Pauline

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell, 1984

[Pauline @ffigtree]

‘When we stop talking that’s when hatred begins…’

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

“Islamaphobic” is a manufactured, imaginary term used to excuse inhuman behavior.
The proper term is “Refuser.”
I refuse to entertain any ideas that rip down the rights of American men and women.
Just a hardline “No.” There is no negotiating, no compromise, just complete and absolute refusal.
The answer is “No, end of discussion.”

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

"Jesus died for my sins." 

True. Don't stop there.

What does that actually mean?

It means every ounce of justice that belonged to me landed on Him instead.

Every punishment I deserve was poured out on Christ. Justice was satisfied, and mercy was offered at the exact same time.

Christianity is the only religion that gives you both. 

Every other religion asks you to earn mercy.

[Pauline @ffigtree]

True!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A woman walks in feeling fine, has a routine cholesterol test, and leaves eleven years later on nine drugs, none of which treat anything she came in with.

Nothing went wrong. That is the machine running exactly as it was built to run.

Day one: she is well. The nurse takes bloods because she has turned fifty and the computer said so.

Week two: cholesterol 6.1. Statin. She arrived a woman and leaves a patient, which is a promotion in this building.

Month nine: her legs ache on the stairs. Told statins rarely do that, and to persist.

Year one: blood sugar has drifted up, which statins are known to do. She is now prediabetic. Metformin.

Year two: metformin has introduced her to her own bathroom. She adjusts her life around it rather than mention it.

Year three: reflux. A proton pump inhibitor goes on, indefinitely, with no conversation about ever coming off.

Year four: stomach acid flattened, so B12 and iron stop absorbing properly. She is exhausted. Her bloods are described as satisfactory.

Year five: tired, aching, foggy, flat. Offered an antidepressant, and takes it, because by now she has accepted that she is simply someone who gets ill.

Year six: osteopenia on the scan. Nobody mentions she was advised at forty to keep the weights light.

Year eight: blood pressure up. Two more tablets, one to fix the ankles the first one swelled.

Year eleven: nine medications and a repeat prescription that renews itself without a human being reading it.

Her cholesterol is magnificent. She has never felt worse.

Not one of those prescriptions was an error. Every single one correctly treated the drug in front of it.

A well person buys nothing. A dead person buys nothing.

The whole business sits in the corridor between the two, and forty years of expertise has gone into keeping people walking slowly down the middle of it.

[Stephen Moore @StephenMoore]

Americans now pay more in taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Think about that.

Government has become so big and bloated that taxes cost more than life's basic necessities. Every American taxpayer should be outraged.

[Allen West @AllenWest]

Last night in McKinney, Texas, the city council voted 7-0 to allow a new mosque and Islamic center to be constructed. I just have to ask, how many city councils in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Pakistan, Sudan, Turkey, Syria, Gaza, or any Muslim dominated country are granting permits for the construction of new Christian churches?

As a matter of fact, in Sudan they have murdered over two million Black Christians there and we know of the atrocities in Nigeria.

Christian churches and communities are being targeted and destroyed in most of these countries. Funny, ya don’t hear Abdul al-Sayed and Hasan Piker talking about that genocide.

Here, especially in Texas, we are experiencing an epidemic increase of Islamic mosques and centers. I have a simple question, why are we allowing the constitutional right of freedom of religion to be extended to an ideology that rejects freedom of religion?

Unfortunately we have cowards masquerading as elected officials, McKinney city council the most recent example, who will not pose that question, and respond as they should…say "No!"

It’s time we understand that when tolerance becomes a one way street it leads to cultural suicide. Time to say “No” to this intolerant ideology…time to vote for individuals who will say "No!"

https://t.co/pJGfrwUIv7

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

Homeschooling is the fastest growing grassroots freedom movement in modern American history. Parents, by the millions, are waking up to the fact that public schools are designed to leave children dependent & indoctrinated, & that homeschool students are more successful by every metric.

[Carole Mac @HerbsandDirt]

When the flu shots are at their peak late August until early October, be mindful of being in CVS’s, or any establishment that has these stocked.

Make no mistake; they will shed, regardless of how hard they say otherwise.

Stay away from your vax happy family members too for a bit.

My daughter went to the ER for a 104+ temperature and flank pain after spending the day with recently vaccinated co-workers in 2021.

It’s going to be a problem.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I know why everything sucks...

...and it's because everything is fake

We are voting for fake candidates, who run on fake promises, inside a fake system that was never designed to fix anything.

We are raising kids in fake schools that teach fake history, fake science, which quietly produce fake adults who can't think for themselves.

Then they are getting fake college degrees that cost 4 years and six figures that teach fake education and they get fake jobs.

We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research.

We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take fake, curated vacations to promote brands that make fake products.

We are watching fake news, about fake crises, produced by fake journalists, for fake outrage.

We are borrowing fake money that was printed from nothing, to fund a fake economy that would collapse in an afternoon if people stopped pretending it was real.

We are buying fake organic food that's just a paid label, and drinking fake juice with two percent juice in it, and putting fake cheese on cheeseburgers that's just "cheese product" on fake burger meat.

We are donating to fake nonprofits where the moeny never makes it to the people and then funding fake foreign aid that buys real weapons to prop up fake governments.

We are going to fake therapy that teaches fake coping skills instead of telling you hard truths.

We are buying fake furniture made of fake wood that's actually compressed sawdust and glue that looks like wood, ships in fourteen boxes with instructions written in a fake language that isn't quite any language, requires tools it doesn't include, takes 4 hours to build, wobbles on day 1, and is totally destroyed in 6 months.

We are downloading fake "free" apps that charge a subscription after three days for AI features that don't work, hidden behind a paywall we didn't see, protected by a privacy policy we didn't read, buried inside Terms of Service written by lawyers specifically so we wouldn't read them, that we agreed to by tapping a button the size of a thumbnail, that gave a company we've never heard of the right to sell our data to companies we'll never hear of, to build a profile on us we'll never see, to influence decisions we'll never know were made.

IT. IS. ALL. SO. FREAKING. FAKE.

And we all yearn for what was once real.

Don't you remember? Did you forget?

There was a time with a simple handshake between men was a contract.

When bread went stale because... well, that's what real bread does!

When kids played outside all day until it was dark, and nobody tracked them.

When a family could live off a single income.

When music was made by people who LIVED something real and you could feel it.

When schools was HARD... and that was the point!

When doctors knew your name and your family, they even came to your house,

When you bought something once... and it was yours forever.

When the chair your grandmother bought once lasted 70 years and she passed it onto your dad.

And now nothing is real, and that's why everything sucks.

[Carole Mac @HerbsandDirt]

☠️SIDS☠️

Just a reminder that they TOLD US in this manufacturers insert for the DTaP.

It was there all along.
And they lied & continue lying about it to this day.

[Suneel Dhand MD @DrSuneelDhand]

I have some advice for you if a loved one is ever in the hospital, especially if they’re over 65. This could save their life.

Watch out for any altered mental status (increasing confusion) starting the day after they’re admitted. This is extremely common and massively increases the risk of complications. It’s usually a family member who first notices that something is “off.” That’s why you need to be a strong advocate for your loved one. Insist that the medical team looks into it ASAP.

What’s wrong?

Is it dehydration?

Is it a new or worsening infection?

Is it a medication side effect? (This is very common.)

The reason this is so important is that research shows for every day your loved one remains confused, the risk of prolonged hospitalization, developing new medical problems, and falls goes WAY UP.

I’ve seen this turn independent people into individuals who are never able to go home again.

A stitch in time saves nine. Be as assertive as you need to be. Insist the doctors investigate. Don’t wait. Speak up.

My sincere advice to you.

If you’d like my full checklist for a safe hospitalization, watch here: https://t.co/qIwUza1Jmd

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

You have probably seen this painting dozens of times. It became one of the most iconic images in American art, a portrait people call the Victorian Mona Lisa. And yet the story behind it is very different from what most people believe...

The man who painted it in 1871, James McNeill Whistler, did not set out to make a monument to motherhood, and he did not even call it Whistler's Mother. He called it Arrangement in Grey and Black. To him it was a study of shapes and tones, a woman in black against a grey wall, and he insisted the subject barely mattered. He once wrote of it:

"To me it is interesting as a picture of my mother, but what can or ought the public to care about the identity of the portrait?"

And she very nearly was not painted: the story goes that a young model failed to arrive one day, and his mother, Anna, who was living with him in London, offered to sit instead. She was in her sixties. Whistler first tried to paint her standing, but she could not hold the pose through the long hours he demanded, so he let her sit, and the picture the whole world now knows came out of that small mercy.

Look at how severe it is. Everything is discipline and restraint, and Whistler meant it that way, a composition before it is a portrait.

But the world refused to see an arrangement of tones. It saw a mother...

When the painting toured America during the Depression it was embraced as an emblem of motherhood itself, and in 1934 it appeared on a US postage stamp with words honoring the mothers of America.

Whistler gave us grey and black, geometry, a wall, a profile, a woman holding still. But the painting became more than he intended: the plainness of an old woman's hands folded in her lap, the patience of a body that has sat and waited and endured, the particular stillness of the person who was there before you were, who held you before you could remember being held…

He wanted us to see shapes, but we saw our mothers instead.

And maybe that is the truest thing a portrait can do, to slip past the artist's intentions and remind a stranger, a hundred and fifty years later, of the person who first loved them…

The art historian Martha Tedeschi placed it in rare company:

"Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most paintings have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to every viewer. These few works have successfully made the transition from the elite realm of the museum visitor to the enormous venue of popular culture."

[Pauline @ffigtree]

@shipwreckshow Suicidal empathy.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

80,000 third worlders crossing the border of Spain isn’t an outlier, it’s exactly what has been happening all across the western world. People with different cultures, histories, religions, & values have been used to break the homogeny of western countries in an effort to conquer us. 80,000 Moroccans crossing Spain’s border in one day, is no different than 20 million Mexicans crossing the United States border in four years.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Being angry at Fauci or being angry at Israel isn’t productive anymore. The anger is justified, but without real accountability it’s just wasted energy—unless it’s directed effectively into a pursuit for positive change.

Trump won in 2024 because most Americans understood that wars in the Middle East are bad for the U.S. & that COVID was a crime against humanity. He built a historic coalition that promised, with conviction, that voting for Trump meant we’d get accountability, no more foolish wars, & an administration that would actually put America first.

Instead, we have a new war in the Middle East and Trump announcing he’ll honor Fauci’s pardon.

This is all infuriating, but don’t let it demoralize you—because it’s also clarifying.

We can declassify documents, stage hearings, and post talking points on the internet all day. But none of it matters when we have a justice system that refuses to deliver genuine, bipartisan accountability, impartial to political influence from any direction.

Right now, Trump has the ultimate power to pursue that accountability, and he’s choosing not to. That tells you everything you need to know.

We know who will hide behind performative outrage about Fauci, Iran, or the Deep State while taking no real action in efforts to shield their political careers—and we know who will actually stand up, fight, & tell the truth, no matter how uncomfortable the consequences may be.

The problem isn’t the War Machine, foreign interests trying to push us into war, or the Deep State & their pathetic apparatchiks like Fauci seeking to control us.

The problem is putting our faith in leaders, again and again, who lack the courage to fight them.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

In 711 AD Muslims from Morocco conquered Spain & would rule over the country for 800 years until Christian Crusaders expelled them in 1492 - but here we are today with Spain voluntarily leaving their borders open.

That’s what happens when you don’t know your history.

[Pauline @ffigtree]

@shipwreckshow Congratulations 🥳!!!

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

For the first time in recorded history, a civilization has decided that the most enlightened virtue is to surrender its culture, heritage, women, and children without putting up any defence. Suicidal empathy shall prove to be the demise of the West.

[Pauline @ffigtree]

Dr. Martin clip with Mikki Willis: argues Fauci’s pandemic related actions including gain-of-function involvement, coronavirus patenting & bioweapon research dates back to 2005 falling outside the presidential pardon. . .

[Dr. David Martin @DrDMartinWorld]

Before @SenRonJohnson and @SenRandPaul hold the contempt vote on @DrTonyFauciMD, let's remember to keep the #PatriotAct in mind. @joerogan , @rustyrockets @POTUS @TuckerCarlson @DNIGabbard @DschlopesIsBack

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

A fair, liberal, and enlightened judge. Neither Orwell nor Kafka could have predicted the current insanity that has gripped the entire globe.

[Shipwreck @shipwreckshow]

This whole Fauci thing is a dog and pony show for midterms.

Trump announcing he's going to honor the pardon is just a kick in the teeth to everyone who really believed "accountability was coming"

You don't hate them enough.