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1. 

   @pavlovsworld9122

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   Congrats to Justice Barrett
   I hope no matter who you happen to be you respect that we all benefit from the protections of our rights enshrined in the constitution and declaration.
   🇺🇲🗽🇺🇲

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2. 

   @preciousmaltese6483

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   From Father Ryan: Someone approached me recently and said, ‘Father, there’s really only one candidate that Catholics can vote for in this election, right?’ And I said, ‘no, you don’t have to vote for Joe Biden just because he’s Catholic!’

   I don’t mean to be glib about something as important as a national election, but I do want to address head-on a misperception that is very much out there in Catholic circles, and it’s this: the notion that Catholics really have no choice when it comes to voting in this presidential election. I understand the claim and where it’s coming from, but it is simply not true. What is true – and what needs to be acknowledged right up front – is that, when it comes to all of the serious moral issues that make up the body of what is called Catholic Social Teaching – and there are many – neither of the two major party candidates for President is completely in step with the Catholic Church. I’ll say that again: neither of the two candidates for President is completely in step with the teaching of the Catholic Church. For that reason, every Catholic voter is required to do some serious study and some serious soul-searching – study that involves learning as much as possible about Catholic moral and social teaching in all its breadth, depth, and complexity; soul-searching that involves the delicate work of conscience which, in the end, is the only path to making an enlightened choice.

   And trust me, there is a choice and anyone who says otherwise is either misunderstanding Catholic teaching, misrepresenting it, or both. And that includes the priest from Wisconsin who recently released a video implying that anyone who voted Democratic was going to hell!

   Let me clarify something else. Despite impressions given – sometimes intentionally, sometimes not – the Catholic Church does not endorse candidates for public office. It must not. The Church respects the right and the duty of each of its members to study the issues and to make an informed, conscience-driven decision about which candidate to vote for. This becomes difficult when, as is the case with the upcoming election, neither candidate nor political party can make the claim to be “pro-life” in the full, rich sense in which the Church understands that term. To be “pro-life” means to care about the life of the unborn, the newly born, the elderly, the poor, the homeless, the refugee, the person on death row, and every other human being. To be pro-life includes a passionate commitment to uprooting the terrible scourge of racism which is tearing our nation apart. It also means a commitment to abolishing weapons of mass destruction, as well as a commitment to caring for the earth, our common home. Some people–many of them Catholic–are convinced that to be “pro-life” means one thing and one thing only: to be opposed to abortion. They are mistaken. Abortion does indeed hold a certain preeminence among the life issues, but it does not begin to define or exhaust all the life issues.

   Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI made that point abundantly clear in his writings, and Pope Francis has underlined that teaching in his Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate:

   "Our defense of the innocent unborn…needs to be clear, firm, and passionate, for at stake is the dignity of a human life which is always sacred and demands love for each person regardless of his or her stage of development. Equally sacred, however, are the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned and the underprivileged, the vulnerable infirm and elderly exposed to covert euthanasia, the victims of human trafficking, new forms of slavery, and every form of rejection."

   Pope Francis makes the point clear. A conscientious Catholic cannot be a ‘single issue voter.’

   We are preparing to vote during a dark and difficult time in our nation’s history. It seems that so many of the things we hold dear – our sense of being one nation under God, our seeking of the common good together, our sense of common purpose, our commitment to common decency, the value we put on truth over falsehood, love over hatred, service over selfishness, tolerance over bigotry, patriotism over nationalism – these and so many things that have always been at the heart of what makes America truly great – have been gravely compromised.

   Along with civility, dialogue, and a willingness to meet halfway, respect has all but disappeared from the public square and from public discourse. As a nation, we seem to have forgotten the very meaning of the word ‘respect.’ In the cacophony of partisan political name-calling, in the too-often rancorous and acrimonious debate over who we want to be as a people and a nation – who we want to invite to the table, and what we want our place in the world to be – we who call ourselves Catholic need to return to the basics of Catholic Social Teaching, to an abiding respect for each and every human life without exception.

   I sometimes find myself wondering what Jesus would say to us if he were to take the pulpit some Sunday, but it’s actually a question I’m able to answer rather easily. He would speak the same words to us that he spoke to his contemporaries. That’s because societies change and so do political challenges and situations, but the message of Jesus doesn’t change. Jesus would challenge us today in the same way he did the people he preached to in the synagogue of Nazareth and along the shores of the Lake of Galilee. And what is that challenge? It’s to put the little ones first: the poor, the poor in spirit, the meek, the lowly, the persecuted, the ones who hunger for justice and righteousness. It’s to let the poor lead us out of ourselves and lead us to God. That’s the challenge of Jesus, the upside-down logic of the gospel, and we believers ignore it at our peril.

   So, my friends, if we want to know how to begin to heal our nation, how to treat one another, how to re-set our priorities – how even to vote – we need to go no farther than the gospel of Jesus Christ which is the very backbone of Catholic moral and social teaching in all its rich complexity. And I know, the separation of Church and State is written into the fabric of our Constitution. But Christian believers don’t need to blur the line between Church and State in order to bring about societal change. All that needs to happen is for us to change: for us to let the gospel of Jesus Christ wake us up to the world around us, recharge our moral batteries, and inform our way of thinking.

   As Christians formed by the gospel of Jesus Christ, we have an unbeatable recipe for the healing of our nation and a clear direction for how to vote. It’s not one issue, it’s many issues, and what’s crucial is not what’s best for me individually, but rather the common good. For well over a century now, this has been the Church’s teaching. It’s a teaching that has grown and expanded in response to changing societal realities and it will continue to, and it’s also a teaching that refuses to let itself be highjacked by one political party or another. Our Christian faith must come first, and shape our political engagements—not the other way around. Deep reflection on Catholic Social Teaching will make us clear-sighted as to the strengths as well as the shortcomings of whatever political party we may espouse, and give us courage to challenge our leaders—including the ones we vote for.

   Politics have their place and so do political parties, but the demands of the Gospel of Jesus Christ – with its broad embrace of ‘the least, the last, and the lonely’–will always be the decisive factor when it comes to how a Christian forms his or her conscience, and how a Christian exercises the sacred duty of voting responsibly. May Jesus Christ and his Gospel inspire and challenge each of us as we prepare to cast our vote in this election.

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3. 

   @johnzabik270

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   #Vote for #TRUMP2020 and save this Country from the far left who want to DEFUND THE POLICE IN THIS COUNTRY #MAGA2020..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

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4. 

   @aacceerraa

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   To all Biden's supporters , We LOVE YOU!!! Please ,join us , to Defeat the SWAMP, time is running out!!!!

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5. 

   @paulettepoole5476

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   JOE BIDEN HAS THE HEART FOR THE PEOPLE.
   JOE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT 🇺🇸🇺🇸

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6. 

   @HH-vh1ok

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   .Republican's Uncovered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flp7gKg5G4E

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7. 

   @yonatanassefa6605

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   !!!!! Share !!!

   BIDEN USING “N” WORD

   https://youtu.be/40WCnYolMhg

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8. 

   @HH-vh1ok

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   .Yeah it was Trump . Not the Corruption of the Democrat party and their Censorship of the Biden China, Ukraine, Russia Scandal with a Corrupt Mainstream Media. Joe Biden 47 years in the Corrupt Swamp Pay to Play Reveled, You are seeing the rabid-leftist takeover of the Democrat party and their Absolute Embrace of Cancel Culture, the Rabid leftist BLM/Antifa militia Burning down Cities, Murdering and Intimidating people in the street, Looting and Burning businesses, Threating anyone daring to Dissent from their Marxist narratives. TRUMP NOT A POLITION. CHINA OWNS BIDEN Marxist History = Watch Your Back (YOU WILL BE NEXT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flp7gKg5G4E

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9. 

   @chessylatendresse941

   January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

   I voted for Trump.
   I support John Dennis
   I support Joe Collins
   Go William Hagerty

   I don’t want Biden Harris
   Higher tax
   Higher abortion
   Higher Medicare (high co-pay)
   Higher number of green cross stores
   More tent ⛺️ villages cross USA less than third world countries
   Obama care was a joke
   Hillary made up Russia Gate
   High trafficking
   Build “cage”
   Biden = CCP

   Under Trump
   Higher education & skills
   He supports little people’s business
   Clean swamp in capital
   Clean swamp less diseases
   Strong America
   Beautiful America
   Under Trump Pompeo safer world
   “Cage children” r safe clean & educated

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10. 

    @ivelissecamacho9430

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    I've noticed lately a couple of reporters have been calling biden vice president instead of FORMER VICE PRESIDENT! and now this lady calling him Former President biden???!!! Really!? I'm starting to feel like these News channels (ABC/NBC/CBS) are trying to drag everyone to the left side. ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE THE REPUBLICANS LOOK WRONG! 🤨😒🙄😒😤😡

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11. 

    @barbie3139

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    https://youtu.be/-IT64CeIgPM

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12. 

    @regieraph

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    "FCK THE PLAYING, HELP THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ALREADY"!!!!!! – The millions of Americans suffering

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13. 

    @jessicapleasant7754

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Record time is used a lot by ABC. In Abe Lincolns OWN service he had same day nomination and confirmation. The media wants to keep you all stupid.

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14. 

    @motess5304

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Congrats to ACB. She understand her civics and that judges are NOT activists. Their job is NOT to make policy. Whatever president appoints them should be irrelevant if they do their job accordingly.

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15. 

    @lucianavimentani432

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Trump-Pence 2020

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16. 

    @corrimclaren9658

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    She is disgusting and a stain on RBG legacy

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17. 

    @jims8229

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Hey Ask joe if I can have my FAIR SHARE of the 10% of the chinese company the ccp gave him or I'll take 50K a month and kickback 50% to the BIG
    GUY. I have no skills but hunter and I can smoke crack together. I know I can really help joe get elected I'm very discreet. I can help him know
    who is his wife, where he is, who he's running against etc… just let me know when I start

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18. 

    @yarajouk

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zLfBRgeFFo

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19. 

    @likuanhuang8317

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    X@
    More covid-19 prevention, remedy etc and music which I composed
    visit my video on youtube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0MrrbAm0vc

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20. 

    @pmboston

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    I don’t trust religious people like her. A cult won’t be something that she will ignore in her decisions whether she says it will or not.

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21. 

    @StS9LBJ23

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Awesome!

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22. 

    @rajeevSreenivasan

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    I oppose this appointment

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23. 

    @edge481

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Confirmation Not in record time!

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24. 

    @ThomasWilliams-hv4ub

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    WTF! NOT A MASK INSIGHT!! #CAN U SAY COVID 19 FOOLS!??? C.T , d.T and swampie’s

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25. 

    @sunnyboy4553

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Biden gave a great speech you didn't cover. Big news, bigger than SCOTUS news https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html

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26. 

    @wilbertjohnson9890

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    I no people in the country dont believe her any way

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27. 

    @taradrolma2774

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Our democracy is in tatters, Democratic norms destroyed, armed white supremists boldly walk the streets and conspire to murder a governor, rampant conspiracy theories, no more trust in science or the government, 225,000 deaths and more, economic disaster and four years of a lying, crude hateful president who has enriched himself through the office and whom most of them don't even like. For what? Three judges who will vote to overturn the Affordable Care Act and a woman's right to choose. Was it really worth it?

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28. 

    @dragonknight9016

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Where's Despacito Joe?

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29. 

    @maryathey280

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Hispanic if you and/or your ancestry come from a country where they speak Spanish. Latino refers to geography. Specifically, to Latin America, to people from the Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic), South America ( Ecuador , Bolivia , Colombia, Peru , etc.) and Central America (Honduras, Costa Rica, etc.) Sure wish people in the USA would get the difference between Hispanic and Latino straight.

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30. 

    @deboerkanna1

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    And end that gastly noise assholes

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31. 

    @bluewaves321

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    She is so greedy.
    She is in the hand Trump monster 👹

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32. 

    @deboerkanna1

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    What a horrible day, horrible woman. Joe will fix it.

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33. 

    @hscollier

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Justice is served despite the shrill BS from the dems and their media allies. It must be frustrating for them to see the process work as designed despite their best efforts to overthrow the Constitution. Congratulations to the new Justice.

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34. 

    @Ninjastorm393

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    News reader looks like younger "Amy"

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35. 

    @waderivers3304

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    ABC news…Anything But Correct.

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36. 

    @franklyspeaking4480

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    America, please research this ~
    Federal Government Dissolved In 1933

    Please research this, its a quick google search that will wake you all up !!!!

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37. 

    @HeidiG11

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

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38. 

    @jgarner1104

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Appoint another 3 Justices Joe, Back Congress when they vote out the Filibuster. No more BS, time to undue the damage the orange idiot has caused these last 4 years.

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39. 

    @deathcheatersguild4266

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    “The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.” –Donald J. Trump, November 6, 2012 @realDonaldTrump

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40. 

    @Rook_Gaming_Original

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Funny how hard the GOP pushed for this the moment the last Justice passed away, almost acting if a plan was in place before she died. But that would only make sense if she was assassinated. With how things are going I wouldn't be surprised

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41. 

    @Hardwaredrive02

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    FNAF

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42. 

    @pedrothemexican3360

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Trump added THREE SCOTUS conservative justices….THREE Bitches!!!!
    This is what liberal-snowflake exploding heads looks like..  
    Freaking hilarious! Love it!

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43. 

    @amywjn

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    👀 Tony Bobulinski 👀on Tues 🗓 10-27, Tucker Carlson, 🦊 FOXNews 8e/7c airing recording of Biden family operative asking him to stay quiet – entire show will be Tony Bobulinski interview, 3 Phones going to FBI & see if Tony Bobulinski seems credible or not, the mainstream media won’t even let you decide for yourself🧐. https://youtu.be/aiiSq7toqlQ

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44. 

    @willkommen2861

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    You can see the future https://youtu.be/1MJvJc4nfq8

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45. 

    @MYshamanEYE

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    An oath that means nothing to a partisan hack

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46. 

    @deemabe719

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Awesome 👏👏👏

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47. 

    @icontrolmythoughts4712

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    That moment when someone says, "I can't believe you would vote for Trump."
    I simply reply “I'm not voting for Trump.”
    I'm voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech.
    I'm voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.
    I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
    I’m voting for a return of our troops from foreign countries and the end to America’s involvement in foreign conflicts.
    I'm voting for the Electoral College & the Republic in which we live.
    I'm voting for the Police to be respected and to ensure Law & Order.
    I’m voting for the continued appointment of Federal Judges who respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
    I’m voting for our jobs to remain in America and not be outsourced all over again to China, Mexico and other foreign countries.
    I’m voting for secure borders and legal immigration.
    I'm voting for the Military & the Veterans who fought for this Country who gave the American people their freedoms.
    I'm voting for the unborn babies that have a right to live.
    I’m voting for continued peace progress in the middle east and in support of Israel
    I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking.
    I’m voting for Freedom of Religion.
    I'm voting for the right to speak my opinion & not be censored.
    I’m voting for the continued growth of my retirement 401K and the stock market.
    I'm not just voting for one person, I'm voting for the future of my Country.
    I'm voting for my children and my grandchildren to ensure their freedoms and their future.
    What are you voting for? please share.

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48. 

    @maddox1235

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Black and White Flank the DUMB Racist….!! Media…please praise him…isn't that a show of diversity? LMAO

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49. 

    @sarahshae1543

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Disgusting

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50. 

    @anmcclo9731

    January 18, 2024 at 7:12 pm

    Your U.S.A.
    government already
    stabbed me
    in the
    back twice.
    Now, I'm
    wearing, a
    mask that
    I, can
    hardly breath
    with. Illinois,
    the state
    I, live
    in is,
    filled with
    legal Refer
    because Trump
    made weed
    legal to
    smoke a
    dobby.
    Separate news,
    I was,
    hit by
    a drunk
    driver on
    03312000. Never
    a done
    deal only
    worsening, the
    simple battle
    to reside
    in America.
    "A Friends,
    Dad Made
    A Drunk
    night wager
    V.S.
    Mr. Schifler
    "The Tax
    Man" The
    bet was,
    for higher
    end machines,
    for "Waste
    Mangement," who
    my friends,
    dad
    worked under.
    Mr. Schifler
    owns, everything,
    in gold's,
    world The
    Tax
    Man never
    loses,
    I, sat
    innocently in
    the back
    seat of
    a rear
    drunk driving,
    collision
    I, suffered
    countless, injuries,
    of shattered
    and broken
    neck bones,
    wrist bones,
    hips, legs,
    arms, all
    transformed into
    shaking, matters,
    of how
    I'm supposed
    to live
    like an
    American. Fine
    smile when
    I'm not
    supposed to
    but I,
    pray for
    my Christian
    Catholic love,
    by simply
    leaning, my
    same prayers,
    are really
    never
    the same
    prayers. Yes,
    I, also
    have massive
    brain damage
    and other
    head injuries.
    Do I,
    move on
    I, know
    its, always,
    in me
    where ever
    I, go
    so where's,
    my fight
    "Go Home
    Don't Come
    Back Here's
    A Couple
    Bumper Stickers,
    And A
    Water Bottle"
    They even
    turned me
    down
    "Don't Come
    Back"
    Do I,
    have any
    love for
    the U.S.A.
    Government, NO!!!
    Freedom, there
    is, no
    freedom. We
    have to
    wear what
    they put
    on us,
    even when
    you met
    the devil
    he has,
    another name.

    Peace

    "Don't Know Yet,"
    Could Be
    "I Was The First
    Cut Out"
    Andrew David McCloskey
    10272020
    0509pm

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