When life burns your lemon, add skeletons and call it a day! Dawsen Saley is an NFL cheerleader in Charlotte, North Carolina. Recently, one of her neighbors experienced a car fire. Rather than whine and cry about their rough luck, the couple did something unique. They placed some skeletons in the burned car and made it a Halloween decoration! @dawsensaley welcome to charlotte i guess? #halloween #car #carfire #fire #skeleton #spooky #decoration ♬ Spooky, Scary Skeletons – Andrew Gold The effect is positively gruesome. Using the burned car as a decoration is either genius or desperation. Depending on city codes, they could get fined for having a dilapidated vehicle in the driveway. However, with insurance waiting periods, it might be a while before they find out the status of a claim. While waiting, they are using the vehicle for the most suitable purpose. Perhaps the most hilarious part of the Halloween display is that the house has no other decorations besides the burned car. There are no lights, pumpkins, ghosts, or other signs of the holiday. Commenter Kylee adds the perfect sentiment for the occasion, “recycle, reuse, and repurpose.” Image from TikTok. While some may see the display as dreadful, as it depicts a fatal vehicle crash, others see the humor. These folks have taken their “lemon” and turned it into lemonade. It likely fits into their Home Owners Association (HOA) rules as a decoration while they wait for insurance adjusters. This also may have been a moment of, “If I don’t laugh about this, I’ll cry.” Studies show that humor is an effective coping mechanism. It can reduce stress and increase positive emotional balance. Many people handle stressful situations by seeing the humor and laughing. Although some may find laughter in stressful situations odd, it is pretty standard. If it makes you want to cry, try laughing. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post The Best Sense Of Humor In The Neighborhood — Burned Car Turned Into Perfect Halloween Decoration appeared first on InspireMore.

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Author of How to Prep When You’re Broke and Bloom Where You’re Planted online course It feels like only a short time ago when I wrote a similar article about post-election chaos in the battle between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. And all hell did break loose in cities across the country. While the worst of it was short-lived, it set the scene for four years of contempt, disrespect, and growing disenfranchisement with the opinions of our fellow Americans. And here we are with another hotly contested election between two candidates who are both deeply scorned by the opposition. In terms of unrest, it doesn’t matter who is announced as the winner of this election. Someone is going to be furious. We’ve already seen at least two legitimate assassination attempts against Donald Trump. We’ve seen people with huge social media followings call for his death with no blowback from the Secret Service. Kamala Harris never won a presidential primary and thus far, the momentum seems to be swinging for Trump. Regardless of who wins (or is announced the winner), chaos is likely to erupt. And with both candidates suggesting they might be unwilling to concede to the other, expect the flames to be fanned by this. But this article is not about Republicans or Democrats or even the election process itself. It’s not about whether our election integrity is still in place. It’s about the aftermath and how it will affect all of us. Will we all lose on November 5th? D*mned if we do and d*mned if we don’t. That basically sums up the current election cycle. I’d go so far as to say that everybody loses during this election, especially if the promised chaos erupts when the winner is announced. Regardless of which candidate “wins” the presidential election, I have a bad feeling about the aftermath. I think we could be on the cusp of the most widespread civil unrest since the Civil War. It’s important to note motivations. Some folks will be true believers that their candidate was the only person who could save America. Others will look at it as an opportunity to loot with no repercussions. Both can be very dangerous, but true believers will target persons and institutions with different philosophies from them. You need to get prepped. Immediately. What it all boils down to is that we need to be prepared. We need to be ready for any unrest that comes about as a direct result of the election – and I really believe that there will be some form of uprising against the result. I hope it will be nothing more than a few minor, isolated incidents, but I can’t get past the nagging feeling that all hell is just about to break loose. November 4th could be the last day of relative normalcy for quite some time. If possible, hunker down in a safe location. Generally speaking, urban areas will be the most dangerous. If you live downtown, election week might be better spent visiting friends or family outside of the city. However, I know that life continues, and you may not be able to just pick up and leave. If you can’t do that, you need to prepare your home for the potential of riots. (See this article.) Of course, no place is completely safe. Just ask the lady who flew a Trump flag during the last election who received a letter saying her rural home was a target for arson. Dear neighbor, you have been identified by our group as being a Trump supporter. Your address has been added to our database as a target when we attack should Trump not concede the election. We recommend that you check your home insurance policy and make that it is current and that it has adequate coverage for fire damage. You have been given ‘Fair Warning.’ (source) I’m not trying to scare you, but if these folks in small-town New Hampshire are targets, anyone could be. Don’t let your location lull you into a false sense of security. When people are angry and radicalized, any place where someone disagrees with them can become a target. Don’t be afraid – be prepared. Check out this anthology, How to Survive Dangerous Times, for more information. Have what you need so you don’t have to leave home. Once you get hunkered down, be prepared to stay put for a while.  You don’t want to have to shove your way through an angry mob to get a gallon of milk or a necessary prescription. You will be far better off if you are able to get the supplies you need to stay home for at least a week without leaving. Food Water Medications OTC remedies Hygiene supplies Pet supplies Try to shop for two weeks at a time on your next few grocery trips so you can be sure to have what you need on hand. Do NOT forget essentials like prescription medications. You may want to grab a prescription medication kit from The Wellness Company to make sure you have the things you might really need. Stay informed. You need to stay apprised of what is going on in your area. In this digital era, it’s easier than ever before to know what’s going on near you. Some of the following can provide communications options. Police scanners: Search “Broadcastify” and “city name” to tune in to your local scanners online. Here’s the website itself. Twitter: Search #citynameprotest or just your city name and protests without the hashtags. Follow local news stations too. Local watch groups and apps: If you are on social media, you may be a part of a local neighborhood watch group. These can even be broken down into neighborhoods in larger urban areas. Check out “city name” and “watch” on Facebook. There are also apps like NextDoor which may help you to remain informed. Sign up for Alerts USA: This is the app I use on my phone to keep me apprised of civil unrest, terror attacks, and more. I’ve had it for ears and can tell you for a fact that I get information way before the news is reporting it. Remember that your information is only as good as your source. If there’s a person in your local group that responds with hysteria to every event, he or she might not be the best arbiter of truth. As well, the media has been notoriously biased in its coverage, calling violent riots “peaceful protests.” Take the time to confirm the information with more than one source when you can. Avoid trouble. The thing that Selco and Toby said to us the most when we were in Croatia discussing different scenarios was, “Don’t be there.” And if it was a situation where you found yourself there, the advice was, “Don’t be there as soon as  possible.” Or in other words, get the heck out of there. Don’t go to a “peaceful protest” in solidarity if you aren’t also prepared to be swept up into a riot. Mobs form quickly and do not think rationally. (More on mob mentality here) Stay as far away from large, angry groups of people as possible. You may feel a strong urge to counterprotest – you should squelch that urge if safety is key for you. I’ve written before about how survival is just about surviving and no place is that more true than in situations like this. Many readers call this cowardly and if they want to go down fighting, that’s certainly their prerogative. I plan to live to fight smarter when the odds are in my favor. Don’t go out of curiosity to “see what’s going on.” Avoid volatile situations and people. Don’t try to confront a mob by yourself – your property is not worth the lives of you and your family. To learn more about surviving civil unrest and riots, go here and learn about surviving civil unrest from Selco. My best advice is this: Get home. Stay home. Be ready in case trouble comes to you. Try to stay under the radar. Your best defense is avoiding the fight altogether. You want to stay under the radar and not draw attention to yourself.  The extent to which you strive to do this should be based on the severity of the unrest in your area. Some of the following recommendations are not necessary in an everyday grid-down scenario, but could save your life in a more extreme civil unrest scenario. Keep all the doors and windows locked.  Secure sliding doors with a metal bar.  Consider installing decorative gridwork over a door with a large window so that it becomes difficult for someone to smash the glass and reach in to unlock the door. Keep pets indoors. Sometimes criminals use an animal in distress to get a homeowner to open the door for them. Sometimes people are just mean and hurt animals for “fun”.  Either way, it’s safer for your furry friends to be inside with you. Don’t answer the door.  Many home invasions start with an innocent-seeming knock at the door to gain access to your house. Keep the family together.  It’s really best to hang out in one room. Make it a movie night, go into a darkened room at the back of the house, and stay together. This way, if someone does try to breach your door, you know where everyone is who is supposed to be there. As well, you don’t risk one of the kids unknowingly causing a vulnerability with a brightly lit room or an open window. Remember, first responders may be tied up.  If the disorder is widespread, don’t depend on a call to 911 to save you. You must be prepared to save yourself.  Also keep in mind, as mentioned earlier in the article – the cops are not always your friends in these situations. This isn’t a denouncement of all police officers but a realistic assessment of a heightened state. Be ready for the potential of fire. Fires are very common during incidents of civil unrest. Generally, vehicles and commercial properties are where fires are set but in some incidents, homes have been burned too. Fire is a cowardly attack that doesn’t require any interaction on the part of the arsonist. It flushes out the family inside, leaving you vulnerable to physical assaults. Have fire extinguishers mounted throughout your home. You can buy them in 4-packs from Amazon. Be sure to test them frequently and maintain them properly. (Allstate has a page about fire extinguisher maintenance.) Have fire escape ladders that can be attached to a windowsill in all upper story rooms.  Drill with them so that your kids know how to use them if necessary. Fires can easily spread from one building to the next, especially if firefighters can’t respond safely or can’t get their fire truck through the mob. Be on the watch for fires in your vicinity. Fire can also be used as a weapon. Here’s an article about dealing with firebombs and Molotov cocktails should such an event arise. Be prepared for defensive action. If, despite your best efforts, your property draws the attention of people with ill intent, you must be ready to defend your family. Sometimes, despite our best intentions, the fight comes to us.  (Have you seen the movie The Purge?) Many preppers stockpile weapons and ammunition for just such an event.  Firearms are an equalizer. A small woman can defend herself from multiple large intruders with a firearm if she’s had some training and knows how to use it properly. But put a kitchen knife in her hand against those same intruders, and her odds decrease exponentially. When the door of your home is breached, you can be pretty sure the people coming in are not there to make friendly conversation or borrow a cup of sugar.  Make a plan to greet them with a deterring amount of force. Don’t rely on 911. If the disorder is widespread, don’t depend on a call to 911 to save you – you must be prepared to save yourself.  First responders may be tied up, and in some cases, the cops are not always your friends.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, some officers joined in the crime sprees, and others stomped all over the 2nd Amendment and confiscated people’s legal firearms at a time when they needed them the most. Be armed and keep your firearm on your person.  When the door of your home is breached, you can be pretty sure the people coming in are not there to make friendly conversation over a nice cup of tea.  Make a plan to greet them with a deterring amount of force. Be sure to keep your firearm on your person during this type of situation, because there won’t be time to go get it from your gun safe. Don’t even go to the kitchen to get a snack without it. Home invasions go down in seconds, and you have to be constantly ready. Know how to use your firearm. Whatever your choice of weapon, practice, practice, practice. A weapon you don’t know how to use is more dangerous than having no weapon at all. Make sure your children are familiar with the rules of gun safety. Of course, it should go without saying that you will have pre-emptively taught your children the rules of gun safety so that no horrifying accidents occur. In fact, it’s my fervent hope that any child old enough to do so has been taught to safely and effectively use a firearm themselves. Knowledge is safety. Have a safe room established for children or other vulnerable family members. If the worst happens and your home is breached, you need to have a room into which family members can escape.  This room needs to have a heavy exterior door instead of a regular hollow core interior door. There should be communications devices in the room so that the person can call for help, as well as a reliable weapon to be used in the unlikely event that the safe room is breached. The family members should be instructed not to come out of that room FOR ANY REASON until you give them the all-clear or help has arrived. You can learn more about building a safe room HERE.  Focus on the tips for creating a safe room in an apartment to put it together more quickly. Always have another plan. Forget simply having a Plan B. If you find yourself in a chaotic situation, you must constantly think of the next plan. You must constantly think, “What will I do if …… happens?” Even if your plan is to hunker down, you must be ready to change that plan in the blink of an eye. Plan an escape route.  If the odds are against you, if your house catches on fire, if thugs are kicking in your front door… devise a way to get your family to safety.  Your property is not worth your life. Be wise enough to accept that the situation has changed and move rapidly to the next plan. We’re in this for the long haul. I hope that none of these preps are necessary, but this is WHY we prep – just in case. We look ahead and use our best judgment to face potential problems. The post-election world could look very different. The United States has been hit with a lot lately, everything from a straight-up invasion at the southern border to protests on behalf of Palestine turning into riots in our streets to Venezuelan gangs literally taking over American apartment buildings. Our own citizens in Western North Carolina are reeling from the most destructive storm in the history of that area. At the same time, the government shortchanges them and gives millions to Ukraine and Lebanon. Inflation is at an all-time high. Crime rates are climbing rapidly – the FBI just quietly updated their statistics to reflect this. This election will add fuel to the fire regardless of the outcome. In fact, the outcome itself could remain in question for months to follow, sparking even more unrest. We are looking at a world in which violence is becoming increasingly more common, where people are at the ends of their ropes financially, and where everyone believes fervently that their candidate is the only option. No matter who you are, no matter where you are, you’ll feel the effects of this in some way. What do you foresee? There’s an old saying, hope for peace but prepare for war. Our own country could look very much like a battlefield in the near future. How do you see events unfolding after the election? Does your prediction vary by the candidate who is declared the winner? Let’s discuss it in the comments. Please remain civil, and for the love of fluffy kittens, do not threaten violence in the comments section. About Daisy Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging, adventure-seeking, globe-trotting blogger. She is the founder and publisher of three websites.  1) The Organic Prepper, which is about current events, preparedness, self-reliance, and the pursuit of liberty; 2)  The Frugalite, a website with thrifty tips and solutions to help people get a handle on their personal finances without feeling deprived; and 3) PreppersDailyNews.com, an aggregate site where you can find links to all the most important news for those who wish to be prepared. Her work is widely republished across alternative media and she has appeared in many interviews. Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books, 12 self-published books, and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides, printables, and courses at SelfRelianceand Survival.com You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Gab, MeWe, Parler, Instagram, and Twitter. The post Violent, Destructive Riots Could Erupt into Post-Election CHAOS appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

On July 26, in the aftermath of the Democratic Party’s ruthless midsummer coup of its own democratically elected presidential nominee, this column predicted that the elevation of dimwitted cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris to the party’s presidential slot would “spectacularly backfire.” More specifically, I wrote: Practically, the path to winning 270 Electoral College votes still runs through the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It is frankly bizarre for Democrats to swap out the man who talks ceaselessly about his hardscrabble Scranton upbringing for a Californian who boasts the most left-wing voting record of any presidential nominee in modern history. I’m feeling pretty good these days about that prognosis. Harris recently campaigned in Erie, Pennsylvania—a crucial regional hub in this election cycle’s most important battleground state. Conspicuously absent from that snoozefest was incumbent Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa. Harris tried to pass off the snub as a nothingburger, suggesting that Casey was doing the more important work of knocking on doors and getting out the vote. This doesn’t pass the laugh test. Facing a spirited challenge from Republican hopeful Dave McCormick, Casey has clearly concluded that Harris’ immense Bay Area lefty baggage—her history of endorsing the Green New Deal, a national fracking ban, and crippling electric vehicle mandates—is an electoral albatross around his neck. It’s tough to blame Casey. Other vulnerable Senate Democratic incumbents, such as Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Jon Tester, D-Mont., reached the same conclusion a while ago. Such a conclusion makes a great deal of sense: A recent Marist national general election poll, for instance, shows Donald Trump up a whopping 10 points on Harris with registered independents. If that margin ends up being anywhere near accurate, it is extraordinarily difficult to see a scenario in which Trump loses. Harris has recently been engaging in what the psychology profession calls “projection,” ludicrously criticizing Trump for avoiding the media when it was actually Harris who infamously avoided a single one-on-one sit-down interview for weeks on end following the Biden coup. In reality, Trump recently sat down for two interviews with Time magazine, whose owner is a vocal Harris donor. Harris declined a Time interview, nonetheless. Prior to this week’s desperate, last-second change of course, which saw her sit down with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Harris had only deigned to sit down with the most obsequious media imaginable. One can only wonder how bad the Harris-Walz internal polling must be to impel her to ditch the far-left “Call Her Daddy” podcast and the friendly ladies of “The View” for the considerably more mainstream Baier. Desperate times sure call for desperate measures. Democrats routinely blast Republicans as misogynistic, but their own chronic misandry is so bad that Harris is apparently considering a sit-down with podcast king Joe Rogan, whose own brand of woke-skeptical irreverence sharply clashes with Harris’ identity politics obsessions and overt race-based pandering. The tables sure have turned. Will the last person hanging around Harris-Walz campaign headquarters please turn off the lights? Snark aside, this race isn’t over yet. But the Harris-Walz camp cannot possibly be feeling too good right now, either. Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for their predicament. Throughout this interminable campaign season, they have studiously avoided substantive discussion of the four issues that Americans consistently tell pollsters are most important to them this cycle: the economy, inflation, immigration, and crime. Instead, they have repeatedly attempted to shift the electoral terrain back to the few issues that poll in their favor: namely, abortion and the Jan. 6 jamboree at the Capitol. In this, they have completely failed. The American people still care above all about the same four basic quality-of-life issues that they have cared the most about for years now. It is Democrats’ own fault that they are so woefully out of touch with the voters’ sentiments on those issues and that the Biden-Harris administration’s track record polls as poorly as it does. Perhaps, if the Harris-Walz ticket does go down in flames, Democrats will pause and take a long, hard look in the mirror. Perhaps they will recognize that promising late-term abortion is a peculiar way to pander to women, that pledging mass amnesty for illegal aliens is a counterproductive way to pander to Hispanics, and that dangling marijuana legalization is an outright offensive way to pander to blacks. Perhaps. But if history is any indication, they probably won’t. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Collapse of Kamala Harris appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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In 1971, Stephen Hawking suggested that a mini black hole from the early universe could be lurking at the center of the sun. His proposal was extended in 1975 by Don Clayton and collaborators who suggested that the power generated by the infall of matter onto such a black hole could explain the observed deficit in neutrinos of the electron flavor from the Sun. This deficit was known at that time as the solar neutrino problem, formulated by calculations of my early mentor, John Bahcall. Having a second power source in addition to nuclear fusion would have naturally reduced the production of solar neutrinos through nuclear reactions and accounted for the neutrino deficit. By now, better quantitative data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Canada, for which the Physics Nobel Prize was awarded to Art McDonald in 2015, implies a different solution to the solar neutrino problem, in terms of the transformation of neutrino flavors inside the Sun. Nevertheless, could the Sun still host in its belly a primordial black hole that does not contribute much to its luminosity? After all, we know that 85% of the matter in the Universe is invisible. Primordial black holes with a mass similar to that od asteroids in the size range of 1–100 kilometers, could account for dark matter. If this is the nature of dark matter, is it possible that some stars captured primordial black hole in their belly? If so, what would be their fate? It is easier to address the second question. A black hole captured by a star could change its evolution and internal structure. The interiors of stars can be diagnosed through their oscillations, just like the use of seismic signals to probe the inner structure of Earth. The unusual evolution and interior structure of stellar hosts of mini black holes could be searched for in the future. Given the high speed of dark matter in the Milky-Way, the likelihood that the Sun captured a primordial black hole is one in ten million. Nonetheless, given the hundreds of billions of stars of the Milky-Way galaxy, there could still be tens of thousands of Milky-Way stars which have captured a mini black hole. Because of the smaller characteristic speed of dark matter in dwarf galaxies, most of the stars embedded in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, like Tucana III and Triangulum II, could have captured a mini black hole. After consuming their nuclear fuel, the core of Sun-like stars contracts to make a white dwarf, a metallic sphere roughly the size of the Earth. Since the radius of the Earth is a hundred times smaller than the radius of the Sun, the average mass density of white dwarfs is about a million times larger than that of the Sun. The accretion rate of matter onto an embedded mini-black would therefore increase a million times, potentially igniting the white dwarf and triggering a supernova explosion. Rare explosive transients of a new kind could be searched for in the data pipeline of the Rubin Observatory, which will start operations next year. The effect of a mini black hole would be even more dramatic if it is trapped in the core of a massive star with more than 8 times the mass of the Sun. Such a core collapses to make a neutron star after consuming its nuclear fuel. The density of the neutron star resembles that of an atomic nucleus, a hundred trillion times higher than the mean density of the Sun. In that case, the rapid accretion of matter could turn the neutron star into a black hole, as I pointed out in a 2014 paper with my former postdoc, Paolo Pani, who is currently a professor in Italy. Under these circumstances, the primordial black home may be regarded as a seed that grows to consume its host star and transform it into a stellar-mass black hole. This channel could lead to black holes with the mass of a neutron star, an outcome which is not expected under normal astrophysical evolution. Currently, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatory identifies compact objects as neutron stars or black holes by their mass, identified through their gravitational wave signal. The existence of a neutron-star channel to a black hole would cause confusion in this identification scheme and result in events where compact objects of neutron-star mass are detected in gravitational waves but release no electromagnetic radiation, due to the absence of matter. As I pointed out in a recent paper, just accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the growth of mini black holes of asteroid mass is suppressed by quantum mechanics. This is because the size of their event horizon is smaller than the size of atoms. If primordial black holes make up dark matter, then the nearest black hole would be inside the solar system. Having a black hole close to home opens an opportunity to study quantum gravity experimentally. A black hole with an event horizon the size of a proton would radiate spontaneously, according to Hawking’s 1974 paper, a power of 1 gigawatt, mostly in gamma-ray photons with an energy of a hundred times the electron rest mass. If we ever witness an asteroid-mass black hole in the solar system, it can be used as a testbed for quantum-gravitational experiments on a subatomic scale. Understanding it would guide us in developing a predictive theory that unifies quantum mechanics and gravity. Having such a theory would in turn inform us of what might have led to the Big-Bang. And knowing that would bring us closer to appreciating our cosmic roots. The post Does the Sun Host a Black Hole at Its Center? appeared first on Anomalien.com.

As we head into yet another “most important election of our lifetime,” it’s worth asking what this election truly stands for. Is it about the border, the economy, or law and order? Maybe for some. But at its core, this election isn’t just about policy; it’s about the very soul of our country, what America was intended to be from the beginning. We have a unique opportunity, much like our founders, to correct course and protect our freedoms. But to do so, we must confront a growing menace that threatens the well-being of every citizen: the unholy alliance between the federal government and corporate interests.On February 14, 1776, Thomas Paine wrote, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” We have the same exact opportunity on November 5. This time, we are not freeing men from the clutches of tyrannical rule through an overbearing monarchy. We can be the global standard-bearers for freedom from the iron grip of the bureaucratic deep state.Big Pharma and the bureaucratic state have no incentive to stop the rot because, simply put, too much money is at stake.The purpose of every modern Western government is to “keep us safe.” The United States is different. We have the following clause attached: “Keep us safe … but mind your own business.” This is advanced citizenship. While the government may try to weaponize under the guise of “keeping us safe,” it may not interfere with how we run our families, how we conduct our business, what church we go to, what we say, and how we choose to arm ourselves.Instead, the government’s role is restricted to things like keeping our borders safe, preventing adversaries from hurting us, keeping trade flowing, minimizing regulations, and ensuring justice for all. Anything beyond that is overreach.But what happens when the government, weaponized through its bureaucratic tentacles, does the opposite of keeping us safe? What if it’s getting rich from our misery?The COVID-19 pandemic exposed this relationship in a way many of us had never seen before. Government agencies like the National Institutes of Health were not only working hand in hand with Big Pharma but were also financially invested in the success of mRNA vaccines. Contracts between the NIH and Moderna dating as far back as 2015 show that government bureaucrats were preparing to profit from an mRNA coronavirus vaccine long before COVID-19 emerged. A contract signed by the NIH and Moderna in December 2019, just months before COVID-19 sparked a global vaccine demand, explicitly says that “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates [are] developed and jointly owned by NIAID and Moderna.”The mRNA vaccine was poised to be a financial windfall for both the government and the pharmaceutical industry, and that’s exactly what happened only months later.The bureaucratic state has long overstepped its constitutional scope and has instead cozied up to corporations, reaping the rewards while Americans grow sicker. Just look at the numbers: 129 million Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease, and this trend has been worsening over the past two decades. Almost half of the U.S. population is living with two or more chronic conditions, and 12% of Americans suffer from at least five. Life expectancy in the United States has fallen to its lowest point in nearly 20 years. Autism rates surged from 1 in 150 children in 2000 to 1 in 54 by 2016. ADHD diagnoses are skyrocketing, and a staggering 40% of school-age children have at least one chronic health condition.This isn’t just a health care crisis — it’s a national emergency. Why is it happening? Because our suffering is profitable. Nearly 90% of the $4.1 trillion spent annually on health care in America goes toward managing and treating chronic diseases. Big Pharma and the bureaucratic state have no incentive to stop the rot because, simply put, too much money is at stake.When you head to the polls in the coming weeks, remember that this election is about more than just lower taxes and border security. It’s about stopping the government from profiting from our pain. It’s about reclaiming the soul of America and putting the health of its people before the profits of the elite.We cannot allow this dangerous relationship between the government and corporations to continue unchecked. If we don’t act now, our children and their children will inherit a country where profits are more important than people. On November 5, we have the power to “begin the world over again” by unleashing ourselves from the bureaucratic state’s grasp. It’s up to us at the ballot box.Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights, top stories, show prep, and more delivered to your inbox.

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