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Flumentia

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syntaxtial virus

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Oh goodness that is so good

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Fallzheimers disease?

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Killing me

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None dare call it “covid” 😷

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Dontcha just love substack...this is the best happy hour a middle aged guy could wish for!

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😂 plus margarita (great scotch, whatever) for the win!

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Biden was the perfect Manchurian candidate (puppet who does everything he's told to do by the deep state).

Will masons still try to place him as President by stealing the elections again? (like 2020 and 2022 USA, 2022 Brazil, and many other countries). The less votes, the harder the fraud!

The way Dominant Media didn't try to cover up for Biden, means that they will probably push Michelle ("Big Mike") as an emergency candidate ... as previously planned?

J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI mason agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know

In 2022, the same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the demonstrations of millions of Brazilians against the stolen elections through the rigged voting machines owned by mason Soros:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dominion-over-us

Weaponization of migration to destroy nations

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-migration

All political parties are compromised/infiltrated. For example, Italy supports vax pass and WHO Pandemic Treaty !!! Meloni's Government! People voted her for being against that!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/italy-endorsed-vax-pass-and-who-pandemic

What’s your best way to wake-up those who don’t want to open their eyes?

Please share your most effective wake-up strategies.

The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!

The most effective strategy is asking about the person’s opinion on some of these topics:

Would you be interested in the story of how a father got 20 million dollars from the Government?

Or, show the video of the baby seizures:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/autism-day-shall-we-celebrate-the

That usually works, especially with young couples having children.

If the person doesn’t want to discuss injections, then food is a good start:

Why is food poisoning legal?

How Rumsfeld forced the approval of Aspartame.

Artificial sweeteners, MSG, PFAS, Glyphosate ... go organic!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal

Then I’d follow with "Are you opened to see if the actual data matches your opinion?"

Then I start showing some of the shortcomings of the Pharma industry:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government

Then, show that every single person on the planet should be suing Pfizer and Moderna for deliberately hiding human DNA in their vaccines, and Pfizer, for injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) sequence into the cell nucleus of the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada !!!

Not like the topic? I’d show this video (all you need is 10 secs in the middle, who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you):

https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8

(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)

9/11: two "planes", yet the third tower (WTC7) imploded, free falling on its footprint like in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach, and all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center... and the “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, just months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work precisely on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings. The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/107-911

There's a plan to murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination

- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI mason agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know

In 2022, the same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the demonstrations of millions of Brazilians against the stolen elections through the rigged voting machines owned by mason Soros:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dominion-over-us

Weaponization of migration to destroy nations

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/weaponization-of-migration

All political parties are compromised/infiltrated. For example, Italy supports vax pass and WHO Pandemic Treaty !!! Meloni's Government! People voted her for being against that!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/italy-endorsed-vax-pass-and-who-pandemic

- At least since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population, for example:

1. Adding hCG to infertilize women: lab detected in 30 countries

2. Overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas)

Check soundchoice.org or videos at bottom of next link:

Free 100 redpill movies and documentaries:

(don't miss the 1st one, 10 min at 2x, an amazing tool to start a discussion):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos

- COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with

- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2050-youll-go-nowhere-and-youll-be

Elon's top secret: EVs cause cancer

Go green with gasoline!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/electric-vehicles-cause-cancer

- It's genocide for depopulation:

Depopulation or EXTERMINATION? (finest quotes):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depop-vaccines-no-myth

- You are the carbon they want to exterminate!

1. No one denies there's man-made climate change but scientists disagree on the cause and remedies.

Prehistoric data from ice cores proves that temperature rise precedes carbon release in the atmosphere, not the other way around.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/best-scientific-sources-to-debunk

2. There's proof of deliberate geoengineering to increase global temperatures and droughts and decrease albedo by dissolving clouds with satellite Electro-Magnetic Frequencies.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/satattack

3. Life involves a carbon cycle. A war on carbon is a war on life, causing food scarcity, increase in food prices and famines. Decarbonization is part of the plan to exterminate 95% of the population.

Killing me softly with green songs:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/killing-me-softly-with-green-songs

Carbon reparations:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/carbon-reparations

Climate deaths:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/climate-deaths

- Their main source of power apart from sin-empowered demons? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.

This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: masonic and satanic secret societies counterfeit paper money and launder trillions with which they buy Banks, seats in the Federal Reserve (the only private run Central Bank in the world), political careers and parties, puppeticians, listed corporations, media, healthcare corporations and organizations, universities, foundations, judges, etc.:

Illuminati David Rockefeller (quotes):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati

Ex illuminati Ronald Bernard:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/confessions-of-illuminati-ronald

Illuminati Attali (quotes)

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/attali-illuminati-finest-quotes

The way out of this mess:

1. Create an easy system for real money: private currencies/warrants based on real assets, goods, services, etc. (gold, corn, oil, distance/volume/weight transportation, labor human hour/minute, etc.)

2. Ban legal tender. Let the free markets decide which real-currencies/valuables/warrants they prefer to trade with

3. Ban paper-backed currencies (unlike real-backed ones of point 1.)

4. Enforce a Legal Banking Reserve of 100% of deposits (so banks don't create money based on air) and therefore there's no excuse for a Central Bank, because there would be no risk of bank-runs since all their loans are fully backed with deposits

Anything else you might think of?

Now, are you really ready for this?:

The full PLAN exposed:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed

16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison

President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”

If you are a mason or know a mason, ask him to ask his 33° master to put in writing and sign it, who is "the great architect" and that he is not Lucifer. If he refuses, then he’ll know who he is really serving, Satan: tell him to get out of masonry NOW. Sooner or later he’ll be required to trample on a cross to get to a higher degree.

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The Chinese Flu?

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He's NOT drooling. That's his nose running.

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lol, like

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Lolol

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You win. Everything. Forever.

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You've had some humdingers yourself.

Don't cut your self short.

We gotta lot of shit talking left.....;]

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the cocaine did not clear it out, that is certain.

I believe the entire Democrat party is burnt out on coke

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perfect!!

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Yes, rejecting a candidate who can't function on a cold *is* the easiest choice we'll ever have to make as a country.

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And what a miraculous recovery he made by the very next day!

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For like two minutes.

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Jun 28·edited Jun 28

Yeah, their big mistake in that debate was not taking the sundowners into consideration! He was sure pepped up this morning. I’m willing to bet, if he’s allowed to remain the candidate, the debate in Sept will not be at 9pm…waaay past his bedtime. It’ll be a morning or early afternoon time, before the sundowners hits!

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Perhaps the week of preparation was trying to adjust his sleep cycle to be up that late?

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No, I think it was more like this:

https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1806443367569514640

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That was great & if not 90% true at leadt 89% true!

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Jun 29·edited Jun 29

I saw that the other day. Freaking hilarious! I think they nailed it!!

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Tganjs for sharing this. It’s very funny. However even their staged level of anxiety started raising my blood pressure. : )

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Oh, I didn't think of that. Whatever they did, it didn't work.

The White House cocaine was probably there to administer to Joe in a pinch.

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ahhh....good call. But the sundowning stuff is real and hard to break (mind more than just being there physically)

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Fire the chemist. It was his job to make sure Joe was in tip top debate shape

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I think you refer to what we call pharmacists in the US. Joe would need more than one of those to be in tip top shape. He would need a wizard... or a time machine.

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Am I crazy or wasn’t he an awful lot clearer at the last SOTU?

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I still think the SOTU prez was a stand in. You just can’t pump someone up that much. I’m like others, if they have something that works that well (even as well as last night), please let everyone else know so we can have it for our loved ones suffering from dementia.

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I don't disagree.

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yeah what drug was he on today? Obviously the "cold medicine" didn't work too well!

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Maybe they held back in the adderall because of cold meds. Who knows.

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he didn't have a "cold".....

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😉

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Too true. But the difference between reading from a telecaster and debating is huge - there's always a third party involved in telecasters. Which is miserably absent during a debate ... for the loser, that is.

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Think about it - What does it say about our country, when a man with 34 felony convictions is more capable, more relatable, more sensible, and more trusted than the current president?

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Quit referring to “34 felony convictions” as if they are like any other felony convictions.

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We know that those were bogus convictions, but as long as the Dems pretend they're real, I like to rub it in. In fact, it would be great if Trump got a few dozen more convictions before he becomes President. "But how can you vote for a man with 127 felony convictions?". "Easy, he's not a Democrat".

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Lmao

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From a kangaroo court in actual flyover country. So new york city turns against the only guy there who is as honest as the law will allow. I wouldn't give a tinkers damn if vlad decided make it glow. But he knows that keeping it going does a hellofa lot more damage.

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It's entertaining to watch NYC fall apart as the Lefty can't figure out why.

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That is is time for a change of "parties". Dump both the warmongers (Red and Blue) and vote for Kennedy.

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Exactly. It says more about 300 million democratically empowered people than mere words can say.

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Such is life, let’s make ours better

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Apparently he was overmedicated.

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Jun 28·edited Jun 28

Sounds like a bad case of Loooong Covfefe to me!

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Aaannnnnddddd,

It was the fast acting cold, since he seemed purrfectly fine campaigning in NC today (reading the teleprompter).

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Harry is a paid shill. Regime court eunuch like his buddy Victor Shi. They’ve probably spent time in the senate briefing room…

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Shill is too kind for the crap he flings out.

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So thats where Paul Ryan goes to get his BJs?

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He’s about to lose his job.

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oh that kind. might be the kind we saw pics from

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I like the FLUMENTIA comment: and since the "DEBATE" last night I fully expected to be hacked, and receive phone calls and to top it off my GOOGLE account which I have had for years w/ my Utube favorites suddenly .. they "can't find my credentials" and also my phone number which I have had for years. I was banned from Facebook before.. because of my Sars Covid remarks and hacked big time after Trump's win but this is absurd. I am just a regular person who is a Christian Constitutional Conservative for many years. Jill Biden is really not a good person. And I saw Mark Halperin on NewsMax saying the (Social) Democrats were losing their minds. Joe Biden should retired while he is still alive. I heard comments that I would never have thought would be uttered in a SUPPOSEDLY FREE COUNTRY.. which has not been free since the so called PROGRESSIVE CANCEL CULTURE LEFT WING AHHH CHOOOOOOO... took over. Donald Trump was actually kind to him. GREAT POST, Kitten.. purrrrring .. :)

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You are correct, Jill Biden is not a good person

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I agree completely.

Trump could have ridiculed Biden during the debate but he did not, even as Joe was laying bait all over the stage.

Regarding accounts, yes, over two years ago I received an email stating that my FB was suspended. I could not figure out why, I emailed them they told me I said something bad. Odd really, I am never on FB. Then I tried to sign into my instagram account, which I did indeed use for my sewing and quilting groups and friends. Welp, that was suspended too.

I was not ever given any chance of communication to resolve or discuss the reason. those FB people are evil. I do miss my old instagram account as that was kind of a life line for me while taking care of my mom and dad, as I could share my sewing and quilting escapades

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Had a cold is euphemism for they made him snort some cocaine to stay up past his bedtime and some opiates so he did not crap his pantalones...

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Yup fire the chemist

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Is that seriously what they are going with?

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We did not see what we clearly saw. That's been the M.O. for this administration from day one.

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Only those individuals with the proper credentials possess the skill set necessary to see what they saw. The rest of us had best stay in our lanes and stick to our knitting. But not at the same time. Because, according to the CDC, knitting while driving, or driving while knitting, can be hazardous to your health. Click here for a poster with instructions written at a second grade reading level to learn why this is so. From now on, in order to avoid seeing what you saw, the CDC recommends that you always keep your eyes closed. Except while operating any non-self-driving vehicle. But knitting while blind is ok. Just so long as you are not at the same time driving, which you shouldn't be anyway.

Please maintain channels open for further instruction. But, for the moment, that is all.

You're welcome.

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Remember— it’s all “cheep fakes”…he’s capable of doing cartwheels in meetings, is “sharp as a tack”, and can recite Shakespeare etc… no problem. None of the other hints of incompetence or dementia that have been patently obvious for almost 3 years now were real— right? Except last night’s performance, when all the legacy media got the green light to admit he’s not fit for office. It’s all a bit confusing… and apparently Biden/ his campaign didn’t get the memo. We will see how they spin doctor this— but hold on to reality— because it’s going to be a crazy, gas-lighting ride.

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Yeah, but "Cheap Fakes" was way last week. Try to keep up.

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Cue the “The Twilight Zone” music

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What else are they going to do? Forget about the last 3 year shit show.

Now they have to justify how it's responsible for him to finish out 7 months.

Gaslighting doesn't work so well if it's 50 million people.

They can see for their own eyes.

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I’m thinking this is their way of pulling him from the ticket at the convention.

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I'm going to agree with you. They're up to something now....if they weren't before

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Ryan, they've been up to something since Tammany Hall.

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Spot on

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My thought as well

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Heavy sigh...as you say sometimes.

We shall see

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I think that is becoming a tag line for me. : )

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yes

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Scranton Joe gonna do a Depends endorsement. Gonna make a shitload of um...money.

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Fingers crossed

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The checks keep clearing, so the donkeys keep braying.

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donkeys are smarter than that. this must be a retarded donkey

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Pavlov's Donkey.

Or, to go the other way around, think of a Skinner Box. Bray and you receive a roll of hundreds.

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Harry Sisson also sounds like an uncomfortable medical condition.

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or some bad 70's jeans.

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Shiiit I used to have jump out of the top bunk to get into those circa 82' jordaches....the original skinny jeans!

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You win. Lolo

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😂

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Lmao...I didn't even read the magnet powering new jersey....solid gold!

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Trump has 34 felony convictions, ALL of which come as a result of his bookkeeper entering payments to Trump's lawyer under "legal expense''! It took hundreds of prosecutor man-hours, and millions of dollars of our tax money to come up with a way to make that a 34 count crime. Yet, the bookkeeper was supposed to know, of the top of her head, that she was committing a felony.

It kind of makes me want to know what entries the Biden crime family has in their books for the tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks they've taken over the years. And it makes me want to know why Garland and his fellow thugs aren't prosecuting them for it.

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Back in the good old days of the USSR, when a leader was on the brink of being disappeared, it was said that, “He has a cold”…

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Well, you know, respiratory ailments are particularly severe in the northern reaches of Eurasia.

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Little Harry dude has rectal-cranial inversion syndrome

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It's terminal

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Lmao!

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People who defend Biden as capable of governing remind me of people who let their demented old dad keep his car keys even when they can see perfectly well that he's not safe driving the car. Old dad thinks it's perfectly fine, and of course it's the easiest thing for all concerned, including mom, and the siblings who live at a distance, or who might be inconvenienced, to avoid a "scene." And it even seems OK until... You don't want to be in the passenger seat when it happens. And you sure don't want to witness what happens, either. And you sure as blazes don't want to have to deal with the consequences.

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Well, that's OK. They can't put the geezer back in the bottle now. Well, they can of course. But they don't have enough wands yet to wipe our memories clean.

Of course I will remember two Presidential candidates arguing about golf handicaps too, on their tidy global stage. Imagine if Trump could've self-leashed just a wee teeny bit longer. He never can, though. It's not exactly a triumph to be more commanding than Biden. It should be a workmanlike job.

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Exactly. Biden is still as unable to handle the job today as he was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

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No, you're wrong about that. He's going to undergo a miraculous transformation, I mean transubstantiation, I mean transition. That's it, he will transition and will have new pronouns, which, if we all affirm him with their use, like clapping for Tinkerbell, will bring out his true, brave and stunning self, freed from the confines of his improperly assigned fleshly carapace through divine hormonal and surgical interventions*. And the bells of all the villages will ring. And all the children, of all the genders, will shout and sing and dance for joy as their most authentic selves.

*Additional medications may be administered, as necessary.

And Rachel Levine will replace Kamala Harris as Second Admiral in Command of Stuff, or whatever that position is called. And anyway, it will all be beautiful. Which is all that matters.

So stop being such a hater already.

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7 MORE MONTHS...carry on

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You're thinking of when they get done COUNTING the votes. The election is in like four months.

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The Republicans seem to be fractionally more aware of the need for rigorous poll monitoring and legal ballot harvesting but they still have fat fingers unsuited to fine web-making.

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(Resisting, or trying to anyway, urge to pontificate upon the subject of webs and their weavers and the whole getting caught therein thing. And then there's Arachne . . . challenged the goddess to a weaving contest, got turned into a spider . . . and then there's Shelob, humongo, ancient, deeply evil spider in The Lord of The Rings . . .)

Of course, the Republicans' real problem is that they are all morbidly obese White Men. If they'd just recruit some more women* and children into their ranks they'd have plenty of deft fingers at the ready, well suited for the weaving of webs.

*of the original, un-prefixed, kind, I mean.

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Oh gosh they have plenty of women.

At least these days Republican ladies have abandoned the cast-iron hairdos of yesteryore and gone for the artfully streaming-down-the-front blonde locks that signify Hot Conservatism.

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I swear, I sometimes don't know where this stuff comes from. But upon reading your comment, there flashed in my mind the vision of an ad to promote early voting among transwomen called "Pack The Vote." And I can imagine someone actually making it, for broadcast to gleeful applause at all the drag clubs.

Or, wait, do I mean transmen? I've forgotten, does packing refer to stuffing up the real one so it doesn't show or putting on a fake one so it does? It's gotten so hard (oh, the puns, they keep . . . I give up) to keep up with the lingo.

"Up", get it? Yeah, I know, it's frick'n hilarious. Sigh.

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LOL that was awesome :)

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I think I've got it straight now (yeah, I know, pun). You pack when you have a fake one that you want to show. So, for transmen it's "Pack The Vote." And you tuck when you have a real one you want to hide. So for transwomen it would be "Tuck The Vote."

Maybe the non-binaries could have "Stuff The Vote." As in stuff the ballot box. Not that I'm making accusations about any of that going on. Nothing to see here.

And I sort of wish there were. Nothing. To see. That is.

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That's right. Nothing to see here whatsoever.

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Oh they'll put him in a bottle alright.

He was cremated last night.

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You ever see El Cid?

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No. I only know a little history about him.

Help-a-brotha

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Skipping to the final scene since nothing else matters:

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Rodrigo [El Cid] dies, and a rumor of his death spreads. His allies honor Rodrigo's final wish. With help of an iron frame they prop up his body, its eyes staring straight ahead. Dressed in full armor and holding an unfurled banner, he is strapped to the back of his horse, Babieca. Guided by King Alfonso and Emir al-Mu'tamin riding on either side, the horse leads a mounted charge against Ben Yusuf's now terrified soldiers, who believe that El Cid has risen from the dead. In the panic that ensues, Ben Yusuf is thrown from his horse and is crushed beneath Babieca's hooves, leaving his scattered army to be annihilated. King Alfonso leads Christians and Moors alike in a prayer for God to receive the soul "of the purest knight of all".

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I will note that Republicans have never been known for their cunning, and Trump's brutal political instincts are a blunt instrument when refined deadly blades are more needed. If one cannot summon the ability to beat Democrats at any and all of their games one does not deserve to win.

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Thanks, friend

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Jun 28·edited Jun 28

I recommend watching the 1950's movie "El Cid." It stars Charlton Heston in the title role. Think of Heston in "The Ten Commandments", and you get the idea. Like "The Ten Commandments", "El Cid" is filmed in the garish, spectaculorama color scheme of 1950's era epic films, meant to overwhelm you from the big screen. And, as in "The Ten Commandments", it stars Heston in his halcyon days, an exemplar of virile masculinity tempered with an ethos of duty, honor, and service. No gender issues here, folks. The movie's final scene matches the scene described above. And the image of Charlton Heston made up to look like a corpse, strapped to a horse compares favorably to that of Joe Biden under the unforgiving lights of the CNN studio.

Oh, and the other reason to see "El Cid" is Sophia Loren, also very much in her prime. Once again, no gender confusion issues whatsoever here.

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Jun 28·edited Jun 28

To your last comment, I would add the cautionary note that, while it is necessary to gain an understanding of your adversary, you should not do so at the expense of becoming your adversary.

See also,

The thing Nietzsche said about not becoming the monster in order to destroy the monster;

Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves (Jesus, Gospel of Matthew, I believe);

The Lord of The Rings, the basic moral of which is: if you justify putting on The Ring of Power in order to defeat Sauron, Sauron wins.

I'm just saying, you know, for what it's worth.

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Daily nitpick, butting in:

What the german with the "try spelling it when drunk"-name said was:

"Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146.

It's not that you /will/ become a monster yourself when battling them, but that you ought to take care to not become one by battling them.

Sorry, it's a bugbear of mine how the aphorism about battling monsters and gazing into an Abyss has mutated in meaning when translated - not a slight on you, it's popcultural osmosis in action and began over 50 years ago.

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It is in fact worth a great deal.

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Message in a bottle. Sending out an SOS.

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Seems I'm not alone at being alone

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Ahhh. I get it

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