Last Halloween my friend and I gave kids the option of king-sized candy or homegrown potatoes and the results were...surprising

Yeah, I’m gonna need someone with a platform to make this one viral. @ShawnRyan762 you got time to address this before they delete it? 🤣😳 I’m just a girl who married a soldier, I don’t know all my guns, but I know when the person telling the story isn’t one that’s lived the story. Shout out to the comment section for making it funnier and confirming what I saw.

President Trump says importing more foreign beef will bring prices down. I understand the goal but why is the “America First” answer to expensive beef: more FOREIGN beef? We have American ranchers READY to feed American families. The problem is that federal rules and a highly consolidated meatpacking industry make it unnecessarily difficult for smaller producers to process their cattle and sell that beef directly to people in their own communities. Congressman Thomas Massie’s PRIME Act offers a more structural solution: let states allow locally raised meat processed at qualifying local facilities to be sold directly to consumers, restaurants and grocery stores WITHOUT forcing every small farmer through the same expensive federal system built for industrial meatpackers. Would the PRIME Act lower every beef price overnight? No. America’s cattle herd is still historically small, and rebuilding it takes time. But it WOULD open another path between American ranchers and American consumers, expand local processing and reduce dependence on corporate middlemen. Importing beef may provide TEMPORARY price relief. Passing the PRIME Act would help build the decentralized American food system MAHA has been promising. Before IMPORTING the solution, have we REMOVED the barriers preventing American farmers from becoming the solution?

TLDR: it must be nice to believe in gentle cobras, benevolent governments, and charitable executives. So, it isn’t at all convenient that right as the economy is about to do a swan dive a giant corporation makes an announcement that will help prop a portion of the market? An announcement on a thing that we suspected was being held back from market, and that Trump needs and wants on his administration’s record? Sure execs want to be rich, but they already are. They don’t need to compete and be first to release something in order to get the biggest profit anymore. It’s all strategy. They love the game enough that they are willing to strategically release info and products when it has the potential to be some of the only good news and people will rally around it. Looking good on graphs is more important to a company than actually saving lives and curing cancer, no matter what their mission statement says. A cancer cure will also end some of their other very profitable revenue streams. If you think it’s cheaper for governments to pay for expensive new therapies and then more years of pension after that, you really need to visit a nursing home or elder care facility and ask how much healthcare and housing is actually covered. Ask how many denials of care they get. Ask what limits, caps, and policies leave people on death’s doorstep for years just because it’s actually cheaper to pay for minimal palliative care than more expensive interventions, therapies, and cures that would return LIFE to people’s years. This is not a budget win for governments and won’t be a win for our older generations either. The government would prefer them gone to limit both population and payouts. You have entirely too much faith in the motivations of governing bodies. Dead people don’t cost anything. This will become a product that only private pay or private insurance will cover. This won’t be for the masses. But, yay, capitalism says they don’t technically HAVE to care about people, just markets, perception, and profit margins. Which makes watching for the right time to reveal more important than getting it to fellow humans as soon as it’s ready. I wish for just one week some of you guys could live with people below the 100-125k income line. It isn’t all about stupidity, bad investments, illiteracy, or whatever else you like to blame. Real people, good people, intelligent people exist in a world no market can or will ever help. You just don’t want to believe that the people at the top got there by deleting parts of their humanity and don’t give a rat’s rear end about helping anyone unless it helps them and their portfolio first and foremost. I voted for Trump 3 times because I believed in capitalist and conservative values. My husband gave 22 years and his spine to this country because he and I believe in it so much. But the loss of nearly all empathy to disdain for suicidal empathy is now showing in the growing class divide. The common response of “you just don’t understand all that you have because of capitalism” is just a way to keep from having to look at where it hurts more than it helps. Congratulations on being a beneficiary of the markets and your continued belief that execs care about helping people with their products and charitable (tax write off) giving. It doesn’t make you right in your judgements of others. @TiffMoodNukes I *might* need you to give this guy and @elonmusk (for blanket agreeing) one of your colorful verbal rakings that I can’t do without it erasing my attempt to make a more civil point. These attitudes, and lack of awareness about life beyond markets, are just mind-boggling to me.

The irony here is pretty hard to ignore. Millions of Americans can’t afford to miss a paycheck when they get sick, but members of Congress can be gone for months and still collect their full salary. Forget politics for a second. Why do the people making the rules get protections and benefits that millions of the people paying their salaries don’t?

If we truly wish to discover and nurture the divine beauty that surrounds us and for which we were made, and to share it with those around us, we must learn to see it in the wrinkles of an elderly person as in the tender face of a child as well, in the maturity of an adult as in the liveliness of a young person as well, in work clothes and tools as well as in festive decorations.

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🤣🤣 One of the better “comments turned song” I’ve seen.

🔥Sen. Rand Paul SKEWERS Fauci as he concludes his opening remarks: "You are here today under duress. You are here today because of the court ordering it. President Biden issued you a sweeping parting, extending back to 2014 — the same pardon he gave to his son, Hunter.  A pardon may protect a person from criminal prosecution, but IT DOES NOT REWRITE HISTORY. It does not erase documents. It does not convert a misleading statement into a truthful one. And it does not prevent Congress from establishing what happened. There will be another pandemic. There will be another crisis. And there will again be officials that insist uncertainty must be hidden for the public's own good. They will demand obedience. They will invoke science. 'I am the science!' as though it were a commandment. They will argue that government officials cannot be questioned, because questioning them would undermine public trust. They have it backwards.  It is secrecy that destroys trust. It is arrogance that destroys trust. It is censorship that destroys trust. And it is the refusal to admit error that destroys trust. That loss of trust may be YOUR MOST DAMAGING LEGACY.  Trust can't be ordered. It has to be earned. No scientist is above scrutiny. No government official is beyond accountability. And no public servant has the right to treat suffering of millions of Americans as a footnote to his preferred version of history."

Sometimes a random @Reddit just hits your funny bone. This response was several down and not at all like the other responses so it caught me right and I laughed out loud. Keep being dorks out there, you never know when you’re going to be the bright spot in a person’s day because of it. #texting #sciencejokes #quantum #teen

This.

The nation's "leading expert" in COVID contracted COVID 3 times after being vaccinated and boosted 6 times. He had a pulmonary embolism 6 months after his second Moderna shot. This was, of course, not publicized.

RT @Becky_Weiss_: Tax payer funded grooming in @Tim_Walz Minnesota

O. M. G. 😳 I just read the attached email and the pages in the shared post quoted by this one. These emails were mixed into the dossier on Fauci’s award seeking, but they belong on the front of every news site. This is not okay. The children born to vaccinated mothers may not know for years if the mRNA was incorporated into their nuclear DNA. It “caused an immune response in the amniotic fluid” for crying out loud! This is why we pay attention in school, kids, and NEVER stop learning. You need to understand what you’re reading when these things show up in front of you. I had a special needs child and dove in on learning the biology of it all. Genetics is a particular fascination of mine now and I kinda wish it wasn’t today. This is NOT like any other mouse study. This is not like regular vaccines. mRNA is newer to vaccines and ANYthing suspected of crossing the placenta and potentially into the DNA(!) of the fetus should be held with EXTREME caution and doubt of its safety until absolutely proved otherwise. This isn’t just a risk/benefit scenario. No pregnant woman would take a vaccine against a really intense cold or flu if she knew it could affect the very DNA of her unborn child. Pfizer just got over a BILLION tax dollars set aside for more of these shots, the woman up for CDC director says mRNA shots are “safe and effective”, and Kennedy has even behind more mRNA treatments. It’s all about money, prestige, and awards not your health. Never forget that.

Because they are offshoring jobs again and cut a bunch of small jobs. CEO will still get his nice bonus for such a “good quarter”, but my friend, whose husband is in a nursing home, found out today that her job is being “offshored by the end of the year”. Her dedication to actually serving corporate Verizon customers is of no consequence to them. They just picked some line items off a spreadsheet, cut them, and said “this will create the look of better cashflow”. Business. Capitalism. Competition. Quarterly gains. All at the expense of the regular family. Yay.

I DO NOT want self-driving cars. I DO NOT want humanoid robots. I DO NOT want Al in every app I use. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want a habitable planet.

The capitalization is deliberate. He and his PR team know EXACTLY what they are doing. Blind and deaf “Christians” just keep following this Golden Calf while praising and worshipping him. I voted for him 3 times because of the way I was raised and the things I was taught to believe about politics and faith. I understand the confusion and the drive to hold the Party line, but people MUST start understanding that politics and our systems are of this world. This man even talks about Rome and the American Empire. He is a Caesar. He has storehouses and encourages you to fill yours. He accepts gifts and praise and never thanks or points back to God. He has no humility or characteristics of Love. He holds grudges and keeps records of wrongdoing. Look closer at the phrasing, grammar, and emphasis of these posts. He calls himself a savior, guardian angel, and more. He and his team are not stupid, they are the best at “the game” that has nothing to do with economics or politics. The lesser of two evils is still evil. Pay attention to the deception and don’t be afraid to change your mind when someone shows who they are by what they do and don’t do.

Lindsey Graham’s sudden death is a reminder to take care of yourself, release emotional burdens, and lead with love I didn’t like Graham, but I don’t celebrate or mock the death of anyone—no matter how deeply I disagreed with them. Humanity shouldn’t end where politics begins

The TRUTH about “Trump Accounts” they won’t point out in their media blitz… Only children born 2025-2028 can get the $1,000 seed money “Under 18” means “under 18 as of Jan. 2027” No children turning 18 this year are eligible. My husband gave 22 years of his life and the function of his body to this country, but our son isn’t eligible to start an account “for America’s kids” because he turns 18 later this year, just one month before an unadvertised cutoff. This is SUCH a scam. You can tell by the way it is being promoted and the white lie of the way they’re presenting it. @WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk @Gwynne_Shotwell (who I was inspired by to apply for one in hopes of getting our son a @SpaceX share since we meet their preferences and our son is interested in tech and creation) and anyone else that actually believes in these accounts should at least tell the TRUTH about them.