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How did this woman get through the judiciary committee questioning? Remembering the circus they put Justice Kavanaugh and Thomas through, it boggles my mind that this woman is a Supreme Court justice. But then she is a liberal and the Dem’s nominees always get through.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that had she remained in the lower courts many of her rulings would have been overturned. She’s a lowly activist judge, and those kinds should never reach the Supreme bench, ever. Definitely DEI
I'm sure your question is rhetorical Michelle, but removal is only by impeachment . It has been accomplished, but not in many moons. (1804, for partisan decisions I believe)
All of Washington, DC is still saddled with fear of the racism title. Will we ever stop seeing shades of skin and get back to merit? Lady Justice is depicted with a blindfold for a reason.
It was brutal. I remember listening and thinking “how in the world can THIS WOMAN (and yes, I DO know what a woman is), sit on the highest court in the land?” I mean, honestly, there are more living brain cells in my big toe than there are in her head…
I used to listen to Judge Napolitano with another NY guy - can't remember his name. The Judge swore she would be a good libertarian thinking pick. I liked him at the time so I thought I wait and see. Well, the obvious has happened. But we should be grateful she isn't a good jurist and easily ignored or mocked.
That's it! I really liked him and then October 7th happened, and he became unhinged. I couldn't watch his program anymore. I get the humanitarian concern over Gaza, but when I meet people like him and ask why they don't protest the Christian executions, like in Nigeria, you get a blank look. If the response was we expect better human rights out of a developed nation, I would respect that position.
Biden stated publicly that he wanted a person of color to fill the seat and that he would appoint one. Basically saying he's is hiring on basis of skin color, which I thought, was illegal even in Biden's time.
I believe you're right. As for his Supreme Court pick, here is what AI says:
"Joe Biden explicitly stated that he would nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, fulfilling a campaign promise, which indicates that race and sex were part of his selection criteria."
I can picture the exchange between Jackson and Thomas now: "You be nothin' but an Uncle Tom Clarence." "Dear lady, I would urge you to read the book because I know you meant that remark as a slur but based on the true Tom character in the book by Harriet Beecher Stowe, I'd be proud to be associated with an enslaved Christian man who died to protect the freedom of his fellow escaped slaves." "Oh!" says Jackson, "Well, then you be too well read to be any use and since you didn't vote for Uncle Joe, you ain't really black!"
Had a brief but ranging conversation in recent years with a millennial black man. I recalled growing up in the painful shadow of the Emmet Till tragedy, a name that was familiar to him but about which he did not know the background. When I shared about the misunderstanding connected with calling someone an Uncle Tom he had no idea. For thee who hast neither the context, in brief: When Harriet Beecher Stowe's book was first adapted to the stage Uncle Tom's character was uncomfortable for the overwhelmingly "white" theater-going public. It required reworking to make the character more palatable to the majority audience. This was the genesis of the kow towing Uncle Tom character, a vibrant bastardization that made its way into mass consciousness. Ain't The Rest of the Story innerestin? I miss Paul Harvey, though the forensics here are not his, at least he was not the source. Good day.
She pretty much represents the standard of most Biden administration appointees: Worse than third-rate but willing to do as she's told and carry water for Obama and the Biden minions running the show. I am sure they provide her with scripts. Remember, part of her judiciary committee questioning WAS the "what is a woman" question. Which she failed. Since it was Democrats running the show at that time, she passed anyway. They would have installed her on the court if she had demonstrated Tourette's during her Judiciary Committee hearing. She is an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. Never has there been a justice with such a mediocre intellect in its entire history. How did this woman ever get on any bench in the first place.
If President Trump finally gets the chance to reverse all of the executive orders signed by the autopen during the Biden Installation, wouldn't that include her Supreme Court appointment?
Even I laughed at this and I have a son who had severe Tourette’s his whole life. 🤣
Just a side note tho: the swearing feature (coprolalia) occurs in less than 10% of all cases, but thanks to Seinfeld it became the poster child feature of the disease. 🙄😏 My son struggled with it for about 3-4 months in middle school, along with the incessant urge to throw the middle finger. When he and his peers discovered the middle finger most were disciplined out of the usage in under a week or bored of it, but unlucky Tourette children get stuck in an uncontrollable cycle, and it’s as hard to prevent as a sneeze.
He is!! But I credit the Keto diet. Before that, all the meds in the world only made it worse and destroyed his life. Getting him off of all meds after 24 years and putting him on the Keto diet was miraculous. Two years straight now he’s been without hardly any tics.
It seems clear that the same fear of being accused of racism ( and sexism) was the lynch pin of her passage through the Senate. Same in the Somalian fraud schemes in Minnesota. Every citizen of the USA pays a steep price for DEI and anti-racism neo Marxist guilt pandering.
KJB’s inability to understand that “ independent agencies” do not exist in the US Constitution without accountability to the other named branches makes me believe she has never even read the document.
She took Grandma Garlin's place in the lower court so the auto pen could promote her to the Supremes. She's strictly the liberal leftard in the punch bowl. By design.
I think that was her point - that ordinary citizens (and supreme court justices) are too stupid to know anything, and therefore need the state to run every aspect of their lives (including the raising of their children). Difficult major questions like "What is a woman?" must be delegated to the government-sanctioned experts. And everyone else must be made to STFU by any means that are convenient to the government.
This is a typical leftist and elitist view. I have heard lots of ordinary people say this very same thing. They truly believe it should be up to “experts” to make decisions for everyone. It’s disgusting imo.
It is almost incomprehensible, the menta illness infecting the globe. And I am thankful for our hosts legal expertise 99 percent of the time.
That 1 percent is why I question his recent analysis of the dismissal of the mortgage fraud case against the judge as being how it should have worked with the Trump case. I do not see how they are remotely similar, as the case against Trump was incredibly weak, victimless and frankly absurd, whereas the case against Leletia James is clear and substainal. I failed to understand Jeff Cs apparent defense of that case as how the system is suppose to work?
In Jeff's defense I don't think he meant that the MERITS were the same but that the checks and balances used are there to BE USED as intended to make sure that valid cases are getting through. It FAILED in the case of Trump and exposes the two tiered justice we all know is evident in James.
Could it be that there are so many other similar cases, if one bothered to look, that the D’s could claim LJ’s was selective persecution? I have no doubt that the “primary residence” claim is widely abused, especially among Congresspeople who often have at least 2 residences. BTW, spitballing here; I have no idea.
I was unable to force myself to finish reading the excerpt Jeff shared, it was so horribly vapid and nearly empty of meaning, let alone grammar and syntax.
To be fair, she’s being intellectually (for lack of a better word) consistent - her area of expertise (again, English fails to provide an accurate noun) being the law (I’m laughing as I type that), not biology.
I think we should cut her some slack. More than likely, she's just being compassionate and empathetic for the "experts" and "scientists" who can't define a women either.
You are doing a great job covering the supreme court, but you missed that little religious freedom case that the court remanded back to the Second Circuit yesterday. They overturned the circuit court’s decision dismissing the Amish’s case that New York’s elimination of the religious exemption is unconstitutional! A great victory for religious and medical freedom!
If you think this is good…. take a look… wont matter for the crazy blue states.
If you hate Newsom make sure he doesnt win the pres bid in 2028. Many people love his crazy self talking out of both sides of his mouth. Always watch what he DOES not what he is saying to the camera.
Soon after, the Western Coast Health Alliance, a public-health partnership between California, Oregon, and Washington created to set regional guidelines independent of the CDC, issued a statement reaffirming that California will continue to set its own requirements regardless of national recommendations: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR25-022.aspx
California may now remain committed to a universal newborn vaccination approach even as national policy shifts toward more flexibility and family involvement.
So, the thing is, despite what the crazy blue states are doing, if the CDC changes the recommended schedule and the blue states require the old one, the doctors AND pHarma companies are open to lawsuits because they are no longer protected by the 1986 vaccine law.
I live in California. It’s a bunch of BS. The only reason he’s still in office is because they cheat.
They should be able to sue the doctor, the medical facility, the pHarma company, etc., for administering the vaccine if they are or their child is injured by a vaccine. The 1986 immunity only covers the CDC schedule. So, if they give it to the baby at birth, that’s not the recommendation. If the child is injured or killed as a result, the parents can sue the people who administered it as well as the company who made it. Get enough of those lawsuits or a class action lawsuit, and that whole gravy train could break an axel and fall apart.
I think New York and California are in a contest to see who can go the farthest left. Unfortunately for you, California appears to be winning these days, but we're #2, we try harder!
Illinois’ super-large gov is vying to move from 3rd place to 1st. Unbelievably inventive of taxes to stick it to us. A head tax on every employee. Refusing to remove taxes on tips for STATE tax, a delivery tax on everything from Amazon, Door Dash and related businesses… 🤦🏽♀️
There's no way they can get away with making jabs mandatory AND getting compliance. California probably doesn't "healthcare" the same way it supposedly votes. They can cheat on the elections but they can't force-jab a comparable percentage of the population bc the numbers just aren't there.
Practically, I am in favour of Newsom and California running their health scams. Sad for the families. That is the Constitution though. States run health. Eliminate vaccines in twenty states, double down in twenty and compare. Then hang Bourla and Gates.
Yes! I really was hoping hed cover this one! I posted yesterday a comment from our CA freedom fighting group who said this could impact our fight in CA to return religious exemptions.
Upstate NY is much more conservative and sane than the areas close to NYC. If there were a vote to divorce themselves of NYC, it might find itself cast out pretty quickly.
I lived in Albany and there were a lot of libtards there too unfortunately and it will get worse as they migrate from the city. For now it may be sane but watch out, that will dissipate to my chagrin.
Thank you for mentioning this, I’d been following this case through email messages from organizations involved in these fights but have been exceptionally busy lately so missed the ruling.
The sun comes up, the sun goes down. I can already see the headlines: "Walz indicted." One week later: "Walz acquitted." Three months later: "Walz to Star in Reality TV Show." I'm a little unclear these days of what crimes have to be committed in order to actually toss one of these wretched "retarded" upper level government grifters and swindlers behind bars. (I'm thinking a broad daylight murder among 50 or so eyewitnesses might do it, but I wouldn't bet on it). So far as I can tell zero consequences hasn't been much of a deterrent. Last I checked, Fauci, The King of All Rat Bastards, is still wowing them on tour...but of course, evidence is scant against him. 🤥. Then there's people in Europe (coming to a neighborhood near you??) being led away in handcuffs for refusing to use the word "Them." But, we're fine. Everything’s fine. ...in perfect harmonious equilibrium.
I have stopped reading X and now only glance in here at C&C occasionally. What you say is true, and as the counselor said to me alone when my first marriage was falling apart, “You’re a survivor, and you’ll be fine, but you have to get off the roller coaster.” That was 43 years ago and I’ve never forgotten it. While I claim the hope offered me in Christ, it is a hope beyond this world. The roller coaster of our current zeitgeist is eating me up inside, and that is not how I want to live my one life here, nor is it how God wants me to live.
If you are a Believer, you will find throughout the Bible instances where awful things happened to the “just” and were never rectified. And evil was allowed to flourish with no consequences. It continues through time.
I would like to see the scamdemic makers brought forth as much as anyone, but God allowed this to happen for His purposes, not mine. Perhaps this was a defining time for America to turn around. There are signs of it all over, they just don’t make the headlines.
I am seeing signs of a GREAT TURNAROUND, but it may not be until after the GREAT TRIBULATION. Free Will allows evil. When the evil ends, people will be spoiled and won't appreciate the good. We appreciate the good because there is so much evil. STAY GOOD
And we should all continue to be pissed and outraged. And you're right....there will be no exposure in my lifetime. They will never admit the shots cause cancer, white clots, brain damage, heart attacks, etc. because the courts would be flooded and the country bankrupted through the vaccine injury program. It's the same reason they will never admit vaccine cause autism. Our only hope is that they'll continue to roll back the vaccine programs. Fauci may quietly be charged in a military court...or just be indicted on mortgage fraud.
Brought to you in small part by The Ad Council. What a bunch of dirty rotten scoundrels. Ugh. I thought I was going one way with my Substack article yesterday and it ended up going down that particular rabbit hole. They are the Propaganda Arm of the OWG (one world government) IMO. Gross.
"While I claim the hope offered me in Christ . . . "
This! Walking by faith, hoping in what you have not yet seen, gives glory to God and shames the adversary, who rebelled, having already seen!
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (ESV)
"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
Jeremiah 20:11 (ESV)
"But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten."
Then its best to stop reading X as you have and not even come here as to not get yourself more upset. Best of luck and may you find the peace you need to live the way you wish.
Thank you. The dilemma is how to stay as informed as I need to be without getting sucked into the narratives designed to anger or placate us. I feel C&C has some balance. Head in sand isn’t a good place either.
It is why C&C is my go to every morning. Jeff always finds some good news even in the worst of times, which covid was for many of us seeing a world gone nuts. I so appreciate Jeff’s analysis of the law and cases that otherwise escape my notice.
I also try to find podcasts that offer people doing good things and accomplishing seemingly impossible things that may go unnoticed by the media. I listen to a lot of Mike Rowe podcasts. He just interviewed Danny Combs, founder of TACT, a school that trains neurodivergent, (autistic and others in that spectrum), skilled trades for very employable jobs. This was done on Colorado of all places and is successful. He just opened a second school in Nashville. This man and others like him give hope that we can solve problems that seem to have no solutions. A great interview.
I have finally reached a place that I do not let any current news upset my balance. I give everything three days and most of the time whatever bad news I’ve heard has been flipped around. It’s a very tough place. Hang in there and yes take a week off, it’s Ok 😊
Read it with the perspective that you are watching end time prophecies being fulfilled, and that you have the peace and confidence in knowing that in the end, God is in charge.
Susan, thank you for that. I sang that solo in our high school ,abbreviated (no orchestra) choir presentation of The Messiah. I was terrified.
Interesting perspective to me now, at age 74. I also sang in the choir at a college Messia presentation with full orchestra presentation. At the time of both concerts, I was not a believer and had no real understanding of what I was singing about. About 5 years later I did become a believer and my love of the Messiah music blossomed into a full blown love of the MESSIAH. I continue to marvel at God giving me the priviledge of experiencing the music and falling in love with it, and the the blessing of falling in love with "The Story" and then realizing what I had been exposed to as a naive teenager. Oh the Glory!
What a beautiful life we live to hear a story and maybe spread light unto the next generation! I, too, didn’t really know how Wonderful” this song was until many years later!
Thanks for sharing your story. You were so lucky to be wrapped in a robe in a good place.
Head in the sand for a bit actually sounds like a great time offering tremendous relief. Imagine our energies devoted elsewhere and how we could help within our own families and communities without "news" bogging us down. Perhaps just pop in once weekly for a quick peek.
Consider to force yourself to do 3 day fasts from the news. Start with one day fasts if necessary. Use that day or days for your soul.
Also consider the things that happen here do not matter as much as what we become through them. ( a parahrase) The ladder is eternal, the former almost like a dream, only temporary.
Pray for discernment, find & read the truth tellers. Jeff is one. Another I find truthful ,entertaining & funny is Jennaside by Jenna Mcarthy on Substack. 🙏
agreed, it's a total shitshow. I just don't think there's much of a business model otherwise. This is one of the reasons newspapers (and later the tv media) have been financially supported by political parties, because that can allow them to get paid off ultimately. Notice the desperation of legacy media to find financial support (government and big Pharma) once competition from big tech internet entered the picture and they started losing marketshare.
Remember when news was news?? Like the guys on the screen talking about the ginormus earthquakes happening and not the opening of a local animal shelter?
Elon has tried to rid it of bots but they seem to be never-ending. So far Ive seen very few on Substack. Perhaps the pages I read/share monitor theirs better. Ive reported a few but those were the "sharing scams" types. If they are just disagreeing and are not vicious (like many on X) then I usually just ignore.
I get the same comment repeated on my posts…I just mute them. And honestly, I’m a nobody on Substack. Weird whom they choose to target. One look at their profile tells you all you need to know…
I feel exactly the same way. Unsubscribe from things. Trying to hunt down good food and stay off X and any news. Even the local weather is captured, but at the end I know God Wins and it is my job to have faith, which is " the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
I cannot physically do a thing to change outcomes of these giant evil obstacles, but I CAN keep praying and having faith that God has me.
Well said. It's like the story of the Jewish leaders choosing Barabbas to be released by Pilate instead of Christ. They chose a revolutionary against Rome for this world's fight, not a Savior for an afterlife.
I never read X or bluesky or listen to many podcasts or tiktocks. And only rarely read comments here. Honestly, if it is causing you much stress just avoid it. Imagine again what life was like prior to social media. I refuse to have my life controlled by social media!
Good to take breaks from the doom on X. It’s definitely a place to feel depressed about humankind. As I drove my beloved mom into her senior care center today, and looked at the otherwise beautiful Nevada skies being crisscrossed with trails, I consciously decided not to let myself get upset but it’s very hard when you can’t even escape the madness in the outdoors. Ugh.
I find your comment about the roller coaster QUITE interesting. I call it "the cycle"......going on for 25+ years: everything goes fine for a few months => argument => fight => few months of silent treatment => everything swept under the carpet => everything goes fine for a few months => repeat. Sound about right?
In my case, everything was my fault. Everything. The marriage only lasted four years, no children, and thankfully he left me. I hadn’t learned the terms “narcissist” or “crazymaker” yet, but when I did, I was relieved to move on.
I feel your pain Eric… I really do. Singing The Messiah this week and “All we like sheep have gone astray” reminds me that we are all flawed and the systems we create are flawed…but of course we have real hope to hang onto.. Him!
Please take the time to listen to Handel’s “Messiah”! You forget everything and will be struck with hope. The music, the songs and the gathering of such force of the talents of humanity!(even if you don’t believe in God) Or you will hate it!! Jeff brings hope to all his readers. I walk away happy from his posts.
Ann I made that mistake purposely to prove the greater point! Ha, I wish I was that smart. The final chorus “Worthy is The Lamb” slays me every time I sing it or hear it. That and “The Trumpet Shall Sound”… wow chills. Sing on.
I sincerely miss actual Christmas music.....vs Frosty/Rudolph......everywhere at Christmas. I refuse to simply accept the commercialism, but, it does make me sad.
The year the Irish austistic girl sang Hallelujah was incredible!
Well said Eric- all the exposure, the evidence etc mean nothing. It really is a joke. I recall Trump's post with an image of Hillary, Obama etc in jail. It's a a fn show
Eric, I think that's what appealed to me about "The 'Q' Plan" there were (are?) going to be wholesale arrests, public military trials, and lmmediate sentencing and punishing.
Ketanji Brown Jackson embarrasses the court every time she opens her mouth. She is a DEI hire appointed by autopen and said she couldn't define what a woman is because she's not a biologist. We elected a president to fire all the "experts". The people decide, not unelected bureaucrats and technocrats.
ROFL. There's a Frasier episode where Frasier is claiming, in a room full of police officers, that a monkey committed the murder. Daphne then says that when he came up with that theory she was "mostly across the room."
I imagine that when Jackson moves into the camera frame, all the other Justices back away, out of camera view.
Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
Yes, and I’m eagerly awaiting this day, “For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
My hope for you all is that all of you have received Jesus as the Lord of your life, by the gift of faith from God the Father, and sanctified by His grace and mercy.
When I hear these stories I wonder how phenomenal the middleclass would be now, had none of our resources been stolen over the years. This country would be in the financial black.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe I wouldn’t be driving a 15 year old car and struggling to repair my old house. I’m just sick about it. But I’m mostly white, so guess this all I deserve after working hard my entire life. I’ll be 75 in February and this is the most shocking thing I’ve encountered yet.
Personally, I like the older cars because they don’t have as much computer garbage in them… buttons, buttons, and more buttons… 🥴 why is it better for us to constantly be looking down trying to figure out which button to push on the touchscreen…? 💩 All of our vehicles have over 250,000 miles on them. My favorite one is my 2007 Honda civic. It has around 310,000 miles on it… It has a sunroof! I always wanted a sunroof… 🥰👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Right??? I think the same thing. We are nickled and dimed to death while the corrupt get their grubby hands on the funds, so *they* can live handsomely 😡
The GAO says that improper payments to Medicare and Medicaid is $102B each year. So 21% of total federal medical payments is improper. Each year. That’s what federal experts do for us. 21%.
But I’ll bet it’s way worse here in Commiefornia where it still costs me $450 a year to license a 20+ year old pickup, $2000 a year to insure a 1,000 s.f. home that’s 40 miles away from any high fire hazard areas and surrounded by orchards, and $300 a year to license a travel trailer that has never traveled on a California road since it arrived at my property and has no option to register it as Planned Non-Operation. Somebody’s getting rich off taxpaying, insurance paying Californians, and it’s probably our nutless governor.
Greetings fellow Commiefornia inmate. I'm old enough to remember when CA was clean, safe and affordable. Those really were the Golden Days. Sadly, with 1 party rule - who has perfected the art of election fraud - I don't see much hope.
Sidenote: I want a refund for the 6 years of paying fees for the new 911 system that Newscum just decided to scrap. Where did that 450 million go??? one guess.
I lived in Northern Commiefornia for 40 years….fleeing when Governor Nuisance closed the ocean in March 2020. What I noticed was Prop 13 top stopped property tax, but the number of “fees” increased substantially. Like a body after a blood clot, the main artery was blocked, but the body made many new routes to keep the lifeblood flowing. All in all, Californians pay the same or more in taxes/fees as the other states.
NV DMV - State Govt taxes on my car registration renewal are higher than the registration fee on my 2010 vehicle and we have to get a "smog check" in order to register - such a scam.
Ten trillion dollars federal debt increase in the four years of the Biden administration. GAO estimates $233 Billion to $ 521 billion annually. So minimum 1 trillion, more likely at least 2.1 + trillion in fraud. Probably an underestimate.
"The investigations are only beginning, and they touch multiple key political points, including welfare, race, immigration, official corruption, Democrat dirty tricks, ...."
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please PLEASE start including Voter Fraud in the panoply in Minnesota. The State was found to have issued tens-of-thousands of Commercial Drivers' Licenses to undocumented uncitizens. And you know with the Driver License comes VOTER REGISTRATION!
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California led the way in this decades ago and it needs a lot more investigation and revelations.
I'm convinced O'Keefe uses the ridiculous disguises to demonstrate how mind-bogglingly stupid these fraudsters are. Nearly all of them seem to be morons, anyone with half a brain would see through it.
The corruption around us is not because these people are clever but because they reject basic Christian morality. They are genuinely awful people.
I was thinking the same thing. His disguise is ludicrous, not even slightly convincing even if you didn’t recognize him you’d HAVE to see through that wig 🤣. But they spill to him. Utter morons. Lolol
And they’re not spilling just to James ….. his honeypot brigade gets these dopes every time. Oldest trick in the book to get the 411
We’re up here in Lassen county right near where James uncovered the Susanville Indian Rancheria scandal.
“In interviews with O’Keefe Media Group, tribal elders and members describe how executives from ATI & SIRCO Federal Services Inc., led by Firmadge Crutchfield, used the tribe’s name to win over $100 million in no-bid government contracts - while the Susanville community itself saw none of the profits.”
The undercover work he did on this was crazy…. The get up he wore and wig…. Like a Halloween costume
People are gullible. They accept and believe almost anything.
Whosoever reads this:
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Tucson STILL has some sketchy stuff going on. Thanks Re-gina. But then, we also have Kelly & Gallegos for Senators. And God help us, the Hobgoblin for govennor.
I think election fraud is a bigger fish. But the info is starting to come out - source codes in the voting machinery, boatload of made in China ballots, cartel adjacent politicians. The evidence needs to be pretty much incontrovertible before legal action, civil or criminal, is taken.
Election fraud is coming from the very silcone valley shysters he surrounds himself with. Google alone by manipulating search results sways 10s of millions of votes towards democrats.
Playing devils advocate....If Trump is truly an enemy of the deep state, how did he overcome them controlling this source code and win an election?
Trump was the chosen one of the deep state or he wouldn't be there - or at least a powerful faction of the deep state - perhaps why he has surrounded himself with deplorable tech swamp bros.
I have my reservations about Trump. But the "deep state" is not in control of the source code as I understand it. We have a larger enemy. Read Elizabeth Nickson"s Absurdistan piece on it. She links to other pieces. Then read Hugo Carbajal's open letter go the President and to the American people.
People may not remember but Justice Ketanji Jackson Browne is former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's sister-in-law. When she was nominated he said she would make a great justice and fully endorsed her. This from a guy (a Republican leader!) who knew her probably better than anyone else in Washington.
Thank God PDJT has destroyed much of the corrupt Republican establishment. There's still more to go, but the change he has made has been remarkable.
Paul Ryan’s wife’s sister is married to KJB’s husband’s twin brother. So a bit more removed than implied as “ brother in law.” KJB is the SIL of Paul Ryan’s SIL.
He did support her and testify at her confirmation.
Convincingly proved; government is incompetent and corrupt to administer the theft and redistribution schemes we call welfare. Extract government from this function and restore private charity. Charity is a voluntary activity inspired by the Holy Spirit.
“Congress keeps delegating its lawmaking powers to Executive agencies.”
Driving home once again that Congress is shirking their duty. Pushing this onto the President enables these changes to occur; no matter which party is in office.
Shame on these folks. I think they need a pay cut. Also, no life long pension.
They have figured out the best grift. Get elected, slide responsibility for crafting and passing legislation (i.e. your actual job) off to appointed people who will simply create whatever rules benefit themselves and in return will help get the politicians reelected. That's how we ended up with lifetime congresscritters in both parties, while our lives are being profoundly affected by a permanent unelected 4th branch of government.
She used the vaccine apologists' own logic against them. They have been relying on "evidence-based medicine" meaning ONLY randomized control trials, even though in real life, evidence comes in many forms. But she comes in and says that we don't have any evidence from RCTs because they didn't use actually inert placebos; in their RCTs they routinely tested the vaccines against other vaccines or injections that contained vaccine adjuvants/ingredients.
Bigger question is how Jeff Childers was able to spell Hoeg's name using the Greek symbol for phi in place of the letter "o". (I'm sure it's probably in some obscure Norse alphabet but as an engineer it's phi to me.) What the heck is that? If people are of Russian ethnicity are we going to use Cyrillic? How about Chinese characters when referring to Xi Jinping?
I did not know that, Jeff - hilarious! It’s been a hundred years since I’ve seen Spinal Tap. I did have to look up umlaut and copy the symbol, because I don’t know how to create it on my Mac keyboard.
The Republicans need to get their act together and keep both House and Senate in the mid-terms. They need to internalize that old saying from the Revolution. “We can either hang together or we will assuredly hang separately.”
💯. My hope is that once the BBB goes into effect, and after Trump rolls out a few other things he has up his sleeve, we can take the midterms. Immigration - check (mostly). Crime - check. Affordability - getting there. If he gets there, we’re good. The savings accounts for babies will help. But lower food prices and affordable home prices will push him over the edge 🤞🙏.
If he can successfully eliminate most of income taxes via tariffs, then that returns 20-25% of people’s income back into their pockets and will help to afford homes
Yes he just made comments that hopefully tariff income will allow him to completely eliminate income tax in the next couple years if not greatly reduce them. Knowing our corrupt Congress I feel they will only allow a reduction and not an elimination. Cowards
Gas prices here have been so low lately (2.28 the other day!) I’m sure it will have an effect on other things, even if it’s only limited to certain regions. Still cheaper to transport goods than before.
Home prices are slow to move and by any rationale analysis need to come down in most markets. I don't see it by next year, at least not around here (ID) where home prices are often 8+ times salaries. Check out Melody Wright for excellent and informed analysis of the real estate markets.
Home prices are quite high in most markets. Demand by illegals is a good part of the cause as is migration from disfunctional Dem cities and states. Lower interest rates will help buyers but won't lower prices. Only a drop in demand or incease in supply can do that.
Agreed…but if we see some relief in the housing market, or a movement in the right direction (decreased regulations decreasing home prices, lower interest rates - which are starting to come down, my daughter just bought her first home w a 4.7% loan), that could help.
We have had a house on the market most of this year. Very little movement in the market in this edge-of-the-back-of-beyond small town in a heavily touristy area. Under contract now for 70,000 less than listed originally. We thought the price was too high and it had to come down, and we are alright with that. It was the VRBO craze that ran it up, here, and that is crashing now so more homes for teachers and medical folk etc-- the people who make a town run well.
My understanding is that republicans don't want to upend the cart called 'equity' by letting prices deflate. It's a significant source of financial security for many folks, never mind the ability or desire to sell in this market with higher interest rates.
The issue is price, not interest rates. Re: Republicans having any control over the market-The Fed et all have very limited influence on the 10 year rate. While home equity is the largest source of well for many, IMO this is an unsustainable market. There is no liquidity (sales) at the lower-middle end of the market. Never a good thing! The interest rate argument is null. Don't listen to the media. You might like to check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllhRJyowK8
A good place to start would be to promote an open investigation Into Charlie Kirk’s execution. No thinking person I know accepts the fed slop that the FBI is trying to feed us. The apparent cover-up will continue dividing mega unless we get some transparency.
It’s ironic that Katenji-Jackson-Browne-Jackson-Five is defending the “experts” and “scientists” when she couldn’t even define a “woman”.
How did this woman get through the judiciary committee questioning? Remembering the circus they put Justice Kavanaugh and Thomas through, it boggles my mind that this woman is a Supreme Court justice. But then she is a liberal and the Dem’s nominees always get through.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that had she remained in the lower courts many of her rulings would have been overturned. She’s a lowly activist judge, and those kinds should never reach the Supreme bench, ever. Definitely DEI
She should have never been any level of judge…period. She is dumber than AOC and Jazzmine Crockett
you left out Maxine Waters
Their in a dead heat
I nominate Mazie Hirono.
Not sure on that, but it’s close…too close for me to evaluate at this point. What would it take to get rid of her?
I'm sure your question is rhetorical Michelle, but removal is only by impeachment . It has been accomplished, but not in many moons. (1804, for partisan decisions I believe)
Or, maybe invite her hunting in Texas...
If Biden's autopen adventures have been ruled null and void.....what about his SCOTUS nominations?
lol- good one, S.P.H.
It used to be stated that Patty Murray was the dumbest elected representative. Now she's not even in the top 10.
Combined, C Stone.
Last sentence, Juju, is right on.
All of Washington, DC is still saddled with fear of the racism title. Will we ever stop seeing shades of skin and get back to merit? Lady Justice is depicted with a blindfold for a reason.
It was brutal. I remember listening and thinking “how in the world can THIS WOMAN (and yes, I DO know what a woman is), sit on the highest court in the land?” I mean, honestly, there are more living brain cells in my big toe than there are in her head…
And the Republicans let her have that seat. Sometimes its obvious we have one party pretending to be two
This is the important part to remember. One party is playing to win (and it's not the Rs).
The Uniparty
racist if they turned her down
Most definitely
I view the current administration as a third party administration with "Republican" mufti.
There is Trump and there is the Uniparty, before Trump all we had was the Uniparty...
Uniparty action.
Little toe. Just the top half.
You hit the (toe) nail on the head!
🤣
I used to listen to Judge Napolitano with another NY guy - can't remember his name. The Judge swore she would be a good libertarian thinking pick. I liked him at the time so I thought I wait and see. Well, the obvious has happened. But we should be grateful she isn't a good jurist and easily ignored or mocked.
Gerald Celente?
Later Jay
That's it! I really liked him and then October 7th happened, and he became unhinged. I couldn't watch his program anymore. I get the humanitarian concern over Gaza, but when I meet people like him and ask why they don't protest the Christian executions, like in Nigeria, you get a blank look. If the response was we expect better human rights out of a developed nation, I would respect that position.
Judge Napolitano is out of touch with historical reality.
I think there might be more living brain cells in toe jam than in KBJ5's head ;)
Biden stated publicly that he wanted a person of color to fill the seat and that he would appoint one. Basically saying he's is hiring on basis of skin color, which I thought, was illegal even in Biden's time.
Didn't he also state he wanted a woman? I don't remember any "men of color" being considered.
Similar playbook to the Wise Latina pick.
Wasn't that the criteria for his VP?
I believe you're right. As for his Supreme Court pick, here is what AI says:
"Joe Biden explicitly stated that he would nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, fulfilling a campaign promise, which indicates that race and sex were part of his selection criteria."
Thanks for the clarification. So it was both.
Yep. Just like his VP choice.
Thurgood Marshall was explicitly picked by LBJ bc of his skin color. Its in that old book about the Supreme Court.
It depends on the skin color if it's illegal or not.
DEI hire
I can picture the exchange between Jackson and Thomas now: "You be nothin' but an Uncle Tom Clarence." "Dear lady, I would urge you to read the book because I know you meant that remark as a slur but based on the true Tom character in the book by Harriet Beecher Stowe, I'd be proud to be associated with an enslaved Christian man who died to protect the freedom of his fellow escaped slaves." "Oh!" says Jackson, "Well, then you be too well read to be any use and since you didn't vote for Uncle Joe, you ain't really black!"
😄Well characterized.
Had a brief but ranging conversation in recent years with a millennial black man. I recalled growing up in the painful shadow of the Emmet Till tragedy, a name that was familiar to him but about which he did not know the background. When I shared about the misunderstanding connected with calling someone an Uncle Tom he had no idea. For thee who hast neither the context, in brief: When Harriet Beecher Stowe's book was first adapted to the stage Uncle Tom's character was uncomfortable for the overwhelmingly "white" theater-going public. It required reworking to make the character more palatable to the majority audience. This was the genesis of the kow towing Uncle Tom character, a vibrant bastardization that made its way into mass consciousness. Ain't The Rest of the Story innerestin? I miss Paul Harvey, though the forensics here are not his, at least he was not the source. Good day.
I read Thomas's response in his voice in my head.
Good for you! The Clarence Thomas voice in my head is the late James Earl Jones! 😆
She pretty much represents the standard of most Biden administration appointees: Worse than third-rate but willing to do as she's told and carry water for Obama and the Biden minions running the show. I am sure they provide her with scripts. Remember, part of her judiciary committee questioning WAS the "what is a woman" question. Which she failed. Since it was Democrats running the show at that time, she passed anyway. They would have installed her on the court if she had demonstrated Tourette's during her Judiciary Committee hearing. She is an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. Never has there been a justice with such a mediocre intellect in its entire history. How did this woman ever get on any bench in the first place.
If President Trump finally gets the chance to reverse all of the executive orders signed by the autopen during the Biden Installation, wouldn't that include her Supreme Court appointment?
I’m sure Republicans will “fear precedent” or “retaliation” and won’t do a damn thing about it. Dems fear mongering works on all the RINOs
Not sure on that one, but it’s nice to ponder!
🤞
Hey, what the fu#k is wrong with fu#king Tourette's!
Even I laughed at this and I have a son who had severe Tourette’s his whole life. 🤣
Just a side note tho: the swearing feature (coprolalia) occurs in less than 10% of all cases, but thanks to Seinfeld it became the poster child feature of the disease. 🙄😏 My son struggled with it for about 3-4 months in middle school, along with the incessant urge to throw the middle finger. When he and his peers discovered the middle finger most were disciplined out of the usage in under a week or bored of it, but unlucky Tourette children get stuck in an uncontrollable cycle, and it’s as hard to prevent as a sneeze.
Most of his tics were physical movements tho.
Hope your son is getting better all the time. Growing up in New York, we thought "Tourette's" was just a synonym for "Typical New Yorker."
He is!! But I credit the Keto diet. Before that, all the meds in the world only made it worse and destroyed his life. Getting him off of all meds after 24 years and putting him on the Keto diet was miraculous. Two years straight now he’s been without hardly any tics.
How does one get bored out of using the middle finger? 🤪
Lolol it loses its novelty when everyone around you is using it 24/7
A family friend has Tourette’s and he started a summer camp for kids with TS. He made tee shirts for them every year saying, “TOURETTE’s MOVES ME!”
I’m embarrassed that it took a beat for me to get it! 😝
Makes it fu#king hard -- impossible -- to ask questions from the fu#king bench.
Hahaha.
ha! another good one, Jeff!
Every Dem gets a participation cert.
Maybe she laid down on that bench. 🤔
Well a lot of Rinopukes voted for her conformation.
Republicans are delicate little creatures and can't tolerate the heavy lifting of controversy. Just go along to get along.
Black candidate…kid gloves
There were no kids gloves for Thomas. This one is special...unique...she's anointed by the criminal democrat party.
Black AND democrat. Thomas was conservative. Black conservatives are attacked even harsher than the white man.
nothing pisses off the Democrats more than a black person escaping the plantation.
Yep, just ask Larry Elder. Who was called "Black face of white supremacy" when he was trying to unseat Newscum.
And Mr. Elder won, Kitkat. The steal, alive and well (for now) in California.
Tight leather gloves....
Well, like Cabbage Head said, “if you ain’t one of us, you ain’t black!”
Isn’t she part of the whole “autopen” debacle?
Lazy compromised RINO Senators allow all kinds of Democrat Socialist nonsense. I detest the Senate.
Add cowardly to that description, I say.
It seems clear that the same fear of being accused of racism ( and sexism) was the lynch pin of her passage through the Senate. Same in the Somalian fraud schemes in Minnesota. Every citizen of the USA pays a steep price for DEI and anti-racism neo Marxist guilt pandering.
KJB’s inability to understand that “ independent agencies” do not exist in the US Constitution without accountability to the other named branches makes me believe she has never even read the document.
I'm sure she hasn't.
She’s the poster person for ending DEI hiring.
Better question...how did she ever pass the bar?
Indeed....or is the bar set so low.
Maybe someone else took the test for her.
She’s black, thus untouchable. Ask Latisha James and her daddy/husband.
Her qualifications were D, E , and I.
Add liberal white guilt, the hopeful racially-blind but uninformed, and the Dem machine voting in lock step, and in went Brown.
Bc pathetic white men still too afraid to smack down a woman or a black. (They would even be too afraid to use the expression "smack down".)
She took Grandma Garlin's place in the lower court so the auto pen could promote her to the Supremes. She's strictly the liberal leftard in the punch bowl. By design.
I think that was her point - that ordinary citizens (and supreme court justices) are too stupid to know anything, and therefore need the state to run every aspect of their lives (including the raising of their children). Difficult major questions like "What is a woman?" must be delegated to the government-sanctioned experts. And everyone else must be made to STFU by any means that are convenient to the government.
This is a typical leftist and elitist view. I have heard lots of ordinary people say this very same thing. They truly believe it should be up to “experts” to make decisions for everyone. It’s disgusting imo.
Un-American.
“Experts” and bureaucrats seem to be the new kings and “nobility”.
Puppets / mouthpieces thereof. I can guarantee you the colonists would have none of it.
That comment should have eliminated her from ever being a Supreme Court judge.
Outside the chambers, she's called a judge. Inside the chambers, she's called a smudge.
Bingo!
It is almost incomprehensible, the menta illness infecting the globe. And I am thankful for our hosts legal expertise 99 percent of the time.
That 1 percent is why I question his recent analysis of the dismissal of the mortgage fraud case against the judge as being how it should have worked with the Trump case. I do not see how they are remotely similar, as the case against Trump was incredibly weak, victimless and frankly absurd, whereas the case against Leletia James is clear and substainal. I failed to understand Jeff Cs apparent defense of that case as how the system is suppose to work?
In Jeff's defense I don't think he meant that the MERITS were the same but that the checks and balances used are there to BE USED as intended to make sure that valid cases are getting through. It FAILED in the case of Trump and exposes the two tiered justice we all know is evident in James.
Thank you and I kinda got that. However I do not understand how or why the James case dismissal is any anyway valid, or if it can be revived?
Could it be that there are so many other similar cases, if one bothered to look, that the D’s could claim LJ’s was selective persecution? I have no doubt that the “primary residence” claim is widely abused, especially among Congresspeople who often have at least 2 residences. BTW, spitballing here; I have no idea.
Letecheous James should be in jail. Mortgage Fraud. B & W
I was unable to force myself to finish reading the excerpt Jeff shared, it was so horribly vapid and nearly empty of meaning, let alone grammar and syntax.
Unsubscribe
Nancy was referring to the excerpt, not Jeff's writing.
Oh ..sorry.
Don’t read it then.
To be fair, she’s being intellectually (for lack of a better word) consistent - her area of expertise (again, English fails to provide an accurate noun) being the law (I’m laughing as I type that), not biology.
Low IQ
Makes you think... - Do you know ANY doctors who didn't know what a woman was before they started their training??? LOL :-)
She needs the "experts" to tell her what to think and say.
That's why she is so dependent on "experts". Not smart enough to figure things out on her own or see truth even when it is slapping her in the face.
Who knows whether she has ever read a book?
I think we should cut her some slack. More than likely, she's just being compassionate and empathetic for the "experts" and "scientists" who can't define a women either.
Any person that could write that sentence cannot be taken seriously.
She talks like she has CTE.
that is a great comment. But actually it fits perfectly. She needed an expert to explain what a newborn can figure out.
Right!!!
Like Michael, "she's not like other gals?" Obcure reference to the Thriller video via the eighties.
Excellent point
Thank you!!
You are doing a great job covering the supreme court, but you missed that little religious freedom case that the court remanded back to the Second Circuit yesterday. They overturned the circuit court’s decision dismissing the Amish’s case that New York’s elimination of the religious exemption is unconstitutional! A great victory for religious and medical freedom!
If you think this is good…. take a look… wont matter for the crazy blue states.
If you hate Newsom make sure he doesnt win the pres bid in 2028. Many people love his crazy self talking out of both sides of his mouth. Always watch what he DOES not what he is saying to the camera.
Governor Newsom was quick to condemn the CDC panel’s vote ending universal newborn Hepatitis B vaccination and signaled that California will not follow the new federal recommendation: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/05/newsom-blasts-cdc-panel-after-vote-to-end-universal-newborn-hepatitis-b-vaccinations/
Soon after, the Western Coast Health Alliance, a public-health partnership between California, Oregon, and Washington created to set regional guidelines independent of the CDC, issued a statement reaffirming that California will continue to set its own requirements regardless of national recommendations: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR25-022.aspx
California may now remain committed to a universal newborn vaccination approach even as national policy shifts toward more flexibility and family involvement.
So, the thing is, despite what the crazy blue states are doing, if the CDC changes the recommended schedule and the blue states require the old one, the doctors AND pHarma companies are open to lawsuits because they are no longer protected by the 1986 vaccine law.
I live in California. It’s a bunch of BS. The only reason he’s still in office is because they cheat.
Yes, how will that work for the vaccine injured? How will that work at all?
They should be able to sue the doctor, the medical facility, the pHarma company, etc., for administering the vaccine if they are or their child is injured by a vaccine. The 1986 immunity only covers the CDC schedule. So, if they give it to the baby at birth, that’s not the recommendation. If the child is injured or killed as a result, the parents can sue the people who administered it as well as the company who made it. Get enough of those lawsuits or a class action lawsuit, and that whole gravy train could break an axel and fall apart.
Whoa! That is huge. Californians sue if leaves from a neighbor’s tree are blown over the fence. It is lawsuit insane.
Good catch Garden Lover. I would love to hear Jeff’s opinion on this.
Except thinking about it I would imagine the California Government would write legislation protecting Pfizer et al quick enough.
That would be fantastic! A class action suit would carry more weight I think.
I think New York and California are in a contest to see who can go the farthest left. Unfortunately for you, California appears to be winning these days, but we're #2, we try harder!
Illinois’ super-large gov is vying to move from 3rd place to 1st. Unbelievably inventive of taxes to stick it to us. A head tax on every employee. Refusing to remove taxes on tips for STATE tax, a delivery tax on everything from Amazon, Door Dash and related businesses… 🤦🏽♀️
And here we are, stuck in the middle (apologies to Stealer's Wheel).
You have to try harder because you're not quite as wacko!
NY will never give up..
Well I guess all that’s left is that people can vote with their feet and the federal government can also withhold funding for the rebel states.
Already voted with my feet, and so have several of my closest friends. CA hasn’t hit rock bottom yet though, IMHO.
Read John Leake’s piece, Quackcines and even ones that are tested is a religion with the left
Aaron Siri’s new book, “Vaccines, Amen” is excellent, and good to keep as a reference book since it contains so many charts and graphs, gettinolder.
Is this a stack or book?
John Leake is on substack, Tucker Carlson and publishes books
Well that state of affairs will make for a great study opportunity between states with mandatory jabs and those without!!!
There's no way they can get away with making jabs mandatory AND getting compliance. California probably doesn't "healthcare" the same way it supposedly votes. They can cheat on the elections but they can't force-jab a comparable percentage of the population bc the numbers just aren't there.
Practically, I am in favour of Newsom and California running their health scams. Sad for the families. That is the Constitution though. States run health. Eliminate vaccines in twenty states, double down in twenty and compare. Then hang Bourla and Gates.
Sedition
More like tyranny. It is perhaps not sedition for a state to resist federal policy.
Yes! I really was hoping hed cover this one! I posted yesterday a comment from our CA freedom fighting group who said this could impact our fight in CA to return religious exemptions.
I think it will help people fighting this all over the country, as I discussed in my substack today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/corrin/p/a-major-victory-for-religious-and?r=ze2j1&utm_medium=ios
Lisa - like your comments! I’m in No CA drowning in a sea of blue - where are you?
Thanks. I’m in CA. :/ central coast
Make NY Great Again.
That will never fully happen. It is rampant with libtards.
Upstate NY is much more conservative and sane than the areas close to NYC. If there were a vote to divorce themselves of NYC, it might find itself cast out pretty quickly.
Like most of WA, OR, and CA, NYC needs to fall into the ocean.
and if you believe Ben Davidson and spaceweathernew.com, it soon will.
I'm keeping my eyes crossed...
I lived in Albany and there were a lot of libtards there too unfortunately and it will get worse as they migrate from the city. For now it may be sane but watch out, that will dissipate to my chagrin.
Agree, the Second Circuit is a tough place, but sooner or later the Supreme Court is gonna have to put them in their place!
Which boggles my mind. They are deliberately and joyfully destroying themselves.
Self culling. Perhaps not a bad idea. The city would best be served by having the violent and maniacal gone permanently.
Free entertainment.
Very true.
Ha good luck
It can also apply to “philosophical” freedoms as well: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-to-use-religious-exemptions-to
One of the great blessings of this country!
Thank you for mentioning this, I’d been following this case through email messages from organizations involved in these fights but have been exceptionally busy lately so missed the ruling.
Well, it only came out yesterday and it hasn’t received a lot of publicity yet!
It WAS one of the best rulings ever!
The sun comes up, the sun goes down. I can already see the headlines: "Walz indicted." One week later: "Walz acquitted." Three months later: "Walz to Star in Reality TV Show." I'm a little unclear these days of what crimes have to be committed in order to actually toss one of these wretched "retarded" upper level government grifters and swindlers behind bars. (I'm thinking a broad daylight murder among 50 or so eyewitnesses might do it, but I wouldn't bet on it). So far as I can tell zero consequences hasn't been much of a deterrent. Last I checked, Fauci, The King of All Rat Bastards, is still wowing them on tour...but of course, evidence is scant against him. 🤥. Then there's people in Europe (coming to a neighborhood near you??) being led away in handcuffs for refusing to use the word "Them." But, we're fine. Everything’s fine. ...in perfect harmonious equilibrium.
I have stopped reading X and now only glance in here at C&C occasionally. What you say is true, and as the counselor said to me alone when my first marriage was falling apart, “You’re a survivor, and you’ll be fine, but you have to get off the roller coaster.” That was 43 years ago and I’ve never forgotten it. While I claim the hope offered me in Christ, it is a hope beyond this world. The roller coaster of our current zeitgeist is eating me up inside, and that is not how I want to live my one life here, nor is it how God wants me to live.
I'm still pissed and outraged at the whole covid debacle.
I see no "come to Jesus" moment happening.
Maybe in 100 years or so.
If you are a Believer, you will find throughout the Bible instances where awful things happened to the “just” and were never rectified. And evil was allowed to flourish with no consequences. It continues through time.
I would like to see the scamdemic makers brought forth as much as anyone, but God allowed this to happen for His purposes, not mine. Perhaps this was a defining time for America to turn around. There are signs of it all over, they just don’t make the headlines.
I am seeing signs of a GREAT TURNAROUND, but it may not be until after the GREAT TRIBULATION. Free Will allows evil. When the evil ends, people will be spoiled and won't appreciate the good. We appreciate the good because there is so much evil. STAY GOOD
Fauci is running free and Pfizer's Bourla and Bill Gates are dining in the White House with Trump.
Ya... there's no retribution coming.
(Claims of 4D chess incoming...)
Bourla and Gates (and Zuckerturd and Thiel)... yes... and the arch-traitor maggot Wiles...
But primarily, still... Netanyahu and Mossad.
Too many to number here.
When did they dine at the White House or are you being rhetorical?
Gates and Bourla did recently dine at the White House.
Zuckerberg also.
Wouldn't you like to have been a fly on the wall THAT night?
that is a fact- he also called Bourla a great man- yep more like a POS
How do you not know that?
Missed ya based Florida Man!
And we should all continue to be pissed and outraged. And you're right....there will be no exposure in my lifetime. They will never admit the shots cause cancer, white clots, brain damage, heart attacks, etc. because the courts would be flooded and the country bankrupted through the vaccine injury program. It's the same reason they will never admit vaccine cause autism. Our only hope is that they'll continue to roll back the vaccine programs. Fauci may quietly be charged in a military court...or just be indicted on mortgage fraud.
Or, just die of natural causes and we get what? Oooo, I guess I am one of the "pound of fleshers"......
Later Jay
'natural causes'
the governments of the entire planet were in on it. Justice for that will be glacial, if at all
Brought to you in small part by The Ad Council. What a bunch of dirty rotten scoundrels. Ugh. I thought I was going one way with my Substack article yesterday and it ended up going down that particular rabbit hole. They are the Propaganda Arm of the OWG (one world government) IMO. Gross.
Boom! There it is.
Later Jay
Vance is our only hope, IMO.
Vance good friend of Theil’s/silicone valley/ai🤦🏻♀️
"While I claim the hope offered me in Christ . . . "
This! Walking by faith, hoping in what you have not yet seen, gives glory to God and shames the adversary, who rebelled, having already seen!
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (ESV)
"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."
Jeremiah 20:11 (ESV)
"But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten."
Amen!!
Then its best to stop reading X as you have and not even come here as to not get yourself more upset. Best of luck and may you find the peace you need to live the way you wish.
Thank you. The dilemma is how to stay as informed as I need to be without getting sucked into the narratives designed to anger or placate us. I feel C&C has some balance. Head in sand isn’t a good place either.
Psalm 112:6-7 (ESV)
"For the righteous will never be moved;
he will be remembered forever.
He is not afraid of bad news;
his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord."
It is why C&C is my go to every morning. Jeff always finds some good news even in the worst of times, which covid was for many of us seeing a world gone nuts. I so appreciate Jeff’s analysis of the law and cases that otherwise escape my notice.
I also try to find podcasts that offer people doing good things and accomplishing seemingly impossible things that may go unnoticed by the media. I listen to a lot of Mike Rowe podcasts. He just interviewed Danny Combs, founder of TACT, a school that trains neurodivergent, (autistic and others in that spectrum), skilled trades for very employable jobs. This was done on Colorado of all places and is successful. He just opened a second school in Nashville. This man and others like him give hope that we can solve problems that seem to have no solutions. A great interview.
I have finally reached a place that I do not let any current news upset my balance. I give everything three days and most of the time whatever bad news I’ve heard has been flipped around. It’s a very tough place. Hang in there and yes take a week off, it’s Ok 😊
Three days? I give it five minutes then put it in the garbage. 🤣
🤣 well, it used to take 3 days, now it has been much faster, but I like yours!
Yes..I call it the 72 hour rule.
Read it with the perspective that you are watching end time prophecies being fulfilled, and that you have the peace and confidence in knowing that in the end, God is in charge.
Let’s get a Handel on this.
https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/handels-messiah-comfort-ye/
So beautiful!
Susan, thank you for that. I sang that solo in our high school ,abbreviated (no orchestra) choir presentation of The Messiah. I was terrified.
Interesting perspective to me now, at age 74. I also sang in the choir at a college Messia presentation with full orchestra presentation. At the time of both concerts, I was not a believer and had no real understanding of what I was singing about. About 5 years later I did become a believer and my love of the Messiah music blossomed into a full blown love of the MESSIAH. I continue to marvel at God giving me the priviledge of experiencing the music and falling in love with it, and the the blessing of falling in love with "The Story" and then realizing what I had been exposed to as a naive teenager. Oh the Glory!
What a beautiful life we live to hear a story and maybe spread light unto the next generation! I, too, didn’t really know how Wonderful” this song was until many years later!
Thanks for sharing your story. You were so lucky to be wrapped in a robe in a good place.
Merry Christmas to you.
Yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZFF6NRDEs&list=RD7maJOI3QMu0&index=2
Thank you for the link!! 🙏
Head in the sand for a bit actually sounds like a great time offering tremendous relief. Imagine our energies devoted elsewhere and how we could help within our own families and communities without "news" bogging us down. Perhaps just pop in once weekly for a quick peek.
Charlie Kirk's last book about taking a break by honoring the Sabboth. Sounds like it may be helpful to some here.
https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Name-God-Honoring-Transform/dp/B0FPPV48PB
I ordered it this morning from Thriftbooks after seeing this video. It’s backordered everywhere.
https://youtu.be/W42DJ0EElAw
Consider to force yourself to do 3 day fasts from the news. Start with one day fasts if necessary. Use that day or days for your soul.
Also consider the things that happen here do not matter as much as what we become through them. ( a parahrase) The ladder is eternal, the former almost like a dream, only temporary.
(latter)?
Yes well…
Pray for discernment, find & read the truth tellers. Jeff is one. Another I find truthful ,entertaining & funny is Jennaside by Jenna Mcarthy on Substack. 🙏
Try the Babylon Bee. Or Mad Magazine.
indeed!
The worst thing to happen to X was monetizing people who post.
what other business model works?
Just tired of the so-called "influencers" who steal others' original work.
And the engagement farming like multiple posts "can you see me?" Each time there is a reply or a re-post, the $$$ goes into their account.
agreed, it's a total shitshow. I just don't think there's much of a business model otherwise. This is one of the reasons newspapers (and later the tv media) have been financially supported by political parties, because that can allow them to get paid off ultimately. Notice the desperation of legacy media to find financial support (government and big Pharma) once competition from big tech internet entered the picture and they started losing marketshare.
That is disgusting and really takes away from the notion of social media. 🙄
Remember when news was news?? Like the guys on the screen talking about the ginormus earthquakes happening and not the opening of a local animal shelter?
60-80% bots. And some have made their way to Substack. So sad.
Elon has tried to rid it of bots but they seem to be never-ending. So far Ive seen very few on Substack. Perhaps the pages I read/share monitor theirs better. Ive reported a few but those were the "sharing scams" types. If they are just disagreeing and are not vicious (like many on X) then I usually just ignore.
I get the same comment repeated on my posts…I just mute them. And honestly, I’m a nobody on Substack. Weird whom they choose to target. One look at their profile tells you all you need to know…
You’re somebody to me 😉
Same!! ❤️😊
I feel exactly the same way. Unsubscribe from things. Trying to hunt down good food and stay off X and any news. Even the local weather is captured, but at the end I know God Wins and it is my job to have faith, which is " the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
I cannot physically do a thing to change outcomes of these giant evil obstacles, but I CAN keep praying and having faith that God has me.
Trust in Jesus! He wants us to surrender our self to Him and let Him take care of everything. If you do it, it will change your life. It’s liberating.
Amen to that!
Well said. It's like the story of the Jewish leaders choosing Barabbas to be released by Pilate instead of Christ. They chose a revolutionary against Rome for this world's fight, not a Savior for an afterlife.
Grateful for all these great insights! Thank you!
Your comment made me smile! I went through some of the same feelings. More good in the world than bad! Glad tidings to you!
I never read X or bluesky or listen to many podcasts or tiktocks. And only rarely read comments here. Honestly, if it is causing you much stress just avoid it. Imagine again what life was like prior to social media. I refuse to have my life controlled by social media!
Good to take breaks from the doom on X. It’s definitely a place to feel depressed about humankind. As I drove my beloved mom into her senior care center today, and looked at the otherwise beautiful Nevada skies being crisscrossed with trails, I consciously decided not to let myself get upset but it’s very hard when you can’t even escape the madness in the outdoors. Ugh.
trails everywhere in my town on Long Island, NY too yesterday. Great job Zeldin- NOT
I watched the skies on Sunday - the trails were everywhere in Vegas.
May you find peace. Find what makes you smile and spend time there. ❤️
I find your comment about the roller coaster QUITE interesting. I call it "the cycle"......going on for 25+ years: everything goes fine for a few months => argument => fight => few months of silent treatment => everything swept under the carpet => everything goes fine for a few months => repeat. Sound about right?
In my case, everything was my fault. Everything. The marriage only lasted four years, no children, and thankfully he left me. I hadn’t learned the terms “narcissist” or “crazymaker” yet, but when I did, I was relieved to move on.
Be thankful there were no children. Narcissism is a learned behavior.....passed on to children, then the grandchildren.
I feel your pain Eric… I really do. Singing The Messiah this week and “All we like sheep have gone astray” reminds me that we are all flawed and the systems we create are flawed…but of course we have real hope to hang onto.. Him!
Whatever brings you solace and hope, my friend. 🙂
Please take the time to listen to Handel’s “Messiah”! You forget everything and will be struck with hope. The music, the songs and the gathering of such force of the talents of humanity!(even if you don’t believe in God) Or you will hate it!! Jeff brings hope to all his readers. I walk away happy from his posts.
And you are correct that it’s just MESSIAH, not THE Messiah. I’m a trained singer who loves choral music as you do!
Ann I made that mistake purposely to prove the greater point! Ha, I wish I was that smart. The final chorus “Worthy is The Lamb” slays me every time I sing it or hear it. That and “The Trumpet Shall Sound”… wow chills. Sing on.
I sincerely miss actual Christmas music.....vs Frosty/Rudolph......everywhere at Christmas. I refuse to simply accept the commercialism, but, it does make me sad.
The year the Irish austistic girl sang Hallelujah was incredible!
Christian radio has all Christmas music. No Burle Ives! 😍
I agree. The song is in your heart. Please don’t be sad!
Sounds like y’all are singing more than just the Christmas parts.
these criminals face no consequences and are celebrities in how they screw the system by the Leftist hordes
And to think that Walz would have been a heartbeat away from the presidency if Kamala had won.....
If only she had a heart or a brain.
Let's make him the first poster child to be indicted!
Yes this part is extremely frustrating 😕 I hope we do see some actual successful prosecutions soon.
—“Three months later: "Walz to Star in Reality TV Show."
Dancing with the Stars maybe? Being Walz it would seem appropriate 😬
(Sorry, I just couldn’t resist! 😂😁)
Yep… 4 presentations of the complete “Messiah”… check it out this year if you can.
Well said Eric- all the exposure, the evidence etc mean nothing. It really is a joke. I recall Trump's post with an image of Hillary, Obama etc in jail. It's a a fn show
It doesn’t help when you’ve got a POTUS who keeps pardoning these people.
uniparty....at least in some respects, but please, let's not compare pardons with the previous administration.
14 They dress the wound of My people
with very little care,
saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
when there is no peace at all.
15 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed?
No, they have no shame at all;
they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
when I punish them, they will collapse,”
Jeremiah 6:14-15 (Berean Standard Bible)
Eric, I think that's what appealed to me about "The 'Q' Plan" there were (are?) going to be wholesale arrests, public military trials, and lmmediate sentencing and punishing.
I think we’re in far more trouble than we can even imagine. It will hit the fan eventually.
At least now it’s being exposed and decisions have to be made. To straddle the fence, stick one’s head in the sand and do nothing is a decision.
Ketanji Brown Jackson embarrasses the court every time she opens her mouth. She is a DEI hire appointed by autopen and said she couldn't define what a woman is because she's not a biologist. We elected a president to fire all the "experts". The people decide, not unelected bureaucrats and technocrats.
DEI hires are part of the strategy to destroy Western Civilization. Incompetence in high level jobs is a great way to accelerate the destruction.
Very true, she opens her mouth and shit falls out.
Kamala Harris clone
Kamala’s a** is jealous of her mouth because so much sh*t comes out of it.
ROFL. There's a Frasier episode where Frasier is claiming, in a room full of police officers, that a monkey committed the murder. Daphne then says that when he came up with that theory she was "mostly across the room."
I imagine that when Jackson moves into the camera frame, all the other Justices back away, out of camera view.
Maybe a wall chart with XX and XY genitals might have helped her.....
That would require her to make a distinction between the two… good luck with that…
IDK....maybe XX at the genitals might make her think they are non-binary....
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Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
— John 4:13-14 NAS95
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Yes, and I’m eagerly awaiting this day, “For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
Rev 7:17
Can't happen soon enough.
Amen.
My hope for you all is that all of you have received Jesus as the Lord of your life, by the gift of faith from God the Father, and sanctified by His grace and mercy.
How widespread is the graft and corruption in our government programs? I suspect Minnesota’s corruption scandals are only scratching the surface.
When I hear these stories I wonder how phenomenal the middleclass would be now, had none of our resources been stolen over the years. This country would be in the financial black.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe I wouldn’t be driving a 15 year old car and struggling to repair my old house. I’m just sick about it. But I’m mostly white, so guess this all I deserve after working hard my entire life. I’ll be 75 in February and this is the most shocking thing I’ve encountered yet.
Personally, I like the older cars because they don’t have as much computer garbage in them… buttons, buttons, and more buttons… 🥴 why is it better for us to constantly be looking down trying to figure out which button to push on the touchscreen…? 💩 All of our vehicles have over 250,000 miles on them. My favorite one is my 2007 Honda civic. It has around 310,000 miles on it… It has a sunroof! I always wanted a sunroof… 🥰👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Hubby has become very good at doing repairs… 💖
Never want to own a vehicle that talks to me. Ugh!
Amen! I would probably start arguing with it… 🤣😇😇😇
I also prefer the older ones, but don’t have a hubby good at repairs these days
I'm wth ya, Willing. I turn 75 next June and drive a 16 year old car.
I agree WS. It's absolutely shocking.
Right??? I think the same thing. We are nickled and dimed to death while the corrupt get their grubby hands on the funds, so *they* can live handsomely 😡
I think they will be very disappointed with their life choices in the next life. There are only 2 choices there and it's based on choices here.
Exactly RL.
Reverse FDR, LBJ, etc.
Cut off the grift!
You forgot Woodrow Wilson.
Oh yes! That critter.
The GAO says that improper payments to Medicare and Medicaid is $102B each year. So 21% of total federal medical payments is improper. Each year. That’s what federal experts do for us. 21%.
And the GAO is probably underestimating that figure. Let DOGE get involved and find the real numbers.
😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
It is easy to imagine that waste, graft, and corruption constitute 10 - 20% (or even more) of spending. It's difficult to imagine it being less.
But I’ll bet it’s way worse here in Commiefornia where it still costs me $450 a year to license a 20+ year old pickup, $2000 a year to insure a 1,000 s.f. home that’s 40 miles away from any high fire hazard areas and surrounded by orchards, and $300 a year to license a travel trailer that has never traveled on a California road since it arrived at my property and has no option to register it as Planned Non-Operation. Somebody’s getting rich off taxpaying, insurance paying Californians, and it’s probably our nutless governor.
Greetings fellow Commiefornia inmate. I'm old enough to remember when CA was clean, safe and affordable. Those really were the Golden Days. Sadly, with 1 party rule - who has perfected the art of election fraud - I don't see much hope.
Sidenote: I want a refund for the 6 years of paying fees for the new 911 system that Newscum just decided to scrap. Where did that 450 million go??? one guess.
I lived in Northern Commiefornia for 40 years….fleeing when Governor Nuisance closed the ocean in March 2020. What I noticed was Prop 13 top stopped property tax, but the number of “fees” increased substantially. Like a body after a blood clot, the main artery was blocked, but the body made many new routes to keep the lifeblood flowing. All in all, Californians pay the same or more in taxes/fees as the other states.
Cutting a government budget is one of the most difficult and rare things encountered in the history of governments.
NV DMV - State Govt taxes on my car registration renewal are higher than the registration fee on my 2010 vehicle and we have to get a "smog check" in order to register - such a scam.
I'll bet at least 50%
California.
Ten trillion dollars federal debt increase in the four years of the Biden administration. GAO estimates $233 Billion to $ 521 billion annually. So minimum 1 trillion, more likely at least 2.1 + trillion in fraud. Probably an underestimate.
Carherine Austin Fitz says she estimated it at $21 TRILLION missing from the GAO. She said her team thought it was used for underground bases.
"The investigations are only beginning, and they touch multiple key political points, including welfare, race, immigration, official corruption, Democrat dirty tricks, ...."
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please PLEASE start including Voter Fraud in the panoply in Minnesota. The State was found to have issued tens-of-thousands of Commercial Drivers' Licenses to undocumented uncitizens. And you know with the Driver License comes VOTER REGISTRATION!
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California led the way in this decades ago and it needs a lot more investigation and revelations.
I'm convinced O'Keefe uses the ridiculous disguises to demonstrate how mind-bogglingly stupid these fraudsters are. Nearly all of them seem to be morons, anyone with half a brain would see through it.
The corruption around us is not because these people are clever but because they reject basic Christian morality. They are genuinely awful people.
I was thinking the same thing. His disguise is ludicrous, not even slightly convincing even if you didn’t recognize him you’d HAVE to see through that wig 🤣. But they spill to him. Utter morons. Lolol
And they’re not spilling just to James ….. his honeypot brigade gets these dopes every time. Oldest trick in the book to get the 411
We’re up here in Lassen county right near where James uncovered the Susanville Indian Rancheria scandal.
“In interviews with O’Keefe Media Group, tribal elders and members describe how executives from ATI & SIRCO Federal Services Inc., led by Firmadge Crutchfield, used the tribe’s name to win over $100 million in no-bid government contracts - while the Susanville community itself saw none of the profits.”
The undercover work he did on this was crazy…. The get up he wore and wig…. Like a Halloween costume
But he got the intel….yes he did
https://youtu.be/F5jX4zE_IR0?si=Zc6VoW7t-C1e52kE
Expensive wine can do that.
In vino veritas.
Even cheap wine lol 😆
Probably cheap wine would do fine for that moron.
😂
But James is class act. Note the pink suit jacket.
People are gullible. They accept and believe almost anything.
Whosoever reads this:
I don't have a million dollars. Please help me reach that goal. Please send your love in the form of a check to me, Your Humble Servant, -Jeff S. Thank you.
I'll send you a million dollars if you send me a million dollars first!
The check is in the mail...
I don’t have a million to spare but I will buy you a coffee, Jeff S 😁
Thank you, RL. I'd like a Vietnamese iced coffee, cà phê sữa đá. Size: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL.
They make a great Vietnamese cold brew at my local coffee shop!
James is especially skilled at appearing gay. But I liked his drunken vagrant impression as well.
We lived in Tucson at the time he was trying to get close to the migrant hotel on the outskirts of Tucson
Stumbling around
They did not like him flopping around that illegal alien hotel.
We remember when it was an actual hotel
Tucson had some sketchy stuff going on
Don’t get me started on how DM Air Force base was playing its part
Tucson STILL has some sketchy stuff going on. Thanks Re-gina. But then, we also have Kelly & Gallegos for Senators. And God help us, the Hobgoblin for govennor.
Wish we could get the elections cleaned up.
Our tax dollars, hard at work.
and/or: the corruption around us because it serves the Democratic Party very well.
That’s what I thought! That wig is pure comedy😂🤣😂
And they are greedy useful idiots who will do whatever they’re told as long as they can benefit.
No fear of God before their eyes.
I think election fraud is a bigger fish. But the info is starting to come out - source codes in the voting machinery, boatload of made in China ballots, cartel adjacent politicians. The evidence needs to be pretty much incontrovertible before legal action, civil or criminal, is taken.
I think that's why DJT is driving for Maduro/Venazuela so hard. From what I've read, all the election machine code is coming from there.
Election fraud is coming from the very silcone valley shysters he surrounds himself with. Google alone by manipulating search results sways 10s of millions of votes towards democrats.
That is small potatoes compared to controlling the source code for voting equipment world wide.
Playing devils advocate....If Trump is truly an enemy of the deep state, how did he overcome them controlling this source code and win an election?
Trump was the chosen one of the deep state or he wouldn't be there - or at least a powerful faction of the deep state - perhaps why he has surrounded himself with deplorable tech swamp bros.
I have my reservations about Trump. But the "deep state" is not in control of the source code as I understand it. We have a larger enemy. Read Elizabeth Nickson"s Absurdistan piece on it. She links to other pieces. Then read Hugo Carbajal's open letter go the President and to the American people.
The juxtaposition of Kenji Brown’s comments and Kavanaugh’s comments is nothing short of brilliant. One of these things is NOT like the other…
Agreed 100%
Indeed!!
People may not remember but Justice Ketanji Jackson Browne is former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's sister-in-law. When she was nominated he said she would make a great justice and fully endorsed her. This from a guy (a Republican leader!) who knew her probably better than anyone else in Washington.
Thank God PDJT has destroyed much of the corrupt Republican establishment. There's still more to go, but the change he has made has been remarkable.
Yes Former Speaker Ryan was a dirtbag Rhino from Wisconsin, sorry our state sent him to D.C...
Eddie Munster was a RINO
Paul Ryan’s wife’s sister is married to KJB’s husband’s twin brother. So a bit more removed than implied as “ brother in law.” KJB is the SIL of Paul Ryan’s SIL.
He did support her and testify at her confirmation.
That’s all you need to know about Ryan.
The scale of fraud associated with money from the federal/state governments is astonishing.
Now imagine what we DON'T know.
Convincingly proved; government is incompetent and corrupt to administer the theft and redistribution schemes we call welfare. Extract government from this function and restore private charity. Charity is a voluntary activity inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Makes it even more appalling that Trump gave Elon the shove...
And hamstrung DOGE.
No matter the highs, no matter the lows, God has a plan and we rejoice in the Good News
Amen! “the LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” Psalm 118:6, also quoted in Hebrews 13:6
“Congress keeps delegating its lawmaking powers to Executive agencies.”
Driving home once again that Congress is shirking their duty. Pushing this onto the President enables these changes to occur; no matter which party is in office.
Shame on these folks. I think they need a pay cut. Also, no life long pension.
They need a pay cut, which means we need a tax cut.
They have figured out the best grift. Get elected, slide responsibility for crafting and passing legislation (i.e. your actual job) off to appointed people who will simply create whatever rules benefit themselves and in return will help get the politicians reelected. That's how we ended up with lifetime congresscritters in both parties, while our lives are being profoundly affected by a permanent unelected 4th branch of government.
Re: Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg
She used the vaccine apologists' own logic against them. They have been relying on "evidence-based medicine" meaning ONLY randomized control trials, even though in real life, evidence comes in many forms. But she comes in and says that we don't have any evidence from RCTs because they didn't use actually inert placebos; in their RCTs they routinely tested the vaccines against other vaccines or injections that contained vaccine adjuvants/ingredients.
Science and Logic for the win!
Booyah!
For the Hep B vaccines there were no placebos at all. In of the two products, there were only 150 kids enrolled, and not all of them were babies.
Pittsburgh, a Dem run city for at least 100 years, wants to raise property taxes 30%.
City Council member states the city is running out of money.
I yell "fraud" in spending and city government contracts.
All cities are benefitting from the massive increase in home prices. It would seem that a lot of that windfall is going to fraud.
In Pittsburgh the so-called non-profits do not pay property taxes.
UPMC which is a huge hospital system, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University.
So, instead of making them pay their fair share, the city wants to target the homeowners.
I wouldn’t doubt it! So infuriating! 😡
Great post today but how did you miss using some variant of Hoegs to the Slaughter for the title? It must be the travel.
Bigger question is how Jeff Childers was able to spell Hoeg's name using the Greek symbol for phi in place of the letter "o". (I'm sure it's probably in some obscure Norse alphabet but as an engineer it's phi to me.) What the heck is that? If people are of Russian ethnicity are we going to use Cyrillic? How about Chinese characters when referring to Xi Jinping?
Stop the madness.
Őōõøœǒöôóò
On the iPhone keyboard, if you hold down a letter, you can see different options available on some letters and characters.
I loved when I discovered holding down the zero gave me the option to use the symbol for degree°.
I know that doesn’t address your real question, Jeff C. I was just funnin’.
Oh my gosh me too! The degree symbol. Loved when I finally discovered that on my iPhone keyboard.
Thanks! I learned something new today!!
Taught me something, thanks !
Wow thanks for this info
I need that degree symbol
This is a game changer 👍
You can also use different language keyboards with the appropriate accents and diacritics as well as autocorrect.
Love this tip. I missed having a cents sign but now I have one by a press and hold of the dollar sign. $ ¢ Thanks!
I am a big fan of the umlaut. We enjoy spelling food “füd.” 🤓
Gonna start calling myself Jüdith or Jüdy. Hee hee
Jüjü 😂 I feel like the Swedish Chef saying it that way 🤣
All the dots are an artistic expression. Lol
Umlauts are acceptable in English but only for the names of heavy metal bands. My favorite is Spın̈al Tap who puts it over the "n". Lol.
I did not know that, Jeff - hilarious! It’s been a hundred years since I’ve seen Spinal Tap. I did have to look up umlaut and copy the symbol, because I don’t know how to create it on my Mac keyboard.
🤣😂🤣😂 Wondered what that key stroke is!
Naw, it's cool.
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The Republicans need to get their act together and keep both House and Senate in the mid-terms. They need to internalize that old saying from the Revolution. “We can either hang together or we will assuredly hang separately.”
💯. My hope is that once the BBB goes into effect, and after Trump rolls out a few other things he has up his sleeve, we can take the midterms. Immigration - check (mostly). Crime - check. Affordability - getting there. If he gets there, we’re good. The savings accounts for babies will help. But lower food prices and affordable home prices will push him over the edge 🤞🙏.
If he can successfully eliminate most of income taxes via tariffs, then that returns 20-25% of people’s income back into their pockets and will help to afford homes
Have you heard of any more movement on eliminating income tax? Would love to see that happen!
Yes he just made comments that hopefully tariff income will allow him to completely eliminate income tax in the next couple years if not greatly reduce them. Knowing our corrupt Congress I feel they will only allow a reduction and not an elimination. Cowards
Gas prices here have been so low lately (2.28 the other day!) I’m sure it will have an effect on other things, even if it’s only limited to certain regions. Still cheaper to transport goods than before.
I paid $2.08 for gas today!
I just got gas tonight and paid 2.09! 😁
Not in the communist state of WA. $3.69-$4.50
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All those taxes…
Home prices are slow to move and by any rationale analysis need to come down in most markets. I don't see it by next year, at least not around here (ID) where home prices are often 8+ times salaries. Check out Melody Wright for excellent and informed analysis of the real estate markets.
Home prices are quite high in most markets. Demand by illegals is a good part of the cause as is migration from disfunctional Dem cities and states. Lower interest rates will help buyers but won't lower prices. Only a drop in demand or incease in supply can do that.
Or a correction in the market: ie, price. Follow Melody Wright for some real world info on real estate.
Corrections have causes.
The world she writes from may be different from my world. Location...
Agreed…but if we see some relief in the housing market, or a movement in the right direction (decreased regulations decreasing home prices, lower interest rates - which are starting to come down, my daughter just bought her first home w a 4.7% loan), that could help.
If you run the numbers, the only way to bring the market into some sort of affordability equilibrium is through price reductions.
We have had a house on the market most of this year. Very little movement in the market in this edge-of-the-back-of-beyond small town in a heavily touristy area. Under contract now for 70,000 less than listed originally. We thought the price was too high and it had to come down, and we are alright with that. It was the VRBO craze that ran it up, here, and that is crashing now so more homes for teachers and medical folk etc-- the people who make a town run well.
Ebb and flow.
My understanding is that republicans don't want to upend the cart called 'equity' by letting prices deflate. It's a significant source of financial security for many folks, never mind the ability or desire to sell in this market with higher interest rates.
The issue is price, not interest rates. Re: Republicans having any control over the market-The Fed et all have very limited influence on the 10 year rate. While home equity is the largest source of well for many, IMO this is an unsustainable market. There is no liquidity (sales) at the lower-middle end of the market. Never a good thing! The interest rate argument is null. Don't listen to the media. You might like to check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllhRJyowK8
Good video. Thanks.
From your lips to God’s ear.
Food prices continue to escalate. I keep hoping that it’s a sign things might calm down. Weird thinking I know.
Regardless, we will pay more even when things calm down.
A good place to start would be to promote an open investigation Into Charlie Kirk’s execution. No thinking person I know accepts the fed slop that the FBI is trying to feed us. The apparent cover-up will continue dividing mega unless we get some transparency.
And Butler. Seems if I were POTUS and someone tried to whack me - I'd want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.