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Donald Trump extended the work permits of those with Temporary Protected Status from Haiti, hours before they were set to expire.
Why?
Same reason his administration is expanding work visas for unskilled jobs, to bring in more foreigners to do the jobs that were being done by the foreigners we just rounded up and kicked out; pressure from the industries who employ those people and can't find anyone else to do those jobs at that pay
Why did he tell us he wouldn't want to be in the same room with us if we didn't get the clot shot?
That was lip service. This is action.
I'd say pushing your supporters to get a deadly pharma injection goes beyond lip service, but ok...
Why did he ban bump stocks?
Valid question that I have brought up before.
Does he think he can undo it?
We had to fight it for years but eventually the supreme court struck down his ban.
Here's another one:
His 2021 pardon list should have been overflowing with patriots, whistleblowers & political prisoners. Instead it was virtually indistinguishable from a list of pardon slots auctioned off to highest bidders. Why would that be?
I don't know.
Nor do I know where you're going with this.
Where ARE you going with this?
You're starting to sound like one of those Q-haters on other boards, that demands we lock and load and start killing people. (You're not saying it, but they do. I know you know better.)
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm already there - asking questions that need answers.
I don't worship or fully trust any man on the planet let alone a former Democrat reality TV star.
When I vote for someone I don't blindly support them like a retard, I grow a third eye that watches them like a hawk to determine if I've been duped into voting for yet another globalist actor.
Asking Google what the term lip service means:
Synonyms for "lip service" include hypocrisy, insincerity, empty talk, and hollow words. It refers to publicly expressing support or agreement for an idea without backing it up with actual effort, genuine conviction, or meaningful action.
And stollen is a German dessert. You still got the idea.
Yes, I did. You were suggesting that he is a man of low integrity that says things he does not mean and that hedges with obfuscation and other tell tale signs of weakness. I disagree. A man of his stature doesn't need to pay lip service to anyone. That is why we voted for him.
Because I used an imperfect description that I shouldn't have?
I've been here since April 6, 2022. Why would I change now?
I get your drift. Carry on.
not sure, but maybe it shields employers from any accounting, payroll and tax issues, not that theHaiti people being sent back would get their last payments, but maybe Pres. Trump is being merciful for the businesses, and now they can hire Americans
It's just a legal thing, they are still getting deported.
https://x.com/derzum_/status/2076081824439136463
Doing a solid for justice Barret
Deuteronomy 7:23 - But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them in great confusion, until tthey are destroyed. https://www.bible.com/bible/59/DEU.7.23.ESV
Amen! 🙌
Just got stuck watching the World Cup game between Argentina and Switzerland
Swiss had a player who got a red card. I looked him up:
What in the world does it even mean to “play for your country in the World Cup”, general frivolity of sportsball aside?
This dude is Nigerian in truth, and nominally “American” due to “birthright citizenship” from being an “anchor baby”. What in the world is he doing playing for Switzerland?
I think you might be getting the players confused here.
It seems like you're talking about Folarin Balogun. He plays for the United States, not Switzerland. He was not playing in the Argentina/Switzerland game.
The Swiss player that received a red card for the Argentina/Switzerland game is Breel Embolo. He was born in Cameroon, but his family moved to Switzerland when he was around 6.
I was definitely talking about Folarin, yes. The text I got back on my search was very unclear.
even with players mixed up, I can imagine G.H.W. Bush (who wasn’t ever in Dallas in 1963😎) saying welcome to: “The New World Order” of sports!
Right?
u/#ridetofreedom
Praising God for wonderful neighbors
GreatAwakening becoming a war propaganda shitfest on cue.
Hope it's able to bounce back to critical thought.
When the war is against the enemy and their puppet regimes, heck yeah.
Why Aren't There Any Flightless Bats? BY FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)
https://www.icr.org/article/why-arent-there-any-flightless-bats/
Animals designed to fly are classified into four groups: the extinct flying reptiles (pterosaurs), insects, mammals (bats), and birds. According to the creation model, bats and birds were created on Day 5 as bats and birds.
Recently, a science news article addressed the wings of the two groups in an article entitled, “A Comparison of Bat and Bird Wings Reveals Their Evolutionary Paths Are Vastly Different.”1 But bats clearly do not have an evolutionary path, nor do birds.
Genesis suggests that [birds] did not evolve at all. Since there are no bird transitional forms in the fossil record, since the most reliable written record of origins leaves no room for bird evolution, and since both the science of biophysics and inductive reasoning refute it, the time is overdue to issue a recall on the long-cherished naturalistic theory that theropod descendants developed into birds.2
However, evolutionists at Cornell University wrote in Nature Ecology and Evolution that convergent evolution of flight defined birds and bats.3 Convergent evolution is “the separate or independent origin of similar characters emerging on separate lines of descent after the point at which those lines diverged from their last common ancestor.”4
After studying the extremely complex wing anatomy of bats5 and birds, one can only agree with Heyduk et al. when they stated in Nature that “many highly convergent adaptations are also complex, which makes their repeated emergence surprising.”6 Surprising indeed. This is because convergent evolution is a conundrum that “doesn’t fit into the accepted evolutionary scheme.”7 ICR’s Dr. Randy Guliuzza stated,
Convergent evolution is the fabricated conjecture evolutionists invoke to explain very similar characteristics between creatures that could not have been inherited from a common ancestor and that evolutionists will never accept as having been produced by an intelligently designed internal programming that is specified for common purposes.8
In regard to the wing structure of these animals, a science writer with Phys.org asked, “Why aren’t there any flightless bats...or bats that spend their lives at sea, like the wandering albatross?”1
The possible answer, according to the Cornell researchers, is that “unlike birds, the evolution of bats’ wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.”1 Using evolutionary theory, they thought bat legs and wings evolved like that of birds—allegedly evolving independently of one another. But it turned out the opposite was true, causing much surprise. They found that bat leg and wing proportions are united or combined, showing strong correlation. This is expected on the basis of creation. Bat appendages did not slowly evolve independently of one another because bats were created as bats thousands of years ago.
One-hundred percent of bat fossils appear abruptly in Eocene sediments (e.g., the Green River Formation).
The earliest known bats appear in the fossil record ≈50 million years ago, and they appear suddenly and already possessing the anatomical hallmarks of powered flight (including elongated third, fourth, and fifth forelimb digits). Thus, it seems to be likely that the earliest known fossil bats were already capable of powered flight.9
Orkney and his fellow researchers describe measurements in living bat species in an evolutionary context:
Here we present a phylogenetically representative and ecologically diverse collection of limb skeletal measurements from 111 extant bat species. We compare this dataset with a compendium of 149 bird species, known to exhibit modular evolution and anatomically regionalized skeletal adaptation.3
Limb skeletal measurements are objective, but the scientists’ interpretations (“modular evolution”) of the measurements can be quite subjective.10
Contrary to evolutionary theory, bats were created thousands of years ago with the morphological flexibility to move in and fill various ecosystems, which is described by continuous environmental tracking.11 Orkney et al. said as much when they stated,
Different regions of the bat limb skeleton adapt to accommodate variation in distinct ecological activities, with flight-style variety accommodated by adaptation of the distal wing, while the thumb and hindlimb play an important role facilitating adaptive responses to variation in roosting habits.3
Like all creatures in God’s creation, there are natural limits to biological change, and this applies to bats. Indeed, two authors were puzzled, stating in their evolution text, “Why species do not enlarge their ranges indefinitely, by incrementally adapting to conditions farther and farther away, is a major question in evolutionary biology.”12
God has created bats and birds with a genetic ability to undergo change only within their kind.
References
Smith, E. A Comparison of Bat and Bird Wings Reveals Their Evolutionary Paths Are Vastly Different. Cornell University. Posted on phys.org November 1, 2024. Thomas, B. Fixed Bird Thigh Nixes Dino-to-bird Development. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org June 22, 2009. Orkney, A. et al. 2024. Evolutionary Integration of Forelimb and Hindlimb Proportions within the Bat Wing Membrane Inhibits Ecological Adaptation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9 (1): 111–123. Meyer, S. 2013. Darwin’s Doubt. San Francisco, CA: HarperOne, 133. Sherwin, F. 2022. How Did the Bat Get Its Wings? Acts & Facts. 51 (7): 7. Heyduk, K. et al. 2019. The Genetics of Convergent Evolution: Insights from Plant Photosynthesis. Nature. 20: 485–493. Bethell, T. 2017. Darwin’s House of Cards. Seattle, WA: Discovery Institute, 115. Guliuzza, R. 2017. Major Evolutionary Blunders: Convergent Evolution Is a Seductive Intellectual Swindle. Acts & Facts. 46 (3): 17–19. Sears, K. E. et al. 2006. Development of Bat Flight: Morphologic and Molecular Evolution of Bat Wing Digits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (17): 6581–6586. Thomas, B. 2021. Archaeopteryx by the Numbers. Acts & Facts. 50 (5) Guliuzza, R. 2023. Continuous Environmental Tracking, An Engineering-Based Biological Model. Acts & Facts. 52 (6): 22–23. Futuyma, D. and M. Kirkpatrick. 2017. Evolution. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 487.
One day of researching mimicry insects is more than enough to know for certain that we're being lied to about 'evolution'.
The odds of just one of these insects coming into existence without an observing, thinking creation mechanism/entity is essentially impossible. A trillion, trillion years could pass without one ever coming into existence, yet we have many of them in this world.
What they say about a spurned woman is very true, it seems.
Note to self…if mauled by lioness, remember to pet it like a house cat🤣🐈
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/shock-video-mauled-pinned-down-lioness-cattle-herder/