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Ayn's avatar

Yes, the Antifa Escalator Antic backfired because Melania paused for less than a tenth of a second to give a 360-degree safety check and then gracefully marched upward and onward in those stilettos. Boss.

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YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

To borrow from the great Mitch Hedburg: escalators are never broken, they just become stairs.

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Mystic William's avatar

Stairs are often simply progressive escalators.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Socialist escalators…

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YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

What did they use in California before stairs? Escalators.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Wasn't Escalator the bad guy in the Spanish language edition of He-Man? Eskelator?

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phlyme's avatar

My brother disabled the Lazarus escalator in Columbus Ohio when he was probably 5 or 6 Got his shoe stuck in it. Stopped the whole thing. Embarrassed my mom.

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Janet's avatar

See comments above you. Protocol forbids President from running away from secret service in awkward trapped moments like this. Duh. My SIL has a secret service relative. I’m sure he would concur. Think about it.

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YourGalapagosGullfriend's avatar

I know that. However, I also couldn't resist bringing in some levity to how Melania handled the situation.

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NinaG's avatar

The SS wasn’t doing anything anyway!

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HBD's avatar

And yet, when that happens, they are blocked off so you have to use the…stairs.

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Mary Mc's avatar

💯

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NAB's avatar

Great caption too :)

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Donna in MO's avatar

Hilarious! When your wife knows that by cutting your teleprompter they're going to have to listen to you ramble for an extra hour about whatever comes to your mind. 😂

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Nancy Unsworth's avatar

Look at those glum faces around Melania. Heads down, dour expressions.

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G Harkness's avatar

Well, that's not entirely unexpected. If I were in the vicinity of Melania, I might be a little glum myself, just recognizing the visual difference between the two of us :-)

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Julie's avatar

Melainia is in 'great' shape.. And so is our President for that matter..

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Susan Seas's avatar

I wonder what Biden brain would have done? Man that would’ve been some funny footage. LOL

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Lori's avatar

it would have been a repeat of what happened on the plane stair ramp.

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Susan Seas's avatar

How long would it have taken him to realize it wasn’t moving? 🤣🤣🤣

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Don M's avatar

He would have done a perfect impression of Inspector Clouseau!

“Swine escalator!”

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Julie Ann B's avatar

🤣🤣🤣👍

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Silent scorn's avatar

Omg. Thanks for the visual! 😂😂😂

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cat's avatar

If that happened to Biden, that would probably have broken his fall and he would have been standing upright as if nothing happened.

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Mike's avatar

Biden would still be standing there blankly pointing in different directions

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Lori's avatar

mentally, physically and Spiritually.

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Snavely43's avatar

Melania has great genes.

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Johnny-O's avatar

Trump is overweight. Simple fact.

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Mike's avatar

I wonder if Kimmel could walk the escalator in stilettos.

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The Great Resist's avatar

He’s been practicing at home.

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David Cashion's avatar

While his wife goose steps around the house in his boots.

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shayne's avatar

Best first lady ever!

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Valerie's avatar

I know we’re joking about escalators, but I’ve got to tell you all…. once when I was a kid, 4, maybe 5, I tripped getting off the escalator and the hood of my winter coat got sucked in the end of the escalator, where those teeth of death are. I was only with my mom and she was useless so some man nearby came and dragged me out. I remember it in detail and I’m 57, scared me senseless.

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CL Shoemake's avatar

** There is a good sized Red Button at each end of an escalator, down near the floor as one would get on or off. In an Emergency, hit this button to stop 🛑 the escalator. **. The button looks similar to the emergency shut off button at gas stations. Could save someone to know this. Similar to your post, I saw part of a child’s clothing get caught in an escalator,& it was frightening.

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Valerie's avatar

I agree! I don’t think they had those back in like 1972, though.

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Lauren's avatar

They do NOW.

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Kathryn Mader's avatar

My great grandmother said escalators will turn you into mincemeat.

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Christine Summerson's avatar

I remember a quip from the 1980s, and I think it was from Johnny Carson following an earthquake, about Valley Girls being trapped on an escalator.

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AM Schimberg's avatar

Broken escalators are still stairs! 😄 She just got a little extra gluteal workout. I'm sure Donald doesn't mind.

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phlyme's avatar

Like true lady.

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Kenn Goodwin's avatar

I stumbled and rolled down the escalator in Belk’s department store in Charlotte. Got picked up by a couple of cops. I thought I was going to jail at just 6 years old. The escalator never stopped 😎

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Leo's avatar
Sep 25Edited

Kenn, Did you ever get caught in the revolving doors at Ivey's in Charlotte?

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Kenn Goodwin's avatar

No, but I have seen folks who have. Dad took us through the doors, a couple times.

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TexBritta's avatar

It was an absolute OBLITERATION hour and frankly I was mesmerized 🫢 🫢 😆

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

It is one thing to attack the man, but to attack his wife? The mother of his child?

The Christian in me should say, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”, but I'm not ready to forgive people who are willing to harm women to score stupid theatrical political points.

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Janet's avatar

I read that an elevator stopping unexpectedly or deliberately could be deliberate in order to create confusion and an opportunity for an assassin. Wouldn’t that be awesome to some. Right at the UN. Secret service protocol is for the presidential party to freeze but not the agents. No running up the steps. The President obviously knows that.

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Skeptical Actuary's avatar

There was a story yesterday about the Secret Service finding a bot farm that could have disrupted cell service in NYC. There was another one about a "large" group with foreign connections that was swatting conservatives that was broken up. I don't know how closely they are related.

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Bard Joseph's avatar

For his "escalation" of the war in Ukraine. Time to Deescalate.

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Janet's avatar

It’s an opportunity for assassins. Confusion. A President breaking from the SS pack to run up the stairs? Protocol is all the party stop—except the SS who surround the potus. What better place to do the job.

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.

— Hebrews 12:28-29 NAS95

✝️✝️✝️

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

All Jehovah longs for is OUR LOVE and ALLEGIANCE - He doesn't desire anything else from us! When we love Him fully and completely--we work RIGHTEOUS actions and bear GOOD FRUIT. We need to return to our Christian roots - unapologetically!! That has been my prayer for over five years!

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Politico Phil's avatar

For those who haven't thought about it, I would like to point out that the writer of Hebrews is saying they "receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken..." Not a future kingdom but right then and there, as we also in real time receive the same kingdom that was inaugurated with Christ's ascension to the throne of God. Something to reflect on.

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

Just noting that we are beginning the Days of Awe under the Jewish calendar. :-)

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

That is a phrase I am not familiar with. Will look it up.

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Susan Clack's avatar

Amen...❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Jamie's avatar

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭4‬:‭24‬ ‭

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Debi Lutman's avatar

God places and deposes leaders. He gave us a reprieve with this administration, as well as all those in the trenches. All the prayers & fasting. Where is our thanksgiving to God?? Who gave us our very breath…let those with ears, hear. Thank you Janice for your steadfast faith.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

The UN tried to hurt Trump and Melania by breaking the escalator when they were on it. A source even hinted at it a few days before in The Times of London. The teleprompter sabotage may have been a good thing because it freed him to call out all the failures of the UN. Glad he called out the climate change hoax. It is a death cult just like carbon-reducing sacrifices featured Apocalypto: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/climate-change-apocalypto

Defund the UN!

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Jeff C's avatar

Oilfield Rando had a great take on the teleprompter:

"They sabotaged his speech so he just beat them to death with a stream of consciousness roasting. What a legend. What a statesman. What an American hero."

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Debra's avatar

Did you seem them squirming in their seats? It was legendary.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I loved every word. So proud to be an American.

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Jamison's avatar

I am, too. Just very grateful to have been born in this amazing country.

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Lori's avatar

Agreed, just listened to the entire speech. Now let's see if Europe will take care of their countries.

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Neotekton Politeion's avatar

I love that he called him a “statesman". He is completely right. We have way to many politicians and not nearly enough statesman. This should be the next political Shake up. Insist your representatives conduct themselves as statesman.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Good point.

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Beckadee's avatar

I love that!

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U L's avatar

He had a paper backup.

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Jeff C's avatar

He had paper back-up but he also widely strayed from it and spoke extemporaneously as he always does. Seriously, what is the point of a comment like this, just trying to spoil people's fun?

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Jules's avatar

The point was that he was prepared.

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RunningLogic's avatar

That’s how I understood it also.

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DianeKay88's avatar

This may seem minor, but I would have liked to have read Mr. Childers UN segment at the very last. As what Mr. Childers says at the very end, of that segment, is paramount and priceless.

Just my humble opinion...

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Silent scorn's avatar

‘fortuitous’-quoted from my favorite movie, Tombstone

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Melania didn’t flinch. She remained poised and walked purposefully up the escalator showing no signs of distress or irritation. Class act. Now put Kamala or Hillary or Dr. Jill in that same position…

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Bandit's avatar

Wow! Can you imagine the hissy fits those 3 would have pitched?! Yelling, screaming, and blame throwing. Heads would have rolled.

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MaryAnn's avatar

Heads may yet still roll 😂

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Bandit's avatar

If it's their heads (the 3 named creepy women (maybe)) I'm fine with it.

Edited to correct typo.

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Tom's avatar

They were so acclimated to Biden falling up flights of stairs, they expected more of the same.

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Peter GL's avatar

Nard, you really cannot compare Melania with the three jokes of Cackla, Killary, or"Dr" Jello. The three are simply rabid democraps that did nothing for the country except damage it. At least Melania is not harming the country

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Skeptical Actuary's avatar

You forgot the quote marks on Dr. She's not Dr. Jill, she's "Dr." Jill. She has no more authority to call herself a doctor than my husband, who is an attorney, and has a J.D.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The escalator stopping was an incredibly dangerous position for the President and his wife to be in. The Secret Service should have immediately surrounded them.

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Mike's avatar

It's time to shut that SHITSHOW down. I was having a vision of the entire campus ripped down and replaced with a new business center and TRUMP TOWER with lots of beautiful green grass!

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Jacquijacq's avatar

Make it housing for veterans

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shayne's avatar

I like this!

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David Nelson's avatar

Mike, yes, Trump foreclosing on the mortgage for arrears. As it was, it was Even Better, as Jeff said, he only showed up to Talk Past Them to their own peoples of the world back home.

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Susan Seas's avatar

How he used it makes me wonder if he didn’t do it himself! 🤣

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shayne's avatar

🤣🤣

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

Good point

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Lori's avatar

Our President always makes lemonade out of lemons!

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

It will be the next thing he sells. “It’s the best lemonade ever made. Nobody’s ever tasted lemonade like this. We grow the biggest,most beautiful lemons you’ve ever seen!” I’d wait in line for that lemonade.

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Lori's avatar

I am laughing so hard and picturing him saying this along with the hands moving horizontally. Yes, I would wait for that too.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Me too!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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David Nelson's avatar

Splash it down with his own home-made liberal tears, which he wrings himself.

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Jeff S's avatar

Hahaha.

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Jamison's avatar

😂😂😂

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The Great Resist's avatar

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Katie Pavlich in the press pool at the UN speech reported a noticeable drop in the audio volume for President Trump’s speech compared to others. More lame attempts at sabotage.

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WP William's avatar

the audio i listened to Trump said "1920s and 1930s" not 1960s and 1970s as shown here--minor point but accuracy is important. The UN will either be restored/fundamentally transformed, or join the League of Nations as another corrupted and failed brainchild of Western Democracies that enriched conmen more than it ever helped anyone

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NanaW's avatar

My prayer is it becomes completely dismantled and assigned to the ash heap of history.

Wilson was a global cabal member in good standing and not some impractical dreamer who had a great idea we peons have been unable to fulfill.

The UN is doing exactly what it’s always intended to. Sow chaos and destruction under the banner of peace and establish a one-world government of totalitarianism. A modern day Tower of Babel.

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Kathryn Mader's avatar

Get US out!

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CStone's avatar

But they WERE doing it in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s 90’s………..

It was “THERE’s GONNA BE A NEW ICE AGE!!! We must do something!!!!!”

When I WAS A CHILD.

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WP William's avatar

yes, we were excited for the glaciers and ice caps to GROW Larger in the 1970s but than acid rain fell in torrents, ozone holes ripped open, and the whole grift shifted to a new generation of industry-modifying Enviro-Communists with suits and ties

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ScuzzaMan's avatar

I think it might be some decades too late.

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SadieJay's avatar

San Francisco rejected the offer to house the UN. That is back when California was free.

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Fabes55's avatar

I just read on RedState that Trump was supposed to give a 15 minute speech w the teleprompter but when it failed he went off the cuff for an hour. Classic Trump punishment for the children at the UN.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Serves them right! 😁

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Long since time to get out. DJT lost his first bid for "rebuilding" the UN complex; now it's time for a no-bid contract, awarded to the Trump Corporation. Let him re-purpose those buildings for American business interests; The UN can move out and move across the water.

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CStone's avatar

It can go to hell, from whence it came.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

You might be correct.

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Jeff S's avatar

It can move into the water...

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Fabes55's avatar

The UN acted like the 3rd graders they are. What a useless organization it’s become.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Spoiled brats, they are 🙄

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Fish Whistle's avatar

As the early 70's signs said:

Get U.S. OUT of the United Nations!

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Steve Stevens's avatar

You had one of them too? I remember always seeing one of them as a kid. It gradually fell apart but it was still readable for many years.

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Joe Katzman's avatar

“Defund the UN!”

That’s really the crux, isn’t it? It does matter to say these things (“Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”), but if you keep funding them and their attacks continue, it doesn’t matter much. There have to be real penalties, and real action.

Ditto Ukraine, the globalist slush fund.

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Bill Lacey's avatar

They thought they were still dealing with Biden. Unable to walk and unable to talk without a teleprompter. They were wrong on both counts.

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pretty-red, old guy's avatar

or how about bldg 7 the UN.

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william howard's avatar

what - a New World Order?

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David Nelson's avatar

You noticed that, did you william howard? ;^) As in "Yet-Another-"...

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william howard's avatar

perhaps a Turning Point

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David Nelson's avatar

In. Deed. May he rest in peace until the glorious day.

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Paul  Weiss's avatar

Nor,” Kimmel continued, “was it my intention to blame any specific group; that was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make.

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Well, apparently he’s going to need new pants, because his are on fire.

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Lori's avatar

He speaks with forked tongue. I laughed listening to what he said. And the fake tearing up, that was classic as then he brought up Jesus which he must have thought was his pièce de ré·sis·tance moment. We don't want or need anything from him.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

"Begone. I never knew you."

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David Nelson's avatar

...and yet. And yet... "Even such as these."

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SM's avatar

I don’t have space in my septic tank for all the vomit that I’d spew out listening to anything disingenuous Kimmel says…🤮

He’s never spoken an intelligent thought of his own. He simply reads his teleprompter like a good little boy.

Blue Skiers can have their empty-headed, pathetic mascot.

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Skeptical Actuary's avatar

I bet he used the trick of having tweezers in one's pocket and pulling on a sensitive hair to fake the tears.

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Maureen Hanf's avatar

Could have used sliced onions in a handkerchief too…

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Skenny's avatar

Ever the consummate actress, Kimmel has an unsurpassed ability to cry on cue.

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FlatEarthFlyer's avatar

Kimmel is an acting member of the Screen Actor’s Guild. Get it? ACTING. That’s his job. Pretending to be something he’s not. Same with Jamie Lee Curtis and her phony crocodile tears.

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Hazel's avatar

All the world is a stage…

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Melissa MB's avatar

Exactly. He blamed MAGA for the shooting. Our own killed Charlie. NEVER!

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Skeptical Actuary's avatar

Because of that non-apology apology, more liberals STILL think a MAGA guy shot Mr. Kirk than think a liberal did it. As of several days ago, only 10% knew Robinson is a liberal, and over 30% thought he is MAGA.

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Renea Buchholz's avatar

Hahahahahahaha

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Good morning, C&C, from the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where the trees are starting to turn, the mornings are crisp, and the crazy is on full display!

On a side note, we are hoping the tomatos finish ripening before it starts raining again and we don't see the sun until sometime next May.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Bonnie Ferguson's avatar

Ah! Autumn in the Willamette Valley is amazing. The display of "crazy" is amazing, too, but not in a beautiful way. 🥴 My two oldest daughters are in rehearsals for "The Pirates of Penzance" with the Eugene Opera company and have been enjoying it immensely! Then last week they got an email saying someone in the cast tested positive for covid so please wear masks for the next rehearsals. My girls immediately sent emails back saying they wouldn't do that. Anne took the religious view, while Kate added science and law. There was an immmediate amendment to the original note saying masks were "highly recommend" not mandatory. So far, they have been the ONLY maskless ones, but no one has had the gall to pester them about it.

Sorry this is so long, Mrs. "the Knife". I always enjoy your comments and I figure we might even be "neighbors" in this land of liberal lunacy. 🥰

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Bonnie, no worries, I enjoy the longer comments, as too much of what passes for "communication" these days are just sound bites. We are neighbors in a sense: we live in the South Puget Sound area, but my mama's people are from the Willamette River Valley, and my father's clan migrated from the Carolinas to the Willamette Valley and settled for awhile, before migrating on up to the Washington Territory. The Willamette Valley is just stunning in the fall!

I am glad that your daughters stood their ground and that the others are not harassing them for it. Maybe it will encourage others to do the same if they see your girls living free! We can pray the example they are setting will plant some seeds of sanity!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Leo's avatar

Mrs. K., Where in the Carolinas were your father's folks? Mine were N.C. ("No Car and no gas, either" - as they used to say.)

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Shoals, NC

Mrs. "the Knife"

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

Good for your girls. After all these years, wouldn’t you think common sense would have prevailed by now?

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A.M.'s avatar

Ha! I am also doing a play and someone showed up last night wearing a mask. She said she had been exposed to someone with Covid and didn't want to spread it around. I said I hadn't had the flu but once this century, someone else chimed in likewise--we said we weren't worried and the mask came off. Thank goodness.

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Peter's avatar

Ah yes, autumn in Salem where Antifa (the imaginary terrorist organization) barricaded the doors of the ICE facility last night

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Antifa has been out in force in Seattle, Tukwila, and Tacoma lately.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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CStone's avatar

‘Imaginary?

Really?

Was it my imagination that they burned Portland down?

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

My eldest daughter was in a children's production of Pirates--many of the lines/songs remain as "family speech". Thanks for your offering a) the continued masking asininity and b) the girls' successful response.

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CStone's avatar

Wow!!!! I’m impressed by your daughter’s courage. I’m so glad you shared, lol…..the demons are still hissing, but we need to push them back into their hellholes and keep them there.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Hopefully everyone else in the Opera is fully vaximacated so they should be fully safe from the mask-free rebels.

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Fr. Wah's avatar

"When the foeman bares his, er, face . . ."

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

With cat-like tread...

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kittynana's avatar

@Bonnie- husband and I drove through the Willamette Valley a couple of weeks ago on our way to the Redwoods. Lovely area.

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David Nelson's avatar

W.S. Gilbert SKEWERS hypocrisy--it's a wonder, but a welcome salve, that progressive communities tolerate productions.

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luluweaver's avatar

I’m enjoying Fall in Eugene too! Good for your daughters standing their ground in this way liberal town.

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Bonnie, God bless your girls for taking a stand and making a difference! That may inspire others to be bold too.

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Renea Buchholz's avatar

Wow, so glad i moved up into the coast range

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Good morning Mrs the knife! A friend taught me this trick because, as you know, our growing season is so short out here in the PNW. If you grasp the stalk of your tomato plant near the root and gently pull up(tearing some of the roots) but not dislodging the plant, it stresses the plant and accelerates ripening! I tried it and it worked for me. About 75% of the green tomatoes turned red before the first frost!

❤️

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Tom's avatar
Sep 24Edited

If you want to stress the plant, couldn't you just put a television in view, playing CNN or Rachel Maddow?

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Tom, stress them, not kill them!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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RunningLogic's avatar

😆 Stressing it and also dumbing it down 😑😛

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AJF's avatar

No dumb tomatoes for me!

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shayne's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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SadieJay's avatar

I love you guys, lol.

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Melissa MB's avatar

Or the View

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DenverDad's avatar

🤣😂🤣

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Thanks, Sue, I am going to go out and try that this morning! I just love the C&C community! Somebody usually has a helpful tip.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Jeff S's avatar

I'm going to try that, as soon as I buy my first tomato plant.

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Tom's avatar

I had a potted stick once.

It started out as a plant.

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Jeff S's avatar

That's a Robert Plant...

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Tom's avatar

Funny enough, that's what I named my very next houseplant.

I kid you not.

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Jeff S's avatar

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! Haha.

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Patti's avatar

Good to know my tomatoes have definitely slowed to ripen

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Based Florida Man's avatar

It's global warming, duh!

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

If it was warming, they would be ripening faster! 😂

Mrs. "the Knife"

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Thanks very much, Sue Kelley---I'll try it. Mine didn't get out until July 1, while May 15 is my customary set-out date. So the vines were healthy but didn't have enough time to produce as usual. I did pick off all the blossoms about two weeks ago, however--first time I have ever done that.

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David Eldon Wood's avatar

I have tales about stressing plants in order to make them more productive. Where I lived in St Croix in the US Virgin Islands, the lowest temperature ever recorded was 64 F.

I planted three vines which supposedly produced red table grapes. They grew fast and covered the arbor with leaves, but did not produce grapes. After some time, black fungus started on the leaves and I was told to put some chemical on to prevent it. That did not work so I cut off all of the leaves. The result was rapid regrowth of leaves and a large crop of grapes. Afterward, I would cut off all the leaves after harvesting a crop of grapes. This procedure gave me two crops of grapes a year!

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Silent scorn's avatar

I’m trying it too! 17 tomatoes can’t go to waste!

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

😂😂 Ours have been ripening in 2s and 3s, not even enough for a salad. There was a week at the end of August where we were able to pick about 6-9 per day. Those were the glory days!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Essay33's avatar

I'm in the PNW too and looking at way too many green tomatoes still on the vines; it's always a race against the fall rains.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Isn't it, though?! One year we had such a bumper crop of green tomatoes (cherry, Romas) that the Mr. just had to pick them and bring them into the house to try and ripen them up, as it started raining and we were going to lose them all. We ended up making/canning green tomato salsa out of them. Everyone said it was the best salsa! (Oh, I just heard that in Trump's voice! 😂) In fact, my sister called a couple years later and asked if I still had some of it left!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Renea Buchholz's avatar

“ salsa like no one has ever seen before. Nothing like it anywhere”

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Actually laughing out loud! 😂😂😂

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Tom's avatar

Did you pin your elbows at your sides, and gesture with your hands?

Maybe cock your head to the side slightly for punctuation?

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

No, too busy fighting my keyboard, which has been uncooperative lately.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

I also dehydrate (ripe) cherry tomatoes, freeze them, then reconstitute them in good quality olive oil. Killer on some goat cheese, and in lots of other creations.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Pat, that sounds absolutely divine!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Give it a go. One year I also dehydrated some yellow squash. It was just what I needed mid winter for a vegetable soup.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

I will give it a try, if they ever ripen, that is! 😂

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

I slice mine, dry and jar them in a good olive oil.

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

Do you have to sterilize the jars first? I did that one year and had some mold issues on a few jars,

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

Yep!

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Karmy's avatar

If you put them in a single layer in a box they will eventually ripen. Two years ago my friend gave me a box of green tomatoes in October and I laid them out single layer in boxes in my shop and was eating ripe tomatoes at end of December.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Might be something to try - put them in the garage and repurpose the chicken wire to keep the cats from playing with them! 😂 I like the idea of eating just ripened tomatoes in December!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Lorita's avatar

Minus the cat fur. Love and blessings

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walk2write's avatar

Fried green tomatoes are delicious and so is green tomato relish. 😉

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

We may have to give that a try!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Dolce Far Niente's avatar

It's the same every year. Out here on the WA coast, our typical high summer temperature is the mid 60s; takes a long time before tomatoes start bearing and ripening.

This year the starlings have been ruining all the riper tomatoes on the pruned tomato plants anyway; the enormous and unpruned plants are relatively safe from bird depredations, thankfully. Have only processed a couple batches of juice so far (to be made into sauce during the winter).

Once again, like every year, we'll pull every tomato with a hint of "whitening" to finish ripening in the house when the rains settle in.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

They say the birds peck at the fruit to get a drink, so putting out several watering stations may keep them off the veggies.

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Dolce Far Niente's avatar

They say that, but it isn't true. I always have open water for the birds (which I appreciate for their song and bug eating, except for the greedy and rapacious starlings) so I know the ones in my yard, at least stay well-hydrated as well as nicely bathed.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

The Mr. has been putting chicken wire over vulnerable plants for quite a few years now - sometimes it works and sometimes the birds are smarter than the wire.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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RJ Rambler's avatar

They will turn in the dark, next to apples, and are great fried, green salsa. 💚💚

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luluweaver's avatar

Also in the Pacific Northwest and loving this beautiful Fall weather! Mid-Willamette Valley Oregon.

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Silent scorn's avatar

Okay neighbor I’ve got 17 green tomatoes…..I’m waiting as well!! ❤️

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David Nelson's avatar

St. Alia the Knife, the Distaff, we have had very good luck in bringing in all the green tomatoes the night before The Big Frost and ripening them near sunny windows in bedrooms. (Other wives tell tales of putting them into paper bags with "ripening" agents like apples or bananas.)

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Jeff S's avatar

I hope it's nice there. My daughter and I are going to Seattle today for a few days of food and fun.

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Dolce Far Niente's avatar

The weather is delightful right now.

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Jeff S's avatar

Hope it stays that way for a few more days!

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Jeff, today looks to be one of those perfect PNW days, sunny, not too hot, light breeze. Enjoy the food and sights, and be mindful of the crazies. Hope y'all have a great time!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Jeff S's avatar

Thanks. It should be fun. Take care.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

I spent yesterday canning the plum tomatoes. Blanching the beans now, all morning . Slicing tomatoes yet to be picked and canned. Poor harvest this year, however.

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Sounds delicious! We finally had a few regular tomatoes ripen; my mama immediately claimed them for some BLTs for her lunches. I am glad she was able to enjoy them.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

And I am glad that you are able to enjoy having a Mama!

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St. Alia the Knife's avatar

I know how blessed I am to still have her around! She is an awesome prayer warrior and a good sounding board amidst all the awfulness everywhere we look.

Mrs. "the Knife"

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Renea Buchholz's avatar

Here here

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A.M.'s avatar

Always a problem out here those tomatoes. I wish you luck.

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Susan Daniels's avatar

We need to be done with Ukraine. It has been nothing more than a money-laundering scheme. Zelensky's mother-in-law owns a $5 million estate near Egypt, and the rumor is that Zelensky has a $40 million island retreat. His wife spent $42,000 in one day shopping in Paris. Of course, the left denies all. But, then, they are the enemy.

https://mronline.org/2023/08/30/luxurious-villa-owned-by-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyys-family-discovered-on-egyptian-coast/

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Principled Pragmatist's avatar

Right! No more funding to Ukraine and no more funding to “America’s greatest ally”!

Re: the 7 wars that he’s allegedly ended, why aren’t they named? And why aren’t the 2 most important ones — Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine — conveniently left off or only barely mentioned (in the case of Russia/Ukraine, let Europe handle it … not our part of the world, not our problem).

If he wants to be the President of Peace, cut off ALL funding, armaments / material, and personnel to these two war zones.

Other than that, I agree, a very solid speech.

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Susan Daniels's avatar

No more funding to other countries until we pay off our own debts.

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CL Shoemake's avatar

💯!!!

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Alan Davis's avatar

Trump’s comments yesterday about NATO shooting down Russians or Ukraine taking back all lost territory is puzzling. That is more death and risk to a wider war. Sad

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AJF's avatar

Me thinks it's a ploy. I'll bet he speaks to Putin and says, "Look, I'm gonna say these things....wink wink" Everyone knows who pays the least attention to geopolitical issues, knows Russia is winning the Special military operation.

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Susan Daniels's avatar

I did not understand it, either. Sometimes he says the dumbest things.

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Margot Wooster's avatar

Psych-war, I guess. I don’t know but Inhope it ends soon.

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Aloha50's avatar

And yet we continue to fund. MAGA!

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John Galt?'s avatar

Or is it "MEGA" - Make Earth Great Again?

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Skeptical Actuary's avatar

MEGA is starting to be used for "Make Europe Great Again".

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Johnny-O's avatar

MIGA - make israel great again - is the true policy.

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SB's avatar

Yea, no kidding. And let’s not forget that funding is our hard earned tax dollars. I sure can’t have a $42k shopping spree.

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Roger Beal's avatar

I worry that Mr. Trump's new thinking on Ukraine may lead to American young men doing the Boots-On-The-Ground-Scoot Boogie.

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Susan Daniels's avatar

I don’t think so.

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Melissa MB's avatar

No. He won’t let that happen. I don’t even think he'll send them any more money

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Johnny-O's avatar

Yep, I thought it was supposed to end like 9 months ago.....

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Mike's avatar

"Conservatives have influencers like"...JEFF CHILDERS!!!

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

🙏🙏

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Much preferable to zio-warmonger-Shapiro, whose brand of 'conservatism' is anti-White and anti-Christian "I don't give a dam about the browning of America".

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Chris Ellison's avatar

Technically, he did not apologize nor admit any wrongdoing. He basically said, "I'm sorry you took it the way you did." And he still didn't acknowledge that it was a leftist who assassinated Kirk. That is what I heard.

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WP William's avatar

Kimmel's comedic apology, as real and heartfelt as KoupMala's deflections over her frantic but failed 107 days to "Save Democracy"--Biden was 100% the problem, Mayor Pete was just too Gay to be near a Black, non-trans woman, the American Left hitting the skids. No wonder they have to turn to violence

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Karen Bandy's avatar

He might as well said ‘you’re just too sensitive’.

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RunningLogic's avatar

“Sorry you feel that way” 🙄🙄🙄

(Is pretty much what he meant)

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Paul Ashley's avatar

"I'm sorry you took literally what I literally said."

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Jeremy Schenk's avatar

In response to the praising of Americans who did this, I’d caution to give glory to Almighty God instead. This miraculous turning in 7 months is because the American people repented, both internally and through our actions, towards God and His commandments. That is the source of this blessing! He has kept His promises of blessing the nation in which His people follow Him (2 Chron 7:14, Deut 28). Praise our Father in heaven and His Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! May we continue to abhor evil and rid it from our country, May we continue to seek God, and to serve each other in love.

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Lori's avatar

I pray and ask God to keep Trump on the straight and narrow and not forget where his successes are truly coming from! Great reminder of collective repentance. Thank you.

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CStone's avatar

I was thinking the same.

It should be the Most High Who gets the credit. He deserves ALL the Glory, ALL the Honor, ALL the praise!!!

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Amy's avatar

Thanks be to God for the work he has done through his people, including some whom he uses yet who are not {yet} his own.

God delivered the Israelites from Egypt. By the hand of Moses. He freed them from captivity. At the hand of pagan Cyrus.

Praise be to God for the mercy he has shown us his people. 🙏

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June's avatar

I really was hoping President Trump would tell the UN to pack their bags and clean out their offices and find another country to host this failed organization. Maybe he will if the investigation discovers the escalator and teleprompter malfunctions were deliberately orchestrated. Fingers crossed!!

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Susan L.'s avatar

lol, I do forget that the UN is housed HERE in our country. Yes, let them play global “house” in a different location…then we can reasonably bow out. Like many large organizations it has just become opportunity for fanny patting and money laundering.

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DenverDad's avatar

He’s chasing them out. They’ll leave in a hissy fit like a 5 yr old girl that got her Barbie doll taken from her, marching over to Mommy Xi, stomping and crying’ “It’s not fair; make her stop!”

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JJ Chester's avatar

Somebody needs to ask Attorney Erika Salter how it is that a sniper got on the roof of her office and started shooting at an ICE office. Salter is a prominent Dallas immigration attorney with her office across the parking lot from the Dallas ICE Field Office. erikasalterlaw.com

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NAB's avatar

THAT is a good question!

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RunningLogic's avatar

I’d like to know the answer as well! Did the person get help??

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Lori's avatar

very interesting.

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John Carswell's avatar

Yesterday, while watching and listening to Trump's UN address, all I could think was, "WOW, we finally have a REAL MAN" leading this country. Today, reading Jeff's snippets from the address, my initial take on the address were totally verified and enforced. When was the last time a REAL AMERICAN, male or female, stood up to the evils of globalism and "punched them in the gut" like he did? Have we really ever had such a President? I just pray to God that whoever succeeds him in 4 years will continue his earth-shaking work unabashedly, unashamably, and unflinchingly. And I pray that the American people will finally wake up and not settle for anything less, EVER AGAIN.

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CMCM's avatar

When I first voted for Trump in 2016, my number one reason was how he spoke his mind without being a pansy and politically correct like all the others. I loved that, finally a politician was saying the blunt kinds of things I was thinking myself. His U.N. speech was golden, and he gave a master class in rhetorically smashing the globalist elites with the blunt truth of what they had become and how feckless they are. He really threw down the gauntlet like no one else has ever done! I loved every word of his speech.

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Johnny-O's avatar

Speeches are one thing, concrete actions are another.

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SB's avatar

I know. With every win from Trump, I can’t help but wonder how many elections it will take until we’re right back where we started. I’m trying to enjoy the ride but… hopefully Jesus will return to claim us all before everything completely reverts back.

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Essay33's avatar

Only Charlie Kirk could produce the coalition that is the Trump administration. And only America could produce a man like Charlie Kirk. Eternal light shine upon him, O Lord.

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CStone's avatar

Only God could set aside a Charlie Kirk AND a Donald Trump AND the men who came up with Agenda at the same exact moment in time when those minds were most needed. It’s like those who were set aside to be the Founding Fathers.

“Who knows but that you have been brought into the kingdom for such a time as this?”

His forgiveness…..His Mercy. Is. Stunning.

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Essay33's avatar

Amen.

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Coalburned's avatar

Kimmel has only proven he's a liar to the core. He'll be irrelevant in a couple of months.

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Lori's avatar

i predict abc will wait a bit and then say dt ratings, he is gone. fingers crossed.

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Susan L.'s avatar

I believe his contract is up in the spring.

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

Yes, May. Any bets on if it will be renewed?

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CMCM's avatar

He's losing more money than they pay him. Money and profits will be the determining factor. By bringing him back, ABC gets a reprieve but later on it will be like with Colbert: It's the ratings, stupid!

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Lori's avatar

I am going to say NO.

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Help Needed in KS's avatar

🤞

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Lori's avatar

can't be soon enough.

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Coalburned's avatar

I’m inclined to agree

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Mike's avatar

the only way to stop him and his cohorts is to use the tried and true "leftist" technique. TURN THE F#ING CHANNEL on him and everyone's that shares his ideology. Not enough viewers to buy Pharma ads...bye,bye tv trash.

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jewel's avatar

already is

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Jeff S's avatar

He has been irrelevant for many years now.

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

I would suggest that he has newness irrelevant for some time.

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Lisa Runquist's avatar

Oops - be has BEEN irrelevant.

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CStone's avatar

I would suggest neither he, nor the other two (cannot recall their names…..I remember one had a ‘weird ear’) had any real relevance.

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Doug Young's avatar

So fitting (& strategic) that Trump delivered this speech to the UN, where so many member countries, especially in Europe, are still denying their native populations basic rights, even though populism is sweeping that continent. If it can take hold here, with the help of Trump, his cohorts, and us, then it can happen over there. They just need a nudge from the revolution happening across the pond.

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WP William's avatar

Yes, this speech was a lifeline to the European Center-Right Parties (hateful Alt-Right as the Commies label them). Also to Christian religious minorities throughout the world; You are NOT to be abandoned to some Left-Occult-Globalist Fate!

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

America sneezes, and Europe catches a cold. Hope this one's a really bad cold. But this time DJT is offering those populations our help.

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

Magnificent speech but when is Trump getting rid of the chemtrails? I'm in Maryland. There were SIX overhead the other day. Speak to him Jeff.

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Beckadee's avatar

So Jeff can just call Trump? Wow didn't know that. :D

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Lori's avatar

Maryland needs to follow Florida but hard when you live in a libtard state.

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mm's avatar

Unfortunately, I’m still seeing the chemtrails in Florida almost daily where they are supposed to be illegal!

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Lori's avatar

not me. call the hotline to report them.

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Celeste's avatar

Same. NE FL.

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Christy B's avatar

I’m in Florida and I haven’t seen any since July. I used to see them almost every day.

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mm's avatar

Wow, that’s great! I guess I’m in the wrong city.

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Christy B's avatar

I’m in Brandon, a suburb of Tampa. Friends in S. Florida are still seeing them.

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David Cashion's avatar

How many pounds of what chemicals must be dropped from 30,000 feet to accomplish anything on the ground after wind dispersal ?

I have never found that answer.

Do you know ?

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Richard Whitney's avatar

I think they are dumping chemicals in the lower stratosphere in order to block the sun. I don't think the goal is to dump chemicals on the ground, although what goes up must come down.

This is part of their global warming thing.

Mrs. RW

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David Cashion's avatar

Yes I have heard both and have seen testing for blocking the sun.

The amount of light they can reflect is miniscule.

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Kristina the Short's avatar

I have also heard that by keeping the atmosphere fairly "dusty' with the crap they dump, it is easier somehow for the DEWs (Directed Energy Weapons) to destroy things like small towns in California or on Maui.

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Leo's avatar

Don't think so - "they" stopped Gates plan to de-sun us.

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