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I have to say Tennessee Brando-saw this on Your YouTube channel yesterday and it brought me such peace and tranquility-one of the best commentaries about our current situation šŸ¤—šŸ¤—šŸ¤—

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I agree that this is what is going on -- a last, cruel and destructive surge on the part of a dying system. Historian Arnold Toynbee documented that as civilizations rise and fall, in the 4th and last stage, when the system is disintegrating, those who had the most power at the height of the system redouble their efforts to do all the things that gave them power and control. These desperate efforts are just that, desperation because they know the system is going away. The core question is how to survive this destructive desperation, and keep resisting evil at the same time as we create parallel, new institutions...like Meidas touch!

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I have his tome on my shelf, the abridged one no less. I really need to sit down and read page 32 and beyond. Thanks for the reminder.

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Love to Tennessee Brando for trying to bring truth and love to his people! Maybe someday at least some of them will come back to realityā€¦keep it up!ā¤ļø

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Havenā€™t been to a thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner since Ronald Regan

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Letā€™s see how thankful MAGAs are when tariffs mean things like soap, laundry detergent and socks cost three times what they do now.

Letā€™s see how thankful they are when they have to wait ten months for their tax refunds, because Trump and friends cut funding for the IRS.

Letā€™s see how thankful they are when mom isnā€™t getting her Social Security, and her Medicare co pays go up.

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Reaganā€™s first year in the White House corresponded with my brief starter marriage. Iā€™ve never since feigned Xmas. By the next election night, Iā€™d married the man whose religious faith I share.

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Please keep your religion out of politics and prayers out of our schools. Youā€™re right to practice your religion I took bullets for and the right for everyoneā€™s elseā€™s right

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It doesn't sound like she's a Trumper. So don't attack every person of faith who posts here, please. You don't know her politics so it's just as reasonable to think she might be an ally as not.

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PO I said that I fought for every single ones rights that includes hers. There is a proper way to do things and place not in our political system is that to be put up with any more than if I posted nude photos of my wounds should be on display.

Get it got it good. No attack at all improper behavior period

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That's sad

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No itself is freedom of expression for them and me . I donā€™t do drama and people who lie to themselves and others and believe their own lies when the facts speak for themselves

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I can Digg it

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When youā€™re going through hellā€¦.. keep going.

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The conservatives I grew up with in the Midwest always harped about welfare and fell for Reagan's "welfare queens driving Cadillacs." They don't believe in a social safety net and think the churches can handle the poor's needs, without government help. Today, they don't believe in climate change and think money is thrown away there, too, with the green new deal policies. Plus, they would never vote for a candidate that was not pro-life. We won't win with these people; we have to win with everyone else.

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This sounds like my family, even though my sister would not be able to survive without government assistance. Their hypocrisy floors me.

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Refreshing perspective indeed. It's true. The loudest gets the most attention.

I plan to stay in the fold to resist, oppose and fight all the BS of taking rights away from folks. It's not right. It's not kind. It's not compassionate. It's pure hate, evil and greed.

STAND UP, SPEAK UP, STAY INFORMED, STAY STRONG!

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Thank you! We need hope right now.

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Tennessee Brando, you are always lifting my spirits and easing my mind. You are a wonderful human being and I am grateful you speak out on all the injustices that we go through everyday ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøšŸ™šŸ™šŸ™šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø

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I do hope youā€™re right that the MAGA movement and Trumpism is dying. This is not how I wanted to spend my retirement and itā€™s already been 9 years.

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Thank you, Tennessee Brando. I spent Thanksgiving Eve in bed, covers muffling my migraine. I was later revived by a plateful of my DILā€™s transcendent macaroni and cheese, a from-scratch wonder now a Thanksgiving staple. Thank you, Sarah Ashley, a Georgia peach whose heart is even larger than that restorative serving.

Looking forward to listening to Sturgis, another rare OTC remedy for pain and hopelessness.

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I love that message. It makes sense too. Society is progressing and theyā€™re trying to stop it, but wonā€™t be able to. Thank you Tennessee Brando, and Iā€™m going to go listen to some Sturgill Simpson music right now!

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Thank you for the Thanksgiving message. I have to say I never was very political, but when it came to Cockwomble (Trump) running our country, it came to me that everyone who ever fought and died for our country, throughout these many years, had the same feelings as I do today. Save this country from people like him and his minions. Save democracy.

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I hope you are correct. ā™„ļø

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Sturgill has always been the absolute best.

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One of the tell tale sign for me that they are losing power is his picks for the administration. All that's left are the lowest of the lowest hanging fruit. I agree with so many of your points.

I'm thinking what has just happened in the past few days in Syria, Romania, Georgia, Ukraine. They aren't giving up and neither should we.

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