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[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Reminder of what Khrushchev said 60 years ago...."Your children's children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but, we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you. We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not" It was September 29, 1959, when Nikita Khrushchev delivered his prediction for America at the United Nations. Remember the television coverage of him banging his shoe on the podium? At that time, just the word "communism" was feared throughout our nation. Remember this. Socialism leads to Communism How do you create a Socialist State? There are eight levels of control:
1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people
2) Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government . That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education - Take control of what people read, listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from the government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8)Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the rich with the support of the poor.

WE ARE THERE!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Charlie Kirk left a tweet for everything

[Mapleton Coug @dpsnyders]

@Gidi_Traffic Ear ring

[Mapleton Coug @dpsnyders]

@justin_hart The apostle Paul taught this doctrine in Philippians 2:5-6
“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”

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@TotalBlueSports Fake

[Jesse Fox @jesse_k_fox]

Listen to Elder Bednar’s counsel:

Can we please, please, please have more people who sin, and want to improve, come to church and partake of the sacrament?

Even if you feel stuck and you think you’ll never fully overcome it. If there is even a desire to turn toward Christ, the sacrament is for you.

And just so we’re clear… this includes every single person reading this post.

The sacrament isn’t a reward for perfect people, it’s an ordinance to remind us that we all need Christ.

[Mapleton Coug @dpsnyders]

@Real_RobN @StephenM And still nobody will ever be arrested!!!

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@TexzTyme @hxxntrr 🤣😂🤣

[Huge Nibley @huge_nibley]

Top 3 stories in Utah news right now…

Sayed Mousavi— shot and killed by UHP after attacking an officer in Sandy

Francisco Morales — on the run after beating a friend to death with a hammer with his gf Reina Chavez in Midvale

Israel Itzep Ixcoy — now in jail after kidnapping and raping a 15 year old girl in Ogden

But let’s talk more about lenient immigration Spencer Cox and John Curtis.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

The hardest thing that ever was done.

The greatest pain that ever was known.

The biggest battle that ever was won.

This was done by Jesus!

The fight was won by Jesus!

[Ronald A. Rasband @RonaldARasband]

Nearly 2000 years ago, Palm Sunday marked the beginning of the last week of the mortal ministry of Jesus Christ. Scriptures tell us that the week began with throngs standing at the gates of the city to see “Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee” (Matthew 21:11).

Though we do not stand at the gates of Jerusalem today with palms in our hands, the time will come when “all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, [will stand] before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands” (Revelation 7:9). #GreaterLove

[Mapleton Coug @dpsnyders]

And Joseph gets it right again!

[Okpanachi Elvis Sunday @RealokpanachiNG]

The Oldest Known Book in History Was Written on Gold Plates

Most people assume the world’s oldest books were written on paper or animal skins. But history has something even older — and it’s on gold.

Archaeologists uncovered what is often called the Etruscan Gold Book. It is a set of six gold plates bound together with metal rings. Some scholars consider it the oldest known multi‑page bound work, or book, in the world, because the gold plates are connected in a manner similar to a codex. The plates are inscribed with Etruscan characters and symbolic figures.

Experts explain that this is not a random collection of metal sheets. The gold plates form a structured, continuous record or document, dating back to around 660 BC, long before many of the oldest known paper manuscripts.

Here’s what makes this especially fascinating: the Etruscan Gold Book was discovered around 1943 (or possibly 1955) in the Struma River area of Bulgaria, and its existence became publicly known when it was donated to the National Historical Museum in Sofia in 2003. That is remarkable because Joseph Smith described a similar record on gold plates over 100 years earlier, in 1823.
At the time Smith made this claim, no archaeologist, historian, or collector had ever found anything like a bound book made of metal plates.

In the early 1800s, some people were aware that ancient civilizations sometimes wrote on metal. However, the vast majority of known inscriptions were brief — typically one line or just a few words — rather than extended narratives or bound records. There is no record of anyone in 1823 — scholars, collectors, or the general public — being aware of multi‑plate metal books.

Some early books also discussed gold artifacts from ancient American civilizations like the Aztecs, Maya, and Inca, describing jewelry, figurines, and ceremonial objects. However, none mentioned narrative writing on gold plates or bound plate records.

Since Joseph Smith’s claim, archaeologists have uncovered other examples of writing on metal plates. The Pyrgi Tablets, three gold plates inscribed in Etruscan and Phoenician, were discovered in 1964 in Italy. Another notable find comes from Persepolis in Iran, where gold and silver foundation plates with inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian, attributed to King Darius I (522–486 BC), were retrieved from stone boxes during excavations in 1933–1934. These plates were intentionally placed in stone boxes as part of a foundation ritual, paralleling Joseph Smith’s description of his plates being buried in a stone box.

Only in the mid‑20th century did scholars find a real ancient example of a bound multi-plate record — the Etruscan Gold Book.

Scholars describe this artifact not as a loose set of metal objects, but as a structured, book‑like object. Multiple plates are joined by rings in sequence, with inscriptions reflecting organized content. This type of record‑keeping was not part of the known archaeological record in the early 1800s.

In other words, Joseph Smith described a bound record on gold plates long before such an artifact was known to historians. Now we know that the format he described really did exist in antiquity, even though it wasn’t discovered until decades after his death.

That’s more than coincidence.

Written: the bronze serpent

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[Mapleton Coug @dpsnyders]

@elonmusk Awesome but ugly

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@MrPitbull07 Legend

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@lady_valor_07

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@ARCRaidersNews Yes please

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@LeadersJunction Nonsense

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@AllieJade1 No way that’s real?!?!

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

There’s a Christian church that owns farmland across the globe, runs food processing and storage facilities, and can move food across continents when disaster strikes.

Largely unnoticed, it has built one of the largest humanitarian networks on earth.

[Mapleton Coug @dpsnyders]

@Rightanglenews Should kick him off the team