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Easily done comrade. You ask why Kamala. Polls are unimportant by themselves but trend lines are where it's at. Everything is coming up blue. People are paying attention now and they know Trumps a traitor. OH yeah, I'll decide how and what I'll post comrade. I don't take directions from Russian commies.

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First of all, you think that by calling me "commie" and "comrade", you've made an argument?
That's like me calling you "stupid" (which I should, seeing as you're really stupid and haven't gotten past acting like a 5-year old)

Second, stupid, you haven't answered the question "WHY KAMALA?". You've made the argument that "people" are deciding for Kamala (not sure that's true), but you haven't explained why you think they SHOULD. What is she going to do for the American people? What is she going to do for America?

So far, she's floated price controls, and the idea flopped.
She wants to build 3 million new homes? Here's an idea: What if she gets rids of the 10-20 million illegal aliens putting pressure on the housing market at the same time?
She wants to build a border wall? Well. Duh! Wasn't she the "border czar" at one time?

See, stupid? I just spent a number of words on Kamala, and I haven't mentioned Trump once!

With that as an example, see if you can come up a convincing argument why people SHOULD vote for Kamala. No name calling, bc it makes you look really .... well, stupid.

And stop talking about Trump for a change. This thread... YOUR thread ... is about Kamala.
FOCUS, dood.

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With a touch of my keyboard comrade all that you would besmirch, can show you to be a clown if I choose.
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Haven't managed without cartoons, videos and name calling, yet?

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Why Kamala, I'll let Trump and the republicans tell you why comrade.

Like I said signym, it's easy peasy making you look like a clown with a stroke of my keyboard. So, give me your opinion on the video. Remember, these are their own words so it is 100% factual.

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Republican Hypocrisy On Trump EXPOSED In DEVASTATING New Ad

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

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OMFG.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
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Here's the point, Sigs...

More than 200 former Bush, McCain and Romney staffers endorse Harris
The alumni of the three Republican presidential nominees sought to reiterate their opposition to Trump's 2020 re-election in an open letter.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/200-former-bush-mccain-
romney-staffers-endorse-harris-rcna168363

The point is, that Ted and today's Democrats ARE the NeoCons.

It's a point I've brought up dozens of times before, but until this news broke we didn't have undeniable proof of it.


When you're on the side of the Bush family, you really need to take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself if you're still one of the Good Guys.

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is DAVID ASMAN: since you and RFK are part of the Trump campaign, explain why did you go with Trump?

TULSI GABBARD: The choice in this election is very clear and the differences between President Trump and Vice President Harris couldn't be more stark. Frankly, to put it simply, the choice for the American people is a choice with Donald Trump, a man who values peace, prosperity, and freedom. He has a record that proves that. And Vice President Kamala Harris, whose record shows an increasingly tyrannical government undermining our freedoms. We are embroiled in multiple wars and the world is closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before, with increasing economic hardship for Americans throughout the 3½ years she served as Vice President of the United States. The contrast couldn't be more clear.

This is personal for me, the endorsement of President Trump. As a soldier for over 21 years, I deployed to multiple war zones in different parts of the world, putting my life on the line for the safety, security, and freedom of the American people. It is important to me and every one of my brothers and sisters in uniform that we have a Commander-in-Chief who values every one of our lives, who carries that responsibility as Commander-in-Chief very seriously, and who will exhaust all diplomatic avenues before seeing war truly as a last resort.

The last point that I will make on this—another point of contrast—is that President Trump showed through his last administration that not only did he not start any new wars, but he took action to prevent them by courageously meeting with adversaries, allies, partners, dictators. He would meet with whoever he needed to pursue peace. Kamala Harris criticized Donald Trump for doing exactly that. That shows if she is elected President, she will not do what is necessary in the pursuit of peace, and I’m certain she will lead us very quickly into a war to mask the weakness and insecurity that she feels and try to project strength using the lives of my brothers and sisters in uniform to do so.

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Why not to vote for Kamala

Kamala, like Joe for the past 4 years, is the Democrat Party's creature. Some faction in is telling her what to wear, who to talk to, what to say and how to say it, ultimately what to do.

So, what has the Democrat Party been doing for 8+ years?

Warmongering nonstop and playing chicken with nukes

Colluding with the 3 letter agencies and MSM to flood America with disinformation (eg. Biden* is fine, Hunter Biden laptop is "Russian disinformation", Trump is colluding with Russia, other LIES too numerous to list)

CENSORING social media, unambiguously violating our First Amendment rights

Colluding with the DOJ to persecute political opponents

Opening the southern border to millions of illegal aliens

Dividing the nation on race, sex, orientation, gender and religion

Promoting the "victim Olympics" and racism, sexism, etc over equal opportunity and meritocracy

Pandering to "Defund the police" BLM, ANTIFA (Nancy Pelosi taking a knee in kinte cloth)

Flooding the world with deficit dollars and fueling inflation


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I don't appreciate our nation being taken apart, bit by bit, by corrupt officials who CLEARLY don't want America to continue as a sovereign state.

I DON'T APPRECIATE BEING LIED TO AND GASLIT 24/7/365

Given ALL of the effort Dems, "the Interagency", media, and tech giants are putting into defaming, prosecuting, and persecuting (if not assassinating) Trump, well ..

I guess I know how to express my opposition.

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Why not to vote for Kamala

Kamala, like Joe for the past 4 years, is the Democrat Party's creature. Some faction in is telling her what to wear, who to talk to, what to say and how to say it, ultimately what to do.

So, what has the Democrat Party been doing for 8+ years?

Warmongering nonstop and playing chicken with nukes

Colluding with the 3 letter agencies and MSM to flood America with disinformation (eg. Biden* is fine, Hunter Biden laptop is "Russian disinformation", Trump is colluding with Russia, other LIES too numerous to list)

CENSORING social media, unambiguously violating our First Amendment rights

Colluding with the DOJ to persecute political opponents

Opening the southern border to millions of illegal aliens

Dividing the nation on race, sex, orientation, gender and religion

Promoting the "victim Olympics" and racism, sexism, etc over equal opportunity and meritocracy

Pandering to "Defund the police" BLM, ANTIFA (Nancy Pelosi taking a knee in kinte cloth)

Flooding the world with deficit dollars and fueling inflation


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I don't appreciate our nation being taken apart, bit by bit, by corrupt officials who CLEARLY don't want America to continue as a sovereign state.

I DON'T APPRECIATE BEING LIED TO AND GASLIT 24/7/365

Given ALL of the effort Dems, "the Interagency", media, and tech giants are putting into defaming, prosecuting, and persecuting (if not assassinating) Trump, well ..

I guess I know how to express my opposition.

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My friends at work ask why do people still think Trump can win. He keeps losing and the people he indorses lose as well. I said that's easy, they are losers too.

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Harris Catches Up With Trump in Michigan Poll Signaling Momentum

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harris-catches-up-with-trump-i
n-michigan-poll-signaling-momentum/ar-AA1pM3lB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9f3d0c8bb12045fbb9ebf7f36cac3f5b&ei=26

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Why not to vote for Kamala

Kamala, like Joe for the past 4 years, is the Democrat Party's creature. Some faction in is telling her what to wear, who to talk to, what to say and how to say it, ultimately what to do.

So, what has the Democrat Party been doing for 8+ years?

Warmongering nonstop and playing chicken with nukes

Colluding with the 3 letter agencies and MSM to flood America with disinformation (eg. Biden* is fine, Hunter Biden laptop is "Russian disinformation", Trump is colluding with Russia, other LIES too numerous to list)

CENSORING social media, unambiguously violating our First Amendment rights

Colluding with the DOJ to persecute political opponents

Opening the southern border to millions of illegal aliens

Dividing the nation on race, sex, orientation, gender and religion

Promoting the "victim Olympics" and racism, sexism, etc over equal opportunity and meritocracy

Pandering to "Defund the police" BLM, ANTIFA (Nancy Pelosi taking a knee in kinte cloth)

Flooding the world with deficit dollars and fueling inflation


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I don't appreciate our nation being taken apart, bit by bit, by corrupt officials who CLEARLY don't want America to continue as a sovereign state.

I DON'T APPRECIATE BEING LIED TO AND GASLIT 24/7/365

Given ALL of the effort Dems, "the Interagency", media, and tech giants are putting into defaming, prosecuting, and persecuting (if not assassinating) Trump, well ..

I guess I know how to express my opposition.


THUGR: My friends at work ask why do people still think Trump can win. He keeps losing and the people he indorses lose as well. I said that's easy, they are losers too.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harris-catches-up-with-trump-i
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‘Astonishing!’: Breaking down the massive, organic surge in young voter registration

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/astonishing-breaking-down-the-
massive-organic-surge-in-young-voter-registration/vi-AA1pMefV?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=9f3d0c8bb12045fbb9ebf7f36cac3f5b&ei=59


tick tock baby, tick tock...And so you know, these people are not added to the polls. This election is going to be a blowout. My prediction is that once it is over Trump will be led away in handcuffs.

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'Heinous, Vile, Disgusting': Gold Star Families Slam Kamala Harris After Attack On Trump Backfires Horribly

Gold Star families whose loved ones died in the Biden-Harris administration's botched Afghanistan withdrawal have slammed Vice President Kamala Harris over her attack on former President Trump for paying his respects at Arlington National Cemetary last week.

Harris slammed Trump's visit as 'playing politics,' "As Vice President, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times," said Harris. "It is not a place for politics. And yet, as was reported this week, Donald Trump’s team chose to film a video there, resulting in an altercation with cemetery staff."

[H]owever in a series of short videos, eight Gold Star families said they had invited Trump - each of them recording videos which were released in the wake of a statement published by Harris on Saturday, in which she criticized Trump for taking photographs at a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday.


In one video response, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz called Harris' post "heinous, vile and disgusting."

"Why did we want Trump there? It wasn't to help his political campaign," said Mark Schmitz. "We wanted a leader. That explains why you and Joe didn't get a call."

Darren Hoover, father of Marine Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, said Harris lacks "empathy and understanding" about Monday's ceremony.

"In keeping with the reverence and respect that is given to all members of our military that are buried there, we invited President Trump," he said. "We are the ones that asked for the video and the pictures to be taken at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier."

Hoover added that Trump has "been there for us from the very beginning," and slammed Harris for "playing politics."

"You should be ashamed and embarrassed [about] your lack of empathy and decency as a human being," said Hoover. "You are only in this for the power and prestige. You don't care for our military or the citizens of this country."

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Sunday, Sep 01, 2024 - 08:05 AM

The eldest brother of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz threw his sibling under the bus in a series of Friday night Facebook posts, saying he isn't "the type of character" Americans would want in high office, and cryptically referring to "stories [he] could tell" that would hammer home the point.

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I'm thinking about OUR COUNTRY, THE USA. YOU'RE thinking about the Dem party.

WTH is WRONG with you?

Besides stupidity, I mean?

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So now is the time to re- ask: WHAT ARE AMERICA'S INTERESTS?
Or, maybe in a way you understand: WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA?






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I'm thinking about OUR COUNTRY, THE USA. YOU'RE thinking about the Dem party.

WTH is WRONG with you?

Besides stupidity, I mean?

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So now is the time to re- ask: WHAT ARE AMERICA'S INTERESTS?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

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Ted still has yet to see a problem with the fact that the man the Democrat voters voted for in an election was thrown out and they installed their own puppet after one bad debate performance.

He finds no problem that they appointed her to the position outside of the will of the people that was expressed in the election.

You're never going to speak reason to a person who can bend reality far enough to make that entire process acceptable while still believing he is supporting the "good guys".

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From tradesmen to a physician, people from around the country share what keeps them on the job.

By John Haughey, Nanette Holt, Michael Clements, Darlene McCormick Sanchez, Stacy Robinson

September 02, 2024

Work defines us. It shapes our days, fills our hours, gives meaning to what we do and who we are.

For some, it’s a profession, a career, a calling. Others see a job as a necessity that allows them to do their most important work: raising a family, building a community, pitching in to help others.

This is the work that has built America. This Labor Day weekend, we pause to praise the American worker.



‘There Ain’t No Quit in Me’
Farrier Robb Hoffman thinks a lot about the state of America as he drives between commercial horse operations and backyard hobby farms throughout North Florida.

His “office” is a small, white pickup with a mobile workshop in the bed, filled with tools for trimming horses’ hooves and shaping horseshoes.

For job security and because he has five grandchildren, he hopes the next president will bring about “a good, strong economy and a strong border,” he told The Epoch Times. “That’s more conducive to business.”

Without those things, “the people start to suffer and they start to cut the fat. They start to do away with things they don’t need, like horses.”

Hoffman, 59, hopes the upcoming election will put someone in the White House who is “for the people, and for our country. They’re Americans first, and they’re politicians second.”

“I can tell you straight up, there’s been many a day that my wife and I have ate less, so our kids can eat more. And I think all families go through that.”

Horses’ hooves continuously grow and need to be trimmed and balanced about every 4-6 weeks. Some need shoes that must be customized for each hoof. Some need corrective or therapeutic shoeing in order to move freely and without pain.



Hoffman went to farrier school out West to become certified in his craft. Then he apprenticed with pros near Ocala, Florida, said to be the horse capital of the world.

To make ends meet, he often works 12- to 16-hour days, sometimes six days a week. It’s the kind of bent-over work that makes a guy’s back, legs, and arms ache.

Between each horse, he rests a bit and takes a few sips of water he keeps in his truck.

“If you don’t like hard work, and working when it’s 105 degrees, or working when it’s pouring down rain and all your tools are getting wet, it’s just not a career somebody would want to pursue.”

So why do it?

It’s simple, he told The Epoch Times.

“I love horses, and I love people.

“Plus, my dad instilled in me a work ethic that, no matter what, you don’t give up.

“He used to tell me all the time, that there’s nothing more important in your life than your job … you always provide for your family. You feed your kids, you clothe your kids, and you take care of your kids and your wife.”

Hoffman has had “a lot of health issues and a lot of debilitating things”… “but I just don’t quit. There ain’t no quit in me.”

He works wearing therapeutic shoes and leg braces.

“I just don’t look at it like a disability. I just look at it like, this is the cross that I bear, and I’m gonna do everything I can to do everything that I do well.

And he doesn’t see his work as just providing foot care for horses.

“I’ve tried to use this as a ministry. Sometimes that has to deal with Christianity, and sometimes people just need to talk, to get things off their chest, like therapy.”
One client calls him a “farr-apist.” It’s a moniker he’d like to put on a hat some day.



Darryl Burkett doesn’t fit the stereotype of a CEO. With his ball cap cocked back on his head, he contemplates the grease under his nails, takes a break from restocking his truck with plumbing supplies, and opines about why he’s proud of his work in Durant, Oklahoma.

Since 2009, he’s owned and operated KD Plumbing & Construction, LLC., a business that has grown to employ 14 people in a warehouse near the airport. He figures the keys to his entrepreneurial success are his dedication to his family and his community and an education that extends beyond classrooms and lectures. His most skilled instructor, he says, was his father.

“My dad told me that if you learn how to do everything and you’re willing to do anything, you’ll always make a living. You make yourself valuable,” he told The Epoch Times.

Like most ranchers, tradesmen, and blue collar workers in this Southeast Oklahoma town, Burkett has amassed a variety of skills. He welds, fixes equipment, repairs plumbing, builds things, and operates all kinds of vehicles.

“There’s nothing that I’m scared to do.”

He played some baseball in college, then went to work at the Choctaw Casino & Resort-Durant. But realizing he “was not an inside guy,” he moved on to work with his father, who taught him valuable technical skills.

But more importantly, he said, his father taught him the value of work.

Eventually, he bought a truck, gathered his tools, and opened his own business. But it’s the work ethic, taught by his father, that has kept his company open and his family fed, he said.

“I like to work with my hands. I’ll get down in the hole like anyone else. If I have to keep my crew late, I’m right there with them.”

He likes knowing that others, far beyond his immediate family, depend on the jobs he provides. Few think about the workers who tend a city’s infrastructure ... until the water stops.

“If [tradesmen] quit for a week, the country would fall apart,” he said.

Burkett wants his children to feel the same pride and satisfaction in their work, regardless of the career they choose. He’s less concerned about the kind of work they do and more focused on the type of workers they become.
“I want to teach them well enough to be my competitors someday.”



Nine years ago, Kevin Dougherty was a cybersecurity specialist with a company in Houston, Texas. Today, he prefers to wield a chainsaw from an elevated bucket mounted to a truck as part of a three-man tree-trimming crew in Bryan County, Oklahoma.

“I’m tired of working in an office,” said Dougherty, 39, foreman of Texoma Dirty Work Tree Service. “As much as I can, I like to get in the bucket.”

Along with co-workers DJ Henson and Billy Derryberry, he trims limbs away from roofs and electrical lines and removes trees that could fall on buildings or other property.

His coworker, Henson, left the loan department of a local bank about a year ago to trim trees. All three men in the crew agree: They find fulfillment and enjoyment in providing an essential service that protects their customers’ property.

“[Without us] trees would fall on houses,” Henson said.

Plus, running chainsaws and wood chippers pays better than shuffling papers and typing on computer keyboards, they said.

Henson spends about 55 hours a week raking tree debris and hauling away the limbs Dougherty drops to the ground from more than 20 feet above. Then he feeds them into a chipper.

“It’s harder work“ than at the bank, Henson said, ”but I make a lot more money.”

Dougherty said most of his coworkers were raised in politically and socially conservative homes. Most still lean that way, he said, and they base political preferences largely on policies affecting their work.

When it comes to who will inhabit the White House next, he said, issues such as the Keystone pipeline make the best barometers of blue collar sympathies.

“When they shut that down, a lot of blue collar guys started reaching [out to be] Republican. They’re deciding on [voting for] whoever will keep them at work.”

He believes salaries for blue collar vocations are rising because fewer people are willing to do physically demanding work. And despite what some may think, education matters, even in blue collar work. The more skills you master, the more you can earn, he said.

“You can make six figures easy.”

But, some things matter more than money.
“I get out here and do it because I love it,” he said. “People don’t realize that blue collar jobs are honorable.”


Every Shift Brings an Opportunity
Gina Rivera, 27, is filling shifts this Labor Day weekend as a server at a restaurant where patrons will be celebrating the holiday that honors workers.

She’s fine with that.

In fact, it’s an opportunity. Not only will the single mother earn some side-hustle cash, but she'll also be able to market herself.

“I like networking. I like meeting new people, talking with people,” she told The Epoch Times.

Every diner, salon client, and prospective home buyer is a potential customer at one of her other businesses.

Those are Rivera’s jobs.

Her “work” is caring for her three children. At 7, her oldest, Malachi, is just starting second grade. Her middle child, Luca, is 4, and the youngest, Rosemar, is just 3 three months old.

It’s constant motion, a work in progress.

“It’s hard,” the Massachusetts native said. “I had to push myself. There were times I wanted to give up.”

If not for her mother—a fellow cosmetologist, who encouraged her to pursue that licensing—and a friend who watches her children, Rivera couldn’t support her family.

“It takes a village,” she said. “A lot of women don’t have a village.”

Still, it’s “nerve-wracking,” she said. She frets about earning at least $1,000 a week to afford her apartment, car, and food.

Child care? Forget it. That would cost $380 per child each week.

Government “help?” No, thanks.

The child tax credit “is nice,” she said. But it would be more helpful if she didn’t have to pay the taxes up front.

The costs to earn money in real estate pose another challenge. There are fees and training courses required to maintain her license, and “advertising is expensive,” she said.

Summer is slow, making her income “constricted,” she said. That’s just Florida. But fall is near.

Rivera’s ready to soar during snowbird season, the time when northerners—potential customers—escape the cold by fleeing to Florida. Rather than commuting 90 minutes to a high-end salon, she’s now styling hair closer to home. And the opportunities in real estate are building, with many showings lined up.

She’s “always on call,” and there are no closings yet. But it’ll pan out, she believes.
Until then, she'll do what works: Get another job.


Not ‘Work,’ But ‘My Way of Life’
It’s Saturday at Lake Gibson United Methodist Church near Lakeland and Errol Archibald is ensuring the property is ready for Sunday services.

He’s pastor of another congregation, of New Testament Christian Church, which uses the facility throughout the week. The arrangement means he and his congregants maintain the building and grounds they share.

When the church work is done, he'll head off to Georgia to get chickens for his family’s farming operation.

During the drive, he'll review the 105 questions he must answer correctly in three days when he takes his licensing exam to become an electrical contractor. He’s already done nearly $30,000 in work to rewire the shared church.

“This is God’s building—a place of healing,” he said. “It needed new lighting.” And the aging Methodist congregation “needed help.”

Help is what you do, said Archibald, 42, who’s always on the move.

“I don’t think this is ‘work.’ It’s my way of life.”

Working hard and pitching in is part of his family heritage.

Archibald is a Marine veteran and father of three. He and his two sisters were raised by immigrants from the British Virgin Islands. His father’s “hard-calloused hands” are the products of cutting sugar cane and picking oranges sold for $5 a crate.

“He never had a ‘job,’ but he never worked for anyone but himself,” Archibald said.

He went a different way. At first.

After playing football as a defensive back at Lakeland High School, he was in Marine boot camp six days after graduating.

While stationed in Washington state, he joined New Testament Christian Church. He met his wife, Meron, in seminary. They posted to Lakeland, leading fellowships, Bible studies, VA hospital outreach, and Sunday services.

With his electrical contractor license, he plans to open his own shop and call it Always Faithful. That’s a translation of and nod to “Semper Fi,” the shortened Latin phrase that serves as the motto for the U.S. Marine Corps.

“I want a bigger outreach,” Archibald said. But the required permits and stringent regulations make it difficult to legally sell what they grow and raise on the family farm.

So they give away a lot of the eggs, goat meat, chickens, passion fruit, and okra.

“Food has tripled in cost. [People] work extra jobs just to provide.”
But “the way government could help is [to] not restrict us, because we can’t afford to give everything away.”

Helping People Brings Satisfaction
Keane Grant, manager of the Judiciary Square Metro station in Washington, also finds great satisfaction in helping people every day.
Keane Grant, manager of the Judiciary Square Metro station in Washington. (Stacy Robinson/The Epoch Times)
Keane Grant, manager of the Judiciary Square Metro station in Washington. Stacy Robinson/The Epoch Times

When he spoke to The Epoch Times, it was a little after 9 a.m., and he'd already put in half a day’s work. He was ticking down the last few minutes till his lunch break.

“I like interacting with customers,“ said Grant, 51. ”You get all the different types. People from all over come through the nation’s capital.”

His work week often stretches into 60–65 hours. But there’s overtime, and not a lot of stress, he said.

“You might get a lot of people with disabilities [coming through, and] they might need assistance.”

And sometimes people fall ill on the trains and need his help. But coworkers pitch in as problems arise, he said.

When Grant’s family emigrated from Jamaica in the 1980s, he hadn’t envisioned a career in public service. But then he operated trains for 15 years and a bus for seven. Now, he runs stations.

“Pretty much this has been my main career,” he said.

After 27 years of long work weeks, he’s less than a year from retirement.

What then?

“Nothing,” he chuckled.
Then again, he mused, maybe he'll get a barber’s license. That way, he could be his own boss.

Making ‘People Healthier and Live Better’
Dr. Eduardo “Ed” Balbona runs his own practice, Art of Medicine, in Jacksonville, Fla.

But staying independent in an era of Big Medicine is getting increasingly more difficult, he told The Epoch Times. And in an age of ever-swelling corporatization, putting patients first is one of the most significant challenges doctors face today, he said.

After more than 30 years as a doctor, he’s watched patient care across the industry become less personalized. Alarmed by that, he wrote “Open Your Eyes: A Prescription for Change in American Healthcare.”

He laments that giant corporations are buying up primary care practices. Managers often pressure doctors to spend less time with each patient. Instead of maintaining the traditional role of giving quality care and establishing a relationship with each patient, he believes the new medical model “is all about profit.”

“That’s not really why most physicians went into health care,” said Balbona, 61.

He once worked for a big hospital group, which freed him from many administrative tasks. But then, he was told to see twice as many patients each day. That wasn’t acceptable, he said. So he left.

Politics and profit-chasing corrupt the practice of medicine, he said. Insurance companies keen on cutting costs can keep doctors from making decisions based on their knowledge of their patients.

He fumes about how government policymakers interfered with how doctors treated their patients during the COVID-19 epidemic. That, he said, was an assault on medical freedom. That’s a freedom he’s not willing to relinquish.

As a doctor, he staunchly defends one mission: “I just try to make people healthier and live better.”

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Darron Charlesworth
Graduate of Political Studies including the politics of the USAuthor has 877 answers and 1.4M answer views7y
Originally Answered: Why is Donald Trump such a big cry baby though?

It’s called being a spoiled brat. This is what happens when you are born with a silver spoon up your arse, aren’t properly disciplined when you are a child, have never had to work for anything so have no idea about work ethics, having to fend for yourself or the value of anything, have everyone kissing your butt all you life because your family is rich and they fear losing their job if they don’t, and having an expectation of being given everything they want. This all leads to a mentally unstable man child with no ethics, morals or value placed on anything especially honesty and integrity.

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Donald-Trump-act-like-a-crybaby.

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Trump is not a crybaby.

When he was shot ... yes, actually shot... he rose up, and said "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"

Kamala was born with a silver spoon up her twat. You think she ever had to fend for herself ??? But she seems to whine a lot of about being black and a woman.




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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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THUGR, you spend a fuck-ton of time on irrelevancies and personalities. (And you quote the most idiotic people!)

The questions you should be asking yourself ... the questions everyone should be asking themselves . . are:

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA, AND AMERICANS?

and ...

WHAT WILL EACH CANDIDATE DO TO GET US THERE?

Anything else is POINTLESS. Until you have a solid answer for the first question, which is completely aside from any particular candidate, you'll never be able to think past the bullshit that the media deluges you with every day. And you'll never answer the second.

THINK, dood.

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA?
WHAT IS GOOD FOR ANERICANS?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

THUGR, you spend a fuck-ton of time on irrelevancies and personalities. (And you quote the most idiotic people!)

The questions you should be asking yourself ... the questions everyone should be asking themselves . . are:

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA, AND AMERICANS?

and ...

WHAT WILL EACH CANDIDATE DO TO GET US THERE?

Anything else is POINTLESS. Until you have a solid answer for the first question, which is completely aside from any particular candidate, you'll never be able to think past the bullshit that the media deluges you with every day. And you'll never answer the second.

THINK, dood.

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA?
WHAT IS GOOD FOR ANERICANS?


THUGR: How stupid are you comrade? My sources are some of the most reputable you can find; mostly mainstream. Everything I post negative about Trump people have seen with their own eyes. Or they've heard Trump say it himself.

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Everything you post comrade signym makes you look stupid. Trumps' own cabinet members say they don't support him. His own Vice President says he doesn't support Trump. More than 200 republicans who staffed President Bush have come out in support of Harris.

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Harris’s Personnel Problem: Over 90 Percent of VP’s Staff Left in Last Three Years

Throughout her career as a senator and then vice president, Kamala Harris developed a reputation as a difficult boss who struggles to retain staff due to the atmosphere of suspicion and disorder that tends to develop among her subordinates.

Data from the government watchdog group Open the Books — released Monday, as Harris consolidates her position as President Biden's successor atop the Democratic ticket — makes clear just how extreme Harris's personnel problem really is: 91.5 percent of the staff Harris began her vice presidential term with three years ago have since left.

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A former Kamala Harris staffer says aides have to endure 'a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism': report

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His lawyers that have been disbarred or who pled guilty to violating the law while defending Trump or trying to overturn the 2020 election, is large and still growing.

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THUGR, you spend a fuck-ton of time on irrelevancies and personalities. (And you quote the most idiotic people!)

The questions you should be asking yourself ... the questions everyone should be asking themselves . . are:

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA, AND AMERICANS?

and ...

WHAT WILL EACH CANDIDATE DO TO GET US THERE?

Anything else is POINTLESS. Until you have a solid answer for the first question, which is completely aside from any particular candidate, you'll never be able to think past the bullshit that the media deluges you with every day. And you'll never answer the second.

THINK, dood.

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA?
WHAT IS GOOD FOR ANERICANS?

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How stupid are you comrade? My sources are some of the most reputable you can find; mostly mainstream. Everything I post negative about Trump people have seen with their own eyes. Or they've heard Trump say it himself.

Everything you post comrade signym makes you look stupid. Trumps' own cabinet members say they don't support him. His own Vice President says he doesn't support Trump. More than 200 republicans who staffed President Bush including his Vice President, have come out in support of Harris.

His lawyers that have been disbarred or who pled guilty to violating the law while defending Trump or trying to overturn the 2020 election, is large and still growing.

STEVE BANNON, ROGER STONE, ALLEN WEISSELBERG, PETER NAVARRO, MICHAEL COHEN, MICHAEL FLYNN, PAUL MANAFORT, RICK GATES, ELLIOT BROIDY all have been convicted of felonies while attached to Trump in one form or another.

JAN. 6 PROSECUTIONS
More than 1,000 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack.

Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers militant group

You're a fucking clown comrade. You're a fool. Only the corrupt or corruptible are still backing Trump. Only the sad sack uneducated whites are voting for Trump. And of course, let us not forget the religious nuts. That's an amazing group of followers he has moron, and in that group of losers are you and Jack. And that is just too fucking funny.

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THUGR, you spend a fuck-ton of time on irrelevancies and personalities. (And you quote the most idiotic people!)

The questions you should be asking yourself ... the questions everyone should be asking themselves . . are:

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA, AND AMERICANS?

and ...

WHAT WILL EACH CANDIDATE DO TO GET US THERE?

Anything else is POINTLESS. Until you have a solid answer for the first question, which is completely aside from any particular candidate, you'll never be able to think past the bullshit that the media deluges you with every day. And you'll never answer the second.

THINK, dood.

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA?
WHAT IS GOOD FOR ANERICANS?


THUGR: How stupid are you comrade? My sources are some of the most reputable you can find; mostly mainstream. Everything I post negative about Trump people have seen with their own eyes. Or they've heard Trump say it himself.

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Everything you post comrade signym makes you look stupid. Trumps' own cabinet members say they don't support him. His own Vice President says he doesn't support Trump. More than 200 republicans who staffed President Bush have come out in support of Harris.

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Harris’s Personnel Problem: Over 90 Percent of VP’s Staff Left in Last Three Years

Throughout her career as a senator and then vice president, Kamala Harris developed a reputation as a difficult boss who struggles to retain staff due to the atmosphere of suspicion and disorder that tends to develop among her subordinates.

Data from the government watchdog group Open the Books — released Monday, as Harris consolidates her position as President Biden's successor atop the Democratic ticket — makes clear just how extreme Harris's personnel problem really is: 91.5 percent of the staff Harris began her vice presidential term with three years ago have since left.

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His lawyers that have been disbarred or who pled guilty to violating the law while defending Trump or trying to overturn the 2020 election, is large and still growing.

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PS, If Dick Cheney is for it, you should be against it.

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I've already responded to your post.

Learn to read, willya?

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I've already responded to your post.
Learn to read, willya?

THUGR: Can you read this? [link]

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I've already responded to your post.
Learn to read, willya?

THUGR: Can you read this? [link]

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No.
It's a video, stupid.


But what does RUSSIA!RUSSIA! have to do with Kamala???
You've squirmed and wormed, trying like hell to avoid all of the things you SHOULD be asking.

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA?
WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICANS?

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BTW- last I read, rumor is the Kremlin prefers Kamala. (i.e. the Dem party and "the Interagency").

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I can post plenty of videos that say the exact opposite, Ted.



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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Trump will be fine.
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You can't post videos from MSNBC and call them "facts".

I mean, you can, and you did... But that just shows how stupid and gullible you are.

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You can't post videos from MSNBC and call them "facts".

I mean, you can, and you did... But that just shows how stupid and gullible you are.

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I've already responded to your post.
Learn to read, willya?

THUGR: Can you read this? [link]


SIGNY: No.
It's a video, stupid.


But what does RUSSIA!RUSSIA! have to do with Kamala???
You've squirmed and wormed, trying like hell to avoid all of the things you SHOULD be asking.

WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICA?
WHAT IS GOOD FOR AMERICANS?

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BTW- last I read, rumor is the Kremlin prefers Kamala. (i.e. the Dem party and "the Interagency").


THUGR: You always hear wrong.

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“Our ‘favorite,’ if you can call it that, was the current president, Mr. [Joe] Biden. But he was removed from the race, and he recommended all his supporters to support Ms. Harris. Well, we will do so – we will support her,” Putin said Thursday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. “She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that she is doing well.”

Putin also criticized former president and current Republican nominee Donald Trump for placing “so many restrictions and sanctions against Russia like no other president has ever introduced before him.”

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