As promised, Part II of the Great Tsunami Story that we started on Saturday. This time, it's the Intelligence Community's turn. Just wait till you see this one. It is SO much better than we thought.
Something to consider. Just came back from Vegas which was SLOW. Walked to the front of the line at Bellagio buffet with no one in front---at lunchtime. Checked right in to our resort with NO ONE in front. Saw "Wizard," and 40% of the seats weren't just empty---entire sections were closed down. A friend, who is seeing the same massive slowdown in Veil, CO, said there was a shocking absence of the Latin American riches who used to spend money like crazy there, and suggested that Trump's "war" on the cartels was absolutely slicing into the Latins' ability to launder money up here. I mentioned this to a certain guy at War Room who said, "YES. Treasury is all over this."
Lived there off and on fromā63; 104 degrees at midnight after a baseball game. The resorts were flooded with customers after Covid handouts. An economist could take the marketās temperature by the number of tourists in Vegas. The water problem is a non starter for future growth.
The pool at Hoover Dam is close to falling below the level at which it is possible to generate power. The states relying on water from Lake Mead have a problem.
Some people in the know are saying that the next "Civil War" will be fought over water... with the Western States drying up like a popcorn fart, and with the Great Lakes being that largest reservoir by surface area of fresh water in the world... ~20% of the world's surface fresh water supply... conflicts between those states in need and those states in possession are inevitable!
That a big part of the problem is being caused by an evil plan, that has been in-effect for decades, should be more widely recognized and opposed (eg, at supermarket) -- see expose that begins at ~4:32 of www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCAlMrHGrSs
Last there in 2008, so it's been awhile... and it was the first weekend of May.. But I have to say that the absence of Humidity makes the heat tolerable.
I would consider the UFC Fights in D.C. and the fact that the FIFA World CUP are where the big money gamblers are right now! Who in their right mind would want to be in the Nevada Desert in the Summer, unless at Lake Tahoe or Lake Mead!
Now youāve hit the crux of the problem. All those liberals who moved to Colorado and turned it blue have been drinking too much water upstream. And, unlike us great unwashed, I bet theyāve been bathing too.
Last night I got home from a week in Sarasota Florida which seemed to be booming. Lovely Florida was absolutely packed, restaurants not returning my calls to book last minute party of 22 people, mall parking lots full and everyone happy and healthy. GO BLESS THE PATRIOTS, GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Spent some time in FL, mostly in my rock and roll days (Tampa, Clearwater, Lakeland, Sarasota, Ft. Meyers. I like it but absolutely cannot handle humidity. PHX and Vegas to me are perfect---hot, but not too humid. But hat's off to people who want to live in FL.
To me, a lifelong Floridian, the heat I've experienced in Vegas (117Ā°) is akin to stepping into an oven... In Florida it's like stepping into a sauna... Neither are enjoyable when you have to be outside working...
We split time between S FL and California. CA's covid hangover is still palpable as seen by the empty storefronts and terrified looks in the eyes above the masked folk darting through the aisles at Trader Joe's. It's a weird, sad vibe. When we get back to FL life is happening and things feel normal (if you can embrace that word for FL).
š¤·āāļø. I donāt know what that means either. Itās like he stopped in the middle of his explanation. Also, IMO people are tired of Vegas outrageous prices, moral decay, & low quality.
I've heard that as well for sometime. No more free parking and expensive buffets. Maybe the poster was referring to Vegas being used for money laundering???
I went to Vegas in the late '80's and it was sooo cheap. Buffets for like $5 and admission to shows was so reasonable. It was fun and bright and exciting and the old Strip was still as I had seen it in movies over the years. I have gone back twice, once before Covid and once during and it was just not the same! Another iconic part of America (sin city to many people) is just gone.
I got married there in November of 1989, right when the Berlin Wall came down! We stayed at the Golden Nugget and it was fabulous. Had huge fun then and a couple more times over the next few years. Great memories
The answer is in today's post ... in an unprecedented move, DOGE has been able to interconnect preciously autonomous data banks, greatly facilitating 'follow-the-money' auditing. DOGE's tools are now a quantum leap ahead. You can be sure there's a lot of scrutiny going on as to where money is being spent.
An interesting factoid that I learned in Vegas recently from a driver, there's a law in NV that any building on the strip that is 50 years old becomes a historical landmark and cannot be torn down. He mentioned it is why Circus, Circus isn't torn down and why when other buildings are getting close to the 50 year mark they tear it down. I didn't know that and thought it was an interesting fact.
Lots of talk of hot weather and water issues in this thread. Without addressing geoengineering, there will be no 'return to normal'. https://geoengineeringwatch.org/
Not a fan of activities in either location, but do think that the people who will be hurt by a big economic slowdown are not the people who are the problem...
It could also be that the prices there have gotten insane the past few years. Plus, the homeless are an issue that needs addressed. Walked into a casino restroom to find a guy shaving in the ladies restroom.
Isn't Vegas et.al. slow because countless thousands of Americans are now deprived of graft and fraud income? How many NGO administrators and 'executives' making $200K, $300K, $500K per year are no longer able to spend lavishly on tourism?
How many lavish NGO 'conferences' have been cancelled in recent months?
In the 1980's the most expensive single hotel rooms (not suites, etc.) cost about $300+ per night. Places like Cancel Bay in St. John, USVI. Ditto in NYC where I worked at the Ritz Carlton and the Waldorf Astoria.
Since then, there's been an explosion of $1,000 per night hotel rooms (again, not suites) ... thousands of them all over the country and elsewhere.
Who can afford this?
I can safely say that most affluent people don't customarily spend wantomly like this ... (unless they won the graft lottery).
Vegas has more 'low rollers' than 'high rollers'. Something I have been pointing out for months that Jeff just continues to ignore this year (did something happen to him earlier this year? Tone has become more "Catturd"-ish than C&C 2025.). Main Street is suffering. Main Street is not Wall Street. Main Street gets maybe a trip or two to Vegas a year if that was their thing, instead of mountains, beach, etc. But when food and fuel get wacked by high prices, vacations get trimmed/cut. Jeff is full of superlatives recently, and has been trying to downplay people on the RIGHT, by straw-manning it to the Left, as he did early in this missive. I'll stack my "conservative" cred against his or anyone else's going back to the Reagan first term. Pseudo-bashing us by labeling the arguments as "pre-packaged" is just spin. Jeff was better than that a year ago. What changed?
He is now "pre-debunking"? That sounds like something Mark Levin or Bongino or Beck would use.
We're not asking you Jeff to 'defend' a deal that hasn't been announced, but at the same time don't act defensive then. You can't have it both ways.
Trump now acts like getting Iran was always his main goal before this year. It wasn't. The facts that would be admissible in court, if you care to go lawyer, is that Trump ran on getting OUT of wars, not in MORE. Plain fact. And with what they are trying to shove into appropriation bills to tie us further to Israel, doesn't really make sense when he says he wants to bring stuff home from Europe because "America First". Money and/or Blackmail are the two most "Occam's Razor-ish" reasons for Trumps turn on issues, and disregard for Main Street.
At this point it is safest to take the narrative that Trump is controlled and will never do anything significant on Epstein or disentangling from Israel. He will be allowed to do some things on his agenda, but not all.
So now we are getting "But, but, but's" from people asking us to overlook key things in the hopes that Republicans won't get trounced in November. The current group of Democrats is the most pathetic yet, so I guess there is hope there, but Trump squandered the firey energy of many who came into the party for the first time.
What good is being the number one energy producer if Main Street is getting smacked with higher fuel and food costs??? That is real "kitchen table" for the majority of people who live paycheck to paycheck.
Readers are looking for consistency and logic and awareness. Not "pre-debunking".
Some people just do not understand the bigger picture. We have been at war for ten years. War against the deep state and transnational criminal syndicate. They used all their tactics against us - rigged elections, lawfare, attempted assassination, and nothing worked. Trump has reorganized the entire western hemisphere to be pro-America. He has actually had a real war on drugs, not the decades-long fake one. No more Maduro and drug running. Illegal gang members deported. The Iran operation was a long-overdue takedown of a nuclear terrorist state that was funded by Obama and the deep state, including supplying Iran the uranium. We are far better off. Trump is restoring the Republic to the people.
Goes back a lot longer than that, to even before Eisenhower. (Some geezers may remember him. Read his full speech where the tidbit about the military industrial complex is pulled from. He calls out more than that.) CIA and its forerunner doing bad things around the world. Kennedy comes in and wants to dismantle that, and he gets taken out. Same with Bobby Kennedy. Then you have the Great Society take out of the black family by government nanny state. US leaves gold standard. The whole era of "the Soviets are our friends, we should just get along with them" instead of challenging them in Europe. Add in the CIA narco-running, the purchasing of the media by shady groups' money, the cult of "Woodward and Bernstein" and related psyops, Fauci and the indemnity given vaccine makers, NAFTA gutting the midwest and middle class, "9-11", WMD, Barry Soetero presidency, etc. etc. etc. Those in control of the Deep State don't rest. We get fake candidates and politicians on our side like Romney, Ryan, McCain, Glitch McConnell, most Republican Speakers, etc. All weren't 100% bad, but bad enough to keep the Deep State in control. So maybe my "Big Picture" goes back a ways further.
My Bigger Picture goes back to the 1800's but I'll save that.
I've actually read a lot about Ike and his time as President from different sources. I am inclined to believe that he was in a way held hostage by the emerging Deep State (ie, Dulles Brothers, formation of CIA). I think their chaotic world power moves that he had to clean up more than once are what caused his heart attacks. I think he chose to keep his enemies closer. I think he knew he would be in danger if he openly opposed/exposed them. I think his Farewell Address was his way of warning us. AND, I really wish I could have been a fly on his wall the second he heard that JFK had been assassinated. I think his first thought was, could have been me.
When I think about the various groups and actors involved in power positions, I am reminded of the scripture from Proverbs 9:10 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."
I don't know many people who try to keep to that. We will all stand before God and receive judgment, then being given eternal bliss in heaven, or punishment in hell. Fear of the Lord doesn't mean God wants to crush us, but rather, He wants to BE with us for eternity, His love being so much greater than we can imagine. The 'fear' is fearing offending that love and risking eternal separation, by not following HIs guidelines.
When we look back to the first couple of centuries when it was a crime to be a Christian, we saw people who, no matter the coercion of the State, family, and friends, chose not to bow down to a ruler or pagan deity. They 'feared the Lord', and loved Him, even more. So by worldly standards it makes no sense to hold to one's eternity-impacting convictions if they or their loved ones will be harmed physically here.
Matthew 10:28 "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
I admit, much easier to write than profess, but God gives grace, if we take it, to endure to the end.
By losing a clear foundation of Christianity in our American culture, "public servants" are more easily swayed when blackmailed, bribed, or tempted, to not do the right thing.
If Eisenhower had been taken out, it would have been from doing the right thing in the position God allowed him to have. We are never cheated by following God's will. They devil would have us believe otherwise. By not doing so, we wind up not "storing up riches" (virtues, good influence on other people, etc.) as much as we could have.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36
No my friend, economics is not the key to everything. I heard that in the 1980's and 1990's and 2000's by Republicans who disliked that pro-lifers (aka moral people who put other things before mammon like unborn children, keeping society moral grounded in God's word) had 'taken over' the Party. They work even today to try and wrest the Party back to 'economics' as the key. God doesn't honor that.
My 'eyes' aren't on my toes. I'm one of the most hopeful people you could meet. But I don't hope in man. My hope is in God. If we honor God in our lives, especially as a society, we will be blest. But that is more than the prosperity 'gospel' too often preached in mega churches.
God won't be mocked. Too many hidden people have taken it upon themselves to remake society in their own images. Blackmailing, string-pulling, bribing.
The Epstein issue is clear cut. People are tired of the 'plausible deniability', the 'getting away with it'. Anyone remember during the 2024 campaign "There should be no two-tier justice system"? I do and plenty of others. We were waiting for results and instead Jeff gives us excuses now too.
America can only fall from the rot from within. And there is a lot that is rotten not being addressed. America won't 'succeed' with with 5% 'growth'. [Ironically, a lot of the same money lovers keep ignoring money related things like the insane debt, and insane deficits, is not beyond me. It is whistling past the graveyard. That reckoning is coming. They want to 'get theirs' before the real reckoning because they think that will buffer them.]
But it will take a spiritual awakening to move beyond the love of mammon. We aren't there yet. Even now the digital cage continues to be built. I know IT and I know enough of AI to know all these data centers are not being built so Freddie in Tacoma Washington can make funny short videos of his besties. It's for surveillance and social credit scoring and cbdc in some form.
Prepare for what is really coming. There are no do-overs.
Just look at the handling of Covid. We were denied normal access to Ivermectin, which includes the potential use in shrinking tumors, along with studies that touted its usefulness.
Then there is all the "controls" placed on us during Covid, I for one found that the further it went on, the less I could find usable information. As they say, "A country which controls the news media may control what information reaches the people, and what information does not reach the people".
Hopefully with NSPM-12 and Leadership from Pulte, we can change the tide of overreach.
I also appreciated Jeff's breakdown of Iran memo of understanding. I actually wrote down his great points of Bush's Iraq, Obama's JCPOA and the cost of 20 years in Afghanistan war. I like to be able to concretely rebut the naysayers.
Childers has a way of calming my anxiety and educating me.
I went on a short trip to New Orleans with a friend last Wed-Friday. It was both Restaurant Week and Pride Week there. The street (walking) traffic was way down compared to other times I've been there, but the streets were WAY cleaner than past visits. I've been to New Orleans about 20 or so times. The only place we went that I would say was 'packed' was the WW2 museum. Imho, younger people have $ but their spending habits have changed drastically. They prefer to spend time at home which is why they want one so badly at such a young age. Millennials weren't like that - many of them wanted to live in downtown lofts and spend time socializing anywhere but especially in person. Millennials didn't have much $ either at a young age, but the last thing that would stop them from going on a vacation was lack of $. They'd buy clothes at thrift stores all year long to save $ for their annual vacation.
Hmm. Early Millennials would have been raised on Seinfeld and then Friends, and then Sex and the City came along. I think that went a long way to pushing the 'romance/adventure/exoticness' of living in a big city. Many hipsters were 'born' then, lol. They moved away from home, only to work in a cubicle, and live in basically a cubicle, so had to spend their evenings out eating and such to not feel as cramped. My nearby big city has some regentrified areas. The problem now is I see a lot of what I call the "Scandanavian Ikea-Prison" look to the new apartment buildings. It's not brutalism (I stayed in a number of the ugly Stalin 6-story apartment buildings in my younger traveling in eastern Europe), but this new 'architecture' looks like fancy minimum security prisons that are trying to not look like prisons, minus the barbed wire.
Although we are blessed to not have to, the Goodwills around our area have some really nice things, many still with tags on them, that my wife and daughter will come back with clothes from. [I have no idea where they put the stuff since the closets are packed already. There must be a secret alcove around here I'm not aware of!] They're both pretty frugal, which allows us to do a vacation periodically.
Isn't Vegas et.al. slow because countless thousands of Americans are now deprived of graft and fraud income? How many NGO administrators and 'executives' making $200K, $300K, $500K per year are no longer able to spend lavishly on tourism?
How many lavish NGO 'conferences' have been cancelled in recent months?
In the 1980's the most expensive single hotel rooms (not suites, etc.) cost about $300+ per night. Places like Cancel Bay in St. John, USVI. Ditto in NYC where I worked at the Ritz Carlton and the Waldorf Astoria.
Since then, there's been an explosion of $1,000 per night hotel rooms (again, not suites) ... thousands of them all over the country and elsewhere.
Who can afford this?
I can safely say that most affluent people don't customarily spend wantomly like this ... (unless they won the graft lottery).
Yes, but the down turn started before DOGE. Yojnger people arrn't drawn, uou can gamble on line. Etc. DOGE is part of it, & do is the cartel war. But not all decline is related to that.
Also, when you take out 3.5 million illegals it has an effect on the economy---not saying they stayed at the Bellagio or the Wynn. Some did. But unable to pay slave wages, the hotels may be having big profit problems.
It could also be that the prices there have gotten insane the past few years. Plus, the homeless are an issue that needs addressed. Walked into a casino restroom to find a guy shaving in the ladies restroom.
It could also be that the prices there have gotten insane the past few years. Plus, the homeless are an issue that needs addressed. Walked into a casino restroom to find a guy shaving in the ladies restroom.
We just spent a week in Maine at Acadia NP... the park, and Bar Harbor (the main tourist town on the island with Acadia) , were shockingly uncrowded. I was told by one business owner that there was only maybe 1/3 the number of tourists as usual for early June. We never waited for a table at any restaurant, had zero difficulties parking in town or in the park. We had no issue parking to access the most popular trailheads at 9am when they're usually full long before 9.
It was great for us, but I wonder if the trend will continue, as their primary tourist season actually starts next week. We went a bit early to avoid the crowds!
"Canadian visitation to Las Vegas has plummeted significantly between 2024 and 2026. While 2024 saw a robust 1.4 million Canadian tourists, arrivals have since dropped by approximately 17% to 20%. This decline is driven by trade tensions, sweeping tariffs, and a weakened Canadian dollar, prompting many Canadians to seek alternative destinations." - Google AI Overview
Coming from a C&C reader from day 1 and unrelated to todayās post - Sharing because I want to shout from the rooftops because there will be no cap and gown, nor walking ceremonyā¦..
My son graduates with his Bachelors Degree today! It was 10 years in the making. Through a lot of discouragement, life event set backs and just some difficult times - he did not give up! He kept finding ways to adjust, he stopped and started again, and he just refused to give up no matter how much at times he thought it would just be easier to quit and walk away. We arenāt celebrating the degree itself as much as his tenacity to never give up and when you start something you finish strong -no matter how long it takes. That has been our family motto for 30+ years - Never give up & always finish strong! Our son did that and for THAT we are extremely proud of him and celebrate.
The cherry on top is that with the help of his amazing wife who took on a debt that wasnāt hers (they married a year ago) they buckled down and paid off his student loans! So not only does he graduate today - the debt is fully paid as of this month! They did it together! A clean start together.
And the cherry on top of the cherry is that he started a new job that utilizes his degree and he can soar from here.
Thanking the Lord Jesus for His amazing grace and mercy over my son and providing him a way to accomplish this milestone.
So this is me: shouting from the rooftops even if no one hears me š
Weāve been there. Took my husband 9 years a long time ago. (My mom was worried when I decided to marry him before he finished but he had gotten a job in the field he was going to school for and they agreed to let him continue a few classes each semester which he did, too, as well as getting so much experience!)
Congratulations to EVERYONE for a job well done! Awesome accomplishment!
Wow Sunnydaze! Congratulations!! What an amazing milestone all around. May God bless your son & his wife in their future together. May they have good health, lots of children and much happiness and joy together. And God bless you and your family Sunnydaze as well. All praise be to God for His goodness!
I am SO SO happy for them! And you. It sounds like he is a chip of your old block. What a great family. ā„ You taught him how it is done. Good job Mama and Dad. xoxo
Awww āŗļø. Thank you SadieJay! I know you know some of what our family has gone through so it means a lot that you celebrate with and for us š š
I have read through Jeremiah before more than once, but this last time I journaled through it, taking almost three months, and I got so much more out of it, and am understanding and appreciating Lamentations more as well.
I always hope to live through Isaiahās time rather than Jeremiahās - when the king would still listen to God!
He had such a tough time: hearing from God, grieving for the nation.
Knowing his words would be rejected by it.
And, knowing that the Lord would no longer respond to intercession.
What I saw throughout the book was that - even though he was called to speak for the Lord at a time when the people were already too far gone to heed en masse - still, the Lord had appointed a number of faithful friends & allies to help the prophet through his difficulties.
The beautiful words of the oft-quoted passage, Lamentations 3:21-23, come after 2 Ā½ chapters of Jeremiah lamenting over Godās punishment of His people. Knowing what came before makes the passage even more beautiful and meaningful.
Heys alls, I've found Joe Bidet's actual family tree!
"Who is Jack Schitt?
For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt?
We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt!'
Well, thanks to genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual way.
Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt.
Awe Schitt was married to O. Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, and owner of Needeep N. Schitt, Inc. They had one son, Jack.
In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt.
The deeply religious couple produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull Schitt, and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt.
Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school dropout.
After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was then known as Noe Schitt-Sherlock.
Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, and they produced a son with a rather nervous disposition who was nick-named Chicken Schitt.
Two of the other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony.
The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse.
Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.
Now when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt,' you can correct them.
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Had to fence in part of the backyard cause daughter's naughty old dogs kept getting into trouble. We call it "the prison yard" and every day there's a few schitts to pick up. Sometimes you don't see one but your shoe finds it! š
Naw! Just give your foot a good old flick and rocket it off your sandal.
I did that once as a child. My Mum had us of us older kids bathed and dressed to go visiting, while she was finishing with the baby, we went to check out a new calf in my Grandfather's herd. Well, about half way through the pasture, I stepped in a steaming squishy pile, so I reacted by kicking my foot to release the bulk of my discovery. To my sister's horror, she was suddenly struck in the face with a flying cow patty! That stuff flew about 20 feet! Needles to say, Mum was none to happy, but Dad was doubled over with laughter!
Not going to mourn FISA going away - too much power and too easy to abuse. We'll see how it all shakes out, but right now I'm more watching what happens with the SAVE act and the big pushes for "not going to sign anything without that attached". (Not holding out any hope there, but we'll see.)
I _am_ glad to see gas prices s l o w l y coming down after the rapid rise when the Iran thing started. I really wish they'd follow the decline as quickly as they shoot up on any rumor at all.
Hearing farmers say gas price reductions donāt help; they use diesel. To help them, which will help us since so much moves in trucks, we have to RECUCE PRICE OF DIESEL.
True that. My understanding is that diesel is cheaper to produce because it needs less refining, yet it's universally more expensive at the pump. Is that taxes? Are states/feds trying to recoup the cost of road maintenance from truck drivers? With farmers as collateral damage? Seems like making it cheaper to distribute goods and operate tractors would go a long way toward juicing the economy.
In an irrelevant but related aside, there's a great book called The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel. It's about the guy who invented the diesel engine (hence the name) and is a fascinating story. Recommended!
Not every refinery can handle the heavy (sour) crude that produces diesel, jet fuel, and other products. Also, the US mostly produces the light (sweet) crude, so we import to get the heavy crude, which often has a high sulfur content, requiring more processing.
Thank you, that's helpful. Is this difference in processing and sourcing enough to account for the huge price differential? Currently in southern New Mexico regular is about $3.22, while diesel is about $4.25.
There are other factors, such as proximity to the refinery, state taxes, etc. Usually in states that produce and refine oil, gas is a dollar or two lower than in others. But pumping it out of the ground here in the U.S. is much cheaper than tankering it in from, say, Venezuela.
I would sit in line to pay $3.22 or $4.25 for gasoline! I paid $5.45/gal last week and that was a reduction here in California! We have oil oozing up from the ground and off shore here in California, but out Democrat overlords love to create Scarcity via high taxes and regulations. They are chasing all our Refinery companies out of the State and choosing instead to buy from IRAN!
Diesel is part of the same crack used to produce gasoline. Reduced gasoline demand results in reduced diesel supply. When you crack oil, you only get what you get. What you get varies by crude variety.
In California, we pay the highest fuel taxes in the contiguous US States! Two dollars of each gallon alone, goes to the California Air Resources Board! An unelected board of Political Cronies who grift money from taxpayers and re-distribute to Globalist projects, NOT OUR ROADS! This despite the citizens voting, several times, to keep fuel taxes strictly earmarked for repair and building of roads!
Yes, and one of the advantages that Rudolf Diesel touted for his engines was that they didn't require petroleum-based fuel but could run on all sorts of things, most of them far cheaper than oil. Then Rockefeller came along . . .
I know a guy who has a company that takes waste oil from Tortilla Factories and Restaurants and tuns it into biofuel! We nick named his company, "BIG OIL"! The exhaust makes you feel a bit hungry though!
Problem is many refineries closed. They take years to get running. California a big culprit, but some closed in the Gulf area too. California relies a lot on ocean bound imports from India and South Korea for local diesel and jet fuel. And California is structurally isolated from Texas pipelines. Dems made it intentional. When you have one part of the country paying an arm and a leg for fuel, it gives air cover for other areas to charge more too. I live in PA and natgas prices continue to go up even though we have a boatload of it in western PA. Partly because it is more profitable to ship over to Europe, who stupidly ditched nuclear in Germany. (Well, not stupidly from the totalitarian standpoint. They are doing a multi-frontal attack on western society and culture. Kill industry, import Africans who won't assimilate, etc.)
What I want to know is why the USA let their refineries degrade and not upgrade? We used to refine it all and did not rely on foreign countries to do it for us. When did that change happen?
Death by federal permitting, delaying, costs. We are often too generous in attributing incompetence to the Left. While it may be true at the lower levels of many Federal and State departments, at the upper echelons their goal is not to make more people into independent middle class types. Many decision makers are put there by the Soros and other shady groups types. They truly do not like our Constitution. (Hands up to anyone who remembers Al Gore and others always talking about the Constitution being a 'living' document.) They have other goals. Cheap energy gets in the way of control of people and businesses. If gas cost $1 a gallon, how many people would still be driving underpowered weenie mobiles that don't last 10 years without major engine issues? Imagine what food would cost, real food, not the frankenfood, with cheap diesel.
We could have refineries that handle the sweet and heavy crude. That we don't is a mixture of government red tape, local politician graft, and incompetence.
Long before. California has seen refineries closing for a number of years. I think California Globe has been covering this topic regularly- Iām a more recent reader, so not 100% certain about that.
Paid $5.79/gallon yesterday on the Big Island, Hawaii. Almost $1 cheaper at COSTCO in Kona, but thatās an hourās drive away. Hoping it keeps droppingāwould love to see $3.89/gallon again.
I spent a few weeks on the Big Island years ago. Had a great time. Drove around the whole island. Stayed in Wood Valley for a few days, and near Holualoa in a cottage. We ate well on the Big Island, but had our best meal, pork chops, at the historic Manago Hotel Restaurant in Captain Cook. And we had fun throwing snowballs at each other at the top of Mauna Kea a few days before Christmas.
Kaycee, I'm here too. Disgusted with my Capitol which is where I've lived and raised my family in an old farmhouse on 10 acres. "Pride" flags went up in May (they just couldn't waitš) and they're every 15 feet all over downtown and one was raised on a pole between the American flag and our State flag! Houses and business' have them flying. This is insanity and our new mayor defends it 100%.... apparently my opinion as a homeowner of over 35 years means nothing.
When I was a democrat we marched and got all up in arms about FISA. In my county all the gas stations are supplied by one supplier. I drive 7 miles to Wisconsin where lately itās been $1.00 a gallon cheaper. Nice grocery store there too.
Oh Bard. There must be another Substack where people look forward to your negative opinions on everything. I think I saw something called āWe Hate Puppies and Everything Elseā.
A return to the paper ballot, Day of Election, with I.D. and a barcode to track delivery to the home and receipt of the Ballot is a better solution. But I do not fault the President for trying to cover all the bases!
Jeff, your daily column is such an important, wonderful gift to the (tens of thousands?, hundreds of thousands?, millions?) readers so thirsty for your good news first thing every morning. God bless you, and us, for being here.
Wow, I thought those of us who read Jeffās articles were wise enough not to tune into the media, turn it off and thank Jeff for suffering on our behalf. I last saw the news on April 28, 2020 when we flew our college kiddo home from his internship in LA. Why support anxiety inducing lies?
On the West Coast they are trying to create fear over the possibility of an El Nino! So, the fact that we had a warmer than average January and rain in April and May is nothing new to those of us who have more than a half-Century of experience of living in the West. Lol
Right?! We were all born yesterday & don't know that El NiƱo & La NiƱa happen every year. Just like snow storms, thunder storms & hurricanes (some years you get 'em & some years you don't.) Have to give them the thumbs up, though, for forecasting tornados ...need to be a bit scared of those!
Red Eye Radio has a podcast, so no need to be a long haul trucker, nor to stay up all night to hear their take on the latest events! Add to that Victor Davis Hanson's podcast, a few National and Local Sub Stack contributors and Gov websites. The ultimate bonus is NO ELECTION COMMERCIALS, and no penis enhancement adds to numb your brain!
While you were flying, I was driving half down to San Diego in the pickup to pack-up our daughter. Truck stops had the the only open restrooms, so they earned my respect! I daughter lost her trip to Switzerland to intern in a Laboratory, instead she sat on our back patio reduced to crunching numbers and creating DNA modeling scenarios.
As a Californian, I support any investigation into Newsom. I think his wife's nonprofit is small potatoes (in the single digit millions), but look at the $$$ sent to China for Covid masks that were never received. Look at any possible connection to the Cartels. Look at Rob Bonta and who he's embroiled with. Look at the Covid funds that were raided by overseas scammers. Like MN, it could be in the billions.
Just listening to that idiot for 5 minutes you get the drift (or grift) about him. What a pathetic whiner for sure. Heard his wife took the kids on a field trip to the āsouthā to see the deplorables. Like a field trip to the zoo.
We have a giant empty Motorola plant outside of town that was opened in 1998. Closed 6 years later because they stupidly hung onto analog cell phones. It gradually fell apart, except for one buyer who was arrested for securities fraud. Then the DOD bought it a couple of years ago. Suspicious I was. Then announcement that a medical glove factory going in. Had a sign and everything out front. But I never saw much activity. It is closed and empty again when it was found to be laundering money, probably for a cartel. This was Joe Bidenās DOD.
Not sure her "non-profit" is that small anymore. She got a bunch of funds from the Fire Aid concert that was supposed to go to the Palisade Fire victims (it never did). She redirected a bunch of it to NGOs - (Nothing Good Operation) for "unhoused trannies" and whatever. It seems to be a fine place to begin the digging, as much of the money funneled to her came from Greasy Gavin. When you transfer money, it leaves a trail. :D
What? California has put likely a trillion dollars into "homeless" endeavors and all that happens 15 years on, is more homeless come from out of
State, to partake of the free drugs, needles, condoms and cash stipends! If you build it, they will come!
They don't want homes, they are primarily drugged Zombies, prostituting themselves for their next FIX! They should be locked up and treated with medical aide, nutrition and taught life and job skills! That could have all happened if the LEFTISTS in charge of California actually cared about the Citizens and the STATE. They only care about the GRIFT and how they can use people and mandates to keep power.
California is the Western Poverty Law Center! Creating the poverty and the programs to Grift Donors, Voters and Taxpayers (and FEDERAL TAX PAYERS) out of their hard earned money!
Lisa, Iām really sorry you took the time to preach to the choir in your reply. I thought the eye roll emojis after my absurd statement would tell readers it was sarcasm, but I was wrong. I agree with everything you said in your reply and appreciate hearing from a fellow traveler.
Iām in Cali too and the list is so much longer! Hope Trump and company have some legal way to help put a stop to whatās happening here!!! We need good help!
I had to stop reading and just say, āPreach, @JeffChilders!! Preach!!ā You cannot be anymore on target than you are. Preach on, my friend, preach on!
I had to stop reading too, and say- GO JEFF! People!!! we better enjoy these next 2 years because there will never be another one like him. I love President Trump!
āWe have reached a critical point where his advanced heart failure and severe body-wide inflammation require more physical and medical support than our family can manage alone.ā
That quote from NextGov explaining NSPM-12 to the agencies is exactly why it is needed. There are too many dark corners existing in Intelligence; and that means it's too big and out of control. TAW.
And don't forget the DoWar. DARPA????? and all the other black budget programs. Mainly those that sit at the biowarfare intersection. This I will add to my post on ODNIs X post. https://x.com/Vanbroncbob/status/2066934533405249774?s=20
I just finished watching The Recruit, about a lawyer who got quickly mired in the muck of the CIA. It was entertaining and lots of Hollywood but it made the Dark State plausible which was pretty disturbing.
Trump in an interview last night after he arrived in Ćvian-les-Bains, France for the G7.
President Trump: 'Israel has been fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people have been killed. You donāt have to knock down an apartment house every time youāre looking for somebody. Because thereās a lot of people in those apartment houses ā and theyāre not all Hezbollah. If Israel canāt do the job without killing everyone else, Syria will do the job. I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because, to be honest with you, I think theyād do a better job of doing it. Israel was supposed to end the thing with Hezbollah fast. But itās taking them forever. Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.'
Of course Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Larry Loomer, Ben Shapiro & Lindsey Graham to name a few, are already chimping out. As I predicted 6-8 weeks ago in these very comments, the Israel First crowd is now starting to turn on Trump and some in his inner circle (mostly JD Vance). That said, I was incorrect in my post as I thought these America Last traitors would wait to turn on Trump after the midterms, but looks like they are showing up early for the party. Keep in mind now, Levin, Shapiro and Graham all said they'd never support Trump for President (feel free to fact check that). That's because they all hate him. If you think shit is getting saucy now, just wait for what these back stabbing Brutus's do if/when the republicans lose the midterms and the democrats start their impeachment onslaughts. 'Et tu, Brute? https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/2066824337450000876?s=20
From what I've read, the Memorandum of Understanding looks something like this (I'm sure this is no where set in stone):
1: Permanent and immediate cessation of war on all fronts, including Lebanon.
2: The US commitment to non-interference in Iran's internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
3: Complete lifting of the naval blockade within 30 days.
4: The US commitment to withdraw its forces from around Iran.
5: Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days under Iranian arrangements.
6: Suspension of sanctions on the sale of oil, petrochemical products, and derivatives, and full access of Iran to its financial resources.
7: The necessity for the US and its allies to present reconstruction plans for Iran amounting to at least $300 billion.
8: 60 days of negotiations to reach a final agreement based on nuclear issues and the complete lifting of primary, secondary, US sanctions, and UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors resolutions.
9: Reiteration of Iran's commitment under the NPT treaty not to produce nuclear weapons.
10: During the negotiation period, the US has committed not to add forces in the region and not to impose new sanctions.
11: Release of $24 billion of Iran's blocked funds during the 60-day final negotiation period. Half of this amount must be made available to Iran before the start of negotiations.
12: Formation of a supervisory mechanism to implement the agreement.
13: The final agreement will be approved by a UN Security Council resolution.
14: Final negotiations will not begin before the release of half of Iran's blocked funds, suspension of Iran's oil sanctions, and lifting of the naval blockade, and the final agreement will only cover the fate of enriched materials and enrichment, lifting of sanctions, and Iran's economic reconstruction plan. Discussions about Iran's missile program and support for resistance groups are definitively removed from the agenda.
Can someone point out how all of this has been beneficial to Joe & Sue taxpayer? Asking for a friend.
I stated that it's probably not set in stone and I've been as patient as any other 3 time Trump voter, so please spare me 'let the man work' speech. I've been watching this type of stepping all over your crank for a year and a half just scratching my head and waiting for a clown to jump out of the closet telling us we've all been punk'd. There are several things I'm super happy with, but a laundry list of big disappointments. I'm hoping my point isn't lost on you.
Evidently you are forgetting that GOD is involved in this. Trust HIM. GOD is fulfilling HIS promises of exposing things done in the dark to the light which is truth. This is a time of revelation. Exposing who and what people truly are. Let HIM do HIS works.
Check The Leah Files on Substack for good infoā¦.she is waiting patiently to read and evaluate the terms of the MOUā¦.which she points out is NOT a permanent agreement, just a Memorandum of Understanding for 90days, or is it 60?, while they discuss terms of an agreement.
I'm very disappointed that the Iranian people didn't rise up when they were given chances to do so.
I'm not happy with Israel dragging out our involvement so Levin, Graham, Shapiro & the rest can sit down and stfu. Sick to death of them.
It is time for America First. Period.
I'm hoping Graham steps on his tiny, flaccid penis and gets exposed for accepting Ukraine $$. Right along with all those Dims who were traipsing into an 'active war zone' for photo ops.
Someone needs to be checking the campaign $$ for those idiots showing up with protesters at the ICE facilities. We need a national law stating that if protesters surround your vehicle and make you feel unsafe, if they are standing in the road, you can legally run them over; I guess no backing up over them, but running over people blocking (not crossing) the road should be legal. I'm out of patience with the idiots, can you tell?
Did anyone else see the sad little protest that Hanoi Jane, Di Niro (crying as usual), a half dead Bette Midler and Julia Roberts headed up? It was a geriatric larp of 60s radicalism. Boomer hippies, commies, drag queens all warbling off tune and out of key. I keep looking for Di Niro to start foaming at the mouth and stroke out any moment. Hope someone catches a video when it happens.
This was put out by Iran and the IRGC propganda. Are we really going to trust anything that comes out of Iran and the IRGC propaganda? I wouldn't trust anything coming out the mainstream news media and I would question everything we hear and read. This is like any ICE story where the mainstream media puts out nonsense to sway public opinion before the facts come out.
Here's some accomplishments that we can see per article by Larry Schweikart: All that matters is what has materially been accomplished, and what has been accomplished is remarkable:
*For a human cost of less than the Grenada liberation or the Afghanistan withdrawal, the U.S. has rendered Iran militarily impotent. Yes, they can occasionally import a ballistic missile or two. And we have shown that at about a 99% clip we can shoot down or deactivate anything they send up.
*We have rendered their nuke production facilities completely inoperable for probably 20 years.
*We have reduced the Iranian economy to a crawl.
*We have control of the Strait of Hormuz. The USN. No one else. Over the weekend over 7 million barrels of oil transited the Strait with Uncle Samās fleet keeping them company.
*We have aligned virtually every legitimate government in the region, save, perhaps, Yemen, an ally and a cooperating party.
*We have eliminated, and continue to eliminate, virtually anyone who steps into the driverās seat who so much as breathes āDeath to America.ā And whom we donāt kill, the Israeli Defense Force kills.
*We have very significantly cut into the ChiComsā economy. They keep a tight lid on stories, but enough is seeping out now to show that while they are not yet in ādecline,ā the āgrowth trainā left the station.
*We have used the conflict to test, and show the dominance of, new, previously unseen military hardware apparently (based on the reaction of Chy-na) well ahead of anyone else in the world.
*And we have become the #1 energy exporter in the entire world.
All of these things happened without a deal memo. Meanwhile the stock market nudges 52,000 and gas prices are falling again.
There was never a āquagmire,ā and for most of the time, there wasnāt even a real conflict. It was just us beating the hell out of the mullahs then saying, āHad enough?ā Meanwhile we just did whatever we wanted to and made the rest of the world adjust to our terms.
Additionally, the economy is beating every indicator still such as Job creation during this time. I might add that the job creations are from the private sector not the federal government. Here's a good article to read by Daniel Street:
Trumpās Economy Booms: 115,000 Jobs Added as Democrats Plot to Destroy It All
The American economy is not just holding its ground amid global headwinds. It is surging forward with undeniable force, proving once again that President Donald J. Trumpās leadership delivers results where others failed.
In April, the U.S. labor market added 115,000 jobs, crushing economistsā forecasts and marking the second straight month of strong gains:
This momentum stands in sharp contrast to the weaker 10,000 monthly average seen throughout 2025. So far in 2026, the economy has powered ahead with an average of 76,000 new jobs per month. Even as global inflation pressures linger and the conflict with Iran tests national resolve, private-sector growth refuses to buckle.
The resilience is real, and it carries the unmistakable imprint of Trumpās pro-growth agenda. For instance, manufacturing, horribly neglected under Biden-Harris, is roaring back to life.
The economy added 12,600 factory construction jobs in April alone, fueled by trillions in fresh investments pouring into American facilities and data centers.
(These are the jobs former President Obama famously claimed were gone and were never coming back. Well, President Trump is bringing these jobs home, again.)
The first quarter of 2026 delivered the first net manufacturing job growth since 2023, with every major indicator now signaling robust expansion after years of Biden-Harris-era stagnation.
These gains come as Trump aggressively shrinks the federal bureaucracy. His administration has already cut the federal workforce by 345,000 workers. The result is the smallest federal workforce since May 1966 and the smallest it has ever been as a share of the total U.S. workforce.
I would also point out that no funds are going to be released or sanctions lifted and this isn't a deal but rather an extension of a ceasefire for 60 days. Additionally, I would check out Tousi TV on YouTube to see what is happening over there.
Let Syria do it? Let the headchoppers now running Syria loose on Lebanon?
Headchoppers were favored by Obama, although he also liked drones and bombs.
As a taxpayer, I'm happy to have the war ended. I never thought that the US bombed Iran to help us, so why would I be disappointed with a ceasefire?
Every one of those missiles costs tens of thousands of dollars. And they kill innocent people.
I'm glad it has stopped. Except for Lebanon. Israel is still massacring people there and burning their houses. One million people have been driven from their homes.
I want that to stop also. But I don't want the headchoppers turned loose. They are already making the lives of Syrians miserable
I think Trump was being somewhat if not completely cynical by saying to let Syria handle security concerns for Israel. Trump might as well have said "Hey, Bibi, you made your bed and now you can lie in it. We aren't going to be your free police force anymore, so you need to find someone else in your neck of the woods." Saying to let Syria do it is much less wordy. But the bottom line is with us no longer being Israel's guaranteed protector, they will have to start negotiating with their neighbors. They were hoping we'd help them attack Turkey next, and that's no longer on their wish list.
I hear the reflecting pool's algae is back, but at least the people who cleaned it got paid good money. As opposed to the many small businesses in Chicago who are getting stiffed by the Obama dead-weight.
I have a small backyard fountainā¦.fighting algae is a weekly battle. š« Hopefully there is a pool/pond contractor that can help battle the green or black enemy of clear water.
Trust me, our horse trough is a petri dish for the stuff. Obviously we can't put chemicals in it to try to fight it so we have a scrub brush which cleans it up for a few days.
That sounds plausible. In an hour or so I'll be changing the water in the trough. I'll give it a scrub and save some of the green water to put on garden plants, the fertilizer is good, hopefully this will add to the growth.
I got a 12" piece of copper pipe and put it in my trough. It helped a good bit but moving it into a shaded area is the key. I keep mine under the lean to roof. Water also stays cooler.
Ours is under shade trees, it doesn't get much direct sunlight and stays pretty cool. Squirrels, deer & birds like to take a drink from time to time but I doubt they enhance algae growth.
While it isn't as rapid it grows in the winter too. I suspect the grass & hay the horses eat might contribute a bit.
Actually, now that I think about it, a while back I read something that said copper would combat algae so I put a 10" scrap piece of copper pipe in the trough and it did seem to work, for a couple of months, but the effect seemed to fade and the algae started back even with the pipe in there; I'm not sure why.
I disagree with much of your premise, Evans, but appreciate the effort in making your points. Dialog is important.
As a Christian Zionist, I'm not afraid to use that term in it's original meaning, I find great discomfort in POTUS saying he would rather have an ISIS leader wearing a suit and tie take over the battle against Hezbollah? POTUS thinks Israel is creating too much collateral damage? He's been almost silent about the 40,000+ Persian civilians killed by the IRGC. The kilos of human hair smuggled out of the country sold to wig makers. It's an evil empire.
The Iranian tentacles spread far from Iran. Hamas in Gaza. Houthis in Yemen. Hezbollah in Lebanon. IR in Iraq Jordan and Syria. Quds Force operates in Europe and Asia. Iran is not Venezuela, that's for sure.
I'll attempt to be patient with our President, maybe he has a larger smarter plan, but his knowledge of Middle Eastern history and prophesy is sorely lacking.
I appreciate that you understand that an ISIS leader is running Syria.
It amazes me that people were riled up for years about ISIS, but now that an ISIS leader is in charge of Syria, and his headchoppers are targeting Christians and Allawites, the only response is...."Good. Turn them loose on Lebanon."
"And now we circle back to Bill Pulte, the dreaded man who just terrified Democrats into protesting so hard that they lapsed their favorite spy program, āplungingā the nation into āunknown territory.ā Not coincidentally, Pulte is closely tied to DOGE. His critics constantly complain about how, under Pulteās leadership, the DOGE model was extended into housing finance and related domains.
Add to that Billās preāgovernment āTwitter philanthropyā branding, where he explicitly discussed using technology and social media to expose corruption in welfare infrastructures, and later, in mortgage fraud, and you see a consistent character: Bill Pulte leans into a public identity as a techādriven, antiācorruption crusader."
I suspect that with as much fraud as there is in Medicaid and Medicare fraud, these learing centers, immigration fraud, watch out for what's coming from Pulte, with a DOGE powered inquiry into mass amounts of mortgage loan fraud.
During my fraud and computer crimes detective days, I added mortgage loan fraud cases to my portfolio of work starting in 2003, before the big meltdown of 2008. I did a consult for a local city detective and a state agent on what initially started with insider fraud involving car purchase loans. Looking over their materials, I told them yes, there's a lot of substantial money and fraud here. But the mother lode of the REAL money is in what looks like a mortgage loan fraud network, with players across our state. It turned out to be the case. I'm not talking about somebody misstating a loan from mom and pop to help out with the down payment. Back then, with no DOGE tying in these cases and building them up, it took a lot of expertise to even know where to look for evidence, obtain it, then put together cases. It still does, I suspect. We are seeing something massive here from Pulte and whichever of his proteges takes if from there.
You mean the Pulte who received a "F*c*s Only the Young Award" at some weird dildo thing? That guy? Trump sure knows how to pick 'em. I thought he fit better in a Biden admin, but I guess after all there is little difference in the two parties.
As someone old enough to remember the Iran Hostage Crisis, and who had a good Persian friend at my first "real" job out of college from whom I learned a lot more than most people seem to know these days, I am with you on Iran. First of all, OF COURSE the news is wrong on the deal. Why anyone would believe it isn't is beyond me - did we learn nothing from Trump 1.0 and covid?? Second, Trump has brought the entire Middle East on side against Iran, China and Russia have stayed quiet, and all we have now is sound and fury from whoever is running whatever in Iran. Third, Trump will get a deal, and he will hold them to it and start bombing again if they break it. And fourth, I am quite sure there are proxies working with in-country and out-of-country Persians for the next, internal, phase. Their internal strife is theirs to fix, but I suspect we will get a deal that will at least last long enough (through Trump's term at minimum) to give the Iranians time to act.
Three months ago, Iran was less than two weeks away from having 11 atomic bombs (their words, not mine...who you gonna believe?). And contrary to the terms of the JCPOA, they possessed ballistic missiles with a range of about 4,200km, rather than the 2,000km required by Obama's unsigned agreement. They demonstrated that when they fired two missiles toward Diego Garcia.
So, absent our destruction of those assets, EVERY European capital except Lisbon and Dublin was within range of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles fired from a nation whose motto is "Death to the West." And, what have we learned? The Europeans are ingrates, incapable of participating in their own defense. But, at least they feel superior in their ingratitude.
Something to consider. Just came back from Vegas which was SLOW. Walked to the front of the line at Bellagio buffet with no one in front---at lunchtime. Checked right in to our resort with NO ONE in front. Saw "Wizard," and 40% of the seats weren't just empty---entire sections were closed down. A friend, who is seeing the same massive slowdown in Veil, CO, said there was a shocking absence of the Latin American riches who used to spend money like crazy there, and suggested that Trump's "war" on the cartels was absolutely slicing into the Latins' ability to launder money up here. I mentioned this to a certain guy at War Room who said, "YES. Treasury is all over this."
We also were just in vegas and noticed the same.
Same.
Did the hot weather have an effect?
It's always hot in the Nevada desert.
Yes indeed. In my experience, those 116-degree days tend to be more prominent in the Summer.
Lived there off and on fromā63; 104 degrees at midnight after a baseball game. The resorts were flooded with customers after Covid handouts. An economist could take the marketās temperature by the number of tourists in Vegas. The water problem is a non starter for future growth.
Why don't they pony up, use desalination and truly pay for their own dang water?
Instead they kill the rivers and aquafers for the entire region.
I was in a swimming pool.with and adult beverage at 3am. The pool was well populated and it was 89 degrees.
Albeit quite a few decades ago.
Too true, Valoree.
Last time were there in ā23 it was still over 100 at 9 pm.
How much water does it take to sustain all that glitz?
Not sorry to hear itās in decline - at least presently.
The pool at Hoover Dam is close to falling below the level at which it is possible to generate power. The states relying on water from Lake Mead have a problem.
More bodies to discover as the water level drops.
Some people in the know are saying that the next "Civil War" will be fought over water... with the Western States drying up like a popcorn fart, and with the Great Lakes being that largest reservoir by surface area of fresh water in the world... ~20% of the world's surface fresh water supply... conflicts between those states in need and those states in possession are inevitable!
There will be no water coming from the Colorado mountains because there was no snow.
All the more reason for Trump to make good on his "Canada will be the 51st state" existential threats, eh?
That a big part of the problem is being caused by an evil plan, that has been in-effect for decades, should be more widely recognized and opposed (eg, at supermarket) -- see expose that begins at ~4:32 of www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCAlMrHGrSs
That problem is likely to hit household AC systems right when desert dwellers need it most.
Are there any data centers nearby hoovering up tons of water?
Last there in 2008, so it's been awhile... and it was the first weekend of May.. But I have to say that the absence of Humidity makes the heat tolerable.
I would consider the UFC Fights in D.C. and the fact that the FIFA World CUP are where the big money gamblers are right now! Who in their right mind would want to be in the Nevada Desert in the Summer, unless at Lake Tahoe or Lake Mead!
Agreed! I've been looking wistfully at Colorado.
Now youāve hit the crux of the problem. All those liberals who moved to Colorado and turned it blue have been drinking too much water upstream. And, unlike us great unwashed, I bet theyāve been bathing too.
sssssshhhhh. Don't tell everyone you can bathe in the stuff. It's already in short supply.
Never. Our daughter lives their with her family. The heat is never a factor...
Interesting. I wonder if people develop a higher tolerance for it over a period of time.
Yes, you do.
Yes, and I canāt tolerate cold weather so living by the Great Lakes is out for me.
Are those people 100% human? How do they breathe when it's that cold?
Last night I got home from a week in Sarasota Florida which seemed to be booming. Lovely Florida was absolutely packed, restaurants not returning my calls to book last minute party of 22 people, mall parking lots full and everyone happy and healthy. GO BLESS THE PATRIOTS, GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Blue cities drowning, Reds working!
Spent some time in FL, mostly in my rock and roll days (Tampa, Clearwater, Lakeland, Sarasota, Ft. Meyers. I like it but absolutely cannot handle humidity. PHX and Vegas to me are perfect---hot, but not too humid. But hat's off to people who want to live in FL.
Florida rocks. Vegas yuck.
I'm good with that "dry heat" until it reaches around 100. Above that and I'd rather be close to a big body of water.
To me, a lifelong Floridian, the heat I've experienced in Vegas (117Ā°) is akin to stepping into an oven... In Florida it's like stepping into a sauna... Neither are enjoyable when you have to be outside working...
06/16/26: Great news!
āThe intelligence community is not, as Senator Schumerās wifeās boyfriend once told himā¦ā --- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Correction: āThe intelligence community is not, as Senator Schumerās husbandās boyfriend once told himā¦ā
We split time between S FL and California. CA's covid hangover is still palpable as seen by the empty storefronts and terrified looks in the eyes above the masked folk darting through the aisles at Trader Joe's. It's a weird, sad vibe. When we get back to FL life is happening and things feel normal (if you can embrace that word for FL).
Treasury all over this? Can you put more meat on the bone?
š¤·āāļø. I donāt know what that means either. Itās like he stopped in the middle of his explanation. Also, IMO people are tired of Vegas outrageous prices, moral decay, & low quality.
I've heard that as well for sometime. No more free parking and expensive buffets. Maybe the poster was referring to Vegas being used for money laundering???
I believe that was his point
I went to Vegas in the late '80's and it was sooo cheap. Buffets for like $5 and admission to shows was so reasonable. It was fun and bright and exciting and the old Strip was still as I had seen it in movies over the years. I have gone back twice, once before Covid and once during and it was just not the same! Another iconic part of America (sin city to many people) is just gone.
I got married there in November of 1989, right when the Berlin Wall came down! We stayed at the Golden Nugget and it was fabulous. Had huge fun then and a couple more times over the next few years. Great memories
moral decay. was there once. hated it. never again.
And the stink of pot everywhere even outside on the strip. Very dystopian.
...and gambling, casinos, etc. has expanded to nearly every state now (it seems); so, who needs Vegas?
The answer is in today's post ... in an unprecedented move, DOGE has been able to interconnect preciously autonomous data banks, greatly facilitating 'follow-the-money' auditing. DOGE's tools are now a quantum leap ahead. You can be sure there's a lot of scrutiny going on as to where money is being spent.
Is there? Hope so.
An interesting factoid that I learned in Vegas recently from a driver, there's a law in NV that any building on the strip that is 50 years old becomes a historical landmark and cannot be torn down. He mentioned it is why Circus, Circus isn't torn down and why when other buildings are getting close to the 50 year mark they tear it down. I didn't know that and thought it was an interesting fact.
Lots of talk of hot weather and water issues in this thread. Without addressing geoengineering, there will be no 'return to normal'. https://geoengineeringwatch.org/
I just saw on x that Kennedy MAHA is on it and talking to Trump about it. Sorry I don't have the link.
Not a fan of activities in either location, but do think that the people who will be hurt by a big economic slowdown are not the people who are the problem...
So, does that mean the ski slopes at Vail and Breck will be less crowded with Central and South Americans next season?? šš»
It could also be that the prices there have gotten insane the past few years. Plus, the homeless are an issue that needs addressed. Walked into a casino restroom to find a guy shaving in the ladies restroom.
Isn't Vegas et.al. slow because countless thousands of Americans are now deprived of graft and fraud income? How many NGO administrators and 'executives' making $200K, $300K, $500K per year are no longer able to spend lavishly on tourism?
How many lavish NGO 'conferences' have been cancelled in recent months?
In the 1980's the most expensive single hotel rooms (not suites, etc.) cost about $300+ per night. Places like Cancel Bay in St. John, USVI. Ditto in NYC where I worked at the Ritz Carlton and the Waldorf Astoria.
Since then, there's been an explosion of $1,000 per night hotel rooms (again, not suites) ... thousands of them all over the country and elsewhere.
Who can afford this?
I can safely say that most affluent people don't customarily spend wantomly like this ... (unless they won the graft lottery).
"How many lavish NGO 'conferences' have been cancelled in recent months?"
I think that's a big part.
Vegas has more 'low rollers' than 'high rollers'. Something I have been pointing out for months that Jeff just continues to ignore this year (did something happen to him earlier this year? Tone has become more "Catturd"-ish than C&C 2025.). Main Street is suffering. Main Street is not Wall Street. Main Street gets maybe a trip or two to Vegas a year if that was their thing, instead of mountains, beach, etc. But when food and fuel get wacked by high prices, vacations get trimmed/cut. Jeff is full of superlatives recently, and has been trying to downplay people on the RIGHT, by straw-manning it to the Left, as he did early in this missive. I'll stack my "conservative" cred against his or anyone else's going back to the Reagan first term. Pseudo-bashing us by labeling the arguments as "pre-packaged" is just spin. Jeff was better than that a year ago. What changed?
He is now "pre-debunking"? That sounds like something Mark Levin or Bongino or Beck would use.
We're not asking you Jeff to 'defend' a deal that hasn't been announced, but at the same time don't act defensive then. You can't have it both ways.
Trump now acts like getting Iran was always his main goal before this year. It wasn't. The facts that would be admissible in court, if you care to go lawyer, is that Trump ran on getting OUT of wars, not in MORE. Plain fact. And with what they are trying to shove into appropriation bills to tie us further to Israel, doesn't really make sense when he says he wants to bring stuff home from Europe because "America First". Money and/or Blackmail are the two most "Occam's Razor-ish" reasons for Trumps turn on issues, and disregard for Main Street.
At this point it is safest to take the narrative that Trump is controlled and will never do anything significant on Epstein or disentangling from Israel. He will be allowed to do some things on his agenda, but not all.
So now we are getting "But, but, but's" from people asking us to overlook key things in the hopes that Republicans won't get trounced in November. The current group of Democrats is the most pathetic yet, so I guess there is hope there, but Trump squandered the firey energy of many who came into the party for the first time.
What good is being the number one energy producer if Main Street is getting smacked with higher fuel and food costs??? That is real "kitchen table" for the majority of people who live paycheck to paycheck.
Readers are looking for consistency and logic and awareness. Not "pre-debunking".
Some people just do not understand the bigger picture. We have been at war for ten years. War against the deep state and transnational criminal syndicate. They used all their tactics against us - rigged elections, lawfare, attempted assassination, and nothing worked. Trump has reorganized the entire western hemisphere to be pro-America. He has actually had a real war on drugs, not the decades-long fake one. No more Maduro and drug running. Illegal gang members deported. The Iran operation was a long-overdue takedown of a nuclear terrorist state that was funded by Obama and the deep state, including supplying Iran the uranium. We are far better off. Trump is restoring the Republic to the people.
Goes back a lot longer than that, to even before Eisenhower. (Some geezers may remember him. Read his full speech where the tidbit about the military industrial complex is pulled from. He calls out more than that.) CIA and its forerunner doing bad things around the world. Kennedy comes in and wants to dismantle that, and he gets taken out. Same with Bobby Kennedy. Then you have the Great Society take out of the black family by government nanny state. US leaves gold standard. The whole era of "the Soviets are our friends, we should just get along with them" instead of challenging them in Europe. Add in the CIA narco-running, the purchasing of the media by shady groups' money, the cult of "Woodward and Bernstein" and related psyops, Fauci and the indemnity given vaccine makers, NAFTA gutting the midwest and middle class, "9-11", WMD, Barry Soetero presidency, etc. etc. etc. Those in control of the Deep State don't rest. We get fake candidates and politicians on our side like Romney, Ryan, McCain, Glitch McConnell, most Republican Speakers, etc. All weren't 100% bad, but bad enough to keep the Deep State in control. So maybe my "Big Picture" goes back a ways further.
My Bigger Picture goes back to the 1800's but I'll save that.
I've actually read a lot about Ike and his time as President from different sources. I am inclined to believe that he was in a way held hostage by the emerging Deep State (ie, Dulles Brothers, formation of CIA). I think their chaotic world power moves that he had to clean up more than once are what caused his heart attacks. I think he chose to keep his enemies closer. I think he knew he would be in danger if he openly opposed/exposed them. I think his Farewell Address was his way of warning us. AND, I really wish I could have been a fly on his wall the second he heard that JFK had been assassinated. I think his first thought was, could have been me.
When I think about the various groups and actors involved in power positions, I am reminded of the scripture from Proverbs 9:10 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."
I don't know many people who try to keep to that. We will all stand before God and receive judgment, then being given eternal bliss in heaven, or punishment in hell. Fear of the Lord doesn't mean God wants to crush us, but rather, He wants to BE with us for eternity, His love being so much greater than we can imagine. The 'fear' is fearing offending that love and risking eternal separation, by not following HIs guidelines.
When we look back to the first couple of centuries when it was a crime to be a Christian, we saw people who, no matter the coercion of the State, family, and friends, chose not to bow down to a ruler or pagan deity. They 'feared the Lord', and loved Him, even more. So by worldly standards it makes no sense to hold to one's eternity-impacting convictions if they or their loved ones will be harmed physically here.
Matthew 10:28 "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
I admit, much easier to write than profess, but God gives grace, if we take it, to endure to the end.
By losing a clear foundation of Christianity in our American culture, "public servants" are more easily swayed when blackmailed, bribed, or tempted, to not do the right thing.
If Eisenhower had been taken out, it would have been from doing the right thing in the position God allowed him to have. We are never cheated by following God's will. They devil would have us believe otherwise. By not doing so, we wind up not "storing up riches" (virtues, good influence on other people, etc.) as much as we could have.
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Yall need to get your eyes off your toes
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36
No my friend, economics is not the key to everything. I heard that in the 1980's and 1990's and 2000's by Republicans who disliked that pro-lifers (aka moral people who put other things before mammon like unborn children, keeping society moral grounded in God's word) had 'taken over' the Party. They work even today to try and wrest the Party back to 'economics' as the key. God doesn't honor that.
My 'eyes' aren't on my toes. I'm one of the most hopeful people you could meet. But I don't hope in man. My hope is in God. If we honor God in our lives, especially as a society, we will be blest. But that is more than the prosperity 'gospel' too often preached in mega churches.
God won't be mocked. Too many hidden people have taken it upon themselves to remake society in their own images. Blackmailing, string-pulling, bribing.
The Epstein issue is clear cut. People are tired of the 'plausible deniability', the 'getting away with it'. Anyone remember during the 2024 campaign "There should be no two-tier justice system"? I do and plenty of others. We were waiting for results and instead Jeff gives us excuses now too.
America can only fall from the rot from within. And there is a lot that is rotten not being addressed. America won't 'succeed' with with 5% 'growth'. [Ironically, a lot of the same money lovers keep ignoring money related things like the insane debt, and insane deficits, is not beyond me. It is whistling past the graveyard. That reckoning is coming. They want to 'get theirs' before the real reckoning because they think that will buffer them.]
But it will take a spiritual awakening to move beyond the love of mammon. We aren't there yet. Even now the digital cage continues to be built. I know IT and I know enough of AI to know all these data centers are not being built so Freddie in Tacoma Washington can make funny short videos of his besties. It's for surveillance and social credit scoring and cbdc in some form.
Prepare for what is really coming. There are no do-overs.
You're setting thus audience up for false binary choices.
I said nothing like "Economics is everything."
You're either blinded by your own psychosis or you are preparing the deceptive ideas to cause dissolution in this audience. Take your crap elsewhere.
Nothing you're saying about Trump's strategy or actions is true.
Who's paying you?
Great post.
Just look at the handling of Covid. We were denied normal access to Ivermectin, which includes the potential use in shrinking tumors, along with studies that touted its usefulness.
Then there is all the "controls" placed on us during Covid, I for one found that the further it went on, the less I could find usable information. As they say, "A country which controls the news media may control what information reaches the people, and what information does not reach the people".
Hopefully with NSPM-12 and Leadership from Pulte, we can change the tide of overreach.
I also appreciated Jeff's breakdown of Iran memo of understanding. I actually wrote down his great points of Bush's Iraq, Obama's JCPOA and the cost of 20 years in Afghanistan war. I like to be able to concretely rebut the naysayers.
Childers has a way of calming my anxiety and educating me.
You're what's known as Wrong.
Main street is doing great.
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I went on a short trip to New Orleans with a friend last Wed-Friday. It was both Restaurant Week and Pride Week there. The street (walking) traffic was way down compared to other times I've been there, but the streets were WAY cleaner than past visits. I've been to New Orleans about 20 or so times. The only place we went that I would say was 'packed' was the WW2 museum. Imho, younger people have $ but their spending habits have changed drastically. They prefer to spend time at home which is why they want one so badly at such a young age. Millennials weren't like that - many of them wanted to live in downtown lofts and spend time socializing anywhere but especially in person. Millennials didn't have much $ either at a young age, but the last thing that would stop them from going on a vacation was lack of $. They'd buy clothes at thrift stores all year long to save $ for their annual vacation.
Hmm. Early Millennials would have been raised on Seinfeld and then Friends, and then Sex and the City came along. I think that went a long way to pushing the 'romance/adventure/exoticness' of living in a big city. Many hipsters were 'born' then, lol. They moved away from home, only to work in a cubicle, and live in basically a cubicle, so had to spend their evenings out eating and such to not feel as cramped. My nearby big city has some regentrified areas. The problem now is I see a lot of what I call the "Scandanavian Ikea-Prison" look to the new apartment buildings. It's not brutalism (I stayed in a number of the ugly Stalin 6-story apartment buildings in my younger traveling in eastern Europe), but this new 'architecture' looks like fancy minimum security prisons that are trying to not look like prisons, minus the barbed wire.
Although we are blessed to not have to, the Goodwills around our area have some really nice things, many still with tags on them, that my wife and daughter will come back with clothes from. [I have no idea where they put the stuff since the closets are packed already. There must be a secret alcove around here I'm not aware of!] They're both pretty frugal, which allows us to do a vacation periodically.
Excellent analysis. Best to you and yours.
Later Jay
Oi Vey already.
gesundheit!
LOL. You don't know Yiddish.
Isn't Vegas et.al. slow because countless thousands of Americans are now deprived of graft and fraud income? How many NGO administrators and 'executives' making $200K, $300K, $500K per year are no longer able to spend lavishly on tourism?
How many lavish NGO 'conferences' have been cancelled in recent months?
In the 1980's the most expensive single hotel rooms (not suites, etc.) cost about $300+ per night. Places like Cancel Bay in St. John, USVI. Ditto in NYC where I worked at the Ritz Carlton and the Waldorf Astoria.
Since then, there's been an explosion of $1,000 per night hotel rooms (again, not suites) ... thousands of them all over the country and elsewhere.
Who can afford this?
I can safely say that most affluent people don't customarily spend wantomly like this ... (unless they won the graft lottery).
Yes, but the down turn started before DOGE. Yojnger people arrn't drawn, uou can gamble on line. Etc. DOGE is part of it, & do is the cartel war. But not all decline is related to that.
I think this is a big part of it.
Also, when you take out 3.5 million illegals it has an effect on the economy---not saying they stayed at the Bellagio or the Wynn. Some did. But unable to pay slave wages, the hotels may be having big profit problems.
Been to a nice restaurant lately?
Not French Laundry level ā¦ not in years ā¦ got āhigh society' out of my system some time ago
It could also be that the prices there have gotten insane the past few years. Plus, the homeless are an issue that needs addressed. Walked into a casino restroom to find a guy shaving in the ladies restroom.
It could also be that the prices there have gotten insane the past few years. Plus, the homeless are an issue that needs addressed. Walked into a casino restroom to find a guy shaving in the ladies restroom.
We just spent a week in Maine at Acadia NP... the park, and Bar Harbor (the main tourist town on the island with Acadia) , were shockingly uncrowded. I was told by one business owner that there was only maybe 1/3 the number of tourists as usual for early June. We never waited for a table at any restaurant, had zero difficulties parking in town or in the park. We had no issue parking to access the most popular trailheads at 9am when they're usually full long before 9.
It was great for us, but I wonder if the trend will continue, as their primary tourist season actually starts next week. We went a bit early to avoid the crowds!
win win
Latin Americans are all on Miami cruises!!
"Canadian visitation to Las Vegas has plummeted significantly between 2024 and 2026. While 2024 saw a robust 1.4 million Canadian tourists, arrivals have since dropped by approximately 17% to 20%. This decline is driven by trade tensions, sweeping tariffs, and a weakened Canadian dollar, prompting many Canadians to seek alternative destinations." - Google AI Overview
Coming from a C&C reader from day 1 and unrelated to todayās post - Sharing because I want to shout from the rooftops because there will be no cap and gown, nor walking ceremonyā¦..
My son graduates with his Bachelors Degree today! It was 10 years in the making. Through a lot of discouragement, life event set backs and just some difficult times - he did not give up! He kept finding ways to adjust, he stopped and started again, and he just refused to give up no matter how much at times he thought it would just be easier to quit and walk away. We arenāt celebrating the degree itself as much as his tenacity to never give up and when you start something you finish strong -no matter how long it takes. That has been our family motto for 30+ years - Never give up & always finish strong! Our son did that and for THAT we are extremely proud of him and celebrate.
The cherry on top is that with the help of his amazing wife who took on a debt that wasnāt hers (they married a year ago) they buckled down and paid off his student loans! So not only does he graduate today - the debt is fully paid as of this month! They did it together! A clean start together.
And the cherry on top of the cherry is that he started a new job that utilizes his degree and he can soar from here.
Thanking the Lord Jesus for His amazing grace and mercy over my son and providing him a way to accomplish this milestone.
So this is me: shouting from the rooftops even if no one hears me š
WOW! You are heard. Good for your son AND his wife. They will go far together.
Thank you š. She is a gem and we are so thankful for her in his life.
Truly the biggest blessing here
Congratulations! You raised a fine man! And he attracted a fine woman to be his life partner!
Weāve been there. Took my husband 9 years a long time ago. (My mom was worried when I decided to marry him before he finished but he had gotten a job in the field he was going to school for and they agreed to let him continue a few classes each semester which he did, too, as well as getting so much experience!)
Congratulations to EVERYONE for a job well done! Awesome accomplishment!
Amazing testimony as well! š Thanks for sharing this. I love when people finish strong and never give up.
Wow Sunnydaze! Congratulations!! What an amazing milestone all around. May God bless your son & his wife in their future together. May they have good health, lots of children and much happiness and joy together. And God bless you and your family Sunnydaze as well. All praise be to God for His goodness!
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Congratulations! When anyone in a family graduates or gets a degree they lift up the whole family! Celebrate! :D
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I am SO SO happy for them! And you. It sounds like he is a chip of your old block. What a great family. ā„ You taught him how it is done. Good job Mama and Dad. xoxo
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Praise the Lord ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø congratulations!!
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Hahaha. Thank you! š
Congrats!! :) God is good!
Thank you! And yes. HE IS GOOD!
Congratulations!
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and, best, they did it without a handout check from the government(assuming!)
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(I knew it!) yay!
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Thatās a great accomplishment!
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Congrats to your son and best wishes to them both, for an amazing future!
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Your son (and the whole family) got a Proverbs 31 galā¤ļø congrats šØš°āļø
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Praise God! Thanks for sharing!
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Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?
Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?
Let us examine and probe our ways,
And let us return to the LORD.
We lift up our heart and hands
Toward God in heaven[.]
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Jeremiah had a difficult assignment, for sure!
I have read through Jeremiah before more than once, but this last time I journaled through it, taking almost three months, and I got so much more out of it, and am understanding and appreciating Lamentations more as well.
Thatās profound!
What did you find?
I always hope to live through Isaiahās time rather than Jeremiahās - when the king would still listen to God!
He had such a tough time: hearing from God, grieving for the nation.
Knowing his words would be rejected by it.
And, knowing that the Lord would no longer respond to intercession.
What I saw throughout the book was that - even though he was called to speak for the Lord at a time when the people were already too far gone to heed en masse - still, the Lord had appointed a number of faithful friends & allies to help the prophet through his difficulties.
The beautiful words of the oft-quoted passage, Lamentations 3:21-23, come after 2 Ā½ chapters of Jeremiah lamenting over Godās punishment of His people. Knowing what came before makes the passage even more beautiful and meaningful.
I like the words, because as inspired by the Holy Spirit, they have an eternal power and significance for us.
The life of the man they emerged from also interests me.
Yeah, as I said, the man was in a tough position. Couldnāt even get married. He knew what would happen but his words couldnāt stop it.
I like to think of him in the clouds of witness, beholding the life of Christ, etc. To see what it was all for.
Moses & Elijah got to meet with him; Jeremiah mustāve at least watched from afar.
Jesus weeping over Jerusalem comes to mind.
Legends abound re: Jeremiahās fate after Egypt.
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Heys alls, I've found Joe Bidet's actual family tree!
"Who is Jack Schitt?
For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt?
We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt!'
Well, thanks to genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual way.
Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt.
Awe Schitt was married to O. Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, and owner of Needeep N. Schitt, Inc. They had one son, Jack.
In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt.
The deeply religious couple produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull Schitt, and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt.
Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school dropout.
After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was then known as Noe Schitt-Sherlock.
Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, and they produced a son with a rather nervous disposition who was nick-named Chicken Schitt.
Two of the other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony.
The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse.
Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.
Now when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt,' you can correct them.
Sincerely,
Crock O. Schitt" AKA Joe Bidet
I have to say what a crock of Schitt. But that was pretty funny! (thanks!)
Now thatās some good Schitt
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A true Schitt-Storm of a post
This is because you know Schitt from Shinola
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I had a very stressful morning, from about 7 am on. Just now reading C&C, and this post got me laughing and feeling better.
I do hope your day traveled to less stressful places ā¤ļø This Substack often sets the tone for my spirit each day š
Me too, but inside cause it's RAINING! Yay for the perennials (flowers).
Lucky you. I am craving rain. Drydaho here.
Juju channels Mr. Leahy! š
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Were they the family that lived on Schittās Creek? Or were they the other family that lived a little north, Up Schittās Creek?
I smell what youāre stepping in Larry.
All i really know is that they were up whichever of those creeks without a paddle.
they followed Larry, Daryl, and Daryl. . .
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Itās all true, 1Irish, I Schitt you not.
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What a Schittstorm. Remember when Biden told us Covid came from BatSchitt? Many of us went ApeSchitt crazy over that Schittshow.
I could be a Schittstirrer, but there are some that do it much better here.
That was so funny I read it out loud to my husband. And I rarely use profanity! But this was humorous!
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Same here!
Have always found "schitt" funny.
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With that many emojis, we must be in some deep Schitt
Just donāt step in it.
Too late, now gotta wipe thr ole Schitt from āma shoe.
Had to fence in part of the backyard cause daughter's naughty old dogs kept getting into trouble. We call it "the prison yard" and every day there's a few schitts to pick up. Sometimes you don't see one but your shoe finds it! š
The wild animals like to poop right in the middle of the walking trails my husband mows on our property. The nerve!
Naw! Just give your foot a good old flick and rocket it off your sandal.
I did that once as a child. My Mum had us of us older kids bathed and dressed to go visiting, while she was finishing with the baby, we went to check out a new calf in my Grandfather's herd. Well, about half way through the pasture, I stepped in a steaming squishy pile, so I reacted by kicking my foot to release the bulk of my discovery. To my sister's horror, she was suddenly struck in the face with a flying cow patty! That stuff flew about 20 feet! Needles to say, Mum was none to happy, but Dad was doubled over with laughter!
Somebody should test how many emojis will fit in one comment. I'll bet a schitt ton!
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I wonder if Pisa and Bull had a child named Pyla?
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TriTorch! You've outdone yourself and I'm not schitting you!!!
Not going to mourn FISA going away - too much power and too easy to abuse. We'll see how it all shakes out, but right now I'm more watching what happens with the SAVE act and the big pushes for "not going to sign anything without that attached". (Not holding out any hope there, but we'll see.)
I _am_ glad to see gas prices s l o w l y coming down after the rapid rise when the Iran thing started. I really wish they'd follow the decline as quickly as they shoot up on any rumor at all.
Hearing farmers say gas price reductions donāt help; they use diesel. To help them, which will help us since so much moves in trucks, we have to RECUCE PRICE OF DIESEL.
True that. My understanding is that diesel is cheaper to produce because it needs less refining, yet it's universally more expensive at the pump. Is that taxes? Are states/feds trying to recoup the cost of road maintenance from truck drivers? With farmers as collateral damage? Seems like making it cheaper to distribute goods and operate tractors would go a long way toward juicing the economy.
In an irrelevant but related aside, there's a great book called The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel. It's about the guy who invented the diesel engine (hence the name) and is a fascinating story. Recommended!
Diesel used to be less expensive than gasoline. I can't remember when that reversal happened, but am thinking maybe in the '90s.
Not every refinery can handle the heavy (sour) crude that produces diesel, jet fuel, and other products. Also, the US mostly produces the light (sweet) crude, so we import to get the heavy crude, which often has a high sulfur content, requiring more processing.
Thank you, that's helpful. Is this difference in processing and sourcing enough to account for the huge price differential? Currently in southern New Mexico regular is about $3.22, while diesel is about $4.25.
There are other factors, such as proximity to the refinery, state taxes, etc. Usually in states that produce and refine oil, gas is a dollar or two lower than in others. But pumping it out of the ground here in the U.S. is much cheaper than tankering it in from, say, Venezuela.
I would sit in line to pay $3.22 or $4.25 for gasoline! I paid $5.45/gal last week and that was a reduction here in California! We have oil oozing up from the ground and off shore here in California, but out Democrat overlords love to create Scarcity via high taxes and regulations. They are chasing all our Refinery companies out of the State and choosing instead to buy from IRAN!
KBB "cost of road maintenance"? What's that? I live in MN, home of wealthy wheel alignment shop owners.
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Hey Val, just stay away from those roads! take the scenic routes. . . like the gravel roads near Preston instead of 35, 90, or 94!
It did not use to be. was cheaper for long time
Diesel is part of the same crack used to produce gasoline. Reduced gasoline demand results in reduced diesel supply. When you crack oil, you only get what you get. What you get varies by crude variety.
In California, we pay the highest fuel taxes in the contiguous US States! Two dollars of each gallon alone, goes to the California Air Resources Board! An unelected board of Political Cronies who grift money from taxpayers and re-distribute to Globalist projects, NOT OUR ROADS! This despite the citizens voting, several times, to keep fuel taxes strictly earmarked for repair and building of roads!
I agree - Diesel should come down - and it used to be a selling point to buy a diesel truck ( gas was lower )
We had a little diesel pickup when we lived in Guatemala and diesel was cheaper than gasoline there then. No sey.
Definitely a worthwhile read. And now I understand how a diesel engine works!
Yes, and one of the advantages that Rudolf Diesel touted for his engines was that they didn't require petroleum-based fuel but could run on all sorts of things, most of them far cheaper than oil. Then Rockefeller came along . . .
I know a guy who has a company that takes waste oil from Tortilla Factories and Restaurants and tuns it into biofuel! We nick named his company, "BIG OIL"! The exhaust makes you feel a bit hungry though!
Problem is many refineries closed. They take years to get running. California a big culprit, but some closed in the Gulf area too. California relies a lot on ocean bound imports from India and South Korea for local diesel and jet fuel. And California is structurally isolated from Texas pipelines. Dems made it intentional. When you have one part of the country paying an arm and a leg for fuel, it gives air cover for other areas to charge more too. I live in PA and natgas prices continue to go up even though we have a boatload of it in western PA. Partly because it is more profitable to ship over to Europe, who stupidly ditched nuclear in Germany. (Well, not stupidly from the totalitarian standpoint. They are doing a multi-frontal attack on western society and culture. Kill industry, import Africans who won't assimilate, etc.)
What I want to know is why the USA let their refineries degrade and not upgrade? We used to refine it all and did not rely on foreign countries to do it for us. When did that change happen?
Death by federal permitting, delaying, costs. We are often too generous in attributing incompetence to the Left. While it may be true at the lower levels of many Federal and State departments, at the upper echelons their goal is not to make more people into independent middle class types. Many decision makers are put there by the Soros and other shady groups types. They truly do not like our Constitution. (Hands up to anyone who remembers Al Gore and others always talking about the Constitution being a 'living' document.) They have other goals. Cheap energy gets in the way of control of people and businesses. If gas cost $1 a gallon, how many people would still be driving underpowered weenie mobiles that don't last 10 years without major engine issues? Imagine what food would cost, real food, not the frankenfood, with cheap diesel.
We could have refineries that handle the sweet and heavy crude. That we don't is a mixture of government red tape, local politician graft, and incompetence.
Under Biden maybe?
Long before. California has seen refineries closing for a number of years. I think California Globe has been covering this topic regularly- Iām a more recent reader, so not 100% certain about that.
I agree, long before Biden. It has been happening for decades.
Paid $5.79/gallon yesterday on the Big Island, Hawaii. Almost $1 cheaper at COSTCO in Kona, but thatās an hourās drive away. Hoping it keeps droppingāwould love to see $3.89/gallon again.
Paid $3.15 at our āexpensiveā gas station yesterday. If Iād driven to the south side of the city, it would have been under $3.
I spent a few weeks on the Big Island years ago. Had a great time. Drove around the whole island. Stayed in Wood Valley for a few days, and near Holualoa in a cottage. We ate well on the Big Island, but had our best meal, pork chops, at the historic Manago Hotel Restaurant in Captain Cook. And we had fun throwing snowballs at each other at the top of Mauna Kea a few days before Christmas.
Exactly. Shocking more people
donāt see this.
Gas dropped $0.30 a couple weeks ago here in FL and it's down another $0.20 since then. Brent Crude is at $77.67 right now which is way down.
It isn't way down from the price it was pre war. And it ain't going to come down much more, if at all.
high rise and slow decline = max profits.
Not where I live. Gas still above $4 a gallon in New England. This place sucks and I can't wait to leave. 2 yrs til retirement
Kaycee, I'm here too. Disgusted with my Capitol which is where I've lived and raised my family in an old farmhouse on 10 acres. "Pride" flags went up in May (they just couldn't waitš) and they're every 15 feet all over downtown and one was raised on a pole between the American flag and our State flag! Houses and business' have them flying. This is insanity and our new mayor defends it 100%.... apparently my opinion as a homeowner of over 35 years means nothing.
Welcome to the Californication/Fraudification Experience!
Go west young-inā but not to Cali - NorCali is still over $6/gal. Coming down slowly!!
Will be doing that in a couple of years.
Does anyone know whether a renewal (whether with or without the Save America Act) has to be signed by Trump to go into effect?
Also Peter, is Schott the past tense of Schitt? š
When I was a democrat we marched and got all up in arms about FISA. In my county all the gas stations are supplied by one supplier. I drive 7 miles to Wisconsin where lately itās been $1.00 a gallon cheaper. Nice grocery store there too.
They need the Save Act to digitize us all for the data center prisons.
Oh Bard. There must be another Substack where people look forward to your negative opinions on everything. I think I saw something called āWe Hate Puppies and Everything Elseā.
Poor baby.
Your feelings are hurt.
Run to mama. The Save Act just created her digital double through Palentir.
Not hurt Love. I just want you to experience all the good feels from your own peeps. Have you tried āNegative Nell Nationā?
The Save America Act doesnāt do that.
It's a slippery slope.
Digital voting is corrupt.
Why not have a paper ballot?
This and Immigration is leading to a police state controlled by a mercenary army of Brown Shirts with masks.
Next will be facial scanning and hand prints.
All to vote for the uniparty funded by banking elite.
Trump in his infinite wisdom thinks that digital voting is safe now that Dominion was bought by a guy who claims to be a Republican.
A return to the paper ballot, Day of Election, with I.D. and a barcode to track delivery to the home and receipt of the Ballot is a better solution. But I do not fault the President for trying to cover all the bases!
Ignoring the problem of electronic voting machines is the opposite of covering all the bases.
"not going to sign anything without that attached"
You didnāt actually believe him did you? He just signed the Secure America Act into law on June 10, 2026, that funded immigration enforcement.
Heās all talk, no action!
Without Immigration Enforcement funding, their is no hope of a fair election and abundance of water, electricity, etc. So, priorities are important!
Of course priorities are important which is why his threat was so lame.
$3.23 near me in KY.
Jeff, your daily column is such an important, wonderful gift to the (tens of thousands?, hundreds of thousands?, millions?) readers so thirsty for your good news first thing every morning. God bless you, and us, for being here.
Wow, I thought those of us who read Jeffās articles were wise enough not to tune into the media, turn it off and thank Jeff for suffering on our behalf. I last saw the news on April 28, 2020 when we flew our college kiddo home from his internship in LA. Why support anxiety inducing lies?
Indeed. I only watch the weather now to see which way it is being manipulated.š¤Ø
And I watch Good Morning America to see how we are being manipulatedš
Oh my. That group of liberals are too incompetent and stupid to watch. No way for me and I refuse to add to their viewership numbers.
I watch The Gutfeld Show. I canāt even handle any other shows on Fox News.
The fear porn has started on the Weather Channel. It's HURRICANE SEASON!!!!! Took over 2 weeks for them to get a storm going. They kept trying....
On the West Coast they are trying to create fear over the possibility of an El Nino! So, the fact that we had a warmer than average January and rain in April and May is nothing new to those of us who have more than a half-Century of experience of living in the West. Lol
Right?! We were all born yesterday & don't know that El NiƱo & La NiƱa happen every year. Just like snow storms, thunder storms & hurricanes (some years you get 'em & some years you don't.) Have to give them the thumbs up, though, for forecasting tornados ...need to be a bit scared of those!
My app has all these scary videos, etc. then I read they happened last year. They just clog up the app and my time.
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Coincidentally, I turned off the radio (my only broadcast source, no tv) in September 2020. Never. Looked. Back.
MSM off March 2020. No newspapers either but Epoch Times
Valoree, me too. Only read substackers, and the occasional text or email š
Try BOT radio. They have stations all over the country.
Red Eye Radio has a podcast, so no need to be a long haul trucker, nor to stay up all night to hear their take on the latest events! Add to that Victor Davis Hanson's podcast, a few National and Local Sub Stack contributors and Gov websites. The ultimate bonus is NO ELECTION COMMERCIALS, and no penis enhancement adds to numb your brain!
They also have an app. Bott Radio.
neener, found it on YouTube
neener, thanks, I'll check it out š¤
While you were flying, I was driving half down to San Diego in the pickup to pack-up our daughter. Truck stops had the the only open restrooms, so they earned my respect! I daughter lost her trip to Switzerland to intern in a Laboratory, instead she sat on our back patio reduced to crunching numbers and creating DNA modeling scenarios.
Yes, these days no MSM News is good News!
Yes, feel good lies are much better.
Jeff, You are my morning coffee and ray of sunshine all rolled into one. Thank you Sir .. !!!!
ditto for me
Yep. Sets a positive tone for the whole day.
As a Californian, I support any investigation into Newsom. I think his wife's nonprofit is small potatoes (in the single digit millions), but look at the $$$ sent to China for Covid masks that were never received. Look at any possible connection to the Cartels. Look at Rob Bonta and who he's embroiled with. Look at the Covid funds that were raided by overseas scammers. Like MN, it could be in the billions.
Agree 1000%! Of course, Greasy Gav has to whine on social media, playing the victim is his specialty. I pray he and his ilk finally get taken down.
Just listening to that idiot for 5 minutes you get the drift (or grift) about him. What a pathetic whiner for sure. Heard his wife took the kids on a field trip to the āsouthā to see the deplorables. Like a field trip to the zoo.
Heās disgusting š”
We have a giant empty Motorola plant outside of town that was opened in 1998. Closed 6 years later because they stupidly hung onto analog cell phones. It gradually fell apart, except for one buyer who was arrested for securities fraud. Then the DOD bought it a couple of years ago. Suspicious I was. Then announcement that a medical glove factory going in. Had a sign and everything out front. But I never saw much activity. It is closed and empty again when it was found to be laundering money, probably for a cartel. This was Joe Bidenās DOD.
You can't forget Canada's involvement in the whole mess!
Not sure her "non-profit" is that small anymore. She got a bunch of funds from the Fire Aid concert that was supposed to go to the Palisade Fire victims (it never did). She redirected a bunch of it to NGOs - (Nothing Good Operation) for "unhoused trannies" and whatever. It seems to be a fine place to begin the digging, as much of the money funneled to her came from Greasy Gavin. When you transfer money, it leaves a trail. :D
Surely you agree the āunhousedā should get houses before the āhoused before the firesā ššš
What? California has put likely a trillion dollars into "homeless" endeavors and all that happens 15 years on, is more homeless come from out of
State, to partake of the free drugs, needles, condoms and cash stipends! If you build it, they will come!
They don't want homes, they are primarily drugged Zombies, prostituting themselves for their next FIX! They should be locked up and treated with medical aide, nutrition and taught life and job skills! That could have all happened if the LEFTISTS in charge of California actually cared about the Citizens and the STATE. They only care about the GRIFT and how they can use people and mandates to keep power.
California is the Western Poverty Law Center! Creating the poverty and the programs to Grift Donors, Voters and Taxpayers (and FEDERAL TAX PAYERS) out of their hard earned money!
Lisa, Iām really sorry you took the time to preach to the choir in your reply. I thought the eye roll emojis after my absurd statement would tell readers it was sarcasm, but I was wrong. I agree with everything you said in your reply and appreciate hearing from a fellow traveler.
I wonder if there is a tip line? If so, use it. She suggested, just trying to be, um, thoughtful.
Iām in Cali too and the list is so much longer! Hope Trump and company have some legal way to help put a stop to whatās happening here!!! We need good help!
I had to stop reading and just say, āPreach, @JeffChilders!! Preach!!ā You cannot be anymore on target than you are. Preach on, my friend, preach on!
Thank you!!
I had to stop reading too, and say- GO JEFF! People!!! we better enjoy these next 2 years because there will never be another one like him. I love President Trump!
He's a genius!
Jeff and C&C family:
Update on Cody Hudson from his mother, Heather:
āWe have reached a critical point where his advanced heart failure and severe body-wide inflammation require more physical and medical support than our family can manage alone.ā
https://x.com/Amothersanthem/status/2066858527096787170
Please pray for Cody and his family, and if you have the means, make a donation to this family who is in dire need:
https://www.givesendgo.com/Amothersanthem
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Sending prayers
Done. Wish I had more to give.
God bless you SHug.
Heather just texted me. We are completely in awe of the kindness of strangers. And God is certainly answering our fervent prayers.
Continuing to pray for Cody and his family ššš
That quote from NextGov explaining NSPM-12 to the agencies is exactly why it is needed. There are too many dark corners existing in Intelligence; and that means it's too big and out of control. TAW.
And don't forget the DoWar. DARPA????? and all the other black budget programs. Mainly those that sit at the biowarfare intersection. This I will add to my post on ODNIs X post. https://x.com/Vanbroncbob/status/2066934533405249774?s=20
I just finished watching The Recruit, about a lawyer who got quickly mired in the muck of the CIA. It was entertaining and lots of Hollywood but it made the Dark State plausible which was pretty disturbing.
Trump in an interview last night after he arrived in Ćvian-les-Bains, France for the G7.
President Trump: 'Israel has been fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people have been killed. You donāt have to knock down an apartment house every time youāre looking for somebody. Because thereās a lot of people in those apartment houses ā and theyāre not all Hezbollah. If Israel canāt do the job without killing everyone else, Syria will do the job. I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because, to be honest with you, I think theyād do a better job of doing it. Israel was supposed to end the thing with Hezbollah fast. But itās taking them forever. Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.'
Of course Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Larry Loomer, Ben Shapiro & Lindsey Graham to name a few, are already chimping out. As I predicted 6-8 weeks ago in these very comments, the Israel First crowd is now starting to turn on Trump and some in his inner circle (mostly JD Vance). That said, I was incorrect in my post as I thought these America Last traitors would wait to turn on Trump after the midterms, but looks like they are showing up early for the party. Keep in mind now, Levin, Shapiro and Graham all said they'd never support Trump for President (feel free to fact check that). That's because they all hate him. If you think shit is getting saucy now, just wait for what these back stabbing Brutus's do if/when the republicans lose the midterms and the democrats start their impeachment onslaughts. 'Et tu, Brute? https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/2066824337450000876?s=20
From what I've read, the Memorandum of Understanding looks something like this (I'm sure this is no where set in stone):
1: Permanent and immediate cessation of war on all fronts, including Lebanon.
2: The US commitment to non-interference in Iran's internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
3: Complete lifting of the naval blockade within 30 days.
4: The US commitment to withdraw its forces from around Iran.
5: Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days under Iranian arrangements.
6: Suspension of sanctions on the sale of oil, petrochemical products, and derivatives, and full access of Iran to its financial resources.
7: The necessity for the US and its allies to present reconstruction plans for Iran amounting to at least $300 billion.
8: 60 days of negotiations to reach a final agreement based on nuclear issues and the complete lifting of primary, secondary, US sanctions, and UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors resolutions.
9: Reiteration of Iran's commitment under the NPT treaty not to produce nuclear weapons.
10: During the negotiation period, the US has committed not to add forces in the region and not to impose new sanctions.
11: Release of $24 billion of Iran's blocked funds during the 60-day final negotiation period. Half of this amount must be made available to Iran before the start of negotiations.
12: Formation of a supervisory mechanism to implement the agreement.
13: The final agreement will be approved by a UN Security Council resolution.
14: Final negotiations will not begin before the release of half of Iran's blocked funds, suspension of Iran's oil sanctions, and lifting of the naval blockade, and the final agreement will only cover the fate of enriched materials and enrichment, lifting of sanctions, and Iran's economic reconstruction plan. Discussions about Iran's missile program and support for resistance groups are definitively removed from the agenda.
Can someone point out how all of this has been beneficial to Joe & Sue taxpayer? Asking for a friend.
You don't hate the media enough - you think you do, but you don't. https://x.com/Evans_Wroten
Go back and re-read Jeff's article. I'd wait until next week to trash the deal. We don't have any real information yet. Let the man work....
I stated that it's probably not set in stone and I've been as patient as any other 3 time Trump voter, so please spare me 'let the man work' speech. I've been watching this type of stepping all over your crank for a year and a half just scratching my head and waiting for a clown to jump out of the closet telling us we've all been punk'd. There are several things I'm super happy with, but a laundry list of big disappointments. I'm hoping my point isn't lost on you.
Yeah. It was so much better under Obama.
Love the sarcasm! I donāt think Evans thinks it was better under Obama, but I do get your point.
Obama is a national embarrassment.
Completely agree!
They both work for the Bank of England. There are no teams.
Evidently you are forgetting that GOD is involved in this. Trust HIM. GOD is fulfilling HIS promises of exposing things done in the dark to the light which is truth. This is a time of revelation. Exposing who and what people truly are. Let HIM do HIS works.
That's also why people are going to be surprised what Congress looks like later on this year, despite the midterm gloom.
Ok
Check The Leah Files on Substack for good infoā¦.she is waiting patiently to read and evaluate the terms of the MOUā¦.which she points out is NOT a permanent agreement, just a Memorandum of Understanding for 90days, or is it 60?, while they discuss terms of an agreement.
I have. Sheās on point.
Or until the 250 celebration is over. Gotta pump up the proles.
I'm very disappointed that the Iranian people didn't rise up when they were given chances to do so.
I'm not happy with Israel dragging out our involvement so Levin, Graham, Shapiro & the rest can sit down and stfu. Sick to death of them.
It is time for America First. Period.
I'm hoping Graham steps on his tiny, flaccid penis and gets exposed for accepting Ukraine $$. Right along with all those Dims who were traipsing into an 'active war zone' for photo ops.
Someone needs to be checking the campaign $$ for those idiots showing up with protesters at the ICE facilities. We need a national law stating that if protesters surround your vehicle and make you feel unsafe, if they are standing in the road, you can legally run them over; I guess no backing up over them, but running over people blocking (not crossing) the road should be legal. I'm out of patience with the idiots, can you tell?
Did anyone else see the sad little protest that Hanoi Jane, Di Niro (crying as usual), a half dead Bette Midler and Julia Roberts headed up? It was a geriatric larp of 60s radicalism. Boomer hippies, commies, drag queens all warbling off tune and out of key. I keep looking for Di Niro to start foaming at the mouth and stroke out any moment. Hope someone catches a video when it happens.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Uxap5XA61ng?si=QV-VZf7Jpwo07out
Guess even Satan doesn't want Jane. "Jane, you ignorant slut!"
https://youtu.be/c91XUyg9iWM?si=_lu0Cji7iC4Vcmw4
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This was put out by Iran and the IRGC propganda. Are we really going to trust anything that comes out of Iran and the IRGC propaganda? I wouldn't trust anything coming out the mainstream news media and I would question everything we hear and read. This is like any ICE story where the mainstream media puts out nonsense to sway public opinion before the facts come out.
Here's some accomplishments that we can see per article by Larry Schweikart: All that matters is what has materially been accomplished, and what has been accomplished is remarkable:
*For a human cost of less than the Grenada liberation or the Afghanistan withdrawal, the U.S. has rendered Iran militarily impotent. Yes, they can occasionally import a ballistic missile or two. And we have shown that at about a 99% clip we can shoot down or deactivate anything they send up.
*We have rendered their nuke production facilities completely inoperable for probably 20 years.
*We have reduced the Iranian economy to a crawl.
*We have control of the Strait of Hormuz. The USN. No one else. Over the weekend over 7 million barrels of oil transited the Strait with Uncle Samās fleet keeping them company.
*We have aligned virtually every legitimate government in the region, save, perhaps, Yemen, an ally and a cooperating party.
*We have eliminated, and continue to eliminate, virtually anyone who steps into the driverās seat who so much as breathes āDeath to America.ā And whom we donāt kill, the Israeli Defense Force kills.
*We have very significantly cut into the ChiComsā economy. They keep a tight lid on stories, but enough is seeping out now to show that while they are not yet in ādecline,ā the āgrowth trainā left the station.
*We have used the conflict to test, and show the dominance of, new, previously unseen military hardware apparently (based on the reaction of Chy-na) well ahead of anyone else in the world.
*And we have become the #1 energy exporter in the entire world.
All of these things happened without a deal memo. Meanwhile the stock market nudges 52,000 and gas prices are falling again.
There was never a āquagmire,ā and for most of the time, there wasnāt even a real conflict. It was just us beating the hell out of the mullahs then saying, āHad enough?ā Meanwhile we just did whatever we wanted to and made the rest of the world adjust to our terms.
Additionally, the economy is beating every indicator still such as Job creation during this time. I might add that the job creations are from the private sector not the federal government. Here's a good article to read by Daniel Street:
Trumpās Economy Booms: 115,000 Jobs Added as Democrats Plot to Destroy It All
The American economy is not just holding its ground amid global headwinds. It is surging forward with undeniable force, proving once again that President Donald J. Trumpās leadership delivers results where others failed.
In April, the U.S. labor market added 115,000 jobs, crushing economistsā forecasts and marking the second straight month of strong gains:
This momentum stands in sharp contrast to the weaker 10,000 monthly average seen throughout 2025. So far in 2026, the economy has powered ahead with an average of 76,000 new jobs per month. Even as global inflation pressures linger and the conflict with Iran tests national resolve, private-sector growth refuses to buckle.
The resilience is real, and it carries the unmistakable imprint of Trumpās pro-growth agenda. For instance, manufacturing, horribly neglected under Biden-Harris, is roaring back to life.
The economy added 12,600 factory construction jobs in April alone, fueled by trillions in fresh investments pouring into American facilities and data centers.
(These are the jobs former President Obama famously claimed were gone and were never coming back. Well, President Trump is bringing these jobs home, again.)
The first quarter of 2026 delivered the first net manufacturing job growth since 2023, with every major indicator now signaling robust expansion after years of Biden-Harris-era stagnation.
These gains come as Trump aggressively shrinks the federal bureaucracy. His administration has already cut the federal workforce by 345,000 workers. The result is the smallest federal workforce since May 1966 and the smallest it has ever been as a share of the total U.S. workforce.
I would also point out that no funds are going to be released or sanctions lifted and this isn't a deal but rather an extension of a ceasefire for 60 days. Additionally, I would check out Tousi TV on YouTube to see what is happening over there.
Let Syria do it? Let the headchoppers now running Syria loose on Lebanon?
Headchoppers were favored by Obama, although he also liked drones and bombs.
As a taxpayer, I'm happy to have the war ended. I never thought that the US bombed Iran to help us, so why would I be disappointed with a ceasefire?
Every one of those missiles costs tens of thousands of dollars. And they kill innocent people.
I'm glad it has stopped. Except for Lebanon. Israel is still massacring people there and burning their houses. One million people have been driven from their homes.
I want that to stop also. But I don't want the headchoppers turned loose. They are already making the lives of Syrians miserable
Mrs. RW
I think Trump was being somewhat if not completely cynical by saying to let Syria handle security concerns for Israel. Trump might as well have said "Hey, Bibi, you made your bed and now you can lie in it. We aren't going to be your free police force anymore, so you need to find someone else in your neck of the woods." Saying to let Syria do it is much less wordy. But the bottom line is with us no longer being Israel's guaranteed protector, they will have to start negotiating with their neighbors. They were hoping we'd help them attack Turkey next, and that's no longer on their wish list.
Headchoppers R' Us. The only answer is opposition to Greater Israel led by Iran.
Israel is slaughtering thousands of civilians in southern Lebanon. They are completely leveling towns. Nothing justifies that in a sane person's mind.
I hear the reflecting pool's algae is back, but at least the people who cleaned it got paid good money. As opposed to the many small businesses in Chicago who are getting stiffed by the Obama dead-weight.
I have a small backyard fountainā¦.fighting algae is a weekly battle. š« Hopefully there is a pool/pond contractor that can help battle the green or black enemy of clear water.
Trust me, our horse trough is a petri dish for the stuff. Obviously we can't put chemicals in it to try to fight it so we have a scrub brush which cleans it up for a few days.
It is my opinion that the algae makes good fertilizer, so I haul buckets of it out to the garden.
I may be wrong, but all that green? Smells like money!
Mrs. RW
That sounds plausible. In an hour or so I'll be changing the water in the trough. I'll give it a scrub and save some of the green water to put on garden plants, the fertilizer is good, hopefully this will add to the growth.
I got a 12" piece of copper pipe and put it in my trough. It helped a good bit but moving it into a shaded area is the key. I keep mine under the lean to roof. Water also stays cooler.
Ours is under shade trees, it doesn't get much direct sunlight and stays pretty cool. Squirrels, deer & birds like to take a drink from time to time but I doubt they enhance algae growth.
While it isn't as rapid it grows in the winter too. I suspect the grass & hay the horses eat might contribute a bit.
Or baking soda.
Actually, now that I think about it, a while back I read something that said copper would combat algae so I put a 10" scrap piece of copper pipe in the trough and it did seem to work, for a couple of months, but the effect seemed to fade and the algae started back even with the pipe in there; I'm not sure why.
The sodium bicarbonate changes the ph to more alkaline. Good for the body.
Maybe bad for algae
Every line of this is BS.
Thankfully Jeffās analyses make more of an impact on my thinking than another readerās
Huh š¤ā¦algae is bs š¤š¤š¤
I disagree with much of your premise, Evans, but appreciate the effort in making your points. Dialog is important.
As a Christian Zionist, I'm not afraid to use that term in it's original meaning, I find great discomfort in POTUS saying he would rather have an ISIS leader wearing a suit and tie take over the battle against Hezbollah? POTUS thinks Israel is creating too much collateral damage? He's been almost silent about the 40,000+ Persian civilians killed by the IRGC. The kilos of human hair smuggled out of the country sold to wig makers. It's an evil empire.
The Iranian tentacles spread far from Iran. Hamas in Gaza. Houthis in Yemen. Hezbollah in Lebanon. IR in Iraq Jordan and Syria. Quds Force operates in Europe and Asia. Iran is not Venezuela, that's for sure.
I'll attempt to be patient with our President, maybe he has a larger smarter plan, but his knowledge of Middle Eastern history and prophesy is sorely lacking.
I appreciate that you understand that an ISIS leader is running Syria.
It amazes me that people were riled up for years about ISIS, but now that an ISIS leader is in charge of Syria, and his headchoppers are targeting Christians and Allawites, the only response is...."Good. Turn them loose on Lebanon."
Unbelievable.
Mrs. RW
I absolutely agree with you. We were much better off before Trump started this war.
"And now we circle back to Bill Pulte, the dreaded man who just terrified Democrats into protesting so hard that they lapsed their favorite spy program, āplungingā the nation into āunknown territory.ā Not coincidentally, Pulte is closely tied to DOGE. His critics constantly complain about how, under Pulteās leadership, the DOGE model was extended into housing finance and related domains.
Add to that Billās preāgovernment āTwitter philanthropyā branding, where he explicitly discussed using technology and social media to expose corruption in welfare infrastructures, and later, in mortgage fraud, and you see a consistent character: Bill Pulte leans into a public identity as a techādriven, antiācorruption crusader."
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I suspect that with as much fraud as there is in Medicaid and Medicare fraud, these learing centers, immigration fraud, watch out for what's coming from Pulte, with a DOGE powered inquiry into mass amounts of mortgage loan fraud.
During my fraud and computer crimes detective days, I added mortgage loan fraud cases to my portfolio of work starting in 2003, before the big meltdown of 2008. I did a consult for a local city detective and a state agent on what initially started with insider fraud involving car purchase loans. Looking over their materials, I told them yes, there's a lot of substantial money and fraud here. But the mother lode of the REAL money is in what looks like a mortgage loan fraud network, with players across our state. It turned out to be the case. I'm not talking about somebody misstating a loan from mom and pop to help out with the down payment. Back then, with no DOGE tying in these cases and building them up, it took a lot of expertise to even know where to look for evidence, obtain it, then put together cases. It still does, I suspect. We are seeing something massive here from Pulte and whichever of his proteges takes if from there.
Is Pulte technically Acting DNI? I thought Tulsi was still there until the 19th
You mean the Pulte who received a "F*c*s Only the Young Award" at some weird dildo thing? That guy? Trump sure knows how to pick 'em. I thought he fit better in a Biden admin, but I guess after all there is little difference in the two parties.
As someone old enough to remember the Iran Hostage Crisis, and who had a good Persian friend at my first "real" job out of college from whom I learned a lot more than most people seem to know these days, I am with you on Iran. First of all, OF COURSE the news is wrong on the deal. Why anyone would believe it isn't is beyond me - did we learn nothing from Trump 1.0 and covid?? Second, Trump has brought the entire Middle East on side against Iran, China and Russia have stayed quiet, and all we have now is sound and fury from whoever is running whatever in Iran. Third, Trump will get a deal, and he will hold them to it and start bombing again if they break it. And fourth, I am quite sure there are proxies working with in-country and out-of-country Persians for the next, internal, phase. Their internal strife is theirs to fix, but I suspect we will get a deal that will at least last long enough (through Trump's term at minimum) to give the Iranians time to act.
The entire ME is not against Iran. Flatly false.
Three months ago, Iran was less than two weeks away from having 11 atomic bombs (their words, not mine...who you gonna believe?). And contrary to the terms of the JCPOA, they possessed ballistic missiles with a range of about 4,200km, rather than the 2,000km required by Obama's unsigned agreement. They demonstrated that when they fired two missiles toward Diego Garcia.
So, absent our destruction of those assets, EVERY European capital except Lisbon and Dublin was within range of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles fired from a nation whose motto is "Death to the West." And, what have we learned? The Europeans are ingrates, incapable of participating in their own defense. But, at least they feel superior in their ingratitude.
Dont be frightened.
Fear clouds our thoughts.