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pyrrhus's avatar

More than 100.000 Government employees have resigned during the shutdown...real progress!

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Millions left to go....

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Tom's avatar

No doubt they all have nice severance benefits, so they don't care. That is their mentality.

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DefCon-Dan's avatar

That's what we get when we allowed parasites to take over.

Ticks are hard to remove!

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pimaCanyon's avatar

Trump needs to permanently shut down all 3 and 4 letter federal bureaucracies. We know the FDA, CDC, and NIH are far too corrupt to reform. Shut them down and fire all the nearly 50,000 employees, saving at least 12 billion per year. Shut down Dept of Ed, DOE, FBI, CIA, and FEMA too. They are either corrupt or incompetent or both.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Except that Trump just cut a $70b Pfizer deal which ports right into some of these 3 letter agencies you mention.

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pimaCanyon's avatar

yep. Trump won't do anything to help. He's lost to Israel and Pharma. The sooner he leaves office the better.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Except that if a Democrat gets in it'll be radically worse for America.

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Hugh Petersen's avatar

So you ARE saying we’re screwed either way.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

By degrees, but good always wins in the end.............

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Hugh Petersen's avatar

Please be right i

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pimaCanyon's avatar

yep. I wonder... is it time to bail and move to another country?

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Pepper Jackson's avatar

My husband and I tried that in 2014. We moved to Panama and loved it there-until 2019. That was when the U.S. gave Panama's police department shiny new cars in return for stepping up traffic stops to search for drugs. As gringos, we were always waved through, but we still had to constantly wait in lines. It got to be unbearable, so we moved back to the U.S. Now we can't think of any country that might be better. They all seem to have gone to hell.

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pimaCanyon's avatar

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, that's my concern too, like it's getting bad here, but is there any place that's better?

My brother and his partner had been traveling the world for the past year. They like Portugal, Spain, Montenegro, Thailand, and Vietnam. They will settle eventually, likely in one of those countries.

I think the EU has serious problems so I'd be reluctant to move there, and while Thailand and Vietnam sound lovely during the winter, I don't think I could take the hot humid summers there.

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DefCon-Dan's avatar

Wow Pepper! I tried that in 2003 after 9/11 when I moved to Panama until 2012. It didn't work out well for me either for the same reasons you mentioned, and many other reasons too.

I also moved back here after I realized that it was mistake.

However, I did meet my soul mate there, and we are still happily married after 15 years, so it was life changing in a good way after all.

When I saw how much worse the lock downs and travel restrictions were there than here, is when I knew that moving back here was a good move too. I can get dual citizenship there by marriage to a Panamanian, but I don't really want to move back there.

Although, I do have a second Panamanian family there!

As you observed, no countries are better, and all are going to hell.

Feel free to connect and DM me so we can compare notes!

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Tom's avatar

This is the path to an inescapable world gulag, with trump doing as he is told to help. So, moving is no help.

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Thomas A Braun's avatar

Yea! Pfizer also gave RNC and Trump a $1 million political donation to get Alex Azar, a Big Pharma Boy to manage the Covid rollout. Now Pfizer played to his ego and came up with TrumpRX which will destroy the current drug distribution system in the US and deep six the drug distributors and community pharmacists. Ship the drugs right from the factory to the patient. Save consumers money but the consequences are going to be diasterous. Lilly is already doing it with GLP1 which is not as safe as they claim. You are doing it. The Wellness comapany is doing it

and poly pharmacy will be on a roll! So will deaths and more ill health!

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Jinc's avatar

Such brilliance in your easy-to-read piece. Sharing everywhere!

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John Roberts's avatar

If morale and ethical men would only follow the Constitution and the Bill of Rights everything would work as our founders intended.

We all know what happens when one tries to put something together without following the (instructions), it never really works correctly or it doesn’t work at all !!!

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Eric Buesing's avatar

Spot on—Day 6 of this uniparty shutdown scam is the wake-up call we need, exposing how both parties' cronies in DC are fleecing us with unconstitutional bloat and kickbacks. You're right: 99% of these "public servants" violate their oaths, turning taxes into tools of control while they rake in millions from insider deals. Slashing the fed by 90% and sticking to the Bill of Rights? That's the no-compromise reset America craves.Build on that: term limits to oust careerists, stock trading bans, lobbying blacklists, ranked-choice voting to smash the duopoly, and public funding to kill dark money. It's the straight-up reform 80% of us demand, left or right be damned.More fixes here: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/p/saving-the-republic If it hits home, subscribe for free! #EndTheUniparty #FixDC

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Horst Baer's avatar

What the ***shylocks*** have created and implemented/imposed since 1913 is a socialist/communist regime/dictatorship that must be crashed/smashed and extirpated in order to manifest our respect for the social construct that THEY - The Founding Fathers - have created, FREE of any outside constraints, for free men.!!!

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Philip Joseph's avatar

Nothing really new under the sun. For most of “modern human” existence, except perhaps for a few days after the “constitutional republic” was signed into being, humans have lived under some form of ruling governance. Some pretend not to, but most humans seem to like it that way, except when the rulers get carried away exterminating more people than they “take care of”. Then a reset occurs and we start all over again.

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Tom's avatar

All a show. As David Hughes latest free video shows, the government shutdown is irrelevant, and probably playing into the hands of the technocrats, leading us deceptively to the digital gulag.

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equinefriend's avatar

Mr 2nd, SO WELL SAID! I wonder if posts such as these ever get read by our slimy congressman, senators, and assemblyman? I wish millions and millions of people would flood their emails and snail mail addresses on a regular basis.

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Dee Dee's avatar

Just in time for them to see the fall leaves change...

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Carolyn's avatar

Trudeau in Canada previously shut down too. BUT it was to bring in bad ... not good.

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