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"Bond is not a hero, nor is he depicted as being very likable or admirable. He is a Secret Service Agent. He’s not a bad man, but he is ruthless and self-indulgent. He enjoys the fight - he also enjoys the prizes. In fiction people used to have blood in their veins. Nowadays they have pond water. My books are just out of step. But then so are all the people who read them".
~ Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
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When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe,
I'm going to keep a jelly-fish and listen to it breathe.
When the War is over and we've finished up the show,
I'm going to plant a lemon-pip and listen to it grow. ~A.A.Milne #RemembranceSunday
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"Conservatives should be perpetually on the lookout for bureaucratic entities propping up woke morals and when they find them, instead of complaining, they should destroy them." Charlie Kirk, Right Wing Revolution, p. 43.
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“I believe God is out of the blessing business”.
When we showed up at this 82-year old Veteran’s home he thought we were there to give him a quote on a new roof. He wasn’t aware that we already knew his situation and knew he wouldnt be able to afford it. As we were small talking about being blessed he made that comment... “I believe God is out of the blessing business.”
A few seconds later we got to tell him we were there to replace his old roof with a new lifetime metal roof from @truemetalsupply at no cost.
He changed his mind about God being in the blessing business.
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Watching child porn and selling heroin are classified as “nonviolent offenses” by the way.
This is the Mayor of Houston directly advocating for policies that protect some of the worst criminals in America.
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🚨#BREAKING: Two TEEN BROTHERS are being hailed as HEROES after they RESCUED a Florida mom and her little boy who were TRAPPED on their kitchen counter with their 3 dogs as floodwater filled their home...
...the mother called 911 THREE TIMES and no one could come, then two TEEN BROTHERS grabbed a kayak and a paddleboard and went and SAVED THEM!!!
ALL OF THEM made it out, the dogs too!!!! ❤️
The t names are Jonah and Lucas Marshall.
Jonah is 15. Lucas is 17. They live in Palm Bay, Florida.
This week, Palm Bay got slammed by some of the worst flooding the city has ever seen.
Brittany Grant and her son climbed up on their kitchen counter with their three dogs as the water kept rising inside the house.
No way out.
She called 911.
Then she called again.
Then she called a THIRD time... and was told there were no emergency resources available because of the flooding.
So she did the only thing left. She posted on Facebook.
A mother saw that post and her two boys didn’t wait around.
Jonah borrowed a neighbor’s KAYAK and Lucas grabbed his PADDLEBOARD.
Together with another neighbor, they paddled through the floodwater to a house full of strangers.
Jonah says they didn’t even think about it, those people were in danger, so they just went.
Lucas admits it was a little nerve-wracking... but he figured they were strong and able, so why not.
By the time they got there, Brittany and her son had been stuck on that counter for MULTIPLE HOURS.
Lucas got the little boy out FIRST.
And the whole way, he kept him talking so he wouldn’t be scared.
What’s your name? How’s school going?
Then he told him: “This is a weird day, isn’t it?”
A 17-year-old kid, in the middle of a flood, making a scared little boy feel normal. 😭
The brothers got Brittany, her son, and ALL THREE DOGS to dry land.
Brittany says if it weren’t for them, she doesn’t know how they would have gotten out.
And she says neighbors she had NEVER MET restored her faith in humanity.
The next generation isn’t lost, folks.
Some of them are paddling into floodwater when no one else can come.
GOD BLESS Jonah and Lucas Marshall, and GOD BLESS the mama who raised them.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Mississippi’s Midterm Upset Proves That Demographics Matter Now More Than Ever thefederalist.com/2026/11/06…
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When the last several Harry Potter books were released, we had midnight book launches attended by millions. Children, in some cases very young, finished these 700 & 800 page books in a single day. And now people are telling me I made it up, that this couldn’t ever have happened.
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Common sense isn’t dead. It’s just hiding because it doesn’t want to be associated with the rest of this shitshow.
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SpaceX will attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and Starship on the upcoming flight.
If both are successful, it will mark the first time that all parts of an orbital rocket return to Earth intact.
This is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary.
More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space.
Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet
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This is how the hard-core socialist vanguard parties have taken power: Russia 1917, Italy 1922, Germany 1933.
They drew up lists of public enemies, used state power to co-opt or punish them & destroy whomever they choose.
Bernie Sanders has worked all his life for this.
NEWS: Ds review 181-page dossier from ex-Warren/Sanders staffers ID’ing hundreds of executives & corporations to target
Envisions “resignations of major CEOs, hauling people in, material restitution”
Tech giants, crypto, sports gambling, gas & more
washingtonsun.com/congress/d…
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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Scottish artist and designer, one of the Glasgow Four, was born on this day in 1864
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Unfortunately once the results are in & peope are conceding, it’s over. I spent the day after the elections calling some of the most informed on fraud & all of them were laughing at the numbers. It is a dead giveaway. But the public at large won’t believe it & those now in power will cry foul & target anyone who tries to challenge it. This is why I say out election system is captured. In Califoria the results are ridiculous because not content with taking the state, they went after Orange County too & succeeded in the steal there. They poured &140 million into the Senate race in Texas - much of it outside money. What happened here is exactly what one of the Venezuelan engineers involved in the steal in 2020 told U.S. investigators - “one of the goals was to flip Texas blue.” They put their man from Smartmatic on the ground in Dallas, a man called Haider Garcia, who was unceremoniously & very publicly kicked out of the Philippines after being accused by their parliament of engineering election fraud over there. He turned the first county he went to in Texas blue in one election cycle - a county that had been red for decades. Then he helped set up the infrastructure to do it all across Texas. Now they have succeeded & most people, including Republicans, are just going to go along with it.
A lot of yammering about Republican turnout.
Greg Abbott (Respected Moderate) EXCEEDED his 2022 midterms performance by 100K votes (and counting).
He garnered more votes than any Republican Gubernatorial candidate in Texas history.
The problem is Gina Hinojosa gained 1.7 million votes more than Beto O'Rourke.
Those are Looney Tunes numbers.
Hinojosa got 400K more votes in Texas than Kamala Harris in 2024. She's got more than Joe Biden in 2020 by 5,000 votes and counting.
These are not normal midterms numbers. These are retard numbers.
Not a single opinion poll before the elections came close to predicting this.
Lines at the polling places in Texas should have been around the block to get these results.
Unfortunately too many Conservative Thought Leaders are more concerned about screaming "I told you so" and polishing their resumes for 2028 for the upcoming DeSantis-Vance feuds.
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In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt ditched his entourage, shut out the press and disappeared into Yosemite with John Muir for three nights.
Roosevelt was touring the West, and he wanted to see Yosemite the way Muir saw it. He had written to Muir with one request:
“I do not want anyone with me but you.”
Apart from a couple of guides and a photographer at Glacier Point, he got his wish.
The first night, they slept under the giant sequoias of the Mariposa Grove. Roosevelt called it “a temple greater than any human architect could by any possibility build.”
The second night, they camped near Glacier Point, high above the valley. It snowed on them while they slept. Roosevelt woke up delighted. “This is bullier yet,” he said.
When he came back, he told reporters: “We were in a snowstorm last night, and it was just what I wanted.”
Around the campfire, Muir talked for hours about protecting the land. Roosevelt listened.
In 1906, Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove were brought under federal protection as part of Yosemite National Park.
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This is why you need to embrace seasonal living - the dark evenings roll round and you've gotta be making soup, reading ghost stories, working on a nice jigsaw puzzle, and generally cosy maxxing.
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Can’t disagree with any of this. We are Late Rome, having imported our replacements and grown an unsustainable welfare state. History and human stupidity are undefeated. Prepare accordingly.
I'm going to be totally frank in the moment about where I think we are right now. This isn't a black pill, it's just an honest assessment of how hard everything is about to become. It's me telling you the house is on fire, so you have a chance to save what's most important to you.
You see, the thing about "decline is a choice" is there comes a point, after you've imported or tolerated or indulged so many people who hate you, and so many people who just want to rob or take advantage of you, that the choice is no longer yours. It's theirs. That's what a democracy with indiscriminate suffrage is and ours is entrenched.
Everything is going to start to change, starting right now, as you read these words. This was not an election that Republicans merely lost. This was the implosion of the Republican party and the total discrediting of the MAGA movement as an electoral force. I'm not going to cast blame or point fingers, because it doesn't matter. There's no point in an election post-mortem because you are never again going to get the chance to vote your way out of this anyway. That window closed tonight.
The GOP's current brand is dead. When they rebrand, which they will, because it's a party run by cockroaches, it's going to be surrender packaged in platitudes. From today forward, if you're a normative white person under 60, a right winger, an America First type, you will no longer have viable or serious electoral political representation. They won't let you have it. Neither party. There will be the left moving the center to them and there will be some cuckhold pumping a fake set of brakes from his chair in the corner as he greedily feasts on his last meal.
The takeover of the GOP has failed. We didn't have the critical mass and all rushing the cockpit got us was a smoldering crater in a field and promises of more pain to come. The people who cheered Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck are in the driver's seat now. They're never going to forgive you for disrupting their great arc of history. They are going to kill, imprison, ruin, and crush you. Then, they're coming for your kids. This is non-negotiable for them. They are going to salt the earth and make sure nothing like MAGA can ever grow here again. I promise you this.
Nothing resembling the America that was is coming back. Everything after after the 120th Congress is seated will be something new and unprecedented. The American nation's continuity with our ancestors will be severed, just like they wanted.
Be ready. Collect friends. Make plans. Execute on them. Nobody is coming to save you.