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Brumby's thoughts are also mine. Always been apolitical, was getting ready for my retirement, finally after decades we were financially stable...and then came 2020....ravaged our businesses, told us we were scum if we didn't get vaccinated (we didn't) and everyone here knows the rest. We all lived it. Now I write on Substack....strange days indeed.

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Same.

I never even thought about politics until 16'.

I used to be considered a moderate...now I'm a FAR-FAR-FAR RIGHT ELECTION DENYING ANTI-THIS-N-THAT DOMESTIC TERRORISTS ULTRA NAZI conspiRACIST!

Funny how my position haven't changed, but the label has.

But, alas, i think that's what the "serf" revolt is all about.

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I was actually a *gasp* fairly liberal Democrat.

Then I heard a radio interview with the author of the book Freakonomics about gun control and related stats.

Now I'm a horrible right-winger.

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I always say I'm a classic liberal libertarian.

Probably the closest label...but i despise labeling.

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I too abhor labeling. I consider myself a conservative libertarian. I have my beliefs but pushing them on others is just not what is appropriate. Hearts are changed when those of us who have experienced the grace of Jesus just reach out in love. It feels good to be an independent thinker.

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Yeah. I have a lot of conservative values.

As far as classic liberal what I mean is a 1A absolutist, anti-establishment and anti-war.

Alas...where are those people.

Makes you think they never truly believed in any of it.

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There's a few of us running around, but I have to admit that 2020 surprised me by highlighting how few there actually are relative to how many liked to say they were.

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Ah, we're still around here and there, RG, just not making waves everywhere I go. The old hippie contingent saw through all the deep state bullshit from the get-go and we're theorists, but hey, just calling a spade a spade.

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As I was reading your comment I thought, "what if I write - 'I'm just a child of God'" and then I read your sentence about Jesus!! Thanks for the imprimatur.

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We are not jam jars but people always try to slap labels on.

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*identifies as Apple Butter*

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I got lazy with a tote of apples and discovered what happens when the peel gets cooked a real long time. That batch was not for gifting.

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The black snails that winter in our dirt cellar always eat the labels off of the jars and bottles.

I've tried making labels from duct-tape, using a permanent marker. No dice, they managed to somehow loosen the tape to get at the glue on the back.

Don't know what the political meaning of that would be, though.

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Swedish escargot. C'mon Rikard, if the Norwegians can eat lutefisk, you can devour those snails...

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I saw Black Worms That Ate My Duct Tape open for The Kelly Bell Band in 2011.

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This would be a great meme. Or tee-shirt. Or both.

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Nice analogy or metaphor. I'm forgetting my grade school English classes!!

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I used to describe myself that way too. Now I'm a proud reactionary.

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"classic liberal libertarian"

That's me.

"I'm libertarian because I don't know what right for anybody else."

- I thought this quote would be attributed to Penn Jillette but maybe not ...

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I LOVE that quote! It says 'independent thinker' and 'humble' all at once.

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I mean, liberal policies sound great until you're the one paying for them.

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And anti-establishment.

I gotta lot of rebel in me. But fiscally I'm conservative.

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Classic liberal in the sense of free speech and anti-war

Otherwise I agree

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Fiscally Responsible, Socially Tolerant.

You do You. Just don't make may me support whatever it is, financially or spiritually, you want to do. Just do it.

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Yup. Same

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...and ffs don't impinge You Doing You upon a child and make me go to jail for trying to stop you...

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I will have to get you a "deplorable" mug...have mine from a few years ago and drink from it frequently with gusto!

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simply deplorable. shakes my damn head … cracks a smile with a twinkle in my eye.

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Aw, you're not so horrible. Mrs. Pi Guy doesn't think so or she wouldn't BE Mrs. Pi Guy, now would she??

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Guess not 😊💜

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Of COURSE she wouldn't! After all, she still has the napkin.

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Facts will do that to you.

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Agree how the loud voices have shifted so far to the left and gives the appearance. Probably 1/3 of the population just goes along to get along with those loud leftist voices, so there is teeth behind the appearance. (When the appearance changes, the teeth will fall out.) Reminds me of Elon’s tweet with the stick figures. I was a Republican party member until the party left me in 2012, though had voted more like an independent on a couple occasions. MAGA is not a Republican party, imo, more a populist anti-establishment movement that fortunately is able to leverage machinery of one of the two major parties. Trump is smart, and knows how to establish leverage to create the conditions for solving problems, bringing people to the table, and making deals. And he is tough, persistent, and resilient. He deploys this all for the benefit of Americans. This is his superpower. The populist voices will not be denied. And the difference with populist movements of ages past: now we have memes.

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Republican party left me too. I'm "unaffiliated". And I agree, MAGA is NOT a Republican party. It has become totally unrecognizable over time starting with Bush II, part 2.

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See, and I'd say the Democrat party left me.

So those of us who are metaphorically HERE have hardly anyone speaking for us.

This is why there's so much unrest. Our R don't represent We the Little People.

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Yes, MEMES!

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Paw 5!!

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The real “Me Too” movement.

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The first one was a scam.

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I am in the same boat.

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this is a very big boat

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Sure is! I like to think of it as an Ark for our time.

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Getting bigger by the day.

I was talking to a friend yesterday; smart but a little too trusting of the government (I’ve been there).

I told her something. She said “I wasn’t aware of that. I do play attention to the news”.

I told her her could consider using FreeSpoke to see how the news is posted by each side, blue, red, and nonpartisan. MMS is not the, what? Best? Truth?

I hope she looks around

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You are planting seeds.

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Free Spoke? How do I access?

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It's become a battleship fleet.

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"We're going to need a bigger boat."

https://youtu.be/wB3g967rFLs?t=19&si=_hgHCgfH9aGz2iL-

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the bigger the boat the more oarsmen we have to put on "RAMMING SPEED"!!!!!

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STROKE STROKE STROKE!!!

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I'm from the '70s but the early 1980s were still pretty darn good..

https://youtu.be/69fPof-ZTnU?si=oblPGttd_RzuVCaN

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Hell 2016-2019 was good! Things were fun, spontaneous and CHEAP!!!

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Yup. It just could no longer be ignored.

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and ignoring it over the decades is what brought us to this point. hopefully we remain engaged and vigilant and not let complacency lead us astray again.

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As the freedoms were pulled/twisted/eliminated, there was no choice for thinkers other than to be involved. I go back to “you didn’t build that”, and the disbelief has increased exponentially. So weary of labels and yet - perhaps the labeling and word crap (technical term) has hastened this heartfelt revolt? Agree 100%.

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Thankfully, the Left, et. al. are so preachy. I think that is one of their most irritating qualities.

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This made me laugh out loud. Thanks!

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BTW. I had all the same crap happen with my biz.

As if, I didn't hate the government enough before that.

Now I have enough loathe going on to float an armada around.

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If you still have a biz and you want it to flourish once more, shitcan your HR "department".

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They have pissed a lot of people off...more, I bet, than they expected.

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Ditto...I'm for treating people the way they deserve to be treated, on merit...And for treating felons the way they deserve to be treated, including speedy capital punishment...And with anyone who intentionally injures or tries to pervert children getting very short shrift...

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Don’t forget deplorable.

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Yup.

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Yup. Fifteen years ago I was a liberal-leaning moderate. My views haven't changed all that much. But now the establishment press says I'm ultra right wing. Funny that.

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I'm with you, Ryan!

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RG. I just love your way with adjectives !

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And the same here. Getting ready to retire, and now this bullcrap. “Oh, you thought America and the modern world was going along pretty darn well, and now you get to really savor your final (hopefully) decades doing all the things you didn’t have time or money to enjoy before? HAHAHAHAHA. Nope—You’re going to have to figure out a way to fight Leviathan and save your country from the corrupt cabal that you never even knew existed and was really running things.”

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Same. Card carrying but uninvolved “liberal” until 2020. Now I’ve spent the last four years suing California government for school mask and jab mandates and illegal states of Covid “emergencies.” All I wanted was to be left alone.

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Same. Same. Same.

I did "NAZI" any of the scamdemic totalitarianism coming.

But once Trump allowed the "15 day to slow spread" farce happen...I knew instantly we'd be in the fight of our lifetime.

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As soon as they started with the lockdowns, I said OMG they will go on endlessly because now, if an official lifts restrictions, every death after that is going to be laid at their feet. They’ve set up a political quagmire.

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And they just had to get Trump out of office.

Despicable what they did to children. Its evil and they don't even know it.

That's exactly what the government wanted!

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These same wretches have legalised the permanent disfigurement of children, and worshiped at the alter of late-term abortion.

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RG , by me , some school districts allow kids to get educated on line . There are teachers that are assigned to the on line kids . They have never been back to school since Covid .

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And IMO what's worse is they didn't even care. 😡

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I said the same thing when Inslee locked down WA State - he was never going to let it go. He held on to his "emergency powers" for 975 DAYS!!

Mrs. "the Knife"

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What you did there, I zi it.

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What is 'zi'?

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Nazi = not see

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Just leave us the hell alone....that's all we wanted.

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Dag, totally THIS

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Go Warriormom!!

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Yup, me too. When their noose got tighter and tighter, going from "it's optional" to "take it or get fired" to open discussion of going door to door to force-inject everyone, I bought a gun for the first time ever. I was inspired by a video of an old black man saying "If you come to my door to inject me, I will shoot you." He's 100% right.

There can be no negotiation about our right to protect our own bloodstreams from Pfizer and Pfauci.

We need to create nooses for them now. The most important thing we all can do to prevent a recurrence of the mandate nightmare is to publicly advocate hanging everyone who mandated the poison:

https://patrick.net/post/1377537/2022-11-03-everyone-who-imposed-toxxine-mandates

Whether or not we actually do get justice, publicly speaking up in support of hangings helps to protect us all.

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At least you're TRYING to put a spoke in their wheels. Good on ya.

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Oct 26Edited

All while battling health issues that may or may not have been caused by forced shots. Oh wait, “I was told last week, people had a choice.”

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Ibtruly am an anti-vaxxer,and I say I despise those very few of us who vehemently abuse those folks who got the vax because they had a mandate. Yes, they could have lost their jobs( and some chose to),but how many are already living paycheck to paycheck? Looking at their children's faces,and knowing that those faces would lose their shelter and their food if those paychecks stopped??

No, I don't blame them.

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Same here, I don’t blame anyone, coercion came in many different forms not just the gov’t mandate. So when people say we had a choice, a mandate is not a choice and not a choice when you take in the propaganda that it was gonna stop the spread, etc. I get so angry when someone says people had a choice and then say to me “you didn’t take it.”

My husband took three shots, then decided to retire and has heart attack three months after retirement. Is all very murky too long for all the details here. Ps. (3 stents, 15 years of good lab work because of low dose statins, plus stress test in 2020 no issues).

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Pardon me for asking, Is he still with us?

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Yes, thankfully he was given time to get medical attention. He had 2 stents put in and the following year another stent. I’m sorry I should have been more specific.

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Yup...my eyes are wide open now!

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Everyone should be aware of the Congressional Report just released on the COVID experiment. The current crooks in power spent almost $1 billion, hired a company ( so named in the report) to lie to us, pull psyops, & scare the bejesus out of much of the population. Look at the table of contents & at least read some of the report. https://x.com/drjbhattacharya/status/1849703925395697797?s=12

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And.. you did everything right by planning for a nice retirement only to find there's a good chance all the money saved will barely last a year. Back to the salt mines with you! Or fight on the front lines so you can be put out of your misery quickly. Ugh -- right there with you! It's maddening but I hope it motivates people to fight.

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Remember when we just lived our lives and did not think a lot about what is happening in Washington? News was only 1/2 hour long. Most of the federal debt was just leftover from WWII and what Europeans owed us. That world slipped away on us. Communism was the threat. Now we are the threat to their communism and some bullshit concept they call "stake holder capitalism". I would gladly go back to the time when a stake holder was the person who drove the stake into Dracula's heart.

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We need more stake holders

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I want more shareholders.

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We were asleep. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We collectively allowed this totalitarian progression by naive trust.

Never again. We are awakened.

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We liberate Paris, send them the Marshall Plan, they send us de Gaulle, Chirac, and Post Modernism. That's Class A hubris.

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Funny how that works, ain't it.

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Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 IMO - it's when the robber barons became the billionaires and money became the only currency in the game. Forget virtue, honor, morality... to be famous/extremely wealthy or to be linked to the famous/extremely wealthy was and is all that matters to so many. However, I sense a change in the wind - as EGM wrote earlier this year - "DNC: disinformation, narcissism, & coercion -- fighting disinformation like antifa fights fascism (and the impending implosion)"

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/dnc-disinformation-narcissism-and?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=148187682&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=b7jkn&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Many of us knew: "....there is no longer an excuse for a lack of discernment. The bear has been poked. We are awake now, squinting into the sunshine, just a bit grumpy. We would have preferred to continue hibernating, but we realize we can no longer just keep sleeping our lives away." From a fellow unvaxxed citizen, regardless of the outcome, we are now an unstoppable force.

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100%

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I pray you're right.

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We've been hibernating way too long IMO

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I appreciate the fact that you mention the economic impact of the direction our country took, especially after 2020.

Yes. I took an early retirement but my husband is still working at an incredibly stressful job. All because our nest egg isn’t looking as secure as it once was. Also, we openly discuss the possibility that our two kids lives could be seriously impacted by whatever the hell it is that is coming down the pike and we want to be in a position to help them if necessary.

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Exactly! The people in my family don’t understand this.

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This is a 'me too' reply!

Many were awakened from their 'dogmatic slumbers' by the lurch into totalitarianism.

I for one don't want to go back there again.

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Camps for the non vaxxed, hold you down and forcible jab you. What that MEANS is that you are not a citizen, an independent person with God Given Rights to Freedom, Liberty and pursuit of happiness. no, you are instead A SLAVE. And so many many mindless did what they were told so they wouldn't lose what they had. And now we have people who are permanently asleep at the switch or doubling down. The rest even the jabbed embracers seem to be waking up to their folly...trusting the government. Government is only about promoting more of its self... not about the welfare of the citizen.

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There is no baby to be thrown out with the bathwater. It is all bathwater now. The graceful, porcelain tub of America needs a scrub and polish, and a clean fill.

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Ah c'mon...let's not throw the baby out with the BLOODBATH water...they were just trying to protect dEMoCrAcY!

::crazy-eyes twitching::

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🤣

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Can’t go back—once seen cannot be unseen.

Feeling verklempt now. We had it all; we had built a shining city on the hill but didn’t realize how many hidden termites were busy destroying its foundations.

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Its a good thing Reagan had 8 years to arrest the insanity....or we'd have gone the way of Venezuela at this point.

Seriously, think about it.

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Carter (Jimmy) was a prelude to Biden, his pessimism about America's future paved the way for Reagan.

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Brumby's comment was entirely in line with my own beliefs.

I was fortunate enough to retire end of '18, and move to small town cottage country.

Like you, I researched the whole Covid thing, and decided not to vax in April 2020.

I remain unvaxxed and healthy.

Others, not so much...

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🎯

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I wrote this during that period and titled it Slaves Of Fear https://theblackknight.substack.com/p/slaves-of-fear-255

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Same here.

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