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Interview with Jackie: How the Combination of Living in Spain and Covid-19 Turned a Liberal Into a Libertarian
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 14 Jul, 2021 | Jane Menton

Posted on 07/16/2021 5:01:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 07/16/2021 5:01:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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There is nothing like seeing other parts of the world to make you appreciate the USA!


2 posted on 07/16/2021 5:01:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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. "Lady of Spain," sung by Eddie Fisher
3 posted on 07/16/2021 5:25:23 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Locking the muzzards up except to go to work is a good thing.


4 posted on 07/16/2021 5:27:50 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox )
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. "Lady of Spain," sung by Eddie Fisher

"Don't ever play Lady of Spain again!"

5 posted on 07/16/2021 5:28:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It very much opened my eyes to how anyone can spin any news story to fit any narrative. Now when I read a story, I think that might be true. Or that the exact opposite might be true.”


6 posted on 07/16/2021 5:33:29 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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“I met her while she was working at a local gym as a personal trainer, a grueling 12 hour/day job.”

It was an interesting article, but I have to laugh at the description of assisting fat, spoiled, rich New Yorkers with their exercise routines in an air conditioned fancy health club as being a “grueling 12 hour/day job”. When that is how an article begins it demeans the rest of the piece. It is a joke. The person who wrote this article must live in a bubble.


7 posted on 07/16/2021 6:04:10 AM PDT by fireman15
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She’s still a lefty at heart. She was bemoaning the fact that the government didn’t care about her complaints.


8 posted on 07/16/2021 6:04:57 AM PDT by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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What a whiney b*tch. She doesn’t think there is censorship in this country? What rock is she living under. My wife has COPD and wears oxygen equipment 24/7. She was berated at our local Kroger store for lowering her mask because she was out of breath and getting light headed. She had to leave the store so she could breathe. Welcome to fascism little girl.


9 posted on 07/16/2021 6:20:28 AM PDT by redangus
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Sounds like Orwell. Voters can do something about it but 51% will get us nowhere.


10 posted on 07/16/2021 6:31:56 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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This lockdown will eventually prove to be a huge,and despicable,mistake. This could have been handled *much* differently...but my hunch is that The Swamp saw an opportunity,early on,to strengthen their grip on we,the people.
11 posted on 07/16/2021 7:08:47 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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If you go to another culture to live, you have to let go of your own ideas of how it should be.

You cannot change them and in the end, you accept the good with the bad.


12 posted on 07/16/2021 7:45:54 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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So, who will she vote for in 2022 and 2024?


13 posted on 07/16/2021 8:04:03 AM PDT by kalee
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Yeah, think the opposite is true of the pussy grabbing. It was a private dialogue between men discussing the female groupy persona. What these females are so willing to allow by famous rich men.


14 posted on 07/16/2021 8:27:23 AM PDT by Lopeover (Biden & Harris are illegitimate.)
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I mean, who wants to vote for a pussy grabber?

Political groupies and fan girls who get hot for famous, powerful men?

The millions of women who voted for Bill Clinton, for one recent example?

That one comment probably hurt candidate and President Trump more than any other thing he said or did.

But … what he said is also the truth and, after witnessing its power, that truth makes many a young man want to be a rock star or famous actor.

Because what he said is true: you can … and they want you to … and if you are famous enough, they will be throwing their panties at you on stage, sometimes while they’re still wearing them!

“Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar!”

15 posted on 07/16/2021 9:09:46 AM PDT by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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This piece was very interesting and I appreciate your posting it.

She said >> until it was highlighted in the 2019 primaries that his Medicare for all and free college would equate to much higher taxes. I just had not equated those two things.

My jaw dropped to the floor when I read that.

She had never realized that huge spending programs have to be paid for, and that means higher taxes?

I have to say that now I have read that, I understand lefties better.

Un-believable!


16 posted on 07/16/2021 11:37:19 AM PDT by Chicory
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When I go to the gym and someone is leading an exercise class, they are doing all the exercises.

After the class, they get a short break and then do it all again.

Hour after hour.

I don’t even like to exercise for 10 minutes!


17 posted on 07/16/2021 11:40:46 AM PDT by Chicory
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I’m a JP fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56Si3DY6cQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=814zVoB3Sj0


18 posted on 07/16/2021 12:22:19 PM PDT by lizma2
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I read this article in spite of the skepticism I derived from the title.

And it was worth it, every word.

An amazing transformation. She and many others are undergoing it, and can’t say it.

But critical mass is gathering.


19 posted on 07/16/2021 8:46:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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I don't even like to exercise for 10 minutes!

Different strokes for different folks. When I met my wife over 30 years ago she was the Northwest Regional Aerobics Instructor Champion. I had no idea such a title or this type of competition even existed. And as far as I know this type of competition does not exist anymore. She taught multiple classes a day all over the area including “fat boy” programs at a local military base. She also was sought after to work at fitness clubs.

https://youtu.be/CrZPrGT5IRw

I was a state champion and nationally ranked bicycle racer who rode over 10,000 miles a year. Our mutual interest in fitness is one of the primary reasons we ended up together. So I do not relate to your not liking to exercise. To us it has been a way of life and not drudgery.

My wife would never ever have referred to being an aerobics instructor as a “grueling 12 hour/day job”. She loved it and would never have reached the level she did if that is the way she felt. She also did not refer to herself as a personal trainer. From our experience that implies someone who is working one on one with people who are trying to get into shape and typically is not describing someone who is leading exercise classes.

Almost any job can become drudgery, but I do not really relate to the way that the person this article is about described their former job to the author. I think that it may have been good that she changed professions. For years after my wife stopped teaching nutrition and aerobics dance people would come up to her while we were in public and thank her for helping to change their lives. It was quite amazing and she still is a very inspirational person.

20 posted on 07/16/2021 10:25:04 PM PDT by fireman15
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