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I would like to get something straight about John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin. The ONLY reason John McCain received ANY votes in 2008 was that Sarah Palin was on the ticket. McCain was a traitor much like Jane Fonda and divorced his very loyal wife for a much younger woman--traits any liberal male has. I still think the full story of the death of Joe Bidens first wife has not been told.

Now, how about this. Today's article said " Do you really believe Hillary has forgotten about 2016?" Hilary is eight years older and 100# heavier, probably due to unchecked diabetes. You can only take face shots for so long and her ass is bigger than Chris Christies.

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Loved Sarah Palin! And you're right. I only voted for McCain because of mamma bear. Oh and BTW, she destroyed Biden in the VP debate. Unlike Rino Ryan who was pathetic

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I think Hitlery’s weight gain and possible diabetes are due to her alcoholism. Alcohol is basically created from sugar. When my mother finally quit drinking, she carried lemon drops in her purse for the rest of her life and after 35 years as a recovering alcoholic myself, I still crave sugar.

For the entirety of 0bama’s first term, I had a bumper sticker on my car which read, “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Palin”.

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The sugar explanation makes sense. I have cut out most sugar for about 6 weeks now. I see and feel the difference. I miss it though.

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The sugar obsession takes a few months to get rid of, but it never entirely leaves you. Stay strong, sweetie.---------------------

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Me too mostly. I included too starches and I used to joke about bread, esp yeast rolls being my dessert. Ive been straying back into bad habits though so I got to get back on the wagon.

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You know you have issues and that is the first step to "Recovery" although I hate that word. By training, I am a D&A Counselor. I used to have a sign that said "ANYONE WHO TRIES TO TELL YOU HOW BAD DRUGS AND ALCOHOL ARE FOR YOU WITHOUT NEVER HAVING BEEN THERE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IN THE HELL THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT."

I have been there. What got me clean was myself. Rare, but not unheard of. I may be a live wire on this site, but I am full of compassion and I am the calm type. If you think you need guidance, don't hesitate to ask. I will reply in the morning time as very few people read yesterdays posts the next morning.

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Thank you for the offer. Right now life has added some stressors that make me crave sugar. At least with being aware of the stressors, it lets me actively choose rather than just reaching for the sugar with no thought. I have a good support system. I bounce on and off the sugar/carb train pretty frequently and I have been making too many choices on the wrong side. Mostly it is because life interferes. Some of the stressors are being handled and that will help a lot. A lot of people think 'recovery' is a one time thing. It is an ever evolving thing, you just keep circling, making better habits. My problem is I used to be a perfectionist and would beat myself up for bad choices. It has taken God and yrs to beat it into my head, you do your best. Sometimes your best is not helpful but then move on. forgive yourself, and try again. Every day is new, every choice is new. I am ok at the moment but I do really appreciate your offer, and will probably shoot you a note now and then. Until the last couple of yrs, I did not realize just how much sugar mimicked the drugs.

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Very true. When I first went on the wagon, the sugar cravings were unbelievable, but I realized what It was and instead of just stopping, I'd have just a smaller and smaller amount until I just stopped the chocolate. I do have a PBJ on wheat every morning, which, believe it or not, keeps my diabetes in check. It sounds ridiculous, but Jif Creamy has the lowest sugar and if you want jelly, there are lots of healthy (and UNhealthy) choices out there. Where there is will, there is a way.

Tony

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YEAH!! Besides, Hilary being called an alcoholic would be an insult to alcoholics everywhere. Ms. Hilary is a lost cause.

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Wanna know a secret? My niece is a doppelganger for Sarah Palin, only about an inch taller.

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Really? WOW

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Re alcoholism, I recommend both of humorist Craig Ferguson's memoirs. If short on time, #2 Riding The Elephant is the better of the two, although not by much. It's one of those rare books where length (# of pages) is irrelevant.

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“The disappearance of Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang … suggests all is not well in China. The Chinese government has not denied rumors of an affair between Qin and a high-powered and well-connected Phoenix Television reporter, Fu Xiaotian…”

The Chinese don’t just steal our technical info; this just happened at NBC-VIACOM!

https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/scandals-wrack-chinese-leadership

https://www.google.com/search?q=nbc+ceo+fired&hl=en&tbm=isch&sxsrf=AB5stBjh66vPtGAGOHjEc-8l9EFa7gnFJw%3A1689918214587&source=hp&biw=1187&bih=468&ei=Bhu6ZNXqIKGg5NoP8uSi4Ag&iflsig=AD69kcEAAAAAZLopFkArf00VsAxbIFpS8DNoAfFHowed&oq=nbc+&gs_lp=EgNpbWciBG5iYyAqAggAMgQQIxgnMggQABiABBixAzIFEAAYgAQyCBAAGIAEGLEDMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgQQABgDMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgARIwiJQAFigBHAAeACQAQCYATagAb8BqgEBNLgBAcgBAPgBAYoCC2d3cy13aXotaW1n&sclient=img

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Yep, 2003/4 and the Patriot Act and 'going to war in Iraq' were my first tip-off's to the establishment running the puppet. 2008 further confirmed it when Palin was the sole reason for the 6 point lead in Sept 2008. Funny how the housing crash of 2008 happened right before the elections... Nothing to see there...

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I'm a living relic to that housing thingy. I applied for a home loan in my own name, and because of my zip code, the agency assumed I was Black, and I got the loan, no sweat. Six months later, the loan agency said they didn't have my signature anywhere. Since I was raised right, I said bring the papers to me and I'll sign them. If I had been the crook of my dreams, I'd have said Tough Tushie, go fish. But I signed the papers they over-nighted to my house.

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Damn squirrels!

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In the Cat-itude Poll today, I had to vote for Kim Kardashian because of her ample foundation.

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Which was the model for the "bathtub" basement foundation of the late. lamented World Trade Center.

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“The disappearance of Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang … suggests all is not well in China. The Chinese government has not denied rumors of an affair between Qin and a high-powered and well-connected Phoenix Television reporter, Fu Xiaotian…”

The Chinese don’t just steal our technical info; this just happened at NBC-VIACOM!

https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/scandals-wrack-chinese-leadership

https://www.google.com/search?q=nbc+ceo+fired&hl=en&tbm=isch&sxsrf=AB5stBjh66vPtGAGOHjEc-8l9EFa7gnFJw%3A1689918214587&source=hp&biw=1187&bih=468&ei=Bhu6ZNXqIKGg5NoP8uSi4Ag&iflsig=AD69kcEAAAAAZLopFkArf00VsAxbIFpS8DNoAfFHowed&oq=nbc+&gs_lp=EgNpbWciBG5iYyAqAggAMgQQIxgnMggQABiABBixAzIFEAAYgAQyCBAAGIAEGLEDMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAEMgQQABgDMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgARIwiJQAFigBHAAeACQAQCYATagAb8BqgEBNLgBAcgBAPgBAYoCC2d3cy13aXotaW1n&sclient=img

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I burst out laughing about the ass comparison! Good one!

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Ms. Hilary thinks she still looks good in pant suits. I think pant suits can be quite attractive on a woman with a nice figure, but Ms. Hilary is a walrus.

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I've never like pants suits and don't own one.

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To each their own......

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In pants suits, she looks like a target ship being towed by the U.S. Navy.

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Don't forget Kim Kardashian has a very large fanny, mostly Bondo though. Sugar is the enemy alcoholic diabetics quit sugar and alcohol. Get control.

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It wasn't Bondo, it was rubber cement and you are right. Her ass is huge.

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The only family in America with a freight elevator in their primary mansion.

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It is true! LOL FJB

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LMFAO TELL ME HOW U REALLY FEEL TONY.......

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Unseemly, but delicious.

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Don’t forget McStain blamed Sarah for his loss. Guess he didn’t own a mirror.

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When people go bad, they don't realize just how bad they have gone. Don't forget McCain and his role in the KEATING FIVE bank scandal.

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Right fucking on!

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"His opponent, world-class mooch John McCain, took the money... When James Carville said, 'Women can be found by dragging $100 bills through a trailer park,'” he should have included McCain." Well, now we know how McCain's second wife found him.

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Let me add: re: Mc Cain, the much younger wife was also loaded with $$$.

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The fact that the republican establishment completely despises its base should not be overlooked.

Vivek and Trump are the only two running who have any experience with fiduciary responsibility and will be attacked the hardest by the party as evidenced by the last eight years.

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I came upon the line “Every time you say, there ought to be a law a bureaucracy gets its wings.”

I had to stop reading and say this is, hands down, the best line I have read on substack--ever.

I think Clarence and George Bailey would agree!

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I might be inclined to edit it to read as, “Every time you say, 'there ought to be a law,' a bureaucracy gets its horns.”

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Funny guy! Spot on, though.

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So true. Best line ever. Applies to all local and state governments too, not just the feds. Only here in Georgia, the governor actually gave back some of the annual state tax collected. I nearly fell over. But then he is a fiscal hawk Republican.. Democrats everywhere wept when they heard about it.

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And Kemp is a Never-Trumper who has let corrupt elections infect Georgia. At least he’s not Stacy “All-World” Abrams.

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That is the best and only soul-saving way to think about Kemp. I’ll vote for him in the Senate race to unseat Ossoff, but I won’t like it and hope Republicans gain control of the Senate. Although even when they win control, they manage to lose—always. smh

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I am assuming that Trump won't be able to win Georgia.

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You are correct! That line is applicable to state and local governments. We are so concerned with D.C. overspending (and over-reach) that those local governmental agencies that directly and immediately affect us gets over looked. It does matter who your county’s sheriff and who your county commissioners and your state representative and state senators, too, also.

We live in NE Georgia. Shocked about that rebate, too, but are somehow exempt because of our ages, I think. Still pleased Kemp did this.

As we understand it, Georgia has a law that caps the amount of money our state’s emergency fund can hold. Until that amount is adjusted for inflation, each GA Governor who faces a surplus revenue must find ways to spend it. I’m surprised that our state legislatures haven’t raised the emergency fund ceiling.

Kemp, of course, is laying the political groundwork for his 2026 Republican Senate campaign to unseat soi boi Ossoff. We’ll see if the corrupt dem Atlanta election fraud machine will “let” him win. Atlanta is operating under Chicago mode over the last few years. I don’t see that changing any time soon.

I love me some dem tears, too!

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Everything in the grand ole USA is corrupt. Money, money, money! The love of money is the root of all evil. We live in Romans 1 times. Also similar to the times of Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah and the fall of the Roman empire.

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Comparing Sodom and Gomorrah to present day America is like comparing Branson, Missouri to Las Vegas.

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North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum raised $11.7 million!!!!

Who???

‘Nuff said.

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Yeah, who is this Burgum dude?

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Sad, but all true and well written to boot.

Mr. Surber, if you want that Bentley, there’s no time like the present to throw your hat in the ring. It’s all about the Benjamins, baby.

The government gets too much bigger and it’s gonna run out of nongovernment people to tax and make miserable.,That must be why they’re bringing in the millions of international house of pancakes workers from parts unknown. 🙄

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"And if elected, I will have no clue what to do...."

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Au contraire! You wrote an article not so long ago about what Trump should do. I’ve never heard suggestions like those and they would be quite effective imho.

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Do I detect /sarcasm? I think you have many “clues.”

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What? You're not co-opting the pledge of the late Pat Paulsen?

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You’ll be in the best company.😏

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You'll learn from your betters! (sarc)

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Tell brandon its bed time should be your first words.

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Actually based on your articles, you sell yourself (and Dr Cat) way short. Use common sense, tell the idiots they have to quit spending money and line veto the budget they present........

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Please NO! He is too important to this constituency. Besides, with Surber and his cat, we can vote early and often! Oorah!

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With a name like Surber, it will have to be a Subaru.

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Chris Christie, the beached whale... 😂😂😂😂👍🏻👏🏻

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A member of the ton of fun party along with JB Pritzker

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Put those two in the state pen together and you'd have to raise taxes to pay for their meals!

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You'd need two state pens. Possibly one each in two states, one state not being big enough.

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How can an honest and decent People be subservient to a dishonest and corrupt Government?

Is this the cycle of Empires?

Right now it seems sad, yet inevitable.

Media and Internet totally controlled, ala, Nazis and Soviets.

Locking up the Opposition Presidential Challenger, ala, Nazis, Soviets, Ukraine.

Going quietly into that Acquiescent Night, or stop laying down and bleeding awhile, and rise to fight these Domestic enemies with their Foreign ways?

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CHICKENMAN!! HE'S EVERYWHERE, HE'S EVERYWHERE!!!! I wonder how many remember this . Love it! MAGA!!

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Dick Orkin was my hero. A very successful voice actor. He and Bert Berdis dis some extremely humous radio ads. Orkin was the Genius behind "Chicken Man".

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Thanks Sub. I first heard it on Armed forces radio back in`69. Funny. Some silly things stick with us a long time, yet often we can't find our keys.

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I do!

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The loser R candidates, especially Christie, are obviously in it for the money and the chance to get Trump. Christie is especially obnoxious.

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When he is not obnoxious, he is arrogant

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. . . and can still float in a punchbowl.

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He defiantly dont melt.....

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Let’s be honest and vote for the best Democratic candidate in 24...President Xi of China (formally known as FJB). The rest of those running are grifters. All the votes have already been cast.

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DeScamtis may be everywhere, but he's a real nowhere man.

His anti Trump schtick may resonate with the donor elite who hate Americans and freedom, but there aren't many dems voting in the republican primaries.

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At least a comb is honest in its purpose...

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Yes, you can use it to get the lice (Christie and Clinton) out of your hair.

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I've never been in favor of limiting how much candidates can raise and spend on getting elected. That's called free speech.

We should, however, tightly limit HOW the money is spent, and require every goddam dollar of a losing campaign be returned to the donors.

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Pierre DeLecto, aka Mitt Romney did actually return my donation when he dropped out of his presidential run. He was what-was-left-over that year. Then he dropped out. Thank the good Lord.

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I actually believe we should get rid of corporation donations. People only. Corporate donations lead to too many special interest groups getting too many favors in the form of government contracts or favorable laws.

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And let’s not forget the newest addition to the campaign-money-grift machine, the “No Labels” party, also known as the “No Chance In Hell” party!

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...and they've already taken themselves out of the race.

Go, Green Party!

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Ok, after FALLING DOWN the Facebook rabbit hole for about 20 minutes watching videos of clever handyman hacks after clicking on "Chickenman is everywhere"...*sigh* [Thanks for that. Not.] 😡...This all leads me to the #1 PROBLEM -- WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT THE MEDIA????

If they're not doing a 100% news EMBARGO they are LYING.

I'm a free speech absolutist (ie. more speech is better than less speech) but when the left CONTROLS (ALMOST) ALL THE lines of communication, WHAT CAN BE DONE???

If people KNEW MORE, they'd VOTE in a MORE INFORMED WAY.

Polls (ha) even reflected that after 2020 re: "the laptop" showing Biden would have not gotten enough actual votes (supplemented by the massive fraudulent ones) to "win" and Trump would have remained in the White House!!!

DON -- have you ever read John Ross's "Unintended Consequences"?? Its avail for FREE online as an e-book or audio book. The 'solution' that the novel moves towards is wackadoodle, but.....🤔

I'd LOVE to read one of your posts (or even a trilogy of posts!) about that book!! 👍

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What needs to be done is currently illegal, with terrible optics.

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You crack me up! We can dream, right? That’s still legal, right? lol!

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That is sort of what I am thinking / wondering.

Have you read Unintended Consequences??

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The book is Atlas Shrugged-like in length. There are some synopses on-line.

Bottom line - in our dreams. With todays technology and surveillance capabilities, impossible.

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Maybe.

In the book, as I recall, they were able to defeat surveillance state issues with a bit of effort.

Just like the founders had to meet in ale houses...

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Amazing, the Brits didnt think that you could do business in the ale houses....

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Thanks for the “heads up” on Chickenman because I almost looked him up. Must have been a regional thing.

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I had never heard of it either. But was curious so clicked on it and the FB post right under it was a video of these addictive hacks for doing handy man things. I got sucked in! 🥴

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Easy to do getting sucked into the black hole of handyman videos although I am not brave enough to venture there—alone!

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My black hole of click bait is restoring old cars. Can't help it. Dad taught my sister and I how to change a flat, and how to change the oil and check the battery. Ewee. that got my hands all greasy. but I lived.

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I had to replace my radiator 3 times in my Malabo Classic. The first 2 replacements from the junk yard had issues we didnt catch. The only thing Dad did was unhook and rehook up the battery. No matter what I did/didnt do, I would get shocked. Also I was on the FFA soils team so getting dirty was a given. Glad I lived then and not now. I am still a tomboy but like being a girl.

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Join me in a chorus or two of "I Feel Pretty?" The tomboy's anthem.

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Who is this Chickenman you are all speaking of? Asking for a friend.

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I think we're fooling ourselves if we believe the laptop would have changed the election outcome. They were gonna steal it and keep Trump out come hell or high water (or laptops or the fact that Biden was already a doddering old fool - we all saw it).

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