More OBBBA wins: states now own welfare costs; Ivy League gravy train derailed; green energy chopped; judges dodge SCOTUS; Powell on the spit; the Times admits Trump was right about the gangs; more.
On his flight home this past Thursday, he sat next to an administrator of the cardiology departments at a chain of hospitals in the Tampa area.
Hubs asked him if he'd seen an uptick in the number of heart patients to which he replied, yes, but that they weren't doing as many surgeries (to which he attributed to the success of Ozempic 😩).
Then hubs brought out his phone and asked him if he'd seen the clots. He also showed him the video of Richard Hirschman pulling a clot out of the jugular vein.
The guy seemed truly interested as his eyes grew quite large. Hubs told him about my substack and the guy wrote it down.
I think he may have wrecked this guy's holiday weekend though. 😢
This is how we win this war.
One person at a time.
PS - so very grateful for all the replies to my comment of yesterday and for the camaraderie of our C&C family. 🥰
I wear my DEFUND THE MEDIA hat everywhere and boy, do I make a lot of friends. (Not joking. Literally, I tell all my single friends to get one, stat.) You might get a few ASK ME ABOUT MY CLOTS hats made up for friends and family. ;)
three years ago, we went on a whirlwind trip out west in our rv with our son & wife... he wore his Let's Go Brandon shirts every day, & we made friends & admirers all over the western part of the US. no one gave us dirty looks or complained about it, slashed our tires or keyed the rv. that's when I knew there were more of us than them. it was the best trip we've ever taken!
without the cheating it is 25/75....... That's the real numbers..... it might even be 20/80. (liberal/conservative)
The elections are rigged...... the republicans have benefitted as well, don't kid yourself. But it's all theater. We have to get same day voting, paper ballots counted on video and public posting of that video with citizens only and I.D. verified. Counting stops at midnight. If we did that this country would immediately turn around.
Except when RVing (see below) it seems the number of liberals is much higher. Maybe if I didn’t hang out with artists and my gym buddies it would be different.
The gym is a beautiful Park and Rec taxpayer funded facility, where seniors with Medicare Advantage get a free membership (myself included). That explains a lot. And, disclaimer, of course not all artists are liberal but I do live in Oregon! 🤷♀️😆
My youngest is a truly unique kid with a wide variety of abilities and interests. He can get an A in college level Calculus but also play the Shostakovich Cello Sonata and also plays piano organ and guitar. He had an art teacher tell me that he had more natural ability than any student she had previously taught. His current obsession is weight lifting and he watches a YouTube channel called "Outdoor Boys" which focuses on what I would call "extreme" or survivalist camping (I must confess to being mesmerized by it). Anyway, his musical ability is a such a level that he really should be considering it as a major but music, like art, is overwhelmingly Left (not just liberal), and he does not feel at home in that world.
P.S. I also find the RV world a strange mix of Lefties and Righties.
He sounds like an awesome kid. He won’t be happy in that world for sure. My husband went to a music conservatory on scholarships, he was gifted, majored in music ed and only lasted teaching for three years. I was in art ed and also only lasted 3 years. We both are entrepreneurs and have been happy most of our lives with our choices.
NAB, that’s so sad about the music world being so lefty. All that talent is a gift from God! Not that people don’t work hard to develop and improve, but the gift comes from the Lord.
My teen daughter is playing in a symphony orchestra, which is full of lefties. She and I have discussed how our art-loving lifestyle fits in with these people but not our ideology. They have TDS pretty badly. We made friends with one lonely lady who was bugging my daughter to know whether I was a Trump supporter when I wouldn’t join the bashing. She said nobody she knows likes the way the USA is going right now, which shows how much she needs a conservative outside-her-bubble friend, if I can be wise and gracious enough! I know she’s never going to listen to facts or argument but trying to present an attractive, intelligent open-minded family.
Please encourage your son to keep playing and RECORD him playing. He can make beacoup bucks on videos from creating his own channels and posting on different sites; Rumble, utube, tiktock. etc. Many of the successful post a video on X for exposure, directing people to their actual site for more views; more views he has, more $$$ you collect. Plus, those who value his music can hear it!! He can create his art and even sell it (or prints) independently. He doesn't need galleries, all he needs is an appreciative audience!
The old guard is no longer the gatekeeper to appreciation and success!
My husband and I are living and traveling full time in our RV and have found many right leaning full timers on the road and in the two resorts that we stay in on a regular basis. Of course, our two home bases are in Florida and the Georgia mountains and those two areas are red areas anyway!
I'm a reformed "art-lefty", and that world is not well-adjusted mentally, emotionally, or politically. It's a tribe of immature gatekeeping gangsters who will boot you to the curb if you challenge any of "their" orthodoxies. But there are alternatives like self-marketing, etc, for the determined.
Took a trip to Cali...spent the night in Burns on the way there. If Oregon wasn't so retarded on the really beautiful side, we might have moved there. Turns out freedom is more important than all the other stuff.
I am going to go to Redding thru your neck of the woods one day. Oh wait...after this next trip, I am never stepping foot in Cali again. And I am a 5th gen native. Buh Bye! My mom is gone now. And I am cutting bait.
I think Oregon might be the way it is because at a point in time (maybe still going on) a LOT of Californians, particularly Southern Californians moved to Oregon. I lived in Seattle in 1969-70 and the whole area including Portland was really wonderful back then. Such a loss.
You are right..we also need to restore letting we the people be present to the counting of votes when the poles close. I don't know about anywhere else but in our area, it has been banned for a few years. Once upon a time before it was banned, there were witnesses who wrote down the tabulation from each machine as well as the total. That way when the final was released in the newspaper, you could verify within a small percent of error, one or two adding errors, the Truth. As it has been known with paper ballots to be "lost" or "corrected" on their way to the voters registration office.
VERY true. I live here and the fraud was blatant and widespread... maricopa County is a cesspool of blatant corruption... scumbag Gov Hobbs was our SecState and oversaw her own theft of the election that installed her...
The liberal courts refused to examine any of the massive evidence... and this still needs to be done...
But the Trump team promises have so far been shelved...
I agree, though a lot depends on where you are camping. One of my favorite parts of camping is meeting other campers. You learn so much about an area from other people plus you make friends. One thing we have noticed is that most conservative people we meet never bring up politics but the liberals can't seem to help making snide comments about Trump. I can honestly say that we NEVER brought up Joe Biden with anyone when he was president. The Trump haters just assume that everyone agrees with them. My husband is really good at talking to someone he disagrees with. I do not have that gift so I let him do the talking. I think he has planted a few conservative seeds along the way. I will be very sad when we get too old to tow a camper around the country.
So true, liberals show themselves quickly. I’m not good at talking to someone whom I disagree with, and sometimes I come home and tell my husband and he’ll have the perfect answer or comment.
Maybe it’s just hindsight or maybe because he is quicker on his feet, or just smarter. Probably the latter in my case, lol!
Good for you Momcat!! In 2016, on my arm, I was wearing temporary “lick-em-and-stick-em” tattoos that said TRUMP 2016 w/ American Flag. I spent months in and out of airplanes, traveling the eastern and south US. Never once did I receive a negative reaction, nor confrontation. Usually it was a silent “thumbs up”. Once, while boarding a Southwest flight, I received applause and small standing ovation. (I must admit occasionally I saw an eye-roll)
Even though New Mexico is a blazing blue state, an RV resort I stayed at in Red River, NM sold the Lets Go Brandon t-shirts in their gift shop. I bought one.
My husband wore a shirt last night to a church 4th of July party that said “Donkey Pox, the disease destroying America.” I was a little mortified, but he got several positive comments.
My husband has a dark MAGA hat. Sometimes he was nervous about the response he may get wearing it in public, but the response has all been good. People would thank him for having the strength to wear it in public. That just demonstrated the level of fear and submission they had inflicted on us! Time to stand proud!
So true. It never fails to surprise me how little I speak up (and others who are conservative as well) about my convictions, while people who are radically left seem to have no such restraint. I don’t like to cause friction, but I’m coming to see it as cowardice. I don’t advocate for being obnoxious or ugly, but why can’t we be firmly honest before ridiculous opinions?
For sure. It's easier to back down. Evil people take advantage of peace-loving, good-natured people, and then we forgive them! We should be feeling cheap and used. We need to get up on our hind legs and put a firm end to that. Most bullies back down quicker than we think.
I am the opposite, because I relish confrontation with these deliberately stupid fools. That is who I am, but it is also because I have spent so many thousands of hours researching, that I know I have real facts on most any subject they would care about to negate their BS narratives they have embraced. Nothing the 'tards hate more than facts.
I’ve got great arguments, but my brain shuts down when I feel strongly about something and am in a confrontational situation. 😊 I admire people who can argue cogently in these situations.
I also do not mind confrontation; civil discourse is to be prized above rubies imo! It’s the true antidote to brutality, the foundational check on tyranny - and the best way to sharpen one’s thoughts.
Being disagreed with on matters of political, religious or moral fact makes me curious, seldom angry. But I am almost never met with the same response. Our neighbors have been genuinely damaged!
I was screamed at for several minutes, twice by the same deranged dumbocrap, at a "friend's" 4th party. As she was screaming at me for the second time, I told her that I had been abused, I was no longer going to take it, and I would stand up for myself. She looked shocked, somewhat apologized, and stopped yelling at me. 🤗
“Don’t like to cause friction” is a good description of Christian conservatives. Folks from other countries say, “Americans are so nice!” Yes, we are. Next to salvation, I think God’s greatest gift is peace. We want to live like peacemakers, but that’s dangerously close to living like pushovers. It’s a fine line. Then Trump comes along and toes that line. I don’t know if he knows it, but that’s Christlike. Let’s all grow better toes.
You are right. I actually struggle more with people I love and respect who believe the MSM narrative and who are completely blind to reality. As I said, it’s cowardly on my part to refuse to engage. I’m still mulling over how to engage.
Church isn't what it used to be in the way of clothing. In other ways, church isn't what it used to be period. Lots of gossip and politics from the pulpit. I go to hear God's word and that's only a small fraction of the 2½ hours.
That’s what defunding USAID did. They are leaning harder on 1/ oligarchs and the TDS people, whom they rile up in an email or social media then ask for $5 so they feel they can do something about it. Move On is a notorious example of that.
And is already a cancer on our political system... and has an outsized influence on our military actions as well... like the criminal and unprovoked bombing of both Yemen and Iran?
One football (I think HS coach) prayed with his team before each game. The school board decided they didn’t like it and the principal told him to never do it again.
He did it anyway.
The next game, he prayed with his team.
He got fired. He fought it in court.
It went to SCOTUS.
They ruled in favor of 2A and freedom OF Religion.
Now coaches all over the nation are back to praying with their team before their games..some are even having Bible studies in their homes.
One man.
God really is Good. (It isn’t just a lyric in a song). He truly IS, snd He truly IS GOOD.
One good woman, Phyllis Schlafly, who trusted in God, prevented the passage of the deadly ERA bill back in the early 70s and saved the country in her day.
This happened in our neck of the woods. This excerpt is from (the truly fallible) Wikipedia:
"The case involved Joseph Kennedy, a high school football coach in the public school system of Bremerton, Washington. Kennedy had taken the practice of praying at the middle of the field immediately after each game. The players and others soon joined the practice. The school board were concerned the practice would be seen as violating the Establishment Clause separating church and state. They attempted to negotiate with Kennedy to pray elsewhere or at a later time, but Kennedy continued the practice. His contract was not renewed, leading Kennedy to sue the board. Lower Courts, including the Ninth Circuit, ruled in favor of the school board and their argument regarding the Establishment Clause."
That’s him!!!!! What was most surprising was that he had the courage of his convictions in one of the most leftist of environments. Made me admire him more.
(Also made me ashamed of myself. I’m mouthy, but I’m no Charlie Kirk….who also astounds me with his wisdom AND his knowledge, along with his courage.)
Now I pray that the quiet heroes in each and every Blue State will stand up and be counted.
Tim Tebow is no hero. When our church built its beautiful new campus in Dallas, he was supposed to come and speak. The LGBTQ community was outraged and he backed down and at the last minute canceled his speech. We had well done speakers every week for the month after the campus opened, but the pastor had to scramble to find someone to replace Tebow.
I am very forlorn that happened and truly a stress for all involved when something is committed to and planned. Having said that, I have utmost respect for him and do consider him a role model. Enjoy your day:}
Wow, what were the chances your husband would be sitting next to him out of all the passengers on the plane. More divine intervention perhaps? I truly hope that admin is brave and says/does something to get the word out and be proactive but hearing the Ozempic comment, I won't place any bets. Tell your hubby thanks from all of us for bringing this up to that stranger on the plane.
Wow! Great job "hubs!" I love that he had facts, statistics, and video And shared C&C - Jeff Childers, extradinaire(!) with the Dept. head of Cardiology!
I hope this is the start of deep research for that Doctor / Admin that rapidly expands to other hospital centers! Again! Great job! Thank you for sharing, (even if it may have spoiled that guys peace of mind!) 👍🏼👏🏼🙏🏼
It will be a painful but necessary enlightenment. I already applaud this doctor if he is willing to admit the mistakes of traditional western medicine.
IMHO - The man would probably need to have a heart, in order to have a desire to make any sweeping changes. His pocketbook will reflect those changes, and it might not be worth it for him. But we can all pray for a heart change. :o)
In our circle even (most of) the injured won't admit or consider it. Or if they have considered it when they ask their medical specialists and are told whatever it is couldn't be related to the jabs they accept it as gospel and keep going back for treatment. Most are too smart to see they were duped (cognitive dissonance). Higher education evidently cured their skepticism.
Astounding that the admin of cardiology departments had never heard of the clot situation! Or, he just put on a "surprised" face to cover that he knows, and he has chosen to disregard the evidence, putting patients within his care at risk.
I really hope what I’m going to say is so wrong I have to eat my hat.
I would not take the bet that the doctor was sincere in not being aware of the clot issues. Being “surprised”, and then performing a physical act (writing down the Substack) to validate his sincerity is a common way to avoid confrontation. As an executive with long experience in dealing with the public I’ve used that tactic countless times to navigate potentially volatile situations.
I truly hope you’re right. And huge kudos to your husband for making the effort. One person can and does make a difference. As the adage goes, that’s the only thing that ever has.
BTW, I do not like being cynical. I was raised by the principle to trust until action proves otherwise. The internet age has flipped that script to trust no one until given solid evidence to believe it’s even real.
Good point! Then shame on the surgeons who work "for" him that they wouldn't be shouting from the rooftops. They can't be that shielded from the truth, or can they?!
@Peace- exactly. My hisband's cardiologist only showed a mild interest when we mentioned it. I THINK he wanted to learn more but didn't want to 'hear' it. Maybe they're afraid of malpractice somehow.
Me too. Just sent the excellent new book Vax Facts by Dr Paul Thomas to an extended family member with a newborn, and threw in notes that the covid shots were causing autoimmune, blood clots,Heart damage, fertility damage And aggressive Cancers. HopefullyThe seed grows...
AND, when I relay to read C & C, I think it’s very important people pop into the comments…usually have to show them…I’m going to the big Republican Women’s convention, I’ll do what I did 4 years ago, pass on what a wonderful Substack this is…
Love this post! My husband is doing the same as well. Gives the person enough information and then tells them " do you own research." Ever thought of selling t-shirts or hats with "Planting Seeds" on the shirt/cap?
I pray for opportunities to plant seeds every day. I am a ‘gardener for God’. He doesn’t need me to garden for Him but He knows I need to garden for Him. 🙏🏻
Richard spoke at a Focus on America meeting I attended in November 2022.
Video link is below. Richard appears around the 1 hour mark. Prior to him speaking Dr. Triantos speaks about covid vax injured and long covid patients he has treated. Richard brought samples of the clots to show us.
Alice - Richard has become like a brother to me. We talk numerous times per week. We talk often about our faith in God which sustains us in this fight.
Check out Dr. Triantos’s recent X post with pics of clots removed from a living person. I can no longer view it because I don’t have an X account. They’ve shadow banned Triantos too. 😡
I viewed Dr. Triantos post about the clots. Terrible!
On June 26th Dr. Triantos posted this:
"I'm actually seeing increase in brain bleeds. Saw 3 last night which was a record for me. Only read about 15 neuro CT MRI. Pre scamdemic on average one per month. Coincidence?"
Hi, Laura! Off-topic... but I wonder if your husband could follow up with the Cardio-Doc and ask about the appalling over-use of dangerous and mostly ineffective (at extending life spans) statin drugs?
Also, I personally just went on a drug called Nexlizet, a non-statin but very effective drug to reduce apoB and Lipo(a)... it is very expensive, but if a generic was offered, like it already is in Canada and India... it becomes very affordable... and is a GREAT alternative to statins!
I found this drug via my own research, my Cardio-Doc had no clue, and I'll soon dump him.
Good morning! This is one of my favorite psalms, an honest account of a weary traveler considering switching sides … asaph, a man of faith, goes to the temple to query God. Why are the wicked getting rich? Could asaphs religion be wrong? Is his piety for nothing? There he is given such strength of insight that he is humbled by his previous ignorance. He sees the awesome reach of the Most High, how all fits within His plan and how the wicked will perish. He leaves praising his God. This is a real story of repentance, a lesson in faith … the Bible is real! No made up story would include an honest account like this. How many times have I nearly stumbled like this but have been enlightened in time to correct my steps! Praise Jesus on high!
In biblical times, the Jews thought that the godly were most often wealthy (Matthew 19:25), so seeing wealthy people being evil was confusing to the psalmist.
It was the chapter I came to in my journaling yesterday. I found the study notes enlightening as well. Also tried to get the gist of the chapter here for brevity.
"It's complicated," though when professing believers live in luxury well beyond a reasonable lifestyle and the world looks on and says, "Yep, I thought it was all phony from the start." Proverbs 30:8-9 and "You cannot serve God and Mammom," from Matthew 6:24-26 give us some guidance on this ticklish matter.
The professing believer living in luxury might be self-justifying by saying he is being a "good steward," but perhaps without mercy or any desire to fear and serve the Lord.
Or a person might say that it's the love of money that is the root of all evil, which is true, and then claim that it's not money that they love having made an idol out of luxury and comfort and not the money itself.
The fact is, by the standards of history, if I have running water that comes out of a tap, and electricity at the throw of a switch, then I am living in more luxury than even kings were a few hundred years ago. I find myself having to say to the Lord what you said at the close of your comment: "Give me some guidance." I can't deal with the ambiguity by leaning on my own understanding.
That's a good reference point to start with: Proverbs 3:5-6 also says "In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths." I take that to mean things like how we use our money and whether we are living a moral life-things those looking on can see and of course, those things they can't easily see. There is no New Covenant example of Believers living opulent lifestyles which should give us pause before giving a wealthy professing believer our endorsement as having received the "blessing of the Lord." Pastors who have enriched themselves off their ministries are perhaps the most problematic of all. Billy Graham could have been a millionaire but chose to live a modest lifestyle even if he might have a nest egg in the bank, (I don't know the facts on that), whereas other prominent personalities in ministry, often look like the secular man who thinks the guy with the most toys, cars, houses and expensive vacations, (as long as he gives 10% back to his own ministry), is the winner. Proverbs 30:7-9 says it as well as any: "…Give me neither poverty nor riches…lest I be full and deny You and say 'Who is the Lord?' Or lest I be poor and steal, and profane the name of my God.' "
The flood tragedy in Texas comes to mind . . . I remember all the times I sent our kids off to church camp . . . and they came home. So many parents won’t have that. The mere thought of it nearly makes my heart and flesh fail. May the Lord comfort as only He can when surely their hearts are broken and it feels as though they too might drown but in grief.
Remember one day I was shopping with Mom. There was an obese women on food stamps in front of us checking out. She had 5 small children running amok in the store. My mom had a budget so could not go over it. She was frugal. We walked out of the store to witness food stamp mother getting into a brand new Cadillac as we where heading for our 15 year old Dodge. If you are healthy enough to have 5 kids, you can work. So glad this is going back to the states. Time for welfare/medicaid cuts and let people work. Now that they have to pay the bills, it is a whole different story and they can't be pissing our tax dollars away on the entitled and lazy. The libs should right about now be pooping their pants. TAW!
And I could share my story, growing up in a poor farming family that also was on food stamps. My parents worked harder than anyone else I know, but the farm crisis wrecked them and it took about a decade of hard work to get back to an okay place.
There are always people who abuse the system, and there are also plenty of people who truly need help sometimes in their lives. My parents were embarrassed to be using food stamps, but they didn't invent the system that crushed them financially.
Those are the people food stamps were meant for, though. I don’t think anyone has a problem helping people who truly need it and don’t abuse it. But when people DO abuse and misuse the programs, all it does is take away funding from people who do need the help.
Plus when people know the people they’re giving help to, it creates a sense of accountability and community bonds that anonymous government SNAP cards don’t.
During the 2008 financial meltdown, when just about everyone's mortgages were underwater and folks were being laid off, our church announced from the pulpit that the benevolent fund would be used to help people pay their mortgages, that the church did not want anyone to lose their home. Every Sunday they asked for people who still had their jobs to contribute over and above their normal tithing to the benevolent fund to help out those who had lost their jobs or whose work hours had been drastically reduced. This is how the church is meant to function on a practical, every day level. The pastoral staff knows the church members and they acted to help the church body through a very difficult time. I don't know if anyone did lose their home (it is a fairly large church) but the church followed Biblical teaching to care for one another.
I hope they change what the SNAP payments can cover. There should be zero processed "foods" allowed. Only meat, fresh produce, staples like rice, beans. No sodas, candy, anything processed. It would serve two purposes-reduce costs as people only buy real food and actually make people healthier and hopefully less reliant on Medicaid.
Agree. They’ve done it in my state and the liberals lost their minds saying that Republicans were oppressing poor people and demeaning them by telling them what they food they can buy and not allowing them “treats” 🙄🙄🙄
As my mama told us, if you want something "special", you get a job and earn the money for it!
After my father abandoned our family, she worked two jobs to stay off welfare. She did not want her kids to think that was an acceptable way to live. She had a very tight budget and there was no line item for "Treat"! All of us kids started working at the age of 12.
God bless my mama for her sacrificial example to us!!
If they want treats, they can do what the rest of us did and continue to do. And bake some simple brownies from scratch, etc. They all taste a lot better anyway!
What's really annoying is that when the fraud and abuse happens, which seems to be quite often, the Democrats never say a word and don't seem to care about all the wasted money. In Washington state, they seem to use it as a magnet to draw illegals.
Their standard argument always seems to be, “well there are always going to be abusers and fraudsters but at least this way some people who need it are getting help” 🙄 Not apparently thinking it through that the people who truly need help would have more access to it without the fraudulent users 😕
This is the one part of the BBB I've actually studied a bit, and have some deep concerns about. I'm a retired Salvation Army Case Manager, with literally many hundreds of clients in my memory bank who were (or should have been) SNAP/Medicaid recipients. It seems to me that the fraudsters and abusers will undoubtedly just find another way to cheat, and more of the truly needy will fall through the cracks. I pray it isn't so.
My mom was 19 when my biological father beat her nearly to death. She took us to my grandparents( working poor) and welfare helped. She was on it for a couple years until she married my father, who adopted us.
It truly was a leg up for our family. Not a multi generational legacy. For everyone that cheats the system, they are rubbing those that truly are in need of what should be temporary help. Instead of being someone's mad money, the truly needy could get enough to ACTUALLY improve their situation. Cheaters should be punished to the fullest extent allowed not just for bilking tax payers but stealing from the honest, truly needy.
Welfare is a Marxist tool to allow the woman to marry the State and destroy the nuclear family,replacing what was once the domain of the extended family and the neighbor churches.
Like your parents, we were raised to be embarrassed to be on public assistance and there was definitely a social stigma attached. Cheating the system is now seen as getting one over on" the man" -- the government. People that are below the tax threshold fail to see the impact on"the man" because they don't realize "the man" is the tax payer and the only funds the government has is ours.
Some of these abusers are the same people who ride other government gravy trains like unemployment benefits….that pretend to seek work only to check the required boxes and if a job is offered will only show up for as long as it takes to check the box. They need God to change their hearts tOBBBA to ever regain their self respect.
My husband is the oldest of 7 kids. His mom had all those kids on welfare. My husband despised it, got the highest education one can get to get away from it; a Medical doctorate.
He currently has a niece who did the same thing as granny; she has at least 6 kids and her husband has 3 or 4 of his own. They rake in the money. It is absolutely Sickening!
That’s what the system was intended for…to provide a hand up. It was never intended to be a way of life. Maybe the new legislation will encourage recipients to return to the workplace. One can hope!
I had a friend who lives in OH. When she had her last child, the dad was still working. Then the coal mines were shutting down that he did welding for. His hours were cut back. They were really struggling. She applied for food stamps. They told her she needed to get a job. The only job she could get in that depressed area was as a waitress for $2.50/hr. Her son was 2. It was $15/hr for childcare. They said that because she received x amount a month from her ex in child support, she couldn’t get anymore. Of course, her ex was a deadbeat and never paid a dime. I think he still owes her several thousand dollars in child support. None of her kids are on welfare and she now works at her local grocery store and is doing well.
Then, there was a woman who used to “rent” a trailer from my dad on some land my family owned. (Rent is in quotes because my dad would’ve let her stay for free, but she insisted on paying rent. (I think the rent was like $25/month.) She was on welfare and had one son. She wanted to work, but didn’t have the skills for anything more than a job at some place like McDonald’s. She would get a job, her welfare would drop below what she got from with the job. She couldn’t survive. So, the system punished her for wanting to better herself.
I have always thought those who work should receive better benefits than those who just won’t. Help them out. Not well sorry you make a dollar so no help. How does that encourage people to work!
I always thought it could be income supplement. You work for $15/hr but we know rent plus utilities plus food is more than you make so here is supplemental to keep you housed and fed. It is the people who have the latest iphone and manicured nails while their kids still go hungry that gets my ire activated.
I see "regulars" that work various street corners around me. They pan-handle daily. They are in find shape and do a full day of pan handling. I think they probably make more money than a legitimate job could, all tax free. I would often see one woman on her nice phone, smoking, while she sat with her sign asking for money for food. I would see the same corner after they left for the day with all the food wrappers as well as leftover food given to them by drivers thinking they are actually helping these scammers. It makes one skeptical of anyone asking for help.
I agree and do not trust anyone anymore. My church sent out a Go fund me link for a mom whose child has scoliosis. I didn’t trust it at all and noticed the xray shared didn’t have L or R designation or name on it (which maybe it wouldn’t but my son’s xray with broken clavicle had that info), which really made me skeptical. I don’t like living so distrustfully and cynical and I pray for guidance and an open heart as I know people are in need of help.
And you’ll see them driving around BMWs. Um, most of the working class can’t afford BMWs.
My family makes too much for any of these tax cuts. However, the amount we make is essentially just enough to survive in So Cal and save for retirement. We rarely go on vacations, and the next vacation is looking like it will be a combo to attend a funeral in Northern California and then spend a few extra days road tripping.
The more they can keep you on the plantation, the better. They don’t want you to better yourself unless it’s at the giant indoctrination centers (universities) where you go into thousands of dollars in debt to… them.
These are the stories we know exist and Hillbilly Eligy explains to anyone who doesn’t know. This is why we have a safety net and we do t begrudge anyone who genuinely needs assistance. It’s the ones who work the system that deserve to starve!
I had a friend many years ago that I worked with at a major corporation. She was a single mother, lived in a trailer park and had a toddler.
She ended up having to quit because childcare ate up the majority of her income. It was hard for her, she was good at her job, but if necessary expenses outpace income, she really had no choice.
I am constantly humbled by the life experiences shared in these comments. I can add to this thread. My mom, who was given up by her parents back in the 50s and was raised in the foster system, never graduated from high school. Instead she got married at 18 and quickly got pregnant. That marriage ended within a few years when she met my dad who was 14 years her senior. She got pregnant again, with me and my brother (we were twins), and then a few years later my sister. My sister was diagnosed with leukemia at age 2 and my father left. She was on her own with 4 small kids one of whom was seriously ill (it was the 70s and survival rates were not good). She ended up marrying a man who lived next door to us (and to avoid a long story, he was bad news).
After several years of abuse and hardship she left him. Most of us kids were out of the house at this point (for various reasons) and she had to find a new place to live, move her stuff out (under the cover of darkness to avoid his ire) and find a job to support herself. Keep in mind, no high school degree and a very spotted work history. She managed to do all those things and she talked about how she lived on Ramen noodles for months and how having eggs in the house was a treat for a special occasion. She recalled fondly the first time she could buy Hellman's mayonnaise and make an egg sandwich. Though she qualified for every sort of aid available, she had a stubborn pride which would not allow her to accept offers of support (it's a blessing and a curse). I think if she still had the responsibility of caring for us kids, she would have relented. But she had some very lean years after the dissolution of her third marriage.
P.S. We were estranged for a time and I didn't learn of how bad things had gotten until after the fact. Believe it or not, upon her death, she managed to leave a small amount of money to us kids. Incredible.
Thank you. Many good, hardworking people need a hand sometimes. With the cost of rent and everything else, many people work full time and still can’t get by. I do agree that we need to weed out the people who are abusing the system, as well as illegal aliens who are using it. I’m also concerned about the probable several million people disabled by the Covid shots, whose “ doctors are baffled” and can’t even tell them what’s wrong.
The difference is you and your family were not a multi generational set of food stamps and medicaid. They both should be a temporary help not a lifestyle for multi generations. Read Who Killed the American Family. This was an organized plan. One of many to destroy America from within.
I have a row of duplexes across from me and they've started enriching our neighborhood with Section 8s. They have lots of kids, very few dads. No one is working.
My side of the street is the single family homes, mainly with old White people and no kids. We pay for the Diversity People to crank out fatherless kids who are now dominating our demographics. Really, really frustrating to watch our implosion.
Way back in high school, I had a part time job at a grocery store. I got to run the register, so I got to see first hand what people on food stamps were buying. As a family, we never ate the high quality foods and products the people on food stamps were buying. Coupon clipping, low quality food items and an occasional treat that was rationed was how I grew up.
My mom used coupons and shopped sales, my parents gardened and my mom canned and froze food, we foraged for berries and ate things like dandelion greens sometimes. My parents worked really hard to make and save money and be frugal in order for us to have things. My parents were from recent immigrant stock so they didn’t have the mentality that government was supposed to save them or that other people had the obligation to take care of them. They really resented the welfare people (not the ones getting temporary help but the lifestyle ones).
Ditto. Central European, refugees-from-communism ancestry here. Grew up wearing clothes from the second-hand stores and I still clip coupons (and kick myself if I forget to use them in the store). Our “new” car is a 2011 model. I wouldn’t call my food “low quality” though, now or growing up — food cooked at home, from scratch, doesn’t need expensive ingredients to be nutritious and delicious. It’s the prepared/over-processed stuff that is overpriced and underdelivers.
We also had good quality food because it came from gardens and nature and sometimes local farms (eggs and sweet corn). My parents valued quality. But very little junk food, and if we got treats, it was mostly baked goods my mom made from scratch.
Exactly, they were eating filet mignon and porterhouse and my family was on a budget eating hamburger. And yes, plenty of coupon clipping. Mom assigned that job to me.
When my brother and I were settling our mother's estate, I was embarrassed when he showed up at the Clerk of Court's office wearing old, worn shorts and shirt that were suitable only for working around the house. It's not that he didn't have better clothes; he was showing his disdain for the official and the process we were going through. He later showed his disdain by illegally withdrawing $60,000 from the estate account. Thankfully, he did return the money and we finished the process in 2021, after which we've never spoken again. His choice is to be totally estranged from me, which actually makes my life much less stressful.
Jeff S, he didn't wait until her death. He'd probably gotten $100,000 from her before that. He knew how to manipulate her and make her feel guilty, and she couldn't say no to him.
You haven't fully experience jury duty until you see the star witness come schlepping into the courtroom in their house slippers. Glad to see Alabama isn't the only state with that scenario.
Love this list of non-approved court apparel, knowing full well that some human has actually showed up in court with said inappropriate apparel in order to make it on the list!!
We had a lady in our Sunday school class who dressed atrociously, clothes I wouldn’t wear in my yard. Cut off sweatpants (too short) she was on the heavy side, no shoes. I thought she didn’t have better clothes but found out she had a very respectable office job and just didn’t want to “dress” on her days off. This all came out when she was told by Church leadership she could not be in a position of greeter etc unless she dressed more appropriately. She was devastated. I seriously couldn’t believe she didn’t realize how it looked.
Truly one of many examples of our culture declining.
At one time men and ladies wore hats and suits and dresses.
When I started my engineering job right out of college (age 22) in the late 80s, men had to wear ties, and ladies skirts. And you could smoke inside! Boy those days seem distant now.
Ohh I love that! When I was a teenager, we had a lady who dressed unbelievably to go to church hat, the fanciest outfits and I said when I get old, I’m gonna dress like that! 😂
That is a nightmare. The duplexes will be in ruin within a year if not sooner. I am so sorry you are having to watch this in your neighborhood. These baby machines have no pride, shame or decency. The kids walk around wondering who is my daddy this week. I hate to say this but if you want a picture of useless eaters, look at the women and men creating this mishagoss.
Giving them benefits for the more unsupervised feral animals they produce is the issue. They’re doing what they’ve been taught for decades. Make babies,get money. If they weren’t getting paid to make them, they might find a better method.
I think he's referring to the Trump gib in the BBB of 1,000 for having a new kid.
Thing is - Whites having kids is being repressed by the system.
So the Diversity People, including the millions of Indian folks invading, etc... it's going to not address the problem of America becoming more 3rd world. (i.e. import the 3rd world = become the 3rd world)
Exactly. Dems promulgate the worst agendas with no care about their constituents. They just want votes to further their amoral deeds. It is grotesque to watch it all play out and the lengths they go to in order to win or get more voters on their side.
This is where I wish Trump would reverse the government-engineered breakdown of the nuclear family without seeming to punish single mothers. I’m sure it’s “complicated,” but there must be a way to restore fatherhood and families. That would be a beautiful win for humanity. (Sorry if this comment posted twice.)
I was in Florida one time and got to talking to a store owner who explained to me "How it works". Black girls get pregnant in their teens, sit back on welfare and retire. Their like minded friends show them how to game the system. Now before you jump all over me as racist, I am repeating the story as it was told to me. In Ontario here when I was younger I dated a single white mom with 2 kids on welfare. When we broke up she introduced me to a single white friend who I met but never dated. The unlucky pissed off guy who did date her got her pregnant and had to pay child support. One of my former date's friends had 3 kids all by different fathers. It is a culture here too.
Back before I had kids and worked for the FL DOR child support division, this was very common....mom's dressed to the nine's with better clothes, cars, and accessories than I, who didn't work and kids were usually dressed in rags pulling in child support, welfare, and medicaid. I am glad I no longer work there as it really jades a person to watch people work the system and then those few that come in and TRULY need it are denied...
It's also a philosophical difference from previous generations. HALF the public school kids in my (prosperous) county are on free lunch. My parents would have died before they let any of us be on free lunch. I don't want to see kids going hungry, of course, but it feels like there has been a major shift in the expectation that we provide for our own kids. I don't know what the answer is though.
.... As well as a shift in the expectation that we discipline our own kids. I was reading an el gato malo essay on substack this morning about it. I always thought it was better to discipline my kids when they were young than to have the cops do it later, it I guess that’s an old fashioned concept.
Washington State Democrats, in their latest massive spending spree, recently passed free school lunches for all kids. Yes, that includes the kids living in multi-million dollar homes in the wealthy districts. I cannot think of a worse waste of money in the schools than buying free lunch for wealthy kids.
“…I cannot think of a worse waste of money in the schools than buying free lunch for wealthy kids.” That’s not really happening, however…
I can help you with your thinker’s block. I’d start with Mr. Trump shoveling $5 trillion of our money to the richest 1% of Americans, who I believe are mostly adults.
Can these people really eat that many free lunches?
One of my mama's gripes: the free breakfast/lunch programs in schools. She worked two jobs to keep us kids fed, clothed, and housed. She says, "It is the parents' responsibility to feed their kids!"
That being said, no one wants kids to go hungry. I am not sure what is the solution.
We gotta be careful of calling people useless eaters.
This "othering" of those who, regardless of their choices and behavior, are made in the image of God leads to dehumanizing them. That never leads anywhere good.
I don't like the phrase either so think up one better for me to describe the selfish, lazy, having so many kids with different men/women, food stamped, no shame entities using my hard earned money to support their lifestyles.
The longer I live and the more I observe, I realize we have so many broken people. I try to remember that when I really want to vilify someone or scapegoat them. Look at any person who is taking advantage and living a life to which you object and think that he or she started off as an innocent baby. The saying "there but for the grace of God" helps me keep my ire in check.
Since you hid your response to my question, you want me to call them living on welfare. Well, that states the obvious. You please call them that as you are supporting their lifestyle which you do not seem to mind-good for you and your holier than thou attitude. Support TDA too since you appear sympathetic to them as well and sound so complacent about what they do, "..deaths are awful..". Again, stating the obvious. More power to you. And enough with the history lesson and the Nazis-you sound like the fringe libs. And to think you call yourself Copernicus, lol. Cheers!
You are aware, are you not, that the German Reich used the term "worthless eaters" to describe the Jewish people and other groups they deemed burdensome to society. This paved the way for the rest of society to accept segregating them into ghettos, then moving them to camps, and eventually killing them by government sanctioned processes.
Prior to the Rwanda genocide, one side (can never recall which) called the other by pejorative names. On public radio. Paved the way for a call by them to slaughter those who had been neighbors and classmates.
Even when we vehemently disagree with someone's lifestyle, when their very choices are morally wrong and abhorrent, we *have* to remind ourselves that in God the Creator's eyes they are a person of so much worth that he gave his life so that they, if they choose, could repent and become his child.
I am not pretending it's easy. And of course it is wrong to game the system and not work. The same God himself said, if a person doesn't work, they shouldn't eat. He created mankind. He created the dignity of work by his own work of creation. We ourselves demean ourselves when we designate fellow humans as "useless eaters," as if they can be discarded like yesterday's trash.
Again, you are significantly uninformed. You, of course, didn't bother to look over my link... typical pompous "woke" fool.
The 'holocaust' is the biggest lie of the 20th Century.
The jews of Germany WERE a cancer, similar to the over 100 countries that have expelled them en masse prior. Hitler was a great leader, his people adored him. WWII was totally unnecessary, FDR and Churchill conspired to begin it. Poland contributed.
Read my link, or STFU. Here's some more truth to fill your empty head:
I caution you on the phrase 'useless eaters', those were the exact words the German Third Reich used to justify the slaughter of the weak, handicapped and other undesirables. It is a pair of words derived from the awful practice of Eugenics.
We should not call others who are created in image of God such things even though we strongly disagree with their lifestyles or behaviors.
Yes and the WEF uses it too. I don't like the phrase either so think up one better for me to describe the selfish, lazy, having so many kids with different men/women, food stamped, no shame entities using my hard earned money to support their lifestyles.
Maybe you should ask God what He would like you to call them. Personally, I think it is sad that they live like that... how impossible it must feel to know you will not leave that life. Be grateful you don't have thay worry.
You have the ability to leave that life. Get up and work. There are many success stories. I do not feel sorry for them grifting off taxpayers. You support them if you feel so sad. I am sure TDA would also love your charity and if they are not violent useless eaters, then I don't know what is.
You are uninformed about the Third Reich... so many are.
Jews have pushed the 'holocaust' lies since long before WWII, and have used them to justify their apartheid, mass-slaughter, land thefts and the corruption of OUR government.
Here's a start to your education... there is a ton more...
AD, so tired of their history lessons and using the Nazi themes ad nauseum. They always act holier than thou in their retorts and I can just imagine what may be in their closets. Copernicus loved to block after leaving me a sermon. LOL! I am all for Copernicus and his/her ilk to support the career junkies on the dole, better them than us. And Copernicus was a great thinker, this person should rethink using his name as that is not a good look:}. Have a great weekend AD!
Yes, if you click on his "name"... shows a fat clown with fingers in his ears... VERY appropriate! Will not listen... only interested on blowing smoke. I blocked his dumb ass.
Yes, I post a lot about jews, WWII, Hitler, etc... trying to expose people to truth they have not heard. So many use the term Nazi or Hitler as a derogatory... history is more complex.
re: “Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona,” the article continued, “has warned that even her state’s $1.6 billion emergency fund will be insufficient to weather what’s coming, because ‘even if we cut every single thing in the state, we don’t have the money to backfill all these cuts.’”
Lying, corrupt, un-elected faux governor (she was s_Elected by the drug cartels who own Arizona) doesn't want to talk about the $5 BILLION budget surplus so only talks about the $1.6 BILLION they set aside from it for their "emergency" slush fund - such a despicable liar - if her mouth is moving she is lying - she just doesn't want to cut all her give-aways to her corrupt friends, associates, NGOs, the people who actually steal elections, etc. These people are swimming in our tax dollars and rotten to the core. One look at the Consolidated Annual Financial Report will bear that out.
That said, I have some GREAT news to report. Many of you know that 2 years ago, I brought a lawsuit against the Board of Supervisors and County government for running a fatally flawed, unconstitutional, unlawful Jail District tax election which would have cost the Citizens at least 350 MILLION in new taxes over 25 years. Through perseverance and never giving up, WE WON THE CASE when the Board of Supervisors decided to settle the lawsuit rather than lose it. So, now they have to stop collecting the tax and conduct a new election on 4 Nov 2025! IT WAS A HUGE WIN and I was/am thrilled with the result. It wasn't by me or my lawyer... it was because G.A.W. I am not going to say it was easy because it wasn't but I always believed I was simply an instrument of God's Perfect Will. I trusted in God and He led us to victory - the things I came up with in the middle of the night - when God speaks to us a lot - provided all the actionable flaws of the way they prepared and conducted their unlawful election. AND WE CAUGHT THEM. Forgive me if I'm taking a victory lap - it's a pretty big deal!!
EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN CITIZEN CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, I AM NO ONE SPECIAL, I JUST DECIDED TO STAND UP FOR THE PEOPLE AND FIGHT CORRUPT GOVERNMENT. YOU CAN TOO. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS, THEY MAKE ACTIONABLE MISTAKES. Don't worry about the national fight, our fight, yours and mine, is at County level and below, where we actually have real power - if we choose to wield it.
Thanks. It's very possible I will still end up with a subterranean view of the Sonoran desert... I don't say that to be humorous... I pissed off a lot of corrupt people and stopped a massive new revenue flow of un-obligated funds - LITERALLY STOLEN FROM THE TAX PAYERS. In my heart, I believe God Himself armored me and still armors me. The moral of the story is you can beat "city hall" if you have a righteous cause and you can outlast the crooks - AND WITH GOD, YOU WILL.
I watched Serpico last night (Al Pacino), based on a true story of an honest cop who fought and was almost killed by a corrupt police department - they set him up and he was shot in the face but by the grace of God he survived and single-handedly beat down corruption in the department - the point is one person, with God-given courage, can make a difference.
Here's a link to the documentary "State of Denial". It's free. It tells the behind-the-scene story about state of elections in Maricopa Co. AZ. The movie brings the receipts and shows the evidence.
Thanks I will check them out. I can tell you already that Maricopa determines the outcome of every statewide election in AZ. And they do it with massive, wholesale mail ballot fraud and programmable machines. Maricopa gave all of us Hobbs, Mayes, Fontes, and that stinking twosome of Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallegos (our s_Elected federal Senators). And all the other counties filled down ballot seats with creepy democrats and the worst of the worst RINOs. We are run by the cartel's uniparty.
Thank you RL! If I have one hope from this, it is that other people will find their own courage - they have it - and go after their corrupt local governments too (County, City, Township, School Boards, etc.) They are all rotten, they are all stealing your power and hard earned money and giving it to themselves and their cronies. Please understand, the vast majority of them are committed con artists, uniparty crooks, they get in government to have their way with our lives and our money.
Thank you C. That two year battle taught me a lot. I mean A LOT!
I also discovered there is a much better way than bringing civil lawsuits (the lawyers love the civil lawsuits, they make a ton of money and collude to our detriment - so they can keep on making bank). In Arizona there is ARS Chapter 38, Article 5 for bringing bond claims on these criminals (by these criminals I mean our "representatives". The lawyers are well protected by their BAR as long as they kiss it's collective butt.) This is how you get our "representatives" to stop acting criminally (unconstitutionally, unlawfully) because if found guilty of unlawful behavior, it will cost them financially and could also result in losing their cushy job and even incarceration. Check and see if your State also has a chapter in their statutes on bond claims. I guarantee you, promise you, your "elected representatives" do not want you to know about bond claims...
Remember this, if they are increasing your taxes or adding additional tax districts (like water, light, fire, hospital, library, etc etc - all new ways to tax us to death), like they did here with the Jail District, they are likely doing it unlawfully, because most Citizens are completely uninformed (me included at the beginning of this) and have been indoctrinated to believe these people (gov officials) can tax without your consent to even put the tax issue on a ballot! And run the election to steal it without any concern for doing it constitutionally. And then claiming victory unlawfully. And then having elements of the judiciary cover it up. All of this happened in this case, but because G.A.W. they didn't prevail this time.
I don't have a substack Scott. I just dug in to the AZ Constitution, tax district statutes, and election statutes. The Constitution of the USA and of Arizona reserves a lot of power to the people, but only if they are aware of what it says. Our "representatives" are not our representatives at all. They do not want you to know how much power you have over them, especially at the County level and below. If you look at the Arizona Constitution Article 4, Part 1, Section 1, sub paragraph 8 you will see it reserves immense power to us. The criminals will do everything they can to over come that power, including straight out lying, cheating, and using corrupt members of the judiciary to overcome it. Our representatives are doing everything they can to undermine authority granted in our Constitutions. Read about perhaps the most important Constitutional Article in Arizona here: https://www.azleg.gov/const/4/1.p1.htm Read all 16 paragraphs but pay particular attention to 5 and 8. Understand how they reserved legislative power to us, the electors (registered voters) in the county.
Do you have similar information in your State constitution? If you do, you have a lot of power. Do you have tax districts? If you do, you can almost bet they were imposed unlawfully or will be imposed unlawfully to take more of your wealth. Finally, do you have a good lawyer who is actually interested in representing you and is not going to rip you off - this one will be particularly difficult - as most lawyers are absolute scum bags... And most importantly do you have a bond claim statute like this one in AZ Chapter 38, Article 5? https://www.azleg.gov/arsDetail/?title=38
And do you have faith in God, not passing faith, but real faith? Will you ask Him to make you an instrument of His Perfect Will?
The OBBBA will force States into better fiscal management or bankruptcy. What happens to California? Does the CCP buy California for cents on the dollar?
The CCP because of our trade deficit with China has the $$$ to out bid almost everyone for any desirable real estate here in the states. Buying California for cents on the dollar is just a bonus for the CCP.
Where I grew up in a very small town where everyone knew everyone (and their business 😆), we had several families that had been lifelong welfare people (libs will insist that doesn’t happen and no one really wants to be on welfare but what I experienced disproves that notion). They always had the brand name clothes, new bikes (that were often left out in their yard to rust 🙄), left the windows open in the winter, had expensive junk food treats all the time, etc etc. It was maddening for the rest of us whose families made sacrifices and worked hard and often had less. Then I worked at a convenience store one summer in a nearby town and constantly had people coming in with food stamps to buy junk food. In the most expensive store in town when if they’d have gone down the road they could’ve shopped for nutritious and cheaper food at the actual supermarket. My mom also for a time was on the board of a nonprofit that supplied low cost housing to low income people. A not insignificant number of times their apartments were completely trashed by entitled bottom feeders who thought everyone else owed them 😡 I know there are people who use these safety net programs temporarily in times of need and get off as soon as they can, but there are far far too many who could be working and aren’t, and who waste the taxpayers’ money, having no sense of accountability or gratefulness. There definitely need to be changes made. My state got a start with no longer allowing junk food to be purchased with SNAP but there is definitely more work to be done to reform these programs.
Many have had same or similar experiences while we are working to support them. Hoping this gravy train stops real quick with the BBB. Who gives us something for nothing? Answer: No one.
Walter Williams once said something like - before we paid for illegitimate children, there were not many of them. Now, it has become an industry.
Dave Ramsay told of one of his parishioners - a single woman with a few kids who had been dumped by here husband. A good Christian woman. She was on welfare to survive. Ramsay's group helped her get job training which she passed and was eager to become a tax paying citizen. I forget the training she got, but it would have made for a decent job. Yet, at that time it could not come close to the $33,000+ she was able to get from welfare (food stamps and such) for doing nothing. Ramsay admitted she was better off staying on welfare.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where we are. Women are encouraged to have babies because they are a commodity and a money making product.
Ran into the same situation with my own mother in San Jose. We both just shook our heads in disbelief. I told her she should apply for CA GOV benefits, too. She said, "Never." She had too much pride for that.
My parents were too busy working to teach us anything, except by example. I wasn't frugal until I stopped getting paid too much to toil in high tech. Now, I try to save money so my daughter and son can inherit something other than my big mouth.
Not in public, you wouldn't. Since they were teenagers, my progeny have asked and warned me not to say anything too inappropriate when we go out to eat or attend various events. I try to comply, but always seem to fail, although my comments are usually just attempts to elicit laughs. My dear, sweet daughter thinks I'm funny...looking. My stern, towering son threatens to throw me in the trunk and drop me off at the nearest insane asylum. My usual response: If youse keep it up, I'm telling Uncle Vern, my big, imperious brother.
They will look back when older and love all this. Timing is everything! As for me, I would have no problem with your mouth in public. If people can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Bring...it....on!
I was always the family clown, the class clown, the work clown. I should become a real clown and cut up in the circus. Anyway, parents are supposed to embarrass children of all ages. It's a law, somewhere. Have fun!
If someone truly needs it bc they are having a hard time (not sucking off the system), they should take it. Most of us are happy and willing to pay taxes for this to help fellow Americans get on their feet again as long as it is temporary and does not become lifestyle. If you have a strong work ethic and inner constitution along with solid character, you will not get addicted.
Work requirements exempt parents with very young children (7 years and younger) … this lady you describe may still not need to work. And even if she does the “work” is largely symbolic. Only 20 hours a week and no earnings required! Or if she doesn’t feel like working, she can sign up for a training program or take blessed to improve herself. Even community service qualifies under this legislation. The howl of protect is comical. I hope this is only a first step to require some level of self sufficiency in the welfare class. Meanwhile I must work to support them
And it does a disservice to people. There is value and self esteem in doing honest work. Simply giving people things without them having to do anything to earn it does not help them mentally. It creates a mentality of a child who is always looking to others to make decisions for them and never feeling like they’re contributing to the world.
In the 90’s, I’d take the paper food stamps at Key food in Brooklyn, The Russian woman was dressed in fur and jewelry. A pile of food stamps. As I was busting my butt on minimum wage.
I had my oldest at 21 and was single (I refused to ask for child support because this child was going to be better off without him….he never took me to court for visitation after I stopped contact due to his no-shows with our verbal arrangements)….but anyhooo, went on WIC for 2-months but couldn’t even use the vouchers second month as I was mortified to use them! I was intentionally working as little as possible to be with my kid as much as possible, but I was able bodied and could (and did) work….just enough to make ends meet though. There absolutely needs to be time limits and a weaning off support as you phase out because it becomes a lifestyle otherwise and then a generational lifestyle.
I believe the tax code (if we are going to have an income tax at all), should be re-manipulated to encourage marriage. A huge break for 2-parent homes which is ultimately best for children and our society as a whole
Sense! Utmost respect for you and how you worked this all out. You are a woman of strength, independence and determination. Excellent example for others who find themselves in similar circumstances.
Washington state just passed the largest tax increases in history. Our feckless governor, last I heard, is calling the legislature back into an emergency session to deal with the fallout from the OBBBA. Translation: we need to raise taxes even more, since the Feds are cutting out the goody baskets.
We may have reached our own personal tipping point. My mama asked if it is time to get out of WA, before we are unable to leave.
We are still wishing the whole "Greater Idaho" movement could become a reality, but there is no way WA and OR will allow their eastern portions to become part of Idaho.
Lol! Here in the Puget Sound region we are almost halfway between Vancouver, WA and Vancouver, B.C., so whenever someone refers to Vancouver we have to ask which one!
In the 90’s my Mom worked with a woman who had raised her kids on welfare and was now able to work and provide for herself. Her daughter turned 18, had dropped out of school and just planned to live on welfare. She wasn’t interested in working just doing nothing and receiving money. Her own Mom couldn’t understand it. We found it unbelievable. 😳 where do they come up with this logic?? Well, I don’t want to work so I shouldn’t have too.
When my sister (MA in counseling, emphasis in trauma) was doing in home counseling, she visited homes of people on welfare. In the winter, heat on so high the people were clad in t shirts. My sister couldn’t afford to heat her small house to reasonable sweater level and had to wear multiple layers. Her feet were always cold. But the welfare recipients were warm and comfy.
In my younger days, I was a grocery store cashier. The stuff I saw would make your head spin. Food Stamp recipients purchased items I could not afford. Their main complaint was, at that time, they were not allowed to purchase imported DAK hams. Boo hoo.
Grifting with no accountability! Because religious organizations who did the community provision before made judgements. Yup sometimes bad ones and certain religions also take grift. 😡
The church is a mismash of humanity and many religions are just that, religious practices that have more to do with authoritarian control and nothing to do with serving the Creator who taught us to serve. But just as our government has played on the sentiments of ppl who imagine themselves as good so religious leaders do the same all to serve self or trick God into thinking we are good in and of ourselves. It's all to expose us, not because God doesn't know who we really are but because we don't know.
Everyone — please pray for all the children and grandchildren missing in the flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas hill country (Kerrville, Ingram, Hunt ). Thanks.
I swear, sorry if I sound like a conspiracy nut...... but this last week it has rained and been cloudy for 5 days straight... in the West Texas Desert. This has never happened before. Seriously. That church camp has been there for 100 years. We had a 120 mph "thunderstorm" to do 25k damage to our house of which the insurance co. only wants to cover 4k. Our weather is being manipulated. If they stop the chemtrails I truly believe all these absolutely unprecedented weather events would stop.
It is extremely disappointing how little Jeff has covered this tragedy. We are crushed here in Texas. We lost six 8-year-olds in our school system. The whole community is in mourning.
Apparently this camp has been around for a century. New are ‘them’ making the weather and creating storms and floods and heat under the sprayed chemicals and metals. I needed Janice’s prayer today as I was getting mighty angry. Prayers for Texas
You cannot tell me that these so-called "extreme weather events" such as we see in central TX this morning are not man-made. The Guadeloupe River rose THIRTY FEET last night.... 26 feet in ONE HOUR.
The geoengineering/chemtrail spraying is relentless. Here in the FL panhandle, I woke up yesterday to a cloudless beautiful blue sky streaked by 3 horizon to horizon chemtrails laid down in parallel fashion with a 4th one being laid down as I watched right over my house. The planes were at such altitude, you couldn't even pick them out. After a couple of hours the whole sky changed from a beautiful blue to a silver color (hint: what is the color of aluminum?)
I was surprised Jeff didn't address this situation. Praying fervently for this area - those of us in the Asheville area (and doubtless many other areas recently affected) are re-living the horrors of Helene as we see newsclips and hear of these tragic deaths and missing people.
Praying we vote that commie out finally next year. Tired of her bs veto of every decent bill the majority (R) senate/house sends her way. Thanks to Topeka and Johnson/wyandotte county we had to put up with insanity the last few years. She was 99% of the reason Kansas played along in much of the COVID debacle. At least our kids were back in school fairly quickly. Working in Wyandotte didn’t help as they left mask mandates as long as Johnson County. I’m looking forward to the midterms.
Hopefully, spending taxpayer/other people’s money becoming more transparent. Once the Fed spigots opened, State leaders could absolve themselves of the difficult leadership decisions they were elected to handle. So much Federal spending likely is more appropriate at State level, but that (seemingly) becomes a bigger challenge and tougher local sell with this legislation.
I live in an area dominated by AWFLs and their ilk. They have their lawn signs like "Hate has no home here" and "No Kings" BS. The newest sign is "Support your Federal Workers." Hahaha 😂 😆 😂 Oh yeah! The leftie loons are feeling the cuts. Poor dears will have to get a job in the real world as I don't believe TDS is a legit diagnosis for disability. Good times. 👍😉
I’m hoping the next bomb to drop out of this admin is to somehow revoke the govt employees unions law that pretty much wrecked normal elections for decades now. Rather difficult to justify union “ protections” when you have the federal govt as the strongest union on earth.
Always love your comments Annie so please don't take this as a criticism. But have you considered restructuring your life to avoid these people? I know it's not easy so I hope you don't consider this a frivolous comment, but it truly is worth the effort.
I see comments like this on here, and the frustration it causes people, and I wonder if they know it can be different. For three decades I've made a conscious effort to structure my (and later my family's) life in a way that avoids toxic people. I don't mean the good-hearted person down on their luck, but the condescending, miserable, duplicitous, trashy, and parasitical. It absolutely can be done, and the rewards are astounding.
Every decision regarding where one lives, works, shops, sends kids to school, goes to church, entertains, and vacations can be made with consideration regarding the attitude of the people there. It doesn't happen at all once, but after a while it becomes second nature and these miserable experiences are gradually pruned from one's life. Yes it can be expensive, but good things usually are. But if one uses some common sense, a strategic plan, and forethought, it doesn't have to be. The rewards are incredible, as is the serenity.
Seriously, if a family gathering always has a left-wing (or right wing for that matter) buffoon that cannot be civil, then just don't attend, or leave the minute they start up. If work is filled with people that want to argue, then walk away, and start looking for a new job ASAP. If you see *any* signs your neighborhood is starting to go downhill, then start planning your escape now and don't wait until it's too late. If you have to deal with a begging homeless bum at the local Trader Joes, then instead drive a few miles over to the one in a nice neighborhood. Don't tolerate stuff that harms your quality of life and serenity.
If your church is starting to lecture you about "social justice" then don't waste time trying to change it, but leave now and find a new one. (We recently left a church of ten years and though it was difficult at the time, the joy at our new church is awe inspiring. For a year I was upset by church and am now kicking myself for not leaving sooner.)
If you don't want to be around trashy people on vacation, then don't go to a place filled with trashy people like Las Vegas. Go someplace off the beaten path or upscale. Plan everything in your life around the people you are likely to experience.
I know this probably sounds condescending, and I apologize for that. But I see these stories on here and really wonder if people realize it doesn't have to be like this. More importantly, if you are a decent, responsible, hard-working person, you don't deserve to deal with this. The bottom 20% and the busybodies ruin *everything* where they are allowed to gain a foothold. Structure your life to avoid them in all regards.
We moved to SC for a year to get away from it. The libbies were there too. Just not as many. My son and daughter are here. So are my sister and brothers and their families. They wanted us to come home. My son got engaged so we relented and moved back. I am okay with it as I pray every day and read scripture. Plus Trump won so all the libbie hysteria is amusing most of time. And I have my "safe" space here with C&C. 😉 God is good indeed. 🥰
Praying and fingers crossed that a proposed solar “park” on 1700 acres of farmland a mile from me, and postponed starting date for beginning excavation for over a year will end up scrapped. There are all kinds of legalities in place that if these solar panels go in on 30 year leases, and the companies go bankrupt or sell off, they have to take down the panels and restore the land to what it was, a virtual impossibility. The companies thought they had at least 30 years of gravy money. Now, they may want to ditch the projects and get out of Dodge before they start.
And the irony is, many of these parts for these solar panels come from China. So China steps up their manufacturing and pours more and more pollution into the air.
I've also heard there are built in cutoff switches in these solar panels from China. Cutoff switch being my term used and not sure if this is even true but would not be surprised. CCP is not to be trusted.
Perhaps we can promote farming as a career to stop the decimation of farms? My family came from Germany to Texas in the 1800s to fulfill populating and farming needs in the newly acquired state. Maybe the white, farming refugees from South Africa can be prioritized.
In our township’s case, there is an escrow account set up that the company must keep money in. The long and short of it is, these pop up energy companies are bought out within 5-10 years by an energy company which is also being subsidized by government monies. If after 15 years the power companies shut it down, are lawyered up, a piddling amount in escrow will be paid out, and the panels will still be there. What farmer has the money to sue the power companies 10 to 15 years down the road…
Don't cry for the universities' loss of DEI funding: Here is how one of the principal offenders, the University of Pittsburgh, is "complying". They're "rebranding" - NOT CLOSING - the DEI office and giving its leaders new titles. “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.”
School to rebrand DEI office
Change comes after threats to cut funding
By Maddie Aiken
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 3, 2025
The University of Pittsburgh is replacing its Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion following funding loss threats from the Trump administration.
Pitt’s newly launched Office of Institutional Engagement and Well-being will
deal with areas such as civil rights and Title IX compliance, disability accessibility
and accommodations, sexual misconduct prevention education, and the monitoring
of university progress on campus climate and student success. These areas were
previously overseen by the DEI office. Clyde Wilson Pickett, who formerly
served as vice chancellor for DEI and chief diversity officer, also will oversee the new
office, which opened on Tuesday.
PS: Pitt's endowment in 2023 was valued at $5.49 billion, 29th largest in the USA.
Word was, Pitt's UPMC had a good income stream from selling parts of aborted fetuses to research labs. I cannot confirm the current status of that program.
The linked report states the research plays a critical role in life saving discoveries . The only examples are vaccines- Covid, chickenpox , polio, rabies etc. Really? I thought all those problems were solved decades ago. Also “By law, all fetal tissue donations are voluntary and informed consent is required for fetal tissue to be collected for and provided to researchers, who are not involved in collecting the tissue.” Who gives the consent? Certainly not the fetus. And what information constitutes the “informed” part?
It will be interesting to see how many universities re-value their endowments downward as a result of the tax. Most endowments are invested in private equity which I think can be valued rather sketchy.
DOGE seems to have run out of steam since Elon departed... if so, what a shame... that group had some enormous potential... the massive waste and fraud exposures were seemingly reported on almost daily... but no mas'
Wanna bet U of Pitt will RAISE tuition for students just as soon as they rebrand DEI offices to compensate for their loss of funding and their now 'taxable' endowments!
Huh aren’t they the same ones clamoring for people to “pay their fair share”?? Oh I forgot, that’s for *other* people 🙄 It’s fine for *them* to have billions 🙄
Hahaha - Office of institutionsl Engagement and Wellbeing?? Read that to my husband and he cracked up! Hopefully the Feds will be able to see thru their machinations.
Problem for them is the DOJ/Trump team are already aware of universities doing this. So they will be sued and lose the monies as well. They are not the first to try it. Federal agencies tried it at first. They have to prove that the department was established prior and identify the employees..plus show where the employees of the old DEI department went.
An old out of work Democrat was sitting on a park bench when a wealthy gentleman handed him a hundred dollar bill as he walked by. This happened every Monday for several months when on one Monday the gentleman only handed him a fifty dollar bill. As he walked away, the old Democrat yelled after him," you can owe me the rest" !!!!
The dillusional left will always see what they want to see, ignore what they dont want to see and make up whatever suits that day's menu. I doubt it will change anytime soon.🙈🙉🙊
“food stamps (SNAP) now have a work requirement, but the states must enforce the new federal requirement, or lose subsidies. Same with the Obamacare exchanges; states must take over more of the paperwork and begin enforcing new eligibility criteria”
I live outside the city limits of a city take is going to take the President on regarding DEI I can’t get all the information yet because only the local troublemaker media is writing about it.
I wonder how the Federal changes (I approve) will effect county and city government I live in a Republican state but the county and city government is loony democrat
I am pleased with the changes in the big beautiful bill, however concerned about the effects on state, county, & local government. It will be interesting to see
This is what I’m worried about. The powers that be always make it harder for the working people while freeloaders continue to profit. I have so many examples.
My dear husband is planting seeds.
On his flight home this past Thursday, he sat next to an administrator of the cardiology departments at a chain of hospitals in the Tampa area.
Hubs asked him if he'd seen an uptick in the number of heart patients to which he replied, yes, but that they weren't doing as many surgeries (to which he attributed to the success of Ozempic 😩).
Then hubs brought out his phone and asked him if he'd seen the clots. He also showed him the video of Richard Hirschman pulling a clot out of the jugular vein.
The guy seemed truly interested as his eyes grew quite large. Hubs told him about my substack and the guy wrote it down.
I think he may have wrecked this guy's holiday weekend though. 😢
This is how we win this war.
One person at a time.
PS - so very grateful for all the replies to my comment of yesterday and for the camaraderie of our C&C family. 🥰
I wear my DEFUND THE MEDIA hat everywhere and boy, do I make a lot of friends. (Not joking. Literally, I tell all my single friends to get one, stat.) You might get a few ASK ME ABOUT MY CLOTS hats made up for friends and family. ;)
three years ago, we went on a whirlwind trip out west in our rv with our son & wife... he wore his Let's Go Brandon shirts every day, & we made friends & admirers all over the western part of the US. no one gave us dirty looks or complained about it, slashed our tires or keyed the rv. that's when I knew there were more of us than them. it was the best trip we've ever taken!
without the cheating it is 25/75....... That's the real numbers..... it might even be 20/80. (liberal/conservative)
The elections are rigged...... the republicans have benefitted as well, don't kid yourself. But it's all theater. We have to get same day voting, paper ballots counted on video and public posting of that video with citizens only and I.D. verified. Counting stops at midnight. If we did that this country would immediately turn around.
Except when RVing (see below) it seems the number of liberals is much higher. Maybe if I didn’t hang out with artists and my gym buddies it would be different.
The gym is a beautiful Park and Rec taxpayer funded facility, where seniors with Medicare Advantage get a free membership (myself included). That explains a lot. And, disclaimer, of course not all artists are liberal but I do live in Oregon! 🤷♀️😆
My youngest is a truly unique kid with a wide variety of abilities and interests. He can get an A in college level Calculus but also play the Shostakovich Cello Sonata and also plays piano organ and guitar. He had an art teacher tell me that he had more natural ability than any student she had previously taught. His current obsession is weight lifting and he watches a YouTube channel called "Outdoor Boys" which focuses on what I would call "extreme" or survivalist camping (I must confess to being mesmerized by it). Anyway, his musical ability is a such a level that he really should be considering it as a major but music, like art, is overwhelmingly Left (not just liberal), and he does not feel at home in that world.
P.S. I also find the RV world a strange mix of Lefties and Righties.
He sounds like an awesome kid. He won’t be happy in that world for sure. My husband went to a music conservatory on scholarships, he was gifted, majored in music ed and only lasted teaching for three years. I was in art ed and also only lasted 3 years. We both are entrepreneurs and have been happy most of our lives with our choices.
NAB, that’s so sad about the music world being so lefty. All that talent is a gift from God! Not that people don’t work hard to develop and improve, but the gift comes from the Lord.
My teen daughter is playing in a symphony orchestra, which is full of lefties. She and I have discussed how our art-loving lifestyle fits in with these people but not our ideology. They have TDS pretty badly. We made friends with one lonely lady who was bugging my daughter to know whether I was a Trump supporter when I wouldn’t join the bashing. She said nobody she knows likes the way the USA is going right now, which shows how much she needs a conservative outside-her-bubble friend, if I can be wise and gracious enough! I know she’s never going to listen to facts or argument but trying to present an attractive, intelligent open-minded family.
Please encourage your son to keep playing and RECORD him playing. He can make beacoup bucks on videos from creating his own channels and posting on different sites; Rumble, utube, tiktock. etc. Many of the successful post a video on X for exposure, directing people to their actual site for more views; more views he has, more $$$ you collect. Plus, those who value his music can hear it!! He can create his art and even sell it (or prints) independently. He doesn't need galleries, all he needs is an appreciative audience!
The old guard is no longer the gatekeeper to appreciation and success!
My husband and I are living and traveling full time in our RV and have found many right leaning full timers on the road and in the two resorts that we stay in on a regular basis. Of course, our two home bases are in Florida and the Georgia mountains and those two areas are red areas anyway!
Sounds like I should be an "RV'er", NAB!
NAB - very interesting, thanks for sharing. Your son is blessed, and I hope he doesn't change.
How are your other kids doing?
I'm a reformed "art-lefty", and that world is not well-adjusted mentally, emotionally, or politically. It's a tribe of immature gatekeeping gangsters who will boot you to the curb if you challenge any of "their" orthodoxies. But there are alternatives like self-marketing, etc, for the determined.
Good thing the Nazi's are back in the saddle! 'bout time!
Took a trip to Cali...spent the night in Burns on the way there. If Oregon wasn't so retarded on the really beautiful side, we might have moved there. Turns out freedom is more important than all the other stuff.
I am going to go to Redding thru your neck of the woods one day. Oh wait...after this next trip, I am never stepping foot in Cali again. And I am a 5th gen native. Buh Bye! My mom is gone now. And I am cutting bait.
I think Oregon might be the way it is because at a point in time (maybe still going on) a LOT of Californians, particularly Southern Californians moved to Oregon. I lived in Seattle in 1969-70 and the whole area including Portland was really wonderful back then. Such a loss.
Shockingly, Portland OR was a beautiful city in the early 80's... and moderate politically.
I'm not sure, but I think Seattle was too.
It really is beautiful. Can’t move, folks still alive in western Washington and even Idaho is further away. But boy, it’s getting tough here.
Please do contact me if you come through and I’ll do the same. Hubs has been itching to go fishing at Silver Creek in Picabo lately.
You are right..we also need to restore letting we the people be present to the counting of votes when the poles close. I don't know about anywhere else but in our area, it has been banned for a few years. Once upon a time before it was banned, there were witnesses who wrote down the tabulation from each machine as well as the total. That way when the final was released in the newspaper, you could verify within a small percent of error, one or two adding errors, the Truth. As it has been known with paper ballots to be "lost" or "corrected" on their way to the voters registration office.
Our base ten number system would allow the paper ballots to be counted by the precinct's FIRST GRADERS!
Heres a link to dcumentary "State of Denial". It's free. About election fraud in Arizona during the Kari Lake election.
State of Denial
https://state-of-denial.com
VERY true. I live here and the fraud was blatant and widespread... maricopa County is a cesspool of blatant corruption... scumbag Gov Hobbs was our SecState and oversaw her own theft of the election that installed her...
The liberal courts refused to examine any of the massive evidence... and this still needs to be done...
But the Trump team promises have so far been shelved...
The Hobgoblin is a terror. She has vetoed 178 bills in a session. New record. Ugh
We RV a lot and it does seem like the majority of ‘glampers’ lean right. Thank goodness!
I agree, though a lot depends on where you are camping. One of my favorite parts of camping is meeting other campers. You learn so much about an area from other people plus you make friends. One thing we have noticed is that most conservative people we meet never bring up politics but the liberals can't seem to help making snide comments about Trump. I can honestly say that we NEVER brought up Joe Biden with anyone when he was president. The Trump haters just assume that everyone agrees with them. My husband is really good at talking to someone he disagrees with. I do not have that gift so I let him do the talking. I think he has planted a few conservative seeds along the way. I will be very sad when we get too old to tow a camper around the country.
So true, liberals show themselves quickly. I’m not good at talking to someone whom I disagree with, and sometimes I come home and tell my husband and he’ll have the perfect answer or comment.
Maybe it’s just hindsight or maybe because he is quicker on his feet, or just smarter. Probably the latter in my case, lol!
Karen, similar problem here. I'm to strident and usually start an argument.
Good for you Momcat!! In 2016, on my arm, I was wearing temporary “lick-em-and-stick-em” tattoos that said TRUMP 2016 w/ American Flag. I spent months in and out of airplanes, traveling the eastern and south US. Never once did I receive a negative reaction, nor confrontation. Usually it was a silent “thumbs up”. Once, while boarding a Southwest flight, I received applause and small standing ovation. (I must admit occasionally I saw an eye-roll)
Wow - that’s awesome! I’m too chicken to do that in crazy NoVA! I’d get attacked!
Even though New Mexico is a blazing blue state, an RV resort I stayed at in Red River, NM sold the Lets Go Brandon t-shirts in their gift shop. I bought one.
My husband wore a shirt last night to a church 4th of July party that said “Donkey Pox, the disease destroying America.” I was a little mortified, but he got several positive comments.
My husband has a dark MAGA hat. Sometimes he was nervous about the response he may get wearing it in public, but the response has all been good. People would thank him for having the strength to wear it in public. That just demonstrated the level of fear and submission they had inflicted on us! Time to stand proud!
So true. It never fails to surprise me how little I speak up (and others who are conservative as well) about my convictions, while people who are radically left seem to have no such restraint. I don’t like to cause friction, but I’m coming to see it as cowardice. I don’t advocate for being obnoxious or ugly, but why can’t we be firmly honest before ridiculous opinions?
Because irrational people can become abusive & vengeful.
For sure. It's easier to back down. Evil people take advantage of peace-loving, good-natured people, and then we forgive them! We should be feeling cheap and used. We need to get up on our hind legs and put a firm end to that. Most bullies back down quicker than we think.
I am the opposite, because I relish confrontation with these deliberately stupid fools. That is who I am, but it is also because I have spent so many thousands of hours researching, that I know I have real facts on most any subject they would care about to negate their BS narratives they have embraced. Nothing the 'tards hate more than facts.
I’ve got great arguments, but my brain shuts down when I feel strongly about something and am in a confrontational situation. 😊 I admire people who can argue cogently in these situations.
I also do not mind confrontation; civil discourse is to be prized above rubies imo! It’s the true antidote to brutality, the foundational check on tyranny - and the best way to sharpen one’s thoughts.
Being disagreed with on matters of political, religious or moral fact makes me curious, seldom angry. But I am almost never met with the same response. Our neighbors have been genuinely damaged!
Violence & vengeance become their resort, as they have no facts, nor do they tolerate them.
I have lost jobs over this.
Yepper!
...and thanks for the conviction! 😂
Holy Spirit is working on me, as well, about my hesitancy to "engage" with Leftists and/or unbelievers re what is important to me.🫣
I was screamed at for several minutes, twice by the same deranged dumbocrap, at a "friend's" 4th party. As she was screaming at me for the second time, I told her that I had been abused, I was no longer going to take it, and I would stand up for myself. She looked shocked, somewhat apologized, and stopped yelling at me. 🤗
Good for you for speaking up. I’m amazed she backed down. I don’t think these people hear themselves at all. No self-awareness.
“Don’t like to cause friction” is a good description of Christian conservatives. Folks from other countries say, “Americans are so nice!” Yes, we are. Next to salvation, I think God’s greatest gift is peace. We want to live like peacemakers, but that’s dangerously close to living like pushovers. It’s a fine line. Then Trump comes along and toes that line. I don’t know if he knows it, but that’s Christlike. Let’s all grow better toes.
Dang, I've seen this A LOT. Libs just spewing stuff like the whole world agrees with them. Ugh.
You are right. I actually struggle more with people I love and respect who believe the MSM narrative and who are completely blind to reality. As I said, it’s cowardly on my part to refuse to engage. I’m still mulling over how to engage.
My husband and I get great comments when we PROUDLY wear our MAHA hats! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
🤣🤣
That’s hilarious!! 🤣😂
T-shirt worthy….Monkey Pox: 1 of the hundreds of side effects from the Trojan Horse Depop Covid Gene “Therapy” injections.
Or Got Myocarditis or white fibrous clots? 27% of the dead have the clots. Thanks DOD, Fauci, Collins, Gates, Wollensky….et al.
I love it! Congrats to your man... I wish I could buy him a drink!
Donkey pox...good one.
I'd be run out of my church on a rail for wearing that. 😳😬
Perhaps you are in the wrong church? Alternately, why are people wearing t-shirts in church? Suddenly, I'm conflicted...
Church isn't what it used to be in the way of clothing. In other ways, church isn't what it used to be period. Lots of gossip and politics from the pulpit. I go to hear God's word and that's only a small fraction of the 2½ hours.
🤣🤣🤣
Defund the Democrats is also a good idea.
That’s what defunding USAID did. They are leaning harder on 1/ oligarchs and the TDS people, whom they rile up in an email or social media then ask for $5 so they feel they can do something about it. Move On is a notorious example of that.
Good idea Jenna!
Maybe "ASK ME ABOUT THE CLOTS" as we know Laura doesn't have any. Unless she carries a vial in her purse. Then MY CLOTS would be appropriate. :-)
She does carry a vial everywhere. 😉
Let's get this party started then!
So many are timid about the death roll in place.
We need organization and ideas to break the dam of brainwashed msm folks….
But for many, it is too late.
Hey Jeff,
Regarding your post:
“Anyway, for Portland readers: taxing Ivy League endowments does not increase the budget deficit or debt. It helps.”
We should be fine here in Ory-gun, we don’t have any Ivy League schools here.
We have the Univ. of NIKE (jocks & straps/aka: sports bras) and a few other equivalents.
The big degree we’re offering students at higher learning institutions is called “Homeless Theory”.
Students learn how to (via State/County/City taxation on those with a job) create the listed below services for free.
Demand is endless here.
Free drugs
Free Needles
Free shelter
Free food
Free healthcare
(Warning: this only a partial list)
No $$ for road improvements, but no worries, no one around here has car insurance anyway (in the event they careen off the road into innocents).
Guess who controls almost all of America's media?
And is already a cancer on our political system... and has an outsized influence on our military actions as well... like the criminal and unprovoked bombing of both Yemen and Iran?
Oy Veh!!!
“One person at a time.”
Indeed.
One football (I think HS coach) prayed with his team before each game. The school board decided they didn’t like it and the principal told him to never do it again.
He did it anyway.
The next game, he prayed with his team.
He got fired. He fought it in court.
It went to SCOTUS.
They ruled in favor of 2A and freedom OF Religion.
Now coaches all over the nation are back to praying with their team before their games..some are even having Bible studies in their homes.
One man.
God really is Good. (It isn’t just a lyric in a song). He truly IS, snd He truly IS GOOD.
One good woman, Phyllis Schlafly, who trusted in God, prevented the passage of the deadly ERA bill back in the early 70s and saved the country in her day.
This happened in our neck of the woods. This excerpt is from (the truly fallible) Wikipedia:
"The case involved Joseph Kennedy, a high school football coach in the public school system of Bremerton, Washington. Kennedy had taken the practice of praying at the middle of the field immediately after each game. The players and others soon joined the practice. The school board were concerned the practice would be seen as violating the Establishment Clause separating church and state. They attempted to negotiate with Kennedy to pray elsewhere or at a later time, but Kennedy continued the practice. His contract was not renewed, leading Kennedy to sue the board. Lower Courts, including the Ninth Circuit, ruled in favor of the school board and their argument regarding the Establishment Clause."
Mrs. "the Knife"
That’s him!!!!! What was most surprising was that he had the courage of his convictions in one of the most leftist of environments. Made me admire him more.
(Also made me ashamed of myself. I’m mouthy, but I’m no Charlie Kirk….who also astounds me with his wisdom AND his knowledge, along with his courage.)
Now I pray that the quiet heroes in each and every Blue State will stand up and be counted.
Amen CStone!
Reminds me of Tim Tebow:}
Tim Tebow is no hero. When our church built its beautiful new campus in Dallas, he was supposed to come and speak. The LGBTQ community was outraged and he backed down and at the last minute canceled his speech. We had well done speakers every week for the month after the campus opened, but the pastor had to scramble to find someone to replace Tebow.
I am very forlorn that happened and truly a stress for all involved when something is committed to and planned. Having said that, I have utmost respect for him and do consider him a role model. Enjoy your day:}
I consider him a coward that can’t stand by what he says his convictions are.
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There's a great movie about him, "Average Joe"
Wow, what were the chances your husband would be sitting next to him out of all the passengers on the plane. More divine intervention perhaps? I truly hope that admin is brave and says/does something to get the word out and be proactive but hearing the Ozempic comment, I won't place any bets. Tell your hubby thanks from all of us for bringing this up to that stranger on the plane.
Lori - I like to say, divine orchestration. 🥰
Wow! Great job "hubs!" I love that he had facts, statistics, and video And shared C&C - Jeff Childers, extradinaire(!) with the Dept. head of Cardiology!
I hope this is the start of deep research for that Doctor / Admin that rapidly expands to other hospital centers! Again! Great job! Thank you for sharing, (even if it may have spoiled that guys peace of mind!) 👍🏼👏🏼🙏🏼
It will be a painful but necessary enlightenment. I already applaud this doctor if he is willing to admit the mistakes of traditional western medicine.
The problem, Nancy, is they are NOT mistakes.
Boom.
He probably shared Laura Kasner’s own Substack... she posts all about the fibrous clots that have been found in Significant numbers since covid.
IMHO - The man would probably need to have a heart, in order to have a desire to make any sweeping changes. His pocketbook will reflect those changes, and it might not be worth it for him. But we can all pray for a heart change. :o)
In our circle even (most of) the injured won't admit or consider it. Or if they have considered it when they ask their medical specialists and are told whatever it is couldn't be related to the jabs they accept it as gospel and keep going back for treatment. Most are too smart to see they were duped (cognitive dissonance). Higher education evidently cured their skepticism.
Astounding that the admin of cardiology departments had never heard of the clot situation! Or, he just put on a "surprised" face to cover that he knows, and he has chosen to disregard the evidence, putting patients within his care at risk.
Peace - my husband thought his shocked look was authentic. The fact that he wrote down the name of my Substack speaks volumes.
I really hope what I’m going to say is so wrong I have to eat my hat.
I would not take the bet that the doctor was sincere in not being aware of the clot issues. Being “surprised”, and then performing a physical act (writing down the Substack) to validate his sincerity is a common way to avoid confrontation. As an executive with long experience in dealing with the public I’ve used that tactic countless times to navigate potentially volatile situations.
Contrary to Ordinary - I wish I could have been there to observe his reaction.
I do know this - he will not forget looking at those pics or that video.
I truly hope you’re right. And huge kudos to your husband for making the effort. One person can and does make a difference. As the adage goes, that’s the only thing that ever has.
BTW, I do not like being cynical. I was raised by the principle to trust until action proves otherwise. The internet age has flipped that script to trust no one until given solid evidence to believe it’s even real.
And he knows we know. The clot is out of the bag, so to speak.
Honestly it seems impossible but these people are so isolated and brainwashed, I don’t doubt it.
Honey, we’re not living in a sane or logical world right now!
No kidding!! 🥴
@Peace- he's an administrator, probably not a doctor.
Good point! Then shame on the surgeons who work "for" him that they wouldn't be shouting from the rooftops. They can't be that shielded from the truth, or can they?!
@Peace- exactly. My hisband's cardiologist only showed a mild interest when we mentioned it. I THINK he wanted to learn more but didn't want to 'hear' it. Maybe they're afraid of malpractice somehow.
Hmm. I hadn't thought of the malpractice angle!
It's certainly a motivator for certain behaviors.
My suspicious mind tells me likewise.
Kudos to you and your husband. 👍👏👏👏
I’m actually surprised he listened to your husband at all, so kudos to him for that!
He was in a metal tube 30k feet up- didn't have many options. lol
Well he could have changed the subject, turned away, made snarky comments about misinformation or something like that.
Or taken off his shoes and socks to display his gnarly feet . . .
"My 'dogs' are barkin'"
ruff ruff
Tom - 🤣🤣😂
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Beckadee - good point. 🤣
Awesome 🎉🩷👏🏻. Shout out to Hubs Kasner💜🎊
A prayer for the guy! May denial Not slip back in.
Me too. Just sent the excellent new book Vax Facts by Dr Paul Thomas to an extended family member with a newborn, and threw in notes that the covid shots were causing autoimmune, blood clots,Heart damage, fertility damage And aggressive Cancers. HopefullyThe seed grows...
Monterey- great book. Bravo! 🙏🙏🙏
Just me an Army guy being medically discharged. He said the jab caused a blood disorder. The Army admitted it, and he has the paperwork to prove it.t
ONE person can make a difference. ONE person can change the world. It's the old "Butterfly flaps it's wings"....Good job
AND, when I relay to read C & C, I think it’s very important people pop into the comments…usually have to show them…I’m going to the big Republican Women’s convention, I’ll do what I did 4 years ago, pass on what a wonderful Substack this is…
The comments are “gold” Nancy.
Love this post! My husband is doing the same as well. Gives the person enough information and then tells them " do you own research." Ever thought of selling t-shirts or hats with "Planting Seeds" on the shirt/cap?
I pray for opportunities to plant seeds every day. I am a ‘gardener for God’. He doesn’t need me to garden for Him but He knows I need to garden for Him. 🙏🏻
Richard spoke at a Focus on America meeting I attended in November 2022.
Video link is below. Richard appears around the 1 hour mark. Prior to him speaking Dr. Triantos speaks about covid vax injured and long covid patients he has treated. Richard brought samples of the clots to show us.
https://youtu.be/DJ2ARyo_xfQ?si=cLlxm9hSbeJZ__WK
Alice - Richard has become like a brother to me. We talk numerous times per week. We talk often about our faith in God which sustains us in this fight.
Check out Dr. Triantos’s recent X post with pics of clots removed from a living person. I can no longer view it because I don’t have an X account. They’ve shadow banned Triantos too. 😡
Richard is a brave man.
I viewed Dr. Triantos post about the clots. Terrible!
On June 26th Dr. Triantos posted this:
"I'm actually seeing increase in brain bleeds. Saw 3 last night which was a record for me. Only read about 15 neuro CT MRI. Pre scamdemic on average one per month. Coincidence?"
Will we ever get accountability?
Praying that someday we will. 🙏🙏🙏
Seems RFK Jr is slow-walking too many things...
but you would know better than I...
What do you think of Bobby's actions so far?
Abiding Dude - I think Bobby is walking a tightrope and Goliath and his brothers are waiting to devour him.
I will never criticize him despite how frustrating it is.
I do not believe Bobby will abandon his mission. God has chosen him.
Got it...
IMHO... he could have and should have suspended all mRNA jabs very early on... but I suppose there may be factors preventing that...
Think of the number of uninformed people and their kids still getting death-jabbed...
And do you think Remdesivir should still be available for use?
Abiding Dude - I’m certain there are many factors we know nothing about.
It’s horrifying to think of that number. 😢
No. I think that Remdesivir should be banned. Just like I think mRNA should be banned.
EXACTLY - tiny drops of rain change the contour of ROCKS - so EACH OF US...need to DRIBBLE THE TRUTH to any "ears" that will TRULY "hear"!
Good show, Laura and husband!
Beautifully said Sharon 🥰
Hi, Laura! Off-topic... but I wonder if your husband could follow up with the Cardio-Doc and ask about the appalling over-use of dangerous and mostly ineffective (at extending life spans) statin drugs?
Also, I personally just went on a drug called Nexlizet, a non-statin but very effective drug to reduce apoB and Lipo(a)... it is very expensive, but if a generic was offered, like it already is in Canada and India... it becomes very affordable... and is a GREAT alternative to statins!
I found this drug via my own research, my Cardio-Doc had no clue, and I'll soon dump him.
Thx!
Abiding Dude - they didnt even exchange first names. 😩
Do you follow what A Midwestern Doctor has to say on the subject of high cholesterol and statins?
Ah, I see... no problem.
Yes, I subscribe to A Midwestern Doc's Sub... for our C&C friends... this is a good one:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-cholesterol-scam-and-the
But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling,
My steps had almost slipped.
For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
. . .
Behold, these are the wicked;
And always at ease, they have increased in wealth.
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure
And washed my hands in innocence;
For I have been stricken all day long
And chastened every morning.
. . .
When I pondered to understand this,
It was troublesome in my sight
Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I perceived their end.
Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
. . .
When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within,
Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You have taken hold of my right hand.
With Your counsel You will guide me,
And afterward receive me to glory.
. . .
Whom have I in heaven but You?
And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.
But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord GOD my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.
— Psalm 73:2-3, 12-14, 16-18, 21-28 NAS
Good morning! This is one of my favorite psalms, an honest account of a weary traveler considering switching sides … asaph, a man of faith, goes to the temple to query God. Why are the wicked getting rich? Could asaphs religion be wrong? Is his piety for nothing? There he is given such strength of insight that he is humbled by his previous ignorance. He sees the awesome reach of the Most High, how all fits within His plan and how the wicked will perish. He leaves praising his God. This is a real story of repentance, a lesson in faith … the Bible is real! No made up story would include an honest account like this. How many times have I nearly stumbled like this but have been enlightened in time to correct my steps! Praise Jesus on high!
It is a powerful reminder from the Lord that entering His presence changes our perspective and adjusts our attitudes.
Shake the dust from your feet.
This is the removing of yourself from the effects of the world that would seem beneficial.
In biblical times, the Jews thought that the godly were most often wealthy (Matthew 19:25), so seeing wealthy people being evil was confusing to the psalmist.
One of my favorites! I love the mental realignment at the end. The sanctuary of God—gives the right perspective 🙏
It was the chapter I came to in my journaling yesterday. I found the study notes enlightening as well. Also tried to get the gist of the chapter here for brevity.
"It's complicated," though when professing believers live in luxury well beyond a reasonable lifestyle and the world looks on and says, "Yep, I thought it was all phony from the start." Proverbs 30:8-9 and "You cannot serve God and Mammom," from Matthew 6:24-26 give us some guidance on this ticklish matter.
Ambiguity is the enemy's playground.
"Did God really say . . ."
God knows your heart. Ask Him to MAKE it pure.
I think I get it Tom but can you be a little less ambiguous in your point? Thanks.
The professing believer living in luxury might be self-justifying by saying he is being a "good steward," but perhaps without mercy or any desire to fear and serve the Lord.
Or a person might say that it's the love of money that is the root of all evil, which is true, and then claim that it's not money that they love having made an idol out of luxury and comfort and not the money itself.
The fact is, by the standards of history, if I have running water that comes out of a tap, and electricity at the throw of a switch, then I am living in more luxury than even kings were a few hundred years ago. I find myself having to say to the Lord what you said at the close of your comment: "Give me some guidance." I can't deal with the ambiguity by leaning on my own understanding.
That's a good reference point to start with: Proverbs 3:5-6 also says "In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths." I take that to mean things like how we use our money and whether we are living a moral life-things those looking on can see and of course, those things they can't easily see. There is no New Covenant example of Believers living opulent lifestyles which should give us pause before giving a wealthy professing believer our endorsement as having received the "blessing of the Lord." Pastors who have enriched themselves off their ministries are perhaps the most problematic of all. Billy Graham could have been a millionaire but chose to live a modest lifestyle even if he might have a nest egg in the bank, (I don't know the facts on that), whereas other prominent personalities in ministry, often look like the secular man who thinks the guy with the most toys, cars, houses and expensive vacations, (as long as he gives 10% back to his own ministry), is the winner. Proverbs 30:7-9 says it as well as any: "…Give me neither poverty nor riches…lest I be full and deny You and say 'Who is the Lord?' Or lest I be poor and steal, and profane the name of my God.' "
I didn’t really get that …
His struggle with the wicked prospering didn’t make sense to him …
It takes an eternal perspective to understand…
Oh, the cynicism in that sentence many times by Jeff C, “It’s complicated.”
Amen. Thank you Janice.
Oh THANK YOU! 🙌🏼👏🏼❤️😘
I love that line as a mantra, “But as for me, the nearness of God is my good.”
I really need this one today!
"My flesh and my heart may fail"
Ouch!
More glory to Christ Jesus!
(NOT an excuse!)
The flood tragedy in Texas comes to mind . . . I remember all the times I sent our kids off to church camp . . . and they came home. So many parents won’t have that. The mere thought of it nearly makes my heart and flesh fail. May the Lord comfort as only He can when surely their hearts are broken and it feels as though they too might drown but in grief.
Praying for more miraculous survivals.
Make it so, Lord Jesus.
Yes. Praying.
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Remember one day I was shopping with Mom. There was an obese women on food stamps in front of us checking out. She had 5 small children running amok in the store. My mom had a budget so could not go over it. She was frugal. We walked out of the store to witness food stamp mother getting into a brand new Cadillac as we where heading for our 15 year old Dodge. If you are healthy enough to have 5 kids, you can work. So glad this is going back to the states. Time for welfare/medicaid cuts and let people work. Now that they have to pay the bills, it is a whole different story and they can't be pissing our tax dollars away on the entitled and lazy. The libs should right about now be pooping their pants. TAW!
And I could share my story, growing up in a poor farming family that also was on food stamps. My parents worked harder than anyone else I know, but the farm crisis wrecked them and it took about a decade of hard work to get back to an okay place.
There are always people who abuse the system, and there are also plenty of people who truly need help sometimes in their lives. My parents were embarrassed to be using food stamps, but they didn't invent the system that crushed them financially.
Those are the people food stamps were meant for, though. I don’t think anyone has a problem helping people who truly need it and don’t abuse it. But when people DO abuse and misuse the programs, all it does is take away funding from people who do need the help.
there wasn't much fraud in giving food, clothing, & emergency funds by churches. fraud became rampant when govt took over. by accident or by design?
I was thinking the same thing... government involvemsnt tends to ruin things.
Plus when people know the people they’re giving help to, it creates a sense of accountability and community bonds that anonymous government SNAP cards don’t.
During the 2008 financial meltdown, when just about everyone's mortgages were underwater and folks were being laid off, our church announced from the pulpit that the benevolent fund would be used to help people pay their mortgages, that the church did not want anyone to lose their home. Every Sunday they asked for people who still had their jobs to contribute over and above their normal tithing to the benevolent fund to help out those who had lost their jobs or whose work hours had been drastically reduced. This is how the church is meant to function on a practical, every day level. The pastoral staff knows the church members and they acted to help the church body through a very difficult time. I don't know if anyone did lose their home (it is a fairly large church) but the church followed Biblical teaching to care for one another.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Yup agree. And the whole BS mentality of “we can’t tell them how to spend the money WE give them because they might feel demeaned” 🙄
Wait until the government takes over grocery stores in NY if Mandami wins....
Unfortunately some people learn better from the hardship then listening to others who have been through hardship and came out the other side.
I hope they change what the SNAP payments can cover. There should be zero processed "foods" allowed. Only meat, fresh produce, staples like rice, beans. No sodas, candy, anything processed. It would serve two purposes-reduce costs as people only buy real food and actually make people healthier and hopefully less reliant on Medicaid.
Agree. They’ve done it in my state and the liberals lost their minds saying that Republicans were oppressing poor people and demeaning them by telling them what they food they can buy and not allowing them “treats” 🙄🙄🙄
As my mama told us, if you want something "special", you get a job and earn the money for it!
After my father abandoned our family, she worked two jobs to stay off welfare. She did not want her kids to think that was an acceptable way to live. She had a very tight budget and there was no line item for "Treat"! All of us kids started working at the age of 12.
God bless my mama for her sacrificial example to us!!
Mrs. "the Knife"
God bless your mama indeed!! 🙏❤️ Instilling excellent values in her kids and being a wonderful role model ❤️
If they want treats, they can do what the rest of us did and continue to do. And bake some simple brownies from scratch, etc. They all taste a lot better anyway!
Exactly!!! 🎯
It works like this pretty well for the WIC program!
What's really annoying is that when the fraud and abuse happens, which seems to be quite often, the Democrats never say a word and don't seem to care about all the wasted money. In Washington state, they seem to use it as a magnet to draw illegals.
Their standard argument always seems to be, “well there are always going to be abusers and fraudsters but at least this way some people who need it are getting help” 🙄 Not apparently thinking it through that the people who truly need help would have more access to it without the fraudulent users 😕
This is the one part of the BBB I've actually studied a bit, and have some deep concerns about. I'm a retired Salvation Army Case Manager, with literally many hundreds of clients in my memory bank who were (or should have been) SNAP/Medicaid recipients. It seems to me that the fraudsters and abusers will undoubtedly just find another way to cheat, and more of the truly needy will fall through the cracks. I pray it isn't so.
My mom was 19 when my biological father beat her nearly to death. She took us to my grandparents( working poor) and welfare helped. She was on it for a couple years until she married my father, who adopted us.
It truly was a leg up for our family. Not a multi generational legacy. For everyone that cheats the system, they are rubbing those that truly are in need of what should be temporary help. Instead of being someone's mad money, the truly needy could get enough to ACTUALLY improve their situation. Cheaters should be punished to the fullest extent allowed not just for bilking tax payers but stealing from the honest, truly needy.
Welfare is a Marxist tool to allow the woman to marry the State and destroy the nuclear family,replacing what was once the domain of the extended family and the neighbor churches.
Like your parents, we were raised to be embarrassed to be on public assistance and there was definitely a social stigma attached. Cheating the system is now seen as getting one over on" the man" -- the government. People that are below the tax threshold fail to see the impact on"the man" because they don't realize "the man" is the tax payer and the only funds the government has is ours.
Yes!!! Well said.
Great comment. The resiliency of the people in this community is remarkable.
Some of these abusers are the same people who ride other government gravy trains like unemployment benefits….that pretend to seek work only to check the required boxes and if a job is offered will only show up for as long as it takes to check the box. They need God to change their hearts tOBBBA to ever regain their self respect.
My husband is the oldest of 7 kids. His mom had all those kids on welfare. My husband despised it, got the highest education one can get to get away from it; a Medical doctorate.
He currently has a niece who did the same thing as granny; she has at least 6 kids and her husband has 3 or 4 of his own. They rake in the money. It is absolutely Sickening!
That’s what the system was intended for…to provide a hand up. It was never intended to be a way of life. Maybe the new legislation will encourage recipients to return to the workplace. One can hope!
Hopefully there is work for them.
I had a friend who lives in OH. When she had her last child, the dad was still working. Then the coal mines were shutting down that he did welding for. His hours were cut back. They were really struggling. She applied for food stamps. They told her she needed to get a job. The only job she could get in that depressed area was as a waitress for $2.50/hr. Her son was 2. It was $15/hr for childcare. They said that because she received x amount a month from her ex in child support, she couldn’t get anymore. Of course, her ex was a deadbeat and never paid a dime. I think he still owes her several thousand dollars in child support. None of her kids are on welfare and she now works at her local grocery store and is doing well.
Then, there was a woman who used to “rent” a trailer from my dad on some land my family owned. (Rent is in quotes because my dad would’ve let her stay for free, but she insisted on paying rent. (I think the rent was like $25/month.) She was on welfare and had one son. She wanted to work, but didn’t have the skills for anything more than a job at some place like McDonald’s. She would get a job, her welfare would drop below what she got from with the job. She couldn’t survive. So, the system punished her for wanting to better herself.
I have always thought those who work should receive better benefits than those who just won’t. Help them out. Not well sorry you make a dollar so no help. How does that encourage people to work!
I always thought it could be income supplement. You work for $15/hr but we know rent plus utilities plus food is more than you make so here is supplemental to keep you housed and fed. It is the people who have the latest iphone and manicured nails while their kids still go hungry that gets my ire activated.
OH YES! How much did you spend on tattoos?!? But you can’t feed your kids!
and nose rings.
I see "regulars" that work various street corners around me. They pan-handle daily. They are in find shape and do a full day of pan handling. I think they probably make more money than a legitimate job could, all tax free. I would often see one woman on her nice phone, smoking, while she sat with her sign asking for money for food. I would see the same corner after they left for the day with all the food wrappers as well as leftover food given to them by drivers thinking they are actually helping these scammers. It makes one skeptical of anyone asking for help.
💯 ‼️ there was a young woman interviewed said she never asked for money. She just sat on the sidewalk with a blanket and would make $1000 a day.
I agree and do not trust anyone anymore. My church sent out a Go fund me link for a mom whose child has scoliosis. I didn’t trust it at all and noticed the xray shared didn’t have L or R designation or name on it (which maybe it wouldn’t but my son’s xray with broken clavicle had that info), which really made me skeptical. I don’t like living so distrustfully and cynical and I pray for guidance and an open heart as I know people are in need of help.
Sometimes, if you wait long enough, you’ll see them either go to their parked BMW/Mercedes or get picked up by their partner in such cars.
And you’ll see them driving around BMWs. Um, most of the working class can’t afford BMWs.
My family makes too much for any of these tax cuts. However, the amount we make is essentially just enough to survive in So Cal and save for retirement. We rarely go on vacations, and the next vacation is looking like it will be a combo to attend a funeral in Northern California and then spend a few extra days road tripping.
Yup, the system is definitely messed up in a lot of ways.
The more they can keep you on the plantation, the better. They don’t want you to better yourself unless it’s at the giant indoctrination centers (universities) where you go into thousands of dollars in debt to… them.
These are the stories we know exist and Hillbilly Eligy explains to anyone who doesn’t know. This is why we have a safety net and we do t begrudge anyone who genuinely needs assistance. It’s the ones who work the system that deserve to starve!
I had a friend many years ago that I worked with at a major corporation. She was a single mother, lived in a trailer park and had a toddler.
She ended up having to quit because childcare ate up the majority of her income. It was hard for her, she was good at her job, but if necessary expenses outpace income, she really had no choice.
I am constantly humbled by the life experiences shared in these comments. I can add to this thread. My mom, who was given up by her parents back in the 50s and was raised in the foster system, never graduated from high school. Instead she got married at 18 and quickly got pregnant. That marriage ended within a few years when she met my dad who was 14 years her senior. She got pregnant again, with me and my brother (we were twins), and then a few years later my sister. My sister was diagnosed with leukemia at age 2 and my father left. She was on her own with 4 small kids one of whom was seriously ill (it was the 70s and survival rates were not good). She ended up marrying a man who lived next door to us (and to avoid a long story, he was bad news).
After several years of abuse and hardship she left him. Most of us kids were out of the house at this point (for various reasons) and she had to find a new place to live, move her stuff out (under the cover of darkness to avoid his ire) and find a job to support herself. Keep in mind, no high school degree and a very spotted work history. She managed to do all those things and she talked about how she lived on Ramen noodles for months and how having eggs in the house was a treat for a special occasion. She recalled fondly the first time she could buy Hellman's mayonnaise and make an egg sandwich. Though she qualified for every sort of aid available, she had a stubborn pride which would not allow her to accept offers of support (it's a blessing and a curse). I think if she still had the responsibility of caring for us kids, she would have relented. But she had some very lean years after the dissolution of her third marriage.
P.S. We were estranged for a time and I didn't learn of how bad things had gotten until after the fact. Believe it or not, upon her death, she managed to leave a small amount of money to us kids. Incredible.
Thank you. Many good, hardworking people need a hand sometimes. With the cost of rent and everything else, many people work full time and still can’t get by. I do agree that we need to weed out the people who are abusing the system, as well as illegal aliens who are using it. I’m also concerned about the probable several million people disabled by the Covid shots, whose “ doctors are baffled” and can’t even tell them what’s wrong.
Glad they were able to recover. Life's not easy, sometimes.
The difference is you and your family were not a multi generational set of food stamps and medicaid. They both should be a temporary help not a lifestyle for multi generations. Read Who Killed the American Family. This was an organized plan. One of many to destroy America from within.
I have a row of duplexes across from me and they've started enriching our neighborhood with Section 8s. They have lots of kids, very few dads. No one is working.
My side of the street is the single family homes, mainly with old White people and no kids. We pay for the Diversity People to crank out fatherless kids who are now dominating our demographics. Really, really frustrating to watch our implosion.
Way back in high school, I had a part time job at a grocery store. I got to run the register, so I got to see first hand what people on food stamps were buying. As a family, we never ate the high quality foods and products the people on food stamps were buying. Coupon clipping, low quality food items and an occasional treat that was rationed was how I grew up.
My mom used coupons and shopped sales, my parents gardened and my mom canned and froze food, we foraged for berries and ate things like dandelion greens sometimes. My parents worked really hard to make and save money and be frugal in order for us to have things. My parents were from recent immigrant stock so they didn’t have the mentality that government was supposed to save them or that other people had the obligation to take care of them. They really resented the welfare people (not the ones getting temporary help but the lifestyle ones).
Ditto. Central European, refugees-from-communism ancestry here. Grew up wearing clothes from the second-hand stores and I still clip coupons (and kick myself if I forget to use them in the store). Our “new” car is a 2011 model. I wouldn’t call my food “low quality” though, now or growing up — food cooked at home, from scratch, doesn’t need expensive ingredients to be nutritious and delicious. It’s the prepared/over-processed stuff that is overpriced and underdelivers.
We also had good quality food because it came from gardens and nature and sometimes local farms (eggs and sweet corn). My parents valued quality. But very little junk food, and if we got treats, it was mostly baked goods my mom made from scratch.
We did much the same growing up - we canned together (still do, to some extent), used coupons, waited for sales, etc.
To this day, I almost never pay full price for things!
Mrs. "the Knife"
I hate paying full price because that means there’s less money for something else! 😛
Exactly!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Good point…We have/had generations on assistance…
Exactly, they were eating filet mignon and porterhouse and my family was on a budget eating hamburger. And yes, plenty of coupon clipping. Mom assigned that job to me.
We had cube steak. My mom would cook that thing to the toughness of leather. Occasionally she would put spaghetti sauce and cheese on it.
Mom used to cook cube steak too. It took forever to chew:{. She also bought liver which was cheap bc the budget was so strict.
Ugh liver!
I bet you never got the culinary delight of tuna pee wiggle.
And the implosion has gotten to the point that Akron Municipal Court has instituted a dress code! https://akronmunicipalcourt.org/news/administrativepresiding-judge-david-hamilton-orders-dress-code-policy-for-litigants-and-attorneys/
WalMart shoppers beware!
When my brother and I were settling our mother's estate, I was embarrassed when he showed up at the Clerk of Court's office wearing old, worn shorts and shirt that were suitable only for working around the house. It's not that he didn't have better clothes; he was showing his disdain for the official and the process we were going through. He later showed his disdain by illegally withdrawing $60,000 from the estate account. Thankfully, he did return the money and we finished the process in 2021, after which we've never spoken again. His choice is to be totally estranged from me, which actually makes my life much less stressful.
Oh, wow. In the best of families, the vultures come out after a death.
Jeff S, he didn't wait until her death. He'd probably gotten $100,000 from her before that. He knew how to manipulate her and make her feel guilty, and she couldn't say no to him.
Oh wow 😳😞 I’m so sorry you had to deal with all that from him.
You haven't fully experience jury duty until you see the star witness come schlepping into the courtroom in their house slippers. Glad to see Alabama isn't the only state with that scenario.
Love this list of non-approved court apparel, knowing full well that some human has actually showed up in court with said inappropriate apparel in order to make it on the list!!
Some people have no self respect. It’s mind boggling to see how they dress to be in public.
We had a lady in our Sunday school class who dressed atrociously, clothes I wouldn’t wear in my yard. Cut off sweatpants (too short) she was on the heavy side, no shoes. I thought she didn’t have better clothes but found out she had a very respectable office job and just didn’t want to “dress” on her days off. This all came out when she was told by Church leadership she could not be in a position of greeter etc unless she dressed more appropriately. She was devastated. I seriously couldn’t believe she didn’t realize how it looked.
Truly one of many examples of our culture declining.
At one time men and ladies wore hats and suits and dresses.
When I started my engineering job right out of college (age 22) in the late 80s, men had to wear ties, and ladies skirts. And you could smoke inside! Boy those days seem distant now.
My mother-in-law still wears a hat to church every Sunday!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Ohh I love that! When I was a teenager, we had a lady who dressed unbelievably to go to church hat, the fanciest outfits and I said when I get old, I’m gonna dress like that! 😂
That is a nightmare. The duplexes will be in ruin within a year if not sooner. I am so sorry you are having to watch this in your neighborhood. These baby machines have no pride, shame or decency. The kids walk around wondering who is my daddy this week. I hate to say this but if you want a picture of useless eaters, look at the women and men creating this mishagoss.
Giving them benefits for the more unsupervised feral animals they produce is the issue. They’re doing what they’ve been taught for decades. Make babies,get money. If they weren’t getting paid to make them, they might find a better method.
Now, thanks to Trump Accounts, you can add $1000 more to them.
You spelled ‘Biden’ wrong.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson and the RAT party is responsible for all this mess. Do some real research.
I think he's referring to the Trump gib in the BBB of 1,000 for having a new kid.
Thing is - Whites having kids is being repressed by the system.
So the Diversity People, including the millions of Indian folks invading, etc... it's going to not address the problem of America becoming more 3rd world. (i.e. import the 3rd world = become the 3rd world)
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I had section 8 for a couple years.
Wish I still did.
Lots of good folks & lots of dysfunctional ones.
Nowadays, the lower middle class is getting hooked on meth & holding minimum wage jobs or working for tips in food service or deliveries.
It’s scary. I don’t want ft Myers looking like Philadelphia , full of drug zombies.
Jax has got major black areas that are as bad as Memphis.
Go on google street view and drive around - people sitting on the front porch, but visible trash along the sidewalks. Crazy.
I've been to Gainsville once (last year). Goodness the size of the hood there. Not good.
But they are creating what they want. Lifetime Dem voters. Vote Dem or it all ends!
Exactly. Dems promulgate the worst agendas with no care about their constituents. They just want votes to further their amoral deeds. It is grotesque to watch it all play out and the lengths they go to in order to win or get more voters on their side.
BFM, How many are illegal immigrants who can't speak the language and couldn't give a shit about assimilating into American society?
They're doing commercials in Toronto in Indian languges (Hindi?).
Of course they keep their retarded and satanic religion with them. That kind of crap should be shunned.
Check out Miami, you have to speak spanish to live there or work there.
This is the legacy of Johnson’s great society. He destroyed the black family and America in general with this plan.
It was intentional.
BFM - I did enjoy your use of the words "enriching our neighborhood" :)
This is where I wish Trump would reverse the government-engineered breakdown of the nuclear family without seeming to punish single mothers. I’m sure it’s “complicated,” but there must be a way to restore fatherhood and families. That would be a beautiful win for humanity. (Sorry if this comment posted twice.)
Eek!
I was in Florida one time and got to talking to a store owner who explained to me "How it works". Black girls get pregnant in their teens, sit back on welfare and retire. Their like minded friends show them how to game the system. Now before you jump all over me as racist, I am repeating the story as it was told to me. In Ontario here when I was younger I dated a single white mom with 2 kids on welfare. When we broke up she introduced me to a single white friend who I met but never dated. The unlucky pissed off guy who did date her got her pregnant and had to pay child support. One of my former date's friends had 3 kids all by different fathers. It is a culture here too.
I always say, you don't want a girl to become pregnant, keep your penis in your pants.
Back before I had kids and worked for the FL DOR child support division, this was very common....mom's dressed to the nine's with better clothes, cars, and accessories than I, who didn't work and kids were usually dressed in rags pulling in child support, welfare, and medicaid. I am glad I no longer work there as it really jades a person to watch people work the system and then those few that come in and TRULY need it are denied...
It's also a philosophical difference from previous generations. HALF the public school kids in my (prosperous) county are on free lunch. My parents would have died before they let any of us be on free lunch. I don't want to see kids going hungry, of course, but it feels like there has been a major shift in the expectation that we provide for our own kids. I don't know what the answer is though.
.... As well as a shift in the expectation that we discipline our own kids. I was reading an el gato malo essay on substack this morning about it. I always thought it was better to discipline my kids when they were young than to have the cops do it later, it I guess that’s an old fashioned concept.
Well said, ‘if you didn’t discipline your own children you were usually left to discipline their children’…
Washington State Democrats, in their latest massive spending spree, recently passed free school lunches for all kids. Yes, that includes the kids living in multi-million dollar homes in the wealthy districts. I cannot think of a worse waste of money in the schools than buying free lunch for wealthy kids.
Isn't that crazy Monterey?
“…I cannot think of a worse waste of money in the schools than buying free lunch for wealthy kids.” That’s not really happening, however…
I can help you with your thinker’s block. I’d start with Mr. Trump shoveling $5 trillion of our money to the richest 1% of Americans, who I believe are mostly adults.
Can these people really eat that many free lunches?
Some of those wealthy kids actually are in public schools. Many aren't, of course.
One of my mama's gripes: the free breakfast/lunch programs in schools. She worked two jobs to keep us kids fed, clothed, and housed. She says, "It is the parents' responsibility to feed their kids!"
That being said, no one wants kids to go hungry. I am not sure what is the solution.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Exactly. I am happy to pay taxes for those in true strife/need but the useless eaters, no thank you.
We gotta be careful of calling people useless eaters.
This "othering" of those who, regardless of their choices and behavior, are made in the image of God leads to dehumanizing them. That never leads anywhere good.
I don't like the phrase either so think up one better for me to describe the selfish, lazy, having so many kids with different men/women, food stamped, no shame entities using my hard earned money to support their lifestyles.
The longer I live and the more I observe, I realize we have so many broken people. I try to remember that when I really want to vilify someone or scapegoat them. Look at any person who is taking advantage and living a life to which you object and think that he or she started off as an innocent baby. The saying "there but for the grace of God" helps me keep my ire in check.
Please tell that to the victims of TDA and other gang members. Perhaps they will find solace in that.
Since you hid your response to my question, you want me to call them living on welfare. Well, that states the obvious. You please call them that as you are supporting their lifestyle which you do not seem to mind-good for you and your holier than thou attitude. Support TDA too since you appear sympathetic to them as well and sound so complacent about what they do, "..deaths are awful..". Again, stating the obvious. More power to you. And enough with the history lesson and the Nazis-you sound like the fringe libs. And to think you call yourself Copernicus, lol. Cheers!
Actually, I did not block you (I saw this comment just fine) nor did I hide your response.
You are creating strawmen arguments. It's clear that I and other commenters do not support people taking advantage of welfare nor do we support TDA.
We will agree to disagree on that, lol.
Just ignore that useless eater!
Typical uninformed ass-clown... "Copernicus"... LOL!! More like Pee Wee Herman.
Very "woke" of you... but the truth is, parasites gaming the system, and there are many millions of them... are SCUM... and poisonous to any society.
Haha, I am so not woke.
You are aware, are you not, that the German Reich used the term "worthless eaters" to describe the Jewish people and other groups they deemed burdensome to society. This paved the way for the rest of society to accept segregating them into ghettos, then moving them to camps, and eventually killing them by government sanctioned processes.
Prior to the Rwanda genocide, one side (can never recall which) called the other by pejorative names. On public radio. Paved the way for a call by them to slaughter those who had been neighbors and classmates.
Even when we vehemently disagree with someone's lifestyle, when their very choices are morally wrong and abhorrent, we *have* to remind ourselves that in God the Creator's eyes they are a person of so much worth that he gave his life so that they, if they choose, could repent and become his child.
I am not pretending it's easy. And of course it is wrong to game the system and not work. The same God himself said, if a person doesn't work, they shouldn't eat. He created mankind. He created the dignity of work by his own work of creation. We ourselves demean ourselves when we designate fellow humans as "useless eaters," as if they can be discarded like yesterday's trash.
Oi Vey, another sermon. Bored now, next.
Again, you are significantly uninformed. You, of course, didn't bother to look over my link... typical pompous "woke" fool.
The 'holocaust' is the biggest lie of the 20th Century.
The jews of Germany WERE a cancer, similar to the over 100 countries that have expelled them en masse prior. Hitler was a great leader, his people adored him. WWII was totally unnecessary, FDR and Churchill conspired to begin it. Poland contributed.
Read my link, or STFU. Here's some more truth to fill your empty head:
https://www.unz.com/article/auschwitz-six-facts-and-seven-questions/
https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BreakingTheSpell-Kollerstrom.pdf
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mZpeJkSNjcA3/
https://old.bitchute.com/video/o9J8alqOtdY8/
BTW: Zionist jews are a cancer on THIS nation too. Wake up.
I caution you on the phrase 'useless eaters', those were the exact words the German Third Reich used to justify the slaughter of the weak, handicapped and other undesirables. It is a pair of words derived from the awful practice of Eugenics.
We should not call others who are created in image of God such things even though we strongly disagree with their lifestyles or behaviors.
Yes and the WEF uses it too. I don't like the phrase either so think up one better for me to describe the selfish, lazy, having so many kids with different men/women, food stamped, no shame entities using my hard earned money to support their lifestyles.
Maybe you should ask God what He would like you to call them. Personally, I think it is sad that they live like that... how impossible it must feel to know you will not leave that life. Be grateful you don't have thay worry.
You have the ability to leave that life. Get up and work. There are many success stories. I do not feel sorry for them grifting off taxpayers. You support them if you feel so sad. I am sure TDA would also love your charity and if they are not violent useless eaters, then I don't know what is.
You are uninformed about the Third Reich... so many are.
Jews have pushed the 'holocaust' lies since long before WWII, and have used them to justify their apartheid, mass-slaughter, land thefts and the corruption of OUR government.
Here's a start to your education... there is a ton more...
https://www.unz.com/runz/why-everything-you-know-about-world-war-ii-is-wrong/
AD, so tired of their history lessons and using the Nazi themes ad nauseum. They always act holier than thou in their retorts and I can just imagine what may be in their closets. Copernicus loved to block after leaving me a sermon. LOL! I am all for Copernicus and his/her ilk to support the career junkies on the dole, better them than us. And Copernicus was a great thinker, this person should rethink using his name as that is not a good look:}. Have a great weekend AD!
Yes, if you click on his "name"... shows a fat clown with fingers in his ears... VERY appropriate! Will not listen... only interested on blowing smoke. I blocked his dumb ass.
Yes, I post a lot about jews, WWII, Hitler, etc... trying to expose people to truth they have not heard. So many use the term Nazi or Hitler as a derogatory... history is more complex.
You too have a good weekend!
Disgusting!
The liberal run states and local towns will just tax you more.
They keep jacking up my property taxes - I can’t stand the bloated, progressive, liberal class, and their entitled self serving policies!
re: “Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona,” the article continued, “has warned that even her state’s $1.6 billion emergency fund will be insufficient to weather what’s coming, because ‘even if we cut every single thing in the state, we don’t have the money to backfill all these cuts.’”
Lying, corrupt, un-elected faux governor (she was s_Elected by the drug cartels who own Arizona) doesn't want to talk about the $5 BILLION budget surplus so only talks about the $1.6 BILLION they set aside from it for their "emergency" slush fund - such a despicable liar - if her mouth is moving she is lying - she just doesn't want to cut all her give-aways to her corrupt friends, associates, NGOs, the people who actually steal elections, etc. These people are swimming in our tax dollars and rotten to the core. One look at the Consolidated Annual Financial Report will bear that out.
That said, I have some GREAT news to report. Many of you know that 2 years ago, I brought a lawsuit against the Board of Supervisors and County government for running a fatally flawed, unconstitutional, unlawful Jail District tax election which would have cost the Citizens at least 350 MILLION in new taxes over 25 years. Through perseverance and never giving up, WE WON THE CASE when the Board of Supervisors decided to settle the lawsuit rather than lose it. So, now they have to stop collecting the tax and conduct a new election on 4 Nov 2025! IT WAS A HUGE WIN and I was/am thrilled with the result. It wasn't by me or my lawyer... it was because G.A.W. I am not going to say it was easy because it wasn't but I always believed I was simply an instrument of God's Perfect Will. I trusted in God and He led us to victory - the things I came up with in the middle of the night - when God speaks to us a lot - provided all the actionable flaws of the way they prepared and conducted their unlawful election. AND WE CAUGHT THEM. Forgive me if I'm taking a victory lap - it's a pretty big deal!!
EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN CITIZEN CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, I AM NO ONE SPECIAL, I JUST DECIDED TO STAND UP FOR THE PEOPLE AND FIGHT CORRUPT GOVERNMENT. YOU CAN TOO. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS, THEY MAKE ACTIONABLE MISTAKES. Don't worry about the national fight, our fight, yours and mine, is at County level and below, where we actually have real power - if we choose to wield it.
That's awesome Dan! Take your victory lap.
Thanks. It's very possible I will still end up with a subterranean view of the Sonoran desert... I don't say that to be humorous... I pissed off a lot of corrupt people and stopped a massive new revenue flow of un-obligated funds - LITERALLY STOLEN FROM THE TAX PAYERS. In my heart, I believe God Himself armored me and still armors me. The moral of the story is you can beat "city hall" if you have a righteous cause and you can outlast the crooks - AND WITH GOD, YOU WILL.
I watched Serpico last night (Al Pacino), based on a true story of an honest cop who fought and was almost killed by a corrupt police department - they set him up and he was shot in the face but by the grace of God he survived and single-handedly beat down corruption in the department - the point is one person, with God-given courage, can make a difference.
GAW indeed 🙏
As clear as I can possibly be: ALL Glory, Honor, Praise, and Thanks be to God.
Here's a link to the documentary "State of Denial". It's free. It tells the behind-the-scene story about state of elections in Maricopa Co. AZ. The movie brings the receipts and shows the evidence.
State of Denial
https://state-of-denial.com
Another movie about our corrupt elections is "Let My People Go":
http://LetMyPeopleGo.movie
Thanks I will check them out. I can tell you already that Maricopa determines the outcome of every statewide election in AZ. And they do it with massive, wholesale mail ballot fraud and programmable machines. Maricopa gave all of us Hobbs, Mayes, Fontes, and that stinking twosome of Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallegos (our s_Elected federal Senators). And all the other counties filled down ballot seats with creepy democrats and the worst of the worst RINOs. We are run by the cartel's uniparty.
Congratulations! God always gives us what we ask for if it matches His Will!
Amen.
That is fantastic!!! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful win, congratulations!!!
Thank you RL! If I have one hope from this, it is that other people will find their own courage - they have it - and go after their corrupt local governments too (County, City, Township, School Boards, etc.) They are all rotten, they are all stealing your power and hard earned money and giving it to themselves and their cronies. Please understand, the vast majority of them are committed con artists, uniparty crooks, they get in government to have their way with our lives and our money.
Well done! Perseverance wins out. Congrats Dan!
Dan…….Wow!!!
Yes! We need to know when one person stands up ……. And WINS!! It gives us all more courage to stand up ourselves.
This is fantastic.
Thank you C. That two year battle taught me a lot. I mean A LOT!
I also discovered there is a much better way than bringing civil lawsuits (the lawyers love the civil lawsuits, they make a ton of money and collude to our detriment - so they can keep on making bank). In Arizona there is ARS Chapter 38, Article 5 for bringing bond claims on these criminals (by these criminals I mean our "representatives". The lawyers are well protected by their BAR as long as they kiss it's collective butt.) This is how you get our "representatives" to stop acting criminally (unconstitutionally, unlawfully) because if found guilty of unlawful behavior, it will cost them financially and could also result in losing their cushy job and even incarceration. Check and see if your State also has a chapter in their statutes on bond claims. I guarantee you, promise you, your "elected representatives" do not want you to know about bond claims...
Remember this, if they are increasing your taxes or adding additional tax districts (like water, light, fire, hospital, library, etc etc - all new ways to tax us to death), like they did here with the Jail District, they are likely doing it unlawfully, because most Citizens are completely uninformed (me included at the beginning of this) and have been indoctrinated to believe these people (gov officials) can tax without your consent to even put the tax issue on a ballot! And run the election to steal it without any concern for doing it constitutionally. And then claiming victory unlawfully. And then having elements of the judiciary cover it up. All of this happened in this case, but because G.A.W. they didn't prevail this time.
Do you have a substack, or a book, explaining how you learned about & did this?
I don't have a substack Scott. I just dug in to the AZ Constitution, tax district statutes, and election statutes. The Constitution of the USA and of Arizona reserves a lot of power to the people, but only if they are aware of what it says. Our "representatives" are not our representatives at all. They do not want you to know how much power you have over them, especially at the County level and below. If you look at the Arizona Constitution Article 4, Part 1, Section 1, sub paragraph 8 you will see it reserves immense power to us. The criminals will do everything they can to over come that power, including straight out lying, cheating, and using corrupt members of the judiciary to overcome it. Our representatives are doing everything they can to undermine authority granted in our Constitutions. Read about perhaps the most important Constitutional Article in Arizona here: https://www.azleg.gov/const/4/1.p1.htm Read all 16 paragraphs but pay particular attention to 5 and 8. Understand how they reserved legislative power to us, the electors (registered voters) in the county.
Do you have similar information in your State constitution? If you do, you have a lot of power. Do you have tax districts? If you do, you can almost bet they were imposed unlawfully or will be imposed unlawfully to take more of your wealth. Finally, do you have a good lawyer who is actually interested in representing you and is not going to rip you off - this one will be particularly difficult - as most lawyers are absolute scum bags... And most importantly do you have a bond claim statute like this one in AZ Chapter 38, Article 5? https://www.azleg.gov/arsDetail/?title=38
And do you have faith in God, not passing faith, but real faith? Will you ask Him to make you an instrument of His Perfect Will?
The OBBBA will force States into better fiscal management or bankruptcy. What happens to California? Does the CCP buy California for cents on the dollar?
If the gov gets a cut.
The CCP because of our trade deficit with China has the $$$ to out bid almost everyone for any desirable real estate here in the states. Buying California for cents on the dollar is just a bonus for the CCP.
Where I grew up in a very small town where everyone knew everyone (and their business 😆), we had several families that had been lifelong welfare people (libs will insist that doesn’t happen and no one really wants to be on welfare but what I experienced disproves that notion). They always had the brand name clothes, new bikes (that were often left out in their yard to rust 🙄), left the windows open in the winter, had expensive junk food treats all the time, etc etc. It was maddening for the rest of us whose families made sacrifices and worked hard and often had less. Then I worked at a convenience store one summer in a nearby town and constantly had people coming in with food stamps to buy junk food. In the most expensive store in town when if they’d have gone down the road they could’ve shopped for nutritious and cheaper food at the actual supermarket. My mom also for a time was on the board of a nonprofit that supplied low cost housing to low income people. A not insignificant number of times their apartments were completely trashed by entitled bottom feeders who thought everyone else owed them 😡 I know there are people who use these safety net programs temporarily in times of need and get off as soon as they can, but there are far far too many who could be working and aren’t, and who waste the taxpayers’ money, having no sense of accountability or gratefulness. There definitely need to be changes made. My state got a start with no longer allowing junk food to be purchased with SNAP but there is definitely more work to be done to reform these programs.
Many have had same or similar experiences while we are working to support them. Hoping this gravy train stops real quick with the BBB. Who gives us something for nothing? Answer: No one.
Oh but they are perfectly happy with taking everything they can get, and return nothing to those they stole from.
You have just defined parasitism.
Walter Williams once said something like - before we paid for illegitimate children, there were not many of them. Now, it has become an industry.
Dave Ramsay told of one of his parishioners - a single woman with a few kids who had been dumped by here husband. A good Christian woman. She was on welfare to survive. Ramsay's group helped her get job training which she passed and was eager to become a tax paying citizen. I forget the training she got, but it would have made for a decent job. Yet, at that time it could not come close to the $33,000+ she was able to get from welfare (food stamps and such) for doing nothing. Ramsay admitted she was better off staying on welfare.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where we are. Women are encouraged to have babies because they are a commodity and a money making product.
Boom! Mic drop.
Government policy has definitely incentivized problematic behavior. No doubt.
A good Christian woman…
One of the more obtuse comments one could encounter…
Ran into the same situation with my own mother in San Jose. We both just shook our heads in disbelief. I told her she should apply for CA GOV benefits, too. She said, "Never." She had too much pride for that.
Indeed. Being frugal was an important lesson taught to me by both my parents.
My parents were too busy working to teach us anything, except by example. I wasn't frugal until I stopped getting paid too much to toil in high tech. Now, I try to save money so my daughter and son can inherit something other than my big mouth.
We love your big mouth btw!
Not in public, you wouldn't. Since they were teenagers, my progeny have asked and warned me not to say anything too inappropriate when we go out to eat or attend various events. I try to comply, but always seem to fail, although my comments are usually just attempts to elicit laughs. My dear, sweet daughter thinks I'm funny...looking. My stern, towering son threatens to throw me in the trunk and drop me off at the nearest insane asylum. My usual response: If youse keep it up, I'm telling Uncle Vern, my big, imperious brother.
They will look back when older and love all this. Timing is everything! As for me, I would have no problem with your mouth in public. If people can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Bring...it....on!
I was always the family clown, the class clown, the work clown. I should become a real clown and cut up in the circus. Anyway, parents are supposed to embarrass children of all ages. It's a law, somewhere. Have fun!
Same. And in some ways I'd almost be afraid to apply for welfare because I wouldn't want to get psychologically addicted to it.
If someone truly needs it bc they are having a hard time (not sucking off the system), they should take it. Most of us are happy and willing to pay taxes for this to help fellow Americans get on their feet again as long as it is temporary and does not become lifestyle. If you have a strong work ethic and inner constitution along with solid character, you will not get addicted.
Work requirements exempt parents with very young children (7 years and younger) … this lady you describe may still not need to work. And even if she does the “work” is largely symbolic. Only 20 hours a week and no earnings required! Or if she doesn’t feel like working, she can sign up for a training program or take blessed to improve herself. Even community service qualifies under this legislation. The howl of protect is comical. I hope this is only a first step to require some level of self sufficiency in the welfare class. Meanwhile I must work to support them
exactly but I am tired of being their personal ATM. I personally loathe sloth. It is so offensive.
And it does a disservice to people. There is value and self esteem in doing honest work. Simply giving people things without them having to do anything to earn it does not help them mentally. It creates a mentality of a child who is always looking to others to make decisions for them and never feeling like they’re contributing to the world.
It's certainly going to sift the wheat from the chaff in the states' legislatures, and all the governors.
and that deserves a champagne toast!
Amen.
In the 90’s, I’d take the paper food stamps at Key food in Brooklyn, The Russian woman was dressed in fur and jewelry. A pile of food stamps. As I was busting my butt on minimum wage.
I had my oldest at 21 and was single (I refused to ask for child support because this child was going to be better off without him….he never took me to court for visitation after I stopped contact due to his no-shows with our verbal arrangements)….but anyhooo, went on WIC for 2-months but couldn’t even use the vouchers second month as I was mortified to use them! I was intentionally working as little as possible to be with my kid as much as possible, but I was able bodied and could (and did) work….just enough to make ends meet though. There absolutely needs to be time limits and a weaning off support as you phase out because it becomes a lifestyle otherwise and then a generational lifestyle.
I believe the tax code (if we are going to have an income tax at all), should be re-manipulated to encourage marriage. A huge break for 2-parent homes which is ultimately best for children and our society as a whole
Sense! Utmost respect for you and how you worked this all out. You are a woman of strength, independence and determination. Excellent example for others who find themselves in similar circumstances.
Washington state just passed the largest tax increases in history. Our feckless governor, last I heard, is calling the legislature back into an emergency session to deal with the fallout from the OBBBA. Translation: we need to raise taxes even more, since the Feds are cutting out the goody baskets.
We may have reached our own personal tipping point. My mama asked if it is time to get out of WA, before we are unable to leave.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Your mama is spot on. Get out while the getting is good.
We are still wishing the whole "Greater Idaho" movement could become a reality, but there is no way WA and OR will allow their eastern portions to become part of Idaho.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Lol! Here in the Puget Sound region we are almost halfway between Vancouver, WA and Vancouver, B.C., so whenever someone refers to Vancouver we have to ask which one!
Mrs. "the Knife"
In the 90’s my Mom worked with a woman who had raised her kids on welfare and was now able to work and provide for herself. Her daughter turned 18, had dropped out of school and just planned to live on welfare. She wasn’t interested in working just doing nothing and receiving money. Her own Mom couldn’t understand it. We found it unbelievable. 😳 where do they come up with this logic?? Well, I don’t want to work so I shouldn’t have too.
They don't work bc they have built in ATMs, US.
When my sister (MA in counseling, emphasis in trauma) was doing in home counseling, she visited homes of people on welfare. In the winter, heat on so high the people were clad in t shirts. My sister couldn’t afford to heat her small house to reasonable sweater level and had to wear multiple layers. Her feet were always cold. But the welfare recipients were warm and comfy.
Well soon with the changes they will have to bundle up to keep warm themselves. Past time to stop this foul excess for the most pathetic among us.
In my younger days, I was a grocery store cashier. The stuff I saw would make your head spin. Food Stamp recipients purchased items I could not afford. Their main complaint was, at that time, they were not allowed to purchase imported DAK hams. Boo hoo.
LOL, right, boo-hoo.
Grifting with no accountability! Because religious organizations who did the community provision before made judgements. Yup sometimes bad ones and certain religions also take grift. 😡
I have seen so much hypocrisy in church it astounds me.
The church is a mismash of humanity and many religions are just that, religious practices that have more to do with authoritarian control and nothing to do with serving the Creator who taught us to serve. But just as our government has played on the sentiments of ppl who imagine themselves as good so religious leaders do the same all to serve self or trick God into thinking we are good in and of ourselves. It's all to expose us, not because God doesn't know who we really are but because we don't know.
I miss the word mismash and have not seen it used in a very long time. Thanks for that!
Everyone — please pray for all the children and grandchildren missing in the flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas hill country (Kerrville, Ingram, Hunt ). Thanks.
I swear, sorry if I sound like a conspiracy nut...... but this last week it has rained and been cloudy for 5 days straight... in the West Texas Desert. This has never happened before. Seriously. That church camp has been there for 100 years. We had a 120 mph "thunderstorm" to do 25k damage to our house of which the insurance co. only wants to cover 4k. Our weather is being manipulated. If they stop the chemtrails I truly believe all these absolutely unprecedented weather events would stop.
It is extremely disappointing how little Jeff has covered this tragedy. We are crushed here in Texas. We lost six 8-year-olds in our school system. The whole community is in mourning.
Apparently this camp has been around for a century. New are ‘them’ making the weather and creating storms and floods and heat under the sprayed chemicals and metals. I needed Janice’s prayer today as I was getting mighty angry. Prayers for Texas
You cannot tell me that these so-called "extreme weather events" such as we see in central TX this morning are not man-made. The Guadeloupe River rose THIRTY FEET last night.... 26 feet in ONE HOUR.
The geoengineering/chemtrail spraying is relentless. Here in the FL panhandle, I woke up yesterday to a cloudless beautiful blue sky streaked by 3 horizon to horizon chemtrails laid down in parallel fashion with a 4th one being laid down as I watched right over my house. The planes were at such altitude, you couldn't even pick them out. After a couple of hours the whole sky changed from a beautiful blue to a silver color (hint: what is the color of aluminum?)
https://michaelyon.substack.com/p/warning-texas/comments
EVERYONE:
Here's the hotline phone number to call when you see the Chemtrails in the sky!!
EPA cloud seeding hotline: 1 (800) 424-8802
Pass it on!!!!
TYSM
Have you ever called it? What happens?
Sorry I haven't needed to yet but I knew people needed to know this was here, so I shared
PP, was just thinking about posting that link to Michael Yon's piece. 🤔
I was surprised Jeff didn't address this situation. Praying fervently for this area - those of us in the Asheville area (and doubtless many other areas recently affected) are re-living the horrors of Helene as we see newsclips and hear of these tragic deaths and missing people.
Amen, I'm in Johnson County, south of the Metroplex, but not where all this flooding is happening. It's unbelievable.
Praying for their safety
Wow! a Portlander here at C&C. I know how you feel. It's lonely being out there with so little support.
Luckily I have many like minded friends.
I read this morning that the death toll is over 20, I think 22. Not necessarily the camp girls, just in general. Such a horrific event.
EVERYONE:
Here's the hotline phone number to call when you see the Chemtrails in the sky!!
EPA cloud seeding hotline: 1 (800) 424-8802
Pass it on!!!!
Lee Zeldin is a good man, at least I think he is...
I wonder if he is working the chem-trail issue and if not... why not?
I posted a message asking about it... perhaps you good C&Cers can do the same??
https://x.com/epaleezeldin
just for florida?
Nope nationwide hotline!
Call it if you see chemtrails!
Adding to my Contacts list:)
Just read about that earlier this morning, so terrible 😞😢 Praying 🙏
Sad. Prayers coming.
Amen. Tragic.
🙏
They dont call it flash flood alley for nothing. Camp should never have been located there.
Yes, do pray for the victims.
I do find myself dooming by getting distracted by various news.
But Jeff's daily articles are always a big lift. I really appreciate that.
Thanks Jeff!
DITTO THAT!!!
My 2 top priorities in life to stay sane:
1) C&C
2) Dogs
(Faith/God actually come first ... but wanted to add some humor.)
“What’s happening in Washington, D.C., is undermining everything we’ve been working on,” grieved Governor Laura Kelly (D-Kansas).
admission that inertia was toward centralization. now every legislature has to make it or break it on their own. it is going to be beautiful to watch.
Praying we vote that commie out finally next year. Tired of her bs veto of every decent bill the majority (R) senate/house sends her way. Thanks to Topeka and Johnson/wyandotte county we had to put up with insanity the last few years. She was 99% of the reason Kansas played along in much of the COVID debacle. At least our kids were back in school fairly quickly. Working in Wyandotte didn’t help as they left mask mandates as long as Johnson County. I’m looking forward to the midterms.
Front row seats!
🍿👀
I fear a big Dem backlash/win coming at the State levels, in response to the OBBBA.
Here in Virginia (where Rs have held top offices the last few years, while Ds still control the legislature) I can feel it…
Hopefully, spending taxpayer/other people’s money becoming more transparent. Once the Fed spigots opened, State leaders could absolve themselves of the difficult leadership decisions they were elected to handle. So much Federal spending likely is more appropriate at State level, but that (seemingly) becomes a bigger challenge and tougher local sell with this legislation.
Individuals make it or break it on their own so time for her sorry rear end to face the music.
I live in an area dominated by AWFLs and their ilk. They have their lawn signs like "Hate has no home here" and "No Kings" BS. The newest sign is "Support your Federal Workers." Hahaha 😂 😆 😂 Oh yeah! The leftie loons are feeling the cuts. Poor dears will have to get a job in the real world as I don't believe TDS is a legit diagnosis for disability. Good times. 👍😉
I’m hoping the next bomb to drop out of this admin is to somehow revoke the govt employees unions law that pretty much wrecked normal elections for decades now. Rather difficult to justify union “ protections” when you have the federal govt as the strongest union on earth.
I like it! I hope you’re right.
Very easy to identify the retards with those yard signs.
Always love your comments Annie so please don't take this as a criticism. But have you considered restructuring your life to avoid these people? I know it's not easy so I hope you don't consider this a frivolous comment, but it truly is worth the effort.
I see comments like this on here, and the frustration it causes people, and I wonder if they know it can be different. For three decades I've made a conscious effort to structure my (and later my family's) life in a way that avoids toxic people. I don't mean the good-hearted person down on their luck, but the condescending, miserable, duplicitous, trashy, and parasitical. It absolutely can be done, and the rewards are astounding.
Every decision regarding where one lives, works, shops, sends kids to school, goes to church, entertains, and vacations can be made with consideration regarding the attitude of the people there. It doesn't happen at all once, but after a while it becomes second nature and these miserable experiences are gradually pruned from one's life. Yes it can be expensive, but good things usually are. But if one uses some common sense, a strategic plan, and forethought, it doesn't have to be. The rewards are incredible, as is the serenity.
Seriously, if a family gathering always has a left-wing (or right wing for that matter) buffoon that cannot be civil, then just don't attend, or leave the minute they start up. If work is filled with people that want to argue, then walk away, and start looking for a new job ASAP. If you see *any* signs your neighborhood is starting to go downhill, then start planning your escape now and don't wait until it's too late. If you have to deal with a begging homeless bum at the local Trader Joes, then instead drive a few miles over to the one in a nice neighborhood. Don't tolerate stuff that harms your quality of life and serenity.
If your church is starting to lecture you about "social justice" then don't waste time trying to change it, but leave now and find a new one. (We recently left a church of ten years and though it was difficult at the time, the joy at our new church is awe inspiring. For a year I was upset by church and am now kicking myself for not leaving sooner.)
If you don't want to be around trashy people on vacation, then don't go to a place filled with trashy people like Las Vegas. Go someplace off the beaten path or upscale. Plan everything in your life around the people you are likely to experience.
I know this probably sounds condescending, and I apologize for that. But I see these stories on here and really wonder if people realize it doesn't have to be like this. More importantly, if you are a decent, responsible, hard-working person, you don't deserve to deal with this. The bottom 20% and the busybodies ruin *everything* where they are allowed to gain a foothold. Structure your life to avoid them in all regards.
We moved to SC for a year to get away from it. The libbies were there too. Just not as many. My son and daughter are here. So are my sister and brothers and their families. They wanted us to come home. My son got engaged so we relented and moved back. I am okay with it as I pray every day and read scripture. Plus Trump won so all the libbie hysteria is amusing most of time. And I have my "safe" space here with C&C. 😉 God is good indeed. 🥰
Probably why this page is so successful.
We have those signs - they make me sick. 🤮🤢 Good thing they have the money for the signage. We are near the Heart of Darkness, here in NoVA.
I think it is hysterical that the acronym actually sounds like AWFUL 🤣
“slashing green tax breaks”
Something to celebrate!!!!
Praying and fingers crossed that a proposed solar “park” on 1700 acres of farmland a mile from me, and postponed starting date for beginning excavation for over a year will end up scrapped. There are all kinds of legalities in place that if these solar panels go in on 30 year leases, and the companies go bankrupt or sell off, they have to take down the panels and restore the land to what it was, a virtual impossibility. The companies thought they had at least 30 years of gravy money. Now, they may want to ditch the projects and get out of Dodge before they start.
And the irony is, many of these parts for these solar panels come from China. So China steps up their manufacturing and pours more and more pollution into the air.
I've also heard there are built in cutoff switches in these solar panels from China. Cutoff switch being my term used and not sure if this is even true but would not be surprised. CCP is not to be trusted.
How are they going to restore the land if they’ve gone bankrupt? For goodness sakes.
Perhaps we can promote farming as a career to stop the decimation of farms? My family came from Germany to Texas in the 1800s to fulfill populating and farming needs in the newly acquired state. Maybe the white, farming refugees from South Africa can be prioritized.
In our township’s case, there is an escrow account set up that the company must keep money in. The long and short of it is, these pop up energy companies are bought out within 5-10 years by an energy company which is also being subsidized by government monies. If after 15 years the power companies shut it down, are lawyered up, a piddling amount in escrow will be paid out, and the panels will still be there. What farmer has the money to sue the power companies 10 to 15 years down the road…
We can hope.
Don't cry for the universities' loss of DEI funding: Here is how one of the principal offenders, the University of Pittsburgh, is "complying". They're "rebranding" - NOT CLOSING - the DEI office and giving its leaders new titles. “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.”
School to rebrand DEI office
Change comes after threats to cut funding
By Maddie Aiken
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 3, 2025
The University of Pittsburgh is replacing its Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion following funding loss threats from the Trump administration.
Pitt’s newly launched Office of Institutional Engagement and Well-being will
deal with areas such as civil rights and Title IX compliance, disability accessibility
and accommodations, sexual misconduct prevention education, and the monitoring
of university progress on campus climate and student success. These areas were
previously overseen by the DEI office. Clyde Wilson Pickett, who formerly
served as vice chancellor for DEI and chief diversity officer, also will oversee the new
office, which opened on Tuesday.
PS: Pitt's endowment in 2023 was valued at $5.49 billion, 29th largest in the USA.
University of Pittsburgh needs all those billions of $$$ so they can continue to purchase live/dead baby scalps to sew onto the backs of mice.
Word was, Pitt's UPMC had a good income stream from selling parts of aborted fetuses to research labs. I cannot confirm the current status of that program.
Yep, the baby parts came from UPMC's Magee Womens Hospital.
I would image that the horrible research in still going on.
Link to article from 2022 that Pitt hired an outside firm to examine the practices and Pitt was found in "compliance."
https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/report-fetal-tissue
The linked report states the research plays a critical role in life saving discoveries . The only examples are vaccines- Covid, chickenpox , polio, rabies etc. Really? I thought all those problems were solved decades ago. Also “By law, all fetal tissue donations are voluntary and informed consent is required for fetal tissue to be collected for and provided to researchers, who are not involved in collecting the tissue.” Who gives the consent? Certainly not the fetus. And what information constitutes the “informed” part?
Excellent comment.
I was brought into this world at Magee's Maternity Ward in 1947.
My, my, how times have changed.
This news of upmc is tough on my bride. She was a nursing director there decades ago. When it wasn’t corrupt.
I love the fact you still call her your bride. You are a romantic Alan:}
With planned parenthood funding axed, maybe their “baby scalps” spigot will dry up too!
Disgusting KJ
It will be interesting to see how many universities re-value their endowments downward as a result of the tax. Most endowments are invested in private equity which I think can be valued rather sketchy.
Send the DOGE boys in, they will sniff that out.
DOGE seems to have run out of steam since Elon departed... if so, what a shame... that group had some enormous potential... the massive waste and fraud exposures were seemingly reported on almost daily... but no mas'
???
I agree. We don't hear much anymore and Elon and Trump appear to be on the outs again since the BBB passed.
they can rebrand all they want, Trump will smell that too and figure out a way to end their game as well. TAW!
Wanna bet U of Pitt will RAISE tuition for students just as soon as they rebrand DEI offices to compensate for their loss of funding and their now 'taxable' endowments!
Huh aren’t they the same ones clamoring for people to “pay their fair share”?? Oh I forgot, that’s for *other* people 🙄 It’s fine for *them* to have billions 🙄
Hahaha - Office of institutionsl Engagement and Wellbeing?? Read that to my husband and he cracked up! Hopefully the Feds will be able to see thru their machinations.
When truth fails, baffle 'em with bull$hit. Ancient public relations guidance
Problem for them is the DOJ/Trump team are already aware of universities doing this. So they will be sued and lose the monies as well. They are not the first to try it. Federal agencies tried it at first. They have to prove that the department was established prior and identify the employees..plus show where the employees of the old DEI department went.
Oh for offices with titles that say what they really are. I’m so tired of PC names that say absolutely nothing.
They better keep their head low. Harmeet will whack it hard.
Trump’s man, Stephen Miller, needs to be made aware of this!
🦋 A prayer is a wonderful way to practice gratitude and focus on our blessings 🦋
"For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What’s happening in Washington, D.C., is undermining everything we’ve been working on,” said the communist.
And we cheered!
Good morning all!
You who dwell in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shade of the Almighty,
Say to the LORD, “My refuge and fortress,
my God in whom I trust.”
He will rescue you from the fowler’s snare, from the destroying plague,
He will shelter you with his pinions,
and under his wings you may take refuge;
his faithfulness is a protecting shield.
You shall not fear the terror of the night
nor the arrow that flies by day,
Nor the pestilence that roams in darkness,
nor the plague that ravages at noon.
Though a thousand fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
near you it shall not come.
You need simply watch;
the punishment of the wicked you will see.
Because you have the LORD for your refuge
and have made the Most High your stronghold,
No evil shall befall you, no affliction come near your tent.
For he commands his angels with regard to you, to guard you wherever you go.
With their hands they shall support you,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
You can tread upon the asp and the viper,
trample the lion and the dragon.
Because he clings to me I will deliver him;
because he knows my name I will set him on high.
He will call upon me and I will answer;
I will be with him in distress; I will deliver him and give him honor.
With length of days I will satisfy him,
and fill him with my saving power.
Psalm 91
Praise be to God
This Psalm literally saved my life coming out of the hippie cult in the 70s. It dwells within me.
Amen
Amen and AMEN!!
An old out of work Democrat was sitting on a park bench when a wealthy gentleman handed him a hundred dollar bill as he walked by. This happened every Monday for several months when on one Monday the gentleman only handed him a fifty dollar bill. As he walked away, the old Democrat yelled after him," you can owe me the rest" !!!!
That's a true story!
LOL
The dillusional left will always see what they want to see, ignore what they dont want to see and make up whatever suits that day's menu. I doubt it will change anytime soon.🙈🙉🙊
“food stamps (SNAP) now have a work requirement, but the states must enforce the new federal requirement, or lose subsidies. Same with the Obamacare exchanges; states must take over more of the paperwork and begin enforcing new eligibility criteria”
repeal? replace? 🤣
If so... AZ does nothing to enforce it.
I know some people at my gym on it...
I live outside the city limits of a city take is going to take the President on regarding DEI I can’t get all the information yet because only the local troublemaker media is writing about it.
I wonder how the Federal changes (I approve) will effect county and city government I live in a Republican state but the county and city government is loony democrat
I am pleased with the changes in the big beautiful bill, however concerned about the effects on state, county, & local government. It will be interesting to see
This is what I’m worried about. The powers that be always make it harder for the working people while freeloaders continue to profit. I have so many examples.