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It's been funny seeing PDW post things from Trump or cabinet members that direct things Q has said. It can't be more obvious at this point, but they remain in denial. Trump's lawyer literally said the hunters will become the hunted!
The “blind” (denial crowd) wouldn’t see anything if it slapped them in the face and knocked them on their but. I just don’t get it but I’ve always questioned everything since day one. My dad used to say my middle name was but & why. Sure I’ve been fooled along the way especially on health and food guidance. We were out getting last minute groceries before the winter storm and the lower income mask people were stocking up on the junk food and basically anything processed. Blows my mind they were those mask under the nose but eat poison daily. (Sure, it’s not just the lower income that eats junk. Most people I’d consider middle class and up might still eat junk but they aren’t wearing mask even if they are vaxed to max.) Some will never see the truth!
everything a person needs to know about health and food has been on the internet for a long time now,how to do it on a budget is also available. but folks would rather use their internet to watch videos of skateboarding squirrels. You can lead a horse to water.....................the food industry is seductive, you cannot watch a football game without the chain food restaurant bombarding you with elaborate pictures of food, and followed by scenic ads for big pharm. Truth is a choice, just like grocery shopping. They want immediate results, and changing the foods you eat and taking supplements takes longer to benefit from, but it happens! The addictions are subtle, but just as dangerous as any addiction, and they keep making pills to get rid of the symptoms of poor lifestyle habits. Yes, supplements cost money your "healthcare" will not cover, so does cancer and diabetes and heart disease. I have a friend who would rather take steroids for her Chrons disease instead of cutting out the gluten, wine, chocolate and non organic foods. And yes, the organic foods that I buy are trustworthy, I can buy a bushel of most veggies in the fall, from farmers I know and trust, maybe they cost a bit more, yet the same people around here will spend that money on cases of Light beer, soda, and frozen pizza. The info is out there, it is not on some hidden sites.
I agree with much of what you said. Americans have been programmed since sixties and probably since the beginning of factory canned foods, cereals, frozen and refrigerated foods. My great grandma probably saw canned biscuits etc something that would make her life easier. She cooked for her family that farmed and probably farmed herself, that was before I was born. By time I was a child her pantry was jello, canned fruit cocktail and pop tarts. It was a treat getting homemade jello and cool whip after lunch. She still cooked whole meals and froze fresh vegetables every summer. My grandma her daughter in law never had any processed food except bread, crackers and popcorn. Everything was cooked from scratch. Thankfully I ate meals at her house at least once a day. My mom was the drug pusher and we didn’t know any better. Frozen meals, pop tarts, cart full of Pepsi every week at the store and so on. She was a very good cook just didn’t because we were close to her parents and were a close family. Way before the internet the magazines and news pushed fat free cookies etc, basically pushing sugar and bad oils. I have always cooked for my family and thought I was cooking healthy & eating healthy. Yogurt isn’t as healthy as they claim yet it’s pushed as healthy. Of course the original plain version is healthy, not the artificial flavored sugar yogurt. At least I never liked yogurt so I didn’t eat much. I could go on as we all could about food and nutrition, what’s truth or lies.
Personally fruits and vegetables aren’t healthy for me. I finally found that out after eating carnivore for a year. I still want non carnivore and occasional eat other foods. I can’t eat any lettuce it kills my stomach. Certain spices make me sick on stomach. Many fruits burn my mouth, it’s actually an allergy to pollen. I’ve had issues for years, doctors and dentist acted like I was crazy. Ate fresh seasonal strawberries and watermelon last year and the burning returned instantly. Searched and discovered some people are allergic to the pollen but only in raw fruit and some vegetables. It’s crazy what you find after eliminating the foods you ate your entire life.
A perfect example of get healthy quickly is ozempic. Celebrities and “normal” people have gone crazy over it and look awful.
I don’t mind paying extra for quality food especially if you know you can trust it. I only buy A2 milk, it doesn’t have hormones. For years I bought organic grass fed milk, fooled! It still had the hormones as regular cheap milk. I do wish I had a better source of butter and cheese. Rural NC isn’t into healthy non toxic foods. Honestly I don’t worry about organic and non gmo. I live in the heart of farming and I’m sure everything they put on the crops I breathe in daily. In the spring driving by the fields takes your breath because of the chemicals put on the land before planting.
I pray over my food and ask good for protection. Funny, I never understood saying a blessing over your food until the past few years of awakening to what’s in the food and environment.
In regards to grocery getters, it too just blows my mind sometimes seeing what people are buying in line behind me. They have their whole outer rim of shopping cart loaded with 6 packs of soda and nothing but chips, cakes, processed crap in the cart. None of it actual food. The human body is a miraculous marvel being able to sustain life with such garbage going through it daily, but it eventually catches up with them in the form of much disease and malady.
Absolutely it will catch up with you. For decades I bought meat and vegetables but I also bought the sodas, little Debbie, cookies, candy, crackers and chips (I’ve never cared for chips unless I had some french onion dip) plus eating out at least once a week when we got older. Didn’t have money to eating out first ten years. (we called them drinks but the rest of country thinks kids are drinking alcohol😆) About ten years ago I lost almost fifty pounds, lowest I’d been since before I got pregnant & that was a twenty year gap. Women would ask what I did to loose weight. I’d say, kicked little debbie out and eating salads & lots of chicken. They didn’t say anything and walked away. So, people really don’t want to know the truth, regardless of the subject, about anything because it would be an inconvenience to change their behavior. I used to be like that about weight loss. I wasn’t worried about my health. I was 20, then 30, then 40, then 50 and still felt great and could do most anything I wanted to do except find cute clothes because they don’t make the same women’s clothing in cute styles after size 18. So you can be fat and cute just don’t get into size 20 & above. A man can buy the same clothes from size small or whatever to multiple XLs. Thankfully a little late but at 56 I finally told myself it was time to get healthy. Long road to go and I still cheat. I’m a great cook and I love doing it & the food itself. It’s something I know I can’t do daily. The human body is a miraculous marvel being able to sustain life with such garbage going through it daily Amen! Speaking the truth. My brother is always asking why this and that hurts, yet can’t see the food and coke is killing him. He’s proud of it. He had a heart attack 1.5 years ago and still doesn’t understand why. I tried to tell him about the food but he talks over you because his opinion is more important. I keep the peace and just listen & pray.
Have you seen the memes & videos people eating the bad food before RFK Jr takes it away? They are funny but very sad.
One day Trump comes on the stage and tells everyone that indeed Q plan was real, and here are the generals who were part of the Plan and here is how the entire plan unfolded, and then they will make multiple movies focusing on each part/phase of the plan.
And PDW will watch all that and say "Nop, Q is not real"
u/#ridetofreedom
Too big to rig. Participation.
bubble_bursts is the best
So, I want to know if there is any architects, engineers, contractors, etc. on this forum that can give me a second opinion with regards to the LA Fire.
I have asked a friend of mine, who is an architect, a question: assuming money is not an issue, if the LA Fires were to be put out tomorrow completely and you were given one of the lots with a burnt out husks to turn into a multi-million dollar property, how long will it take to accomplish the task?
He gave a estimate of a half a decade, so five years for one lot/property.
I said four and he said that is also a reasonable estimate, assuming things go well.
There is also a real-estate agent who did an interview on FOX news, and was imposed a similar question: he said three years for the whole process.
So, what is your opinion/estimates? Assuming money is not an issue, if the LA Fires were to be put out tomorrow completely and you were given one of the lots with a burnt out husks to turn into a multi-million dollar property, how long will it take to accomplish the task?
Oh that’s a great observation. Land grabs have probably been happening forever but we are seeing it more today because we get our news immediately when it’s happening. Look at the Kings of the past, they controlled and owned everything in their region, down to the people. One day you are “Lord” of the estate and the next you could be out and a new lord (puppet) moving in.
I read an article about insurance companies had stopped covering several properties. I haven’t had a chance to dig into this.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-01-09/la-fires-property-home-insurance-crisis-fair-plan-lara-state-farm-allstate-palisades-eaton-altadena-wildfires
State Farm, the state’s largest home insurer, announced in March it would not renew 72,000 property insurance policies, while Chubb and its subsidiaries stopped writing new high-value homes with higher wildfire risk — just to name two insurers that pulled back from the California market.
I am fully aware of the insurance situation, but you didn't answer my researching question:
Assuming money is not an issue, if the LA Fires were to be put out tomorrow completely and you were given one of the lots with a burnt out husks to turn into a multi-million dollar property, how long will it take to accomplish the task?
Well I’m not an architect, engineer, contractor, etc. I thought the insurance factor was an interesting factor, not like I’d know you were aware.
In my town they have been building townhouses and it's been 3 years and not done yet. Idk if they ran out of money or paid by the hour and taking their own sweet time. I was just telling my husband how they used to build enormous complex Cathedrals and such buildings, especially for the Worlds Fair, in horses and buggeys and without electricity, and now it takes 3 years just to build a damn cardboard boxes not with bricks nonetheless but those tyvek boards and the whole house always echoes and can easily burn. What a joke. This time with CA with what you said, they'll probably get all the illegals for cheap labors and overtime just intime for 2028 Olympics to showcase smartcity like we're so advanced. Everything is so phony and a real joke.
Ignoring money, labor and supplies as issues, once the plans are approved, a year per home. They would have no weather stoppages, the lot is already demolished, only holdup that remains is administrative- paperwork and inspections. Source: South Florida experiences with post-hurricane developments.
Not any of the above, but I have lived in fire ravaged areas, 4-5 years is quite accurate.
edited to add : Nearly all of it beaurocracy, each getting its cut along the way.
Just asked Grok how long Trump's projects takes. According to Grok Small-medium takes 4-6 years. I am assuming this lot will be much smamller than a typical Trump project listed below, so perhaps less for someone well skilled, no license/permit issues and money is not an issue.
Remember the movie Volcano? Lots of imagery of Los Angeles on fire. They always tell you their plans in advance.
No, but I do remember seeing 'Earthquake' with my cousin in '74. It was in 'Sensurround', and we sat right by one of the sensurround things. Imagine subwoofers with the deepest bass, that you felt more than heard. Oddly enough, for an earthquake movie it was set in LA instead of San Francisco.
Friday Poem... Arthur Schopenhauer - The Fire Burns
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/01/friday-poem-427.html
Taki - Fine Lines
https://www.takimag.com/article/fine-lines/
How To Use Your Body To Make Yourself Happier
https://time.com/7204311/your-body-can-make-you-happier-essay/
What Matters More for Longevity: Genes or Lifestyle? It depends on what your goal is.
https://archive.ph/hW6aE
Depopulation: A Space Odyssey.
https://globalistelitecabal.com/depopulation-a-space-odyssey/
Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World
https://www.openculture.com/2025/01/radio-caroline-the-pirate-radio-ship-that-rocked-the-british-music-world.html
The Worst Of Babylon Bee
Nation Gets Preview Of Gavin Newsom Presidency
https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-gets-preview-of-gavin-newsom-presidency
Newsom Reassures Fire Victims He’ll Be Prepared Next Time, Now That He Knows Water Is Useful In Fighting Fires
https://babylonbee.com/news/newsom-reassures-fire-victims-hell-be-prepared-next-time-now-that-he-knows-water-is-useful-in-fighting-fires
Girl Fireman Rushes Into Burning Building To Tell Victim He's Too Heavy But The Real Firemen Will Be Here In 15 Minutes
https://babylonbee.com/news/girl-fireman-rushes-into-burning-building-to-tell-victim-hes-too-heavy-but-the-real-firemen-will-be-here-in-15-minutes
A.I. To Be Trained On Reddit To Make Sure It Never Becomes Too Intelligent
https://babylonbee.com/news/ai-to-be-trained-on-reddit-to-make-sure-it-never-becomes-too-intelligent
Cruel: Trump Sentenced To Drink Only Diet Pepsi
https://babylonbee.com/news/cruel-trump-sentenced-to-drink-only-diet-pepsi
Good morning “early bird or night owl crew” I’ve been sleeping better so I can’t complain about being awake at 3:30AM. I did sleep better than usual during a storm. I’m wired to stay up for storms, election night coverage or leaving in AM for a trip. Can’t explain it, my mom was the same.
Thankfully we didn’t have a frozen participation blow out. Started as sleet, then snow but mostly mixture. The ground is icy and people seem to have no trouble on the road. Thank God, I can’t stand it & can fall standing still.
So, if you know cats you know I’m in trouble. He went from staying confined in one room to ruling the house in 24 hours. He’s claimed the side table at my chair and slept with me in the recliner all night. At least cats aren’t like dogs and go in the house. Our dog will pretend to pee & come inside and go in fifteen minutes. No liter box, can’t deal with that. So far it’s working. Told hubby to build him an outside box or I’m buying one. He’s not staying inside when we are away. Plus the almost blind granddog is terrified of cats. He’s got seniority over stray cats.
Hope you are doing good and dodging whatever weather events come your way. Half the country in winter storm mode, fires in the west, volcano eruption a few weeks ago in Hawaii (that’s kinda routine), probably more that I don’t know about. Take care 💝
Somehow the dems are fooled once again by a James Okeefe disguise. https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1878246763166912650
... aren't they all orchestral versions? Moriconi wrote soundtracks, not pop songs.
http://www.rural-revolution.com/2025/01/this-just-makes-me-happy.html
,,.303 winks...
So can a cananon explian? Tardeau resigned but he's still prime minister?
🤦🏻♀️ I read this earlier and again now. Just figured out (cananon)
Not Cananon, but I thought he said he'd resign when the replacement was selected.
Was it pelosi's daughter that said (when everyone thought when Epstein's list release was coming out). 'Some of our favs will be in that list...' or was it John McCain's daughter?
Just saw the “turned” or name of inauguration: Our enduring democracy.” Kinda hit funny to me…..anybody got any insights?
Worth the watch, funny! Someone did a funny video of former presidents, VPs & wives at Cartel funeral. I think you can view with out an account. They are the same link, maybe some prefer to not click on instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEnk_hwTQGt
Carter Funeral
u/#catdance