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“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”
“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”
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Whenever the possibility presents, throw sand into the machinery…
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While most of this nation remained locked down. In perpetual fear of a fake media induced pandemic.
While leaders across the nation banned 4th of July celebrations and fireworks..
We lit up the night sky.
And ever then since we still do it… Every year..
That is putting sand into the gears!! We Will Not Comply!!
🇺🇲💕God bless and protect my American brothers and sisters on the eve of the 4th. 🇺🇲💕
💕🙏 May all people live free with an end to global tyranny.🙏💕
Amen
Young Internet Bodybuilder Dies after Brain Aneurysm
https://www.thedailybeast.com/german-bodybuilder-and-youtube-star-jo-lindner-dies-of-aneurysm
Here he is talking about the mrna jab he took
watch:
https://streamable.com/sraa7b
Dr Michael Yeadon : “We are in the midst of the biggest depopulation program the world has ever seen, where most of humanity are acting as useful idiots to it and to their own demise.”
Dr Michael Yeadon has been my beacon of informed sanity and rationality (subject matter expert of respiratory viruses / illness / vaccines as VP at Pfizer) from the beginning of the Plannedemic. If he says it, I believe it!
Add fertility problems & skin issues also.
Lots of folks in my area have had shingles and skin cancers at abnormal rates per capita the last few months.
Every one of them that I asked, told me they took clot shots.
I was just discussing this with an ER nurse that went into private practice. Never has seen so much cancer and shingles cases in over twenty years.
The ONLY reason they’re jabbing children IMO is to sterilize them .
Mass Covid Vaccination Means Mass Sterilization
https://principia-scientific.com/mass-covid-vaccination-means-mass-sterilization/
Head Of Pfizer Research: Covid Vaccine Is Female Sterilization
https://principia-scientific.com/head-of-pfizer-research-covid-vaccine-is-female-sterilization/
@realDonaldTrump
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Rachel Campos-Duffy and Will Cain, two terrific people (along with Pete Hegseth!), were right this morning on Fox & Friends. Almost 99% of the people I support in a Republican Primary, WIN! “A Trump Endorsement will MAKE YOUR CAREER, A TRUMP FIGHT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT!” Over 75,000 people came to our incredible Rally yesterday in South Carolina, despite an almost 100 degree temperature. It was amazing, THE PEOPLE WERE GREAT. Thank you Pickens!!!
https://rumble.com/v2xmfhq-fox-host-lindsey-graham-would-have-gotten-bigger-reception-in-ukraine-than-.html
Citizen 817, thank you for always posting President Trump’s messages.
It’s great to come here and get caught up.
I like this rumble video of Miss Lindsey getting booed in his home state. I also like the Fox hosts’ coverage of it.
My take is that President Trump knows Miss Lindsey is a snake, but the President needs to get what he can from him whether he thinks he’s a snake or not.
I’m sure he learned this skill as a builder in New York City where he had to work with all types to get things done. You will have a tough time finding cement trucks to pour your foundations and build your buildings if you don’t.
He’s pragmatic in his business dealings in finding ways to get things done. ‘Hey, I’ll make money, you’ll make money. We’ll both benefit. Let’s get this done.”
Unfortunately, virtually 100% of the candidates PDJT endorsed, that didn’t win, were true MAGA Candidates that campaigned on election integrity, and no mandates.
Mastriano, Karamo, DePerno, Majewski, Walker,..many other “down ticket” candidates like Castronuevo and of coarse Kari Lake and her whole slate.
Also unfortunate, NEARLY all if the 99% of Trump endorsed Candidates that won in 2022, are RINOS.
Graham McConnell, Kemp, DeSantis, etc.
Frankly, really makes me wonder about candidates like MTG, Gaetz, etc.
Especially when I see them playing their assigned role in ghe Kabuki theater in the House.
I understand MTG. I am utterly disgusted that I once gave money to her campaign. But help me understand about Gaetz. He was the lone soldier holding out against traitor McCarthy… What has he said or done that I missed.
Thanks.. I always enjoy your posts..
Gaetz made some shocking, disparaging and rather heartless remarks about J6 folks. I could not believe my ears.
I already posted this here at the time.
In essence — he stated that J6 folks were afforded their constitutional rights and had proper representation. He felt people were fairly prosecuted and deserved what happened to them. He said that some of the sentences were lengthy, but he had no problem with that. I think he even stated,”I can live with it.”
It was a very smartass, callous perspective.
If he viewed the J6 tapes, was aware of people being held in solitary confinement, some without being charged, being beaten, etc. and can be so flippant — well….
Conditions in the gulag were brutal — exculpatory evidence was withheld. Yet he deemed everything fine and dandy.
IMO he has indeed succumbed to the Dark Side. He lost my trust.
He went to WY ( along with MTG) to help sink Liz Cheney and now he agrees with her about Jan6? They are all snakes playing a role for a better payday.
👍
I trust none of them.
Good points. The GOP is not MAGA and it never will be. You can probably count on one hand the number of congressmen who are on board.
The time to start a new party is long past. The Republicrat Uniparty has the country on the edge of destruction.
After the election steal of 2020, Trump had 100+ millions of supporters…
He could have started a MAGA party and controlled national politics for the foreseeable future… Yet, he threw those supporters “under the bus” and chose the always-losing, never-trumper, republicans as his champion…
Yes… Trump says “Let’s take over the republican party and throw the rinos out, but continues to endorse the aforesaid rinos…
I like Trump, think he did some great things for the nation, hope he is again our President…
But, his record in choosing the republican party as his “champion” is just about as dismal as his picking Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions as his A.G., Christopher Wray to head the FBI, and choosing Ivanka and Jared as his primary advisors…
I had high hopes Trump had learned from his previous experiences, but he still thinks the republican party is gonna get him re-elected, whereas in reality, they hate his guts!
@realDonaldTrump
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Key Player in Biden Documents Removal Was Caught Up in Bill Clinton-Era Chinagate Scandal
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/06/08/key_player_in_biden_documents_removal_was_caught_up_in_bill_clinton-era_chinagate_scandal_897961.html
@realDonaldTrump
13h
Thank you Nancy, a great day in Pickens!
She is an opportunist. She watches to see which way the wind is blowing and then she falls in line. That is the definition of a RINO.
If we can turn the RINO party into the MAGA party and take control of campaign funding, committee assignments, and career longevity then we can control these opportunists who will do what they are told to do so long as they keep their cushy job.
It would be nice if they were true MAGA believers but I will settle for compliant republicans who do what their MAGA bosses tell them to do.
No, it is impossible to turn the rino party in to the MAGA party…
They are of two different mindsets…
Too bad President Trump doesn’t understand that fact…
@realDonaldTrump
10h

WOW!
Triple 7’s sounds like a safe bet to me! #TRUMP2024orBUST
@realDonaldTrump
7h
No, it is not nearly enough. He is a treasonous SleazeBag who has hurt our Country greatly. He lied, leaked, and misrepresented everything at levels not seen before. He should pay a big price, and maybe someday he will!
I hope develops blepharospasm as the effort to keep his eyelids open that wide will fatigue him out in mere hours.
👀 shifty shift = shifty💩
No the “censure resolution” of schiff has no real effect… It was done by “house” rinos in effort to convince voters they are doing something to fix the situation…
@realDonaldTrump
6h
Congratulations to Bernhard Langer on winning the 43rd U.S. Open Championship, while at the same time breaking the great Hale Irwin’s record as the “Winningest” Senior ever. That on top of one of the greatest golfing careers overall. Bernhard is a TRUE CHAMPION, and a great guy!!!
Please clarify, US Senior Open. I had to go check. I know it was noted in the comparison to Hale Irwin, but that could almost read winning as a senior not the senior open.
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@JamesDesch
13h
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
The MSM and Political Pundits are used to having their way forcing DC Cabal “poison” down our throats for decades.You saw it going on for decades & decided to run.Offering America a “Healthy”alternative vis-a-vis the DC poison.Your “Healthy Product” yields tremendous benefits. The folks aren’t going back to the poison.Anyone could have made this beneficial offer.But, your’re the one who did.Your endorsements are a manifestation of “Beneficial Product” vs. “Poison”.A no-brainer Mr. President.🙂🇺🇸♥️🙏
A beautiful sight!🇺🇸🦅
Citizen 817, God bless you
Thank you
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@MrBlackOG
20h
When you log in to #Twitter and find you’ve reached your limit

Within this Revolver article is a short, under 9 minute, video with Mike Benz explaining his take on the deep state reaction to what Musk is doing with Twitter. Interesting, have no idea if its accurate, but still interesting.
https://www.revolver.news/2023/07/former-state-dpt-official-elon-musk-has-no-idea-the-darpa-rattlesnake-he-stepped-on-by-doing-this/
Looks like Zerohedge is pushing that storyline too:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/musks-tweet-limiting-move-prevent-completion-ai-censorship-death-star
Probably has something to do with censoring the Immigrant War in France.
And 2024.
Darn, it’s a twitter video and thus, a mystery to me.
I guess some people are able to watch some twitter videos that are embedded in articles on other sites (I was able to watch) while still others still cannot watch an embedded twitter video.
It might be the devices ones is using to watch the embedded video or not. Even on the Rantingly site, that embeds tweets and some twitter videos I cannot watch those, like you, but for some reason in both the Revolver and Zerohedge article I was able to watch the video.
I just keep trying, mostly doesn’t work and occasionally does, so agree it is, as you say, a mystery.
@realDonaldTrump
3h
Trump’s Documents and the Bob Kerrey Precedent
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trumps-documents-and-the-bob-kerrey-precedent_5348023.html
@realDonaldTrump
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Ex-Trump officials question existence of Iran attack plan in leaked audio
https://nypost.com/2023/07/02/ex-trump-officials-question-existence-of-iran-attack-plan-in-leaked-audio/
You mean we don’t even have a plan in place since 1979? Now that they are on their way to have nukes thanks to Obama and Pockiston, I sure hope we have a plan somewhere in the Pentagon to decapitate the Ayatollah, bomb the Revolutionary Guards, and take out the nuke sites. I think we still had a plan filed somewhere in the War Department to invade Canada, if the situation ever arose, all the way until 1935. (We should dust that off if Trudeau keeps actingl like a commie tyrant letting in jihadists). We are not obviously going to invade by land from the east through Afghanistan or from the North. Iraq won’t have us back in force if we come by the west. It will have to be total amphib operation.
@realDonaldTrump
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https://rumble.com/v2x49js-inspirational-maga-ad-this-is-the-final-battle.html
If the upcoming election were not so important….I would write in Caturd!
P J O’Rourke said it best:
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
Don’t worry, the Big Guy got his 10% off the top. But beware if you don’t report that $1000 Lotto win to the IRS!
I’m wondering sbout that huge arms swap meet, in afganistan, too.
BTW… interesting thing I just realized… Brandon and his ilk has NO PROBLEM with Weapons of War being sold Illegally and Blackmarket.
Yet…they believe Americans should be denied at every opportunity Semi Automatic Weapons (that are by definition not meant for war)…
And pay heed to the NBC Thumbnail and what they are implying about us as Trump supporters.
“Mental illness and hatred pulled the trigger” – President Trump – being right once again!!!
Australia urged to give more to Ukraine as budget surplus to be bigger than expected
Australia may be storming towards delivering a record surplus, but Ukraine’s man in Canberra says some of that should be returned to Kyiv.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/australia-urged-to-give-more-to-ukraine-as-budget-surplus-to-be-bigger-than-expected/news-story/cc762c526afcb2ed81150830d2390440
Indeed. There is vastly more money to be made getting on the Bush train of course, always had been . Among the current Bush Rino” influencer “shopping spree, Cortes is a special case. Because he is intelligent. On paper, that should make him a better shill. But it doesn’t because he’s not a good actor. He doesn’t believe what he’s slinging. As a shill you have to at least be able to pretend to believe what you are pushing. It’s not intelligence that sway people. It’s belief.
Responded to her tweet the same…
“Citizen Savage” 😉
MTG works out, you can see the definition in her arms . . . but she is weak.
Laura Loomer Explains How Kevin McCarthy Is Using Donors To Fight Against President Trump
(2:58)
https://rumble.com/v2wj68y-laura-loomer-explains-how-kevin-mccarthy-is-using-donors-to-fight-against-p.html
McCarthy = 💩
The amazing wonder of diversity. I bet no one here can do this. In fact, I bet none of you would even try!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/h533b8QN2OUs/
Gee, the French Rioters / Protestors are brandishing AK-47s!
Interesting Note: On Twitter after a video showing rioting, looting, arson and violence such as the ones below, French people throughout the countryside always chime in, “No problem here, just another sunny Sunday afternoon” so who knows what is going on?
Although I have heard that rioting has also spread to Belgium and Switzerland (of all places!)
The reports keep saying “the French” rioters -= they don’t say these are migrants who have not assimilated into France, they apparently do not love it, they’re setting about to destroy it.
The peaceful yellow jacket protests were hi-jacked by Antifa or Antifa-type protests.
A dear friend of mine who grew up in Beirut said his family had to leave it – quite abruptly – but it really was a beautiful city, he said – they called it the Paris of the Middle East. Now it looks like a similar violent element is working to make Paris the Beirut of Europe.
Yes, even in Switzerland. Heidi and Moritz went beserk in Lausanne. No, not really:
“Several shop windows and a shop door were broken, while officers dispersed youths who threw paving stones and a Molotov cocktail at them, police said. They detained six people ages 15 to 17 — three girls and three boys, with Portuguese, Somali, Bosnian, Swiss, Georgian and Serbian citizenship — and a 24-year-old Swiss man.”
https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-lausanne-france-violence-detentions-0f4ac37fa2c3d441a1083af1336f6199
Yep
Boy! Twitter adds “context” without you knowing about it. If the “context” is correct (and I have No Way of knowing if it is or not) then my apology (and Paul Golding’s for the original post) for connecting the event shown to the current widespread rioting in France.
Executing the Globalist’s Master Plan
France is gone as President Trump warned us.
Failing president Macron
Cultural enrichment
Not All There” Joe created the “Student Debt Loan Crisis” so that he could solve it by buying votes!
Because that’s what politicians always do: create a crisis, and then grandstand on your suffering that he caused in order to push for more power and more of your money.
To this day, he still won’t push for Congress to end the bankruptcy exemption for student loans, for a very simple reason:
He doesn’t want the crisis to end. He wants it to worsen, so he can exploit it for more power.
Independent Journalism article HERE: https://theintercept.com/2020/01/07/joe-biden-student-loans/
No the student loan nightmare we currently have was created by George W. Bush’s 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Law which prohibited student loans from being dischargeable via personal bankruptcy. One of his biggest donors was Alfred Lord, the then CEO of Sallie Mae. Then in 2010 the Kenyan federalized them. Return the industry to pre-2005 where loans were dischargeable, like credit card debt, auto loans, mortgages et al, via bankruptcy, and base student loans on borrower creditworthiness. This will put an end to the cash cow that has enriched universities at the expense of students who shouldn’t even be in college.
No child is credit worthy until he has a job.
The whole fraud is to pay the loan with jobs you might get in the future. Real easy to cheat by bankruptcy. They start out broke and unemployed and getting deeper into debt every semester of study. No job and high debt, that is the definition of bankrupt.
But the reality is that we have turned it into a lifetime of enforced servitude. An odious weight of oppression and holding people back.
All so some Universities and some banks can fleece people.
But, nobody should be taking on horrible debt like that. This is self inflicted harm.
Thank you! Excellent post.
Homelessness is an analogy to Illegal Immigration. Government can pour money like the rain we had in California in the beginning of the year but it’ll never be enough! Because unless you can stop the flow people from coming, it’ll all be futile and EVERYONE will be wallowing in misery… except the Elites.
The only way to better help the Homeless is to STOP Illegal Immigration, as the resources to deal with the Illegals can be used to Drug Treatment and helping those with Mental Illness.
And Newsome KNOWS this. He sees this connection as his friends have Illegals clean their homes, or when they get off the Freeway Ramps with Panhandlers or people living under Freeway Overpasses.
Yet somehow, Newsome still isn’t homeless. Even after prioritizing it for 20 years.
FYI the homelessness in San Francisco started it’s critical mass when he was Mayor here.
If prioritizing it made it worse, it would have been exponentially better if he left it alone!
Great mash-up video of
Ms Lindsey
RINO traitor Lindsey Graham—continuing to backstab President Trump and MAGA to this very day!
Miss Lindsey-Ann = 🤮
Bingo
Excellent production. Love the song.
If Trump is going to make better personnel choices in 2024, how do you explain him hanging around Lindsey Graham.
Something is not right here.
Because the first GOP primary is in South Carolina
And how, exactly, is RINO Lindsey going to help PT in the primary?
Isn’t that what psychiatrists call a split personality now called a dissociative identity disorder ? At Trump rallies he loves President Trump at CNN he hates President Trump and he’s in the Senate!!! What the hell does ChiCom Joe have on Lindsey Graham? Joe Biden “is as good a man as God ever created” oh really? God must have been off His game that day! Joe Biden is a lying, corrupt to the core, pedophile!!!
Its over 100 million and growing but agree with the sentiment.
IF the RNC follows their historical pattern, they WILL try every dirty trick in the book to deny PDJT the nomination, but in the end they will ” blink” and stop short of a flat out refusal.
Its Mutual Assured Destruction; if they were to deny him that MIGHT prevent him winning, but guarantee the end of the party, and the instant development of the A1st party, and still not prevent his election.
On the other hand if they ‘alloe’ him the nomination, they are probably done, anyway.
enjoy your posts, C817, especially the truth socials! 👍🏻
don’t care for the way this is framed, tho.
quoting 74 M PDJT supporters is a subtle way to say bribem really did win with 81M votes.
not true on both counts.
believe PDJT support is much higher (85-100M+ ?),
and legitimate votes for joe a lot less than the ~25% of the u.s. population the election algorithm authors chose to assign him.
Musk = 💩 Head
I learned a new way to spell sh*thead!!! Outstanding!!!
A back door to controlling the info flow over in France? Macron already blamed it on the ‘social media’.
Yup
So, Musk is like Barr; a “bondo man” brought in to supervise a ‘limited hangout’ operation and cover over the deeper truths,…
But some guy, over in some small corner of the internet, is revealing thise deeper truths, and must REALLY be pissing them off!
Keep Firing, Sundance!
Congress Considering RESTRICT Act to Expand Federal Power
by Peter Rykowski
April 11, 2023
https://thenewamerican.com/congress-considering-restrict-act-to-expand-federal-power/
Only Trump!!!!
TRUMP 💋
meatball 🤮
That Baris Tweet response is interesting – when he says DeSantis voters most likely to vote FOR BIDEN if DeSantis Not the nominee ?? wHAT ?? !!-then it would seem that the usual Never Trumpers are his core supporters then ? A very revealing observation by Baris
That would be correct. The same Rinos who supported Hillary over PT in 2016 it seems.
“Every time you need more money … you gotta give ‘em a good show!” [Zelensky]
🥴 Gross!!
Graham and his fellow warmongers always talk about how it’s a war for democracy in Ukraine. What democracy? Zelensky shut down elections in his country. He also shut down a free press, the Russian language, and has even targeted freedom of religion by shutting down Christian churches. Some democracy.
Other Neocon, RINO Republicans agree with him.
Pence actually called for cutbacks in entitlement spending (Social Security) while in the same warmongering breath he called for throwing more billions of tax dollars into the corrupt dumpster fire that is Ukraine.
Fortunately, more and more Americans are able to spot a neocon warmonger when they see one. At last night’s Trump rally in South Carolina, Lindsey Graham was thoroughly booed non-stop when he was introduced by President Trump. The booing went on throughout Graham’s speech and got louder as he spoke.
It was glorious.
It’s also very telling because Graham is a native son of South Carolina, but his constituents rained loud boos atop Lindsey’s befuddled head. How embarrassing and humiliating is that? It’s time for the warmongering neocon RINOs to be voted out of office.
The American people are finished with the endless war-loving neocons. The RINOs are headed toward extinction. MAGA is the future of the Republican party.
Useless, endless wars that benefit the globalists and the military industrial complex need to end once and for all.
— The GrrrTeam
#SoundOfFreedom
Mel Gibson speaks out on child trafficking
(22 sec)
https://rumble.com/v2wzvvv-mel-hobson-child-trafficking-is-the-most-distrubing-problem-in-the-world-to.html
Just some laymen speak about the lies about EV’s and the actual costs.
What a nation of Compliant/Good Germans needs when their Institutions + Leadership have become utterly decadent:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1675486939569348609.html
This is a great read!
And I love this quote from it:
“America’s failure is a failure to dream; to acknowledge the challenges and boldly attack them. We have been made fat and soft, as this has been the CCP’s main strategy. “
Well that’s interesting – was able to easily read the Twitter thread. Wondering if more twitter users will create threads that once shared can still be read without any problem, and, if possible, figure out how to embed videos like the memes, into readable threads? Might this be a temporary workaround for those creators?
“The main lesson of the 21st century will be that you can’t couple economically with a regime that seeks the destruction of your way of life. The only question is whether the Republic still stands when that truth becomes evident.”
The “regime” are the “elected” Democrats, RINOs, Uniparty, DeceptiCon Republican Senators, the deep state, Presidents of both parties that have brought us endless wars, the rust belt, transferred billions to Ukraine in a kickback scheme, transferred millions of jobs out of country, brought in millions of legal immigrants and millions of illegal aliens all who get preferential treatment to Veterans and our citizens and who won’t assimilate leaving pockets of third world hellholes all over the country, that “regime”!!! God help us!!! Hosanna!!!
So if I don’t have a Twitter account I will never be able to see the posts?
Until Musk changes his mind, this is correct.
Other than:
1. embeds, where a blogger like Sundance embeds the tweet in a post
2. screenshots, like Citizen has been doing
3. copy and paste text, like others have been doing, and
4. archived threads by folks linking to ThreadReaderApp links.
Nitter no longer works, either.
Hence why Sundance is arguing above that this is defacto censorship.
As Mainstream media cheers.
France ‘unleashes elite special forces commandos’ on fifth night of riots and violence
Now elite GIGN commandos have reportedly been sent in to help reinforce police – who, on Friday night, said they were “at war with vermin”. An elite police tactical unit, the GIGN – Groupe d’intervention de la Gendarmerie national – have been likened to the UK’s elite military special forces unit, the SAS.
The GIGN are France’s top hostage rescue unit. Its remits also include counterterrorism, surveillance of national threats, protection of government officials, critical site protection, and targeting organized crime.
GIGN units arrived in Marseille on Saturday evening after the city was rocked by an explosion in its old port area – and rioters looted a gun store in the city on Friday night.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1786640/France-special-forces-riots
Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis
Elise Bennett, Florida and Caribbean director and attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement that the bill is a “reckless handout to the fertilizer industry.”
“Gov. DeSantis is paving the way to a toxic legacy generations of Floridians will have to grapple with,” Bennett said. “This opens the door for dangerous radioactive waste to be dumped in roadways across the state, under the guise of a so-called feasibility study that won’t address serious health and safety concerns.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-radioactive-roads-phosphogypsum-potentially-cancer-causing-mining-waste-bill-signed-ron-desantis/
At this point maybe Floridians will want Ron to stay away from home. He does less damage that way.
The hysterics of these “environmentalists” is getting crazier. Here’s a link to the 4-page bill:
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1191/BillText/er/PDF
To quote “An act relating to the use of phosphogypsum . . . to undertake demonstration projects using phosphogypsum in road construction aggregate material to determine the feasibility as a paving material . . . ”
A 4-page bill to let the State’s transportation department see if recycled materials can be used in road construction.
And the press says “reckless handout to the fertilizer industry” – really? “Radioactive waste to be dumped in roadways across the State”? When did Americans become afraid to try out new ideas? Recycling waste, turning materials into something useful again, is the innovative spark that makes America great.
Here’s a wikipedia on phosphogypsum, calcium sulfate hydrate formed as a by-product of the production of fertilizer, mostly from gypsum rock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphogypsum
The radioactivity is natural potassium and all of us contain it. A container of lite salt will make a Geiger counter click.
This has been a long time problem in Florida. After 911 and installing radiation detectors all over, we (Florida Rad Health) had to respond to alarm trips from cardiac testing patients and hot water heaters.
The hot water heaters get clogged with scale. The scale contains potassium and becomes radioactive enough to be detected.
It’s called TENORM – technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material.
If this scale was determined to be hazardous radioactive material then all Floridians could have great expense when it comes time to dispose of the old water heater.
Florida already has “hot” roads. Look up Stauffer chemical company-a superfund site.
The radioactive slag was used for paving around Tarpon Springs. Drive around with a micro R meter turned on and you’ll find them pretty easily.
I’m not a Ron! supporter, but I think having the gypsum encapsulated in tar is probably safer than storing giant concentrated stacks of the stuff near a waterway.
Morrissey was the singer for “The Smiths”. Absolutely huge alternative band in the 80s. Before anyone asks.
He’s in Israel here performing a new one, “Notre Dame, We Know Who Tried to Kill You.”
Indeed. So he can’t be served legal papers.