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In the world of Substack where I have no idea what I am doing, I am finding consistency to be my best friend.

Kristian's avatar

President Trump called the woman pictured below a “loser” for being captured. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DOGE ordered her service history to be deleted from the Department of Defense archives because she was “DEI” and “woke.”

Ruby Bradley was serving as an Amy nurse in the Philippines when she was taken prisoner just weeks after t…

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Students speak out in grassroots campaign for MEVSD levy. A 2nd conviction in a charitable scam of a central Ohio veterans charity. And gas prices remain well above $3 in 43040
Adam Kinzinger's avatar

I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period

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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.

Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.

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I can’t fault him for the beginning. I think he was caught off guard just like the rest of us. I fault him for his (mostly) pathetic cabinet appointments and his hiring of people playing for the other team. He’s supposed to be smarter than that. I don’t fault him for being lied to at first, I fault him for not understanting the lies and making it right. I mostly fault him for his inability to say “I was wrong.” People died because of his decisions. My father and father in law were two of them. …

Lilly's avatar

Smarter than that? Why bc he had been POTUS before?He was in the know?

People died because of him? You are slightly confused. Trump didn't make SARS II and he didn't hand it off to Wuhun when Obama decided that these viruses were too dangerous to be on US soil. 🙄

He shut down travel from China . Got called a racist .

I think you are skipping the fact that this virus had gain of function, hell, the entire chymera is a gain of function.

For you to blame deaths on Trump signals that you really have n…

nice post Lilly, keep at it

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