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I just found out that C-17's have been shuteling SEALS, DELTA Force, 82nd Airborne, etc into Israel (for staging), and into Bases and airports in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and are bombing Islands near Queshm Island, all of this at the eastern tip of the Persian Gulf, the narrowest part on the east, , Qeshm island is called Shark Island because it looks like a shark.

The Air Force is prepping the area for an assault, Look for action Sat,sun or Mon, Tues, if the attack doesn't come it is because the threat was recognized.

No intel give away, Russia is telling Iran everything, they have satellites that can count rivets on a plane.

They are also keeping track of troop movements and aircraft flights, their hot babes in the clubs at Ft Bragg, keep them well informed.

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I too was saved by therapy and medication. I examined myself and especially as a parent, I hated who I was. I knew there was a better way forward. I was ready to do the hard work to figure out not why my children were falling short but why what I was told to do to constantly discipline and rule them with fear and intimidation wasn't working. I realized that it was because I knew how wrong that was for my family. I knew I was actively harming my kids with this idea that they "just needed their asses whooped."

I threw myself into learning how to parent gently and intuitively but with firm boundaries. Sometimes my kids overstepped them but we figured out a lot together. The biggest thing I did was prioritize their mental health. I got them into counseling and accepted that they would have a better quality of life with medication. It was amazing how much better our lives got. I wasn't satisfied with that though so I've kept looking for opportunities to learn more and more.

I found out a few years ago that both my daughter and I are autistic. My son has severe ADHD. We all needed a better way because our brains work differently. That was why everything society told me we should be doing didn't feel right. Because it wasn't right for us. We now live a life that looks radically different than other families. We keep to ourselves and we are openly, unapologetically weird.

My husband and I are very, very close to our 20 year old daughter and 16 year old son. We've had growing pains, of course but they trust us and we trust them. Life is just hard for people like us but we do better than most. My husband and I refuse to let stress and drama rule our household. It's just not our baseline. Our baseline is us being a giving, loving, close family. We went on a two week road trip last summer, spent every minute of it together and had the time of our lives. I don't know anyone who can say that they would enjoy spending that much time with their family.

Therapy and introspection taught me all of this and I put it into action and taught it to my family. Without mental health professionals, we wouldn't have understood ourselves as being neurodivergent and having different needs than other people. My kids probably wouldn't have made it and they absoluteky wouldn't have made it to where we are without significant trauma and scars. I also broke the chains of the generational trauma that my mother and I both suffered from. Unfortunately she didn't live to see how much we've accomplished. She was not able to take advantage of the kinds of resources I have had. I will always be sad that she didn't.

We're as happy and well adjusted as any family could hope to be because we did the work. Fuck Elon and Marc and anyone else who tells you there's no value in any of it. I know otherwise, just like you do, Jim. Fuck these psychopaths.

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