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“why wouldn’t you want presidential alerts?” How could you trust anything they said at this point. They’re lying manipulative assholes and they don’t care about our wellbeing or safety. A presidential alert is just a joke. If they said a nuke landed in New York I’m not even sure I’d believe that. I don’t watch any news at all. I figure if it’s that important and I need to know, someone will tell me. I’m often in discussions with people and they’ll bring up something like, oh wasn’t it terrible that woman and her kids, and I’m like, don’t know what you’re talking about. But haven’t you watched the news? This happened and that happened and it was awful. Exactly, that’s why I don’t watch the news. People seem aghast but I just shrug, I am happy.

A funny thing happened recently I received some of my old military files which included the responses from my initial board interview when I was about 18. One of the officers commented, knows absolutely nothing about current affairs. Made me laugh. And I still don’t. So I obviously worked it out from a young age.

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Exactly JJ! Thus the "Freedom over Fear" mantra is appropriate for sure! :) Same with me... I may know a few things about what's going on, but it's usually long after it's already happened. It's funny you got your military records recently. So did I! I had forgotten that I ordered them over 2 years ago. I was a bit nervous when I got this giant yellow envelope from the U.S. guv and there were the records. It was fascinating to read about my life at the age of 18 as seen from the perspective of young bureaucrats who didn't know much more than I did because they weren't really that much older than me. Thanks for your comment JJ. :)

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