The Best for Mom

General 3 Minutes

We all want what’s “BEST” for our parents, but in our rush to protect and make things better, we sometimes overstep our good intentions.  My mom has always had a problem with her knees.  After being dared by her older brother (my uncle who owns the property next door to Mom) to jump the fence between their homes and landing awkwardly on one knee, it has been an on again/off again knee problem for many, many years.  Damp weather or cold weather makes it worse, but for the most part she gets around just fine.  In her recent years, she has taken to using a walker to keep herself steady because she doesn’t want to fall.

After Dad passed and before she started with the walker, she used to be active outside.  She’d rake her leaves, clean her windows and even do some limited gardening.  Then one afternoon, she discovered her good aluminum ladder was gone from the woodshed.  Since my brother and his wife were the last visitors she’d had, she called them and confronted them about the ladder.  Their first reaction was to deny it.  When she persisted, they giggled.  Then they confessed that they didn’t want her to climb ladders anymore.  She was furious. First, they lied to her. Second, they treated her like a child.  Despite their good intentions, mom felt, in a word, gaslighted. 

Times have changed since then, and my brother and sister-in-law have problems of their own and have less time to do things for Mom.  My cousin who lives next door with my aunt and uncle has stepped up and so has a younger neighbor of my mom’s.  They will get groceries for her or take her along if she’s up to it; they run her to doctor’s appointments and do other odd errands and chores for her.  She feels lucky to have them.  She does, however, reward them financially for everything they do.  (But there are times, she insists, they refuse any money.)

Mom comes from a family of 17 children, so she knows what it feels like to have very little of her own.  To that end, after she married, she helped all the siblings who came behind her as much as she could.  She saved things constantly, telling me so and so might be able to use this. But now, in her later years, she is tired of the clutter in her house and wants to get rid of things.  So my visits have been trying to declutter her rooms and make it easier for her to move about more freely. 

Mom has not been able to go into her upstairs or down into her basement since she started using the walker, so she has relied on others to get or take things from those places and it’s been her niece and neighbor friend.  During the last 2 visits with Mom, she’s made comments about missing some things she’s sure she still had.  Now, I know my mom—she freely gives things to anyone if they need it.  But she doesn’t remember giving these items away.  Could it be a memory issue?  Sure, she’s not a young lady anymore.  But that incident with the ladder is haunting her—she isn’t sure that one of the people who have keys to her home (for emergencies) isn’t taking things without permission. Out of sight, out of mind.  Again, Mom insists, if someone asks, she’d surely give it to them.  But this is making her feel unsafe in her home.

This last visit, I confirmed that this is not all in her imagination. The last trip we made in December, we discussed certain items I told her were still in one room upstairs.  Four Lipton Tea cooler sets she sent box tops to get years and years ago. (The set was a cooler—one man lunch kind of thing—and a good thermos on the top in a space made just for it.) She had 4 of them with the thermoses on top.  This visit, the thermoses were gone, except for one lid and cup laying on a dresser.  The coolers were still there though.  Both my cousin and her friend had been upstairs in the interim.

I didn’t have time to search the entire upstairs for these thermoses so I can’t positively accuse anyone.  Our next visit will be a more concerted effort to find them.  But we spent one whole day cleaning the other room.  I started with taking pictures of each side of the room and showing her those.  Then bringing down items and boxes and detailing their contents.  Then I drew a “map” of where everything was placed.  I will compare that list/map to what’s there next time.  That will at least help Mom’s mind, I hope.  And if something is moved or gone, we can discuss other options…nanny cams perhaps?

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188 thoughts on “The Best for Mom”

  1. Good morning, Miss Pat!

    You are the best daughter ever!!!

    I hope you have solved the problem.

    Maybe you or she could politely ask the others to tell your mother, if they want to ‘borrow’ things?

    Tell them that you need to be sure things don’t just disappear, because that causes your mother to get confused and distressed (and it’s also a violation of her trust and security – not sure about telling them that)

    Maybe she could use a spiral note book to make a log book to write down what is borrowed and what she gives away permanently? Could she do that? It might be a good reminder for her and help ease her mind.

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    1. Morning GA!
      those are all good ideas…Mom keeps notebooks for everything (I do too!)
      She has a notebook of most everything they ever bought (since they were married) for the house, appliances, carpeting, etc. She can tell you when they bought it, where they bought and how much they paid for it. If it got replaced–like the furnace–that’s in there too!

      Since these 2 women are very good to Mom, she doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings or risk losing their help when she needs it. It’s more about her doubting her own mental well being, and I think it leads back to the ladder.

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      1. I wish I was more like you and your Mom. Maybe pray, think and talk to your Mom and any other trusted friends/family about the situation – a great solution will arise. The Bible says in separate verses – that in many counselors, there is wisdom, safety, victory.

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        1. thank you! HUGS back to you!!
          it was like Christmas that weekend for her. every bin or box of stuff I brought down, she’d be surprised at what she forgot she had or thought she’d given away. But now she has lists of what’s in each box and where it is, and that made her happy.
          The other room is gonna be tougher because that’s the room that my brother and my son stored their stuff in–and neither is motivated to come and go thru their junk. So, I told them we’d be down a few weeks to toss out whatever is left…hopefully that motivates them.

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          1. I tried to do this sort of thing for my mother, sister and for Sally, but was not as successful, too heavy-handed, strong-willed, not as respectful as I should have been. You are a doll – always an inspiration.

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            1. it’s not easy…lol. when we talk, she complains about too much clutter. when we visit, everything we attempt to get rid of, she resists.
              so I changed my goals. right now she feels unsafe so we’re working on making her feel secure by writing down what she has and where it is. getting rid of it will wait till she is ready. (then we’ll have to update her lists…lol)
              and some weekend I just clean like she used to because that bothers her as well. she can do basics and her house looks spotless to me. but it’s the door tops and frames, upper cabinets and under furniture. i don’t mind.
              i told her to make a list of things she wants done and the next time i come, I’ll tackle it.

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              2. and dangerous too. her house is old, the staircases are narrow and the steps themselves are short. so bringing down and taking up box after box, makes me tired.
                but it’s a good tired I guess.

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              3. I healed my knees and strengthen them – and a few more muscles going up and down the stairs at the Village Lodge…though I fell the last time when the steps were icy and hit my fanny between the waist and thighs – fortunately the most padded part of my anatomy – and got a deep black bruise. It was the darkest bruise I ever saw going across half my bottom – not the kind of black belt anyone tries to earn, for sure! I still can’t sleep on that side comfortably.

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              4. we have steps here too–and our bedroom is on the second floor. I don’t mind the steps, but hers are so narrow and short–I have small-ish feet and i still half go down sideways to make sure i’m on solid footing. ..if that makes sense.

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              6. oh, didn’t I mention? there are none…LOL
                we discussed what would happen to her home after she’s gone. it’s a large corner lot, but the house? it will probably have to be torn down. the basement gets wet, the plumbing and electric are old and nothing in the house is square–used to give my dad fits. and both staircases are dangerous.
                but she just needs/uses the main floor now so it’s fine for her

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              8. agreed.
                sometimes she talks about selling the house and moving into a high rise, but then she wrinkles her nose and says she’s staying put.

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              11. I’m heading out for the day…a walk and then some sewing/mending/alterations – a laundry basket full – also need to clean out my closet and try on everything – will be back later.

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          1. Hello!
            Loved your opener.
            Although circumstances seem to cry out for some resolution, you demonstrate much insight into the various things at play in your mom’s current life.
            It’s humbling to see the highest form of love being shown here…that is, love tempered with wisdom. You’re both blessed to have one another.

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    1. Don Jr. Flipped the script. Rather than teaching her about the Constitution, the “last few millennia” have simply steeped that “sauce kitten” in the ethos of totalitarianism.

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  14. since the President has previously said he will turn himself in when he expected to be indicted before, this is such a safe wussy stance by rhonda. always test the waters first before making a statement–typical wuss move

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  15. hmmmmmmm

    herb
    herb
    March 31, 2023 12:34 am

    THE REAL REASON TRUMP WAS INDICTED.

    A World Economic Forum insider has admitted that the globalist elite pulled the trigger on the Trump arrest when he vowed last week to dismantle the elite pedophile power structure that has captured governments across the world and goes all the way to the top, the WEF, and even higher.

    There are thousands of Feds giving crash courses to crisis actors and Antifa as we speak—helping delete and manipulate their social media accounts, buying MAGA hats and American flags, showing them how to fire the weapons they are being given. “Make J6 look like child’s play,” they are being told.

    The FBI and Deep State have infiltrated planned protests that are set to occur nationwide so they can entrap millions of Americans. Klaus Schwab is trying to push your buttons. The elite want you to join the protests so they can justify their martial law crackdown on ordinary, law-abiding patriots and put you and your family in prison.

    January 6 was the dress rehearsal and the elite have learned their lines.

    https://newspunch.com/wef-insider-admits-trump-arrest-first-step-in-depopulating-white-america/

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  16. EXCELLENT post by Sylvia Avery at the Crow’s Nest lays out the history of big pharma’s current domination of the US medical system.

    Modern medicine medical practitioners and their patients are indeed being held hostage by big pharma, big hospital corporations, big 3 letter health agencies, big politicians and their big $$$$ making engines.

    There is a movement toward ‘Functional Medicine’ and now, after the planned-demic – the number of organized resistance, truth-based, real science-based, real clinical-medicine-based physician practitioners has grown!

    For example: *https://www.floridafunctionalmedicine.com/

    There are more and more groups and independent doctors are not connected to the $$$ machine, but practice in the best interest of the patient.

    For example:
    FLCCC – *https://covid19criticalcare.com
    AFLDS – *https://www.aflds.org
    AAPS – *https://www.aaps.org
    Great Barrington Declaration – *https://gbdeclaration.org
    World Council for Health – *https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/
    Doctors for Covid Ethics – *https://doctors4covidethics.org/
    I Can Decide – *https://icandecide.org
    Brownstone – *https://brownstone.org/

    We continue to see attempts to stop, censor, punish them, in order to prevent real life-saving, disease-curing therapies and treatments from being implemented and the doctors punished.

    Heck, I just read big pharma has bought some of the Ivermectin production facilities in India.

    We must speak up and stand up for these brave doctors and help them build independent hospitals and clinics if necessary!

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        1. Yes – Self Advocacy is the name of the game right now – if we want to keep BIG MEDICINE and BIG HOSPITAL CORPORATION PROTOCOLS from killing us and our loved ones!

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    3. I remember when the change happened…my doc had a private practice. then obamacare took over and suddenly the “good” hospital in the area metastasized! his practice was subsumed, and suddenly there were clinics everywhere–all with the same hospital name.
      as medical offices expanded, patient care shrank.

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      1. Wow. Interesting site. Saving the link for further reading. I’m going to be busy most of today doing stuff long neglected around the house.

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  18. j x
    j x
    March 31, 2023 1:03 am

    Bragg leaked that a Trump indictment was immanent. When Trump responded to the leak Bragg accused him of “creating a false expectation of arrest”. The anticipated date came and went without indictment. Now a new leak that Trump has been indicted.

    Why does Bragg “leak” information rather than make official statements? I think the answer is obvious: to maximize drama.

    Why would he want to maximize drama? I think that too is obvious: this is yet another in a long line of smears and baseless accusations.

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    1. Morning, Pat! I’m going to post something about my a-Mom in response to your open. In the meantime, do NOT forget: we do NOT know exactly WHAT he is being charged with! Is it the Cohen/Stormy issue or is it something else???? Hmmmm…..inquiring minds want to know!!!

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      1. some leaks intimated it’s like 30 or so charges (felonies) in regards to business records. there is speculation he got from weisselberg…but it could all be a sham to distract from the trans crap or the restrict act or any number of idiotic dem things

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  20. Leftist insurrectionists have stormed two state capitol buildings in the past 24 hours. Not a single word of condemnation from the Left. Never take these people seriously about anything. An entire ideological movement totally devoid of the faintest shred of integrity.

    — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) March 30, 2023

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  28. Attention State AGs — You can’t indict a sitting president, but you can indict his criminal family.

    Republican AGs need to indict Biden’s son, daughter and brother.

    Virginia AG can now indict Hillary Clinton.

    Watch this.pic.twitter.com/EcJuZaRwRW

    — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 31, 2023

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  30. Ah, Moms! I went thru something similar with my a-Mom. Her 2nd husband, Jim, had alzheimers and was in a couple of nursing homes before getting into the VA rest home in Norfolk. She visited him every day, twice a day. Each time, he begged and pleaded to be “let out of this prison.” It was constant badgering for almost every minute of every visit and she was determined to bring him home, yet I knew that would most likely lead to her death, considering her own health issues. I fought her and fought her and fought her until she finally pleaded with me to stop – this was something she simply HAD to do. At some point, you have to let them do what they want to do – it IS their life, after all. I had to do the same thing with my daughter over getting a gastric bypass. I fought her on it until the day of the surgery – she asked me once more to please support her, she was sure this was what she wanted. Again, what could I do? She was an adult and it was her choice. It did, indeed, contribute to their deaths in both cases.

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    1. i wonder if mom’s wanting to clean out her house is a way to get us to visit. We told her when the weather gets better (as it is starting to) we will visit much more often, but the winter weather is bad to drive in.
      whenever we talk she sounds frustrated with the clutter and i make up mind to clear if out for her and then she resists the effort…lol
      is it a game Mom’s playing?

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      1. That wouldn’t surprise me at all, Pat – but it’s a game I’m guessing she, herself, doesn’t even realize she is playing. She doesn’t want to admit what to her may seem like weakness, perhaps.

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        1. true. and we’re trying to not get frustrated. but when we talk, she complains and complains, so I come ready to clear it out and make her happy…then she sighs and says, maybe I could still use that–or someone else could…LOL
          so we just clean it and put it back…

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            1. i agree.
              but we try to make things better for our loved ones and when she complains, I always think i will make her happier and get rid of this “whatever” is making her mad. i know she enjoys the company more than what we do there for her.
              it’s all good

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  31. Well, we had a rip-roaring thunderstorm last night, complete with wind, hail, lightning and thunder. No more snow now – didn’t even get down to freezing last night. We may get the tail end of a bit of snow to our north tonight but I don’t expect it.

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        1. that’s good! (no damage)
          we have a sudden influx of song birds in the morning–still too dark to spot them that early, but I do love to hear them!!!

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  33. from one of the shit articles on cnn…how about the statement she released saying the “affair” never happened? so she’s lying either in that statement or in the book…
    FTA
    What Daniels has said: For her part, Daniels, also known as Stephanie Clifford, met in March with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office probing the payment, according to a tweet sent by her attorney, who said Daniels had “responded to questions and has agreed to make herself available as a witness, or for further inquiry if needed.”

    She wrote a tell-all book in 2018 that described the alleged affair in graphic detail, with her then-attorney saying that the book was intended to prove her story about having sex with Trump is true.

    not linking to cnn

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  34. “The Revelation of John — Who was John of Patmos, and what does his vision mean?”
    Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™
    10 hr ago
    By JOHN LEAKE

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “In August of 2005, I chartered a 36-foot sailboat on the Aegean island of Kos—where the ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates was born—and sailed up to the island of Patmos. The final leg from Leros took me all day, and it was dusk as I arrived at the island’s marina. The next morning I wandered into town to get a coffee, and as I passed a news-stand, I saw the on the front page of the International Herald Tribune a photograph of a large swath of New Orleans under water. Hurricane Katrina had just made landfall, flooding the city.

    Later that day I wandered up to a cave that was purportedly the home of John of Patmos when he lived on the island and had his nightmarish Revelation (Greek: Apocalypse) of the end of the world.

    Most vivid and frightening is his vision of Four Horsemen who are unleashed on the earth. The first is mounted on a white horse, armed with a bow, and adorned with a crown. He apparently represents Pestilence. The second is mounted on a red horse and armed with a sword. He is thought to represent Civil War. The third, who apparently represents Famine, rides a black horse and carries a scale. Upon the fourth horse is mounted a pale and gaunt figure who represents Death.

    John of Patmos has traditionally been identified as one and the same as John the Apostle, but many scholars have noted that the former’s Greek contains many grammatical errors and odd word choices, while the latter’s Greek is flawless. To me, this suggests that we don’t know who John of Patmos was, which makes him all the more intriguing.

    He was apparently exiled to Patmos by Roman authorities because he preached the Christian faith, which was proscribed and heavily persecuted under the reigns of Nero and his successors in the 1st century AD. Historians think he was sent packing to the desolate island under Domitian (81-96). However, in John’s reflections on the depravity of Roman rule, he seems to have been thinking mostly about Nero, who ordered cruel and sadistic persecutions of the Christian congregation in Rome after the Great Fire of 64.

    Tacitus and Suetonius claimed that Nero himself set fire to the city because he (an aesthete) found the old buildings shabby and he wanted an excuse to rebuild them. Tacitus went as far as claiming that Nero wanted to burn the entire city down in order to re-found it and name it Neropolis. It’s tough to say if the accounts of Tacitus and Suetonius were based on solid evidence or anti-Nero propaganda, given that the Emperor was hated by many of his Roman contemporaries, including the influential writer, Pliny the Elder.

    According to Tacitus, Nero blamed the catastrophe on the obscure sect of people living in the city. They were, he claimed, a superstitious bunch who committed abominations in their communion rite of eating of the body and drinking of the blood of their crucified man-god. To punish them for their alleged arson, he ordered them burned alive.

    That John of Patmos was thinking about Nero finds support in verse 13:8, which reads: ‘Wisdom is needed here; one who understands can calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number that stands for a person. His number is six hundred and sixty-six.’ The Greek name “Nero Caesar” translated into Hebrew is NRON QSRN, which adds up to six hundred and sixty-six.

    John understood that the Roman imperial administration was immensely organized and powerful, with disciplined legions that could swiftly reach anywhere in the world and destroy any group of men who opposed their rule. However, as he saw it, this great earthly power was not guided by wisdom, truth, and goodness, but by an insatiable desire for aggrandizement and total domination of all people.

    I have never known what to make of John, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about him and his strange Revelation.”

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  35. EXCERPT: “The day before that, Jacob Siegel, a former Army intelligence officer, published a brilliant, must-read history and denunciation, of the Censorship Industrial Complex with an accompanying Disinformation Dictionary. “Siegel’s Tablet article is the enterprise effort at describing the whole anti-disinformation elephant I’ve been hoping for years someone in journalism would take on,” enthused Matt Taibbi, who interviewed Siegel about why he wrote it.

    “One of the most damaging and dangerous things about this kind of runaway government secrecy — and this is something that people like Daniel Patrick Moynihan were warning about fifty years ago — is that it fosters a kind of derangement in the public,” said Siegel.

    “At an even deeper and an even more fundamental level, once you involve people in the conspiracy, once you get them to go along with it, they will go along with it, not because they want to be conspirators, but because they’re convinced that they’re on the side of good… To get them to abandon that is to get them to admit that they’ve been made fools of, that they themselves were involved in an enormous deception. And I think that that’s very difficult for people.”

    Then, yesterday, Martin Gurri published “Disinformation Is the Word I Use When I Want You To Shut Up,” in Discourse Magazine.

    “Disinformation is just a jargon word with a subliminal meaning, thrown out by the mighty of the earth whenever they worry that they are about to lose an argument—something that happens with painful regularity these days. The word means, ‘Shut up, peasant.’ It’s a bullet aimed at killing the conversation. It’s loaded with hostility to reason, evidence, debate and all the stuff that makes our democracy great.”

    Gurri published an infographic to accompany it:

    https://public.substack.com/p/how-bad-is-it

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  37. ConservativeJournalReview
    BY G. MCCONWAY
    MARCH 30, 2023

    “Soros Paying Big Bucks to Get Progressive on WI Supreme Court”

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Here we go again… George Soros is buying himself a judge. This is not local government, however, as Soros is putting out millions to help a progressive secure a position on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Soros’ pick is liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz.

    Buying the Court — I have been warning people about George Soros since the very first article I penned on politics. The man is working this country from the inside out, changing local officials in cities to put hardcore progressives in place. We are seeing that now with Alvin Bragg in Manhattan as well as cities like Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Philadelphia. Soros puts DAs in places that do not want to prosecute crimes, and now he is expanding to state Supreme Court justices.

    Protasiewicz raised nearly $12.4 million during the final reporting period of her campaign, which is an insane amount of money for a state Supreme Court justice. Her opponent, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, was able to put $2.2 million in the register during the same time. You think that is because there are more rich liberals in Wisconsin or do you think this is outside money?

    Fox News reported, “Protasiewicz has raised $14.5 million, more than $8.8 million of it coming from the state Democratic Party.” Kelly has raised only $2.7 million, with the state Republican Party barely giving him a dime. The spending by Protasiewicz has almost doubled the previous record, and she has George Soros to thank for most of it. Soros dropped $1 million to the state Democrat Party, and who knows how much more he has funneled through his organizations, but we will find out soon enough.

    All that money has led to her having a huge lead in the race, reports the Wisconsin Examiner. This is the problem with campaigns in this country right now… these big donations that are funneled through PACs are unlimited and you have people who do not live in these states influencing the outcome.

    In my opinion, local campaigns should only be funded by locals, nobody else, and surely not billionaires who are trying to take over the entire country and hand it over to thugs. The system is broken, and George Soros is making fools of us all.”

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  38. “Rand Paul Shreds Josh Hawley Over “Restrict Act” While Blocking Unanimous Consent and Reminding About Constitution and “Bills of Attainder”
    March 30, 2023 | Sundance | 252 Comments
    EXCERPT: “Senator Rand Paul can be both frustrating at times and brutally purposeful at times. While Paul is a legislative enigma and often a hot mess…. When he is incorrect, he is allowing the DeceptiCons to advance; but when he is correct on the core issue, Senator Paul can be brilliant.

    Senator Josh Hawley took to the Senate floor yesterday to present a modified version of the “Restrict Act” as an alternative to the complete government takeover of all internet content – a worthy endeavor. Hawley tried to strip out the DHS takeover component of the Restrict Act, and just present a bill that bans TikTok. Senator Rand Paul refused to permit Unanimous Consent for the bill to proceed immediately to a vote. Senator Paul slows down the Senate deliberations while asking some bigger questions.

    The entire Hawley -vs- Paul debate is worth watching (there are two videos, one long – one short). I sense that Hawley’s intent is good, but Rand Paul is on the right side of the argument. The American people have never, not once, benefited from any legislative endeavor such as what is being proposed in the effort to ban TikTok. It’s not about TikTok, it’s about freedom.

    The originating debate is below the fold. This segment is the shorter follow-up that follows Senator Paul blocking unanimous consent. If you have time, watch both. If you do not have the time, this first one is solid enough to understand the arguments. Notice how Senator Paul says everything inside this rush to ban is based on “speculation and conjecture.” This is a point DC doesn’t want people to think about. Nothing has been proven, only accused. WATCH:”

    Videos: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/30/rand-paul-shreds-josh-hawley-over-restrict-act-while-blocking-unanimous-consent-and-reminding-about-constitution-and-bills-of-attainer/

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  39. eilert
    eilert (@guest_1075283)Online
    March 31, 2023 10:34

    They are going to stack the Judge and they are going to stack the Jury.
    They need him convicted, even if this is overturned on appeal (after this was dragged out for years), which they will ignore and pretend he was convicted.

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump
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    The Judge “assigned” to my Witch Hunt Case, a “Case” that has NEVER BEEN CHARGED BEFORE, HATES ME. His name is Juan Manuel Marchan, was hand picked by Bragg & the Prosecutors, & is the same person who “railroaded” my 75 year old former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, to take a “plea” deal (Plead GUILTY, even if you are not, 90 DAYS, fight us in Court, 10 years (life!) in jail. He strong armed Allen, which a judge is not allowed to do, & treated my companies, which didn’t “plead,” VICIOUSLY. APPEALING!

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  40. mollypitcher5
    mollypitcher5(@mollypitcher5)Offline
    March 31, 2023 10:36

    JUST IN: Executive Director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association Joanne Marian Segovia charged with IMPORTING fentanyl..

    “I also believe the use of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association shipping label indicates that Segovia USED HER OFFICE as part of her purchasing…

    — Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) March 31, 2023

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    1. “Donald Trump is Seen Partying with Melania Shortly After His Indictment — The scene from Mar-a-Lago stands in sharp contrast to that being painted by the corporate media.”
      Kyle Becker
      43 min ago

      ENTIRE ARTICLE: “It isn’t clear if he was celebrating his re-election fortunes or if he was merely living the high life before jetting off for trial in Manhattan, but just hours after the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg obtained an unprecedented criminal indictment of the former president, Donald Trump was seen partying with the former First Lady Melania Trump at their mansion at Mar-a-Lago.

      Dr. Gina Loudon, a friend of the Trump family, tweeted photos from the gathering. “‘Beautiful evening here at the gorgeous Mar a Lago! Our REAL First Couple enveloped in the love of their friends and most loyal!'” she tweeted. She then added: “(Sorry to disappoint, corporate media. Actually not. Screw you! This is a happiness you will never know, sadly).”

      The scene from Mar-a-Lago stands in sharp contrast to that being painted by the corporate media, which frames Donald Trump as taken aback by the indictment. “At Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach estate, Mr. Trump’s mood has ranged in recent weeks from optimism and bravado to anxiety about his future,” the New York Times claimed while citing no sources. “On Thursday evening, after the grand jury indicted him, Mr. Trump was angry but mainly focused on the political implications of the charges, not the legal consequences, according to people familiar with his thinking.”

      “He seemed eager to project confidence and calm and was seen having a very public dinner with his wife, Melania, and her parents at the club at Mar-a-Lago,” the Times added. “He has been keeping a relatively normal schedule at Mar-a-Lago, which he calls ‘my beautiful home’ — dining with guests, playing golf and telling nearly anyone that he was in a good mood and that he believed the case against him by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, had fallen apart,” the Times continued.

      “At Mar-a-Lago on Thursday evening, former President Donald J. Trump was still absorbing the news of his indictment, according to several people close to him,” the Times went on. “Mr. Trump and his aides were caught off guard by the timing, believing that any action by the grand jury was still weeks away and might not occur at all.”

      The report noted that on Thursday night, local police were “stationed outside the front gate to Mar-a-Lago.” Then, at around 9 p.m., about 20 Trump supporters gathered just outside Mar-A-Lago in a show of support. Georgia McGeerey, a Loxahatchee resident, told the Times she had come to “fight for America.”

      Nancy Sparks, a Lake Worth resident, added that the indictment was triggered by Trump’s presidential run. “They said they would get him and they’re trying,” she said. “It’s going to backfire and the Democrats are going to wish they didn’t mess with him.”

      There are millions of Trump-supporting Americans who couldn’t agree more.”

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      1. i think they desperately needed to change the newscycle.
        trans violence, restrict act, NARA saying 1,000 ultra maggot docs are missing
        too much they DON’T want MAGA to focus on

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  44. “Dutch Clinical Interest in Gender Dysphoria Skyrocketed in 2014 — Rare Diagnosis and Intervention Accelerated When Children 18 years since 1972. Nevertheless, children and adolescents experiencing GD were devoid of treatment options until 1987, when psychologist Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis noticed an increasing number of transgender teenagers requesting medical intervention.

    After careful deliberation, gender affirming hormone (GAH) treatment was made available for thoroughly screened well-functioning young people between 16 and 18 years of age—after first-stage treatment with antiandrogens for assigned males at birth (AMAB) and progesterone for assigned females at birth (AFAB). Thenceforth, a modest number of adolescents were treated with GAH. Around the same time, pediatric endocrinologist Henriette A. Delemarre-van de Waal treated an adolescent diagnosed with GD with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) to halt puberty.

    After following the then current diagnostic protocol, she added GAH treatment a few years later. Internationally, this approach of diagnostic procedure and combined treatment of GnRHa and subsequent GAH came to be known as the Dutch Protocol. Few studies have assessed the prevalence of GD in children and adolescents. Based on the current literature, 1.3% to 2.7% of schoolchildren self-identify as transgender or gender nonconforming people. Nevertheless, ever since the implementation of the Dutch Protocol, a rise in the number of adolescents requesting this treatment has been seen.

    The protocol has become common practice in gender identity clinics throughout the Western world and has been incorporated into the Endocrine Society’s guideline for the medical treatment of GD from the earliest edition and into the standards of care by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health since 1998. However, the approach is not endorsed worldwide. For example, in Sweden the eligibility for treatment with puberty suppression in adolescents has recently been restricted.

    Dutch law changed in 2014 to allow treatment of gender dysphoria without gonadectomy. This appeared to be an accelerant allowing more parents to bring young children (< 10 years) forward for puberty halting treatment in order to intentionally give gender influencing (female or male) hormonal therapy."

    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/dutch-clinical-interest-in-gender

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    1. when i was younger, every teenager wanted to rebel against…something. didn’t matter what…mostly their parents, their parents’ values, etc. with the onslaught of facebook utube, and whatnot–it was the all-about me- I wanna be an internet star. with so many people on those sites, you need to be unique in some way to get clicks and attention.
      realizing that their parents are doing the same phone/internet star thing, they weren’t getting the attention they craved from their parents, so they sought out strangers.
      with so many seeking attention, you had to get more beautiful or more bizarre. guess which most chose?

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  45. Our Take: “Much has been made of the public back-and-forth between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis in recent months, with some believing the two are actually at odds, and that Trump has been exposing a wolf in MAGA’s midst, while others have maintained that DeSantis is actually working WITH Trump in terms of forwarding a story beneficial to the exposure of Con Inc. and the RINO Establishment.

    I’ve waffled back and forth between the two potentials. That said, wouldn’t it be something if DeSantis ends up throwing his full weight and support behind the leader of the America First movement after the Establishment Media Industrial Complex has pitted the two against each other as one of their last hopes to split the MAGA base?” — Burning Bright

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3926943-desantis-florida-wont-cooperate-with-trump-extradition/

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  50. “The drug being readied for the avian flu plandemic causes side effects that include BELIEVING false narratives, making it perfect for social control”
    Wednesday, March 29, 2023 by: Lance D Johnson

    EXCERPT: “(Natural News) Former CDC Director Robert Redfield recently warned that gain-of-function research and bioterrorism will inevitably bring about a future avian flu pandemic. The US government is already mapping out a suspicious new bird flu strain that is passing from wild birds to mammals and causing strange behaviors. Strangely enough, a blockbuster drug is already being readied to “treat” this upcoming avian flu. This drug is called Peramivir and goes by the trade name Rapivab.

    The drug company behind the treatment, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, has already prepared a list of common side effects for their blockbuster drug. These side effects include: “holding false beliefs that cannot be changed by fact” and “seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there.” The drug’s insert sheet might as well say that “other side effects resemble a zombie apocalypse.

    Upcoming influenza drugs and potential psychological experiments — With side effects as crazy as these, the drug company is openly admitting that their drug is a psychological experiment on the population. Traditionally, antiviral compounds and medicines do not cause psychological effects, let alone cause an individual to believe something! This drug has the potential to not only make you believe something, but to make you believe something that is FALSE. This means there is more to this drug than basic antiviral compounds. These drugs are being designed to manipulate memories and beliefs! If this drug can make you believe falsehoods, it must be interfering with certain proteins, enzymes, neurons, and synapses to manipulate objective experience, memory, and emotion.”

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-29-drug-being-readied-for-avian-flu-plandemic-side-effects.html

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    1. yeah I posted this yesterday i think…it’s weird—they are going to gaslight the entire country?
      or claim all the bad shit is made up?
      I mean, there are endless ways they can screw with the public with something like this…

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