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Luna579's avatar

Well if you don’t need food, gas or free will, things are great.

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HarrietteTheSpy's avatar

👆🏻This.

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Susanna's avatar

I wonder if much of the country (the ones that got to stay home and zoom and collect all regular pay, no commuting, business travel or fancy clothes, etc) actually ARE better off. So sad how these liberals say they care about poor people while never leaving the cocoon of their homes. The middle class has been decimated.

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LP's avatar

Look, I hate to burst your bubble, but I've been working remotely for over a year now, am most definitely NOT a liberal, have always been a homebody way before the world heard of covid, have adult children who were homeschooled, and am really tired of being dissed as part of "the Zoom class." Enough with the snide comments, already. I'm about to lose my job for not being vaccinated. Have I enjoyed not having to commute or deal with my dull, doughy coworkers face to face? Hell, yeah! Why do you hate me for that?

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SayWhat's avatar

I've worked from home for over 5 years. Definitely NOT a liberal and definitely part of the middle class. Not sure I'm better off since inflation is real and prices ARE GOING UP which means it will take more dollars to buy something now and in the future than it did in the past. Inflation is a tax that Congress didn't have to vote on. Just remember that.

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Purrl's avatar

I know how you feel: I'm a 60+ single woman with 15 cats, I've been known to dye my hair various colors, and I'm a raging center-right 1A/2A supporting minarchist. While I used to get irritated when people make fun of leftwing crazies, calling them "lonely pink-haired cat ladies" (I've done the pink hair, but I'm not lonely), I know they're not talking about me so I just ignore it now. Or interject a faux-outraged "hey!" on Twitter... :)

Sorry about the possible job loss. Hopefully the court putting a hold on Brandon's mandate will help you and others in your position (my sister's facing the same thing).

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LP's avatar

Thanks, Purrl!

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LP's avatar

I don't think the government should be "saving" anyone, or gearing policy toward me or anyone else. I really wish the government would mind its own business, stick to its Constitutionally-granted powers, and leave everyone the hell alone.

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Vida Galore's avatar

Exactly. All they are doing is harming workers. Just maybe they could stop doing that.

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Cheryl Palen's avatar

Hear hear! ( or is it here here?)

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Phoebe's avatar

Well, staying out of people's business is a way of saving them -- just as when thugs stop beating up their mugging victims is a way of saving the victims.

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Ales's avatar

Maybe government should just stay out of everybody's business and stop endless interventions that distort everything.

And they never do things that they should be doing: making sure there's free and fair competition, rule of law, etc.

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Earl 'Big E' Jackson's avatar

Even those people who work from home are feeling the sting of this Carter part deux economy. People still need food, people still need gas, people still need utilities and everything is going up.

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TexBat's avatar

I heard someone describe them as the “pajama class”

They tend not to have children so maybe they aren’t feeling the squeeze as bad

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

No, many of them do have children. Who do you think attends all the private schools?

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Ki's avatar

Probably so. Consider they didn't have to spend time or money on gas, dropped having to buy business casual wardrobe and the pure enjoyment of their superior status in the 'plebs bring me everything' club. Also think the Zoom class folk saved a ton of money not eating out / traveling, etc. Money saved is money earned.

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Mark Oshinskie's avatar

Prices are increasing. My wages aren't. I assume I'm not alone.

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jv's avatar

If you don't eat, drink, drive, live in a house or wear clothes everything is fine.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

Gaslighting at its finest. When will the equine excrement start piling into these writers’ lives so they understand what the rest of the country is experiencing?

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TheBigFish's avatar

I figured the excrement was bovine but maybe we need a study to determine the origins?

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Katie Andraski's avatar

Oh yes. Maybe pig excrement would fit even better, since it is the most foul of all.

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Yarrow's avatar

Chicken excrement is pretty fowl. Also combustible in high enough concentrations.

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Schrödinger's Cat's avatar

Yes, but Sheep Dip sounds like something you could put on a potato chip.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

Mmmm. Mutton go fondue!

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Vida Galore's avatar

They're being paid to look the other way and do the most harm to society. Their salaries are more important than actually being honest with people.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

I guess. But how can they live with themselves.

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Vida Galore's avatar

Sociopaths manage somehow.

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Katie Andraski's avatar

They do. But I can’t believe all the writers in

MSM are sociopaths. I think they haven’t outgrown what they learned in college.

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Bethoh's avatar

I’m guessing it’s all part of the plan. Tell people all is good while you continue to wreck everything.

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

The media has gotten away with the "say it enough times and it'll be true" method of propagandizing that it's their go-to when the masses get restless.

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Guttermouth's avatar

Listen! They're shouting "let's go, Brandon!"

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

Exactly.

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TexBat's avatar

Outrageous. I’m getting poorer and poorer. Feeding my family nutritious foods is getting more expensive. And I cook everything from scratch.

Is Alpo in the CPI yet?

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Phoebe's avatar

I don't know about dog food, but cat food prices have gone up along with other groceries. My cat's food costs more per ounce than mine.

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Ben Mumma's avatar

Oddly enough, I have quadrupled my net worth during the pandemic and am now worth close to $1 million, thanks to shorting the market as the pandemic hit, reversing it, and then buying into crypto at the right time as well.

Here's the thing: I *still* don't feel better off. I can't realistically buy a much nicer home with that wealth. My inflows (salary) are worth less and less due to inflation. And my worry about future inflation or raised taxes from Biden and co. leave me wanting to save even more money now (read: buy crypto) instead of spending it.

Things may not spiral into catastrophe, but *at best* we're going to be continued to have wealth sucked out of us via inflation, which will unfortunately hit the lower class and middle class the hardest.

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Völva's avatar

I wish I understood this crypto thing better. So worried about our savings going poof right before retirement due to the recession that I feel must come out of this.

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IvyRose's avatar

yes, I am worried that so many people who have retirement savings and investments may lose everything overnight because of this evil scheme happening in front of us.

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Wesley Hoyle's avatar

This is the same vibe as the Biden regime boasting about how your 4th of July cookout would cost $0.16 less in 2021.

How about Thanksgiving dinner, Joe?

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

Wait till they slap a tax on your heating bill...

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CMCM's avatar

My heat source is propane. It's already taxed to the hilt by the crooks.

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

So sorry... I guess I’m next... cold is the worst...

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Rose Loomis's avatar

I mean, these people are still publishing a failing dinosaur newspaper so what do you expect from them.

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Grandma Bear's avatar

Yeah, you just think your paycheck is barely covering the rent and your food and transportation expenses and you can't buy new winter coats for your kids. But we're sure it's because you buy yourself a coffee on the way to work. It's just a perception. Just like that heart attack you're imagining or the seizures you think you're having after getting jabbed to keep your job is just in your imagination. Trust us, we're experts. Trust the science.

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ScottyG's avatar

I just bought a lb of Oscar Meyer bacon and it cost $9.99…nothing to see here folks. Suck it up

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Raptor's avatar

$15.99/lb here. Not the fancy Oscar Meyer rich man's bacon either. ; )

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ScottyG's avatar

Yowza

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Raptor's avatar

Yep. I see full grown men crying over it in the grocery aisle. We ladies stuff our bacon emotions.

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CMCM's avatar

I can't give up my bacon...yet. But now I eat less of it.

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Ed's avatar

the phony infrastructure bill adds a trillion in new debt spent for nothing productive to the 6 trillion passed out bc of the virus to pay off people to give up their liberty & to oust trump......

all that money is being spent on things made elsewhere.

no production, no economy.

the biden regime playing lbj or fdr isa bankrupting cabal,..... trillions more in entitlements taht must be funded????? whether they destroy the economy or not.

most economic polls are run by socialist economists asking guided

questions no wonder economists are wrong 90% of the time.

economic models are less right than climate and covid models.

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Anne-Marie's avatar

For sure the work from home class that reads the NYT probably saved money by not buying new office clothes and eating lunches at home instead of their 25$ fancy salad. They probably believe that applies to every single american. Wonder where they took their data that "most" americans are in a better financial situation these days. That seems quite unlikely considering how many businesses were shut down for months and how many people lost their job in 2020. Just saying...

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UM Ross's avatar

In light of the fact that nobody actually wants to work anymore, people must be better off. Printing and handing out money like mad will make people think they are well off -- until they notice the empty shelves and the sky-high prices on what remains.

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Andy's avatar

I just checked, and the S & P is up 25% for the year. A lot of upper middle class people have money in the market, with their IRAS, including many with over a million. These folks look at their statements and feel they are rich. It gives them warm fuzzy feelings that make them very unlikely to complain about the current regime and situation. If most of these folks tried to access their money and spend it, there would be hyperinflation and a crash. But for now, they are happy and content, and the idea of prices going up 5 or 10% doesn't bother them one iota. These are the educated, professional classes and they are doing fine-- or so they think.

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Peter Defty's avatar

...and they are bought and paid for...well paid slaves to the uber wealthy....the upper middle class love their lifestyle and won't rock the boat lest it put their investments at risk.....this is the new way of slavery....the illusion of wealth, luxury and convenience and the mere desire and perceived need causes people to become slaves in essence.

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Vida Galore's avatar

Just wait 'til the next 2008. Just around the corner, from what I've seen...

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cmpalmer75's avatar

Don't believe you lying eyes, folks. You didn't just pay $75 to fill you gas tank.

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

Just paid $50 last nite for 1/2 tank of gas... inflation nation...

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Vida Galore's avatar

Beyond insane. But gaslighting is what the CIA-directed media does best. Inversion, projection, and gaslighting, all the tools of those who have been creating mass psychosis in our western countries for almost two years now.

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Vida Galore's avatar

Actually, more like 6 years now (or 50-70 if you count all the more subtle stuff that got us here). Began with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrom) by the MSM. They managed to make half the country crazy with hate towards Trump, based on not much. They kept it pumped up for the entire 4 years he was in office, and by the end of that those people were ripe for the picking and a mass hyponosis/psychosis event. And that's when they started in on the covid19 fearmongering.

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Alluminator's avatar

I have been traveling the country in my Airstream with my two English Setters. In some ways the degradation of our economy is something we see in food and gas prices. We are seeing Covid “campers” that are clueless but clearly they are trying to survive.

The stock market may be rising. But look at who owns the stock, the same corrupt politicians that are trying to socialize us.

And big pharma has been the winner in an exercise that makes me wish for the Nuremberg tribunals…

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Kathryn Gannon's avatar

They are coming.

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Shelly S's avatar

Maybe the vaccine has a mind-scrambling “opposite-day” side effect for a certain segment of the population?

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Michael Bariso's avatar

Biden's annual income is 9 million, congress $194,000, with that income the economy must appear to be doing great, besides whats the harm in a little gaslighting, if the economy gets better Democrats will take the credit, if it doesn't they'll says its Trumps fault.

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Sanfordandson's avatar

You people, according to Brandon, just don’t know about the supply chain. You are all pathetic losers and need to get informed (my words.)

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Luc's avatar

"made-up prices" really like hmm which ones? Gas, food how about utilities? SHEESH you can NOT make this stuff up!

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SayWhat's avatar

This is proof that the media is the government's propaganda arm. If you needed more proof.....

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Yarrow's avatar

I'd like a definition of "spending power". Are they talking about giving us an advance on next year's tax return, that we'll probably have to go into hock and pay back if we had the lousy luck to make less money than before? Are they talking about the ability to buy increasingly-unavailable cheap overseas imports?

Because they certainly aren't talking about food, gas, or housing. My grocery bill has *doubled* over the last year.

SPENDING POWER! Spending power. spending. power.

Yeah, sorry, not feeling the power.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Every time you go to the store the prices have gone up. Not just a bit but 20 or more percent. If you live on 450 $ a month that makes a big difference. You must not do the household shopping.

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Dave's avatar

Why is the Fed is still easing in a great economy? Why are internet rates at zero and real inflation is 11-12% in a great economy. Interest rates should be around 8% at a minimum. The market is being manipulated.

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Guttermouth's avatar

You just think you're unhappy because you're a stupid woman and don't understand what real unhappiness is. Now get in the kitchen and make me dinner or I'll forbid you from seeing your friends or family for another year.

I'll tell you how you feel. I'm an expert.

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AL's avatar

I don't know if this is more of a marker of journalistic fraud or a comment on how dumb the masses are.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Too many in the top tier of corp-gov-media troika think they can still operate by the Karl Rove play book and fail to see their disconnect from reality that's slapping workers in the face.

'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out."

Their hubris and certainty in defining reality is comical at this point and as helpful as the crew of the Titanic passing hors d'oeuvres to passengers scrambling for life boats.

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Josh's avatar

personally I'm in a better spot because I worked my ass off and got a promotion...

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Raptor's avatar

Think of how much better off you would be if the economy was roaring, people were free and prices for food, housing and gas were reasonable. Sheesh Josh.

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Ed's avatar

yeah an other than your liberty, and getting a tax deduction (salt) for paying off the local commies your taxes go up, and boosters must be taken.

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Rose Loomis's avatar

There are some of us who seize opportunity and will always win. That’s what keeps me going.

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Raptor's avatar

How about when the seized opportunity is at your expense? The going gets a little more dreary Rose.

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Rose Loomis's avatar

Everything Biden has done has been at my expense. I get it. Believe me I get it.

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

...💕compassion to everyone who is hurting in their own individual way💕...

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Raptor's avatar

Suggestion for family Thanksgiving: To all those who think the Biden economy is fabulous, feed then paper cutouts of filet mignon and crab legs. Feed the sane ones regular scaled down dinner. Reality v fake discussion will be well illustrated for the feeble minded goob and his followers.

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Some rando on the internet's avatar

MSM: who are you going to believe, our reporting or your own lying eyes at the gas pump?

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SoDeeplyConcerned's avatar

MSM: Our ratings are great... Just look.

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jimmmy's avatar

Why do you continue to pee on my leg and tell me it's raining?

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Who are you gonna believe, your lying eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and fingers or our manufactured illusion of reality?!

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Ki's avatar

Get hip people, Fed Money printing is a tax on people who are bad at math. Stealing out in the open.

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Man-i's avatar

dog food, newspaper for a coat, burning cow dung for heat and we are all "fed, clothed and sheltered" How much more Soviet state organ pravada like is the NYT going to get? its anyones guess.

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ALLYSONRT's avatar

Well..no, I am not better off. I actually only bought stuff I had coupons for as I feel very poor right now.

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Cheryl Palen's avatar

Different planet and out of touch with us mere mortals I guess.

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Deg's avatar

I dunno, people can be incredibly dumb and spit in the face of empirical data. I mean isn't that what a large portion of this blog kind of covers? Consider the way many people steadfastly belive kids can't play outside anymore despite copious data that most of the world is safer than its ever been, and safer than when those people were kids.

A real problem is that reality is what you make of it, and even if you are better off if you don't feel that way you're going to act and feel similar to as if you weren't. Which makes the facts moot.

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BigBadTech's avatar

I don't know anyone in a better financial position now than in the autumn of 2019. Even people who have been promoted or taken on new jobs. Anecdotal perhaps, but this includes senior engineers, heads of marketing and sales departments, and medical professionals.

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Peter Defty's avatar

These comments seem to come from those elites ensconced in their bubble of financial shenanigans that allows them to say this in full belief and intention instead of the rest of us who work and struggle to make ends meet.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

My spending power has gone through the roof because I bet against the dollar using BTC.

Election night BTC: 15k

Today BTC: 66k

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Harry's avatar

If you like 'likes' I suggest you format all posts like this one where all you have to do is scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the heart. When the default is "share" it's more clicks, first to close a pop-up that jumps out at you. I find myself not bothering. Maybe I'm lazy, but I do repost many of your articles on my Facebook, and am not put off by doing a few clicks and a copy/paste when motivated.

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kitten seeking answers's avatar

Longtime daily reader, this spring I cancelled all my papers WSJ, Barrons, OC Register & LATimes... needed to purge the woke propaganda... feel so much better for it... Epoch Times looks like a more informative, compatible read...

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