Soaking up Pearls

"If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." Thomas Jefferson

🚨 SHE JUST NAILED IT! "No kings! Unless it was during the pandemic when all the mom and pop businesses were shut down but the government said it was totally fine for all the major super rich corporations to continue operating." "No kings! Except during the pandemic when we told people that they would lose their job unless they took a certain medical product or they couldn't even go into certain restaurants without vaccine paperwork." "No kings! Remember when we also told people that they had to not visit their loved ones that were sick and dying in the hospital? The elderly? They had to die alone. That was really sad." "No kings! You don't hate authoritarianism. You just hate what you're TOLD to hate." "I just wish the anti-authoritarian energy was present during actual tyranny from both the federal and local governments during that time." "The majority of the people voted for it, both popular vote and electoral votes, people wanted the border secure. So settle down. Settle down and start thinking for yourself!" H/t @AvaGrace9211

The patriots on the top actually fought a king so the fools on the bottom could have the right to protest their government. Thankfully, we’ve had no kings for some 250 years.

Just a reminder…

No kings. Yet somehow Kamala Harris became the democrat nominee without a single vote.

Happened to walk through a "No Kings" protest yesterday. Very old, very white. Lots of silly signs that made no sense. No real message; generalized anti-Trump sentiment. It's basically just liberals upset that their party holds very little power for now. Mobilizing for midterms.

Three things are happening here 1.) visually there are a significant number of people. 2.) There are no new voters here. None. 3.) nobody cares to do their due diligence when attending things on who is funding or backing the protests because "feelings" (a few of us have) (I guarantee you there would be a 20 point "gotchas" on all the bad people behind a conservative protest if the roles were reversed)

I've been holding back on this, but I'm just gonna let loose... So many of these "protestors" here in Asheville NC have had their lives DRAMATICALLY improved by President Trump. Trump's FEMA resolved 80% of ALL open Hurricane Helene cases Biden left sitting 116 days... in 5 DAYS. Trump's DOT gave nearly $2 BILLION to fix roads and bridges in WNC, which is the largest Emergency Relief allocation in federal highway history. Trump's DOT reopened I-40 in 5 months. Everyone said it would take years. Trump's HUD approved $1.4 billion for Helene housing recovery so fast that even Democrat Governor Josh Stein publicly thanked him for it. Trump's USDA delivered $221 million directly to WNC farmers who lost everything. Trump gave NC 6 full months of 100% federal cost coverage — one of the longest in FEMA history. The same people driving on rebuilt roads, drinking clean water, living the comeback... are out here protesting the man who made most of it happen. JUST GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE!!! It's not that hard. He knew you hated him before the storm. He knew that when he landed in Asheville. And guess what? HE SHOWED UP AND HELPED YOU ANYWAYS!!!!!! And today you grabbed your little sign and costumes, got in your little Subaru, you drove on those rebuilt roads, over those rebuilt bridges, passed rebuilt houses and rebuilt parks, to protest a man who helped your city. You look stupid, out of touch, and insanely ungrateful.

How ironic that so many of the people at the protests today hate the patriots who risked their lives for our freedoms. They ensured that there have been no kings in America for nearly 250 years! 🇺🇸

Why are they flying a Russian imperial flag from the era of ethnic cleansing? Is the left now for murdering Ukrainians?

@AaronParnas Great job all, still only 2

@SteveGuest Nothing says, “no kings” like “listen to the leadership and do what you’re told”

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for 'revolution' A Fox News Digital investigation finds the “No Kings" protests are backed by a network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in annual revenue, including communist and socialist organizations calling for "revolution."

Un mes antes de cumplir 95 años, Patricia Routledge escribió algo que aún resuena suavemente: :* ** “Cumpliré 95 años el próximo lunes. En mi juventud, a menudo me invadían las preocupaciones: la preocupación de no ser lo suficientemente buena, de que nadie me volviera a contratar, de no estar a la altura de las expectativas de mi madre. Pero estos días comienzan con paz y terminan con gratitud”. ** Mi vida no llegó a definirse del todo hasta que cumplí cuarenta años. Había trabajado de forma constante —en escenarios provinciales, en obras de radio, en producciones del West End—, pero a menudo me sentía a la deriva, como si buscara un hogar dentro de mí misma que aún no había encontrado. A los 50 años, acepté un papel en televisión con el que muchos me asociarían más tarde: Hyacinth Bucket, de Keeping Up Appearances. Pensé que sería un pequeño papel en una serie menor. Jamás imaginé que me llevaría a los hogares y corazones de personas de todo el mundo. Y, sinceramente, ese papel me enseñó a aceptar mis propias peculiaridades. Sanó algo en mí. A los 60 años, empecé a aprender italiano, no por trabajo, sino para poder cantar ópera en su idioma original. También aprendí a vivir sola sin sentirme sola. Cada noche leía poesía en voz alta, no para perfeccionar mi dicción, sino para aquietar mi alma. A los 70 años, regresé a los escenarios shakespearianos, algo que creía que ya no me servía por mi edad. Pero esta vez, no tenía nada que demostrar. Me mantuve firme sobre el escenario, y el público lo percibió. Ya no actuaba. Simplemente era. A los 80 años, comencé a pintar con acuarelas. Pintaba flores de mi jardín, sombreros viejos de mi juventud y rostros que recordaba del metro de Londres. Cada cuadro era un recuerdo silencioso hecho visible. Ahora, a mis 95 años, escribo cartas a mano. Estoy aprendiendo a hornear pan de centeno. Sigo respirando profundamente cada mañana. Todavía me encanta reír, aunque ya no intento hacer reír a nadie. Disfruto del silencio más que nunca. ** Te escribo esto para decirte algo sencillo. :** ** Envejecer no es el acto final. Puede ser el capítulo más exquisito, si te permites florecer de nuevo. ** Que estos años venideros sean tus *años más preciados *. No necesitas ser famoso. No necesitas ser perfecto. Solo necesitas presentarte, plenamente, a la vida que aún te pertenece. *Con amor y ternura,* — Patricia Routledge

The reason that we live in a country where there are two sets of realities is because the media decided that they were not bound by the truth a long time ago. You can have a difference of political opinion, but you cannot live into separate realities, and we are currently living in two separate realities where one subset of the population believes ICE is the gestapo, Trump is King and abortion is healthcare. Whatever your positions on those topics are you have to be able to recognize what it means to live in a world that is based on reality. You don’t like our immigration laws fine figure out a way to get them overturned, but that does not make ICE the gestapo. We don’t have a King, we have a duly elected President who 77 million Americans voted for and a Pap smear is healthcare. Whatever your position on abortion is walking around and pretend pretending like it’s mandatory healthcare is an insane proposition.

@BreitbartNews @PerdieXAmerica Isn’t it ironic that they have signs hands off my Medicare when it’s the illegals that are stealing and committing fraud and these people don’t care about that!

@themagaking Bingo!

Let’s be honest… No Kings is just code for We still haven’t gotten over Trump being president, so here we are again, throwing another tantrum.

So I guess there’s another No Kings event today? Kings don’t have their orders blocked by Courts. Kings don’t have to fight their own Congress. Hell, Kings don’t even have a Congress. Your movement isn’t real.

@SenAdamSchiff Really? When you unilaterally subpoenaed my phone records from AT&T and gave them to NYT I thought that was like a dictatorship. No judge ever ruled on your subpoena. You just demanded my phone records!