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Freedom Fox's avatar

And this!

https://x.com/phillipakennedy/status/1885481663964000319

"Here’s tonight’s email from Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll (see photos)

When I was a new agent trainee at Quantico, our ethics instructor taught us that “…an FBI Agent’s greatest power isn’t in their ability to arrest or take a life, but in their ability to say ‘No.’”

The bureau employees who carried out the J6 political persecutions ruined the lives of countless innocent Americans. They traded their oath for a paycheck. Each of them said “Yes.”

Do the country a favor and resign. You’ve stained the badge and brought dishonor to an agency that’s only job is to protect our fellow Americans from force and fraud.

Shame on all you."

NEW IMPORTANT CONTEXT EDIT: It is with great regret that my very well-received comment here on C&C was misleading. The Tweet I reshared from Phillip A Kennedy was his words characterizing Director Brian Driscoll's email to FBI employees and not the Director's words themselves. I should've opened the pictures in the Tweet before sharing to verify. My flimsy defense is that my phone screen was too small to see and I trusted the source, a former FBI agent, was quoting the Director. While I simply copied and pasted the Tweet quoted in its entirety the implication was that Director Driscoll was quoted.

To the hundreds of readers who were just as overjoyed as I was at the seeming frankness of the Director, alas, it was not to be. The actions of the Director stand on their own merit and are strong, albeit without the zing that the former agent's words added. My sincerest apologies to readers and Jeff. I won't be so hasty in sharing again that I misinterpret important context. Bad Fox. Bad, bad Fox.

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WP William's avatar

The Fabrication of the "Insurrection" was an intricate plot; TO ME it appears as though Deep State rulers (1-4 persons at most--and Obama in the know for sure) had done some pre-planning ahead of their Nov 2020 Steal Plot so that they could leverage and incite the Trump-MAGA reaction to the stolen election. There must be backchannel communication from the top down so we don't even see any glimmer of questioning or debate amongst Capital Police, DC Mayor or cops, Pelosi and Schumer concerning the National Guard deployment ahead of Jan 6th. No back and forth, no pro and con, just monolithic NO THANK YOU from ALL parties and "decision makers" involved. Who or what is the King Snake dispensing the unquestioned directives that they all follow and protect and dare not reveal?

This was their Reichstag fire moment--THEY supplied 90% of all the theatrics of that day; They were the Online Rightwing Militia Plotters, THEY were the bomb maker-planters, THEY were the $$$ and directors of Epps, bull-horn shouters, gallows makers and crowd-goaders. This was THEIR Color Revolution moment but truly there wasn't enough reality to exploit against Team Trump or the MAGA Rally-Protesters involved, not even Proud Boys and Oath Keepers could supply adequate fodder for exploiting despite the banquet supplied to THEIR Media operators, the Jan. 6th Commissar Committee, the Impeachment, the RINO outrage about Election Denying and Insurrection that is perpetuated to this very day.

I propose we join in with a grassroots Operation Liberation to aid in expunging and uprooting the Cultural, Municipal, and State lackeys of DeepState, SWAMP, and mass of Cult-you'reALL Decay promoters who've amassed power and influence and wealth off of Normalizing our National demise for decades.

Let our Counter-Revolution rise and overwhelm the guardians and constructors of our Gulag. THEY can face the very systems they set up to ensnare their adversaries and prey; Intimate Surveillance, mental health Care (Psychiatrists) to elicit confessions, Courts, Incarcerations, restitution and rehabilitation, proper consequences for Treasonous and Anti-Constitutional Plots involving Enemies both foreign and Domestic.

The incestuous hidden collaboration by so very many involved in the REAL Jan 6th Insurrection is key to rounding up and dealing with OUR Enemies...ALL involved in the affair and exploitation of its aftermath must be exposed and dealt with utmost severity. This singular case being followed to proper conclusion would remove at least 50% of the CANCER from our Nation. The fact that Operation Insurrection was authored, disseminated, implemented, defended, and upheld lockstep to this very day by nearly all persons involved (minus several suicidal Capital Cops) is testament to a powerful ugly puppetmaster Cult-killer at the top who'll not allow any questioning, debate, wavering or dissent.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

I hear this and feel this. I also am informed by the history of retribution, restoration, reconciliation movements in history. Which themselves can take on a mania of inhumanity, becoming that which is being opposed. I.e. French Revolution, Rwanda.

So I will embrace the Pareto Principle that the social engineers themselves embrace. The 80-20 Rule. 80% of any given problem/solution can be attributed/credited to 20% of the sources. Holding the 20% of bad actors who are responsible for 80% of the offenses accountable.

That means 80% of the bad actors face no consequences. But prevents a mania of inhumanity from taking hold in a quest to vanquish relatively small actors who arguably just got caught up in the mania. We don't become them.

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Mike Perceval's avatar

Well said. To me, and I suspect to most well-intentioned patriots who think the matter through, the most important thing isn’t prosecuting and sentencing all those guilty of heinous, unconstitutional and, in many, if not most cases, evil acts over the past decade or so. Certainly that may be well-warranted, even necessary, in specific cases. But, just publicly establishing beyond any doubt or controversy who did what, when, how, with whom, and to what ends would serve as a sort of powerful ‘corrective code’ in the national body politic, to ‘re-set’ our nation’s course away from the rocks of doom we were about to crash upon.

God has granted us many miraculous answers to prayers over the past few years, and He is fulfilling His Word in restraining evil at the present time. May we never forget it is by His grace and power alone that we enjoy the fruits of American freedom. And may we make the most of the opportunities we are given to honor Him in and through our lives in the dark and evil age.

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liz's avatar

I WOULD like to see the killers of Roseanne Boyland and Ashleigh Babbitt brought to justice however.

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laura-ann Knox's avatar

The super-scary part is that, when I glimpse at leftard comments and posts, they consider the attendees of the j6 protests to TRULY have committed heinous crimes. They believe the narrative.

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RandiG's avatar

Laura,

I agree. Now when they say how terrible J6 was we should counter with - “I KNOW! Can you believe how terrible the democrats were to set up all the theater and collaborate among themselves to incite such violence that day?! They set up the entire event and entrapped their fellow citizens. Every democrat involved in the setup should be in jail!”

Let’s see what they have to come back with after that. Instead of us playing defense, we need to shove it in their faces. THEIR PARTY set it all up, that’s why the entire J6 committee needed pardons, even the killer cop who shot Ashley Babbitt. 🤬

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Johnny-O's avatar

I would like to see justice for all the operation warp speed victims. The uncomfortable truth so many here avoid is who was in charge of the DOD under its roll out.....Even in the face of Trump currently standing at podiums with tech and mRNA swamp creatures many here can't face reality.

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liz's avatar

Trump pushed Hydroxychloroquine and CDS and Ivermectin . you dont seem to remember when the media was lying that he wanted us all to drink bleach?

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WP William's avatar

It is to be an effort broad in scope, and take a decade or much more to right what has been done by the complicit and apathetic indifference of a deceived and depraved society. I pray we are all up to the tasks of both personal and societal repentance and correction that need to be accomplished.

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Amuzed_Traveler's avatar

Publicly establishing treasonous acts and the 20% of the traitors that planned and perpetrated them requires military tribunals. And once the truth is revealed without any doubt to all, swift and righteous Justice must be served in a manner that will reverberate through the millennia. Evil must know that the People will pursue it wherever it trys to gain a foothold.

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HHM's avatar

So well said. Thank you

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HamburgerToday's avatar

Weakness. If you do not destroy your enemies, you do not love.

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Leo's avatar

Freedom Fox, You make such an important point: We become like who we hate. Retribution, revenge, punishment = "...a mania of inhumanity, becoming that which is being opposed."

Thank heavens Trump is focusing on positive, life-preserving goals. The BEST one is his goal of a "...practical, multi-polar world with at least three independent, cooperating superpowers (if not four)."

In other words, the globalist era is over. Boom!

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WP William's avatar

Justice and punishment of criminal wickedness is NOT hateful or revenge...it IS JUSTICE and must be implemented or else INJUSTICE prevails due to NOT Valuing it and so then why the pretense that evil should even be resisted?

We are OBLIGATED to uphold proper consequences for EVILdoers.

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WP William's avatar

Yes, certainly hanging every NAZI wasn't the solution in 1945-7, Nor firing squad for every Commie in 1991. I would submit that Reconstruction as imperfect and oppressive as it was 1862-1877 was required to finally and fully expunge the Institution of Legal Slavery in the US. It was a Radical, painful, yet necessary process instituted in harsh manner to uproot every level of race-based slavery in society that everyone was used to. No more bargaining or compromising with Evil.

The Progressivist Authoritarian Rot we've all become so used to must, in like manner, be forcefully dealt with. Sure let's take the top 20% most powerful and exploitative ring leaders (and i MEAN zero offsets allowed) and make them face a previously unseen level of prosecution and justice for their crimes. Make them rat each other out to plea bargain and expose it all.

Without that THEY WIN and we march along as usual to our collective doom.

This serves as an example for the rest of the 80% guilty who may actually be De-Progressivised, but who are themselves not to be re-entrusted with positions of any consequence. HISTORIANS Must properly evaluate this (Conclusive END??) of the Neo-Progressive-Socialist-Authoritarian Experiment perpetrated upon America and the world. Let us get the Reconstruction and De-Cultification underway

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Porge's avatar

So agree with you WP, some heads DO have to roll! Nancy and Pecil neck come to mind.

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liz's avatar

FDR should have hung all the bankers that tried to coup him however.

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WP William's avatar

I must know more...I always perceived that there were a few factions of Rival Progressive Gangs vying for power in that era, FDR certainly had his detractors even amongst Democrats

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HamburgerToday's avatar

This is just liberal weakness masquerading as moral probity. These people may not be your enemy, but they sure are mine. I want them driven to the sea.

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Mary Mc's avatar

Amen and well said. Think of the feeling of freedom the 1M + people who were there on j6, can now feel. They can speak the truth of what really happen from their point of view without fear of the Gulag.

I hard but haven't verified... that EM has offered $10M to try to help those who lost everything, because of the persecutions, to restart their lives. Maybe DOGE can replace a few who refuse to go back to work with some of the J6 prisoners?

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HHM's avatar

J6ers working in Govt! I LOVE it!

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PJ's avatar

Today I saw in person a just-freed J6 prisoner. Beautiful young man who went thru hell with no charges or trial, moved from place to worse place. Who is now SO grateful to God & Trump that he has come back to his family. P.S. He lost his livelihood & his wife & children were destitute for 3 years. HEADS MUST ROLL for this.

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Maureen ODH's avatar

Excellent WP William, well said… most of us know the plan was cultivated by Pelosi, and as she has squawked so many times publicly… “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW” …. so be it… every last co conspirator needs to feel the full wrath of the law extorted on to the hundreds of J6 condemned and imprisoned without privilege of office and in the same level of malice they went after Trump… then and only then will we the people ~see~ justice when “No one is above the law” is implemented.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

This is undoubtedly true that 50% could be rounded up this way. But if you’re watching the takedown of Reiner Fuellmich who’s being subjected to a torturous battle in Germany after he revealed the truth about the Covid “vax”, the courts acting for the government prove to be most corrupt.

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S.P.H.'s avatar

Valid point Sub Presser. The judiciary has become as corrupt, if not more so, as the elected officials, and have no concern of being term limited out.

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Momcat's avatar

That's the tactics Victoria Nuland used in 2014 to depose the duly elected leader of Ukraine for Obama to effect a leader that could be used by them.... probably why all o'biden's pardons go back to 2014 ...

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Well the good news is we've identified all the people that would open the doors to your last "shower". So there's that...

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Freedom Fox's avatar

"All?"

I'd substitute "some" or "many" just to be more accurate!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Well between that and the c19 abomination we're getting close...;]

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Freedom Fox's avatar

In officialdom, perhaps. In non-officialdom the Karen harpies and scolds about masks, jabs, pronouns, carbon, all of the performative obedience to the new virtueless virtues would gladly open those doors as well. I'll never forget how many "nice" ordinary people will commit horrible acts of inhumanity.

The banality of evil. The human experience has demonstrated over and over how easy it is to get a population to commit evil. Mass evil requires the participation of "nice" ordinary people to run up the score. Who say, "Yes." Shame on them, too. Many in our own families, neighbors, colleagues. Shame. Shame. Shame.

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MayBella82's avatar

All you have to do is go to a funeral and you see who the “nice” people are… they are already about what they can get from the person and how dare they give anything to that person… greed is the factor that shows you who is who in the “nice” world.

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kittynana's avatar

@MayBelle- My stepmother is still alive and my siblings are doing that...And yet they called ME a graverobber when I haven't taken anything.

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Julinthecrown's avatar

It's the Milgram Experiment 2.0

https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html

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Peace's avatar

spambot. Report and then block "Kim" - heading to do this now.

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

I am sure he was implying 'All of you ... *who did that."

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Ryan and I understand each other. This is for those in the cheap seats.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Everything Jen Psaki bemoans about the FBI housecleaning brings joy to MAGA patriots. If you didn't catch it above, here's another chance to enjoy it. https://x.com/i/status/1885562578388344855

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Dawn B's avatar

Thanks... "This hostile takeover, there is no other way to call it..."

Ummm spare me your opinion witch... I call it spring cleaning or downsizing for efficiency.

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Porge's avatar

I call roach mitigation! Call the ORKIN man!

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Dawn B's avatar

Won't that be nice in the FDA, CDC and NIH etc....

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Porge's avatar

Oh yeah! I'd love to see them cockroachs 🪳 scatter!

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Everyone talks about the revolving door with health agencies and pharma, but I think we should start also looking at the gov officials then going to work in media. It’s interesting that journalists, who often feel the need to guide the interviews by adding their opinions, haven’t complained about the revolving door with gov employees and media. It makes the fact even more obvious that media is leftist, narrative owned junk and the standards in journalism are extremely low. Giving Psaki a job in media was allowing the lies and coups to keep on without a critical eye on what’s actually happening in the world.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Journalism is dead. If it ever really existed. It is propaganda. Scribes for the powerful. The best "journalists" are like the best actors, the ones who can make you believe they're providing facts, "just the facts" service to readers/viewers, sprinkled with a little bias here and there. No. If they wear a MSM media badge on any large platform we must understand that they are propagandists first. Then acknowledge they are biased for our general values or against our general values, propagandists nonetheless. And always be skeptical of anything they say, often embedding meaningful lies inside less meaningful truths. Be especially skeptical if the bias is aligned with your values; conmen gain trust first, then drop the con. Like Fox News.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Last I heard, two crafts down in the Potomac and one in Philly, but it's impossible to tell what the incompetent media is hiding or lying about.

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Based Florida Man's avatar

Note how Mr. Putin pointed out the Jan6 folks were Political Prisoners.

An important distinction, that our Bolshevik press failed to acknowledge.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

True. We often find important truths spoken by our adversaries when our allies are lying to us. Why we must seek out the words of our adversaries. And then do our own thinking, using our own discernment and common sense.

That said, I'm under no illusion that Putin doesn't do the same with his media. And US media tells Russians truths that they don't hear from their own lying media. How it works. Making adversaries distrust their own government has great value. And all governments have reasons not to trust them.

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WP William's avatar

as old as Athens vs Troy

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Freedom Fox's avatar

"Psst, Hey, Billy, did you hear Joey said your Mom is a whore, whatcha gonna do about it?"

"Psst, Hey, Joey, did you hear Billy said you're a pussy and he's gonna kick your ass after school, whatcha gonna do about it?"

[Grabs lawn chair and bag of popcorn]

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WP William's avatar

(Sigh) Humans!

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Thing is, if/when Billy and Joey get a chance to talk calmly about it they quickly realize lawn chair boy is the villain. Who then realizes his predicament and runs away, popcorn goes flyng. Is why lawn chair boy does everything he can to keep Billy and Joey so pissed at each other they don't take time to talk with one another, get stories straight.

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Dawn B's avatar

I wonder how history books will describe J6.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Amen!!

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Owain Glyndŵr's avatar

Wondering how many will come up with the equivalent of..."I was just following orders".

Don't really care if their lives are now upended. Look at what they did to too many Americans. They knew what they were doing, yet didn't call out or push back. No sympathy.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Oh wow!! 🔥🔥🔥 Good for him!!

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WP William's avatar

resignations and a pensions are TOO GOOD a result for those who willingly subverted the Constitution that they swore a personal oath to. They used their position and power to conspire and attack targeted "suspect citizenry" as well as Trump Campaign 2015-16 and Trump administration 2017-20 for personal benefit, to interfere with an election, to subvert the Executive, and to advance illegitimate (criminal) power for their "agency" at the expense of OUR Nation. To have allowed the Gestapo to continue legally policing Germany after May 1945 would have been both absurd and perilous. ALL The Goons who hollowed out, hijacked, and destroyed the FBI need to be Jan 6th'd or have a free trip to Guantanamo.

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Jamison's avatar

Totally agree. As Eric Metaxas said…they sold their souls for a paycheck.

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SB's avatar

Amen!!!

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Vicki's avatar

Freedom Fox, this is SO well said! You definitely nailed it! No excuses.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Director Brian Driscoll's well-said words, indeed!

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nancylee's avatar

Do this immediately.

RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearings are over, but the voting process has just begun. The senators below are the key votes that will decide his confirmation. Call them and remind them—this is America’s mandate, and RFK Jr. is the right man for the job.

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) – (202) 224-6665

Susan Collins (R-ME) – (202) 224-2523

Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) – (202) 224-2921

Bill Cassidy (R-LA) – (202) 224-5824

Shout-out to Attorney Tom Renz for the above phone numbers.

It took me about 6 mins. leave short sweet message. re: if you care about America and the American people, now is the time to commit to confirming RFK jr and convince any colleagues who are on the fence to do the same.

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TriTorch's avatar

Heck yeah, nancylee! That's how you CIVICS!

"For, in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, 'holds office'; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.” —John F. Kennedy

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LMWC's avatar

Yes! Make the calls!

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Julinthecrown's avatar

Let's all be informed, thinking and active American citizens.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

"Being an American citizen is the highest thing you can be." ~ Roger Wilkins

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Jpeach's avatar

Making calls now!

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Jpeach's avatar

Per Mary Holland of CHD, Senator Cassidy is the key to RFK Jr’s approval.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I called Cassidy too

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Scott's avatar

Done.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Just called murkowski and collins. sure hope those states pull them at reelection ridiculous Dems in hiding.

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Susan G's avatar

Call Cassidy. He is a physician so his word might carry weight.

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AngelaK's avatar

Some physicians are his harshest critics because they refuse to see a correlation between vaccines (the number given, the accumulation of metals, the genetic predisposition to being sensitive to them, etc.) and autism.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I did call him too

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Thank you for the numbers nancylee.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I like your message. I left my own but politely said they need to confirm these people or their seats will be in jeopardy.

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LMWC's avatar

Nicole Shanahan has been all over Conservative media telling these traitorous Republicans, they would be primaried in the next elections. She would put all her capital towards it.

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PEL's avatar

Murkowski and Collins way overdue to be out regardless.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

Seriously! And I feel like they are sneeky Dems in hiding as Rs

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PamelaZelie's avatar

My husband and I called.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

I’ve called these numbers about a half dozen times over the past few days.

I keep,waiting to hear that their mailboxes are full, but as of a couple of minutes ago, that wasn’t the case.

Come on people! Fill up their friggin’ mailboxes!

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Willing Spirit's avatar

If you’re happy about what President Trump has done, and you know it; then take a couple of minutes and make some calls!

He needs all of us behind him to drain that swamp!

Even Superman ultimately needs the support of the people of Gotham City.

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Lisa Ca's avatar

I called !

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John A George's avatar

5.2 minutes, I hold the record so far!

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RI Daisy's avatar

Left message with Senator Whitehouse!

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Michael Framson's avatar

I'm curious, what about Senator Whitehouse's comments suggests he might consider Kennedy? What about Senator Higenlooper?

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Willing Spirit's avatar

A suggested template for calls, emails…personalizing is good.

We need to slam them.

“I’m respectfully asking for Senator _____vote for confirmation of Robert Kennedy as HHS secretary. He is intelligent, open minded, highly qualified and not beholden to Big Pharma. The American people overwhelmingly believe that President Trump has picked all his cabinet nominees with great care and attention and want them all confirmed.

I’m so excited about President Trump’s agenda and how quickly he’s implementing it.

I’m praying that Senator ___will help him in every way possible because the opposition will try so hard to stop him.

We picked Trump as our leader because we are beyond sick at what the left has done to our once beautiful country. We expect change.

I look forward to seeing what Senator ___will do to help make America great again.

I hope Senator _____has a productive week, blessed with wisdom and grace.

Thank you for your kind attention to my voice.”

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Willing Spirit's avatar

Emailing Cassidy from La.took a bit of fishing around on his website. The three horizontal bars on the top right side of the screen and using Contact option there brought up his email form.

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AngelaK's avatar

I just read that Mitch McConnell will most probably vote against Kennedy. 😡

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LMWC's avatar

Done!

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Juliann's avatar

I called. Thanks for sharing.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

And any senator can be emailed at www.name.senate.gov

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Natalie's avatar

Calls made! Thank you!

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Terry's avatar

Called and messaged👍

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MJ's avatar

Called and emailed!!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

This is like drinking out of a Medusa firehose! Trump was right...I can't take all the WINNING!

Oh Lord save us all, Trump is surrounding himself with loyalist! The nerve!

Good grief. I can tell you first hand, owning several businesses in the last 25 years that the number one attribute of an employee, in determining success, is LOYALTY. Nothing else comes remotely close.

Why...I'll be damned...it's almost as if these Ds have never had to sign the front of a check.

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Jeff C's avatar

The most eye-opening aspect is that America's descent into a third-world hellhole was entirely self-inflicted and could have been stopped by any leader with the political will to do so. Even Trump 1.0 didn't have it (though he was far better than most).

All it took to stop it was a leader with the fortitude to say enough, surrounded by smart, calculating, and clever subordinates. None of the downfall was inevitable.

The FBI rifling through Melania's underwear drawer was a political miscalculation of unimaginable proportions.

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Jerome's avatar

DJT is not the man he was in 2016. He has been through the fire.

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Juliann's avatar

Trumpnado. Gaining strength. I praise God for giving us mercy.

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Jeff C's avatar

Completely agree.

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Notably, DJT didn't succumb to the political pressure and relentless lawfare that flips most of the RINO & DINO career political class.

DJT and the individuals that are part of the machine, is the Real Deal. He and his family loves America & Americans.

BTW, this substack publication, contributors & it's crew of commentary here are definitely quality people. God has truly blessed America, Again.

Carry On.

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LMWC's avatar

And I believe all powerful help from God, our Creator. The millimeter miracle was one of many. God is in charge

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EMME's avatar

AMEN‼️

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RunningLogic's avatar

I’m not sure it was a lack of will as such, necessarily—more like he wasn’t prepared for what he was up against. He seemed to naively assume that everyone else wanted the best for America and once they saw the benefits of his ideas and policies, they would support him. I think he saw them as poor managers with ineffective ideas and strategies, not as malicious and power hungry. I don’t think he realized the depth of the lust for power, nor the complete indifference to any difficulties Americans might be facing.

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Julinthecrown's avatar

I remember Rush Limbaugh saying that the thing that Trump was surprised most by was the lack of cooperation & collaboration from those in Congress - both Houses. Trump believed that once the campaign (2016) was over everyone would want to work for the country's benefit.

I don't think he was prepared for the hate, rage & underhandedness the Dems & RINOs were capable of - which actually says more about where Trump's heart & mind were than his adversaries.

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Contrary to Ordinary's avatar

Thanks for the reminder. I so much wish that Rush was alive to experience this, and enlighten us! Love him or hate him, he made us think.

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Julinthecrown's avatar

Probably put a good word with the Big Guy in Heaven for Trump.

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Lisa's avatar

I wasn't prepared for the wailing, screeching, venom from those who didn't vote for Trump in 2016. I kept waiting for it to go away over time. I have a D friend, (who hates Trump) who commented a month after the election,"What is wrong with these people? Get over it!"

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Julinthecrown's avatar

I KNOW!!! Just like the Dems at then hearings - why all the meanness & nastiness? And we've all seen many regular folks doing the same. Do ya think there's a 'James Carville Personality Test' required to be a Dem? (Except for Harold Ford, Jr. - he's a perfect gentleman.)

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RunningLogic's avatar

I agree, that makes the most sense to me, given things Trump had said before he decided to run for president and given how he reacted to the way he was treated by those in Congress and others in the government.

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Jeff C's avatar

Yeah, I agree. I'd still call it a lack of will, but it was caused by the fact that he didn't realize it was required. It's like giving a bum son another talking to when he really needs to be thrown out of the house. There's always the hope that extreme measures aren't needed as they cause some collateral damage.

He's under no such illusions this time. Plus back then he also didn't have the political power he has now as the election was so different.

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J Boss's avatar

Based on a very long interview of Bannon in 2017 about the start of 45's term, the problem was not enough time to vet and determine trustworthiness of leaders. They had to pick the most important positions and hope the corruption wasn't both hidden and ubiquitous. As we have seen clearly every day since Jan 20th, he simply couldn't meet the challenge at that time.

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Jeff C's avatar

Just saw a Michael Malice quote that made me laugh out loud, comparing Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0, "He's the first Boomer that ever learned anything". Apparently you can teach an old dog new tricks!

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J Boss's avatar

Well, he is motivated by an attempted assassination...

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RunningLogic's avatar

Agree.

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Peace's avatar

Surely previous Republican presidents and staffers knew the depth of the corruption - they should've come alongside the incoming Trump to shed all the light on the situation. Going forward, I would hope that Trump and his crew will be available to assist any incoming president.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

But they were the enemy too

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Peace's avatar

Ouch - I'm still trying to be in denial. Thanks a lot, Ryan . . .

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Spot on.

And the best political ad of all time is "they're for them/they, I'm for you".

Game changer. And all it's been is restoring common sense.

Whodathunk?

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Julinthecrown's avatar

Shows you how outta whack - as a country - we were.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yup. And there was no going back if these commies got another 4 years

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Julinthecrown's avatar

I hope there are enough of us to make sure it DOESN'T go back. 💪🏻❤️🇺🇸

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Angk's avatar

The first term was baptism by fire, as resistance kept Trump on his back feet the entire time. The interim four years was a battle call. A menagerie of think tanks and groups went all out, IN DETAIL, putting together a battle plan known as Project 2025. It's those folks who drilled down through the layers, the Constitution, and the law. This put Trump forward into the winds which get brushed aside like lint.

THIS term? It's All Hands on Deck, forward only, if pushed back push forward ever more. There will be no retreat!!!

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Julinthecrown's avatar

And Trump was prepared - in Trump's voice - "in a way that no President had ever been prepared before. It is beautiful. Nobody's ever seen the likes of this before. The people I've hired are the most competent people on the planet. There's nothing like them." 😉

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Porge's avatar

Lol!😉

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Lone Star exile's avatar

He didn't have a public mandate yet. There were not enough awakened voters to give him the support he needed. MSM still way too "respected" as truthtellers.

He was forced to "plant seeds" and wait for a harvest of increasing realization among the voters that our fellow citizens who were in higher office and in the government actually had no regard for our wishes or well being at all.

This "Realization" was, and is, and remains a BITTER pill to swallow for all of us. But we must take our truth medicine every day until our minds are fully renewed. We must "...know them who labor among you (i.e. us)..." The rise of alternative citizen journalists has been a Godsend.

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Monterey's avatar

And just think how amazingly helpful it was to have the help of a brilliant mind like Elon musk's. I don't think anyone else was capable of doing what he is doing with Doge.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Hi, Jeff C. You have a typo you may want to fix (descent instead of decent) :)

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Jeff C's avatar

Thanks! I'm a terrible typist and make typos galore, but usually that red squiggly line bails me out. Doesn't work if the typo is a real word though.

Edit: haha, just fixed a typo in that one, "if" not "it".

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kittynana's avatar

@Jeff- I, too, can spell. I just can't type.

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PJ's avatar

You're doing a great job Jeff! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Porge's avatar

Trump 1.0 had the fortitude ,he just didn't have the right team. Otherwise we wouldn't have Trump 2.0! I don't know anyone that would have survived the onslaught. He did! And Ryan G. Is right......I'm tired of winning!!!!!

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Jpeach's avatar

The Trump administration is dishing out “Shock and Awe” on steroids. The Enemy is on their

Heels. We are winning battle after battle. But, the Enemy will regroup and fight back. The next few months will be epic!

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RU's avatar

The main problem the Dems have is that they now seem beyond out-of-touch and something more like angry old caricatures from a different era. Like they really can't see it's over for their 1990s-2010s ideas and it's way past time to move on.

Wow did they come across as demented in those hearings. Especially the demand - demand! - to RFK Jr. that he support forced vaccination. In 2025?! They missed the whole covid thing. They really have no idea how unpopular their ideas are or even why they lost the election.

I think stealing the 2020 election cost them some time in moving on; by "winning" they convinced themselves their ideas were still relevant. Musk freed X from Twitter and their delusions have come crashing in on them. They've now lost the youth, especially young men. They can cry as hard as they want, but they're toast.

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RU's avatar

LOL. Describing the colors of one's clothes and hair to help blind people know there's diversity in the room. Naming colors to inform blind people. The left has become completely psychopathic.

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CeeMcG's avatar

Oh good grief! FYI, Ryan, for brevity when pasting links, you can back out everything after the ?, and the ? itself. I’ve had people tell me they can’t access the longer link if they aren’t on X. So it would look like this: https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885525490368168426

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Good grief! It appears our government is full of these mentally ill freaks. I hope they all get canned. I simply can’t imagine people like this actually accomplishing meaningful goals. I’m completely disgusted.

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Roger Beal's avatar

If their definition of "meaningful goals" includes living large and at ease on YOUR dime, these folks are doing very well.

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Porge's avatar

I can't imagine people like this even exist.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Oh shoot. Thanks CeeMcG.

Sorry. Good to know.

Thx for heads up

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CeeMcG's avatar

That whole tweet thread is a 💩show! Ugh! I want these 🤡🤡s fired left and right, can’t see any purpose for any of them!

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MaryAnn's avatar

In reading the self-descriptions, if a visually impaired, aka blind, person has never seen brown or gold or fuschia, etc, or the other adjectives used, what good does a description of such serve? Is it for those who lost vision or for those who never had it?

I do not intend to be contentious but need enlightenment. I do not understand.

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Joanie Higgs's avatar

But why is the number here, not the same as the first sequence in Ryan's link?

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CeeMcG's avatar

Sorry Joanie, I fixed it. I grabbed the link that was the next one in the thread. Should be correct now.

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Janet's avatar

Worked for me but not sure I was ready for that piece of insanity.

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CeeMcG's avatar

Oops, that was the post right above but hopefully you get my point! 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Roger Beal's avatar

Has "Madison" been fired yet?

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Emilie H's avatar

I went to mandatory trainings and briefings where this happened - I can say that it felt so uncomfortably wrong.

There was no way I could say anything - it was like a cult.

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Elaine Russky's avatar

I saw that, and immediately thought it was a parody. But, no. It was real. This is why I could not work for the government. I'd be laughing so hard I'd get nothing done.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

LOLOLOL. Exactly. And now you have me laughing so hard my wife asked me if I was alright

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Janet's avatar

OMG. I don’t even know what to say to this other than I bet that wasn’t the only place this was happening.

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CeeMcG's avatar

I remember that. So stupid.

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Bandit's avatar

I'm jealous of the lady with the black Cocker Spaniel. I've had 3 and I still miss them very much.

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Tamsin's avatar

Greetings. I'm Bandit, my pronouns are you/betcha and I'm a human being and you can tell I'm a woman from 100 yards away. I have hair. I'm wearing a shirt, and I wish I had a black cocker spaniel sleeping on the couch next to me.

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Porge's avatar

I had one too, but had to get rid of him....he had the same problem as president Cabbage's dog had! And his name was Lucky!

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RU's avatar

I like the way the media is trying to spin this narrative about "loyalists." WTH is the President supposed to surround himself with? People who undermine him? You can teach someone technical skills and even soft skills, but you can't teach them to care about the co. or the mission the way you (the owner) cares. Same dynamic for POTUS.

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Elaine Russky's avatar

And what is the chief trait of govenment workers, through the decades?

A: "We don't care. Go away."

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Tricia Velsor's avatar

Not all, but many.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Loyalist give you the most important skill set:

Treating their work product like a business inside of the business.

Rare to find those types of people. But they're game changers.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Right??

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AM Schimberg's avatar

They should prefer that. Yes! 😄

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Loyalist are so much better than the Democrat racists who block white people from jobs. Because of rice. Never vote Democrat.

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Anthony's avatar

Can't take the winning?

MORE, MORE, MORE!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Its been almost flawless in pace, scope and execution. Something to behold

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Monterey's avatar

It's reported that they talked to Javier Miliei of Argentina about how he took a chainsaw to so many government programs on his way to taming the country 's out of control inflation and won.

The key, he told them, is to go fast. Really fast.

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Bandit's avatar

God bless, Miliei, too! I'm glad they asked!

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Porge's avatar

Except Trump threw out the chainsaw and brought out the flamethrower

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Austin the Pug-puppy's avatar

And it hasn't even been TWO WEEKS!!!

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Elaine Russky's avatar

When have you ever enjoyed reading the news so much?

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Monterey's avatar

Everyday is a blast, isn't it? A conservative's dream...

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Dr Jen | Syringa Wellness's avatar

In the late 1990s, as a student on a foreign visa, we were instructed by the international student office on campus to never run afoul of the law. "don't do anything that would jeopardize your visa, or you will be out". Also, "always carry your passport and your visa paperwork". I guess things have become slack over the past couple of decades.

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Patrice's avatar

I have a young friend who was on a student visa. He wouldn't even have a glass of wine with dinner because he didn't want to do anything to jeopardize his status. He came for an education and returned home to his country.

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Sarcastia's avatar

These things can happen when a non-citizen with a student visa has their records sealed and are then installed into the Presidency.

It sort of sets a precedent for several unholy and unwholesome things.

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Bandit's avatar

🙌

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yup exactly.

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

If I did that in China, I’d never see daylight again.

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Bandit's avatar

If you did that in China, you might not take another breath.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Nice

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Dawn B's avatar

The winning part is great, but we should still be looking left and right and keeping our guards up. They never let you see what the other hand is doing.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

This

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RunningLogic's avatar

I’m so sick of seeing people having tantrums about Trump not saying the right thing or his timing. NONE of these people said a WORD about Biden when he made horribly insensitive and asinine comments. NOT ONCE did any of them say a peep. So go fly a kite you bunch of fakes 😡😡😡

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RunningLogic's avatar

Also interestingly, French billionaire Bernard Arnault recently remarked that coming back from the US after the inauguration, and back to France where they’re talking about increasing taxes on businesses, was such a contrast between the palpable sense of optimism in the US and the gloom over there. I just thought that was revealing.

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Austin the Pug-puppy's avatar

They have plenty over there to be gloomy about! Their French culture is being eliminated and more than likely, they're learning Farsi.....

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RunningLogic's avatar

More like North African Arabic, but yes. Lots of kowtowing to immigrants with culture and values that don’t align with traditional French values, Muslims in particular.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Let's hope and pray a reformed US will inspire France into making itself great. Interesting remark from Rubio: “It’s not normal for the world to have a single unipolar power.” His mantra lately is “what’s in the best interest of the US,” and he knows that's not a zero-sum game.

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Marilynne Martin's avatar

I don't believe in unipower and I think most Americans do not think our goal is to the rule the world. We are tired of it.

However, may I remind everyone that one of the WEF's 8 predictions for 2030 was "The US won't be the world's superpower. A handful of countries will dominate." https://archive.org/details/8-predictions-for-the-world-in-2030

I don't trust Rubio as far as I can throw him. Remember the Gang of 8?

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Yes, I do. I'm trying to convince myself that was a younger, more naive Rubio. I think he's squishy enough to fall in line with Trump's agenda.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes, people can and do change with wisdom and experience but we definitely have to watch actions vs just trusting the words. I’m keeping an open mind but being guarded about my enthusiasm for all of these people.

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Lindsay.'s avatar

I was also reminded of the WEF commercial with that reference. Terrifying. The world doesn't need a single dominant nation, but anything the WEF sells is frightening.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes I hope so too! And I agree that having just one country with most of the power is likely to lead to abuse of that power 😕

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Phil's avatar

Not just France - very similar over here in the UK. Katie Hopkins came back from the inauguration and made same comments as Arnault

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RunningLogic's avatar

Yes I heard her comments on the radio, the Glenn Beck show if I remember correctly. It was really touching actually.

There are definitely other countries besides France with the same issues. I have a friend in Belgium who constantly talks about the similar problems there and I know Germany has had difficulties as well. And those are just a couple but it seems pretty widespread across much of Europe.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yeah but every time you feel that way then remember stuff like this after April Ryan The Racist with CNN tries to gotcha, our wonderful press secretary, on celebrating Black History Month.

“As far as I know, this White House certainly still intends to celebrate — and we will continue to celebrate American history and the contributions that all Americans, regardless of race, religion or creed, have made to our great country,” Leavitt said. “And America is back.”

In your face racist.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I really think it’d be a great idea for the new administration to do away with all these ridiculous “months”. A waste of $, which accomplishes nothing. Putting pink crap (made in China, by the way) everywhere during ‘breast cancer awareness month’ does nothing to prevent cancer or improve treatments. It’s a total sham. And no group should have their special ‘month’. It’s ludicrous.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Whaaaaat?!

I rather enjoy my one day break from pride month on Juneteenth!....;)

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Pat Wetzel's avatar

🤮

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RunningLogic's avatar

That’s a positive spin on it at least 😆😁

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Lynn Klein's avatar

I totally agree! It does nothing to move successful treatments or prevention ahead. BTW, getting a mammogram ever, is NOT PREVENTATIVE.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Right? But also, how are we spending money on relatively superficial feel-good stuff like this when we have huge problems with homelessness, people being able to afford food and medical care, and crime?? Among so many other much more pressing issues! Not that I think the government is good at problem solving but at least work on issues that are more priority! Or get out the way and let people keep their own money to solve these problems themselves! The fluff is just not that important and not the government’s job!

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Robin Greer's avatar

Have you thought about all the Pharma ads? How much money is spent developing drugs so that those engaging in promiscuous behavior and IV drug use will have access to drugs to curtail the diseases that are attributable to their engagement in dangerous behaviors.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Bingo

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RunningLogic's avatar

Of course!

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

True, I read a comment yesterday on Dr. Alexander's stack from someone whose only concern was that Trump said the wrong things in the presser about the DC plane crash. I reminded her that Biden would not have addressed the issue headon, and would have spouted some insincere blurb about "hearts and prayers". Trump HAS true sincere concern for those families who lost their lives needlessly.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Biden would probably have likened the crash to the time he ran into the side of his garage and got a dent on his bumper or some such nonsense 🙄🙄🙄

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Janet's avatar

👏🏻👏🏻. Then he had to run away from the cannibals that piled out of the trunk.

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RunningLogic's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

Thank you Janet, I laughed so hard when I read that 😂😁

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RunningLogic's avatar

And I apologize for the typo, I meant Janet not Janice! 🙄 Corrected now!

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I was motivated to put together a substack last night about a facebook post on my feed from someone with TDS - and her fellow TDS sufferers. Those people are scary as hell.

In looking into one of the claims of a sufferer, I did a DuckDuckGo search: "Trump to visit families of plane crash victims" and got many web pages detailing Trump's snarky response to a reporter's question about whether he would visit first responders. Any place a president visits becomes a media zoo - it will cease being a rescue or recovery site. It was a dumb question. So I added web search hits to my post.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I read your post, if was great! Reassuring that I’m not the only one experiencing this!

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Fakes, flakes, other F words fit too 😆

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

Flops...

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Yes, the double standard (and complete lack of self-awareness) is breathtaking.

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SM's avatar

That jello brained sock puppet was out there sniffing children and licking his ice cream cone like a spoilt 8 year old most of the time. They praised his every drool filled garbled speech like the ridiculous ass kissers they are 😂

They only have their tantrums to hold onto at this point. Up next is Drill Baby Drill 🇺🇸🙌🏼

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Notice that?

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AJoy's avatar

Absofuckinglutly

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Kelli's avatar

Never thought I'd say this, but now I'm happy we had the 4-year biden administration.

That four years allowed everyone (who was willing) to see just how malevolent and despicable the party "owners" are. And, it gave Trump & Team 4 years to plan an exquisite battle strategy. Would love to read the books written 100+ years in the future about these times.

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Janet's avatar

But thinking of the children who have been lost to all sorts of child harming practices and liberal horrors, including the child transgender ideology—child sacrifice 2020’s style. I’m very sad about that.

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RunningLogic's avatar

True 😞😢

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Porge's avatar

I agree Janet, we certainly could have done without all that damage 💔

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Elaine Russky's avatar

I hope Victor Davis Hanson writes one.

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Robin Greer's avatar

It took Carter to get Reagan...

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Runemasque's avatar

I'm not happy. Those were our children that were sacrificed and harmed.

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Marsali S.'s avatar

Yes, so true. The Biden Administration gave Trump the win in all swing states and the popular vote. It wouldn't have happened if the Biden Administration didn't have the malevolent four years that it did. I expect much more to come out in the next few years regarding its crimes.

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A lot of irreparable damage was done with the clot shots. Steve Kirsch just put out a post on Czech republic records showing that "vaccinated" women have 66% lower fertility than other women in 2023. The drop was 57% in 2022, so the problem seems to be getting worse with time. That's absolutely apocalyptic.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

" ... Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, 74, ....". Why are we being told Schumer's IQ?

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I just saw this on X:

On X

"BREAKING: Chuck Schumer is now officially under investigation by the Department of Justice for making threats against conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices."

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MaryAnn's avatar

Conservative Contrarian: 😂I think it helps us understand his blithering idiocracy…😉

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Bandit's avatar

I'm kinda surprised it's that high. 😏

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Same here, odds are they grade on a curve .... 🎯

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RunningLogic's avatar

😆😁

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christopher peacock's avatar

The numbers are the same, save the ink

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

— 1 John 5:14-15 NAS

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Bill Campbell's avatar

Janice: off topic but I'm in need of some help. My 7 year old grandson attends a small, private school in NJ. They were outside for recess the other day. It was very windy. The school is surrounded by large trees. A limb broke, coming down and striking one of his classmates on the head. That little guy lost his life last night. We are heart broken. Aside from the many things I will talk to him about, are there any words from scripture you can share with me that I may pass along to him? Many blessings to you and thanking you in advance.

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SilverFlower's avatar

Oh how utterly heartbreaking. The verse that immediately came to mind is when Jesus said, “let the little children come to me..for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” It would be a comfort to know that, while bad things happen in this world where even nature itself, including the tree limbs, are broken due to sin, Jesus wraps his arms around that precious child and comforts him in his eternal, perfect kingdom. I’m so sorry for his loss.

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Bill Campbell's avatar

Thank you

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

Bill, I am so very sorry. The verse that immediately came to mind is, "He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds" - Psalm 147:3

If the Lord brings others to mind, I'll send them to you. Meanwhile, I pray that He shows Himself to all those involved and comforts as only He can.

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Carol Brizzolara's avatar

John 16:33 “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Psalms 34:18 “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Isaiah 41:10 “So do not fear, for I am with you;

do not be dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you and help you;

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

2Cor 1:3-4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”

Psalm 27:1 “The Lord is my light and my salvation—

whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life—

of whom shall I be afraid?”

Rev 21:4 “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

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Bill Campbell's avatar

Thank you for sharing these Carol. Words cannot express my appreciation. Stay well.

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Words Beyond Me Janice Powell's avatar

Carol, thank you for sharing all those wonderful, comforting passages.

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Bill Campbell's avatar

Thank you Janice.

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Jamison's avatar

So sad. 🙏🙏🙏

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Janet's avatar
Feb 1Edited

I had coffee with my liberal friends today. One has a granddaughter at George Washington University. She was up for an internship at the Department of Energy. She’s barely 20 yo. A lovely girl. Smart. Of course, all this is frozen now and she won’t be interning. Boohoo. Of course the reaction around the table was “Orange Man Extra Bad. All I could get in was she will survive. Reminding others that we all experienced setbacks or perceived setbacks in our long lives. I didn’t say it but her merit will actually get her places. She probably would be an asset but we have to get to a place where merit and competency HAS a chance. I heard on epoch times that San Francisco had a taxpayer plan and a guaranteed income for TRANSGENDER people. How many guys with beards wearing a dress applied for that? Or blue hair qualified you. Crazy.

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Alyssa C's avatar

This mindset is so selfish and infuriating. I went through something similar way back when. After college, I planned to join the Peace Corps. I had a date, destination, and job all lined up. I was slightly delayed because of a minor medical issue (which turned out to be a God thing, for sure) but then my program was cut after Obama made budget cuts. No one cried boohoo but me. Not one liberal complained that my plan was derailed... And rightfully so! I was 20 with a world of opportunities in front of me. Instead the mature adults in my life said "oh well, you'll figure something out." And I did.

It's amazing how grown adults act these days. Such entitlement and they model it for their kids. Makes me sad.

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SB's avatar

I’ve known several people who were hit with unexpected layoffs in their 50s. Age discrimination is real. Most of those people put on their big girl/boy pants and figured it out so yea, the 20 year olds and their parents can get over their entitled selves.

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RunningLogic's avatar

It’s the flip side of “what do you mean the economy is terrible? I’m doing great, stocks are up and I just got a raise!” Basically screw you as long as I’ve got mine 🙄

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Well if it helps them any, Orange Man may be disappointing the GWU coeds - don't you miss that word? - but the *Marines* are still celebrating their new Commander in Chief.

They're still over the moon.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Sorry for that girl with her eyes on the DOE, but govt has no business playing employer. It should shrink and get out of the way so citizens can create businesses and jobs.

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Yes, government tries to take over everything. They have certainly taken over the entire health industry. They don’t want us to make decisions about our own bodies, whether it’s vaccination or abortion, it’s none of the government’s business.

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Fred's avatar

Palm Springs reportedly paid a guaranteed stipend to folks who were part of the LGB….community. This was news a few years ago; can’t find it now.

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Ministry of Truth's avatar

“two officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.” This is the boilerplate sentence they use now, as if all that leaking isn't often a breach of contract or even a crime. The burglar was wearing a mask for fear of retaliation...

I don't think the DOGE people are that worried about leaks (lots of people support cutting down the government and Musk keeps hinting on X), it's far more likely that they are worried about sabotage and destruction of evidence. That paper trail that is the hallmark of government work and used by people in there to cover their bottoms lest they be spanked is now coming back to haunt them.

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J Boss's avatar

I think the actual DOGE experts don't have time or care to talk. They are extremely competitive and high achievers. Getting things done against time (market competitors or looming 2026 midterms) requires extreme focus. Shock and awe, baby!

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Robin Esau's avatar

Agreed, the method is about preservation of data.

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shayne's avatar

Musk knows how to bait the hook to catch the fish....

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Kenneth N. Myers's avatar

Remember the FBI agents that were reassigned, moved to their new office, and were then left high and dry with their families when their pay and household belongings were held by the FBI? Don't forget them when you hear these fired "FBI executives."

https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/18/agent-fbi-pay-family-homeless-blew-whistle-illegal-activity/

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RunningLogic's avatar

Good point!!!!

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CeeMcG's avatar

🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ hope that’s gone soon. Was glad to see that LBGBTQIA+ is being stripped down to just LGB now on government websites.

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TamalpaisRose's avatar

It’s a start. Next, eliminate all together sexual practice being made an identity. We don’t need to know, don’t want to know. 🙈🙉🙊

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RunningLogic's avatar

Right?? Why is that supposed to be public knowledge?

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MaryAnn's avatar

Agree. LGB is not necessary either. I don’t need an H to describe myself. Why would I limit myself to a letter when I am so much more? Unless that letter is truly all I have.

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TamalpaisRose's avatar

“Unless that letter is truly all I have”. Yes! Sad and profound truth.

I’ve never liked friends or acquaintances addressing me by the first letter of my name. I always tell them I’m not a letter. Takes a few extra seconds to type out someone’s name but it’s a world of difference.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Can't give this enough hearts.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I just sent a tweet to the VA, Senators McCormick and Fetterman, and the President.

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CeeMcG's avatar

Do we follow each other on X, Kathleen? I’m @CeeMcGee63 (Mega Maga Baba Yaga) over there.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Just followed you...I am under @KJanoski50502

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I'm only on Truth Social, got banned from X just before the midterms in 2022 for saying ballot drop boxes were insecure and an unsafe form of voting.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I was banned numerous time on X pre-Elon.

Somehow, one of my emails worked again to start up a new account.

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Fred's avatar

Try again Geez 😁👍🏻! No one on the L is on Truth Social. We have work to do and there might be some malleable minds on X.

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CeeMcG's avatar

I had to use my son’s cellphone number to get back on X with my current account. I told him since I pay for the phone, I was going to use his number.

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LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

They should just change it to one simple, accurate, easy word: “pervert” and be done with it.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

The board of the ACOG needs to be fired not just for wanting every pregnant woman jabbed but they love gender affirming crap too.

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Dr Jen | Syringa Wellness's avatar

Now go dig into the midwifery websites. 🧐

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jmsmithmd's avatar

They are soooo woke and baby hating, it is disgusting. AAPLOG is playing catchup.

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Nobody struggles with vocabulary more than progs. Trump won, they call it a coup, and they don't mean "a brilliantly executed stratagem" such as simply responding to normal Americans.

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Try reading Jeff's opening summary and then think - who would have imagined such a string of amazing news events a year ago? What a difference a year makes.

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LMWC's avatar

Last year was a rollercoaster ride, that we had to have, to get us to this day. God is always in charge.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Right??

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Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

URGENT UPDATE JAN 31-FEB 1:

We are at a critical turning point. The Senate confirmation hearings ended and the vote for RFK Jr will be happening soon.

Here are the four senators who most need to hear from us:

Call both their Wash DC numbers and state capital numbers. NOTE that it doesn't matter if you're not their constituents. Their presence on these committees makes them especially accountable to all Americans. They need to hear us loud and clear to get on the right side of history by confirming RFK before it's too late for our ailing, disabled and dying country.

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• Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

DC number: (202) 224-6665

Juneau, AK number: (907) 586-7277

Email: https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact

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• Susan Collins (R-ME)

DC number: (202) 224-2523

Augusta, ME number: (207) 622-8414

Email: https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact/email-senator-collins

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• Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

DC number: (202) 224-2921

Providence, RI number: (401) 453-5294

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/email-sheldon/

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• Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

DC number: (202) 224-5824

Baton Rouge, LA number: (225) 929-7711

Email: https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/contact/get-in-touch/

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Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

ONE MORE THING TO DO, ASAP:

Watch and share this brilliant Del Bigtree video and tag Senator Cassidy. Tell him to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS Secretary.

https://x.com/HighWireTalk/status/1885357749845787107

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Lisa's avatar

Wow

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Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

Actually, tag all the senators in the two committees that held hearings for RFK Jr.:

Committee on Finance https://www.finance.senate.gov/about/membership

Committee on Health Ed Labor Pensions https://www.help.senate.gov/

(There is some overlap – a few senators are in both groups.)

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Politico Phil's avatar

Was Ron Wyden’s Vote Purchased by Big Pharma to Block RFK, Jr?

Posted Jan 31, 2025 By Martin Armstrong

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/was-ron-wydens-vote-purchased-by-big-pharma-to-block-rfk-jr/

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

Corruption has a funny way of etching itself on the faces of swamp creatures. I wouldn't trust that guy to walk my dog, and I don't even have a dog.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

Pretty sure he has received 1.2mil from Harma.

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Lorita's avatar

thank you for the emails too, I'm better emailing than phoning

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Thank you for all the contact info Beth.

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RunningLogic's avatar

Just FYI, I clicked on the email for Murkowski and it says they won’t even consider messages from non Alaskan residents. So either use a fake address or try calling instead.

ETA

Based on the comments to my post, I tried it and had no issues! So definitely email if you can!

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

This worked from Texas: https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact

Come on over and email her from my place.

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RunningLogic's avatar

It worked! Looks like they were just trying to discourage us! I’ve had messages rejected before so I was expecting that, but mine all went through! Thanks for sharing your experience and letting me know to give it a try!

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KBB's avatar

Worked from New Mexico!

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RunningLogic's avatar

I’ll have to try it!

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MJ's avatar

Accepted mine yesterday, guess they are getting slammed!👍

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Susan G's avatar

Does she accept contributions from non-Alaskans?

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Reasonable Horses's avatar

My guess is absolutely definitely and twice on Sundays.

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Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

SOME POINTS TO INCLUDE when you call the senators (do personalize as you wish):

Kennedy has a vast army of supporters who helped elect Trump. They can swing elections and will remember how you vote on this question.

The US is sicker than all other developed nations, by far, and this situation is bankrupting our country and causing untold suffering, disability and mortality.

We have an epidemic of chronic disease that is now affecting children with illnesses that children have historically never had.

This is an emergency situation, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the single most qualified person in the world to turn it around, due to his long history of studying and fighting this problem. He knows that this problem is fundamentally due to corruption in our regulatory agencies because of their capture by the industries they are supposed to be regulating.

Please ignore the smears against Kennedy that are made by the pharmaceutical and monied special interests whose profits and power he is challenging. They have run amok with our country and it is time to stop listening to them and fix our problem instead. Kennedy will do this.

This is not a partisan issue. Get on the right side of history before it's too late for our country.

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Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

MON FEB 3 AFTERNOON: REVISED LIST. DO NOT LET UP.

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Bill Cassidy (LA-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-5824

Email: https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/contact/get-in-touch/

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Susan Collins (ME-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-2523

Email: https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact

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Lisa Murkowski (AK-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-6665

Email: https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact

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Mitch McConnell (KY-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-2541

Email: https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm

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Thom Tillis (NC-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-6342

Email: tillis.senate.gov/email-me

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Cory Booker (NJ-D)

DC Number: (202) 224-3224

Email: https://www.booker.senate.gov/contact/write-to-cory

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Catherine Cortez Masto (NV-D)

DC Number: (202) 224-3542

Email: https://www.cortezmasto.senate.gov/contact/connect/

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Beth C Coddiwompler's avatar

MON FEB 3 AFTERNOON: REVISED LIST. DO NOT LET UP.

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Bill Cassidy (LA-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-5824

Email: https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/contact/get-in-touch/

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Susan Collins (ME-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-2523

Email: https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact

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Lisa Murkowski (AK-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-6665

Email: https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact

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Mitch McConnell (KY-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-2541

Email: https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm

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Thom Tillis (NC-R)

DC Number: (202) 224-6342

Email: tillis.senate.gov/email-me

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Cory Booker (NJ-D)

DC Number: (202) 224-3224

Email: https://www.booker.senate.gov/contact/write-to-cory

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Catherine Cortez Masto (NV-D)

DC Number: (202) 224-3542

Email: https://www.cortezmasto.senate.gov/contact/connect/

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On an island's avatar

Note on the tariffs from your friendly coffee industry insider. Although i support the whole shake up of the old guard and i also support the tariffs, it IS going to get more expensive at least in the short run.

Between all the turmoil in the Red Sea, extreme weather issues in Brazil and Vietnam particularly, and the mere threat of tariffs in Colombia, green coffee prices are the highest i’ve ever seen. Mexico tariffs will not help. Also with minimum wages hiking up everywhere, retail will need to increase prices to survive.

Just be prepared to pay more for your coffee! ☕️

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I would much rather pay taxes on consumption than taxes on my income.

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Lone Star exile's avatar

Don't let them schmooze you into accepting ANY taxes.

Or guilt-trip you

Or coerce you

Or trick you

"Read my lips" lol

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J Boss's avatar

The claim was average monthly extra after removing income tax would be $2,500. At 10% tax, that would be $250 on everything bought. I don't spend that much money on imported merch.

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Kelly's avatar

Personally I welcome this. Maybe America will become aware of their garbage spending.

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On an island's avatar

Couldn’t agree more Kelly! From rampant over consumption to just buying too much cheap sh*t from China, we could stand to relearn about quality over quantity.

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rolandttg's avatar

You are so right. Europeans spend twice as much per capita on food as Americans, and have high quality but much fewer clothes. We have at least a hundred T shirts? Why? What other nation has so much stuff, as George Carlin so correctly said, there is an entire industry devoted to off site storage units for all the stuff you can't fit in your house.

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Years ago I read a book about the effects of buying cheap stuff that can’t be fixed or even recycled. A search of Amazon books yielded no results, however. I can’t recall the title or the author.

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RunningLogic's avatar

I know in some ways it will probably hurt before we see improvements but as is true for many things, there has to be some pain/effort before there can be progress!

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Unapologetically Me's avatar

"Buy it now" and look for sales, then throw it in the freezer folks, says this unjabbed old Canuckistanian who lives on peanuts and has, so far survived unreal price hikes for years, including a 50% increase on coffee beans since 2020.

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Marilynne Martin's avatar

I am a retired accountant. Prices are a reflection of cost of goods sold, which is material, labor and overhead. Tariffs (taxes) are overhead.

As tariffs are applied, prices will rise, guaranteed.

This will encourage Americans to buy American. However, remember that they spent the last 30 years moving our factories overseas, so we don't make much of anything anymore and it takes years to build and start a new factory. So expect higher prices for years.

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SB's avatar

Coffe isn’t necessary. Never drink it. Now if Trump can do something about the bird flu nonsense and get price of eggs and meat more real, that’ll be great!

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rolandttg's avatar

Speak for yourself, It's called Coffee and Covid , not Eggs and Covid for a reason.

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On an island's avatar

Lol a good chunk of the population would revolt if there was no coffee! Me included ☕️

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Temcol's avatar

Bold words to us coffee drinkers! Wow!😮

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Peace's avatar

Or actually get eggs on the shelf - we have had zero eggs on the grocery shelf besides the generic cheapos for several weeks in NC. No organic, free range, nothing!

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rolandttg's avatar

As a dearly departed former friend and work colleague said whenever mentioning his first wife, "she got everything". Then he would lean into you, smile from ear to ear , and add "and it was a bargain".

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Juliann's avatar

For the good long-haul, I will. I love my Country. It will be better.

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MJ's avatar

...a price worth paying for Change🇺🇲

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Carolyn's avatar

It might get a little more pricey in the short term but we will be gaining in the long run. Think of the money not being given and spent on the illegal s. Think of the money saved from stopping crimes. Think of the lives saved from stopping the drugs. Plus the money coming in from other countries to the treasury. Reduce our countries debt and maybe reduce our tax payments that we are charged. Actually income tax should be gotten rid of. There are questions of it being Actually ratified. Rumor has it congress just accepted and passed it knowing it had not been truthfully ratified. So we win financially

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HHM's avatar

Gave up alcohol and coffee this year. Hoping to not have to give up eggs. But righting the ship might hurt a bit. Worth it.

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James Arthur's avatar

Gee, I stumbled on C&C a month ago, and now I find you every day…first thing! Thanks for your excellent work!

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Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Welcome, it's hard to believe I lived without C&C until I found it also.

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KBB's avatar

Beware, C&C will become an obsession/addiction. Can't start my day without it. Welcome to our world.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

How dare Trump fire the Democrat's private, publicly funded police force. Who died and made him President?

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PJ's avatar

👍

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