Posted on 08/31/2024 3:36:11 PM PDT by CottonBall
ALL ABOARD THE TRUMP FAMILY TRAIN, EST. 2017 BY DOLLYCALI!
Survived everything thrown at it over the years, just like President Trump....including trolls, moles and saboteurs.
Welcome to the TRUMP FAMILY TRAIN THREAD, where all things Trump are welcome!
Feel free to share news, your comments and opinions, memes, recipes, travel photos... the list is endless.
Posting on behalf of the TFT founder and thread mama, Dolly Cali. 
Am I The Only One – Aaron Lewis
I think I did my part.
Lol thanks for the early morning chuckle. Yes, you’ve done well lol!
That COAT is awesome!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
9h
I look greatly forward to attending the Fox News Patriot Awards, hosted by Sean Hannity, in New York on Thursday evening. I will be receiving the Fox Patriot of the Year Award — so nice! See you there.
Jimmy Failla
@jimmyfailla
·
11m
NBC runs with anonymous sources who say Pete Hegseth hits the bottle but ignores everyone ON RECORD who says Doug Emhoff hits his girlfriend. This is why the liberal media deserves the death it’s dying.
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune
That is who won’t commit to voting for Hegseth.
Susan Collins voted for every single one of Biden’s nominees, including Merrick Garland.
Thune voted yes on 13 of Biden’s cabinet appointments.
Mitch McConnell voted yes on 16 of Biden’s cabinet appointments.
John Cornyn voted yes on 16 of Biden’s cabinet appointments.
Lisa Murkowski voted yes on 19 of Biden’s cabinet appointments.
The cabinet that Biden appointed was the single worst cabinet in American history, and they helped to destroy this country from within, and all five of these losers voted for the majority of those people so when they sit there and tell you that Biden destroyed the country, they helped.
As far as Curtis is concerned, I don’t know what the heck is going on in Utah, but how can a red state have a Mitt Romney number two.
By the way now you know why the Republican establishment was all too happy with losing the senate seats in Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin? Because if we had those three seats, we wouldn’t need three of those losers.
Last edited
8:56 PM · Dec 3, 2024
Thanks for letting us share your memory lane walk with Wintet
That is absolutely a wonderful video tribute Exit. Thanks for finding it and sharing it ♥️
Now and then I’ll share a story - life tidbits on a person of history or present. I feel knowing people is a lot about their story. We’ll have one
Two days ago it was Kash, Patel, yesterday Bob Sheehan
Today….
~~<>~~
He was called “filthy” because his skin was dark, unintelligible because he could barely speak English. When he arrived in this country, he was placed in a special class for immigrants. But, a few of his teachers saw something in the way he expressed himself, through his drawings, through his view of the world. He would soon master his new language.
His mother had made a difficult decision to take him, his two younger sisters and a half-brother to America, seeking a better life for their family. They settled in Boston’s South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian-Lebanese-American community. The family would struggle and the young boy would lose one sister and his half-brother to tuberculosis. His mother would die of cancer.
He would write, “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
He was born in poverty on January 6, 1883 in what is now modern day Lebanon.
He believed in love, he believed in peace, and he believed in understanding.
His name was Kahlil Gibran, and he is primarily known for his book, “The Prophet.” The book, published in 1923, would sell tens of millions of copies, making him the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.
Published in 108 languages around the world, passages from “The Prophet” are quoted at weddings, in political speeches and at funerals, inspiring influential figures such as John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and David Bowie.
He was very outspoken, attacking hypocrisy and corruption. His books were burned in Beirut, and in America, he would receive death threats.
Gibran was the only member of his family to pursue scholastic education. His sisters were not allowed to enter school, primarily because of Middle Eastern traditions as well as financial difficulties. Gibran, however, was inspired by the strength of the women in his family, especially his mother. After one sister, his mother, and his half-brother died, his other sister, Mariana would support Gibran and herself by working at a dressmaker’s shop.
Of his mother, he would write:
“The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word ‘Mother,’ and the most beautiful call is the call of ‘My mother.’ It is a word full of hope and love, a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart. The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.”
Gibran would later champion the cause of women’s emancipation and education.
He believed that “Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”
In a poem to new immigrants, he would write, “I believe you can say to the founders of this great nation. ‘Here I am. A youth. A young tree. Whose roots were plucked from the hills of Lebanon. Yet I am deeply rooted here. And I would be fruitful.’”
He would write in “The Prophet”:
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○
● THE PROPHET ●
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life. ~
Khalil Gibran
Gibran was big in the 1970s—books, wall hangings, etc. with his words.
Thanks for the history on him.
UnitedHealth is a $359 BILLION company.
Looks like a hit.
____________________________________________________________
josette caruso
@josettecaruso
Suspicious-
The CEO of UnitedHealth was fatally shot in the chest Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown in what police say was a targeted attack.
Brian Thompson, 50, was at the hotel at around 6:46 a.m. when a masked man fired at the CEO and fled eastbound off of 6th Avenue, police sources told The Post.
Thomas was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
9:06 AM · Dec 4, 2024
Emerald Robinson ✝️
@EmeraldRobinson
·
1h
The RINOs in the Senate are not going to allow Trump to get his favored cabinet picks.
No Gaetz. No Hegseth. No Patel.
Trump did his part. He played nice with GOP goofballs like Tim Scott & Joni Ernst and it got him nothing.
Time to take the gloves off.
Hey Spunky!yes, it does look nice Jill must have delegated the job. I liked the musicians too, made me think I should be drinking hot chocolate!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.