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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

We need the SAVE Act ASAP. RINOs are betraying the base and giving the communists a life line. Need to do a deep dive on how to reform the RNC. Cronies like Cornyn, Murkowski, and Thune are part of the swamp problem. Obama commissars continue to fund demoralization in politics and culture: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/obama-met-rubio-butterfield-patronage-audacity

Katie's avatar

Texas here!! Working on voting out Cornyn.

CMCM's avatar
May 7Edited

Not just Texas....their end game is to take over all Western countries and make them Islamic. They're doing it through by mass immigration and then they populate like rabbits. This is how they intend to gain the numbers. I saw a video clip in French about a migrant from some backwards Islamic country and he was now in France, and he had at least a couple of wives already and maybe 5 children, but he himself said his goal was more wives and to have at least 20 children. This guy is illiterate, has no skills, doesn't work and is living entirely off the French welfare system. This is exactly how they take over. They're doing it in France, in Germany, in the Scandinavian countries, in the U.K. and they want to do it here as well.

I've also heard several Muslim clerics in the U.K. and several other countries say quite seriously, "We're not here to assimilate. We're here to take over." While the Western liberals are patting themselves on the back about their compassion and tolerance for other cultures, and how wonderful diversity is, they are destroying their own cultures and don't even see it. When the Muslims have taken over, and if things continue like they are right now, they WILL take over, the liberals will eventually realize that there will be NO diversity under Islamic dominance. It will be a matter of convert or die.

If you read about Muslim history from about 700 A.D. onwards, their history is one of conquest. They used to accomplish that through warfare, but I've also heard them say now they do it through population and migration, and the countries they take over will basically allow it to happen over time.

nancy roberts's avatar

I heard a former Muslim, now a redeemed follower of Jesus who said their plan is 3-fold for conquering the world.

1. The womb. Have as many children as possible

2. Muhajara/alhijara=emigration/migration

3. To use their pathetic freedoms against them.

Sound familiar anyone?

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

There’s actually two more.

The pen: Lying through written word to fool infidels as to the true intentions of Islam through writings.

The Tongue: Spread lies about the true intentions of Islam through speech.

Their faith teaches their followers that it is OK to deceive infidels if it furthers their faith. (Taqiyya)

nancy roberts's avatar

Yes indeed, HWB. you are so right. This country is so ripe for the spread of too. So much to say about it all.

Willing Spirit's avatar

You’re preaching to the choir here. I figure if they can take Texas and set legal precedents in what is considered a deep red state, they’ll build on that across the country.

That parable about letting the camel get its nose under the tent is very apt.

Steve Stevens's avatar

Wow, he’s finally going to do something! He’s the reason they’re taking over down there in the first place!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/syed-javaid-anwar-greg-abbotts-top-muslim-donor/

He ignored the border until the 2024 election year!

Willing Spirit's avatar

Oh, shut up, you divisive blowhard!

Steve Stevens's avatar

Truth hurts I guess.🤷‍♂️

kooderpincher's avatar

Lol its an election year...

Willing Spirit's avatar

‘Kooderpincher’😂🤣😂. I see what you did there.

SD Scott's avatar

If they take TX, there goes 2A.

It’s definitely an invasion.

Kathryn Dewalt's avatar

Amen! They're like cockroaches and can find a way in cracks in walls and under doors where only a sheet of paper would fit

Monterey's avatar

Yes! I don't live in Texas but I sent Paxton a donation Anyway. I invite anyone reading this to send him a donation of any size to help the cause.

Craig Miller's avatar

I live in WA. I already sent him a donation.

Monterey's avatar

Same here. I'm really hoping. Judge Dave Larson wins his Supreme Court Justice seat. There's another good candidate for a different seat on the Supreme Court named Sean O'Donnell that I hope also wins.

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

Y’all got lots of pasture! Maybe Ol’ John’ll like the grazing once ya put ‘m there! Not much harder work than he’s doing now.😄

Don’t mess with Texas!! I miss my adopted homeland!!

J. Lincoln's avatar

Surgical removal of all of the Obamarrhoids should be Part A of Plan One.

kooderpincher's avatar

If you look at project veritas lately, O'Keefe caught Dems planning to run as Republicans…

https://substack.com/@justindeschamps/note/c-254170446?r=yw8m7

Democrats running as Republicans in local elections. I can't make this stuff up.

Patty's avatar

When we lived in Tennessee, an active local republican woman told me that most everybody (including Democrats) needed to run as Republicans, or they’d never win in a red state like TN. This is what creates rinos and a uniparty.

Lori's avatar

then we best doge the candidates going back to their pasts to see who they really are before we vote.

Freedom Fox's avatar

All Jeff writes is fine and good. But what evidence do we have of any (s)election result since 2024 that it's all true, that R's will prevail in November, 2026 and 2028?

I've seen none. Not one R taking any D seat. Many D's taking R seats. Many holds. But no R momentum, shift is discernable in results.

AND election integrity has not been fixed. No systemic changes to prevent S-election of winners. Voting machines still rigged, unsecure mail ballots, postal malfeasance, not one thing has been fixed from 2020 or even before.

AND R's have done NOTHING to earn voter support. It has been governance by executive order. NOTHING Trump has done will survive the next Autopen. Do-NOTHING con-gress.

Sorry to be a buzzkill from the hopium Jeff shared, I wish it was all true. But there is 'no credible evidence' that voter sentiment will translate into good results. There's work to be done.

Camille Brodie's avatar

Well, hell!.

Unfortunately there are kernels of truth in your opinion; except for a "particular" little gem. The reason for all the EOs is because of our Senate and House. Without the EOs nothing would have happened/change. We almost a clean sweep of BOTH houses of congress (no capitalization on purpose).

Cousin Clem's avatar

Unfortunately, I see that as well. They couldn't even pass a bill for common sense election rules. Nothing radical.

Lori's avatar

Always work to be done but I chose optimism and leave it to the dems to be debbie downers. Keep the faith FF, this is all too important not to!

Bitsy54's avatar

Sounds like South Carolina….the cheating is a feature not a flaw

SD Scott's avatar

Trans politicians.

Steve Stevens's avatar

Maybe some.

Nowadays people refer to RINOs as any Republican who isn’t on board with Trump’s agenda. When in reality, prior to Trump, they would be considered your average everyday Republican.

God Bless America's avatar

That was Kay Ivey, governor of Alabama… 🤮

JT Hawk's avatar

Democrats always run as, at the very least, "moderates", mouthing policies and political beliefs that sound very similar to those of Republicans. Then when elected they throw off their sheep's costumes and let the wolves out. Colorado learned this the year Polis was elected, when every Democrat was the mildest, most moderate, reasonable, nearly-conservative candidate imaginable. And within DAYS of taking over the state they gutted its most productive economic engine, petroleum, and enacted a whole slew of radical Progressive policies. They had clearly been colluding before the election, as they hit the ground running with fully developed radical Leftist policies and bills, and the state has been in a death spiral ever since.

"Communism is the only ideology that must pretend to be something else in order to survive."

Carol M's avatar

Watch the documentary “Rocky Mountain Heist” which details the blue takeover of Colorado. This is their playbook….

PonyBoy's avatar

Blue waves have totally destroyed many beautiful states in this nation of ours.

Planting their political party next to the Whigs has now become a necessity.

DS's avatar

Including the Left Coast states of Washington, Oregon & CA. Very sad!

JT Hawk's avatar

Thanks. I will check that out. There was a book a few years ago that detailed a Leftist plan to use Colorado as a test for a strategy to flip a state. Maybe that book is referenced in the documentary.

Pat Wetzel's avatar

Will check it out. Thx.

John Oh's avatar

add abigale spanberger and virginia

Elaine Russky's avatar

In my college days, I worked in Colorado most summers. This would be in the late 60s and early 70s (the years, not my age). I thought Colorado represented some kind of weird aberration. No one had told me about Democrats. "I was going to tell you when you were older," my mother explained. I was 18 at the time and she wasn't sure I could handle it.

Truth Seeker's avatar

same in VA, however Indiana primaried RINOS a day ago

David Nelson's avatar

Democrats running as Republicans??!

That's been done to death, see RINO.

MaryAnn's avatar

In my hometown in IL, the Repubs run as Dems to get elected. Staying center, neither left nor right, keeps them in office/employed which is the officials’ sole focus.

JT Hawk's avatar

Not just "sole focus"----there is a lot of political power linked to which party has the most people in office.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Is there a difference?

All the same.

Polycrisis is manufactured by the media to program the sheep. Yay we're winning.

Nixon stepping down was the result of a coup against him by the military and General Hague.

Same power centers exist.

SD Scott's avatar

Republicans in Congress betrayed him.

Doing same to DJT.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Nixon opened to China.

Both compromised.

Part of the job.

WP William's avatar

Colorado Dem AG Candidate; a Labor Lawyer Nonprofit head David Seligman on a working class am radio interview, squawking with positive Buzzwords; "working families", "kids", "small businesses". And Negative Buzzwords: "Corporations", "Two-tiered justice", "Wealthy class". Reluctantly allowing the term Progressive to be used to define his Radical Left Extremism. He insists we have similar values and need to fight off the Big Tech surveillance trillionaires who're taking our wealth, futures and freedoms. He's sued Trump and Polis, but He'll certainly get his a*s beat by Jena Griswold in their primary, as she's worked hard to build her Cult following with credibility in defending Dominion Voting, working with RINOs to remove Trump from the ballot, leaking passwords and getting away with every other corrupt thing as SOS. CO Dem Media working the nefarious "Dark Money Billionaire" angle hard against any effective Republican opposition. Of course they're funded by Billionaire Dark Money to do so, but their propagandized voter base loves to think that grandmas use their savings to bus themselves to "No Kings!" rallies, and fund slick hit pieces by Colorado Times Recorder on Phil Anschutz and Advance Colorado for destroying Democracy and ruining Colorado. ALL FAKE ALL the Time, anything to Hold and expand Power. And anything it takes to attack the anti-Leftist Counter Revolutionaries.

Elaine Russky's avatar

"Families" is a major buzzword for both parties, even though approximately 36% of all U.S. households were classified as "nonfamily households" in the 2022 census, meaning they consisted of people living alone or with non-relatives. That's how far out of touch politicians are.

WP William's avatar

yes, actively work to fracture families, institutions, and society, then sell the notion of fixing it, restoring it, and funding-nurturing mental health and everything else caused by the trauma by the Cultists running the system.

JT Hawk's avatar

He's still a Dem and will obediently bend the knee to the party. Griswold as AG is a terrifying prospect. I'm hoping Victor Marx will run a solid campaign, outlining the true structure of Leftism and running against IT instead of the PEOPLE representing it.

WP William's avatar

Yes, words like democracy, family, work, fairness, and justice are all malleable to Marxists to achieve their larger aims. Billionaire-Oligarch Corruption and Tech Surveillance are only called out as beings bad things if they're opposing Communism--(but not really); as EVENTUALLY they'll inevitably be taken over and used for the Revolution. So helping out a few oppressed Plebian Proles and Middle-Classers along the way is ironically part of the struggle to one day fully enslave or destroy them.

Dena's avatar

The recent election in Indiana rooted out some of those Rino’s.

David K Thiel's avatar

Many years ago when I was in law school in Oklahoma I kept my party affiliation to myself. I was in a study group. One member of the group was a Democrat party operative. He talked often about Ds running as Rs because a D could not get elected in Oklahoma at the time. Now in south Texas there are many Rs in the state congress that are definitely RINOs.

Lori's avatar

does not surprise me.

Marty Kiner's avatar

Open primaries are part of the problem. In Michigan primary you have to vote straight ticket but you can decide to vote all republican or all democrat.

Bitsy54's avatar

South Carolina has the most retarded voting system. There is no such thing as registering for a party. Primaries are OPEN FOR ANYONE. DemonRats here love to have unopposed candidates, which free them up to louse up Republican primaries by voting for the worst candidate. Some of us even ponder the idea that the Demons will run a fake Republican so they can vote in a known RINO. The Colluding Cabal of Columbia refuses to fix this glaring example of stupidity….after voting closed primaries down for 19 years!

Angela's avatar

We've had that in a couple of county wide elections in central IN. Our current sherriff ran as a D because the RINOs in charge of the local money, advertising, speaking engagements etc didn't want a fair primary and were openly funding a challenger who was also a RINO non-conservative. It goes both ways, people have to do their research and know who/what they're voting for.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

That has been their plan for a long time, wolf in sheep clothing and we are red riding hood.

wily_coyote-genius's avatar

Or, like in Canada, the conservatives are being bought out and crossing the floor! Abhorrent corrupt behaviour!

Pam WP's avatar

Ugh! Caught a couple candidates in NC! Glad they were called out prior to Primaries.

Pat Wetzel's avatar

It's everywhere.

Arnold C Fossen's avatar

They have been doing that for decades and the result is RINOs.

Lone Star exile's avatar

It's been happening in Idaho for several years. Dems (rinos) run as conservative republicans, vote like dems if they win, then get tons of PAC money to keep getting re-elected while they run in the next election as your conservative fighter in Boise, etc, ad nauseum.

How do they get elected, you ask???

Dem voters register as republicans to vote in the repub primaries...rinse...repeat

It's how we lost Colorado to the dems...

J. Lincoln's avatar

Another subsection of an overdue Plan One needs to be term limits for congress lifers (sorry, Maxine) and rigidly-enforced campaign finance controls.

Joypam's avatar

Term limits along with the elimination of insider trading and pay raises for Congress should all be on a national ballot. It’s absurd that we let these grifters vote on all these items of pure self interest.

Pat Wetzel's avatar

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

And jail for insider trading.

Elaine Russky's avatar

I think Congress, as little as they accomplish, should be a volunteer job with no pay.

Peace's avatar

Do legislators divulge conflicts of interest and have to abstain from voting if a coi is in play?

Richard schoenenberger's avatar

Yup…term limits would do a world of good

Kenneth Solomon's avatar

Term limits does nothing about the real problem...the lobbyists and unelected officials. Privileges are granted by government and may be regulated by it. Voting is a privilege and in bad need of regulation. We were set up as a Constitutional Republic and as such we have the right to control who is allowed to vote. This present practice of allowing children of eighteen to wield the ballot is madness. The young are uninformed, and lacking experience of the things they affect with their votes. Hormonal turbulence and an eigtht-grade education—about what a high-school diploma is worth these days—does not make them as fit to stir the pots of governance. Why is it thought that people who hardly know what they are voting about will do it wisely?

JT Hawk's avatar

"The "Swamp" and the "Deep State" refer to unelected political appointees making rules and regulations with the power of laws, without the participation or even oversight of our only legal, elected, legislators. This is what Trump has been trying to dismantle on the federal level and in spite of howling and outrage and hysteria he has still managed to slash a lot of agency payrolls. If we hold Congress I am hoping he can accelerate this, including moving agencies out of the Beltway by legislation, making the relocations permanent, because that fractures the power structure.

Lobbyists are important as we no longer have much true representation---when Representatives represent more than half a million people each there is no way for citizens to reach them. But we have to have a way to rein in lobbyist influences.

Lisa Ricketts's avatar

True! We the People, are last in line to be heard. This is made so due to Congress people being married to the Press, Beltway lawyers, leaders or members of special interest groups, etc. We the idiots just continue to send in out taxes without real return!

Elaine Russky's avatar

Do older people vote wisely? I have doubts.

Richard schoenenberger's avatar

The lobbyists…speak to the wallet and things go haywire

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

Maxine will never finish her work because her dumb ass never started.

Jake's avatar

We Texans will eliminate Cornyn. Alaskans will have their work cut out for them but MurCowski has to go.

reality speaks's avatar

The RINO will never allow it to pass. The Uniparty has to survive at all costs.

Jake's avatar

There are Trillions of graft at stake. Have you ever seen a politician leave office as poor as they started??

reality speaks's avatar

Never heard of that

Steenroid's avatar

Could it be that Thune is waiting for Cocaine Mitch to either retire or go to be with his buddy McCain?

Cousin Clem's avatar

McConnell is making Biden look like a Rhodes scholar. They will be wheeling him into that congress until his last breath and moving his hand over the vote button like Strom Thurmond.

Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

Truth is, Mitch died years ago at his last freeze up. Rather than bring out the oil can to revive him, he’s been replaced by a wax replica. The real Mitch is posing in the wax museum in place of his wax double which is now serving in the Senate.

kittynana's avatar

@Steen- people like Mitch don't die in a timely manner.

Bitsy54's avatar

Because God doesn’t want McConnell and the Devil is afraid he’ll take over

SD Scott's avatar

Adrenochrome?

Or mad cow prion disease?

Deb's avatar

Everyone needs to be putting pressure on their senators to pass the SAVE Act! Remember they are supposed to be working for us, the taxpayers, not the other way around! Thune and his cronies are disgraceful and only concerned about themselves. If the Republicans manage to throw away this chance of continuing to right the ship, those who have stood in the way, will just look the other way... and the American people are the ones who stand to lose our great country!!!!!

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

I wrote to each rhino, that voted against it, even though they were not representing me. I also asked if they could explain their reasoning, so I could understand the destruction of our country. Needless to say, I haven't heard from them.

jmsmithmd's avatar

Why haven’t they passed the SAVE act????

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

They are traitors, huge amounts of cash probably being given to them.

Debra's avatar

They are on vacation.

Elaine Russky's avatar

Very good question.

Flipflopgirl's avatar

Unfortunately Leader Thune is totally ignoring the American People's requests and he is a weak ineffective leader.

Pat Wetzel's avatar

You're too kind.

Fedup737's avatar

The SAVE Act will not save us. Definitely not in 2026 and maybe through 2028. The leftists have dozens of judges waiting in the wings helping lawyers write stays that will tie it up for years of litigation.

Janet's avatar

Susan Collin’s is important to contact and state the case. McConnell, murkowsi and the other one will not change support at all. Collins is the weak point. Change her, bring a tie and JD can break it. That was a plan I heard on Tony Kinnett last night. Everyone call.

OGRE's avatar

Why would those on the right fight for their own demise, when those adherent to the left are receiving benefits *while *(unknowingly) fighting for their demise?

Either things change drastically here -- and soon -- or there won’t be any reason for ANYONE to vote Republican.

But then, maybe that’s the point?

Maybe the Republicans have already grafted as much wealth as they see fit? And the rest of us are just left to fend for ourselves.

They’ll just ride it out. Then they can fundraise (once again) to “stop the Democrats.”

More and more, I’m thinking that this is the case. 😑

DEBRA O MADDRELL's avatar

Are the RINOs being "primaried?"

James Goodrich's avatar

If this isn’t a clear case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend then nothing is. The ultra tolerant left is rooting for the IRGC to just hold out another 5 months so they can win the midterms and put the Trump administration into a tailspin of impeachment and indictments, that’s their plan

If you don’t think the Iranian regime is not watching the polls on CNN think again. This is the big split in the nazilike Iranian regime. The moderates see their economy collapsing and want a deal but the radical IRGC wants to wait until their allies, the democrats, get back to power. Don’t be surprised to see this peace deal get stalled and stalled and stalled.

I never thought John Fetterman would be the only voice of reason in the democrat party. They say they are the party of woman’s rights, lgbtq…rights, trans rights, but because of their tunnel vision hatred of Trump they support a regime that has no trouble killing all of the people the democrats say they protect. To be a democrat today you have to be a traitor and an absolute contradiction politically.

When Obama was president and the democrats were in control of the house and the senate his entire focus was getting the nuclear deal with the Ayatollah and the mullahs. John Kerry worked his America hating ass to the bone bending over to give Iran a clear path. Obama insisted on giving them a path to the bomb and as plain as day we see Obama is still in control. God help America if the party whose only plan is to knock off President Trump gets back into power.

Lori's avatar

I hope Dems collapse under the weight of polycrisis. When you endorse, support and enable every single thing that is immoral or abnormal, that is what is deserved. They have worked very hard at it, now let them show the fruits of their labors and collapse/be destroyed utterly. I await hearing their last agonal breath as a party. The dems have got to be one of the most repulsive groups on the face of the earth.

"Progressivism is literally driving them insane.". Build those sanitariums quick Mr. President for there is a waiting list on their side. Thank goodness we are spared their insanity and BS. They deserve to dwell forever in the land of wretchedness bc they have done it to themselves.

PonyBoy's avatar

Any political party whose primary basis for existence is to allow illegal aliens the right to vote in our elections and determine the future of our nation, have lost their minds.

It's an insult to every man and woman who fought and died for our independence, our right to exist without the shackles of another.

Susan Seas's avatar

Dems are Satans minions.

Lori's avatar

they truly are. they do exactly what satan bids them to do. it is so obvious. they are the party of hate, division, strife and morbid depression.

TriciaandHerDog's avatar

Plus murder/assassination.

Lori's avatar

Yes, they possess all the emotions and depravity that Satan holds so dear.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Lori, you have to remember that satan is in control of the demoncratic party. He has multiple anti christs in the wings. Keep praying for our country!!!

Lori's avatar

Yes indeed. They are literally a cult of Satanists.

Richard schoenenberger's avatar

Spot on…Iran is relying on their ally, the democrat party.

TiredCitizen's avatar

The Red Green Alliance. Morons that the warmongers of the republican and democrat parties fail to understand is that Iran will act like your ally under they have you down with their boot on your neck and then they will slit your throat because all they care about is a global caliphate to bring in their final mahdi.

Phil Denter's avatar

Actually, Iran is leveraging DC's bipartisan corruption. While bot Elephants and Donkeys work for Bibi, Iran has cunningly prepared for and executed precise asymmetric warfare against epic hubris.

Phil Denter's avatar

It is not hate to hold war criminals accountable for their war crimes, Dave. Please do try and keep up.

SD Scott's avatar

And its media mouthpiece.

Pelopidas's avatar

It is futile to try to find coherency in the actions or platform or policies of the Democrat party as it is currently constituted, if you look at it through the lens of what is moral or advantageous to American interests. They are not the least bit interested in those things, they only want power, and that’s all. Power centralized, dissent punished, and actions unaccountable, to protect the establishment’s sinecures and cover past crimes. “Orange Man Bad” is the spasmodic reaction to the previously unthinkable day of reckoning, for they all thought they were “made men”.

Phil Denter's avatar

You are halfway there. The Donkeys are everything that you say.

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But Trump truly is bad.

I wrote this in 2025Q1 (back when Trump was freshly elected by promising no more wars). Every day, in 2026Q2, it looks less "crazy" and more just plain accurate:

Trump's WEF mandates are to smash Greenland, Canada and the USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order Region 1 - North American Union (NAU), instigate then manage the bankruptcy of US Inc. and its phoney-bologna US$ and facilitate the transition from the prosperous corporatocracy that we knew (and loved) to their new thousand-times-worse-than-Orwellian technocracy.

Trump brokering and providing Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison & Sam Altman with a half a TRILLION[!] dollars falls into that last mandate. Those 3 amigos are developing our Super-AI (the biblical Beast System) to, among other things, custom build, in 48 hours, an mRNA jab to "cure" you of cancer(s) that you don't even have!

I shit you not.

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Trump’s WEF gems:

WARp SpEED* (COVID-19 shot)

Stargate (blood tests and mRNA vaccines powered by Palantir, Open AI, SoftBank, Oracle to “cure cancer…” [caused by COVID-19 shot? 🤔])

GENIUS Act (Digital Currency)

REAL ID rollout led by “Mullin-it-over” (intermediate step to national digital ID linked to medical records among other future [digital currency] applications). Built into the SAVE Act.

Genesis Mission (National AI platform linking federal data centers)

6G Executive Order with “implantable technologies” as one of its purposes

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The Donkeys are indeed bad but that hardly proves that the Elephants are good.

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*Trump’s WARp SpEED is Lucifer's WAR on God's SEED.

Truth Seeker's avatar

nah Phil, totally inaccurate assessment. You are spreading the _hit.

8 wars have peace

Asking better questions is intelligent.

Need I repost one created months ago? It dwarfs your list.

Not giving a pass to the AI centers that most accept, read, and use, possibly

Mr. Childers himself.

Not about proving good/bad

People are indoctrinated by the Medical Cartel, the delivery crew for any and

all Vax / Quax. That was always their choice. In war its crucial to make the right choices...

Phil Denter's avatar

You did not dispute a single fact or point that I made, TS. Strange rebuttal 🤔.

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You don't blame the drug-producers for the drug problems. Gotcha. Good thinking.

Truth Seeker's avatar

Not interested in "blaming"

Very interested in Accurately Assessing

Sophomoric Commentary is just that...

Phil Denter's avatar

You failed to grasp my point.

Trump "fathered" their evil toxic goo but then you "blame" the people for willingly taking it.

You should be interested in "blame" since literally millions have died as a result.

Think about it.

Joan Hirzel's avatar

Why did Obama and Kerry work so hard to help Iran get a nuclear deal/ bomb? What was the benefit?

James Goodrich's avatar

Obama hates Israel as well!

TiredCitizen's avatar

Muslims do to their dying breath.

Phil Denter's avatar

Source, please.

If that were true, why did he keep giving Bibi billions of your debt for eight long years?

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

a wolf in sheep clothing. obama is a snake.

Tio Nico's avatar

hos elecion was ecause o us. NO ONE with any real clout ood up and ollered lng and loud about the ONE critical qualiphicaion to the presidency: MUST be a Natural Born Ciien. Barry OhBummer was NOT.. and very plainly so. That designation means a citizen born to TWO US citizens. His pappy was a British Subject when he was born. To translate, that means his pappy was NOT a US Citizen. He, Barry Oh Bummer, was an illegal candidat and never should have been on the ballot.

And WE let that pass.. and are still payng the price.

Arnold C Fossen's avatar

To make sure Iran did not get a weapon during Obama's administration. They didn't care if Iran eventually got nuclear weapons.

jmsmithmd's avatar

If you hate America it would make you happy. Simple.

Debra's avatar

Greed and Power float to the top of the list.

Phil Denter's avatar

You don't seem to understand the JCPOA. It was a deal that aligned with their Supreme Leader's edict for Iran to not get the bomb.

GregWA's avatar

Not so fast buddy. I asked Claude about this and the answer is not as cut and dried as you say.

Whatever the fatwa really meant (suggestion for the religious only? government policy?) died with Khamenei.

All you have to do is look at Obama and John Kerry's entire political careers to know that all they wanted was for Iran to get the bomb...and then use it against America. Traitors one and all.

Phil Denter's avatar

It really meant that Iran's Supreme Leader viewed having the bomb against Islam and it was forbidden.

So ... if you want them not to have the bomb ... killing him was really, really counter-productive ... and predictably so ... to the point of either A) stupidity or B) belligerently war-crimey.

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If Obama and Kerry wanted Iran to have the bomb that Bibi* told us they were two weeks away from since at least 1996, they sure failed big-time for decades, eh?

Note: Bad Donkeys hardly prove good Elephants.

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Phil Denter's avatar

No, Lisa. I oppose the Shriners and Freemasons. You should too.

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Holding our leaders accountable for their war crimes is hardly "lust for Islam." Talk about "weird"!

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Lisa, I see a common pattern emerging. When you are legitimately challenged, you revert to knee jerk ad hominems. It really shows how intellectually bereft you are. So, thanks for that I guess.

Teresa Carstensen's avatar

Obama and Biden sold out the U.S. to Iran. :(

“An ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah's billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House's desire for a nuclear deal with Iran.”

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

and the Awan IT brothers were involved...

https://founderscode.com/pakistani-congressional-case-spy-ring-tied-hizbollah/

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Steve L's avatar

Right James, talk about the Hegelian Dialectic, or problem, reaction-solution…Get Iran nuclear capable, drop one in Tel Aviv, EMP event for America, and Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America” is complete🤔Seems like the only wish from the left these days…other than Getting rid of our president…Can’t fix stupid, insanity nor evil.

Phil Denter's avatar

According to Bibi, Iran was weeks away from the bomb since at least 1996. 🙄

So Trump plunges earth into a global depression because Bibi promised a Venezuela-style easy-peazey regime change (when, really, he knew that his life's goal would be a quagmire).

You can't fix stupid, indeed.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

100% correct James. So sad.

Phil Denter's avatar

Get real. The Donkeys take AIPAC money just like the Elephants. All of DC works for Bibi vis-à-vis Operation Epstein Furry, Operation Freedom and whatever nincompoop Trump/Hegseth operations come next. The Epstein class working for Bibi is bipartisan and ALWAYS in power.

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Phil Denter's avatar

No, Lisa. Bibi lives in Tel Aviv and his 40-year goal of America warring with Iran has come true. What more power can there be in this realm?

I know our enemy. I've been researching it since 1982.

Johnny-O's avatar

Uhm, Trump is going to do a similar deal with Iran as Obama did. That is the irony here. And in your mind, Obama was gifting them nukes, and Trump will sign the most beautiful amazing deal ever. Just ridiculous.

James Goodrich's avatar

I’m not for giving the psychopaths 3-4 billion dollars which I hear is what Trump has offered. I also wouldn’t eliminate all the sanctions. Trump should leave the sanctions in place at least a good part of them.

Johnny-O's avatar

Trump has no off ramp because we can't defeat Iran, so, he has to capitulate. He did it to himself (or Bibi did, to be more accurate).

Truth Seeker's avatar

the only way the D Rats will get back into power is if the fake news is successful

at demonizing DJT or the pubs. If Indiana is great evidence that is not remotely possible.

It does appear that the election theft is largely curtailed

Truth Seeker's avatar

"conservative is happily eating a hot dog and thinking about tonight’s MMA matchup, the liberal is meticulously fact-checking the organic status of their kale"

Really? Anyone eating a hot dog has exactly no knowledge of health. Anyone eating organic kale is its polar opposite. One does not check the "status" of kale. One makes the best possible decision chosing nutrient dence ORGANIC food. Stereotypes like the one proposed are not cute they are devoid of knowledge.

GregWA's avatar

James Goodrich, not "their only plan" but certainly step 1. Step 2? Knock off America and the American Dream. But gotta get rid of Trump first. They are insane...but not stupid.

Johnny-O's avatar

How is their economy collapsing exactly? They are enjoying massive oil profits at the moment.

James Goodrich's avatar

Food is becoming increasingly scarce and unaffordable in Iran as of early 2026, driven by an acute crisis, severe food price inflation (nearly doubling between Jan 2025 and Jan 2026), and conflict-related supply chain disruptions. Bread, a crucial staple, has faced shortages and massive price surges.

Johnny-O's avatar

Did the TV tell you this? I have a good friend whose family fled Iran in the 80s. She still has family there, and what you just described is mostly false.

James Goodrich's avatar

No I’ve read reports about it. What I sent you was from that hard right conservative platform google.

Johnny-O's avatar

Google, you mean the platform that globalists control?

James Goodrich's avatar

Yes communists, I thought using a democrat platform would show I’m using pro communist/democrat info!

James Goodrich's avatar

What’s left of the mullahs there’s no problem but inflation has skyrocketed. Citizens are unable to afford food.

Inflation Rate in Iran increased to 50 percent for the year ending March 2026 from 48.60 percent in October of 2025. Inflation Rate in Iran averaged 16.66 percent from 1957 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 59.02 percent in May of 1995 and a record low of -3.27 percent in April of 1958

Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Obamanation would be thrilled to commandee r and be the 'power behind the throne' of a DEMONratic POTUS for 2028 - or even 2032 (if our Republic will last that long). He is controlled by satanic influences--indubitably!! I am a PA resident for most of my 79 years and I am totally floored (and delighted) at the "reasonable thinking and clear-cut cognition" of Senator Fetterman (who was a real disgrace as Lt. Gov. of PA--but I believe his depression bout right after winning the election in 2022 actually HELPED him mentally to become for "common sense" in his approach to politics--HOORAY for that turn around!

TiredCitizen's avatar

Iranians are acting just like the Japanese at the end of WW2.

Luc's avatar

I work at a mid western school and had one teacher say "Yea, the best place to get your news is NPR" and another said "If you need resources just go to Wikipedia, it's the most unbiased".

I just grit my teeth!!!!!

Debbie's avatar

My son is in a charter school in Minnesota and the teachers said they are NOT allowed to use Wikipedia.

Luc's avatar

Oh, I get it but obviously you can't fix stupid!

RunningLogic's avatar

Yes I’ve heard that from my kids too, when they were in private school.

shayne's avatar

Wikipedia! That has to be a joke...

Luc's avatar

NOPE, no they were not joking!

TiredCitizen's avatar

Amazon uses it for Alexa questions.

Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

I actually had an old friend tell me I needed to watch Rachel Madow. I had to say goodbye

kittynana's avatar

@Luc- I would have replied "There's a reason why colleges giove you an F on your paper if you used Wikipedia."

MaryAnn's avatar

Kitty—this may be considered nit-picking, but as a former instructor in higher ed, I frequently had to distinguish, for my students, the difference between ‘earning’ a grade and ‘being given’ a grade. The latter implies subjectivity which is indefensible, (I gave you an F because I don’t agree with you).

John infinity N's's avatar

I remember searching Wikipedia for the winner of 2020 election on the night of the election early on in the vote count, before it could be determined…and guess who it said already won…

PonyBoy's avatar

You cannot fix stupid.

Pat Wetzel's avatar

That is so true, in so many walks of life. Repeated daily.

TiredCitizen's avatar

And I remember the good old days of the 1980's into the 1990's where we didn't know anything about a teacher's political stance or their ideology. I took political science in college and we studied just that. Never once did my professor tell us her political views much less what to read or watch.

MaryAnn's avatar

Luc: my tongue would be shredded. Hang in there!

Karmy's avatar

I knew someone who used Wikipedia for her PhD dissertation and she thought she was smarter than most people.

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

And He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. They will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them. For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.”

— Luke 17:22-24 NAS95

✝️✝️✝️

PamelaZelie's avatar

Come Lord Jesus! We are anxiously awaiting Your return.

EK MtnTime's avatar

I say something similar on a daily basis.

Susan Seas's avatar

Come on last Gentile!! So it will be time for His return 😁

Susan Seas's avatar

Thanks to a commenter the other day and my husband needing to buy a part we could only find on Amazon I remembered finally purchased your book 😄

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

How nice of you! Thank you.😊

Susan Seas's avatar

Well apparently I cannot get your message because I don’t have the app. I hate apps … I didn’t even know I had a “substack” I thought it was just so I could read C&C 😂

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

You can access messages on desktop as well.

Debra's avatar

He won't be coming back in the silent, quiet way He went out the first time!

Everyone will hear and see as He explodes from the heavens!

Lori's avatar

I find it so interesting that only God the Father knows when Jesus comes back. They are 3 in 1 so I wonder how that works. What a secret God the Father is keeping.

Richard schoenenberger's avatar

It’s our finite wisdom…

Quiltlady's avatar

I had to scroll way down in my feed, past all the political stuff, to find you. (I live on the West Coast) The extra scrolling is always worth it. Enjoy your day! God be praised!!!

Bard Joseph's avatar

They will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them.

Sounds like the day's posting.

Sunnydaze's avatar

“The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 30 people in a multimillion-dollar insider trading scheme involving stolen merger and acquisition data from law firms.

Officials say the suspects used confidential deal information to trade on expected market moves. If convicted, they each face up to 25 years in prison.”

OAN

Where’s Congress people? Why do we keep hearing about all the “small fish” being arrested for insider trading and pedophilia, threats to POTUS…..and not 1 politician?!!!

Politico Phil's avatar

They are above the law or as they would put it, "Rules for thee but none for me."

Sunnydaze's avatar

Don’t I know it! I like what I’m seeing with all the arrests and pushing forward the administration is doing. Heads are rolling. But I’m really tired of only the peasants having to obey the law or get thrown in prison. While the same elite pad their pockets and retire into the sunset with their millions. Who cares if they’ve been “disgraced”? They are laughing on their private jets and mansions. I do understand eternity will look a lot different for them than they will admit…but as someone who gets pulled over for breaking a speed limit law-and has to pay fines or be arrested-I’d like you to see the elite deal with what us peasants deal with daily if we break laws. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Susan Seas's avatar

Someone was saying the other day that in order to topple the whole thing you have to take down the bottom layers first then the top ones fall. I hope that is true.

Jake's avatar

Getting the election worker names in Fulton County is an example of this. Talk to all 5000 workers and some will fess up and name names. Then you go to the next level. Rinse and repeat until the top falls.

Sunnydaze's avatar

Me too! Jeff has explained this, and it makes perfect sense. The trick is to keep the hope of this. Unfortunately, because of my 50+ years in existence it’s never been proven true…. So it’s hard to keep believing when we haven’t even seen 1 go down.

M Adams's avatar

Why are we still waiting for justice to be served for what happened in Benghazi? Who gave the stand down orders?

Jake's avatar

The WH. The Commander of Africom was about to deploy a combat reaction team when he was told to stand down. His deputy told him if he went ahead anyway, he was to replace him and send him home.

Gary's avatar

Well, so many of our laws you cannot make sense of! It causes more problems, disgust, and frustration. One example; you get pulled over in a car with 10 airbags not wearing your seatbelt and get a big ticket. Then you see a Harley go by rattling the windows with someone wearing a ball cap backwards, sunglasses, no shirt and flip flops going 70MPH, no problem!! Make it make sense:):)

Lori's avatar

They should have to lose 50% of all their assets.

Sunnydaze's avatar

Or ALL of it. Why should they keep some when they only have it because they broke the law to get it.

Lori's avatar

that is preferable of course!

RunningLogic's avatar

I saw this the other day, I’d love to see this go farther than a slap on the wrist by the Ethics Committee for once. Hopefully Todd Blanche’s DOJ will take this up:

https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/05/05/ro-khanna-is-in-deep-doodoo-n2427878?

Juju's avatar

How about the treason just committed by Jayapal? Things like that should be prosecuted the instant it happens and it would stop happening.

RunningLogic's avatar

I just saw that yesterday too!! 😡🤬 Then the Somali rep in Maine that said she wants to do everything to help Somalia 😡 These traitors are NOT working for the American people, that’s for sure!! 😡

Sunnydaze's avatar

Lets hope someone has the balls to take it to the Orange prison jumpsuit.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

ethics and congress don't exist

Beckadee's avatar

Here's something to chew on:

“The Department of Justice and its U.S. Attorneys across the nation should start with the low-level folks who altered, destroyed, or concealed the relevant documents. Indict them under 1512(c) and its potential 20-year prison sentence, and then be ready for all the information that they will undoubtedly and quickly be willing to offer up, implicating the more senior culprits in the several criminal conspiracies.

That’s how Rudy Giuliani successfully prosecuted those mob bosses in New York nearly half a century ago using RICO. Section 1512(c) is the new RICO. Time to deploy it against the lawfare, election illegality, and other nationwide conspiracies that have targeted President Trump and his supporters in their efforts to Make American Great Again.”

https://juliekelly.substack.com/p/eastman-post-enron-statute-could?r=6jb5dg&utm_medium=ios

Bgagnon's avatar

Holy cannoli! And he’s just one of many? Seriously?

Deb's avatar

We can hope!!! He is a vile human being who uses his position to pat his ego!!!! Just my opinion!!!!

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

R.L. that is mind blowing.

CStone's avatar

Jeff explained that perfectly, yesterday. You start at the bottom of the pyramid and wotk your way up until you get to the one who gave the order…….

DDForTruth's avatar

Perhaps because the "Big Fish" are implicated in far more complex, mind-boggling stuff, which would need more systematic, determined and focused pulling of the spider web silks to lay bare the gargantuan webs of deceit they actually had.

RICO comes to mind, whereupon the fat lady doesn't sing until the FULL Opera is expos....errrr...over.

😉😎

Also, there can be NO escape from Justice because someone 'accidentally' forgot to dot an i or cross a t!

There ain't no room in this for even ONE mishap and it ALL needs to be proven without the shadow of ANY doubt in a court of LAW of Constitutional, not activist, Judges.

ALSO, it's incredible how the "small fish" sing like birds to save their own sorry derrieres, which is "One Leads To Many."

Considering the length of time they had to create this maze of spider webs within spider webs of YUGE foreign and domestic spider webs, I think it's all going swimmingly well.

The People are, for the first real time ever, coming face to face with the length, breadth, depth and height of the corruption that's been going on for decades, and THAT affects one of the MOST important things - Public Opinion - and this is where one might conjure up a cartoon of the democrats going, "There were PEOPLE??"

*Tips hat

Much Love

Elaine Russky's avatar

I'd like to see a RICO action with most of Congress as defendants. Aren't they violating the securities laws with their insider trading?

DDForTruth's avatar

Amongst MANY other criminal and Constitutional violations - 'probably.' 😂

Tiny basket of deplorable's avatar

I bet almost all of them(both parties) participate in insider trading. The fox is in charge of the hen house

Queen Hotchibobo's avatar

Actually, they exempted themselves from insider trading laws, so technically they aren’t breaking the law.

That shouldn’t stop us from covering them with tar and feathers though. Just saying.

Elaine Russky's avatar

I didn't know that. So their perfidy was premeditated.

Erin Fight's avatar

Same goes for the brothers Erik & Don Jr. They just hauled in another $84 million secured thru government contracting with daddy's donors.

David Nelson's avatar

Am I the only one who redd this and thought "Congress only had 30 people in it??"

Elaine Russky's avatar

I was sidetracked by the image of fish in spider webs singing like birds. Good one!

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

They have been paying the other DOJ lots of bribe money (from previous administrations) .

CHop's avatar

Since 2016, over half of all Congresmembers have died, resigned or states they are not running for re-election. They can't arrest everyone at once as the country would fall into chaos. In addition, several big names have died including Bush, Cheney, Mueller, McCain, etc. They don't have to tell the public if they are running military tribunals.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

The Dems are doomed. For starters they refuse to acknowledge that America is a Republic. Then they insist on calling their Party Democratic, when it is the Democrat Party, no ic.

They will essentially go out of business, they are doomed.

Susan Seas's avatar

There is really only two sides, America First or American Last. It is that simple. We cannot continue to allow ALast to exist.

SHug's avatar

Yes, they are anti-MAGA - read that aloud and slowly = against Making America Great Again.

How do you even sell that as anything other than treason? Blame everything on DJT, that is why they are melting down and sending assassin after assassin. The cognitive dissonance is squeezing their last bit of gray matter to a pulp.

Pat Wetzel's avatar

That's a good slogan and contrast.

Graphite's avatar

You are Wonkru or you are enemy of Wonkru! Choose!

Sorry - just love The 100 series - Hahaha

Susan Seas's avatar

I am unfamiliar with that. I had to look it up. 😆

Jpeach's avatar

The enemy of my enemy is my friend is all that binds Democrats = TDS. How else do explain Jewish Liberals protesting with Islamic extremists at a No Kings rally.

william howard's avatar

not to worry, Jessica Tarlov (the Five) & James Carville (last relevant when he thought Clinton won the presidency) are predicting another Blue Wave - pretty sure their song will change once the war is over, gas prices are down & the economy roars - many of us have seen the resemblance to the WHIGs which gets clearer and clearer each day - but what a rational person should expect from a system built entirely on fraud & deceit

Ellen Batchelor's avatar

Idk. I think there is plenty of ic with the democrat party. 🤔

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Lol, I almost added that to my post.

Mehitabel's avatar

“Democrat Party, no ic.” I don’t know about that. Every time I think about the Democrat Party, I go “Ick!”

Debra's avatar

Why did I just have a visualization of the dead goldfish upside down in the bowl with "ick" hanging all over it? Ick is deadly.

Arnold C Fossen's avatar

Democrat is a noun, democratic a verb. Party names are traditionally a noun, but they changed it so they could imply that Republicans are not democratic, but it is they who are not democratic as they want a one-party state so they can control everybody and everything and steal all the wealth created by conservatives. I hope the Dems are doomed, but I don't think that happens without first destroying the fake news media.

Jon Stephenson's avatar

I think you mean democratic is an adjective. Republican is both a noun and an adjective, which makes it not have the same naming issue as Democrats. I think Democrats have always called it the Democratic Party, and I tend out of politeness (and grammatical fussiness) to defer to calling Democratic Party. The best reason to insist on saying Democrat Party is that it bugs them.

Juju's avatar

So I am noticing a pattern of which posts I can’t like or reply to, such as Earl’s. I think Substack rolled out an algorithm that flags a post for key words that Substack deems inappropriate or damaging in some way, and they remove the ability for some of us to like or reply as a way to lower the amount of views it gets, thereby controlling/censoring speech. It’s not entire accounts because I could like a different reply of Earl’s, just not this specific one.

I am losing all faith in Substack remaining free, fair, and objective.

SHug's avatar

juju, when that happens I reload the page and it usually clears it.

Juju's avatar

I use the iPhone app. I even uninstalled and reinstalled it and it doesn’t change a thing

Lisa Runquist's avatar

I have had the same thing occur as well.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I hadn't noticed that, but I will be on the lookout.

Jon Stephenson's avatar

I think Democrats have always called it the Democratic Party, and I have tended out of politeness, and grammatical fussiness, to defer to calling it Democratic Party. Republican is both a noun and an adjective, which makes it not have the same naming issue as Democrats. Grammatically, a noun (party) should be modified by an adjective (republican or democratic). The best reason to insist on saying Democrat Party is that it bugs them, which is why I think that prominent conservatives have taken to dropping the IC in recent years.

I agree the Dems SHOULD be doomed (the inherent grammatical conflict is reason enough!) for being ironically UNdemocratic in their beliefs. I don't have a lot of faith though. The Republican Party can screw up anything, and are Democrats best hope in the Polycrisis.

Skenny's avatar

The Dems have transparently and shamelessly focused on becoming losers for a long time. They are on the verge of success.

https://skennethn.substack.com/p/who-are-the-dems?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=kdm7d

Kenpowoman's avatar

I'm with you on "Democrat" party. The other version infuriates me. You know it's deliberate.

Nikki (Gayle) Nicholson's avatar

Dave, will we still be alive? I wish they were doomed.

shayne's avatar

"...your neighbor’s F-250 is a hate crime." 🤣😂🤣😂🎯

Liz LaSorte's avatar

A polycrisis is going to hit GenX when beginning to apply for social security in a few short years.

If you made an average of 40k a year (and that’s well below the average annual American salary of approximately 61K) and invested the annual Social Security taxes forcefully taken out of our paycheck at $2,480.00 a year, after 40 years, you would have approximately $1,209,111.00 in principal, with dividends of approximately 50K a year.

How can we claim to be free when we can’t even invest our hard-earned dollars as we choose? The Amish can fill out form 4029 and not pay social security and medicare since they are from “a recognized religious group that has existed continuously since December 31, 1950.”

How is that not discrimination against those of us not in this religious group? Why can’t we file a class action lawsuit? https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/form-4029-the-application-for-exemption

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Just follow the example of the Amish, do as they do. Exempt yourself.

Liz LaSorte's avatar

As I explained in my article, we can not do that if we are not from "a recognized religious group that has existed continuously since December 31, 1950.”

How is that not a violation of the 14th Amendment and Civil Rights Act?

RunningLogic's avatar

A case for Harmeet Dhillon??

Mystic William's avatar

Take one over. There must be a thousand mostly defunct religious entities. Take one and bring about a (tax) revival.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

This from AI search:

The Amish are generally exempt from paying Social Security taxes and do not collect Social Security benefits, as they believe in self-sufficiency and caring for their own community members. However, some Amish who work for non-Amish employers may pay Social Security taxes.

jmsmithmd's avatar

Roman Catholicism has been around before 1950.

Mystic William's avatar

The RC Church would never take any stance that really jeopardized their place in society.

Tiny basket of deplorable's avatar

Did you know the Amish can’t buy life insurance? If you don’t pay SS, you can’t have life insurance. I just found this out from an Amish friend

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

I didn't know that. I wonder what that has to do with having life insurance? They're still better off in many ways.

Elaine Russky's avatar

Are employees of the federal government still exempt from Social Security taxes?

Ruth H's avatar

Federal employee must be hired prior to 1984 to be exempt. All others pay SS taxes and receive benefits.

Elaine Russky's avatar

Thank you, Ruth. I'm glad to hear that they stopped that. It was like they jumped off the sinking ship and left the rest of us to deal with it.

Jon Stephenson's avatar

I don't know about federal. As a city employee, I don't pay into SS because I have a defined benefit pension that I pay into.

Liz LaSorte's avatar

IDK. Google AI says they used to be prior to 1984.

SB's avatar

Don’t kid yourself, social security is a tax.

Belling the Cat's avatar

As the saying goes on Instapundit: Don't get cocky.

There are a lot of ways for things to go pear-shaped as the lunatics react badly to being forced to see their dwindling options. Most likely much more violence, both mass and targeted. People whose brains have been trained to accept insane things over several decades will not go quietly into that good night, and will have not only an exaggerated sense of the universal stakes but also, personally, absolutely nothing left to lose.

Lori's avatar

Most of us are locked and loaded and ready to take down rabid mammals if needs must. Come near us or our families and put us at risk, it will be game over for them.

Occam's avatar

And the GOP's penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Sounds like the middle class.

David Roberts's avatar

To be a Non Governmental Organization, it must NOT be funded by the government. That’s a contradiction in terms. Attach a provision to the Save Act that government may not fund these organizations.

RunningLogic's avatar

—“she replied, “My work is not finished, and I don’t know if it will ever be finished.”

What she didn’t specify is that “her work” is to get as much money as she can and live high on the hog for as long as she’s alive. So yeah she’s definitely not done yet 😒

Susan Seas's avatar

Or that she needs to stay in power so she doesn’t go to prison.

RunningLogic's avatar

Another good point!

Guy White's avatar

“At some point, “public servant” becomes ‘geological feature.’” 😅

Yes, Maxine Waters is a stone-like representation of a toad. How people like her ever get elected in the first place is a mystery of the deepest order.

VelvetStitching's avatar

Cheating! The only way she has stayed in power!

RunningLogic's avatar

That plus “vote for her because she’s a black woman and make a combination that’s tough to beat 😕

SHug's avatar

Maxine Waters = hag, in European folklore, an ugly and malicious old woman who practices witchcraft, with or without supernatural powers; hags are often said to be aligned with the devil or the dead.

Susan Seas's avatar

There’s several of them! My exact thoughts when seeing, I can’t think of her name … from WA state. Hag!!

Elaine Russky's avatar

It's age. Have you seen photos of her when she was younger? She looked like she could possibly entertain a reasonable, cogent thought. That impression faded quickly when she began speaking.

Fabes55's avatar

They tend to dodge definitions all the time— woman, democracy, common sense come to mind

RunningLogic's avatar

—“It becomes increasingly difficult to knock on doors for candidates when you are simultaneously convinced that the planet has only six months to live and your neighbor’s F-250 is a hate crime.”

It also becomes difficult when you’ve decided you’re not longer going to talk to anyone who is for Trump. You can’t convince anyone to come to your side if you won’t even talk to them, not to mention constantly calling them names and berating them.

NoVA mom's avatar

Sounds like NoVA….

Susie & Security's avatar

What happened to civil discourse?

I believe that the evolution of electronic communication continues to devolve its participants their inhibitions, giving way to berating, harassment,and other forms of unkindness.

It all started with email and graduate to social media rage baiting, bullying, and echo chambers. It’s in man’s (sinful) nature to hide his bad treatment of others behind his online persona.

John Galt?'s avatar

Something like 7 out of 10 Democrats regularly engage mental health services such as talk therapy and medication. If not for their Satanic overlords, they would have no purpose in life whatsoever. When you pray, be sure to thank God you are not a Democrat.

Elaine Russky's avatar

Too close to Luke 18:11.

Debra's avatar

Touche' Elaine!

'The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. '

Luke 18:11

Lori's avatar

I do everyday. Living a happy and fulfilled life and reminding them of such is a great reward.

Susie & Security's avatar

Or, better yet, pray for those who don’t know God, that He would soften their hearts.

Kathy Sullivan's avatar

C&C News Network is what it should be! If the remaining Democrats had no hate, they'd have nothing at all...Their base is held together by TDS!

J. Lincoln's avatar

It's also held together by a web of corruption that is unparalleled in American history. RICO anyone? This sticky spiderweb of corruption is what holds the democrat party together, that and the ponderous weight of the power of incumbency in both houses of congress.

SHug's avatar

RICO would be a great start. Notice how most all their big funding dried up with the closing of USAID?

Larry Schweikart's avatar

Fantastic image. Not a fan of Hegel, but you took an absolutely parallel path to what I've been saying about the structural situation is absolutely collapsing for Democrats.

*Voter roll purges have now removed way over 2m from rolls. Just in the last month, 34,000 off NC's voter rolls; 800,000 off OR's; and last year CA lost about 1 million, maybe more. (I don't know even now if LA County and San Diego County have purged their rolls). This is a D voter loss of about 1 m net (to be really generous to Ds.)

*Deportations: the Admin says it's about 3.5 million. One other stat says 5 leave voluntarily for every 1 deported. Again, being overly generous to Ds, at the very least this would remove 1 m D voters.

*Voter registration changes. As you know I've worked this for years. Last 16 mo? Rs gained 1.3m net.

*Obviously redistricting. By my count, Rs have net gained 10-12 (depending on AL and maybe one other state considering redistricting. Again, that's net, meaning Rs according to Cook would be at 220-222 safe in the House in November without winning a single contested seat.

*Money, which you cover well. Rs are at about a 4:1 fundraising edge WITHOUT Trump's $300m slush fund PAC and without Musk's $50m. The real ratio is about 8:1.

For all these structural reasons, I think the Ds are on the path to extinction and cannot recover.

Lori's avatar

Democrats and extinction, what harmony is found in those words.

Dana Hope's avatar

And the fact that all of their sub identity groups aren’t procreating is a perfect combination for extinction.

Lori's avatar

yes, let us hope they do all they can to not have kids. just perfect:}

Butterfly2510's avatar

A dream come true. And, not one person will shed a tear.

CL Shoemake's avatar

Oh my, YES!! 😄

Bard Joseph's avatar

Pay no attention to the Middle East Wars behind the Curtain that will wipe out the middle class.

Must remember to get my shot for Long Haunted Virus Variation

John infinity N's's avatar

Might be the war on the Middle Class that will wipe out the Middle East

Roger Beal's avatar

Today's Democrat Party's visionaries are Gavin Newsom, AOC, and Zohran Mamdani. Unless the Dems believe the majority of the American electorate pines for a return of Nikita Khrushchev, so much for a unifying and marketable vision for America.

VelvetStitching's avatar

The Democrat party may well give way to the Democratic SOCIALIST party - and though "Democrat" is in its title - it is completely socialist in nature!

(Remember: NYC Mayor Mumdummy ran on Democrat Socialism platform and won!)

When the USA (or world) want something for nothing they usually end up with just plain NOTHING !

What about this truth did the 20th Century did not make clear?!

Socialism NEVER works!

It simply destroys!

Elaine Russky's avatar

How about "National Socialist American Working Party."

Debra's avatar

How about Working American Socialist Party? WASP

Get out the can of Raid!

kittynana's avatar

@Roger- you forgot Bernie