Denise Thorpe
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Denise Thorpe
@Dthorpe64
Workforce and Adult Educator. Passionate about helping the incarcerated start a new path. Life motto: Never give up, Never surrender!
Hot Springs Village, AR Katılım Ocak 2025
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Everywhere I go, people keep commenting on how wild it is that I have something working with us straight from *prison*.
Well, no longer.
Tomorrow, at 8 am in the morning, @PThorpe92 is a free man.
Preston is an inspiration to us all. He achieved so much from behind bars. I am sure he will go even higher as a free man.
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When you hear “America First,” most people interpret it through their own life.
Taxes.
Groceries.
Fuel.
Housing.
Bills.
That’s not wrong. That’s reality at the citizen level.
But the mistake is assuming that’s the same lens a President operates through.
A President doesn’t just manage a household economy.
He manages a global power position.
Those are not the same game.
From your perspective, “America First” means relief.
From the President’s perspective, it means survival of dominance.
Because if America loses leverage globally…
your cost of living doesn’t go down - it explodes.
The world runs on power, not goodwill.
Trade routes.
Energy supply.
Currency dominance.
Military deterrence.
These are the levers that decide whether your dollar holds value… or collapses.
Since Jimmy Carter, successive administrations slowly shifted from strength to management.
From projection of power → to negotiation from weakness.
That shift didn’t happen overnight.
It was incremental. Strategic complacency.
Under Carter, you saw the Iran hostage crisis - a moment that signaled vulnerability.
Adversaries took note:
America could be challenged… publicly.
Then came decades of mixed signals.
• Short-term wins
• Long-term strategic drift
• Wars without decisive outcomes
• Deals that bought time, not dominance
Enemies don’t respect hesitation.
They exploit it.
The result?
China expands economically.
Russia reasserts militarily.
Iran builds influence through proxies.
None of that happens in a vacuum.
It happens when the world senses hesitation at the top.
This is where people misunderstand leaders like Donald Trump.
You might judge policy based on prices.
He’s judging based on leverage.
• Who fears consequences
• Who tests limits
• Who backs down
That’s the scoreboard at that level.
Now let’s be clear about something:
No sane person wants war.
War destroys economies.
War destroys families.
War destroys nations.
Anyone cheering for war has never paid its cost.
But history is brutally honest.
When aggressors win…
populations don’t just lose comfort - they lose freedom.
Speech.
Property.
Opportunity.
Sometimes their lives.
Freedom has never been free.
That’s the uncomfortable truth people try to ignore:
Strength deters war.
Weakness invites it.
And when deterrence fails, the price isn’t theoretical - it’s paid by entire populations.
There has always been a cost for freedom.
And there always will be.
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My good friend's blog post about his journey learning to program in prison, super proud of him and glad I could be a part of it.
ck-7vn.dev/blog/Home
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Hold up. I don't recall no one from the Left wing media calling Joe Biden a racist when Bevelyn B Williams (Who is Black) was indicted and sentenced to 41 months in prison because Biden's DOJ charged her with violating the FACE Act. Where was the outrage from Democrats, like the outrage I'm seeing for Don Lemon?
Bevelyn didn't go inside of the building. She stood outside of an Abortion clinic, exercising her First Amendment rights. Protesting against the k!l lin of unborn babies.
She was separated from her family, thrown into prison and not one from the left wing media called Joe Biden a racist, fascist, authoritarian or said she was arrested just for being a black woman.
According to her official designation letter, her only offense was "Assembly, Unlawful" not assault!
Thank God she was Pardoned by President Trump.

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There is a reason why Don Lemon and the Democrats aren't storming churches in the South!
"That is how I know the South and the North are very different."
"Sunday is the day we LOVE to show out."
"Everybody got their heat in the church. The pastor got the heat because he's got two Bibles."
"They might have ran up in that church, but they wouldn't have ran back out."
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🚨VIRAL: Dude says he'd PAY CASH to watch Don Lemon pull his church disruption stunt at a Black church.🚨
"He wouldn't even make it past the aunties at the door...
'In the name of JESUS, you ain't comin' in here!'
We're talkin' reformed street dudes givin' testimony, aunties who prayed 'em through for years—never givin' up.
A whole lotta righteous indignation would've dropped RIGHT THEN.
He knows he wouldn't dare try it. Double standards on 100."
(Clip from @drew_shredded / TikTok, blowing up after Lemon's Minnesota church chaos.)
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Melanie Phillips delivers a chilling diagnosis of the West's intellectual crisis: Ideology has replaced knowledge, and reason itself is under siege.
Key points from her 4:37 clip:
- Modern orthodoxies (multiculturalism, lifestyle equivalence, etc.) are treated as absolute moral goods.
- Challenge them → you're not just wrong; you're evil, standing against human/planetary betterment.
- Dissent must be silenced: no platform, no debate, no hearing.
- Evidence contradicting the ideology is dismissed as lies or "not facts."
- Universities—once crucibles of reason—are now engines destroying it, while claiming moral superiority.
- Result: Civil discourse dies. Replaced by insult weaponized to shut people down.
This isn't just about politics—it's the erosion of objective truth, evidence-based reasoning, and the ability to disagree without demonization.
We're witnessing the destruction of reason itself.
4:37 clip laying bare how ideology has become inimical to rationality 👇
When ideology trumps evidence and disagreement becomes "evil," what survives of open society?
Where do you see this dynamic strongest right now—in academia, media, politics, or everyday life?
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Sentiments of Venezuelans
I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable.
If you have never lived in Venezuela
If you did not grow up there
If you did not watch your country collapse in real time
If you did not stand in food lines
If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built
If you did not have to leave your home with nothing
Then shut the fuck up.
You do not have an opinion.
Your opinion does not matter.
And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there.
I’m Venezuelan.
I lived there most of my life until my early twenties.
I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes.
This is not politics to me.
This is trauma.
Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked.
There was trade.
There was money coming in.
There was investment from the US.
There were jobs.
There was food.
There was medicine.
My family had five businesses.
We had our home
We had investments.
We had a future.
Then the government started nationalizing everything.
Private companies were taken.
Foreign investors were pushed out.
Imports were blocked.
Price controls destroyed production.
Corruption exploded.
And everything died.
Not slowly.
Violently.
People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online.
They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope.
People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology.
They are trying to survive.
They are trying to find food.
Trying to find medication.
Trying to keep their families alive.
So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that”
No.
It’s not complicated.
You’re just ignorant.
China is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela.
They are stealing.
They are extracting.
They are draining what’s left.
If the US comes in and reinvests
If refineries get rebuilt
If infrastructure gets restored
If imports open back up
If food, water, and medicine become accessible again
If people can work and earn with dignity
Then yes.
Let them take all the oil they want.
Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed.
This is something to celebrate.
Not because it’s perfect.
But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope.
Hope that families can eat.
Hope that people don’t have to flee their country.
Hope that Venezuela can function again.
If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing
If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you
If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation
Then again
Shut the fuck up.
This isn’t theory.
This isn’t politics.
This is lived experience.
By Stephen Subero

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