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California, USA
Joined February 2019
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Went to a specialty dinner last night The Cucina del Capitano on the Panorama @CarnivalCruise and was pretty disappointing. I thought maybe I was just in a bad mood but talked to a family who left at the same time I did and they felt the same way. I don't think I would go back even for free. Had the first reservation at 530. Showed up on time they didn't take the order until 6. I have a nut allergy so they said there was only one option for dessert which was a pie. I am not a huge fan of pie so I skipped dessert. The bread was ok but over cooked in my opinion. I am not sure if it's supposed to be hard. House made Burrata I wasn't sure what this was. My disappointment on this one was self inflected. I didn't know it was something that was cold. It sounded good but if I knew it was cold I would have tried something different. They did ask if I wanted something different. Nonna meatball was excellent. Best thing I had. Chicken Parm was good but wasn't any better than the one they serve in the mdr. Not shown was the fingerling potatoes which was good as well and spaghetti to go with the Parm which wasn't bad. My dinning companion order the gnocchi which I tried which also was good. The chef did come by and asked how things were. I explained how I understood he has zero control of the menu but it's disappointing to only have one dessert option because of the nut allergy. They could have offered to grab something from the mdr. At the 1.5 hour mark I was sick of sticking around so I left when my companion waited for his desert. As I left the host did ask why I was leaving and I explained I was just sick of sitting wasn't expecting this would take so long and there wasn't really an option for dessert. She explained the chef was making something for me but I was done with it. They gave it to my companion to bring to me. It's a nice jester but it was something coffee flavor which I don't drink or like the flavor. At least they tried. The table next to us they came and asked if they wanted extra Parm. It's not something I needed but nice if they asked. They didn't really check up as my dinner companion wanted pepper flakes. Something the mdr staff have gone up to this restaurant to get. This is just a very minor issue but I thought the service would have been better on paid restaurant. It just makes things worse because our main dinning room wait staff are amazing. We got the same table as last time because how excellent they are.
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Hopefully the cops arrest this loser soon.
A violent Liberal just SLAPPED an 18-year-old TPUSA volunteer outside a polling place in NH. Assault in broad daylight! They want violence, we want conversation. Vote RED and crush them! 🇺🇸
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Day drinking on vacation. It is a virgin because I don't drink alcohol but I got them to add lemon juice as well. It's excellent that way. The staff on the Panorama @CarnivalCruise rock.
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I completely understand why no one is excited for most Republicans. They sat on their hands mostly. The time to remove them is the primary. Not voting or voting blue is going to make every situation worse. I am from California we have no options don't be like us.
You don’t have to be as excited to vote Republican as you were in 2024 to understand that it’s still the only way to keep your country from becoming a Third World, communist hellscape. Primary the RINOs, don’t empower the communists! VOTE RED!
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Anyone want to help me decide on what to have for dinner? Going to the paid Italian food place on the Panorama @CarnivalCruise and everything sounds delicious.
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Mondays dinner. It's always one of my favorite nights. Short ribs confit with Mac and cheese crocchette Filet mignon with green beans and potatoes Pineapple for dessert I was bad and ordered a 2nd Filet mignon on the side.
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Mondays breakfast and my view on the @CarnivalCruise Panorama. Bacon Hash browns French toast It's hard to see in the picture but the French toast was huge. It could have been 20% thinner at least and I would have been happy.
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Dinner Sunday night. Ribs with cheesy potatoes (they were just tots) Braised Lamb shank I asked for no sides but they gave them to me anyways Swardfish Pineapple for dessert Don't think I have had the Lamb shank before. It was very tender and tasted excellent.
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I don't know if this is a good or bad thing but I have never received so many Democrat texts begging me to vote before. I been getting 10+ a day.
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My stash I brought on board. None of it is for me. I had the fortunate opportunity to cruise twice in a short period of time. I am staying just 1 room over from last time. Because of this I asked my room steward if there was anything he would like because they don't often get a chance to get off the ship. This is all for him. I am very grateful for the job he does. I am not a needy guest. Some days I just have him skip the room. All I ask for is toilet paper and ice plus my blue blanket.
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Off on another cruise. It's getting bad when the porters welcome you back, security welcomes you back and 3-4 other staff when all you did was walk on and go to the muster station.
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These people are evil and must be stopped. They destroyed other nations and now they turning their skills inwards. You can only sit back too long allowing the country being destroyed before it might be too far gone to save.
I've spent a great deal of time going through @DataRepublican's incredible work here, so I thought I'd drop an easy-to-understand primer. Your life is a mistake if you're not following this woman! The Illegitimacy Playbook: A Simple Primer A group of people who spent their careers deciding when other countries’ governments were no longer legitimate just decided to run the same playbook at home. After USAID got shut down, the democracy office didn’t go away. It rebranded, kept the same initials, and started treating the United States like one of the countries it used to “help.” Most of the people involved still think they’re the heroes. The recordings show they also spent a lot of time privately writing the rules for when the current government stops being legitimate and sketching what should replace it. Convenient. Where This Comes From - USAID had a democracy office called DRG. Its official job was helping other countries with elections, courts, media, and activist groups. - The approach came from Serbia in 2000 and was later used in places like Georgia and Ukraine. - After USAID was closed, the same people formed the Democracy Renewal Group (still DRG). Their new goal is to apply that model inside the United States through a project called Renew American Democracy. The Plan in Plain English - Block: lawsuits, protests, and refusal to cooperate aimed at the Trump administration. - Bridge and Belong: control the conversation and try to win people over. - Build: use any crisis as the chance to redesign how American government works. They call it a “refounding moment.” - One of the main people, Danielle Reiff, has said they can take a breakdown and turn it into major structural reform. The recordings also show work with DSA-aligned groups on ideas that go beyond the current Constitution. Who Handles the Protests and Lawsuits - DRG does not run the daily protests and legal fights. That job goes to a secretive group called the United Democracy Alliance (UDA). - UDA is described as a large network that includes No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other big activist groups. It has no public website, member list, or normal filings. - One organizer says UDA is Erica Chenoweth’s project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor known for the idea that mobilizing about 3.5 percent of the population can topple a government. - A group of roughly 1,600 former military officers, intelligence officials, and diplomats called National Security Leaders of America (led by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith) is credited with actually running the operational side. They track “red lines” and run a situation room. Their lawyers told them to stop recording meetings because of subpoena risk. Other people in the network kept recording anyway. DRG works with a group called Renew to Thrive, which accidentally published hundreds of calls and thousands of documents. The Private Red Lines - Working groups quietly wrote their own rules for when the federal government has crossed into illegitimacy. Invoking the Insurrection Act against protesters is one of the examples they discuss most. - These rules were not voted on or debated in public. - Their plans for what comes next include states refusing to help federal officials and governors calling a “Third Continental Congress.” - The idea is that everyone is already organized so the response is ready the moment they decide a red line has been crossed. Who Actually Decides When to Move - The mid-level groups are not the ones making the final call on mass mobilization. - The files point to a group called the Election Safeguards Response Network (ESRN) as the one that decides when to activate the larger alliance. - That trail leads to Norm Eisen. ESRN is funded under an organization called State Democracy Defenders Action. - Eisen is described as sitting on several important levers and functioning as a key decision-maker, though the posts say he is part of a small, still-hidden group of elites rather than acting alone. The Bottom Line - Thousands of organizations and billions of dollars are involved. Most people in the network believe they are saving democracy. - The same people who spent decades deciding when foreign governments had lost legitimacy wrote the test for the United States in private and planned what comes after. Put it all together and the picture is straightforward. A network built by people who specialized in regime change abroad has spent the last couple of years quietly preparing the same toolkit for use at home. They defined their own private red lines for when the federal government becomes illegitimate, pre-organized the protests and legal fights, lined up former national security officials to run the operations, and sketched plans for what a replacement government should look like. The people at the top of the hierarchy decide when the moment has arrived. Everyone else is told they are defending democracy. The recordings just happen to show them talking about structural reform, a new founding, and the conditions under which the current system no longer counts. That is the primer.
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Finally had a chance to fill out my ballot. Making sure the whole household votes. We are a @SteveHiltonx household. We are voting for new leadership.
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If I die from eating cookie dough I would like my tombstone to read "Died happily from eating cookie dough." Some things are worth the risk.
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Completely missed what is going on with Haiti and el Salvador. Any insight?
Pèp ayisyen, Nou prèske fin deplwaye sòlda nou yo ak ekipman nou yo sou tè Ayiti. Sa a se pa yon operasyon kont pèp ayisyen an, ni yon envazyon peyi Ayiti. Nou pa yon gwo pisans. Nou pa gen okenn enterè ni pou nou vin domine pèp ayisyen an, ni pou nou mete men sou richès Ayiti. Nou se yon peyi modès k ap devlope. Sèl sa nou vle, se pou kat teknisyen avyasyon nou yo tounen lakay yo. Epi n ap bay gang yo yon leson, gang sa yo k ap fè pèp ayisyen an soufri, ki touye moun pèp la renmen yo, k ap anpeche l viv yon lavi nòmal, lib, san laperèz. Se prèske nou menm sèl k ap peye pou operasyon sa a. Menmsi nou resevwa yon ti èd lojistik nan men kèk lòt peyi, se ak pwòp ti kès nou n ap kouvri 90% nan depans yo. Sa koute nou chè, men nou te aprann nan pwòp soufrans nou: jistis ak lapè pa gen pri. Nou te pase nan menm soufrans Ayiti ap travèse jodi a. Nou te viv yon beny san ki te pi terib toujou pase sa pèp ayisyen an ap sibi kounye a. Nou konnen sa sa vle di: viv nan laperèz, pa fè politisyen konfyans, pa kwè okenn moun ki pwomèt l ap ede w. Paske pèsonn pa t vin ede nou, e moun ki te vini yo pa t gen bon entansyon nan kè yo. Men nou te rive chape anba sa. Apre 200 lane soufrans, finalman n ap viv nan lapè, e jodi a nou se peyi ki gen plis sekirite sou kontinan an. Nou pa vin ann Ayiti pou nou touche lajan, paske pèsonn pa peye nou pou sa. Nou vin ann Ayiti pou nou goumen kont mechan yo. Men sa m ap mande nou: fè nou konfyans, lapriyè sèl vrè Bondye a, epi mande L pou L geri Ayiti. “Lè sa a si pèp ki pote non m lan lapriyè nan pye m, si yo soumèt devan mwen, si yo pran chache m ankò, si yo vire do bay vye peche yo t'ap fè yo, m'ap tande yo nan syèl kote m ye a, m'ap padonnen peche yo, m'ap fè peyi a kanpe ankò.” 2 Kwonik 7:14 Ede nou ede Ayiti. Epi lè misyon nou an fini, n ap tounen lakay nou. Petèt jenerasyon Ayisyen k ap vini yo ap sonje nou kòm zanmi ki te vin ede yon lè.
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I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing. Bought Shadow this 24 inch lamb chop. I hope it lasts a few days. It took him a while to find the squeaker but he is walking around squeaking it.
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It's time for the October tradition. Ernest Scared Stupid.
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Someone here on x suggested this pineapple for Shadow. I need to get better and making note who suggested it. I tossed some food in it. He hasn't figured out how to get it out but he knows it's coming from the bottom.
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The large Himalayan Dog Chew lasted about 48 hours. It's down to 1 inch or so. I haven't seen him chew on it all day so it was closer to 24 hours. I was expecting it to last longer. Shadow is a monster chewer.
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Mystery of the day. Where this bone came from. I asked everyone here. I texted those who came by when I was on vacation. No one claims they gave it to him. I am wondering if it was one of the neighbors who tossed it over the fence.
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