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— Fixed typo, PREP Act passed 2005 not 2015

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Lord, please bless Jeff, his family and team, this community, and our future children. This is a big fight - praying you find endless support at every turn!

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In Jesus name, I pray. Amen and amen! 🙏✝️🙏

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Yes answer our prayers dear Jesus🙏Amen!

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''Humanity is about to be tested....... mayankjeptha.substack.com/p/qbpe

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AMEN and AMEN!!

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Amen.

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Signed into law by Dubya on December 30, 2005, while most Americans were at home enjoying their Christmas dinner leftovers and preparing for New Year’s Eve festivities. What a guy! Prayers for you and your team on this crucial lawsuit.

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wonder when people will ever ever understand its 2 wings of the same drone that is headed directly for their demise?

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Totally agree…I like to say “two cheeks of the same ass”…means basically the same thing, only not as ‘thoughtful’!

Been saying this since this way before the 2020 election and The Scamdemic. It was never a Democrat - Republican thing…it was a “one giant corrupt Congress” kinda thing…both in The Senate and The House!

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The mantra in our U S Congress has been, "Go along to GET along" for probably over 100 years!!! I admire the Freedom Caucus and pray it will be growing in members in the coming years.

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They're too indoctrinated. It's been going on for too long.

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agree

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Weird. Takes me back to when my fellow Republicans accused me of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) for opposing DUHbya.

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I believed he was a decent person. Hah! Was I fooled! Reading Joe Lange's research has opened my eyes to things I DID NOT WANT TO SEE, but now I see the swindlers, hucksters, and traitors as they are - the uniparty deep state, who have nothing but CONTEMPT for We The People. Sickening. But I pray their comeuppance is at hand.

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That would be wunderbar - probably not in my lifetime though!

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Do you have a book or resource to recommend?

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Joe Lange on Badlands Media. So many who contribute to Badlands are excellent researchers.

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same here

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Have you ever read any of Marty Armstrong's newsletters, Fred? The 'powers behind the POTUS throne' asked Marty to 'vet "W" in late 1999 and when he gave his succinct opinion of the 'candidate to be' as being "dumb"....the power wielders countered with, "Yes...we know...but he has the NAME that wins elections"....so there ya go!! It's all about "retaining power" and not abiding by the Constitution or crafting legislation that benefits the MAJORITY of WE THE PEOPLE!!

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I was blinded by desperate hope until the landslide reelection in 2004. After that, it was a continuous, ‘What the hell!”

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PERP Act?

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Zing! They probably had that in mind, like naming one of the vaxxes "luciferase" or whatever that was. Sorry, memory not perfect.

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Bravo Mr. Childers!

IMO, this is an important distinction because it was signed by Bush(R) and the R’s were in control of Congress. It shows how the Democrats are not the only problem.

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Yeah well....there's this:

BREAKING: Supreme Court Deals First Amendment Blow in Murthy v. Missouri – RedState

https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/06/26/murthy-vs-missouri-n2175961

The highest court in the land can not uphold the constitution or our most sacred God given right to free speech.

This country is over....unless.....we take it back. Not sure what that looks like anymore...but I don't think The Founders would recommend tiddlywinks

Who are we kidding

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I'm waiting for the smoke to clear and for more insight from people like Jonathan Turley and others who use words like "penumbra" in every day parlance and have a shelf filled with book awards, as well as reaction from Alex Berenson, among others. As I stated in an earlier reply, I see the decision as a highly technical procedural cop-out that didn't address the First Amendment issue or the actual evidence. The dismissal was procedural, not on the merits. Is it really as devastating as it's being interpreted?

I found this paragraph telling:

"The challengers contend that the restrictions that they experienced in the past on social media platforms could be attributed to the defendants and that the platforms will continue to censor their speech. But the court rejects that, saying that the "platforms had independent incentives to moderate content and often exercised their own judgment. To be sure, the record reflects that the Government defendants played a role in at least some of the platforms' moderation choices. But the Fifth Circuit, by attributing every platform decision at least in part to the defendants, glossed over complexities in the evidence."

As I also stated previously, I'm still left wondering whether the decision simply leaves the door open to a new round of narrowly-tailored lawsuits against each individual platform and government defendant. With the tranche of recent disclosures by Elon Musk as reported by Alex Berenson, the door would seem to be open to this possibility.

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Total cop out. Very good post. You're on point.

This country is in grave peril if the Supreme Court can not hold up the constitution.

The last and final institution that could be somewhat "trusted"...can no longer be trusted.

It's a beat down honestly no matter how any of our stack authors try to "dress" it.

We have our work cut out for us. I have no choice other than to "fight" for my children's future.

It's going to be a long battle. We should accept that imo.

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And like President Trump says, “Never quit!”

Our quitting is their goal.

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This decision by SCOTUS is very concerning, but we can't roll over and die. We have children and Grandchildren to fight for. ❤️🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲

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Absolutely. This is where the toughies will be separated from the wimps.

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AGREE!!!!

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Sadly the Courts do this all the time. Avoid the glaring Constitutional issues and pick around the edges, ruling on procedural aspects. Coward… so disappointed in Amy, Cooney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. We have gotten used to being disappointed by John Roberts. The only decent constitutionalists are Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch.

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You just encapsulated in five sentences, about a 10 minute conversation I had with my husband after learning about the SCOTUS ruling. Five minutes of it was my ranting while simultaneously nosediving down the despair hole. I've pulled out of the nosedive because as much as TPTB including SCOTUS Justices want me to despair and become demoralized, I refuse to succumb to their intentional malice.

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YEEHAW you. We can't get demoralized-we've got a country to save.

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Hope is our weapon.

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they realize they are just as susceptible to being suicided as anyone else

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We need patriots who, like Patrick Henry, love liberty more than life.

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My problem with it is - if the states don't have standing ... who _does_? Nobody will be able to "prove" that they were damaged by the government censoring their free speech by pressuring private companies to do the censoring on their behalf. I know the Berenson case is pending and has a chance, but seriously - this was a very clear violation of the first amendment by the executive branch.

I also think had this been the Trump administration defending it would likely have been a 9-0 decision that "no, the government cannot do this". :-/

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The average person does. Or even the people who were de-platformed as a result of censorship and lost their livelihoods. That would definitely be considered damaging. I think we need to remember that, while these are private companies, they have become similar to town hall where people come to speak their mind and discuss issues.

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Think about the 6-3 Justices. The 3 liberal were an automatic. Coney-Barret has 2 adopted Haitian babies (compromised), Kavenaugh has 2 adopted Irish babies (compromised), Roberts has been more inclined to put ANY case in a lock down because he's a coward (can't be disinvited from the elite cocktail parties) and may have been on Epstein Island.

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Sorry can't go there. If the case was purely moot on standing, they could have decided to just not accept it and let it go.

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Admittedly, the majority went through mental gymnastics to find that the plaintiffs did not have Article III standing:

"As already discussed, the platforms moderated similar content long before any of the Government defendants engaged in the challenged conduct. In fact, the platforms, acting independently, had strengthened their pre-existing content moderation policies before the Government defendants got involved. For instance, Facebook announced an expansion of its COVID–19 misinformation policies in early February 2021, before White House officials began communicating with the platform. And the platforms continued to exercise their independent judgment even after communications with the defendants began. For example, on several occasions, various platforms explained that White House officials had flagged content that did not violate company policy. Moreover, the platforms did not speak only with the defendants about content moderation; they also regularly consulted with outside experts."

However, I still see an opportunity for future, perhaps more finely tuned lawsuits against individual platforms and government officials, particularly as additional information regarding government involvement in censorship continues to be released. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411_3dq3.pdf

The other, larger, elephant in the room is whether traditional "public forum" analysis should be applied to social media. The argument always has been that social media is owned by private companies and that hey can do anything they want, including restricting speech. That logic seems to be implicit in Murthy as the majority opinion cited independent actions of platforms to censor content.

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley made a compelling argument that social media is the 21st Century version of the "public forum" and for extension of First Amendment protections to social media in his 2021 book, The Tyranny of Big Tech. Earlier, Benjamin Jackson made the following observation in his oft-cited law review article: "[P]ublic communications by users of social network websites deserve First Amendment protection because they simultaneously invoke three of the interests protected by the First Amendment: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association.” (Benjamin F. Jackson, Censorship and Freedom of Expression in the Age of Facebook, 44 N.M. L. Rev. 121, 134 (2014)).

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Did the court discuss the massive amount OF CIA & FBI new hires?

Facebook, Google, and Twitter all had weirdly huge numbers of (presumably) former spooks

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Still, someone needs to develop some highly telling cartoons of the Supreme Court, analogous to the “NixonBurger court cartoon that so bothered the Burger court in 1976. Maybe we could have a conservative contest on this…

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No argument there. ACB in particular does not come across as the constitutional strict constructionist that Trump, among others, portrayed her to be.

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As I’m sure, was portrayed to Trump that she was.

I think she’s a silly rich female elitist, who no doubt benefited from DEI to get where she is. And since she’s white and Catholic, she had to boost the DEI credentials by adopting a very dark African daughter and giving her ‘the talk’ about how racist Americans are.

Her Catholic school background would have given her plenty of traditional talking points about government. Unfortunately, she lacks the convictions and without a change of heart, she’s not going to be of much help.

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Kavanaugh is a coward... but Roberts needs to be investigated... he is deeply compromised, perhaps over some smelly adoption or pedophilia... but some toxic lefty group is pulling his puppet strings.

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Total cop-out.

***Exactly when do we think the government will voluntarily stop shooting up with the ultra-addictive power to coerce businesses and crush free speech???

*No threat to future speech!?

That's like the stock brokers who give that tired line about past performance... but then use past performance to sell you their latest concoction.

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Hope you are correct in your assessment

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I long for the days when the CIA and FBI were agencies that protected American citizens instead of persecuting American citizens. The tides have turned into deadly, poisonous, rip tides when American taxpayer funded agencies are persecuting their own.

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you long for what never was. perhaps you long for when you believed that. however at one time the persecuted were fringe activists and minorities that didn't affect the rest of us. now we're all fringe . . .

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We get the government we deserve. Vigilance and industry of oversight was neglected for far too many years of ‘bread and circuses’.

“What, me worry?”

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Government by consent of the governed.

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no speed bump to slow down for or divert around now, Security State can overdrive to INfojam and pre-bunk the cognitive infrastructure to steer proper views toward all issues including limits on "free" speech. The weak-kneed Bare-it has zero concerns, even Gorsuch "respectfully" dissents. Ho-hum, yawn and move merrily along

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They're a disgrace

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Not to worry, Ryan. Our Great American Freedom Machine (aka the Constitution) will surely protect us, right?

Right?

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You have a very entertaining way of saying things.

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SCOTUS: Slimy Cowards Of the Unbearable Shit-show

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So disappointing! ACB and Kavanaugh have been complete cowards.

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We need to pray for their acquisition of courage.

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Comprised, they both have babies from foriegn countries (adopted) under shady circumstanses. Perfect for McConnell to reccomend to naive POTUS, control is evernything.

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The dissenting opinion is right...

The Supremes "unjustifiably" refuse to address the threat to the 1st Ammendment.

I can hardly believe the middle judges sided with the leftwing socialist supporters on the 1st Ammendment.

Utterly disgusting. Her reasoning sounds like a 4th grader... seems to distort facts and completely act like the good ole' govy govy really doesn't bring any significant pressure to bear.

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Yes, we have to keep an eye on everybody. The war machine and big Pharma seem to have taken over both parties.

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Its called the Uniparty and it was built to overcome and destroy the US Constitution.

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there are no 2 parties. there is only an illusion of choice

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President Trump is taking over the traitorous GOP. That’s why Paul Ryan and co. are losing their collective minds.

Patriots built the GOP. The globalists seized and perverted it. The fight is to get it back.

Starting a whole new party is an arduous and expensive task that the country is not up to at this time in history.

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Honestly wasn't thinking of Trump but the last 44 years of working my ass off to elect GOP pols who did nothing they promised.

Trump is the same.

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Give me a break.

Where in Israel is the American embassy now?

And consider:

Trump did the following:

1) stopped ISIS cold


2) EO stopping the drug companies from charging medicare more than what they charged foreign countries


3) EO forcing hospitals to disclose their prices


4) Move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem


5) ENERGY INDEPENDENCE for the first time in my lifetime of 70 years, and record low energy prices


6) Started no new wars
 6A) Abraham Accords, bringing peace to the middle east instead of war


7) Elimination of regulations, required to eliminate 8 to add a new one


8) Cut Taxes across the board


9) Increased the individual tax credit eliminating the need to file more complicated returns


10) Started the space force, sorely needed today


11) Replaced NAFTA with an agreement better for American workers


12) Put tariffs on china, starting the process of moving American production out of the enemy’s land


13) Brought back massive amounts of money saved in foreign countries


14) Withdrew from the farce know as the Paris Climate Accords


15) Withdrew from the Iran deal


16) Increased the $$$ of the average family by over 5K


17) Started the process of fixing the VA


18) Increased the spending by other NATO countries


19) Killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)


20) Created several million jobs, actual creation not bafflegab bullshit


21) Economic growth rates were going up, somewhere around 4% before the marxist killed the economy with the scam chinaVirus


22) Lowest rate of unemployment ever, across the board for blacks, hispanics, asians, veterans, etc.


23) Opened ANWAR and had the Keystone pipeline being constructed

There is much more of course. Makes your pathetic attempt to paint Trump poorly look just like it is.

Your TDS is making you look foolish.

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Fred, I respectfully disagree. Review Willing Spirit's review. ❤️🇺🇲

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How did Biden work out for you, Karen? You like him better?

Trump had a great 4 years... despite the constant attacks, traitor RINOs and the corrupt swine Fauci and Birx, and the turds of the WHO, CDC, FDA.

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AGREE

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So... no difference between Trump's 4 years and Biden's disaster?

Wake up.

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President Trump is taking over the traitorous GOP. That’s why Paul Ryan and co. are losing their collective minds.

Patriots built the GOP. The globalists seized and perverted it. The fight is to get it back.

Starting a whole new party is an arduous and expensive task that the country is not up to at this time in history.

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"President Trump is taking over the traitorous GOP. That’s why Paul Ryan and co. are losing their collective minds."

By pushing swamp creatures like Gov. Larry Hogan, Bill Barr, Kevin McCarthy?

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Trump unleashed the plandemic on us, and championed Operation Warp Speed, is still proud of it. He also appointed Bolton, a known psychopath, and gave the keys to Fauci.

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Pfizer would not sign on with Operation Warp Speed because there were guidelines and regulations they wouldn’t accept.

So many holes in your TDS claims.

That was recently stated in congressional hearings.

Dump on Trump all you please. He is the people’s choice.

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You are a yeasty moron.

Trump is not an epidemiologist... he relied on some very malignant people, Fauci, Birx, etc... he is still making a mistake in not coming out against the Covid death-jabs... he is not perfect, are YOU, ahole?

You prefer Biden/Obongo, idiot?

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Need I remind you of Trump's self-proclaimed "greatest accomplishment"?

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Need I remind you that you have an enormous log in your eye.

It’s caused by TDS and sadly, there is no known cure.

Watch out for your innards with all that stored hatred.

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You are a low imbecile Karen to blame Trump for Big Pharma's corruption.

Why don't you go spoon with Niqqer Jamaal Bowman, he needs your love now...

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agree totally, same bird/different wings

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Excellent point.. Both Parties sold us out..

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And they continue to sell us out.

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agree

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And yet, the stupid people continue to vote GOP, "cuz it would be SO much worse!"

Thereby ensuring that it *will* get so much worse.

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President Trump is taking over the traitorous GOP. That’s why Paul Ryan and co. are losing their collective minds.

Patriots built the GOP. The globalists seized and perverted it. The fight is to get it back.

Starting a whole new party is an arduous and expensive task that the country is not up to at this time in history.

Retaking the GOP is the better business plan.

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AGREE

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Sure, eunuch... the GOP and Trump are much worse than the Pretendency of Joke Biden, certified imbecile, criminal, liar and traitor?

And you, ahole, call others "stupid"?

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President Trump is taking over the traitorous GOP. That’s why Paul Ryan and co. are losing their collective minds.

Patriots built the GOP. The globalists seized and perverted it. The fight is to get it back.

Starting a whole new party is an arduous and expensive task that the country is not up to at this time in history.

Retaking the GOP is a much better business plan.

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Humans are the problem watch out for them🤪😂

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Back then it was those ‘NeoCon Rhino Republicans’ who are still around, trying to keep running the Republican Party , that were and still are equally culpable!

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Father we ask for your hand to touch each person involved in this lawsuit.

Give them wisdom, guidance and discernment for each word, each action and each decision they make. Give them courage to follow your perfect will.

We thank You Lord!

Amen

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Yes!!! Amen and amen. That how I prayed this morning.

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Amen!

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Amen

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Godspeed!

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Jeff,

Is there a way the C&C Army can do a multiplier to support your Prep Act lawsuit?

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Now that's a good idea!!

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This was one of your best yet. Can't wait to share with some who will truly appreciate it.

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Huh, same year that the student load debt trap was enacted I think.

GW Bush signed both.

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bingo

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‘W’ is the slimiest snake in the grass ever!

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"New world order"-W. Before we knew how incidious it was. I remember hearing that speech and saying-what?

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The first time I remember hearing about the NWO, it was from his papa, George H.W. Bush.

People need to know that the Bush Cabel was behind the DeSantis campaign, which had been planned for several years. He was groomed to fool people into restoring power to the GOPe.

I know JC thinks he’s the cat’s pajamas, but everything is not as it seems.

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Those envelopes at the funeral.....

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I <3 Seldon!

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Thanks Jeff!!

To paraphrase Tucker Carleson in Australia this week,

…Anyone who would force you to take the COVID Vax, long after its been proven to be neither safe nor effective, I mean, what wouldn't they do to you? They've shown who they are.

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Praying that your latest lawsuit is another victory. Substack and suits - that’s what coffee and covid does. This is my favorite line: “the Biden Administration is like an intellectual desert where they bury nuclear waste in discarded Round-Up barrels”. The regime is spreading hazardous radioactive waste around the world. Clean up starts in November.

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This ⬆️!! Let’s ALL multiply our collective prayers for success!

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Absolutely! Power of prayer 🙏

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Matt 18:20 "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

Talk about a multiplier!!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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🙏❤️

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YES!!!!

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Absolutely!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Absolutely agree. Way to go! Someone has to take the bull by the horns and get some of these no-good, terrible awful laws deleted. Prayers for success and peace for you personally.

On another note, your sense of humor slays me! You always make me laugh at least once.

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Yes!

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From your lips to God’s ears!!!!!!

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"Coffee and CanDo." "Coffee and Confidence."

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I shudder reading: November.

Have zero confidence in our elections

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Absolutely - VOTE HARDER.

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Yes, we should all join in this prayer for a successful outcome. 🙏

“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.”

(Jeremiah 17:7)

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Praying for your suit to be successful and immune to the vagaries of judges and the lies of the enemy.

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Yesssss

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Amen!!!!

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⚠️JUST IN ⚠️

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to sharply limit White House officials and other federal employees from pressuring social media companies to remove posts from their platforms that the U.S. government deems problematic.The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to sharply limit White House officials and other federal employees from pressuring social media companies to remove posts from their platforms that the U.S. government deems problematic.

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It’s already illegal for government to interfere with free speech; SCOTUS need not render additional limitations provided in the Constitution.

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Dismissed on standing. Nothing else.

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Not on merits of the case-on standing.

Just like the 2020 election cases-states against other states. Literally why we have a SCOTUS, the founders wanted to have a court that could settle disputes between states w/out going to war.

We have chicken shit Justices on SCOTUS.

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I haven't read any details yet but am wondering if the SCOTUS feels it is up to the media people to refuse to be intimidated. If they do an then are harmed, maybe that is what is needed. Proof of harm as opposed to the "subtle" ways they have done it in the past. That the Twitter Files exposed much of it "may" be enough to halt it... we can only hope.

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I appreciate your attempt to spin it into a positive. My concern is that just like both parties in Congress, the FBI and CIA and the Pentagon the Supremes are also complicit in deceiving us. All about $$$$ and control.

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