that she calls "Protection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices". A bill that singles out (discriminates) medical and injection choices related to..."COV!D-19".

Has this woman -- who swore an oath to the Constitution -- not heard of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment???? How does this woman sponsor any legislation related even remotely to pharma after taking money from a group that lobbies for pharma??? https://ballotpedia.org/Colleen_Burton_(Florida)

Am I missing something?

Anyway, the Barnaby/Gruters bill, HB 305 and SB 222, are the civil rights bills that afford civil rights and equal protection to all Floridians and their children for all their health care choices, including vaccination.

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Floridians, this should be a loud reminder that DeSantis cannot be everywhere at once. The door opens briefly, and trash blows into the room, unbeknownst to your Guv and to most anyone else.

YOU have to act YOURSELF, at county board meetings, local party meetings, school board meetings, et al.

Progressives are no different than rust ... Remember, rust never sleeps.

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Scroll down for phrma’s list of members. https://phrma.org/About

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Early (early) this am I was on Instagram and saw a post (recorded video) by a group of folks that went to her office yesterday to ask her about her bill. She was not there but her assistant was. She told them "Desantis favored" her bill! Here we go. I don't have the link but it should have made it somewhere else by now. I'll look for it and post the link if I find it.

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Well I guarantee she didn’t write the bill. Probably written by an hospital association lobbyist. Check her donors.

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Colleen Burton 2022 campaign contributors

https://ballotpedia.org/Colleen_Burton_(Florida)

What is “pharmaceutical researchers and manufacturers of America”?

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Oh, my goodness, JHenry! Thank you for this. So, if I'm reading this correctly, that chart reveals that this pharma research and manufacturing "trade organization" lobbies on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. And this senator appears to have received nearly $26K as a campaign contribution -- and then she just happens to come up with this ridiculous piece of legislation that actually serves to protect pharma in the context of the constellation of respiratory symptoms the world calls "COV!D-19".

Honest to God, you just can't make this sh*t up.

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PhRMA - Pharma, i.e., Big Pharma.

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Colleen Burton

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We the People must use the power of our pen and voices! Email and call all Florida Senators and Representatives NOW! Don’t wait and hope they do the right thing! Take Action! Let them know we will not tolerate this bait and switch game! We control their futures in politics...or we let them continue to do whatever suits them. Which will it be? Just Do It Now!🇺🇸

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Here’s exactly what I sent to my Florida Senators, Representative and the Governor of Florida (feel free to copy, revise as needed and use!): “To the Honorable Spencer Roach ;

I urge you to support a comprehensive bill to ensure Floridians are never persecuted or discriminated against for any personal medical status, including, but not limited to, their refusal to be vaccinated with ANY vaccine or other medical experiment, tested and approved by the FDA or otherwise. As well, all current and future FDA-approved medical interventions should be permitted use by any patient with the agreement of their health provider and no patient should be denied treatment in any Florida hospital or other licensed medical center based on the hospital’s preferred or not preferred narrative regarding said approved medical treatments. It appears, according to research by qualified individuals, that SB 252 is an effort to thwart the efforts of SB 222 to do this very thing. We the People of Florida expect you to do your job, as you were elected to do, of protecting ALL our rights, not limited to, but including our medical rights as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Florida. Thank you!”

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Sending a letter as well.

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Cyn - haven’t seen you here in awhile. Good to have you back!

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Thanks, Lisa! I have to take breaks every now and then, as the craziness wears on me! It frustrates me at not being able to do more. I’m trying to find that semi-retired, but still consulting, work-life balance by also working on my golf game! It gets me outside and I have also tried limiting the intake of depressing news by balancing it with a new-found appreciation for using the original Lord’s Prayer as a meditation, calming work to handle the overload of crazy I hear and read each day. I’m currently working on a post about my recent journey back to center for my SubStack at Cyn’s Challenge, if you might be interested. I hope to have it completed in the next week or so.

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Here, hear!

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Floridians, this should be a loud reminder that DeSantis cannot be everywhere at once. The door opens briefly, and trash blows into the room, unbeknownst to your Guv and to most anyone else.

YOU have to act YOURSELF, at county board meetings, local party meetings, school board meetings, et al.

Progressives are no different than rust ... Remember, rust never sleeps.

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I agree. They are not testing anything properly and the regulatory agencies are in the pockets of Big Pharma but yeah, let’s continue business as usual. Ugh. GOF research needs to be stopped forever. They proved that their justification for doing it “ to prevent the next pandemic” is not supported by evidence. As you said, if they are allowed to continue we’d be fighting the same battles all over again. Haven’t we learnt anything?

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Agree, SB252 is worthless because in addition to Jeff’s points, it is specific to Covid-19. We want protection from the next fabricated disease and that means vaccine choice. Freedom to choose whether or not to take any vaccine bc there is risk involved with all treatments and people have the right to choose if the benefit outweighs the risk for themselves.

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They don't even have to fabricate the next disease. All they have to do is change the name of Covid to something else (they did that with monkeypox), and the law becomes mute.

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

Any bill should contain the language that the right over self-determination of health 'is absolute and shall not be infringed upon." (Actually, the proper way to enact Health Liberty would be an amending to a constitution, not an enactment in code. The reason is we have dominion over our bodies, property as a Right of Liberty from God. This being so, it should not be in code.)

In the Bait and Switch governments we now have, all rights are basically CIVIL RIGHTS, state granted and always conditioned. The issue is really God conferred absolute rights vs Man/State determinations. The choice is between God based presuppositional constitutions and whatever Humanist administration parading as government we now are under.

Ultimately, the one is Liberty and the other is Tyranny. Look around and say it ain't so.

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Yes. Bill is too narrowly written so as to make useless as we have Covid 19 in the tail lights now and are awaiting the 'next' pandemic (bird flu, ?)

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Marburg or ebola

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Yes, more GENETIC therapies. Any new spike protein can be inserted via mRNA delivery system.

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Agreed. I live in Florida. This is very disappointing.

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If the bills are limited to Covid- 19 they'll just call the next variant Covid-20. The WHO "treaty" blatantly tells us covid was just a dress rehearsal.

Fascism via the exceptions to the rule of law written into the World's "health" laws. We either fight this or deserve what is coming...

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Civil Rights Law is privilege (rights) granted by and subject to the state's definitions. Civil Rights law is whatever the state says it is.

The Rights of Liberty are Life, Liberty (movement) and Property are granted by God and are what Scripture tells us they are. The state may not transgress against, infringe upon a free exercise of the Rights of Liberty. (Not in an American constitutional republic, but clearly they are doing something else.)

These two, civil rights and constitutional rights are two distinct bodies of Law. The contention for us should be that the state in writing 'new rights' in code (the two Florida bills) is usurping the Rights of Liberty (unalienable). To do this is to act in color of law in an insurrectional and treasonous way. If only people understood this, we would be home free ... at least in our insistance in our own behalf and in a proper framing of our Right to Liberty.

And by the way, the Colonials said it right in the Declaration of Independence. They made the proper claim to standing from which all else followed in the document.

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So did the new bill get the ax?? I hope so!!

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Medical freedom is medical freedom. There is no halfway to it. It includes all drugs, vaccines and other substances like mRNA poisons. No matter what Florida does or any other state, The Dummy in the DC Swamp will sell our freedom of choice down the river when he signs the WHO pandemic treaty and revised world-wide health regulations. This is some deadly gruesome treachery coming down the pike. Beware!

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I’m wondering why DeSantis and Tucker (and others) only go so far... so as not to push too hard, or only push certain issues?

DeSantis does the right things until he doesn’t... like this health care bill (and sex trafficking in Florida is out of control yet he’s concerned with how to get Djokovic in for a tennis match?).

Tucker is going to give us more new footage from the Capitol but after he’s attacked by McConnell and others he ends up repeating Mondays footage which was already out for most of us to see 2 years ago...

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I started wondering this back in the day when Sean (🤮) Hannity and the late Alan Colmes had the Fox show, where they did the ‘competing’ viewpoints. Hannity would take it just so far, but never deliver the ‘knockout punch’ that we knew existed.

I’ve come to see the two parties interactions as being like wrestling matches. They stir up the fans, but have a vested interest in keeping the fight going with no definitive winner. Beyond frustrating and disgusting.

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You also accurately described the race hustle business, as practiced by "The Reverend" Sharpton and his mentor Jesse Jackson.

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DeSantis cannot stop bills from being introduced in the Florida legislature. He is in Executive branch. He can veto bad legislation once it is passed or try to get a Legislator to propose an amendment to the bill.

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I understand that Karen, and you’re right, but he can still give his opinion on important matters... he has a microphone that I wish he would use on more important issues... 🤔🤷‍♀️

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The Lioness of Judah Exposing the Darkness gives very interesting historical perspectives and educates on the teachings of Hegel.

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When you wear those kinds of shoes, you must prepare accordingly. we can only guess.

There is a method to the madness. The theater has many actors, not all on stage at once.

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

Do you think they are bought off too? It truly makes me wonder about DeSantis. Tucker- eh he has a paid show!

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DeSantis=George W. Bush. Expect a lot of deception. Fortunately for us, his campaign handlers have to try and keep him in the national spotlight, so he has to look very conservative.

I have friends who are praying that RDS will not run for president now, but finish his governorship. I really hope those prayers are affirmatively answered.

But I’m not counting on it.

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I notice these things too.

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See jamesroguski.substack.com #StopDigitalEnslavement.

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Atrocity and Genocidal behavior has already been established as un-accountable, as the bean counter actuaries have made clear what .GOV medical health "PROCEDURES" have accomplished as an emergency use. But by all laws, it is nothing but "WRETCHED ABUSE"!

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Biden doesn’t have to sign , apparently silence is acceptance.

Perhaps we all need to contact our leaders NOW.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jamesroguski/p/silence-procedure?r=o4nkl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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I often wonder how education in public schools has veered so far from what I remember in the classroom so many years ago. Regardless of why, the Department of Education clearly needs a serious makeover or it needs to be eliminated completely.

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Trump is right on this one, he's been pushing this lately: dissolve the Dept of Education.

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I agree, as a first step. Unfortunately, it will only move the parts back to where they were before President Carter unified them at the Cabinet level. We have had major educational bills since the 60's that need to be addressed.

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I was blessed to attend the school that was central to our little farm community in the Florida Panhandle, starting in 1957. Every farm community had its own small school and we competed for sports. Every morning we prayed The Lords Prayer in unison, listened to a student read passage of scripture and pledged allegiance to the flag. All was right with the world.

These schools were the heart of these communities. Families gathered there for seasonal events and activities. This came to a screeching halt with the Civil Rights/busing mandates. All our little schools were shut down and we were forced to go to school ‘in town’. The communities lost much of their cohesiveness and concern for neighbors. Education has been downhill since then, from my perspective. No one should be forced to follow government edicts. Nothing good comes of coercion.

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One of Ronald Reagan's campaign planks was to abolish the Dept of Education. Once in office however, that plank was forgotten. At this point, I'm afraid anything we do at the Federal level will be about as effective as trying to put lipstick on a pig.

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I bet there are laws that prohibit teachers from teaching their personal opinions. When I was at U of Illinois finishing my teaching degree, we were taught that our opinions were ours. We were to teach the curriculum! As God was kicked out of schools and courthouses and the lives of many Americans, this is the result. Every day my classes said the Pledge to our flag. I did not feel prayer in the classroom was appropriate, but I said prayers over my students silently and I prayed I was able to teach and make every day exciting and worthwhile.

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

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This (Jaci's comment)

All throughout my schooling years, I don't recall knowing anything about the personal lives of my teachers. None of them. Most I didn't even know if they were married or had children let alone their sexual or political orientation. It wasn't important that I knew that.

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Same, unless they were pregnant. I remember finding out years later that my 4th grade teacher was going through a divorce when I was in her classroom. No idea.

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Same for my retired teacher hubs. U of Illinois. He took a 23 year spell from teaching. Went back in 2001 and wondered WTF had happened even then. Counted the days until retirement. He taught high school science classes and corrected for spelling and grammar. Some didn’t like that.

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Maybe I’m dating myself, but when I was in school we started the day with a silent prayer and the pledge of allegiance. First we kick out prayer, then make flag burning ok, and now we wonder why we are in a mess!

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Exactly! When I was in school, we prayed out loud, pledged the flag, read a portion from the Bible or had verse written on the board by the teacher. Respected authority, for the most part. My second grade teacher was in a wheelchair. The 7th grade boys lifted her upstairs and downstairs every day. Nobody messed with her. Today, she wouldn’t stand a chance. 65 years ago. Just sayin

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Ditto the out-loud Lord's Prayer and the Pledge for this Pittsburgh boy, born in 1947. I do not recall any students perishing from exposure either to the word or to the flag.

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

This dates me but when I was in grade school, we had daily silent prayer and we all did the pledge of allegiance. At Christmas, we would all gather on the steps of the interior stairwell and sing traditional American Christian songs for the season. Good memories! I remember how it gave us students a sense of community with all the students and faculty. And this was a public school in Macon Ga.

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I could add that my family moved to Macon from Michigan when I was in 3rd grade. I don't remember anything like that happening in the Michigan school. But Michigan was all into "progressive" educational theories. For example, they didn't teach phonics as the method for learning how to read. As a result, my 3rd grade teacher in Macon told my parents I didn't know how to read. So they hired a retired teacher to tutor me in phonics and was in the advance English classes ever since.

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Georgia had a much better school system than most would have thought (or did) back in the day, so to speak. That was S. Ga. I can't speak for the rest and only assume. I was always impressed with how articulate many were.

Later Jay

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Yes and children who were taught right are/were ignored, put down, and their opinions and truths jeered by peers and teachers. 🙋‍♀️1970s

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Go Illini! Unfortunately, our Alma is not the one we remember. 🧡💙🧡💙

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I worked at Noyes lab on the Quad in the Physical Chem department. My first real job and just married. One of the profs I worked for went ion to win a Nobel Prize but I doubt he even really knew I was alive but to correct his manuscripts. It was a nightmare with chemical and mathematical equations and such. Then you had to actually change a set of keys in the Selectric typewriter for the Greek letters and math symbols. For every single one. 😱😱. Lots of white out and carbons. Then when all the corrections were done and I was carrying the damn manuscript down to the post drop he would be coming down the hall behind me wanting more corrections. I also worked for profs who were working on the infant computer programs starting. Pages and pages of 1 s and Os to type . Holy moly. I had no idea what was going on. 🤣 The computer was that large building on the quad south I think. We had NO MONEY.

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This is a great story! Was it DCL? That is where I remember having to run programs with punch cards. Yes, I am that old! 😁

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My husband did work for his science studies on the punch cards. 1967-69. I made $260.00 a month. His first teaching job—$6,400.00 a year. 🤣🤣. Married 56 years in January. I’ve had a great life. Hope you have too. 👍🏻

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In FL we say the pledge & have a moment of silence at the start of every school day.

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My university must have to. I do not remember, because it was just what we did. In 16 years I never talked about my personal life or politics in the classroom.

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As a retired educator and former teacher union member, I am appalled by what is happening in education. I am appalled by what the union is representing. There is no way I could support the union at this point but what is the alternative? The union supports employees if needed in a controversy. The union negotiates salary and benefits. I hope, with unions being targeted, a better system will emerge.

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The alternative is to allocate the per-student tax dollars to families, for use on any valid educational expense. Then families could choose private or charter schools, homeschooling, micro-schools (where a small number of families pool dollars to hire a teacher, who would then make vastly more than a government-school salary), or whatever mix or new idea they want. "Oh, but some students might fall through the cracks!" Right now, there are big-city school systems where the *majority* of students 'graduate' without the ability to do simple math or reading. If a government school is excellent, it will retain students. If there are enough alternative settings in which to teach, there's no need for a union; teachers could just quit and take a different job, like the vast majority of other people do, who are not represented by unions.

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Good luck getting the (left) teachers unions to allow this

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This is the bill currently wending its way through the Florida Senate. You can access the House bill through this site. Arizona already passed what is the current standard for school choice. You don't just sit around, complaining that your political opponent won't 'let' you do something. For national-level school choice information, follow Corey DeAngelis.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/00001

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Truth is, the teachers unions function as revenue generators for the democrats and RINOs. Actually, all the public service unions do.

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Ronald Reagan was a union man, until he realized their folly, changed, and became a great president

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

The thing that really killed me, with regard to unions, was the complete cave most of the unions did on the covid vaccines. They didn't even squeak in protest. If they had, the mandates would have never happened. They needed union employees to help reach critical mass. Once enough people were vaccinated, there would be less people to support those who refused (because people are generally self-interested). I strongly suspect that many union collective bargaining agreements would have at least forced a discussion on the vaccine mandates.

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One of the biggest mindblows of the whole Covid saga, how every single institution corrupted their mission... the unions being a good example. Someday sociologists will study how this psyop was so successful.

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Hospitals corrupted their mission as well. And healthcare providers turned their backs on the code of ethics, The Hippocratic Oath.

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Let’s pray it is from the right point of view.

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In regards to the lockdowns, I knew the majority of teachers would fight tooth and nail to keep virtual learning for as long as possible.

The little monster students they’ve created aren’t pleasant to be with and can sometimes be dangerous. Teacher assault antidotes are becoming too common.

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I would be interested to know if the unions received any sort of COVID money. I know public schools received enormous amounts of money - tied to the money was requirements to mask everyone in the school, push the vaccines, etc.

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

Former Florida teacher and union member here, too. Georgia and other states have the salaries raised by order of the legislature. No unions. School districts can add an additional amount to try to lure more quality teachers. Without unions, salaries are fine. Higher than many Florida counties where unions negotiate. And, you can still by teacher insurance for a fraction of what the dues were.

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No you can choose not to participate in union. You still get their negotiated salary. You just don’t get to vote or their representation until you join. That’s fine with me. I couldn’t pay $50-$100 a pay check knowing it was funneled to candidates I did not want to support! You figure out a way!

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Look into the Professional Educators Network. Provides support and legal assistance without the commie hook.

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

Well for ONE thing I can tell you first hand that hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent on ridiculous things and what peeves me most of all - if you work near gov contracts you will see this - is they frantically spend money because they “don’t want to have to give any back”. What?!!!! I’m sorry there is nothing wrong with giving back!!!!! tax payer funds! 😡

Edited to add - with our schools CVD $$$ we built and renovated campus. And no not just for ventilation etc. It was major massive overhaul. Total fraud to the American people IMO.

I also have a degree in sociology (don’t remind me! 🤢). I TRULY believe decline in education started (most of our problems in society in fact) started with feminism and the removal of women from home. Feminism was very closely related to the LGBTQ issues. When I was in grad school over 20’yrs ago I saw this. Many faculty were gay. They were also the feminists. UGH.

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The decline in education started much longer ago than that:

"The first step in understanding the state of education today is to review how government came to be the dominant force behind schooling in the United States. From the outset of the first settlements in the New World, Americans founded and successfully maintained a decentralized network of schools through the 1850s. Then, beginning in New England, a wave of change swept across the country, which soon saw states quickly abandoning the original American model of decentralized, private education in favor of government-funded and operated schools.

"This movement not only altered the direction and control of elementary and secondary education in the United States, but it also contradicted many of the principles Americans had fought for less than a century earlier:

- A country founded in opposition to central governmental authority allowed for bureaucratic management of its schools.

- A country synonymous with "free enterprise" and distrust of legally protected monopolies built a government monopoly in schooling.

- A country that stretched the exercise of individual choice to its practical limits in nearly every sphere of life severely limited the exercise of choice in schooling, assigning the responsibility for education to the discretion of government authorities."

Please read the whole thing.

https://www.mackinac.org/3249

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Blame Woodrow Wilson, the founder and godfather of most all things "progressive" in our nation.

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So where are the "feminists", especially the militant noisy ones, now that western cultures are erasing biological women from existence?

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Lori Lightfoot is my favorite feminist. Of course gay as can be.

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

In fairness, not all feminists are gay. But it is connected for sure and I also truly believe removing moms from

the home was a huge part of the downfall of education.

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I mourned the loss of the ‘at home mom’ and still do. My dark imaginings of the emotional distress have come true over the decades.

The children are only young for a set period of years. Once they are successfully raised and nurtured, most women will have several good decades for outside work.

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For those of us who are awake and are parents, there is only one solution: Get your kids out of the state (public) schools. There is no other choice. We should all push for reform at the Fed level but, let's face it, at this point it is an effort like putting lipstick on a pig. It's not going to help your children.

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Get them out!

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Research Charlotte Iserbyt who wrote The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America in the 1970’s. Her website is extensive.

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Thomas Sowell -- Dismantling America -- Hoover institute interview (33 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SDLBqIubCs

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Summary: Sowell sees the dismantling of marriage, of culture, and of self-government. So governance can rule the people. Aristocracy vs the Plebs.

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Sowell would likely know first-hand, as the American left attacked the black family structure first. Strong working-class two-parent homes were assaulted by LBJ's "Great Society", turning men into travellin' sperm donors and women into baby-dropping income generators.

One of the neighborhoods with the lowest rates of divorce and of unemployment in my bometown Puttsburgh PA thru the 1940s and up to about 1958 (the year of "urban redevelopment") was the 98% black Hill District. Richard King Mellon (the bank guy) and his CofC pals decided that neighborhood had to go away, to be replaced by a sports arena and highrise low-income public housing. The final icing on that cake was that the vertical future slums never got built, and black families were dispersed out of their own strong community, all over the city.

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you will own nothing and be happy servants...........no house and student debt

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A helpful book for understanding it all for me has been Strange New World by Carl R. Trueman. It's helped me see what a long time coming this has been as well as current factors speeding it up.

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The federal DOE needs to be demolished asap. They educate not one child. The dept is unconstitutional too; education is a state matter.

Any “education” agency, or entity should only be one closest to the people it serves. County - City. I even have issues w/ state BOE bc they control our legislators. Citizen concerns are not much weight up against the state DOE; drop of hat they can send bus loads of “educators” to statehouses to wail & stop anyone who’s advocating for measures that they don’t like. Too much power.

Local BOE & superintendents are cowards bc they defer to state & feds. Money talks too; or the threats of removal of funds.

Our government education system is as corrupt as the NEA.

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LEGISLATORS: In light of all the evidence, please have the moral courage to enact the following law in your state -- simply change the name of the state:

“No law, statute, or ordinance may require or coerce an individual or other mammal in the State of [insert state name here] to receive or use a medical product, or impose a penalty or deprive a benefit for refusing a medical product or refusing to disclose whether an individual or other mammal has received or used a medical product.”

Above is modified from the Aaron Siri, Esq proposal here: https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/cdc-now-recommends-children-and-adults. Attorney Aaron Siri has won many vaccine-related cases and FOIA requests for Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) and others

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Meanwhile in Michigan…..

They are trying to slip every vile law, they can come up with to make us fully commi-Cali, under the table this week. A package of gun grab laws, taking away our electoral votes, stripping away “Right to Work” laws, and enlarging the Elliott Larson bill to include gender identity protection and compulsion.

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I have a compulsion to slap every blue legislator I see. Is that protected? Please tell me I am. 😇

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A whole bunch of red ones need slapping too, I am sorry to say.

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So true! Well, it is said that Some (many?) Rs are corrupt, but All Ds are.

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Probably not protected but it sounds like a good idea! LoL

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All of this was inevitable with Whitmer/Nessel/Benson being re-elected and the democrats controlling the judiciary and the legislature. I'd like to attribute this to the phenomenon of election fraud but I know too many people, particularly in the Detroit suburbs, who supported Whitmer's re-election bid and are happy with this outcome. Also and as we've often discussed, the Michigan GOP is a train-wreck.

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Despite the loud noise coming from Detroit and Lansing, I will never believe Whitmer won re election. No way. But everything was completely put in place from 2016 on, if not incrementally before. Unfortunately, we are not the only overthrown state trying to pass all kinds of communist bills.

My new Rep Legislator nor my new Rep. state Senator have bothered to drop one mailing to any of their constituents explaining what’s going on. We are rural, solid red, and don’t count. What I have never understood is how can the Democrats be so completely lockstep with communism, and the GOP says nothing. NOTHING!

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I have no doubt that the more rural counties tend to be strongly conservative. The problem is that the population centers in Wayne, Washtenaw, Ingham, Genesee, Oakland, and increasingly Macomb, are democrat power bases.

We lived in one of the more affluent northern Detroit suburbs and my anecdotal experience was that these were democrat strongholds. As an independent conservative, I was routinely on the "wrong" side of most issues at least as far as I could gauge from discussions with friends and neighbors.

Places Royal Oak, Birmingham, Bloomfield, Ferndale, and Troy, for example, provide a lot of support for Whitmer and the DNC. What shocked me most was how people seemed to quickly forget the draconian measures Whitmer put in place in response to Covid and were willing to forgive and forget by mid-2021.

Lots of people affiliated with the medical industry, personal injury lawyers, IT and education who comprise the DNCs core constituency. It really played out it with Covid where the local Costco, Kroger, and Whole Foods were hotbeds of zealotry and virtue signalling.

I believe that the Whitmer cabal were re-elected because of the ineptitude of the MI GOP (the whole signature fiasco and Tudor Dixon) and the influence that corporate medicine and labor unions wield. Michiganders proudly drive Ford vehicles despite being screwed over by the 'Big Three' for the last forty years.

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People have to live their lives. This is a group I joined on fb , during the summer. Amy Jayne Hawkins is the administrator and the group is called , Americans Unite for Michigan. She has been in Michigan politics for over 20 years and is a devout Christian. She sees the political disaster in Michigan as still a disaster but has a bit different take. She did a piece this morning talking about the bills passed, repealed, and going forward.

If you join the group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/americansuniteformichigan

Look for the one entitled morning thoughts. As a Christian, she is right.

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Thank you for the link and I agree with the observations.

"People have to live their lives."

I agree completely. I'll admit that I am embittered about what's taking place in Michigan. I lived my entire life there but felt compelled to leave, more for the sake of our sons and their future.

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What are your thoughts on Karamo being elected as Chairwoman to the Michigan Republican Party?

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It remains to be seen. Karamo represents those people who rightfully feel that the Michigan GOP is ineffectual and dominated by RINOs. They're right seeing how the 2022 Election was largely a repudiation of the Michigan GOP and Michigan is now firmly on a California/Massachusetts/Illinois trajectory.

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Karamo has temporarily moved the MiGOP address to Grand Rapids. We have heard that the GOP has left them no money, and they felt the other side of the state gives them more opportunities. This was all done by GOP election delegates and I did not know she was even up for the position. I honey knew of DiPerno and Soldano running for it. I like Karamo and she was the most qualified person running for SOS. She knows what she is talking about. But I do not know about what really went on.

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All the blue states are going to become more consistent with their woke Marxist ideology. The Great Divide is building momentum.

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Do you have links so I can read up on these items?

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I do not have the links right in front of me. The Elliott-Larson expansion of gender equality protection was coming to the floor today. It was House bill 4003 and Senate bill 4. We have been emailing our Legislators to try to put in amendments. Groups are gathering at the Capitol today, but as per usual, this is all done behind closed doors, and a done deal before it comes to the floor.

I will try and find links from the mi.gov website.

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"Mammals" is too broad and would kill this. Cattle and livestock, even pets, constantly receive treatments they clearly "don't want" and nobody bats an eye.

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I think it works, b/c of 'require' and 'refusing to disclose.' It may create some problems in the animal agriculture and food industries, but because of the push to substitute government's judgment for our own, to the point of tyranny, I'd be for it. mRNA injections for food animals are imminent, and they will be required, in order to maximize profits and payoffs.

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I agree with mammals also. I no longer vaccinate my indoor only cats. I almost lost one of them 12 years ago because of a reaction from a rabies vaccine. A few years ago the other one had an infected ruptured anal gland and the vet refused to treat without being current on her shots. I truly feel all the cancers, diabetes and illnesses in our pets are results of vaccination.

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We're a No Jab household now. Fur kids included.

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Same here. Thankfully I found a vet who agrees about over-vaccination of pets.

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Here in Jacksonville, the city tracks rabies vaccinations of dogs and sends out nasty forms requiring that you report that you’ve gotten updates, or the pet is deceased or you no longer own it.

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I buy meat that is hormone and antibiotic free. I just realized that it may not be vaccine free. We no longer vaccinate our alpacas, and only use antibiotics and wormers as necessary. We also don't eat our alpacas, BTW.

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Jab free meat, jab free blood banks, insect free food. It's crazy what we have to worry about now.

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Our zoo vaxxed and 2 animals died within weeks.

Lots of zoos did.

Makes sense the pharma cos would target livestock fo vax by lying that the pangolin/vat virus would infect other animals.

China killed dogs and cats and hamsters. One vid showed hazmats suited thugs bludgeoning a dog while sanitizing a residents apartment. Their security cam caught them chasing it around with a club!

Insanity.

Someday we will look back on this era with the same disdain as we do Tuskegee.

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Who will be left, to "look back" ?

Boy, that SOUNDS terrible - but truly?

Someone just mentioned to me something about disease-carrying bugs being ground up with our wheat (in order to cull the population further, naturally) ....... is that what you were referring to, BFM ?

Simple enough, for some, to grow vegetables, maybe raise some chickens - but a field of wheat and an on-premise slaughterhouse for meat ..... quite challenging.

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Yes, the WEF saying 'eat ze bugs'. And now Europe is bringing out lots of insect based proteins and fillers for common foods. And advertising campaigns for kids to get them normalized. They tie it to reducing carbon footprint.

Of course the carbon they want to reduce is us.

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Shout out to a fellow alpaca person! :)

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I'm not just packin... I'm alpackin!

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There are lots of like minded people in the alpaca community! (And, our newest cria is named Kit Kat!)

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I keep wondering if we could forbid the use of mRNA technology in any form, including vaccines for all animals, unless and until they are proven to meet strict safety and efficacy standards. I don’t know how the law should be structured, but I think we need to get something started immediately.

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This is a whole other fascinating topic.

Animal vaccines. I'd like to see us stray into it.

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Here we can’t get “safe and properly tested” vaccines for humans from our government, how can we expect them to do right by the animals

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And with the push to 'reduce carbon footprint' (which means people) I think pets and livestock will be included. Depop shots for everyone.

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Find a holistic vet now. There are phenomenal expert animal advocates out there. 

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But often their owners don't want them to have them either, and the owners should be allowed to choose.

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They should bat 🦇 an eye 👁 (pun intended). Animal caretakers should be allowed to choose whether animals are vaccinated, especially in light of their potential side effects (e.g., probable cancers) and incorporation into the food chain.

A bill currently under consideration in Idaho includes mammals, though it's restricted to mRNA vaccines and criminalizes administration of said vaccines rather than mandating them.

The following documentary from EpochTV addresses vaccine issue in animals as well as the HPV shots: https://www.theepochtimes.com/under-the-skin-documentary_4736070.html?utm_source=share-btn-copylink

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Thanks for that link. We've had two dogs die of cancers in different organs, and once I realized how corrupt and unscientific human medicine is, my confidence in veterinary medicine fell in concert. A veterinarian I interviewed when she applied to the medical school I attended, but who lived too far away from it to be interviewed on campus, said that veterinary education is miles wide (multiple species) but an inch deep. The man who gave the first talk in the recent Hillsdale College Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar on Big Pharma was asked to make the comparison between the corruption of human and animal medicine, and he said he could not, not being familiar enough with veterinary medicine, but that the pharma companies are the same ones. My sister's dog had a seizure disorder, requiring my sister to carry rescue medication with her all the time. When she got the dog's serology done, to measure antibodies against vaccine-preventable diseases, they were extremely high. She stopped vaccinating the dog routinely and let the titers come down into the normal range over time. The dog's seizure disorder disappeared.

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Bingo! I am very careful to not booster my dog often or allow unnecessary vaccines.

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How about mammals and birds! Keep your shots away from my chickens?

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You are absolutely right. Maybe we should just amend to animals! (Even the wild animals are now at risk, as I learned just hours ago.)

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Mar 9, 2023·edited Mar 9, 2023

Hope you have a wonderful birthday with your beautiful family. Here’s a birthday gift of a poem:

Because of Some Good Act

Let me today do something that shall take

A little sadness from the world’s vast store,

And may I be so favored as to make

Of joy’s too scanty sum a little more.

Let me tonight look back across the span

‘Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say

Because of some good act to beast or man—

The world is better that I lived today.

-Anon

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What a lovely poem, thank you for sharing that.

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Mar 9, 2023Liked by Jeff Childers

@Jeff. You need to use your bat phone and get DeSantis backing the original SB 222.

SB 252 is a farce and a slap in the face of individual liberty. I don’t like this switcheroo at all.

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Exactly! Jeff needs to use his pull with Desantis on this

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Mar 9, 2023Liked by Jeff Childers

If it is happening in the New York and Florida schools, it is happening everywhere!! I will always ask why aren't the classrooms equipped with cameras and video that a parent can log into anythime they want...this would put an end to a good portion of this crap! If we can access live video feed from an eagle's nest 24/7, we surely must be able to get live video feed from these instructors "teaching/grooming" our children!

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Yes it’s feasible and a great idea, but in reality it would never fly. Kids privacy concerns. The seconds year of zoom school in my district the kids didn’t even have to keep their cameras turned on due to “privacy” issues. Therefore we couldn’t visually see who was in class and who just turned on the live stream and went back to bed. Complete waste of two years of schooling. And boy are the kids paying for it now.

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What an excellent idea.

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I’m sure the teachers unions would really want that NOT

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I have asked this question so many times to so many important people and pages. Nothing has ever been done. I have suggested it to many politicians, nothing has been done. It is like they are controlled opposition! Something so simple could end this crap but they prefer to keep fighting about it while our children turn into a product of evil agenda and education society.

I also ask the question of why do we have a "Race Box" on every application, etc....the only question should be are you born in the USA or are you a legal immigrant. Once we click the white or black box we enter an entirely different dimension of segregation. I was once on Sean Hannity and asked that question and he COMPLETELY changed the subject...wouldn't answer the question! I pushed the point that we need to raise the bar, not lower it because in reality we all want the bar raised and don't want to be held down by the box we check! We know if you click the black box, you are immediately put into lower expectation and it is just BS!!!!

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One issue with cameras in the classroom is with kids who need to be protected from anyone - including family members who are restricted from the children. It would need to be a camera that never allowed children to be on screen.

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Love that photo of Weinstein smiling behind Oprah and behind Mike, I mean, Michelle Obama. Birds of a feather.

There's lots of connections of Oprah and pedophila (I can drop links). And Obama - is there a single photo of this person pregnant? (For example, there's plenty of pix of a pregnant Melania Trump).

That Weinstein/oprah/obama triangle has lots of pedo connections. Will certainly come up if Big Mike runs for president.

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And Joan Rivers is dead because of the big Mike exposure. I just cannot fathom how he/she has gotten away with the deception, but then think of the CGI and all the ways truth can be obliterated.

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Please share about Joan rivers.

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I’m surprised how many people didn’t know or have forgotten about Joan’s untimely demise.

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Needless to say - Joan never did receive an invite to Obama's White House, did she ?

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She was dead shortly after she made that comment.

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