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Thank goodness is right. I don’t recognize Penelope but she’ll do. Well it’s been a long week and I’m not sure what’s on tap for today but as soon as I finish this cup of coffee and maybe one more I’ll hit the ground running.
It turns out the fig crop is better than expected and with a weeks worth of accumulation I have enough figs to make 4+ pints of preserves so I’m going to have to shoehorn that into my schedule. I’ll put a priority on it for sure. I can soak the figs in soda water and then cover them with sugar and put them in the refrigerator overnight to can tomorrow.
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Annnnd, of course he cans too.
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We *ALL* can can!
But then, some us look silly in those little skirts…
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I ate too late last night and did not sleep well, very dry mouth all night, and stomach does not want food this morning. A cup of coffee and I’m off to work. I’ll eat an early lunch when I start to get hungry. A Porter House steak is yummy (and actually was Yummy) but anything heavy like that after 5pm is not a good idea for me.
It sure is nice to have power back on and not have to listen to the noise of the generator. That being said, I am extremely grateful that I have a generator and that it runs on natural gas.-
Still without power?!
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I got power back about noon yesterday. My generator saved me a whole steer.
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Does Alabama really have the best roads in America?
OK call me skeptical, but we do have pretty good roads. 😉ALABAMA (WDHN)—A new study found that Alabama has the highest-quality roads in America, followed closely by Indiana and Wyoming.
According to a study that analyzed data from the U.S. Department of Transportation and published by the personal injury firm Suzuki Law, 98.25% of Alabama’s roads were considered acceptable for drivers.
The study used each road’s “International Roughness Index,” or IRI, with data reported as inches per mile. A lower IRI represents smoother riding roadways.
Alabama has 11,308.93 miles of road, where 11,111.09 miles were considered acceptable to drive on.
Richard Suzuki of the law office that published the study said, “Around a third of all US states have over 90% of their roads considered to be of acceptable quality or above, which is beneficial for both tourists and locals as this helps to minimize the likelihood of accidents caused by uneven road surfaces.”
Hawaii came last in the study, with only 61.32% of its roads considered acceptable for drivers.
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I won’t trust any study that has New Jersey ranked #30 out of 50 for good roads. The association of state highway departments of all 50 states consistently ranks New Jersey roads as the worst in the nation. AAA says NJ motorists spend an extra $1,000 annually replacing struts, shocks and rims due to the horrible roads here.
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In other news here in Alabama we redrew our Congressional map so that we might better elect a person of “Color”. Not sure why it’s not racist to try to make sure a district is a certain “Color” but that aside, now the Washington establishment is concerned that the fiasco that is Biden may lead to a democrat loss in Alabama #2. It just gets better y’all. 😉
Could Biden’s debate performance impact the AL-2 race? Candidates differ.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The two candidates running to represent Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District have dueling perspectives on how President Joe Biden’s recent debate performance, which many top Democratic operatives have labeled disastrous, may impact their upcoming election.
Biden’s performance that saw him frequently lose his train of thought or struggle to finish a sentence, has sparked concern among Democrats about the impact on their candidates down ballot. One race that will be key to which party holds a congressional majority is Alabama’s 2nd District, where Democrat Shomari Figures faces Republican Caroleene Dobson.
Dobson told Alabama Daily News that she considered Biden’s performance both “disappointing” and “vindicating.”
“For a long time, not just Republicans but independents have questioned Biden’s competency, especially after his own special council earlier this year had indicated that perhaps he shouldn’t stand trial,” Dobson told ADN.
“That was an objective recommendation that regardless of party should have raised questions in a lot of citizens’ minds as to the competency of the president. I think his lack of competency was further revealed in the debate.”
On the contrary, many Democratic leaders have, while admitting it to be subpar, characterized Biden’s performance as a one-off mishap, a recommitted themselves to supporting him in November.
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My @ 6:51 I guess it goes without saying that millions of dollars will flow into the Alabama race. FWIW: I saw a report on national news that mentioned the race and how the Democrats were in panic mode.
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I quit reading the New York Times when Abe Rosenthal stepped down as executive editor and that was 38 years ago. It started circling the drain then.
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It is sad that the once great NY Times totally gave up on real news and became a propaganda rag for the whack-job left.
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Every guys ex-girlfriend
[videopress noIwBQve w=360 h=640]-
1977…She pulled a gun on me and after that the thrill was gone.
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OHHHHHHHH Yeah that would harsh your mellow. My “ex” pulled a knife on me as I was walking out the door.
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That’s downright scary. Fortunately I never had one of those. 😉
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I woke up at 6:30 with a splitting headache, possibly brought on by the massive change in humidity from yesterday to today. I heard Lovely Daughter and Aggie Beau getting up for work, so I eventually got out of bed to hold Little Prince while they finished their morning prep and headed out for the day. They made sure I had a cup of coffee, which with the Tylenol I took earlier seems to have cleared the headache.
So, I’ve now had morning hugs and “Ti voglio bene” sessions with my granddaughters, and all is right with the world.
The girls and their babysitter will be heading out later for skating and such. I’ll be staying here to maybe get some work done on a few computer projects.
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The book is a hoax and a fraud: a historical hoax, because the inaccurate parts are all shaded toward a predetermined conclusion, and a literary fraud, because significant portions of the accurate parts are plagiarized–from me, as it happens.
The Gay Mafia lobby refuses to let go of their fantasy about Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality. They are obsessed with the idea that pronouncing Lincoln as a homosexual will vindicate their deviancies once and for all.
You will hear about this new book in the media whose ignorant members will provide millions in free publicity. I have read this lengthy critique of the book and the author who died 21 years ago by his close colleague who is a highly respected historian. The sentence excerpted above is the money quote from his review.
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Gay Lincoln?!?! really?! I guess I missed that one but the Gay Mafia will not leave a stone unturned to try and find historical Gay folks. I wish these poor slobs could just get a life. ~SIGH~
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It feels weird, drinking morning coffee without my beads…but I did give a rosary away to the babysitter yesterday.
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I know y’all have been missing the roundup from the C&C, so here it is, now that I have power, wi-fe, and air conditioning (yay me!):
Good morning, C&Cers, it’s Thursday! I am blogging this morning from an undisclosed location in Nashville, where I am attending a semi-secret political event. So I’m an hour behind Eastern Standard Time and also pressed for time. I need to iron my slacks. Nevertheless, I bring you today’s roundup of essential news: the tides turn again on the Biden Campaign as Hollywood heavyweights and Democrat leaders refuse to get back on the Biden Bus; weird new cluster of airline accidents emerging; SADS story about Democrat lung cancer has happen ending but raises questions; NATO deploys newest high-tech weapon to defeat the evil Russians; what the heck is going on in France; and great election news begins bubbling up around the country.
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BTW – before I peruse the C&C column, when my headache woke me up this morning, I was in a REM cycle and remembered part of my dream. Still do, it was pretty intense…
I was in a big room, with lots of fellow townspeople, and there was some discussion about a community problem (can’t remember the topic), when some grown man created a fake loogie to spit in my face. Don’t ask me how, but within two seconds I had him face down on the floor, in a vicious neck pinch with his left arm pinned behind his back, giving all kinds of what-for, in front of all the assembled townspeople. I remember knowing that he’d done this before to other people. Called his stunt sophomoric, disgusting, etc., and made him apologize to me and everyone who witnessed his stunt. Wiped my face on his jacket. Told him to grow the hell up and made him promise to never do it again to anyone. I finally let him up so I could go wash my face. As I left the room to applause from the crowd, he slunk out of the room.
As I told my daughter and Little Prince, at least I can do that in my dreams.
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A thunderstorm blew up nearby so my antenna guy turned around and headed back to Monkey County and we’ll reschedule next week.
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It’s National French Fry Day.
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Fry some Frenchies? Won’t we get in trouble for that?
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You beat me to it – but my response was gonna be “I don’t think I know any Frenchies to fry” 😉
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Well that ‘Splains it! I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t comment on Texpat’s Gay Lincoln but when I scrolled up it said; “You have to be logged in to make a comment”. SO I logged in, first time in a while. FWIW; It doesn’t bother me to have to log in and it surprises me how long I can go with out logging in, weeks sometimes.
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Donny Osmond just popped up on TV, who knew he was still alive let alone still performing. But I guess that makes his 47 fans (excluding family) happy. 😀
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If you wonder why so many websites right of center are constantly asking you to subscribe and putting half their content behind paywalls, look no further than the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA). These hearings were the reason Ben Shapiro and others were testifying in DC this week.
Unleashing the anti-trust dogs at the DOJ is reason by itself to vote for Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON — A damning new congressional report shows how a little-known advertising cartel that controls 90% of global marketing spending supported efforts to defund news outlets and platforms including The Post — at points urging members to use a blacklist compiled by a shadowy government-funded group that purports to guard news consumers against “misinformation.”
The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which reps 150 of the world’s top companies — including ExxonMobil, GM, General Mills, McDonald’s, Visa, SC Johnson and Walmart — and 60 ad associations sought to squelch online free speech through its Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) initiative, the House Judiciary Committee found in an interim report released Wednesday.
“The extent to which GARM has organized its trade association and coordinates actions that rob consumers of choices is likely illegal under the antitrust laws and threatens fundamental American freedoms,” the Republican-led panel said in its 39-page report based on internal organizational records.
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White House documentation shows that President Biden ended the Major Disaster Declaration required for FEMA aid the same day he granted it.
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Wow…Just WOW
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GJT knows all about the campaign to brand Lincoln as gay. He, his son and I have a history going way back on the subject.
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HaHa, i thought of that this morning. That teacher was wacko.
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Two hours ago this thunderstorm was a tiny blob on the radar, south of Columbus. Now it’s a big blob which I’m waiting for to move off to the north so I can go to work.
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State law allows officers of the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA)—or any other state or federal wildlife agency—to “go upon any property, outside of buildings, posted or otherwise,” in order to “enforce all laws relating to wildlife.” As Reason first reported in 2022, TWRA agents interpreted this directive to trespass onto private lands at will; in at least two cases, agents then coordinated with federal wildlife officers to plant trail cameras without a warrant and without the property owner’s knowledge or permission. One man who found a camera on his land took it down, at which point agents raided his home and arrested him for “stolen government property.”
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I wonder how well the Biden FEMA cancellation will go over in those minority neighborhoods that are without power and have heavy trash to be removed?
Biden just saluted them all with only one finger.
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If the GOP in Texas has any sense at all they will reminding residents of Democratic precincts about this from now to November.
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So, a bunch of East Coast privileged Yankee media hacks go to New Mexico and treat a courthouse like a Bronx subway station. These people are disgusting.
The judge in leftist actor Alec Baldwin’s manslaughter trial scolded messy media over their courtroom filth on Thursday. “Have manners on picking up after ourselves,” the judge said.
Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer began Thursday’s session of Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial by scolding the members of the media, who have apparently been making a mess by leaving their beverages around the courtroom.
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“This probably isn’t the most appropriate time, but media, and media in the ‘war room’ — or whatever we call it — one more cup and everybody is not allowed to bring any liquids of any kind, whatsoever,” Judge Marlowe Sommer said.
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In NYC they have $40/hr Union Janitors to pick up after the pigs.
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Spotted over yonder; Shopping with your wife at Bass Pro Shop is like fishing with the Game Warden. 😉
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FELIZ POMMES FRITES
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Just took a 15 decade rosary walk around my daughter’s neighborhood, most of it barefoot. It was nice to stroll around a neighborhood where I don’t have to fear stray or loose dogs coming after me.
I’d forgotten how nice it is to ambulate through the grass without footwear. Good for the body and the spirit. The concrete didn’t start to get hot-uncomfortable until I was about halfway through, so I chose routes with the most shade.
Now, I think I’m going to run some errands. The house cleaner is here, cleaning the house for the baptism after party this weekend. I’m trying to stay out of her way. The girls are out with the baby sitter, having lunch with Mommy and roller skating. When I get back I may actually try to tackle my overdue homework.
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Hubby said parts of our neighborhood have power – the far end. I checked the Centerpoint restoration map, and all I can do is hope that green stuff hits our house in the next day or so. Our neighborhood has historically been one of the last to get restored, probably because of all the trees we have.
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World’s largest pilot union calls to eliminate terms ‘cockpit,’ ‘manpower,’ other ‘masculine generalizations’ for ‘equity’
BTW here is the AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, INT’L official inclusion guide.
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Magnolia is open! All restaurants full, don’t know how or if they got fresh food already.
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Almost anyone who has graduated from college in the last 50 years has repeatedly heard the statement, “More people have been killed in the name of God than in the name of anything else.” And most of them believe it.
and yet,
But there are few other examples of large-scale killings by Christians as Christians (as opposed to people who happened to be Christians killing people, as in the two world wars). For example, during one of the most widely cited examples of Christian killing, the Inquisition, no more than 5,000 people were killed—a number both Jewish and non-Jewish historians agree upon.
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It is also dwarfed by the number of people killed by Muslims, mostly Arabs, since the advent of Islam in the seventh century. During the thousand-year Muslim rule in India alone, at least a hundred million Hindus were killed. (The Indian government rarely speaks of this for fear of introducing civil strife between its Hindu and Muslim populations.) With regard to the staggering number of Hindus killed by Muslims, historian Will Durant, in his magisterial 11-volume “The Story of Civilization” (co-authored with Ariel Durant), wrote: “The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.”
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President Biden knows more about foreign policy than any other President ever. ~ Jonathan Kott ~
BAWHAHAHAHA!!! Choke,….Snort,…..Chortle,….
AND that stupid Bastard said it with a straight face in utmost sincerity. You can’t make this stuff up. 😀 -
Heh.
Kyle Smith
@rkylesmith
Truly amazing to realize there’s going to be a GOP ad this fall that does nothing but quote Dem Congressmen, Senators and George Clooney on the unfitness of their presidential candidate.
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Go full screen with his clip and watch conservative Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (back row, grey suit) refuse to applaud with the obligatory diplomatic golf clap. Biden made these people stand on that stage for 1 hour and 45 minutes before he showed up. Meloni was furious and I don’t blame her.
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Now, political insiders have told DailyMail.com that Democratic advisors are struggling to push past the powerful role that Jill Biden‘s loathing of Harris, 59, is playing in Joe‘s resistance to pass the mantle to his VP as pressure ratchets up for him to step down as presidential candidate and allow another Democrat tackle Donald Trump.
According to one former Democrat operative in Jill’s circle, the women’s long-seated animosity is ‘one hundred per cent’ part of Jill’s resistance to having her 81-year-old husband step aside.
Because the truth, according to a source who knows the First Couple well, is that Jill’s is now the only voice to which the 46th president listens.
And as far as Jill, 73, is concerned, the only thing worse than her husband stepping down would be Kamala stepping up to replace him.
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Jill, power-hungry shrew that she is, likes being the queen too much; Hunter needs the big guy to be around to pardon him once a sentence is passed; Joe is like many people with dementia who think they’re doing just fine and the world is out to get them.
Not sure what Harris has to do with this mess other than just being there.
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She’s complicit in the senility cover-up, at the very least.
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Ben Shapiro is an ineffective speaker. He speaks way too fast and monotonous as if he’s consumed too many Jolt colas.
he sounds just like Sparkie of Big John and Sparkie.
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I just got a call from Hubby – our little backup generator is dead. He’s now on the hunt for another one, good luck on that.
On a positive note, it looks like there’s been progress getting power in our neighborhood. The entire street south of us looks like it’s powered up, according to the Centerpoint map. Maybe the generator will indeed be a backup by the time he finds one.
Otherwise, he’ll be sleeping at Handsome Son’s house tonight.
And we both agree we’ll need to get a Kohler technician to look at our big unit and figure out the problem. Hubby thinks it’s possibly a computer board problem; he’s pretty diligent on maintenance issues and the hours on the generator aren’t so much that there was any maintenance due. When he opened the panel, there were no obvious problems, like ant infestation or burned wires or some such. And a new battery didn’t solve the problem either….
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Just got back from the parents house in Spring Branch to meet with a cleaning company, still no power there. Coming back, i looked ip the CenterPoint map and it shows the whole area green. Now we are like, did we notice any homes/stores with power? No lol. Sister has the meter on her phone, o will have her keep an eye on it.
Passed by the horse track at the belt and Fairbanks N Houston, CenterPoint is using parking lot as a staving area. It is bulging at the seams with lineman trucks but it was storming with a lot of lightening.
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Well…………
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Tedtam, one option you might consider is a truck/van mounted AC Inverter that converts 12 volts to 120 volts. You keep it recharged running the vehicle and can use it for auxiliary power. I don’t know how close your driveway is to the house, but it is one way provide power in an outage. They can range from 800 watts to 5,000 watts on this review list.
Here is a 4,000 watt inverter for $349. It is a pure Sine Wave current so you can use it to power computers, phones and tablets directly.
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I think with all the excitement of holding Little Prince, I totally forgot about the C&C today!
Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Already. Next week begins the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at which President Trump is expected to finally announce his vice-presidential pick. So prepare for a big news week. This morning’s essential news roundup includes: Biden big-boy press conference fails to cure political problems but doesn’t quite make the case for removal, either; historical footnotes; Senate rejects a Biden judicial nominee for the first time; and astonishing New England Journal of Medicine study signals sea change in vaccine politics.
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Mr. Childers’ description of the “Big Boy Press Conference” was, as usual, snarky delightfulness:
[Re the UK Daily Mail Headline and picture]
The headline “Faces of Despair” was a bold choice, a nod to the 1978 mondo cult horror film Faces of Death. I remember being at a party once when someone slipped that hideous movie into the VCR. It took less than five minutes to convince me I never wanted to see anymore “true life” death scenes, and studiously avoided the film’s 1981 sequel, “More Reasons to Vomit II.”
My reaction to the 1979 movie is exactly what the Mail’s editors were going for.
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Alec Baldwin breaks down in tears as his Rust shooting case is sensationally DISMISSED
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I am no fan of the despicable Alec Baldwin, but there was no murder or manslaughter in this case. Just my opinion.
And the Dismissal With Prejudice against the Prosecution for withholding evidence was the exact right call by this judge.
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I think he was guilty of manslaughter since he handled the weapon carelessly BUT you’re right about the dismissing with prejudice by the Judge. No mater how much a POS Alex Baldwin is, he deserved a fair trail and for the prosecution to withhold evidence in the case was unacceptable. Just my humble opinion.
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Sore hand or not, I guess Altuve wasn’t going to miss this series opener with the thugs from Arlington.
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Assinnation attempt on Trump
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1812255610286522540
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