by | April 29, 2025 · 8:49 am

Trump’s Second First 100 Days

DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Change us Your way. And help us be happy about it. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

APPROVAL: Comparing Trump’s approval polls to any and every president before him is pointless. According to a new study by Media Research Center (MRC), the evening newscasts on ABC, NBC and CBS from January 20 through April 9 featured 899 stories that discussed President Trump or the Trump administration. Of these, 92.2% were negative compared to only 7.8% that were positive. This is even worse than it was for his first first 100 days.

CATHOLIC: The Spirit is a’moving!

CONCLAVE: [5:14] – Frank Pavone urges us to pray the cardinals choose the Holy Spirit over politics.

COLORADO: [6:03] – Feds made more than 100 arrests after raiding a notorious nightclub in Colorado Springs.

FLORIDA: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working in conjunction with local law enforcement in Florida, have arrested nearly 800 illegal immigrants across the state in the past four days.

GREEN BLACKOUTS: Both Spain and Portugal generate a majority of their electricity with renewables. On April 28, huge power outages hit both nations, leaving millions of homes and businesses without power.

HYPOCRITE: Michelle Obama says President Trump’s deportations “keep her up at night.” S’funny how she seemed to sleep just fine while her husband was in office.

MEDIA: I put “Trump blue suit” into my Duck Duck Go search engine. It was headline news at The New York Slime.

USA Today wrote, “The Trumps were seated in the front row for the service and the president’s midnight blue suit stood in contrast to the waves of black. Former President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden were seated a few rows behind their successors.” Never mind that Joe Biden was also wearing a blue suit.

Interestingly, The Express wrote, “Trump, who identifies as a non-denominational Christian, and Prince William, affiliated with the Church of England, opted out of wearing the customary black, possibly highlighting their non-Catholic beliefs.” The Express also did not mention that Joe Biden, who famously reminded us constantly of what a devout Catholic he has been his whole life, also wore a blue suit.

NORTH CAROLINA: I put “$1.4 billion north carolina” into my Duck Duck Go search engine. Here are the top hits. None of them are from the slimestream media. The color of Trump’s suit … Big News! Much belated aid for American disaster victims … YAWN! –

  1. https://www.budd.senate.gov/2025/04/28/senator-budd-secures-1-4-billion-grant-for-western-north-carolina/
  2. https://www.carolinajournal.com/hud-approves-1-4-billion-disaster-recovery-grant-for-western-nc-plan/
  3. https://governor.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2025/04/25/trump-administration-approves-governor-steins-housing-recovery-action-plan-western-north-carolina
  4. https://whky.com/hud-approves-north-carolinas-1-4-billion-action-plan-for-helene-recovery/
  5. https://www.commerce.nc.gov/grants-incentives/disaster-recovery
  6. https://www.housingwire.com/articles/hud-approves-north-carolina-hurricane-helene-recovery-action-plan/
  7. https://www.yahoo.com/news/hud-approves-1-4-billion-213521853.html
  8. https://www.bpr.org/bpr-news/2025-04-25/federal-government-approves-n-c-plan-for-1-4-billion-in-helene-aid
  9. https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/trump-administration-approves-14b-action-plan-helene-recovery/5G2CVB5VQVGRFJ7LJXUX3EVFTA/
  10. https://www.foxcarolina.com › 2025 › 04 › 25 › trump-administration-approves-14b-plan-help-western-nc-rebuild-after-helene

PAYBACK: The White House X account tweeted, “We will hunt you down. You will face justice. You will be deported — and you will never set foot on American soil again. Oh, and your mugshot may just end up on a yard sign at the White House.” CLICK https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1916972778148008072 [:47] and https://x.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1916830905638752270 [:49] to see more.

PELOSI ACT: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) just reintroduced a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. The legislation’s acronym PELOSI stands for “Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments.”

TARIFFS: According to the April 24 Daily Treasury Statement, revenues from “customs and certain excise taxes” reached an all-time high of $15.9 billion in April, up 105 percent from a year ago.

GRAMMY NOTES: Forty-six years ago, we started planning our wedding.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0qvFeTIgywc to hear what Ron and Nancy did after Nancy took a tumble. ❤

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/06dGlDfcu10 for more Reagan humor.

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by | April 27, 2025 · 7:28 am

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BEHIND THE SCENES: I love minis!

BORDER: CLICK https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1915826498533310904 [8:00] to hear AG Bondi describe what Judge Dugan did that got her arrested.

EDUCATION: How is it that private schools are denied public funds, but private universities with ginormous endowments get million$?

JUDGES: [7:04] – Judges should be held to a HIGHER standard than others!

MEDIA: In other news, nine people died after a “30-year-old man” plowed into the crowd at the Vancouver (Canada) Filipino Lapulapu festival. Despite the fact that the driver is in police custody, none of the news reports have given his name, race, or gender identity. Hmm …

GRAMMY NOTES: When my girls were the right age, I went through a period of buying books and movies made from books to explore with the differences. Everybody says the books are always better, but I found two that were so bad, I didn’t give them to the kids to read. Pinocchio was one. Forrest Gump was the other.

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by | April 26, 2025 · 11:11 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please grant Pope Francis eternal rest. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

100 DAYS: Translation from Left-ese into Reality-ese — Judges who broke the law are facing consequences; illegals are being deported for being here illegally … just like they were under Clinton and Biden; history that was rewritten by Progressive is being restored; libraries are being curated to provide materials appropriate to community standards; universities that support anti-Semitism and terrorism are losing taxpayer-funded grants they had no right to in the first place; bloated government agencies and budgets are being cut back so we don’t go bankrupt; Biden created a government office to monitor conservative social media posts; countries often give child bonuses when the birth rate drops too low; there are no new threats of wars; Obama, who got a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush, started multiple new wars; everybody rips us off, demands we provide aid and military support, and badmouths us for being who we are, so who cares if we demand a little equity and courtesy in return?

BORDER: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said thousands of illegal immigrants have registered on the CBP Home app to self-deport, and that those who have not yet done so will face consequences.

CATHOLIC: [9:10] – Father David Michael Moses reviews The Conclave. He includes the comments of a Catholic cardinal who participated in the last conclave and saw the movie. I think I’ll give this movie a miss.

EDUCATION: It’s interesting how they went from demanding evolution and creationism be taught as theories to demanding creationism be eliminated entirely. They’re so indoctrinated they won’t even listen to how different Intelligent Design is from biblical creationism.

HYPOCRITE: Schumer is shooting off his mouth about the arrests of two judges for aiding criminal illegal aliens saying “President Trump and the DOJ can’t just arrest judges at will.” IMO, judges should be held to a higher standard than anybody! Plus, I don’t remember Schumer being bothered about a former U.S. president being arrested, booked, fingerprinted, photographed, and held against his will inside a cold court room during campaign season.

MILITARY: The Army has surpassed its 2025 recruiting goal six months early.

MORE HYPOCRISY: The people supporting trans activism are the same people who loudly object to white people wearing braids.

SANTOS: They said he was a liar. Now he’s going to prison. – George Santos is one of only six congressmen and the first Republican to ever be expelled from the House of Representatives. The first three, all Democrats, were expelled back in 1861 for fighting for the Confederacy.

The fourth, Michael J. Myers (also Democrat), was expelled in 1980 and later imprisoned for conspiracy to commit bribery, defraud the U.S., receipt of illegal gratuities, obstruction of justice, filing false tax returns, and racketeering

The fifth, yet another Democrat, was James A. Traficant who was expelled in 2002 after being convicted of 10 felony counts, including taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his congressional staff to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and houseboat in Washington, D.C. He served a 7-year prison sentence.

Republican George Santos was expelled in 2023 and federally indicted on 23 counts including wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds, lying on Federal financial disclosure forms to the House of Representatives, aggravated identity theft, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission. As part of a plea deal, Santos has agreed to pay roughly $580,000 in penalties in addition to serving a seven-year prison sentence.

STUDENT LOANS: Leftists want people who’ve defaulted on student loan debt to pull their money out of major banks and put it into credit unions. Supposedly, this will “cripple” banks and inspire them to pressure the Trump administration. How much $$$ do people who can’t afford to make payments on their student loans even have?? Unless, of course, they aren’t paying their loans because Biden kept telling them they didn’t need to …

UK: The nation’s Supreme Court just ruled that sex is biological. But never mind that. The London Marathon is allowing males to run in female categories.

WISCONSIN: Judge Hannah Dugan has been arrested for taking extraordinary and allegedly illegal steps to thwart police from taking a past deportee into custody. The illegal in question, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, was charged with domestic violence in mid-March; the case was assigned to Dugan. He was deported in 2013; there is no evidence he returned legally.

Democrats claim to be the party that defends women’s rights. So why are they now picking men-who-say-they’re-women over real women and illegal aliens over the women they beat up, rape, and murder?

GRAMMY NOTES: Haiku posted at Facebook Haiku Society by James Grundy – My favorite thing about haiku is where the first two lines create an image and/or mood and the third line takes it in an unexpected direction. This is a lovely example.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2470380649963998 to hear Bunny ponder physics. That dog is so smart, I can’t help wondering how BORED she would’ve been as a house dog if she didn’t have her buttons.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/100095328189213/videos/1655417445158931 to see what Barron posted about his parents. ❤

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by | April 25, 2025 · 11:42 am

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ACTIVIST JUDGE: This is the same black-robed progressive who mocked the faith of a 75-year-old Christian woman while sentencing her to two years in prison for temporarily blocking a Planned Parenthood door.

BORDER: The Dems’ much-touted “Maryland dad” is not actually the father of his weepy wife’s children. THAT guy, Edwin Ramos, sued for custody after she began dating the MS-13 member, citing fear for the children’s safety. “Democrats went from “believe all women” to “let’s co-parent with MS-13” in record time.” ~ @NotTheirScript

CATHOLIC: [19:40] – This is well done and very interesting. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eSc-84eUyeU to hear how much the Roman Catholic Church has grown. It’s now at 1.4 billion world wide.

DEI JUDGE: CLICK https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1915182908651798868 [:15] to hear SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dismiss complainants’ religious rights claims by saying they don’t HAVE to send their kids to the public school. She is a staunch supporter of the party that opposes private, charter, and home schooling, because they all make it harder for the PTBs to control how and what kids get indoctrinated with … I mean, learn. “This is ideological gaslighting dressed up in a robe.” ~ https://x.com/iLoveJaneAdams

FBI: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1915544522664054912 [:36] to watch NM Judge Juan Cano and his wife get arrested for harboring an illegal Tren de Aragua gang member in their home.

HEALTH CARE: CLICK https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1915771350137897215 [1:18] to hear Dr. Oz talk about what he’s doing to help make Medicare work better. “If you thought USAID was bad… this will make you shiver.”

OHIO: [1:50] – The assailant was charged with “assault and disorderly conduct”; the victim’s mother, who intervened to drag the bitch off her kid, was charged with “disorderly conduct and obstructing official business.” I hope there’s more to this story, because dang … based on just this, that mom should be given a medal.

SENATE REPUBLICANS: CLICK https://x.com/NRSC/status/1914428145152791015 [:40] to see this hilarious new ad.

TEXAS DOGE: On Wednesday, Gov. Abbott signed the Regulatory Reform and Efficiency Act into law, creating the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office within the Office of the Governor. The new office is tasked with identifying outdated or duplicative rules, assisting state agencies in simplifying regulatory procedures, and establishing public access to rulemaking processes through a centralized online portal.

File this under “Things that will never happen in New York.”

TWO TIERS: On Monday, Soros-funded Hennepin County (MN) Attorney Mary Moriarty filed first-degree felony property damage charges against a 19-year-old woman for doing $7,000 in damage by keying a co-workers car.

On Wednesday, Moriarty refused to file charges against Dylan Bryan Adams (33), a Tim Walz staffer for doing more than $20,000 in damage to six Teslas.

Critics, including Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, have expressed frustration, alleging inconsistent application of justice.

WEAPONIZING GOVERNMENT: CLICK https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1915627917482369523 [1:52] to hear how Dems used our money, via USAID, to impeach President Trump on false charges.

GRAMMY NOTES: I had that book. Another favorite was about the land of counterpane. ❤

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by | April 24, 2025 · 8:17 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask today for extra patience for all the parents who need it. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

100th DAY: These are meaningless unless you factor in the legacy media’s biased coverage of Trump, Obama, and Biden, plus the proximity of Bush’s 100th day to the 9/11 attacks.

BAD AD: Apparently, I was the only person who thought these ice creams bars on sticks were ridiculously ugly earrings. Everybody else in the comments said they looked like used sanitary pads. The best comment was, “Probably only available for a limited period.”

BORDER: [8:43] – Dems are claiming that people who ignored the process required to enter this country legally somehow have an absolute right to enjoying due process before we can send them home. It’s nuts.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/9756159544431325 to hear a priest state in no uncertain terms that you cannot be a Democrat and a Catholic. It has sickened me that Pope Francis publicly shamed President Trump over his border policies when he (to my knowledge) never once did the same to any of our loud and proud, pro-abortion, allegedly “devout Catholic” Democrat leaders, like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.

CHINA: The evangelists were sentenced to varying prison terms and fine amounts, with the most severe penalty being given to Wang Honglan, who was sentenced to 4 years and 10 months in prison and fined well over the equivalent of $100,000. Wang is a 70-year-old grandmother.

On May 1, the ChiComs will intensify their persecution of Christianity by banning foreign missionaries from preaching and establishing religious organizations. They claim it is a matter of national security.

LIFE: The Boulder Abortion Clinic has been committing third trimester abortions for 55 years. Praise God, it has CLOSED! Let us pray that Dr. Warren Hern, the bloody butcher who slaughtered uncounted numbers of late term fetuses, will repent and come to know the Lord before it is too late.

REPARATIONS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AyTRgObb9nQ to hear a historian put another spin on it.

SCOTUS: In 2022, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland forced this and other LGBTQ garbage on kids, refusing parents the right to opt-out. A group of parents from Muslim, Roman Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox faiths sued the school district, and rather than backtrack, MCPS has fought it all the way to the Supreme Court.

GRAMMY NOTES: I am homebound/disabled. When the church ladies gushed about what a saint my husband was for bringing the kids to church every Sunday by himself, he would say, “Nobody says a thing about all the moms who do the exact same thing.”

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by | April 23, 2025 · 10:06 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, You’re the best! Amen.

CATHOLIC: [4:10] – If you have followed Father Pavone and his Priests for Life ministry, you will want to watch this one.

COVID-19: Remember when then-NY Governor Andrew Cuomo left entire COVID-built facilities empty while ordering COVID-free nursing homes to accept COVID patients? Remember how they helpfully shipped body bags to those same facilities?

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has referred former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice to face criminal charges. They tried before, but the Biden administration refused to bring charges against Cuomo. We’ll see what Trump and AG Bondi decide.

DEMOCRATS: [7:22] – Dems brought their generation problems on themselves by refusing to mentor those come up behind them and refusing to retire to make room for those people to take the reins and, in turn, mentor the next generation. Biden, Pelosi, et al. are in their 80s. The current Dem leadership should be moderates in their 50s and 60s. Instead, it’s radicals like AOC who is 35 and Hogg who is 25.

FAUXCAHONTAS: CLICK https://x.com/Austen/status/1914689891541090683 [1:03] to watch her tough questions about her claims that Biden was “as sharp as ever.”

FDA: Praise the Lord, they’re banning artificial food dyes! There are so many foods I can’t eat because of these foul chemicals.

SOROS: MRC has released a new study (linked below) detailing how the Soros Open Society Foundations’ funding has pushed the global climate change agenda between 2016 and 2023. They found that Soros millions ($812 million) have funded 345 eco-activist groups pushing their climate change agenda worldwide. Just one of them, Climate Action Network (CAN), manages a global network of more than 1,900 organizations in over 130 countries.

Via CAN and the other groups they fund and direct, George and Alex Soros have been behind demands to eliminate the internal combustion engine and fossil fuel industry and adopt Global Green New Deal style legislation. They organize and finance efforts to intimidate politicians who don’t properly toe the eco-extremist line an d transform youth into climate radicals who stage noisy and disruptive protests like blocking streets and bridges. CAN, which has major influence in the U.N., was behind the condemnation of Israel for defending itself, calling their response to Hamas and Hezbollah “climate violence.”

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by | April 22, 2025 · 8:12 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to seek You and only You. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: Too bad they didn’t give a toot about the due process rights of J-6 American citizens incarcerated in their own back yard.

EASTER at WHITE HOUSE: It shows how gracious Trump is that he is honoring Pope Francis, despite the harsh criticisms the pontiff heaped on him. [3:12] – CLICK https://x.com/abigailmarone/status/1516087183731535874 [:16] to see 2022, when a giant bunny had to remind Biden the Bewildered where he was supposed to be. CLICK https://x.com/MargoMartin47/status/1914344862683476252 [:20] to see 2025, when Trump had fun coloring with the kids.

EDUCATION: Today, 42.7 million borrowers owe more than $1.6 trillion in taxpayer-funded college loans. Only 38% are up-to-date with their repayments. Biden tried to buy votes by refusing to collect on those loans, despite Congress demanding he do so. That ends on May 5, 2025. “American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies.” ~ Education Secretary Linda McMahon

FAUXTUS: Biden’s X account tweeted out this weird family photo to “wish everyone celebrating today a peaceful and joyful Easter.” Joe was photoshopped in.

MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1914021246053785862 [:39] to see how our troops are helping protect our southern border.

PROMISES MADE. PROMISES NOT KEPT: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/653329377513501 to hear 2008 candidate Obama decry the five million illegals Bush let in and the Americans who employ them for substandard wages. President Obama had a trifecta in Congress when he took office; he and the Democrat majority did exactly NOTHING to fix either problem.

PROPHECY: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1913772858339131400 [5:05] to hear Lefties pontificating on the absurdity of Donald Trump ever becoming POTUS. Clearly, Hillary believed it.

VALUES: The Dems’ X account posted that we should be outraged because, while real Americans were being forced to paint potatoes for Easter, the White House was using $30,000 worth of eggs for its annual Easter roll.

Meanwhile, in the comments –

  1. The eggs for the White House Easter Egg Roll in 2025 were donated by the American Egg Board, on behalf of America’s egg farmers, continuing a nearly 50-year tradition of supplying approximately 30,000 eggs for the event. The event used small and medium-sized eggs which are not typically sold in retail to avoid straining the commercial egg supply.
  2. They cited the New York Times as a source [included spit take GIF].
  3. I’ll take, “Things that never happened” for 600, Alex.
  4. Of all the things that didn’t happen, that didn’t happen the most.
  5. Is this a comedy channel? [CTB notes: It’s the official Democrat Party X account.]
  6. FYI: Dem approval rate is at 21%.
  7. No one, not one single human being on this planet, was dyeing potatoes for Easter.
  8. You can get 5 dozen eggs at @SamsClub for $15 which is hugely less expensive than sending a senator to El Salvador for tacos and a margarita.
  9. When Biden left office I was paying $5.89 a dozen.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_k5fjUKBo2I to see another on-the-street portrait. I absolutely love this channel.

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by | April 21, 2025 · 8:16 am

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RIP: Pope Francis died early this morning in Rome. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio (88), the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires was elected to the papacy in 2005.

BORDER: If Kilmar Abrego Garcia is just “a Maryland dad” like Dems claim, then why does he have MS-13 tattoos on his hand?

CATHOLIC: As of today, only 135 of the 252 living cardinals are under 80 and eligible to participate in the conclave to elect the new pontiff. Eighty-three percent of them were elevated to the rank of cardinal by Pope Francis who consistently chose leaders of small Churches or those on the margins. That means that those who will elect his successor come from a very broad variety of circumstances and experiences. The RCC does not require the pontiff to be elected from among this group, but the members of the conclave have yet to choose anyone else.

DEMOCRATS: They wouldn’t stand for a 13-year-old cancer survivor, but they’re traveling to El Salvador for a human trafficking wife abuser.

WATERGATE: Many people have died for something they believed was true. Nobody willingly dies for something they know is a lie.

GRAMMY NOTES: Frogging refers to having to rip out, or undo your hard work. Rip it. Ribbet. Get it?

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by | April 20, 2025 · 8:28 am

He is Risen!

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by | April 19, 2025 · 8:05 am

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Teach us new ways to thank You! Amen.

2A: [13:58] – More than 10 million Americans who were convicted of non-violent felonies have zero right to own a fire arm. The Trump administration is moving to change that.

AUTISM: A new report from the CDC says autism rates among children in America have continued to rise at an alarming rate. They are currently at 1 in 31, significantly up from two years ago and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children born in 1992. It’s worse in boys, who are at 1 in 20.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that autism is a preventable disease caused by environmental factors, with possibilities including mold, air, medicines, and the increase in the average age of parents. He says nobody has really looked at these factors, but they will be launching studies soon.

BIG PHARMA: In a bid to limit industry influence, the FDA is removing pharmaceutical company representatives from advisory committees. Noting that the FDA has “a history of being influenced unduly by corporate interests,” Dr. Marty Makary, the FDA’s new commissioner, said. “Industry employees are welcome to attend FDA advisory committee meetings, along with the rest of the American public, but having industry employees serve as official members of FDA advisory committee members represents a cozy relationship that is concerning to many Americans.” No kidding! And well done!

BORDER: As of April 14, more than 1,000 international students at over 170 colleges and universities have had their student visas revoked by the State Department.

FOREIGN AID: Here’s an idea … let’s stop sending money to other countries and let them hate us for free.

WALK AWAY: [5:39] – “What really did it for me was realizing how freaking depressed I was when I was a liberal.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1033845568629985 to see … well, just do it. 🙂

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/703544962351232 with a big tissue alert. ❤

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