Just like that: tariffs back on; MIT deletes DEI; Bondi kneecaps ABA; RFK Jr. axes $600M mRNA deal; and the Times accidentally spotlights Trump 2.0’s master plan—history, reversed; and much more.
It struck me again today while reading this post how very thankful I am for you Jeff - for your tenacity, knowledge, and optimism. You explain the judicial process in such a succinct manner that even we non-lawyerly types can comprehend the workings of the machine.
Whenever we see alarming headlines in the British press about another President Trump failure, we say to each other, “Let’s just wait to see what Jeff says tomorrow.” That strategy never fails.
That’s me!!! I feel my heart sinking and then I say “I wish I was Jeff Childers best friend so I could call him and he could explain what these things REALLY mean!!!
If he could just bottle that Optimism and sell it by the case, i would be his best customer 😂
And it's not just optimism, but usually realism. Most conservative commenters tend to lean to the gloom and doom, sky is falling, start prepping, get in your bunker mentality. Jeff tends to present a more accurate assessment that explains what is most likely to happen next or what the ruling most likely means. Very helpful voice to have.
CStone… yes, 100%… one thing Jeff could do to bottle his optimism especially if most of us are interested, is to create Coffee and Covid yearbooks, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and Dec 31, 2025 full daily editions per year… keepers for sure and easily accessible historical reference guides… if enough of us are interested, publication costs should be reasonable? Anyway… I bet there are others herein who thought of the Jeff Childers annual daily editions reference books… yes? no?
As long as we breathe and have the ability to do things, there is always reason to hope. Also...play the Hoku song "Perfect Day" it should turn the gray skies to blue. Not to mention ELO's Mr. Blue Sky.
I say that, too! Whenever I feel bereft of hope (like that dismal US Court of International Trade decision), I have to remind myself, “Let’s just wait to see what Jeff says tomorrow” or the next day or whenever, because I know he will always shine a positive, albeit factual, light on the subject that has me down…I wonder if Jeff knows what a blessing of hope he is to so many people?
My eyebrows shoot up most mornings when I see the daily apocryphal, cataclysmic Trump headlines & the “reporters” running around with their hair on fire.
Surely, this time, the world will end. Surely, this time, he’s gone way too far (by trying to repair trade or immigration or saying men can’t turn into women). Oh the sky will fall this time.
Then after that initial reflex, I think: “Oh yeah?”….& wait for Jeff’s take!
I follow Epoch News. They report he is stepping down to attend to his companies and that he has finished his government stint. You know he won’t be far from the president’s ear. 😉
Yes I saw a White House vid today where Prez is thanking him and giving him a token of appreciation. DOGE will continue and Elon will visit and check in but it’s back to his businesses for him.
When I finish one of his posts, especially this one, I see a conductor, finishing with a flourish. Truly these posts have become almost symphonic. It’s like music to my brain.
“But Trump is less bully pulpit and more bully bullhorn…Where past presidents tried to move the needle, Trump is ripping the gauge off the dashboard and replacing it with a black and gold MAGA sticker.”
The exposition you posted is very interesting however they don’t allow comments unless one is a paid user. That defeats the purpose of free discussion of the assault on the human brain. Think about that.
Other substacks do limit comments to paid subscribers, but anyone can comment on C&C. I believe that it doing so, he has increased his readership. Others should take note.
I despaired yesterday when I read about the tariff block by a renegade court. But as usual my despair was replaced by joy when the reversal came through. I have to keep my faith up. God provides. I will admit to smug gloating reading about the global cabal joy turned to depression. I like "Trump always wins."
Yes, me too... the Germans have a word schadenfreude that's increasingly applicable these days... pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. Sounds petty but it's really rejoicing in seeing justice being manifest.
This is a great comment. In particular, and this is hard for normal people to take in, but Marxists take great glee in destruction and death ... and they go to great lengths to justify the pleasure taken in very dark doings. Saving the planet, building back better, and so on. In the end, it's all about profiting at everyone's else's ruin. It is the self-centered preoccupation of Evil.
He who love the world does not love the Father, words to that effect.
Thanks for your clarification. You are right, we don't have an equivalent word in English. And I confess my not-so-noble enjoyment of seeing those who I dislike intensely suffering public humiliation and failure (i.e. all Democrat media sycophants spinning how the '16 and '24 election results missed their "expert" analysis and predictions). But if jealousy is a required characteristic for schadenfreude - then another sentiment applies because I'm not jealous of their "success", I despise it.
Instead, it is reasonable and "noble" to enjoy seeing their lies exposed... and to long to see Adam Schiff, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Antony Blinken, and Anthony Fauci doing their perp walks after being tried and found guilty by a jury of their peers for their crimes.
And while I'm at it, I pray to see Biden's autopen pardons challenged and voided by SCOTUS and the Biden crime family and their ilk face justice as well.
It's encouraging to think, "President Trump doesn’t argue, he escalates. And he won’t stop.” But Harris made the same comment about protesters: “They won’t stop. They’re not gonna stop.” I figure, OK, fine. Gauntlet thrown, challenge accepted. This has been stewing for at least 75 years. The enemy is metastasized in our national DNA, and the confrontation is past due.
You make a great point, "I have to keep my faith up. God provides." DJT has the conviction to fight this war, but he is only the point man. We are the army, and it is time to be courageous. We need to keep speaking out, dragging our friends to the polls, and asking our God to do miracles. He truly never stops, and He alone always wins.
Here's a cool prayer for the moment. “Help us, Lord our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this vast army. Lord, You are our God; do not let mere mortals prevail against You” (2 Chronicles 14:11).
I agree Mini-mum - I really appreciate his explanations of the machinations of the court system. We here are much more enlightened than the reporters of the New York Times.
Whenever we’ve had puppies, or rescues, there are always a few weeks wherein you have to take their precious faces and point it toward the pile of poop they so lovingly made in the dining room floor— again, and give them the gentle swat along with the firm, NO! This helps guide them in the ways of proper poop placement, when used alongside the HIGH value treats and insane amounts of praise whenever they poop in the great OUTdoors.
Perhaps we can buy the WaPo and NY Times a subscription to C&C and point their little faces toward their own excrement.
I prefer their simple extinction due to the hard market reality that all enterprises that do not provide a credible product of value inevitably disappear.
I so appreciate your posts - every. day. I can’t even do my housework until after I’ve read your post. 😂. I read the Midwestern Doctor for health info and your column for figuring out what’s going on in the country. Thanks so much!
Except when he loses. Like when half the good things he does gets reversed in the courts. Or like when he hires people who are diametrically opposed to what he campaigned on, and then he wonders why they screwed him -and the country- over.
Agree! And I've shared his daily posts with many family and friends. With the exception of the TDS crowd, they've all become part of the C&C family. :D
There us certainly much to be said about the brighter side of things. The MSM reports nothing but doom and gloom, and any optimism they share, if I deigned to read what they write and air, is something thwarting or destroying anything that Trump has to offer. Their main narrative is "anything that stops Trump." Trump could go to their house, renovate it, completely revamp their lawn, service their car, buy them whole new wardrobes, set their kids up with private school, completely groom and provide food and a great environment for their pets, and there would be doom and gloom.
Not only succinctly but also with unmatched humor! My husband and I are constantly reading our favorite metaphors and similes to each other every day that make us laugh.
This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad and grateful for His Mercy on the American people. May our President do God’s Will on behalf of the American people.
They thought Christianity was dead. They thought wrong. We had simply lost our voice for awhile. President Trump simply showed us how to roar again. The leftists do not believe in God. That was their first mistake. We have donned the full armor of God and became His warriors again. What a Golden time to be alive, indeed. All the glory to Him who has given us and this beautiful country to live in His name sake. I couldn’t be more grateful than I am today. I’m beginning to think that my great grandchildren will be blessed far beyond what I have been! Prayers prayed are prayers answered!
Another example of the cancellation of “experts” is RFKJ determining that they wouldn’t publish in the journals any more.
They’ll publish their own data and not allow gatekeepers to prevent scientists from publishing their own papers. That gatekeeping used to keep scientists from finding anything against the narrative.
It will be awhile. As long as consumers only go for care that their insurance covers, it is safe. It all depends on how many are willing and able to pay out of pocket for the increasing number of practitioners of more natural healing approaches that standard health insurance will not pay for.
From your lips to RFK's ears. Just as the ABA is an association of, by, and FOR attorneys, the AMA is an association of, by, and FOR doctors. I am convinced that both associations' mission is to cover each others' asses. Both associations need a wake-up call. Or two...
I learned early in my career as a dental hygienist the AMA is one powerful lobby with the ADA right behind. Money talks but I pray the mouth of Satan is shut by the power of God.
Yeah, this is huge. Big Pharma essentially owns these journals and their editors. The studies contained within are funded by pharma. How can these studies be impartial?
“Radical Transparency”, to quote RFK J, is the only way to go. Full disclosure at the top of any published study, identifying all funding sources, including exact amounts, and all payments and remunerations received from any of the researchers. Plus, any and all conflict of interest.
Yes, this goes back way further than COVID. I had a project in the early Obama years where I got diverted into a rabbit hole about the fate of scientists who dared push back on the climate change narrative. Most of them kissed their careers good-bye, or folded in order to keep them.
I will never forget the following quote because it rings more true today than ever. Tom Cowan included it in his book “Cancer and the New Biology of Water” a number of years ago:
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.”
And those opposed paint the fear we are supposed to have: “…but, but, that would make the government the gatekeepers of science! Do we really want them to hold the reins to such a power?”
To which I would reply “that’s exactly what they have done with the HHS, NIH, FDA, etc all these years. Those opposed to Kennedy breaking us free from the journals prefer government gatekeeping controlled by selected cabals. Even if they don’t realize it. Besides, even if Democrats try to wield that the next time they get into power, it won’t work. What Kennedy is doing leaves the windows of dissent wide open, and keeps the science that the government relies on transparent to the public and able to be challenged by any expert. We certainly have NOT had that in over 50 years. I see no downside to this.”
Hahaha…that one got me too. Jeff’s wit strikes me as the result of a gene splice amplifying the sarcastic humor of Dave Barry with the biting cultural insight of Mark TWAIN wrapped in a Shakespearean ability to coin phrases in the English language…result of which is writing that makes me laugh out loud, praise God, and continue to fight, fight, fight. 😁
“But he isn’t fighting, he’s carving them up like the knight[s] who said [say] “Ni.” Less scalpel, more greatsword.”
Setting aside John Cleese’s currently insufferable case of TDS, any reference to the Monty Python classic immediately evokes snorts and guffaws. “All right, we’ll call it a draw.”
What I came to laugh about again..."Unmoored! Gasping! Hope, evaporating! Sources Say Times Staffers Found Floating Face-Down in Their Lattes, Whispering “IEEPA.” 🤣
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light (for the fruit of that light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them.
Yes, this is part of our calling. We cannot walk in the same pattern as the world in either thought or deed, as it dishonors the One who saved us.
"...that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God." Colossians 1:10
Trump and his cabinet are kicking butt. It an amazing thing to witness, one for the history books. Now we need the GOP-led House and Senate to get off their arses and start codifying Trump's EOs and DOGE cuts into law. They are the only drag on the system right now.
Amen! Unless Trump's EOs are made into law, we'll see every last one of Trump's EOs disappear. "They" have an ongoing spreadsheet of each one of them, ready to reverse on day one if/when re-elected.
They are definitely holding things back. But, not the only drag, as the Swarm is a very large swamp . That is why attacks are needed simultaneously at many different points:
Huge drag on the system, but perhaps not the only drag. I’m starting to wonder whether John Ratliff plans to step up and claim his place in history, along with the stand-outs on Trump’s team. He’s way too quiet for my taste. I hope he’s doing something to slay the biggest dragon of all and NOT just biding his time to avoid being suicided.
Moderna's demise (and Pfizer's) cannot come quickly enough. I know some very fit and health conscious guys in their mid-70's who are planning on getting the latest booster. It is so very sad and maddening.
Why on earth would we WANT a replacement?? The entire vaccine religion is based on lies. Sanitation and plentiful food are what eradicated diseases, not injections of any toxic poison.
You WILL want a replacement WITHOUT injecting toxic crap into your body when you get sick. I use Energy Density Frequency Medicine. It knocks out colds, flu, Covid, etc in about 10 minutes.
I only meant that I do not want to *replace* the mRNA “vaccine” platform with any other “vaccine” platform. Replacing one toxic shot with a different style of toxic shot still seems to be the goal of some who are devout believers in the vaxecution ideology, but who have soured on the mRNA platform. They think other vaxes can be “safe and effective.”
Healing frequencies have been a boon to my healing from sciatica and trimalleolar fracture. Homeopathic remedies from Boiron were also helpful. I’m saving my doctor prescribed opiates (which I never took) in case I need to sell them on the streets to make a mortgage payment 🤣
The Rife Handbook is all about Sympathetic Resonance Frequency Medicine. Energy Density Frequency Medicine is the more advanced version of Frequency Medicine. It works 10 times faster and cost 1/10 as much. Here is a link to see 4 videos about it, totaling 23 minutes.
Gee, I don’t know, Sir Jeff. Maybe protect the public from “vaccines” until their very wealthy pushers of these drugs produce double-blind studies that are replicable by real government scientists who do not receive their FDA paycheck from an account funded by said drug companies? Maybe make the pushers spend their own profits instead of taxpayer dollars to prove beyond reasonable doubts their products are safe, and then verify their results with scientists who aren’t on a hiatus from the very drug company pushing the vaccine. Maybe polling real doctors about real life observations with similar drugs and allowing real practicing doctors to honestly participate in the review process without the threat of being systematically discredited by reputation destroyers hired by companies like Moderna? Just spitballin’ here.
Agree 💯. I know people who work at pfizer and they do not care one bit about all the damage their company has done. Only care about their 401k and paycheck. They think that they provide a great service and are dismissive of those who don't agree.
It does stink to know people are still doing this and you can't change their minds. That same day that these guys said this I was sitting behind a lady in a class - she was overweight and I'm guessing in her mid-fifties - she was telling the lady next to her how she had just gotten her booster. 🤯
Sadly those who don’t know history will take Jeff’s comparison with FDR as a good thing when in fact he destroyed the country. His death was his best contribution. My Jewish parents and grandparents generation thought he was someone just short of HaShem himself when in fact he hated Jews, prolonged the Holocaust, refused Europeans Jews entry during the war and sent ship loads back to Germany to be slaughtered. Before the war his policies prolonged the depression. His myth is as phony as Obama
At a family gathering, a recent NYU graduate extolled the “virtues” of (as Jeff would say, I’m not making this up) LBJ, for “passing the Civil Rights Act”. Graduate degree from NYU whose understanding of the Civil Rights Act is that LBJ is the hero in the story and Blacks in American are all the better for it.
I agree. Something about spending the rest of her life paying for that edumacation will never allow her to see it any other way. I did suggest she read some Thomas Sowell for a brilliant Black American’s perspective on the subject.
Henry Morgenthau, a Jew, was Secretary of the Treasury from 1934 until Roosevelt's death in 1945. Morgenthau was only the second Jew to serve in a presidential cabinet position. The first was under FDR's cousin, Teddy. The 1924 Immigration Act severely restricted immigration to the United States. The U.S. policy on immigration was similar to President Trump's today. With regards to "those who don't know history" ....
"In every disaster throughout American, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it" Tomas Sowell:
𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚: 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬
Hamas University (The Isis of the East), Mein Context (Harvard University Press), Veritas or “Truth” (w/ some exceptions), every American disaster has a Harvard man in the middle & more Harvard memes!
I agree there is a good analogy to FDR in terms of the unified group of serious talent, but what Trump is destroying is not what FDR built. Most of what FDR built was to be a counterweight to the cartels that had been running the country. The oligarchs of his day hated him, including the Dulles brother who later enhanced the CIA for their benefit. Joe Kennedy as the first SEC chairman was the first to prohibit insider trading, to help small investors against the cartel big boys. What happened afterwards was that the cartels got inside the structure that FDR’s government created and expanded it to suit their own purposes.
Yes. I think it built the middle class, and put an end to child labor, and sweat shops. I also think Social Security prevents hunger and poverty for many old people. Yes, we need to trim waste fraud and abuse, but we don’t need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
FDR took my hungry and homeless parents and made their lives better. My mom was a child, but my dad, as a teenager, found work in the CCC and helped build a national park, one of many built in those days. The CCC planted a billion trees, both as windbreaks to help stop the rampant soil destruction, and as parks.
The WPA built bridges, electrical plants, post offices, and other infrastructure that turned the USA from a poverty stricken wasteland into a modern country.
Why non-oligarchs hate him I have no idea. He was elected four times because the vast majority of Americans were better off after the New Deal. Our ruling overlords passed the term restriction because they wanted to make sure that there would never again be a popular president that actually accomplished things.
Yes, and I’m now wondering whether all the new hating of FDR has been a psyop. Eisenhower warned us that things had changed with the war buildup. That doesn’t mean that FDR wasn’t a hero. It’s what happened after that.
FDR was a corrupt, self-serving maggot. He forced America into WWII, a war that we should have never fought. HE did this for his personal benefit, much like another cockroach, Churchill.
Hitler was painted as a demon, when he actually was a great leader who wanted peace, but was forced into war. He despised the communists.
FDR was a communist, in all but name. His administration was a disaster.
"Where past presidents tried to move the needle, Trump is ripping the gauge off the dashboard and replacing it with a black and gold MAGA sticker." BOOM! Absolutely brilliant!
Trump's biggest mistake is funding nuclear reactors that permanently poison the land and make Cancer rates skyrocket. There are a half dozen free energy patents already recorded, ready to build, if we could get "Big Oil" out of the way.
But isn’t that the beauty of Trump? He DOES keep going. And he DOES keep winning. He doesn’t ever stop. He doesn’t stop in the evenings. He doesn’t stop on weekends. He sticks to his moral and ethical code and he just. Keeps. Going. That the lunatic left has not figured out this mighty morsel just yet, is a mighty mystery to me. He’s more than the energizer bunny. I can’t think of a metaphor. I’m sure Jeff can think of one that’s apropos. But my goodness. Always. Winning. I’ll take it. For the next four years and hopefully more!
Not sleeping is not a virtue. It can quickly lead to psychosis. I think DJT promotes this trait as a sign of strength but I sure hope he's bluffing. We need him at 100%, and that requires good sleep.
Also, the late Phil Donohue... said to have 4 hours a night. I think that some folks are God-driven and therefore taken care of (unless they get un-alived like JFK).
Tesla was also noted for sleeping for only a few hours. My theory is that people with very active minds that are accomplishing what they set out to do, don’t require as much sleep to repair the frustration of not winning. While I was working, if I was crunching through my “ To Do” list, I would be so energized that I could work continuously for 3 days. I called it my Adrenaline Fueled Energy Push.
Maybe. Maybe not. Most people who work as hard as him do alcohol or drugs daily. And they are usually ladened with stress and a guilty conscience. Those are the things that beat down our health, not hard work.
I don’t see Trump as stressed. When you follow your heart and the truth, the path is easy. Maybe the path God was talking about is the one that impacts our health and longevity, and not the one that’s winding through the battlefield, which is never easy.
WRT the ABA being thrown to the curb like so much garbage…GOOD!
When I was in law school in the mid-‘80s, ABA membership was pushed on us. I knew then that it was a liberal-leaning organization, so I never joined. Besides, almost all professional advocacy organizations tend toward arrogance and privilege within their profession, and I am opposed to elitism by nature. Well, the ABA has gotten much worse in terms of its political bias, so I am thrilled that they are out of the business of deciding - any more than other mere citizens - who will sit on our courts. God bless Trump!
Same with the AMA! They got way to big for their britches long ago! Thankful my husband saw their garbage as just that and never joined! The same thing needs to happen to that organization, pull their big pHARMa funding and send them out with the trash. We need a new ABA and AMA minus the grift!
Teacher's Unions are similar - and worse because they're one of the few ways to get the necessary insurance that keeps a teacher from losing everything if/when they're sued for doing their jobs.
While Trump might be "always winning," isn't he also greenlighting large 2 trillion dollar spending policies? I am glad he is using tariffs and other methods to make America great again, but shouldn't part of making America great again be getting our spending under control? We can't spend our way out of a deficit, can we?
I think we’re going to be fine. According to Scott Bessent in his interview with Fox, he believes we will “grow” our way out of debt:
“You’re referring to the [Congressional Budget Office] scoring, which is 10-year scoring and it’s D.C.-style scoring,” Bessent said, clearing his throat. “We think that we can both grow the economy and control the debt.”
“What’s important, Bill, is that the economy grows faster than the debt,” Bessent told Fox Host Bill Hemmer. “So what I would tell your viewers to focus on, is what I’m focused on, is what [former] Secretary [Janet] Yellen was focused on, is what is total debt to GDP.
“We can grow our way out of this. If we change the growth trajectory of the country, of the economy, then we will stabilize our finances and grow our way out of this,” Bessent added.
I heard about this argument on the Dave Smith podcast "Part of the Problem," and part of the problem with that is that the government looks at "money earned through growth as more money to spend." Heck the government even operates under this principle in that each different department knows it has to spend what it is allocated or else it will lose it in subsequent years. So the government's way is to at least maintain if not expand, spending. When the incentive should be to throttle back, and essentially stop it, shouldn't it?
Why is there even a debt ceiling if we aren't going to acknowledge it?
That's like me saying "I'm only going to limit myself to one donut" and then take three. Next time, I will limit it to three, and take five, and so on and so on.
If conservatives truly are the party of limited government, which I think should be appended to "limited government expansion," then let's actually do what it takes to do this, and that is limit spending.
I thought that DOGE had a great start and now just sort of petered out. I was hoping to see the first of many across the lines, bloatware cuts in government. It's pretty sad when the bellwether cry now is "at least get it back to pre-COVID spending."
Yes, supposedly the Reagan tax cuts led to a huge increase in revenue due to growth in the economy in the private sector. But then his huge outlays in defense and other spending nullified the benefit. I am a Dave Ramsey fan and one of his observations about human nature is 'you can't out-earn your stupidity' - in other words, the more you make, the more you spend and the mistakes just end up with more zeroes on the end of them.
Yes, and I'm sad to see Elon Musk go quietly without having been allowed to accomplish his DOGE goal of trillions (whittled down to a fraction of that).
This, exactly, especially the first few sentences! Use it or lose it. More people you manage, the higher your salary and the more influence you peddle.
The only way this works, at least for a couple decades, is if the fraud purged is half the entire spending and it's eliminated. THAT combined with these policies would truly make the country rich. Well, until the politicians ramp up spending enough to put us back in a hole and approve another scamdemic, genocidal psyop...
Bessent is way smarter than me and I like what he says, but growing your way out of debt is a risky proposition. It has been done in the private sector successfully a few times (Think Amazon). I am not sure it has or ever will be done in the public sector. One has to make huge assumptions that current and future administrations will act responsibly and market conditions will be optimal for industries to maximize profits. That is a small needle hole to thread.
Republicans always say “we can grow our way out of this”. It’s never worked in the past so why would anybody think it would work now? And Bessent is a gay, lying, POS!
Agree. Powering through the layers of bureaucrats to enact reform is refreshing - but the spending is controlled by Congress who has to get their pet (help my re-election chances) projects and programs funded as payment for signing on to the Trump agenda. Not to mention an electorate who may claim MAGA status but woe to anyone who guts any spending that benefits them. Elephant in the room is that fiscal conservatism is not really on the table.
One aspect of human nature we see time and time again is this idea of "cutting someone else's spending." It is what leads to the "for thee and not for me" rules. And we all share it.
My simple example is a movie theater where you know that other people talking and looking on their phones is distracting, but when I do, its okay because it's a legitimate reason. The same thing applies to spending bills.
Yep how many R's took PPP 'loans'? I refused despite getting calls from banker friends offering to help and despite my business going in the tank for half of 2020 until I could work out new revenue streams. Felt hypocritical to rail about gov't handouts and then turn around and take one.
Well, since the government was the entity forcing businesses to close because of stupid Covid policies, at least it made some sense to compensate businesses for the losses they then incurred. So imo it’s not a typical handout. None of that should’ve happened in the first place though.
True, but the point is - there are an awful lot of people who look to a gov solution to every problem we have in society. Cutting off SNAP is 'lacking compassion' for those who would go hungry. People think school lunches should be free to all. Many say HC is a 'right' - even if it's not enumerated as such in the Constitution. Fed gov provides insurance for people who live in flood prone areas/beach homes in hurricane areas. (and that program pays out more than it takes in premiums) There is a push in my state to subsidize day care as we have a 'child care crisis' (instead of getting rid of the massive number of regs it takes to open a daycare in the first place). And on and on. And once a program gets started, it's nearly impossible to claw it back.
In the case of the PPP loans, yes, it was a problem CREATED by the gov that then had to be SOLVED by the gov. I am self employed but if I had employees I probably would have taken the money, as they would have been depending on me for a paycheck and there was no revenue for several months to pay them. But I went through that loan database pretty extensively - I had several work projects where I needed company employment data and the PPP loan database was gold for that as they had to list the # of employees in the application. Lots of businesses who were open during the covid episode still took the funds. And have seen several cases of people prosecuted for fraud. Any time the gov throws massive dollars at something there are those who will grift.
Oh I completely agree with all of your points. I just don’t blame people who used the loans to keep their businesses afloat during that time. Still, as you mentioned, every program ostensibly has “good intentions” but inevitably is abused. Not to mention being continued long after its usefulness has diminished and creating more problems than it solves 😕
Your comment makes me think it would be a good idea to allow people to opt in (or op out) of any tax cuts that might be coming our way. That way, those who think we'll be doomed by cutting off tax revenue can choose to keep paying their taxes. I don't want them to be put into a spot where they feel hypocritical about the situation!
Turn off the darn money spigot for cloud seeding already. Why, after all the cuts and laws, is this still going on in full force? Who has set their mind to doing this until the bitter end? Probably military, hopefully not part of that golden dome defense thingy
$2 trillion is a bald faced lie. The CBO scored it as if the extension of the previous Trump tax cuts are an additional increase to the deficit.
The entire premise of the CBO scoring taxes as having no effect on the economy is such known nonsense, it would fully justify eliminating the department.
They know they’re lying; Congress knows they’re lying; We know they’re lying, yet they continue to lie.
Do some research, eunuch... Oct 7 was an IDF False Flag, they knew the goofy attack was coming, but refused to stop it, then used it as justification for the long-planned mass-slaughter and land thefts. 1,200 jews dead, over half killed by the IDF. Israeli media Haaretz admits this. Over 100,000 innocent Palestinians murdered... so far... All of Gaza in ruins, all hospitals and schools destroyed. Now Israel is starving them all to death.
You PROUD of that, asshole?
I hope Israel attacks Iran on their own (the cowards want America to fight their wars)... they will be slaughtered. FAFO.
“What we are witnessing isn’t chaos; it’s choreography. And the tempo is accelerating.”
Mr. Childers, you are amazing! Your choice of words to get a point across is fabulous! Thank you for your faithfulness in writing “Coffee and Covid” every day. You are a national treasure to us. God bless you and yours abundantly!
It struck me again today while reading this post how very thankful I am for you Jeff - for your tenacity, knowledge, and optimism. You explain the judicial process in such a succinct manner that even we non-lawyerly types can comprehend the workings of the machine.
Whenever we see alarming headlines in the British press about another President Trump failure, we say to each other, “Let’s just wait to see what Jeff says tomorrow.” That strategy never fails.
That’s me!!! I feel my heart sinking and then I say “I wish I was Jeff Childers best friend so I could call him and he could explain what these things REALLY mean!!!
If he could just bottle that Optimism and sell it by the case, i would be his best customer 😂
And it's not just optimism, but usually realism. Most conservative commenters tend to lean to the gloom and doom, sky is falling, start prepping, get in your bunker mentality. Jeff tends to present a more accurate assessment that explains what is most likely to happen next or what the ruling most likely means. Very helpful voice to have.
100% on the nose!!!
Go away as well
Mary, Tina, Helen. We’re on to you. Go away boy.
Yes!!! His realism combined with his optimism. What an amazing set of qualities to have.
Agree.
CStone… yes, 100%… one thing Jeff could do to bottle his optimism especially if most of us are interested, is to create Coffee and Covid yearbooks, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and Dec 31, 2025 full daily editions per year… keepers for sure and easily accessible historical reference guides… if enough of us are interested, publication costs should be reasonable? Anyway… I bet there are others herein who thought of the Jeff Childers annual daily editions reference books… yes? no?
Yes please, I would love that. I found Jeff only a few months ago. I’ve missed so much.
The future’s history books
Absolutely! That would be like saving history in real time instead of waiting for the sanitized version.
I'd buy those!
Maureen,
&/or POTUS should appoint Jeff Grand Tsar of All News Media!
With a task to “DOGE” the media - cut out all the BS & fire all the propagandists! 💪🏼😃
As long as we breathe and have the ability to do things, there is always reason to hope. Also...play the Hoku song "Perfect Day" it should turn the gray skies to blue. Not to mention ELO's Mr. Blue Sky.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could clone him? 😉
I say that, too! Whenever I feel bereft of hope (like that dismal US Court of International Trade decision), I have to remind myself, “Let’s just wait to see what Jeff says tomorrow” or the next day or whenever, because I know he will always shine a positive, albeit factual, light on the subject that has me down…I wonder if Jeff knows what a blessing of hope he is to so many people?
Right??!!!
Yes Yes
Zuzu, how true!
My eyebrows shoot up most mornings when I see the daily apocryphal, cataclysmic Trump headlines & the “reporters” running around with their hair on fire.
Surely, this time, the world will end. Surely, this time, he’s gone way too far (by trying to repair trade or immigration or saying men can’t turn into women). Oh the sky will fall this time.
Then after that initial reflex, I think: “Oh yeah?”….& wait for Jeff’s take!
Yesterday after Mass my priest mentioned that he heard Elon was leaving the Trump admin.
Told him I’d heard that too, but that there’s so much fake news from the mainstream that I wasn’t going to automatically believe anything I read.
Does anyone know?
I follow Epoch News. They report he is stepping down to attend to his companies and that he has finished his government stint. You know he won’t be far from the president’s ear. 😉
By law, because he is unelected, he can only serve for 120 days in any calendar year. He is stepping down as planned from the beginning!
Yes I saw a White House vid today where Prez is thanking him and giving him a token of appreciation. DOGE will continue and Elon will visit and check in but it’s back to his businesses for him.
Fred B -
The MSM reports are SO dishonest.
Musk was always - from the outset - drafted in for THREE MONTHS.
He has a bunch of businesses he runs! He’s VERY busy. He agreed to give the POTUS 3 months of his time - he couldn’t spare more.
Much MSM reporting on this is outright dishonest.
They really are as bad as Pravda was - just propagandists for The Party.
Me too. We get the legacy media “TDS take”, then find the truth from Jeff! I do recognise the long march through the institutions here. Our Home Office is captured by Muslims, deciding asylum claims in their own favour, one horrendous story came out about that today. https://www.gbnews.com/news/christian-woman-fled-islamic-persecution-overturns-asylum-decision-home-office-bias#:~:text=A%2520Christian%2520woman%2520who%2520fled,bias%E2%80%9D%2520from%2520the%2520Home%2520Office.
Yep. I think we all feel that way.
When I finish one of his posts, especially this one, I see a conductor, finishing with a flourish. Truly these posts have become almost symphonic. It’s like music to my brain.
Excellent analogy 😊
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Annnnd …. sprinkled with comments that spit coffee out my nose, like this one:
“Unmoored! Gasping! Hope, evaporating! Sources Say Times Staffers Found Floating Face-Down in Their Lattes, Whispering “IEEPA.” “
🤣😆🤣 I’m still choking on liquid in my air pipe.
I love it here 😂❤️
These words had me smiling and fist pumping:
“But Trump is less bully pulpit and more bully bullhorn…Where past presidents tried to move the needle, Trump is ripping the gauge off the dashboard and replacing it with a black and gold MAGA sticker.”
So glad I found Jeff’s stack.
That was my favorite too. Excellent analogy!!
Loved that!!!
I find myself saying "F yeah!" aloud while reading his prose!
“Don’t overlook the analogy of the knight’s use of the word “ni”. That got me.
Loved the Monty Python reference!
Agree 💯 though I am sure this probably happened.
I was thinking just the same thing as I read this morning. What a blessing Jeff is.
I appreciate his writing every day but I don’t put him on a pedestal either
Until he can win the war on the brain.
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/omniwar-battle-for-the-brain-full
The exposition you posted is very interesting however they don’t allow comments unless one is a paid user. That defeats the purpose of free discussion of the assault on the human brain. Think about that.
Other substacks do limit comments to paid subscribers, but anyone can comment on C&C. I believe that it doing so, he has increased his readership. Others should take note.
Many of the commenters on Jeff's are as much of a blessing as he is. imho
Comments are open to all. Though sometimes there is a glitch.
Thanks for that. I’ll check again.
Not true. Anyone can comment.
Not on all substacks, they can’t.
I despaired yesterday when I read about the tariff block by a renegade court. But as usual my despair was replaced by joy when the reversal came through. I have to keep my faith up. God provides. I will admit to smug gloating reading about the global cabal joy turned to depression. I like "Trump always wins."
Exactly. But let me suggest one small change. We won't always have President Trump, so the mantra should be "MAGA always wins."
GOD always wins!!!
Yes! Nothing can stop the will of our Almighty God. He has not brought us this far to leave us here.
The 17 million worldwide dead from the Covid jabs might differ somewhat.
Fair comment.
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Yes, me too... the Germans have a word schadenfreude that's increasingly applicable these days... pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. Sounds petty but it's really rejoicing in seeing justice being manifest.
This is a great comment. In particular, and this is hard for normal people to take in, but Marxists take great glee in destruction and death ... and they go to great lengths to justify the pleasure taken in very dark doings. Saving the planet, building back better, and so on. In the end, it's all about profiting at everyone's else's ruin. It is the self-centered preoccupation of Evil.
He who love the world does not love the Father, words to that effect.
Going to be a bit pedantic here!…
Schadenfreude is not a noble sentiment & it’s not usually about justice.
It’s used here in Europe to describe, for example, the ugly pleasure a jealous person may get from hearing his neighbor has lost his job.
It’s a uniquely German term. The rest of us don’t have a comparable word.
One accurate dictionary definition is:
“Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.”
Thanks for your clarification. You are right, we don't have an equivalent word in English. And I confess my not-so-noble enjoyment of seeing those who I dislike intensely suffering public humiliation and failure (i.e. all Democrat media sycophants spinning how the '16 and '24 election results missed their "expert" analysis and predictions). But if jealousy is a required characteristic for schadenfreude - then another sentiment applies because I'm not jealous of their "success", I despise it.
Instead, it is reasonable and "noble" to enjoy seeing their lies exposed... and to long to see Adam Schiff, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Antony Blinken, and Anthony Fauci doing their perp walks after being tried and found guilty by a jury of their peers for their crimes.
And while I'm at it, I pray to see Biden's autopen pardons challenged and voided by SCOTUS and the Biden crime family and their ilk face justice as well.
Solomon said it best in Proverbs 29:2
"When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;
when the wicked rule, the people groan."
I entirely agree.
Getting those villains tried for their crimes would indeed be a victory for justice!
It's encouraging to think, "President Trump doesn’t argue, he escalates. And he won’t stop.” But Harris made the same comment about protesters: “They won’t stop. They’re not gonna stop.” I figure, OK, fine. Gauntlet thrown, challenge accepted. This has been stewing for at least 75 years. The enemy is metastasized in our national DNA, and the confrontation is past due.
You make a great point, "I have to keep my faith up. God provides." DJT has the conviction to fight this war, but he is only the point man. We are the army, and it is time to be courageous. We need to keep speaking out, dragging our friends to the polls, and asking our God to do miracles. He truly never stops, and He alone always wins.
Here's a cool prayer for the moment. “Help us, Lord our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this vast army. Lord, You are our God; do not let mere mortals prevail against You” (2 Chronicles 14:11).
Great comment! The confrontation is past due. Give no quarter. They aim to kill us.
They also aim to censor, jail, surveil, confuse, criminalize, mutilate & sterilize anyone who is happy, positive, productive & law-abiding.
They are truly evil. 😖
Yes. This war belongs to us all. Congress needs to know we’re fighting.
They surely AREN’T Fighting
I agree Mini-mum - I really appreciate his explanations of the machinations of the court system. We here are much more enlightened than the reporters of the New York Times.
Whenever we’ve had puppies, or rescues, there are always a few weeks wherein you have to take their precious faces and point it toward the pile of poop they so lovingly made in the dining room floor— again, and give them the gentle swat along with the firm, NO! This helps guide them in the ways of proper poop placement, when used alongside the HIGH value treats and insane amounts of praise whenever they poop in the great OUTdoors.
Perhaps we can buy the WaPo and NY Times a subscription to C&C and point their little faces toward their own excrement.
Multiplier, anyone?
I prefer their simple extinction due to the hard market reality that all enterprises that do not provide a credible product of value inevitably disappear.
I hope you’re talking abt the papers and not puppies! 🐶
😂😂😂
And if that doesn't work, use them for bird cage liners. 🦜
I so appreciate your posts - every. day. I can’t even do my housework until after I’ve read your post. 😂. I read the Midwestern Doctor for health info and your column for figuring out what’s going on in the country. Thanks so much!
Is this Midwestern Dr on Substack?
Yes, he is.
Midwestern Doctor is a she:)
Shhh...anonymity is paramount for MWD.
How do you know???
A couple of lines in about two posts she made it clear. Wish I'd kept them!
I have learned so much.
We should all get college credits for our online law class we attend each day! 😁
CEU's!😁
Civics and government as well
Some days we laugh, and some days there are tears of joy. Today’s post was filled with those joyful tears!
Well said Mini-mum. Me too tambien!
Trump always wins:
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1928468158215753911
Supreme Court rules Trump may revoke protected status of 500K migrants permitted entry by Biden Administration.
Except when he loses. Like when half the good things he does gets reversed in the courts. Or like when he hires people who are diametrically opposed to what he campaigned on, and then he wonders why they screwed him -and the country- over.
Agree! And I've shared his daily posts with many family and friends. With the exception of the TDS crowd, they've all become part of the C&C family. :D
There us certainly much to be said about the brighter side of things. The MSM reports nothing but doom and gloom, and any optimism they share, if I deigned to read what they write and air, is something thwarting or destroying anything that Trump has to offer. Their main narrative is "anything that stops Trump." Trump could go to their house, renovate it, completely revamp their lawn, service their car, buy them whole new wardrobes, set their kids up with private school, completely groom and provide food and a great environment for their pets, and there would be doom and gloom.
Well, they would probably sue after slipping on the new marble floors after an all night covid party.
Not only succinctly but also with unmatched humor! My husband and I are constantly reading our favorite metaphors and similes to each other every day that make us laugh.
I love Jeff’s metaphors and similes!! 😍 And his alliteration too!! 😁
Wednesday we'll welcome Weight Watchers wheat waffles with wotsa wasberry whipcream .
sorry..... just wanted to try to make up one of those awiterations . 😀😀
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Amen
Agree!
This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad and grateful for His Mercy on the American people. May our President do God’s Will on behalf of the American people.
I truly believe the Christians are praying fervently for our President.
True. It’s powerful 🙏
Yes! The first words out of my mouth after reading this was Praise the Lord!
They thought Christianity was dead. They thought wrong. We had simply lost our voice for awhile. President Trump simply showed us how to roar again. The leftists do not believe in God. That was their first mistake. We have donned the full armor of God and became His warriors again. What a Golden time to be alive, indeed. All the glory to Him who has given us and this beautiful country to live in His name sake. I couldn’t be more grateful than I am today. I’m beginning to think that my great grandchildren will be blessed far beyond what I have been! Prayers prayed are prayers answered!
Wrote this part verse this morning on my social post.
Amen.
God took 4 years off for the devastation and corruption of the Biden Pretendency?
God gave us the Biden debacle to show us what our lives would be like under an evil administration if we don’t turn back to
Him. We turned back to Him in prayer asking for His Mercy and He blessed us again.
Careful you don't throw your back out twisting rationalizations like a pretzel as you are.
Trump supports the mass-slaughter of Gazans by Zionist Israel.
Do you call THAT a "blessing"?
Against my better judgment I responded to your first post. I won’t make that mistake again.
Truth seems to repel the pompous "religious" more than Satan's breath.
Hypocrite much?
Amen 🙏 🇺🇸
Another example of the cancellation of “experts” is RFKJ determining that they wouldn’t publish in the journals any more.
They’ll publish their own data and not allow gatekeepers to prevent scientists from publishing their own papers. That gatekeeping used to keep scientists from finding anything against the narrative.
I wonder if the American Medical Association is next to fall. They’ve pulled the strings in medicine for a long time now.
That was my same thought when reading about the ABA. Next up, AMA please report for abandonment.
It will be awhile. As long as consumers only go for care that their insurance covers, it is safe. It all depends on how many are willing and able to pay out of pocket for the increasing number of practitioners of more natural healing approaches that standard health insurance will not pay for.
I pay my chiropractor out of pocket, rather than go through United Healthcare
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From your lips to RFK's ears. Just as the ABA is an association of, by, and FOR attorneys, the AMA is an association of, by, and FOR doctors. I am convinced that both associations' mission is to cover each others' asses. Both associations need a wake-up call. Or two...
Two - one for each flabby butt cheek
They certainly should fall.
and the AVMA as well. They are part and parcel to One Health and in cohoots with the medical lobbies. They are also extremely anti MAGA.
SNIP, SNIP! ✂️✂️✂️✂️
That's awesome! :)
I learned early in my career as a dental hygienist the AMA is one powerful lobby with the ADA right behind. Money talks but I pray the mouth of Satan is shut by the power of God.
Now that would be beautiful to watch!
How sweet that would be! I am thrilled with the things that the Independent Medical Alliance is doing. (Formerly FLCCC).
After their complicity in pushing clot shots and mutilating children’s genitalia, the time to end their arrogant fiefdom has never been more ripe.
Yeah, this is huge. Big Pharma essentially owns these journals and their editors. The studies contained within are funded by pharma. How can these studies be impartial?
Agreed. During my working days I watched journal change from information centers to catalogs. I was distressed about that 30 years ago.
There is no such thing as being unbiased. That’s why we have the scientific process, and research must be reproducible.
“Radical Transparency”, to quote RFK J, is the only way to go. Full disclosure at the top of any published study, identifying all funding sources, including exact amounts, and all payments and remunerations received from any of the researchers. Plus, any and all conflict of interest.
The Trump Team "Full disclosure" does not include the Epstein, 911 or JFK files...
Wonder why? Ask Mossad and AIPAC.
Yes, this goes back way further than COVID. I had a project in the early Obama years where I got diverted into a rabbit hole about the fate of scientists who dared push back on the climate change narrative. Most of them kissed their careers good-bye, or folded in order to keep them.
I will never forget the following quote because it rings more true today than ever. Tom Cowan included it in his book “Cancer and the New Biology of Water” a number of years ago:
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.”
― Marcia Angell
And those opposed paint the fear we are supposed to have: “…but, but, that would make the government the gatekeepers of science! Do we really want them to hold the reins to such a power?”
To which I would reply “that’s exactly what they have done with the HHS, NIH, FDA, etc all these years. Those opposed to Kennedy breaking us free from the journals prefer government gatekeeping controlled by selected cabals. Even if they don’t realize it. Besides, even if Democrats try to wield that the next time they get into power, it won’t work. What Kennedy is doing leaves the windows of dissent wide open, and keeps the science that the government relies on transparent to the public and able to be challenged by any expert. We certainly have NOT had that in over 50 years. I see no downside to this.”
Great news. 😀😀
Yes! This is so vital important to the survival of the human species!
‘Times staffers floating face down in their lattes’. Another classic Jeff-ism and I’m here for them!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hahaha…that one got me too. Jeff’s wit strikes me as the result of a gene splice amplifying the sarcastic humor of Dave Barry with the biting cultural insight of Mark TWAIN wrapped in a Shakespearean ability to coin phrases in the English language…result of which is writing that makes me laugh out loud, praise God, and continue to fight, fight, fight. 😁
I liked "suffered from premature celebration". :)
I giggled at that one……🤭🤭
Yep! Got a strong visual on that one .... lol!
Loved that one!
“But he isn’t fighting, he’s carving them up like the knight[s] who said [say] “Ni.” Less scalpel, more greatsword.”
Setting aside John Cleese’s currently insufferable case of TDS, any reference to the Monty Python classic immediately evokes snorts and guffaws. “All right, we’ll call it a draw.”
“It’s only a flesh wound!”
😂
Yes! 🤣
It’s just a flesh wound!
There’s a shade of PJ O’Rourke in there too
You've nailed it.
What I came to laugh about again..."Unmoored! Gasping! Hope, evaporating! Sources Say Times Staffers Found Floating Face-Down in Their Lattes, Whispering “IEEPA.” 🤣
Say it again. 😂
If they were floating face-down in their lattes, wouldn't they be saying "Blub, blub, blub?"
Blub-IEEPA-blub blub °°°
😂😂🤣
I’m surprised he didn’t say “soy lattes.” 😏
Oh! Even better!
I would never presume to improve on Jeff's stellar humor. 😬
Or Niles Crane’s decaf low foam latte!
It’s oat milk these days isn’t it? 😉
😂
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light (for the fruit of that light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them.
— Ephesians 5:6-11 LSB
I’m reading David Jeremiah’s book the world of the end. In particular I am reading the chapter on in a world of deception be honest.
His videos on the same topic are also awesome
Thank you, Janice
I’ll have to check him out. I need something good to listen to while walking. Thank you!
Yes, this is part of our calling. We cannot walk in the same pattern as the world in either thought or deed, as it dishonors the One who saved us.
"...that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God." Colossians 1:10
The works of A.W. Tozer speak to this.
Tozer is one of my favorite writers.
Amen!!!
AMEN!
Trump and his cabinet are kicking butt. It an amazing thing to witness, one for the history books. Now we need the GOP-led House and Senate to get off their arses and start codifying Trump's EOs and DOGE cuts into law. They are the only drag on the system right now.
From your keyboard to God’s ears! Please let them codify! Sadly, Congress needs a hefty overhaul as well.
We've always known, but DOGE has made it crystal clear the the republicans in congress are our enemy.
Keep the pressure on! Call, email, etc.
Amen! Unless Trump's EOs are made into law, we'll see every last one of Trump's EOs disappear. "They" have an ongoing spreadsheet of each one of them, ready to reverse on day one if/when re-elected.
They are definitely holding things back. But, not the only drag, as the Swarm is a very large swamp . That is why attacks are needed simultaneously at many different points:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3Nf6xjeFs (Dr Shiva explains the Swarm )
Thanks for sharing this great video by Dr. Shiva (and indicating what the video is about while posting - I hesitate to click on "surprise" videos).
Huge drag on the system, but perhaps not the only drag. I’m starting to wonder whether John Ratliff plans to step up and claim his place in history, along with the stand-outs on Trump’s team. He’s way too quiet for my taste. I hope he’s doing something to slay the biggest dragon of all and NOT just biding his time to avoid being suicided.
Moderna's demise (and Pfizer's) cannot come quickly enough. I know some very fit and health conscious guys in their mid-70's who are planning on getting the latest booster. It is so very sad and maddening.
The entire mRNA platform needs to be permanently banned.
And...what's your replacement?
Why on earth would we WANT a replacement?? The entire vaccine religion is based on lies. Sanitation and plentiful food are what eradicated diseases, not injections of any toxic poison.
You WILL want a replacement WITHOUT injecting toxic crap into your body when you get sick. I use Energy Density Frequency Medicine. It knocks out colds, flu, Covid, etc in about 10 minutes.
I only meant that I do not want to *replace* the mRNA “vaccine” platform with any other “vaccine” platform. Replacing one toxic shot with a different style of toxic shot still seems to be the goal of some who are devout believers in the vaxecution ideology, but who have soured on the mRNA platform. They think other vaxes can be “safe and effective.”
I assume you meant that. Do YOU have a substitute?
Healing frequencies have been a boon to my healing from sciatica and trimalleolar fracture. Homeopathic remedies from Boiron were also helpful. I’m saving my doctor prescribed opiates (which I never took) in case I need to sell them on the streets to make a mortgage payment 🤣
Homeopathic remedies are not Energy Density Frequency Medicine.
Improve and maintain a high functioning immune system…
👍😉https://www.faim.org/what-is-energy-medicine
I also have the Rife Handbook.
The Rife Handbook is all about Sympathetic Resonance Frequency Medicine. Energy Density Frequency Medicine is the more advanced version of Frequency Medicine. It works 10 times faster and cost 1/10 as much. Here is a link to see 4 videos about it, totaling 23 minutes.
https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/54f8f26d-36b0-456e-9736-d3655d0a1a46
How can I get this info onto the faim.org website??? You can contact me at harmonicresearch@gmail.com.
Gee, I don’t know, Sir Jeff. Maybe protect the public from “vaccines” until their very wealthy pushers of these drugs produce double-blind studies that are replicable by real government scientists who do not receive their FDA paycheck from an account funded by said drug companies? Maybe make the pushers spend their own profits instead of taxpayer dollars to prove beyond reasonable doubts their products are safe, and then verify their results with scientists who aren’t on a hiatus from the very drug company pushing the vaccine. Maybe polling real doctors about real life observations with similar drugs and allowing real practicing doctors to honestly participate in the review process without the threat of being systematically discredited by reputation destroyers hired by companies like Moderna? Just spitballin’ here.
Barrons article today: "Moderna is Imperiled by Kennedy's Health Department. It May Run Out Of Cash". B double O, H double O.
Agree 💯. I know people who work at pfizer and they do not care one bit about all the damage their company has done. Only care about their 401k and paycheck. They think that they provide a great service and are dismissive of those who don't agree.
Very few, if ANY Pfizer or Moderna employees took the death jabs. No mandates.
I'm betting they were warned off them by management. EVIL companies.
Pfizer reassured the public that their employees had their “own batch.”
Ah... the finest saline, eh?
bastards.
I'm looking for mentally fit...
They are mentally fit as well as physically fit but they are unaware of the danger of the jabs.
Therefore deranged and definitely NOT mentally fit.
😀 Bless your heart.
Sorry, but WTH? 🤦♀️
It does stink to know people are still doing this and you can't change their minds. That same day that these guys said this I was sitting behind a lady in a class - she was overweight and I'm guessing in her mid-fifties - she was telling the lady next to her how she had just gotten her booster. 🤯
".....distilled to a psychological payload."
THIS is why I never miss a post. Phenomenal writing - you have the gift, Jeff.
Yup, he's beyond good.
i do believe that Jeff had one of those Bob Dylan moments when writing today. An inspiration coming from the Deepest Depths.... defying description !
Flowing from the keyboard to the frying pans of our minds ........
FDR and his cabinet were communists. DJT is reversing a century of subversion. LKY (Lee Kuan Yew) is one of the most underrated anti-communist statesmen of the 20th century: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/lee-kuan-yew-based-quotes
Sadly those who don’t know history will take Jeff’s comparison with FDR as a good thing when in fact he destroyed the country. His death was his best contribution. My Jewish parents and grandparents generation thought he was someone just short of HaShem himself when in fact he hated Jews, prolonged the Holocaust, refused Europeans Jews entry during the war and sent ship loads back to Germany to be slaughtered. Before the war his policies prolonged the depression. His myth is as phony as Obama
It’s comparison in strength only.
Trump is the ANTI-FDR
At a family gathering, a recent NYU graduate extolled the “virtues” of (as Jeff would say, I’m not making this up) LBJ, for “passing the Civil Rights Act”. Graduate degree from NYU whose understanding of the Civil Rights Act is that LBJ is the hero in the story and Blacks in American are all the better for it.
I have a three volume bio of LBJ I’d love to send him. Just might change his mind. But I imagine his mind Is beyond repair
I agree. Something about spending the rest of her life paying for that edumacation will never allow her to see it any other way. I did suggest she read some Thomas Sowell for a brilliant Black American’s perspective on the subject.
Interesting book... care to comment on it?
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BreakingTheSpell-Kollerstrom.pdf
Speaking of "PHONY"!
Henry Morgenthau, a Jew, was Secretary of the Treasury from 1934 until Roosevelt's death in 1945. Morgenthau was only the second Jew to serve in a presidential cabinet position. The first was under FDR's cousin, Teddy. The 1924 Immigration Act severely restricted immigration to the United States. The U.S. policy on immigration was similar to President Trump's today. With regards to "those who don't know history" ....
He was a nominal Jew. Jino
Oops wrong Jew but they all believed. No different than the blacks or any one who is racist. Not all but one to many.
Wow. Pecos……you lumping all Jews into one basket tells me a lot about you.
The Communist party was led by Jews internationally and American Jews vote 80% leftist today, second only to black voters. Get over it.
… none of it good.
Jewish people doesn't necessarily mean ALL Jewish people, it could mean two Jewish people.
You paint with broad racist brush
"In every disaster throughout American, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it" Tomas Sowell:
𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚: 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬
Hamas University (The Isis of the East), Mein Context (Harvard University Press), Veritas or “Truth” (w/ some exceptions), every American disaster has a Harvard man in the middle & more Harvard memes!
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/educationsteria-best-harvard-memes
I agree there is a good analogy to FDR in terms of the unified group of serious talent, but what Trump is destroying is not what FDR built. Most of what FDR built was to be a counterweight to the cartels that had been running the country. The oligarchs of his day hated him, including the Dulles brother who later enhanced the CIA for their benefit. Joe Kennedy as the first SEC chairman was the first to prohibit insider trading, to help small investors against the cartel big boys. What happened afterwards was that the cartels got inside the structure that FDR’s government created and expanded it to suit their own purposes.
Yes. I think it built the middle class, and put an end to child labor, and sweat shops. I also think Social Security prevents hunger and poverty for many old people. Yes, we need to trim waste fraud and abuse, but we don’t need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
FDR took my hungry and homeless parents and made their lives better. My mom was a child, but my dad, as a teenager, found work in the CCC and helped build a national park, one of many built in those days. The CCC planted a billion trees, both as windbreaks to help stop the rampant soil destruction, and as parks.
The WPA built bridges, electrical plants, post offices, and other infrastructure that turned the USA from a poverty stricken wasteland into a modern country.
Why non-oligarchs hate him I have no idea. He was elected four times because the vast majority of Americans were better off after the New Deal. Our ruling overlords passed the term restriction because they wanted to make sure that there would never again be a popular president that actually accomplished things.
Mrs. RW
Yes, and I’m now wondering whether all the new hating of FDR has been a psyop. Eisenhower warned us that things had changed with the war buildup. That doesn’t mean that FDR wasn’t a hero. It’s what happened after that.
Eisenhower... not the hero everyone thinks he was...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jzQWYRcv7bYl/
FDR was a corrupt, self-serving maggot. He forced America into WWII, a war that we should have never fought. HE did this for his personal benefit, much like another cockroach, Churchill.
Hitler was painted as a demon, when he actually was a great leader who wanted peace, but was forced into war. He despised the communists.
FDR was a communist, in all but name. His administration was a disaster.
Also, according to Mike Benz, USAID paid the ABA tens of millions (probably hundreds of millions when all added up) that has also evaporated.
"Where past presidents tried to move the needle, Trump is ripping the gauge off the dashboard and replacing it with a black and gold MAGA sticker." BOOM! Absolutely brilliant!
Trump's biggest mistake is funding nuclear reactors that permanently poison the land and make Cancer rates skyrocket. There are a half dozen free energy patents already recorded, ready to build, if we could get "Big Oil" out of the way.
Nuclear is definitely a double edged sword. I also worry about terrorist attacks on nuclear power plants.
But isn’t that the beauty of Trump? He DOES keep going. And he DOES keep winning. He doesn’t ever stop. He doesn’t stop in the evenings. He doesn’t stop on weekends. He sticks to his moral and ethical code and he just. Keeps. Going. That the lunatic left has not figured out this mighty morsel just yet, is a mighty mystery to me. He’s more than the energizer bunny. I can’t think of a metaphor. I’m sure Jeff can think of one that’s apropos. But my goodness. Always. Winning. I’ll take it. For the next four years and hopefully more!
They say he hardly even sleeps.
While we sleep, he works. Amazing.
Not sleeping is not a virtue. It can quickly lead to psychosis. I think DJT promotes this trait as a sign of strength but I sure hope he's bluffing. We need him at 100%, and that requires good sleep.
His physical and cognitive tests show he is just fine so what he is doing is working for him.
He is on two statins and I wish he would stop taking them.
Why hasn't RFK told him to get the hell off of them and stop eating McDonalds....
Don't know...statins are so destructive.
I did not know this. Where did you read about his statin prescription?
I think it might have been on X because they were referring to his health physical and the prescription drugs he was on.
I hate using Yahoo as a link, but this article lists the statins he takes.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/donald-trumps-annual-physical-exam-160041439.html
Some people don’t need as much as others. Thomas Edison famously only slept a couple of hours a day.
If I had that other 6-8 hours to be successful (I like 8-9 hours best) I might have invented a light bulb too. 😊
Also, the late Phil Donohue... said to have 4 hours a night. I think that some folks are God-driven and therefore taken care of (unless they get un-alived like JFK).
Tesla was also noted for sleeping for only a few hours. My theory is that people with very active minds that are accomplishing what they set out to do, don’t require as much sleep to repair the frustration of not winning. While I was working, if I was crunching through my “ To Do” list, I would be so energized that I could work continuously for 3 days. I called it my Adrenaline Fueled Energy Push.
That will take a physical & mental toll
Maybe. Maybe not. Most people who work as hard as him do alcohol or drugs daily. And they are usually ladened with stress and a guilty conscience. Those are the things that beat down our health, not hard work.
I don’t see Trump as stressed. When you follow your heart and the truth, the path is easy. Maybe the path God was talking about is the one that impacts our health and longevity, and not the one that’s winding through the battlefield, which is never easy.
I think you are exactly right.
I understand.
Yes that’s worrisome.
He is the definition of UNSTOPPABLE.
MAGA-MAHA-DOGE
That’s a good chant!
And in the process exposing the traitors, rot and evil in our government and institutions for all to see.
Trump 45 created Trump 47. He learned valuable lessons the first go-round. In essence, the steal of 2020 created the Lefts’ worst nightmare. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
His moral code has him fully supporting Israel's mass-murder, starvation campaign and land thefts in Gaza?
His bombing of Yemen was a blatant war crime. His continued support of the malignant, corrupt swine of Ukraine is appalling.
WRT the ABA being thrown to the curb like so much garbage…GOOD!
When I was in law school in the mid-‘80s, ABA membership was pushed on us. I knew then that it was a liberal-leaning organization, so I never joined. Besides, almost all professional advocacy organizations tend toward arrogance and privilege within their profession, and I am opposed to elitism by nature. Well, the ABA has gotten much worse in terms of its political bias, so I am thrilled that they are out of the business of deciding - any more than other mere citizens - who will sit on our courts. God bless Trump!
Same with the AMA! They got way to big for their britches long ago! Thankful my husband saw their garbage as just that and never joined! The same thing needs to happen to that organization, pull their big pHARMa funding and send them out with the trash. We need a new ABA and AMA minus the grift!
Next in line: AMA, AAP, ADA, APhA, etc etc etc! Let’s Goooooo!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Teacher's Unions are similar - and worse because they're one of the few ways to get the necessary insurance that keeps a teacher from losing everything if/when they're sued for doing their jobs.
Just like teachers being pushed to join ultra liberal teaching unions
ABA/AMA/AVMA (and the list goes on) deserve to be deposited into the local landfill.
While Trump might be "always winning," isn't he also greenlighting large 2 trillion dollar spending policies? I am glad he is using tariffs and other methods to make America great again, but shouldn't part of making America great again be getting our spending under control? We can't spend our way out of a deficit, can we?
I think we’re going to be fine. According to Scott Bessent in his interview with Fox, he believes we will “grow” our way out of debt:
“You’re referring to the [Congressional Budget Office] scoring, which is 10-year scoring and it’s D.C.-style scoring,” Bessent said, clearing his throat. “We think that we can both grow the economy and control the debt.”
“What’s important, Bill, is that the economy grows faster than the debt,” Bessent told Fox Host Bill Hemmer. “So what I would tell your viewers to focus on, is what I’m focused on, is what [former] Secretary [Janet] Yellen was focused on, is what is total debt to GDP.
“We can grow our way out of this. If we change the growth trajectory of the country, of the economy, then we will stabilize our finances and grow our way out of this,” Bessent added.
I heard about this argument on the Dave Smith podcast "Part of the Problem," and part of the problem with that is that the government looks at "money earned through growth as more money to spend." Heck the government even operates under this principle in that each different department knows it has to spend what it is allocated or else it will lose it in subsequent years. So the government's way is to at least maintain if not expand, spending. When the incentive should be to throttle back, and essentially stop it, shouldn't it?
Why is there even a debt ceiling if we aren't going to acknowledge it?
That's like me saying "I'm only going to limit myself to one donut" and then take three. Next time, I will limit it to three, and take five, and so on and so on.
If conservatives truly are the party of limited government, which I think should be appended to "limited government expansion," then let's actually do what it takes to do this, and that is limit spending.
I thought that DOGE had a great start and now just sort of petered out. I was hoping to see the first of many across the lines, bloatware cuts in government. It's pretty sad when the bellwether cry now is "at least get it back to pre-COVID spending."
Yes, supposedly the Reagan tax cuts led to a huge increase in revenue due to growth in the economy in the private sector. But then his huge outlays in defense and other spending nullified the benefit. I am a Dave Ramsey fan and one of his observations about human nature is 'you can't out-earn your stupidity' - in other words, the more you make, the more you spend and the mistakes just end up with more zeroes on the end of them.
Yes, and I'm sad to see Elon Musk go quietly without having been allowed to accomplish his DOGE goal of trillions (whittled down to a fraction of that).
This, exactly, especially the first few sentences! Use it or lose it. More people you manage, the higher your salary and the more influence you peddle.
The only way this works, at least for a couple decades, is if the fraud purged is half the entire spending and it's eliminated. THAT combined with these policies would truly make the country rich. Well, until the politicians ramp up spending enough to put us back in a hole and approve another scamdemic, genocidal psyop...
Bessent is way smarter than me and I like what he says, but growing your way out of debt is a risky proposition. It has been done in the private sector successfully a few times (Think Amazon). I am not sure it has or ever will be done in the public sector. One has to make huge assumptions that current and future administrations will act responsibly and market conditions will be optimal for industries to maximize profits. That is a small needle hole to thread.
Growing our way out of debt simply will NOT happen.
Massive inflation or default... no other choices.
And it probably includes shrinking our money…
Republicans always say “we can grow our way out of this”. It’s never worked in the past so why would anybody think it would work now? And Bessent is a gay, lying, POS!
Republicans have long been the party of all talk no action. Right now, I’m seeing a lot of action behind the talk. So I do remain hopeful.
He's a former Soros hedge fund manager. You can totally trust him.
Trump hires Bessent and meets with Bill Gates and Albert Bourla after the election. I have to wonder who’s side is he on, because that’s not MAGA.
Agree. Powering through the layers of bureaucrats to enact reform is refreshing - but the spending is controlled by Congress who has to get their pet (help my re-election chances) projects and programs funded as payment for signing on to the Trump agenda. Not to mention an electorate who may claim MAGA status but woe to anyone who guts any spending that benefits them. Elephant in the room is that fiscal conservatism is not really on the table.
One aspect of human nature we see time and time again is this idea of "cutting someone else's spending." It is what leads to the "for thee and not for me" rules. And we all share it.
My simple example is a movie theater where you know that other people talking and looking on their phones is distracting, but when I do, its okay because it's a legitimate reason. The same thing applies to spending bills.
Yep how many R's took PPP 'loans'? I refused despite getting calls from banker friends offering to help and despite my business going in the tank for half of 2020 until I could work out new revenue streams. Felt hypocritical to rail about gov't handouts and then turn around and take one.
Well, since the government was the entity forcing businesses to close because of stupid Covid policies, at least it made some sense to compensate businesses for the losses they then incurred. So imo it’s not a typical handout. None of that should’ve happened in the first place though.
True, but the point is - there are an awful lot of people who look to a gov solution to every problem we have in society. Cutting off SNAP is 'lacking compassion' for those who would go hungry. People think school lunches should be free to all. Many say HC is a 'right' - even if it's not enumerated as such in the Constitution. Fed gov provides insurance for people who live in flood prone areas/beach homes in hurricane areas. (and that program pays out more than it takes in premiums) There is a push in my state to subsidize day care as we have a 'child care crisis' (instead of getting rid of the massive number of regs it takes to open a daycare in the first place). And on and on. And once a program gets started, it's nearly impossible to claw it back.
In the case of the PPP loans, yes, it was a problem CREATED by the gov that then had to be SOLVED by the gov. I am self employed but if I had employees I probably would have taken the money, as they would have been depending on me for a paycheck and there was no revenue for several months to pay them. But I went through that loan database pretty extensively - I had several work projects where I needed company employment data and the PPP loan database was gold for that as they had to list the # of employees in the application. Lots of businesses who were open during the covid episode still took the funds. And have seen several cases of people prosecuted for fraud. Any time the gov throws massive dollars at something there are those who will grift.
Oh I completely agree with all of your points. I just don’t blame people who used the loans to keep their businesses afloat during that time. Still, as you mentioned, every program ostensibly has “good intentions” but inevitably is abused. Not to mention being continued long after its usefulness has diminished and creating more problems than it solves 😕
Your comment makes me think it would be a good idea to allow people to opt in (or op out) of any tax cuts that might be coming our way. That way, those who think we'll be doomed by cutting off tax revenue can choose to keep paying their taxes. I don't want them to be put into a spot where they feel hypocritical about the situation!
Turn off the darn money spigot for cloud seeding already. Why, after all the cuts and laws, is this still going on in full force? Who has set their mind to doing this until the bitter end? Probably military, hopefully not part of that golden dome defense thingy
$2 trillion is a bald faced lie. The CBO scored it as if the extension of the previous Trump tax cuts are an additional increase to the deficit.
The entire premise of the CBO scoring taxes as having no effect on the economy is such known nonsense, it would fully justify eliminating the department.
They know they’re lying; Congress knows they’re lying; We know they’re lying, yet they continue to lie.
Get rid of them.
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He's been making Israel great again... via supporting their mass-slaughter, land thefts and many many war crimes.
Hamas started a war and Israel is finishing it. FAFO.
Do some research, eunuch... Oct 7 was an IDF False Flag, they knew the goofy attack was coming, but refused to stop it, then used it as justification for the long-planned mass-slaughter and land thefts. 1,200 jews dead, over half killed by the IDF. Israeli media Haaretz admits this. Over 100,000 innocent Palestinians murdered... so far... All of Gaza in ruins, all hospitals and schools destroyed. Now Israel is starving them all to death.
You PROUD of that, asshole?
I hope Israel attacks Iran on their own (the cowards want America to fight their wars)... they will be slaughtered. FAFO.
Newsflash: they couldn't care less.
Sadly you’re right…
Jeff’s simile of the day:
“…the New York Times suffered a tragic narrative embolism after the Federal Circuit rebooted Trump’s tariff terminal and put the batteries back in “
“It despairingly dropped the champagne flute from its nerveless fingers. The doctors diagnosed premature celebration.”
"Premature celebration" was the best ☺️
“What we are witnessing isn’t chaos; it’s choreography. And the tempo is accelerating.”
Mr. Childers, you are amazing! Your choice of words to get a point across is fabulous! Thank you for your faithfulness in writing “Coffee and Covid” every day. You are a national treasure to us. God bless you and yours abundantly!