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Both major parties in the US election tomorrow claim flame and brimstone will descend if they do not win the presidential election... one of the two must be gaslighting the electorates...   I believe in the exceptionalism of America. I trust that my fellow Americans will see beyond the lies in the rhetoric of those who want to take them for a ride and they will vote their conscience (over 80 million have voted already)... they should see through the lies and deception of one of the candidates who appears to be desperate to be president.    I believe only one of the candidates will bring the house down if allowed in again... we see all the fingerprints on the wall with all the promises of retribution, revenge, hate, vindictiveness, chaos, xenophobia, racism, a dictatorial mindset that will set America back over 100 years... There is so much at stake beyond loyalty to one's party. Immigration, the economy, women's rights, and all other key issues in this election will not matter

The inflation is high - the price of groceries has gone up, and the cost of insurance and interest are all up. But an average American has seen his or her worth skyrocket in the last four years. Look at the equity on your homes and tell me what it is worth - many have seen between 20 to 200% increase in equity on their homes. Even your old cars have increased in value. Because this is not liquid cash, many do not see this as a value that they have gained under Biden... Perhaps, Biden should have done better. They spent too much money, gave money to people who did not need it... The spending started under Trump though but Biden did not do enough to check all the leakages... He was so concerned about the soft landing of the economy that he overspent... If the current policies were not implemented, there would have been another recession in the scale of 2008. This was predicted across the board. What many also do not think about is that unemployment is at a record low in the last four yea

Those saying, "separate the message from the messenger," are not looking at the bigger picture. Many say this when talking about Trump's character in comparison to his conservative agenda. They claim he is good for the economy (FALSE), he is good for business (MAYBE - deregulation under republican government have led to a chaotic and damaged economy in the long run - that was the foundation of the 2008 recession under another RNC president, Bush Jr.)... The consequences of ignoring the character of a leader of a diverse and super-power nation like America was what happened towards the end of Trump's first tenure... Over 22 million Americans lost their jobs, unemployment skyrocketed to over 14.7%, inflation set in, and hundreds of thousands that should have lived died from Coronavirus that he championed misinformation about - first, it was DEM hoax, then it was the "China virus"... he kept spinning it until he was infected.... The last RNC presidents since Re

I speak directly to Americans of African descent who are considering voting for a candidate who thinks the only job they deserve is janitorial and low-paying jobs. Think again. The concern many of these people have is "Can a woman run America?" If many of you reflect on who raised you, perhaps you have already answered your question. If you were raised by your grandma who instilled the fear of God in you, or your single mom who worked three jobs to put food on the table, then you know a woman can definitely run any organization. The US is one of the Western countries that has not had a woman leader since its founding - the UK, Germany, Canada, and France have all had a form of female leader at some point in their history. The gender question was one of the reasons why Hilary Clinton lost the 2016 election. Some Americans just could not see a woman leading. You see the element of religion in this also - The Southern Baptist Convention does not appoint a female priest, and the

Exactly a year today, the terror organization Hamas struck terror in the hearts of Israelis. Over 1200, mostly innocent people were murdered in cold blood in the most barbaric way. The evil wrecked by Hamas reminds us of the evil we are capable of as humans if we think there will not be any form of accountability. The attack is condemned in all of its forms. Such should never happen again. My heart goes out to families mourning dead family members, and those still waiting for their families taken hostage to return to them alive.   Since then, the Israeli army has unleashed terror of their own on Hamas, in the process killing so many innocent Palestinians in an attempt to exterminate Hamas, and their own terror continues, mostly on innocent Palestinians. Israel engaged in what some called genocide by cutting off water, food, power, internet, and major resources to over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. The world has condemned the way Israel is prosecuting the war because they have been &q

If the Middle-east is engulfed in fire, it will be Biden's Benghazi. A failure of U.S. foreign policy and an inability to use its powerful muscles to force all parties at war to the table under his watch. It will be seen as a failure because it was strong in rhetoric but weak in substance. You can not be calling for peace but giving weapons of war to one party. The U.S. did the same in the Iran-Iraq war that lasted for years. This a policy that has failed severally. Support without morality is hypocrisy. There is not going to be peace when one party thinks they can kill everybody and refuses to abide by all rules of engagement they have accused those they call terrorists of jettison. You can not stoop to the level of low lives who kill children, women, and the elderly.... on the excuse that they use humans as shields. This situation should not have been escalated if not for the parochial interest of one man who does not want to go to jail for alleged corruption. There should have b