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"๐™„ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃ'๐™ฉ ๐™˜๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™ž๐™› ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช'๐™ง๐™š ๐™—๐™ก๐™–๐™˜๐™ , ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š, ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™–๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ, ๐™—๐™ž๐™จ๐™š๐™ญ๐™ช๐™–๐™ก, ๐™œ๐™–๐™ฎ, ๐™ก๐™š๐™จ๐™—๐™ž๐™–๐™ฃ, ๐™จ๐™๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ, ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ก๐™ก, ๐™›๐™–๐™ฉ, ๐™จ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™ฎ, ๐™ง๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ค๐™ง. ๐™„๐™› ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช'๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™˜๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ข๐™š, ๐™„'๐™ก๐™ก ๐™—๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™˜๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช. ๐™Ž๐™ž๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š ๐™–๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ!" ๐Ÿ’ž ๐™€๐™ข๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ข ๐Ÿ’ž Ditto... KJ
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Worth a read and worth consideration. VOTE Tuesday, Nov 3rd. It matters!
A Letter to America, From a Frenchman Who Loves You Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Poland posted this: "Restoring the rule of law is our duty. After years of PiS-led lawlessness, this is a difficult process, sometimes painful, and it requires decisive action. There is no other way." Read it slowly. "There is no other way." In today's Europe, that is the sentence a government says right before doing something it could not do through the normal rules. I'm French. I'm the grandson of a farmer from Brittany. I taught myself to code at twelve, spent a year in Silicon Valley when I was young, and today I build a tech company between Paris and San Francisco. I'm writing to you because I watch what is happening to my continent, and I'm afraid you are about to take the same road. Let me tell you what "rule of law" means in Europe now. When Donald Tusk came to power in December 2023, one of his first moves was to take over Poland's public broadcaster. Rather than pass a media law the president would veto, his government used corporate law to replace its leadership, and the state news channel briefly went dark. When that was blocked, it put public TV into liquidation. When the Constitutional Tribunal ruled against the government, the government stopped recognizing its rulings. Tusk himself said openly that restoring the rule of law would sometimes require decisions that would not fully meet the criteria of legality. And Brussels? For years, the European Commission froze billions in EU funds to Poland over "rule of law" concerns under the previous conservative government. Once Tusk was in, it unfroze the money and closed its proceedings. That's the lesson. In Europe, the rule of law is no longer a principle. It is a label. When a conservative government reshapes the courts, it's an assault on democracy. When a pro-Brussels government ignores a court, it's "restoring the rule of law." It isn't only Poland. In Romania in December 2024, the Constitutional Court annulled the first round of a presidential election after the wrong candidate came first. In France, a TV channel, C8, lost its broadcasting license in 2025, and this week a member of parliament declared that shutting down CNEWS, the most-watched news channel in the country, is "a priority." In Germany, domestic intelligence labeled the main opposition party extremist. In Brussels, the Digital Services Act gives unelected commissioners the power to fine platforms up to 6% of global revenue, and its first fine ever went to X, with more investigations into "disinformation" still open. There are no gulags here. Let me be precise about that. But there is a reflex: an elite that knows better than the people, that decides what the people are allowed to read, and that corrects their vote when it comes out wrong. Now let me tell you why you are the first power on earth. It's not oil. It's not size. It's not luck. Europe has had all of those. You are number one because you built your entire system on a radical idea: the individual comes before the state. Your First Amendment doesn't say "speech shall be protected unless it's disinformation." It says Congress shall make no law. Your Constitution protects private property against the government that wrote it. And your culture lets people fail and try again. In France, a founder who fails carries it for life. In America, a founder who fails is called experienced. In Europe, we passed a law to regulate artificial intelligence before we had an AI industry. You built the industry. That's not an accident. That's what happens when a society trusts its citizens more than its bureaucrats. Your system is not perfect. Your politics are loud, ugly and polarized, and I see it. But it is fairer than ours, because it was designed by people who distrusted power, including the power of good intentions. That distrust is the most valuable thing you own. So here is what worries me as I watch you vote on Tuesday. From Paris, when I look at the Democratic side, I recognize the European reflex. I saw an administration lean on social media platforms to take down posts; Mark Zuckerberg later wrote to Congress that the government had repeatedly pressured Meta to censor content and that he regretted not pushing back. I saw a proposal to tax unrealized gains, meaning taxing wealth you haven't even sold. I hear calls to end the filibuster, add seats to the Supreme Court, and add new states to the Senate. Each one can be defended on its own. Together, they look like what Europe did: when you can't win under the rules, you change the referee. And a majority that rewrites the rules in its favor doesn't plan on being a minority again. The twentieth century already ran the collectivist experiment, and it ran it to the end. Every time a state decided that individuals were a means to a collective goal, and that some category of people stood in the way of justice, it ended in camps and mass graves. Tens of millions dead. But it never started with camps. It started with good intentions, a moral elite, and a list of things that were too dangerous to say, too much to own, too misinformed to count. I'm not telling you Democratic voters are Bolsheviks. Most of them are your neighbors and they want good things. I'm telling you the reflex is real, that I live under it every day, and that you are the last big country on earth built to resist it. When Europeans want to build something, we look at you. When we leave, we go to you. If you become us, there is nowhere left to go. Keep your First Amendment. Keep your property. Keep your right to fail. Vote on Tuesday. From Paris, with love, and with fear.
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"๐˜ž๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฏโ€™๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ. ๐˜๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ." Young people always did dumb things. Their audience was the friends standing and watching. They moved on, some realizing it was dumb, others learning later. Today their audience is thousands, and even when they are older, hopefully wiser, their dumb stunt will be viewed by their kids, grandkids and whoever sees it on the internet. The worst thing social media platforms ever did was monetize. Monetization encourages, not only dumb stunts, but fake hate and rage for views and clicks. Monetization has created more abuse of content, by rewarding hate, abuse and lies. So called "content creators" are pushed to keep their followers entertained for more cash. That leads to fake hatred, lies and fake rage for clicks. We would all have better communication if monetization was gone. At least it would be more real.
๐Ÿšจ๐ŸšจI WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE YOUNG MAN WHO HUMILIATED WALT, THE RED BARON WORKER. When I first watched that video, I didnโ€™t see a funny prank. I saw something that troubled me deeply about the direction of our culture. I saw a hardworking father of four, exhausted from the responsibilities of providing for his family, confronted by a young man who apparently believed another personโ€™s distress was an acceptable price for internet attention. Walt wasnโ€™t an actor. He wasnโ€™t performing for an audience. He was working. He had a family waiting for him, another early morning ahead, and ten stores to service. His life was already filled with obligations that this young man knew absolutely nothing about. And then came the camera. What bothered me most wasnโ€™t simply the prank. It was the apparent absence of consideration for the human being standing on the other side of that phone. Weโ€™ve cultivated an internet culture where humiliation is entertainment, embarrassment is currency, and the emotional suffering of strangers can become somebody elseโ€™s claim to fame. Thatโ€™s a pernicious development in human behavior. Now Iโ€™m seeing reports that the account associated with the prank has disappeared amid public criticism. There are also allegations identifying the young man behind it, although I havenโ€™t independently verified those details. But I want to make something clear. Iโ€™m not interested in organizing a campaign to destroy this young manโ€™s future. Iโ€™m interested in holding up a mirror to his conduct. Because thereโ€™s a lesson here that goes considerably deeper than a deleted social media account. Walt lost his composure for a moment. But what happened afterward revealed something extraordinary. He smiled. After the frustration, after the confrontation, after having his patience tested, this hardworking father still found enough kindness within himself to offer that young man a warm smile. That moment touched me more deeply than anything else in the video. It reminded me of the teachings of Jesus Christ, that we should not allow another personโ€™s conduct to determine the condition of our own hearts. I was so moved that I sat down and wrote a song in Waltโ€™s honor, โ€œThe Heart Inside a Working Man.โ€ I wanted to give a voice to the fathers whose sacrifices are rarely acknowledged, the men who rise before daylight, carry responsibilities nobody sees, and return home exhausted because the people they love are depending on them. And hereโ€™s what I would tell that young man. You may have approached Walt looking for a reaction, but you encountered something far more valuable. You encountered a lesson in humanity. The man you tried to turn into entertainment demonstrated a depth of character that no number of views could ever manufacture. I hope you remember his smile. I certainly will. Because in the end, the most memorable part of that encounter wasnโ€™t the prank. It was the heart inside a working man. #AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks
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Love these perspectives from others! It shows that sometimes we forget our true goodness and are much too hard on ourselves!
I asked 50 Japanese people, ages 9 to 91, one question. "What do you admire most about Americans?" Here are the top answers. 10. "They clap when the plane lands." (Office worker, 34) 9. "They say 'I love you' every time they hang up the phone. Even men. Even to other men." (Taxi driver, 61) 8. "A stranger told me she liked my shoes. Then she just walked away. She didn't want anything." (High school girl, 16) 7. "They thank the bus driver when they get off." (Bus driver, 55. He got emotional saying this.) 6. "They tell you their whole life story in the grocery line. I know about one man's divorce, his boat, and his knee surgery. We knew each other for four minutes." (My mother, 64) 5. "They stand for the anthem at a children's baseball game." (Little League coach, 47) 4. "When they lose, they shake hands and say 'good game.' And they mean it." (Sota, 12) 3. "They fly the flag on a regular Tuesday. No holiday. Just because." (Nurse, 28) 2. "They help a stranger push a car out of the snow, then leave without saying their name." (My cousin's husband, 52, who got stuck in Colorado once) And the number one answer came from the oldest person I asked. My grandfather. He's 91. He thought about it for a long time. Then he said: "They still believe tomorrow will be better than today." I asked him what he meant. "In 1946, we had nothing," he said. "The American soldiers I met were young and far from home. But they acted like the future was coming, and it was going to be good. After a while, we started to believe them." I asked him if he thought Americans still believe that. He nodded slowly. "Tell them," he said, "not to stop."
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We need more law enforcement protecting everyone from threats against their lives! Anyone who thinks making threats is a "joke" or laughing matter needs to face severe consequences! It's a small step from joke to reality!
We are not going to tolerate threats to assassinate the president. Allison Albro, 21, Daytona Beach, is learning that the hard way. She posted this last night and got a visit from the @VolusiaSheriff Domestic Security Unit and the @SecretService. She said she was joking with this post, she doesnโ€™t have access to a Glock or any other weapon, and she would never hurt anyone. Today sheโ€™s sitting in jail on charges of written threats to kill and unlawful use of a communications device. I would strongly advise anyone else thinking of posting a โ€œjokeโ€ along these lines to think twice. VSO continues to work hand in hand with the Secret Service, FBI and all our law enforcement partners to ensure this presidential visit to Daytona Beach is a safe event for all who attend, and for our whole community.
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Exactly! The @DNC aka @DemSocialists coined the slogan, "Vote Blue, No Matter Who". What does that really mean? It means they want their followers to vote for whatever crap candidate they offer, no matter who. Don't question their decision, bury your head and do what you are told. How tyrannical is that? Hint: your vote is your vote, not theirs. Your vote is PRIVATE. Vote for the candidate that is most likely to benefit you, not them. Forget blue, red or purple. Watch what the candidates do or have done! Vote accordingly.
Replying to @RCJonX @jazzlm54
โ€œThe Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.โ€
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Report voter fraud, if you see it, say something, do something!
Scott Presler with a message to Mainers who are concerned about voter fraud:
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What every brainwashed leftist will never acknowledge... though true!
No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism. You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like. Bro. You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai. You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested. The modern left's definition of fascism: You love your country? Fascist. You want to enforce the border? Racist. You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot. You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow. Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left. But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them. Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected. Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign. Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king. Okay buddy. You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours. And they have you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968. Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote. During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant. But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression. The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That's how you keep power without wearing a crown. Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire." They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho... Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn't stop at speech. The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook. During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings. January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided. Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated. CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up. 75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable. Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me." They say. Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated. One side talks. The other side screams. The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. But Marxism. 500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were even angry. AND its all coming again .... if the left gain any power. VOTE RED RED RED on November 3rd
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Protect our girls from boys invading their sports and spaces. Stand up for every female you know!
Our referendum needed only 532 more signatures to make the 2027 ballot... we're submitting almost 5K on Monday! 11/2 @ 10 AM, 2 Maine HS girls will speak out, @ADFLegal will be filing a Title IX legal complaint on their behalf, @KimJonesICONS & Carly Smolak will stand w/ them!
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Democrats will lie and cheat, because all they care about is the win. Because, the win gives them power. They only care about POWER, not YOU! Vote wisely!
She thought she was shooting a pro-Susan Collins ad. Then she saw herself on TV pumping Troy Jacksonโ€™s tires. She says she was duped by Democrat operatives. In a response video, she makes it clear how she feels about Jacksonโ€™s influence on life in Maine. This might be worse than an AI deepfake.
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News, scripted for your daily dose of propaganda! facebook.com/share/v/1EQ9TaLโ€ฆ
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Truth! Truly a person worth following. ๐Ÿ‘‡
Yesterday I was talking with an economist. A genuinely sharp guy. We ended up agreeing on a conclusion that isn't comfortable: Europe and the West are down to two scenarios. Scenario one: communism gets defeated within the next 5 years. We finally do what has to be done on immigration and on the economy. It will be hard, really hard. But better a horrible ending than horror without end. Scenario two: communism wins. And right behind it, most likely, Islamic tyranny. Not in 50 years. Soon after. There is no in-between. No "it'll sort itself out," no lukewarm third way where everyone keeps their little comfort zone. What fascinates me is that the vast majority of people don't see this at all. They're living through this period as if it were just another political cycle. But there's good news. The people who've been sounding the alarm for 20 years were right. They were called crazy, doomers, prophets of decline. And every month, reality proves them a little more right. The faster people realize this, the further ahead we get. Waking up is already half the battle.
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I hate when I cannot comment on a post I am forced to see. @X @michaelo ... If a person cannot comment, DO NOT put it in my feed! As for the post, both the National Education Association (NEA) & the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) should be catagorized as PAC's, NOT Teacher's Unions. @FEC @IRS_CI @ConservativeTht
The nationโ€™s 2 largest teacher unions, the National Education Association (NEA) & the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) spent a combined total of $930 million on political advocacy between 2016 & 2025. Itโ€™s not about the children. Itโ€™s not even about the teachers. Itโ€™s about raw, Leftist political power. @NEA foxnews.com/media/unearthed-โ€ฆ
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I live in the greatest country on earth. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ I'm not saying other countries aren't great, as well. But, for me, mine is the greatest. If you believe the country you live in, isn't the grestest, you are living in the wrong country. Find one that will make you say, I'm living in the greatest country on earth. Being happy where you live is important. If you believe diversity is strength, you won't find diversity, where one tries to make everyone the same. We are, first and foremost, individuals. We think and act differently. If we all thought the same, acted the same, we wouldn't have progress. Everyone didn't create all we have today. An individual who thought, hey... why are we pushing this flat slab across the ground, created the wheel. We benefit from individual creations. Every convenience we have today, can be traced back to an individual who had an idea and ran with it. We are creators at heart, when we exercise our individual creativity, everyone gains. Collectivism kills individual's dreams and incentive! Dare to think for yourself, don't let group think, or friends hold you back. Be unique,dream big, be you!
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"๐˜๐˜ฏ 1972, 7 ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง 10 ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ข." Having graduated HS near that time, I would put that number at 9 out of 10. At least in Maine.
We live in a completely fake world. And that's why everything feels chaotic. Why everything around us is burning. Let's start with one number. In 1972, 7 out of 10 Americans trusted the mainstream media. In 2025, only 28% did. The lowest Gallup has ever measured in half a century. Nearly 7 out of 10 Americans no longer believe what they're told on TV. Have you ever asked yourself why? Not "because people became conspiracy theorists." Not "because of social media." The real reason is that people feel an increasingly violent gap between what they're told and what they see with their own eyes. And that gap is not an accident. It's the product of a war between two camps. On one side, those who want to preserve reality: nations, cultures, borders, heritage. On the other, the globalist camp. And you need to understand its project in full. First, a world without borders. Not just physical borders. All borders. Between nations, between cultures, between what belongs to you and what belongs to everyone. And at the end of the chain, between true and false. Second, the hybridization of every culture. They sell it to you as openness, richness, diversity. But a culture is precisely a border. A language, a memory, customs, a way of life that isn't your neighbor's. When you blend everything together, you don't get a super-culture. You get the absence of culture. A consumable, interchangeable mush with no roots. And look closely at which culture you're asked to "deconstruct." Never anyone else's. Always Western culture. Its history, its religion, its family, its heroes. The end goal of the project isn't blending. It's the erasure of the West as a civilization. Now, the point almost nobody understands. Most of the leaders carrying this project never thought it up. They designed nothing. They are products. They went through the same schools, the same universities, the same think tanks, the same newsrooms, the same dinners. The system trained them, selected them, promoted them. They recite a script they mistake for their own thinking. You don't need a conspiracy when everyone was cast from the same mold. They're puppets, but sincere puppets. That's exactly what makes them dangerous. And that mold has a history. It has an intellectual architect: Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, writes in the 1930s from Mussolini's prisons. He makes an observation: in the West, the workers' revolution failed. Why? Because here, power doesn't rest only on the state and the police. It rests on culture. On schools, universities, the press, the Church, the arts. What he calls cultural hegemony. His conclusion: you don't take the West by frontal assault. You take it through a war of position. You conquer minds, language and institutions first. Political power then falls on its own. In the late 60s, German activist Rudi Dutschke summed up the strategy in one phrase: the long march through the institutions. Fifty years later, look at the universities. Look at the major newsrooms. Look at the NGOs, the international agencies, the HR departments, Hollywood. The march is over. The institutions have been captured. And that's when you understand why the world feels fake. When the institutions that are supposed to tell you the truth become the instruments of a project, they no longer describe reality. They prescribe it. Then, in the middle of this system, one man stood up against it. Elon Musk. He understood before anyone else that the heart of the machine is control of information. So he did the one thing that could truly crack it: he bought Twitter for $44 billion. He opened the Twitter Files and showed the world how moderation worked from the inside. He gave millions of people their voice back. And that's why he backed Trump. Not out of affection. Out of strategic clarity. Because Trump isn't a program. Trump is an antibody. The immune response of a social body that someone tried to dissolve. When a civilization senses it's being erased, it produces antibodies. They're rough, imperfect, loud. But they're proof the organism is still alive. Trump is the antibody to the empire of lies. But here's the good news. This project is doomed. Not just because we'll fight it. Because it carries the same flaw as every communist system, and it will end the same way. This isn't the communism of collective farms. It's the communism of norms, cultures and identities. But the structure is identical: an elite that believes it can redesign society from the top down. And Friedrich Hayek explained 80 years ago why that always fails. Reason one: the knowledge problem. The knowledge that makes a society run isn't in anyone's head. It's scattered across millions of individuals, in millions of local situations. No planner, no committee, no elite can gather it. Markets work because prices aggregate that knowledge. The Plan fails because it claims to replace it. Reason two, and this is where Hayek becomes prophetic: traditions, cultures and moral codes are knowledge too. Compressed knowledge. Centuries of trial and error, rules nobody invented but that survived because they worked. Hayek calls it the fatal conceit: believing that the reason of a handful of men can redesign what millennia have selected. Destroying a culture doesn't free people. It erases the memory that allowed them to live together. Reason three: the dynamics of lying. When the Plan collides with reality, it can't admit its mistake. So it needs propaganda, to make people believe the Plan's goals are their own. And it needs coercion, for those who refuse to believe. In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek devotes an entire chapter to this: The End of Truth. And another with a crystal-clear title: Why the Worst Get on Top. In a system that has to lie to survive, the best liars rise. That's the loop. Reality resists. You lie to hide the failure. The lie demands more control. Control produces more failure. Until collapse. That's exactly what you're living through today. The world feels fake because it is. The chaos you see isn't the end of the world. It's the noise a system of lies makes when it crashes into reality. The USSR lasted nearly 70 years. It collapsed all at once, without a war, because nobody believed Pravda anymore. Today, nearly 7 out of 10 Americans no longer believe their media. You see where I'm going with this. Reality always wins. The only question is how long we're willing to live inside the lie before we look it in the face.
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If you don't know Lewiston, Maine... Rick has some great videos! facebook.com/share/v/19evzteโ€ฆ
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Female only sports and spaces are for females only! NOT for men in "woman face". Simple, common sense.
We have a simple message, keep womenโ€™s sports female. Nothing violent, hateful, or transphobic. Just the simple idea that women should play with women and men should play with men.
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.@cmpco while I appreciate your concern, the weather is colder, the days are darker earlier. I have electric baseboard heat and heat pumps. Yes, my usage will go up, as winter progresses. Not sure what your "tips" can offer me. Light candles? Wear a winter coat inside? ๐Ÿค”
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Those who used to be bullied, have now become the bullies! Insane men, in women's clothing, have now become the prime bully to all those who are sane!
Democrats fought for women's rights. Now they sacrifice those rights at the altar of trans. Democrats fought for gay marriage. Now they fight to castrate feminine boys. Democrats fought for people of color. Now they vilify black women who speak up about dangers in their private spaces. Democrats fought for women to be believed. Now they attack girls for telling the truth. Democrats fought for people to trust the science. Now they fight against biology.
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See you soon, New Hampshire & Maine! Then, back to Pennsylvania. @TPAction
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