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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

OFF TOPIC: This morning my debit card was declined and it wasn't because I'm over-drawn (it's early in the month and I actually have funds). I know what flagged this because it's happened at least four times already. Stripe or some credit card company has flagged one of my recurring monthly paid subscriptions to the dozen or so Substackers I make donations to.

My question: Why does this KEEP happening? Also, I wonder how many of my paid subscribers have had issues paying me? I know that some of the paid subscriptions I thought I generated are/were declined.

Anyway, my Spider Sense that "something" might be happening with Substack is still activated.

Now I've got to go to the bank and see if I can "approve" these recurring payments ... again.

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SadieJay's avatar

There are no coincidences. Suspect everything. You are making too much noise, Dissident! I hear more people are moving to credit unions.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I do use a locally-owned bank, which is actually fighting hard with other "community banks" to nix this central bank digitial currency initiative. I doubt they will be successful, but I appreciate the effort.

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SadieJay's avatar

They closed our local branch of our bank, where we knew every one by name. They all moved to a farther away branch. And…we live in the sticks. They are herding us and I feel it.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{...They are herding us and I feel it...}

High-time to get udders and beef-steaks well hidden ...

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Why d'you call this info "off-topic" ??? 🤔🤔🤔

This is CORE-info because it is going to happen to EVERYBODY about ANYTHING, ANYTIME an EVERYWHERE in the future ...

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

There's a hundred ways they can "mess" with you.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

A subscriber just emailed me with a funny anecdote to this story. It turns out this subscriber KNOWS the world's most famous Easter Bunny. They went to high school together!

This story from the UK Daily Mail gives us the identify of the Easter Bunny - an employee in the White House Communications Department!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10729139/amp/Easter-bunny-interrupts-Biden-takes-selfies-kids-starts-discussing-Afghanistan.html

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

The above Daily Mail article has many other pictures and anecdotes from the Easter Egg hunt of a couple of years ago. One thing I picked up on was Biden talking about Hunter's son - his two-year-old grandson, Beaux who was no doubt excited to see the Easter Bunny.

Not mentioned in this story is Biden's grandson he's never met - the one that was fathered by Hunter and one of his (former) stripper, cocaine-sniffing girl friends.

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No name here's avatar

I want to know which one of these 20-something girlbosses took a part of my paycheck (that I could have used for an actual little kid's swimming lessons) to write the stunning and brave sentence "Our patience is wearing thin."

Validating these idiots is not why I pay fucking taxes.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

One day those kids are going to be all grown up ... and they are going to tell their grandchildren they once worked in the White House.

"Protecting democracy was not what I thought it would be," this grandmother will no doubt say.

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NeverForget1776's avatar

I believe that for most Millennials and GenZ they will never be able to mature and will forever remain juvenile emotionally and mentally no matter their physical age b/c the brainwashing they got from K-12 w/College upgrades will require professional help that they'll never get.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Look at the upper right corner of that first picture, and you see the two people who actually do all the work while everybody else rides their coattails.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Those dudes do look a little more important. They could both become instant millionaires if they simply wrote an honest "tell-all" book about everything that's really gone on inside the White House the last 3 1/2 years.

Of course, if they wrote that book (and found a company that would actually publish it), they'd have to hide out in the jungles of Bolivia a couple of years.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

.....only until it is once again 'cool' to mock Biden, then they would be stunning and brave again.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Someone will go rogue and be the first to write this book ... one day.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Sooner than we think. It's probably already written and just waiting for the OK to be printed.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Good point as usual. If I was working in the White House, I would have been working on that book for years.

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Ray Bob's avatar

Long as the book doesn't ask any questions about bill and hill, you might just survive long enough to see it get published. If it does you will Commit assisted suicide like so many other people who dared to question hill or bill. And never cook for Barack Obama.Definitely never go water boarding

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NeverForget1776's avatar

Careful now, that's 2 white males that might be heterosexual; don't want to be accused of misogany or racism.

#sarcasm

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Kittykat's avatar

That easter bunny is hilarious. It's presence and role epitomizes the absurdity of the fabricated reality constructed around Biden. 🤪

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

You've got to give someone credit for thinking of using the Easter Bunny to ward off potential "gaffes."

Who I'd love to see talk one day is a few members of the Secret Service detail ... but they never share what they know.

... I once interview a Marine officer who piloted the Marine One helicopter in the Bill Clinton presidency. (He grew up just up the road from he). He wouldn't tell me any real juicy stories. However, he did tell me he wasn't going to vote for Bill or Hillary Clinton.

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Janet's avatar

My son in law has a nephew who is a SS agent at Mar-a-lago for trump. His lips are so sealed he had better be a nose breather and not a mouth breather.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I figured out why Dr. Brannon (?) is the White House physician. Apparently this physician has been a close family friend of the Biden's and Jill for decades. The odds such a person would be willing to cover-up his obvious dementia (and, probably, Parkinson's) ... are pretty good.

When it comes to the White House staffers who were assigned the important task of concealing Biden's dementia from the public, some ingenious White House official simply delegated this task to the 21-year-old interns. The thought was probably, "even Bob Woodward wouldn't know who these inside sources are."

The people who are performing this job are all students at Yale or Columbia. It probably hasn't yet occurred to these political puppies that they could cash-in and make millions of dollars with a shocking tell-all book.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Maybe it has occurred to them...along with the thought of their untimely demise...

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Star Trek - The Children Shall Lead

https://youtu.be/B8Mi_LCWVbI

Spock: "Tommy's father would have destroyed you, but he recognized you too late."

Gorgan: "Ah, you are also too late, the kind ones always are."

Kirk: "Not always Gorgan, not this time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Children_Shall_Lead

Interesting trivia tidbits about that episode:

It was directed by Marvin Chomsky - cousin of Noam Chomsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_J._Chomsky

One of the episode's guest stars was Melvin Belli as Gorgan. Belli was the famous attorney who defended Jack Ruby after he assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Belli

Episode slso guest starred child actor Craig Hundley as Tommy. Hundley later changed his name to Craig Huxley, "to identify with the philosophers" Thomas, Aldous, Andrew and Julian Huxley. Interesting, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Huxley

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-02-ca-1602-story.html

2004 - "Those silly kids on college campuses with their inane 'microaggressions' and 'hate speech' codes. Being taught to hate the United States, dangerous and predatory unbridled free markets, unfettered free speech, selfish individualism. They'll grow out of it when they meet the real world like all young, idealistic kids do!"

2024 - Middle-aged silly infants in the White House (and across managerial, bureaucratic, legal, academia, political, military leadership positions) criminalizing and punishing those who 'microaggress' and speak 'hateful things,' punish individualism, confiscate wealth, all to "protect" the collective and their "more enlightened, sophisticated, caring" governance. They met the real world and decided it needed to be more like college campuses. The children leading at the direction of the Gorgan's. Who never grew up. The Spock's and Kirk's among us not recognizing the Gorgan's until it was too late(?)

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c Anderson's avatar

Vacuous dorks reminiscent of Dr. Seuss’ Thing One and Thing Two.

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Timothy Winey's avatar

Lord of the Flies!

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Roger Beal's avatar

Does Gauleiter Sniffangrope Biden personally administer the hiring exam for his young staffers?

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

When that tell-all book is finally published, I bet readers will learn of many "sniffing" episodes.

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E. Grogan's avatar

GREAT article, Bill & kudos to you for 1) noticing all these details and 2) putting pieces together so well. I don't see that kind of thing too often any more, sadly.

This all reminds me of when Bill Clinton was president. All his staffers were extremely young, as in mostly right out of college. I remember Naomi Wolfe was one of his advisors. She was fresh out of college, had a Ph.D. in poetry and was an advisor. I still wonder what she advised him on, as she had no background in politics, or probably even in holding a job. A few yrs ago I saw a video of Bill Clinton being prepared for interview on TV. The point of this video was to show that he was mind-controlled - and there was no doubt in my mind that's what was going on. He was COMPLETELY, utterly blank in his face, zero expression. It let me know Clinton was not in charge of the White House or the country but someone else was pulling his strings. Just like Biden these days. It begs the question: how long has this been going on? And who's in charge of the young people who are the staffers? Surely, they can't be operating on their own?

On another note, here's a bit of hope for the future:

https://x.com/tColon94966846/status/1810867717643043048

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Thanks, E Grogan. I wrote this story with a humorous tone ... but this might actually be real and important evidence of what's been going on for years.

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ExcessDeathsAU's avatar

Humiliation ritual.

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

Are any of them straight?

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Bandit's avatar

Probably not.

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Mark In Houston's avatar

Courtesans of Children

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SadieJay's avatar

I seriously keep thinking about this photo. All week long. It tells the entire story without saying a word. I agree there is a time to bang certain drums, and the time for this one has come. Our Republic has been stolen and the steal began long before 2020. It started the latter half of the 19th century and has degraded to this. Our Republick has been filled with human shells with no marketable skillset. Like Tucker says "what are these people going to do if they are out of work? They have no marketable skills. Like Janet Yellen? Oh, yes, we are in need of a so-called economist..said no employer ever. Now a diesel mechanic? That is a whole other story. The world will always need diesel mechanics. These people in DC are shells." I wrote that from memory so it is not verbatim, but you get the idea. It is all a show and if you are complicit in the coverup, you should go on trial with the rest of them.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Great post. Thanks.

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SadieJay's avatar

♥ I use Brave and can't ♥ comments. It is driving me insane.

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