The Navy confiscates Iran’s favorite sanctions-busting freighter, Tulsi hands DOJ the impeachment receipts, Erica Schwartz tests MAHA’s blood pressure, more.
They might have rapelled - if they were inserted by helicopter(s) and not boats. They might have boarded by both methods.
What I thought was pretty sweet was the USS Spruance employing naval gunfire with their 5 inch gun while on the move against a moving target in moving seas! Here, here Spruance! That's some good shooting!
I'm thinking that is a good possibility, if Chinese "take out" includes the shoulder launched air defense missile which got the shot on the unsuspecting F15 crew. Being that it was an IRGC controlled asset you can bet it wasn't rice, chop sticks and apricots.
Actually they were going from the helicopter to the ship and it is called Fast roping. As a Navy pilot, I’ve done it with Navy SEALS and EOD as few times during deployment.
abseiling while you think its English is actually German.
ab ~ away
seil ~ rope
when i climbed back in the day in Germany, when you threw a rope down from top of rock face, you yelled the equivalent of a golfing "4", it was "Seil".
For some reason I heard Styx in my head when I saw your reply. “Come seil away come seil away come seillll awayyy with meeee lad” LOL. Wrong spelling I know - I need coffee. Just got up 🤦🏼♀️😆
If you are going to be exact, I correct one other military thing… if you want to shorten the Coast Guard, call them Coastie. When you shorten to the Guard, it is the National Guard that is being talked about. Just saying:-).
Yep, rapelling is the correct term although depending on the method of rapelling employed, they could also be "fast roping" which is quite a bit quicker, but you need good gloves!!! Basically just sliding down the rope with your hands, not leg attachment to the rope.
Which helicopter did you repelled from? I flew H-46s and we only did fast rope. Granted that was years ago and the H-46 has been retired for about 15 years now. Marines also did the fast rope from their H-46s.
They fall…it can be fatal. A Command Officer of one of the SEAL teams landed wrong and died. It was a training evolution and you don’t expect that to happen. This happened about 5 years ago. It is important to be at the right altitude and be steady as they go down one right after another.
In simple old school rappelling (no belay devices), if you loop the rope in the wrong way it can open the D-ring gate and pop out. As Tom Petty said - "I'm free falling"
Fast roping is the fastest way to put a person on a ship they are overtaking. I’ve done training with SEALs where they put their boat out the back of a H-46 and over take a ship. It is a lot more work but there are missions that require it.
I submit the following in furtherance of a fuller understanding of the challenges and significance of the remarkable work undertaken by Tulsi Gabbard and how long and arduous has been (and will be) the process.
Though Centcom in this post even calls it rappelling, that is indeed fast roping in the video and it is the common standard for heliborne maritime insertion, as it is MUCH faster than rappelling, where each descender is hooked into the rope above and must clear the rope below before another person can hook in. With fast roping they just grip the rope with hands and feet and control descent by friction at those points, and well trained personnel can even have two or even three descending a rope at a time, depending on height above target.
MayBella82, if you’re reading this note, we would rappel from both 46’s and 53’s, though not very common from the 53’s. From the 46 we would use both the hell hole, and go off the ramp using the same ramp insert frame as used for fast roping, by passing the rappel ropes overhead through carabiners attached to the frame.
That is fast roping … they are sliding down the rope with their hands and feet…. There is nothing that attaches them to the rope but their hands and feet. I believe repelling has attachment to the rope. We didn’t do repelling in H-46.
Could I just add here. Thanks to MayBella82, BeadleBlog, Brian C (and whoever else I missed) for serving. But also for revealing to us couch surfers what a military mission actually entails. The commitment, bravery, strength, precision involved in "just" the fast roping (let alone all the other details to get a ship ready, in position, execute...) is beyond my ability to accurately comprehend, and yet I am profoundly moved. I am in awe. Truly, grateful.
Here is another ERRATA - do not cheer for Erica Schwartz. Call it like it is, another failure for the medical freedom movement. Let's tell the Truth about Trump's allegiance to pHARMa. Susie Wiles as his chief of staff says it all.
Thats interesting, what all does it say, since you are on the inside.
You know what I think it says, Trump has a very successful administrator who also just happens to know where all the skeletons are in big pharma and "public health".
Susie Wiles IS a skeleton in big pharma. Nutcases are those who believe in injecting poison into little babies, innocent children and helpless adults. They keep doing it and the band plays on.
Yeah, sorry, that was the corrupt criminals and murderers of the autopen regime not President Trump. Are you shooting up crack? You still haven't cleaned up your first pile of BS and you are already throwing another one with no fact to back it up. Okay, I said don't be a nut case but instead, you are a nucking futcase.
Iran is like the Black Knight in the movie Monte Python and the Holy Grail. He won’t let King Arthur cross the bridge. Despite Arthur cutting off all four of his limbs one by one the Black knight insists that his injuries are merely “a flesh wound” and wants to continue to fight claiming “none shall pass”, and “I’m invincible”. You’ve got to watch this, it’s the perfect analogy and a good Monday morning laugh.
@jeffchilders you / C&C got a nice shout out by Susan from Promethean Action about an hour in on this fascinating podcast (she reads you every day!) https://youtu.be/iUz0wwZgqFQ
So I clicked your link thinking it would go directly to the part of the video where she talks about Jeff. It didn’t. It actually took me to the start of the video and pulled me into a lonnnng rabbit hole. 🤣 Pulled me away from comments because it’s an interesting discussion and I just found myself listening.
For others the time stamp where she begins to talk about Jeff’s C&C analysis starts at: 1:11:40. I just got to it. 😆😆 Thought I’d come here to share the timestamp.
It WILL pull you in because it’s soooo interesting listening to all the valid arguments both against and for this war - and I love Susan and can never turn her off. Everrrr
No it was yours. For some reason it opens the video at the beginning. It might be because I read Substack through my phone app and the YouTube link interface works that way?? 🤷🏼♀️
Coming from a traditional Catholic background, Margo, evangelicalism has shocked me on more than one occasion. There is a lot of coercive persuasion going on there. And extremism. Many people claiming that they and only they can interpret the Bible and tell you how you must live and behave. There is a high degree of control and judgment going on. A great deal of groupthink.
I saw the film "Marjoe" years ago, about the evangelical Bible-belt in the U.S. and how it could be milked through a combination of con-artistry and the very gullible believers. It was most illustrative. Not that it was my first exposure to these groups.
A, out of curiosity, I looked up “evangelical” in the dictionary, and I like this “ Of, relating to, or being a Christian church believing in the Bible as the sole source of religious authority, in salvation only through conversion and spiritual regeneration, and in the necessity of public witness to faith.”. Too bad the term has been so misused and abused!
But looking something up in a dictionary never proves anything, Margot. Though I see people who think it does. Ahem....
Academic proof in Western society comes from formal peer-reviewed academic literature...NOT from a dictionary entry.
A dictionary entry tells you only what that for-profit publishing company picked as their definition (for any reason at all). It is evidence of nothing else. I have had to explain this mistake countless times to people who think they have won the argument by giving me a dictionary entry.
Oh good Lord. "Marjoe" was your education on evangelicalism? The bare-bones definition of evangelicalism is that, within Protestant Christianity, it holds to the Bible, to the atonement of Christ, to the belief that one must have a personal conversion, and most importantly, that the "good news" (which is what "evangel" means) is to be spread by those who are . . . evangelical. You have perhaps not noticed that Jeff Childers is an evangelical, as are many who comment here.
There are wackos and nutcases and many disturbing, unworthy types within the evangelical frame, just as there are within Catholicism. My husband, a former Catholic, comments frequently on what he considers the insanity of many Catholics who hold to doctrines he finds "shocking." Groupthink is what you're concerned about? And you're Catholic?
Let's just acknowledge we can find a whole lot of things under rocks. Doesn't make the rock complicit. Wouldn't surprise me if Susan and Barbara at Promethean are evangelical. We don't all look and sound alike.
Sue, you begin here with very un-Christian-like disdain. Which rather proves my point about evangelical issues.
Want to try again? And rather than being simply tribal and out to get "the other"....attempt to act according to the Gospels.
OK?
And no...this is not my only exposure to evangelicalism. Did I tell you that? But I do not intend to write a book here on this Substack. Stop being so silly!
Well, I hold to pre-Vatican II Catholicism, TS. Different from the post-1965 version, which became tainted by Globalist Marxism.
Although you are correct about pedophilia appearing in the Catholic Church....and across society. One thing I must point out is that the infiltration could have been deliberate in order to pull down the Church. Easy to get into the seminary programs. Marxism excels in infiltration of their own into Western institutions. Are you certain this was not the cause?
You can find pedophilia in many places today, most unfortunately. I do think the priesthood needs to be tweaked to become more human for those in that role. So what -- you give up Christianity altogether, and you think that will be better? Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. There are many heinous behaviours out there from the secular types and atheists too. You might want to look at that while you're at it.
It is very fashionable to diss Catholicism. Move on to really thinking about that.
And then we have groups such as the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons. Who do not consider themselves strictly evangelicals, but who do fall under the three traits I have listed. As well as those two groups, there are an untold number of religious extremist cults.
Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons and other cults do not rely solely on the Bible for faith and practice. They rely on other writings. That's what makes them a cult and not Christian at all.
or more specifically the IRGC which I hope is the real target in the next round of bombings - bridges and power plants are not holding up peace - it's the IRGC which must be taken out
I suspect the President's statements about bridges and power plants are mainly to get the IRGC scrambling to those places, force human shields onto them, when the actual targeting is elsewhere.
This makes total sense, seeing how this administration works. I think in 100 yrs historians will look back and say this is when war tactics changed dramatically.
The Knights Who Say "Ni!", also called the Knights of Ni, are a band of knights encountered by King Arthur and his followers in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the play Spamalot. They demonstrate their power by shouting "Ni!" (pronounced /niː/ ⓘ NEE), terrifying the party, whom they refuse to allow passage through their forest unless appeased through the gift of a shrubbery.
RJ Just to add a layer -- I believe the knights who say Ni was a play on the original word for knight, which was cniht in the original Old English, a joke for Brits who got it, with the nuance totally lost on Americans. If you listen to a clip from the movie, when they first say the word it definitely sounds like cniht.
Perfect analogy! Perfect framing! I miss The Flying Circus and the timeless penetrating humor/truth of MP. Perhaps the US should deploy insults as a strategy…”Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries” would be a good start.
But I fear when democrats take power they will replace Trump’s picture with a jack-o’-lantern - and it won’t be that funny because there’s no truth to their insults.
I'd like to see some DOJ fallout on crooked Leftist "Patriots", Colorado's own Jason Crow, who carried Articles of Impeachment 1.0, and my Congressdude Joe Neguse who carried Articles for Impeachment 2.0. An IT guy who previously worked in DC told me today that DC doesn't have anyone smart enough to form a "Deep State" it's all a rumor and that Trump's team is the MOST CORRUPT Administration we've had in modern history according to his sources there. I mentioned that maybe Hunter Biden can make a comeback in 2028 to fix all the fraud waste and abuse that Trump started.
And my first thought when Jeff mentioned whistleblowers was The StayPuft Marshmallow Man in uniform, ALEXANDER VINDMAN. I point in his general direction and yell "GET HIM!!!" 😡
As for the story about Tulsi and the criminal referrals to the DOJ, Brian Cates believes this is a signal to all the deep state players that more indictments are coming, and this is far bigger than it may seem. He thinks that this year we will see the military arrest members of Congress, Governors, Mayors, those who participated in the treasonous coup, or hold office because of rigged elections involving foreign actor interference. The civil court system cannot be used for this, because of so many conflicts of interest.
I agree. It is massively disappointing when nobody who pulls off these inhuman stunts against a definitively popular elected President gets off with no repercussions, even when laws are broken.
And then their followers riot in the streets of our cities, block traffic, destroy private businesses and harass anti-protesters , also without consequences. No wonder it seems as if nobody respects the law anymore.
I keep wondering why we can’t arrest congressmen who go overseas and trash this president to undermine his efforts during a time of war. The minute they return
Lori, this is completely off-topic, but I thought of you this morning. I was reading Randy Alcorn’s blog (Christian author). Sorry I don’t know how to give you a link, but the title is “ We Can Simultaneously Make Room in Our Hearts for God, People, and Animals” and the date was April 17. Check it out, you will love it!
Hey Margot, how very thoughtful of you. I so enjoy when people remember me when animal topics come up. I do love them so much and am always gobsmacked by how many creatures God made and how they are all so different. I know He loves them too.
I will check Randy out and am truly most obliged and humbled by your thoughtfulness.
Speaking of animals, the only protest of late that I was rooting for was saving those poor beagles from the horrors they are subjected to in medical research. Remember the photos of those poor pups that had their vocal cords cut to save the researchers from hearing their cries of distress, as Fauci’s crew subjected them to being eaten alive by sand flies? 😭
Yes, I would do the same to fauci without hesitation. Beagles are used in vet schools and medical research. I saw this weekend that people stormed a lab in Wisconsin to free the lab beagles but were shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas. It hurts my heart to its core to see animals in research when there are alternatives. There are so many we need to punish besides politicians.
The military arresting members of Congress and other politicians is a non-starter - Posse Comitatus and all that - but indictments will likely be filed. I would like to see the Department of War call back all the retired military signers of the “Letter,” and court-martial them. Let a jury of their peers decide that their actions were seditious.
The one that was supposed be done weeks ago, that has spiked energy costs, restricted global fertilizer supplies during spring planting, cost us hundreds of billions, destroyed US bases, etc. That one.
I guess you’ve never heard of Brent Crude Oil and how it’s actually Brent that determines the cost of petroleum futures, which is what your current cost is based on. And just what ‘US base’ has been destroyed in the past 2 months/. You’re spewing nonsense.
You mean the WTI charts I watch daily? No, no idea what you are talking about. But apparently the 10D chess wizard doesn't know - because he tells his true believers not to worry because we have so much oil. Utter lies to try to calm people down - we don't keep our oil - it goes on the global market. Furthermore, we don't have refining capacities to replace what goes through the strait.
You believe the US hasn't suffered massive damage in the Gulf? What are you smoking bruh? We had to pull our navy out and have left our stronghold in Iraq. Plenty of analysts have reported severe damage, but you won't hear that from your lying government, of course.
So the guy who backed operation warp speed and called it one of the greatest accomplishments ever isn't part of the system meant to destroy humanity? What kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do in order to believe otherwise? Or the current conflict taking offline a massive percentage of global fertilizer? Yeah, he's definitely on team humanity smh
Thanks for the kind words Lisa. You are a true Christian.
I seriously hope so! Or maybe suicide weekend? I’m sorry but I’m looking forward to it. I don’t want to sit for 2 1/2 years until all these things go to trial. They steal another election and let everybody go free. 🤬
We sure are praying that arrests and convictions are coming! These people who instigated these terrible acts have committed treason and should be dealt with accordingly! If not, it will continue and only get worse, and our Republic will suffer and/or crash and burn! Too many people have given their lives to keep our precious country free, and this must not be allowed continue!
Maybe they have. Bush sr., Cheney, McCain, Mueller, etc all deceased. More than half of congress died, resigned or stated they won't run for re-election. Numerous pedophiles arrested. Many CEOs stepped down. It's slowly happening.
This is a major point and what is needed. All the changes made to the military leadership and rules of engagement were necessary before this could happen. The left tried ti tell the military not to obey illegal orders. Now the military can prosecute illegal actions.
Why would these people break the law and risk going to jail when they HAD to know that President Trump would never be convicted?
Were they hoping that he'd resign, a la Nixon?
Admittedly a lot of Democrats are loaded with hubris and many are low on critical thinking skills, so they may not have pondered the fact they were breaking the law. Still, you would think they would be a little more cunning, if not more moral.
The first Impeachment following the Russia Russia Russia narrative prevented Trump from push through his agenda. Basically they slow walked Trump '45s term with those two bogus acts. The third impeachment was probably an effort to make sure Trump left politics completely. The leftist clearly misunderestimated him, thank goodness for the USA!
I don't think it works that way. I hate to admit it, but I worked briefly for the IRS as a very low level clerk. They have you stand up and take an oath that they said is the same oath as every federal officer up to the vice president. There was nothing signed.
Now, I am sure the inspector general's office employees have to pass some level of security clearance, and there might be additional things to sign.
Jenna McCarthy mentioned Jeff's optimism in her substack this morning regarding Erica Schwartz! See, it's catching! Called him the Optimist-in-Chief! Here it is!
" I refuse to speculate that this is more of that 5D chess—Trump attempting to expose the agenda by putting one of their proponents in the director’s chair. (I’m onto you, Lucy.) I can no longer rule out the possibility that Bobby has been compromised, or threatened, or blackmailed, or simply told “you can have your red dye ban, or you can have literally nothing at all” and the man grudgingly embraced the slightly-less-awful option. I’ll leave it to Optimist-in-Chief Jeff Childers—the only guy I know who can routinely out-Pollyanna me—to sprinkle a metric ton of rose-colored glitter all over this mess for us later this morning."
I'm trying to be neutral about Schwartz, but I don't have a lot of hope that she will be different. To her credit she resigned from Biden's admin, although we don't really know why. To that point, she seems to have been someone who follows orders and says nothing, not always a good thing. It would be nice to hear an explanation of why she was chosen, and not just a list of her prior positions. So I'm watching her and I'll form my opinion later on.
If you and Jeff ever want to give us all a treat, just because you love us as much as we love both of you, you should do a podcast interviewing him. No reason, simply just to cause us all to act like screaming teenagers watching their favorite headbanger band. 🤣🤣🤣
RFK Jr. sat before a US House committee on Thursday and alternately was praised by Republicans and thrashed by Democrats for four hours. He held up pretty well. Some of the Democrats were reasonably reserved and asked focused questions, and some started by praising the service of his family. Others simply rattled off the usual accusations and didn't even give Mr. Kennedy a chance to rebut them. I haven't gotten all the way through it yet.
I'm sick of hearings to the point where I don't bother watching them. The Dems grandstand and only want "yes-no" questions, and it's all about THEM...looking tough (whereas they are not) and hoping to attract donations from other clueless Dems. That's it. Their so-called "questions" are idiotic and mindless.
Another Substacker suggested Bobby Kennedy was bullied into hiring her. My reply: "I have a feeling Bobby isn't bullied by anyone." Hell, he's held his own with his own hostile family.
The over-the-top, idealized, hopeful idiot inside me is thinking the best candidate is to find one of “them” who was so deeply one of them, but who woke up the past four years. Having been on both sides of the fence could have caused her to staunchly and firmly hold the same perspectives as RFKJr. So I pray she is a “born again” anti-vaxxer. They DO exist. Many of us fall into that bucket. Somehow having advocated for the other side of an issue then converting makes you the best advocate for the other side.
Of course - it most likely is as simple as Jeff is thinking: she is respectful and obedient to following the chain of command regardless her own personal beliefs. That would make her a wise pick too.
Yours is a good point. My first reaction was to wince. Trump has made some terrible picks, particularly in term 1, but in term 2 not so much. So, if Kennedy was on board for this, that's an independent positive data point. There must be something we can't see from the cheap seats. Maybe it's just me but sure looks like the high profile ICE resistance evaporated when the tribal card holding Indian was appointed as head. I can imagine some ironically humorous optics with the Dems attacking the new CDC head over controversial decisions. Imagine the WOKE left trying to call her stupid, unqualified, magic thinking, witch craft believing and anti science (or any other favorite pejorative) - Just sayin. I don't believe in DIE, but if you have several equally best qualified candidates, and one can also serve this double duty, how strategically delicious.
Hopefully, President Trump listen to the seasoned military around him…on paper is one thing but her reputation isn’t something that can be hidden. As you get more senior, your reputation among other senior military is everything.
"Why then, are the Covid death-jabs still being offered and promoted?"
Because the President of the United States is STILL LYING to the American people and telling them there is a deadly virus and that the genocidal 0WS vaxxine is safe, and to take it.
Erica might be a peace offering, a filler, and hopefully will build a bridge between all these vax addicts and the what they left believes to be anti-vaxxers…..which aren’t that, they just want safe vaxxes.. not toxic, population reducing and long term payers into the corrupt medical and pharmaceutical complexes. Maybe she can do that. I don’t know but I guess we will see.
Atty Childers it is your level-headedness (and sense of humor) that not only keeps me coming back but keeps me sane during all of the switchbacks that we continually run into. Thank you for being that "voice of reason" for all of us who are continually confused about what is going on. Please keep up the good work! God bless you and your family!
With all the good Trump has been and is doing, the idea that you should give up on him because of one nominee is bizarre. This perfectionistic cancel culture is insane. When did we get the idea that if something isn't 100% perfect, it needs to be thrown out? It sets up a totally untenable view of life. Thank God that God is more forgiving than the internet!
However, you failed to notice the false dichotomy which is 1) ditching Trump 2) embracing democrats. His ONLY two choices apparently. Adults notice this type of wording.
Agree. It’s the same mentality that leads some people to break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend or divorce because their partner isn’t perfect. Holding anyone to a standard of even quasi perfection is completely unrealistic. And hypocritical too because none of us are that either.
The situations you mentioned are usually compacted in a short period of time. As for our current President, since 2015 he has been making statements and promises. Now here we are in 2026 and he is coming up very short on many of those statements/promises.
Considering his propaganda department, they all have propaganda departments, it's very difficult to know what is true and what isn't. That's not what many of us voted for when we voted, again, for Donald Trump. Maybe the MAGA cult doesn't care about reality.
Yes. So when you throw Trump out then what are you going to replace him with? Do they have some good options for that? I would like to hear what the options are, please. If you are going to make a negative statement then please give us at least a hint of some solution.
I don't think the border is closed. I have a FB friend who is a ESL teacher in California, working with immigrant kids. She is very pro-immigration.
Anyway, there was a well-publicized bust in her town last year. She was quite upset because one of her student's father was arrested.
They are all back now. I don't know how. She says the coyotes and some corrupt Border Patrol members are making bank.
But the millions of other men from around the world who the Biden regime paid to go to Mexico and cross the border? That apparently has stopped. At least, I haven't seen any photos of masses of foreign men massed at the border.
It wouldn't surprise me if Newsom and his gang didn't fly them back in themselves--on the taypayer dime, of course. Immigrants of all types are supposedly 28% of California's population, so that is 10.5 million out of a population of 39.5 million. Illegals are about 6% of the population. One in 5 immigrants is illegal, and overall, one in 4 people in CA is an immigrant (this includes both legal and illegal). No wonder the fraud is so massive here.
Thanks Lisa! This was just a quick scroll of a couple things not even an entire list. Always negative. It can’t all happen with a snap of a finger. We did not get here over night or in 4 years. It will take some time and I am constantly reminding myself. Cheers C&C friend ☕️
I know that’s a rhetorical question. However, in addition to the border, economic growth, bringing back manufacturing and tax reforms, my top two are keeping China away from control of the Panama Canal and (hopefully) returning Venezuela to its former glory. Like many, I’m concerned about the current conflict(s), but IF they work, the effects on world order and safety would be enormous.
I agree, we are being told Trump is accomplishing things I think need to be accomplished; I hope we are being told the truth. However elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats lie so frequently it's hard to know what, if anything is factual. I know I can't prove your list is accurate but I hope it is. But to say "All the good things ..." implies more than I think is true.
I assume you mean me. I can't say he lives in my head any more than any other egotistical, lying elected politician does. I may be more vocal in my criticisms of Trump than I was Biden, primarily because I knew what Biden was. On the other hand I supported Trump for specific reasons and now it is becoming obvious he lied; quite a bit. Since I have standards I believe in, when someone lies to me I take note.
Since I don't worship Trump, or any other person, I suspect he lives in the heads of his cult members much more than in the heads of those of us who think he has become a pathetic joke.
Take your pick, it's worth what you paid for it. An insult only works when the insultee [sic] cares what the insulter thinks. Otherwise only the insulter & their ilk get a rush off of it.
To prove your point .... "Thank God that God is more forgiving than the internet!", we have Noah's flood, Sodom & Gomorra and several chapters in Revelation, to name a few, to consider related to God's forgiveness.
🤣😂🤣 Seriously? Talk to Biden and Burisma Hunter about Ukraine. October 7 was the genocide. Your Jew hatred is showing along with your ignorance of historicity. The deficit grew like an uncontrolled prostate cancer under your buddy Joe. And Iran won’t budge on giving back its uranium. So stopping a bunch of radical Islamic mullahs (who have no compunction about killing women because a strand of hair shows) from nuking us is unprovoked? Go back and inhale some more of whatever you’re smoking, Dude.
I concur with your evaluation on Trump and the new CDC director. Those of us who support Trump aren’t Panikins who run around screaming “Run away! Run away!” as if we are in the Monty Python movie In Search of the Holy Grail. “Stay the course, steady as she goes”.
My first thought because if her credentials is she is rule follower. She wants to make flag so she will not do anything that would effect her reputation within the her military community. Selection boards are brutal the more senior you go and reputations are talked about in the tank.
I would have left in 2021 if responsible for enforcing mandates too... so maybe she's just the kind of 'No, I will not cross that Red Line' person needed... hopefully there's some sort of hearings and she says so for the record.... like so much - willing to wait and see.
(But tired of waiting for the DNI referrals to be acted upon and arrests to take place. Also do not think Treason should be a pardonable crime. Hunter's formation of Bohai Harvest with CHINA and Billionaire Step-Son of John Kerry Chris Heinz; to get their hands on Ukrainian Energy - [While BuyDem was VP and making his own threats against Ukrainian prosecutors to treasonously protect his family's own interests] - should have them tarred and feathered in a pillory on the National Mall in D.C. for July 4th!!!!!
I don’t think anyone should be pardoned who wasn’t convicted first, because we’re supposed to all be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I know, what a quaint idea!
"This kind of second-hand testimony was prohibited right on the face of the form. So Atkinson just … changed the form. He simply deleted the prohibition against hearsay. Kind of like changing the definition of “vaccine” on the CDC website."
That action, IMHO, shows he knew the evidence was was weak. He apparently also back dated the new form. It also reveals him as willing to support a coup.
I know in Florida there are numerous exceptions for hearsay evidence and I'm sure that's the way it is in other states. It's not always inadmissible. If it was legit hearsay why "tamper" with the original form? Not an Attorney but it appears he tampered with material evidence then failed to disclose any of that during the impeachment.
"In the meantime, I’ll assume the President knows what he is doing and I’ll let the man work."
YES. So far, despite all the screaming when it starts, things are going in the right direction. How many times does he have to get it right before you assume he has a plan and wait to see it? Personally, I'm watching the world flip into something more sane WAY WAY WAY faster than anyone could have predicted, and I'm LOVING IT.
Let him work, there probably IS something up his sleeve, there has been very consistently.
On X, a link to an excellent article about why the Let Parents Decide Act is VERY bad, and will put us on the march to a fully politicized internet. If you think this is good because the R's are in charge, they quite probably will NOT always be. Don't hand power to your friends you do not want your enemies to have. Highly recommended reading.
“They have it. I want it. I will pay for it.” as my friend used to say. Card me. Idga flip. The employees always let me know it is a stupid policy. But, life in a college town of underage consumers often calls for stupid over-reach.
All four of those things are forced obedience. And it is my opinion that the years of compliantly handing over your ID to any whippersnapper who demanded it was part of the training leading to obediently covering your airway and standing on the required markings.
It’s so asinine. When you’re clearly beyond the age where it might be questionable, it’s just performative bureaucratic nonsense. Honestly I would like the laws to go back to age 18 for alcohol purchase and take away all the ridiculous efforts to “get” people for underage drinking. I think education and severe consequences for things like drunk driving or committing any crime while under the influence is more effective.
It's worse than that. As written, it's to even just use a phone. Doesn't matter if you never go on the net. Doesn't matter if it's your grandma who can't even text, all she does is make calls, before the phone will work at all, she has to be ID'd.
It's a mess. VERY bad mess, and the whole history of Russia in that article sounds WAY too easy to happen here too.
I agree that for all nominees & generally in all cases (including ourselves), actions speak louder than words. It’s still head-scratching that with so many people without “vaccine baggage”, she’s the choice. And my son was in the military at the time the “vaccines” were mandated & I will ever resent the 2 he was forced to take. My husband & I were also banned from his graduation from boot camp for being unvaxed. Will never forget or forgive that, either.
Right there w you. My son was in the Marines and took the vax rather than dishonorable discharge. I hated it at the time and still do. But I also pray every day to the God who is Sovereign to protect my son’s health and cause the vax to do no damage.
So far no sequelae of which i am aware & like you, I remain hopeful that will stay the case. That said, he is in the near area of the 7.7 quake in Japan & I have not been able to reach him….
Thanks so much. There are no reports of damage & death so I’m sure he is fine. And in typical “guy fashion” he figures he only needs to touch base if he’s NOT 🙄
ERRATA
— Alert readers reminded me to capitalize "Marines" and that TECHNICALLY they don't "rappel" at sea, so I tweaked that too. Fixed
Sure looks like rappelling to us landlubbers.
I assume he was talking about “climb up the side of the ship on ropes”? I didn’t watch any video, but I would like to know what that’s called.
They might have rapelled - if they were inserted by helicopter(s) and not boats. They might have boarded by both methods.
What I thought was pretty sweet was the USS Spruance employing naval gunfire with their 5 inch gun while on the move against a moving target in moving seas! Here, here Spruance! That's some good shooting!
I want to know what was on this ship that it desperately tried to run the blockade. Perhaps it was Chinese take out.
I'm thinking that is a good possibility, if Chinese "take out" includes the shoulder launched air defense missile which got the shot on the unsuspecting F15 crew. Being that it was an IRGC controlled asset you can bet it wasn't rice, chop sticks and apricots.
Likely more nefarious goods. Many suggest the Port delivers logs
document the history of where that ship was unloading.
They say that was the desired acquisition.
Fiat, I see what you did there. Chinese "take out".
Hahahaha 👍🤣
possibly the fact that if it did not get to port their families would be 'cared for' by the IRGC.
Climbing up the side of a ship using ropes is primarily referred to as abseiling (or rappelling in the U.S.)
So Jeff was technically correct from a U.S. perspective. Lol
Actually they were going from the helicopter to the ship and it is called Fast roping. As a Navy pilot, I’ve done it with Navy SEALS and EOD as few times during deployment.
Thank you for serving!
Hello MayBella82! EOD air-ops memories!
Loved the EOD guys… they made the flying fun!
Thanks, Juju! Inquiring minds want to know these things 🤓
So much so I felt compelled to rappel over to Ai to find out. 🤣 (a little alliteration inspired by too much coffee…)
abseiling while you think its English is actually German.
ab ~ away
seil ~ rope
when i climbed back in the day in Germany, when you threw a rope down from top of rock face, you yelled the equivalent of a golfing "4", it was "Seil".
Awesome 😀 So cool
For some reason I heard Styx in my head when I saw your reply. “Come seil away come seil away come seillll awayyy with meeee lad” LOL. Wrong spelling I know - I need coffee. Just got up 🤦🏼♀️😆
Thanks for the ear worm, Juju!
If you are going to be exact, I correct one other military thing… if you want to shorten the Coast Guard, call them Coastie. When you shorten to the Guard, it is the National Guard that is being talked about. Just saying:-).
Correct...
I know that I rappelled in the Navy from a helicopter. Marines do it too. This keeps a naval vessel away from an enemy ship.
Yep, rapelling is the correct term although depending on the method of rapelling employed, they could also be "fast roping" which is quite a bit quicker, but you need good gloves!!! Basically just sliding down the rope with your hands, not leg attachment to the rope.
Which helicopter did you repelled from? I flew H-46s and we only did fast rope. Granted that was years ago and the H-46 has been retired for about 15 years now. Marines also did the fast rope from their H-46s.
🤣 Burst out laughing when I saw your ‘name’! My guy is a retired Navy officer with hilarious stories. Bohica 😂
Are there any safety measures with that, or if someone loses their grip, do they fall?
They fall…it can be fatal. A Command Officer of one of the SEAL teams landed wrong and died. It was a training evolution and you don’t expect that to happen. This happened about 5 years ago. It is important to be at the right altitude and be steady as they go down one right after another.
I think someone fell when fast-roping into Mogadishu, Somalia, dramatized in the movie, "Blackhawk Down".
Watch Black Hawk down.
In simple old school rappelling (no belay devices), if you loop the rope in the wrong way it can open the D-ring gate and pop out. As Tom Petty said - "I'm free falling"
Fast roping is the fastest way to put a person on a ship they are overtaking. I’ve done training with SEALs where they put their boat out the back of a H-46 and over take a ship. It is a lot more work but there are missions that require it.
It is called fast roping to the deck of a ship.
Jeff (and all C&C stalwarts),
I submit the following in furtherance of a fuller understanding of the challenges and significance of the remarkable work undertaken by Tulsi Gabbard and how long and arduous has been (and will be) the process.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/20/spygate-russiagate-ic-impeachment-jack-smith-targeting-and-lawfare/#more-282684
Looks like rappelling to me https://x.com/centcom/status/2046085543348293851
Though Centcom in this post even calls it rappelling, that is indeed fast roping in the video and it is the common standard for heliborne maritime insertion, as it is MUCH faster than rappelling, where each descender is hooked into the rope above and must clear the rope below before another person can hook in. With fast roping they just grip the rope with hands and feet and control descent by friction at those points, and well trained personnel can even have two or even three descending a rope at a time, depending on height above target.
MayBella82, if you’re reading this note, we would rappel from both 46’s and 53’s, though not very common from the 53’s. From the 46 we would use both the hell hole, and go off the ramp using the same ramp insert frame as used for fast roping, by passing the rappel ropes overhead through carabiners attached to the frame.
Former Marine rappel master here.
That is fast roping … they are sliding down the rope with their hands and feet…. There is nothing that attaches them to the rope but their hands and feet. I believe repelling has attachment to the rope. We didn’t do repelling in H-46.
Could I just add here. Thanks to MayBella82, BeadleBlog, Brian C (and whoever else I missed) for serving. But also for revealing to us couch surfers what a military mission actually entails. The commitment, bravery, strength, precision involved in "just" the fast roping (let alone all the other details to get a ship ready, in position, execute...) is beyond my ability to accurately comprehend, and yet I am profoundly moved. I am in awe. Truly, grateful.
So cool
That would be fast-roping, which is sliding down a very thick rope secured and deployed from a helicopter.
Did you notice how high the helo was? Ouch if that rope was not long enough.
Here is another ERRATA - do not cheer for Erica Schwartz. Call it like it is, another failure for the medical freedom movement. Let's tell the Truth about Trump's allegiance to pHARMa. Susie Wiles as his chief of staff says it all.
Too soon to tell! She resigned in January of 2021, left office in April 2021. She didn’t like what she was being told to do. I still trust Bobby!
Thats interesting, what all does it say, since you are on the inside.
You know what I think it says, Trump has a very successful administrator who also just happens to know where all the skeletons are in big pharma and "public health".
Dont be a nutcase.
Susie Wiles IS a skeleton in big pharma. Nutcases are those who believe in injecting poison into little babies, innocent children and helpless adults. They keep doing it and the band plays on.
Yeah, sorry, that was the corrupt criminals and murderers of the autopen regime not President Trump. Are you shooting up crack? You still haven't cleaned up your first pile of BS and you are already throwing another one with no fact to back it up. Okay, I said don't be a nut case but instead, you are a nucking futcase.
Iran is like the Black Knight in the movie Monte Python and the Holy Grail. He won’t let King Arthur cross the bridge. Despite Arthur cutting off all four of his limbs one by one the Black knight insists that his injuries are merely “a flesh wound” and wants to continue to fight claiming “none shall pass”, and “I’m invincible”. You’ve got to watch this, it’s the perfect analogy and a good Monday morning laugh.
https://youtu.be/3e0mrddCjaQ?si=j4jt-cWeRqXqokoX
@jeffchilders you / C&C got a nice shout out by Susan from Promethean Action about an hour in on this fascinating podcast (she reads you every day!) https://youtu.be/iUz0wwZgqFQ
Here's a time-stamped link, directly to her comments: https://youtu.be/iUz0wwZgqFQ?si=JUmSACA9P7dOTlw5
So I clicked your link thinking it would go directly to the part of the video where she talks about Jeff. It didn’t. It actually took me to the start of the video and pulled me into a lonnnng rabbit hole. 🤣 Pulled me away from comments because it’s an interesting discussion and I just found myself listening.
For others the time stamp where she begins to talk about Jeff’s C&C analysis starts at: 1:11:40. I just got to it. 😆😆 Thought I’d come here to share the timestamp.
Bless you for the time stamp!
It WILL pull you in because it’s soooo interesting listening to all the valid arguments both against and for this war - and I love Susan and can never turn her off. Everrrr
Prometheanaction.com is a must listen !
My time-stamped link works when I click on it. You must mean Emily's link.
No it was yours. For some reason it opens the video at the beginning. It might be because I read Substack through my phone app and the YouTube link interface works that way?? 🤷🏼♀️
Must be (given that my link got 34 likes).
I might have sent her a link since I send C&C to everyone. 🤣
Thanks - loved their mention of getting to abolishing the British system of property tax!
A, curious: what’s your definition of “evangelicals”?
Coming from a traditional Catholic background, Margo, evangelicalism has shocked me on more than one occasion. There is a lot of coercive persuasion going on there. And extremism. Many people claiming that they and only they can interpret the Bible and tell you how you must live and behave. There is a high degree of control and judgment going on. A great deal of groupthink.
I saw the film "Marjoe" years ago, about the evangelical Bible-belt in the U.S. and how it could be milked through a combination of con-artistry and the very gullible believers. It was most illustrative. Not that it was my first exposure to these groups.
Moderate Protestantism is entirely different.
A, out of curiosity, I looked up “evangelical” in the dictionary, and I like this “ Of, relating to, or being a Christian church believing in the Bible as the sole source of religious authority, in salvation only through conversion and spiritual regeneration, and in the necessity of public witness to faith.”. Too bad the term has been so misused and abused!
But looking something up in a dictionary never proves anything, Margot. Though I see people who think it does. Ahem....
Academic proof in Western society comes from formal peer-reviewed academic literature...NOT from a dictionary entry.
A dictionary entry tells you only what that for-profit publishing company picked as their definition (for any reason at all). It is evidence of nothing else. I have had to explain this mistake countless times to people who think they have won the argument by giving me a dictionary entry.
Oh good Lord. "Marjoe" was your education on evangelicalism? The bare-bones definition of evangelicalism is that, within Protestant Christianity, it holds to the Bible, to the atonement of Christ, to the belief that one must have a personal conversion, and most importantly, that the "good news" (which is what "evangel" means) is to be spread by those who are . . . evangelical. You have perhaps not noticed that Jeff Childers is an evangelical, as are many who comment here.
There are wackos and nutcases and many disturbing, unworthy types within the evangelical frame, just as there are within Catholicism. My husband, a former Catholic, comments frequently on what he considers the insanity of many Catholics who hold to doctrines he finds "shocking." Groupthink is what you're concerned about? And you're Catholic?
Let's just acknowledge we can find a whole lot of things under rocks. Doesn't make the rock complicit. Wouldn't surprise me if Susan and Barbara at Promethean are evangelical. We don't all look and sound alike.
Sue, you begin here with very un-Christian-like disdain. Which rather proves my point about evangelical issues.
Want to try again? And rather than being simply tribal and out to get "the other"....attempt to act according to the Gospels.
OK?
And no...this is not my only exposure to evangelicalism. Did I tell you that? But I do not intend to write a book here on this Substack. Stop being so silly!
Outing false beliefs is easy reading your progressive intellectual degradation posts.
Coming from same "background" have always wondered how it
possible to retain allegiance since the widespread reveals of the
padres grooming countless young boys in every city studied.
Then being "reassigned" to another parish. The entire bushel is rotten, not a few bad apples...
Very doubtful you or anyone else will attempt a justification...
Well, I hold to pre-Vatican II Catholicism, TS. Different from the post-1965 version, which became tainted by Globalist Marxism.
Although you are correct about pedophilia appearing in the Catholic Church....and across society. One thing I must point out is that the infiltration could have been deliberate in order to pull down the Church. Easy to get into the seminary programs. Marxism excels in infiltration of their own into Western institutions. Are you certain this was not the cause?
You can find pedophilia in many places today, most unfortunately. I do think the priesthood needs to be tweaked to become more human for those in that role. So what -- you give up Christianity altogether, and you think that will be better? Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. There are many heinous behaviours out there from the secular types and atheists too. You might want to look at that while you're at it.
It is very fashionable to diss Catholicism. Move on to really thinking about that.
And then we have groups such as the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons. Who do not consider themselves strictly evangelicals, but who do fall under the three traits I have listed. As well as those two groups, there are an untold number of religious extremist cults.
Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons and other cults do not rely solely on the Bible for faith and practice. They rely on other writings. That's what makes them a cult and not Christian at all.
Would make the strong case that the Catholics are by a large margin the largest "cult" Derives from the word culture:
An assembly of People
Drink the blood, eat the flesh, infallible insanity
One church advances the "everlasting covenant" overstanding.
That concept is for the adept. By definition it means that one
establishes a direct relationship, north of most mind sets.
Always a great idea to consider oneself... That is a higher calling.
An even higher one is the admission of false beliefs.
Typically the best educated Ivory Tower peeps missed that course.
Howz about moderate cultism? Catholocism the largest slice of that pie.
These folks never saw a road except as a suitable place to kick a can.
Oddly she posted an article by a guest author crowing about the fake
Artemis "circle the moon" huifest
or more specifically the IRGC which I hope is the real target in the next round of bombings - bridges and power plants are not holding up peace - it's the IRGC which must be taken out
I suspect the President's statements about bridges and power plants are mainly to get the IRGC scrambling to those places, force human shields onto them, when the actual targeting is elsewhere.
This makes total sense, seeing how this administration works. I think in 100 yrs historians will look back and say this is when war tactics changed dramatically.
Strong words, yes. But also a man of actions; so prepare for "consequences".
Yes, it is, James, perfect analogy! Thanks for a good chuckle!
Maybe we also need the US Navy to have a set of questions for ship captains, before they can cross the Strait? "What is your favorite color?"
Fun fact: the air speed velocity of a European Swallow is 24mph
Laden or unladen?
AAAAaaaaaahhhhhh..........!
While carrying a cocoanut?
What’s your favorite color? “Blue … no green”… eject into canyon. Hahahahahahah. Slays me every time.
Ooh, boy... One quote and every Python fan starts geeking out!
<cracking up here...>
He could grip it by the husk!
🤣
The Knights Who Say "Ni!", also called the Knights of Ni, are a band of knights encountered by King Arthur and his followers in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the play Spamalot. They demonstrate their power by shouting "Ni!" (pronounced /niː/ ⓘ NEE), terrifying the party, whom they refuse to allow passage through their forest unless appeased through the gift of a shrubbery.
RJ Just to add a layer -- I believe the knights who say Ni was a play on the original word for knight, which was cniht in the original Old English, a joke for Brits who got it, with the nuance totally lost on Americans. If you listen to a clip from the movie, when they first say the word it definitely sounds like cniht.
Interesting. Thanks.
At some point they say, “ka-nigget”. lol
We are now the knights who say, “Icky, icky, icky, petang, petang, neeeWom!”
Red…, no blue! Ahhhhh!
This made me chuckle..
Perfect analogy! Perfect framing! I miss The Flying Circus and the timeless penetrating humor/truth of MP. Perhaps the US should deploy insults as a strategy…”Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries” would be a good start.
I think President Trump DOES employ humor but most people mistake them for insults. If everyone would just lighten up a bit …
Exactly!! I especially appreciate the AutoPen photo hung in Biden’s spot in the White House. 😆
Sublime. Simply sublime.
But I fear when democrats take power they will replace Trump’s picture with a jack-o’-lantern - and it won’t be that funny because there’s no truth to their insults.
Yeah but we have humour & will just laugh at their payback.
"I fart in your general direction..." 🤣
😂
🤣🤣🤣
"I blow my nose at you, animal food trough water!"
😂😂
"Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time "😂
Try that with A. and his centrist observation. lol
Peacock has The Flying Circus for streaming. I have a with ads subscription through Instacart.
Lol 😆 James! One of my favorite monty python skits!😂😂
And SO MANY MORE. And have you seen Fawlty Towers?
Oh YES!
Fawlty: "Manuel...on those trays..." Manuel: "no, no, no Mr. Fawlty, 'uno, dos, tres'"
[aside] "He's from Barcelona."
@RJ, never really got into watching that show, but you can't go wrong with John Cleese. Funny Funny guy!😂
Such a great show!!
Here’s another classic RJ it’s the French Revolution. Movie was The History of The World.
https://youtu.be/dk47saogI8o?si=8CzQfE0V3oT7vfI2
Thanks!
The only thing keeping Iran going is their confidence in the democrat party as an ally.
Um, the biblical analogy of that is leaning on a reed that will pierce your hand.
This!!! (@Richard)
I do believe this thread has inspired a true NEED to watch this movie again this week 🙌
"What are you gonna do, bleed on me?"
So funny and perfect comparison to the crazies in Iran
T.A.C.O. = Trump Always Conquers Opponents ;-)
Be Well, Be Blessed,
Phillip
I like your version of that 😁
My wife found it =)
Except for the Epstein class and zionists.
"I'll bite you!"
"I'll bite your legs off!"
One of my favorite comedy sketches of all time. That and the Stan/Loretta sketch from Life Of Brian, which seems so appropriate for our time.
One of my top 5 movies 🤣
Thay was a hoot! Thanks for the post! Good job, Long Arthur! (TAW)!
Fabulous analogy! So on point! Thanks!
Thanks for the great analogy! I’m a huge fan of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, et al, and you’re right, it’s spot on!
✝️✝️✝️
Whoever is wise, so let him discern these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of Yahweh are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.
— Hosea 14:9 LSB
✝️✝️✝️
HAPPY Patriots' Day
I'd like to see some DOJ fallout on crooked Leftist "Patriots", Colorado's own Jason Crow, who carried Articles of Impeachment 1.0, and my Congressdude Joe Neguse who carried Articles for Impeachment 2.0. An IT guy who previously worked in DC told me today that DC doesn't have anyone smart enough to form a "Deep State" it's all a rumor and that Trump's team is the MOST CORRUPT Administration we've had in modern history according to his sources there. I mentioned that maybe Hunter Biden can make a comeback in 2028 to fix all the fraud waste and abuse that Trump started.
And my first thought when Jeff mentioned whistleblowers was The StayPuft Marshmallow Man in uniform, ALEXANDER VINDMAN. I point in his general direction and yell "GET HIM!!!" 😡
Oh! He DOES look like the Marshmallow Man!! 🤣🤣🤣
We all need to put on the Breastplate of Righteousness. Ephesians 6:14.
And carry the sword of truth!
As for the story about Tulsi and the criminal referrals to the DOJ, Brian Cates believes this is a signal to all the deep state players that more indictments are coming, and this is far bigger than it may seem. He thinks that this year we will see the military arrest members of Congress, Governors, Mayors, those who participated in the treasonous coup, or hold office because of rigged elections involving foreign actor interference. The civil court system cannot be used for this, because of so many conflicts of interest.
I hope we do see some arrests this year. I would really like to see, these criminals be treated with treason. They used to hang traitors.
I hope something happens to SOMEONE before I die of old age
I agree. It is massively disappointing when nobody who pulls off these inhuman stunts against a definitively popular elected President gets off with no repercussions, even when laws are broken.
And then their followers riot in the streets of our cities, block traffic, destroy private businesses and harass anti-protesters , also without consequences. No wonder it seems as if nobody respects the law anymore.
M Adams, I hope you have many years left, lol.
Me too. It better happen sooner than later.
I keep wondering why we can’t arrest congressmen who go overseas and trash this president to undermine his efforts during a time of war. The minute they return
lol look at us longing for ARRESTS. and TRIALS.
It's getting to the point where we should expect hangings.
They still should. I will volunteer to do the hanging if no one else will.
Ive sent my name in repeatedly as a trigger tripper, or fully identified rifle shooter.
Lori, this is completely off-topic, but I thought of you this morning. I was reading Randy Alcorn’s blog (Christian author). Sorry I don’t know how to give you a link, but the title is “ We Can Simultaneously Make Room in Our Hearts for God, People, and Animals” and the date was April 17. Check it out, you will love it!
Hey Margot, how very thoughtful of you. I so enjoy when people remember me when animal topics come up. I do love them so much and am always gobsmacked by how many creatures God made and how they are all so different. I know He loves them too.
I will check Randy out and am truly most obliged and humbled by your thoughtfulness.
Speaking of animals, the only protest of late that I was rooting for was saving those poor beagles from the horrors they are subjected to in medical research. Remember the photos of those poor pups that had their vocal cords cut to save the researchers from hearing their cries of distress, as Fauci’s crew subjected them to being eaten alive by sand flies? 😭
Yes, I would do the same to fauci without hesitation. Beagles are used in vet schools and medical research. I saw this weekend that people stormed a lab in Wisconsin to free the lab beagles but were shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas. It hurts my heart to its core to see animals in research when there are alternatives. There are so many we need to punish besides politicians.
You’re welcome, sweetie
Just found it Margot and going to read now!
The military arresting members of Congress and other politicians is a non-starter - Posse Comitatus and all that - but indictments will likely be filed. I would like to see the Department of War call back all the retired military signers of the “Letter,” and court-martial them. Let a jury of their peers decide that their actions were seditious.
You must have meant Pusse Comitatus.
Don't worry, Trump may have real legal reasons to be impeached after the Iran disaster.
Oh Johnny….
not a chance, TAW.
What Iran ‘disaster’??
The one that was supposed be done weeks ago, that has spiked energy costs, restricted global fertilizer supplies during spring planting, cost us hundreds of billions, destroyed US bases, etc. That one.
I think you mean cost hundreds of trillions and killed 700,000,000,000 people.
I guess you’ve never heard of Brent Crude Oil and how it’s actually Brent that determines the cost of petroleum futures, which is what your current cost is based on. And just what ‘US base’ has been destroyed in the past 2 months/. You’re spewing nonsense.
You mean the WTI charts I watch daily? No, no idea what you are talking about. But apparently the 10D chess wizard doesn't know - because he tells his true believers not to worry because we have so much oil. Utter lies to try to calm people down - we don't keep our oil - it goes on the global market. Furthermore, we don't have refining capacities to replace what goes through the strait.
You believe the US hasn't suffered massive damage in the Gulf? What are you smoking bruh? We had to pull our navy out and have left our stronghold in Iraq. Plenty of analysts have reported severe damage, but you won't hear that from your lying government, of course.
You mean like protecting the Epstein class like the Trump DOJ has been doing?
Deflection.
Yes, Lisa deflected a lot in that exchange. Thank you for pointing it out.
So the guy who backed operation warp speed and called it one of the greatest accomplishments ever isn't part of the system meant to destroy humanity? What kind of mental gymnastics do you have to do in order to believe otherwise? Or the current conflict taking offline a massive percentage of global fertilizer? Yeah, he's definitely on team humanity smh
Thanks for the kind words Lisa. You are a true Christian.
I seriously hope so! Or maybe suicide weekend? I’m sorry but I’m looking forward to it. I don’t want to sit for 2 1/2 years until all these things go to trial. They steal another election and let everybody go free. 🤬
We sure are praying that arrests and convictions are coming! These people who instigated these terrible acts have committed treason and should be dealt with accordingly! If not, it will continue and only get worse, and our Republic will suffer and/or crash and burn! Too many people have given their lives to keep our precious country free, and this must not be allowed continue!
Maybe they have. Bush sr., Cheney, McCain, Mueller, etc all deceased. More than half of congress died, resigned or stated they won't run for re-election. Numerous pedophiles arrested. Many CEOs stepped down. It's slowly happening.
This is a major point and what is needed. All the changes made to the military leadership and rules of engagement were necessary before this could happen. The left tried ti tell the military not to obey illegal orders. Now the military can prosecute illegal actions.
Actually, I wouldn't mind if they outed themselves. Saves time rooting them out.
I have one question:
Why would these people break the law and risk going to jail when they HAD to know that President Trump would never be convicted?
Were they hoping that he'd resign, a la Nixon?
Admittedly a lot of Democrats are loaded with hubris and many are low on critical thinking skills, so they may not have pondered the fact they were breaking the law. Still, you would think they would be a little more cunning, if not more moral.
The first Impeachment following the Russia Russia Russia narrative prevented Trump from push through his agenda. Basically they slow walked Trump '45s term with those two bogus acts. The third impeachment was probably an effort to make sure Trump left politics completely. The leftist clearly misunderestimated him, thank goodness for the USA!
Thanks-I didn’t listen to his podcast because they are so dang long. Appreciate the insight.
May it be so. Time for their doomsdays.
Geezer: I hope Cates is right. I would even go to trad-media to watch the perps get grilled. 🙏🏻
News Flash: all elections are rigged.
Let's try to change that.
from your lips to God's ears, but I highly doubt it.
Dave, sounds like what I've heard called the "Q plan".
I like the sound of this!
I hope you're right!
“We need new laws,…” indeed, but to get them we need a new Congress. 3/4 of them are presently corrupt.
I don't think it works that way. I hate to admit it, but I worked briefly for the IRS as a very low level clerk. They have you stand up and take an oath that they said is the same oath as every federal officer up to the vice president. There was nothing signed.
Now, I am sure the inspector general's office employees have to pass some level of security clearance, and there might be additional things to sign.
Jenna McCarthy mentioned Jeff's optimism in her substack this morning regarding Erica Schwartz! See, it's catching! Called him the Optimist-in-Chief! Here it is!
" I refuse to speculate that this is more of that 5D chess—Trump attempting to expose the agenda by putting one of their proponents in the director’s chair. (I’m onto you, Lucy.) I can no longer rule out the possibility that Bobby has been compromised, or threatened, or blackmailed, or simply told “you can have your red dye ban, or you can have literally nothing at all” and the man grudgingly embraced the slightly-less-awful option. I’ll leave it to Optimist-in-Chief Jeff Childers—the only guy I know who can routinely out-Pollyanna me—to sprinkle a metric ton of rose-colored glitter all over this mess for us later this morning."
Jenna’s Side is right there with Coffee&Covid for me.
She is an astute judge of character and hilarious.
She also metaphorically equated Dr Schwartz to "Fauci in heels". To which I replied, "Well that ruined Monday for me."
I would not be surprised if fauci is a closeted trans.
I'm trying to be neutral about Schwartz, but I don't have a lot of hope that she will be different. To her credit she resigned from Biden's admin, although we don't really know why. To that point, she seems to have been someone who follows orders and says nothing, not always a good thing. It would be nice to hear an explanation of why she was chosen, and not just a list of her prior positions. So I'm watching her and I'll form my opinion later on.
Maybe she IS Fauci!
Wow, a shape-shifter!
😲
You will know them by their fruits.
Anyone forcing mandates on civilians or our military makes my hair stand up. Just saying…
What really is causing the disease epidemic….
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/how-to-reliably-cause-cancer-in-mice?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
Erica's nomination certainly is putting military vaccine mandates in the spotlight. Many were previously unaware.
Thanks Lori! :)
If you and Jeff ever want to give us all a treat, just because you love us as much as we love both of you, you should do a podcast interviewing him. No reason, simply just to cause us all to act like screaming teenagers watching their favorite headbanger band. 🤣🤣🤣
LingOL! I'm in if Jeff is! :)
Great idea Juju!
RFK Jr. sat before a US House committee on Thursday and alternately was praised by Republicans and thrashed by Democrats for four hours. He held up pretty well. Some of the Democrats were reasonably reserved and asked focused questions, and some started by praising the service of his family. Others simply rattled off the usual accusations and didn't even give Mr. Kennedy a chance to rebut them. I haven't gotten all the way through it yet.
PBS:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-health-secretary-rfk-jr-testifies-about-hhs-priorities-at-house-hearing
C-Span:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRcXOLSOfwQ
There are other versions available. The highwire was streaming it, but I couldn't find a link on their webpage.
The Dems are anal fissures to us all. SSDD. I am behind RFK Jr. all the way and want him and MAHA to kick some Dem asses to the curb.
I'm sick of hearings to the point where I don't bother watching them. The Dems grandstand and only want "yes-no" questions, and it's all about THEM...looking tough (whereas they are not) and hoping to attract donations from other clueless Dems. That's it. Their so-called "questions" are idiotic and mindless.
PS-thanks for the links!
Another Substacker suggested Bobby Kennedy was bullied into hiring her. My reply: "I have a feeling Bobby isn't bullied by anyone." Hell, he's held his own with his own hostile family.
Watching him during the congressional hearings for his appointment was a master class in self control. They were BRUTAL.
Bobby was clearly chapped but he kept his cool and remained steadfast, exhibiting a level of class few in congress possess.
The over-the-top, idealized, hopeful idiot inside me is thinking the best candidate is to find one of “them” who was so deeply one of them, but who woke up the past four years. Having been on both sides of the fence could have caused her to staunchly and firmly hold the same perspectives as RFKJr. So I pray she is a “born again” anti-vaxxer. They DO exist. Many of us fall into that bucket. Somehow having advocated for the other side of an issue then converting makes you the best advocate for the other side.
Of course - it most likely is as simple as Jeff is thinking: she is respectful and obedient to following the chain of command regardless her own personal beliefs. That would make her a wise pick too.
I think that is what happened to Fetterman. I think his stroke was a vaccine injury and he knows it. Now he is the only sane Democrat in Congress.
Is there some way for all the moronic Dems to have strokes and come out of it like Fetterman?
I resemble that person.
@Juju- yes.
Yep. Exactly. I always agree with you Juju
Same idea as, set a their to catch a theif.
They know where all the skeletons are buried and so know where to dig to expose the truth.
Yours is a good point. My first reaction was to wince. Trump has made some terrible picks, particularly in term 1, but in term 2 not so much. So, if Kennedy was on board for this, that's an independent positive data point. There must be something we can't see from the cheap seats. Maybe it's just me but sure looks like the high profile ICE resistance evaporated when the tribal card holding Indian was appointed as head. I can imagine some ironically humorous optics with the Dems attacking the new CDC head over controversial decisions. Imagine the WOKE left trying to call her stupid, unqualified, magic thinking, witch craft believing and anti science (or any other favorite pejorative) - Just sayin. I don't believe in DIE, but if you have several equally best qualified candidates, and one can also serve this double duty, how strategically delicious.
Hopefully, President Trump listen to the seasoned military around him…on paper is one thing but her reputation isn’t something that can be hidden. As you get more senior, your reputation among other senior military is everything.
Yes. Exactly. I agree totally.
agreed
Why then, are the Covid death-jabs still being offered and promoted?
Ditto glycophosphate? Ditto Remdesivir?
Ditto Fluoride in our water
"Why then, are the Covid death-jabs still being offered and promoted?"
Because the President of the United States is STILL LYING to the American people and telling them there is a deadly virus and that the genocidal 0WS vaxxine is safe, and to take it.
@Dude- people still clamor for them.
Erica might be a peace offering, a filler, and hopefully will build a bridge between all these vax addicts and the what they left believes to be anti-vaxxers…..which aren’t that, they just want safe vaxxes.. not toxic, population reducing and long term payers into the corrupt medical and pharmaceutical complexes. Maybe she can do that. I don’t know but I guess we will see.
Atty Childers it is your level-headedness (and sense of humor) that not only keeps me coming back but keeps me sane during all of the switchbacks that we continually run into. Thank you for being that "voice of reason" for all of us who are continually confused about what is going on. Please keep up the good work! God bless you and your family!
Amen!
With all this talk of pirates, this post should be rated arrrrr
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With all the good Trump has been and is doing, the idea that you should give up on him because of one nominee is bizarre. This perfectionistic cancel culture is insane. When did we get the idea that if something isn't 100% perfect, it needs to be thrown out? It sets up a totally untenable view of life. Thank God that God is more forgiving than the internet!
However, you failed to notice the false dichotomy which is 1) ditching Trump 2) embracing democrats. His ONLY two choices apparently. Adults notice this type of wording.
Agree. It’s the same mentality that leads some people to break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend or divorce because their partner isn’t perfect. Holding anyone to a standard of even quasi perfection is completely unrealistic. And hypocritical too because none of us are that either.
The situations you mentioned are usually compacted in a short period of time. As for our current President, since 2015 he has been making statements and promises. Now here we are in 2026 and he is coming up very short on many of those statements/promises.
Considering his propaganda department, they all have propaganda departments, it's very difficult to know what is true and what isn't. That's not what many of us voted for when we voted, again, for Donald Trump. Maybe the MAGA cult doesn't care about reality.
Amen, Jan. That also holds true with Christians picking each other to pieces over the slightest disagreement on theology or Scripture interpretation.
Yes. So when you throw Trump out then what are you going to replace him with? Do they have some good options for that? I would like to hear what the options are, please. If you are going to make a negative statement then please give us at least a hint of some solution.
All the good? Can you provide a list for those of us who must be too dense to see it?
Crime reduction.
The border is closed
MAHA is moving in the right direction. It’s a big ship and it doesn’t turn on a dime.
I don't think the border is closed. I have a FB friend who is a ESL teacher in California, working with immigrant kids. She is very pro-immigration.
Anyway, there was a well-publicized bust in her town last year. She was quite upset because one of her student's father was arrested.
They are all back now. I don't know how. She says the coyotes and some corrupt Border Patrol members are making bank.
But the millions of other men from around the world who the Biden regime paid to go to Mexico and cross the border? That apparently has stopped. At least, I haven't seen any photos of masses of foreign men massed at the border.
Mrs. RW
Well… you did say California. Newsom loves his illegals and is doing everything he can to keep them and bring in more.
It wouldn't surprise me if Newsom and his gang didn't fly them back in themselves--on the taypayer dime, of course. Immigrants of all types are supposedly 28% of California's population, so that is 10.5 million out of a population of 39.5 million. Illegals are about 6% of the population. One in 5 immigrants is illegal, and overall, one in 4 people in CA is an immigrant (this includes both legal and illegal). No wonder the fraud is so massive here.
Thanks Lisa! This was just a quick scroll of a couple things not even an entire list. Always negative. It can’t all happen with a snap of a finger. We did not get here over night or in 4 years. It will take some time and I am constantly reminding myself. Cheers C&C friend ☕️
I know that’s a rhetorical question. However, in addition to the border, economic growth, bringing back manufacturing and tax reforms, my top two are keeping China away from control of the Panama Canal and (hopefully) returning Venezuela to its former glory. Like many, I’m concerned about the current conflict(s), but IF they work, the effects on world order and safety would be enormous.
I agree, we are being told Trump is accomplishing things I think need to be accomplished; I hope we are being told the truth. However elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats lie so frequently it's hard to know what, if anything is factual. I know I can't prove your list is accurate but I hope it is. But to say "All the good things ..." implies more than I think is true.
I love when Trump lives rent free in people’s minds!!!
I assume you mean me. I can't say he lives in my head any more than any other egotistical, lying elected politician does. I may be more vocal in my criticisms of Trump than I was Biden, primarily because I knew what Biden was. On the other hand I supported Trump for specific reasons and now it is becoming obvious he lied; quite a bit. Since I have standards I believe in, when someone lies to me I take note.
Since I don't worship Trump, or any other person, I suspect he lives in the heads of his cult members much more than in the heads of those of us who think he has become a pathetic joke.
Too dense? Hmmm. Not quite the word I would use!!
lol… I agree with you. I can think of a couple of better words instead of dense.
Take your pick, it's worth what you paid for it. An insult only works when the insultee [sic] cares what the insulter thinks. Otherwise only the insulter & their ilk get a rush off of it.
Enjoy! 🤠
When I was a youngster my brother's mother's daughter, not they, said I was like a forest & a jungle; dense. It still applies!
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To prove your point .... "Thank God that God is more forgiving than the internet!", we have Noah's flood, Sodom & Gomorra and several chapters in Revelation, to name a few, to consider related to God's forgiveness.
Doing good... like supporting and funding Israel's genocide in Gaza?
Launching an unprovoked and grossly illegal war against Iran?
Throwing $200 Billion+ of OUR taxpayer cash down the Ukraine toilet?
Running $2.5 TRILLION annual deficits?
MIGA?
🤣😂🤣 Seriously? Talk to Biden and Burisma Hunter about Ukraine. October 7 was the genocide. Your Jew hatred is showing along with your ignorance of historicity. The deficit grew like an uncontrolled prostate cancer under your buddy Joe. And Iran won’t budge on giving back its uranium. So stopping a bunch of radical Islamic mullahs (who have no compunction about killing women because a strand of hair shows) from nuking us is unprovoked? Go back and inhale some more of whatever you’re smoking, Dude.
It’s all part of the plan.
"A full set of teeth" 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Reminds me of Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck" series... "if you're ever accused of lying through your tooth... you might be a redneck"
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I concur with your evaluation on Trump and the new CDC director. Those of us who support Trump aren’t Panikins who run around screaming “Run away! Run away!” as if we are in the Monty Python movie In Search of the Holy Grail. “Stay the course, steady as she goes”.
Yes, my first thought was that she is military, she follows orders.
My first thought because if her credentials is she is rule follower. She wants to make flag so she will not do anything that would effect her reputation within the her military community. Selection boards are brutal the more senior you go and reputations are talked about in the tank.
As a Veteran, orders are orders. Unless unlawful. That is a tricky one; usually only determined after the order is carried out.
Even Trump has to do DEI. I still support Trump.
Re: Schwartz
Pro-vaccine is one thing. Pro-mandate is something else entirely.
I would have left in 2021 if responsible for enforcing mandates too... so maybe she's just the kind of 'No, I will not cross that Red Line' person needed... hopefully there's some sort of hearings and she says so for the record.... like so much - willing to wait and see.
(But tired of waiting for the DNI referrals to be acted upon and arrests to take place. Also do not think Treason should be a pardonable crime. Hunter's formation of Bohai Harvest with CHINA and Billionaire Step-Son of John Kerry Chris Heinz; to get their hands on Ukrainian Energy - [While BuyDem was VP and making his own threats against Ukrainian prosecutors to treasonously protect his family's own interests] - should have them tarred and feathered in a pillory on the National Mall in D.C. for July 4th!!!!!
I don’t think anyone should be pardoned who wasn’t convicted first, because we’re supposed to all be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I know, what a quaint idea!
Pro-mandate is war criminal. Pro-vaccine (covid) shows an appalling lack of judgement.
At best, poor judgement.
At worse, captured by corporate interests.
she oughta be in prison.
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please don't slander me, Christian!
It’s not slander when it is the truth.
but I ain't a bot.
are you a bot?
what is a bot?
besides an insult?
why insult me, Christian?
"This kind of second-hand testimony was prohibited right on the face of the form. So Atkinson just … changed the form. He simply deleted the prohibition against hearsay. Kind of like changing the definition of “vaccine” on the CDC website."
That action, IMHO, shows he knew the evidence was was weak. He apparently also back dated the new form. It also reveals him as willing to support a coup.
There should be consequences for him doing that too. Why does he get to change that because he feels like it??
I know in Florida there are numerous exceptions for hearsay evidence and I'm sure that's the way it is in other states. It's not always inadmissible. If it was legit hearsay why "tamper" with the original form? Not an Attorney but it appears he tampered with material evidence then failed to disclose any of that during the impeachment.
"In the meantime, I’ll assume the President knows what he is doing and I’ll let the man work."
YES. So far, despite all the screaming when it starts, things are going in the right direction. How many times does he have to get it right before you assume he has a plan and wait to see it? Personally, I'm watching the world flip into something more sane WAY WAY WAY faster than anyone could have predicted, and I'm LOVING IT.
Let him work, there probably IS something up his sleeve, there has been very consistently.
On X, a link to an excellent article about why the Let Parents Decide Act is VERY bad, and will put us on the march to a fully politicized internet. If you think this is good because the R's are in charge, they quite probably will NOT always be. Don't hand power to your friends you do not want your enemies to have. Highly recommended reading.
https://builtuponindependence.com/blog/hr-8250-parents-decide-act/
Proof of age (ID) to use the internet, but not to vote.
I am 73 and still have to show ID at certain grocery stores to buy beer
That is an exercise in forced obedience. That is how they get people compliant with an ever increasing police state.
Papers, please!
Mrs. RW
I don't think so. It is lazy management and poor training of employees. Forced obedience was masks , social distancing, and stay at home.
“They have it. I want it. I will pay for it.” as my friend used to say. Card me. Idga flip. The employees always let me know it is a stupid policy. But, life in a college town of underage consumers often calls for stupid over-reach.
All four of those things are forced obedience. And it is my opinion that the years of compliantly handing over your ID to any whippersnapper who demanded it was part of the training leading to obediently covering your airway and standing on the required markings.
Don't forget urinating in a cup on demand.
Mrs. RW
It’s so asinine. When you’re clearly beyond the age where it might be questionable, it’s just performative bureaucratic nonsense. Honestly I would like the laws to go back to age 18 for alcohol purchase and take away all the ridiculous efforts to “get” people for underage drinking. I think education and severe consequences for things like drunk driving or committing any crime while under the influence is more effective.
Yeah. I left out it's OK to change your sex under 18 and not tell your parents. It is all about control, votes, and power.
Same
It's worse than that. As written, it's to even just use a phone. Doesn't matter if you never go on the net. Doesn't matter if it's your grandma who can't even text, all she does is make calls, before the phone will work at all, she has to be ID'd.
It's a mess. VERY bad mess, and the whole history of Russia in that article sounds WAY too easy to happen here too.
It’s very instructive to go back and read C&C roundups from 2022 or 2023 and be reminded of what we were dealing with then and how far we’ve come.
Only the grossly ignorant think "things are going in the right direction".
I agree that for all nominees & generally in all cases (including ourselves), actions speak louder than words. It’s still head-scratching that with so many people without “vaccine baggage”, she’s the choice. And my son was in the military at the time the “vaccines” were mandated & I will ever resent the 2 he was forced to take. My husband & I were also banned from his graduation from boot camp for being unvaxed. Will never forget or forgive that, either.
Right there w you. My son was in the Marines and took the vax rather than dishonorable discharge. I hated it at the time and still do. But I also pray every day to the God who is Sovereign to protect my son’s health and cause the vax to do no damage.
So far no sequelae of which i am aware & like you, I remain hopeful that will stay the case. That said, he is in the near area of the 7.7 quake in Japan & I have not been able to reach him….
🙏🏻🙏🏻
Praying you’ll hear from him soon 🙏
Thanks so much. There are no reports of damage & death so I’m sure he is fine. And in typical “guy fashion” he figures he only needs to touch base if he’s NOT 🙄
I am praying he is safe!
And you shouldn't Cindi. What a disgrace.
Thx for the support, Lori 😘
All your cargo are belong to us.
It will certainly be interesting to find out what is on the cargo vessel. !!! I hope we hear about it.
Thou shalt not steal.
Looks like an effort for war against the Persians.
@Bard- we're not stealing. We're confiscating.
Bullcrap... what legal justification is there for it?
Unilateral sanctions by lunatics do not become international law.
The blockade and piracy in international waters are grossly illegal... like the war on Iran itself.
The "preventing nukes" horseshit has been spewed by scum like Bibi since 1996.
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/things-to-think-about-war-politics?
I'm sure the US will <eventually> give back the ship and any non military cargo.
We will also be helping pay for rebuilding if Iran ever gets a government that's halfway acceptable.
War crimes, mass murder and piracy in international waters is not an act of bravery and humanity, you sad moron.
Obama?
You still talking about Obama?
This is Epstein Fury.
International PIRACY... "Liked by Jeff Childers".
Appalling.
Go away. Start a more effective hobby?