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So true. Obama received one because he is black: not the content of his character or deeds, but due to the color of his skin. The Swedes are stupidly beyond hope..
Ahhhh, yes....the rivalry that will never die. I laugh when I talk about my father's mother, who was the product of a "mixed marriage"... Swede AND Norwegian. O, the shame ...LOL ššš
I so hate the fact that he is always called black, ignoring the FACT that his mother was/is white (is she still living? Does anyone care?). How did she feel being ignored? He is biracial. My grandchildren are biracial (Chinese/White). IMO he was elected because his skin looked predominately black. Did he check off the "Black" box or did he check off "biracial"? No one cared - they only cared that he looked Black.
I'm very conservative. When I was raising my 3 sons I told them the best way to eliminate prejudice was by intermarriage. My parents did so. My dad was Jewish, my mom Christian. My brother is married to a South Korean. So 1 of my sons followed thru...
I look forward to the day when there are NO boxes to check off. ie: if my biracial grandkids marry a biracial hispanic/black & have kids - what boxes do those kids check off????
It starts with refusing to answer when asked what your race is when filling out forms like at the doctor or on the census. You have to make it explicit that you Decline To Answer, otherwise somebody will look at you and fill it out based on what color they perceive you to be. So long as we allow ourselves to be categorized we will never become a color blind society.
I was hired by a company. I was born w/ a hearing impairment. In those days, hearing aids weren't helpful for me, so I didn't wear anything, so people couldn't tell, I pretty much taught myself to read lips (a side-note that when COVID hit & everyone wore masks I was totally DEAF!!!). After being hired, when I was filling out forms for health insurance coverage I checked the box "hearing impaired". The person interviewing was THRILLED!! They/the company now got to say they hired a handicapped person, even tho I had already been hired w/out identifying as a handicapped person!
Many years ago my company bid for a contract which stipulated we must have a % of handicapped staff.
We were one short.
Then a middle manager came & told me she was blind in one eye. Sheād never mentioned it but asked if it would help. And yes, it fulfilled the requirement.
To all of us she was a good colleague & a nice person - to the contracting authority she was a handicap with a numberā¦
I agree. Plus no one can even give a clear definition of what criteria constitute these categories. Theyāve changed multiple times since they were first invented. Theyāre nebulous with no clear dividing lines. Just refuse to acknowledge the validity of these artificial categories.
When my son was in second grade, he came home one day very upset. They were filling out a form at school which had a question about the parents race. Only one box could be checked. He asked the teacher about it and she told him to just check one. He did not do it. I was at the school the next day and they tried to do the same to me. The principal told me it didn't matter. That was back in the early 1980's. I was told by a relative later that the schools received extra funds for minority students.
This is a great theory. It is nothing new. But there are trade offs.
For example, and on a larger scale, the stratagem is like flooding countries with distinctive histories, habits and customs with foreign invaders. Doing such surely does 'homogenize' a population, but as we have repeatedly seen in Europe and on the North American continent, all that is accomplished is that nations are destabilized and thrown into unnecessary bitterness and conflict. And let's just say it out loud ... that the Marxist slogan 'Diversity Is A Strength' is a lie.
By way of example, it would be far more sensible for a Christian to marry a Christian ... and thereby not be unevenly yoked which is something Scripture counsels against. And in point of fact, inter-faith marriage is something that the enemy has promoted for decades in the United States. Why? Because inter-faith marriage waters down both professions of faith through the necessary accommodations which would otherwise not have to be made. In fact, people who go the inter-faith route are apt to be more secularized than not. And most of the time such people are just virtue signaling pretenders who are more invested in humanistic ideas that those of their supposed faith. Also, and very importantly, having to follow two often antithetical religions is confusing to children. It imbues within them the concept of 'the house divided'. This is weakness and not good. It's a kind of cultural schizophrenia.
This is just you "whitely" rationalizing after one of your children left your tribe. There is never going to be a color blind society because that's not how human beings work. The more evenly divided a society becomes across key identity groups (race, religion, nationality) the more fierce the struggle for advantage becomes and the more important those factors become in daily resource allocation decisions (hiring, voting, etc.)
If you were actually conservative you would understand all of this, which has been understood by most people since time immemorial.
Yeah, I think heās sarcastically āwantingā it. If you listen to him talk about it, heās very sarcastic when he mentions he should get the Nobel Peace Prize, as if heās making light of the very idea of it. It is a rather ridiculous idea if you think about it. Itās like being voted most popular in high school by all your best friendsā¦
I had to laugh at all of the social media posts that immediately hit after his peace post went out. Are tweets eligible for Nobel peace prizes now? All of these hot takes on hot takes. Letās see how this all plays out.
I thought Obama got the prize because he said he would lower the oceans? Maybe his speechwriter should have been nominated. First time Prize given for intent instead of accomplishment.
Once we understand āvirusesā better ā and how they donāt cause diseases but are more so messengers ā weāll realize we donāt need vaccines!
I recognize your tone, BFM (facetious) but 2021, I did make the decision that, if vax should become absolutely required for flight, I was prepared to forfeit, forever, the holding of my first-born in my arms, or of embracing her children, my grandchildren. They live in the U.K. Another daughter and her family in Canada. Same. We would connect, as did parents in the 18th and 19th Centuries, whose children had emigrated to far-off lands, by letter.
I flew unvaxxed all through the crazy. No one asked to see anything. If you are being sarcastic, itās too early right now where I am to make sudden decisions. š¤Have a good one, BFM (took me a while to find the M key)
we cancelled a trip to Iceland because Biden was insisting on EVERYONE, even US citizens, flying into the county, having to be tested w/in 72 hours. We would have had to do a ZOOM test in our hotel room & purchase the test, & found out many of those were false positives. If it came back positive, we would be quarantined IN OUR HOTEL ROOM for 2 weeks, not being allowed to return home & be given a small remittance for room service food. I "joked" we should go, somehow find our way to one of the US borders & cross over illegally & be home free w/out any hassles like that!!!!! Pi$$ed me off royally!!!
We've since traveled w/out anyone asking for any vaccine proof. Our state, TX, relaxed all measures of masking, standing distances, etc, much sooner than most states. I have kids/grandkids in LA, CA & OR. Those in CA & OR kept restrictions for a long time!!!!!
I wondered about this. Quarantined in a hotel room? Really! Do 'they' post armed enforcement guards 24/7 at the hotel room door? I mean ... what to prevent people from just walking out and going home?
We went to Israel in 2022... you could book the flight but couldn't get a seat assignment nor a boarding pass until you submitted proof of your vaccination PLUS proof (in the form of a letter issued by your 3rd party travel insurance company in the exact name on your passport) that you had hospitalization and insurance to fly your dead body out of Israel if you died while there.
I flew back to Hawaii. had no neg test to produce so had to quarantine for 14 days. just saying. Blue State but we were on the more remote beaches without a problem.
They did in 2021. My son got married and he and his wife had booked a cruise for their honeymoon. She got jabbed in Jan 2021, she is a nurse and type 1 diabetic and so was an early recipient due to being high risk (and no interest in my concern that she should wait to see if this was actually safe) but my son did not have a jab mandate at his job, was healthy. I begged/sent evidence/hounded him to NOT get the jab. But said that he would be able to go on the cruise, but he would have to avoid certain areas of the ship and would not be able to get off the ship for excursions without a vax card. And he wanted to go to some concerts at venues at home that required the vax card as well. So he caved. At least he has not had any boosters and no ill effects yet.
So sorry Donna. I understand. All but one of my kids refused the C19 shot. The one who got it was forced by her employer. She was told, at the time, she had 2 weeks and then they would likely fire her. They had a mortgage, so both she and her husband went ahead and took one shot. She says, she doesn't feel as healthy as she once did.
Might want to check his and her batch lots with Pardekooper's How Bad Is My Batch. I did this last month for my little brother, now dealing with serious dementia.
our son and dil had booked a cruise with two of their daughters & the vax was required. TX had already canceled any vax requirement, and I kept asking them to wait til right before the cruise to get the shots, but they all caved. And of course, the cruise industry canceled the vax requirement right before the cruise. I pray every night they will not have any problems from the vax.
Happily, our red area of Pennsylvania ignored all of the nonsense. Restaurants stayed open during lockdowns and local sheriffs ignored the violations . No vaccine passports required anywhere here.
My favorite comment on the cease fire yesterday was someone said (sarcastically) that Obama will probably get the peace prize for giving Iran the cash to start the nuclear program which ultimately led to the events of the last couple of weeks. That sounds about right. š
It's so crazy to me how we're literally watching a real-life Wag the Dog movie script playing out, only unlike in the movie they're actually TELLING you the dog is being wagged, & people STILL don't see it & just get all spun up.
You're a realist who believes TV talking heads feeding you fake news about totally serious WWIII stories, such as appointment bombings with limited damage & no casualties. Narrative warfare has you over-invested in the soap opera. Meanwhile, real peace was just made in an actually real decades-long shit show between the Congo & Rwanda. But I suppose the talking heads aren't paid to talk about that, as apparently peacemaking has no corporate sponsorship for the very serious daytime drama television show.
Ha-ha-ha! That is hysterical. I havenāt watched mainstream television in years. Listen to the experts in global conflicts - Michael Yon, Col Douglas MacGregor.
It doesn't matter WHICH talking heads, lady, it only matters that they were buying into the soap opera & selling it to you. I really like a lot of the Alt-Media darlings myself, especially Col MacGregor, so it's disappointing to see how many are utterly failing the sifting operation & falling right into the Trump quicksand (h/t Badlands Media & their ongoing coverage of the War of Stories). At least it's been fun watching the warmongers cannonballing in to the other side of the trap like they just can't wait to splash the entire community pool deck of sunbathers from the high dive!
Tess' statement is VERY TRUE... why rag on her, you sound like you hold the same accurate opinions?
Trump is a Zionist-sucking buffoon, when it comes to international relations... a Bozo.
He is doing some great things domestically, but his Presidency will be forever tainted by his rogue and criminal actions on behalf of the slimy warmongering, mass-murdering jews.
Is this directed at me? Open your eyes. Netanyahu has Trump in his back pocket as Miriam Adelson has Iām sure dictated, per her generous contributions to Trumpās campaign.
Clearly indoctrinated by maddow and the rest of the reprobates at MSDNC.
Crawl back into your hole Tess, President Trump is restoring peace, through strength, around the world. It does not matter that you cannot grasp that concept, just know that it is in effect.
It does appear so, the poor woman is delusional. A perfect example of deep indoctrination by the media and deep state bureaucracies (CIA, etc.) Probably worked for a defunded USAID "NGO".
Anyone in that head of yours? Israel is our ally and the ONLY Middle East ally we can trust!
Not to mention that GOD states in His Word that He will bless those who bless her... and CURSE whomever curses her! I am not interested in being cursed by YAHWEH.
"In 1981, The Hoover Institution short- circuited all of Reagan's campaign promises for lower taxes, decreased government spending, and the the goal of 'getting the government off of our backs'"
My understanding is that both Israel and Iran were taking quite a pounding after Israel attacked Israel on June 13 and Iran started fighting back. Israel imposed blackout on filming and reporting of the damage Iran inflicted on Israel, also prohibited Israeli citizens from flying out of the country. (signs of confidence and strength?) Israel advised US that it would run out of missiles in about 10-14 days (whereas Iran still had tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of missiles left to fire at Israel in the coming weeks and months). From the beginning, Iran had said that it would stop attacking Israel if Israel would stop attacking Iran. Yesterday Israel proposed a ceasefire to Iran, and Iran agreed. Trump got on board and announced the ceasefire to the world. I don't see how that sequence of events suggests Trump is "solving world peace through strength." It saddens me greatly, but I think he has made a fool of himself and the US by making so many grandiose misstatements of fact in front of the whole world. The US attack on Iran did not in fact "obliterate" Iran's nuclear program. Multiple reliable sources report that In the days before the US attack, the Iranians moved most of their enriched uranium and their most valuable enrichment equipment out of the sites the US subsequently bombed. Result: we no longer know where Iran's enriched uranium is located! The best thing I can say about Trump's foreign policy is that he appears to recognize when things are going wrong and has the ability to stop unproductive action. Several reports say Trump got "spooked" by multiple things he learned in recent days: Iran was contemplating closing the straits of Hormuz, the US attack on Iran did not in fact "obliterate" Iran's nuclear program (he had likely been lied to by his "advisors" before), Israel was slowly being devastated by Iranian missiles, the Iranian FM met with Russian president Putin yesterday, and important factions in Trump's base vociferously oppose a US war against Iran. Thus, it appears, Trump decided to step off the escalation escalator that he initially fired up. I believe Trump sincerely wants peace and wants to avoid WWWIII, but I worry that he has surrounded himself with warmongers and similar ideologues who still believe the rest of the world must genuflect when the US bullies them. And then there is, of course, the open question about what was the US attack on Iran all about--was it all theater? 5D or 6D chess? Iran obviously knew the attacks on their nuclear storage sites were coming; that's why they moved their stockpiles of enriched uranium beforehand.
As to 'we no longer know where'--if the satellite photos of semis- lined up at Fordow are to be trusted, then there must be satellite photos showing the routes of those trucks having left Fordow?
Israeli security source to Saudi Al-Hadath channel:
We know where Iran moved the enriched uranium, most of it is buried under the rubble. Israel did not attack the enriched uranium because it could have caused an environmental-nuclear disaster
I agree with the most of what you say, especially the downside bad look for the Trump administration. And yet I have to consider the what the Trump administration against.
First, there is a civil war raging throughout the entire Collective West between Trump's side seeking normalization and restructure, and that of the Woke NeoCon Globlist entrenched faction. And not so oddly come to think of it, Putin and Russia share the same adversary. The same crowd that has been trying to take down Trump since 2016 are the same people who have been waring against Russia for the last thirty some years.
Second, as we have seen in this conflict, Washington is still a largely NeoCon town full of plotters like Lindsey Graham and Blumenthal, the Bobbsey Twins who travelled to Kiev to stoke the flames of war.
And then there is the Israel and Israel's proxy lobby which own the District of Columbia. And then there is Lying Beebie and no telling what duplicity Beebie engaged in to such The Donald in Forever War thus promoting both Great Israel and toppling DJT for a NeoCon 2-fer. And this could go on.
I agree that the look for Donald is bad ... and maybe capital B-A-D. However, I see no way the Trump could handle this mess without of lot of smoke and mirrors going on. As it is, the bad effects, can largely reversed over time if there is a fleet of dump trucks ready to drop a reserve of good news items all over the place. What cannot be stopped are things like de-dollarization which was started by President Cabbage with sanctioning and weaponizing SWIFT.
A large part of the region of the Middle East is not like it was ten, twenty and more ago. The two places which still need a large dose of normalization are Iran and Israel. Israel has to give up Greater Israel, its Zionist/Marxist madness, and its regional genocide campaigns. And if Israel does this, then Iran has to get out of the funding of terrorism business. And I like to see Israel stop persecuting Christians.
Anyway, this Iran/Israel was a real messy business. And a boy scout could not have handled it. And are we out of the woods yet? Probably not. But I am sure that this thing has given the NeoCon element some pause, both abroad and in Washington. And my hunch is that Netanyahu greatly miscalculated both in the missiles department as well as the sucking in and playing Trump department. And I hope this finishes Beebie off.
Yes, it's hearsay insofar as it's an out-of-court-statement offered for the truth of the matter asserted. I have no personal knowledge of any of this, but I do a lot of research. The sources I read/watch regularly are people who strike me as honest brokers and who readily admit when they make a mistake (as we all do). These people include Alex Krainer, Col. Douglas MacGregor, Alexander Mercouris, Alexander Christoforou, Larry Johnson, Col.Larry Wilkerson, Pepe Escobar, Garland Nixon, Jacques Baud, Scott Ritter, and a few others. None of these people know everything, and they have their biases, but I haven't seen them distort information to serve an ideological agenda.
I absolutely giggle at Trumpās sense of humor: āAll planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly āPlane Waveā to Iran.ā Oh my word! š
I think itās too early to take a celebratory lap. Think about it: first Israel launches an unprovoked attack against a sovereign nation. Then the US follows up with a huge attack (if we are to believe it) on 3 of their nuclear enrichment sites. And then within a few hours, they agree to a cease-fire? It seems unlikely to me (not just trying to be negative here, just realistic).
Something isnāt adding upā¦.
Some inconvenient questions and a different look at things from my favorite independent journalist (James Corbett- the Corbett report. Trump bombs Iran.)
Add the other two peace agreements we have learned ofbin last two weeks: Rwanda - Democratic Republic of Congo; and Pakistan - India. The leader of Pakistan Xād about the Nobel prize for our President (sorry am not on the platform so canāt link).
I hurt my back in 2019. It would spasm painfully and I was stuck in bed. I had to lay on my side and make calls to the insurance company and the doctor so they could fax each other stuff back and forth. What I needed to do was sleep and heal, but I had to be a middleman like these two organizations were my divorced parents! It was infuriating. I complained to both saying you KNOW who each other are, just talk to each other. Why do you need me to mediate! What kind of heath"CARE" doesn't care about the pain of the patient when they try to get him to do their administration. FFS. It still makes me angry 6 years later.
Unfortunately, insurance companies are not in business to help you, they are in business to avoid claims and make money. As far as doctors, theyāve been owned by pharma and insurance companies for a long time, so they do not have the patientās interest at heart.
The number of doctors in private practice has been plummeting over the past 15 years. A decrease of 18% in just the past decade. According to Chatgpt: "Fewer than half of U.S. doctors work in independent private practices. The rest are increasingly employed by hospitals, health systems, private equity groups, or insurersāreflecting a major shift in the structure of medical care delivery." So, it is not just the insurance companies and pharma not having the patient's interests at heart. It is corporations employing the doctors. These corporations care nothing about patients. They care only for their bottom line.
Exactly. I have (had) five docs in my family. This is exactly what happened. Big corps now are in the business, in control and they make the money. The docs are just indentured slaves basically.
The top end of the medical system is non-medical corporate types calling the shots. We saw how bad that can be during Covid and their strict protocols that killed people.
Sad. The ruling elites want everyone to be a controlled slave to the state. I think it will ultimately fail even though I cannot see how ... because dehumanizing us is against human nature.
So sorry, but most doctors are fundamentally sheep. They live in a bubble and that bubble is their world. There's no dose of reality; no contrast; little to no emotion. The entire system is so broken. Patient beware.
Youāre spot onā¦a pharmacist I was talking to once, claimed insurance companies were actually started by the mafia. Not sure on the validity of this, but the pieces do kind of fitā¦
Maybe it was the mafia bosses as they aged and wanted to cut down hours and effort with their work. So they institutionalized their lifeās work into insurance companiesā¦
So, having worked in the health insurance industry for over 20 years I would like to interject here. Yes, there are problems with some insurers looking to avoid paying for services, however, if you are dissatisfied with the insurance company you have the option to make a change. If you do not feel that any health insurance company is worthy of your premium, go it alone. Always a choice to be made. Take a look at your latest explanation of benefits (EOB) and see what sort of discount is allotted to the insurer due to the volume of patients that the insurer can direct to the provider. Those discounts are based upon volume and as an individual you would not receive those discounts. Just like most other goods or services, volume will garner discounts.
Also, there is tremendous fraud, waste and abuse in the provider sector and the insurers do their best to make certain that the providers are using standards of treatment that are normal and that they are billing correctly. Not something the individual is able or likely willing to do.
Now the insurer that I worked for was in a state that required health insurers to be not for profit. That meant that we operated the business on about a 2% -3% margin after paying medical claims. We were a small insurer and I know for a fact that nobody in that organization was getting rich from wages or benefits. The Affordable Care Act almost bankrupted us because the ACA was poorly conceived and executed. Looked good for the politicians but the reality was much more dire.
Unfortunately, a large insurer that is based in the state and was not allowed to do business in the state, because they are for profit, likely convinced the state politicians to change the requirement of not for profit. From there the business of health insurance in the state went sideways quickly. Being a small insurer and 'owned' by a provider group we were ultimately 'sold' to the said large insurer. That occurred because the provider group was in desperate need of capital due to the scamdemic, but that's another story.
All said, if you want to use traditional health providers, you are going to need insurance. If you think want a single payer system i.e. socialized government health insurance, talk to anyone living in Canada. Find someone there that was in need of quick access to something like cancer screening e.g. breast biopsy, ACL repair, etc. and see what sort of experience they had. I can guarantee that it was nothing near what we have in the U.S.
Lots if things need to change in the health care arena in the U.S. if people are going to get the sort of care they need, at a reasonable cost and in a timely manner. Lots of blame to go around here including insurers but also providers, politicians, organizations e.g. AMA, individuals expectations and behavior and that is just to list a few. Be careful what you ask for is basically the bottom line. In the meantime, question everything and push for change with the people that can make a difference.
Had a micro premie, 1#10 oz, 13", after week long hospital stay, baby, nuther week, 100% insurance coverage EXCEPT "above usual and customary changes" after a year we paid for years on one minimum wage income. Can't tell you the education in insurance lies, cheats, and backroom deals that are happening and you think you're getting a helping hand. HA! IT'S ALL A BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY FOR STOCKHOLDERS AND NON PROFITS!! SO Sucks on you and you'll be grateful.
āābut I had to be a middleman like these two organizations were my divorced parents!ā
Great analogy!! Our system is so messed up š People call it a free market system but itās not that at all, itās controlled by many entities but really controlled very little by the āend consumer.ā š
Yep. Iām there with you. Your experience is not uncommon. I have a medical background which I didnāt think was āequalā to an MD, but Iām frequently having to direct my own or my elderly parentās care and help the MDs decide how they want to treat their patients. I got out of healthcare because I was done making those life or death decisions and here I am still in health care making decisions for MDsā¦and not getting paid for it now. What a bummerā¦
I'm aware the medical system is corrupt and downright evil. However, I'm a lot more concerned about them making the decisions for us, rather than consulting for our input. I don't see helping them decide how to proceed as a bad thing, the opposite in fact. Especially since most of what they do is profit and policy driven, and not designed for patient welfare at all. Just handing them free rein is the worst thing. Have you considered you might have MDs with a conscience, trying to give you a chance to opt out of harmful treatments that they're encouraged to do?
Just had to say thank you for writing āfree reinā and not āfree reignā as I usually see it written š I donāt correct people but it still hurts my eyes to see that lol š
Thanks for that. Those damn horses will run wild if you let'em. Yeah, some of the misuse makes me lose my mind. But I never seem to "loose" my mind, at least. I have an unfair advantage though. I went to elementary and middle school in the 50's and early 60's.
Sure. After seeing the public's behavior during coronamania, I wouldn't expect much from a jury. OTOH, I'm sure the jury heard the case presented differently than I heard it on substacks. Disappointing either way.
No. Not at all. Itās not consulting, rather itās a bit of laziness and no follow through in the continuity of patient care. Bordering on negligence, but I wonāt go there.
And an example from my medical experience when I worked as a paramedic. We were picking up a patient in an ER who had suffered a series of seizures to transfer him to a larger facility. Normally a seizure is a āmanageableā event by the patient or his family but this guy was having repeated seizures which can be life threatening if they donāt stop.
We were getting paperwork and getting the gurney ready to load him on the gurney and he started to seize again. He was still on the hospital bed and under the ER MDs care. Transfer hadnāt happened yet, so he calls the shots in his ER. The ER doc was about middle age, so not old not new. He sat there watching the guy in seizure and then turned to us and asked us which med he should give to calm the seizure and how much. We told him of course. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he was at the end of a long hard shift, family issues, etc. but didnāt inspire much confidence.
Itās gotten even worse!! I have two girlfriends who are waiting on doctors for five months waiting for them to get their crap together for surgery between five different doctors. One of them is finally gone and sheās in so much pain. The other oneās waiting to go to Duke and still no appointment and sheās got her brain pressing down on her spinal cord. No one knows what to do. Itās just ridiculous.
I cannot believe how literally spot on Jeff was with his predictions of how this would go down. Biggest worry now is, as he points out, how we will stick the landing.
Also, I canāt help but wonder just where oh where did Iranās enriched uranium go. š¤
One of the best things about this is the absolute worst people on both sides were thoroughly discredited.
One one side you had emotionally incontinent children calling Trump a sell-out, a fraud, and an Israeli patsy. This included all of the groypers and a few big names on X. Totally exposed as frauds and/or hysterical children. (Edit: to clarify I'm not talking about those who were against military action, but those who actively turned on Trump.)
On the other side you had big names demanding the US military implement regime change in Iran. All the usual suspects were there including Ted Cruz (invoking his childhood Sunday school teacher), the childless boomer Lindsay Graham, and the shrieking Israel-first Mark Levin. Levin is actually furious about the cease fire, calling those celebrating it anti-semitic, and hopping mad to realize he can't order PDJT around.
Pay close attention, as both sides were exposed. And yet again, Trump demonstrates that he plays at another level.
A lot of emo going on. Whew! One libbie was going on about WW3 blah blah blah and I said if it means I don't have to listen or see the hysterical loons anymore, then bring it on. She was shocked but it shut her up! Victory āļø š
It does seem like Trump makes some amazingly effective moves that indicate good instincts, and an understanding of how things really work. But then I remember how he was totally blindsided by the COVID machinations, even to the point of criticizing FL and GA for opening too early. He's the best president in my lifetime, it seems so far, and I've been on SS for a while. But let's not get carried away. He had an excuse early in his first term for a lot of bad decisions, especially on personnel - he couldn't have been expected to be up to speed. But by early 2020 when he fell for the obvious COVID scam that MILLIONS of us saw clearly, he should have known better. He can play checkers, badly. To think otherwise ignores what we saw with our own eyes.
He was much more naive in T1.0 and probably was panicked, like much the rest of the country, into reacting quickly to COVID. I don't think the administration had time to really think things through regarding the vaccine development. Nor, now we can say, he didn't have the right people in NIH to properly manage the whole situation.
Remember how the democrats all said they would not take a "Trump vaccine" before the 2020 election? Then by Jan 2021 democrats were calling us out to either vax or die.
I say the same things as you, and this even though Trump horrifies me at times. But then I have to remember that there is an all out civil war raging and that in the midst of all of this battling a boy scout standing there and opening the car door for the enemy is not going to cut it.
The situation is complex. And consider that the people destabilizing the Middle East are the same mad coalition of people as are in alliance in the UK, the EU and in Washington ... as well as throughout the United States. In short, this is the insane NeoCon Woke Globalist Commie conglomerate warring on Trump ... and Russia too.
The idea was to launch more Forever War and to bring down Trump. And oh yes, to push forward a notch or two the Israeli NeoCon expansionary ambition in the region. But Trump to all appearances has come out the other side largely in control. It looks that MAGA, restructure, normalization will go on.
Only Trump could handle this situation like he did, and come out the other side. So I agree. No other President in my lifetime like Trump.
Do you watch Vince (Bolognese(sp?) I can never spell his last name) on Rumble? He uses that term āemotionally incontinent.ā It was the first time I heard it and itās so applicable everywhere right nowā¦
Since the 90's Israel (Bibi) has been claiming that Iran is 2 weeks from the bomb.
Just as with the fake WMDs claim used by Israel to get the USA to wipe out Iraq, we get more lies to make an emergency that has never been demonstrated.
To this day we have no info on the state of the nukes.
I love how folks around here are very very cautious when any bad sounding news comes out, but if the news seems good, it is totally embraced without any deep thought or heaven forbid skepticism. What is the big picture and what is at play with the Iran situation? And why must we go through these war game charades? They are dangerous even if both sides agreed to allow strikes to happen. At the end of the day, the "peace" president is putting into effect a record military budget. If you are a peace time president why is that necessary?
JDVance said on Bret Baier yesterday that the point was to keep Iran from being able to take the Iranium from 60% enriched to 90% enriched, not get rid of the Uranium.
Isn't it amazing that the six big insurance just needed a little bit of a "poke" to declare an expeditious means of pre-certification? The insurance companies have wielded too much power for way too long. Premiums are sky high and their reasoning for denying services or allowing the process down to a crawl...just because they can is immoral and most likely illegal!!!! All in the backs of hard working Americans!
If you call the insurance company and ask for the names of the people who made the "no go" decisions, which by law you have a right to know, they change that decision quickly. Turns out it is not medical staff making the decisions, but entry-level clerks.
Or letās get rid of the need for insurance altogether. Itās such a weird concept if you actually think about it. Paying someone so that when you need to pay for bloated medical expenses they get to decide which ones you can āafford.ā
Why not just make medical care affordable? Or GPās can actually doctor and stop sending everybody to specialists. Or prescribe a pill for everything. Work on preventative care and make it the norm. Itās cheaper to prevent illness then deal with it later on.
We also need to de-couple health insurance (if we must have it at all) from employment. I was trapped for years in a job I hated because my health insurance was tied to it. I finally found a policy I could buy directly and never again accepted employer-provided coverage. It's very liberating.
Now I'm trapped in the Medicare system, because once you hit age 65 no insurance company will sell you a policy except a Medicare supplemental. That means it's impossible to "argue" with a coverage decision because everything is controlled by federal law. As the patient you have to just bob along in the current.
Yes!! This. So many stay for the ābenefitsā and meanwhile die a slow and painful death of tolerance. And retirement/pension accounts should be entirely under our control so we take them where we pleaseā¦
Absolutely. Or malpractice suits cannot have a monetary solution. The only solution should be the payment directly for remedial care if needed or the revocation of licenses for healthcare practitioners who have demonstrated negligence. That way there people wonāt enter in to them for the money pay outā¦
So true. Thatās when they came up with the āmedical benefitsā by the employer to offset no pay increase. Now if your employer doesnāt offer medical insurance as a benefit, you look for another company that does because itās so expensive! Letās get rid of medical insurance with the exception of major medical needs like a heart attack.
Iām old enough to remember having a family doctor. He treated our entire family including grandparents, aunts/uncles. He was terrific! He charged according to what we could afford and we could make payments if needed.
Actually, I think we need education! Read the labels on what you consume! Free will and all that. I remember happily slurping down my favorite organic red pepper and tomato soup while browsing the label. The number one ingredient was sugar! Last time I consumed that! Don't believe that "natural " ( a totally meaningless marketing phrase) or organic equals healthy! Get educated. Check out the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 and become a conscious shopper.
Right! Organic products need a huge overhaul as well. I had to throw out some organic ketchup because it was way too sweet. Even if itās natural sugar added , too much is a bad thing.
I am having the same thoughts. I don't eat many potatoes, so I'll just go with organic (or local-I do live in Idaho!). There is seldom a "perfect" choice. One just does the best one can.
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss is another excellent read, and will also make you sick at how āTheyā engineer our food to be as addictive as the cigarettes they crank out (yes, tobacco companies are linked with processed food companies).
No not at all! š I have to take it in small doses and frequently wonder what Iām going to be able to eat after reading about it. It turns my stomach to even think about eating chicken from the store the way itās processed.
Fortunately I grow most of my food and found a local farmer for my meat, which actually I found through the book and its recommendations for how to find clean food!
I even read labels for our dog treats. More than once, husband has brought home a $10-15 bag of treats, gave one or two to the dog, and when I got home and read the labels - into the trash they went!
When that 6 year old boy was snatch and killed by an alligator living in the lake at the world village at Disneyworld a few years ago, and the lake had no fences to stop people walking along the water's edge, I knew then Disney was run by a bunch of moronic (insert C-word here)
Iām guessing you donāt live in Floridaā¦ a puddle may have an alligator. I believe they had signs warning the people. We donāt let kids wander into traffic and we donāt let toddlers wander around ponds. I donāt like Disney, but itās like suing McDonaldās for having hot coffee.
Now let's hope these big food companies also try to make ketchup, jam, syrup, honey etc. real--without high fructose corn syrup. I can already hear people say "make your own!", which I do. However, I travel often and cannot transport my arsenal of real food with me--it's not realistic. And for someone with MTHFR, I'd like to see enriched flours go away as well.
Agree... but so much more than MTHFR is at play here. Fortified flour is a patch on tired terrain, stressed guts, and dead soil. I tell my clients: real food helps, but your bodyās resilience matters more than perfect labels. Itās the terrain, not just the gene.
Buy local honey and maple syrup only, forgo the jams, and Heinz makes a no sugar ketchup (itās sweetened with stevia). You didnāt mention mayonnaise which uses seed oils, but there are several on the market that use avocado only and pastured eggs.š
But arenāt local honey and syrup found almost everywhere? I make my own salad dressing and take it with me. Everything else I can buy from where ever I am.
After 6 years of dealing with cancer, I had to learn to balance the diet I wanted with living in the world. It's not perfect, but one makes the healthiest choices possible. And it balances out since I usually cook rather than eat out. Traveling, pack a lunch when possible.
Mayo is ultra easy to make with a stick blender and an appropriately sized jar. it is simply easy to make with an electric mixer. It is tedious but not hard to make with a whisk.
Agree šÆ. And get rid of citric acid and all the other chemicals that you need a degree in chemistry to understand. We get our pound cake and the ingredients listed are: flour, eggs, salt, butter, vanilla. All of those ingredients are without bleach and chemicals. As it should be. š
Yes! My sister has a MTHFR mutation and I suspect my daughter does as well. It's hard to find pure pasta without "enrichment" but the Italian brands are usually ok.
There is flour from Italy you can get off Amazon and it is amazing. No bloating, no weird feeling after eating it. Just the pure contentment of being full of carbs. Which is how its supposed to be. Carbs are not evil. What the industry has done to them is. Humans have eaten carbs since we existed. Same with dairy. Our bodies are made for them, not for the whatever it is we have to eat nowā¦
Every time I go to England I drop a few sizes eating normally and even not all healthy things. And yet when we eat ridiculously healthy food in the US, we gain weight? What part of this makes sense??
After 2 weeks in Italy eating pasta everyday and lots of pizza & gelato and of course lots of wine I came home 5 Lbs lighter, but I attributed it to a lot more walking than I do at home.
I was thinking that too, about the walking. But I walk a lot at home and drove a lot in England last time, so not sure. But it can definitely play a part. My gut felt better in England too, so thereās that tooā¦
I agree--it's not always easy to find. I started making my own a few years ago. The family gave us a Philips pasta machine which really cut down on the amount of time it takes. Now it's about 15-20 additional minutes to make it (including cleaning time).
The manual says it is for models HR2380, HR2381, HR2382. They must all be very similar. I'm not sure which of these 3 mine is as it just says Philips on the front.
Ah okay! Good to know! I havenāt used it on my kitchen aid, but have been eyeballing getting one. Is the pasta machine self propelled, or arm propelled?
The thing is, these American big food companies already make these products without all the crap. They just don't make them for Americans. Products imported to Europe and Australia are far superior to those sold in the US. I've looked at food labels for the American products sold in the US compared to those sold out of the country. Very often the ingredient list is half or less sold elsewhere.
Iām sad to say that there is not a chance of much reform. When the tobacco companies took it in the pants back in the ā80s and ā90s, they started acquiring processed food companies and put their scientists to work on making it more addictive, as they had done with cigarettes. Read āSalt Sugar Fatā by Michael Moss or just ask your favorite AI platform how the tobacco companies are linked with processed food companies. Remember when your Ritz crackers came from RJR Nabisco back in the ā80s (before all of our junk came from Mondelez)? RJR was RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company.
They may make cane sugar versions of a few hits to keep us spending but thereās not much of a difference because itās all sugar (HFCS is a monosaccharide whereas cane sugar is a disaccharide. The latter just takes the body a second to break it down into monosaccharides so it can end up as fat and triglycerides).
re: "When the tobacco companies ...... started acquiring processed food companies and put their scientists to work on making it more addictive, as they had done with cigarettes.
Excellent observation. I had not made the connection before.
Thanks for your kind reply! I wish I could take credit for it, though. I got that straight from Michael Moss. I actually enjoyed writing the paper I wrote on his book in nursing school.
To paraphrase Nathaniel 'can anything good come from Portland'?
I purchase Portland ketchup at the big box store that starts with a C, I don't see it on their website however. Portlandia also makes a mustard, I've not tried that yet.
I'm not a health fanatic, and praise God I'm fairly healthy, not taking any scripts after seven decades. I do search out healthier versions of condiments, use olive oil or tallow in my cast iron cookware (tomato based sauces get the enamel version or stainless) So pleased that MAHA is a 'thing' now. Chem trails are next...
3 of my kids are allergic to corn, and man-oh-man! Is it in everything!!! If he ecstatic to see it go, if only even mostly. Would it be in everything if it weren't a government subsidized commodity? You get what you pay for.
While reading the Disney World peeping Tina via TikTok, I was taken back immediately to April 2020 and the covid lockdowns. Our little township park sported yellow hazard tape over all the playground equipment. Parents with kids who had been cooped up for over a month inquired of the township board why the playground equipment could not be put back into use. The answer via zoom was āthe state mandated itā. Thatās how they keep taking power. Things no ordinary person would do, keep being done and allowed, until they have shifted the goalposts clean out of sight.
Never forget! We took our grandchildren camping in a small campground far from anywhere and yes, their kids play area was totally taped off really was unbelievable. How do you explain that to three young children well, no you canāt play on the fun outdoor toys because it might kill you. š
I was so pissed off that I took all that ācovidā hush money and built my grandson his own playground in his backyard. Every kid on the block came to play and no ācrime sceneā tape anywhere to be found. Best ILL gotten money I ever spent! š
Love it! š We were rebels too. Had maskless parties for the young people at our house. NO scared adults allowed. The young people loved it and thanked us. We told them to not submit to the scamdemic BS. A lesson they learned.
I visited my grand kids in Washington state about that time and took them to the park. I took down the tape and said have a go at it kids! Other kids joined in when they saw that it was open for business. There is absolutely no reason to go along with tyranny. And to teach our kids to go along with tyranny.
Yet another example (the 100th maybe) of news I only read here. None of this has come across my radar, even on X. Specifically, the reform of pre- authorization.
Yep, forget my ownerās lens for a second. I always lose sight of the fact that itās my money considering how hard I pinch a penny. I canāt believe my money gets used so frivolously.
How could these āinfluencersā believe that they know how to run a war or military action? There are too many people with too little information running around influencing people.
Because it worked so well on their Xbox game. š¤¦āāļø In all seriousness there are far too many folks who have zero clue about history / wars. They have never spent a day of their life in a battle zone or a life & death situation yet think they have all the answers.
Or have top secret intelligence that makes decisions make more sense. Itās all to make money. The more ācontroversialā a post, the more money they make. The activity generated on a post by likes and comments makes them more money. At least thatās how I understand Instagramās business account worksā¦they literally stir the pot and make money off our commentsā¦
President Andrew Johnson within the first 24 hours after Lincoln's murder:
"I am of the opinion the time has come when you and I must understand, must teach that treason is a crime and not a mere difference of political opinion."
Maybe itās just me but asking the health insurance companies to practice efficiency and fairness is like asking the Big Bad Wolf to stop terrorizing Pigs is improbable.
Yes, and Dr. Oz has been a TV doc for a long time. Who pays the TV peeps? Big pharma ads. Same as who pays the med schools, the textbook publishers and everyone else.
About 10 years ago, I watched a number of competent, successful employees at the state University in my home town be fired from their Med School jobs. There used to be rules, expectations, and quality control.
The medical care has deteriorated since. Sadly, the VA hospital has a relationship with that hospital which immediately meant Veteran healthcare suffered as well.
Absolutely prior authorization wastes a lot of doctors' and other medical workers' time. But medical costs are already excessive, and this isn't likely to reduce them. I don't see how the problem can be solved unless "health insurance" becomes "insurance for unusually high medical costs."
Iām a retired MD, and please forgive me for stating the obvious but be assured I witnessed the scam of pre authorization denials too many times, the insurance companies would automatically deny authorization in order to hang onto the dollars they were paid. Almost always a single phone call by me would result in receiving authorization. Because they never actually reviewed the initial contact information. It was a pathetic exercise and complete waste of time, there were even occasions when the insurance company employee āreviewerā of our appeal of the original automatic denial, had no expertise about the medical illness, test or procedure needed. Plenty of smdh times!
Congrats to Donald Trump for solving world peace through strength.
Worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize!
Next up: please get of the virus^^^ I mean vaccine industry.
The Nobel peace prize has been shown to be useless , and a joke. An insult to any useful person that might get it.
So true. Obama received one because he is black: not the content of his character or deeds, but due to the color of his skin. The Swedes are stupidly beyond hope..
True about the Swedes. I am Norwegian & can verify that. šš
Ahhhh, yes....the rivalry that will never die. I laugh when I talk about my father's mother, who was the product of a "mixed marriage"... Swede AND Norwegian. O, the shame ...LOL ššš
I really donāt know what the problem is. They are both from the same gene pool. š
I so hate the fact that he is always called black, ignoring the FACT that his mother was/is white (is she still living? Does anyone care?). How did she feel being ignored? He is biracial. My grandchildren are biracial (Chinese/White). IMO he was elected because his skin looked predominately black. Did he check off the "Black" box or did he check off "biracial"? No one cared - they only cared that he looked Black.
I'm very conservative. When I was raising my 3 sons I told them the best way to eliminate prejudice was by intermarriage. My parents did so. My dad was Jewish, my mom Christian. My brother is married to a South Korean. So 1 of my sons followed thru...
I look forward to the day when there are NO boxes to check off. ie: if my biracial grandkids marry a biracial hispanic/black & have kids - what boxes do those kids check off????
It starts with refusing to answer when asked what your race is when filling out forms like at the doctor or on the census. You have to make it explicit that you Decline To Answer, otherwise somebody will look at you and fill it out based on what color they perceive you to be. So long as we allow ourselves to be categorized we will never become a color blind society.
those boxes matter - to the government...
I was hired by a company. I was born w/ a hearing impairment. In those days, hearing aids weren't helpful for me, so I didn't wear anything, so people couldn't tell, I pretty much taught myself to read lips (a side-note that when COVID hit & everyone wore masks I was totally DEAF!!!). After being hired, when I was filling out forms for health insurance coverage I checked the box "hearing impaired". The person interviewing was THRILLED!! They/the company now got to say they hired a handicapped person, even tho I had already been hired w/out identifying as a handicapped person!
Yep.
Many years ago my company bid for a contract which stipulated we must have a % of handicapped staff.
We were one short.
Then a middle manager came & told me she was blind in one eye. Sheād never mentioned it but asked if it would help. And yes, it fulfilled the requirement.
To all of us she was a good colleague & a nice person - to the contracting authority she was a handicap with a numberā¦
I agree. Plus no one can even give a clear definition of what criteria constitute these categories. Theyāve changed multiple times since they were first invented. Theyāre nebulous with no clear dividing lines. Just refuse to acknowledge the validity of these artificial categories.
We will never be a color blind society.
There's VAST differences between the races.
When my son was in second grade, he came home one day very upset. They were filling out a form at school which had a question about the parents race. Only one box could be checked. He asked the teacher about it and she told him to just check one. He did not do it. I was at the school the next day and they tried to do the same to me. The principal told me it didn't matter. That was back in the early 1980's. I was told by a relative later that the schools received extra funds for minority students.
And his Black father was the parent that abandoned him. White mother raised him.
And white grandparents did too. If you research that family was likely CIA.
ABSOLUTELY. CIA born and bred, my sense . and did the Globalists' will at every turn.
Raised partially by Ayers and Dorn... terrorists and Saul Alinksy disciples...
Was his pappy really black? Hmmmmm...
https://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=72280
This is a great theory. It is nothing new. But there are trade offs.
For example, and on a larger scale, the stratagem is like flooding countries with distinctive histories, habits and customs with foreign invaders. Doing such surely does 'homogenize' a population, but as we have repeatedly seen in Europe and on the North American continent, all that is accomplished is that nations are destabilized and thrown into unnecessary bitterness and conflict. And let's just say it out loud ... that the Marxist slogan 'Diversity Is A Strength' is a lie.
By way of example, it would be far more sensible for a Christian to marry a Christian ... and thereby not be unevenly yoked which is something Scripture counsels against. And in point of fact, inter-faith marriage is something that the enemy has promoted for decades in the United States. Why? Because inter-faith marriage waters down both professions of faith through the necessary accommodations which would otherwise not have to be made. In fact, people who go the inter-faith route are apt to be more secularized than not. And most of the time such people are just virtue signaling pretenders who are more invested in humanistic ideas that those of their supposed faith. Also, and very importantly, having to follow two often antithetical religions is confusing to children. It imbues within them the concept of 'the house divided'. This is weakness and not good. It's a kind of cultural schizophrenia.
This is just you "whitely" rationalizing after one of your children left your tribe. There is never going to be a color blind society because that's not how human beings work. The more evenly divided a society becomes across key identity groups (race, religion, nationality) the more fierce the struggle for advantage becomes and the more important those factors become in daily resource allocation decisions (hiring, voting, etc.)
If you were actually conservative you would understand all of this, which has been understood by most people since time immemorial.
Black... and "His Apologize for America World Tour" in his first year in office. What a charlatan!
A mulatto, actually... and a homosexual cokehead muslim.
A majority of them do seem to have the mind virus.
Swedes are busy repatriating migrant rapists. so WAY ahead of the UK and many others.
Time for NEW Peace Prizeāone for real peacemakers (and warriors who make peace).
Great idea!
Totally.
However Trump has mentioned it numerous times and clearly wants that feather in his hat. Bragging rights!
Agree šÆ. He wants it to trigger the leftie loons as he holds it and shows it off. He definitely could use it to masterfully troll his enemies. š
I want him to have it in order to trigger the Left! Please! The trolling will rise to even greater heights of hilarity.
Right?? That alone would be worth it! š
After Obama itās a worthless prize but I can sure see DJT waving it in their hysterical faces for fun!
Yeah, I think heās sarcastically āwantingā it. If you listen to him talk about it, heās very sarcastic when he mentions he should get the Nobel Peace Prize, as if heās making light of the very idea of it. It is a rather ridiculous idea if you think about it. Itās like being voted most popular in high school by all your best friendsā¦
He posted the other day that heād never get it. He said (correctly) āthe people will knowā.
Its kinda like the Harvard diploma mills. It's yet another way in which the cartel of evil creates world renowned "experts" - like obummer.
Exactly!
Knowing Trump, itās possible he wants it so he can reject it as meaningless.
That would be fun to watch!
He deserves it no matter what!!
Ovomit is in tears according to the Babylon Bee:
https://babylonbee.com/news/obama-distraught-as-trump-bombs-cool-nuke-factory-he-paid-for
You've gotta love the Bee!
Ovomit? I though it was a typoš¤£ I love it
Well, you know how the saying goes.... if the shoe fits, wear it!
Babylon Bee is anti-White (several posts from them) and Israel first.
They are satire, 100%. That's their trade. And like any comedian, no one is off limits.
I had to laugh at all of the social media posts that immediately hit after his peace post went out. Are tweets eligible for Nobel peace prizes now? All of these hot takes on hot takes. Letās see how this all plays out.
Precisely.
After the dust settles on their fog of war: We shall See?
"Let the man WORK!" Or words to that effect... š
Then the Americans for Trump Peace Prize. That would work.
I thought Obama got the prize because he said he would lower the oceans? Maybe his speechwriter should have been nominated. First time Prize given for intent instead of accomplishment.
Once we understand āvirusesā better ā and how they donāt cause diseases but are more so messengers ā weāll realize we donāt need vaccines!
Then weād be able to take down the vaccine industry ourselves: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-disease-causing-viruses-are-pseudoscience
Failing that, just donāt get vaccinated.
But what if you want to go on cruises and fly to see the grand kids?
If we all stick to our guns, the industry will cave because of loss of income. Do not cave!
If the Dept of Defense stopped funding them.
I recognize your tone, BFM (facetious) but 2021, I did make the decision that, if vax should become absolutely required for flight, I was prepared to forfeit, forever, the holding of my first-born in my arms, or of embracing her children, my grandchildren. They live in the U.K. Another daughter and her family in Canada. Same. We would connect, as did parents in the 18th and 19th Centuries, whose children had emigrated to far-off lands, by letter.
Isnāt it absolutely criminal that this was even a possibility??? š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
However, it did make an opportunity for a deep search of the soul. And I came out on the stronger side.
I flew unvaxxed all through the crazy. No one asked to see anything. If you are being sarcastic, itās too early right now where I am to make sudden decisions. š¤Have a good one, BFM (took me a while to find the M key)
we cancelled a trip to Iceland because Biden was insisting on EVERYONE, even US citizens, flying into the county, having to be tested w/in 72 hours. We would have had to do a ZOOM test in our hotel room & purchase the test, & found out many of those were false positives. If it came back positive, we would be quarantined IN OUR HOTEL ROOM for 2 weeks, not being allowed to return home & be given a small remittance for room service food. I "joked" we should go, somehow find our way to one of the US borders & cross over illegally & be home free w/out any hassles like that!!!!! Pi$$ed me off royally!!!
We've since traveled w/out anyone asking for any vaccine proof. Our state, TX, relaxed all measures of masking, standing distances, etc, much sooner than most states. I have kids/grandkids in LA, CA & OR. Those in CA & OR kept restrictions for a long time!!!!!
It happened to the daughter of a (former) friend, Christmas of 2021.
The "false positive" part... (She was "fully vaxxed". Poor kid.)
Her fully vaxxed son: had to stay behind in CA cuz? He tested positive for... wait for it... "Covid". (Poor kid...)
Can't make this shit up. I couldn't wrap my head around it and told her so.
Was disenfranchised after a "friendship" of over 41 years.
Me: "Oh well".
Ask me if I miss her?
I wondered about this. Quarantined in a hotel room? Really! Do 'they' post armed enforcement guards 24/7 at the hotel room door? I mean ... what to prevent people from just walking out and going home?
We went to Israel in 2022... you could book the flight but couldn't get a seat assignment nor a boarding pass until you submitted proof of your vaccination PLUS proof (in the form of a letter issued by your 3rd party travel insurance company in the exact name on your passport) that you had hospitalization and insurance to fly your dead body out of Israel if you died while there.
OMG
I flew back to Hawaii. had no neg test to produce so had to quarantine for 14 days. just saying. Blue State but we were on the more remote beaches without a problem.
I've never been asked about vaccines when I've boarded an airplane. Do they ask you to prove vaccine status on a cruise?
They did in 2021. My son got married and he and his wife had booked a cruise for their honeymoon. She got jabbed in Jan 2021, she is a nurse and type 1 diabetic and so was an early recipient due to being high risk (and no interest in my concern that she should wait to see if this was actually safe) but my son did not have a jab mandate at his job, was healthy. I begged/sent evidence/hounded him to NOT get the jab. But said that he would be able to go on the cruise, but he would have to avoid certain areas of the ship and would not be able to get off the ship for excursions without a vax card. And he wanted to go to some concerts at venues at home that required the vax card as well. So he caved. At least he has not had any boosters and no ill effects yet.
So sorry Donna. I understand. All but one of my kids refused the C19 shot. The one who got it was forced by her employer. She was told, at the time, she had 2 weeks and then they would likely fire her. They had a mortgage, so both she and her husband went ahead and took one shot. She says, she doesn't feel as healthy as she once did.
Might want to check his and her batch lots with Pardekooper's How Bad Is My Batch. I did this last month for my little brother, now dealing with serious dementia.
Lucky him.
My son (aged 24 at the time) did not fare as well. šŖ
His wife shed on him too:{
our son and dil had booked a cruise with two of their daughters & the vax was required. TX had already canceled any vax requirement, and I kept asking them to wait til right before the cruise to get the shots, but they all caved. And of course, the cruise industry canceled the vax requirement right before the cruise. I pray every night they will not have any problems from the vax.
Just went on a cruise. We were never asked about our status.
Did I get 6 vaccines for nothing? DANG IT!
Not anymore as far as I know.
I donāt think being vaccinated is a requirement for flying.
For sure. Just recalling how they use to check your vax card to even go in McDonalds.
Happily, our red area of Pennsylvania ignored all of the nonsense. Restaurants stayed open during lockdowns and local sheriffs ignored the violations . No vaccine passports required anywhere here.
In woketopia, Santa Fe, I was asked to show my papers to go to a private party. Right/sarc.
It certainly WAS in Canada, per Turdeau.
Ask me how I know...
Drive to see the grand kids and cruises provide Noro Virus, no thanks!!
Or get a free donut, fries or a case of beer? There's dinner! lol
My favorite comment on the cease fire yesterday was someone said (sarcastically) that Obama will probably get the peace prize for giving Iran the cash to start the nuclear program which ultimately led to the events of the last couple of weeks. That sounds about right. š
Right??? šš
Oh please. I donāt think anything has been resolved. Trump has just endangered our country for Netanyahuās cause.
I donāt think so. Letās see what happens next. You are a negative Nelly
I just blocked herā¦Iām in no mood for Debbie Downers with TDS
It's so crazy to me how we're literally watching a real-life Wag the Dog movie script playing out, only unlike in the movie they're actually TELLING you the dog is being wagged, & people STILL don't see it & just get all spun up.
Just a realist, thank you.
You're a realist who believes TV talking heads feeding you fake news about totally serious WWIII stories, such as appointment bombings with limited damage & no casualties. Narrative warfare has you over-invested in the soap opera. Meanwhile, real peace was just made in an actually real decades-long shit show between the Congo & Rwanda. But I suppose the talking heads aren't paid to talk about that, as apparently peacemaking has no corporate sponsorship for the very serious daytime drama television show.
Ha-ha-ha! That is hysterical. I havenāt watched mainstream television in years. Listen to the experts in global conflicts - Michael Yon, Col Douglas MacGregor.
It doesn't matter WHICH talking heads, lady, it only matters that they were buying into the soap opera & selling it to you. I really like a lot of the Alt-Media darlings myself, especially Col MacGregor, so it's disappointing to see how many are utterly failing the sifting operation & falling right into the Trump quicksand (h/t Badlands Media & their ongoing coverage of the War of Stories). At least it's been fun watching the warmongers cannonballing in to the other side of the trap like they just can't wait to splash the entire community pool deck of sunbathers from the high dive!
Wow, I havenāt been attacked with such vitriolic remarks by democrats. Have fun Jeff followers.
What is hysterical, if it wasn't so sad, is your total delusion. I suspect it is because you terminally suffer from TDS.
one covid jab too many for you:{
Tess' statement is VERY TRUE... why rag on her, you sound like you hold the same accurate opinions?
Trump is a Zionist-sucking buffoon, when it comes to international relations... a Bozo.
He is doing some great things domestically, but his Presidency will be forever tainted by his rogue and criminal actions on behalf of the slimy warmongering, mass-murdering jews.
Oi Vey, next.
Or a pessimist? āRealismā is usually cover for pessimismā¦what good does it do to share that weāre all ādoomed?ā
Accepting fantasy for Reality is foolish.
(YOU)
Okayā¦sureā¦
Nope.
And most likely a lib
Ya think? š
The World Bankers cause.
All wars are bankers wars.
Dear Portlander,
Please provide the facts you used in constructing this delusional statement.
Donāt insult Oregon, I donāt think this person is from there
Hahaha. Great post
What extra intelligence do you have that gives you this knowledge? Curiousā¦
A gut that is damaged by extreme pessimism?
Haha! Great answerā¦
Is this directed at me? Open your eyes. Netanyahu has Trump in his back pocket as Miriam Adelson has Iām sure dictated, per her generous contributions to Trumpās campaign.
Clearly indoctrinated by maddow and the rest of the reprobates at MSDNC.
Crawl back into your hole Tess, President Trump is restoring peace, through strength, around the world. It does not matter that you cannot grasp that concept, just know that it is in effect.
Dan, bet she has been jabbed up the ying yang and has TDS. Poor Tess is less.
It does appear so, the poor woman is delusional. A perfect example of deep indoctrination by the media and deep state bureaucracies (CIA, etc.) Probably worked for a defunded USAID "NGO".
Take it as you wish. Iām not sure you wonāt be offended by anything anyone saysā¦
You are full of crap and you spew too much BS... too loudly.
Cool
Col Mac is FAR more intelligent and informed than you lice that are attacking Tess for a few ACCURATE statements.
Get a life. And get your nose out of Trump's rear. It's embarrassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Y0d_jnqFw&t=1561s
Classyā¦
You're an idiot. God's chosen people are obviously not in your vocabulary. I'll pray for you while you educate yourself by reading Revelations!
HAHAHAHA!!!! You sad imbecile loser... Read Biglino and pull your head out of Bibi's butt.
The "Chosen" are the literal scum of the Earth. And, moron, they DESPISE you!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2UE1jb50v0cO
Tess! TESS?
Anyone in that head of yours? Israel is our ally and the ONLY Middle East ally we can trust!
Not to mention that GOD states in His Word that He will bless those who bless her... and CURSE whomever curses her! I am not interested in being cursed by YAHWEH.
But, hey... you do you!
LOL. Next.
Still thinking about MAGA?
"In 1981, The Hoover Institution short- circuited all of Reagan's campaign promises for lower taxes, decreased government spending, and the the goal of 'getting the government off of our backs'"
The World Order
Eustace Mullins.
My understanding is that both Israel and Iran were taking quite a pounding after Israel attacked Israel on June 13 and Iran started fighting back. Israel imposed blackout on filming and reporting of the damage Iran inflicted on Israel, also prohibited Israeli citizens from flying out of the country. (signs of confidence and strength?) Israel advised US that it would run out of missiles in about 10-14 days (whereas Iran still had tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of missiles left to fire at Israel in the coming weeks and months). From the beginning, Iran had said that it would stop attacking Israel if Israel would stop attacking Iran. Yesterday Israel proposed a ceasefire to Iran, and Iran agreed. Trump got on board and announced the ceasefire to the world. I don't see how that sequence of events suggests Trump is "solving world peace through strength." It saddens me greatly, but I think he has made a fool of himself and the US by making so many grandiose misstatements of fact in front of the whole world. The US attack on Iran did not in fact "obliterate" Iran's nuclear program. Multiple reliable sources report that In the days before the US attack, the Iranians moved most of their enriched uranium and their most valuable enrichment equipment out of the sites the US subsequently bombed. Result: we no longer know where Iran's enriched uranium is located! The best thing I can say about Trump's foreign policy is that he appears to recognize when things are going wrong and has the ability to stop unproductive action. Several reports say Trump got "spooked" by multiple things he learned in recent days: Iran was contemplating closing the straits of Hormuz, the US attack on Iran did not in fact "obliterate" Iran's nuclear program (he had likely been lied to by his "advisors" before), Israel was slowly being devastated by Iranian missiles, the Iranian FM met with Russian president Putin yesterday, and important factions in Trump's base vociferously oppose a US war against Iran. Thus, it appears, Trump decided to step off the escalation escalator that he initially fired up. I believe Trump sincerely wants peace and wants to avoid WWWIII, but I worry that he has surrounded himself with warmongers and similar ideologues who still believe the rest of the world must genuflect when the US bullies them. And then there is, of course, the open question about what was the US attack on Iran all about--was it all theater? 5D or 6D chess? Iran obviously knew the attacks on their nuclear storage sites were coming; that's why they moved their stockpiles of enriched uranium beforehand.
As to 'we no longer know where'--if the satellite photos of semis- lined up at Fordow are to be trusted, then there must be satellite photos showing the routes of those trucks having left Fordow?
Did you see that Iran had covered the two entrances? About the time the trucks were there, Bringing in debris.
Had not seenāthank you.
I am sure the Israelis know exactly where those trucks are.
And whatās in them.
Israeli security source to Saudi Al-Hadath channel:
We know where Iran moved the enriched uranium, most of it is buried under the rubble. Israel did not attack the enriched uranium because it could have caused an environmental-nuclear disaster
Iran made a BAD decision... they should have continued to maul Israel until THEY unconditionally surrendered.
I agree with the most of what you say, especially the downside bad look for the Trump administration. And yet I have to consider the what the Trump administration against.
First, there is a civil war raging throughout the entire Collective West between Trump's side seeking normalization and restructure, and that of the Woke NeoCon Globlist entrenched faction. And not so oddly come to think of it, Putin and Russia share the same adversary. The same crowd that has been trying to take down Trump since 2016 are the same people who have been waring against Russia for the last thirty some years.
Second, as we have seen in this conflict, Washington is still a largely NeoCon town full of plotters like Lindsey Graham and Blumenthal, the Bobbsey Twins who travelled to Kiev to stoke the flames of war.
And then there is the Israel and Israel's proxy lobby which own the District of Columbia. And then there is Lying Beebie and no telling what duplicity Beebie engaged in to such The Donald in Forever War thus promoting both Great Israel and toppling DJT for a NeoCon 2-fer. And this could go on.
I agree that the look for Donald is bad ... and maybe capital B-A-D. However, I see no way the Trump could handle this mess without of lot of smoke and mirrors going on. As it is, the bad effects, can largely reversed over time if there is a fleet of dump trucks ready to drop a reserve of good news items all over the place. What cannot be stopped are things like de-dollarization which was started by President Cabbage with sanctioning and weaponizing SWIFT.
A large part of the region of the Middle East is not like it was ten, twenty and more ago. The two places which still need a large dose of normalization are Iran and Israel. Israel has to give up Greater Israel, its Zionist/Marxist madness, and its regional genocide campaigns. And if Israel does this, then Iran has to get out of the funding of terrorism business. And I like to see Israel stop persecuting Christians.
Anyway, this Iran/Israel was a real messy business. And a boy scout could not have handled it. And are we out of the woods yet? Probably not. But I am sure that this thing has given the NeoCon element some pause, both abroad and in Washington. And my hunch is that Netanyahu greatly miscalculated both in the missiles department as well as the sucking in and playing Trump department. And I hope this finishes Beebie off.
And so, let's see how it plays out.
But this is still hearsay is it not? How do we really know what transpired? Frustrating for sure, but we probably will never knowā¦
Yes, it's hearsay insofar as it's an out-of-court-statement offered for the truth of the matter asserted. I have no personal knowledge of any of this, but I do a lot of research. The sources I read/watch regularly are people who strike me as honest brokers and who readily admit when they make a mistake (as we all do). These people include Alex Krainer, Col. Douglas MacGregor, Alexander Mercouris, Alexander Christoforou, Larry Johnson, Col.Larry Wilkerson, Pepe Escobar, Garland Nixon, Jacques Baud, Scott Ritter, and a few others. None of these people know everything, and they have their biases, but I haven't seen them distort information to serve an ideological agenda.
I absolutely giggle at Trumpās sense of humor: āAll planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly āPlane Waveā to Iran.ā Oh my word! š
I think itās too early to take a celebratory lap. Think about it: first Israel launches an unprovoked attack against a sovereign nation. Then the US follows up with a huge attack (if we are to believe it) on 3 of their nuclear enrichment sites. And then within a few hours, they agree to a cease-fire? It seems unlikely to me (not just trying to be negative here, just realistic).
Something isnāt adding upā¦.
Some inconvenient questions and a different look at things from my favorite independent journalist (James Corbett- the Corbett report. Trump bombs Iran.)
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=725827&post_id=166711633&utm_source=podcast-email&play_audio=true&r=lm4tj&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNjMwNDYxNSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTY2NzExNjMzLCJpYXQiOjE3NTA3NjEzODgsImV4cCI6MTc1MzM1MzM4OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTcyNTgyNyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.b7sPQ7AXyaHUZU0Nfz4pmv9nfc4rOxS6e4gTVsf9zio&utm_content=watch_now_button
Didn't Obama get a peace prize for dropping major tonnage of bombs somewhere?
Solving world peace through bombing?
Congrats for bombing nuclear facilities?
Kind of ironic. War mongering at its finest.
Sorry.. but not hardly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Y0d_jnqFw
Add the other two peace agreements we have learned ofbin last two weeks: Rwanda - Democratic Republic of Congo; and Pakistan - India. The leader of Pakistan Xād about the Nobel prize for our President (sorry am not on the platform so canāt link).
"They can relocate themselves outside the U.S. and then enjoy whatever due process they want. Sue to get back in if they want."
Damn right. If you are caught robbing a bank, you don't get to keep/spend the money until your trials and appeals are exhausted.
No? Guess I won't be knocking off any banks this afternoon, then.
There goes your income streamā¦why didnāt they tell you about this??!!
Go for credit unionsš
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Excellent analogy!!
I don't think the proceeds of a typical bank robbery, maybe several thousand dollars, would cover lawyer fees.
I hurt my back in 2019. It would spasm painfully and I was stuck in bed. I had to lay on my side and make calls to the insurance company and the doctor so they could fax each other stuff back and forth. What I needed to do was sleep and heal, but I had to be a middleman like these two organizations were my divorced parents! It was infuriating. I complained to both saying you KNOW who each other are, just talk to each other. Why do you need me to mediate! What kind of heath"CARE" doesn't care about the pain of the patient when they try to get him to do their administration. FFS. It still makes me angry 6 years later.
Unfortunately, insurance companies are not in business to help you, they are in business to avoid claims and make money. As far as doctors, theyāve been owned by pharma and insurance companies for a long time, so they do not have the patientās interest at heart.
The number of doctors in private practice has been plummeting over the past 15 years. A decrease of 18% in just the past decade. According to Chatgpt: "Fewer than half of U.S. doctors work in independent private practices. The rest are increasingly employed by hospitals, health systems, private equity groups, or insurersāreflecting a major shift in the structure of medical care delivery." So, it is not just the insurance companies and pharma not having the patient's interests at heart. It is corporations employing the doctors. These corporations care nothing about patients. They care only for their bottom line.
Exactly. I have (had) five docs in my family. This is exactly what happened. Big corps now are in the business, in control and they make the money. The docs are just indentured slaves basically.
Particularly if they have medical school loans, mortgages and a few luxury cars. Hmmmmš¤
Malpractice insurance is so expensive, Dr feels forced to join the insurance company network.
MBAs in charge of healthcare. Their goals are quite different from a nurse or physician. š°šø
The top end of the medical system is non-medical corporate types calling the shots. We saw how bad that can be during Covid and their strict protocols that killed people.
Sad. The ruling elites want everyone to be a controlled slave to the state. I think it will ultimately fail even though I cannot see how ... because dehumanizing us is against human nature.
So sorry, but most doctors are fundamentally sheep. They live in a bubble and that bubble is their world. There's no dose of reality; no contrast; little to no emotion. The entire system is so broken. Patient beware.
Youāre spot onā¦a pharmacist I was talking to once, claimed insurance companies were actually started by the mafia. Not sure on the validity of this, but the pieces do kind of fitā¦
Sounds right. It worked in "Little Italy" and Chicago... š
Maybe it was the mafia bosses as they aged and wanted to cut down hours and effort with their work. So they institutionalized their lifeās work into insurance companiesā¦
I know this. I shared my story in the hopes that the "digital systems" prevents someone from having to go through what I did.
I hope it helps someone else. Patients should never have to needlessly suffer. I watched my late husband go through the same nightmare.
So, having worked in the health insurance industry for over 20 years I would like to interject here. Yes, there are problems with some insurers looking to avoid paying for services, however, if you are dissatisfied with the insurance company you have the option to make a change. If you do not feel that any health insurance company is worthy of your premium, go it alone. Always a choice to be made. Take a look at your latest explanation of benefits (EOB) and see what sort of discount is allotted to the insurer due to the volume of patients that the insurer can direct to the provider. Those discounts are based upon volume and as an individual you would not receive those discounts. Just like most other goods or services, volume will garner discounts.
Also, there is tremendous fraud, waste and abuse in the provider sector and the insurers do their best to make certain that the providers are using standards of treatment that are normal and that they are billing correctly. Not something the individual is able or likely willing to do.
Now the insurer that I worked for was in a state that required health insurers to be not for profit. That meant that we operated the business on about a 2% -3% margin after paying medical claims. We were a small insurer and I know for a fact that nobody in that organization was getting rich from wages or benefits. The Affordable Care Act almost bankrupted us because the ACA was poorly conceived and executed. Looked good for the politicians but the reality was much more dire.
Unfortunately, a large insurer that is based in the state and was not allowed to do business in the state, because they are for profit, likely convinced the state politicians to change the requirement of not for profit. From there the business of health insurance in the state went sideways quickly. Being a small insurer and 'owned' by a provider group we were ultimately 'sold' to the said large insurer. That occurred because the provider group was in desperate need of capital due to the scamdemic, but that's another story.
All said, if you want to use traditional health providers, you are going to need insurance. If you think want a single payer system i.e. socialized government health insurance, talk to anyone living in Canada. Find someone there that was in need of quick access to something like cancer screening e.g. breast biopsy, ACL repair, etc. and see what sort of experience they had. I can guarantee that it was nothing near what we have in the U.S.
Lots if things need to change in the health care arena in the U.S. if people are going to get the sort of care they need, at a reasonable cost and in a timely manner. Lots of blame to go around here including insurers but also providers, politicians, organizations e.g. AMA, individuals expectations and behavior and that is just to list a few. Be careful what you ask for is basically the bottom line. In the meantime, question everything and push for change with the people that can make a difference.
Had a micro premie, 1#10 oz, 13", after week long hospital stay, baby, nuther week, 100% insurance coverage EXCEPT "above usual and customary changes" after a year we paid for years on one minimum wage income. Can't tell you the education in insurance lies, cheats, and backroom deals that are happening and you think you're getting a helping hand. HA! IT'S ALL A BUSINESS TO MAKE MONEY FOR STOCKHOLDERS AND NON PROFITS!! SO Sucks on you and you'll be grateful.
So sad for you. How did your preemie fare?
Living. Struggling like the rest of us. But living and loving. Thank you.
āābut I had to be a middleman like these two organizations were my divorced parents!ā
Great analogy!! Our system is so messed up š People call it a free market system but itās not that at all, itās controlled by many entities but really controlled very little by the āend consumer.ā š
Yep. Iām there with you. Your experience is not uncommon. I have a medical background which I didnāt think was āequalā to an MD, but Iām frequently having to direct my own or my elderly parentās care and help the MDs decide how they want to treat their patients. I got out of healthcare because I was done making those life or death decisions and here I am still in health care making decisions for MDsā¦and not getting paid for it now. What a bummerā¦
I'm aware the medical system is corrupt and downright evil. However, I'm a lot more concerned about them making the decisions for us, rather than consulting for our input. I don't see helping them decide how to proceed as a bad thing, the opposite in fact. Especially since most of what they do is profit and policy driven, and not designed for patient welfare at all. Just handing them free rein is the worst thing. Have you considered you might have MDs with a conscience, trying to give you a chance to opt out of harmful treatments that they're encouraged to do?
Just had to say thank you for writing āfree reinā and not āfree reignā as I usually see it written š I donāt correct people but it still hurts my eyes to see that lol š
Thanks for that. Those damn horses will run wild if you let'em. Yeah, some of the misuse makes me lose my mind. But I never seem to "loose" my mind, at least. I have an unfair advantage though. I went to elementary and middle school in the 50's and early 60's.
But āreignā is more accurate for these dr gods.
Have you heard about Grace Schara's recent case? I'm afraid "healthcare" is anything but. And the family lost the lawsuit. :(
https://www.wpr.org/news/jury-clears-wisconsin-hospital-malpractice-charges-death-grace-schara
Sure. After seeing the public's behavior during coronamania, I wouldn't expect much from a jury. OTOH, I'm sure the jury heard the case presented differently than I heard it on substacks. Disappointing either way.
No. Not at all. Itās not consulting, rather itās a bit of laziness and no follow through in the continuity of patient care. Bordering on negligence, but I wonāt go there.
And an example from my medical experience when I worked as a paramedic. We were picking up a patient in an ER who had suffered a series of seizures to transfer him to a larger facility. Normally a seizure is a āmanageableā event by the patient or his family but this guy was having repeated seizures which can be life threatening if they donāt stop.
We were getting paperwork and getting the gurney ready to load him on the gurney and he started to seize again. He was still on the hospital bed and under the ER MDs care. Transfer hadnāt happened yet, so he calls the shots in his ER. The ER doc was about middle age, so not old not new. He sat there watching the guy in seizure and then turned to us and asked us which med he should give to calm the seizure and how much. We told him of course. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he was at the end of a long hard shift, family issues, etc. but didnāt inspire much confidence.
In the process of what you describe as I write this. Sort of.
Hint: LIVING WILL.
Living will wonāt help. When you get under their clutches, they will do whatever they want with you.
And that includes *euthanasia if you are a *senior or a *Downās syndrome.
Itās gotten even worse!! I have two girlfriends who are waiting on doctors for five months waiting for them to get their crap together for surgery between five different doctors. One of them is finally gone and sheās in so much pain. The other oneās waiting to go to Duke and still no appointment and sheās got her brain pressing down on her spinal cord. No one knows what to do. Itās just ridiculous.
Maybe she should go to a chiropractor.
And yet, they want us to believe they are all knowing experts when it comes to medical decisions like vaccines š
I cannot believe how literally spot on Jeff was with his predictions of how this would go down. Biggest worry now is, as he points out, how we will stick the landing.
Also, I canāt help but wonder just where oh where did Iranās enriched uranium go. š¤
One of the best things about this is the absolute worst people on both sides were thoroughly discredited.
One one side you had emotionally incontinent children calling Trump a sell-out, a fraud, and an Israeli patsy. This included all of the groypers and a few big names on X. Totally exposed as frauds and/or hysterical children. (Edit: to clarify I'm not talking about those who were against military action, but those who actively turned on Trump.)
On the other side you had big names demanding the US military implement regime change in Iran. All the usual suspects were there including Ted Cruz (invoking his childhood Sunday school teacher), the childless boomer Lindsay Graham, and the shrieking Israel-first Mark Levin. Levin is actually furious about the cease fire, calling those celebrating it anti-semitic, and hopping mad to realize he can't order PDJT around.
Pay close attention, as both sides were exposed. And yet again, Trump demonstrates that he plays at another level.
A lot of emo going on. Whew! One libbie was going on about WW3 blah blah blah and I said if it means I don't have to listen or see the hysterical loons anymore, then bring it on. She was shocked but it shut her up! Victory āļø š
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Trump plays 4-D chess. Most of these dolts are playing checkers.
Agree šÆ. The others are playing with themselves. š
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LOL. I spit out some of my tea on this one Annie, thank you for this laugh.
It does seem like Trump makes some amazingly effective moves that indicate good instincts, and an understanding of how things really work. But then I remember how he was totally blindsided by the COVID machinations, even to the point of criticizing FL and GA for opening too early. He's the best president in my lifetime, it seems so far, and I've been on SS for a while. But let's not get carried away. He had an excuse early in his first term for a lot of bad decisions, especially on personnel - he couldn't have been expected to be up to speed. But by early 2020 when he fell for the obvious COVID scam that MILLIONS of us saw clearly, he should have known better. He can play checkers, badly. To think otherwise ignores what we saw with our own eyes.
He was much more naive in T1.0 and probably was panicked, like much the rest of the country, into reacting quickly to COVID. I don't think the administration had time to really think things through regarding the vaccine development. Nor, now we can say, he didn't have the right people in NIH to properly manage the whole situation.
Remember how the democrats all said they would not take a "Trump vaccine" before the 2020 election? Then by Jan 2021 democrats were calling us out to either vax or die.
I say the same things as you, and this even though Trump horrifies me at times. But then I have to remember that there is an all out civil war raging and that in the midst of all of this battling a boy scout standing there and opening the car door for the enemy is not going to cut it.
The situation is complex. And consider that the people destabilizing the Middle East are the same mad coalition of people as are in alliance in the UK, the EU and in Washington ... as well as throughout the United States. In short, this is the insane NeoCon Woke Globalist Commie conglomerate warring on Trump ... and Russia too.
The idea was to launch more Forever War and to bring down Trump. And oh yes, to push forward a notch or two the Israeli NeoCon expansionary ambition in the region. But Trump to all appearances has come out the other side largely in control. It looks that MAGA, restructure, normalization will go on.
Only Trump could handle this situation like he did, and come out the other side. So I agree. No other President in my lifetime like Trump.
chinese checkers.
Or maybe Apples to Applesā¦zero to no brain or strategy needed for that gameā¦
Do you watch Vince (Bolognese(sp?) I can never spell his last name) on Rumble? He uses that term āemotionally incontinent.ā It was the first time I heard it and itās so applicable everywhere right nowā¦
"Lefties are emotionally incontinent" would make a great bumper sticker.
and stool incontinent since they are so full of sh**, it keeps leaking out. Call in the Depends brigade!
Big laughter again, Lori. š
It was like watching an elementary school classroom all go bananas because something different was happening in class today.
Mark Levin is the worst, heās always been a screeching idiot, but heās truly lost his mind over this. How could any sane person listen to him?
I'm finding it quite useful to watch Tousi TV on Youtube--this business from the Iranian perspective
He bombs Iran to the anger of MTG, tuck the cuck, and many others.
I'll take Russia for $400, Alex.
And if that comes to pass, I just may declare Jeff to be clairvoyant. š®āØ
On an island - Check this out. It makes sense to me re the uranium.
https://x.com/AimenDean/status/1936600903638749655
Very compelling! Thank you Free in FL. I admit to know nothing about uranium enrichment so this is illuminating and reassuring.
Youāre so welcome. I donāt know that itās 100% accurate but it is better than anything else Iāve read and it makes sense to me.
Interesting points, thanks for sharing!
Jeff wasnāt alone in his estimation of the situation. I read something similar to the conclusions he came to somewhere else as wellā¦
Where? Please link. Thank you.
Ah, now youāre taxing my memory. I read so much throughout the dayā¦if it comes to me today where I saw it Iāll post itā¦
i.e. the problem was just made worse.
Worse than doing nothing?
Since the 90's Israel (Bibi) has been claiming that Iran is 2 weeks from the bomb.
Just as with the fake WMDs claim used by Israel to get the USA to wipe out Iraq, we get more lies to make an emergency that has never been demonstrated.
To this day we have no info on the state of the nukes.
I love how folks around here are very very cautious when any bad sounding news comes out, but if the news seems good, it is totally embraced without any deep thought or heaven forbid skepticism. What is the big picture and what is at play with the Iran situation? And why must we go through these war game charades? They are dangerous even if both sides agreed to allow strikes to happen. At the end of the day, the "peace" president is putting into effect a record military budget. If you are a peace time president why is that necessary?
Peace through Strength thatās what
JDVance said on Bret Baier yesterday that the point was to keep Iran from being able to take the Iranium from 60% enriched to 90% enriched, not get rid of the Uranium.
How about Trump force Israel to give up THEIR nukes?
I trust the Ayatollah far more than Butcher Bibi, a Satan-worshiping POS.
What was Jeffās prediction?
Read yesterday and todayās posts then you should be up to date.
Likely to Russia for them to keep track of.
Armageddon.
I think Big Food needs to pay for continuously poisoning people. Same for Big Harma.
Isn't it amazing that the six big insurance just needed a little bit of a "poke" to declare an expeditious means of pre-certification? The insurance companies have wielded too much power for way too long. Premiums are sky high and their reasoning for denying services or allowing the process down to a crawl...just because they can is immoral and most likely illegal!!!! All in the backs of hard working Americans!
If you call the insurance company and ask for the names of the people who made the "no go" decisions, which by law you have a right to know, they change that decision quickly. Turns out it is not medical staff making the decisions, but entry-level clerks.
Does that for real work? Are the decisions supposed to be made by someone with certain qualifications? This would be very useful.
Or letās get rid of the need for insurance altogether. Itās such a weird concept if you actually think about it. Paying someone so that when you need to pay for bloated medical expenses they get to decide which ones you can āafford.ā
Why not just make medical care affordable? Or GPās can actually doctor and stop sending everybody to specialists. Or prescribe a pill for everything. Work on preventative care and make it the norm. Itās cheaper to prevent illness then deal with it later on.
We also need to de-couple health insurance (if we must have it at all) from employment. I was trapped for years in a job I hated because my health insurance was tied to it. I finally found a policy I could buy directly and never again accepted employer-provided coverage. It's very liberating.
Now I'm trapped in the Medicare system, because once you hit age 65 no insurance company will sell you a policy except a Medicare supplemental. That means it's impossible to "argue" with a coverage decision because everything is controlled by federal law. As the patient you have to just bob along in the current.
Yes!! This. So many stay for the ābenefitsā and meanwhile die a slow and painful death of tolerance. And retirement/pension accounts should be entirely under our control so we take them where we pleaseā¦
We also need to put some caps on malpractice law suits that also drive up the price of healthcare. We need to bring sanity back.
Absolutely. Or malpractice suits cannot have a monetary solution. The only solution should be the payment directly for remedial care if needed or the revocation of licenses for healthcare practitioners who have demonstrated negligence. That way there people wonāt enter in to them for the money pay outā¦
No such thing in Canada.
They practice badly with impunity here. (They killed my father in '84. I still have the DOCUMENTS.)
All started because the government instituted wage freezes during WW2 š Offering benefits was a way to get around that.
So true. Thatās when they came up with the āmedical benefitsā by the employer to offset no pay increase. Now if your employer doesnāt offer medical insurance as a benefit, you look for another company that does because itās so expensive! Letās get rid of medical insurance with the exception of major medical needs like a heart attack.
Iām old enough to remember having a family doctor. He treated our entire family including grandparents, aunts/uncles. He was terrific! He charged according to what we could afford and we could make payments if needed.
āBig Harma.ā LOLā¦ itās an accurate description.
Actually, I think we need education! Read the labels on what you consume! Free will and all that. I remember happily slurping down my favorite organic red pepper and tomato soup while browsing the label. The number one ingredient was sugar! Last time I consumed that! Don't believe that "natural " ( a totally meaningless marketing phrase) or organic equals healthy! Get educated. Check out the Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 and become a conscious shopper.
Right! Organic products need a huge overhaul as well. I had to throw out some organic ketchup because it was way too sweet. Even if itās natural sugar added , too much is a bad thing.
I love the DD and C15! EWG rocks!
I can't believe more people don't know about this! Did you read that this year potatoes made it to the top of the DD!
I did. I normally choose organic potatoes but at this point, who knows if they are safe.
I am having the same thoughts. I don't eat many potatoes, so I'll just go with organic (or local-I do live in Idaho!). There is seldom a "perfect" choice. One just does the best one can.
Are these Substacks ? If not - links please and thanks!
Go to EWG.org it is the environmental working group, they rate everything from water to cosmetics and food.
Thanks Lori - on my wzy to check it out! š
Check out Mamavation too. https://mamavation.com/
Have you read the book āBeyond Labels?ā I get nauseous when I read it and learning how they really prepare and grow out food.
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss is another excellent read, and will also make you sick at how āTheyā engineer our food to be as addictive as the cigarettes they crank out (yes, tobacco companies are linked with processed food companies).
I havenāt. It sounds both wonderful and awful. Will I have any appetite once Iāve read it?
No not at all! š I have to take it in small doses and frequently wonder what Iām going to be able to eat after reading about it. It turns my stomach to even think about eating chicken from the store the way itās processed.
Fortunately I grow most of my food and found a local farmer for my meat, which actually I found through the book and its recommendations for how to find clean food!
I even read labels for our dog treats. More than once, husband has brought home a $10-15 bag of treats, gave one or two to the dog, and when I got home and read the labels - into the trash they went!
Reparations I can get behind!
.....if all was right in the world , yep, maybe.
It gonna be a good day!!
In the Lord it is always a good dayā¦.
Amen!
This is the day that He has made.....!!! And here, sunny sunny sunny (after a week of rain) albeit hot and humid
š·š¦š·
Because of Some Good Act
Let me today do something that shall take
A little sadness from the worldās vast store,
And may I be so favored as to make
Of joyās too scanty sum a little more.
Let me tonight look back across the span
āTwixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say
Because of some good act to beast or manā
The world is better that I lived today.
-Anon
disney has made a deal with the Devil... I may or may not mean that metaphorically. something unclean just oozes off all their properties now.
Pedophiles running that company.
When that 6 year old boy was snatch and killed by an alligator living in the lake at the world village at Disneyworld a few years ago, and the lake had no fences to stop people walking along the water's edge, I knew then Disney was run by a bunch of moronic (insert C-word here)
Iām guessing you donāt live in Floridaā¦ a puddle may have an alligator. I believe they had signs warning the people. We donāt let kids wander into traffic and we donāt let toddlers wander around ponds. I donāt like Disney, but itās like suing McDonaldās for having hot coffee.
My front porch had an alligator. š¬
No metaphor involved, the deal with the devil is apparent, as it is with most of Hollywood and the entertainment industry.
Me, yesterday: "But in the Machiavellian buffet of foreign policy, maybe Trump ordered the least awful option on the menu..."
CUE THE OUTRAGED COMMMENTS!
(Does victory lap with you. ;)
https://jennasside.rocks/p/did-trump-just-prevent-wwiii
HELLOOOO, HILARIOUS ONE!!!
Enjoy your well deserved victory lap!
I could not enjoy the combo of C&C plus JENNAāS SIDE one bit
more unless yāall came and hand- delivered it in my den. *She did not pay me to say that, folks. š°
You go Jenna -- Pollyanna strikes again! It's always the best route (the Pollyanna one). It's also the Biblical route.
Good job Jenna.
Buy you that lunch someday, after first giving a sistah a warm hug.
I'm so down. :)
I'm down. ā¤ļø
Also concur with this brief statement by POTUS:
https://x.com/TRHLofficial/status/1937539751428436051
Said it. Meant it. Dropped the mic. ššššÆ
Hahahaha he's not wrong!!! ;)
How do we know that it did not begin at 9/11?
OCCRP = āOh crapā in my mind. š
Itās like the MTHFR gene. I wish I could think itās something else, but manā¦.just looking at itā¦acronymsā¦
I really have that issue. Makes detox very challenging.
I think I read your post later on. I can imagineā¦
Same instant thought!
Now let's hope these big food companies also try to make ketchup, jam, syrup, honey etc. real--without high fructose corn syrup. I can already hear people say "make your own!", which I do. However, I travel often and cannot transport my arsenal of real food with me--it's not realistic. And for someone with MTHFR, I'd like to see enriched flours go away as well.
Agree... but so much more than MTHFR is at play here. Fortified flour is a patch on tired terrain, stressed guts, and dead soil. I tell my clients: real food helps, but your bodyās resilience matters more than perfect labels. Itās the terrain, not just the gene.
And the glycophosphate they spray on wheat to ābrownā it up so itās all āripeā at one time so they can harvest it all at once..
Buy local honey and maple syrup only, forgo the jams, and Heinz makes a no sugar ketchup (itās sweetened with stevia). You didnāt mention mayonnaise which uses seed oils, but there are several on the market that use avocado only and pastured eggs.š
Like I said, I travel often. At home, I make my own condiments (except maple syrup and honey which you better believe I buy the real stuff).
But arenāt local honey and syrup found almost everywhere? I make my own salad dressing and take it with me. Everything else I can buy from where ever I am.
I understand where you're coming from, but that's unrealistic for my travel.
After 6 years of dealing with cancer, I had to learn to balance the diet I wanted with living in the world. It's not perfect, but one makes the healthiest choices possible. And it balances out since I usually cook rather than eat out. Traveling, pack a lunch when possible.
Mayo is ultra easy to make with a stick blender and an appropriately sized jar. it is simply easy to make with an electric mixer. It is tedious but not hard to make with a whisk.
There is no reason to buy mayo in a store.
Do you prepare with whole eggs or just yolk? I have seen recipes for either. Looks like small batches at a time are key.
I use whole eggs.
And they are ridiculously expensive
Agree šÆ. And get rid of citric acid and all the other chemicals that you need a degree in chemistry to understand. We get our pound cake and the ingredients listed are: flour, eggs, salt, butter, vanilla. All of those ingredients are without bleach and chemicals. As it should be. š
So much citruc acid! Iām sensitive because itās mold based. Hard to find clean coconut water!
Yes! My sister has a MTHFR mutation and I suspect my daughter does as well. It's hard to find pure pasta without "enrichment" but the Italian brands are usually ok.
My friend is very sensitive to alllll of that yet she said she could eat anything and everything in Italy. She was delighted.
World market sells products from Italy. Always read the label but I have found them to be without all the crap in them.
GOOD intel! Thx.
Didn't they go bankrupt?
There is flour from Italy you can get off Amazon and it is amazing. No bloating, no weird feeling after eating it. Just the pure contentment of being full of carbs. Which is how its supposed to be. Carbs are not evil. What the industry has done to them is. Humans have eaten carbs since we existed. Same with dairy. Our bodies are made for them, not for the whatever it is we have to eat nowā¦
Every time I go to England I drop a few sizes eating normally and even not all healthy things. And yet when we eat ridiculously healthy food in the US, we gain weight? What part of this makes sense??
After 2 weeks in Italy eating pasta everyday and lots of pizza & gelato and of course lots of wine I came home 5 Lbs lighter, but I attributed it to a lot more walking than I do at home.
I was thinking that too, about the walking. But I walk a lot at home and drove a lot in England last time, so not sure. But it can definitely play a part. My gut felt better in England too, so thereās that tooā¦
Whatās the flour called?
I agree--it's not always easy to find. I started making my own a few years ago. The family gave us a Philips pasta machine which really cut down on the amount of time it takes. Now it's about 15-20 additional minutes to make it (including cleaning time).
Susan, thanks for telling us about the pasta machine! I'm ordering one tomorrow myself now.
Which model do you have?
The manual says it is for models HR2380, HR2381, HR2382. They must all be very similar. I'm not sure which of these 3 mine is as it just says Philips on the front.
Thank you! Iām ordering one today
Thank you! Iām ordering one today
I'll check and get back to you.
If you have a kitchen aid stand mixer, there are pasta making attachments for that as well!
That's what I had prior to this pasta machine. After using the pasta machine, I decided it was easier than the Kitchen-Aid attachment.
Ah okay! Good to know! I havenāt used it on my kitchen aid, but have been eyeballing getting one. Is the pasta machine self propelled, or arm propelled?
The thing is, these American big food companies already make these products without all the crap. They just don't make them for Americans. Products imported to Europe and Australia are far superior to those sold in the US. I've looked at food labels for the American products sold in the US compared to those sold out of the country. Very often the ingredient list is half or less sold elsewhere.
Iām sad to say that there is not a chance of much reform. When the tobacco companies took it in the pants back in the ā80s and ā90s, they started acquiring processed food companies and put their scientists to work on making it more addictive, as they had done with cigarettes. Read āSalt Sugar Fatā by Michael Moss or just ask your favorite AI platform how the tobacco companies are linked with processed food companies. Remember when your Ritz crackers came from RJR Nabisco back in the ā80s (before all of our junk came from Mondelez)? RJR was RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company.
They may make cane sugar versions of a few hits to keep us spending but thereās not much of a difference because itās all sugar (HFCS is a monosaccharide whereas cane sugar is a disaccharide. The latter just takes the body a second to break it down into monosaccharides so it can end up as fat and triglycerides).
re: "When the tobacco companies ...... started acquiring processed food companies and put their scientists to work on making it more addictive, as they had done with cigarettes.
Excellent observation. I had not made the connection before.
Thanks for your kind reply! I wish I could take credit for it, though. I got that straight from Michael Moss. I actually enjoyed writing the paper I wrote on his book in nursing school.
You can get sugar free (really itās no sugar added, no just sweeteners) ketchup at WFās but itās pricey!
This is what I buy for when I have company (not everyone would like my homemade ketchup lol!) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QHYBQBC?ref=fed_asin_title
To paraphrase Nathaniel 'can anything good come from Portland'?
I purchase Portland ketchup at the big box store that starts with a C, I don't see it on their website however. Portlandia also makes a mustard, I've not tried that yet.
I'm not a health fanatic, and praise God I'm fairly healthy, not taking any scripts after seven decades. I do search out healthier versions of condiments, use olive oil or tallow in my cast iron cookware (tomato based sauces get the enamel version or stainless) So pleased that MAHA is a 'thing' now. Chem trails are next...
Isn't that funny. I had the same thought "Portland?". I also agree that I want Chem trails to be on the docket.
3 of my kids are allergic to corn, and man-oh-man! Is it in everything!!! If he ecstatic to see it go, if only even mostly. Would it be in everything if it weren't a government subsidized commodity? You get what you pay for.
Amen!
While reading the Disney World peeping Tina via TikTok, I was taken back immediately to April 2020 and the covid lockdowns. Our little township park sported yellow hazard tape over all the playground equipment. Parents with kids who had been cooped up for over a month inquired of the township board why the playground equipment could not be put back into use. The answer via zoom was āthe state mandated itā. Thatās how they keep taking power. Things no ordinary person would do, keep being done and allowed, until they have shifted the goalposts clean out of sight.
Never forget! We took our grandchildren camping in a small campground far from anywhere and yes, their kids play area was totally taped off really was unbelievable. How do you explain that to three young children well, no you canāt play on the fun outdoor toys because it might kill you. š
I was so pissed off that I took all that ācovidā hush money and built my grandson his own playground in his backyard. Every kid on the block came to play and no ācrime sceneā tape anywhere to be found. Best ILL gotten money I ever spent! š
Love it! š We were rebels too. Had maskless parties for the young people at our house. NO scared adults allowed. The young people loved it and thanked us. We told them to not submit to the scamdemic BS. A lesson they learned.
LOVE itā£ļø
I visited my grand kids in Washington state about that time and took them to the park. I took down the tape and said have a go at it kids! Other kids joined in when they saw that it was open for business. There is absolutely no reason to go along with tyranny. And to teach our kids to go along with tyranny.
That creepy guy is constantly posting videos.
<shudder>
Yet another example (the 100th maybe) of news I only read here. None of this has come across my radar, even on X. Specifically, the reform of pre- authorization.
That insurance shouldn't be necessary. The goofy government should pay for all health costs for all American citizens, just like they do for illegals.
I donāt know that I agree with government health care but the fact that they pay for the healthcare of illegals is ridiculous.
You mean the taxpayers pay for illegalās healthcare. Thatās us!
Yep, forget my ownerās lens for a second. I always lose sight of the fact that itās my money considering how hard I pinch a penny. I canāt believe my money gets used so frivolously.
I agree. Craziness!
I think youāre joking. (Hopefully) Once the government pays for your healthcare, government decides who lives and who diesā¦
How could these āinfluencersā believe that they know how to run a war or military action? There are too many people with too little information running around influencing people.
One week, ātheyā are Tariff Experts! The next week, War Department Expertsš
They probably have nothing else to do, like work at a job.
a few make some pretty good money ! ( just a few)
Follow the fame seeking "influencers" ....... needing to post daily to not be forgotten .
Really just daily DJ's ............... spinning the "news" for their groupies .
I landed here , cause our influencer is a head above the others
Because it worked so well on their Xbox game. š¤¦āāļø In all seriousness there are far too many folks who have zero clue about history / wars. They have never spent a day of their life in a battle zone or a life & death situation yet think they have all the answers.
Or have top secret intelligence that makes decisions make more sense. Itās all to make money. The more ācontroversialā a post, the more money they make. The activity generated on a post by likes and comments makes them more money. At least thatās how I understand Instagramās business account worksā¦they literally stir the pot and make money off our commentsā¦
I personally am so exhausted and disgusted by the "news" cycle that I have simply taken the perspective of " let it play out a bit".
President Andrew Johnson within the first 24 hours after Lincoln's murder:
"I am of the opinion the time has come when you and I must understand, must teach that treason is a crime and not a mere difference of political opinion."
(quoted in April 1865 by Jay Wink, p273)
Maybe itās just me but asking the health insurance companies to practice efficiency and fairness is like asking the Big Bad Wolf to stop terrorizing Pigs is improbable.
Yes, and Dr. Oz has been a TV doc for a long time. Who pays the TV peeps? Big pharma ads. Same as who pays the med schools, the textbook publishers and everyone else.
About 10 years ago, I watched a number of competent, successful employees at the state University in my home town be fired from their Med School jobs. There used to be rules, expectations, and quality control.
The medical care has deteriorated since. Sadly, the VA hospital has a relationship with that hospital which immediately meant Veteran healthcare suffered as well.
My integrative medicine doctor left the system in 2000, was told to stop spending so much time with his patients.
veterinarians are told the same thing and paid on a commission basis for the past 15 years. examine all estimates closely and ask questions.
Integrative and/or naturopathic care is, IMO, the path to getting your health care questions answered.
Absolutely prior authorization wastes a lot of doctors' and other medical workers' time. But medical costs are already excessive, and this isn't likely to reduce them. I don't see how the problem can be solved unless "health insurance" becomes "insurance for unusually high medical costs."
Hopefully the insurance execs are a little bit scared about that shooting of one of their own awhile back just because of this type of problem.
Iām a retired MD, and please forgive me for stating the obvious but be assured I witnessed the scam of pre authorization denials too many times, the insurance companies would automatically deny authorization in order to hang onto the dollars they were paid. Almost always a single phone call by me would result in receiving authorization. Because they never actually reviewed the initial contact information. It was a pathetic exercise and complete waste of time, there were even occasions when the insurance company employee āreviewerā of our appeal of the original automatic denial, had no expertise about the medical illness, test or procedure needed. Plenty of smdh times!