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Up and not cryin’ (most days) ✝️🏠🇺🇸 Fate loves irony. Wit & sarcasm👍 BS 👎 Dogs, not cats. Quo vadis?

Joined November 2021
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State Rep Karen Whitsett (D-MI) explains why she is not voting for Abdul El-Sayed: “Because I am using basic common sense.”
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BREAKING: Senator Fetterman rips into Abdul El-Sayed. “He has the worst case of little man syndrome I've ever seen. El-Sayed is going after a woman for having an opinion. His reaction demonstrates why he struggles with groups of Michigan voters.”
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JUST IN: Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers. This is devastating for Abdul El-Sayed.
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I AM HEARTBROKEN AGAIN. HOW MANY MORE TEARS MUST I SHED BEFORE THE WORLD HEARS OUR CRY? I am writing these words with a heart that is bleeding. Days ago, I stood beside a mass grave in Plateau State, Nigeria, weeping over the lifeless bodies of members of my congregation whose dreams, hopes, and futures were brutally cut short. I cried until I had no more strength. I thought those tears would be enough for one lifetime. But today, I am heartbroken again. Four more innocent people have been killed near my church. Four more families have been thrown into mourning. Four more homes have been filled with unbearable silence. Four more people who woke up with hopes and dreams will never return to their loved ones. WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE THIS? How many more graves must we stand beside? How many more mothers must cry over their children? How many more children must grow up asking why their fathers and mothers never came home? And who knows whether I am next? Who can guarantee that tomorrow I will not be the one lying in a grave while my congregation gathers to mourn me? Who will stand beside my family if the next attack takes my life? I am a shepherd. My responsibility is to protect, pray for, comfort, and lead my flock. But what happens when the shepherd is constantly forced to bury the very people he was called to care for? My beloved, I am tired of burying my people. I am tired of seeing innocent blood spilled. I am tired of watching children become orphans and women become widows. Must our children inherit nothing but stories of killings, mass graves, and broken families? OUR ONLY OPTION LEFT IS TO FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. We cannot simply fold our hands and watch our families, communities, and future disappear. If we do not stand together, protect innocent lives, and demand urgent action, we fear that one day there may be no one left to tell our story. Are we going to wait until an entire generation is wiped out before the world decides that our lives matter? I am therefore making another desperate appeal to the United States Government and the American people. Please, hear our cry. Please, help us. We are not asking for sympathy alone; we are asking for meaningful intervention to protect innocent lives, strengthen security, support displaced families, and bring those responsible for these killings to justice. How many more innocent Nigerians must die before the international community acts with urgency? To the world, I ask: If these were your children, your parents, your brothers, or your sisters, would silence still be an option? I am not asking the world to remember us only when another mass grave is discovered. I am asking the world to help us while there are still lives to save. I WILL KEEP RAISING MY VOICE. I WILL KEEP SPEAKING FOR MY PEOPLE. I WILL KEEP CRYING OUT FOR JUSTICE. Our lives matter. Our children matter. Our future matters. May God remember Plateau State. May God comfort every grieving family. May He protect those who are still alive and give us the strength to see another day. Because honestly, I do not know how many more funerals this broken heart can endure. — Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo
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🚨This will make you SICK Oregon. 🤢 And not from too much Halloween candy. So, $426 MILLION of your tax dollars handed out, and Oregon Democrats' housing agency "is unable to verify" it went to the right people. That's not me just grabbing numbers out of thin air. That's the Oregon Secretary of State's OWN audit of the state housing agency's pandemic rent aid program. 💸$426 million sent out 💸ONLY $37 million in LIKELY FRAUDULENT applications caught 💸NO way they can verify the rest And when auditors dug in: 📉They spot-checked payments & found errors in nearly 1 in 3. 📉An estimated $11 MILLION in questioned costs in one year alone. 📉$21 MILLION they couldn't even test because the records were THAT much of a mess. Hang on. I'm sorry. But it gets crazier. That SAME housing agency now runs Kotek's homelessness money! Homelessness jumped 19%⬆️in ONE YEAR, the biggest increase in the nation. These people are fiscally incompetent. They couldn't run a lemonade stand, let alone a state. After 40 years of Oregon Democrats, it's time for common sense and fiscal competence. VOTE DRAZAN & RED 🔴🔴🔴 Up & down the ballot. #orpol
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Homelessness went up 19% in ONE YEAR. That alone is why @TinaKotek has to be fired
🚨This will make you SICK Oregon. 🤢 And not from too much Halloween candy. So, $426 MILLION of your tax dollars handed out, and Oregon Democrats' housing agency "is unable to verify" it went to the right people. That's not me just grabbing numbers out of thin air. That's the Oregon Secretary of State's OWN audit of the state housing agency's pandemic rent aid program. 💸$426 million sent out 💸ONLY $37 million in LIKELY FRAUDULENT applications caught 💸NO way they can verify the rest And when auditors dug in: 📉They spot-checked payments & found errors in nearly 1 in 3. 📉An estimated $11 MILLION in questioned costs in one year alone. 📉$21 MILLION they couldn't even test because the records were THAT much of a mess. Hang on. I'm sorry. But it gets crazier. That SAME housing agency now runs Kotek's homelessness money! Homelessness jumped 19%⬆️in ONE YEAR, the biggest increase in the nation. These people are fiscally incompetent. They couldn't run a lemonade stand, let alone a state. After 40 years of Oregon Democrats, it's time for common sense and fiscal competence. VOTE DRAZAN & RED 🔴🔴🔴 Up & down the ballot. #orpol
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🚨 A 15-year-old girl in Baltimore had to fight off her attacker with a fire extinguisher. She escaped naked and bleeding, with a collapsed lung. Police say Abubakarr Barrie, 23, picked her up in his unlicensed cab, took her to his basement, and stabbed her at least five times. Baltimore's local news left out one detail. DHS says Barrie is an illegal alien from Sierra Leone. Border Patrol caught him in Arizona in December 2023, and the Biden administration released him. In July, the NYPD arrested him for possessing a forged instrument. DHS says ICE asked New York to hold him, and New York let him walk. Three months later, a 15-year-old girl nearly died. His public defender told the judge he has "no criminal history." That's what sanctuary policy buys you. ICE lodged a new detainer. Maryland better honor this one. dhs.gov/news/2026/10/30/ice-…
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Even radical Willamette Week says the quiet part out loud. Vote Christine Drazan for Oregon Governor and send Kotek back to York, Pennsylvania where she belongs.
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I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.
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Probably nothing. 🤷‍♂️
I wonder why there’s a pile of ballots on the side of the 15N in Lake Elsinore, California?
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Replying to @KGWNews
She’s put us 48/50 in education. What, won’t be happy until we’re 50? She continues to spend more and more of our tax dollars on homelessness and all it’s led to is an increase in homelessness. Oregon has one of the highest tax burdens among working class. She won’t be satisfied until we’re the highest I guess.
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Replying to @KGWNews
If Tina was going to do all these wonderful things, why didn't she do them in her first four years in office?
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ATTN NEWS PEOPLE. DO YOUR DAMN JOB. nitter.gq/LeavingPortland/status…
Even radical Willamette Week says the quiet part out loud. Vote Christine Drazan for Oregon Governor and send Kotek back to York, Pennsylvania where she belongs.
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Replying to @KGWNews
She doesn’t listen to Oregonians. We voted down illegals having drivers licenses, and now they have them. She was Speaker at the time. We voted down the CAT tax, and she let that go through too. And all of us see that CAT tax on our receipts. We’re paying for it. We’re done with Tina.
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I was at Crown Point in the Gorge on Thursday. Costs $10 to park for 5 minutes while you snap a few pictures. I found the Pay Here signs attached to trash cans rather humourous. It's as if to say "We are the government, throw your money away here!" .. I did not.
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STOP THE SPREAD OF RAISING COSTS IN OREGON! Don’t vote for Democrats this time. Try something new! Just TRY! #voteDRAZAN
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Sorry to break character but I have to say it. I am a Lifelong moderate liberal. With Democrats nominating radicals like Abdul El-Sayed, and Democratic Party leaders cheering him on, I think this is the year where it makes sense for all common-sense, moderate, reasonable Democrats like myself to vote straight ticket GOP.
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🚨 BOMBSHELL: Two former members and one current member of Katy Padilla Stout’s congressional campaign staff have come forward, speaking under condition of anonymity, to describe what they call an extremely hostile work environment. The current staffer alleges that Stout routinely berates and curses at her staff. “She’s mean and angry all the time,” the staffer said. “Her smile in front of the cameras is fake. She treats us like slaves. She has us do her grocery shopping, take her dogs to the groomer, and pick up her kids from school, stuff completely unrelated to the campaign.” The staffer continued: “Earlier this month I requested a day off to drive to Dallas and visit my mom, who was scheduled to receive her first round of chemo. I had worked 11 straight days with no days off. Katy went psycho on me during the phone call, telling me, ‘Are you fucking kidding me with this stupid shit two days before a debate? We’re not playing these fucking games. You either start giving me 110% ASAP or I’ll fire your ass.’” One former staffer said Stout frequently had blowups over food. “On one occasion, one of my colleagues went to pick up lunch for all of us at Tacos El Rey, which is around the corner from the office. Katy ordered two asada tacos, a chicken taco, a carnitas taco, a cup of beans, and a cup of rice. It was her usual order. When she opened her bag, she noticed the carnitas taco was missing. She went absolutely crazy on my colleague, accusing her of stealing food and asking if she didn’t pay her enough that she needed to steal. As my coworker tried to explain that they probably just forgot to put it in the bag, Katy threw the cup of beans at the wall where my coworker was standing, told her, while she was crying and visibly shaken, to clean up the mess and earn her paycheck, and then stormed out to eat in her car.” Another former campaign staffer said, “She’s made her whole campaign about how her opponent treats women, that he’s a misogynist and says inappropriate things on his YouTube channel, but she would say super inappropriate sexual stuff all the time when I was there. It got really awkward sometimes because she’d go into detail with me about sexual dreams she’d had. It made me and others feel really uncomfortable. On many occasions I witnessed Katy refer to other women as ‘bitches’ and ‘cunts.’ On a separate occasion, we had the TV on and Scott Bessent was doing an interview. Katy referred to him as a ‘f*ggot Nazi enabler.’ I had to step out because I didn’t want to say something that would get me in trouble. I resigned about a week later.”
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Today is another year without my daughter, Brianna Long, and the weight of it still feels impossible. I struggle to call it an anniversary. It was the day everything broke. Brianna was murdered by gang members while she was at work in Valdosta, Georgia. We are still waiting for a trial. Still waiting for answers. Still trying to move through a life that no longer makes sense. I miss her in ways I can’t fully put into words—her voice, her face, the ordinary moments I used to take for granted. I find myself wondering who she would have become and what we would have shared. Grief has narrowed my world. Most days I work and come home. The things I used to enjoy no longer feel like mine. Learning to live without her has been the hardest thing I have ever faced. Please keep our family in your prayers. Pray for strength, for answers, and for justice for Brianna. Nothing will bring her back. We know that. But she deserves accountability, and we deserve the truth. We will keep holding on to the hope that it comes soon. Brianna, not a day passes that we don’t miss you. You are loved. You are remembered. Your life mattered, and we will keep speaking your name. My sweet Bri Bri, I love you more than words can hold. Until we meet again. Mommy loves you always. 🌹
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Nicki Minaj has done more deeply thought out and accurate psychological analysis of left wing political candidates in this one post than any paid “journalist” at a legacy media outlet has done in their entire careers
If you listen carefully it’s a misplaced anger at his own parents for not making him feel worthy that turned into raging jealousy of other children who had parents that lifted them up and poured into them. He’s projected all of that onto white people. He needs to mend his heart before thinking about running for any office. White ppl haven’t hurt him. He knows exactly who did. Notice how he doesn’t get the satisfaction he was craving when the interviewer simply anchors himself & doesn’t validate that experience. We should all do more of this. Don’t validate anyone’s experience for the sake of temporary bonding.
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