If you are if the praying persuasion, please pray for California as the votes come in for Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt! A week of vote counting is legal and all kinds of treachery abounds there. Redeem California!
I pray every night for Hilton and Pratt. My once-gorgeous state is worth saving!
However the Dem machine won't allow that. Wait for the mysterious 2am water main break, and sudden influx of "newly discovered" ballots....all for D of course.
It's not who has the most votes- but the most ballots.
It’s my original home too. I want to move back down badly. It’s just too expensive and liberal. I did see that San Luis Obispo county went for Steve Hilton, which is very good news for that beautiful area.
As a transplanted California to Washington State, I know about the iron lock Dems have on election practices so I'm praying that God will intervene and a fair process be followed this cycle. Let me also say thanks to all who participated in the lively debate here on C&C concerning the "married" homosexual issue that has even snuck into the current administration. The question boils down to this: If we expect God to bless America, America has to bless God with laws that are compatible with God's laws and authentic marriage is only between one man and one woman, (XX and XY chromosome people), therefore a sexual relationship outside of that context, hetero or homo, that is in any way endorsed by US law, is an effrontery to God. Clarence Thomas proclaimed, Obergefell v. Hodges must be reversed and I am in agreement with him.
I love it! Becerra was the idiot loser HHS secy during o’bidens reign I believe. That make him an evil buffoon as well. He can have a seat next to newscum in hell.
Same here. I do not see San Mateo or Santa Clara counties being swayed to the right. Those feet are sunk in deeply and rooted. Im not sure what it would take to move the needle right and I doubt it will in my lifetime. Sad.
As a SLO county native who fought and lived through the political hijacking of that county following amnesty, I would remind those who know and inform those who don't that SLO County has been historically red.
It was so red in fact that it was a bellwether conservative county for decades prior to being conquered by the leftist cabal.
Do you guys think if good people get into leadership positions and clean up the state, that you'd move back?
If so, do you suppose people from Cuba, Venezuela or maybe even Iran, living in America, would want to return to their homelands once President Trump has stabilized these areas? Hmm
How wonderful it would be if all the people who lived in the U.S. were ones who loved this country and chose to live here?
I wouldn't move back to Cali, but mainly because I've lived on Maui 6 years now. LA way too crowded, I get anxiety now on the 405 fresh out of LAX. And the air smells bad, frankly. Peeps there *think* the government forces clean air. Cars pollute terribly. My health improved living here. More and better sun, clean air. Bingo.
I saw a post on social media this morning. They showed the numbers at 36% of the vote counted and then again at 42% of the votes counted. Out of all the people listed Pratt was the only candidate that had 0 increase in votes between the 36% count and the 42% count 🤔. All the other candidates numbers had increased.
Day before I voted in California, local news radio was saying only 7% of all mail-in ballots had already been received. Unusually low percentage. Expecting a redux of Pelosi’s daughter being in charge of the month-long ballot counting in Nov 2025 for Orange County where day after every day only the D candidates for Congress collected more votes after the R candidates won on Election Day evening. Whelp, 4 months to go for legal challenges for our ballot counting results until the State mails out to all voters our all-hands mail-in ballots this October. Paper ballots are a gold mine for 100% recounts as are the voter machines at the Golden State polling places with a brand new set of Fed “sniffer” bosses at FBI and ONI.
Somebody probably sent them the playbook from Fulton Co., GA.
1. Start by hiring only temporary agency hires, preferably a temp agency partially owned by none other than Stacey Abrams,
to work the polls. Use zero tried and true poll workers.
2. Give temp workers little to no instruction as to chain of command rules and regulations. If they see a pile of mostly
dem ballots and have no idea whether or not they’ve been run through, by all means,
run them again. If they see a box of ballots
rumored
to be mostly
dem votes, even though they are banded,
meaning already run, by all means, cut the bands (because what are bands there for,
anyhow?) and run them a few more times.
3. Instead of the usual 2 dem “watchers” and 2 republican “watchers”, use 2 dems and 2 people who purport to be republicans but who are representatives of LGBTQ organizations—or NOW organizations, not exactly widely thought of as conservative orgs…
4. Have a mystery leak and send workers home earlier than they have ever been sent home in the previous decade, though no one acknowledges actually seeing any water.
5. Send shredder trucks to polling sites weeks before shredder trucks are traditionally allowed.
6. When lawful citizens and knowledgeable poll workers question certain happenings as looking shady, have someone like Sec of State Raffensberger placate all who are questioning things, ignoring every questioner.
7. Once forensic paper scientists (who ever heard of such…?) like Jovan Pulitzer go through several reams of
ballots, and declare them far too perfectly “bubbled in”, with zero stray marks, and zero crinkles that they were highly likely PRINTED bubbled in ballots rather than not, ignore that huge red flag.
8. Ignore Mr. Pulitzer when he also declares reams of mail-in ballots being perfectly folded and not remotely stained nor wrinkled nor dog-eared in any way, as though they were never in the hands of an actual human, never sat on in the car on the way to the post office, never dropped nor carelessly bent in a purse nor held with piles of other mail in the hand of anyone.
9. Rather than be perfectly fine with being investigated because you have no reason for concern because it “was the safest most secure election in the history of ever”, freak OUT and try throwing out lawsuit and speed bump after effort-thwarting speed bump onto anyone attempting to investigate the actual security of the election.
NBC News shows a map of California color coded—almost every inland state shows red for Hilton. Virtually all the coastal counties are shades of blue, with Becerra leading in more of them than Steyer, which is something to be grateful for.
Becerra as California A.G. prosecuted independent investigative journalist David Daleiden for exposing the felony trafficking in organs and body parts from aborted babies by Planned Parenthood.
Trafficking in human organs for profit is a FELONY. Planned Parenthood committed felonies. But Becerra did not take any action against the felons. Instead he went after the journalist who investigated and REPORTED on the felonies.
And as Biden's head of HHS, Becerra pushed the Covid jab mandates -- punishing people for choosing what they would or would not allow to be injected into their own God-given bodies.
How on earth could Becerra be a better choice for anything?!
I did not mean to imply Becerra was better, or even acceptable, as you remind me. The jungle primary format concerns me—it would be completely unacceptable for Californians if both Democrats, Becerra and Steyer, were to advance to the general election.
I left the Bay Area in 1998 and it has grieved me to see how California has gone steadily down hill as the Democrats had turned it into a one-party state since then.
Sadly, those who vote for Democrats will never know what Becerra did with the Reporter, nor with the Covid jabs, due to their choice of News sources. Further, most are willing to overlook, or completely deny any question of wrong doing by their sacred cow.
I did not mean to imply Becerra was better, or even acceptable, as you remind me. The jungle primary format concerns me—it would be completely unacceptable for Californians if both Democrats, Becerra and Steyer, were to advance to the general election.
I left the Bay Area in 1998 and it has grieved me to see how California has gone steadily down hill as the Democrats had turned it into a one-party state since then.
I am discouraged...not defeated...but not confident that things will change. I don't know why I thought that in this election, Conservatives would fare better.🤔
I'm born, raised and contuously living in our once-pristine, and endlessly entertaining (not talkin' about Hollywood 👎) state for 80 years.
I have prayed for another chance for California, and I knew we were actually successful in our Recall Newsom. But when the Dems cheated and claimed we didn't...Republicans shrugged and collectively signed "Too bad - So sad"
I’m in Santa Clara County and it’s split here. But conservatives are no longer being quiet and for the first time in decades, I hear loud arguments in public!
Do you think the large foreign influx, driven by Tech, generally votes Democrat to keep their jobs? I have always wondered how people who raise their children conservatively could vote for all this insane, foolish nonsense.
I’m not sure it’s their jobs but more brainwashing. People I meet who are largely Dem truly believe the lame stream narrative of what is happening. They believed the jabs were safe and effective, but when they didn’t stop infection or transmission, that didn’t wake them up, they just convinced themselves that they probably would have died if they hadn’t taken it, so it still saved them. They won’t question what is going on, but just happily making big tech money and drive their Teslas with anti Musk stickers.
We live in California and were working on the campaign for our District 10 congressional candidate, who was challenging the incumbent. She began her race last year, and she'd previously garnered 34% of the vote when she ran in 2024. Then, out of the blue, a guy who had been a Democrat suddenly changed parties 3 months ago, had a lot of private money, and last night we saw him ace her out as the GOP candidate. I'm still fuming. This is the tactic now of the Dems. They are putting in people who just run as Republican, say the right things, but then they're going to push the Democrat agenda.
Thanks for that. So discouraging all the tricks to maintain Dems’ power like the ability to vote in opposing primaries and the top two vote getters advance, eliminating Republican candidates.
I checked the California RNC website, The Garvis Gann website and Steve Hiltons Campaign page to see endorsements made by each prior to filling out my ballot. Funny, in this election was the first that i
I did not receive a mailer from the RNC endorsing candidates! I di however receive numerous texts and flyers from several Democrat candidates! I have not been a registered Democrat since the early '90's!
My thought is that Cali has not suffered enough. How much empathy do you think the average Californian feels for a bunch of rich folks who lost their multi-million dollar ocean view homes? Pretty close to ZERO. Or, how many who don't pay property tax directly think that the taxes are too high? Then tell me how many Californians want their share of handouts because it's fair, and millionaires and billionaires didn't earn their wealth; they stole it. Nope, the great underclass hasn't seen its tin cup dry up yet. So, they'll keep voting for the Dem/socialists until the gravy train runs out of steam.
But if CA failure means begging Fed for bail-out, is there enough courage to JUST SAY NO, or force a 'conservancy' by SANE people?? I don't know. I didn't like it when people said let NYC have their socialist mayor-serves 'em right. I'd rather learn by reasoned argument - thinking!! (I know that's a lot to ask in our cultural and educational milieux) than destructive results!
The dirty little secret is that nearly every home in California is a million dollars or more home! The 1,600 sq ' home my parents bout in 1965 for $32,000 is now worth about 3 Million! It will likely be gutted, repartitioned and added on to within 2 years of sale, then be worth $4 Mil. No ocean view, no acreage, just proximity to good paying jobs.
06/03/26: God willing. Which, in the most corrupt state government outside of Lord Haw Haw's (PM Starmer's) Nazi England, will be absolutely necessary.
And may I add these the Childers columns have been simply amazing?
The deluge of dead-on information. His unconquerable sense of humor. The intriguing dot-connecting. The simplicity of his style (how many garrulous writers have we witnessed writing themselves into oblivion?!).
I only regret that I am not decades younger so as to be able to fully absorb it --- "all" would still be impossible, but much more than what can be remembered in 2026, a week or a month or a year later.
Moi aussi, as we say in south Louisiana Cajun. At 78, my immediate grasp is ok, but recall is getting more difficult. Jeff writes so clearly. He, Jupplandia and Jack Cashill are my go-to guys for The Story...and The Rest of the Story on Substack.
nope - the whole state needs to fail miserably so they will chase out all democrats, not just the governor - remember the Governator - the leftists legislature cancelled every reform making him just a figure head-
Had an interesting read. My college roommate’s spouse died, they had bought near their son in Portola Valley, Cali. — 1 and 3 acre plots near Atherton where they’d lived. The town has been harassed by the state for lack of public housing, so they built a home for the disabled — and they all pay upwards of $50,000 a year in property taxes to be harassed. Just sayin’ it’s not California dreaming.
Yes. The productive people are always punished. California is run by the people that Ayn Rand wrote about in her books. The scenarios she laid out in the Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged are happening today in California and all over the USA. Much like they did in Russia and other countries on the brink of Communism.
My sister (visiting me here in CO) did not sleep last night for all goings on in the 2nd swamp on opposite side of our beautiful country from the main Swamp.
Ballot dumps. Newscum also made a last minute change ( I heard anyway) that they can’t reject ballots if the ballot signature doesn’t match the signature on file.
I love to REconsider the "lion" image of satan and instead imagine him as a putrid pussy cat! He has NO power over the SAVED SOULS that have claimed the cleansing power of Yeshua's blood He shed for ALL humanity on the Calvary hill cross.
Notice how it says "like" a roaring lion. A lion with no teeth. We either give in and let the fear control what we do and say, or settle in for a fight that has been won long ago. But, all it takes in one word to make him flee.
Thank you, Janice. I believe that all of us will need great discernment in the coming years. It is time for us to start honing that skill.
Develop the ability to be neutral. You can recognize emotions arising and allow them to pass by. Be grateful for the information they give you.
From neutral place, ask yourself a question and notice if you "lean in" or "pull away". The body knows. Leaning in says "Truth" and leaning/pulling away says "False". Try this standing and with neutral things. Like "ice cream". Do you lean in or forward (Truth or ok) or lean back and away (False or not ok).
Practice. Then when listening to news broadcast, are you leaning in or out.
Time to start honing your Truth/lie detection skills.
I think the Warsh hiring signals a far-reaching restructuring of the Federal Reserve, by those who know it is an unconstitutional private bank, and should be ended. Trump is making it obsolete, the same thing as ending it. Just as he is ending the criminal syndicate in DC that has been stealing many Billions of our dollars each year. The deep state is pissed.
The buildings architecture is definitely part of the picture. And on the ground the Treasury building is much larger, more imposing than the White House.
But the picture from overhead of the siting of them side-by-side, it's as if they are co-equal heads of the US government. As if.
And if we are going to be honest, nearly everyone and their cronies in DC benefit from the endless printing money pit. It ain't going away. And to even think as the author suggested that the new ged chair and advisors are going to do away with stable coin (CBDCs) is just bananas
And you are definitely not a human with a functioning brain.
How's Trump's war for Israel working out for you? How is his deficit spending that is on pace with Biden's record deficit spending, with Trump's very own GOP led congress? You guys are utter clowns, and will cheerlead the country right off the cliff.
and now democrats are worried about credentials - hilarious after preaching DEI for a decade or more if credentials mattered Obama never would have been president
Remember also, according to Wikipedia, it was at "the Bretton Woods Conference of July 1944 where a historic gathering of 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire. Delegates established the post-World War II global financial order, creating the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
Key Outcomes of the Conference
Creation of the IMF: Designed to monitor exchange rates and lend reserve currencies to nations with balance-of-payment deficits.
Creation of the World Bank: Established (as the IBRD) to fund the reconstruction of nations devastated by World War II.
The Gold-Dollar Standard: Currencies were pegged to the U.S. dollar, which in turn was pegged to gold at \(\$35\) per ounce.
The Demise of the System
The 1971 "Nixon Shock": Rising U.S. inflation and balance-of-payment deficits meant the U.S. no longer had enough gold to cover the amount of dollars held globally. President Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the U.S. dollar into gold.
Transition to Fiat Currency: This action effectively collapsed the Bretton Woods system by 1973, shifting the world to the current system of floating, fiat currencies."
And the ability of the Fed to print money at will... causing massive inflation and the $33 trillion debt they've saddled us
On another note and completely off this topic re: the NIH corrupt criminals "Sneaking the samples into the US accomplishes one particularly valuable objective: it erases the chain of custody."
And now you also know why there is no chain of custody of mail in ballots. They could not do whole sale manipulation of the mail in ballots if there was chain of custody which started when the ballot was mailed out... instead they mockingly start "chain of custody" when received at the county recorders office after ballots have passed through the the contractor who printed them, the USPS, every one in the homes, businesses,, dorm rooms, democrat ballot drop houses, etc etc, back thru the USPS and then finally to the county long after they have been manipulated, injected, etc.
With your helpful comments, I had somewhere to start to look into this.
The longer bit is that the French thought the Bretton-Woods agreement making the US Dollar the world's "reserve currency" left the US with too much power and so they set out to "trade US dollars, whenever they had them, for US physical gold" as the agreement said they had a right to, and at the agreement's fixed rate of 1 oz of gold for every 35 printed dollars they showed up with.
The US did not have any net DEBT to France in 1971 (laughably, the opposite is true), but the US was bound by the agreement to make the swap. Afterward Nixon said it wasn't any more. Makes you wonder how many countries sold gold for 35 dollars/oz to banker-insiders the day before...
You are right that France was merely turning in dollars that the US guaranteed would be paid in gold. That is not technically a debt, but at least an obligation.
I am not sure that selling gold for dollars the day before is that great of an insider deal.
I went into a restaurant in Chicago, ordered food, and then they wouldn't let me pay with money. They said they only took credit cards.
I pointed out that it said right there on the money that it was good for all debts, public and private, but they refused to take the money.
There was no sign saying they didn't take money, so they gave me the meal for free. I'm sure they put a sign up right away.
Agreements and guarantees mean something until they don't. I have no doubt that someday the government will simply announce that "Your money is no good here", and they will mean "Only credit cards can be used everywhere from now on."
In the meantime, I refuse to have a credit card, just out of principle.
Catherine Austin Fitts advocates one day a week, but more is better, I think.
I am a credit-card user who has sold out to get the "cash-back rewards," figuring that retailers not only have NEVER paid "their half" of the credit-card-issuer's transaction fees (merely passing that along), but have ALSO (and more damnably) raised ALL PRICES to the credit-card price--whether cash is offered or not! The cash back, I tell my sorry self, is the "ounce of flesh" I'm extracting. (I figure "they" know Everything They Possibly Could about me, Already, Anyway.)
Thanks again to your prompting, I have learned more about Ms Pitts: "Catherine Austin Fitts is an American investment banker, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and founder of Solari, Inc.; she researches public spending, financial systems, and community wealth. She recommends using cash at least once a week ("Cash Friday") to keep the cash-payment system viable."
It has been said that he was blackmailed into that & this little tidbit will be coming out in one of the future disclosures. We should all know how the unseen powers get their agenda done. It’s either blackmail, extortion or both.
I've not studied Nixon in great detail but he did resign because of Watergate, he opened China and its plundering of the west, and he took us off the gold standard, which has put us in massive debt. Perhaps he was just another uniparty corrupt scoundrel?
I suspect "they" found something on him, but "once Watergate," they only had to sit back and watch it burn. I think he sniffed his own passed-gasses and thought he could smell strawberries and took it as a sign that "only he/magnificent he" could "open China."
If Nixon is remembered for "He opened China!" I hope Trump can be for "He closed it back."
The Watergate burglary was an operation dreamt up by an Ex FBI guy low down on Nixon's staff. The propaganda surrounding the story was, propaganda used to unseat a President that would not play the game the Boys at the Pentagon wanted played. They placed a spy in the Whitehouse who riffled through senior staff members brief cases and file drawers in order to find dirt.
Bob Woodward was not a journalist, he was a Pentagon guy installed in the WAPO and partnered with Bernstein, an actual credentialed journalist. Neither man resembled the dapper actors who portrayed them in the Hollywood movie, "All the Presidents Men', made to further the propaganda and cement it into the American Culture.
If Nixon was paranoid and taped his conversations, it was likely for a reason. The powerbrokers and their spooks got rid of his Vice President, Spiro Agnew and installed Gerald Ford, former FBI.
The files on Nixon and the events leading up to Watergate have recently been unsealed. FYI.. let us not forget that one of the 120+ lawyers working for the Democrats to impeach Nixon was none other than Hillary Rodham.
The Watergate break-in was dumb. I was still in my teens when it unfolded. Nixon had nothing to do with the break-in itself, but I came to the conclusion that he was up to his neck in trying to hide it and get the press to "move on." I also concluded, from his own tapes, that he was a venal man. Trump 2.0 appears to have learned to NOT, as a Republican, hand Democrats any (more) "morality" hooks to apply beatings with.
G. Gordon Liddy, the low-level former FBI operative you mention, went to his grave convinced that John Dean ordered the break-in to retrieve damning evidence linking his wife to a DC prostitution ring. Wikipedia says: "The Deans have no children and reside in Beverly Hills." Both have written books about Watergate.
I would say, ...until Trump 2.0 came into office. Trump was like most of us believing that we the people have a say in how the country is run. He was used to a business style hierarches where the CEO is the boss, or at least he/she and the CFO are key players. What we all realized was that the Deeply Entrenched all thought that they ran things, when really it was the Board of Directors unseen and each with differing ideas about the endgame results they want to achieve. Each biding their time as they rob the US Treasury and enslave the US people through their operatives, the Federal and State politicians, captured Unions and NGO's.
"....There’s a lot of potential there. But more, if an administration seeks leverage on powerful actors who thought their finances were opaque or hidden safely offshore, putting a fiercely loyal bulldog at the junction of Fannie/Freddie’s data firehose and ODNI’s surveillance and analysis capabilities is about as close as you can get to a purpose‑built leverage machine. I’m not saying that’s what’s happening. I’m just saying."
Jeff is right: 2+2=4. Make no mistake, these are power moves. This will consolidate unprecedented power in the office of POTUS. Whether or not this furthers the cause of liberty, we will have to wait and see. But remember, it is an axiom that once power is attained, rarely if ever is it given up. If Americans benefit from this move, it will only be by way of circumstance.
That's only if one accepts your weak argument that Trump is not working in the best interest of the American people. I know you cannot see that, but I can because I don't have TDS.
Well, if things are still operating like they have in the past, with tons of unaccountable money passing through Fannie/Freddie as Catherine Austin Fitts has detailed, my guess is the old vultures are getting kicked out and replaced with Trump's vultures. Same as it ever was.
We'll have to see how it plays out. I hope for the better but either way, things could not continue the way they were as the US was headed for a cliff. Even with the brakes applied, it's still going to be dicey for the rest of the decade through 2032.
Armstrong has mapped out the cyclical peak in Western Culture as 2032/33. I think we can all sense this when we consider the trends for the last 50 years.
What I want all the sycophants to do is REMEMBER cheering on these consolidations of power with hand selected sycophants who cannot be approved by the Senate. It won't be long when those evil Ds take power back and do the exact same thing with their crazier sycophants. The side cheering on their demise currently, will scream bloody murder and start to remember the constitution again...The malfeasance they cheer on today, will for sure be used against them in the future. We are living in crazy times when folks cheer on being screwed over like they are winning something...
We crazy folks are just looking for some answers, and accountability as to how our country is so deeply indebt, and where it all went? The best way to do that is to pull back the curtain, follow the money and see where it leads!
The old game is over! The overlords over played their hand with the Plandemic and the Lawfare, the Spying on Trump and setting the FBI and the IRS on people who vote republican, and dare to speak at a schoolboard meeting! Rules for ME are also rules for THE!
Lisa, as they say in the south. Bless your heart. The debt goes way back but lets start in the Pentagon over the last 25 years of manufactured wars "spreading democracy". The 911 false flag that led to the big lie of Iraq and trillions wasted. Afghanistan, 20 years, trillions wasted to put the same people back in charge of the country.However, we were able to create and protect the opium crisis here in the states for all those trillions. Those wars were not started by Ds. Matter of fact it was the boomers running around regurgitating the propaganda "you have nothing to hide you have nothing to be afraid of" that brought us FISA and section 702 that was used to spy on your deity. Now all of a sudden the deity places a sycophant in charge of the tool and is whipping to have it passed again...It doesn't really matter if it's a D or R administration they work together to screw the regulars over. No matter how much propaganda is thrown at us. Those with discernment see through the lies while millions continue to believe in a false prophet who just lied us again into a multibillion dollar war and ruination of the worlds economy to crash the planned end of the petrodollar system. You mention all the debt..It has surpassed even Cabbages spending with the deity over the last 2 years? Now Rs are whipping for even more trillions to the black hole that is the Pentagon and all the AI prisons being built around population centers with full throated support and billion dollar giveaways from the deity so you all can cheer it on. I do agree the IRS should be abolished but not before the deity can get he and his cronies the slush money that he sued his own administration for to steal even more tax payer dollars for the Epstein class. Speaking of Epstein...where is that accountability of the billionaires who rape kids? Do those sick perverts who rule over us deserve accountability or only those evil Ds? I just like to cynically point out the hypocrisy in the cult followings low information responses to the theater being used against us. Until both sides wake up to the fact that we are ruled by a pervert Uniparty, the faster we fall into dystopia.
Aaron, what you say is true but it is a pill too bitter for most to swallow. And in truth, I cannot completely blame them. Like Odysseus who made his crew tie him to the mast and put wax in the crews ears so they couldn't hear, the Uniparty's psyops narrative is overwhelmingly seductive.
💯 Phil. I'll never forget when I first started learning how almost everything I was conditioned to believe was a manufactured lie, almost 30 years ago. I started looking into the Pharma malfeasance of how executives make it into regulation then back to Pharma, the entire circle jerk...Which led me into the moon landing hoax. I worked with former Navy Nukes who understood radiation and could do the math about the Van Allen radiation belt. They proved on a white board that the rads were too high for a human to make it through with tin foil "shielding". I don't remember the exact thickness of lead shielding required but to observe in real time, the cognitive dissonance from those guy's was something to behold. They proved to me and all the others during our "argument" it was impossible but still sat there and argued we went to the moon! Your comment is spot the heck on. Its not easy to live in a world, when you know it's all a lie. I get it that but damn people, wake up to the obvious lies around you such as these wars so we can make steps to try and alleviate the blatant malfeasance such as this fraudulent that was foisted upon us.
"If a conservative rancher in Montana tried to transport a cow across state lines without the proper 47-page veterinary permit, the Department of Agriculture would descend upon him with the fury of a thousand suns."
This 2016 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) article provides interesting insights about USG agencies and how they overcome public policy objections, treating oversight and moratoriums as pesky annoyances that are placed in their way by uneducated, unsophisticated people who get irrationally frightened of scientific advancements. It gets into Dual-Use, Gain-of-Function, NIH/OSTP roles, roles of foreign researchers, partnering with China, how our ethics are antiquated, etc. It discusses engineering virulent pandemic flu viruses, risks of lab leaks and carelessness, bad actors. Written four years before the very dubious 2020 pandemic that changed the world. And gives insights into many of the same minds that were involved in the 2014 history and events since 2020. And in the minds of Munster family monsters.
I find the Q&A section even more interesting than the main presentation.
Biotechnology: The Potential and Perils of Innovation
Before the advent of the washing machine, the best of his class went to apply for a managerial position in a large company. As he flew through the interviews and word of him spread, an Execitive Director discovered from the CV that his academic achievements were excellent all the way. From secondary school until postgraduate research—he had never seen such a flawless performance. He immediately called for a meeting.
The director asked, “Did you obtain any scholarships in school?” The youth answered “none”. The director asked, “Was it your father who paid for your school fees?” The youth replied, “My father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my schooling.” The director asked, “Where did your mother work?” The youth answered, “She works as a clothes cleaner.”
The director requested the youth to show his hands. The young man showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.
The director asked, “Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?”
The youth answered, “Never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books. Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me.”
The director said, “When you go back today, go and clean your mother’s hands, and then see me in the morning.” The boy felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back, he eagerly requested of his mother to let him clean her hands. A bit taken aback, his mother felt strange and naked, intrigued but with mixed feelings; she timidly showed her hands to her son.
As her boy cleaned them, she saw that tears began to fall. It was the first time he noticed how wrinkled and covered in bruises they were. Some of these were so painful that his mother shivered at the light pressure. The boy gradually came to the stark realization that he had been able to spend his life with his nose in his books due to these broken hands, and yet despite all of the knowledge and wit such persuits had gained him, he had still somehow managed to miss something so ...fundamental... something so obvious and glaring about the person nearest to him. And over...how many years, he marvelled? All of them!
It struck like lightening—it was this pair of hands that had washed the clothes seven days a week to enable him to study and pay tuition. These dark blemishes were the price that his mother had to pay for his graduation, academic excellence, future.
The shame overehelmed him.
After finishing, the boy scurried and went and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother. Unaccustomed to the work, it was a an arduous task. After, the two sat and talked for a very long time. The next morning, the Director noticed the sleepless face, stiff movement, and tears threatening in the youth’s eyes.
He asked: “Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday?” He answered, “I cleaned my mother’s hands, and then finished cleaning all the remaining clothes, and then I really noticed and talked to her for the first time." The Director asked, “Please tell me your feelings.”
The youth said, “Number one, I know now what appreciation is and how utterly blind i I was to my mother's sheer dedication to me and the pain it wrought her. That without my mother and that pain, I would not be sitting here today. Number two, by washing her hands and those clothes last night, only now I realize how difficult and tough it is to get something clean and I am now cleaner as a result. Number three, I have come to appreciate the importance and value of family and relationships, the love and sacrifices one can make for another, and how such selflessness can make all the difference in the world for another person.
The Director said, “This is what I am looking in my manager. I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would never put money or power over others as a primary goal. You are hired.”
As the years passed the young man worked very hard for everyone in repayment to his mother, and gained the admiration and respect of his subordinates along with everyone around him. Under his leadership and influence, his friends all worked diligently as a team and the company’s performance as a whole improved tremendously across the board.
His mother's hands, dedication, and love transformed him into a humble leader out in front, rather than a boss cracking a whip from behind:
Leader vs Boss:
Leaders listen > bosses tell. Leaders mentor > bosses manage. Leaders inspire > bosses intimidate. Leaders have empathy > bosses show indifference. Leader set examples > bosses set rules. Leader focus on people > bosses focus on tasks. Leaders command respect > bosses expects obedience. Leaders give credit > bosses takes credit. Leaders coach > bosses drive. Leaders generate enthusiasm > bosses inspire fear. Leaders fix what's broken > bosses place blame. Leaders show how its done > bosses know how its done. Leaders develop people > bosses use people. Leaders ask > bosses command.
This is beautiful. I have worked for leaders and bosses. The difference in my quality of life working for leaders makes a world of difference. It makes me want to be present and a contributor to our success, because I know it’s our success not his or her success.
I doubt anyone ever worked for a leader like I did in my last job. From Appalachia SW VA. Scottish decent, son of a coal miner , who would never let him go into the mines. I never served in the military, (He did. In Germany, he pitched his division to the European championship by starting back to back games. ) but I would have followed this man up a hill , knowing I would not come back. Incredible work ethic. Hated by many, respected by all, including the very top management. All envied his integrity, his knowledge, his leadership, his compassion, his resolve, his fearlessness. Everyone came to him with their troubles, and he always let them talkI gave up many evenings and weekends, showing more loyalty to him than my wife because of how he always put the department first. Tested out at CEO intelligence, with a HS education. Made VP , came in as a blue shirt, which prompted one bitter colleague to say to his face "you did not even have to kiss anyone's ass to get that position". John Wayne without the baggage. One of a kind, and I was privaleged to be elevated to his #2. I was ferociously protective of him, and grateful for all he taught me.
BTW. 7 coworkers came to either his family night or funeral. It was out of town, but.... Family night was my birthday, and because we had dogs, stayed in a fleabag motel where I would not even use the shower. That lack of respect reminded me of a line from "Shadow Divers", a book about 2 men who dove on the Andrea Doria for the first time. The one who was a medic in Viet Nam observed after being hung out to dry by his buddies when he had bravely gone after so many, "Just because you are willing to die for your buddies does not mean they are willing to die for you".
Roland, Shadow Divers by Robert Karson was about the best book I have ever read. I found his email later after a few years and wrote him a fan letter telling him how much I enjoyed it.. He was kind and gracious and we had an interesting conversation.That guy can write and tell a story. The other best book is The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. A wild and wonderful telling of the daring folks who climb Giant Redwoods for research, preservation and thrills. It’s an entire world in the sky. Every branch is an ecosystem that abundant life below or on the branches needs and thrives among. . If a tree is very tall, they never divulge where it is to protect these preeminent life forms. There is a height from the ground that if you fall—that’s it. At the time it was written, only one man lived to tell about it. Thanks for reminding me. Time to read both again.
Historians and sociologists frequently debunk this piece of internet-era pop-philosophy because it ignores data, relies on subjective terms, and misrepresents how civilizations and resilience actually function. Historically, true hard times (e.g., severe famine, plague, or systemic oppression) do not build character; they cause trauma, malnutrition, and generational setbacks. Many of history's most prosperous periods were built by complex networks of cooperation, institutions, and innovation, rather than lone "strong men." Conversely, authoritarian "strong men" have frequently driven prosperous societies directly into ruin.
"The saying is bullshit.
Hard times create scared, risk averse men and women that don’t dare dream or fight for a better future. They might still rebel, but not due to any indignity they are made to suffer, but only when you threaten their physical survival.
Think of the people who die in wars or under totalitarian regimes - society’s best, brightest, bravest and those with a heightened sense of personal and public responsibility. Those who will not roll with the punches.
And conversely those that survive are the ones who hunker down, who listen, who love Big Brother. Like my grandmother’s advice to hold no political views and to try to not stand out in any situation.
Which to a Weak Man like myself, who grew up just as the Good Times started rolling, sounds like utter perversion. It sounded like madness when she first gave me that advice as I was a kid too, so you see how early the rot started in me.
If only I had grown up in the Hard Times to be a traumatized Das Man with a depression and an alcohol problem!"
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[It doesn't hold true, of course. Hard times also create weak men, eager to be led out of those times by differently weak men who present themselves as strong. That's where Germany went wrong in the early 1930s - hard times created weak men, weak men followed a false strong man, together they created times so hard they compared unfavourably to rhenium diboride.
And do strong men create good times? Stalinist Russia, anyone? Mao's China?
Idi Amin's Uganda? Are the good times at the bottom of his freezer?
You'll also notice that the saying talks about good times, but can't be bothered with the impact of good men - or brilliant men, or wise men. Or, of course, women of any kind, but it is an old saying from a far simpler, less interconnected world.
Except… is it, though?
Is it really an old saying, some piece of wisdom handed down from ancient warriors asking each other deep questions over their campfires in the rubble of conquered cities, and proven again and again by the cycles of civilisation?
It seems, in fact, to be from a modern novel called ‘Those Who Remain,’ by a man called G. Michael Hopf, a writer of westerns and post-apocalyptic SF. That's the thing about ancient wisdom: it has always been there… but had it always been there yesterday?
If somebody tells you that these are hard times, and that you therefore need strong men to save you, I'd point you in the direction of this line from the unabashedly modern Sir Terry Pratchett:
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grows in straight lines to make weeding easier. ]
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.
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Essentially those without disciplin become weak and spoiled, creating ruinous times for those in their orbit. As for the reference to "men" it is a reference to 'mankind' which includes women.
This always reminds me of the sons of strong successful fathers who often are weak men, wayward men who run the family business into the ground. I often wonder is this because the father made the son's life to easy, left him to want for nothing, gave him no struggles to strengthen his character, or is it because the father was too overbearing, too busy building a business to build a relationship with the son.
Look up Dwight Eisenhower quotes on leadership. I especially like the one that says “leadership is getting someone else to do what you want done”. He has several. His leadership undoubtedly saved the world.
Amen. Be a servant leader. Your team(s) will succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Be a servant leader for/to your woman too, you will succeed beyond your wildest dreams. This is God's way.
My first thought as well. Why hire foreign interests for governmental NIH positions? As you said, especially in potentially dangerous health positions?!
If leftist utopia looks like the photos I keep seeing of SF, LA, NYC, Minneapolis (all admittedly beautiful cities) which have been turned into junk yards and junkietowns, no thank you
1. Kevin Warsh should bring in G. Edward Griffin (author of "The creature from Jekyll Island") to speak to the Fed staff to put them on notice. But that is only if Warsh is serious and not a slow-walker. Bring in the "God Father".
2. I like 'fresh faces' to head departments. It gives them a chance to "ask the dumb question" which is a non-threatening way for new managers to ask about the "why" of something and expect more than a "because that's how it's always been done" reply.
3. On my score card, I can't keep straight who is nuttier, Frum, Bill Kristol, or David French. All are pretentious hangers-on types.
4. Let's crack down on all remittance transfers, making the receiving party be an actual person and not a business or government entity when it comes to private citizens. Wonderful things will happen.
Also read G. Edward's book "B-17. World without Cancer". It is just as good as his much more famous book, and he has a real cancer charity. Hear he is 93, and I think he is going to be at the upcoming conference in Las Vegas that Juan O Savin and David Nino Rodriguez, and hopefully Tina Peters are attending.
Saved my wife's life. 5 years ago she got a stage 2B breast cancer, and we were 17 hours from a masectomy when someone we never met convinced us to research and do it holistically. Our vet had prescribed Safegaurd / Panaucur (Fenbendazole) for a dog we had with breast cancer. She started that immediatley, found Joe Tippen's site, and swore she could tell a difference in the feel of her breast in 2 weeks. did not know about Ivermectin for cancer or menbendazole till years later, but would have taken that too. I would recommend the Very first thing anyone do for cancer is take dewormers. You can now buy Fenben without doing the dog dewormer show. Wife still takes it 3X per week. Take it with Vitamin E with High levels of tocotrienols. Happyhealingstore.com sells Fenben/.
What shocks me, although shouldn’t, is how the Democrats keep voting for the same people (just different names) expecting different results. As you can see by the fact that Becerra is right behind Hilton. Many are upset with the laws legislated by the CA legislature and governor, but they keep voting for the ones that will continue doing the same crap.
The GOP does the same. Trump campaigned for Lindsay friggin Graham. There is little policy difference between people like Jake Sullivan and Narco Rubio. Both are warmongering neocons
Reflect on your own comment. You respond to no content of my commets, just sling pathetic little arrows.
Want to talk about Trump and his GOP led congress running up the deficit at pace with Biden's record deficit? No, you will just accuse me of being a hater. Are you 12? That is what 12 year olds talk like.
That moniker describes *himself* as an old man. The mind appears to be going as old man cannot see what he writes is continual name calling. Dementia often presents with anger and denial.
What was moronic about it? Trump campaigns for neocon swamp creatures. Policy differences between Rubio and Sullivan are small. They are both neocon warmongers. Are you saying Rubio hasn't voted for wars his entire career, and now is not overseeing the US empires wars? Maybe you are too dizzy to see straight because you are constantly running circular logic? Who knows.
Who, other than zionists, said that Iran was a threat to us? All of our own intelligence agencies didn't say so. They may now have a nuclear weapon after all of this nonsense, seeking it as a deterrent so the west would leave them alone. Nicely done "leaders" in washington.
Thune already having doubts about new DNI. Wish they would do something about Thune but they won’t because he’s doing just what the other Repubpukes want.
hmmm ... I've been wondering a long time about the Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street cabal ... when and how does DJT tighten the screws on them?
Jeff ... "There’s a lot of potential there. But more, if an administration seeks leverage on powerful actors who thought their finances were opaque or hidden safely offshore, putting a fiercely loyal bulldog at the junction of Fannie/Freddie’s data firehose and ODNI’s surveillance and analysis capabilities is about as close as you can get to a purpose‑built leverage machine. I’m not saying that’s what’s happening. I’m just saying."
" ...how does DJT tighten the screws on them?" Since they control huge quantities of money, he merely asks them to share the loot. With him and his friends.
Your quote from the Daily Mail blew me away. I am more convinced than ever that the illness that knocked me flat when I first arrived in OR from WI (& through MT) was undiagnosed covid. In Oct of 2019 I drove west & was sicker than I’ve ever been (or since) for well over 3 weeks. I have long thought this was the case, but this snippet really hit me.
I got it end of December 2019. I highly suspect their were people spreading it allover the country in the Fall of 2019. Trump had high approval ratings and was a shoe in for the 2020 Election. The Great experiment. How many people can we get to willingly give up their basic liberties and for how long?
I also received the V*x in 2021, and subsequently contracted the virus AGAIN 4 more times. I’ve been pondering if the shot did not damage our natural immunity.
We could assume at least two of the four are lesbians and maybe one “identifies” as a minority. I would have expected at least one blue haired gal, though.
I am completely ignorant of National monetary policy and management, so my fingers are crossed. Much like DJT not being plucked from the entrenched Presidential grooming line "a baby in Spookland" is the only way Spookland might see some positive change. I could not be more pleased with POTUS making so much happen simultaneously Democrats cannot figure out what to most bitch about and why. They are lost in thinking; a process in which they are inept. Inevitably Democrats will make all of POTUS's progress a trampling of some minority grouping's rights. Another pleasure is seeing modern day Frankensteins brought to justice. I would love to see these law breaking lab rats be injected with the concoctions they study and manipulate.
Garrett Ziegler of Marco Polo [Hunter Biden Laptop Report fame] shared this link and the comment End the Fed last month on his Telegram channel. Might be a good place to learn about monetary policy/fed stuff. I need to read up on it too!
If you are if the praying persuasion, please pray for California as the votes come in for Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt! A week of vote counting is legal and all kinds of treachery abounds there. Redeem California!
I pray every night for Hilton and Pratt. My once-gorgeous state is worth saving!
However the Dem machine won't allow that. Wait for the mysterious 2am water main break, and sudden influx of "newly discovered" ballots....all for D of course.
It's not who has the most votes- but the most ballots.
It’s my original home too. I want to move back down badly. It’s just too expensive and liberal. I did see that San Luis Obispo county went for Steve Hilton, which is very good news for that beautiful area.
As a transplanted California to Washington State, I know about the iron lock Dems have on election practices so I'm praying that God will intervene and a fair process be followed this cycle. Let me also say thanks to all who participated in the lively debate here on C&C concerning the "married" homosexual issue that has even snuck into the current administration. The question boils down to this: If we expect God to bless America, America has to bless God with laws that are compatible with God's laws and authentic marriage is only between one man and one woman, (XX and XY chromosome people), therefore a sexual relationship outside of that context, hetero or homo, that is in any way endorsed by US law, is an effrontery to God. Clarence Thomas proclaimed, Obergefell v. Hodges must be reversed and I am in agreement with him.
As a CA escapee from Ventura County, I can vouch that SLO going red is miraculous.
Ventura county this morning looked red too-I was so surprised! But they’ve got 6 more days to fix that 🙄
Everyone with even one brain cell has had enough, and no amount of back-room ballot counting is going to change that.
The Dems are going to need to cheat even more bigly to win and Xavier Baseras is a buffoon even worse than our current loser governor.
I love it! Becerra was the idiot loser HHS secy during o’bidens reign I believe. That make him an evil buffoon as well. He can have a seat next to newscum in hell.
Escapee from the Bay Area, here.
I struggle with how to describe myself. Escapee? Parolee? 😆
We are displaced refugees.
Same here. I do not see San Mateo or Santa Clara counties being swayed to the right. Those feet are sunk in deeply and rooted. Im not sure what it would take to move the needle right and I doubt it will in my lifetime. Sad.
I completely agree. I have many new enemies, who used to be friends. Their loss not mine. Okay, maybe a little my losd.
As a SLO county native who fought and lived through the political hijacking of that county following amnesty, I would remind those who know and inform those who don't that SLO County has been historically red.
It was so red in fact that it was a bellwether conservative county for decades prior to being conquered by the leftist cabal.
I remember it that way too. Very agricultural and conservative.
You betcha.
They didn't call us aggies for nothin'........
In fact, before it incorporated around 1980, horses still had the right of way in what was then still the village of Atascadero.
Do you guys think if good people get into leadership positions and clean up the state, that you'd move back?
If so, do you suppose people from Cuba, Venezuela or maybe even Iran, living in America, would want to return to their homelands once President Trump has stabilized these areas? Hmm
How wonderful it would be if all the people who lived in the U.S. were ones who loved this country and chose to live here?
I wouldn't move back to Cali, but mainly because I've lived on Maui 6 years now. LA way too crowded, I get anxiety now on the 405 fresh out of LAX. And the air smells bad, frankly. Peeps there *think* the government forces clean air. Cars pollute terribly. My health improved living here. More and better sun, clean air. Bingo.
But such a travesty with the destruction of Lahaina. It is just not the same now, at least in West Maui.
Yes I’d move back to California but def not LA.
I’m in SLO county and am thrilled to hear this!
I saw a post on social media this morning. They showed the numbers at 36% of the vote counted and then again at 42% of the votes counted. Out of all the people listed Pratt was the only candidate that had 0 increase in votes between the 36% count and the 42% count 🤔. All the other candidates numbers had increased.
The fix is in.
Day before I voted in California, local news radio was saying only 7% of all mail-in ballots had already been received. Unusually low percentage. Expecting a redux of Pelosi’s daughter being in charge of the month-long ballot counting in Nov 2025 for Orange County where day after every day only the D candidates for Congress collected more votes after the R candidates won on Election Day evening. Whelp, 4 months to go for legal challenges for our ballot counting results until the State mails out to all voters our all-hands mail-in ballots this October. Paper ballots are a gold mine for 100% recounts as are the voter machines at the Golden State polling places with a brand new set of Fed “sniffer” bosses at FBI and ONI.
I saw the same on a podcast.
Somebody probably sent them the playbook from Fulton Co., GA.
1. Start by hiring only temporary agency hires, preferably a temp agency partially owned by none other than Stacey Abrams,
to work the polls. Use zero tried and true poll workers.
2. Give temp workers little to no instruction as to chain of command rules and regulations. If they see a pile of mostly
dem ballots and have no idea whether or not they’ve been run through, by all means,
run them again. If they see a box of ballots
rumored
to be mostly
dem votes, even though they are banded,
meaning already run, by all means, cut the bands (because what are bands there for,
anyhow?) and run them a few more times.
3. Instead of the usual 2 dem “watchers” and 2 republican “watchers”, use 2 dems and 2 people who purport to be republicans but who are representatives of LGBTQ organizations—or NOW organizations, not exactly widely thought of as conservative orgs…
4. Have a mystery leak and send workers home earlier than they have ever been sent home in the previous decade, though no one acknowledges actually seeing any water.
5. Send shredder trucks to polling sites weeks before shredder trucks are traditionally allowed.
6. When lawful citizens and knowledgeable poll workers question certain happenings as looking shady, have someone like Sec of State Raffensberger placate all who are questioning things, ignoring every questioner.
7. Once forensic paper scientists (who ever heard of such…?) like Jovan Pulitzer go through several reams of
ballots, and declare them far too perfectly “bubbled in”, with zero stray marks, and zero crinkles that they were highly likely PRINTED bubbled in ballots rather than not, ignore that huge red flag.
8. Ignore Mr. Pulitzer when he also declares reams of mail-in ballots being perfectly folded and not remotely stained nor wrinkled nor dog-eared in any way, as though they were never in the hands of an actual human, never sat on in the car on the way to the post office, never dropped nor carelessly bent in a purse nor held with piles of other mail in the hand of anyone.
9. Rather than be perfectly fine with being investigated because you have no reason for concern because it “was the safest most secure election in the history of ever”, freak OUT and try throwing out lawsuit and speed bump after effort-thwarting speed bump onto anyone attempting to investigate the actual security of the election.
Good summary.
NBC News shows a map of California color coded—almost every inland state shows red for Hilton. Virtually all the coastal counties are shades of blue, with Becerra leading in more of them than Steyer, which is something to be grateful for.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/california-governor-results
Becerra as California A.G. prosecuted independent investigative journalist David Daleiden for exposing the felony trafficking in organs and body parts from aborted babies by Planned Parenthood.
Trafficking in human organs for profit is a FELONY. Planned Parenthood committed felonies. But Becerra did not take any action against the felons. Instead he went after the journalist who investigated and REPORTED on the felonies.
And as Biden's head of HHS, Becerra pushed the Covid jab mandates -- punishing people for choosing what they would or would not allow to be injected into their own God-given bodies.
How on earth could Becerra be a better choice for anything?!
I did not mean to imply Becerra was better, or even acceptable, as you remind me. The jungle primary format concerns me—it would be completely unacceptable for Californians if both Democrats, Becerra and Steyer, were to advance to the general election.
I left the Bay Area in 1998 and it has grieved me to see how California has gone steadily down hill as the Democrats had turned it into a one-party state since then.
Sadly, those who vote for Democrats will never know what Becerra did with the Reporter, nor with the Covid jabs, due to their choice of News sources. Further, most are willing to overlook, or completely deny any question of wrong doing by their sacred cow.
I did not mean to imply Becerra was better, or even acceptable, as you remind me. The jungle primary format concerns me—it would be completely unacceptable for Californians if both Democrats, Becerra and Steyer, were to advance to the general election.
I left the Bay Area in 1998 and it has grieved me to see how California has gone steadily down hill as the Democrats had turned it into a one-party state since then.
He’s evil.
I am discouraged...not defeated...but not confident that things will change. I don't know why I thought that in this election, Conservatives would fare better.🤔
I'm born, raised and contuously living in our once-pristine, and endlessly entertaining (not talkin' about Hollywood 👎) state for 80 years.
I have prayed for another chance for California, and I knew we were actually successful in our Recall Newsom. But when the Dems cheated and claimed we didn't...Republicans shrugged and collectively signed "Too bad - So sad"
I’m in Santa Clara County and it’s split here. But conservatives are no longer being quiet and for the first time in decades, I hear loud arguments in public!
Get out the Megaphones and do your darndest!
Do you think the large foreign influx, driven by Tech, generally votes Democrat to keep their jobs? I have always wondered how people who raise their children conservatively could vote for all this insane, foolish nonsense.
I’m not sure it’s their jobs but more brainwashing. People I meet who are largely Dem truly believe the lame stream narrative of what is happening. They believed the jabs were safe and effective, but when they didn’t stop infection or transmission, that didn’t wake them up, they just convinced themselves that they probably would have died if they hadn’t taken it, so it still saved them. They won’t question what is going on, but just happily making big tech money and drive their Teslas with anti Musk stickers.
I see those Teslas with those stupid stickers everywhere. My neighbor has one. Ugh.
We live in California and were working on the campaign for our District 10 congressional candidate, who was challenging the incumbent. She began her race last year, and she'd previously garnered 34% of the vote when she ran in 2024. Then, out of the blue, a guy who had been a Democrat suddenly changed parties 3 months ago, had a lot of private money, and last night we saw him ace her out as the GOP candidate. I'm still fuming. This is the tactic now of the Dems. They are putting in people who just run as Republican, say the right things, but then they're going to push the Democrat agenda.
Thanks for that. So discouraging all the tricks to maintain Dems’ power like the ability to vote in opposing primaries and the top two vote getters advance, eliminating Republican candidates.
Sounds like Missouri! That is the reason even though super red, we do not look like conservative Florida!
I checked the California RNC website, The Garvis Gann website and Steve Hiltons Campaign page to see endorsements made by each prior to filling out my ballot. Funny, in this election was the first that i
I did not receive a mailer from the RNC endorsing candidates! I di however receive numerous texts and flyers from several Democrat candidates! I have not been a registered Democrat since the early '90's!
Yeah, I am not registered Dem but got tons of texts, mail, and emails about dem candidates too.
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Will do, and as Rush Limbaugh pointed out, the longer the vote counting goes on in Blue states, the more treachery is at work.
My thought is that Cali has not suffered enough. How much empathy do you think the average Californian feels for a bunch of rich folks who lost their multi-million dollar ocean view homes? Pretty close to ZERO. Or, how many who don't pay property tax directly think that the taxes are too high? Then tell me how many Californians want their share of handouts because it's fair, and millionaires and billionaires didn't earn their wealth; they stole it. Nope, the great underclass hasn't seen its tin cup dry up yet. So, they'll keep voting for the Dem/socialists until the gravy train runs out of steam.
But if CA failure means begging Fed for bail-out, is there enough courage to JUST SAY NO, or force a 'conservancy' by SANE people?? I don't know. I didn't like it when people said let NYC have their socialist mayor-serves 'em right. I'd rather learn by reasoned argument - thinking!! (I know that's a lot to ask in our cultural and educational milieux) than destructive results!
The dirty little secret is that nearly every home in California is a million dollars or more home! The 1,600 sq ' home my parents bout in 1965 for $32,000 is now worth about 3 Million! It will likely be gutted, repartitioned and added on to within 2 years of sale, then be worth $4 Mil. No ocean view, no acreage, just proximity to good paying jobs.
Just say "Sorry Charlie" go sell train parts on ebay.
Sounds like truth to me. Sadly.
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06/03/26: God willing. Which, in the most corrupt state government outside of Lord Haw Haw's (PM Starmer's) Nazi England, will be absolutely necessary.
And may I add these the Childers columns have been simply amazing?
The deluge of dead-on information. His unconquerable sense of humor. The intriguing dot-connecting. The simplicity of his style (how many garrulous writers have we witnessed writing themselves into oblivion?!).
I only regret that I am not decades younger so as to be able to fully absorb it --- "all" would still be impossible, but much more than what can be remembered in 2026, a week or a month or a year later.
Moi aussi, as we say in south Louisiana Cajun. At 78, my immediate grasp is ok, but recall is getting more difficult. Jeff writes so clearly. He, Jupplandia and Jack Cashill are my go-to guys for The Story...and The Rest of the Story on Substack.
What about the x22 report?
06/05/26: Much obliged! A frightening world that we are leaving behind (eventually and in no particular order), eh?
Glad you’re here!
06/04/26: Thank you! I only wish I had been here at the start of the party when Jeff going going with Coffee and Covid at the beginning.
Please 🙏🏻
Lots of work, prayer warrior!
nope - the whole state needs to fail miserably so they will chase out all democrats, not just the governor - remember the Governator - the leftists legislature cancelled every reform making him just a figure head-
Had an interesting read. My college roommate’s spouse died, they had bought near their son in Portola Valley, Cali. — 1 and 3 acre plots near Atherton where they’d lived. The town has been harassed by the state for lack of public housing, so they built a home for the disabled — and they all pay upwards of $50,000 a year in property taxes to be harassed. Just sayin’ it’s not California dreaming.
Yes. The productive people are always punished. California is run by the people that Ayn Rand wrote about in her books. The scenarios she laid out in the Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged are happening today in California and all over the USA. Much like they did in Russia and other countries on the brink of Communism.
The question is what does failure look like to liberal Californians?
06/04/26: All failures to the deranged are successes.
Yes, please pray for California with all your heart and soul.
My sister (visiting me here in CO) did not sleep last night for all goings on in the 2nd swamp on opposite side of our beautiful country from the main Swamp.
I hope your sister is pulling for California to return to the beautiful state we all wished to live in.
Yep! She's still trying to live the CA dream there.
By looking at the voting data the cheating has already started
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How did Becerra come from behind so fast?!
Ballot dumps. Newscum also made a last minute change ( I heard anyway) that they can’t reject ballots if the ballot signature doesn’t match the signature on file.
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Whoever is wise, so let him discern these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of Yahweh are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.
— Hosea 14:9
Be of sober spirit, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
— 1 Peter 5:8
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil.
— Hebrews 5:14
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Thanks Janice. We all need to pray for discernment, which is in great need in these strange times.
I love to REconsider the "lion" image of satan and instead imagine him as a putrid pussy cat! He has NO power over the SAVED SOULS that have claimed the cleansing power of Yeshua's blood He shed for ALL humanity on the Calvary hill cross.
JESUS is the "Lion of Judah." There's a reason C.S. Lewis made a lion, Aslan, the Christ figure in his Narnia books.
I have never seen Satan depicted as a lion.
Did you not see Janice's Biblical reference to "the great deceiver, satan" as a lion?
That is the passage to which I was referring and YES...Yeshua is indeed the LION OF JUDAH!
Be of sober spirit, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
— 1 Peter 5:8
“Prowls around “like” a roaring lion. ie, sans the Majesty of our Risen Lord.
Read 1Peter 5:8
Notice how it says "like" a roaring lion. A lion with no teeth. We either give in and let the fear control what we do and say, or settle in for a fight that has been won long ago. But, all it takes in one word to make him flee.
A lion with no teeth can’t devour anybody
Amen
Thank you, Janice. I believe that all of us will need great discernment in the coming years. It is time for us to start honing that skill.
Develop the ability to be neutral. You can recognize emotions arising and allow them to pass by. Be grateful for the information they give you.
From neutral place, ask yourself a question and notice if you "lean in" or "pull away". The body knows. Leaning in says "Truth" and leaning/pulling away says "False". Try this standing and with neutral things. Like "ice cream". Do you lean in or forward (Truth or ok) or lean back and away (False or not ok).
Practice. Then when listening to news broadcast, are you leaning in or out.
Time to start honing your Truth/lie detection skills.
That's a good way to put it. I can feel that happening to me at times. I trust my gut and it leads me to truth many times!
My spirit recoils.
I think the Warsh hiring signals a far-reaching restructuring of the Federal Reserve, by those who know it is an unconstitutional private bank, and should be ended. Trump is making it obsolete, the same thing as ending it. Just as he is ending the criminal syndicate in DC that has been stealing many Billions of our dollars each year. The deep state is pissed.
I agree and can’t wait. Abolish the Fed! Can’t happen soon enough.
I agree but I doubt that the Rothschilds will easily give up the amount of control and power their bank has over the US.
That's a dynamic that many people are unaware of... and that's almost impossible to change. Prayers up for the president and his team.
Warsh will have to burn Chatham House to the ground.
It will happen.
Acceptable terms.
Under the "a picture says a thousand words" concept I share this picture of the White House from above:
https://i.imgflip.com/adfm34.jpg
DC's layout was designed at the very start of the nation.
Thats cool, took me a minute to see the key. If you turn it on its side it looks like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit
Number Five… is alive!!
That alignment will change if the Billion Dollar Ballroom gets built.
The buildings architecture is definitely part of the picture. And on the ground the Treasury building is much larger, more imposing than the White House.
But the picture from overhead of the siting of them side-by-side, it's as if they are co-equal heads of the US government. As if.
And if we are going to be honest, nearly everyone and their cronies in DC benefit from the endless printing money pit. It ain't going away. And to even think as the author suggested that the new ged chair and advisors are going to do away with stable coin (CBDCs) is just bananas
Yeah, you're definitely "not" an American.
My guess is you Johnny zero are from a WEF friendly country, most likely China or somewhere in captured Europe.
C'mon and tell us all here.
We know you lack common sense.
And you are definitely not a human with a functioning brain.
How's Trump's war for Israel working out for you? How is his deficit spending that is on pace with Biden's record deficit spending, with Trump's very own GOP led congress? You guys are utter clowns, and will cheerlead the country right off the cliff.
What country are you from?
I just hope Warsh & his lieutenants have bodyguards & security. Too many 'experts' going missing or murdered lately.
Pray!!
I was thinking the same thoughts!
and now democrats are worried about credentials - hilarious after preaching DEI for a decade or more if credentials mattered Obama never would have been president
Remember also, according to Wikipedia, it was at "the Bretton Woods Conference of July 1944 where a historic gathering of 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire. Delegates established the post-World War II global financial order, creating the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
Key Outcomes of the Conference
Creation of the IMF: Designed to monitor exchange rates and lend reserve currencies to nations with balance-of-payment deficits.
Creation of the World Bank: Established (as the IBRD) to fund the reconstruction of nations devastated by World War II.
The Gold-Dollar Standard: Currencies were pegged to the U.S. dollar, which in turn was pegged to gold at \(\$35\) per ounce.
The Demise of the System
The 1971 "Nixon Shock": Rising U.S. inflation and balance-of-payment deficits meant the U.S. no longer had enough gold to cover the amount of dollars held globally. President Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of the U.S. dollar into gold.
Transition to Fiat Currency: This action effectively collapsed the Bretton Woods system by 1973, shifting the world to the current system of floating, fiat currencies."
And the ability of the Fed to print money at will... causing massive inflation and the $33 trillion debt they've saddled us
On another note and completely off this topic re: the NIH corrupt criminals "Sneaking the samples into the US accomplishes one particularly valuable objective: it erases the chain of custody."
And now you also know why there is no chain of custody of mail in ballots. They could not do whole sale manipulation of the mail in ballots if there was chain of custody which started when the ballot was mailed out... instead they mockingly start "chain of custody" when received at the county recorders office after ballots have passed through the the contractor who printed them, the USPS, every one in the homes, businesses,, dorm rooms, democrat ballot drop houses, etc etc, back thru the USPS and then finally to the county long after they have been manipulated, injected, etc.
I've never heard a compelling reasonable explanation for "conservative" Nixon's ending of the gold standard.
The US didn't have enough gold to cover the dollar.
France sent a warship to the US to demand the gold the US owed them.
The US quit converting dollars to gold.
Mrs. RW
With your helpful comments, I had somewhere to start to look into this.
The longer bit is that the French thought the Bretton-Woods agreement making the US Dollar the world's "reserve currency" left the US with too much power and so they set out to "trade US dollars, whenever they had them, for US physical gold" as the agreement said they had a right to, and at the agreement's fixed rate of 1 oz of gold for every 35 printed dollars they showed up with.
The US did not have any net DEBT to France in 1971 (laughably, the opposite is true), but the US was bound by the agreement to make the swap. Afterward Nixon said it wasn't any more. Makes you wonder how many countries sold gold for 35 dollars/oz to banker-insiders the day before...
You are right that France was merely turning in dollars that the US guaranteed would be paid in gold. That is not technically a debt, but at least an obligation.
I am not sure that selling gold for dollars the day before is that great of an insider deal.
I went into a restaurant in Chicago, ordered food, and then they wouldn't let me pay with money. They said they only took credit cards.
I pointed out that it said right there on the money that it was good for all debts, public and private, but they refused to take the money.
There was no sign saying they didn't take money, so they gave me the meal for free. I'm sure they put a sign up right away.
Agreements and guarantees mean something until they don't. I have no doubt that someday the government will simply announce that "Your money is no good here", and they will mean "Only credit cards can be used everywhere from now on."
In the meantime, I refuse to have a credit card, just out of principle.
Catherine Austin Fitts advocates one day a week, but more is better, I think.
Mrs. RW
I am a credit-card user who has sold out to get the "cash-back rewards," figuring that retailers not only have NEVER paid "their half" of the credit-card-issuer's transaction fees (merely passing that along), but have ALSO (and more damnably) raised ALL PRICES to the credit-card price--whether cash is offered or not! The cash back, I tell my sorry self, is the "ounce of flesh" I'm extracting. (I figure "they" know Everything They Possibly Could about me, Already, Anyway.)
Thanks again to your prompting, I have learned more about Ms Pitts: "Catherine Austin Fitts is an American investment banker, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and founder of Solari, Inc.; she researches public spending, financial systems, and community wealth. She recommends using cash at least once a week ("Cash Friday") to keep the cash-payment system viable."
"I solemnly take Ms Pitts' Pledge."
Wow that’s wild. How long ago was this, in Chicago?
It has been said that he was blackmailed into that & this little tidbit will be coming out in one of the future disclosures. We should all know how the unseen powers get their agenda done. It’s either blackmail, extortion or both.
Hi David,
I've not studied Nixon in great detail but he did resign because of Watergate, he opened China and its plundering of the west, and he took us off the gold standard, which has put us in massive debt. Perhaps he was just another uniparty corrupt scoundrel?
I suspect "they" found something on him, but "once Watergate," they only had to sit back and watch it burn. I think he sniffed his own passed-gasses and thought he could smell strawberries and took it as a sign that "only he/magnificent he" could "open China."
If Nixon is remembered for "He opened China!" I hope Trump can be for "He closed it back."
The Watergate burglary was an operation dreamt up by an Ex FBI guy low down on Nixon's staff. The propaganda surrounding the story was, propaganda used to unseat a President that would not play the game the Boys at the Pentagon wanted played. They placed a spy in the Whitehouse who riffled through senior staff members brief cases and file drawers in order to find dirt.
Bob Woodward was not a journalist, he was a Pentagon guy installed in the WAPO and partnered with Bernstein, an actual credentialed journalist. Neither man resembled the dapper actors who portrayed them in the Hollywood movie, "All the Presidents Men', made to further the propaganda and cement it into the American Culture.
If Nixon was paranoid and taped his conversations, it was likely for a reason. The powerbrokers and their spooks got rid of his Vice President, Spiro Agnew and installed Gerald Ford, former FBI.
The files on Nixon and the events leading up to Watergate have recently been unsealed. FYI.. let us not forget that one of the 120+ lawyers working for the Democrats to impeach Nixon was none other than Hillary Rodham.
The Watergate break-in was dumb. I was still in my teens when it unfolded. Nixon had nothing to do with the break-in itself, but I came to the conclusion that he was up to his neck in trying to hide it and get the press to "move on." I also concluded, from his own tapes, that he was a venal man. Trump 2.0 appears to have learned to NOT, as a Republican, hand Democrats any (more) "morality" hooks to apply beatings with.
G. Gordon Liddy, the low-level former FBI operative you mention, went to his grave convinced that John Dean ordered the break-in to retrieve damning evidence linking his wife to a DC prostitution ring. Wikipedia says: "The Deans have no children and reside in Beverly Hills." Both have written books about Watergate.
Amen to that!
He was just a puppet of the establishment like every other President up until Trump came on the scene.
I would say, ...until Trump 2.0 came into office. Trump was like most of us believing that we the people have a say in how the country is run. He was used to a business style hierarches where the CEO is the boss, or at least he/she and the CFO are key players. What we all realized was that the Deeply Entrenched all thought that they ran things, when really it was the Board of Directors unseen and each with differing ideas about the endgame results they want to achieve. Each biding their time as they rob the US Treasury and enslave the US people through their operatives, the Federal and State politicians, captured Unions and NGO's.
I believe N Pelosi’s husband had involvement with USPS.
Agreed! The "criminal syndicate in DC" is why we are trillions in debt.
"....There’s a lot of potential there. But more, if an administration seeks leverage on powerful actors who thought their finances were opaque or hidden safely offshore, putting a fiercely loyal bulldog at the junction of Fannie/Freddie’s data firehose and ODNI’s surveillance and analysis capabilities is about as close as you can get to a purpose‑built leverage machine. I’m not saying that’s what’s happening. I’m just saying."
Jeff is right: 2+2=4. Make no mistake, these are power moves. This will consolidate unprecedented power in the office of POTUS. Whether or not this furthers the cause of liberty, we will have to wait and see. But remember, it is an axiom that once power is attained, rarely if ever is it given up. If Americans benefit from this move, it will only be by way of circumstance.
That's only if one accepts your weak argument that Trump is not working in the best interest of the American people. I know you cannot see that, but I can because I don't have TDS.
Well, if things are still operating like they have in the past, with tons of unaccountable money passing through Fannie/Freddie as Catherine Austin Fitts has detailed, my guess is the old vultures are getting kicked out and replaced with Trump's vultures. Same as it ever was.
We'll have to see how it plays out. I hope for the better but either way, things could not continue the way they were as the US was headed for a cliff. Even with the brakes applied, it's still going to be dicey for the rest of the decade through 2032.
Armstrong has mapped out the cyclical peak in Western Culture as 2032/33. I think we can all sense this when we consider the trends for the last 50 years.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/the-80-year-cyclical-theory-v-the-economic-confidence-model/
What I want all the sycophants to do is REMEMBER cheering on these consolidations of power with hand selected sycophants who cannot be approved by the Senate. It won't be long when those evil Ds take power back and do the exact same thing with their crazier sycophants. The side cheering on their demise currently, will scream bloody murder and start to remember the constitution again...The malfeasance they cheer on today, will for sure be used against them in the future. We are living in crazy times when folks cheer on being screwed over like they are winning something...
We crazy folks are just looking for some answers, and accountability as to how our country is so deeply indebt, and where it all went? The best way to do that is to pull back the curtain, follow the money and see where it leads!
The old game is over! The overlords over played their hand with the Plandemic and the Lawfare, the Spying on Trump and setting the FBI and the IRS on people who vote republican, and dare to speak at a schoolboard meeting! Rules for ME are also rules for THE!
Lisa, as they say in the south. Bless your heart. The debt goes way back but lets start in the Pentagon over the last 25 years of manufactured wars "spreading democracy". The 911 false flag that led to the big lie of Iraq and trillions wasted. Afghanistan, 20 years, trillions wasted to put the same people back in charge of the country.However, we were able to create and protect the opium crisis here in the states for all those trillions. Those wars were not started by Ds. Matter of fact it was the boomers running around regurgitating the propaganda "you have nothing to hide you have nothing to be afraid of" that brought us FISA and section 702 that was used to spy on your deity. Now all of a sudden the deity places a sycophant in charge of the tool and is whipping to have it passed again...It doesn't really matter if it's a D or R administration they work together to screw the regulars over. No matter how much propaganda is thrown at us. Those with discernment see through the lies while millions continue to believe in a false prophet who just lied us again into a multibillion dollar war and ruination of the worlds economy to crash the planned end of the petrodollar system. You mention all the debt..It has surpassed even Cabbages spending with the deity over the last 2 years? Now Rs are whipping for even more trillions to the black hole that is the Pentagon and all the AI prisons being built around population centers with full throated support and billion dollar giveaways from the deity so you all can cheer it on. I do agree the IRS should be abolished but not before the deity can get he and his cronies the slush money that he sued his own administration for to steal even more tax payer dollars for the Epstein class. Speaking of Epstein...where is that accountability of the billionaires who rape kids? Do those sick perverts who rule over us deserve accountability or only those evil Ds? I just like to cynically point out the hypocrisy in the cult followings low information responses to the theater being used against us. Until both sides wake up to the fact that we are ruled by a pervert Uniparty, the faster we fall into dystopia.
Aaron, what you say is true but it is a pill too bitter for most to swallow. And in truth, I cannot completely blame them. Like Odysseus who made his crew tie him to the mast and put wax in the crews ears so they couldn't hear, the Uniparty's psyops narrative is overwhelmingly seductive.
💯 Phil. I'll never forget when I first started learning how almost everything I was conditioned to believe was a manufactured lie, almost 30 years ago. I started looking into the Pharma malfeasance of how executives make it into regulation then back to Pharma, the entire circle jerk...Which led me into the moon landing hoax. I worked with former Navy Nukes who understood radiation and could do the math about the Van Allen radiation belt. They proved on a white board that the rads were too high for a human to make it through with tin foil "shielding". I don't remember the exact thickness of lead shielding required but to observe in real time, the cognitive dissonance from those guy's was something to behold. They proved to me and all the others during our "argument" it was impossible but still sat there and argued we went to the moon! Your comment is spot the heck on. Its not easy to live in a world, when you know it's all a lie. I get it that but damn people, wake up to the obvious lies around you such as these wars so we can make steps to try and alleviate the blatant malfeasance such as this fraudulent that was foisted upon us.
Genuine question: why is everyone so optimistic about a globalist Rothschild banker now running the Fed?
Is he related to the Rothchilds for real?
I can’t say if he’s related. But he was certainly employed by them
Bad either way.
"Volume?"
“There are trillions at stake.” -Sundance
Here is why Warsh needs support. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/powell-could-stay-at-fed-even-after-being-removed-as-chair.html
The entire debacle is predicated on the "virus" storyline.
They either exist as we were told, or they are pure fiction as maintained.
Do try to comprehend, and realize that if people understood the simple truth
they will be very very angry. And they should be.
"If a conservative rancher in Montana tried to transport a cow across state lines without the proper 47-page veterinary permit, the Department of Agriculture would descend upon him with the fury of a thousand suns."
... or if he dared to produce raw milk
This 2016 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) article provides interesting insights about USG agencies and how they overcome public policy objections, treating oversight and moratoriums as pesky annoyances that are placed in their way by uneducated, unsophisticated people who get irrationally frightened of scientific advancements. It gets into Dual-Use, Gain-of-Function, NIH/OSTP roles, roles of foreign researchers, partnering with China, how our ethics are antiquated, etc. It discusses engineering virulent pandemic flu viruses, risks of lab leaks and carelessness, bad actors. Written four years before the very dubious 2020 pandemic that changed the world. And gives insights into many of the same minds that were involved in the 2014 history and events since 2020. And in the minds of Munster family monsters.
I find the Q&A section even more interesting than the main presentation.
Biotechnology: The Potential and Perils of Innovation
Council on Foreign Relations, June 22, 2016
https://www.cfr.org/event/biotechnology-potential-and-perils-innovation
The Amish in Lancaster PA were hounded for the "crime" of transporting raw milk over state lines. Ultimately vindicated.
BINGO! Time for the shoe to be on the other foot!
Mom's Hands, by Unknown [Rewritten]
Before the advent of the washing machine, the best of his class went to apply for a managerial position in a large company. As he flew through the interviews and word of him spread, an Execitive Director discovered from the CV that his academic achievements were excellent all the way. From secondary school until postgraduate research—he had never seen such a flawless performance. He immediately called for a meeting.
The director asked, “Did you obtain any scholarships in school?” The youth answered “none”. The director asked, “Was it your father who paid for your school fees?” The youth replied, “My father passed away when I was one year old, it was my mother who paid for my schooling.” The director asked, “Where did your mother work?” The youth answered, “She works as a clothes cleaner.”
The director requested the youth to show his hands. The young man showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.
The director asked, “Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?”
The youth answered, “Never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books. Furthermore, my mother can wash clothes faster than me.”
The director said, “When you go back today, go and clean your mother’s hands, and then see me in the morning.” The boy felt that his chance of landing the job was high. When he went back, he eagerly requested of his mother to let him clean her hands. A bit taken aback, his mother felt strange and naked, intrigued but with mixed feelings; she timidly showed her hands to her son.
As her boy cleaned them, she saw that tears began to fall. It was the first time he noticed how wrinkled and covered in bruises they were. Some of these were so painful that his mother shivered at the light pressure. The boy gradually came to the stark realization that he had been able to spend his life with his nose in his books due to these broken hands, and yet despite all of the knowledge and wit such persuits had gained him, he had still somehow managed to miss something so ...fundamental... something so obvious and glaring about the person nearest to him. And over...how many years, he marvelled? All of them!
It struck like lightening—it was this pair of hands that had washed the clothes seven days a week to enable him to study and pay tuition. These dark blemishes were the price that his mother had to pay for his graduation, academic excellence, future.
The shame overehelmed him.
After finishing, the boy scurried and went and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother. Unaccustomed to the work, it was a an arduous task. After, the two sat and talked for a very long time. The next morning, the Director noticed the sleepless face, stiff movement, and tears threatening in the youth’s eyes.
He asked: “Can you tell me what have you done and learned yesterday?” He answered, “I cleaned my mother’s hands, and then finished cleaning all the remaining clothes, and then I really noticed and talked to her for the first time." The Director asked, “Please tell me your feelings.”
The youth said, “Number one, I know now what appreciation is and how utterly blind i I was to my mother's sheer dedication to me and the pain it wrought her. That without my mother and that pain, I would not be sitting here today. Number two, by washing her hands and those clothes last night, only now I realize how difficult and tough it is to get something clean and I am now cleaner as a result. Number three, I have come to appreciate the importance and value of family and relationships, the love and sacrifices one can make for another, and how such selflessness can make all the difference in the world for another person.
The Director said, “This is what I am looking in my manager. I want to recruit a person who can appreciate the help of others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would never put money or power over others as a primary goal. You are hired.”
As the years passed the young man worked very hard for everyone in repayment to his mother, and gained the admiration and respect of his subordinates along with everyone around him. Under his leadership and influence, his friends all worked diligently as a team and the company’s performance as a whole improved tremendously across the board.
His mother's hands, dedication, and love transformed him into a humble leader out in front, rather than a boss cracking a whip from behind:
Leader vs Boss:
Leaders listen > bosses tell. Leaders mentor > bosses manage. Leaders inspire > bosses intimidate. Leaders have empathy > bosses show indifference. Leader set examples > bosses set rules. Leader focus on people > bosses focus on tasks. Leaders command respect > bosses expects obedience. Leaders give credit > bosses takes credit. Leaders coach > bosses drive. Leaders generate enthusiasm > bosses inspire fear. Leaders fix what's broken > bosses place blame. Leaders show how its done > bosses know how its done. Leaders develop people > bosses use people. Leaders ask > bosses command.
Bosses say "Go!"
Leaders say, "Let's go!"
This is beautiful. I have worked for leaders and bosses. The difference in my quality of life working for leaders makes a world of difference. It makes me want to be present and a contributor to our success, because I know it’s our success not his or her success.
I doubt anyone ever worked for a leader like I did in my last job. From Appalachia SW VA. Scottish decent, son of a coal miner , who would never let him go into the mines. I never served in the military, (He did. In Germany, he pitched his division to the European championship by starting back to back games. ) but I would have followed this man up a hill , knowing I would not come back. Incredible work ethic. Hated by many, respected by all, including the very top management. All envied his integrity, his knowledge, his leadership, his compassion, his resolve, his fearlessness. Everyone came to him with their troubles, and he always let them talkI gave up many evenings and weekends, showing more loyalty to him than my wife because of how he always put the department first. Tested out at CEO intelligence, with a HS education. Made VP , came in as a blue shirt, which prompted one bitter colleague to say to his face "you did not even have to kiss anyone's ass to get that position". John Wayne without the baggage. One of a kind, and I was privaleged to be elevated to his #2. I was ferociously protective of him, and grateful for all he taught me.
BTW. 7 coworkers came to either his family night or funeral. It was out of town, but.... Family night was my birthday, and because we had dogs, stayed in a fleabag motel where I would not even use the shower. That lack of respect reminded me of a line from "Shadow Divers", a book about 2 men who dove on the Andrea Doria for the first time. The one who was a medic in Viet Nam observed after being hung out to dry by his buddies when he had bravely gone after so many, "Just because you are willing to die for your buddies does not mean they are willing to die for you".
Roland, Shadow Divers by Robert Karson was about the best book I have ever read. I found his email later after a few years and wrote him a fan letter telling him how much I enjoyed it.. He was kind and gracious and we had an interesting conversation.That guy can write and tell a story. The other best book is The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. A wild and wonderful telling of the daring folks who climb Giant Redwoods for research, preservation and thrills. It’s an entire world in the sky. Every branch is an ecosystem that abundant life below or on the branches needs and thrives among. . If a tree is very tall, they never divulge where it is to protect these preeminent life forms. There is a height from the ground that if you fall—that’s it. At the time it was written, only one man lived to tell about it. Thanks for reminding me. Time to read both again.
What's the difference between a leader and a manager?
A leader pulls a string while a manger pushes it.
- Ned B.
That says it all, thanks as always my man!
What a beautiful lesson.
Would any young person today be able to learn that lesson?
Would they even care??
Hard times create strong men
Strong men create good times
Good times create weak men
Weak men create hard times
Historians and sociologists frequently debunk this piece of internet-era pop-philosophy because it ignores data, relies on subjective terms, and misrepresents how civilizations and resilience actually function. Historically, true hard times (e.g., severe famine, plague, or systemic oppression) do not build character; they cause trauma, malnutrition, and generational setbacks. Many of history's most prosperous periods were built by complex networks of cooperation, institutions, and innovation, rather than lone "strong men." Conversely, authoritarian "strong men" have frequently driven prosperous societies directly into ruin.
"The saying is bullshit.
Hard times create scared, risk averse men and women that don’t dare dream or fight for a better future. They might still rebel, but not due to any indignity they are made to suffer, but only when you threaten their physical survival.
Think of the people who die in wars or under totalitarian regimes - society’s best, brightest, bravest and those with a heightened sense of personal and public responsibility. Those who will not roll with the punches.
And conversely those that survive are the ones who hunker down, who listen, who love Big Brother. Like my grandmother’s advice to hold no political views and to try to not stand out in any situation.
Which to a Weak Man like myself, who grew up just as the Good Times started rolling, sounds like utter perversion. It sounded like madness when she first gave me that advice as I was a kid too, so you see how early the rot started in me.
If only I had grown up in the Hard Times to be a traumatized Das Man with a depression and an alcohol problem!"
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[It doesn't hold true, of course. Hard times also create weak men, eager to be led out of those times by differently weak men who present themselves as strong. That's where Germany went wrong in the early 1930s - hard times created weak men, weak men followed a false strong man, together they created times so hard they compared unfavourably to rhenium diboride.
And do strong men create good times? Stalinist Russia, anyone? Mao's China?
Idi Amin's Uganda? Are the good times at the bottom of his freezer?
You'll also notice that the saying talks about good times, but can't be bothered with the impact of good men - or brilliant men, or wise men. Or, of course, women of any kind, but it is an old saying from a far simpler, less interconnected world.
Except… is it, though?
Is it really an old saying, some piece of wisdom handed down from ancient warriors asking each other deep questions over their campfires in the rubble of conquered cities, and proven again and again by the cycles of civilisation?
It seems, in fact, to be from a modern novel called ‘Those Who Remain,’ by a man called G. Michael Hopf, a writer of westerns and post-apocalyptic SF. That's the thing about ancient wisdom: it has always been there… but had it always been there yesterday?
If somebody tells you that these are hard times, and that you therefore need strong men to save you, I'd point you in the direction of this line from the unabashedly modern Sir Terry Pratchett:
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grows in straight lines to make weeding easier. ]
A better reply to CStone should have been:
2 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 52:
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power.
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Essentially those without disciplin become weak and spoiled, creating ruinous times for those in their orbit. As for the reference to "men" it is a reference to 'mankind' which includes women.
Good reply, thank you
This is the times we are currently experiencing, especially those of us living in "Blue" States.
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
Pain and failure are the best teachers
But no one wants to be their students
This always reminds me of the sons of strong successful fathers who often are weak men, wayward men who run the family business into the ground. I often wonder is this because the father made the son's life to easy, left him to want for nothing, gave him no struggles to strengthen his character, or is it because the father was too overbearing, too busy building a business to build a relationship with the son.
Until Jesus comes back. Then we won’t have to do this anymore!!
Look up Dwight Eisenhower quotes on leadership. I especially like the one that says “leadership is getting someone else to do what you want done”. He has several. His leadership undoubtedly saved the world.
TriTorch you’ve done it again! 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Wonderful truths - I’m saving and sharing it! And very good timing for this! Thanks!
Amen. Be a servant leader. Your team(s) will succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Be a servant leader for/to your woman too, you will succeed beyond your wildest dreams. This is God's way.
Why is a foreign national chief of something with the NIH? And especially something as potentially threatening as virus shenanigans.
That was my first thought as well. I KNOW we have smart and capable researchers and scientists here in the US.
It all starts with too many H1-b visas.
My first thought as well. Why hire foreign interests for governmental NIH positions? As you said, especially in potentially dangerous health positions?!
It's a big club, and we're not in it.
Because you have to be a psychopath, even if they have to be imported.
Mrs. RW
That I can believe!
"Doing the jobs American's won't do."
Naturally. Right? lol
The answer reminds me of an old joke with the punchline, "...because, mister, there's some things just so low you can't get the monkeys to do 'em!!"
Good morning C&C! Thank you all for your prayers as we travel home. Still have 8 hours to go but at least we are in Montana. It’s a biiiig state. 😂
Cats are traveling well too!
A blessed day to you all.
"At Least We're In Montana..."
So. Much. in that little phrase.
You betcha! 😂
Please add Promethean Action’s Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd to your regular content - wonderful compliment to C&C. Their videos are on YouTube.
Yes, I was I was clued into them by Jeff several weeks ago.
Susan Kokinda is here on substack!
If leftist utopia looks like the photos I keep seeing of SF, LA, NYC, Minneapolis (all admittedly beautiful cities) which have been turned into junk yards and junkietowns, no thank you
Thoughts:
1. Kevin Warsh should bring in G. Edward Griffin (author of "The creature from Jekyll Island") to speak to the Fed staff to put them on notice. But that is only if Warsh is serious and not a slow-walker. Bring in the "God Father".
2. I like 'fresh faces' to head departments. It gives them a chance to "ask the dumb question" which is a non-threatening way for new managers to ask about the "why" of something and expect more than a "because that's how it's always been done" reply.
3. On my score card, I can't keep straight who is nuttier, Frum, Bill Kristol, or David French. All are pretentious hangers-on types.
4. Let's crack down on all remittance transfers, making the receiving party be an actual person and not a business or government entity when it comes to private citizens. Wonderful things will happen.
Also read G. Edward's book "B-17. World without Cancer". It is just as good as his much more famous book, and he has a real cancer charity. Hear he is 93, and I think he is going to be at the upcoming conference in Las Vegas that Juan O Savin and David Nino Rodriguez, and hopefully Tina Peters are attending.
I have that book. (And a supply of apricot seeds!)
What are your opinions about deworming used off label against cancer?
Saved my wife's life. 5 years ago she got a stage 2B breast cancer, and we were 17 hours from a masectomy when someone we never met convinced us to research and do it holistically. Our vet had prescribed Safegaurd / Panaucur (Fenbendazole) for a dog we had with breast cancer. She started that immediatley, found Joe Tippen's site, and swore she could tell a difference in the feel of her breast in 2 weeks. did not know about Ivermectin for cancer or menbendazole till years later, but would have taken that too. I would recommend the Very first thing anyone do for cancer is take dewormers. You can now buy Fenben without doing the dog dewormer show. Wife still takes it 3X per week. Take it with Vitamin E with High levels of tocotrienols. Happyhealingstore.com sells Fenben/.
Excellent suggestions/ thoughts.
Isn't odd how most demoncrats, a la Biden, Powell, Pelosi and Schummer, simply refuse to go gently in the night?
Demons are like that.
What shocks me, although shouldn’t, is how the Democrats keep voting for the same people (just different names) expecting different results. As you can see by the fact that Becerra is right behind Hilton. Many are upset with the laws legislated by the CA legislature and governor, but they keep voting for the ones that will continue doing the same crap.
The GOP does the same. Trump campaigned for Lindsay friggin Graham. There is little policy difference between people like Jake Sullivan and Narco Rubio. Both are warmongering neocons
Sticks and stones Johnny zero.
Are you here to "debate" or just name-call conservatives.
Reflect on your own comment. You respond to no content of my commets, just sling pathetic little arrows.
Want to talk about Trump and his GOP led congress running up the deficit at pace with Biden's record deficit? No, you will just accuse me of being a hater. Are you 12? That is what 12 year olds talk like.
That moniker describes *himself* as an old man. The mind appears to be going as old man cannot see what he writes is continual name calling. Dementia often presents with anger and denial.
Ah, yes. Maybe he is a childless cat man.
A truly moronic statement...once again. You seem to enjoy demonstrating your vapid thought process for all to see, day after day.
What was moronic about it? Trump campaigns for neocon swamp creatures. Policy differences between Rubio and Sullivan are small. They are both neocon warmongers. Are you saying Rubio hasn't voted for wars his entire career, and now is not overseeing the US empires wars? Maybe you are too dizzy to see straight because you are constantly running circular logic? Who knows.
We get it, you don't like War and to you there is no necessary wars. You have now been acknowledged.
Who, other than zionists, said that Iran was a threat to us? All of our own intelligence agencies didn't say so. They may now have a nuclear weapon after all of this nonsense, seeking it as a deterrent so the west would leave them alone. Nicely done "leaders" in washington.
"Policy differences between Rubio and Sullivan are small". Moronic.
Again, if it is such a moronic statement, tell us why.
explain. it should be easy to do since it was such a moronic statement
Obama buying a compound just down the street from the White House
Powell?
Didn't Jeff say that most ex Fed Chairmen resign after their Chairmanship term is over?
He was referred to here as a Democrat??
He was pushed out by the son in law of Ronald Lauder.
Goyim need not apply.
Leftists/progressives/Democrats never accept "NO!" for answer.
They are clinging to their dynasty, to pass it to the next generation.
Thune already having doubts about new DNI. Wish they would do something about Thune but they won’t because he’s doing just what the other Repubpukes want.
Those ‘pukes’ are not now, nor have they ever been, Republicans. They ‘ran’ as Republicans, but they were always DemonicRATS.
You see, they could not win in their district as a DimDem, so they ran as a Republican, then they vote as a RAT.
True but it never seems to work the other way. Run as a Demtoid but really a conservative. Not even Fedderman.
Yes, isn’t that amazing??
True
" ... it's a LEVERAGE thing ... "
hmmm ... I've been wondering a long time about the Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street cabal ... when and how does DJT tighten the screws on them?
Jeff ... "There’s a lot of potential there. But more, if an administration seeks leverage on powerful actors who thought their finances were opaque or hidden safely offshore, putting a fiercely loyal bulldog at the junction of Fannie/Freddie’s data firehose and ODNI’s surveillance and analysis capabilities is about as close as you can get to a purpose‑built leverage machine. I’m not saying that’s what’s happening. I’m just saying."
" ...how does DJT tighten the screws on them?" Since they control huge quantities of money, he merely asks them to share the loot. With him and his friends.
Your quote from the Daily Mail blew me away. I am more convinced than ever that the illness that knocked me flat when I first arrived in OR from WI (& through MT) was undiagnosed covid. In Oct of 2019 I drove west & was sicker than I’ve ever been (or since) for well over 3 weeks. I have long thought this was the case, but this snippet really hit me.
I contracted it in November 2019, from the airport in Charlotte, NC.
I believe you. I have so many doubts about the “official” timeline.
Cynthia, Me too! Oregon, Oct. 2019. Xray diagnosed as pneumonia. They didn't know about Covid yet.
I got it end of December 2019. I highly suspect their were people spreading it allover the country in the Fall of 2019. Trump had high approval ratings and was a shoe in for the 2020 Election. The Great experiment. How many people can we get to willingly give up their basic liberties and for how long?
I also received the V*x in 2021, and subsequently contracted the virus AGAIN 4 more times. I’ve been pondering if the shot did not damage our natural immunity.
Your picture of “White Karens” on the Left for the Tug-O-War lacks DEI?😉😂
They’re excused. They’re using their White Privilege (TM) to advocate for the under/dis/mis/mal/non-advantaged.
They’re wearing yoga pants and “libtards”?😉😂
Well they ARE the ones holding the party up
We could assume at least two of the four are lesbians and maybe one “identifies” as a minority. I would have expected at least one blue haired gal, though.
A “feminist” soy boy would balance it out nicely.
I am completely ignorant of National monetary policy and management, so my fingers are crossed. Much like DJT not being plucked from the entrenched Presidential grooming line "a baby in Spookland" is the only way Spookland might see some positive change. I could not be more pleased with POTUS making so much happen simultaneously Democrats cannot figure out what to most bitch about and why. They are lost in thinking; a process in which they are inept. Inevitably Democrats will make all of POTUS's progress a trampling of some minority grouping's rights. Another pleasure is seeing modern day Frankensteins brought to justice. I would love to see these law breaking lab rats be injected with the concoctions they study and manipulate.
Garrett Ziegler of Marco Polo [Hunter Biden Laptop Report fame] shared this link and the comment End the Fed last month on his Telegram channel. Might be a good place to learn about monetary policy/fed stuff. I need to read up on it too!
https://river.com/learn/how-does-money-printing-work/