Just Call Me Alice

I keep wandering down rabbit holes...I'm just me.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

The government should absolutely be monitoring the leisure spending of any and all people on welfare.

If you’re on food stamps but are taking Carnival cruises or going out several times a week, you should NOT be receiving a DIME from taxpayers.

So sick of this BS.

[Zero Point Energy Disclosure @ZPEdisclosure]

reply guy: 'this is just sci fi'

me: that's a navy patent

reply guy: 'patents can be filed for anything'

me: the CTO of naval aviation personally vouched that it's operable

reply guy: 'maybe it's a deception campaign'

me: ok so now you DO believe it works, you just think they're lying about it working

reply guy: blocks me

[Just Call Me Alice @RoseGlo4]

Tuesday hamburgers, and the Carne guisada tacos.

[LadyValor @lady_valor_07]

What did your school cafeteria serve that you would actually eat again TODAY

For me it would be the old school pizza

[Just Call Me Alice @RoseGlo4]

This. ❤️

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Walk through Tokyo, Kyoto, or any tiny mountain village in Japan.
Keep your eyes on the street-level fences, guardrails, and hedges.

Soon, you will spot something bizarre.

Perched carefully on top of a steel fence post,
or tied gently to the top rung of a guardrail,
will be a single, colorful toddler's knit mitten.

Or a tiny pink sneaker.
Or a house key on a cartoon lanyard.
Or a commuter transit card.

It wasn't thrown there by a vandal.
It wasn't collected by sanitation workers.

Here is what happened twenty minutes earlier:
A complete stranger was walking down that sidewalk.
They looked down and saw a dropped child's glove lying in the mud.

In most countries, people step on it.
Or kick it into the gutter.
Or pick it up, realize it has zero financial value, and throw it away.

In Japan, that stranger stopped.
They picked up the mitten.
They took out a tissue and wiped the wet grime off the wool.

Then, they did not pocket it.
They looked around for the nearest elevated surface —
a flat fence post, a tree branch, the top pipe of a guardrail.

They placed the mitten upright at exact eye level.

Why?

Because they know that three blocks away,
an exhausted mother with a stroller just realized her baby lost a mitten.
She will turn around in tears, retracing her steps in the cold.

And when she walks back down that street,
she will not have to search the dirty ground in despair.

She will look up,
and see her child's little glove waiting for her,
lifted into the sunlight by hands she will never meet.

True culture is not measured by the height of your skyscrapers.

It is measured by how high you lift a stranger's dropped glove
so they can find their way home.

[Just Call Me Alice @RoseGlo4]

"Wait you guys buy coffee??"

[Mr. Mike @mrmikeMTL]

How often do you buy coffee instead of making it at home?

[Just Call Me Alice @RoseGlo4]

Miles between us may not permit, would zoom suffice?

[RetroCrone @RetroCrone]

I wish many of you were part of my “real” life. I wish we could meet over coffee, (tea, margaritas, a good late vine Zinfandel, etc.)” and tell our stories in person. As leery as I am of where online activity will take us in the end, for now it has brought me you. And I am glad.

[Just Call Me Alice @RoseGlo4]

Hahahahaha! They will NEVER give you your money back!

[FreeStateColorado @FreeStateColor1]

With schools closing can the district lower our property taxes?

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

Modern political discourse feels a lot like warning someone about a lion that is going to eat them, only to have them reply “Oh so you have a problem with lions?” “Do lions “scare” you because they're different?” “Are you threatened by the lion because it doesn't look like you?”

Then the lion eats them and you get blamed for not doing enough to prevent the kind of society where lions eat people.

[Fortissax @FortySacks]

The reason I didn’t get vaccinated is that I worked security at a vaccination clinic during COVID and personally saw at least 30 people collapse within ten minutes of receiving their shot that summer.

In the break room, nurses openly talked shit about patients who questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines or wanted to know whether they were receiving Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, or another brand. That information was sometimes withheld until they’d already rolled up their sleeve and were about to receive the injection.

I specifically remember one nurse saying that people who questioned them or refused certain shots deserved to die choking on ventilators.

The health authority constantly changed its policies, often arbitrarily, while enforcing every new rule rigidly.

Even after the clinic shut down and the emergency phase of COVID had effectively ended, provincial and private sector mandates made it extremely difficult for me to find work. I was forced into immense debt just to pay my bills.

I’ll never forget that period of my life, or the contempt, psychopathy, cruelty, and vindictiveness of shitlibs who believed they’d been given moral permission to treat people that way.

[Jewels Jones ® @JewelsJonesLive]

1.) ActBlue hired the lawyers.

The lawyers concluded the company may have been breaking the law.

So ActBlue fired the lawyers.

Missouri wants every record it has by 10 AM on October 8. 💎🧵

[Larry Alex Taunton @LarryTaunton]

Passing time in a tightly packed airport coffee shop recently, I ended up in conversation with a thirty-something couple sitting only inches from me. I was coming from Mexico City and they were going there. After the usual banter, I asked where they were from and learned they were New Yorkers moving out of that city. They didn’t offer a reason and I didn’t press for one.

They asked me what I did for a living and I explained that I was a writer currently investigating how cartels were smuggling people into the US. I say I was chatting with this couple, but it was really only with her. He said nothing the entire time. But he listened intently as she asked questions.

“You travel a lot? Where have you been?”

“Well, so far this year, I’ve covered the WEF in Davos, researched Karl Marx in London, went to Gaza with the IDF…”

“You’ve been to Israel?” She interrupted. “We’ve been there. What do you think of the war?”

I guessed that here our conversation would end unhappily. They were New Yorkers, so almost certainly heavily propagandized lefties. But I pressed on.

“Almost everything you hear in Western media is wrong…”

“You mean it’s a lie. How?”

“Oct 7 was not just a Charlie Hebdo-style terrorist attack. It was an act of war. More than 7,000 Hamas terrorists penetrated the frontier at more than 100 points. Inspired by Islam, they had been instructed to r8pe, behead, torture, and kidnap men, women, and children.”

He still said nothing, but leaned forward, eyes narrowing.

“Who helped them do it?” She asked.

“Iran was the biggest supplier, but North Korea, China, and Qatar mostly. The UNRWA also played a role. Weapons and matériel were stockpiled in Egypt and smuggled into Gaza through tunnels.”

“You know that?”

“I know that. Trust me.” That led to a discussion of President Sisi, the Muslim Brotherhood, and my standoff with Egyptian State Security in Cairo. Still, I had no real gauge for where they stood politically. She asked if I had written anything on the subject, so I pointed her to my article for The Federalist connecting the dots between Egypt, USAID, Gaza, and my swatting.

A woman sitting nearby, leaned over and said, “Forgive me for eavesdropping on your conversation, but this is fascinating.” We all chatted a bit longer and I left.

About 30 minutes later I was standing in line at the gate waiting to board my flight when the husband appeared.

“Pardon me, but I had to come find you.” He was full of emotion. He indicated that he and his wife were Israelis who had lived in NYC but were now fleeing Mamdani’s third world sh*thole.

“You are a man who needs the protection of angels,” he said, and then presented me with a Jewish holy book. “We want you to have this. I pray it protects you.”

With that he turned and walked away.

Gentile and fierce Protestant that I am, I was nonetheless deeply moved. It seems they had read the article and, catching a glimpse of my work, felt my life was in danger. For my own part, I was aware that the same ideology that threatened me, was the same one that threatened them, forced them to move, and imperiled their native land.

I’m often amazed by the people the Lord puts in my path when I pause long enough to look around and notice them.

[Just Call Me Alice @RoseGlo4]

@EdMapes1 Very familiar with that stretch. Take it easy, and have a great Sunday!

[Just Call Me Alice @RoseGlo4]

And that's how they are "farming" you, one private equity purchase at a time.

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

A neighbor two streets over knocked on our back door at 10:14am
Same pool flyer as us
I priced it at $142,300 and bought a $34 slip and slide
He put down a non-refundable deposit
His pool is a hole
He wanted to be ready
He drove to the Leslie's by the highway for chlorine
Closed
Paper sign still on the door

He read the news in the parking lot
The Wall Street Journal says the whole chain is preparing to file for Chapter 11 as soon as this week

He sat down at our kitchen table
My son was eating waffles across from him
He said how does a 63-year-old pool store go broke the month I get a pool
I said here is what actually happened

I said your store was one of 80 they closed last winter, and the loan did not get any smaller
He said what loan
I said about $757 million, signed in 2016. Last year the interest was $62.9 million
He said okay
I said the company's own best number for what it earned was $61.4 million. Adjusted EBITDA
He said that's less

I said on Friday all of its stock put together was worth about $2.74 million. About 19 of your pools
He said the whole company
I said all the stock
He said and the loan
I said still there
He looked out the window at our slip and slide

I said a private equity firm and a sovereign wealth fund bought it in 2017. They took it public in 2020 at $17 a share and started selling
I said in 2021 the CEO announced a plan to return money to shareholders
He said that's nice
I said the first return went to two shareholders
He said which two
I said the same two firms. The company paid them $151.9 million of its own cash, 13 days after the board approved the plan. On Friday those shares would have been worth about $110,000
He said huh
I said all in, the two firms took out more than $2 billion selling their stock

My wife set a coffee in front of him

I said in August the board's pay committee approved $1.35 million in retention awards to keep three executives from leaving
I said the next day the company told investors there was substantial doubt it could keep going. Those awards are about half of what all the stock was worth Friday
He turned his phone face down
My wife said he came over for chlorine

My son put his fork down
He is 6
He said when they closed the 80 stores, where did those stores' part of the loan go
I said nowhere. It's the same loan with 943 stores left. About $800,000 each
He said how many summers do the other ones have

Nobody answered him
The neighbor finished his coffee
He asked what the slip and slide needs
I said a hose

$LESL

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[Just Call Me Alice @RoseGlo4]

I'm sorry but what makes you think that "voting" still works in this day and age of black box voting systems? And yes I WILL still vote, I just have no confidence in it...

[COJeepingGal @LisaintheMtns]

Big fat NO on prop NN! Anyone who votes yes to this is either stupid & doesn’t research or needs their head examined. They will NEVER stop trying to come for TABOR. No more $ to the government.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

BIG ‼️ The Donald Trump Administration says laws preventing mass purges of voter rolls within 90 days of an election DO NOT APPLY to noncitizens

Now that the Supreme Court has granted use of the SAVE citizenship verification tool for voters, the federal government can remove ineligible voters

“SAVE now uses a trove of records from various federal agencies, like Social Security data, to help states check for noncitizens — Will more voters be removed from lists based on these findings before the midterms? There are laws preventing mass purges of voter rolls within 90 days of an election, and we are within that time frame, but the administration has said those laws don't protect noncitizens”

Donald Trump's Justice Department sued 30 states to get their voter data so DOJ could do those checks

The states are:

Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin

Only Oklahoma settled and produced its file. The other 29 states plus DC have not turned over the full unredacted lists

[Fun At All X @Ishita_Sharma42]

Hilarious🤣 🙌

[SAVE BEEF 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com @BeefMaps]

Donald Tarter is 80 years old. He runs cattle at Dunnville, Kentucky, and he does not haul them to a sale barn.

He weighs them on his own certified scales, checked every six months. His Superior rep drives out and watches them load. The buyer furnishes the truck and pays on the spot.

"They write me a check right then."

Cattle hauled to a sale barn shrink 3 to 8 percent of body weight on the trip. On a 600-pound calf that is 18 to 48 pounds gone before the gavel drops.

Tarter markets close to 1,000 head a year.

@SuperiorAuction

[rlbryan @RaynetteBryan]

Nick Shirley's Atlanta investigation just uncovered Raphael Warnock's impossible vote totals.
"Warnock got more votes in three counties than those counties have residents," Shirley reported. "I'm surprised nobody found it before."
The Gabbard document dump provided the roadmap.
"Give us more time and we'll break this wide open."
Georgia's Senate seat was stolen. Now we have proof.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Photo 1: A man outraged Trump had 4 billionaires sitting with him during Xi’s White House visit.

Photo 2: A man not outraged Obama had 5 billionaires sitting with him during Xi’s White House visit.