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Valerie's avatar

I have a client who works for the IRS (in IT) that came in yesterday. She was saying that the people who received true accommodations for working at home, prior to covid, say because they’re disabled or whatever, are also being required to come into the office every day. That doesn’t sound right to me, it sounds like ‘they’re taking away the poor kids lunch money!’ When they just moved it to another department. Anyone have ideas on this?

She also said that people who lived like 15 miles away were taking the package because they just can’t commute that far into work (we live in freaking HOUSTON, we drive 15 miles to go out to dinner). A couple of other gems were that people who were working at home to take care of their kids or elderly parents were just at a loss, without options, and were going to take the package. And also that there are multiple people in their 80s still working there because they like seeing everyone and don’t have anyone at home.

Now this client definitely leans left but she is not woke, she did lament the chaos going on and morale issues, but she’s worked in the private sector before and had been laid off and knows how this goes and is actually looking forward to improved efficiency. I set her straight on the commute, the child/elder care and the old people working (‘it’s not the responsibility of your workplace to accommodate those things’, I was kind and I’ve known this woman for years, it wasn’t argumentative at all). Anyway, she also said that 27,000 ish have taken the package this 2nd time around, about 4,000 the first time out of 102,000. That’s about 25%, so I’m thinking it’s going well over there.

Anyway, just thought I’d share.

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Robin Greer's avatar

I used to work for the federal government and there were many handicapped people in the office. It was a VA office so there were many disabled veterans. All federal buildings are built to accommodate handicapped/disabled people. One of my supervisors had 2 legs amputated at the hip and one arm amputated at the shoulder. He drove to work everyday. He was a wheelchair basketball coach. The federal government is the most accommodating as far as a workplace envirnonment. If you need a standing desk and you have a doctor's order for it, they have to accommodate your needs.

And I agree...15 miles is nothing...50 miles would be challenging but people have driven that far pre-Covid for many, many years.

Thanks for sharing.

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Joe Mudd's avatar

I drove 50 miles to work (100 miles round trip) every day for 30 years. I came to enjoy it. It's a great time to listen to podcasts or audiobooks or do some private prayer.

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David Cashion's avatar

I did 70 one way in LA.

I would pray too.

Pray I would make it home.

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Danielle's avatar

😂

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Robin Greer's avatar

Longest time commute in LA for me was 4 hours one way. A crane had fallen over across the 5, the only. north south interestate. Everyone was on Sepulveda...nightmare 😳

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David Cashion's avatar

I lived in Canyon Country worked in Torrance.

Northridge quake to 405/ 5 /14 /210 interchange from 21 lanes to 2.

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Robin Greer's avatar

I hear ya. No fun. Fires alongside the freeway are atrocious, too; but the Northridge quake must have had an unbelievable effect on the traffic.

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David Cashion's avatar

The stories are never ending.

Hit a floating railroad tie size peice of lumber once, on 405.

Worst road debris I dodged, a refrigerator.

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Robin Greer's avatar

We know the 405 well unfortunately.

While we were in Valencia we had a woman turn right from the left lane. There were 3 lanes not including the right turning lane! She turned right into our vehicle. We both pulled over. The police were immediately on the scene. The woman exited her car and came to our car and began yelling. The officer sternly told her to go back to her car and then proceeded to tell us that she must not have realized that he saw the entire accident as he was sitting at the stop light where she was trying to turn right. Best witness to have for an accident is a police officer. 🤣

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Robin Greer's avatar

That's very scary!

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Ruth H's avatar

I drove 31 miles one way every day when working, sat in traffic making it seem longer than 31 miles, drove in snow and ice on many occasions, and did it for 40 years. These cry babies fussing about returning to the office need to shut up and show up. Enough coddling.

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Concerned mom's avatar

Really...we're turning into a society sprinkled with lots of snowflakes who can't take any amount of heat

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CAM's avatar

For a time, I was commuting 100 miles each way to work, just so I could jump in a truck and drive further to various project sites. Enjoyed that for about two days, then it became a grind.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Or learn a new language or listen to sermons. Many things a person can do while driving. Phone use hands free of course.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

My wife has driven ~110 mile commute for quite awhile now. But her unit is collapsing into the usual backstabbing that seems inevitable in every hospital environment, and all the people she loved working with have either left or have given their notice.

As a matter of fact, she has an appointment with her hospitals HR to file a complaint this afternoon.

She just accepted a job in Tulsa at 30% higher pay. Will be finished with the bitchy shithole by end of May.

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CStone's avatar

And, it wouldn’t surprise me, if other women were the problem. I told my husband, I would rather work with ALL men than one bitchy woman.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Sad but true.

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Robin Greer's avatar

That's terrible.

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CarO Lyn's avatar

Geez, when we lived in the far west Suburbs (Loudoun County) probably half our neighbors commuted the hour into DC. Plenty of government employees used to commute from as far West Virginia back before Covid. It was always a fact of life in the area.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I drove 60 miles each way, my first year in graduate school.

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Garden Lover's avatar

Oh, and, as usual, CA is looking at forming a committee to research charging Californians .06-.09¢/mile. This is to make up for all of the EVs now populating the roads. Of course, those of us with gas guzzlers are already pulling more than our weight. Why not just charge the EV owners this? Because why miss out on an opportunity to raise taxes on everyone?

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Robin Greer's avatar

Wow 😳...yet another tax on the Californians.

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Garden Lover's avatar

Shocking, right? 🙄

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NDCrouch's avatar

For six years after we moved to Texas I drove 90mins/miles each way to Greenville, through Dallas. Fortunately this was before rush hour am and after rush hour pm.

Again, fortunately, I retired in 2006, no way would I wish to share the road with the current breed of crazy Texan drivers - remind me of D.C. 25 years ago!

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Garden Lover's avatar

When I was in grad school, I drove 20 miles one way most days. This isn’t that far, I realize that. Some days, it was twice as my classes were spaced far enough apart that I either went home because staying on campus for 7 hours didn’t make sense or I had to work.

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Chip Clemmer's avatar

I’m in the DC area. There are people that used to drive 60-70 miles each way in bumper to bumper traffic, pre-COVID. I’m retired from the Air Force: 26 years, SMSgt. Most of my assignment, was at Bolling AFB, in DC. I was a musician with the US Air Force Band. I thought the traffic was bad, driving 17 miles each way. I thought the people driving 50 and 60 or more miles each way, each day, were nuts. I still do. Now they are complaining about having to drive back to the office, like they used to do without complaining.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Exactly. Most of the people who work in downtown area commute from the suburbs. I did it for many years myself.

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Chip Clemmer's avatar

I hear them complain about the cost of riding Metro, and then paying $5.25/day to park at the Metro station, where the garage is less than half full, yet they will use gas, which costs anywhere from $2.99/gallon to $4/gallon for premium, drive into the city dealing with the traffic, and pay $20/day to park, and walk 4 or 5 blocks, when there is a Metro stop across the street from their office.

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Regarding IT workers at the IRS. Are they really working? Read recently that DOGE changed the login button on the IRS website in 70 minutes while the actual IRS IT worker said it would have taken three months.

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Valerie's avatar

She claims she’s working like a madwoman, but she also supports one of their legacy systems. Idk. It seems that many people working in the public sector aren’t working a full day in private sector terms. My client actually agrees with this, she said she knows multiple people who never showed up at the office or on a zoom meeting after they shut down for Covid. Five. Years.

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CMCM's avatar

Definitions of "working hard" or "working like a madman" vary, or so it seems. I had my own business for 33 years and sometimes I worked 20 hour days until I was literally vibrating with pure exhaustion and collapsed into bed for a couple of hours before starting everything all over again. I didn't have a choice to screw off because it was my business, my livelihood. I worked for numerous CA state agencies in the summers during the years I was in college, and I saw first hand how "hard" most of them DIDN'T work. My impression was always that the state had hired far too many people and they didn't have enough work to do.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Public agencies and non profit ‘workers’ do not ‘work hard’. Their salaries and jobs are not tied into “performance or accountability’ in any way. I know, I always worked in the ‘corporate world’ then took a job with a local nonprofit ‘community health’ operation, for a couple of years. What a joke, but was an easy job! 😉🤪

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Robin Greer's avatar

Not sure if it's still true but working for VA Office side, there were production standards (which became increasingly difficult to meet) and performance evaluations. There was also mandatory OT. So all federal jobs are not the same.

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

My son started his own company, has 40+ people, and still seems like he has to do everything.

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Valerie's avatar

Agreed. She might be working hard for the IRS culture, or in comparison to others around her. Who knows?

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S.P.H.'s avatar

Not showing in person or digital meetings is the reason for the five bullet points of accomplishment requirement for the past week.

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Valerie's avatar

I mean, can you imagine missing ONE meeting at a private sector job and not having to explain yourself!?!

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Patti's avatar

🤯

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

Per Jeff's comment: "The most important of the series of new orders ended use by any federal agency of the so-called “disparate impact” theory of racial discrimination, which allowed agencies to conclude there was de facto discrimination at a school or business if there were too few minorities as a statistical sample.

Imagine a donut shop that requires applicants to pass a written math test to get hired, like measuring glaze-to-dough ratios or inventory forecasts. If minority applicants disproportionately fail the test, the EEOC could prosecute the shop for the “disparate impact” claiming it is presumptive evidence of racial discrimination."

If the 'playing field' were level in the beginning, then yes, by the time College comes around, who even needs DEI?

But since the field is systematically biased/jaded/oppressive (not even close) when one considers generational socio-economic opportunities including jobs, education, living standards, racism, etc.).

Unfortunately, the predatory nature of man makes life perilous for those that are cast as 'below' them. Money of course, is a tool, but it's also a weapon when it is utilized in suppressing others.

Need proof?

Just look at the last USA's last 350 years and see if there ever existed a socio-economic/educational/opportunity/justice "level" field.

And the rest of the World can be thrown in as well.

Interesting times.

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Ohio Deb's avatar

Doge:

DOGE has revealed the Dept. of Veterans Affairs was paying $380,000 per month, or $4.56 million a year, for minor website edits now being done in 10 hours a week by a SINGLE engineer.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Unsurprisingly, same story in the private sector. I know a freshly hired IT person who solved/created in one day a system change the outgoing IT person had been "working on" for more than six months. Both millennials. ...There's two kinds of people: contributors and drainers. Maybe future society sends the drainers to the distant colony (so far only a figment of imagination) on Australion --Mars colony is too close-- along with the psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists. Seeing that in practice makes a good case for reincarnation...

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Signor Pareto's 80/20 once again.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Quite the curiosity how often it holds true. Like... he was onto something, or something.😅😆

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

You and I---we see the observation of Pareto everywhere!

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Perplexity's avatar

But keep the telephone sanitizers here -- they may turn out to be important after all.

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Hm. Up to future society to develop an evaluation tool to pinpoint who fits certain profiles so's they don't banish valuable skills... And another to thwart wayward tendencies of them types... Ah, the expansiveness of imagination...

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Perplexity's avatar

Sorry, I couldn't resist an opportunity for a "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series reference.

I miss Douglas Adamms

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Orwell, Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, Herbert, Creighton. I'm sure there are others of which I'm ignorant. ...I thought sure we'd at least be equal to the Jetsons by this late date. Truthfully, I'm pretty sure most of the technology exists; it's just been suppressed. Once the curtain has been pulled back fully - my vote says within the next decade, but 🤷‍♀️ - the speed of development for and adoption by the masses will be astounding. I'd sure love to be alive to see it. Statistically, I won't, but I'm all for defying statistics.

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Perplexity's avatar

Well the way people drive, I hope the gov't at least has the sense to forbid aircars to just wiz around above peoples' homes!

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Just spitballing - I'm no master of imagination - rest easy, there will still be air lanes, vertical and horizontal, not 100% free airspace for aircars. Like I know...😆🤣🤣

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Perplexity's avatar

I don't know about that, the lack of decent boundaries concerning where people can fly drones does not bode well!

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Heterodox Introvert's avatar

Welp, I'm not an aviation or transportation professional person type. Never have seen a drone in action. (Watch, today will be the day...) I'm sure concerns are well founded. My car sets off warning signals for objects in close range, crossing a lane marker, following a vehicle too closely, cars approaching in lanes to the side, lemme think what else... Blanking at the moment. There's a way to fly cars safely, in traffic. I have faith. Might be the AI factor? In the '50s my grandfather refused to get a television; he said he was waiting until they perfected it. I might have to adopt a wait and see on the aircar... *edit - If I live that long. 💀🪦

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MayBella82's avatar

I am surprised it took them 70 minutes. The fact the other said it would take 3 months tells you that they are not an IT person. It is easy to change the code if you know how to code which the DOGE guys know how to do.

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Sal's avatar

Yeah — they’d have to form a committee for the button and schedule meetings (which only some would attend) to decide the color, shape, and location of the button. I mean that’s three whole things (plus the committee organization and meeting debates). Of course they planned on 3 months! lol

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Sure. Keep telling yourself that.

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Sal's avatar

Sometimes sarcasm is lost on people.

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AnnR's avatar

I worked at the JFK Federal Building in Boston. There were TWO, yes TWO IRS employees who were completely blind - I reiterate the number TWO because that is proportionately a HECK OF A LOT of blind employees to the total number of IRS employees in that building, but I digress. Anyhoo, they came to work DAILY and worked a full 8 hour tour of duty. I believe the blind gentleman commuted by PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!!!! I know this because one day one of his coworkers was unable to assist him in walking to the T station, so I helped him there. I cannot speak for them, but I'm pretty certain that it was not easy, at all, for them to commute and yet they did, and it was normal and it was natural and they did it. Truly, if anyone had an excuse to sit home and not work and collect Social Security Disability, it is a blind person and no one would fault them for it at all. Kudos to them and their work ethic!!!!! I always admired them.

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Sue Rosenthal's avatar

"... it was normal and it was natural and they did it."

I went back and reread those words 3 times with a lump in my throat.

What an amazing thing it would be if we could ever get back to that.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

What a courageous soul that person is!!

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Susan Seas's avatar

My husband is waiting to see what happens to him. He was hired as a remote worker out of Philadelphia. That’s 3000 miles away. He has never had an office. They said he had to find an office within 50 miles but now due to the reductions, it is unknown whether he will have to find somewhere to commute to, or he will lose his job entirely. He absolutely hates commuting and does not look forward to adding three hours onto his workday by driving. Now it looks like if he keeps a position, we will have to move to wherever they decide that position is going to be at. Many people are saying they don’t want to move and have taken the buyout or retired early out of 24 in his section, there are eight left. he does not qualify for any of the offers so far because he hasn’t been there long enough and most of the people he works with have been there 15 to 30 years. He is a very hard worker. He does not take care of kids at home. He does not take care of an elderly mother at home. He’s very diligent. He wins lots of awards. He is his bosses right hand man, but sadly none of that’s going to matter. I am absolutely Pro clean out of the govt mess but it does hurt real people.

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Deb's avatar

So very sorry for the situation you find yourself in at this time. I also understand how unnerving it can be to have to face an unnerving alternative. But there are times when these sorts of topsy-turvy situations may be a blessing in disguise. God may have another opportunity just waiting! He has promised that He will provide for our daily needs and will never leave us! Just an FYI - I too worked for the government in CA, came off maternity leave with our first child and we were all told that our jobs were moving to DC - 3,000 miles away. They was many many years ago. The rest of the story has been a blessing and gift from God! I will be praying for your situation. Please do not lose hope!

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Susan Seas's avatar

Thank you so much for your encouragement. I do trust Gods provision. Unfortunately this is the 3rd time we have been through this in 9 years 😅 the word “we’re reorganizing” is 😖 but this job was a huge Blessing over his last job he was sorry to loose. Can’t wait to see what God will do next, trying not to be too concerned. ☺️

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Praying for you and your husband, Susan, And hoping you have a good church family to help and support.

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Karmy's avatar

That's the spirit! Surrender yourself to Jesus and let Him take care of everything. This situation is out of your control so worrying about it only makes the uncertainty worse. I will pray for you and your husband that God holds you both in His loving arms and protects you and gives you His blessings.

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Deb's avatar

Bless you hearts! Thank you for your reply and as I said, I will be praying for you and your sweet family.

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MayBella82's avatar

Is his job coded to be a remote job? It makes a difference. I believe it’s in the job description whether it is an office job or a remote job. Some specialized jobs are remote or if it is a hard to fill job that needs particular job skill, it will state in the job description. When COVID hit and everyone went home and started teleworking, those jobs are not coded to telework. It is very easy for HR to know who should be in the office.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Yes he was hired as a remote worker. He is 3,000 miles away from his “work”. They aren’t differentiating right now. I keep thinking at some point they will but haven’t yet. Most of his co-workers live all across the country as remote workers and some used to “go to the office”

I guess time will tell. Thank you 😊

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PKsweets's avatar

When Chevron closed plants and offices in CA due to the restrictive CA government regulations they had to move to Houston or take buyouts

When Disney moved whole departments out of California due to the heavy taxes on their industry people took buyouts or moved

Hollywood has moved so many production companies to New Mexico and Canada and more

This is what happens all the time in private sector due to government interference

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WP William's avatar

And the companies are offered tax reductions to relocate and other incentives

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Patti's avatar

I totally am clean up the government but also realize some of the good ones will get hit. When this happens I hope that they are picked up quickly. I also know good ones do not stay unemployed long

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Susan Seas's avatar

Except for no one is hiring 😬 we might have to get manufacturing jobs in the Midwest 😂

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Donna in MO's avatar

That has been an issue in the economy pretty much since the great recession. I have a friend who's an economist and does the speaker circuit mostly in the Midwest, does a lot of work with the Fabricators and Manufacturers Assn. Small town manufacturers would tell him stories of openings that sat unfilled for months on end, there were not enough people with the requisite skills, but people were upside down in their homes and so couldn't afford to move there. And it's a risky move - towns where there are only a handful of employers, when one goes sideways, the options are limited to those who want to stay. My brother in law is a metallurgical engineer - every time he gets laid off, he & my sister have had to move as those jobs are not plentiful in any one locale. Sorry you are going through this - current issue seems to be a lot of displacement as change happens quickly - both in the private sector and in government.

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Susan Seas's avatar

😬

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Valerie's avatar

My dad’s degree is in metallurgical engineering. Every job was mechanical engineering, lol.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

You may find that the Midwest is where sanity is found! People can speak out at school board meetings without being escorted out by police or censored. Our voices can make a difference. And we know our county sheriff!

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Barbls's avatar

SD is having trouble filling jobs.

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Ellen's avatar

I can testify to that. :(

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Dreamom3's avatar

This happens in the private sector, too. My husband works for a large, well-known company that acquired the smaller company that he was previously working for. This larger company has decided to reduce their workforce by 20%. They are making everyone reapply for their jobs and will likely close the small office in our city. My husband will have to apply for a new job within the company, and if he gets it, we will be moving. If he doesn’t get it, he will have to find another job.

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Susan Seas's avatar

I kind of like the reapplying, but federal is more concerned with time in service. Which my husband is the lowest years 😬 but moving is a big deal, many are saying they are not going to move, we are open to moving just maybe not to where the job is 😅😅😅 Best wishes to you for the Best outcome for you too! 🙏🏻

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Dreamom3's avatar

Thanks! Sorry you are dealing with this hassle too.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

☹️ Its a hassle and stressful but doable.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

My dad worked for IBM when I was a kid. To move up the ladder he had to be willing to go where the next promotion was. I attended 13 different schools in 11 years. By high school I took the GED and moved out on my own. My Dad was very successful and in our own way, the rest of us were all a part of that by being supportive of him and going along for the ride. Sacrifices were made by all of us for all of us. We had a good life and learned a lot about personal choices and when it came to careers what was tolerable and what was not.

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Valerie's avatar

I had a similar experience with a military dad. Thankfully, he retired when I was in 6th grade so we stayed put for the rest of my years in school.

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Barbls's avatar

Your husband sounds like someone who will be snapped up by the private sector: very hard worker, diligent, award-winning, boss's right hand man.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

That’s my husband you described!

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KB's avatar

The unknown can be hard. When I was laid off in 2020 because of the government shutdowns, it was hard to be positive. Now, 5 years later, I can see that things have worked out for the best. And that put me on a path to discover Coffee & Covid in 2021, which I have read diligently every day since then!

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

Maybe he can say that recently his remote office, located in his home, recently re-identified itself as a home office, in a remote location.

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Johnny-O's avatar

There are plenty of stories like this. The job they are doing is far from surgical, which it needs to be.

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Donna in MO's avatar

Problem is, if they took it slow, there would be time to put up roadblocks, and many of the DOGE people are on leave of absence from their lives and won't do this forever. But agree the outcome may be 2 steps forward and then a step back.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Absolutely we are not alone. I know there are many real people loosing their jobs. I was just telling my story. I worry more about those with young families than I do about us.

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CStone's avatar

Susan Seas, I just went to prayer for your husband. Yeshua (Jesus) is our Advocate (our Attorney), continually interceding to the Father for His children. My prayer is that your husband will find favor, both with God and man. That his dedication, his diligence be noted.

“May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His Face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord turn His Face toward you and give you peace.”

Numbers 6:24-26

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Susan Seas's avatar

🙌🏻 Thank You!

One of my favorite verses. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. 💗

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

None of our business, but if he was last hired, what did he do before the govt job?

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Susan Seas's avatar

He is a grant manager. He was fired from working from the state for Non compliance, served in the Military for 30 years.

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Long Enough?'s avatar

No one likes commuting. No one. Why do you think the term “cushy government job” became a thing? Your husband may “work hard” in the comfort of your home but I guarantee you, it’s not as hard as the averse person employed in the private sector. Looks like your husband may become a pleb like us common folk.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Excuse me!?! You absolutely know nothing of anything really. My husband served 30 years in the Military. Don’t assume he has had a “cushy govt job” his whole life! 10% are able to serve their Country. 1% do! So stick that up your tail pipe! Sorry you haven’t risen above a sucky job!

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Long Enough?'s avatar

Aaand you know nothing as well. I’m a trad-wife (so no sucky job) My father and a son served. Same son is now a LEO. Does that mean my 2% cancels your 1%? My husband quit a very lucrative job and we moved out of state because he refused to get the jab. We all have hard times, Sweetheart, and sometimes need to make difficult choices. But keep whining, it suits you.

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Susan Seas's avatar

No your two doesn’t. I could definitely Trump that. You obviously haven’t been around here long. I am absolutely not a whiner. You have a nice day.

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Long Enough?'s avatar

Because you say so…. Hmmm… So incredibly telling. AMF.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

I'm sorry that it's hitting you. I have hit many bumps in life and now, looking back, the most difficult ones ultimately led to the best outcomes. Weathering the journey wasn't easy, but the end point was beyond anything I could have ever expected. Use the change, if you can, as an opportunity. I know, easier said than done. Best wishes!

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MayBella82's avatar

Was he hired prior to COVID?

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Susan Seas's avatar

No, he was hired in … 2023

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Befferz's avatar

Well put, thank you and prayers for your family during this difficult time. I can relate as I am in a similar boat to your husband and 💯 agree with your sentiment.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

just guessing here, but often people know of ONE anecdotal point of info and conflate that into the rule or policy or general. Did this woman hear of one or 10 disabled folks being forced to come in to work? Not knowable of course, but. . . just saying.

Besides, it is likely each case will be looked at individually and some will be allowed to continue working at home.

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OldSysEng's avatar

Some individual cases are indeed being looked at individually, and I know the son of a friend in a government job has gotten a medical reprieve and can continue working from home. This happened recently, within the last month.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

it's nice to be validated, Sparky! thanks.

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Susan Seas's avatar

So far they are not looking at individual cases. Just like those who started working from home during CoVid are not being distinguished from those hired as Remote Workers. Hoping some common sense will prevail but not so far.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

Yes, I would expect that initially, but it's a great way to weed out those who really need the home office vs the lazy one's.

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Valerie's avatar

I agree, she probably knew a couple of people and the rumor mill is making it into a bunch. But yes, I expect that people with legitimate accommodation will still have them after review. Unless they panic and take the package.

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Fred's avatar

With sincere apologies to the truly disabled, be it physical or mental, it infuriates me that there are so many “disabled” who can manage to do anything in life except work for a living. At the same time, a friend deathly ill from chemo (preC) couldn’t even qualify for temporary assistance.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Interesting info, Valerie! I'm surprised that physically challenged IRS employees are crying the blues about returning to "in office" status as the American With Disabilities Acts in the 1990's (signed into law by the "elder Bush" POTUS) required that ALL employers install ramps and automatic doors to make it possible and easier for people in wheelchairs and with physical challenges to use the public/employers' buildings. That law was a BIG DEAL for people with all kinds of physical challenges and one of my 'heroes' of the Christian faith - JONI EARECKSON TADA - was instrumental in getting this bill passed into law. Her ministry that she started over 40 years ago to lift up those (who like she herself knows all too well since her body was ravaged by spinal cord injury at the age of 16) people with physical challenges of all natures! Joni is still involved as an activist in another deeply concerning area of our "ungodly culture" - the "right to die" movement. It's catching on fast, folks - where the "state" will determine if you're "fodder" and they will step in and "pull the cord" on people who have debilitating conditions or are just "old and useless". Shades of the movie "Soylent Green" from the 1970's.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

It was a great thing, applied ridiculously. Like in my power plant, huge power plant, that when we built our new control room, had to accommodate every type of malady ever thought of. The irony was, no one with disabilities could work in the place, couldn’t even get to the control room without climbing over railroad tracks, going through some of the most dangerous places on earth, BUT, we were required to accommodate. Fucking ridiculous.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Your company's compliance was required because it was a Federal law - but many otherwise unemployable people WERE given the opportunity to hold down decent-paying jobs that they otherwise would have been denied. I understand your viewpoint though, Alan.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

My viewpoint was that the federal government is mindless. We tried to get them to figure it out, and drop the requirements that increased costs by tens of thousands of dollars. They even came out to look at the site. It was comical, seeing women in high heels crossing train tracks in the coal shed. But they came, and said, no, this room has to accommodate wheelchairs. Alrighty then.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I get it, Alan - truly! But the upside is what the Americans with Disability Act DID do in a positive way for many physically challenged people who wanted to enter the workforce and couldn't because of all of the obstacles in their way. Such as architectural and ingress/egress obstacles!

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Julie Ann B's avatar

My conservative son lives in Houston and “leaning left” in Houston is far left to those of us living in the Midwest!

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Valerie's avatar

He’s not lying! We do have left leaning people here but not too much woke, at least not in the suburbs.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Niece is working from home, still, for social security, disabled. So poppycock. She hasn’t had to leave the house.

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Valerie's avatar

I also have an asylum officer and an FBI agent as clients. Asylum guy is coming in tomorrow, I’ll find out what their status is because they all have been remote for years. He’s assuming they’ll be put into existing federal buildings.

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Sue Rosenthal's avatar

You'll have to update us tomorrow then. (please :))

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Valerie's avatar

It’ll probably be Saturday, I don’t see him til the afternoon.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

I had a cousin who was a ‘developmentally disabled” male (cerebral palsy) who worked as a ‘clerk’ for HUD for almost 35 plus years, out in Commifornia, in Sacramento and San Francisco. He had his DL as a young adult, but then gave it up and used public transportation to ‘commute’ to work for many years. He was a single guy, so he wanted to go into work. That was his social connection to the world. He didn’t have a computer at home and would have never wanted to work at home alone. He retired in December of 2022, on his 70th birthday. In January 2023, he was found dead in his apartment. Dead long enough that the coroner couldn’t pull any fingerprints to identify him, as there was little to no moisture in his fingertips. A family member had to identify his body.

Yes, he did get The Jabs for his job with the Federal Government.

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Valerie's avatar

Whoa, that’s such a sad ending to a great story.

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Frontera Lupita's avatar

Yes it was. And he was the only child of my Aunt, my Mom’s older sister. Several other members of my Aunt’s family (cousins) and her caregiver’s husband and niece have also “died suddenly” as well. They were all ‘jabbed up”, ranging in age from 77, 71, 57 & 34.

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Donna Oliphint's avatar

When I lived in Houston it took me 45 minutes to drive my child to school 12 miles from our house and 25 minutes back.

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Valerie's avatar

I had a similar experience! What part of town?

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Donna Oliphint's avatar

West Houston. End of Memorial at Hwy. 6. Drove her to Clay Road Baptist elementary northeast of there.

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Valerie's avatar

I know the area, but not well. I drove my son 12 miles each way straight down spring cypress to trinity lutheran for 5 years. On a good day it took 50 min round trip.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

ON the way to 100% I hope!

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Valerie's avatar

Wouldn’t that be great?

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Garden Lover's avatar

We had a school staff member at the school board meeting the other night complain that we didn’t understand hard work. I mean, she had to answer 9 calls in one hour and sign in 10 parents. (Oh, no!) 🙄

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Valerie's avatar

Wow, that is a truly full day. 🙄

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Garden Lover's avatar

I know. I was so sad for her.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

And many, many thanks for your informed information!

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Wow. Trump has some mess to clean up, Godspeed.

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

— Jude 17-21 NAS

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M. Patrick McCrary's avatar

Keep it coming Janice. Jeff does a great job of informing us of the latest cultural and political battles to which we can direct our prayers and you are being used of God to focus us on the only thing we can really depend on when all is said and done: Christ! "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believeth.." Romans 1:16

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PamelaZelie's avatar

We are directly living in these last times.

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Coalburned's avatar

I tend to avoid saying we're in the last times because "only the Father knows". But I can't disagree with you...all the elements are coming together like no other time in history.

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FlatEarthFlyer's avatar

What’s going on today in the Holy Land has not materialized out of nowhere. There are thousands of years of history surrounding this, and there’s an interesting piece of history that everyone seems to forget.

Around 3500 years ago, YHWH did command Joshua to kill and burn all the tribal inhabitants and their livestock and belongings in various areas of Canaan. And the reason was that all those tribes were descended from literal giants (Goliath, Og of Bashan, et al). They had been infected with Nephilim (fallen angel) DNA.

One of the tribes and areas that Joshua failed to eradicate were the Philistines in Gaza. The name “Palestine” is believed to derive from the name “Philistine,” one of the original giant tribes. So, it appears that YHWH was using Joshua’s conquest of Canaan to protect the bloodline of his chosen people, the Israelites. And the Israelites were not all Jewish, they were a “mixed multitude” of people who came out of Egypt. The tribe of Judah was only one of 12 tribes that included millions of people.

By the time Jesus arrived on the scene, 10 of the tribes, known as Israel and located above Jericho, had vanished in the northern diaspora, while the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained in Judea, south of Jericho and adjacent to Gaza. This is why Jesus says he “was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel” in Matthew 15:24. They had disappeared into other lands and cultures.

There are other clues in the Bible that indicate that the appearance of Jesus was intended to only benefit a specific group of people. When the angels on the night of Jesus’ birth appeared to the shepherds, the complete quote of what the angels said was, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men ON WHOM HIS FAVOR RESTS!” Other translations say, “in whom God is pleased.“

As revealed by the conquests in Canaan, YHWH‘s favor rests on some, but not others. The question is, who are those on whom God’s favor rests? And I think you have to look very carefully at what Jesus actually taught to figure that out. What Jesus taught was obedience to the moral imperatives of the written Mosaic Law.

Very few people today obey the written Mosaic law. Most Jews do not. They obey the Talmud, which the rabbis claim supersedes the written law of Moses. Christians also don’t obey the written Mosaic law. The entire population of western civilization has cherry picked portions of the Mosaic law that they wish to obey, basically some of the 10 Commandments, but there’s a lot more to the moral imperatives in the Torah than that.

So, all I’m saying is that I don’t think you can understand what’s happening in Israel and Gaza today without being familiar with the history of that region. I don’t know who’s right, but I agree that terrorism from either side is unacceptable. In my opinion, there is a demonic stronghold in the land of Gaza.

But at the same time, the Israel of today is not the Israel of 2000 years ago. As long as the Jewish people refuse to accept Jesus as their spiritual Messiah and return to the moral imperatives of the Torah, there will never be peace there. Yeshua (Jesus’ real name in Hebrew), literally means “salvation,” even in the modern Hebrew language. The answer is staring them in the face and has been for 2000 years, but they are still blind to Him.

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

There’s no reason to delve into ancient history. Perhaps a bit interesting but not very relevant. The Israeli Government, invoking their religion (in spite of most of them being atheists or secularists) claim they are commanded not to kill, but they are doing it to their neighbors who have lived there for 1300 years with impunity. We all know that the relative newcomers who now occupy the land known as modern day Israel are not Semites. Mostly from Poland, Russia, Germany, etc. They have no claim on this land, contrary to what the Evangelical preachers like Hagee, et al, and their bogus Schofield Bible want to claim. Christians and Jews who use the Bible to justify the slaughter of innocents are deeply disturbed people. I’ll have no part of it.

Honestly, it’s not even a religious issue. It’s a moral issue.

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Julia Jones's avatar

See Geneses 12:3.

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FlatEarthFlyer's avatar

I think Sheickh Yusuf Qaradawi would have disagreed with you. Qaradawi, who passed away in 2022, was the religious leader of the Hamas movement. He wrote much about this conflict, but the crux of his argument is that the current battle between Islam and Judaism has its roots in the historical relationship between Hagar and Sarah, and their sons Ishmael and Isaac. This is a story that goes back over 4,000 years, so obviously to Hamas, the Palestinians, and the Jews, ancient history is foundational to understanding the current conflict.

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Special Ted's avatar

Thank you for this comment, an accurate history lesson. So many 'christians' have no idea what the Holy Bible actually teaches and they are held under a great deception.

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

History, schmistory (as they used to say, about 20 years ago, which now sounds quite Yiddish, interestingly).

WWJD?

History lessons can be fun (and I say that as some of the degree in history) but at the end of the day, are you on the side of love, truth and light, or deadly destruction? Pick a side.

Mike huckabee, who claims to be a Christian, has nothing to say about the genocide in Gaza.

Why does he claim to be Christian? Why does he not just convert to Judaism?

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Janice P - Words Beyond Me's avatar

I think it is fascinating to watch God's word be proven true over and over.

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Matt's avatar

There's a point where a school isn't a school anymore. Hiding what they're doing from the parents is criminal

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Jeff S's avatar

Criminal, and, hopefully, prosecutable.

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Barbls's avatar

SD tried and failed to pass a law that would have made librarians subject to the same laws regarding the distribution of pornography to minors that everyone else is subject to.

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Donna in MO's avatar

I am still not understanding why our schools have materials that clearly violate laws against exposing minors to pornography. Basically the lawyers are hanging their hat on some pretty mealy mouthed language around educational value, and any efforts in our local SB's get dog piled on by hordes of screaming lunatics yelling about book banning. One of my friends attempted to read from one of the books and the lefty SB president had the police escort him out due to a violation of board policy against obscene language. And yet the book with the same language is in the school libraries. Common sense and decency are MIA.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

Exactly

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DeAnna's avatar

I will retire next year and will begin homeschooling our youngest granddaughter who is 11. I am thankful that this evil in the schools has been exposed.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Amen. Homeschooling (home education) is the way to go.

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Rosie Langridge's avatar

Definitely Home Education. That's what it's for. Not repeating school at home. Here in England there are very strong feelings on this point and I'd love to see this taken up in the US.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Is home schooling allowed in England? There 3 of my grandchildren live. Before I began home-schooling our youngest--which I did for only one year (8th grade) 2001-02, I had investigated the rules in various European countries.

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Rosie Langridge's avatar

Yes it is. There's a strong home education movement. In Germany it's not been allowed since the 1930s. France recently banned it, so I believe.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Thank you for that information!

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

I think homeschooling can be exciting! Look at all the web resources available! Through in some great books, time outdoors and time looking within. What a wonderful opportunity!

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DeAnna's avatar

I am soooo excited and blessed to be able to do this with my girl.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Wait until you see what that little brain is capable of! You will be amazed.

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DeAnna's avatar

Alan, this little one is so amazingly clever and driven. Going to experience the time of our lives ❤️

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Alan Davis's avatar

In WA state the lefties made it law that schools can hide many things from the parents, transitions, abuse and more.

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Robin Greer's avatar

The left coast seems to be saturated with all manner of evil.

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

I live in eastern Oregon and, needless to say, our school isn’t woke… but we do have a tampon machine in the boy’s bathroom (empty), some content I would call questionable, and a few radical leftist parents who insist on a litter box in the restrooms. (!)

I’m done with all of it. It’s insanity and mental illness sugar-coated as a “compromise“ for school funding and the few kids who are really messed up. I don’t know how to fix this when our state leaders are incompetent and mentally ill.

I think we have been played by being kind and moral. Because of a hijacked voting system, the nuts (and turtles) are in charge. We can’t teach basic English (or any language) without qualifiers on pronouns! History and science flew out the window a long time ago, right after cursive writing. And basic math is too hard to grasp. Do we even need schools?

What leftists paint as“centuries of institutional racism and lack of opportunities” is really our good versus evil world. 🌎 We aren’t doing kids any favors by not teaching them how the world really works. Ethics, morality, critical thinking, and God are missing. That said, we are finally moving in the right direction (Trump!) despite the crazies.

Our compromised Supreme Court is a conundrum for me… are they that sick and twisted? Too many videos of them with small children?

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MARCI's avatar

With Tim’s tampons in the boys bathrooms, I think that pretty much qualifies that school as being ‘woke’. 🙄

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

Right??? But it’s empty ;) Even out where we live, people aren’t really standing up - they think it’s funny because they "followed the law" but skirted it. Like that’s standing up? They accuse those of us who oppose having the tampon dispenser as being radicals, while they are reasonable and doing what they "need to" to get school funding. So yes, I think you are right Marci.

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rolandttg's avatar

That's why we are here. Too few stood up while the masses went along to go along. There is a price to pay for lacking courage , and we're there now.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Your post makes my head hurt. 🤯 And I agree, this is a good vs evil issue.

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rolandttg's avatar

Very eloquently put. Thank you. The coddled kids became angry and frustrated after entering the working world and they didn't get a corner office and a raise after a couple of months. Years of ribbons for everyone at competitions and presents for everyone at birthday parties made all of them feel they were always special just for showing up. Heck of a shock when the day comes when they aren't.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

I feel sorry for Eastern Oregonians who are forced to live in such a woke, leftist state.

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Oregon Kathy's avatar

Being in a conservative part of the state, I am thinking you can control your school board and thus your schools. Although there are those pesky State mandates. I live in SW Oregon, and love Eastern Oregon in the spring! It looks so totally different with all the water.

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

I wish… they bend too easily, I think. Trying to accommodate the weirdos and walking a fine line between state mandates and punishments. But you’re right! The lupin and balsam are exploding this spring - it’s beautiful. And so is the coast… all the rhododendron and azaleas are blooming. We have to take this state back.

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Sue Rosenthal's avatar

Until your state governor and AG comes at you when you've gone too far in their royal opinion, like they do in CA

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Barbls's avatar

And Minnesota. And Illinois. And Ohio. And Michigan. And NY. And NJ. And PA. and CT. Unfortunately, the cancer has metastasized.

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Barbls's avatar

I forgot to mention Wisconsin, too. And Maine.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Wisconsin is truthfully red but the leftists have been allowed to cheat and steal elections.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Thats federal $

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We need a revolution!'s avatar

It's always the money! AZ's largest school district, Mesa Public Schools, is woke and a joke. 32% can pass math proficiency tests, 35% can pass reading proficiency tests. Mesa, BTW, has always been a conservative, LDS city. Only with woke administrators has it deteriorated to something verging on California-esque. SMH...

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AM Schimberg's avatar

We live in extremely conservative Yavapai county. The rest of the state drives us crazy!! 😄

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We need a revolution!'s avatar

I get that 100%. I've lived here my entire life and I would like nothing more than to see the kingdom of Maricopa broken up in to 4-6 counties. East Mesa & Gilbert are still conservative strongholds but Phoenix is scary blue!

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AM Schimberg's avatar

I'm 3rd generation Arizonan, raising a 4th. My grandparents moved to Chandler in 1950!

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Robin Greer's avatar

And the blue cities within red states such as Memphis and Nashville in TN.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Its because, when you scratch the surface, these schools, like during covid, are receiving or used to receive, huge federal grants & private $. Higher Ed is even worse. Penn State, for example, is getting very large amounts of private funding from Mellon Foundation to run their DEI programs which are all over their website. Mellon - Aluminum, polluting local rivers with fluoride waste? Huge grants got fluoride started & into the water systems. So even if\when their fed $ stop, they have a backup.

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Massachusetts too!

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Patti's avatar

It’s dripping on the weather coast! Just shocking

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Clara Strom's avatar

I live here in WA. They are currently passing laws every week that destroy our freedom. The taxes alone will cripple any of us not making $100,000 a year.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Such a shame. It's beautiful out there, but leftists are completely ruining it.

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Kathy McCullough's avatar

Oregon too… I can’t keep up with all the legislation… :(

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Come to Florida.we need more conservatives to help eject the illegals and retards.

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william howard's avatar

no wonder why Harvard and Stanford need remedial math classes for its freshmen - back to RRR for all schools (the way it used to be) and leave the social engineering to parents

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

They need those classes because they no longer accept the best and brightest! Lowered their standards far below average.

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Rosie Langridge's avatar

Here in England a friend hasa child in secondary school. The math homework is set by AI. This system gives frequent wrong answers. For example to calculation of area and volume.

Those errors can only get there by being deliberately included in the software.

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Michael Alfred's avatar

Without some cataclysmic social changes I don’t think there’s much hope for the UK.

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Rosie Langridge's avatar

No. In my opinion we are done for. I do what I can to keep our culture alive and to support my friends.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Harvard has long been involved in biological weapons development, as well as others of their ilk. Its those programs using gain of function in biological safety labs BSL-4s that must be shuttered. And gain of function is not limited to human use, the veterinarian schools produce research on Gain of function shots for animals

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rolandttg's avatar

Harvard and UNC were up to their necks in the covid development .

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william howard's avatar

and now there is a report that the death jabs impair thinking ability - beginning to believe the the zero population guys are in charge

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Dena's avatar

And this bill just signed into law by WA Governor. It provides housing reparations to “ marginalized” people. Taxpayer funded reparations. Another bill provides a year’s worth of contraceptives on the taxpayers dime. These paid for by the largest tax increases in WA state history. And these aren’t even the worst results of this years legislative session. https://open.substack.com/pub/conservativeladiesofamerica/p/was-hb-1696-signed-into-law-taxpayer?r=nl3ud&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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79SmithW60's avatar

Complete lunatics, those WA state commie Dems. Sounds like a whole lot of serving the evil one going on up there...

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Washington State over the past few years under Enslee has bankrupted itself with goodies and hand outs . Without a state income tax they have two choices... Close down these unaffordable programs and cut spending OR tax the crap out of EVERYTHING else which it appears they are trying to do. The list of proposed "transportation" taxes alone is astounding. Sales taxes are proposed to go up from the already high 9.5%.

Being Dems and always screaming about the rich paying their fair share, perhaps instead of taxing the middle class and poor out of their existence, MAYBE the West side millionaires and billionaires should pony up. The East side is dying on the vine.

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Dena's avatar

These corrupt communist dems running the state need to go. WA voters are pretty passive, liberal & uninformed. Put that together with a corrupt voting system & this is what you get - one party ruin. Maybe we’ll get some federal help as the Trump administration cracks down in woke, sanctuary states.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Our sales tax rate here in our part of King County, WA is already 10.1%. Our property taxes are over one-third of our mortgage. I don't know how much longer we can hang on with the way taxes keep increasing.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Barbara Moser's avatar

Shall we send some suitcases.

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79SmithW60's avatar

"For their part, two of the liberal Justices wondered what the big deal was about making kids learn about legal alternative lifestyles, and fretted over creating ‘chaos’ by letting parents decide what materials their children can and can’t be exposed to."

This is precisely why the whole indoctrination system (school system) needs to be dismantled piece by piece. The whole darn thing.

None of it should stay. It is either that, or those of us that pay our property taxes need to stop paying them. And let's see if the 'King' will foreclose on everyone's homes property {I say the King, because the King (the 'government') still owns your property if you have to pay rent every year (property taxes)}. And then who will they loot from? Eff them. Who is John Galt?

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Juju's avatar

Those two justices asking what’s the big deal “…about making kids learn about legal alternative lifestyles, and fretted over creating ‘chaos’ by letting parents decide what materials their children can and can’t be exposed to."

Well OK, then let’s teach the Bible again. That’s a legal alternative lifestyle too. Why should nonChristians create chaos by deciding what their kids can and can’t be exposed to??

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79SmithW60's avatar

Exactly!

But I can hear the fake screams and gnashing of teeth: "BUT WHAT ABOUT SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!!!".

And to that I will say that such a thing does not exist. Read the 1st Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." For those intellectually challenged leftists, that do not know what that means, it means that Congress cannot make a "Church of England" style state religion by law.

I would also say, "Freedom OF religion, not Freedom FROM religion." Not to mention, we are a Christian nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles (old & new Testaments), where all religions are free to practice their faith, *BECAUSE we are a Christian nation.

*edit* addition of WHY they are free to practice their different faiths.

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Juju's avatar

Exactly, but if we dig further into their separation of church and state argument it’s that they don’t believe the state should adopt and teach ANY one particular belief. And Trans and gender ideologies ARE a belief, not backed by science but backed by faith in its claims.

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We need a revolution!'s avatar

If you dig further you realize they have no understanding of the meaning of separation of church and state.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Because it doesn't exist within the text of the US Constitution. See my comments above.

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Johnny Be Real's avatar

That “legal” qualifier caught my attention too as very weak logic. The Ten Commandments are “legal”, for example, yet were removed from public schools.

“Legal” always comes with strings attached. It’s not legal to give children alcohol even though it’s legal for adults. It’s not legal for children to engage in sex or be exposed to porn even if it’s legal for adults.

So yea, they should dive into this faulty argument that “legal” means force-feed it to kids without parental consent.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

The curriculum is abysmal & hasnt been changed in yrs except for this lgbtq stuff

Look at the latest average highest IQ study released., China 1 , Iran 4 Russia 6, US 30 (rankingroyals.com). IQ is not only genetics but also environment & what you learn, how to think creatively etc

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79SmithW60's avatar

It is all captured. I call it the "Educational Industrial Complex", and like all bureaucratic institutions, it is only designed to perpetuate itself, and in this case to not serve and help educate students so they can be productive members of society (math, reading, writing, real science, critical thinking, classical literature, real history, constitution, civics, etc.).

I think if we follow the money, we will see why things haven't improved... dismantle it all.

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Juju's avatar

Why aren’t the lawyers and judges arguing the obvious: in the past they ruled we could not teach the Bible to kids in school because it infringed on their families’ religious freedoms and was considered indoctrination. These trans and gender books and lessons are teaching a belief system that we don’t share. How is that any different? Why aren’t they making this obvious point?

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79SmithW60's avatar

Great point, Juju. Tranny cult religion as well as their climate change cult religion. Same with their "Covid" cult with their jab and obedience mask wearing as their sacraments and the patron saint of Wuhan, lord Fraudci.

Everything these Marxists/globalists introduce/push is cult like.

Because they are serving the evil one, they cannot, will not, or even want to see the obvious. They don't want to let facts that are clear as day get in the way of their emotional arguments. To them, 2+2 does equal 5 and they believe it.

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Politico Phil's avatar

First and foremost, state (public) schools are indoctrination centers. That is their primary function. As for the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic necessary for life, the schools literally cannot even accomplish that! But that's not the controversy. The controversy is over the indoctrination. Why aren't the parents upset about the academic standards??? Because if they recognized the problem, they would have to do something about it and they can't give up the "free" schooling. Bottom line, the problem is the lazy parents!

You get what you pay for.... or don't.

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Donna in MO's avatar

THIS is the point I have been trying to make for the last 5 years. Some small % of parents woke up during covid and have pulled their kids. All of our area private schools have waitlists and homeschool co-ops are proliferating. But for those that remain, they prefer to shoot the messenger. Candidates for SB who run on a reform platform getting beaten down (and lose elections) by too many parents who deride them for "tearing down our excellent schools" or "disrespecting teachers" . They show up to meetings wearing I love my public school t-shirts. I stay in the fight despite ours being grown as I hate to see these people taking over our community, but it's an uphill battle on a good day.

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Somehow, we have to attack this beast (government run schools, aka the 'public school system') through the funding mechanism. Funding is primarily through property taxes in most locals. Easier said than done, because what you point out Donna. I am open to suggestions. Many people refuse to see what Phil rightly points out, or if they do see it, they don't want to rock the boat or don't think there is anything that can be done. They are also too busy making a living trying to feed their family and pay their confiscatory property taxes...

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Politico Phil's avatar

I don't think "fixing" public schooling is possible. It's going to be up to each individual family to decide to submit their children to state indoctrination or to opt for private education or home school education.

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79SmithW60's avatar

I 100% agree. I do believe the best (and most likely way to succeed) way to attack it is through the funding angle. The bureaucracy of the education industrial complex is designed to perpetuate itself and indoctrinate all that are in it.

Individual funding needs to follow each child, not just "vouchers" and bureaucratic approval processes to grant someone home school or private school access. If parents would get that per pupil funding allotment out of the local district funding (because they are no longer needing it because child xyz is being home educated), then true competition and choice to the parents will be available to all parents. For that reason, the Democrat teachers' unions and administrators are so adamantly against it. It would also help blunt their election money laundering union tool usage.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Excellent

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The Real Mary Rose's avatar

Agree 100%.

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Carrie's avatar

Parents shouldn’t just be able to opt out… those materials should be banned from public schools. They are promoting social transition in minors, which is confusing and evil. It serves no educational purpose.

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Deidre Holliday's avatar

Agreed, and short of the materials being banned (and we should accept nothing less, but until then), parents should have to opt in if they want their kids to get robbed of their identities, violated, and maimed for life, both physically and emotionally.

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79SmithW60's avatar

🎯

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Michelle Dalsing's avatar

Is it just me or does the Montgomery County logo contain a a bull whip?

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Alyssa C's avatar

I live in the area of this school district and my local news has been talking about for a while. What Jeff didn't mention is that the district initially had an option to opt out but took it away because too many students were opting out and it "wasn't feasible" to give that many students alternate assignments. You just can't make this stuff up.

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Jpeach's avatar

Zelensky’s globalist handlers are calling the shots. They want WW3 and Europe to collapse. America needs to GET OUT now.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Jpeach - Yes, I agree.

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shayne's avatar

Russia is overflowing with natural resources many of which remain untouched. Any wonder Europe and its lizard leaders are circling the bear. Putin is a man for this time, as is Trump. May the Lord keep them safe.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Bravo.

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Politico Phil's avatar

NATO Quest for War with Russia

Posted Apr 24, 2025 By Martin Armstrong

NATO has heightened its alert level, placing fighter jets in the “highest state of readiness” in response to Russia’s aggressive strikes in Western Ukraine. The Armed Forces Operational Command confirmed that allied air forces have commenced patrols over Polish airspace near the Ukrainian border. Zelensky’s refusal to accept any peace deal demonstrates he is taking orders from NATO and the American Neocons, who, my sources say, are operating now out of Paris and London to ensure this war does not end. President Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Ukraine’s president, saying Zelenskyy is prolonging the “killing field” after pushing back on ceding Crimea to Russia as part of a potential peace plan....

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/nato-quest-for-war-with-russia/

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Just cut the funding already!

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Johnny-O's avatar

Maybe Trump should have done a better job picking his advisors and he wouldn't be getting jerked around by the permanent state goons.

https://rumble.com/v6sho1b-col.-douglas-macgregor-we-need-40-60000-american-troops-on-our-border-asap-.html

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

How dumb. Our border is effectively sealed now.

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Politico Phil's avatar

From boots-on-the-ground Michael Yon...........................................

INVASION SITREP — two Human Trafficking Popes Meet

As of 23 April 2025, there is zero indication invasions are ending. All compass needles point to temporary operational reductions.

Related: here in Panama, I see zero indication the United States is making any impacts on Chinese encroachment.

Any serious attack on our attackers would launch by immediately defunding United Nations…not DEFENDING United Nations. United Nations is still fully functional and funded. United States is openly defending and nurturing United Nations.

Just one hour ago, Amy Pope continues her global tour. Pope is head of UN-IOM: The main invasion engine...

https://michaelyon.substack.com/p/invasion-sitrep-two-human-trafficking

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Politico Phil's avatar

BORDER TRUTH

Chapter 9 China - People's Liberation Army

America has never been this vulnerable.

At the current pace of 1,500 deportations a day, we are looking at removing 50,000,000 illegal aliens in, wait for it, 100 YEARS!

The media is now being forced to cover the daily murders, rapes and assaults of Americans at the evil hands of the criminal illegal aliens.

And both parties are halting and obstructing every single deportation. The Democrats are actually flying to El Salvador demanding the return of a MS-13 gang banger! The Republicans will not fund the deportations leaving ICE and Border Patrol underfunded and lacking personnel.

Hidden in this whirlwind of lies and propaganda is the threat of criminals, terrorists and foreign military soldiers inside of our walls.

The Chinese PLA is here in America at the tune of 100,000 soldiers. I did not mistakenly add an extra zero. That number is correct. Just for the kicks of it let’s say I accidently added that extra zero - are you ok with 10,000 PLA soldiers inside America?...

https://jjcarrell.substack.com/p/border-truth-47a

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Donna in MO's avatar

Going to hear him speak tonight!

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Johnny-O's avatar

That is false. Listen to the interview

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Loretta's avatar

Time to get out of NATO??!?

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Politico Phil's avatar

NATO ceased to have a reason for existence when the USSR fell. Thus NATO and the NeoCons perpetuate the fear of the Soviet Union communists and constantly push the line that Putin intends to rebuild the Soviet Empire to justify their existence. They are looking for any excuse to launch a war with Russia and insist we can survive a nuclear war.

China knows that if they were to succeed in conquering Russia that they would be next in NATO's sights. China will fully back Russia in a war with NATO. These NeoCons are rabid megalomaniacs. They are clearly insane, evil people who have no care for humanity. If they draw us into such a war, expect the worst. Smart money and smart people are already fleeing Europe for the US and South America. If NATO pushes it, Russia will reduce Europe to radioactive dust out of self-preservation. The Russians are fighting for the very survival of their families.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

You ain’t whistling Dixie

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

We started it. Well, the deep state started it. Why do you think trump keeps saying it never would have happened if he were president. He was going after the deep state, those that started it. Started over hiding evidence of their criminal behavior.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

Right, we forced Putin to invade Ukraine with our mind-control lasers.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

No, you fucking idiot, we built chemical weapons factories all over Ukraine, when we installed our pick for president in 2014, under obeyme. Most along Russias border. Then we built cia complexes on Russias border, the whole thing. Then trump was going to prosecute those in the the obeyme administration, give Ukraine back to Ukrainians, and with Putin’s help, destroy all that our deepstate did. Then you assholes stole the election, installed your retard, and started a war. Pretty fucking stupid if you ask me, and pretty fucking stupid for you to be so disingenuous.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

> No, you fucking idiot, we built chemical weapons factories all over Ukraine,

You morons can't even keep your conspiracy theories straight.

> when we installed our pick for president in 2014

You do realize the "installed president", Poroshenko, was defeated by Zelensky in the 2019 election.

Well, judging by the rest of your comment, it sounds like you don't know much of anything.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

That was an election? No dimwit, that was another installation. WTF is wrong with you? Have a problem taking responsibility for what’s been done to Ukraine with 12 years of democrat meddling, and another 8 of neocon meddling. WTF do you think we do over there? Try to open your eyes, maybe your brain a little. You won’t be able to watch MSNBC and learn this.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

> That was an election? No dimwit, that was another installation.

No, that was an election.

Sound like your problem is that you suffer from the leftist version of American Exceptionalism, the belief that no one outside the US has any agency. Therefore anything that happens outside the US must be due to US meddling.

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uselesseater's avatar

Can anyone give a reason why the Russians would agree to a ceasefire? They are winning and there is no incentive to allow Ukraine to regoup and rearm.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

I believe we will see war in Western Europe within a short time period.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

I hope so... Russia would kick their asses big time and they need it.

Europe has gone nutso.

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A Whip of Cords's avatar

Years ago I was responsible for hiring new pilots at a major airline. We wanted to change our interview process to include flying a simulator (can you fly?), a written test on basic aeronautical knowledge (do you know the science and rules?), a scenario-based simulation (can you work as a team and make decisions under stress?) and a personnel interview (do you fit our culture and will you do the job like we need it done?). Due to disparate impact rules from the EEOC and FAA, we had to implement the new process and use it for a year but during that year any of the changes to the old process could not be used to make a hiring decision. But we did have to document whether a failure of a candidate during any of the new process steps would have eliminated that candidate IF THE NEW INTERVIEW PROCESSES REALLY COUNTED. All of these was to determine disparate impact. Everyone in legal and HR lived in fear of this outcome.

Disparate impact for airlines was determined by the number of “people of color” or “women” (back when we knew the definition of a “woman”) who held an Airline Transport Rating (the prerequisite license for a wanna be airline pilot). If 7% (I chose that number out of thin air - don’t remember the actual %, but 7% is in the ballpark) of all ATPs were persons of color, then if 7% of the pilots’ seniority list at an airline were not POC, voila, that airline was discriminatory in their hiring practices.

The first airline to fail this test was United. So the Feds took control of their hiring process and had the final say on who they could and couldn’t hire. As a result, there was a feeding frenzy to recruit minorities and women by all other airlines. There just weren’t enough of them with an ATP to provide every airline with a seniority list that was 7% POC or female. Not every person with an ATP wants to be an airline pilot or is qualified to be an airline pilot. So if a POC candidate submitted an application, they went to the top of the list for an interview and a “recruitment” process began, rather than a “screening” process. No one wanted the Feds to functionally control their hiring process. You can see what sort of hiring decisions “recruitment” vs “screening for competence” led to. I could write a book on the craziness that ensued. As I’ve seen the effect of it, I’m very pleased to see disparate impact eliminated.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Wow. Thank you for your real life example of the impact of those policies!

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Lori's avatar

And can explain why so many planes are falling from the skys.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I wouldn't have a problem with that if the only people the 7% could fly as passengers were people who support such flawed testing. Of course, they shouldn't be allowed to fly over my house either ... . 😎 🧑🏽‍✈️ ✈️ 🏘️ 🤠

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A Whip of Cords's avatar

Its funny you say that… my house sits underneath the major eastern departure path from the airport I flew out of. About our poor hiring decisions, I found myself saying many times, “I sure don’t want that person flying over my family’s home!”

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Haha, yeah, I was an A&P back in my early days and some of the crews we launched made some of us say the same thing.

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John Anthony's avatar

I’m having trouble visualizing Crimea as a Lion’s paw. 🐾?

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Valerie's avatar

Same. Italys boot, absolutely. Maybe if we close one eye and turn our head just...a... little....

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Jeff S's avatar

Hahaha.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Me too! I found that description distracting. Looks nothing like it. Weird.

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Debra Jackson's avatar

Yeah, it was a stretch for me too. I even squinted my eyes to see the "paw." How the heck did it get that descriptor?

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Patti's avatar

Agreed!!!

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Cookies? Oh my goodness!

Russia was shooting protestors in the head.

Selecting the president?

Their guy didn’t even get in office, as a reminder.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

I'm having trouble seeing where Jeff is critical of Putin for demanding Ukraine turn over large parts of the country that Russia has no presence in otherwise the war continues?

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Dave Slough's avatar

Biden had the chance to stop the confrontation all Putin wanted was reassurance that there would be no NATO in Ukraine

Putin offered up multiple times he didn’t want to invade

But Biden errr Susan Rice (and the rest of Obama’s implants) wanted war and the rest is history

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

And they rejected a peace deal very early on. The deep state had a vested interest in the bioweapons labs and the human trafficking, and thought they could keep Putin from shutting them down.

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WP William's avatar

NPR said Red State MAGA Nut Voters should LOVE the WAR as industry booms for them and the Dominoes of E. Europe would be spared from falling! SO i listen to what the Pro-War Fks in DeepState Media tell me to believe... and then remorselessly and resoundingly REJECT it.

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Johnny-O's avatar

The pentagon will be enjoying a record budget under our new administration, which most of us on this thread did not vote for.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

sorry your girl lost.

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Beckadee's avatar

Excellent!

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

1 trillion dollar war budget! This is amazing. I'm gonna make so much money on lockheed and boeing stock.

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WP William's avatar

When failed foreign policy gives you lemons... make gallons and vats, and towers full of lemonade

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

That's utter Bs.

Ukraine wasn't eligible for Nato in 2022-still isn't today. Putin said he wasn't invading until his tanks were crossing the border.

It was never about Nato. It was all about subjugating Ukraine.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Yes, it was about ending the US deep state control of Ukraine.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

How did that work out for Russia? Almost a million dead, trillions in lost military assets and nato has actually expanded as a direct result.

Russia has been made a laughing stock and has to be bailed out by the North Koreans.

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Dave Slough's avatar

lol

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Bard Joseph's avatar

People are Russian and voted to join Russia after being attacked for years by Ukraine.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Who did? The people in Kyiv? Hostomel? Bucha?

Kherson?

None of them did. The only people who "voted" were those who had a gun to their backs where the Russian army was.

Russia claims all of Ukraine, FYI.

Russia started the entire war in 2014 with the first invasion. Because nobody stopped Putin the first time the second war started.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

2014 was the Nazi coup that overthrew the Democracy in Ukraine, then threatened Russian border, bombing the Russian people in the Donbass outlawing their religion and language. Russians played a waiting game as NATO threatened its borders and made a peace deal with Zelensky which Britain tore up.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

A coup means the military turned on yanuckovych, that didn’t happen. He fled when the rada impeached him and hewent to Moscow with a ton of money that was never found.

Russia wasn’t threatened.

The “Russian people” in eastern Ukraine were Russian soldiers. Igor girkin was the FSB guy who orchestrated it.

There was never any peace deal.

Remember, Putin loves the Covid vaccine so be sure to get it. He’s gotten multiple shots and says it’s the best ever.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

It was a military operation with snipers

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Yes, there were actual snipers from

The Berkut unit, ordered by yanuckovych, who opened fire on protestors.

They’ve been hunting those guys down for years.

“The Heavenly hundred”.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

Why was US State Dept handing out cookies and choosing the next President YATS? Doesn't sound like a domestic revolt but a color revolution.

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Graphite's avatar

Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau also went to lean on Zelensky to disengage in the offered peace talks!

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Never was any peace talks.

Just like the last 7 agreements with Russia they're all not even worth the paper they are written on.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Russia is not the enemy.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

You might want to check on that.

The FSB put out a calendar where the us was being bombed and it was in Syria that Putin’s private army attacked American soldiers leading to the deaths of hundreds of Russians.

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Dave Slough's avatar

Get off dat blu koolaid bruh

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

What happened to the Budapest memorandum?

Azov sea treaty?

Russ-Ukrainian friendship?

Minsk 1?

Minsk 2?

I can go on. Russia has violated every agreement and treaty they signed with Ukraine.

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Dave Slough's avatar

Dude it was NATO that violated their own rules

Get educated not indoctrinated

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Of course you do.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

I generally call out hypocrisy when I see it.

Remember when Jeff claimed "100-200 top Nato and Ukrainian generals" were dead in a Russian strike?

Yeah..that never happened.

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Dave Slough's avatar

Someone needs their daily dose of Blusky

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

I don't eve know what that is.

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Kenneth's avatar

Did everyone see this study suggesting that getting two clot shots reduces life expectancy by 37%? Those who survive the first two to get 3+ clot shots have life expectancy reduced by 17%

https://slaynews.com/news/3-decades-wiped-life-expectancy-covid-vaxxed/

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/12/7/1343

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Many of us have learned that all vaccines are worthless, if not deadly. Then again, many of the people will never make that leap.

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Jeff S's avatar

I won't even let the Vet administer shots to my cat anymore.

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Sbirdy's avatar

We have a cat that is so difficult around most people she hasn’t been to the vet for shots in at least 15 years. We had to take her last week for an infected paw. She is 23 and the young vet (25) says she the oldest cat she ever seen!! Thankfully they didn’t suggest any vaccines.

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Michael Alfred's avatar

Why would anyone vaccinate a 23 yr old cat?

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Sbirdy's avatar

They could have recommended a rabies because she goes outside. Of course I would have refused.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

It's Law In Illinois. 😡

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RJ Rambler's avatar

I had read years before cov💉 that even animals experienced more problems from vaccines than without.

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Susan Seas's avatar

Recently, I know of five animals who have gotten tumors at injection sites. Several of them have died and they shave been told that’s common to get a tumor where they get injections. HELLO!! Also I’ve heard that they do not base them on weight 100 pound dog gets the same amount as a 15 pound dog.

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Lori's avatar

kitties especially, vaccine site sarcomas usually by the neck. Find a holistic/integrative/functional vet-they are just wonderful and avoid big harma as much as possible. They practice totally different than allopathic vet med. Here is a website to find holistic vet: https://www.ahvma.org/find-a-holistic-veterinarian/#!directory/map/ord=lnm or you can google holistic vets in your area. Once you experience this kind of medicine, you won't go back to your GP allopathic vet.

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Juju's avatar

Thanks for this link! I was happy to see three in under a 20 min drive from us and closer. 👍

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Lori's avatar

Yay!!!

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Absolutely!

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PamelaZelie's avatar

Sadly, I tried that source for 2 different areas in the US. Both had holistic vets identified, but I found they could not be located anymore or closed shop.

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Lori's avatar

Pamela, try just googling, "holistic vets in (your city)". That may work to find you one.

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Lori's avatar

They can have many adverse events along with products like topical flea and tick preventatives; you just don't hear about it. Vaccinosis is the definition. Rabies only one required by law. Get Rabies titer instead. I was vaccinated for Rabies in 2004 and still holding an adequate blood titer to this day.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

When you see what witches beew is in those shots, as well as the human stuff, no wonder. Its justna money maker.

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Jamie's avatar

Indeed they do! If one stops bombarding them with all the poisons and feeds real food they are so much healthier and less expensive over the long term.

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Nancy Fahey's avatar

Did you notice life expectancy of our animals are almost cut in half in my lifetime…..!….I say that because my Australian friends animals live to almost 20, and they don’t get pumped with shots..Might also say if you spray your house for bugs that too shortens any animal living in the house….

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Lori's avatar

avoid flea products topical or oral as they can cause neuro effects. Karen Becker and Vital Animal have ways for flea/tick prevention without exposing pets to these awful insecticides. the bagged food is terrible as well. fresh food is the best like Farmer's Dog or making your own like using balanceit.com

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Nancy Fahey's avatar

Isn’t it always about the money?

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Lori's avatar

actually not always. There are many vets (mostly holistic ones) that are calling for less jab exposure but, you know how that goes. Too many vets are blue pilled listening to the narratives of the AVMA and follow algorithms. There is a loss of common sense and they do not know how to think outside the box. This is why I recommend holistic vets, totally different than what we are used to getting. An article that was posted on the AVMA daily blog that blamed rural Americans and Republicans for vaccine hesitancy in relation to the Avian Influenza so called crisis and the AVMA is blaming Trump for loss of vet jobs at the FDA/CDC etc. So you can see how left they are and they are all for One Health as well.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Unless yr animal has some serious injury I would try taking care of my dog myself as I learned to do but it takes time &; you have to learn to trust yrself.

Vets are trained to give vaxxes & meds.

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Lori's avatar

Not all vets thank goodness. The holistic vets are on a whole different wave length and provide non invasive modalities such as acupuncture, laser therapy, flower essenses/essential oils, chiropractic, nutrition recipes and the list goes on. This is why I advocate for holistic vets and get away from allopathic. What the public does not realize is that most vets now work on commission which is just a horrible business model in my opinion.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

My cocker never got fleas. She had no shots & no allergies. I never fed her that expensuve “dog food” which is loaded with toxins. If you stop now using those toxic products -its never too late. I learned that when arthritis meds, shots & toxic waste dog food lamed my first cocker.

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PamelaZelie's avatar

I’ve been using FurLife flea and tick collar (essential oils) and it’s been working.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

This is what we have used to get rid of fleas in the house. It's more work than bombing but....

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shayne's avatar

Yes. I'll never allow my animals to be vaccinated again.

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MARCI's avatar

But If your pet happens to bite someone, and hasn’t had a rabies vaccination, the state can euthanize your pet. I wonder if that is still true.

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Lori's avatar

They can place the pet in quarantine for about 10-15 days depending on what state you live in and see if they break with Rabies.

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shayne's avatar

I have cats and they've all had a rabies shot. They'll never have any more. I follow a holistic vet now, who says giving rabies shots every couple of years is unnecessary. He also talked about seeing a lot of vaccine injured animals in his practice.

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On an island's avatar

Same!

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Same. Dogs don’t go to the vet for anything except emergency.

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DeAnna's avatar

Same for me

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

VA still offering the covid DeathVax to veterans including pregnant veteran.s

I have to keep posting this just in case someone has a family member that has VA health care and may be intimidated into getting another shot.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Kathleen, have you been able to get in touch with Col (Secretary) Collins? I don't have 'social media', otherwise I would try to get the info to him via that route. Perhaps Tucker or better yet Carl Higbie (Navy Seal that I believe uses the VA) from Newsmax (on at the 5pm slot). I know he would take up the issue. Also, I also think that Rob Schmitt, Rob Finnerty, or Greg Kelly (all patriots) would take up the cause.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I have contacted Sec. of Veterans Affairs numerous times on X.

Different issues:

1. the VA still using the term "pregnant people" on their website

2. continued use of the covid DeathVax

3. VA had safety signals triggered about the covid shots for myocarditis

4. one my blood pressure meds being made in communist China

5. VA denial of disability claims to veterans who were injured while on active duty after being forced to take the covid DeathVax.

Radio silence.

No response. He doesn't read or respond to any inquires to him from myself or any other veteran.

I will give a shot contacting the other names you listed. Thank you.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Still requires masking on web sight.

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79SmithW60's avatar

Excellent. He is not jabbed either which he mentioned it again last night. Also, he is fighting NY/NYC (lawsuit) to get his concealed carry license (or should I say permission slip) for NY/NYC as a CT citizen.

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RJ Rambler's avatar

Keep posting in the main feed please. I've seen this myself.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

RFK is too busy getting rid of food dyes that have been used forever... not a bad idea... but compared to the Covid death-jabs, proven killers... still on the infant jab schedule?!?!?

And how about revoking the illegally applied liability shields for Big Pharma, so that the millions of vax-injured can obtain some justice/compensation?

Back burner? Or more likely... completely off the table!

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WP William's avatar

Yes well to many, lifelong autoimmune disease and other chronic problems are great as long as measles, mumps, whooping cough and polio can be kept away

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I had measles and mumps when I was a kid and I am not dead.

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shayne's avatar

Me too. Measles and chickenpox.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I had mumps. chicken pox, and both kinds of measles - the 3-day and the two week. The latter was very serious, but yes, I survived.

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jmsmithmd's avatar

But they can’t be kept away. Renamed polio Guillain Barre, measles outbreak among the vaccinated, etc.

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Lori's avatar

We just won't take them anymore!

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RJ Rambler's avatar

I know ppl who have survived whooping cough, measels, and polio is not a defined disease much like Covid. See a 'not' mainstream history. I'm afraid you are still sold to pharma.

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CH's avatar
Apr 25Edited

I did some quick research about rabies in Maryland, where I live, and found that in 2024 there were 204 cases in my state, mostly raccoons or skunks and most cases were in Frederick County, which is in the west of the state. Frederick County is in the mountains and very rural, also. The chart I found said no dogs had tested positive for rabies in 2024 in the entire state. (I am not sure if this is because of the rabies vaccination but I find it very hard to believe that all the pit bulls in Baltimore City are up to date on their rabies vaccination.) Then I searched for how many pets there are in MD. Funny, how google doesn't give you a number but instead says that about half of all "households" in MD own a pet. So I searched that info and there are 2.4 million+ households in MD, so that means that out of over a million pets, only 204 cases of rabies were found and it was mostly wild animals. It really puts into perspective the actual "problem". I did this same thing during the scamdemic to disprove the MSM hysteria about COVID cases.

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Jpeach's avatar

It’s great to see that RFK Jr. is starting his attack against the COVID vaccines. I know he’s a busy guy but, this Chemtrail / Geo Engineering poisoning needs to STOP. The skies above central MD yesterday were full of fake clouds and chemtrail jets.

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Anne Clifton's avatar

I decided to trigger the Nextdoor liberals a couple of days ago by posting an article about Kennedy saying covid shots should be removed from the childhood schedule. I don't mind being called names, but it is discouraging to see how many people are still ignorant. How can they not see what is happening?? I post these things hoping that perhaps one person might be led to do some research and learn the truth.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

I, too posted on Nextdoor recently about signing a petition to stop the clot shots and wow did the libtards come out in droves! I was told this wasn’t the place for politics (unless of course I swung the other way and then it would’ve been applauded) and people practically begging for more shots. It was very discouraging. I have since deleted that account. Life is too short -time to kick the dust of my sandals and move on.

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Jpeach's avatar

Reading articles how the Covid vaccine has created brain damage. Hard to do research and learn the truth with brain damage.

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Lori's avatar

Check out the IMA aka FLCCC weekly Zoom meetings at 7pm EST every Wednesday for one hour. The doctors go over the harms of all these vax and offer help to those with spike protein problems. Best one hour of my week!

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Anne Clifton's avatar

We do watch those. I miss Dr. Kory. My husband and I actually met him, Dr. Marik and Dr. Been (Mobeen Syed) several years ago.

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Anne Clifton's avatar

Yes, there is that problem, Jpeach.

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Patti's avatar

Sadly true

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Sue Kelley's avatar

But it is self limiting.

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Susan Seas's avatar

😂 💥 🎯

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OnTheJump's avatar

Keep doin' it ! I posted about this also ..... the "fam" already isn't speaking in my general direction, so what dif does it make?

NO CHILD needs this garbage - not safe, not effective.....but it IS non-essential.

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Momcat's avatar

Nextdoor is a haven for woke Karen's.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

They are the Mrs Kravitz's of these times lol. My husband reads me some of the stuff. Reminds me of the high school mean girls clique

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Momcat's avatar

very apt description!!!

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Abiding Dude's avatar

The Nextdoor assclowns in my city are unbearable.

I have been banned several times and as all here know... I only post cogent and non-controversial stuff! ;-)

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Yes. I'm quite sure of that!! ☺️☺️

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Sue Kelley's avatar

In your defense dude, it's too irresistible ❤️

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Abiding Dude's avatar

My shoulders are broad... I can take the weight!

Damn, Where's my bottle of Grey goose??

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Susan Seas's avatar

😂 and 😭 Yes quite unbelievable at this point.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Wouldn't chemtrails fall under EPA's domain?

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Apparently its a wild wild westn& no one policing. Hear abt the company selling sulfur dioxide ballons to release? On X

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Robin Greer's avatar

I believe Jeff covered that on his substack awhile back

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Zeldin has opened an investigation into this.

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Mary H.'s avatar

One would think so, but I called them and got a prerecorded gaslighting message about “contrails “ and “there is no evidence of harmful substances being sprayed into the atmosphere”.

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Robin Greer's avatar

I thought Jeff had shared something about the EPA or Sec of Ag making headway in this area, but so much is going on that I can't keep it all straight. 😜

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Johnny-O's avatar

I think it is more accurate to say an appearance is being made to look like "so much is going on" but in reality, not a lot of rubber is hitting the road. I saw a report that dug into DOGE's findings, and at the end of the day, in reality, total cost savings are $12 billion. (Solari Report)

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Robin Greer's avatar

I'm glad that the DOGE team is working for free as is Trump. And a $12 billion in savings is better than another trillion the other direction. I'll take every win we can get no matter how small.

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Karmy's avatar

I look at whatever is being saved as a bonus. $12 billion is a lot of money but what's most important is the fraud that was discovered and the agencies that were disbanded like USAID. That stopped the money train. There is more to what DOGE is doing that is beneficial than just the dollars saved.

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Robin Greer's avatar

Gotcha. 👍

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

In Florida

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Robin Greer's avatar

Oh okay....It was banned in TN last year.

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MICHELLE EAGLEMAN's avatar

EPA acknowledges KS does it. A friend got referred me to the KS Water Office. Here is their response according to her: "It’s my understand that you’re interested materials used for cloud seeding efforts. Silver iodide and dry ice have been the historic cloud seeding agents found to be utilized for weather modification activities for state permitted cloud seeding efforts, with the last permits issued and applied for being in 2016 in western Kansas." Pretty sure she got that much without a FOIA (KORA for KS)

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Lori's avatar

We need to leave the weather alone. It had been doing just fine for years and years. Mother Nature will come back with vengeance if we do not.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

HAARP is something that needs to be investigated and made public...

Ditto the possible use of directed energy weapons in Maui and Los Angeles...

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Johnny-O's avatar

So exhausted by the poisoning in our skies. I'm glad it is becoming a more mainstream topic and many states have proposed bills to stop it (whether or not they have adequate enforcement mechanisms is another issue)

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shayne's avatar

I just watched him give a live speech to an audience, in which he spoke frankly about his early addiction to illegal drugs.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

I think its the most important. It being stepped up in

PA. Is there a web site for reporting?

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Yes, I did. How many of them will never even take a first Social Security check? Between the clot shot and DOGE, the SS treasury will be swimming in money.

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Double Mc's avatar

I'm not sure that wasn't part of the plan.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

When husband came home and announced this outbreak-of-deadly-disease-in-China news (so what? Jan? Feb? '20) my first two thoughts were : Chinese bio-weapon, and this will save the Social Security funding problem.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

What they dont tell you is that the shot was developed with US funds by Prof Ralph Baric at Univ of N Carolina. He is still there. His papers are on pubmed.irg. Take a look. Its free.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Learned of the estimable Ralph back in ‘21—-but thanks.

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Donna's avatar

Same

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CHop's avatar

Exactly!....Save SS, Medicare and the pensions that they already spent.

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Johnny-O's avatar

There is evidence that the SS story is just that - a story, and there is actually a reasonable explanation for what has happened. That was on Money and Markets report from Solari.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Thanks! The Italian paper is quite good. A number of these types of papers have been around for a few years.

Interesting that they found significant effects with even one dose of the covid poison shot

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Lori's avatar

Dr. Linda, you may be interested in this new published paper by distinguished docs like Peter McCullough and Jessica Rose. The IMA aka FLCCC zoom call discussed this last night. It is unbelievable what they have found. https://cardiovascular-research-and-innovation.reseaprojournals.com/Articles/myocarditis-after-sars-cov-2-infection-and-covid-19-vaccination-epidemiology-outcomes-and-new-perspectives

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Dr Linda's avatar

Thanks, it is already in my read pile. : )

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Lori's avatar

And what a read it is. You will be gobsmacked.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Apologies, I wasn’t clear. I had read it. It was a good paper.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Don’t need any studies to know that the mRNA shots are poison which destroys health and/or kills. For years now, I have seen endless posts about how terrible these injections are. I’m glad they keep sharing this info, but I suspect they’re preaching to the choir…the same people keep reading SS; but most people don’t. These injections are bad. The End. Can’t we move on to everyone refusing them? It’s all about selling a product to make a big profit. Wouldn’t it be great if our government stopped funding all these shots?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

VA still buying the covid DeathVax and offering it to veterans including pregnant veterans.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Yes, I know. No surprise, as, after all, the whole Covid19 scamdemic was run by the DoD. My husband goes to VA clinic annually for blood work and is always offered all the shots. He declines all, of course.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Sickening

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Dr Linda's avatar

Agreed but they are good to read. It helps those who are resistant to come around

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

For me, they are not ‘good to read’, as I don’t trust them. At all.

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Dr Linda's avatar

That’s fine. Don’t read them.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Bloody hell...as a reminder most of the shots available to Americans were 2 shot series "vaccines"-pfizer and moderna.

Does it mention anything about boosters?

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Astra zenica used a chimpanzee vector CH in their shot. after all the issues with Sv 40, a known cancer promoter from monkey kidneys used in the polio shots! Monkey virus cell lines Vero, still in use. I think thats why they switched to fetal kidney cells which contain the DNA including the sex determining gene from that baby. They call it “contamination”

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RJ Rambler's avatar

That's a half life and with misery. 😭😡

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Jacquijacq's avatar

I find it so puzzling that my 95 year old dad had three shots and is fine. It’s almost like the damage it does to younger bodies helps the older bodies 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Hopefully he received saline.

There are actually "hot lots" which are vaxxine batches more deadly than others.

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JW's avatar

I wonder if there have been any studies on the areas that had the most vax injuries and correlation of red vs blue areas or states?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Medical researchers would have to admit that there are vaxxine injuries in the first place.

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JW's avatar

Very true.

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Teresa Carstensen's avatar

"Red vs. blue" might not give accurate results. I am very "red", my husband too, but we were both duped into 2 Pfizer shots before enough info came out. He suffered a massive stroke in January 2025. Now has aphasia (inability to speak) and loss of use of right arm/hand. Try just five minutes functioning with one hand tied up; he's got a lifetime of it now (we are "only" 65 yrs old).

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Heather LibertyCricket's avatar

look up Midwestern Doc DMSO remedy for stroke. Your husband can regain some of that function i hope . And lifewave patches for brain balancing.

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JW's avatar

I'm so sorry this happened to your husband. Prayers for healing. My heart hurts for you.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

Yes

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Nick Bowles's avatar

Batch heterogeneity may play a part in this. But you are right, look at the myocarditis impact on young people.

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Robin Greer's avatar

My aunt who is in her 70's had a myocarditis induced heart attack 2 weeks after her 3rd shot. So it seems that the batch has a great deal to do with it. She had zero blockages and her cardiologist actually blamed the MRNA shots.

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Lori's avatar

Robin, you may be interested in this new study by Peter McCullough and Jessica Rose. We were on a zoon call last night with this as the topic via IMA aka FLCCC.

https://cardiovascular-research-and-innovation.reseaprojournals.com/Articles/myocarditis-after-sars-cov-2-infection-and-covid-19-vaccination-epidemiology-outcomes-and-new-perspectives

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Robin Greer's avatar

Thank you for sharing this. I really enjoy Dr. McCullough.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I read this awhile ago about the danger of all vaccines, and another stack that cited a Japanese study showing the harm from the jab.

https://open.substack.com/pub/2ndsmartestguyintheworld/p/all-vaccines-will-kill-you-vaccines?r=1657tz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Valerie's avatar

I think that quality control made a big difference in adverse events. There definitely were some bad batches that caused many of the immediate deaths. And I’m betting that group of nurses in a hospital all having brain tumors that are ‘definitely not related’ all got the same batch. All of the covid vaccines carry a lot of risk, but some worse than others.

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Scott's avatar

Fairly early on, I saw a video of a pharmacist who was involved in product review and evaluation. She explained very clearly how there was NO WAY the mRNA clot shots could be produced in a consistent, predictable manner. And that, of course, has been more than demonstrated by the "hot lots." This, of course, is not an argument for "fixing" the process and taking a "better" clot shot.

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Teresa Carstensen's avatar

I think the various bits of "garbage" DNA bits that have been discovered in the shots might determine some of the ill effect a batch will produce.

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Dr. Jane Hawk's avatar

All batches were bad, but some were worse

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Do you have access to the batch number of your father's shots? Such that you could run it through Craig Pardekooper's program and see how relatively low-toxic/high-toxic father's shots were.

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Melissa S's avatar

Do you know how someone would even find out their batch number?

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Alice P. Liddell's avatar

It should be on your immunization card.

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Melissa S's avatar

Thanks. I never got the jab. But wondering for family who did.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

My understanding—from reading only—is that it is printed on the vax card (which all vaxees had to carry at all times back in ‘21). Otherwise, one might call one’s doctor, or the pharmacy where one received it, providing them with date of injections, and time of day if possible. Just my best guess.

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Robin Greer's avatar

I know a 103 year old woman who is also fine; however, my aunt in her 70's had a myocarditis induced heart attack 2 weeks following her 3rd shot. It seems that the batch makes a huge difference.

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Kitkat's avatar

I often wonder if the jab is what killed Betty White. I know she was 99, but was in great health. Up until jab time. :(

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Robin Greer's avatar

One has to wonder.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Batches were extremely inconsistent. Another factor is how people were jabbed (into a vein or the muscle).

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

It makes sense to me that the better condition one's immune system is, regardless of age, the more sensitive it may be to responding to the adjuvants(LNP's) and mRNA itself. So, if you're 95 and your immune system has trailed off for years(as it does as you age) you may be better off than someone, of any age, with an immune system hitting on all cylinders.

But I am an engineer. . . grain of salt required here.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

YES; aware of this. Likely, something in the dark recesses of my spike-adled brain reflected that knowledge. thanks.

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Graphite's avatar

If your immune system is weak, as in older people, then maybe you are spared some of the effects of the gene therapy?

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Lori's avatar

Please read this new published paper that has found reactions from the jab may not occur for a few years out and why. I am so glad to hear that your dad is doing fine!

https://cardiovascular-research-and-innovation.reseaprojournals.com/Articles/myocarditis-after-sars-cov-2-infection-and-covid-19-vaccination-epidemiology-outcomes-and-new-perspectives

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Teresa Carstensen's avatar

I think older persons just have a more "developed" natural immune system, after having been exposed to Heaven-knows over the years. The shots devastated immune system function, so for younger persons this was more detrimental as nature was still developing immunities by natural infection and recovery.

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CHop's avatar

A few years ago, a numbers guy who works with Ed Dowd stated in a Ron Johnson roundtable this very statistic. He also stated the rate was higher for those who stopped at 1 shot. The thought was that their reaction was so bad, they didn't go back for a second shot. Those people may have gotten a shot that was a "bad batch" shot.

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Julie Ann B's avatar

Are you saying 37% for 2 and then 54% (37+17) for 3?

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CHop's avatar

No. It was about 37% for 3 or more at the time of the roundtable. But they found a higher rate for those who stopped at one. The shots are not all the same. Some have much more RNA while others are saline. If someone went to get their 2 shots, had a bad reaction after the first one, then they wouldn't go back for the second. They got a heavy dose on the first shot and therefore, more damaging toxins to their body. The manufacturing process was so rushed, there was a lot of variety that went into each vial and even each syringe.

Likewise, if someone went for their first shot, had no problem, they would readily go for their second shot. With each additional shot, your chances of getting a bad batch goes up.

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Kenneth's avatar

My understanding is that it is NOT cumulative. Those healthy enough to survive a few shots live through more but on the whole are still affected. I think its because the first two are often given closer together

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

I’ve been fighting the pornographic books in schools fight since 2021. I am so encouraged by SCOTUS this week. Our district (in N Colorado) went so far as to return Gender Queer to the shelves at the Middle School level. 🤦‍♀️. Hopefully this ruling will help get it removed once and for all.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

I stood against a book the teacher was reading to her classroom of THIRD GRADERS back about 15-20 years ago! It included a graphic rape scene! Apparently me and one other parent objected. The school administrators and teacher was shocked we had a problem with it - “no other parents have ever complained” was what we were told. Instead of rethink this book (which was on the scholastic award winners list 😒) my son (and the other kid) had to go wait in the hall while the teacher continued reading the book in class 🤮 Disgusting! Shameful! They’ve been pushing this crap a lot longer than we realize. We’ve been the frog in the pot being slow boiled 😞

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Loretta's avatar

One method that often "works" for school administrators is to read the portions aloud TO them. Or better...have THEM read it out loud.

If they don't flinch, get the heck out!

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SB's avatar

As Jeff mentioned, most parents are clueless what happens at school. It’s free childcare and they give the schools the benefit of the doubt.

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Rosie Langridge's avatar

What age would this be please? Mystified by the system in the US!

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Anne Emerson Hall's avatar

Third grade in the US is typically 8-9 years old.

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Loretta's avatar

8 years old.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

The thing that kills me Nard is that the people screaming no book bans and supporting filth like Gender Queer haven't even looked at them. I sent excerpts to several local politicians and our Governor and challenged them to read them out loud to their children and grand children. I also asked why they thought the pictures were cartoon drawings and not real life depictions.

They all admitted they hadn't actually seen the books. They were appalled and couldn't imagine why anyone would think a child should read these books.

Last year the Governor signed a bill requiring the books to be moved to an area for adults only and they cannot be checked out without the parents permission. The librarians can be held responsible and fined if they didn't comply within 60 days of a complaint of inappropriate contract. Librarians complained they didn't have time to review the books they were purchasing.

The libtards in town struck back by filing to remove the Bible ( actually ban it) and closing the smaller libraries because they just" didn't have the ability to police the books".

Of course their arguments prior were" no banning books" and" children must have access to libraries".

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CHop's avatar

I see a big problem is in the information warfare. One side sees the book banning being of porographic books while the other side sees it as "To Kill a Mockingbird" Barnes and Noble had a "banned book" display and none were the gender affirming or sexual children's books that parents are screaming about. Most were classic books.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

The libretardS want the classics banned. Can’t have the kids smarter than the parents.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

💯

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RJ Rambler's avatar

🙏🏼

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Patti's avatar

Likely will be ignored

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

PSD has made national news for transitioning kids behind parents’ backs. If they don’t remove the book, they will likely find themselves in the national spotlight once again.

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Uncle Juan's avatar

Good morning!! Everyone have a blessed Thursday!!

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I'm starting to think the veiled threats Adam Shift launched at Pam Bondi during her confirmation hearing scored some direct hits. Now into month # 4 and no significant charges among all of the exposed government corruption. Charging a few gang guys and a DA who tried to take down DJT is good, but come on, is that the best the thousands of vaunted DoJ attorneys can do?

I wonder if anyone has been charged with anything.

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Carolyn's avatar

You need to let GOD do HIS work. It has been 4 months or dear!!! How long did it take to get here...a whole lot longer than 4 months. You should have been complaining a LONG time ago. We the people let our country get in this condition it's in so buckle up buttercup and let GOD clean up this mess on HIS time and HIS way. HE gave us a 2nd chance. Have faith, patience and belief

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Sunnydaze's avatar

I understand that too - but the justice system seems to move in fast forward when they are prosecuting innocent conservatives. There seemed to be no lag time when Trump was in their crosshairs, or Bannon got thrown in jail, or when innocent families are swatted several times. J6ers may disagree that it takes time to prosecute people since they were thrown in prison based on no evidence or falsified crap at the speed of light. Why does THAT seem to move so fast? They already knew who these people were before taking office. How long should we be patient? What will be the mantra if we see no actual prosecutions and these people walk away with all their criminal money?

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Juju's avatar

Yes but many of those same people are still in their same positions and they are not pro-MAGA and will now slow everything down rather than speed up. They were never neutral. That is not Pam’s fault. She is up against a lot of corruption from within, and at the very least many liberal hearts and minds that care more about stopping anything she wants no matter if it’s right and good, so they will be resistant in their work.

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Heather LibertyCricket's avatar

Yeah they are still cleaning house and getting whose remaining to understand their job is to support the president. Still frustrating to wait, but I just heard this from my husband yesterday. So I unfortunately agree we have to still be patient.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I've been complaining since 2003 when GW invaded Iraq, 5,000 miles from our shores, for bogus reasons. Thousands of Americans killed & injured, millions of civilians killed and injured, trillions of taxpayer dollars wasted, and GW still walking free. Hillary still spouting trash around the world after destroying Libya. They should be turned over to the Hague for war crimes. Then start working in the bureaucrats en masse.

But let's be patient. That's the mantra of enablers of corruption. You & your patient ilk may be part of the problem.

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Johnny-O's avatar

Obama on prosecuting W for war crimes: "We need to look forward not backward." Of course - because he was about to become a war criminal himself.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Yep, and Slick Willie bombed Bosnia for no good reasons. But let's be patient, said the worn-out rug.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Yes, Buttercup carolyn has her head up her culo...

Israel did 911... to get Cheney and his sock puppet Bush to destroy Iraq.

They are actively trying to push Trump into a war on Iran.

https://www.unz.com/article/israel-did-9-11/

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Nonsense. Did God clean up North Carolina after Helene? Did he prevent the 17 MILLION deaths worldwide from the Covid Vax? How about the massive child trafficking and rape? The Biden Regime FUBAR? Etc etc...

Trump is still actively supporting the mass-murder and land thefts of Israel in Gaza and elsewhere... even bombing Yemen at their direction. He refuses to return Russia's stolen reserves and to end the sanctions against them that were placed for totally bogus reasons. The CIA destroyed Russia's Nord Stream pipelines, will Trump rebuild them?

RFK refused to come out early and call for the banning of all mRNA jabs, especially for kids. He has openly called Palestinians "the most pampered people in the world", as he kissed the vile rabbi Shmuley's ass...

Bondi has quashed the promised release of the Epstein, 911 and JFK files, all due to pressure from AIPAC. Where is the P. Diddy information??

Kash and Bongino have said their main gold is supporting Israel! Rubio is a Zionist supporting assclown, Waltz is a neocon warmonger and a damned moron. Hegseth is junior varsity and a stone liar.

I have hopes... but... Wake up, Buttercup!

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Patti's avatar

I’m waiting!! I’m trying to give a solid 6-8 months before I lose hope. I know they are fighting on all fronts .

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I can assure you, if I am wrong, which I hope I am, I will shout my apologies from the mountain-top.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Trump is supporting the genocide of Palestinians... should we allow the Zionist's mass-murder to continue for 6-8 months?

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Jake's avatar

Tish Gaines is on the ropes. A small victory but it's a start.

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Michael Srite's avatar

Who is Tish Gaines?

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Dr Linda's avatar

Regarding Zelenskyy: I happened to catch the 2 sec clip of 60 Minutes a couple of days ago.

What I heard was “Trump boasted the Ukraine Russian war would be over before the election”

I went no further. I believe it was going to be a head on slam against Trump (duh). I have to wonder if Zelensky is being paid by global elites to be this difficult.

I see Jeff brought this up as well

“-Zelensky and the oligarchs really calling the shots—“

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Johnny-O's avatar

Trump allowed Biden's weapons and money to continue to flow. He is still allowing intelligence and targeting info to aid Ukraine. Trump is definitely part of the problem. He's been in office for 3 months now.

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

Cut off all funds, to Ukraine and to Israel. And then keep cutting funds for any foreign military.

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Sam's avatar

Trump seems to have forgotten that he armed Ukraine during his first term. He gave them javelins to shoot at Russians and Ukrainian citizens in the Donbas.

Zelensky is an illegitimate president and he has no authority to make any deal with Putin.

Trump also ignores the fact that this is a US proxy war against Russia. If he wants to end it he just needs to walk away.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

Ah, yes. Zelensky is being "difficult" by refusing to consent to his country's destruction.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

The demoralized DIEvy League is collapsing. Columbia appointed a new president who is a former CNN propagandist. Brown promoted the DEI dean of its medical school to become VP of campus life: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/claire-shipman-columbia-president

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Scott's avatar

Ugh. Columbia is such a cesspool. I guess they all are.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

I think all Ivy league and Eastern Universities are... with very few exceptions.

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Lori's avatar

Geez, dean of the medical school-no wonder hospitals and docs are killing us as they are more interested in DEI than sound medical practice.

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Abiding Dude's avatar

Big Pharma OWNS almost all medical schools.

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Lori's avatar

along with the major pet food companies and AVMA has a very vocal lobby.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Ukraine: Why doesn’t Trump keep it simple, and just end all funding and support to Ukraine? Who cares what Zelensky wants to do? Just tell him he’s on his own. Now. Completely. None of our business.

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Michael Srite's avatar

I like your suggestion, Cathleen, but I think the reason Trump hasn't pulled out (yet) is he's still hoping to make some profit out of the outcome. First it was the rare minerals lease; now it's the big nuke power plant he wants to take over.

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Johnny-O's avatar

Apparently Trump (and his advisors) don't realize the US doesn't really have cards to play against Russia.

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Eugine Nier's avatar

I have a better idea. How about we deport all scumbags like you to El Salvador. No due process necessary.

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Tonya's avatar

Imagine a high school with 1,000 students, but only 10 black students. (And the make-up isn't because of discrimination; it's just that not very many black families live in the area.) Let's say that there is one black student that is getting in trouble all the time, cutting class, getting in fights, etc. The federal government actually tells that school that they are risking federal funding because they are giving detention to a disproportionate percentage of black kids as compared to white kids since the rate in black students is 10%, but the rate in white students is less than that if fewer than 99 white students are getting detention.

The school's reaction is to either start giving out more detention to white kids, or to be more lenient with the disruptive one black student.

This is not a hypothetical situation.

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laura-ann Knox's avatar

Correct. This was established as a policy by Obama. I didn't remember what its name is but something like the Bush's "no child left behind"

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BTeboe's avatar

Children deserve a childhood, not groomed by some pervert. Who writes LGBTQ books for children?

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RunningLogic's avatar

I know, right??

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Lori's avatar

I am thinking someone who is LGBTQ???

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Sue Kelley's avatar

I noticed the last name of the illustrator for the book Jeff posted is " twink" . Definition: (among gay men) a gay or bisexual young man with a slim build and youthful appearance.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Many gays and lesbians are speaking out and separating themselves from the lgbtqi movement because they believe it has been hijacked by pedophiles intent on normalizing pedophilia and grooming children to accept it. I couldn't agree more.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

The evil books in schools ‘opt’out’ thing - Parents should not have to opt out…these books shouldn’t be in school in the first place.

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