When You Can’t Trust Your Own Eyes

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Actors and actresses are often approached for roles in movies or television that require more than just good acting skills.  Some rolls require difficult stunts or heroic feats the attractive star may not feel comfortable doing—or even capable of doing.  Enter the stunt double. 

The expensive actor or actress is spared any chance of harm, while the public is fooled.

In other roles, an actor or actress may be required to do a risqué scene that exposes parts of their bodies they are unwilling to reveal.  Enter the body double. 

These doubles, by their very nature, HAVE to be very convincing.  Our movie experience wouldn’t be the same, if they were obviously fake.  But how far could doubles go? Could we be fooled for any length of time? Enter the movie Dave.

Dave, starring Kevin Kline, was a 1993 tale about Dave Kovic (Kline), the owner of an employment agency who is hired to stand in for the President of The United States, Bill Mitchell (also Kline) at a Washington D.C. function while the Commander in Chief has a tryst with a staff member only to become his full-time replacement when Mitchell suffers a near-fatal stroke during that tryst. The Chief of Staff and the President have been conducting unsavory business which could be exposed if the President passes away and the VP assumes the office.  The Chief of Staff decides to implicate the VP and run for the office himself, but is later thwarted by Kline who, as the President, confesses publicly, exonerates the VP and blames the Chief of Staff.  He then fakes a stroke, and is “replaced” by the real President who later passes away.

Enter Joe Biden.  It seems the left is attempting a real life Dave-redo using body doubles for Joe Biden.  Keeping Old Joe out of the public eye as much as possible is essential to fooling a lot of people, but that isn’t always going to work—as cameras are everywhere and they capture everything. There are pictures and theories about the different Joe Bidens, and as a result, the White House has revealed Old Joe has had some work done…hair plugs definitely but maybe other work as well? 

Enter John Fetterman.  John has undergone some trauma after he arrived on the national political scene—a stroke which has left him somewhat incapacitated—which might account for the differing looks he sports.

In some photos you can see the signature ears…in others it appears his ears have been tucked back.  In some photos he is haggard looking and then in newer photos, he looks 10 years younger. And the mustache? If I were a suspicious person, I would point out it’s a good distraction.  You look at John and think something’s off but you quickly dismiss your concerns—oh it’s the mustache that’s making me think that. Disregard the tucked back ears, the softer, younger eye area and less pronounced Frankenstein-ish brow.   

And the signature tattoos that seemed to disappear in a recent picture? That’s a camera trick due to the rotation of his arms.  No one’s trying to fool us.

Enter Rand Paul…

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131 thoughts on “When You Can’t Trust Your Own Eyes”

  1. Morning All!
    dark and chilly…i already miss the days when it was already light outside at 5:30!
    we saw 2 hummers at one feeder yesterday, so we’re keeping them out for migrators possibly.

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    1. Good morning, Pat! Brilliant write-up, my friend! In the FJB montage, the ones on the right all look fake to me. Whether it’s from surgeries or it really IS a fake, will we ever know for sure??? Still dark here at 61 – a few more hot days before we take the plunge to highs in the 60’s!

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    2. Or you’re someone like me who doesn’t take the phone into the bedroom when I go to bed….and forgets to check it when I come in from my walk-abouts!

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            1. I’ll always at least listen – I finally managed to find a balance between the strict, restrictive upbringing and mores vs. the wide open, crazy life I started out living as an adult. I was probably more open-minded than most after that childhood – I was soooo DONE with secrets!!!

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  4. lol…birdbrain

    Citizen 817
    September 30, 2023 12:24 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    13h
    MAGA, or I, will never go for Birdbrain Nikki Haley. No loyalty, plenty of lies! “I will never run against our great President,” she said,“he has done an outstanding job.” To which I responded,“How nice of you to say, Nikki,” knowing full well that her words mean nothing. She even came to Mar-a-Lago with her family, “bearing gifts.” Anyway, Birdbrain doesn’t have the TALENT or TEMPERAMENT to do the job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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    2. Sounds to me like someone who’s jealous, personally! Envious of others’ success! Well, get off your ass and make your OWN success, jackwad!!!

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      1. it’s not his place to decide if something should be built. it’s his place to decide if it’s LEGAL to build it–that’s all! he is overstepping his authority and declaring himself king. his head is entirely too big

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    1. From 2021:

      EXCERPT: “The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it is suspending its enforcement of the Biden administration’s new rules ordering larger employers to either require that their workers get vaccinated against “emergency temporary standard” or undergo weekly testing. OSHA, which posted the announcement on its website, added that it “remains confident in its authority to protect workers in emergencies.”

      The agency’s decision to stop implementing and enforcing the new rule comes after a federal appeals court on Friday reaffirmed an earlier temporary halt to the Biden administration’s vaccine rule and ordered OSHA to stop enforcing or implementing the regulation.

      The future of the government directive remains uncertain, with the case headed to the Sixth Circuit Court in Ohio, which the National Law Review says comprises a majority of Republican-appointed judges.

      Meanwhile, businesses across the nation have mounting questions over what this means for the new vaccine rule, a 490-page order with complex requirements that experts say will require time and effort to ensure compliance. Under the original plan, by December 5, employers with more than 100 employees must choose whether their workers must get fully vaccinated or undergo weekly testing,

      By January 4, those businesses must implement the rule — a timeline that doesn’t provide employers much leeway if the Sixth Circuit upholds the rule. Because of the tight deadline, employment attorneys have said they are encouraging businesses to move forward with compliance to avoid being caught unprepared if the regulation, also called an “emergency temporary standard” (or ETS), withstands legal challenge…..”

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-mandate-osha-suspending-enforcement/

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    1. eilert (@guest_1163277)Online
      Reply to pat frederick
      September 30, 2023 07:09

      Here is the sauce

      BOMBSHELL! 60% of ActBlue Donations Are Coming From China – Amalgamated Bank & Divvy Involved Too – FEC Lawsuit Pending

      “Update into the FEC investigation involving money apparently being laundered through ActBlue, many of which are through the home addresses… pic.twitter.com/rgKlQBr5pU

      — UltraMJTruth (@MJTruthUltra) September 29, 2023

      Here is the sauce

      BOMBSHELL! 60% of ActBlue Donations Are Coming From China – Amalgamated Bank & Divvy Involved Too – FEC Lawsuit Pending

      “Update into the FEC investigation involving money apparently being laundered through ActBlue, many of which are through the home addresses of ELDERLY people.

      Election Watch will file a complaint with the FEC in DC, wait the required 120 days, and then file a lawsuit in the Northern District of Virgina.

      Included in that lawsuit , includes evidence that over 60% of the money involved is coming from CHINA!

      ActBlue feeds money to other PACS, such as Emily’s List, Color of Change etc…

      Much of this information came from Internet tracing, internet traffic patterns looking at where the transactions are coming from & where they’re going to.

      There’s also receipts of large amounts of monies on the FEC website to financial processors like Amalgamated Bank, particularly the Washington DC branch of Amalgamated Bank, one of these institutions making many of these transactions.

      Divvy is also named; they are a debit card processor out of Utah. There’s large amounts of money going through that.”

      This Video

      https://rumble.com/v2wp1rk-bombshell-60-of-actblue-donations-are-coming-from-china-fec-lawsuit-pending.html

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  10. seeing this story headline about mooochelle on some rich guy’s yacht. anyway there was this picture…here’s MY caption.
    Yup, barack is only this big……
    and here’s the picture

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  11. really long and detailed article about the other side of leased solar panels on a roof–lack of support, lack of transparency, turnover in ownership of the companies initially selling the product tot he service of the product and so on…
    it left me with the feeling it’s a scam. pushed too quickly on a population without adequate control of the sellers at all. (when a solar company goes out of business, it’s contracts are purchased–but the maintenance support is overlooked–so you keep paying for your lease without knowing IF your panels are still working)

    https://time.com/6317339/rooftop-solar-power-failure/

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  12. Starting to get light here and I’m seeing some fog, too. GT is once again sitting by the planter, refusing to come onto the patio. War of wills goin’ on here! LOL

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  14. Got a staring contest going on here – GT is sitting on the lower level of the patio, peaking over the top at the food and Jake is at the door watching — for the last 10 minutes and still on-going…

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      1. She finally caved and came up to eat – Jake is watching in that direction but he’s lying down and can’t even see over the bottom of the door. She checks now and then on his and my whereabouts then goes back to eating. Ooops….he’s gotten up now and is sitting at the door again, ears pricked forward, watching her. No growls or anything.

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          1. I’ve thought more than once about getting another cat to keep him company but….sheesh! That’s twice the cat food and litter and cleaning the litter box twice as often! And it would have to be declawed since he is…..nope! Ain’t happening!

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  16. made me laugh

    Straightforward from here:
    1. Harris steps down as VP
    2. Newsom appoints her Senator
    3. They tell Biden to make Newsom VP
    4. Biden is mauled to death by Commander
    5. President Newsom https://t.co/QiLy3Ai7YH
    — Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) September 29, 2023

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  19. R Green
    R Green
    September 30, 2023 8:46 am

    REVEALED: Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Partly Owned a Chinese Company That Sold Spyware to U.S. Military
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2022/01/26/revealed-sen-dianne-feinsteins-husband-partly-owned-a-chinese-company-that-sold-spyware-to-u-s-military/

    Peter Schweizer’s new book Red -Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win…

    ‘ Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) husband Richard Blum was part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military. The military has never been able to calculate how much sensitive data these computers allowed China to steal.

    In a total coincidence that could not possibly have been related in any way to Feinstein’s friendship with the tyrants of Beijing, her husband did a great deal of lucrative business with Chinese companies, including entities run by the Communist government and linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).’

    … “The Pentagon released an audit in 2019 that found the Department of Defense (DoD) still has not formally banned computers from Lenovo, now the largest personal computer company in China, even though the Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Intelligence Directorate have both identified the machines as cyberespionage risks. The U.S. Air Force purchased 1,378 Lenovo products worth $1.9 million as recently as 2018.”

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  23. wiped clean? or lost?

    Winston
    September 30, 2023 9:41 am

    FBI Ordered to Return Hunter Biden’s Laptop to Its Rightful Owner
    ‘This is not an admission by Plaintiff that John Paul Mac Isaac (or others) in fact possessed any particular laptop containing electronically stored data belonging to Plaintiff…’
    September 29, 2023

    https://headlineusa.com/fbi-return-laptop-rightful-owner/

    (Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Four years after seizing it, the FBI has been ordered to return Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop—potentially containing numerous damning documents—to its rightful owner, Delaware computer repairman John Paul Mac Isaac, Just the News reported.

    Mac Isaac took legal possession after Biden perplexingly abandoned the equipment at the Wilmington store, known as the Mac Shop, which he was forced to close indefinitely in 2020 following a firestorm of national attention.

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  24. yup drag your feet and claim it’s part of an investigation.

    Winston
    September 30, 2023 9:22 am

    Want to never reveal something via FOIA within a relevant timeframe? Just slow walk or constantly stall any investigation in order to claim it’s an “ongoing investigation.” Trump needs to end that loophole if elected.

    FBI refuses to release documents in probe into possible nationwide voter registration fraud
    Bureau responds to Just the News FOIA request by suggesting the investigation is still ongoing.
    September 26, 2023

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/fbi-denies-foia-request-docs-investigation-possible-nationwide-voter

    The FBI took over a 2020 probe into voter registration fraud that began in Michigan but has denied a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the investigation, citing an exemption in that law regarding ongoing investigations.

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    1. That is a law that MUST be revised, altho elimination is an attractive alternative. But I can see how a REAL legitimate case could be damaged w/too much publicity. Just another case of taking a good, basic idea and bastardizing it!!!

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  27. where’s HIS $250 MILLION dollar fine?????

    toothpick
    toothpick
    September 30, 2023 10:48 am

    D.C.s go to Judge

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-democratic-it-staffer-imran-awan-avoids-jail-time

    A former House Democratic IT staffer associated with ex-Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was sentenced Tuesday to three months of supervised release along with time served after he pleaded guilty last month to lying on a bank loan application.

    During Imran Awan’s sentencing hearing in D.C., U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan condemned the “unbelievable onslaught of scurrilous media attacks” and “baseless accusations” that were “lobbed at [Awan] from the highest branches of government,” according to CNN. Chutkan added that Awan had “suffered sufficiently” and “has paid a price that he will continue to pay.”

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    1. Ah, yes….the Awan brothers – such an intricate web that was/is!!!! There is an ancillary connection to the Seth Rich murder as well!

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  28. Yeah! I got my solar-powered flood light for the exterior of my patio, motion-activated! NOW I’ll be able to see what wanders around my garden beds at night! Time to haul out the ladder, got the drill with the right size drill bit installed, ready to go! Been looking for a solar-powered one at a reasonable price for a while now. Those I’ve seen in the stores are $60-70 – PCH for $20.00 plus shipping! Can’t beat that…now to see if it works…

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      1. All done! The lights came on when I first turned it on. This should be interesting! Just checked my lopes – a HUGE haul – I swear I checked them yesterday and I only brought the one that was loose already. Three of these had come loose and started to split already, the 4th came off as soon as I touched it. I’ve now got one still ripening, about 5 new ones growing, and that will be it for the year, considering the coming cold weather. Next year….I WILL have it much better organized and prune much more diligently, with hopefully a trellis down the entire center and tilled properly.

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          1. They begin cracking around the point where the vine attaches but it’s really hard to tell – it’s a combo of watching for that and the color – when it is entirely changed to the orang color, it is too ripe – they begin to split before that and the bugs move in. If, like today, they haven’t gone that deep, it’s ok, but once they make it to the center, it’s too late.

            This is from just ONE melon, with 5 in the fridge:

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              1. Oh, it is! Trust me! I texted Leeann and called Michael – he’ll be up later today or early tomorrow and is bringing me one of the smaller of Steve’s watermelons since I love that, too! He’ll also take Steve a cantelope – he’s never been able to get them to grow. I told M I can fill Steve in if he wants.

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  32. San Francisco mayor suggests drug testing welfare recipients and those recipients are angry!
    they are saying it’s their decision to use drugs or not…which is true. but taxpayers should not be funding their use.
    FTA
    “It’s our choice to use if we want to use,” resident Amy Brown said of the policy, which Democratic mayor London Breed proposed this week as a measure to fight the city’s homelessness and crime epidemic that’s causing businesses to flee.

    “I want to cry just thinking about it,” Shelly Brown, another resident, told the San Francisco Chronicle in interviews the paper conducted with drug users.
    “What are they going to do, starve to death?” resident Clayton Johnson said. “What if they have kids? How are you just going to cut them off?”

    Breed this week said the proposal would bring “accountability.”

    “We need to make a significant change,” Breed said. “No more ‘anything goes’ without accountability, no more handouts without accountability.”

    The measure needs the approval of the city’s Board of Supervisors to go into effect. Some see the proposal as an attempt by Breed to fight for her political life as numerous challengers have joined the upcoming mayoral race, campaigning on promises to address crime.

    https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/its-our-choice-to-use-drug-users-erupt-after-san-francisco-moves-to-tie-welfare-to-drug-testing/

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  34. FFS

    WeThePeople2016
    WeThePeople2016
    September 30, 2023 2:27 pm

    I am seeing this all over Truth and now Telegram.

    BREAKING: Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was caught on camera pulling the Cannon fire alarm ahead of this motion to adjourn vote as Dems tried to delay the CR vote.

    @GeneralMCNews

    BREAKING: Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was caught on camera pulling the Cannon fire alarm ahead of this motion to adjourn vote as Dems tried to delay the CR vote. This is a crime with punishable by six months in jail.

    https://truthsocial.com/@dannyc/111155481930925307

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    1. SMH – talk about juvenile behavior!!! Funny – I just watched an episode of Rizzoli and Isles where some kid pulled the alarm and one of the group stole money from Rizzoli’s Mom’s purse.

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        1. Cop show set in Boston – Angie Harmon as Rizzoli (detective whose brother is also a cop, Mom is played by Lorraine Bracco); Sasha Alexander as Isles (County Medical Examiner). Rizzoli is the brash tomboy type, Isles is an Elon but incredibly naive. Good show!

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          1. my Pop LOVED cop shows.
            i do not share his passion…LOL
            I will pass it along to hubby though–he enjoys them. maybe a dvd set for Christmas–is it that good?

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            1. I think it’s great! They are best buds and play off of each other beautifully! Jane is a bad ass detective, one younger brother who is a cop working towards becoming a detective; from the hard streets of Boston, whereas Maura is from a rich family, adopted who finds out her real Dad is a notorious Boston mob boss, wanted for a string of murders; birth Mom was told she died at birth. There is also the Italian family drama – another younger brother who had a drinking issue and accidentally mowed down a priest and is always in trouble. Spent a few years in prison, came home; had a one-night stand with a young woman who then hooked up with his Dad (who had left their Mom) and ended up preggers, not knowing which was the Dad….very funny, too! And hits a lot of real life issues along the way.

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  39. “Propaganda and The US Government: Is This The End of the American Dream?”
    ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
    SEP 30, 2023

    EXCERPT: “The classic tome “Propaganda,” written in 1928, was an attempt to both alert the public to the power of propaganda; all the while, allying the public’s fear of propaganda. The overall messaging of the book now seems so naïve. One of the core themes and underlying beliefs of the book is that there are elements in society that are not corruptible.

    As an example, the book ends with the thesis that newspapers are the arbiter of news, thus the editors, writers and owners are the gatekeepers ensuring the public of a fair rendition of both sides of any issue. That the idea of newspaper spreading propaganda was virtually unthinkable.

    This may have been how journalism was perceived in the past, but that is no longer the case (if it ever was). The idea that the government or a political party might buy up enough advertising space, so that a newspaper editor would think twice about running a story contrary to the government’s position, was not even a consideration. The view was that newspaper writers, editors or the owners couldn’t be bribed or converted to one cause or another seems to not enter the author’s thoughtscape. That the newspapers of today would become advocacy conduits for one set of beliefs held by the government over another set of beliefs seemed farfetched in 1928. Now it seems unthinkable that it would be any other way.

    Propaganda is a form of manipulation of public opinion by creating a specific narrative that aligns with a political agenda. It uses techniques like nudging, repetition, emotional appeals, selective information, and hypnotic language patterns to influence the subconscious mind, bypassing critical thinking and shaping beliefs and values.

    Propaganda is made up of truth, almost truths, half-truths and truth out of context as well as false truths. Often, its purpose is not evil but it meant to manipulate. This is an important concept that this classic book makes over and over again. Governments and organizations use propaganda for good and evil.

    In general, propaganda is classified by colors: White, Gray and Black Propaganda…..”.
    https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/propaganda-and-the-us-government

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  40. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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