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millie210
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I'll take sad news for a thousand - Alex Trebek has died
by frozen2018 init was no secret that it was coming.
mr. trebek certainly showed everyone how to approach the end of life.
rest in peace, alex trebek.
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Don’t worry, the USA is still OK for the next four years.
by pistolpete inas i had mentioned in one of my past posts, i strongly felt the democrats would win the presidency because they know they can cheat and not get prosecuted.
case in point; everyone involved in the russian conspiracy.
and the republicans just don’t understand that they need to get in the gutter and fight back like the democrats.
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millie210
I have to say I agree with you.
Having grown up as a JW that is!
For instance, I never knew until last year that the woman who founded Planned Parenthood (Margaret Sanger) was a racist and believed in eugenics as a way to cut down on undesirables such as black people. I also did not know that currently, the majority of babies aborted in the US are African American.
You can learn more about her thinking from her paper "Negro Project" online even!
When you compare that to the Governing Body of JWs ordering its young women to only mate with men the GB has appointed (and therefore have control over) it all makes sense doesnt it? Control the breeding stock - control the future.
Does it matter if the "authority figure" provides you with free birth control and abortions or if the "authority figure" promises you eternal panda petting?
Of course not.
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Mr. Minimus, how do you feel?
by AbelJohn injust going by the topic titles you've been using these last few weeks.. do you think you can survive a whole four years with someone that's not exactly your favorite candidate?.
i know i'm in the minority from what i've been reading here, but i'm glad for the change!.
well, we all can't be satisfied altogether can we?.
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millie210
pale.emperor2 hours ago
All snarky comments aside. Can someone seriously explain to me what the appeal of Trump is/was? Because I can't get my head around how anyone managed to ignore his incoherent ramblings, making fun of a disabled reporter, refusal to denounce white supremacists, calling Mexicans rapists, bragging about molesting women etc etc etc
Genuinely seeking answers. Surely you wouldn't accept this stuff from Biden?
I know you to be a sincere person and I understand your basis for asking.
Many people who supported Trump feel as you do. You will notice the things you mentioned above were rather inflammatory in nature and were fed to us by the media. Lets set them aside a moment.
Imagine your little girl needed an emergency heart surgery...it had to be quick. You were told the BEST surgeon was a jack ass and a womanizer and racist but had never lost a patient and was considered the worlds best pediatric cardiology surgeon. kind of like Gregory House on House M.D. (the tv show). Your other choice was a fine Dr who was just competent but no genius and his track record was average.
Who do you choose? For myself, all my high moral ground would vanish and I would choose whomever I thought gave the best odds of success for my beloved child.
SO there are a lot of people who looked at Trumps presidency that way. He was shrewd in how he looked at the global economy. He was fearless in calling it as he saw it which made other world leaders who hide under rocks, for the most part, did not like it when he kicked over their rocks so to speak. He understood that just as a family (however goodhearted and charitable) could not keep taking strangers into their home endlessly without compromising the home - America as a home could not allow its self to be overrun with illegal immigrants. His wording was brash and harsh and he was abrupt and rude in dealing with people but it is a sign of wisdom to look beyond what is being said and look at what's being done. America was clambering to its feet again under his 4 years economically.
A lot of people were willing to overlook his lack of social ability based on his results. These are things that supporters of Trump have expressed to me. Business people who saw construction pick back up, farmers who saw a way to continue rather than sell out, military families (my personal experience) who saw respect coming back to the military.
Yes, you can go anywhere on line and see statistics that will say he did a terrible job. You can also find stats telling you what a fine job Democrats have done. Statistics be as they will, I mentioned above the things I personally witnessed that were positives for the country.
I dont think he started out to be who he is now. I think it was probably more of an "I can be president and do a good job" thing. But once he got there and they started the attacks, the leaders in the house SITTING and refusing to stand when he entered in an official capacity - the tattered state of the military - the general slime that coats all of our political leaders of both parties - it started to be personal to him - I believe he honestly thought our country was in more competent hands than he found it to be. He was wrong. We have all been wrong in thinking our leaders are leading.
Most of them (on both sides) have been bought out by the oligharchy of big business, big pharma, tech giants as well as Foundations such as the ones run by Gates and Soros. Facebook, Twitter, Google, control our information. Other giant monoliths control our food and water. Now with the virus, we get to see a high level of control over our choices there as well.
I dont think anyone, Republican or Democrat, if they speak from a non-emotional viewpoint, thinks Biden is up to the task of taking on all of that. But then, a lot of people (myself included) don't think people voted for Biden - it was more of a vote against Trump or for Trump. They just want him gone.
Humor me with one more illustration and I will stopImagine you are in a room with two men. Your goal is to get out of the room but you must take one - the other will not survive. One man is smelly, unkempt wino, and rude - the other is clear-eyed, intelligent and likable, charming in fact.
Most of us would pick the obvious guy. But what if you were told ahead of time he was Ted Bundy? Or just insert any clean, charming, intelligent sociopath here - it doesn't matter. The moral is, you can't always go by someone's offensive presentation when judging their skill and ability. People should have been looking at the reaction from the Democratic leaders each time Trump did something rash and offensive. Their disrespect for the office of the presidency, their utter rage at him pointing out their graft add incompetence.
IF I was a Democrat OR a Republican I would have been watching that just as closely as I watched Trump. And I will close with no, I don't think Biden is bad although I do see that he has covered over his son's misdeeds and I do find the hair sniffing of young girls off putting - I could look past that if I thought he could take on China and the rest of the world and if he could keep the big businesses from butting into the running of this country but alas he cannot. He is old, weak, and confused. It's the people running things behind the scenes I feel a pit in my stomach over.
I am afraid that in our (Americans) not liking the frying pan - we have jumped into the fire.
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Mr. Minimus, how do you feel?
by AbelJohn injust going by the topic titles you've been using these last few weeks.. do you think you can survive a whole four years with someone that's not exactly your favorite candidate?.
i know i'm in the minority from what i've been reading here, but i'm glad for the change!.
well, we all can't be satisfied altogether can we?.
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millie210
Thanks Magnum,
Its at moments like these where people show their internal character. I see posters on here who are longstanding Trump dislikers who are saying incredibly kind things - as a winner should - and then there are johnny just in the door posters looking to poke with their teeny weeny little wooden spears.
Over all its good. I personally like it when someone displays their character or lack of, then I know who to read and learn from and who to ignore. Saves time, doesnt it?
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Final Prediction on Election
by minimus inwho wins?
who loses?
president/ senate/ house of representatives .
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millie210
Wing Commander, a lot are feeling the same as you.
This was an interesting article offering some hope
we want to acknowledge the good news, and believe it or not, there is some good news regardless of everything else that has happened and here it is.
America remains, it’s still here. That’s the first and most important thing. And it’s not a foregone conclusion, we almost lost it. Democrats told us they wanted to beat Donald Trump. They spent more money than anyone ever has in any election in history to do that.
But there was a lot more going on. Democrats didn’t harness the full power of Big Tech and the billionaire class simply to make Joe Biden President. No. What they really wanted was total control over everything. No more democracy, no more dissent, permanent obedience from the rest of us, and they came shockingly close to getting that.
If Democrats had won the White House and the Senate last night, the country as we know it would have ended not because Democrats have bad ideas, though they do. But because Democrats plan to impose an entirely new system on our country, not an agenda, a system.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/11/05/fncs-carlson-we-should-all-be-deeply-grateful-democrats-fell-short-in-effort-to-impose-new-system-on-america/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0AGZ6P_Ovm_u_5hOyTpAZ5I-L3if867GKSvMQ7U_-IMIFRiQ8zKeLq-lU
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Do You Believe In Polls After This Last Debacle?
by minimus ini have never believed in the polls.
they are as useless as teats on a boar hog.
likewise, i think the media is so untrustworthy that no one should believe in their perspectives and holy opinions.
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millie210
Im with you on this one minimus. I didnt think the polls were accurate and paid them no heed.
I never felt Trump would win this election because as I have stated before, he and Biden are mid level in power. They are who we are supposed to keep our eye on while greater nefarious deeds are being enacted by people with much more power and money than the two who are participating in this "non election"
It was always going to go how it's going to go and our angst and "participation" is busy work.
We as a society should be looking behind the shiny, noisy, distractions we are being coaxed to look at and focus our eyes on the shadows moving in the background.
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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big
by minimus ina month ago it might have been questionable.
not now.
after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.
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millie210
The pandemic is doing what its doing and following the rules of biology consistently. We know this by looking at its behavior and results all over the globe.
Anyone who thinks humans with paper masks are having a high (or even moderate) degree of impact on a virus helps me to understand the psychology of humans who wore garlic to scare away vampires not too long ago in human history.
After approximately 18 months the virus will have run the height of its course and at that point whichever hapless humans are in power will claim "victory' on their own behalf.
Question for the brighter bulbs here: why do you suppose in natures evolutionary survival of the fittest, that stupid is not eliminated as quickly as physical ineptness?
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Final Prediction on Election
by minimus inwho wins?
who loses?
president/ senate/ house of representatives .
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millie210
My thought is the election system in the U.S. has gotten very sloppy. I dont think thats a new thing. Now, its just being looked at really hard for a lot of reasons.
I would imagine some poll workers have to be shocked to see the loosey goosey way they have always done things being challenged.
Too bad the IRS cant be in charge of this. You can run a tiny one employee business in podunk USA and they will make sure you pay your share of employer tax and watch it like a hawk. Wasnt it Willie Nelson who had to hide his guitar from them when they went after him? They have you by the short hairs called your EIN and your SS numbers.
The Secretary of State from Pennsylvania is on TV now saying people have to "sign" to vote and that the poll workers (volunteers)are very "dedicated" and "serious".
So nothing about positive fail-proof IDs. No vetting. No real security systems in place at all. Its a circus.
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2020 Annual Meeting of JW's
by HiddenPimo inso i doubt out of all the pimo's someone hasn't been able to leak that they had the annual meeting.
does this mean that there was not one for the first time in jw history.
thoughts?.
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millie210
oh darn,
So no one will get a timely reminder about the dangers of brightly colored socks?
Or tight pants?
Or why young sisters should only marry "company men" (appointed servants)
what IS this world coming too?
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What's the Latest re How JW's are Associating and Preaching?
by mikronboy ini've been out of the loop for a while so some things have passed me by.
so i'm curious how jw's are affected by the covid virus.
are they still preaching or having meetings etc?.
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jhine
Are they actively pushing Covid as a sign that the End is Near ( again ) ?
Here where I am, they are being uncharacteristically quiet about Covid.
It almost seems as though they would rather not have another failed "end timer" escapade that people can point to, so they are being very low key about the virus aspect. There is some hype about the political angle in as much as they are talking more about the king of the north and king of the south. By talking, I mean the JWs are talking amongst themselves about it. I have no idea if they are getting it from headquarters or from Circuit Overseers or just manufacturing it locally. It's gotta be a boring time for "true believers".