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First let me hit you with some realities:
- - The secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, has said that the West is not prepared for the challenges that will come over the next five years and that it's time to "shift to a wartime mind-set." Kori Schake, who directs foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, writes that while World War III has not begun, "a world war is approaching."
Navajo citizens in Southwestern states have reported "negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants" in the week since Trump issued a series of strict immigration-related executive orders, according to Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren.
Elon Musk popularity: Despite his role in Trump's inner circle and overseeing DOGE, Elon Musk's popularity is waning. A recent poll shows he's becoming more unpopular with the public. Elon Musk's popularity has been decreasing since he took over the Department of Government Efficiency. A Wall Street Journal poll shows half of the respondents view his advisory role under Trump unfavorably.
@#13 ... This equestrian manure has been going on in Texas for decades. It's gone nowhere. ...
Agreed.
Texas secession movements
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... Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit,[1][2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state. ...
Paul Overstreet - Love Helps Those (1988)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Grandma she don't really get around good anymore
In fact to get her out the house is really quite a chore
But every day somebody seems to find a time to stop
To see if grandma needs something from where they go to shop
'Cause you see
CHORUS: Love helps those who cannot help themselves
It cares about those hearts that's been put up on a shelf
It will introduce a lonely soul to a lonely someone else
Love helps those who cannot help themselves
Mr.Johnson has a small farm down in southern Tennessee
But one year he took ill before the time to plant to seed
And no one knows which neighbour planted or they just won't tell
But he had his best crop ever by the time that he got well
'Cause you see
Love helps those who cannot help themselves
It cares about those hearts that's been put up on a shelf
It will introduce a lonely soul to a lonely someone else
Love helps those who cannot help themselves
A little helpless baby child was born into this world
She didn't have a daddy and her mother was just a girl
But there came a young man willing to give both of them a home
The girl he married the child he cherished though she was his own
'Cause you see
Love helps those who cannot help themselves
It cares about those hearts that's been put up on a shelf
It will introduce a lonely soul to a lonely someone else
Love helps those who cannot help themselves
...
@#13 ... Obama said in 2007 ...
Conservatives said in the 1990's ...
How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate (2013)
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... This came up at Tuesday's Western Republican Leadership Conference Debate, where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich tussled on the question:
ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you.
GINGRICH: That's not true. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.
ROMNEY: Yes, we got it from you, and you got it from the Heritage Foundation and from you.
GINGRICH: Wait a second. What you just said is not true. You did not get that from me. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.
ROMNEY: And you never supported them?
GINGRICH: I agree with them, but I'm just saying, what you said to this audience just now plain wasn't true.
(CROSSTALK)
ROMNEY: OK. Let me ask, have you supported in the past an individual mandate?
GINGRICH: I absolutely did with the Heritage Foundation against Hillarycare.
ROMNEY: You did support an individual mandate?
ROMNEY: Oh, OK. That's what I'm saying. We got the idea from you and the Heritage Foundation.
GINGRICH: OK. A little broader.
ROMNEY: OK.
(Romney was prepared to go on, but Michele Bachmann, in her usual role as the person who makes the debates less useful, interjected and changed the subject. Here's a YouTube video of the entire debate. The Gingrich-Romney exchange begins at the 27:38 mark.) ...
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Trump's health team has a trust issue
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