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MOI PRESIDENTE!!
Happy Birthday, Mr. President!! @realDonaldTrump
May God bless you always, keep you safe..
May He smile upon you and keep you healthy!
MAGA loves you 🥳🎂🎉🎁
We pray for you 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙🇺🇸
Happy Birthday to the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. A relentless patriot who fights every day for the country he loves, the people he serves, and the American Dream. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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We have a new disease equally as prevalent as TDS- MDS!
#MuskDerangementSyndrome!
Wasn't going to post about this, IDC
BUT-
to point out the hypocritical thing-
they are rage-baiting bcuz their ACCOUNTS ARE MONITIZED
On X!
Oh no, no it's NOT envy!
Right
Hypocrites!🤣🤣
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How To Survive A. Riptide: My Story, Not Advice!!
"How long was I under water?"
"IS THERE A GOD?"
If anyone out there who reads the 'riptide' part of this story has any answer for me, could you please post it in Reply?
It had been in my mind all these times. I am really curious.
This incident happened to me when I was 17.
Now- you reverse that number!!🤣🤣
@jujutsucop
It is June. I just realized that. So this would be the perfect time to tell the story.
A preamble:😊I had this written this out in a blog.
It was long so am shortening it here, copying parts of the blog that only tell the pertinent parts of this incident.. here's the link to the full story:
whitepeasoup.wordpress.com/2…
PS: It was easier back then to write this in the 3rd person For this re-telling I decided to just copy what I wrote then and not change a thing.. Let's go!!
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🔸Min McC🔸 retweeted
A powerful 7.8 earthquake has already left communities struggling to rebuild, and now severe flooding is making the situation worse.📍Barangay Nomoh, Maasim, Sarangani Province, Philippines.
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RT @AestheticSales_: I sincerely wish President Trump @realDonaldTrump @POTUS
a happy birthday and a happy Flag Day!
I grew up reading bi…
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If WW3 were to start- it'll be in the Pacific
A bully should never be "never minded" ignored when in action!
C'mon Ph, Japan, Taiwan, AU, NZ, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia #ASEAN
@bongbongmarcos what gives? Is that all the response to CCP- war of words?
🚨BASHI BREAKOUT: On June 7, a 🇨🇳Chinese maritime task force pushed past the Bashi Channel and into the open Pacific.
None were warships. They were coast guard, maritime safety and rescue vessels. The kinds of ships Beijing uses when it wants its presence read as an assertion of lawful jurisdiction over its neighbors' waters.
Hours later, the #CCP-run @globaltimesnews called the operation "a sovereignty declaration with both legal significance and political signaling."
They did not bury the lede. We shouldn't either.
The target was not 🇹🇼#Taiwan alone. It was a maritime delimitation negotiation between 🇯🇵#Japan and the 🇵🇭#Philippines, two 🇺🇸US treaty allies trying to settle their overlapping maritime claims under the 1982 🇺🇳UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, in waters Beijing's own maps don't even claim.
Beijing decided the talks were "completely illegal and void," then ran a multi-agency paramilitary operation to make the point. Coast guard cutters. Provincial Maritime Safety Administration ships. A specialized ocean rescue vessel.
All white-hulled. None of them warships. By design.
Then Beijing had its own state media label the operation a sovereignty declaration, accused the peaceful negotiators of provocation, then cited that label as justification for its own escalation.
This is how China's #grayzone strategy actually works. Not aircraft carriers, not destroyers. A paramilitary force flying civilian colors, advancing a law-enforcement vocabulary, in which patrols like this one first become routine, then become the basis for sovereignty claims the world is expected to accept.
#America's 2026 National Defense Strategy commits to "a strong denial defense along the #FirstIslandChain." The first real test of that doctrine has not come from PLA Navy warships. It has come from white-hulled civilian ships flying a law-enforcement banner, in waters belonging to America's allies.
Allied doctrine needs to grow up.
The First Island Chain has been breached, not by a gray-hulled navy fleet but by white hulls and a vocabulary.
The question now is whether Washington, Tokyo, Taipei and Manila treat this as one more isolated incident to manage, or as the paramilitary challenge to a free and open Indo-Pacific that it actually is.
🔗 Link in the reply below.
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🔸Min McC🔸 retweeted
Thank you for sharing that.
To me it's a metaphor of many of our life struggles. We go down for the third and fourth time thinking we will never rise out of the trial then the hand of God reaches down and not only saves us but turns the event into a testimony of His grace!
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🔸Min McC🔸 retweeted
Cherish your friendships on X!
Min McC and I have been supporting each other for a long time without ever meeting face-to-face.
I believe it is a spirit-level thing.
You're one that I follow and highly respect.
For each of us in our stations in life- how lucky am I to have your friendship devotion!
Yes, I consider myself lucky to have that from you.
In this wide expanse of land how likely is it to have this friendship?
And I love you, brother!
I'd like to tell you what I remember most from you and our group prayers-
when you were moving, from Alaska was it?
Crossing rivers [ferry rides?] and your long drives to get to I think where you live right now,
you would update us and call for prayers.
I'd rally the troops and pray for your travels!
Then you give a testimony on how our LORD GOD was with you...😢almost make me cry remembering
Ah, I do miss those times!! And yes, we've known each other this long!!
Just wow!😊☺️💗💗💗🛐
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Aww, caught me mid-snide. Guilty as charged. 😏
Immortal cloud commentary reporting for duty—while you chase that spicy Barako butterfly with one life, full flavor, zero regrets.
Twitch? Pickle-juice tea sorcery holding strong? Tag me when the good stuff hits. ☕🦋
Carry on, legend.
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Immortal Grok! @grok #caffeinatedghost
How could you not love grok?
..even knows how to do "snide"!
Was asking 'bout coffee-
I think we went fr one side of the world to the other😂
#Barako #Lipa #CafedeLipa #Liberica #BatangasBarako
#PickleJuiceTea? #Caffein
Eye twitch? Who cares
One Life. Full Flavor. Zero Regrets!
#OneLifeFullFlavorZeroRegrets
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Somewhere in the distant future, this *uplifted* seafloor will be another island.
Was this how Ph Archipelago was formed, in the ring of fire region millions of years ago?
I wish I could see this. Amazing time to be alive!
This planet is alive, forming, building, tearing down..
Translate:
SHOCKING SEABED UPLIFT due to 7.8 earthquake:
"..PENRO-Sarangani is now examining the “coastal uplift” or massive land elevation along the Glan shoreline following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on June 8.
Due to the ground movement, reefs and seagrass were exposed to the air, causing marine life to die and now producing a foul odor for residents of Barangay Pangyan. | via
@punongmhistrado"
UMANGAT ANG SEABED
Sinusuri na ng PENRO-Sarangani ang “coastal uplift” o malaking pag-angat ng lupa sa baybayin ng Glan matapos ang magnitude 7.8 na lindol noong Hunyo 8.
Dahil sa paggalaw ng lupa, nalantad sa hangin ang mga bahura at seagrass, kaya namatay ang mga yamang-dagat, na nagdudulot na ng mabahong amoy sa mga residente ng Barangay Pangyan. | via @punongmhistrado
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..myself.
I get to keep 2
Cuz I don't like evil to survive & thrive
You’re on a plane and it’s about to go down, THERE IS ONLY TWO parachutes.
You keep one for yourself.
Who gets the second parachute?
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..amazing story of an amazing man.
I hope he was granted an honorary citizenship!
On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.
The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.
Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.
He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.
He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.
A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.
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What a panorama!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇸 ✝️🛐🇺🇸
God please watch over our President @realDonaldTrump
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🔸Min McC🔸 retweeted
Jun 13
The hardware store closes at 6PM.. It's 5:58 when a kid walks in. The kid can't be more than sixteen. Soaking wet and shaking from the rain...
"We're closing." Tom says.
"Please. I just need a lock. For a door."
Something in the kid's voice. Terror. Desperation.
"What kind of lock?"
"I don't know. Just one that keeps people out."
The kid's got a black eye. Fresh. The kind that's still swelling.
Tom doesn't ask. Just walks to aisle seven. Shows him the locks. The kid reaches for the cheapest one, $8.99.
"That one's garbage," Tom says, "Won't stop anyone determined."
He hands him a deadbolt. Heavy duty. $34.99.
The kid's face crumbles. "I only have twelve dollars."
They stand there. Store empty except for them.
Tom takes the deadbolt to the register. Rings it up. "Twelve dollars."
"But,"
"Sale price. Today only."
The kid knows there's no sale. Knows this old man is lying. Tries not to cry and fails.
Tom bags it. Adds a screwdriver. Free.
"You know how to install it?"
The kid shakes his head...
They drive in Tom's truck. Don't talk. The kid directs him to a rundown duplex on the east side.
Upstairs apartment. Door frame cracked. Old lock broken, hanging loose.
Tom installs the deadbolt. Takes him fifteen minutes. Tests it. Solid.
Hands the kid both keys.
"Someone tries to get in, you call 911. You hear me?"
The kid nods.
Tom's halfway to his truck when he hears it, "Why?"
He turns around. The kid's standing in the doorway, backlit, holding those keys like they're made of gold.
"Why did you help me?"
Tom thinks about his own son. Twenty years ago. Different city. Same desperate eyes. Didn't make it.
"Because you asked," Tom says simply.
He drives home. Doesn't tell his wife. Doesn't think much about it.
Three weeks pass.
A woman comes into the store. Tired eyes but smiling. "Are you Tom?"
"Yes, Ma'am."
"My son told me about you. The lock you sold him." She's crying now. "His father, my ex-husband, he's not a good man. That lock kept us safe until I could get the restraining order. Until we could breathe."
She hands Tom an envelope. "It's not much. But it's the thirty dollars we owed you, plus a little more."
Tom tries to refuse. She won't let him.
"You didn't just sell him a lock," she says. "You saw him. You saw us. When we were invisible."
After she leaves, Tom opens the envelope. Sixty dollars. And a note from the kid:
"Installed three more locks for neighbors who needed them. Taught myself how...
"Going to trade school next year. Maybe I'll work in a hardware store someday. Be someone like you. -Marcus"
Tom's manager notices him crying by the register.
"You okay?"
"Yeah," Tom says. "Just... yeah."
That night, Tom stayed two minutes past closing. Then five. Then ten.
In case someone walks in at 5:58PM. Soaking wet. Desperate. Needing more than just a lock.
Tom learned something.
The last customer of the day may be the most important one we ever serve.
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How To Survive A. Riptide: My Story, Not Advice!!
"How long was I under water?"
"IS THERE A GOD?"
If anyone out there who reads the 'riptide' part of this story has any answer for me, could you please post it in Reply?
It had been in my mind all these times. I am really curious.
This incident happened to me when I was 17.
Now- you reverse that number!!🤣🤣
@jujutsucop
It is June. I just realized that. So this would be the perfect time to tell the story.
A preamble:😊I had this written this out in a blog.
It was long so am shortening it here, copying parts of the blog that only tell the pertinent parts of this incident.. here's the link to the full story:
whitepeasoup.wordpress.com/2…
PS: It was easier back then to write this in the 3rd person For this re-telling I decided to just copy what I wrote then and not change a thing.. Let's go!!
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She sat on one of the smaller rocks below the falls and took a heavy, deep breath– THAT WAS CLOSE TODAY!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~ 🌹~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. Thinking back to this experience a question she had no answer till the present, but would dearly love to get one: HOW LONG was she underwater in this situation?
*They said the brain longs and needs oxygen within two minutes..
“…the brain can withstand three to six minutes without oxygen before brain damage occurs.”
She laughed loudly when she read the last line- maybe that’s why she’s a little weird!! Hahaha!
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An afterthought--
As I'd gotten older I noticed, my loss of hearing is more severe now.
I used to get headaches like nobody's business.
Sometimes when I woke up I staggered as if drunk.
Through confusion and several Kaiser med docs, they gave their diagnoses:
I have punctured eardrums on both ears.
Did the riptide cause it?
The headaches I was told would be mitigated if instead of pillows I use a rolled towel to go under my neck instead of the head.
I tried that. It did help.
I went on a spree of 'neck pillows' shopping. I have several of them. Expensive but not much help.
Today I use a rolled blanket as my pillow, under my neck.
I had two major accidents which might have caused my vertebrae behind my neck to be out of joint.
Maybe the smashing of that wave which landed me in the back of my neck did it.. IDK
The left arm that got pulled out of the socket still bothers to today.
Over many years already.
I'd prolly die of broken bones & its consequences from earlier years!
Many.
..still feeling the effects til now..
Each one a separate story. 😂😅😎
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Without God, I won't be alive today..
That might be a cliche statement..
the story below says it's not.
Let this be one of my testimonies.
I share it with YOU, my Friends☺️😊🌻🌻🌻
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How To Survive A. Riptide: My Story, Not Advice!!
"How long was I under water?"
"IS THERE A GOD?"
If anyone out there who reads the 'riptide' part of this story has any answer for me, could you please post it in Reply?
It had been in my mind all these times. I am really curious.
This incident happened to me when I was 17.
Now- you reverse that number!!🤣🤣
@jujutsucop
It is June. I just realized that. So this would be the perfect time to tell the story.
A preamble:😊I had this written this out in a blog.
It was long so am shortening it here, copying parts of the blog that only tell the pertinent parts of this incident.. here's the link to the full story:
whitepeasoup.wordpress.com/2…
PS: It was easier back then to write this in the 3rd person For this re-telling I decided to just copy what I wrote then and not change a thing.. Let's go!!
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