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I don’t think slo Joe’s admiration will be enough to drive the devil out of Nancy-he’ll have to get an exorcist for that...

They are probably afraid BLM and antifa are going to come to collect everything they were promised over the last couple of years by the ‘rats and Nancy-and the ‘rats have no intention or means to deliver to them-I’d be terrified of that if I were Nancy...

“the date that far-right conspiracy theorists believe former President Donald Trump will return to power.”

Did these Capitol Police officials obtain their information by reading about King Arthur? Is pres Trump going to come riding out of a cave under the golf course at Mar a Lago, carrying Excalibur? This “information” sounds about as fact-based...

Maybe grounded flights wouldn’t be a big deal-it isn’t like Iceland is exactly a must-see tourist destination-but it probably would make the stuff locals ordered from Amazon and other suppliers arrive late...

Maybe the South is rising again-leading in common sense, and promoting freedom and personal responsibility...

Our Neanderthal ancestors also were responsible for the DNA of much of our immune system-the disease-resisting genes in particular-so I’m okay with Neanderthal thinking...

No, no hell no-no Manhattan moms or any other blue area “suburban women” moving to Florida, Texas, Oklahoma or any other red state with their cowardly surrender and complain mindset-we already have enough of our own weak sisters here-just no...

The mistake was not “relaxing the rules”-it was making them in the 1st place based on hysteria and fake science promoted by power-mad research docs like Fauci and politicians with a control fetish-2 weeks turned into a year to flatten a curve that may or may not have existed-which makes no sense in the real world-but if you are one of those who still believes the Wuhan virus is really not going to dare to get into a mask with openings comparable to a chainlink fence, then by all means, keep that face diaper on...

A couple of Karens living here on the road are still screaming “mask, mask”-interesting that they operate a tourist trap nearby, and are making and selling all kinds of plain and fancy masks for $5 to $12 in the shop-they do not want this new stream of income from fear to end...

Oh, no, no-the poor Karens will be crazier than s***house rats with nothing to scream about-better put them all on suicide watch...

No one in this rural area paid any attention to any mask mandate from day one-a few businesses in the small towns had signs asking shoppers to wear a mask, but no one cared if you didn’t wear one except a few frowning Karens-I avoided the city-SA-totally, like I do anyway-I heard from a couple of neighbors that the big box stores were full of mask nazis-just another good reason to avoid big cities...

“I can just envision ambulance chasers”

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that this is going to be the next cash cow in the future of the personal injury/malpractice attorneys-never underestimate the cynicism or greed of some of those in the legal community...

I don’t see a childcare crisis in the rural area I live in- but many more moms are involved in small local and home-based businesses than are working “in the city”-they either home school their kids or belong to a homeschool co-op with other local moms. This area has had a lot of homeschooling parents for years now, but that way of doing things really took off when the Wuhan virus closed the schools and closed most but the home-based small businesses, making money really tight.

Parents liked the way it worked and many didn’t send kids back to school when they re-opened-it is saving working class families money, it is easy to do with a business based at home, provides a REAL education for kids and keeps them from being indoctrinated by government teachers/daycare workers-if it works here, why won’t it work in other rural areas?

I haven’t seen that out here-not many locals even wear masks in the stores out here-I really can’t picture someone wearing a mask in a truck, all alone-I’d have to start laughing if I did-a person who does that has got to have serious obsessive issues with germs...

I can believe that-I increase the immune support vitamins/supplements every flu season since I don’t get flu shots, and it works-but I got the Wuhan virus last March when there were tourists filling all the cabins and RV parks on the river out here during Spring break-and they were all running around in the tourist traps and stores wearing masks-even some of the little kids who were still in strollers-poor babies-we locals had not been wearing them all that much, but those tourists were-and the highest numbers we had in this county for the whole Wuhan thing happened a week or so after Spring break with all the masked tourists...

Fortunately, I had a mild case of the virus-had symptoms/felt sick for 2-3 days and got rid of it with a homeopathic flu remedy I keep on hand-no one else I knopw was really sick with it out here, either-a lot of us are all-organic, natural living types, too-might have something to so with our milder cases, but I don’t really know...

No one has paid a bit of attention to whether there is a “mask mandate” or not out here-I doubt anyone even knows whether there is one-most of us have not worn a mask from day one-I have one in the pocket of my jeans in case I really want to go into the hardware store that asks you to wear one-none of the other stores ask for a mask-of course this is a rural area, with few people, too-not a Karen-crowded city...

That is not so-it is disinformation-I know that at least one city-SA-had a longer loss of power than the rural area I live in for sure...

The guy I work for has some customers in SA, 45-50 miles away-I talk to them on a regular basis-their power comes from a City Public Service power company-in this remote area where I live, our power is provided by a rural electric co-op-some customers in SA said they were out of power for as long as 18-24 hours, and had rolling blackouts with one hour on and several off for 2 days-but out here, we were totally out of power for less than 4 hours-and we had rolling blackouts with one hour without power followed by 2 hours with power for just over 24 hours, then back to steady power...

With a rural co-op, we, the customers own the company, so we are actually listened to and we get real consideration because it is not a utility company like the ones in cities...

Rino Liz is heterosexual-it is her quiet, non-political sister-Mary, I think is her name-who is a lesbian-Liz is just a rabid Rino whose 15 minutes are up and she’s pissed about it...

“I’m not going to walk around with my mouth open I was told it’s a good way to catch flies.”

Good advice-common saying in Mexican Spanish-un boca cerrado no tiene moscas-means don’t rat/nark on people-a closed mouth has no flies...

“Greaser” is an ethnic slur-a pejorative term-it does not belong at FR, in my opinion...

You are correct-more native Texan Hispanics are conservative-I’m one...

My family has been in Texas since before 1800-we are Hispanic, conservative voters, we are ranchers, blue collar workers and small business owners.

We don’t steal anyone’s fruit from their trees-or anything else for that matter-we have our own fruit trees, businesses, vehicles etc-of course we don’t live in crappy neighborhoods, either-most of are country people. We speak English as a first language-Spanish is our 2nd one for business purposes. I’m not the only FReeper who is Hispanic, either-there are several of us and none of us are thieves or leeches-please do not insult people based on your unfortunate and limited experience in one neighborhood...

I have no idea where you live, but it must be hell, since you are here yelling about people of one ethnic group as being all ass****, thieves, etc-never mind that some of us belong to that ethnic group-that kind of thing is not what I consider “conservative” never mind tolerant...