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I voted GOP straight ticket here in Vermont -- hopeless anyway, but still... national mandate and all that -- it will be my first actual vote for Trump -- first time I was a Bernie Bro-- lol! can you imagine?!? Boy, was I stupid....then the 2nd time Covid demoralized me and I didn't vote at all -- why bother in Vermont? Hardly even any Republicans ON the ballot! But this time "I'm vote Red, no matter who"...and then for 2025 --

--- I'm moving to Texas, where they have actual laws and the police to enforce them, at least try. State prosecutors won't even put anyone in jail until they murder someone -- 300 "encounters" with police for violent assault results only in a "letter to please come back for sentencing" ... Our local prosecutor DROVE DRUNK to the scene of a murder (unsolved -- another one, like the poor woman in Castleton, murdered on the bike path, probably by drug dealers, her schizophrenic son (high on super Ganja,) or an errant hunter...

--Vermont has just gone crazy, the whole state .... nasty, drug addled homeless people have taken over my "cute" little old village (Town Manager "doesn't know what to do!") and they don't even have laws on the books to shift the homeless tent city down the road -- so they homeless bums refuse to go to the shelter and urinate and defecate on the back steps of the library, and exposed themselves to the librarians through the window...("We don't know what to dooo! We can't punish people for not having a hoouussee!") Town business leaders and real estate brokers are BEGGING the town to DO SOMETHING, but alas -- the answer, it seems, is Federal money.....but nevere enough of that...

... ah well, I could go on, about how Vermont has banned gas cars, and is trying to eliminate oil and gas heat, raising property taxes 15% a year, legalized marijuana (zombie skunks everywhere!), lowered the speed limits to 25-35 mph everywhere (because of the skunk zombies driving around stoned) and are trying to legalize PROSTITUTION! Omg, I've had enough. My only hope is for Trump to win and some hysterical frightened NYC lunatic with too much money to come here and overpay for my little old house....in the "Safe Space" of Vermont --

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OMG, I left VT after 30yrs for all the above reasons and it wasn't even as bad as you describe 3yrs ago. How sad w it's ridiculously overpriced cost of living there to boot. I can't help but wonder which town you're in? How are people supposed to heat their mostly poorly insulated homes there if they ban all kinds of fuel? I'm surprised they haven't banned firewood yet. So sad what they've done to the beautiful state.

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"I'm surprised they haven't banned firewood yet." ~ Letsrock

If they did, the glaring hypocrisy would be blinding, with the show of cords of firewood surrounding Bernie's North Hero lake house.

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We would be glad to have you. It will be culture shock for you but, still, I think you'd adapt to it. Just remember: "Shit" and "Damn" have two syllables.

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I've lived in Texas for 40 years and never noticed that "Damn" has two syllables. Guess it all depends on what part - it's a big state.

By all means come here. But be careful where you settle. Avoid the large "blue" cities (which is most of them) and the border areas. Austin in particular has become a cesspool in recent years - the opposite of the laid-back college town it used to be.

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“Damn” = “day-um”

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And "bless your heart" has 2 meanings. Mississippian here.

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Indeed, but most people don’t know the second meaning! 😉🙊

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😂

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I see what you did there ;-)

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Looks like we have a few Southerners in the house here! 😂

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😂😂😂👍

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I have fond memories of Vermont as a child in the 60s: ski mountains, pristine villages, cozy family restaurants, dairy farms, nature, peacefulness. It was so exciting to drive up from Connecticut to ski on REALLY good snow.

Fast forward 50 years, we live in AZ and my wife and I went “back home” to visit mom in CT. A road trip north through VT enroute to Quebec revealed a place I couldn’t recognize. The former charm was overshadowed by impoverished villages with decrepit town centers, unemployment and creepy-looking stoners with Che’ tee-shirts and man-buns looking suspicious of something. The typical front yard adornments were rusty old refrigerators, toilets and tires. Depressing. It truly looked 3rd world. My wife, attuned to the beautiful Vermont tourist bureau ads, was shocked. “Where ARE we, anyway?”

“We’re in BERNIE’S socialist paradise,” I told her.

“Just keep driving north. How many more hours to Montreal?”

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Montreal is as bad as any blue US hellhole. We used to go to the Mpntreal Jazz festival sine the late 70's. That and the International Fireworks competition at La Monde.

It was the summer high point. Not any more though. The last time we went got very tired of the drunks and addicts passed out or begging on the streets as well as the neighborhoods , like Little Italy, which could now be called Little Mena.

While we sometimes consider leaving we cannot for the life of us bear to part with the little bit of heaven we own here. 10 acres of natural quiet beauty, peace and solitude.

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I have a question for you, being in the most deep blue state in the union. Why? What has driven Montpelier into the cesspool of gimme politics? Why are homeless and gimme folks moving there? What drives a state legislature into insanity? I have the same questions for California?

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Uber leftist liberals infiltrated the govt. I moved there in 1995 and remember speaking casually w a gentleman in a restaurant who described VT like Russia and at that time I had no idea what he was talking about.

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Colorado too!

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As a former Coloradoan, it is an embarrassment. In the 1970s, one of the bumper stickers was "Don't Californicate Colorado". It did not work.

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Its commies infiltrating all facets of life including the mind. Its a slow and creepy-crawly process and reversal will take decades if at all possible?!

Re-attached breasts and penises will look funny no doubt :)

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Every young, talented, interesting and attractive person leaves. The state attracts middle-aged to old, unattractive, unhappy, unsuccessful liberal women ONLY. The culture is baby-boomer codified until the very end, and because it continues to displace any other demographic at a rapid rate soon it will be ONLY ancient boomers. Hope has completely left the room, the only future that exists will be post-boomer.

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Jon,

I've lived in VT for almost 50 years now and have seen the decline happen. What used to be a rural conservative state has turned into a frothing woke caricature of a bad pastoral joke. Started with Howard Dean (a flatlander by trade) in the 90's when he shoved thru ACT 60 to "normalize" local funding for education. As widely expected this led to higher taxes, larger government (again), death of the family farm and larger state government (again). Climate change came next and the influx of plague refugees from neighboring woke states put a nice lid on things as others have noted. It was basically a change from a reactive to a proactive woke legislature, the death knell of an open society.

There will be much wailing and rending of garments when Trump wins. At least we all have guns and know how to use them.

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Y'all still haven't see anything: Few Blacks. But they are working on that and on getting Hispanics and Muslims in too. Freud postulated a death instinct: Thanatos. Thanatos has triumphed in America.

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C’mon down to Midwest Ozarks. Home of Harry Truman and Josh Hawley…

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Why can't I get over the suspicion that all this talk about the Dems crashing and burning is somehow part of a plan to be the biggest mind-fuck yet, in the hope that the "shock and awe" of the Dems pulling it out against all expectations will be enough to trigger the "insurrection" that will justify the imposition of martial law, state of emergency, etc.?

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Our host always likes to say "anything goes and nothing matters". There will be no decision the eve of Nov 5th. It will be delayed for days, if not weeks. What ensues does not give me a very good feeling. I think you're right ... they want an excuse to put their boot on the neck of America ... question is, will the people allow it? Yeah, most likely. No backbone.

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"There will be no decision the eve of Nov 5th. It will be delayed for days,"

My wife of forty years has never been registered to vote. Her rational was if she registered she would get put on jury duty. Last time she renewed hr Drivers license she was automatically registered some how. We both received mail-in ballots even though they were never requested. Instructions state they must be POSTMARKED by Nov. 5 and received by Nov. 8. How does that even make sense. That means my state can't possibly begin counting until Nov 9 with official results sometime after that date. Insanity.

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That delay in counting allows the democrats to insert ballots into the system, just enough to win the state. Not sure how they do it, but my guess is that they go through the voter roll and pull non-voters and backfill with paper ballots previously returned to sender or manufactured for this purpose.

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This is the reason for the SwampTheVote movement which we hope fill be enough to overwhelm their cheating.

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I have been thinking that over the last 2 weeks. I am praying I am wrong. Who else but the commies said, ""Burn it down, man". Or "To make an omelet you have to break eggs"? I cannot fathom an admitted Trump victory and inauguration. I will believe it when I see it. Not sure if this is Stalin: "It doesn't matter who votes. It who COUNTS the votes that matter". Pray for our beloved country.

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Yes, it was Stalin.

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Could be, MAGA and its 50% will be severely threatened by another steal.

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I’m sick of people using Hitler as a pejorative! We don’t know what happened in history since the allies obviously lied about a ton of stuff! They did not have to bomb Hiroshima or Nagasaki, they knew Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed, They could’ve prevented it. There were so much that they lied about.

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Not to mention, we have a couple generations of young people now that don't even know who any of these dictators were! lol. It's insane

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For instance, I’m reading a series about the world fairs. They had a lot of sophisticated equipment back in the 1800s and it’s very weird that we supposedly lost a lot of beautiful techniques in construction and architecture. It’s on Substack and I would look it up. It’s very eye-opening.

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Yes. And please check out the destruction of the Morris Canal as a case in point.

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I will! Thank you very much, Jim!

Even though it hurts, I rather just know the truth!

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Sharon

War is legalized murder and mayhem. War means the end of one people and the ascent of another. War is fought at all costs. People of the USA have forgotten this, they believe that war is civilized. War creates deep seated hatred. My dad was involved in the concentration camp cleanups and he told me once that he would hate Germans his entire life. MY counselor in high school was a Pacific Marine with the same feelings about Japan. The people involved in WW2 hated the enemy with a deep passion. No one cared about the Nukes, it got us out of the war quickly saving a million American and Japanese lives. You point out Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but Tokyo was fire bombed by B29s to almost total destruction with more lost lives than the nukes caused. It was one of many Japanese cities that were decimated.

Did Pearl Harbor know the Japanese were going to attack? IMHO, no. Did Washington DC? Yup. I remember from various movies and sources that peace talks were going on in DC as the Japanese were ready to attack. Yamamoto was in a government group in Japan that were trying to figure out how to beat the oil blockade from SE Asia that was happening. The die was cast to crush the American fleet in Hawaii to prevent the USA from attacking Japanese assets in Asia as they grabbed China and SE Asia. Thank goodness that the carriers were at sea on Dec. 7 which actually made the decision in the Pentagon that battleships were obsolete. Those carriers eventually made Midway a resounding win for the US. Back to the statement, I would guess that betting odds in DC would have favored an attack on Pearl Harbor but it was ignored as the warbirds were gliding into control. Remember the emo that was sent for Pearl Harbor to go to war status that was deflected and arrived way too late? Suspicious, but I think the commands in Hawaii were caught at a low readiness condition in ignorance.

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JohnAZ: My grandfather was stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941. A week later he wrote a letter to my grandmother about the attack. In it he claimed that it was wrong for them to claim that"we were not prepared", but that they were told to prepare for a different threat, saboteurs in the harbor. He said he hoped that some day Americans would learn the truth about Pearl Harbor.

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Yes, I read about the fear of sabotage. Another part of that alert was the Air Corps lined up all the planes on the tarmac because they were afraid of sabotage. They made perfect roll them up targets for the Japanese planes.

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"...People of the USA have forgotten this, they believe that war is civilized. " Great observation.

American people have NO experience with war. It's something that happens "over there", that we can discuss and argue about over here.

The last time a foreign power invaded the US was Britain in the War of 1812. The last civilian Americans to shelled or occupied were Southerners.

That's part of the delusion of exceptionalism that plagues the US.

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The same people screeching "Hitler!" at everything flatly ignore that 30 million died under Stalin. But, Stalin good, Mao good, etc. Because they were atheist commies and that's what they want here.

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Exactly! I’m so glad that there are intelligent people who can see right through the tricks!

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It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Now the lefties are starting to hate Solzhenitsyn because he was anti-Stalin... head-smacking.

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Americans are "lied into" every war.

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Yes, the "allies" did lie! I agree, slapping "Hitler/Nazi" on anything can be overdone.

I'm fine with today's headline. IMO, it would be more precise to write "...the Democratic Party is the Nazi Party, circa 1932.." but that's more tiresome to read. Hitler/the Nazis in 1932 are not the same as they are in 1936 and 1940; in 1932, they are trying to take over. By 1936, they have taken over, and by 1940 they have absolute control in Germany.

In 1932, as I understand, the Nazi Party used a combination of propaganda (posters, newspaper articles), LAWFARE and legal sleight, and violent street protests. The Nazis "won" the 1932 election, Hitler became Chancellor, he put his men in key positions, while continuing t use the above techniques, and gradually assumed total control. Sounds like today's Democrats' plan, albeit more "professionally" with a more a veneer of "democracy". I could say the establishment has been doing this to us since 1913, but then, we'd be here all day....

A lot of declassified information suggests FDR KNEW the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor. FDR let it happen, so he could win public support to fight Germany. Americans can legitimately debate whether the US should have entered WW2 in Europe.

However, no one can debate that Hitler and his Nazis were clearly evil people. There is ample historical evidence, print and film. Nazis were evil. Does that mean they were a problem for the USA? A threat to the American people?

It's never taught here, but Germany actually had legitimate grievances in the 1930s. Hitler spoke to those grievances. Unfortunately, the Germans followed Hitler into the abyss. The Nazis led to mass destruction and suffering. Three of my grandparents managed to shepherd themselves and their families and survive the real horrors of German occupation. Millions of others were not as fortunate.

IMO, today's Democrats rhyme a lot with the Nazi party circa 1928-32. The biggest difference, IMO, is that the German "elites" thought they could control Hitler better, so some supported him, whereas we know the American "elites" control both parties today, and they support both parties (and do their best to block 3rd parties). As long as the "elites" have their way, either party is acceptable.

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Don't forget the Reichstag false flag.

There are parallels to that ever since Trump asked "Why can't we be friends with Russia?" All the DNC/Deep state false flags failed. The repugs/mossad/neocon false flags worked. I'm too tired to explain all of that, but, if you read JHK, you probably understand.

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I agree that the genocide of the Palestinians is reprehensible, but so is everything the left did to the traditional family. We are certainly not better off now that mothers are working all day and people don’t even know their own neighbor. Children are dumped in places with strangers when they are tiny. And before you say well, who cares about the babies the women are happy think again. Women are taking 17 times the amount of depressant medication they used to when they were housewives.

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Democrat brainwashing has women now demanding the right to murder unborn babies as if it's some benevolent ritual (which I see as satanic). And they want the public to fund this. I never would have thought I'd live to see such depravity. I am a previously pro-choice person but not any more.

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Where does the cellular info happen that, through the life cycle creates, an adult human being. When is the DNA created that makes a human being?

Not at 6 weeks, 15 weeks or 40 weeks, it happens at conception.

We have loads of contraceptive devices and pills yet the Left still feels it needs abortion up to 40 weeks for birth control. I am not talking about threats to the mother here, I am talking about "Oops". Are today's females too dumb to realize that getting laid makes babies happen? The time to control their bodies is before conception, not after. Abortion is murder. If a child, one day old is killed, it is murder. Is birth a magic trick that changes legal status?

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Valid, John.

ALso, why by law is it a double-homicide if a pregnant woman is killed, no matter how far along she is?

Agree that life begins at conception. This really came through to me when I was gardening. When a seed sprouts, it's alive.

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Me too! Some of the abortions are actually satanic rituals, and that is horrific! What a country!

Oh my God, one time I used to have tears streaming down my face when I would hear the national anthem!

Oh my gosh, I was so naïve!!

But I have to admit, I was happier than.

Still, I’m not going to live in a fantasy world. The truth is the truth, no matter how harsh it is we have to face up to it and do something about it.

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*then not than

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Well, our country IS great. Think of the amazing things it does stand for, historically, even though there are the ugly patches. We have amazing citizens for the most part. Mostly generous, educated, easy-going. It's just that Democrats (commies) are trying to ruin all that.

Our country is good The commies trying to take it over and cause civil war are not. The deep state attacking other countries is not. The Dems support those wars as well. They are an evil cancer that needs to be cut out or neutered.

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I was entertained by being sent some X posts where a delusional Dem posted that Trump's Madison Square Garden event was the same as the Nazi rally held there in 1939. The problem with that is... it was the Democrat party that held it! I could NOT stop laughing. They don't even know.

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Hitler and his group enacted an economic renaissance, proving for all time that the Banker middle men are not necessary for either a money supply, business, international trade or prosperity. They are in fact the enemy of prosperity for the nation and people. They are parasites. Did you really think that Capitalism/Communism was just going to let this system spread to other nations? Of course they made war against Him! What is wrong with you? You'll still clinging to the evil which you hate.

Churchill admitted in him memoirs that Germany's refusal to give up sovereignty and accept the nascent new world order was the reason for the war.

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The diary of John F Kennedy:

“You can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived,” Kennedy wrote in his diary in 1945.

“He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him,” he added. “He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.”

Lugh: Those who control our media and foreign policy have made it a point that the hatred would never abate but only spread to Whites everywhere and all Western Culture.

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Kunstler has done a yeomen job in educating the public of the crime of the century, by exposing the greatest seditious conspiracy ever perpetrated on the American people. His numerous substack articles published over this last year has laid out how the deep state of unelected bureaucrats, legacy media, big tech conspired with the leadership within the radical Democratic Party in using Hitlers big lie theory to deceive the public in their goal of transforming this country into a Marxist socialist hell hole. Thank you for doing your public service duty for a search for the truth.

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JHK is absolutely tops in the print medium, with his information-rich and always engaging blog posts. For the broadcast format, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, and their many extraordinary guests could be mentioned.

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I tend to think that an attempt at a military coup is the most likely scenario. The left plays the long game, and they've diluted the integrity of the armed forces to a stunning degree. One can imagine a high-ranking officer with the jaundiced mind-set of Mark Milley justifying the liquidation of the president-elect on the basis of "saving democracy". Of course not all of the military will go along, and ***presto*** you have the makings of a civil war. Given their propensity for destruction and chaos, it would not be surprising if the left decides that they'd rather see the end of our republic ("end" meaning our country descending into open internal conflict) rather than lose power.

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Before the Civil War, generals and all other officers went home to their states, the most famous Robert E. Lee. Thanks to the border, we are seeing a split forming between sections of the country with potential secession forming state to state and state to Feds. The Pentagon will split according the state split. There is a contingent of Federal DeepState supporters, but are they willing to die or give up their positions for the scum in DC?

I laugh at the oxymoron Leftist democracy.

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I truly think the left has convinced themselves that they are omnipotent and can do any old damn thing they please. The peasants (us) are at their mercy or lack thereof. The near future will be interesting

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So we've been relegated to mere pheasants now, too? LOL! Freudian typo... I think.

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Oops. I’m laying on a beach and should know better than to comment after a Bloody Mary AND memosa and sans reading glassesI stupid ai auto correct! think you get my meaning though. Cheers!

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Pheasants … a hunted bird around here. I say you did ok.

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It wasnt intentional but I’ll go with Freudian

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Enjoy that beach…

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You're on the beach? Do you see Biden anywhere?

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auto-correct not in play -- pheasant is a word 😂

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I have to explain to you why it is auto correct? Now that is funny. Some people will argue over anything. Not me and not now

I’m enjoying myself waaay too much for that.

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Do I have to explain my cute emoji to you? Sheesh. But you're welcome to continue getting your panties in a wad.

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Hilarious! And, somehow, it just seems to fit perfectly!

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Greetings,

I have one simple bellwether - the transformers that feed the Blue Cities. I'll know that Civil War 2.0 is on for real when those get taken out. If nothing else, the Drone War in Ukraine has taught us that civil infrastructure stands no chance against these drones.

Take out the transformers that feed New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and D.C. and they'll be no need for a 3rd Bull Run.

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Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, and Portland?

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You just gotta do DC and the rest of the country will fall.

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An alternative scenario--just food for thought. The PTB realize that they cannot possibly pull off another steal like they did in 2020. The numbers just won't allow that, so they let Trump win in the landslide that seem obvious to everyone not a member of the MSM. Then, as a final FU, they pull the plug, trip the breaker, or whatever is needed to totally collapse the economy they have been destroying, beginning back in 2008. Pin the blame on MAGA is the plan. 4th turnings can get rather ugly, and this one is setting up to be a real duzzy.

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"Pin the blame on MAGA is the plan."

Blame? No one will give a shit about "Blame". Relinquish the power of the State to me, so that I can impoverish and kill you with impunity, and you can "Blame" me all you want.

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Mr. Trump is perfectly qualified to oversee another bankruptcy.

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My thoughts, too! If for some reason Trump is "allowed" to win, they're going to tank the economy--which would be VERY easy to do at this point because it is being artificially propped up. They will probably wait until January 21st to do so, and then they'll blame it on Trump et al.

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If Trump is elected, and Musk gets to clean house, won't that in itself tank the economy?

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Today's job report actually tells the tale.

Remember the 800000 jobs that were revised downward from the new jobs report last month? Add another 112000 to that for the past two month's revision.

They expected 113000 new jobs, they got 12000. And most in government created jobs. The bulge of post Covid job re-filling is over and the lousy economy is starting to show itself. Reality is, the Biden Mob did nothing to create new jobs. Think about it. 30 million new immigrants to compete with Americans and minimum wage increases to inflate the economy. Great job. All you Biden folks, please comment on even one thing they did to increase jobs aside from living on job report lies and Covid recovery.

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As part of the “George Floyd Riots,” which we are expected to believe were due to a great outpouring of emotion over the unfortunate death of a criminal druggie under the influence of a lethal dose of fentanyl, the White House itself was attacked by a mob. There were no quiet middle aged civilians being ushered through the White House doors, and unlike the later January 6 incident at the capital it was not mostly peaceful.

The question is not so much about what happened as it is about why there is such a double standard. It was an event at least on a par with January 6, but the official reaction has been almost non-existent.

https://drp314.substack.com/p/may-29th-at-the-white-house

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Leftist vs. MAGA interfaced in the Media. The media spins EVERYTHING to the Left. Even Fox.

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Recall how JHK phrased them as "the old media". Perfect depiction. They are fading fast.

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ALL SAINTS DAY is today. It's encouraging to read the lives of the saints as they often overcame sufferings and injustices many times worse than we see today.

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I won't rule out the insanity of Kamala losing so Biden resigns, she becomes President, country riots and she declares Martial Law further weaponizibg the war against Trump being sworn in.

They have done every other criminal and illegal thing they can dream up and gotten away with it

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Probably not that unlikely a scenario!

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There was a riot @ J6?

Where?

MASA -- i love it!

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My wife hates Trump but voted for him to spite the dems. I wonder how many other people have done the same ? And will we ever really know?

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I suspect there is a LOT of spite voting going on.

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I don't think there will be riots post election day.

Confusion and slow results certainly but no spontaneous protests or violence. Americans really don't do that kind of thing (sports championship celebrations plus looting don't count). Plus everyone just wants the election to be over.

Besides it's a workday (oh I know...protestors don't have jobs...) and where would people direct their ire anyway? State capitals? Local party headquarters?

See, creating the Floyd riot scene here in Portland took a lot of outside money and organization. The "antifa" weren't homegrown but supported. When "protestors" were arrested the majority were often from other cities.

And then just like that when the money ran out so did all the "protests."

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"The youth have nothing purposeful to do"

Makes me ask why the youth in Austria, Germany, Finland can figure out how to sell 2x4s to homebuilders in the forests of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. That's quite a feat. Our leaders and parents should be ashamed of themselves for letting the youth waste their lives on facebook so that they now depend on far away countries to be able to put a roof over their heads.

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