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I came back from combat in the Iraq invasion 2003 and said “I’m not sure how many people deserved men like me fighting for them”

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Haven’t read all the comments. So apologies if repeated. But, first, thank you for your service, truly. I know the feeling, Marine grunt 91-95 and retired law enforcement after 23 years. The fear I have is there seems to be more evil in the world than ever before...which can make one question whether they’ve made a difference, while dedicating much of their life (not to mention a marriage and loss of important moments with their children, that I’ll never get back)trying to make a difference. At the end of the day, I’d like to think I made a difference, maybe made the world a safer , less evil place. I don’t know...evidence is weak at best. But I know there are good people out there who deserved, and appreciate more than you know, the sacrifices you’ve made. Remember, “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” At least someone is sleeping peacefully.

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Thank you!!

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IT'S NOT just Military, police, and fire who get PTSD, abused kids, Mom's of murdered Children. You can let it consume you or fight back. Getting drugged is not the answer. Thank all of you who Serve. We have 7 lying under our Flag since WW2 and more to go as they age and pass. Youngest are a pair of brothers, 1 Army, 1 Border Patrol.

"Love your last line." And you made a difference, you came back and made additional differences, you don't Give Up. I Saulute you.

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” I CCW Life Time Permit in a now Permitless Red state, even at 73, can still make center mass. But no more indoor ranges due to Meniere's hearing loss.

And you are not wrong about more violence, People believe they can now do as they wish. Cali turned 8K parolees lose with no supervision. Dept of Justice issues Recidivism reports, and you will find the 25% they report on commit over 1 million crimes within 3 years. The Penal Farm in Memphis, TN is a 11 month 29 facility, serve time 90 days, each inmate has depending on age over 18, 10-60 crimes each. 90% recidivisim rate, and that is only for the crimes they get caught at. Revolving Door.

Hub served 20 yrs in the USN 58-78, Avionics then got his teachers degree for College Tech ED where he taught Electronics, Math, and Computer Science of the day. Ret. as Dept Chair. Still does Extra Classes math portion for Ham Radio at 81. Did 2 Zoom classes during lockdown. You each made a difference.

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You truly are a hero!

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Thank you Jamie. Thank you.

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Thank you for serving. I was 11B, bang bang. I think about 1991 and still have trouble understanding how in 30 years the world has gone mental, especially America. It's almost as if we are intentionally destroying her. Building back better from a crime riddled shithole doesn't sound cool.

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They ARE intentionally trying to destroy what once was the foremost bastion of freedom in the world. And that is WHY they MUST destroy her.

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I try to deserve it. Thank you from my heart.

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LOVE

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Thank you, brother, for the time you spent in hell for all of America. I apologize for the insanity you had to come home to. Some of us came home to people that spit on them and called us baby killers. I was in the Navy and didn't get that abuse but a lot of the guys I knew did.

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Thank you Jack. It’s nice to be reminded that there are so many wonderful people in our country that are worth the fight! We just need to be louder that the ungrateful people.

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My nephew was a corpsman in the Army right after Dessert Storm. He spent time in Fauzia and still carries some shrapnel. As a country we have not acknowledged nearly enough, in my opinion, the sacrifices made by men and women who have unselfishly served this great nation to the point where they made the ultimate sacrifice. My nephew came home but he's not same. But he will share stories with me about what he experienced there. I told you all that to tell you this, thank you again for what you gave and sacrificed for all of us here at home and for the unnamed people around the world.

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What a fake little pussy bitch!

First of all thank you for your service.

Secondly, I lasted 25 years in an abusive marriage with a man with narcissistic personality disorder. It wasn't combat-well not exactly, but it messed me up pretty badly. I was fortunate enough to find a therapist who did EMDR therapy with me. I don't know if it will help you, but it couldn't hurt. God bless you!

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Thank you.🇺🇸

I think there’s more than the TV would have you believe.

But, how to get the majority to not be “silent?”

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Well, I sure am glad I posted this last night! All the wonderful comments, stories & love has reminded me of how many amazing people there are in our country. I hope everyone has a great weekend. thank you!

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You can't listen to the fake news and their less than 1% haters. The vast majority of Americans are God fearing, patriotic and hard working and we know who fought for them to have the freedoms we have. It's just that the angry mob is so loud, we can't be heard over them, but that is about to change. Sit back and grab your popcorn, my friend!

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🙌🏻

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It really sucks that you were used to fight for war profiteers. My heart goes out. Truly.

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Americans used to fight to preserve freedom, now they fight to enrich corporations. I guess that's why so many are called contractors.

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Thank you for your service.

Thanks to your wife too.

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Thank you for your service, Jamie. You are a true hero!

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Thank you for your service

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Thank you Jamie

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I am only just realizing my freedom was in Iraq. Is it still there? Maybe that’s why I feel so enslaved by my own govt. We all just need to move to Iraq to experience our liberation.

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Not many it seems. :(

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As an 'M.D.' (my initials!) - I believe she's definitely misdiagnosed (herself).

What she's really 'suffering' from is 'PDSD' (Post-DRAMATIC Stress Disorder.)

I'll make sure she gets my bill. And an Academy-award participation trophy.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Your comment deserved a full dozen emojis. Let's make it a baker's dozen...🤣.

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Love it! Guess you're aware of the best weapon against the adult adolescence ~ MOCKERY. Please folks be relentless, mock them from every angle. We will take a bit of criticism, but the left literally has Trespassers killing themselves.

I will go as far as kicking them when they're down. Cruel? Immature? Yep, but a far cry from their tyrannical deeds.

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Thanks, Festus. I truly try to limit mockery as a tool of last resort. I heard a great sermon once where pastor said, "The person you're mocking, God is crying for." That was very sobering.

But I succumbed for this one because of her history of mean-girl behavior, writing from a perch of privilege that scavenges off of others with no regard for their feelings or outcomes.

With her lament now of 'PTSD', the boomerang returns back to the one who so eagerly threw it.

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I see mockery as a tool far better than violence. Sure it can get violent from mockery, it's still better than armed citizens killing each other.

Thankfully I see light at the end of the tunnel. The left lost, but just don't know it yet. Once a few CHAZ villages go up than we can breathe easy.

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“The left lost…”

Who’s going to tell them?

And will they ever admit it?

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History may have to beat awareness into them before they admit it to themselves, though they may not. They will surely never admit it publicly.

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Don't tell them they lost yet. They are living in their own echo chambers.

We need to let them be oblivious.

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I love it! Post-Dramatic Stress Disorder

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Just a great comment

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And a slap from Will Smith

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boom!

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My thoughts exactly. Her AND the interviewer.

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Just watched this on Tucker Carlson's show tonight and then I got you email that lets me replay the whole sad performance again. We are living in a world that is peopled by self-absorbed, narcistic snowflakes. God help us!

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If you add your words together somehow mental cases will sum it up.

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Yeah......just saw the clip on Tucker. The acting was painful.

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their need for attention to the point of self debasement ~ nauseating acting

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Its a career move of course.

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Maybe she's auditioning to replace Jen Psaki. I hear there's a job opening at Brandon's press office.

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It's a waste of oxygen, that's what it is.

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But their followers equate self-debasement with exultation.

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Alex, she just tweeted out she doesn't want people to retweet Jon Levine. Oh, the irony. So, mere minutes ago, 🐴 did just that. This cancel culture headmistress is whiney and insufferable with her fake tears.

You can find the appropriate tweets to retweet at:

https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan

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and the other 2 sitting there were her enablers...

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Who was the it?

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Yeah. that plastic person was disturbing. She never would have let that person in the scene if she's known the distraction they posed

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I almost wish I had a Twitter account--just to share the opportunities to ridicule this little narcissist.

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EXT. Genghis Khan returns to the streets of (insert North American city) and surveys the enemy with several warriors of his command.

Batu: The horses are not ready my Khan.

Genghis (looks around. Sees a Disney employee skip past draped in a Ukraine flag slurping a decadent frappaccino in flip flops bragging of getting his 4th shot while consoling Taylor on the phone. Narrows gaze): We won't need them.

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love this!

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Possiable severe reactions from the mRNA shots? Is she seeking attention or professional help? Maybe auditioning for a job with Uncle Joey?

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The snowflake shit show is on parade!! 😂😂 Thank you to our colleges and universities for these shallow, entitled people who cannot pass basic test scores in most public schools much less be competent members of the workforce and society!! They have nothing to teach us about tolerance, equality or taking care of our environment!!! 🙄

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Their PARENTS DID IT! They were already ruined BEFORE they got to college. They've been a waste of space and air since they hit kindergarten. THEY are the useless eaters!

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I agree but we have to be realistic about the role public education has played. I was a teacher, my kids went to public school after I started my own business. I believed the amazing teachers who mentored me and actually made crap salaries, were still there and influencing students. My kids were fine but test scores plummeted for most families. Our universities turned out social Justice robots and put them in schools. You cannot find moderate teachers who will defend students. It always starts at home but we have to call out our educators in K-12 and higher Ed for the insanity!! Parents really don’t always know!

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Teachers are on a mission to redesign society, like journalists. I resigned my teaching position at age 30, after all efforts failed to return the curricula to academics. My friends and I worked on school reform, and I had scant support from parents. There was hardly a curricular program that they didn't accept as appropriate. We provided all the info and handouts to them---the ones that the middle school kids were told couldn't leave the class. e.g. When to Pull the Plug on Gramma, How to please your partner and use an oral dam...How our Constitution is a negative instrument...There was no subject too atrocious for the educators. The in-service for teachers taught that the job of the educators is to wean children from their parents' values. Teachers were given printed instructions to "Nurture Ambiguity" when parents asked questions. We gave that hand-out to the parents too. There were a handful of parents in a large affluent district who helped us.

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Yep!! The big concern for educators now is whether zoom is being recorded as they slam conservative values! One of the boo hoo rants by teachers over the Florida law even outlined how terrible it would be if they had to teach math, English or social studies!! Parents are either unaware or fearful of retribution for their kids(which is very real), or care more about their kids’ social status and sports.

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Not always the parent. I sent a trim dynamic active smart kid to college and he came back twice his size and full of anger and anxiety.

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So sorry. Parents have an uphill battle. Now that the church and scouting have lost their formative influence, the "Village" is a collection of leftist change agents.

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Oh, that's just sad. The anger and anxiety is probably why he over ate.

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😢

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Easy Bandito! We are all useless eaters until we offer purposeful solutions. The World is flush with children who are teachable, even those who are aged near death.

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This person deserves all the mockery being aimed at her. I would add that it wasn't only the universities that created these embarrassing snowflakes; the colleges were just the finishing schools. The parents reared these little princesses, paid for their designer slut wear for prom, and the I phones, videoed their every word and event, then sent their little Amanda's off to college with a credit card, new SUV and skis atop the luggage rack. Paid for their week of debauchery during Spring Break, maintained their rooms back home full of stuffed animals, tequila posters and collection of shot glasses, never asked what insipid classes they were taking, just assured them that they could be rocket scientists when they had quite ordinary intellect, told them if they didn't get all they wanted it was the fault of a male-dominated society. Daddy was a dufus who wasn't to give his opinion on anything.

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🙌

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At your next Parent/Teacher conference ask the Math Teacher to write down the Definition of the Derivative for you.

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I remember when Taylor Lorenz was the IT GIRL of media. The guru for the older generation of what the kids were up to on TikTok. Woker than the wokest woke who ever woked. Ah how the mighty fall. Thanks for the double shot of schadenfreude.

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"Woker than the wokest woke who ever woked." Very funny. 😂

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Something like live by the sword ....

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Well done Barbelo! That sentence "Woker than the wokest woke who ever woked" would have to be just about the apotheosis of anti-wokity-woke wordsmithery I've seen.

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Ah schadenfreude. And it doesn't even look like your name is of German origin. :)

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I am woman hear me roar…but let me start crying like a bitch because someone tweeted something mean….

My unpopular opinion. If women are going to act like this, they need to stay home and make sandwiches.

BTW, I’m a woman.

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Hey, don't be putting down my stay at home sandwich maker. :-) She's no snowflake.

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So am I, and I agree with you 100%.

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I'll bet her bedroom is full of stuffed animals and participation trophies, both dating back to when she was a toddler.

Some commenters say she's a lousy actress. I think that would be a better reflection on her than the more likely explanation: She's actually so fragile, such a product of her society and her generation, that she really does see the mildest criticism or disagreement as "literally violence."

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Her office decor is unicorns and glitter. It's her "safe space."

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Good point. I'm constantly amazed by how thin-skinned the younger generations are these days. I blame that whole PC bullshit that arose out of, when was it, Clinton's administration?

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I think it’s the constant pushing by these women of the “male-behaving girl boss” portrayal in media, yet Scarlet O’Hara helpless “carry me to the fainting chaise” female manipulation performance in real life that I find the most disingenuous. Seems a little “Cluster B” on the personality disorder spectrum to me. But what do I know? I’ve always been the kind of girl that drank out of the hose and played in the dirt, sooo....maybe I just can’t relate?

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yes, they are potemkin leaders and thinkers...happy to wear the crown and feel the glow of adulation, but any dissent or unforeseen consequences sends them into weepy hysterics

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It definitely feels a little “borderline” adjacent :)

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Refreshingly honest. I suspect if a guy harassed you or made an inappropriate comment, you'd say "watch out bud". A hand in the wrong place at the wrong time would earn a slap. I personally expect women to be as strong as they need to be.

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A slap? More like a knee in the nuts.

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Narcissistic t**t

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Did you mean narcissistic twat? If so , I concur.

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C U N T, with spaces between to torment what they spell when together?…

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I miss the days when we could fling it around- the word, lol- just like P U S S Y. Sometimes they are the best fit. I recently remembered the latter because Naomi Wolf wrote a fantastic blog post on her DailyClout site. Everyone should read it. She titled it “I’m not brave. You’re just a P U S S Y.” I saw it and immediately decided I loved her.

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Who's Afraid of Naomi Wolf?

Woke zombies.

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Actually, that's one of my favorite words. You can call me a dick all day long, I really don't care. Neither should they.

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And there are those of us who absolutely LOVE it!

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It can be used very effectively. But, like most things in life, I overuse it. My motto has always been "Don't use, abuse", and I lived by that for decades, but pretty much gave that up as I entered my mid 50s.

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William Blake: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” We- a certain segment of GenX- took it to heart.

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I can't keep track of all the gens...I actually had to look up "what age range is genx".

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Dude, wake up. It's a vagina. There are literally billions of them. While I found many of them to be fabulous recreation areas, I am sure some are "harsh and dirty".

Think about it: they have their own sections in grocery stores. And pharmacies. Not to mention their own doctors. Plus, they give their owners headaches of all sorts throughout their existence.

My bet, you didn't get much strange in your younger days.

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No- I don’t “like” the word itself. Its just a word. Sometimes its the right word and so satisfying to say. I was referring to seeing it used here. You were speaking of certain readers that experienced displeasure at the sight of it. I just reinserted those of us who experienced something else. Call it being inclusive. I enjoy liberation in all its forms, including the free expression of language. Vulgar words are part of language. Online communication seems so dull these days. Sterile, prudish, puritanical really. It sucks, imo. That’s why I really appreciate the stacks.

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She also tweeted asking if anyone knows an endodontist who takes covid precautions seriously because she is at risk. What a moron.

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Because we all heard about the Covid breakouts in dentists’ office 🙄

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Exactly and does she know dental patients can’t wear masks and dentists have always worn them? So dentistry is what it is. She seems to be a ninny in addition to being cruel and narcissistic.

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My husband had a tooth pulled a couple of weeks ago. We live in a Chicago suburb. I was surprised that he didn't need a Covid test before the procedure. When I asked the nurse about it, she agreed that nothing makes sense.

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At risk, and wears it like a badge of honor.

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I have, like, PTSD from watching her.

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You should call MSNBC for an interview to cry about it. ;)

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I'll get my agent right on it.

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This woman is nauseating. Self pity is never a good look for anyone. But this is especially true when someone enters a profession where toughness is a known expectation and then that person complains about receiving criticism that pales in comparison to the treatment she's shown others. When we were kids, we said a person like her could dish it out but couldn't take it.

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I wonder if Lucifer will cop the PTSD defense after "The End Times"?

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