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Tulsi Gabbard is one of the few women I would be excited to vote for as a president.
She’s smart, composed and seems to love America (or the potential of America) and seems to have integrity, which is very rare in politics. She seems to understand the idea of universal oneness, so she appears to be a little higher in her soul level – which we so desperately need from a leader so we can stop harming others, and she is in touch with her masculine energy (protection), which is why most women are not good candidates for a job like the president.
But now, she is a target so, I hope lots of people are collectively praying for her safety.
I tend to not place all of my trust eggs in any one basket, but at least for now, she IS saying and doing many things right. I love that she brings the receipts and has the courage to say what most of us already knew, and have been waiting for someone in gov with the cojones to say it.
Maybe it's the fact that she isn't hampered by shriveled up cojones that we are able to count on her to deliver the truth and do the right thing. I've seen men of all ages in my practice who have unexplained low testosterone levels but I don't think the President, (or RFK jr.), is one of the chemical eunuchs that currently occupy congress and the courts.
You do know that "cojones" means guts? I've never thought of my guts or anyone else's as "shriveled". Perhaps you actually meant "huevos"? (You also alluded to eunuchs, so...).
I've never heard of that translation of cojones. I have long heard of this one:
cojones(n.)
"courage," literally "testicles, balls," 1932, in Hemingway ("Death in the Afternoon," an account of Spanish bull-fighting), from Spanish cojon "testicle," from Latin coleus "the testicles" (source of Italian coglione), literally "strainer bag," a variant of culleus "a leather sack," cognate with Greek koleos "sheath of a sword, scabbard." Both are said in some sources to be from PIE root *kel- (1) "to cover, conceal, save," but de Vaan finds it "Probably a loanword from a non-IE language, independently into Latin and Greek."
Way back in my youth I briefly worked in a factory in a tiny Texas town. Cajones was one of the few Spanish words I knew. I said to a Spanish speaking woman that I was working with that my dog had gotten in a fight and got bitten in the cajones. I swear I have never seen such a horrified look on someone’s face! I thought she was going to pass out. So I’m pretty sure it means ‘balls’. 😂🤣😂
Huevos is the Spanish word for "eggs." In culinary terms, it often refers to various egg dishes, such as huevos rancheros, which is a popular Mexican breakfast dish featuring eggs served on tortillas with salsa.
M. Patrick: I am wondering about low T and depression in men. A friend in early 40s is currently undergoing treatment for depression—trying different meds that sort of work for a while. I would appreciate insight or reliable resources you may have.
Just tell him to be careful with the meds. A friend just lost her 38 year old son to suicide because of the meds they put him on for mild depression. Check the side effects. Many say “may cause suicidal tendencies.” Also, he needs to ask what the plan will be to wean him off the meds.
Wonder not. Mental decline is apparent on many levels caused mostly by declining T. Has been ongoing for over a decades now front row and center. Many are the attacks and causes of widespread infertility.
If people are stupid enough to take the meds, that is on them.
Weight training is the best way to boost testosterone and also helps with depression. If he's already lifting, then creatine (lean red meat for natural source) or an adaptogen like Ashwagandha root might be worth a shot.
Maryann, I would look at Vit D levels, thyroid function, general chemistry and a blood count plus testosterone and if all those are negative, CBT and cardio exercise is a good place to start. It's a complicated topic and advice given in this setting is not the best approach for your friend. He might try a naturopath if allopathic medicine is failing him. Godspeed.
Thank you for the info about raising testerone levels. I was not sure depression could be a symptom of low T. Imo, increasing T seems to have less lethal side effects than SSRIs. It reduces sperm count but they are finished having children.
His family is aware of suicide potential connected to the meds and watch him closely.
You bet... yes, low T can cause a bunch of nasty symptoms... from hair loss, to low libido, to depression/anxiety... even increased cardiac event risk. But injecting T, while beneficial for many, can increase risks too... especially DVT risk (I know this).
I'm not sure, but I think Enclomiphene actually increases sperm count...
Yes, SSRI's have seemingly worked for many, but do have really nasty sides, both short term and long.
You might suggest looking into Modafinil, off label for depression... a game-changer for many. Great reviews. I may try it soon myself. Can be used as needed too, a big benefit.
She's great, but shes still a former lib from the most lib state (Hawaii) and has been a big gun-grabber for a long time. However she's shifted right on lots of issues (no longer supports trans, and has softened on her pro-abortion and pro-green stances).
She brings a lot to our side so hopefully she has a future beyond her current role.
Trump voted Dem all his life. Was a friend of the Clinton’s. Attended Chelsea’s wedding. No one has a perfect background if they have led an active useful professional life.
Many of us used to be Democrats when we were younger. Fortunately as we aged like a fine wine, we got wiser. Besides, the Dem party is NOT the same organization it once was.
Been a Republican since I was about 4, when my Mom explained the differences between the parties to me. (I asked.) I called the dumbocraps stupid then, I stand by it now.
There are more and more people who fall into similar camps and once they wake up from the leftist narrative and see what's going on outside of that echo chamber, they tend to start questioning almost everything they've ever believed. Sadly, to win an election in Hawaii, you seem to have to be off the deep end in your beliefs. I seem to recall that's one reason she stopped - not left enough.
But - did she learn anything since then? There are a lot of people who called for that in quite public ways who are now admitting they were wrong, not just trying to bury those tendencies and pretend they never happened. (There are many of those, too.) The psy-op wound up _so_ many people that even the more rational succumbed to all/part of it.
I like Gabbard, a lot. Do I trust her to be right on certain issues, like 2A and government overreach? And trusting pharma companies? Hell no. It's one thing to be oblivious as a teen and into one's twenties. To be well into your thirties or beyond and continue to fail to see obvious truths is a major red flag. The COVID scam was so transparent that millions of us could see exactly what was going on in early 2020. To be an adult and be in favor of lockdown until vaccine, school closures, destroying businesses, and the obvious upward transfer of wealth that was orchestrated says you are either evil or a stone idiot. I love her courage and ability, and she's just plain likeable. But while it's unfair to condemn youthful mistakes, mistakes made well into adult years is a different story.
I’m in my eighth decade of life and still learning. I can forgive adult mistakes. It’s a complex and complicated world we live in, and has to be especially so if you move in the corridors of power. (I have no experience with that, but figure it has to be hard.)
Also, she’s on my team, I can’t replace her and have no thoughts about a more perfect fit for the job, so I’ll pray for her and cheer her on.
I'm 64 and always leaned to the right but in my earlier years just did not give a crap about the world and it's governments. Until Obama. God thumped me on the head hard enough to wake me up to finally see what was happening. I would want people to accept that I changed, learned and grew. Most everyone can change. Not everyone but most.
I'm in my 8th decade and still learning too. I agree with everything you wrote, including forgiving SOME adult mistakes. Pfizer/Biontech was available 12/14/2020. Moderna 3 days later, J&J a month or so later. Here's what we knew way before then: There had been a decades-long, very effective campaign to make questioning anything about vaccines off-limits. This alone should make vaccines, in general, extremely suspect. To make this one even more suspect, rather than inject an antigen, it turned your body into an antigen (spike protein) factory. Who would think they really have a handle on exactly how that will go down? Nobody with a brain. Non-elderly, and healthy elderly were not at risk - clear by then. Corporations in general, and especially Pharma will do ANYTHING for profit. Citing their 95% efficacy, and safety claims, shows unacceptable naivete. They demonized safe drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin, while pushing dangerous, but profitable drugs like Remdesivir. They misattributed deaths to COVID - to drive fear, why else? Unbelievably, they actually said we don't know if infection confers immunity! And if it did, less than their vaccine! Yeah, right. The orchestrated upward transfer of wealth was obvious immediately - Target and big stores can stay open, not small players. Leaders of the fear-mongering clearly knew it was all BS - Pelosi at the hair dresser, Feinstein at the airport, Newsom at the French Laundry, Whitmer's husband hitting the road as usual. I could go on, cite the BLM riots, ad infinitum, but this is too long already. Gabbard theatrically refused the jabs initially saying it was more important for others, like elderly and health care workers to get it, because it is so friggin' vital for their safety. Anyone who believed that AT THE TIME is unable to process accurately what is clearly going on, and how things work. She failed, inexcusably. So did many others, we can't limit our supporters to only the most perceptive, that's too small a pool of humans. And she has amazing and rare qualities. I love what she brings to our side.
Leaders are under higher scrutiny. Even in scripture God holds them to higher account. Forgiveness is not excusing someone. We still need to hold others to account if their actions are currently or could in the future harm. If Tulsi still believes in and acts on beliefs that could harm, we need to hold accountable. God may forgive us but our actions still have consequences.
I think when she found out she was put on the watch list on air travel, that was another eye opener for her. It was her former party, the undemocrats, that did that.
She's smart. Put it out there in stages so the presstitutes and deep state can't hide it. Every day something new. The loonies on the Indivisible pages have been quiet on the latest truth bombs.
Thank God for courageous and talented journalists like Matt Taibbi. I've been reading his work since the aughts. He's was thrown under the bus, like so many others who refused to go with the mob mentality, not knowing where it would take him. Now, it looks like Racket News is doing well - he deserves it.
He's another example of someone reconsidering their position, at risk to their career. Is he perfect? No. But if you restrict your support to those who are perfect, you won't be supporting anyone.
Tulsi comes across as honest, grounded, and balanced. I disagree with some of her positions, but that’s OK. And how she’s handling the Obama team’s attempt to destroy Trumps presidency is spot on. Keep digging Tulsi!
The attack on Trump’s presidency was an attack on America. All the Dems really care about is their own stupid, corrupt, political party. Can you name just one honest, grounded, balanced, and decent, current democrat?
We need to be very careful with Tulsi Gabbard. We are a Christian nation, and she is a practicing Hindu, as was Vivek Ramaswamy. They serve MULTIPLE Pagan and gods. They do NOT serve the God of
Abraham , Isaac and Jacob. There are multiple times, in the Word, that Israel suffered greatly when they, themselves, served these fake gods.
I first heard about Kali when I was in India in the '70s. I'm not saying I agree 100% with CStone, since both Tulsi and Vivek seem to have non-religious views in accordance with the Constitution and its underlying values as described in the Declaration. We've certainly had 'Christian' Presidents who acted against those values. We should acknowledge and teach how Christianity is what informs those values, however.
"Kali is most often characterized as black or blue, partially or completely naked, with a long lolling tongue, multiple arms, a skirt or girdle of human arms, a necklace of decapitated heads, and a decapitated head in one of her hands. She is often portrayed standing or dancing on her husband, the god Shiva, who lies prostrate beneath her."
I remember when she ran for president as a Democrat, and how I thought she was so formidable: sane, articulate, great military background, attractive, the whole dangerous package who could easily pull independent and even moderate conservative votes. But the Democrat party kicked her to the curb so fast. I understand why; she's no puppet and that's what they want. Now here we are. Go Tulso!
If this thing goes well, she has a legitimate chance of being Vance’s running mate or perhaps landing an even higher profile job in his administration.
You must have a limited collection of women in your circle. This doesn’t apply to the numerous successful women I’ve known and worked with - or me! Limited or no makeup unless it’s a special event. Keep a suit hanging on the back of the office door when a quick change is needed.
Mr. Childers, if you really want to take a vacation, you may need to wait until the next President is elected. This Pres is a news making machine! Thank you, sincerely, for your uncanny and amazing ability to synthesize and inform, while making me laugh. Brilliant, as always.
I mooched for free for longer than I will admit. Finally I said, "enough." This guy deserves my money. I cancelled the WSJ, to which I had subscribed for 40 years (It USED to be a financial publication) and signed up for C&C. Actually less money, but a million times more value.
I did too but still when I see the notification of payment I shake my head a little. haha. All good though. I feel privileged to contribute to a good man and his family's vacation. I have visions of Chevy Chase when they hit the road.
The first Guttmacher report came out in the late 90s, and reported that 97% of abortions were the result of a woman and her partner not bothering to use birth control. That report was updated a few years ago, and the new number is 98.5%.
So let’s not ever see images of coathangers, or whining, and complaints about “choice”. The FDA may be a disgusting organization, but it has approved 18 forms of birth control. Unfortunately, too many women and men consider abortion to be a form of birth control.
There are so many couples that desperately want babies but can’t , yet so many discard God’s miracles like trash . It is devastatingly beyond comprehension. Truly heart wrenching.
I met a beautiful young woman some years ago, who was born in China, and had been adopted by an American couple. Her very existence was such a wonderful statement against the horrors of abortion. She was such a wonderful spokesperson.
I wish we had a system for “get two abortions for birth control get one tubal ligation free”. Once is a mistake, twice is carelessness and there should be greater consequences.
I knew a girl in college who had three abortions and every single one was caused by failure to use birth control—and the fact that she was a kind of a whore, who worked for free.
7:30-They’ve built the high places of Tophet, the Valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, which I commanded them not to do. This was never in My heart. 32 Therefore the day will come when it will no longer be Tophet, but the Valley of Slaughter, and they will bury Tophet until it is no place.
These verses refer to the temples that Solomon had erected on the Mount of Olives.
“Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain (Olivet) which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.” 1kings11:7
A king that was universally acclaimed for his wisdom in the beginning of his reign, turned into a fool toward the end, and saw his kingdom be divided as a result.
“For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods;” 1kings11:4
“and they will bury Tophet until it is no place.”
Sounds like Israel of 2000 years ago, when the Roman ‘ruler of the world’ destroyed the city of Jerusalem and leveled the Temple until ‘not one stone was left standing on another’, and then scattered the Israelites throughout the world, and Israel became “no place”.
THIS. Makes me physically ill. As a retired RN,(& mom), Maternal/Child Health was my very fave subject while getting my degree. So I learned a great deal about fetal development. I am staunchly prolife. And as a woman, it makes me crazy that with all the contraceptive choices we have, that the majority of murders of tiny innocents is used as birth control!!! 😭. Men need to step up in this department too. If someone can be diligent about watching their diet if they want to lose weight, committed to going to the gym to get/stay in shape, WHY can they not use this same determination to properly use contraception if they have no desire to become pregnant? (Yes, I know there are exceptions, but they make up a tiny portion of abortions )
And yet, I saw leftists all over X griping about Epstein and Republicans being the ones who allowed children to be trafficked. I'm so over the projectionism.
You likely never saw it, because MSM was ignoring it, but toward the end of Trump 1.0, the FBI was successfully arresting traffickers and freeing abused children from their grasp. Part of the reason they had to have him loose? Biden comes in and immediately changes priorities to go after “right wing extremists”. You know, like parents at school board meetings and traditional Catholic parishes. 🙄😡
“So far as I can tell, critics like Ms. Fitts worry about the heavy hand of government. They want digital currencies that can be traded like cash”
My understanding is Catherine is skeptical of all digital currencies and is a proponent of using actual cash as frequently as we possibly can as every use of real cash throws grit in the CBDC gears.
In 2021, she stated:
“We do know they want to go to an all-digital system with central bank cryptos. The easiest way to build the prison is to get freedom lovers everywhere to build the prison for you. To me, Bitcoin has always been the prototype on the way to building the all-digital crypto system that they would love to put into place. You have $400 trillion in fiat (currency) and it needs a place to go. If you are trying to buy up all the gold, silver and farmland, the last thing you need is competition from retail. They want to shift them into crypto and get them to build the crypto train tracks.…
“Remember, once they decide to bring out the central bank currencies, and they have steadily been regulating the crypto currencies, Bitcoin and everything else, so the day they decide to take this to zero, they can do it. If you are going to invest into cryptos and build our prison for us, what you need to know is this thing could go to $300,000, and it can also go to zero.…
“When they decide to shut down our bank accounts and say you all get on crypto, universal basic income and take that injection or you can’t transact on the financial system, this is instituting a totalitarian system through the financial system.… When they shut that trap door, what you need to think about is where are you going to buy food?”
I read this an hour ago. And I'm a huge CBDC opponent who has screamed it from the rooftops to all I come in contact with since it was first mentioned by the globalists. Big cash guy too.
How many do you need? The simple fact it is no more federal the Federal Express, and charges us interest on money they print for next to nothing should be more than enough reason. It blows me away the average American has no clue what the Fed really is, and how they have screwed us for 112 years. We moved to Richmond in 1975. The toll on the then new Powhite Parkway was a quarter. We were there yesterday. Now it's a dollar. 75 % inflation / devaluation of our money in 50 years. 100 % laid at the Feds feet.
Agree, MAA. There are already places that won’t take cash - concerts, sports events, etc. Although some businesses in my smallish town give discounts if one pays cash & whether they do or don’t, I pay cash as much as possible, no on-line banking or bill paying for me. But I know the day is coming when we’ll be forced into digital-everything - no cash, no checks & the ability to restrict access.
If you write a check, it’s being converted to an electronic “online” transaction anyway, either by the business using “remote deposit”, or by individuals using their mobile banking app. If your payee does actually take your check to their bank to deposit, the bank converts it to an electronic payment. I remember when my actual “canceled” checks were returned to me in my bank statement every month, but now it’s just images.
Yeah but there is a tremendous push by every business or governmental entity to “go paperless”, pay online or otherwise have to create more online identities, passwords, etc. One of my credit cards charges a nominal fee to mail my statements to my physical address but I insist. It may be futile but I refuse to do online banking, direct deposit or pay a single bill electronically.
I pay that fee as well, but I'm not as staunch as you are about electronic bill pay. I haven't had a choice about direct deposit since the '80s, when the federal government mandated it (for the Army, at least; I assume all employees).
Oh, those businesses are already handing that credit card charge on to the consumer. An Irish Pub I frequent gives you a receipt with two totals—one for credit card payments, and one for cash or debit.
I’ve been to several restaurants recently that now charge a fee (usually 3%) for using a credit card. But then others don’t take cash at all. From an accountant/auditor perspective, I understand that accepting cash can pose a higher risk of employee theft, especially in a restaurant or concession stand environment. Some businesses may conclude that the credit card fee is less expensive than employee theft.
I remember the first time I wrote a check at a grocery store and the cashier scanned it and handed it right back to me. I thought, “Well I won’t be carrying a checkbook anymore if that’s what’s going to happen.”
I have not set foot in a Starbucks since they stopped taking cash, I don't patronize any stores or venues that don't take cash, and many of the places I do patronize give a discount for cash. Walk the walk is the solution .
I pay with cash at Starbucks all the time. I also give them cash and have them add it to my mobile app, so I get line-jumping ability plus an occasional freebie.
Guess they got too much pushback. I never frequented them, as I think they have mediocre overpriced coffee. Always was in a Barnes and Noble or when I needed a jolt on a road trip somewhere
I guess it depends where the Starbucks is. I was at a Barnes & Noble bookstore yesterday and they had a Starbucks cafe where I bought something and paid with cash. I don’t often patronize Starbucks, but next time I’ll make a point of noticing.
I agree with her but even with cash, the gov't can decide your money is now worth less. Didn't Greece or India do something like that? They told everyone they had to trade in their cash for the "new and improved" cash that was worth half of the old cash. Seems we're screwed no matter what unless we go only to a barter system. I don't have that much to barter with unfortunately.
Jeff writes :"Sadly, stablecoin regulation was inevitable. "
This is the wrong thinking. The global cabal wants you to think that - but the people MUST reject all forms of digital, trackable currency and go back to cash (backed by silver and gold).
Many need to really do some deep thinking on "what is money?". It isn't some bankers asset that goes from $1 to $100K in 12 years, like bitcoin did.
Money is really just your "stored Productivity". You raised 4 chickens and only need 3. But you need a pair of shoes. You either can find a cobbler that needs a chicken or use a system that allows you to convert that chicken into something to trade for those shoes.
Without productivity in the equation - which is missing from the technocrats new world of digital currency and universal basic income - you will be begging for slavery and lose all control.
Yes! most folks don't understand this idea of money as stored productivity.
I would be all for cash backed by gold and silver but I don't see an option for that on the horizon.
Bitcoin has gone up in dollar terms so quickly because more people (and companies, and for better or worse countries) are recognizing its value. It's definitely not a bankers' asset. The biggest holders of bitcoin are people, though institutions are trying to catch up.
(Blackrock now has well over half a million bitcoin :( I'd love to see it more in the hands of actual people, even just $100 worth.)
I love Fitts and she understands the dangers of financial totalitarianism, but she does not understand Bitcoin - not the decentralized nature of it, nor the fact that people can hold it themselves without asking for permission.
We forget that cash is government money, and carries with it all the many problems of centrally-controlled currency.
The US government can (and does) devalue cash; it cannot devalue Bitcoin. It can discontinue cash; it cannot stop Bitcoin.
Just to be clear: I hope that cash is not eliminated.
In a power outage, the protocol continues - it's a global network - and those in the power outage just can't transact until they find a source of power. (There are actually some other options but I don't understand them yet.)
Bitcoin was created as a protocol- a set of rules - and has gradually grown as a decentralized network. Decentralized truly matters; it means that there's no one in control that can be manipulated, coerced, or blackmailed.
It's counter-globalist. Watch how the European Central Bank and Elizabeth Warren talk about bitcoin. They HATE it because they can't control it, though they're doing everything they can to limit the use of it because - as Christine LaGarde says - "if there's an escape, people will take it."
Agree about ending the Fed! And, yes, controlled by central banks, but at this point I don't think there's a huge distinction between those banks and government.
explain the change in value. Why would you say it can't be manipulated?
The guy that ran the Sarasota survival group got into it early in 2010 and even sent me 6 free bitcoins, which I didn't accept. Why? Because when I looked into it I saw a globalist scam and ultimately decided that I didn't want to participate. I did though consider throwing $5K in, but said no. That $5K investment in 2010 would have made me a billionaire today. I don't look back with any regret. Because a $5K investment, in any world I choose to be in, should not make me a billionaire. I am happy with the money I earned through my productive work. Selling your soul to the devil, is well, selling your soul to the devil.
This "blockchain, decentralized, etc etc" bullsh@t" is a globalist game that needs to rejected by all. Remember, Jesus rejected the money changers, we should too.
And I totally reject me being told that I have to conserve electricity while they waste it mining bitcoin and running AI data centers.
This world today makes me think about a song that my sister sent me over a decade ago.
All these items are controlled by the global elites - all.
When they are ready they will crash it.
But other ways to control it are through taxation and regulations.
Its a market and all markets are controlled by them. Digital assets are the most dangerous to normalize as they will be programmable and very controllable.
I've heard it said that geniuses don't sleep much. Jeff, though you get sharp headaches at the thought of crypto currencies, I still don't think you sleep either since you masterfully put together daily posts all while doing a very busy life. So, genius, you must be! Honestly, I cannot wrap my brain around a currency that only exists in the ethers of the web.
A counter point is that Bitcoin is limited to 21M coins (can't be 'printed') whereas USD is a fiat currency that is literally printed out of nothing.
Also almost all of us use electronic money for all our purchases (so few use cash) so already you're in an 'ether domain'. So crypto isn't much of a stretch.
Also privacy coins like Monero (https://www.getmonero.org/) can't be tracked by Big Government (big feature in our high-surveillance society).
Who's going to prevent the limit from being raised to some other number greater than 21 million? It seems to me bitcoin is another fiat currency, just not run by a government. Clearly, I don't understand!
Who wrote the code/protocol and why can't it be changed? I've never seen before in the last 40+ years where code or protocols couldn't be changed. I'm just a skeptic and a cynic by nature. If I don't understand it, I'm not in. Just me.
The code can be changed - anyone can copy it and make their own version of bitcoin, in fact - but whatever is different from the current protocol won't be approved by the nodes that validate transactions, and the people who currently hold bitcoin (and tend to run those validating nodes) are not interested in devaluing their bitcoin by allowing a change from the current limit. As a result, although there are a number of threats to bitcoin, the change from 21 million is maybe one of the least likely.
If the current central banking system were working, it wouldn't make much sense to look at an alternative, but given the way things are going...
I don't trust this government or any government with crypto...if you cannot hold your money in your hand, and the control is ultimately in their hands (for your safety, I'm sure) this control switch will be used relentlessly on citizens..eventually, for the "good of all"...oh, you've bought enough gas, food, or you already bought a firearm this year...and they'll be able to instantly tell you this via your mobile device. They will steer us and control us to unimaginable lengths. Aside from that, digital theft will be rampant. Oh, I'm paranoid? Did we ever imagine we'd be confined with a virus outbreak? Did we ever believe we'd have a foreigner in the White House who was the gateway for islam flooding into our country? Nah......we're Americans! Big badasses...nobody will control us. Yeah
You can hold gold in your hand, or bitcoin in your own wallet. Pretty much everything else is fair game for the government (and they'll come for those as well! it's just a bit harder when you're holding your wealth yourself instead of in the big institutions).
She is Demonically influenced, maybe also possessed.
She dabbles in occultic practices like necromancy, and she delights in seeing a human being (Ghaddafi) in the throes of a gruesome death. These we know as fact. Who knows what else she does? She is friends with Podesta (depraved pedophile) and Soros father (deluded atheist new world order master) and son (spirit cooking).
Let's not memory-hole Benghazi either...the sacrifice of an Ambassador and his staff, killed by a rabid mob, and our military was told to stand down. The valor of the Embassy security detail was the stuff of legend--but they, too, lost good men, heroes all. Their blood is forever on her hands.
Jesus referred to the leaders as Satan‘s children.
“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John8:44
My problem with Bitcoin has a lot to do with my problems with passwords and the fact that people selling it to me collect my DOLLARS. If someone could explain why they have our dollars and we now have … some kind of invisible computer energy???? Seriously I’m too old for this. LOL
This book helped fill in some of the blanks for me and gets into the history of Bitcoin: "Hijacking Bitcoin," by Roger Ver. Some of his points are quite insightful, such as: Bitcoin was never meant to be a store of value (i.e., something to be held to increase in value); it was meant to be used like cash with very low or no fees associated with its use. Also there aren't many people who operate the levers, so to speak, and China is surprisingly (and disappointingly/alarmingly) one of them. Some of these issues may change with time (such as Bitcoin being used as cash as it was intended (without super high fees associated with its use as done now), but some of it won't (such as who operates the levers)).
My problem with bitcoin is that it takes MASSIVE amounts of energy to "mine" the coins. Huge server farms that could power entire towns to mine one coin. It is an unsustainable and truly stupid way to make a digitial currency.
They have to run endless computations to "create" new bitcoins. I haven't a clue as to exactly how that's done but I know it requires a lot of computing power. They often locate bitcoin mining operations near power stations to glom the energy to run all the computers.
So they’ll eventually try to smart meter us to being sweating hot or freezing cold, but there will always be enough energy to create the bitcoins out of thin air via the power grid.
It's an interesting thought. Why do you feel some pieces of paper in your hand contain value? Only because we have, as a society, agreed they have value. And once those pieces of paper are deposited in a bank, it becomes a number, ones and zeros, in their computers. And we also need other countries to agree that our paper is more valuable to own than other country's paper. One of the reasons we removed Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi from power was that Saddam wanted to sell oil for Euros while Gaddafi wanted Dinars for his oil. It is essential that people buy and sell oil in dollars to keep our economy afloat. The petro dollar I think is what it's called. It's really all illusion and crazy when you think about it. And yes, it's also crazy how much energy is expended on turning KW hours into currency that could be used for so many better things. As with all money/wealth, it's really about power and control.
You make some really great points and I appreciate the engagement.
I guess I still feel the dollar is more legit because it physically exists in time and space. It is composed of matter. Even though the worth was unhitched when we got off the gold standard in the 70’s.
Plus the whole digital only money push is taking your end phrase “it’s really about power and control” to the ultimate level. A lot of the big bad entities in our world long for ultimate control over what & how & and especially IF we even can spend. So I guess the physical paper money is kind of a big middle finger to them in my mind as well. 😬
I’ve no doubt some of Trumps maneuvering is his wanting to insure that the American Petro dollar stays king….whatever form it takes.
All the resources like energy and water that are being diverted to things like digital currency and server farms for data storage and AI will butt up against the needs of humanity in a big way at some point. I hope we come out on top in that.
Ok, but how does “it” make money and increase in value if its individually held? It’s not like they’re lending money out and earning interest…or is it? And what happens if the whole system crashes? Like your hard drive does and you lose all your stuff? 🤷🏼♀️
A friend’s son had probably 8 machines in his apt., which was HOT as all get out even woth the AC blaring. The apt. was on the parents’ property so the electric bill was consolidated. Their bill went from like $290 to $1800! They put an end to his crypto mining.
Ha! Yes- dryers, and a few other specific uses. There’s a fellow who mines while dehydrating fruit and incubating eggs, but in general home mining is easier in the winter
That's a good question so I looked it up. Here's a quick answer: "it takes about 17 megajoules of energy to mine one dollar's worth of bitcoin, compared to only four to seven megajoules for the same value of gold." But if the power goes out, you still have your gold.
$1 worth of bitcoin = 1/118,000 of a bitcoin. So 17 mj x 118,000 = 2,006,000 mj to mine one bitcoin??? Back to the drawing board Clem. :) not that I comprehend what a mega joule is.
To determine the energy needed to mine one dollar of Bitcoin, consider the current price of Bitcoin (which is always changing). For example, if Bitcoin is priced at $107,000 the energy cost to mine one dollar of Bitcoin can be calculated as follows:
Total Energy for 1 BTC: 6,400,000 kWh (23,040,000 mega joules)
Cost to Mine 1 BTC: $107,000 (U.S. average)
Energy Cost per Dollar=$107,000 @ 6,400,000 kWh≈59.81 kWh per dollar
Thus, it takes approximately 59.81 kWh [215 mega(million) joules] of electricity to mine one dollar of Bitcoin at the average U.S. electricity cost.
So then what are you saying the actual $ cost of mining one bitcoin is? Because if it si not substantially less than the current value of Bitcoin, All mining would immediately cease. Yes?
I question that. Gold discoveries have to buy the land do endless core drilling to locate and assess deposits. Then they have enormous earth moving machines to excavate, drill, open mine shafts. Then there are mills and all that dirt has to be processed to separate the few grams of gold for each ton of earths, then melted down and purified. I think all in sustaining costs per ounce range from $900- 2400 per ounce depending on the quality of the deposit. Gold is now in the $3300/ oz range and bitcoin at $118k. The math now becomes out of my league. :)
Dollars are less valuable than bitcoin by almost any measure. Dollars can be printed out of thin air and bitcoin cannot. The government can continue to print money and almost endlessly devalue the dollar.
Folks living on a bitcoin standard have watched their living expenses go down while the rest of us are coping with inflation.
personally I think gold and especially bitcoin, but yes!! How cool if all Americans held some of both. We would be in a different situation and not begging corrupt government officials to please continue cash and make policy that we like.
Our electric company screwed up our online payments for a month while we were out of town. No email from them about this. So we got late charges, threats, etc. We had just signed up. We are going back to writing checks. Never had a late charge or threat in 55 years by writing a check. I will not be joining AI money fiddling age. I’m up to not just my eyes, but our second story house height with technology.
Problem is the post office is not reliable either. I take care of my mom's finances and after she had cash stolen by a home health worker several years ago, canceled all of her plastic and just pay her bills with checks. Just one less thing to monitor. Granted she is now in AL so a lot fewer bills to pay but her newspaper subscription bill, dated 2 weeks earlier, showed up in my mailbox, with less than 7 days before it's due. Mailed the check the day I got the bill and it was still late arriving. (I checked the online account) Fortunately they have a 7 day grace period so she did not miss any issues of the paper but the days of assuming the PO is competent are over.
I do buy her groceries and such and we settle up every couple of months so she doesn't have to have cash around and I am not writing a check every time she needs toilet paper. Hubby is in charge of bill pay at our house and he was still writing checks and mailing bills until we got hit with a couple of late charges due to slow post office and so now pays them all online. But NOT autopay as that is too much trust that they will never make a mistake or over charge you.
Makes you wonder if this horrid PO service is on purpose, pushing us all to do more 'electronically'.
Exactly. It takes between 2 weeks and a month to get mail sent from Oregon to Pennsylvania. Had to switch to paying bills online. As to local bills the USPS now sends everything from Grants Pass to Portland to be sorted and then back so it is a minimum of a week to mail locally. Faster to drop off the check to the business than to the post office box. And yes we pay with cash when possible.
We’ve e never had a problem in decades with mailing a payment. I always mail at least a week and a half before due or upon receipt. We do have some bills on auto pay. Peoples experiences differ for sure. Small town. Small post office. I personally know almost everyone in it. I like to keep any of my online stuff to a minimum. Cash is king for us. Have a good one, Donna. 😀
Several months ago, I sent a check priority mail well over a week before the due date and it took *10 days* to arrive!! 😡🤬 Luckily the person who received the check was understanding and counted it as on time since the post mark was way before the due date. I was so mad though! Paid extra for priority—I know there’s no guarantee but figured it should at least be a * little* faster and more reliable. Nope 🙄
I have noticed that the post office is deliberately taking 7 to 10 days to deliver payments by check in the mail. They’re doing it on purpose to force us to stop using checks and to pay online. The post office has really deteriorated at every level.
Just before Covid mail was being delivered in one or two days. Suddenly, now it’s one to two weeks.
I actually had a document last week where there were 2 options to return (signed and notarized) - either by US mail, or by FAX!? I actually went to the UPS store and had them fax it as I figured that was more reliable, and was actually cheaper than either certified mail or priority mail.
Beware the USPS. A friend took three bill pay envelopes with checks to our local PO. All three checks were washed and cashed for much larger amounts. Her bank alerted her to the fraud. She had to get a new bank account. The perp was a USPS employee.
Use gel pens for writing checks as the ink cannot be washed.
I think the USPS must be getting reimbursed behind the scenes as part of the push for digital payments. They've gotten so slow with the mail that many people have switched to online payments just to make sure payments make it on time.
I’ve experienced it taking a week to have a letter mailed and received in town. I am always hopeful that the USPS will do their job, but I’ve learned not to hold my breath.
What happened to the post office? A friend explained a couple of years ago.
This end run to kill the USPS started with Rep Henry Waxman-D California, and Maine’s finest Susan Collins-R in a joint bill to “reform the U.S. Postal Service’s pension plan,” a bill that has Ben Franklin’s favorite federal institution under gross attack. Forward-funding USPS workers’ pensions 75 years was the goal stated. Nobody else in the bureaucracy, just our mail carriers and their fellows. At the expense of the service we had come to expect since 1794, iirc.
DeJoy, made Postmaster General by the US Postal Board of Governors under Trump, went on a gutting spree destroying automatic mail sorting machines and other essentials in this ongoing attack to undermine the USPS in order to suffocate it for the likes of FedEx, UPS and DHL.
DeJoy at the time had a net worth of $678 million (iirc) from his own shipping business, and surprise of surprises, despite long and loud efforts to get rid of him during Trump’s term, well by golly, there he still sits, overlooked and unnoticed by the President, and the entire U.S. Congress. Guess who is now the Postmaster General of the USA?
Do you ever get the feeling….
‘Get Used To Me’: Louis DeJoy Says He Has No Plans To Leave Postal Service
“DeJoy did not deny a Washington Post report that he will be imposing changes at the agency that could result in slower and more costly mail delivery, but said his planned reforms for the agency are still being “finalized.” ~ Forbes Feb 24, 2021
He did leave earlier this year, but his work was obviously done here.
Of course I do that. Mostly I pay on receipt. Or 1 1/2 weeks early. I’ve been doing this for 50 years. I’ve got it down. 😀🤔. The only problems we ever had were autopay or this particular issue last month.
ATT did that way back when I first signed up for their stuff - withdrew 3x what they should have and we really didn't have much to spare. Instead of putting the money back, they said they would just credit my account for the next couple of months. That was _not_ a good tradeoff. And since then, they do not get the "auto-pay" option for my account. I'll still pay online, but I go in each month to pay the bill and approve the amount.
Yes, way back in the early days of cell phones, I stupidly agreed to autopay as I pay the phone bill with my biz account and just saw it as the easy button. But we switched providers and Verizon hit me for a $250 early cancellation fee that they refused to refund as it was in the fine print that I had stupidly failed to read. Turns out this was endemic and they lost a class action lawsuit saying they failed to clearly disclose the fee. Several years later I did get a check (after legal fees) for ~$175. So still sketchy on autopay, although my Epoch Times subscription is set up that way, although they do send an email a month or so before they charge the card - but emails are easy to miss so that is the exception rather than the rule in our house.
Last year we paid ahead a larger amount on utilities and never had to worry. Overpaying just gave us a balance. Where we go, (camping off the grid out west) cell service is iffy and post office not close. I’m also trying to wean myself off too much scrolling.
There are actually more and more trade businesses who want cash or checks these days since all the Venmo tax stuff or whatever happened. I’ve written more checks in the last year than in the last 10.
Don't trust crypto. Don't trust AI. They're giant digital confidence schemes. It's probably far too late to put the genies back in the bottles, though. It would be wise to keep a sharp eye on this crap. And remember: Cash is King. Not Johnny, but rather good 'ole American greenbacks. Like the ones stuffed between my mattresses.
try buying a loaf of bread with your kingly gold. There are limitations and tradeoffs for every financial transaction. Don't forget the cost of protecting that gold. Oh yeah, when the "end" comes and your neighbors figure out that YOU have gold...
I had an old $50 gold certificate dollar bill back in the 70s, that said it was convertible at the bank into gold (printed on it). So I took it to the bank to get the gold, knowing good and well that was not gonna happen. (the look on the teller’s face was cool to witness), But no gold.
Because of what Nixon did in ‘72, that piece of paper, that $50 gold certificate bill, became just a piece of paper that only had the value that people were willing to give it. Gold too, tho, like the greenback dollar, only has the value that people are willing to give it. Which, by the numbers, is valued much higher than paper money, seashells. or beads and blankets. (but ultimately, not above bread)
America’s banker confiscated gold back in ‘33 (interesting number) and forced the people under the threat of prison and fines, to trade their gold for paper federal reserve notes (interesting history), greenback dollars, backed by the ‘full faith’ of the federal government. All we got is these corrupt politician’s word that our greenback dollars are gonna continue to have value.
And, yes, they will continue to have value, however the value is changing, in a downward spiral over the years. If we don’t stop the fiscal irresponsibility in America, our greenback dollar is going to decline in value until it’s only value remaining is as wallpaper. (just like that paper dollar of the confederate states of America.)
These corrupt politicians have put us, you and me, $37 trillion in debt in just about the last 37 years, people, the interest on which is nearly $1 trillion per year, which is financial insanity. We borrow the money in order just to pay the interest, that’s crazy. Think about you being in a position where you don’t have any money to pay even the interest on your credit card debt, so you have to borrow money just to pay the interest on it. To me, that is absurd financial management, and obviously unsustainable.
The result is default.
If we default on that debt when it comes due, which is highly likely, hence, the lowering of America’s credit score by the banker, this country will be ‘literally’ bankrupt and our greenback dollar will be almost worthless.
… just like that paper dollar of the confederate states of America
Yes, cash is king. And yes, gold is really king over cash. But remember how her accountant murdered atheist Madeleine Murphy O’Hare so he could steal the gold bouillon she had stashed in a storage bin.?
Biden, like Nancy, is CINA (Catholic in Name Only, or Christian in Name Only) is my take because of their actions. “You will know them by their fruits.”
I would like to replay a reply that I made in response to Cousin Clem on a previous C&C, where he said; “And my, how they the Godless love and abide in Forever Wars and genocide. And generally, ripping the world asunder.”
Now, it may seem like I’m casting shade on catholic/christians when I say these things, but I’m only stating facts, however unpalatable they are:
“And then, concerning the ‘secular God haters’ that rule the Western world; I’m thinking that they are not secular mostly, they’re almost all christians. The presidents of America for the last 60 years, have all been christians. The Congress is overwhelmingly christian. The Supreme Court is seven catholics (christians) and then in Europe almost all of the leaders are catholics (christians) of some sort. I mean Spain is catholic, Italy catholic, Britain, I’m thinking is almost catholic, that is; anglican. And then you got orthodox catholics in Russia and Ukraine. I’m saying the state religion of Russia is orthodox catholic, Ukraine is orthodox catholic. catholics killing catholics. They’ve been doing it for centuries. christians killing christians is still going on today, then you got christians killing muslims, that too has been going on for centuries, and still going on today.” (I am fully aware of muslims killing christians as well, and aware of the fact that jews are very busy killing people also)
Given the fact that christians in America and in Europe are fully in favor of financing and equipping those that are hell bent on the killing of other human beings, it seems to me that the majority of them are ‘CINA’s.
Perhaps being OK with killing people may be a requirement in order to be a christian, a muslim or a jew.
… all of whom believe they are doing a service for their God
Well Biden claimed to be a good Christian-- look where that got us. I agree re Moslems since they are out to kill us but someone with a good heart outweighs an evil person regardless of what they purport to believe.
"Catholic Church: USCCB [United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] receives ~$100 million/yr from federal contracts to resettle migrants; Pope Francis calls for “empty convents” to house migrants."
All you have to do is search but I'll give you a big clue from a Christian Science Monitor article in 2016..."Hillary Clinton, a white Methodist from the Chicago suburbs, seems most at ease in black Baptist churches." You're welcome.
Doesn't help that you even have SBC sub-committees like the ERLC pretending to support the denomination, but really pushing anti-Christian nonsense. (WAY past time to disband that group....)
Catholic Church: USCCB [United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] receives ~$100 million/yr from federal contracts to resettle migrants; Pope Francis calls for “empty convents” to house migrants.
I am not well versed in AI specifics or a frequent user, and am a skeptic that all of this is taking us anywhere good. This story evidently hit in April but ran across it yesterday.
"A new Pew Research Center study gives news outlets firm proof that Google’s AI Overviews are gutting their web traffic. The report, released Tuesday, analyzed user search habits from March 2025. It found that when an AI summary appears, clicks on normal web links drop from 15% to 8%.
Worse, a tiny 1% of users click on the source links inside the AI answer itself. This data adds fresh fire to the worldwide fight between publishers and Google. Media outlets argue the AI feature traps users on Google, cutting off the clicks that support their work.
The findings confirm what many in the industry have long suspected. A July report from Similarweb, for instance, showed that “zero-click” news searches have soared to nearly 70% since Google rolled out AI Overviews.
The Pew study also found users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after seeing an AI summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with just 16% of pages with only traditional search results."
As a business researcher, the 'only 1% click on the source links' is the biggest concern. The source of the information is everything. My rule has always been that any data point that is pivotal to a decision should be from a source that is credible and discloses methodology/how they got there and ideally corroborated from more than one source. While this article mentions Pew, a reliable source most of the time, other credible sources are pointing to people taking the 'easy button' for search result answers. Of course not all of these things are high stakes - 'best macaroni and cheese recipe' could just lead to a crummy dinner, but I will continue to take these automated results with a grain of salt.
AI is also interfering in hiring decisions. Companies are too understaffed or lazy to take the time to review all applicants. So they outsource the vetting to AI. AI doesn't have the understanding of work ethic, experience, or ambition perhaps driven by need to make good decisions.
I was in charge of hiring for decades for various companies as both a top level manager and then as an outside consultant. For a company to be successful, the entire team needs to be in line with the Owner/Founder/Manager. AI is looking at the wrong data most of the time to make that distinction.
While companies complain about "the new generation not having a work ethic" and use that as an excuse for their piss poor customer service, there are legions of energetic, trained, knowledgeable senior citizens frustrated by not even being considered. Too many of us had our retirement plans destroyed by FraudChi and his miscreants, and now we are falling short after decades of being self reliant and able to live a simple but decent life.
I have been turned down by numerous companies. My resume is stellar, my skillset is worthy of consideration, I'm pretty easy going and have always been a good and faithful employee... and the only excuse I get is "overqualified," or "you wouldn't be able to take direction from someone your junior," or just the usual vague, "we have decided to go a different direction." One company said they were no longer hiring and then had an ad in the local paper the next week. But not one would meet in person with me. AI had made the decision.
IMHO this is going to backfire spectacularly on these companies. So many benefits to having a mature employee. But AI doesn't have that programmed in.
My hubby got laid off last Fall when the company he worked for jettisoned half of their sales force as their industry continues circling the drain. The other half was let go in March. (he was in gift industry sales for 30 years, most recently for a gift company who sold to mom and pop retailers - covid + online shift has destroyed the industry - their biggest competitor just announced they are offloading sales to an independent rep company and all are now 1099's not W-2's)
Rather than 'start over' at 61, he opted to retire.
Sadly I hear/meet/have coffee with many folks in the same boat as you. I do a lot of networking. A layoff after age 55 is really tough. Many are trying the 'fractional executive'/self employed route. (mostly with limited success - it is not a steady paycheck most of the time)
I've been self employed since 2001 and it's tough out there on that front as well as 'people' contributions are devalued. Had a prospective client decide to outsource research to India. Had another opt for an automated AI solution. I am being asked to drop my price and have to fight to justify the value of any proposal these days. Exceedingly rare to have a client unhappy with the quality of my work, especially since I have learned to target the right clients and only accept projects where I know I can exceed expectations. And yet that no longer seems to matter. I always thought I would work til I dropped dead but between prospects with pronouns in their signatures and battling to justify relevance I may just throw in the towel like my hubby.
I even saw an article the other day about a woman who was interviewing for a VP of marketing role whose interviewer was an AI bot! She bailed when the bot (named Jeremy) could not answer HER questions about the prospective role. I could see AI screening for an entry level role but VP?! Insanity seems to be taking over.
I’ve caught AI in many mistakes and it apologizes when I point that out. But for recipes: I’m so sick of reading through many paragraphs of the writer’s childhood or whatever just to get to the recipe. At least AI gets to the point! Even though it’s not always correct. I also find the way I ask the question makes the AI answer evolve into something somewhat “truer”. An example would be medication and side effects. Sometimes you have to ask the exact side effect to get the answer and yes I called AI out on that too.
So true on the recipes - infinite scrolling to get to the actual recipe! Yummly used to be a site where you could enter an ingredient you had on hand and it would give you ideas on how to use it. They got rid of that, sadly. I miss that. Allrecipes is good - there is a 'jump to the recipe' button and then hit the 'print' icon and you just get the recipe without the chatter. And the comments are often good, offering substitutes or additions.
So true …I had the same thought when I was searching for a recipe .
The AI had it summarized (with measurements) …I thought, wow this will really affect the digital traffic to websites that rely on it for clicks / advertising dollars .
They did provide the “link” but who will take the time to click ? And what a great way to promote certain”approved “ websites 🤔
Exactly. Like you said, no big deal for a low stakes search like for a recipe or a restaurant, but still....
And at some point, these content providers that AI is using to provide these results will start dropping off due to starvation from ad revenues. leading to lower quality (or biased) search results.
I am losing business to AI as companies are gravitating towards automated reporting and analysis (as it's cheap and easy) and devaluing human insights. I am having a hard time mustering the energy to fight it as I am nearing retirement age. I always thought I would work until I dropped as I love what I do but when I spend as much time looking for work (self employed) as I do working it starts to look like a waste of time. And I spend a lot more time on politics since 2020 - analyzing issues for candidates and elected friends. studying precinct trends to target for local races and the like, that does not pay but is much more gratifying when we get a W out of it.
Goggle search had transformed from a good source of information to an ad site. I appreciate the AI search on google -it gives you the information you’re looking for without all the ads in your way.
The Dems KNEW Hilary was going to win because they has sabotaged the 2016 election, like 2020. And when she didn't win they had to do something QUICK to make sure Trump never took the oath of office. That is why they went to Trump Tower to "show him the Russian collusion evidence." I am sure they threatened him with it. I pray all of the truth comes out.
Who else do you know, at least in your lifetime, that stood his ground with courage and determination despite them trashing him, lying about him, trying to bankrupt him, trying to put him in prison for life, and even shooting him? Trump is solid and I support his efforts to save this country.
Tulsi Gabbard is one of the few women I would be excited to vote for as a president.
She’s smart, composed and seems to love America (or the potential of America) and seems to have integrity, which is very rare in politics. She seems to understand the idea of universal oneness, so she appears to be a little higher in her soul level – which we so desperately need from a leader so we can stop harming others, and she is in touch with her masculine energy (protection), which is why most women are not good candidates for a job like the president.
But now, she is a target so, I hope lots of people are collectively praying for her safety.
I tend to not place all of my trust eggs in any one basket, but at least for now, she IS saying and doing many things right. I love that she brings the receipts and has the courage to say what most of us already knew, and have been waiting for someone in gov with the cojones to say it.
Maybe it's the fact that she isn't hampered by shriveled up cojones that we are able to count on her to deliver the truth and do the right thing. I've seen men of all ages in my practice who have unexplained low testosterone levels but I don't think the President, (or RFK jr.), is one of the chemical eunuchs that currently occupy congress and the courts.
You do know that "cojones" means guts? I've never thought of my guts or anyone else's as "shriveled". Perhaps you actually meant "huevos"? (You also alluded to eunuchs, so...).
I've never heard of that translation of cojones. I have long heard of this one:
cojones(n.)
"courage," literally "testicles, balls," 1932, in Hemingway ("Death in the Afternoon," an account of Spanish bull-fighting), from Spanish cojon "testicle," from Latin coleus "the testicles" (source of Italian coglione), literally "strainer bag," a variant of culleus "a leather sack," cognate with Greek koleos "sheath of a sword, scabbard." Both are said in some sources to be from PIE root *kel- (1) "to cover, conceal, save," but de Vaan finds it "Probably a loanword from a non-IE language, independently into Latin and Greek."
https://www.etymonline.com/word/cojones
Way back in my youth I briefly worked in a factory in a tiny Texas town. Cajones was one of the few Spanish words I knew. I said to a Spanish speaking woman that I was working with that my dog had gotten in a fight and got bitten in the cajones. I swear I have never seen such a horrified look on someone’s face! I thought she was going to pass out. So I’m pretty sure it means ‘balls’. 😂🤣😂
• Cojones (plural of cojón) = testis, teste, balls
• Cajones (plural of cajón)= drawer, box or crate. It can also refer to a coffin in some Latin American contexts.
Tienes razon.
Well I'll be darned! Thank you. You've straightened out a misunderstanding.
"Testicles: This is the literal meaning of the word [cojones]."
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cojones
I suggest you review this actual definition.
FGB3: I just consulted Syrie, (sp.?) and she seems to think cojones refers to testicles too. But you're right-huevos does also.
I though huevos were eggs!
Huevos is the Spanish word for "eggs." In culinary terms, it often refers to various egg dishes, such as huevos rancheros, which is a popular Mexican breakfast dish featuring eggs served on tortillas with salsa.
billyparisi.com Wikipedia
Nope FGB3
Cojones is the Italian equivalent of "testicles" aka balls.
In Italian:
Singular: Coglione
Plural: Coglioni
I always associated it with testicles too. Never had the inclination to actually look it up however…
M. Patrick: I am wondering about low T and depression in men. A friend in early 40s is currently undergoing treatment for depression—trying different meds that sort of work for a while. I would appreciate insight or reliable resources you may have.
Just tell him to be careful with the meds. A friend just lost her 38 year old son to suicide because of the meds they put him on for mild depression. Check the side effects. Many say “may cause suicidal tendencies.” Also, he needs to ask what the plan will be to wean him off the meds.
The insert on most SSRIs (I worked in a pharmacy) say they may cause suicidal or homicidal tendencies that weren’t there originally.
Wonder not. Mental decline is apparent on many levels caused mostly by declining T. Has been ongoing for over a decades now front row and center. Many are the attacks and causes of widespread infertility.
If people are stupid enough to take the meds, that is on them.
Weight training is the best way to boost testosterone and also helps with depression. If he's already lifting, then creatine (lean red meat for natural source) or an adaptogen like Ashwagandha root might be worth a shot.
Maryann, I would look at Vit D levels, thyroid function, general chemistry and a blood count plus testosterone and if all those are negative, CBT and cardio exercise is a good place to start. It's a complicated topic and advice given in this setting is not the best approach for your friend. He might try a naturopath if allopathic medicine is failing him. Godspeed.
Thank you for your thoughtful and sound advice. Blessings!
Look into a substance called Enclomiphene... an isomer of Clomid, which is NOT a good drug for men.
Enclomiphene raises total and Free T dramatically, not FDA approved (big shock), but may or may not increase libido.
Far safer that injecting T, IMHO.
Thank you for the info about raising testerone levels. I was not sure depression could be a symptom of low T. Imo, increasing T seems to have less lethal side effects than SSRIs. It reduces sperm count but they are finished having children.
His family is aware of suicide potential connected to the meds and watch him closely.
You bet... yes, low T can cause a bunch of nasty symptoms... from hair loss, to low libido, to depression/anxiety... even increased cardiac event risk. But injecting T, while beneficial for many, can increase risks too... especially DVT risk (I know this).
I'm not sure, but I think Enclomiphene actually increases sperm count...
Yes, SSRI's have seemingly worked for many, but do have really nasty sides, both short term and long.
You might suggest looking into Modafinil, off label for depression... a game-changer for many. Great reviews. I may try it soon myself. Can be used as needed too, a big benefit.
In my world, they are labeled “pussies”. Eunuch is more socially acceptable.
The decline in T levels is actually well understood. Gender Bender chemicals, look no further.
Their wives probably keep all sorts of scented candles burning and use scented laundry sheets, etc. plus they probably got jabbed several times.
She's great, but shes still a former lib from the most lib state (Hawaii) and has been a big gun-grabber for a long time. However she's shifted right on lots of issues (no longer supports trans, and has softened on her pro-abortion and pro-green stances).
She brings a lot to our side so hopefully she has a future beyond her current role.
Trump voted Dem all his life. Was a friend of the Clinton’s. Attended Chelsea’s wedding. No one has a perfect background if they have led an active useful professional life.
Many of us used to be Democrats when we were younger. Fortunately as we aged like a fine wine, we got wiser. Besides, the Dem party is NOT the same organization it once was.
What did Churchill say on this maturation process? politically and philosophically?
Not me!! I’ve never voted for a Dem my entire life and am proud of it!
True, but she was a Dem just a couple of years ago, not as a youth like most of us.
And your point is??
Not many things/people ARE what they once were...positive and negative.
indeed, the Dems were co-opted by the Deep State.
This by no means is giving a pass to the Pubs however at this juncture
in history DJT has used this party to destroy the Dems while outing the
RINOs. We are winning, hugely...
I certainly don’t want to be judged on my past mistakes. Like the song says, ‘Life’s a Dance’ you learn as you go.
https://youtu.be/7k4ujBGRGf8?si=iVi2JP4BZd3bXtlY
Great song 😍
Karen, I agree. I've never heard it before. It seems deep, meaningful. Country Music seems so wholesome.
Hi John, definitely!
Did you get the dates that we’ll be at the coast? When will you be there?
Less a matter of judgement than one of admission.
The first step in moving forward is always admission...
I’ve been registered in every party over the years.
I’ve always registered as an independent, but have voted for every party!
It's called maturity and having the scales dropped from her eyes. Was blind but now she sees.
And discretion. Both are advantages of aging. In my opinion.
Been a Republican since I was about 4, when my Mom explained the differences between the parties to me. (I asked.) I called the dumbocraps stupid then, I stand by it now.
Awesome
She was a lib her whole life until about 3 years ago.
There are more and more people who fall into similar camps and once they wake up from the leftist narrative and see what's going on outside of that echo chamber, they tend to start questioning almost everything they've ever believed. Sadly, to win an election in Hawaii, you seem to have to be off the deep end in your beliefs. I seem to recall that's one reason she stopped - not left enough.
She pushed the lockdowns and tracing.
But - did she learn anything since then? There are a lot of people who called for that in quite public ways who are now admitting they were wrong, not just trying to bury those tendencies and pretend they never happened. (There are many of those, too.) The psy-op wound up _so_ many people that even the more rational succumbed to all/part of it.
Agreed. Her actions now will be a tell. Everyone is silent. She seems Directed and marginalized in intelligence by Trump cabinet lobby.
True... and she has never condemned the funding of the genocidal Zio-pigs of Israel...
And she backed down on the truth she spoke about Iran NOT being close to having a nuke or wanting to build one.
Still... better than Ratcliff or Wiles, who are traitors, puppets of Israel.
I got the shot, too--but no more!
there is help
Your false belief was in thinking health comes from needles
Do you forever condemn someone even when they show changed behavior?
God doesn’t.
I like Gabbard, a lot. Do I trust her to be right on certain issues, like 2A and government overreach? And trusting pharma companies? Hell no. It's one thing to be oblivious as a teen and into one's twenties. To be well into your thirties or beyond and continue to fail to see obvious truths is a major red flag. The COVID scam was so transparent that millions of us could see exactly what was going on in early 2020. To be an adult and be in favor of lockdown until vaccine, school closures, destroying businesses, and the obvious upward transfer of wealth that was orchestrated says you are either evil or a stone idiot. I love her courage and ability, and she's just plain likeable. But while it's unfair to condemn youthful mistakes, mistakes made well into adult years is a different story.
I’m in my eighth decade of life and still learning. I can forgive adult mistakes. It’s a complex and complicated world we live in, and has to be especially so if you move in the corridors of power. (I have no experience with that, but figure it has to be hard.)
Also, she’s on my team, I can’t replace her and have no thoughts about a more perfect fit for the job, so I’ll pray for her and cheer her on.
I'm 64 and always leaned to the right but in my earlier years just did not give a crap about the world and it's governments. Until Obama. God thumped me on the head hard enough to wake me up to finally see what was happening. I would want people to accept that I changed, learned and grew. Most everyone can change. Not everyone but most.
I'm in my 8th decade and still learning too. I agree with everything you wrote, including forgiving SOME adult mistakes. Pfizer/Biontech was available 12/14/2020. Moderna 3 days later, J&J a month or so later. Here's what we knew way before then: There had been a decades-long, very effective campaign to make questioning anything about vaccines off-limits. This alone should make vaccines, in general, extremely suspect. To make this one even more suspect, rather than inject an antigen, it turned your body into an antigen (spike protein) factory. Who would think they really have a handle on exactly how that will go down? Nobody with a brain. Non-elderly, and healthy elderly were not at risk - clear by then. Corporations in general, and especially Pharma will do ANYTHING for profit. Citing their 95% efficacy, and safety claims, shows unacceptable naivete. They demonized safe drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin, while pushing dangerous, but profitable drugs like Remdesivir. They misattributed deaths to COVID - to drive fear, why else? Unbelievably, they actually said we don't know if infection confers immunity! And if it did, less than their vaccine! Yeah, right. The orchestrated upward transfer of wealth was obvious immediately - Target and big stores can stay open, not small players. Leaders of the fear-mongering clearly knew it was all BS - Pelosi at the hair dresser, Feinstein at the airport, Newsom at the French Laundry, Whitmer's husband hitting the road as usual. I could go on, cite the BLM riots, ad infinitum, but this is too long already. Gabbard theatrically refused the jabs initially saying it was more important for others, like elderly and health care workers to get it, because it is so friggin' vital for their safety. Anyone who believed that AT THE TIME is unable to process accurately what is clearly going on, and how things work. She failed, inexcusably. So did many others, we can't limit our supporters to only the most perceptive, that's too small a pool of humans. And she has amazing and rare qualities. I love what she brings to our side.
In my 7th decade, and my motto is, “It’s a good day when I learn something new!”
There are teams?
I always liked her as a person.
sort of... T Gabbard exposed the Kenyan. That is the elephant in the room. Pay attention
Leaders are under higher scrutiny. Even in scripture God holds them to higher account. Forgiveness is not excusing someone. We still need to hold others to account if their actions are currently or could in the future harm. If Tulsi still believes in and acts on beliefs that could harm, we need to hold accountable. God may forgive us but our actions still have consequences.
Redemption is a blessing
I certainly agree.
Good to know
you are making the case for looking at the tracks left in the sand being the most important indicator. That is noteworthy but false.
T Gabbard has exposed THE KENYAN OBAMA, that is a million times more significant.
Barry, we hardly knew ye.
Thr Dems blew it when they lost her.
nah, the Dems are totally circling the bowl
She wisely escaped that fate...
Have you ever heard about “Redemption”
Sometimes people have an epiphany and change their outlook. I remember mine 40 yrs ago.
She has exposed the Kenyan. That alone ensures her a page in the history books...
Your recap of her past positions is food for thought. Time will tell.
And her lefty positions were recent.
Oh, no! Not a gun grabber! Are you sure?
She has been a plesant surprise, I hope she can stay strong against the Deep State headwinds!
I think when she found out she was put on the watch list on air travel, that was another eye opener for her. It was her former party, the undemocrats, that did that.
Annie - and accused by Hillary of being a Russian asset. It all adds up to a huge red pill (at least for the ones with any modicum of common sense.)
I wonder what personality Hillary is taking on today?
Her real one - a b*tch.
Ask Russia. They will tell you she is clinnicaly insane
B!TCH.......😁
🤣
This is exactly what did it for her. She openly said so. She had done nothing wrong.
Good point!
Heading up the agency that hounded her is Divine Retribution.
She has exposed the Kenyan traitor.
Wake up people, that is what is important.
I think it pissed her off mightily.
And safe. 🤞
And alive!
She exposed the Kenyan traitor, a fact no one seems to comprehend.
Offset by the Zio-pig turd Lutnick... and the traitors Ratcliff and Wiles.
Rubio is a dork too.
She's smart. Put it out there in stages so the presstitutes and deep state can't hide it. Every day something new. The loonies on the Indivisible pages have been quiet on the latest truth bombs.
Yes, her life is in danger.
The best reporting on the rough hoax in my opinion is coming from Matt Taibi. He’s dropping two or three pieces a day.
https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/in-brutal-document-release-the-russia?r=lm4tj&utm_medium=ios
Thank God for courageous and talented journalists like Matt Taibbi. I've been reading his work since the aughts. He's was thrown under the bus, like so many others who refused to go with the mob mentality, not knowing where it would take him. Now, it looks like Racket News is doing well - he deserves it.
Amen
He's another example of someone reconsidering their position, at risk to their career. Is he perfect? No. But if you restrict your support to those who are perfect, you won't be supporting anyone.
Taibbi is good now... he used to be a mud-slinging rabid Anti-Trumper.
When she ran in 2020, mu husband and I thought that if she won the primary, we might vote for her. Big fans!
I saw that debate where she verbally smacked down that phony, Kamala Harris. Forgot to say - and she has courage, too!!
Tulsi comes across as honest, grounded, and balanced. I disagree with some of her positions, but that’s OK. And how she’s handling the Obama team’s attempt to destroy Trumps presidency is spot on. Keep digging Tulsi!
The attack on Trump’s presidency was an attack on America. All the Dems really care about is their own stupid, corrupt, political party. Can you name just one honest, grounded, balanced, and decent, current democrat?
>>> Can you name just one honest, grounded, balanced, and decent, current democrat?<<<
The only one that comes close, on occassions, is Fetterman.
No.
Fritz gets the award for the sole commenter that points out the Jo Bama reveal.
Bama is exposed as a traitor and has committed treason. That is a million times more important that the tripe people are commenting on.
and no doubt she is loving releasing all the Russian info on Hildabeast - now who exactly was the Russian stooge?
The irony of Hillary taunting her by publicly calling her a Russian asset. Ironic how that's working out.
We need to be very careful with Tulsi Gabbard. We are a Christian nation, and she is a practicing Hindu, as was Vivek Ramaswamy. They serve MULTIPLE Pagan and gods. They do NOT serve the God of
Abraham , Isaac and Jacob. There are multiple times, in the Word, that Israel suffered greatly when they, themselves, served these fake gods.
@CStone- I have never taken to the notion that only Christians can be good, decent people. I know a lot of sketchy 'Christians'.
Hindus are a problematic religion. It's not fit for American society.
So do I. They usually are democrats.
We are already under judgement anyway.
Because people are so uninformed and uninterested in what the Father has to say about anything.
Not a good criteria to judge someone by. This is called intolerance.
Name one and describe.
Any linked to genocide?
I first heard about Kali when I was in India in the '70s. I'm not saying I agree 100% with CStone, since both Tulsi and Vivek seem to have non-religious views in accordance with the Constitution and its underlying values as described in the Declaration. We've certainly had 'Christian' Presidents who acted against those values. We should acknowledge and teach how Christianity is what informs those values, however.
"Kali is most often characterized as black or blue, partially or completely naked, with a long lolling tongue, multiple arms, a skirt or girdle of human arms, a necklace of decapitated heads, and a decapitated head in one of her hands. She is often portrayed standing or dancing on her husband, the god Shiva, who lies prostrate beneath her."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kali
Agree 100%! Tulsi is a much appreciated breath of fresh air!
Surprised she hasn’t been a target yet for deep state
No assassination attempts, but they did put her on the no fly list
Already sidelined on foreign policy. Maybe she needs more stable coins from foreign countries, like Trump family.
She does strike me as a warrior in the most fundamental way; laser focused on the mission and unrelenting. Not many of us have those traits.
I remember when she ran for president as a Democrat, and how I thought she was so formidable: sane, articulate, great military background, attractive, the whole dangerous package who could easily pull independent and even moderate conservative votes. But the Democrat party kicked her to the curb so fast. I understand why; she's no puppet and that's what they want. Now here we are. Go Tulso!
If this thing goes well, she has a legitimate chance of being Vance’s running mate or perhaps landing an even higher profile job in his administration.
Women are , imho, unfit for thPresidency bc it takes them 2 hrs to put on wardrobe & make-up. Combat ineffective.
Except that she was Iraq where putting on makeup would have melted in the heat.
And wardrobe? Tulsi wore camo and combat boots.
I first thought that thought while watching a Michelle Bachman speech. A lOt of eyeliner there!
Maybe, but they save time by not having to re-orient their "shriveled up cojones" in their tidy-whities...just say'n
You must have a limited collection of women in your circle. This doesn’t apply to the numerous successful women I’ve known and worked with - or me! Limited or no makeup unless it’s a special event. Keep a suit hanging on the back of the office door when a quick change is needed.
Every day—for this whole administration and their families.
Mr. Childers, if you really want to take a vacation, you may need to wait until the next President is elected. This Pres is a news making machine! Thank you, sincerely, for your uncanny and amazing ability to synthesize and inform, while making me laugh. Brilliant, as always.
How about all of us setting up a ‘go fund me’ for Jeff and family…and, it has to end with 2…for his next vacation.
Can’t you hear his wife in the background. “Jeff! Will you put that thing DOWN NOW! We’re on vacation!”
Hope she passes over the raspberry vodka comment- lol. I think it was raspberry from the Circle K- and Jeff is a fruity vaper. Too funny.
Or subscribe!! Worth every penny !!
I mooched for free for longer than I will admit. Finally I said, "enough." This guy deserves my money. I cancelled the WSJ, to which I had subscribed for 40 years (It USED to be a financial publication) and signed up for C&C. Actually less money, but a million times more value.
Smart move of the day! 👏👍
I did too but still when I see the notification of payment I shake my head a little. haha. All good though. I feel privileged to contribute to a good man and his family's vacation. I have visions of Chevy Chase when they hit the road.
We look forward to his daily missives. He earns his money. I believe that for him, C&C is almost a calling. He has changed our world.
I too wanted to support Jeff because he certainly deserves it. And I LOVE the extra posting we receive on Sunday morning!!
And you can't line your bird cage with C&C...
Good idea.
So he can buy that yacht in the Mediterranean!
For coffee and covid army reasons, the only appropriate place for Jeff and his family to vacation would be to timbuck"two"
🤣
😂
Though I thoroughly enjoyed Jeff's expressive writing and analogies today. The vacation is working. Great C&C today!👍👏
He is the BEST
Ain't that the truth! I would miss his roundups if he took a vacation for real!
What she said!!!
Lol! Spot on
Hahaha!! 💯
65,000 children left in distress.
A nation that can't care for its children is truly lost.
There were a lot more children trafficked, but these are documentable. Tom Homan's team is looking.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, there were 1,038,100 abortions in US in 2024.
The first Guttmacher report came out in the late 90s, and reported that 97% of abortions were the result of a woman and her partner not bothering to use birth control. That report was updated a few years ago, and the new number is 98.5%.
So let’s not ever see images of coathangers, or whining, and complaints about “choice”. The FDA may be a disgusting organization, but it has approved 18 forms of birth control. Unfortunately, too many women and men consider abortion to be a form of birth control.
I wish we had the option of a tears emoji instead of a heart to respond to posts. Your post absolutely breaks my heart.
There are so many couples that desperately want babies but can’t , yet so many discard God’s miracles like trash . It is devastatingly beyond comprehension. Truly heart wrenching.
My husband and I are one of those couples. 40 years ago, a young Catholic girl chose Life for her baby, and we were blessed by her choice.
I can’t love this comment enough!! You are SO blessed !! ❤️
Amen. Eighteen years ago for us, and I thank the Lord for our daughter’s birth mom making that decision.
It’s so hard for me to comprehend that my adopted cousins are all rabidly pro abortion. I just don’t get it.
I met a beautiful young woman some years ago, who was born in China, and had been adopted by an American couple. Her very existence was such a wonderful statement against the horrors of abortion. She was such a wonderful spokesperson.
love how they call it "reproductive healthcare"
Just like "gender affirming healthcare." What's that quote from Confucius?
Biology-denying medical malpractice.
or "vaccine" for a drug that doesn't prevent illness or transmission
Here is one way to help women actually see that there is life within them: https://preborn.com/
And all that is happening after how many years of liberal sex ed in public schools.
I wish we had a system for “get two abortions for birth control get one tubal ligation free”. Once is a mistake, twice is carelessness and there should be greater consequences.
I knew a girl in college who had three abortions and every single one was caused by failure to use birth control—and the fact that she was a kind of a whore, who worked for free.
😭😭😭😭
Jeremiah 7:30-31
7:30-They’ve built the high places of Tophet, the Valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, which I commanded them not to do. This was never in My heart. 32 Therefore the day will come when it will no longer be Tophet, but the Valley of Slaughter, and they will bury Tophet until it is no place.
These verses refer to the temples that Solomon had erected on the Mount of Olives.
“Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain (Olivet) which is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.” 1kings11:7
A king that was universally acclaimed for his wisdom in the beginning of his reign, turned into a fool toward the end, and saw his kingdom be divided as a result.
“For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods;” 1kings11:4
“and they will bury Tophet until it is no place.”
Sounds like Israel of 2000 years ago, when the Roman ‘ruler of the world’ destroyed the city of Jerusalem and leveled the Temple until ‘not one stone was left standing on another’, and then scattered the Israelites throughout the world, and Israel became “no place”.
… exactly as God had said
Sounds like the new Gaza.
Sounds like the U.S.
My first thought, as well.
THIS. Makes me physically ill. As a retired RN,(& mom), Maternal/Child Health was my very fave subject while getting my degree. So I learned a great deal about fetal development. I am staunchly prolife. And as a woman, it makes me crazy that with all the contraceptive choices we have, that the majority of murders of tiny innocents is used as birth control!!! 😭. Men need to step up in this department too. If someone can be diligent about watching their diet if they want to lose weight, committed to going to the gym to get/stay in shape, WHY can they not use this same determination to properly use contraception if they have no desire to become pregnant? (Yes, I know there are exceptions, but they make up a tiny portion of abortions )
I agree with you… 25 years with diligent contraception use and zero mistakes.
Vaccines are working.
How many "got aways"?
I don’t like this, but thank you for sharing the information. 🥲
😢
This is truly a crime against humanity. And no outrage from the biden cabal either.
And yet, I saw leftists all over X griping about Epstein and Republicans being the ones who allowed children to be trafficked. I'm so over the projectionism.
You likely never saw it, because MSM was ignoring it, but toward the end of Trump 1.0, the FBI was successfully arresting traffickers and freeing abused children from their grasp. Part of the reason they had to have him loose? Biden comes in and immediately changes priorities to go after “right wing extremists”. You know, like parents at school board meetings and traditional Catholic parishes. 🙄😡
Causing good agents like Steve Friend to resign and go public (or was he suspended?).
Incredible & depressing that this - & the wider story of the 300,000 MISSING CHILDREN - has hardly been mentioned in ‘the media’.
Those ‘editors & reporters’ have become profoundly corrupt. They will hide ANY crime for their Democrat masters.
This saddens my heart deeply! How can people live with themselves knowing children needed & asked for help and received nothing!?! 🥹
I believe if the average citizen knew, they would intervene. There is still a great love for children in our nation.
So true. And not just the hotline but a gov who lets smuggling of children in for sex trafficking is long gone! smh!
Or children starving in foreign countries.
The legacy media seems to talk more about children that need our help in other countries than in our own, in my humble opinion.
“So far as I can tell, critics like Ms. Fitts worry about the heavy hand of government. They want digital currencies that can be traded like cash”
My understanding is Catherine is skeptical of all digital currencies and is a proponent of using actual cash as frequently as we possibly can as every use of real cash throws grit in the CBDC gears.
In 2021, she stated:
“We do know they want to go to an all-digital system with central bank cryptos. The easiest way to build the prison is to get freedom lovers everywhere to build the prison for you. To me, Bitcoin has always been the prototype on the way to building the all-digital crypto system that they would love to put into place. You have $400 trillion in fiat (currency) and it needs a place to go. If you are trying to buy up all the gold, silver and farmland, the last thing you need is competition from retail. They want to shift them into crypto and get them to build the crypto train tracks.…
“Remember, once they decide to bring out the central bank currencies, and they have steadily been regulating the crypto currencies, Bitcoin and everything else, so the day they decide to take this to zero, they can do it. If you are going to invest into cryptos and build our prison for us, what you need to know is this thing could go to $300,000, and it can also go to zero.…
“When they decide to shut down our bank accounts and say you all get on crypto, universal basic income and take that injection or you can’t transact on the financial system, this is instituting a totalitarian system through the financial system.… When they shut that trap door, what you need to think about is where are you going to buy food?”
Source: https://usawatchdog.com/building-a-bitcoin-prison-catherine-austin-fitts/
I read this an hour ago. And I'm a huge CBDC opponent who has screamed it from the rooftops to all I come in contact with since it was first mentioned by the globalists. Big cash guy too.
https://sunnysjournal.com/2025/07/23/rethinking-digital-identity-is-there-a-path-that-preserves-freedom-laura-aboli/
another reason to get rid of the FED?
Not until we get our $21 trillion + back. We ignore Catherine Austin Fitts at our peril.
How many do you need? The simple fact it is no more federal the Federal Express, and charges us interest on money they print for next to nothing should be more than enough reason. It blows me away the average American has no clue what the Fed really is, and how they have screwed us for 112 years. We moved to Richmond in 1975. The toll on the then new Powhite Parkway was a quarter. We were there yesterday. Now it's a dollar. 75 % inflation / devaluation of our money in 50 years. 100 % laid at the Feds feet.
And this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/drjacobnordangard/p/the-blueprint-for-ai-government-revealed
Agree, MAA. There are already places that won’t take cash - concerts, sports events, etc. Although some businesses in my smallish town give discounts if one pays cash & whether they do or don’t, I pay cash as much as possible, no on-line banking or bill paying for me. But I know the day is coming when we’ll be forced into digital-everything - no cash, no checks & the ability to restrict access.
If you write a check, it’s being converted to an electronic “online” transaction anyway, either by the business using “remote deposit”, or by individuals using their mobile banking app. If your payee does actually take your check to their bank to deposit, the bank converts it to an electronic payment. I remember when my actual “canceled” checks were returned to me in my bank statement every month, but now it’s just images.
Yeah but there is a tremendous push by every business or governmental entity to “go paperless”, pay online or otherwise have to create more online identities, passwords, etc. One of my credit cards charges a nominal fee to mail my statements to my physical address but I insist. It may be futile but I refuse to do online banking, direct deposit or pay a single bill electronically.
I pay that fee as well, but I'm not as staunch as you are about electronic bill pay. I haven't had a choice about direct deposit since the '80s, when the federal government mandated it (for the Army, at least; I assume all employees).
Credit card companies take between 3% and 5% of every transaction.
A business that won't take cash is screwing themselves, as well as ignoring the "Good for all debts, private and public" part of cash.
It should be illegal to do that, imo.
Mrs. RW
Oh, those businesses are already handing that credit card charge on to the consumer. An Irish Pub I frequent gives you a receipt with two totals—one for credit card payments, and one for cash or debit.
I’ve been to several restaurants recently that now charge a fee (usually 3%) for using a credit card. But then others don’t take cash at all. From an accountant/auditor perspective, I understand that accepting cash can pose a higher risk of employee theft, especially in a restaurant or concession stand environment. Some businesses may conclude that the credit card fee is less expensive than employee theft.
I remember the first time I wrote a check at a grocery store and the cashier scanned it and handed it right back to me. I thought, “Well I won’t be carrying a checkbook anymore if that’s what’s going to happen.”
I have not set foot in a Starbucks since they stopped taking cash, I don't patronize any stores or venues that don't take cash, and many of the places I do patronize give a discount for cash. Walk the walk is the solution .
I pay with cash at Starbucks all the time. I also give them cash and have them add it to my mobile app, so I get line-jumping ability plus an occasional freebie.
Guess they got too much pushback. I never frequented them, as I think they have mediocre overpriced coffee. Always was in a Barnes and Noble or when I needed a jolt on a road trip somewhere
I guess it depends where the Starbucks is. I was at a Barnes & Noble bookstore yesterday and they had a Starbucks cafe where I bought something and paid with cash. I don’t often patronize Starbucks, but next time I’ll make a point of noticing.
The 2 Starbucks where I live take cash….
I took my kids on a short trip in Pennsylvania at the beginning of the summer. Hotel - no cash accepted. Sesame Place - no cash accepted.
I don't like where this is going...
I agree with her but even with cash, the gov't can decide your money is now worth less. Didn't Greece or India do something like that? They told everyone they had to trade in their cash for the "new and improved" cash that was worth half of the old cash. Seems we're screwed no matter what unless we go only to a barter system. I don't have that much to barter with unfortunately.
Sound Money Movement is gaining a lot of support and traction
19 States has made gold and silver legal tender (Real Money)
Best way to save money and earn higher yields than inflation.
True, Cousin, e.g. in 1933 America’s banker decided to outlaw gold.
how much do you want for a kidney ?
ha ha
Mexico did it too.
She did an interview with Tucker Carlson that is worth the time to watch
I nominate Catherine Fitts for Fed Chairman
Thank you Alice for sharing Catherine interview. Also her website is The Solari Report
We ignore Catherine Austin Fitts at our peril. Stablecoin + Social Credit System = de facto CBDC.
Jeff writes :"Sadly, stablecoin regulation was inevitable. "
This is the wrong thinking. The global cabal wants you to think that - but the people MUST reject all forms of digital, trackable currency and go back to cash (backed by silver and gold).
Many need to really do some deep thinking on "what is money?". It isn't some bankers asset that goes from $1 to $100K in 12 years, like bitcoin did.
Money is really just your "stored Productivity". You raised 4 chickens and only need 3. But you need a pair of shoes. You either can find a cobbler that needs a chicken or use a system that allows you to convert that chicken into something to trade for those shoes.
Without productivity in the equation - which is missing from the technocrats new world of digital currency and universal basic income - you will be begging for slavery and lose all control.
Yes! most folks don't understand this idea of money as stored productivity.
I would be all for cash backed by gold and silver but I don't see an option for that on the horizon.
Bitcoin has gone up in dollar terms so quickly because more people (and companies, and for better or worse countries) are recognizing its value. It's definitely not a bankers' asset. The biggest holders of bitcoin are people, though institutions are trying to catch up.
(Blackrock now has well over half a million bitcoin :( I'd love to see it more in the hands of actual people, even just $100 worth.)
Economist Martin Armstrong has said that essentially, "stablecoin" is going to act like "war bonds."
https://usawatchdog.com/100-chance-of-nuclear-war-martin-armstrong/
Pay all Bill's by check.
Get more Forever stamps, the price up tomorrow
Too late. The price already went up on July 13, from 73¢ to 78¢
Last time I bought stamps there was an online sale of outdated ones. Bought 100 for $25. Still using those. I had no idea they'd gone up so much.
You’re right. I messed up. Dang!!
I love Fitts and she understands the dangers of financial totalitarianism, but she does not understand Bitcoin - not the decentralized nature of it, nor the fact that people can hold it themselves without asking for permission.
We forget that cash is government money, and carries with it all the many problems of centrally-controlled currency.
The US government can (and does) devalue cash; it cannot devalue Bitcoin. It can discontinue cash; it cannot stop Bitcoin.
What happens to Bitcoin in a long term power outage if cash is eliminated?
Just to be clear: I hope that cash is not eliminated.
In a power outage, the protocol continues - it's a global network - and those in the power outage just can't transact until they find a source of power. (There are actually some other options but I don't understand them yet.)
How was bitcoin created?
It was a computer program, no?
Centralized or decentralized - it was created out of thin air, no?
Bitcoin was the globalist way to get you conditioned to digital cash. When they are ready they will crash it in favor of their digital currency.
We need to end the Fed for sure. The Federal Reserve is private banks controlling our money. It is not government.
Bitcoin was created as a protocol- a set of rules - and has gradually grown as a decentralized network. Decentralized truly matters; it means that there's no one in control that can be manipulated, coerced, or blackmailed.
It's counter-globalist. Watch how the European Central Bank and Elizabeth Warren talk about bitcoin. They HATE it because they can't control it, though they're doing everything they can to limit the use of it because - as Christine LaGarde says - "if there's an escape, people will take it."
Agree about ending the Fed! And, yes, controlled by central banks, but at this point I don't think there's a huge distinction between those banks and government.
How would the US govt crash Bitcoin?
No, no, no, no, no.
Bitcoin is a psy op. The guy bought some computers and wrote a program.
Can you mine bitcoin?
https://www.blockpit.io/en-us/blog/what-is-bitcoin-mining
Its value comes from the global elitist propaganda. Starting at $.09 in 2009 to the current $119K
https://www.in2013dollars.com/bitcoin-price
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/historical-data/
explain the change in value. Why would you say it can't be manipulated?
The guy that ran the Sarasota survival group got into it early in 2010 and even sent me 6 free bitcoins, which I didn't accept. Why? Because when I looked into it I saw a globalist scam and ultimately decided that I didn't want to participate. I did though consider throwing $5K in, but said no. That $5K investment in 2010 would have made me a billionaire today. I don't look back with any regret. Because a $5K investment, in any world I choose to be in, should not make me a billionaire. I am happy with the money I earned through my productive work. Selling your soul to the devil, is well, selling your soul to the devil.
This "blockchain, decentralized, etc etc" bullsh@t" is a globalist game that needs to rejected by all. Remember, Jesus rejected the money changers, we should too.
And I totally reject me being told that I have to conserve electricity while they waste it mining bitcoin and running AI data centers.
This world today makes me think about a song that my sister sent me over a decade ago.
In the words of satan
https://youtu.be/lYDCMg4d7ks?si=R-dvKa4e50CHrHBk
Please tell me how it can be controlled and what makes it a psyop.
People who invested in it early saw something that most of us are just noticing now - that centrally controlled money is doomed to fail.
I found this article which will tell you how bitcoin rose from pennies to over a $100K today.
It was the institutions, not the little guy.
https://financefeeds.com/will-bitcoin-crash/
All these items are controlled by the global elites - all.
When they are ready they will crash it.
But other ways to control it are through taxation and regulations.
Its a market and all markets are controlled by them. Digital assets are the most dangerous to normalize as they will be programmable and very controllable.
Amazing. Thank you for the share.
Thanks. I agree
I've heard it said that geniuses don't sleep much. Jeff, though you get sharp headaches at the thought of crypto currencies, I still don't think you sleep either since you masterfully put together daily posts all while doing a very busy life. So, genius, you must be! Honestly, I cannot wrap my brain around a currency that only exists in the ethers of the web.
A counter point is that Bitcoin is limited to 21M coins (can't be 'printed') whereas USD is a fiat currency that is literally printed out of nothing.
Also almost all of us use electronic money for all our purchases (so few use cash) so already you're in an 'ether domain'. So crypto isn't much of a stretch.
Also privacy coins like Monero (https://www.getmonero.org/) can't be tracked by Big Government (big feature in our high-surveillance society).
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Who's going to prevent the limit from being raised to some other number greater than 21 million? It seems to me bitcoin is another fiat currency, just not run by a government. Clearly, I don't understand!
It's not like another fiat currency, though other crypto is. With Bitcoin there's no "they," no company, no CEO, no board of directors.
You can read the limit of 21 million in the code itself. It's written into the protocol.
Who wrote the code/protocol and why can't it be changed? I've never seen before in the last 40+ years where code or protocols couldn't be changed. I'm just a skeptic and a cynic by nature. If I don't understand it, I'm not in. Just me.
Yes, it's hard to wrap our heads around it!
We don't know who wrote the protocol.
The code can be changed - anyone can copy it and make their own version of bitcoin, in fact - but whatever is different from the current protocol won't be approved by the nodes that validate transactions, and the people who currently hold bitcoin (and tend to run those validating nodes) are not interested in devaluing their bitcoin by allowing a change from the current limit. As a result, although there are a number of threats to bitcoin, the change from 21 million is maybe one of the least likely.
If the current central banking system were working, it wouldn't make much sense to look at an alternative, but given the way things are going...
to me......... its all PONZI .......
seems like the theives that be up and up the Ponzi "value" ....then take their "fortunes" and buy the one asset that is truly limited : LAND
Will o’ the wisp.
How funny is that you can only see a picture of your coin and coincidentally is colors are…
Gold and Silver
PROJECTION…..
Is that much more ethereal than fiat currency?
I think most currency only exists in the ethers of the web these days since Congress just “prints” it at will
I don't trust this government or any government with crypto...if you cannot hold your money in your hand, and the control is ultimately in their hands (for your safety, I'm sure) this control switch will be used relentlessly on citizens..eventually, for the "good of all"...oh, you've bought enough gas, food, or you already bought a firearm this year...and they'll be able to instantly tell you this via your mobile device. They will steer us and control us to unimaginable lengths. Aside from that, digital theft will be rampant. Oh, I'm paranoid? Did we ever imagine we'd be confined with a virus outbreak? Did we ever believe we'd have a foreigner in the White House who was the gateway for islam flooding into our country? Nah......we're Americans! Big badasses...nobody will control us. Yeah
..ok...
I feel this way about Gold IRA's. If it's not safely entombed in my vault at Hogwarts I don't own it 😉
Bingo!!! 🎯
And, when you take a distribution from your "gold IRA" what are you going to use to pay the taxman??
Exactly!
Digital money is as sound as the power grids.
Good point. Why isn’t updating & protecting our power grids on the list of things to do?
Easier to buy politicians.
You can hold gold in your hand, or bitcoin in your own wallet. Pretty much everything else is fair game for the government (and they'll come for those as well! it's just a bit harder when you're holding your wealth yourself instead of in the big institutions).
I knew it but now it is finally confirmed, HRC is🦇💩🤪. Have a good day my friends.
She is Demonically influenced, maybe also possessed.
She dabbles in occultic practices like necromancy, and she delights in seeing a human being (Ghaddafi) in the throes of a gruesome death. These we know as fact. Who knows what else she does? She is friends with Podesta (depraved pedophile) and Soros father (deluded atheist new world order master) and son (spirit cooking).
Satan's disciples is what these people are.
Lord deliver us from their evil. 🙏
Let's not memory-hole Benghazi either...the sacrifice of an Ambassador and his staff, killed by a rabid mob, and our military was told to stand down. The valor of the Embassy security detail was the stuff of legend--but they, too, lost good men, heroes all. Their blood is forever on her hands.
And her comment when questioned about it a while later: what difference does
it make now.
I think about Benghazi often. I knew she was evil then now she is a crazy evil.
Obama was her partner in Benghazi.
I will never forget the images of those poor American men being assaulted by the rabid mob and their bodies dragged through the streets. Chilling.
Obama was partners with Hillary in this betrayal. Arrest obama.
Smells of sulfur and death 🤮
There are reports on her that no human eyes should ever have to read for they will be emotionally scarred thereafter.
“Satan's disciples is what these people are.“
Jesus referred to the leaders as Satan‘s children.
“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John8:44
… the same is true of his children (disciples)
Frazzledrip
Not to mention who she’s married to 😝
I refer to the beast as the desktop serial killer
Best emoji phraseology I’ve ever seen. Well done!
My problem with Bitcoin has a lot to do with my problems with passwords and the fact that people selling it to me collect my DOLLARS. If someone could explain why they have our dollars and we now have … some kind of invisible computer energy???? Seriously I’m too old for this. LOL
I’m with you Susan. I still don’t understand how bitcoin works. How does your Bitcoin make money? It seems like a giant Ponzi scheme.
This book helped fill in some of the blanks for me and gets into the history of Bitcoin: "Hijacking Bitcoin," by Roger Ver. Some of his points are quite insightful, such as: Bitcoin was never meant to be a store of value (i.e., something to be held to increase in value); it was meant to be used like cash with very low or no fees associated with its use. Also there aren't many people who operate the levers, so to speak, and China is surprisingly (and disappointingly/alarmingly) one of them. Some of these issues may change with time (such as Bitcoin being used as cash as it was intended (without super high fees associated with its use as done now), but some of it won't (such as who operates the levers)).
It can easily be manipulated by the uber wealthy. Pump and dump. Pump and dump....
Exactly, shouldn't there be obvious benefits, not just some thrill because it's somewhat new?
“a limited supply of nothing”
It doesn't make money; it is money. Just a better money.
My problem with bitcoin is that it takes MASSIVE amounts of energy to "mine" the coins. Huge server farms that could power entire towns to mine one coin. It is an unsustainable and truly stupid way to make a digitial currency.
This is where I’m lost. What does this even mean? How and why does it use energy? How does it work?
They have to run endless computations to "create" new bitcoins. I haven't a clue as to exactly how that's done but I know it requires a lot of computing power. They often locate bitcoin mining operations near power stations to glom the energy to run all the computers.
What is the cost of electricity to make bitcoin? The whole thing is too abstract for me, and doesn't make sense.
So they’ll eventually try to smart meter us to being sweating hot or freezing cold, but there will always be enough energy to create the bitcoins out of thin air via the power grid.
I don’t trust what I can’t hold in my hand.
It's an interesting thought. Why do you feel some pieces of paper in your hand contain value? Only because we have, as a society, agreed they have value. And once those pieces of paper are deposited in a bank, it becomes a number, ones and zeros, in their computers. And we also need other countries to agree that our paper is more valuable to own than other country's paper. One of the reasons we removed Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi from power was that Saddam wanted to sell oil for Euros while Gaddafi wanted Dinars for his oil. It is essential that people buy and sell oil in dollars to keep our economy afloat. The petro dollar I think is what it's called. It's really all illusion and crazy when you think about it. And yes, it's also crazy how much energy is expended on turning KW hours into currency that could be used for so many better things. As with all money/wealth, it's really about power and control.
You make some really great points and I appreciate the engagement.
I guess I still feel the dollar is more legit because it physically exists in time and space. It is composed of matter. Even though the worth was unhitched when we got off the gold standard in the 70’s.
Plus the whole digital only money push is taking your end phrase “it’s really about power and control” to the ultimate level. A lot of the big bad entities in our world long for ultimate control over what & how & and especially IF we even can spend. So I guess the physical paper money is kind of a big middle finger to them in my mind as well. 😬
I’ve no doubt some of Trumps maneuvering is his wanting to insure that the American Petro dollar stays king….whatever form it takes.
All the resources like energy and water that are being diverted to things like digital currency and server farms for data storage and AI will butt up against the needs of humanity in a big way at some point. I hope we come out on top in that.
Don't look behind the curtain...the Great OZ is busy whipping up some new Bitcoins...
So it’s a “digital” file that lives in the cloud. Sort of like our digital photos are stored?
Yes but even more confusing. There is not digital coin per se, just a record of a transaction. Supposedly only accessible if you have digital code that you had better not lose. This guy gives a quick overview which might help. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1600/where-are-the-users-bitcoins-actually-stored#1604
Ok, but how does “it” make money and increase in value if its individually held? It’s not like they’re lending money out and earning interest…or is it? And what happens if the whole system crashes? Like your hard drive does and you lose all your stuff? 🤷🏼♀️
I’m with you! My head hurts thinking about “mining” coins and using energy!
Its a computer game of sorts.
They "mine" bitcoin through solving puzzles, etc.
I can't believe people are falling for this crap.
I shake my head daily saying Toto we are not in Kansas anymore.
Here is something to read to start with
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/article/how-to-mine-bitcoin/
https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-does-bitcoin-mining-work/
A friend’s son had probably 8 machines in his apt., which was HOT as all get out even woth the AC blaring. The apt. was on the parents’ property so the electric bill was consolidated. Their bill went from like $290 to $1800! They put an end to his crypto mining.
Is crypto mining storing data?
Idk… Wish I did. I’ve got bible study friends who are doing well with BC but I haven’t bothered to learn.
Best to put miners where you need the heat
July in GA— the only place that needs heat is inside the dryer.
Ha! Yes- dryers, and a few other specific uses. There’s a fellow who mines while dehydrating fruit and incubating eggs, but in general home mining is easier in the winter
I’m not sure the bitcoin emperor is wearing any clothes…
Not only does he have no clothes, this emperor does not even exist.
Thank heavens. We don’t need any more emperors
Do you know how much energy it takes to mine gold??
That's a good question so I looked it up. Here's a quick answer: "it takes about 17 megajoules of energy to mine one dollar's worth of bitcoin, compared to only four to seven megajoules for the same value of gold." But if the power goes out, you still have your gold.
$1 worth of bitcoin = 1/118,000 of a bitcoin. So 17 mj x 118,000 = 2,006,000 mj to mine one bitcoin??? Back to the drawing board Clem. :) not that I comprehend what a mega joule is.
OK, I went back to the drawing board.
Energy Cost per Dollar of Bitcoin
To determine the energy needed to mine one dollar of Bitcoin, consider the current price of Bitcoin (which is always changing). For example, if Bitcoin is priced at $107,000 the energy cost to mine one dollar of Bitcoin can be calculated as follows:
Total Energy for 1 BTC: 6,400,000 kWh (23,040,000 mega joules)
Cost to Mine 1 BTC: $107,000 (U.S. average)
Energy Cost per Dollar=$107,000 @ 6,400,000 kWh≈59.81 kWh per dollar
Thus, it takes approximately 59.81 kWh [215 mega(million) joules] of electricity to mine one dollar of Bitcoin at the average U.S. electricity cost.
So then what are you saying the actual $ cost of mining one bitcoin is? Because if it si not substantially less than the current value of Bitcoin, All mining would immediately cease. Yes?
I question that. Gold discoveries have to buy the land do endless core drilling to locate and assess deposits. Then they have enormous earth moving machines to excavate, drill, open mine shafts. Then there are mills and all that dirt has to be processed to separate the few grams of gold for each ton of earths, then melted down and purified. I think all in sustaining costs per ounce range from $900- 2400 per ounce depending on the quality of the deposit. Gold is now in the $3300/ oz range and bitcoin at $118k. The math now becomes out of my league. :)
Excellent point.
This whole bitcoin "manufacture" thing reminds me of the shysters in Manhattan running a shell game on a folding table.
Yeah. It’s hard to wrap your head around it
I hear you. I don’t get it, either.
Dollars are less valuable than bitcoin by almost any measure. Dollars can be printed out of thin air and bitcoin cannot. The government can continue to print money and almost endlessly devalue the dollar.
Folks living on a bitcoin standard have watched their living expenses go down while the rest of us are coping with inflation.
Jasmine, I’ve got one for you. Dollars are more valuable than bitcoin because dollars can be used as wiping paper. Bitcoin can not.
Ha! Good one.
I’ll raise a toast to you when I’m enjoying my next meal of grass- fed beef purchased with Bitcoin.
From a ranch that has been on a Bitcoin standard for years, so they’ve watched their operating costs drop dramatically.
Bitcoin and especially Gold.
personally I think gold and especially bitcoin, but yes!! How cool if all Americans held some of both. We would be in a different situation and not begging corrupt government officials to please continue cash and make policy that we like.
Well, at least some people are protecting themselves. Rare though. Most people just don’t get it.
Yes :(
Can you use it at a grocery store? To pay rent/mortgage? I’m thinking no.
Depends on where you live but many folks live on Bitcoin.
Hmm interesting.
Our electric company screwed up our online payments for a month while we were out of town. No email from them about this. So we got late charges, threats, etc. We had just signed up. We are going back to writing checks. Never had a late charge or threat in 55 years by writing a check. I will not be joining AI money fiddling age. I’m up to not just my eyes, but our second story house height with technology.
Problem is the post office is not reliable either. I take care of my mom's finances and after she had cash stolen by a home health worker several years ago, canceled all of her plastic and just pay her bills with checks. Just one less thing to monitor. Granted she is now in AL so a lot fewer bills to pay but her newspaper subscription bill, dated 2 weeks earlier, showed up in my mailbox, with less than 7 days before it's due. Mailed the check the day I got the bill and it was still late arriving. (I checked the online account) Fortunately they have a 7 day grace period so she did not miss any issues of the paper but the days of assuming the PO is competent are over.
I do buy her groceries and such and we settle up every couple of months so she doesn't have to have cash around and I am not writing a check every time she needs toilet paper. Hubby is in charge of bill pay at our house and he was still writing checks and mailing bills until we got hit with a couple of late charges due to slow post office and so now pays them all online. But NOT autopay as that is too much trust that they will never make a mistake or over charge you.
Makes you wonder if this horrid PO service is on purpose, pushing us all to do more 'electronically'.
Exactly. It takes between 2 weeks and a month to get mail sent from Oregon to Pennsylvania. Had to switch to paying bills online. As to local bills the USPS now sends everything from Grants Pass to Portland to be sorted and then back so it is a minimum of a week to mail locally. Faster to drop off the check to the business than to the post office box. And yes we pay with cash when possible.
The slowness of the Post Office has really affected whether physical checks arrive on time.
We’ve e never had a problem in decades with mailing a payment. I always mail at least a week and a half before due or upon receipt. We do have some bills on auto pay. Peoples experiences differ for sure. Small town. Small post office. I personally know almost everyone in it. I like to keep any of my online stuff to a minimum. Cash is king for us. Have a good one, Donna. 😀
Several months ago, I sent a check priority mail well over a week before the due date and it took *10 days* to arrive!! 😡🤬 Luckily the person who received the check was understanding and counted it as on time since the post mark was way before the due date. I was so mad though! Paid extra for priority—I know there’s no guarantee but figured it should at least be a * little* faster and more reliable. Nope 🙄
I have noticed that the post office is deliberately taking 7 to 10 days to deliver payments by check in the mail. They’re doing it on purpose to force us to stop using checks and to pay online. The post office has really deteriorated at every level.
Just before Covid mail was being delivered in one or two days. Suddenly, now it’s one to two weeks.
Similar issue happened to us with a check sent priority mail to another state. Took 10 days and the post office refused to refund our money.
It’s ridiculous 😡
I actually had a document last week where there were 2 options to return (signed and notarized) - either by US mail, or by FAX!? I actually went to the UPS store and had them fax it as I figured that was more reliable, and was actually cheaper than either certified mail or priority mail.
Oh wow! So few people use faxes anymore, I’m surprised!
Beware the USPS. A friend took three bill pay envelopes with checks to our local PO. All three checks were washed and cashed for much larger amounts. Her bank alerted her to the fraud. She had to get a new bank account. The perp was a USPS employee.
Use gel pens for writing checks as the ink cannot be washed.
Wow, thanks for the tip!
I prefer checks too but be aware that the Post Office is so slow you need to allow two weeks for delivery!
I think the USPS must be getting reimbursed behind the scenes as part of the push for digital payments. They've gotten so slow with the mail that many people have switched to online payments just to make sure payments make it on time.
Yes. Even with priority now it takes almost a week to deliver from Nebraska to Florida
I’ve experienced it taking a week to have a letter mailed and received in town. I am always hopeful that the USPS will do their job, but I’ve learned not to hold my breath.
What happened to the post office? A friend explained a couple of years ago.
This end run to kill the USPS started with Rep Henry Waxman-D California, and Maine’s finest Susan Collins-R in a joint bill to “reform the U.S. Postal Service’s pension plan,” a bill that has Ben Franklin’s favorite federal institution under gross attack. Forward-funding USPS workers’ pensions 75 years was the goal stated. Nobody else in the bureaucracy, just our mail carriers and their fellows. At the expense of the service we had come to expect since 1794, iirc.
DeJoy, made Postmaster General by the US Postal Board of Governors under Trump, went on a gutting spree destroying automatic mail sorting machines and other essentials in this ongoing attack to undermine the USPS in order to suffocate it for the likes of FedEx, UPS and DHL.
DeJoy at the time had a net worth of $678 million (iirc) from his own shipping business, and surprise of surprises, despite long and loud efforts to get rid of him during Trump’s term, well by golly, there he still sits, overlooked and unnoticed by the President, and the entire U.S. Congress. Guess who is now the Postmaster General of the USA?
Do you ever get the feeling….
‘Get Used To Me’: Louis DeJoy Says He Has No Plans To Leave Postal Service
httpx://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/02/24/louis-dejoy-says-he-has-no-plans-to-leave-postal-service-house-oversight-hearing-board/?sh=3db4c5414b92
“DeJoy did not deny a Washington Post report that he will be imposing changes at the agency that could result in slower and more costly mail delivery, but said his planned reforms for the agency are still being “finalized.” ~ Forbes Feb 24, 2021
He did leave earlier this year, but his work was obviously done here.
Mrs. RW
Of course I do that. Mostly I pay on receipt. Or 1 1/2 weeks early. I’ve been doing this for 50 years. I’ve got it down. 😀🤔. The only problems we ever had were autopay or this particular issue last month.
ATT did that way back when I first signed up for their stuff - withdrew 3x what they should have and we really didn't have much to spare. Instead of putting the money back, they said they would just credit my account for the next couple of months. That was _not_ a good tradeoff. And since then, they do not get the "auto-pay" option for my account. I'll still pay online, but I go in each month to pay the bill and approve the amount.
Yes, way back in the early days of cell phones, I stupidly agreed to autopay as I pay the phone bill with my biz account and just saw it as the easy button. But we switched providers and Verizon hit me for a $250 early cancellation fee that they refused to refund as it was in the fine print that I had stupidly failed to read. Turns out this was endemic and they lost a class action lawsuit saying they failed to clearly disclose the fee. Several years later I did get a check (after legal fees) for ~$175. So still sketchy on autopay, although my Epoch Times subscription is set up that way, although they do send an email a month or so before they charge the card - but emails are easy to miss so that is the exception rather than the rule in our house.
Last year we paid ahead a larger amount on utilities and never had to worry. Overpaying just gave us a balance. Where we go, (camping off the grid out west) cell service is iffy and post office not close. I’m also trying to wean myself off too much scrolling.
How's that working for you? 😉
It’s really hard to do when you’re on C&C, that’s for sure! 😆
There are actually more and more trade businesses who want cash or checks these days since all the Venmo tax stuff or whatever happened. I’ve written more checks in the last year than in the last 10.
Don't trust crypto. Don't trust AI. They're giant digital confidence schemes. It's probably far too late to put the genies back in the bottles, though. It would be wise to keep a sharp eye on this crap. And remember: Cash is King. Not Johnny, but rather good 'ole American greenbacks. Like the ones stuffed between my mattresses.
Gold is king, dollars lose their value.
When people are hungry, food will be king. Ya can't eat gold.
Lead trumps gold
try buying a loaf of bread with your kingly gold. There are limitations and tradeoffs for every financial transaction. Don't forget the cost of protecting that gold. Oh yeah, when the "end" comes and your neighbors figure out that YOU have gold...
I had an old $50 gold certificate dollar bill back in the 70s, that said it was convertible at the bank into gold (printed on it). So I took it to the bank to get the gold, knowing good and well that was not gonna happen. (the look on the teller’s face was cool to witness), But no gold.
Because of what Nixon did in ‘72, that piece of paper, that $50 gold certificate bill, became just a piece of paper that only had the value that people were willing to give it. Gold too, tho, like the greenback dollar, only has the value that people are willing to give it. Which, by the numbers, is valued much higher than paper money, seashells. or beads and blankets. (but ultimately, not above bread)
America’s banker confiscated gold back in ‘33 (interesting number) and forced the people under the threat of prison and fines, to trade their gold for paper federal reserve notes (interesting history), greenback dollars, backed by the ‘full faith’ of the federal government. All we got is these corrupt politician’s word that our greenback dollars are gonna continue to have value.
And, yes, they will continue to have value, however the value is changing, in a downward spiral over the years. If we don’t stop the fiscal irresponsibility in America, our greenback dollar is going to decline in value until it’s only value remaining is as wallpaper. (just like that paper dollar of the confederate states of America.)
These corrupt politicians have put us, you and me, $37 trillion in debt in just about the last 37 years, people, the interest on which is nearly $1 trillion per year, which is financial insanity. We borrow the money in order just to pay the interest, that’s crazy. Think about you being in a position where you don’t have any money to pay even the interest on your credit card debt, so you have to borrow money just to pay the interest on it. To me, that is absurd financial management, and obviously unsustainable.
The result is default.
If we default on that debt when it comes due, which is highly likely, hence, the lowering of America’s credit score by the banker, this country will be ‘literally’ bankrupt and our greenback dollar will be almost worthless.
… just like that paper dollar of the confederate states of America
Yes, cash is king. And yes, gold is really king over cash. But remember how her accountant murdered atheist Madeleine Murphy O’Hare so he could steal the gold bouillon she had stashed in a storage bin.?
Gotta watch who you trust.
🎯
All I can say is TAW…with a twist. Truth Always Wins!
Amen!
Something I can actually agree with.
Sun is the best disinfectant!
Go Tulsi!
She is a practicing Hindu.
You need to read the Scripture to see what the God of the Bible thinks about those who worship MULTIPLE GODS.
I don't care what she believes.
I care that she is doing a job she was hired to do.
We will all stand in front of our Lord on the last day, I hope everyone is prepared.
And that was the attitude of many in the Bible. You look at those nations who have leaders who serve ‘many FAKE gods”.
They’re like demonicRAT run states and cities. They are not blessed.
“Choose you this day whom you will serve. As for me and my House, we will serve the LORD.”
Joshua 24:15.
We were founded on GOD’s Word.
If we just randomly choose leaders we end up with a Muslim like Obama, it a godLESS pedo like Biden.
You want to bring a curse on the nation?
Vote for a Hindu or a Buddhist……might as well vote for a Satanist, because that is who they serve.
“ a godLESS pedo like Biden.“
I agree with this statement wholeheartedly, CStone
… even though Biden is a Catholic
Biden, like Nancy, is CINA (Catholic in Name Only, or Christian in Name Only) is my take because of their actions. “You will know them by their fruits.”
Edited only to add commas.
I would like to replay a reply that I made in response to Cousin Clem on a previous C&C, where he said; “And my, how they the Godless love and abide in Forever Wars and genocide. And generally, ripping the world asunder.”
Now, it may seem like I’m casting shade on catholic/christians when I say these things, but I’m only stating facts, however unpalatable they are:
“And then, concerning the ‘secular God haters’ that rule the Western world; I’m thinking that they are not secular mostly, they’re almost all christians. The presidents of America for the last 60 years, have all been christians. The Congress is overwhelmingly christian. The Supreme Court is seven catholics (christians) and then in Europe almost all of the leaders are catholics (christians) of some sort. I mean Spain is catholic, Italy catholic, Britain, I’m thinking is almost catholic, that is; anglican. And then you got orthodox catholics in Russia and Ukraine. I’m saying the state religion of Russia is orthodox catholic, Ukraine is orthodox catholic. catholics killing catholics. They’ve been doing it for centuries. christians killing christians is still going on today, then you got christians killing muslims, that too has been going on for centuries, and still going on today.” (I am fully aware of muslims killing christians as well, and aware of the fact that jews are very busy killing people also)
Given the fact that christians in America and in Europe are fully in favor of financing and equipping those that are hell bent on the killing of other human beings, it seems to me that the majority of them are ‘CINA’s.
Perhaps being OK with killing people may be a requirement in order to be a christian, a muslim or a jew.
… all of whom believe they are doing a service for their God
Well Biden claimed to be a good Christian-- look where that got us. I agree re Moslems since they are out to kill us but someone with a good heart outweighs an evil person regardless of what they purport to believe.
She is a Christian she talked about her faith on Tucker’s tour before the election.
Hindus believe in one God who has Unlimited Forms, including an Impersonal Form.
Would be grateful for a link to see the churches bribed by O to support H.
It might be easies to get a list of those churches that were not bribed. 🤠
From The Midwestern Doctor:
"Catholic Church: USCCB [United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] receives ~$100 million/yr from federal contracts to resettle migrants; Pope Francis calls for “empty convents” to house migrants."
Wow. ICE will know where to look for more deportees. Smh.
All you have to do is search but I'll give you a big clue from a Christian Science Monitor article in 2016..."Hillary Clinton, a white Methodist from the Chicago suburbs, seems most at ease in black Baptist churches." You're welcome.
HRC likes...er, nevermind.
They say it's her happy place. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/0425/Why-black-Baptist-churches-are-Hillary-Clinton-s-happy-place
Funny, I can’t really imagine her ever being happy 🤨
me either
Doesn't help that you even have SBC sub-committees like the ERLC pretending to support the denomination, but really pushing anti-Christian nonsense. (WAY past time to disband that group....)
I think we can pretty much guess which ones took the money.
I’m guessing all churches with 5013c status were threatened. Then paid off.
Catholic Church: USCCB [United States Conference of Catholic Bishops] receives ~$100 million/yr from federal contracts to resettle migrants; Pope Francis calls for “empty convents” to house migrants.
I am not well versed in AI specifics or a frequent user, and am a skeptic that all of this is taking us anywhere good. This story evidently hit in April but ran across it yesterday.
"A new Pew Research Center study gives news outlets firm proof that Google’s AI Overviews are gutting their web traffic. The report, released Tuesday, analyzed user search habits from March 2025. It found that when an AI summary appears, clicks on normal web links drop from 15% to 8%.
Worse, a tiny 1% of users click on the source links inside the AI answer itself. This data adds fresh fire to the worldwide fight between publishers and Google. Media outlets argue the AI feature traps users on Google, cutting off the clicks that support their work.
The findings confirm what many in the industry have long suspected. A July report from Similarweb, for instance, showed that “zero-click” news searches have soared to nearly 70% since Google rolled out AI Overviews.
The Pew study also found users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after seeing an AI summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with just 16% of pages with only traditional search results."
As a business researcher, the 'only 1% click on the source links' is the biggest concern. The source of the information is everything. My rule has always been that any data point that is pivotal to a decision should be from a source that is credible and discloses methodology/how they got there and ideally corroborated from more than one source. While this article mentions Pew, a reliable source most of the time, other credible sources are pointing to people taking the 'easy button' for search result answers. Of course not all of these things are high stakes - 'best macaroni and cheese recipe' could just lead to a crummy dinner, but I will continue to take these automated results with a grain of salt.
AI is also interfering in hiring decisions. Companies are too understaffed or lazy to take the time to review all applicants. So they outsource the vetting to AI. AI doesn't have the understanding of work ethic, experience, or ambition perhaps driven by need to make good decisions.
I was in charge of hiring for decades for various companies as both a top level manager and then as an outside consultant. For a company to be successful, the entire team needs to be in line with the Owner/Founder/Manager. AI is looking at the wrong data most of the time to make that distinction.
While companies complain about "the new generation not having a work ethic" and use that as an excuse for their piss poor customer service, there are legions of energetic, trained, knowledgeable senior citizens frustrated by not even being considered. Too many of us had our retirement plans destroyed by FraudChi and his miscreants, and now we are falling short after decades of being self reliant and able to live a simple but decent life.
I have been turned down by numerous companies. My resume is stellar, my skillset is worthy of consideration, I'm pretty easy going and have always been a good and faithful employee... and the only excuse I get is "overqualified," or "you wouldn't be able to take direction from someone your junior," or just the usual vague, "we have decided to go a different direction." One company said they were no longer hiring and then had an ad in the local paper the next week. But not one would meet in person with me. AI had made the decision.
IMHO this is going to backfire spectacularly on these companies. So many benefits to having a mature employee. But AI doesn't have that programmed in.
My hubby got laid off last Fall when the company he worked for jettisoned half of their sales force as their industry continues circling the drain. The other half was let go in March. (he was in gift industry sales for 30 years, most recently for a gift company who sold to mom and pop retailers - covid + online shift has destroyed the industry - their biggest competitor just announced they are offloading sales to an independent rep company and all are now 1099's not W-2's)
Rather than 'start over' at 61, he opted to retire.
Sadly I hear/meet/have coffee with many folks in the same boat as you. I do a lot of networking. A layoff after age 55 is really tough. Many are trying the 'fractional executive'/self employed route. (mostly with limited success - it is not a steady paycheck most of the time)
I've been self employed since 2001 and it's tough out there on that front as well as 'people' contributions are devalued. Had a prospective client decide to outsource research to India. Had another opt for an automated AI solution. I am being asked to drop my price and have to fight to justify the value of any proposal these days. Exceedingly rare to have a client unhappy with the quality of my work, especially since I have learned to target the right clients and only accept projects where I know I can exceed expectations. And yet that no longer seems to matter. I always thought I would work til I dropped dead but between prospects with pronouns in their signatures and battling to justify relevance I may just throw in the towel like my hubby.
I even saw an article the other day about a woman who was interviewing for a VP of marketing role whose interviewer was an AI bot! She bailed when the bot (named Jeremy) could not answer HER questions about the prospective role. I could see AI screening for an entry level role but VP?! Insanity seems to be taking over.
I’ve caught AI in many mistakes and it apologizes when I point that out. But for recipes: I’m so sick of reading through many paragraphs of the writer’s childhood or whatever just to get to the recipe. At least AI gets to the point! Even though it’s not always correct. I also find the way I ask the question makes the AI answer evolve into something somewhat “truer”. An example would be medication and side effects. Sometimes you have to ask the exact side effect to get the answer and yes I called AI out on that too.
So true on the recipes - infinite scrolling to get to the actual recipe! Yummly used to be a site where you could enter an ingredient you had on hand and it would give you ideas on how to use it. They got rid of that, sadly. I miss that. Allrecipes is good - there is a 'jump to the recipe' button and then hit the 'print' icon and you just get the recipe without the chatter. And the comments are often good, offering substitutes or additions.
😂 childhood lol so true !
So true …I had the same thought when I was searching for a recipe .
The AI had it summarized (with measurements) …I thought, wow this will really affect the digital traffic to websites that rely on it for clicks / advertising dollars .
They did provide the “link” but who will take the time to click ? And what a great way to promote certain”approved “ websites 🤔
Exactly. Like you said, no big deal for a low stakes search like for a recipe or a restaurant, but still....
And at some point, these content providers that AI is using to provide these results will start dropping off due to starvation from ad revenues. leading to lower quality (or biased) search results.
I am losing business to AI as companies are gravitating towards automated reporting and analysis (as it's cheap and easy) and devaluing human insights. I am having a hard time mustering the energy to fight it as I am nearing retirement age. I always thought I would work until I dropped as I love what I do but when I spend as much time looking for work (self employed) as I do working it starts to look like a waste of time. And I spend a lot more time on politics since 2020 - analyzing issues for candidates and elected friends. studying precinct trends to target for local races and the like, that does not pay but is much more gratifying when we get a W out of it.
Great points Donna!
Goggle search had transformed from a good source of information to an ad site. I appreciate the AI search on google -it gives you the information you’re looking for without all the ads in your way.
The Dems KNEW Hilary was going to win because they has sabotaged the 2016 election, like 2020. And when she didn't win they had to do something QUICK to make sure Trump never took the oath of office. That is why they went to Trump Tower to "show him the Russian collusion evidence." I am sure they threatened him with it. I pray all of the truth comes out.
Who else do you know, at least in your lifetime, that stood his ground with courage and determination despite them trashing him, lying about him, trying to bankrupt him, trying to put him in prison for life, and even shooting him? Trump is solid and I support his efforts to save this country.
The more they try to demonize Trump the better I like him!!!
Probably only Ronald Reagan but I think Trump is better.
Reagan was courageous however he had not experienced half of what they did to Trump.
Notice that the declassification of the documents is called a "push to cast doubt," rather than an effort to uncover the truth.
We're not supposed to hate, but the media makes it so hard.
We're not supposed to hate other people, but we can (and should) hate evil.
Touche' ❤️