Wait in the Truck

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Every once in a while, a song comes along that just moves you. Maybe it appeals to your patriotic side—like Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”.

 Or maybe a song just makes you want to get up and dance—like Josh Turner’s “Why Don’t We Just Dance?”

Or maybe the song has a deeper more profound effect.  “Wait in the Truck” by Hardy and Lainey Wilson has that effect on me.  The premise of the story is a man driving in an unfamiliar town who comes upon a “broken” woman in the road. He can tell what she’s been through so he merely asks, “where is he?” The woman responds and he delivers what he believes to be justice.  Then he doesn’t run, doesn’t try to hide from what he’s done, he just calls the police and waits for them to come. 

Lainey tells the woman’s side in the song:

I don’t know if he’s an angel
‘Cause angels don’t do what he did
He was hellbent to find the man behind
All the whiskey scars I hid
I never thought my day of justice
Would come from a judge under a seat
But I knew right then I’d never get hit again
When he said to me

Wait in the truck
Just wait in the truck

The story continues that he’s been in prison for 5 years and she still comes to see him from time to time.  He accepts his fate—says it was worth it to see a brighter side of the girl from that night.  But what moves me so much is his pleadings with God to have MERCY on him.  He doesn’t ask for forgiveness (in my opinion) because he thinks what he did was unforgivable.  Instead, he asks for mercy.  He took a stand, giving up his life essentially to save another and then takes responsibility for that action.

I do not advocate for vigilante justice.  But being a victim of spousal abuse, I can relate.  It was settled long ago, by his own hand. Thankfully I do not need to live in fear that he would ever find me again…others are not so fortunate.

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  1. Morning All!
    the weather forecast is for more showers for the next three days!
    gees, the last time we saw sunshine was Thursday…

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    1. Wow! What an open! Vigilante justice has it’s place, IMO. I’ve got your sunshine, with temp at 35. Saw a gray, tiger-striped cat out by the garden beds this morning. I still have some of the outdoor food I got for Little Man so I stepped out and poured some on the walkway. Only took him/her a couple of minutes to get to it. Clearly, not a cat used to people. Pretty, tho.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        the very first time i heard this song, it moved me to tears.
        will you try to win the new kitty over? tame him (?) somewhat?

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        1. IDK…we’ll see…I’m not going to go out of my way beyond putting out the rest of the food I’ve got left, which isn’t much. If I’m out there and he/she wants to respond to me, ok, but I’m not going after it.

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      2. Good Morning ☀️!
        It was John Adams who said “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
        So there it is in a nutshell…by demoralizing & taking Judeo/Christian values out of the town square our enemies, the cabal have nearly succeeded in destroying us.

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  6. bears repeating…

    Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    May 1, 2023 12:27 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    13h
    I couldn’t care less if Ron DeSanctus runs, but the problem is the Bill he is about to sign, which allows him to run without resigning from being Governor, totally weakens Election Integrity in Florida. Instead of getting tough, and doing what the people want (same day voting, voter ID, proof of Citizenship, paper ballots, hand count, etc.) this Bill guts everything….

    ….It will allow dirty Voter rolls to get dirtier, weakens transparency, and is a total mess. It’s simple, all we want is a Free and Fair Election, and an honest count.

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  7. Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    May 1, 2023 12:28 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    13h
    I fully support Dan Patrick’s, and the Senate’s, $100K senior homestead exemption & $70K for those under 65.

    “California Dade’s” plan is a disaster for Texas. House members – vote for the homestead exemption – $27 billion bigger tax cut than House plan!

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  10. Citizen 817
    May 1, 2023 12:31 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    4h
    DeSanctimonious had nothing to do with Israel, or the moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Never so much as mentioned it to me—It was the last thing on his mind. DeSanctus wasn’t even Governor yet (It was December 6, 2017), and I barely knew him—He has turned out to be a total flameout! This is the kind of disinformation I thought only the Democrats would put out. No wonder DeSanctus is dropping like a rock in the Polls. Terrible!

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  13. Covid Reckoning is Underway: Texas to Join Florida in Investigating Big Pharma and “Covid Science” Fraud — Will Truth and Justice Prevail, After All?

    IGOR CHUDOV
    APR 30, 2023

    EXCERPT: “I am thrilled to report that the “Covid reckoning” we hoped for is underway. The state of Texas is joining the bandwagon.

    The day’s news is that the Texas Attorney General is opening an investigation into fraud committed by Pfizer and others. Texas Attorney General’s office will try to find out whether vaccine manufacturers committed fraud and misrepresented the effectiveness and safety of Covid vaccines.”

    https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/covid-reckoning-is-underway-texas

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  14. uphill climb admittedly, but there will be a recall effort in AZ to get rid of hobbs…
    FTA
    There’s a lot of chatter on social media about recalling Katie Hobbs from the Arizona Governor’s Office since many believe she won due to election fraud. Some groups are raising money to fund an organized recall effort. One of the recall efforts is located on the website ArrestHobbs. Just the News featured a recall effort run by the Arizona chapter of Americans Against Mail in Voting. A third recall effort is active on Twitter.

    @elonmusk
    Arizona Citizens🌵
    Please make sure you sign up with us to receive our Newsletter & our MDI (plan):
    recallkatiehobbsaz@gmail.com

    We have done the math. We only need to organize 700 signing events to get the signatures we need to recall Hobbs. https://t.co/iL7cYGJ8sP

    — ARIZONA CITIZENS (@RECALL_HOBBS) April 25, 2023

    However, the recount cannot begin until June 23, and will require collecting close to 800,000 signatures within four hot months mostly over the summer in order to succeed. Jennifer Wright, an expert on Arizona election law and practicing elections attorney, shared the legal hurdles a successful recall requires. She told The Arizona Sun Times, “Due to the immense effort and cost required by state law, which makes successful statewide recalls like this virtually impossible, diverting millions of dollars that could be expended on targeted pre-election litigation seems counterproductive.”

    According to Wright, Arizona law requires a recall group to file an application with the Arizona Secretary of State before circulating petitions. It cannot be filed until Hobbs has been in office for six months. Once filed, Wright said Arizona law sets a clock of 120 days to gather the necessary signatures.

    Arizona’s constitution requires collecting enough valid signatures to equal 25 percent of all votes cast in corresponding elections. Based on the 2022 statewide canvass, there were 2,559,485 votes cast in the governor’s race statewide; 25 percent is 639,872 valid signatures.

    https://arizonasuntimes.com/news/efforts-to-begin-recalling-katie-hobbs-can-start-in-june-but-face-uphill-battle/ralexander/2023/04/30/

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  15. 70 year old man WITH A BEARD wins Ladies Poker tournament…
    (a bounty in poker tournaments means to knock someone out of competition)

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  16. Winston
    May 1, 2023 7:17 am

    Federal Bureaucrats (Outside The Pentagon And US Post Office) Are Paid Some $576 Million Per Day
    APR 30, 2023

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/federal-bureaucrats-outside-pentagon-and-us-post-office-are-paid-some-576-million-day

    Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com recently determined from official Federal Freedom of Information Act filings that we pay Beltway bureaucrats in the federal executive agencies outside of the Defense Department and the U.S. Post Office some $576 million per day.

    That’s more than $210 billion per year for the 1.44 million employees of 125 rank-and-file general administrative, civil enforcement and federal law enforcement agencies.

    Economic uncertainty might surround many taxpayers, but for federal workers, we are funding lavish and perk-filled lifestyles.

    In 109 of the 125 federal agencies in Washington, the average employee salary is more than $100,000.

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average real median wage for the average employee was $54,339 in 2021.

    The average salary at the Census Bureau is $67,656. That’s just a small example of the ‘private-sector’ versus ‘public-sector’ pay disparity.

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      1. corporations have to keep (or try) to keep salaries in line with company growth and income. governments have no such restrictions–they’ll just raise taxes…and create more agencies to lure more people in. it’s metastasizing right in front of us.

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  18. Frankly, this just pisses me off every time these idiots make these stupid CHOICES and then expect our government to bail their asses out! NO, NO and NO!!!! The State Department has had a “do not travel” warning about Sudan since 2021 – THEN WHY WERE THEY THERE?!?!? Take responsibility for your choices, asswipes!!!!

    “Those who spoke to CNN also pushed back on the argument made by US officials that they had warned Americans not to be in Sudan. The travel advisory level has been Level 4: Do Not Travel since June 2021, and the State Department has consistently advised Americans to “have evacuation plans that do not rely on US government assistance.” However, there were no recent security alerts explicitly advising Americans to leave the country.”

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  20. I watched part of this early this morning till it sickened me. a woman had her therapist (iirc) pour drain cleaner into her eyes to blind her because her “true self” should have been blind…tell me these people and their ENABLERS shouldn’t be put away!

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      1. what ever happened to FIRST DO NO HARM????
        and that woman should not be able to apply for disability. HER THERAPIST should have to pay her for damages—out of their insurance.

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  21. “Plasmid DNA is a Known Pfizer Ingredient – NOT a Contaminant — On June 7, 2021, AGC Biologics announced that they were the supplier of plasmid DNA for the manufacturing of the BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA ‘vaccines’

    KAREN KINGSTON
    APR 14, 2023

    EXCERPT: “April 14, 2023: Recent experts have come forward confirming that plasmid DNA is in Pfizer’s mRNA vials and that plasmid DNA is for purposes of the expression on non-human DNA inside humans through cell transfection.

    I first reported on the existence of plasmid DNA as an ingredient in the Pfizer’s mRNA vials on October 20, 2021 on Brannon Howse. I begin my presentation on plasmid DNA at around the 32:25.

    Transcript of Karen Kingston October 20, 2021 Report on Plasmid DNA in Pfizer mRNA ‘Vaccines’
    “We were never told what was in these vials and that is criminal. And I just want to be clear that this does change your DNA.”

    https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/plasmid-dna-is-a-known-pfizer-ingredient

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        1. oh for sure.
          but why aren’t vaccine companies held to the same standard?
          whenever i get a prescription refilled, there is always a packet included with possible side effects, what’s in it and possible allergic reactions…
          why are vaccines excluded from this process?

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            1. well yeah you and i get it. but these people screaming about organic everything aren’t they the least bit curious about what’s in their vaxxes?

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  22. “City reverses policy, will allow free speech in public park — Flip-flop comes as a result of lawsuit over restrictions”
    By Bob Unruh
    Published April 29, 2023 at 5:16pm

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ WND: “A Pennsylvania county is reversing its ban on free speech in a public park after being ordered to take that action by a federal judge. The case involved Kevin Gaughen and Dave Kocur who were kicked out of a Doughin County park and decided to sue for the government’s infringement of their 1st Amendment rights.

    The Foundation for Individual Rights and Express worked on the case, and lawyer Jeff Zeman said, “Kevin and Dave knew their First Amendment rights and tried to stand up for them. But Dauphin County insisted on ignoring the commands of the Constitution. That’s why FIRE got involved.”

    The fight developed in Fort Hunter Park, where the county’s parks director imposed a ban on political speech. The county official banned the two from collecting petition signatures in the park. But the court order to the county to reverse course “acknowledges that Dauphin County’s ban on political speech violated the First Amendment,” FIRE reported.

    The county will also pay $91,000 to settle the case. “This victory isn’t just a victory for Dave and me, it’s a victory for everyone in Dauphin County,” said Gaughen. Gaughen, a board member of the Keystone Party of Pennsylvania, joined Kocur to go to the park to try to collect signatures from voters to be on the ballot.

    “On June 11, 2022, the pair stood in an open area of Fort Hunter Park, part of the Dauphin County public park system, asking passersby to sign nomination petitions. They engaged with park visitors about their new political party for about an hour before park security guards approached them and ordered them to stop. The duo correctly pointed out they had the right to engage in political speech in a public park. Then Parks Director Anthea Stebbins arrived and ordered Gaughen and Kocur to stop what they were doing, telling them the county bars all political activity inside Fort Hunter Park,” FIRE explained.

    The lawsuit, which was filed after the county initially rejected a request to correct its policies, resulted in the end of the “unconstitutional ban on speech in a public park” and vindication for the plaintiffs. “It shouldn’t have taken a lawsuit for Dauphin County to open their parks to political activity,” said FIRE attorney Conor Fitzpatrick. “Thanks to Kevin and Dave, Pennsylvanians can now talk politics in Fort Hunter Park without fear of government censorship.”

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    1. unless the county has to reimburse them for the lawsuit, or the lawsuit was litigated pro bono, the fact that they had to pay for it IS A PENALTY. They are paying for free speech.
      this is lawfare in action.

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  27. “Michelle Obama brought ‘her musical skills’ to a surprise onstage appearance at a Bruce Springsteen concert on Friday. The former first lady joined the iconic musician, who is currently on an international tour with the E Street Band, for his performance in Barcelona, Spain, this weekend. According to The Independent, Obama, and actress Kate Capshaw teamed up with Springsteen’s wife and bandmate Patti Scialfa to sing backup vocals for his 1984 song “Glory Days.” Footage from the concert shows Barack Obama and Capshaw’s husband, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, were in attendance, dancing and filming near the stage. Just fuckin’ shoot me and be done with it…”


    “This is an Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell bomber flying over the crater of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy in May of 1945.”

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    1. many are pointing to mooch’s presence as a harbinger of her running in 2024. i think she’s trying to come up with more book material cuz it’s a great grift for her.

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  28. “French luxury tour operator Safrans du Monde offers deep-pocket adventures a unique way to travel. Using a chartered passenger jet, the company operates multi-day “air cruises” that take travelers around the world in an all-inclusive itinerary.

    The tours include the private flights, 5-star hotels during stopovers, three meals a day, and excursions in each city. Currently, there are two trips posted on the company’s website: the 22-day World Tour Grands Classiques, which visits places in South America, Australia, and Asia, and the 24-day World Tour Special Edition, which treks to Mexico, New Zealand, and Israel, among other countries.

    A Safrans du Monde spokesperson told Insider that reservations have been “booming” for two weeks and the company is “confident that the plane will be filled in no time, as every year.” Prices range from $75,000 to $122,000 per person, with two fare options available — Club Safrans and Première Safrans.”

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    1. hmmmm…bet the pilots are required NOT to have been vaccinated…but if you were a “peasant” trying to get rid of a few elites…this would attract your attention, no?

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  32. H/T M

    EXCERPT: “Last Friday, I attended The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Gala, a sprawling and swanky affair featuring many fine presentations, a surprise Dierks Bentley mini-concert for the country music enthusiasts (yours truly among them), and an extravagant post-dinner fireworks show over the Potomac River. But the highlight of the evening, bar none, was former Fox News star Tucker Carlson’s electric keynote address and his (all-too-brief) colloquy on stage afterward with Heritage’s exceptional new president, Kevin Roberts.

    Carlson’s speech was both wildly entertaining and poignant, at times slapstick funny and at other times humorously self-deprecating about his Episcopalian faith. But as Carlson began to reach his peroration, the key substantive takeaway he wished to impart unto his audience became clear. The relevant political and cultural battle lines in the year 2023 are not those befitting a civil and polite discussion where both sides are reasonable, both sides pursue their own version of the common good, and the best think tank white paper wins out in the end, Carlson cautioned. No, our current civilizational struggle is not reflective of a refined policy debate between amicable partisans; rather, it is one that implicates fundamentally distinct theological and anthropological visions of mankind—of man’s very biology and his relation with his fellow man, the state, and God Himself.

    I immediately hearkened back to an interview Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams did with The Atlantic in October 2021, where Williams had this provocative (but accurate) line about America’s contemporary fault lines: “Even during the Civil War—I think we’re more divided now than we were then. As Lincoln said, we all prayed to the same God. We all believed in the same Constitution. We just differed over the question of slavery.” This is the precise sentiment that Carlson was getting at in his keynote speech at the Heritage gala last Friday.

    We in the audience did not know it yet, at the time of Carlson’s speech—nor did Carlson, for that matter—but the broadcasting star had already given his last searing monologue for Fox News. In a stunning development, Fox News broke the news to their highest-rated host on Monday morning that he was fired. Hopefully, Carlson will retain something approximating his exceptional level of cultural and political influence in whatever role he next serves, because his witness to truth and civilizational sanity has never been more necessary.”

    https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-struggle-civilizational-sanity-opinion-1797199

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    1. there is a lot of truth in what tucker said.
      i don’t know that it’s the “right” that’s gotten farther away from the middle.
      we have been pounded with “tolerance” and “acceptance” from the left–but the left is less tolerant and less accepting of the right’s beliefs.

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  33. “On friendship with self-righteous cowards — Three years in, the bell has rung. No, I don’t expect Covidians and vaccine fanatics to apologize. But the ones so deluded as to think THEY still should be judging US – I’m done with them. Forever.”
    ALEX BERENSON
    MAY 1, 2023

    EXCERPT: “We all lost friends. Most of us lost relatives too. Not to Covid, of course. With some sad exceptions, almost no one lost anyone who wasn’t already over 75 or extremely overweight or ill to Covid. We lost friends to the government and media-fed lockdown panic, and then to the rancor over the mRNAs.

    They told us that we were selfish and stupid. That we didn’t understand science. Or vaccines. That we were risking our lives and theirs out of pure spite, or maybe fear of needles. That the government was right to make us choose between our jobs and an experimental biotechnology. That we shouldn’t be allowed in movie theaters or stores or restaurants or planes.

    Then they stopped talking to us at all. They disinvited us from family gatherings and parties. They said our children couldn’t play with theirs. They looked away when they saw us on the street.

    You may have reached out to some of them. I did. Not to convince them, that was impossible, but simply to say, Hey, I’m still the same person, I don’t want to fight about this, we don’t have to talk about it. Except they wanted to talk about it. To vent. To let us know how immoral and wrong we were. “Everyone in medicine thinks you’re a fool,” a person I considered a friend said to me, after he found out that I had suggested children should not get the jabs.
    —
    About that…..”

    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-friendship-with-self-righteous

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    1. He really nails it, IMO.

      “So. They were cowards. Cowardice is forgivable. And they were wrong. Being wrong is forgivable. But at this point their inability to admit the truth – if not to us, to themselves – that’s not forgivable.

      Where I stand, as of May 1, 2023.

      I no longer expect apologies from anyone. If my friends want to pretend the last three years didn’t happen, I am okay pretending. I will never really trust them again, unless they admit the truth or at least show some understanding of how wrong they were. But when you have long histories with people, and you know their flaws, and they know yours, you have to make allowances, just as they do for you.

      What I am NOT willing to do any longer is suffer their disapproval. I have quietly extended olive branches over the last few months to a number of folks. But what I’ve realized recently is my willingness to turn the other cheek has a sell-by date, and it is here. Three years in, anyone who still presumes to judge those of us who were proven right has shown himself to be not just a coward but a fool.

      As my dad used to say, forever is a mighty long time. And I don’t have enough friends to lose them lightly. But I am done with these people.”

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      1. at Thanksgiving last year, my daughter in law stated proudly–I followed all the protocols and never got cv. hubby and i shrugged and said we followed none of the protocols and didn’t get it either. but we’re not scared of it either.
        her jaw dropped

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  38. i haven’t heard about this…anyone???

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    1. First I’ve heard of it!!! But it’s apparently true….it is likewise true that you can’t live in the immediate DC area on that salary – nowhere close to it – which is why the reps are SUPPOSED to serve FROM their home states!!!!!

      “You may find it shocking to hear that members of Congress can now get reimbursements for housing, meals and utilities, but that’s what is happening now. This change was set in motion before Republicans took back Congress and it seems their $174,000 salary just isn’t enough to live in DC.”

      https://therightscoop.com/%F0%9F%A4%91%F0%9F%A4%91%F0%9F%A4%91-did-you-know-members-of-congress-can-now-get-reimbursed-for-housing-meals-and-utilities-in-dc/

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      1. dang it!
        Trump should build or buy a hotel and remodel it into a dormitory for congress so they don’t need to lease fancy ass apartments.

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        1. This is why so many of them bunk together, sharing apartments. Jason Chaffetz had a cot set up in his office and lived there. They have their own exercise room/sauna/showers so he used them. And they can eat in the Capitol dining room while only being charged a nominal fee. Now it’s all free!!!!

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  39. My grass is growing waaaay too fast! Called and arranged for my usual mower guy, Jerry, to come and pick it up for service. I hardly used it the year before last and I didn’t have him service it last year so it really needs a good cleaning, oil change, etc. I took the battery out over the winter so we are going to have to push it onto his trailer.

    I’ll need to get the air compressor plugged in and the tires aired up before he gets here – he said it would be a few days. I was half afraid to find out he had died when I called since it’s been so long since I’ve seen or talked to him. His wife died a few years ago and he’s probably at least 80, maybe? He’s one of the coffee crowd at SM and I used to talk to him there all the time. His son works on my truck for me.

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  42. REALPOTUS in Scotland to open a new golf course near his resort
    FTA
    Former U.S. President Donald Trump traveled to Scotland on Monday to open a new golf course at his resort near Aberdeen.

    Trump and his son Eric were greeted by two pipers, a red carpet and a 10-vehicle motorcade as they stepped off his private jet with an American flag painted on the tailfin.

    “It’s great to be home — this was the home of my mother,” Trump said before getting into one of his cars.

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/donald-trump-travels-scotland-new-golf-course-opening

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  44. Seneca the Elder
    Seneca the Elder
    May 1, 2023 12:39 pm

    Can anyone tell me why criminal scumbag Hunter Crackhead is being treated like royalty because he showed up for his court appearance?

    Are the taxpayers on the hook for his degenerate lifestyle?

    The entire Biden crime family belongs in super max prison.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033555/Hunter-Biden-arrives-Arkansas-court-face-baby-mama-Lunden-Roberts.html
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    ClivusMultrum
    ClivusMultrum
    May 1, 2023 12:41 pm
    Reply to Seneca the Elder

    It’s like a train wreck . . . no one really wants it to happen, but once it begins, you just can’t stop watching.
    7
    Reply
    The Gipper Lives
    The Gipper Lives
    May 1, 2023 2:08 pm
    Reply to Seneca the Elder

    A: He is being bodyguarded to keep from being served with papers demanding his financials. Were he to be served, he would have to disclose the Syndicate’s business or perjure himself. That’s why.

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  45. no swamp
    no swamp
    May 1, 2023 1:34 pm

    On Bannon’s warroom, Kash Patel urges Mike Turner, chair of intelligence committee and other chairs to remove clearances for 51 signors of Russian Disinformation letter. Ret. Col. Derek Harvey, says that Mike Turner will never do that, he is way too close with democrats on the committee.

    What the h is going on here? If roles were reversed, Dems would have put those 51 folks in jail already. Republicans on the other hand are spineless.

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  46. Lurker360
    May 1, 2023 1:42 pm

    SCOTUS Grants Review of Case That Will Gut the Federal Bureaucracy
    In the biggest news to come out of the Supreme Court of the United States since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Court has granted a review of Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo. In its deliberations, the court will deal with the question of whether to overrule the infamous Chevron Doctrine, a ’70s-era precedent that granted broad powers to the bureaucratic state to interpret vague, often narrow statutes with near zero accountability.

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/05/01/scotus-grants-review-of-case-that-will-gut-the-federal-bureaucracy-n739579

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      1. i wonder can EO’s accomplish all this?
        let’s face it…President Trump’s EO called for the agencies to reclassify their employees so that schedule could be adjusted and the fat could be trimmed. Only one Office did it by the time he left–Accounting & Budget iirc…
        there will be so much resistance and foot dragging and stalling going on. they will delay, delay, delay like they’ve always done–no matter what the EO says

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  50. Troublemaker10
    May 1, 2023 4:06 pm

    Dem Senator Who Attacked Conservative Justices’ Wife’s Activism Pushed Legislation Related To His Own Wife’s Work

    Excerpt:

    Mark Paoletta, a Schaerr-Jaffe law firm partner who has represented Ginni Thomas, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Congress does not have conflict of interest laws.

    “It’s outrageous, but not surprising that Senator Whitehouse is attacking the originalist Justices on the Supreme Court on bogus ethics and conflicts of interest charges, when he is directly helping his wife’s organization and her organization is helping him,” he said. “Unlike the Executive branch and the judiciary, Congress is not subject to any conflict of interest law regarding their work. In fact, the Senate ethics manual explicitly permits Senators to work on matters that directly affect their financial interests and their spouses’ employers or clients.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/01/sheldon-whitehouse-wife-ocean-consulting-conflict-interest-supreme-court-spouses-ethics-judiciary-dems/

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