The post I’m replying to here really lifted me up. So I wanna add on to this and keep the uplifting stories going.

I was 2.5 months premature.

I was in NICU for the first 3 months of my life. My lungs were underdeveloped and I was teensy.

While pregnant my mother was told the pregnancy was dangerous, and I should be aborted. She said that was between her and God.

After being born she, and my father were told I probably “wouldn’t make it”, and to keep “expectations low”.

They stayed with me every night. Every day. They loved me. Love/God made sure I survived.

After being released, they were then told I’d have a rough life. That I’d encounter many health issues…

I will turn 40 on July 4th.

I am 6’3. I weigh 185lbs. I exercise almost daily, and practice martial arts. I played semi-pro hockey. I’d say my lungs came out just fine, eh?

I am perfectly healthy.

My point? Never give up hope. Miracles happen everyday. There is never a valid reason to make someone else’s opinion of a situation your reality.

Let me hear some of your uplifting stories, frens! I wanna hear how some of you made it through adversity and challenges in your life. Let’s lift some folks up and dole out some hope! Whattya say??

Be blessed, frens. Always. 🐸🙏🏻🐸

My buddy Nick gets it.

That’s one angle to take 😂😂

Plz keep it on 😂😂

Jim Rickards: In a few weeks Russian control of Mariupol and a land bridge from Luhansk to Donetsk and Crimea will be complete. Over 40,000 Ukrainian troops will surrender or be annihilated. At that point, NYTimes and White House propaganda about the phony Zelensky will be seen for what it is.

👆👆👆Let me translate that for you.

Biden Administration prepares another $800 million weapons package that will either be blown up in transit to the front, stolen and sold on the black market, or laundered by the Zelensky regime officials as they steal anything that isn't nailed down on their trip out of the country once the gov't is toppled.

But I'll tell you what. Now that Hillary For America, The DNC, Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS and Rodney Joffe all made opposition filings and are screaming like banshees in legalese at the Judge that he better not grant Durham's Motion To Compel via In Camera Review and make them hand over documents in response to grand jury subpoenas, that April 27 hearing is going to be something to pay attention to.

There is more happening in terms of mandates from the Federal government, and brave pilots and airline professionals are still fighting. It’s not over. Please read this story by Michelle Edwards at UncoverDC -

https://uncoverdc.com/2022/04/19/309-pilots-flight-attendants-seek-to-permanently-ban-tsa-mask-rule/

Accurate.

Dan Ball with OAN spent over 10 minutes highlighting the child sex trafficking pandemic.

This isn’t easy to listen to, but people need to hear it.

“A 7, 8, 10 year old child is forced to give sex five to twenty times per day. It’s savage. It’s demonic.” - Jaco Booyens

The Biden administration is knowingly allowing this to happen at our southern border. Let that sink in.

These people are sick.

When I told you that Malcolm Nance was going to be the Jussie Smollett of 2022 I never imagined that it would get THIS bad THIS fast.

This is hilarious, absurd and terrible at the same time.

No, it's not supposed to be a parody or a skit... this is from the official NBC News TikTok account.

@Dschlopes

Elon Musk might be the AntiGates…

@Dschlopes

He has a point. Multiple, really. 😂😂😂

Notice the date of this article. Jan 2016. In the lead up to the fight against Trump, funding for Neo Nazis in Ukraine is allowed to continue. Despite an unanimous vote to stop it, Paul Ryan made sure it wasn’t included in FY 2016 budget, supposedly bc of Pentagon pressure. Why would Pentagon “pressure” Congress to fund Nazis? Same Nazis who worked to train Charlottesville group? If you need a “right” wing white supremacy grp why not fund it…in Ukraine&import as needed for narrative. Get it?

In an interview with The Daily Beast, the U.S. Army Public Affairs Officer from the 173rd Airborne Brigade training Ukrainian forces in Lviv in western Ukraine, Capt. Steven Modugno, says that no one from the Azov Battalion or Right Sector is being trained in Lviv because the embassy uses the Leahy vetting process, which is in place to make sure no one has committed any kind of gross human rights abuses. When asked about members of the Azov Battalion who have not committed gross human abuses, more specifically how they are screened out, he says, “You know that’s actually a great question. It’s one the State Department would need to answer.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-america-training-neonazis-in-ukraine

The Daily Beast then interviewed State Department representative, Press Officer Yarina Ferentsevych of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. Ferentsevych told us, “At this point, as far as we are aware, no”—that is, no members of Azov. “Whether or not some may be in the lineup, that is possible. But frankly, you know, our vetting screens for human rights violations, not for ideology. Neo-Nazis, you know, can join the U.S. army too. The battalions that are in question have been integrated as part of Ukraine’s National Guard, and so the idea is that they would be eligible for training, but in all honesty I cannot tell you if there are any on the list we train. There were not any in the first rotation as far as I am aware.”
Ferentsevych confirms that it is practically impossible to know which trainees are from which battalion, “It’s a mishmash of folks: volunteers, soldiers, war heroes, Maidan veterans—I mean I couldn’t tell you, you know, short of investigating the background of each guy.”
At this point, she recommends that we speak to the press officer of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. We explain that he actually directed us to her. She laughs. Welcome to the United States Government.
When we asked PAO Capt. Modugno whether it was possible to detect all the Azov guys who are dispersed into the national guard battalions, he told us, “I don’t know if any of them could get through.” He explained that he is not an expert on the Leahy vetting process, but, “From what I’ve seen here, I haven’t seen any extremists, I’ve seen patriots.” The acting head of Ukraine’s national guard, Mykola Balan, told The Daily Beast, “Azov hasn’t been trained by the U.S. military. Currently they are at the front line.”

Regarding the Ukrainian government’s involvement in the vetting process, Capt. Modugno explains that one section of the government is doing all the heavy lifting, “I believe it is the Ministry of Interior that is picking companies to come here.”
The Azov Battalion not only answers directly to the Ministry of Interior, but it is ingrained deeply in that structure. The founder and head of Azov, Andriy Biletsky works closely with the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior and as the BBC reported last year, “The Azov Battalion was formed and armed by Ukraine’s interior ministry.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-america-training-neonazis-in-ukraine

“As Congressman Charlie Wilson, the godfather of American support for the Afghan mujahedeen once said, looking back on the disaster that followed their “victory,” “These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world… and then we fucked up the endgame.” The United States’ desire to train Ukrainian troops comes from the right place—the need to stop Russian covert and overt aggression. The problem is that the Azov battalion is nuzzled so deeply into the Ukrainian government that they are nearly impossible to weed out.” Same article as above.