DOJ offers six election monitors and media melts down; Zarutska’s killer indicted; carrier group steams into Caribbean heat; O’Keefe sting sparks probe; Trump’s Asia tour riles the Times; more.
I feel like Jeff could just have the phrase "Trump's _____ Riles the Times" set to automatic, and the blank could be filled in with something new every day.
And don't you suspect that the Grey-pallored Lady, already, has her reactions "dialed-in" to "Whatever" Trump says/does?
For that matter, I just learned today that one AI, what-do-you-call-em, infestation offers addicts the option to create virtual/imaginary friends with whom to share ideas (and some "friends" have already "helped" teen users commit suicide).
It does not seem far-fetched to imagine that The Times has a SLEW of these AI zombies already defined, ginning out "takes" where more-expensive "carbon-based reporters" would have been crafting real stories based on real research and facts.
Yes, I called up the local election office asking why we had ballots in different languages since any foreigner seeking citizenship has to pass a language test. I also know that our state of Washington has corruptly been registering non-citizens to vote since 2018. The reply I received to my question was "we are helping our new voters" or something to that effect. I see right through that.
2018? Where have YOU been? I remembee the phraudulent "election" o Queen christine which was back about 1980 something. Phoney ballos were being "discovered" and counted weeks post election, and with the mail in ballot insanity we KNEW tthere were scads o non-citizen ballots. DMV never demanded any validation o citizenship to register to vote.
I don't believee we have had a clean elecion since Dixie Lee ray. How long ago waz THAT? (she was quite the character, motoring about in her British racing green Jaguar E Type (WITH manual gearbox and Laycock overdrive) and most times binging along he pet cougar.
I don't doubt there were non-citizens registered to vote in decades back. It's just that in 2018, Jay inslee reportedly fired the guy heading up the state licensing department because he was following election law TOO well and Jay needed more corruption than that. So he put in somebody who would just register everyone who came to get a driver's license no matter who it was or how not eligible to vote they were.
Exactly so. this is when the trickle became he gusher Now Phergie is "on the job" things can only get worse.
I keep considering sliding away to somewhere else, but WHICH somewhere else? Winters here are pretty tolerable. Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Nevada, not so much. More to the south the winters are much more tolerable but summers are not to pleasant. Ive been near Phoenix and San Antonio and Atlanta in summer..... . Not so very pleasant. But then I DID grow up in Orange County Cal and survived. 105 in the summer was tolerable as long as I was not shovelling concrete or digging post holes all day. riding my bike was alright in the heat because the air , being so dry, turned my sweat into a coolant.
Maybe DJ will become more aware o how things run here and put an nd to the sanct city, tieing up LE's hands,, enabling border jumpers to continue as they have...... maybe.
So true. But they don't have any non-citizens voting. They don't have dead people voting. And they don't have mail-in voting unless the voter lives in a different country. Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta: QEPD.
I think it's time for government agencies that allow this type of lawlessness that causes injury or death to an innocent needs to be held accountable, considered an accessory. This includes law enforcement and judges!
I keep waiting for CA to spontaneously combust from their wokeness. It is at a ludicrous level already. Gavin Newsom is the poster boy for wokeness and I can barely tolerate looking at his smarmy, unctuous face.
Congress could pass a law that says the ballots for elections for President or US congress are only in English - if it could get past the Senate filibuster.
Pathetic. The other day I was on phone with customer service for a high end furniture company - could barely understand the rep's accent and then was asked what language I wanted to continue the phone call in. I was like "really?" and he said it was a NY state law to ask that question. USA has lost so much ...
Protesters at any police action is forbidden by law so at the first sign of impedence in an ICE operation, local law enforcement should be summoned to arrest all those messing with ICE. If local law enforcement refuse to do their job then the DOJ should indict them for dereliction of their duty. When a few police chiefs are arrested and placed behind the bars they are so reluctant to utilize for criminals like DeCarlos Brown, others will think twice before failing to secure the area around ICE actions.
Meddling with a US Gummit enphorcement operation is a national issue so ICE or EphBeeAye would have jurisdiction. I'd much rather THEY handle that end o things, as local may well do a catch and release, the guilty never seeing a courtroom. In other words, no consequences. That;s the only way such conduct will change. A stint in the GreyBar Hotel works wonders with respect to changing one's behaviour.
In late 2016/early 2017, I randomly ran into a woman who was part of the Jill Stein recount in MI. She was an observer for Trump in Wayne County [location of Detroit.] This is an example what she tole me in terms of BALLOT BOXES.
Boxes marked:
Trump 50
Hillary 250
Boxes open and tallied:
Trump 200
Hillary 100
Governor of MI at the time was an R "nerd outsider." He could have prosecuted the election workers. Instead, he didn't see a problem and ordered more "training."
I don't understand what you are saying - if you are alleging fraud favoring Trump or fraud favoring Clinton.
Either way, I call bullshit. Ballot boxes aren't marked with one candidates name. For one thing, there are a lot of elections on a ballot in an election year. If they are marked at all, they would be with the precinct they are from. I have been an election worker, and will be again next month.
One unpopular proposition “passed” in mid-December 2024, one day before the deadline. Ummm, sure. They’re already saying that Prop 50 to remove Republican districts is “unquestionably” going to pass. Local NextDoor comments were about 70% “no.”
"California's Proposition 50 election has seen over $200 million spent on campaigns for and against the measure, making it one of the most expensive ballot measures in state history. Supporters have raised approximately $132 million, while opponents have contributed around $78 million.
As a CA voter, I have thus far received for the two of us in my house:
1. Two postcards saying we need to vote on Nov. 4
2. Two multi-page publications about where and HOW to vote
3. Another publication with a decscrption of the Prop 50 measure, which
clearly states it is to retaliate against Trump.
3. 2 Ballots in the mail
4. Two more postcards reminding us to vote.
It sounds hopeless. I saw on TV this morning that when it passes, the Dems expect our Republican reps to be reduced down to 4 out of 52. It's a done deal that California is a supermajority Dem state and Republicans have next to zero power to influence anything in the state. But the loss of most of our FEW Republican seats in the House does have an impact nationally. Republicans are supposedly about 40% of the state, but effectively we will have NO representation in the House. With the detestable Adam Schiff and the nearly as detestable Alex Padilla as our two Senators, we are shut out of representation both. on a state level and. nationally, and there probably isn't any hope to change on a State level due to such overwhelming Democrat control plus all the illegal immigrants plus all the voter fraud that undoubtedly goes on.
Another bad thing is that in a non-presidential election such as this one, voters vote in small numbers. That unfortunately includes Republicans.
Get out the vote and tell all your like minded friends. I too live in CA- part time, but am registered to vote in CA. I’m hoping this is like is often the case: media spins it to sound like this measure is polling so well, but in reality they’re asking mainly Dems and most Rs won’t respond to polls. The reality will be much different. Losing this would be a huge nail in Newsom’s coffin regarding his future prospects which I hope are already dim.
You can't necessarily believe polls. For example, where do they do their polling? My guess is in a heavily Dem area to skew the results. Early on there was supposedly a large backlash against Proposition 50 with a majority on both sides against it. Now they media is telling us the opposite. I'm thinking their likely fake poll is merely designed to discourage R's from voting No. I've been reminding everyone I know to be sure their "No' vote is in soon.
CMCM, great summation, sadly. And this is the worst it’s ever been with no relief in sight. I sincerely hope that the fixing of many of the state’s problems is on the list - close to the top - for current fed administration as they are well aware of associated problems for rest of country.
"California's Proposition 50 election has seen over $200 million spent on campaigns for and against the measure, making it one of the most expensive ballot measures in state history. Supporters have raised approximately $132 million, while opponents have contributed around $78 million.
As a CA voter, I have thus far received for the two of us in my house:
1. Two postcards saying we need to vote on
2. Two multi-page publications about where and HOW to vote
3. Another publication with a decscrption of the Proof 50 measure, which
clearly states it is to g against Trump.
3. 2 Ballots in the mail
4. Two more postcards reminding us to vote.
It sounds hopeless. I saw on TV this morning that when it passes, the Dems expect our Republican reps to be reduced down to 4 out of 52. It's a done deal that California is a supermajority Dem state and Republicans have next to zero power to influence anything in the state. But the loss of most of our FEW Republican seats in the House does have an impact nationally. Republicans are supposedly about 40% of the state, but effectively we will have NO representation in the House. With the detestable Adam Schiff and the nearly as detestable Alex Padilla as our two Senators, we are shut out of representation and there probably isn't any hope to change on a State level due to such overwhelming Democrat control plus all the illegal immigrants plus all the voter fraud that undoubtedly goes on.
Another bad thing is that in a non-presidential election such as this one, voters vote in small numbers. That unfortunately includes Republicans.
State law says up to 30 days following Election Day to certify results. As far as I can tell, it’s the longest allowed in the US. 🤬🤬🤬
A DOGE approach in CA would take decades longer than the federal level. The machine is so entrenched, prying out the grift is a Herculean task.
Yes I am sadly too aware that the two northwest states are just as corrupted, I assert that they became so corrupted when Californians began moving north in droves beginning in late 1980s. I moved to CA in 1987, the year Bay Area folks were selling their homes and using the cash to snap up houses for cash in King County - Seattle area - and driving up property taxes fast and furiously. Pre-Microsoft money, Bill Gates was unheard of back then. Grrrrr.
I was in the Bay Area in the late 1960's and early 70's and, along with the drapht lottery and Berserkeley/People's Park riots, was aware o a change leading many to head north. I knew quite a number who were living in the Bay Area and coastal Northern Cal who moved even just a little bit to places like Bandon, Grant's Pass, some up to Portland, Vancouver Washingon, Olympia, Seattle. Sell a house in Santa rosa at $50K and buy a nice place (5 acres good bottom land along a small river at $25K, 27 acres at $60K) 20 years on one sold their place near Gran's Pass at $300K and cashed into two nice places near Prescot AZ.
I also know of a lot of Southern California people, most of them Dems, who retired and went to Oregon to live. They obviously took their destructive politics with them.
That's where signature verification comes into play SB. If sigs are checked by a scanner what are the 'points' that machine is adjusted for? If sigs are read by eye, what training has the verifier had? How often are they trained ? Do they only check sigs once every couple years? As we know now, auto pens are very efficient. Auto pen a voter registration card, send a ballot to an address that doesn't exist. Ballots cannot be forwarded so it's returned to county clerk. That ballot is now ripe for fraud, another auto pen signature that is a perfect match...ballot processed.
Vote by mail was designed for cheating, plain and simple. People are lazy and want the connivence. It costs nothing (except taxes). They think they have done their civic duty. Then they can't believe their choice of candidate or tax measure or law never comes out the way they voted.
People will need to be forced into voting in person, on paper, one day, counted in precinct. If voter numbers decline sharply so be it. If a person can't devote an hour or two every couple of years, I don't want them voting. Besides, where does it say that everyone must vote? That's a false narrative the left uses to shame the right into supporting voting laws that only favor cheating.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, sermon over is over...
Riddle me this - why in the hell would anyone want to give up your vote, your God given right to vote, and vote by mail?
So, you put your completed ballot in the mail, and you feel all special and shit.
But shockingly, your ballot gets intercepted by the postal carrier, who has a hair up his ass and is very worried about who you voted for.
So, he opens your ballot and becomes super distraught upon discovering you voted Republican or Libertarian, anything but Marxism, Communism Democrat.
So, he chucks your ballot in the trash. Of which you know nothing about because you weren't there when he tosses your ballot in the circular file.
Your vote, your God given right to vote is just gone. Gone like a fart in the wind. All because he doesn't want any opposing party to win.
How does that work for you?
Don't think that can happen to you? Ya right...
And here's a shocker (not) for you. Leticia James gets appointed a Biden appointed Judge for her case. Who saw that coming? Probably everyone.
And her case gets combined with James Comey's case.
"Here’s the twist — on Friday, James’ attorneys asked that her challenging of Halligan’s legality be combined with Comey’s challenging of her legality. U.S. District Judge Jamar Walker, a Biden appointee, approved her request."
As Jeff Childers would say: "You can't make this stuff up."
and there will be no accountability. I was never hopeful when it was announced that all these crooks were going to be indicted. Remember when Trump posted a pic of obummer, Killary etc in orange suits a couple of months ago. Jesus can't come soon enough
Excuse my language, but I love it when tyrants like Maduro, cower like a little b.tch and sound like victims when they reap what they sow. Consequences!
Kent, did you know you can hit the three dots to the right of your post, and a drop down menu will have an edit button and you can change your entire post rather than deleting it.
Exactly zero fentanyl comes from Venezuela. Our benevolent government has been attempting a coups there since the mid 2000s for their oil and rare earths.You people are so far propagandized by your cult leader and lazy with research you believe everything the lamestream media feeds you. It takes approximately 2 seconds to prove this whole "drug" thing is propaganda that you all are falling for. The "peace president" and Marco Narco have obviously tricked the propagandized to follow the peace president into more violence against a bunch of poor people again. Drop site had a great piece yesterday about just this. But yeah, we need to spread more "democracy"with the barrel of a gun. I cannot for the life of me understand why people "forget" all the lies and how long they have been attempting this. But now that they have a cult following...It can be done. Please inform yourself prior to such a shallow comment which will mean death for many more innocents incoming.
I am willing to keep an open mind but bring on the specifics, links where we can perform our own due diligence and any other references so we can sort out for ourselves.
This is one of many stories written. The Obama travesty attempted it too. Again for the 100th time. Its not a right left thing but the billionaires verses the rest of us. Stories as this were written during the bombers regime too. Lime Jeff wrote today. Obama was the one that normalized this extra judicial killing. It was wrong then and is wrong now. We used to I thought stated you were innocent until proven guilty in a court of law...But now because our "war" dept states anything it becomes proven without a court of law and peers. I mean its common sense these people lie constantly. How soon we all forget the covid lies and operation warp speed, initiated by the dear leader. Who I just read was being nominated for the noble prize for? This stack started because of the covid lies....But now your billionaire is back in all those lies stopped?
As that evil Clinton stated.. you have to have the willing suspension of disbelief..
All Im attempting is for you to look under yhe surface of the propaganda that is now legally allowed to be fed to you because Obama suspended the Smith-Mundt act. Just don't be lazy in what is being fed to you please and thank you
Sorry Aaron, but “This is one of many stories written.”
Key words: “stories written”. They are stories. Carefully crafted stories. We have gotten very good at recognizing the prose.
No honest president that is as big of a threat as Trump is has a chance to escape being equated to the rot we have been fed before. The way people try to sweep him into that corrupt pool shows there is absolutely NO ONE that would have satisfied you. Either that or you’re truly controlled opposition. Either way, I choose to NOT take part in tearing down this administration because they have more than proved their character and mettle. Can one of them stray? Is it possible? Sure. Last I checked they were merely human so yes. We will deal with it when there is irrefutable evidence, not speculative nonsense. Until then I’ve seen enough to stand by them, and that is after doing as much of the reading and cross referencing as anyone else. That doesn’t make me blind or lazy just because I feel you have come to the WRONG conclusions.
Just wondering how I am "controlled opposition"? Because I put facts in front of you this billionaire is lying and tricking you? Please lay out all the GREAT things he has done? No wars have been stopped. His administration still hasn't released the Epstein Files as promised. Right now is bombing Somalia, Venezuela, allowed an Al Qada leader to take over Syria. The guy less than a year ago had a 15 million dollar bounty on his head? He is crushing US farmers, sending billions to Argentina to crush ranchers, enriching his family fortunes with "trump coins". He has an Israeli first administration to go along as well. Just like Biden and all the rest before him.
I know you really want to believe, we all want something or someone to make the malfeasance go away. However, there is zero chance that ANY government person is going to be the one to make it happen for you.
I don't have the answer to a 200 year problem but I will and have succeeded at making people look under what is being clearly propagandized for them.
Im sorry your critical thinking skills lack the comprehension to know this billionaire is just like the rest of the billionaires who hate us pleebs.
But go on believing he will change your life for the better if that is what makes you happy and confident in your beliefs. As long as Israel doesnt take our first amendment away...we can still share our thoughts.. I don't hate just want people to critically think again as very few did during Covid.
It was critically thinking folks such as us that made this stack what it is. Don't forget that skill you had then with this billionaire actor who has tricked millions into believing in a false saviour... peace
With regards to the Covid lies, they are being dismantled systematically by Trumps cabinet, namely RFK jr and Marty Makary. The lies were fabricated and brainwashed into people’s heads by the Biden administration and the media and people actually still gets boosters of the poison thinking we are crazy saying the jab is poison. The Argentine beef thing-I did a deep dive on this because I was initially pissed but it turns out that the USA is still recovering from the devastating effects of our beef supply during COVID, and it’s been exacerbated by drought, so we are slowly growing our cattle ranches again which takes time. In the meantime the Argentine beef is serving a purpose in keeping our ground beef supplying the USA alive and it’s from a friendly country instead of Brazil which has become quite unfriendly and so we don’t buy their beef anymore. The goal is to get back to all USA beef. Regarding operation warp speed, I don’t believe that operation is about getting vaccines to the people quickly no matter their safety, but getting us out of the lockdown the government establishment intended to last for years, ushering in the great reset and the green new deal, which has been stated openly by the WEF. As in, never let a good crisis go to waste type statements. Trump is working on many fronts to pull our country from the uniparty rule, which has been controlling us since at least the 70’s when we came off the gold standard. Think about this. It takes time as well to deport 11 million illegal aliens that are sucking us dry. And being used to affect the results of our election thru social security number fraud. I’m encouraged by his progress!
Dropsite news is a leftist leaning publication supporting progressive causes. Me thinks you should also do more balanced research before claiming your conclusions as facts.
You are a clown for sure. In order to check your biases you read everything to find where truth is. Whether you agree with everything or not. Ive never voted left and have been writing in Ron Paul as my president since 06. Thank you for proving my point of how shallow you cultists are.
Thank you for your attention to this matter...Clown🤡
Aaaaaand there it is. All any of us needed to see to discern your character and motivation. When it turns into attacks like this my warning bells go off like noisy gongs. Your frustration over having no control of the narrative is palpable.
Interesting that you end up resorting to ad hominem attacks and childish name slinging at people who disagree with you. I'm fine with considering whatever links and evidence you have that led you to your position, but I'd like to see such evidence coming from credible, non-progressive and non-biased sources.
Someone moving into the US drug trade? Paging Pfizer
Thus the Drug Trust, while maintaining the Stalinist Communist Government in Russia, simultaneously maintained a Communist back up regime in the United States, the Trotskyite Movement, in case the Stalinist regime should fall."
I’m no Venezuela fan , but Grok: According to the U.S. Department of State’s 2025 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report and the DEA’s 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment, fentanyl is almost entirely produced in clandestine labs in Mexico using precursor chemicals sourced primarily from China and India. It is then smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border, with over 92% of seizures occurring at or near ports of entry. Venezuela is not identified as a production, transit, or smuggling hub for fentanyl in any official U.S. reports
I don't consider AI as it gives what it is fed but I appreciate you taking the time to post this. China and India we already know about. Would need to see proof outside of AI. Cheers Dave.
Southern border has been screwed down pretty tight since Trump was inaugurated, mules are now inefficient . Cartels need other routes to get the large quantities of drugs inside the US. Our northern border is becoming another very weak point of entry.
Full change of direction, how can we change the will of the buyers? If we can reduce the demand the supply will dwindle. I may just be wishing upon a star...
It is reasonable and fair to have diversity of thought on stack articles. It would be better to have some "proof" so that we can perform due diligence and make up our own minds.
I agree with you. I read all sides and it truly is amazing how both sides will go straight to name calling us there is any criticism of the narrative. Problems will never be solved with this mindset.
Gosh, thank you so very much in your support of my thesis. You evidently are a true believer in your cult worshipping clan and the false prophet..
I'm not allowed in your cult if I challenge the dear leader? It's comments such as this, which hopefully afford others to come to my same conclusions about the cult. You have just written how lost and propagandized people like you are. I know though, when lost in the cult, you are unable to see how blind you are🤷♂️
Thank you for your support and validation in this matter! 🙏
I have to do more research but ty for the links. Why don't we ask Trump about this by email, TruthSocial, by phone calls expressing concerns about all this? That is what I will do on Monday.
Keeping an open mind but do trust him more than other Presidents. Just watched Tuckers series on 9-11 and boy, was that an eye opener. And to think I voted for Bush. If that is all true, we were sold a bill of goods on that one.
You are grossly uninformed, so should try not to speak.
In 2025, Venezuela primarily sells its oil to China, which receives the vast majority of its exports. Shipments to China are often rebranded as Brazilian or Malaysian crude to circumvent U.S. sanctions, allowing tankers to sail directly from Venezuela to China and reduce transit time. Exports to China accounted for about 90% of Venezuela’s total oil shipments in June 2025, up from 75% the previous month.
So many here with small brains and big mouths. Do some research before bleating.
Aaron (if that is your real name), you are excellent at spouting both the democrat and far left conspiracy theories in a blended woven stream, i gotta give you credit, but it is all bs. Venezuela/Maduro is not our friend in so many ways beyond fentanyl. They may not make it there, but they are complicit in it's distribution, as well as human and other trafficing.
As to how we know President Trump is helping us, an anecdote (one of many i could cite, to use your "additional" babble): we are traveling to TX and the south east US over the last several weeks, gas was ~$3.20 when we left, on the road we watched it drop to as low as $2.36. I'm a happy camper.
The price of gas is more based on world supply and demand, not who is in office at the moment but can manipulated somewhat by releasing fuel from the national reserves as Biden did. Right now, there is a world wide oil glut but that could end in another month and gas prices go back up.
You need an accurate long laundry list of every possible drug before you’re going to support protecting our citizens from the hundreds of thousands of deaths? Protecting the many law enforcement officers fr being shot when they got in the way of the cartel? Drugs are drugs. So they named the one we are most familiar with and inundated with these days, but there’s a long list of others ALSO killing our loved ones. And you have no proof that they haven’t had fentanyl on board. Since they got into bed with China it might be accurate. Simply saying “it’s not made there” is frivolous.
I don’t care what drugs they are carrying we are done with this shit and all who defend it. This isn’t the only ocean spot they are attacking drug boats either. They are protecting our borders and people like you are weakening them.
Do you really think that killing random people in the Caribbean is "protecting our country"?
I don't understand why you don't think that evidence isn't necessary to execute people. You don't care what drugs they are carrying? You don't care if they are even carrying drugs? These people, their boats, and whatever cargo they had have not been examined for evidence. The government simply pronounces them guilty because they are dead. Shades of Obama.
Why would China, which docks enormous cargo ships in US ports, full of unexamined containers, find it necessary to go to Venezuela and put small amounts of fentanyl into speedboats 1,000 miles from any US shore? Does that really make sense to you?
If you are going to support summary executions, they should make more sense than the story they are telling you. The plot holes are so big, the script writers should be ashamed.
“I don't understand why you don't think that evidence isn't necessary to execute people.”
I don’t understand how you can assume our military hasn’t done its due diligence. The hubris that people have to make such an assumption of this administration is unreal. There is absolutely no evidence they didn’t have sound proof and evidence before the strikes. Simply saying “we’ve always been lied to so certain this is more of the same” is not enough for me when it comes to an administration that has been following laws and procedures to a “T”. You can bet they have their ducks in a row.
No I don’t care which drugs because that takes the focus off of the real problem, that there are so many that have destroyed our country’s citizens, and the surrounding atmospheres of crime that comes from it has destroyed our country. I would have supported this approach many years ago with cocaine, meth, heroin. We kept doing the same things and thinking we would get a different result.
I have a son that could have died to this latest flooding of drugs into this country, ungodly strong marijuana laced with fentanyl - obtained by medical dispensaries!! Focusing on the one end of the problem (curbing his addiction - like our country always has unsuccessfully done for 50 years,) would NEVER have saved him. What saved him was making it impossible for him to have access to any of the drugs long enough for his body to truly recover so that his mind could make the decision for himself. But if he were to easily access them on our streets today he still is at risk. He is safe so long as he can’t bump into it on the streets. That’s the power of addiction.
I’d much rather try something new and combatting this at the OTHER end of the problem, the sources of entry and not having easy access on our streets, so that our fellow Americans presently looking like statues can recover and have a chance at a real life.
According to Mark Slaboda, when he was in the US Navy, they did annual drug interdiction drills.
What the protocol was at that time was that if the Navy suspected a boat of carrying drugs, they were to notify the Coast Guard.
The protocol was NOT to blow up the boat, the people, and the suspected evidence, and then pronounce them guilty posthumously.
Now you think that the Navy has some mind reading ability to do ''due diligence" without interdicting the boat and searching it?
Why would I assume that? That's magical thinking.
I am sorry that your son was into drugs and I'm glad that he is now clean, and I can see that the experience might have hardened you, but blowing up people without evidence just isn't done in civilized countries.
Actually, blowing people up, period, is not done in civilized countries.
The biggest drug running operation in the USA, since WW2, is the CIA.
If you want to stop drug running with explosives, the best thing to do is blow up Langley.
Killing random boaters in the Caribbean isn't going to do anything to stop drugs in America.
God bless you Mrs RW for pointing out that often ignored fact. The CIA was bringing drugs into this country in the coffins of dead American soldiers and flooding our cities with drugs. They used the money to fund more illegal operations. The same people that killed Kennedy. Journalist Gary Webb pointed all this out in the San Jose Mercury News and soon lost his job and then his life. This murder on the seas is a show for the public and getting the public ready for more military actions to come. Primiing the pump.
Where exactly is this "proof" that the military showed us and you write about? Because Faux News said it was so. To my knowledge there has been no "proof" that anyone or anything has contained drugs and it was on its way to states.
We simply hear about another boat being blown up with our cool gadgets that can do it. They "tell" us their Narcos but show no HARD EVIDENCE this is the case.
They this just week released two people back to their countries that lived through one of our perfect bombings.
They weren't charged with anything and were lucky enough to have survived. They were simply released. I guess they weren't terrorists after all...
That there my friend is EVIDENCE ALONE. They made a fn mistake. But we are to believe your benevolent leader... Got it.
The facts and information is available, if you want to comprehend it..
It seems pretty clear that this is about resources not drugs. I don't trust any government official telling me something's for my own good without evidence.
Trust the immense surveillance that is gathered by the military. More than we can ever imagine. Stop guessing. These leaders are not the corrupt Dem types, so I’m for trusting their judgment and actions.
I've been saying for years that if the US wants to solve the immigration problem, it only needs to stop destabilizing other countries and stop stealing their resources. If we allowed the countries of the Americas to develop their own prosperity, their citizens would happily stay at home.
I agree with part of this statement. I do wish America would leave other countries to their own devices. Sadly, for the people of those countries, they are often ruled by incredibly corrupt leaders in part due to long-standing political philosophies like liberation theology. It's a mess, but we shouldn't be cleaning it up (and to head off what I'm sure is one of your objections - no, America should not be participating in Color Revolutions because as we've seen, our installed leaders are rarely better).
I was teaching in Tehran from 1977 to early 1979 when the Iranian Revolution was gathering steam and then the Shah was deposed. Iran was really a pretty nice place back then and making a lot of progress. The Shah and his over the top monarchy with his Peacock Throne was a bit much for the people of the West, but nevertheless, he was doing good things for his country and I could see it quite clearly. But our CIA was heavily operating in the country, and the Shah was said to want more control over his own oil industry. He got ill with cancer, but things could have continued with the oversight of those he trusted, his wife and his heir Reza. There were communists in his government, and other opposition. The day I arrived in Tehran a CIA operative was assassinated and we were afraid to send our 7 year old daughter to Tehran American School because we worried it might possibly be attacked. Many of us there suspected that the U.S. at that point (the oh so naive Jimmy Carter was President then) thought that letting the revolutionaries take over was a good thing for their continuing control over the oil...Carter himself once made the comment that Khomeini was "a good religious man." Wrong!
All this said, does anyone think that particular "regime change" had a good outcome over the last 46 years? And how was the State Department so very wrong about it all? My students were all Iranians 18+ in age, and most of the time I was there I heard stories from them about a coming revolution with Khomeini at the head of it. Fiery religious sermons from Khomeini trying to incite people were being smuggled into the country and played in all the mosques. We asked our embassy officials about it and they knew nothing about it....or perhaps pretended to know nothing, hard to say which.
It is this well written comment and FACTS for why I attempt to awaken people. Thank you very much for posting. One woke, wakes another and another. Thank you again for writing how evil and messed up our government can be. We haven't learned one lesson from our failures... much ❤️
These abuses aren't a result of what we think of as government. They are the result of an intrenched bureaucracy unaccountable to the citizens. Trump is making the first effort ever to reduce its independence.
If they had good leaders instead of the criminals that are elected, maybe thst would be true. Their leaders are like the ones worldwide..stealing as much as possible. The love of money and power are the root of all evil. Too many gangs and cartels in Central and South America.
That's true in the US as well. To my way of thinking, that doesn't make it ok for some other country to disrupt out economy and politics. Allowing other countries to have their own sovereignty, just like we want, is the road to peace. And buying their resources instead of stealing them is the road to a stable peace.
I don't understand what your point is. The US already BUYS more than 90 percent of all crude oil produced by Venezuela. That has not resulted in their ceasing to send us massive amounts of cocaine and working to destabilize their neighbors. Do you think we aren't buying enough from them and that is why peace stubbornly refuses to break out? Or what? Lo único que entiende la gente como Maduro es el Gran Palo.
Can you please show me where you observed that all this cocaine is coming from Venezuela. Truly haven't heard this until this latest propaganda regime change came about. If I missed this someway I would sure like to know that it has been Venezuela since the CIA crack cocaine epidemic of the late 80s and 90s...
Maybe its true and im ignorant. I thought it was Columbian and Mexican cartels but hey I'm willing to be educated. If its only coming from our "war department" I may be a lil skeptical though..
I agree with NAB. People will come to an open border USA if they think life for them will be better for any reason whatsoever, and the US is not the source of all problems. It’s overly simplistic and not empirical to say it is. In Colombia, the owner of the corner market is liable to be kidnapped because he seems to be wealthier than the kidnapper. The government there has always tended towards corrupt opportunism for more than 1/2 a century. Not all of these features come from action by USA.
Destabilizing things like USAid, that has been shut down by Trump?! Yup we do need to quit destabilizing other countries by subterfuge, and confront them directly. Oh, yeah, that's also what our president is doing!
I think it would be good if you reflected upon the fact that the US didn't target Venezuela until after they moved to become a part of BRICS. Take a look at what happened to Ghadafi when he had amassed enough gold to start a North African currency. This would have cut the US petrodollar out of the picture in that part of the world. There is nothing the US hates more than having it's petrodollars cut out. Venezuela tried to do this. Suddenly, they are our next war. Gosh, what a surprise!
One point I'm having problems understanding is your comment regarding destabilizing other countries. Are you saying that Chavez and Maduro have created a wonderful country and we destabilized it. So tell me about Chavez and Maduro. I was in Venezuela in the late 70s. It was a very nice place. Then your heroes Chavez and Maduro came along and turned it into a pigsty, just like all good socialists and communists do. So please spare us the laughable narration that the state of Venezuela is the US's fault. You need to think things through a little better.
I can't imagine how you came to think that I view Chavez and Maduro as heros. I don't. At all. But, I don't think it is the job of the US to go into other countries and remove their dishonest or incompetent leaders. As I said, the same quality of leader can easily be found in the US, and I, for one, very much don't want other nations removing them for us.
Are we better off allowing other countries, like China, destabilize our neighbors? Perhaps we need to rethink our role in the Americas. The mess has been a long time in the making and won't be cured by next year.
THANK YOU! I don't have time to provide the VOLUMES of the evidence of how this has been going on for years with several iterations of propaganda attempting to make something stick..But with this class of low information cultists it was simple this time...You nailed it. The link I sent and that site definitely leans left however they do a good job of Uncovering malfeasance in both parties...Edward Snowden anyone...Thats was them. These faux news people are retarded 😒. It takes Google and open mind to find truth.
But but cocaine that boat could never get here with...I mean retards.....that believe what is easily proven.. how many miles away is Venezuela and that little boat.
Canada has let in millions in Fentanyl precursors, just look up Sam Cooper, investigative journalist, substack author, author of Wilful Blindness, and the Bureau podcast.
Also, Isn’t Venezuela known for its cocaine, but I’m certain they are diversifying, now they are in bed with Chyna!
👆👆👆👆Vancouver is a known area for fentanyl. I keep waiting to see what the administration is going to do to stop this. China sends precursors to fentanyl to Canada and it’s made there and ends up in the US. Fentanyl killed my son and off the top of my head I can name 10 families who have lost their beloved children to this insidious drug. At least Trump is trying to stop it. Biden laughed at a woman who had tragically lost 2 children to fentanyl laced pills. Drug traffickers even put it in marujuana. This is a national tragedy and it has to stop.
Exactly: CHINA! It’s the China threat that Trump is going after not Venezuelan oil. We have our own oil reserves. We don’t need Venezuela. But we would like to be partners with them again under the right circumstances.
Yes. While I get what is going on with Venezuela, what I don't understand is why we are not treating the Chinese trade in Fentanyl precursors to Mexico and Canada with the same seriousness. And yes, the main Venezuela drug export is cocaine. I know at one time the largest amount of those precursors was coming in through Mexico's West Coast ports of Mazatlán and Lázaro Cárdenas on Chinese cargo ships. Do not know if that is still the case, but a naval blockade of those ports could have discouraged a lot of those Chinese imports. Similarly, we ought to be taking a close look at the West Coast of Canada, which now is just about a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP thanks to its immigration policy. One element of NAFTA was our helpfully updating three superhighway drug corridors connecting the Mexican border with the rest of the country: I-35, I-29/I-94 and US Route 59.
I think the Maduro move by Trump has more to do with and wanting to protect the western hemisphere from increasing Chinese influence in some South American countries. The Chinese were a huge influence in Biden’s open borders. They were set up at the Darian Gap pass. Why? Hmmmm
It is pathetic to watch people fall for the bullshit, time after time. They never learn.
It is Colombia that grows and processes and transports cocaine. Usually the US ignores Colombia, because until this latest president, its ruling class was pro-American. Don't be surprised, though, now, if suddenly the US discovers that there are drugs coming from Colombia. OMIGOD! Who could have known that?
Fentanyl? It seems only last week that China was being blamed for fentanyl. But now that's down the Memory Hole.
"We have always been at war with (and gotten our fentanyl from) Venezuela."
If anyone wants to know which countries are involved in the drug trade, and which ones are not, you can look it up here.
During my tenure as director of UNODC, the UN agency against drugs and crime, I traveled to Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil, but I never visited Venezuela. There was simply no need. The cooperation of the Venezuelan government in the fight against drug trafficking was one of the best in South America.....
The 2025 UNODC report is crystal clear and should embarrass those who have built the rhetoric of demonizing Venezuela. The report only makes a minimal and brief mention of Venezuela, stating that a minimal fraction of Colombian drug production passes through the country en route to the United States and Europe. Venezuela, according to the UN, has established itself as a territory free from the cultivation of coca leaf, marijuana, and similar products, as well as a territory free from the presence of international drug cartels. The document has done nothing but confirm the previous 30 annual reports, which do not mention Venezuelan drug trafficking because it does not exist. Only 5% of Colombian drugs pass through Venezuela."
Imaginary victims? FFS bombs and guns have consequences. We've just slaughtered maybe 100s of thousands of Palestinians that were Imaginary? Ahh my. My the dear lord have mercy on your soul. How many have we killed so far. Once bombs start dropping real people get maimed and killed. Fentenal does not come from Venezuela and our own DEA says as much. Whew...
Again thank you to all the commenting which validates my thesis on you cultists
That would confirm the foolishness of starting a war. When a terrorist group invades another country, massacres its citizens (including BABIES), and kidnaps civilians to use as bargaining chips (while the hostages starve in dark, underground cells in tunnels built with AID money) tell me why anyone should pity the aggressors? You’re a Hamas bot or so propagandized you’ve lost any sense of justice. Do I feel sorry for the “innocent” -yes, the murdered and kidnapped. The terrorists and those who put them in power? Not so much. I do believe in God’s mercy but keep in mind that God is also just. Evil doers will reap what they sow. Count on it.
And how many children are locked away without any charge in Israeli dungeons. Last number I heard was in thousands...Two kids...two kids were murdered in cold blood that day. How many thousands of Palestinians have been murdered in cold blood since?
The lsraeli news has stated as fact the Hannibal directive was initiated that day. Do you know what that is? Please explain it to us in the reply comments below...Killing innocents is terrible no matter who does it. Believe Jesus told us that...🤷♂️
It could be both are true. There is drug trafficking from S. America and we want their oil and rare earths and will take it. We saw the same with Central America. We prefer certain chosen gov'ts that will allow our corporations in to take what they want. Unfortunately, it's an old and oft repeated scenario. The British did it before us. The Romans, the Mongols, Spanish, and so on....
What you say has definitely been true in the past, Clem, America has been OK with just going in and taking the resources of other countries. I’m hoping that this president Trump is different from those in the past and is serious about trading for their resources
Perhaps that is the case, but occasionally in the history of mankind, there has come a rogue that breaks away from the commands of the rulers of this world. I was just thinking that maybe Trump is one of those rogues, and I was thinking that because they tried to kill him in order to stop him. I may be wrong.
… time will tell, but I am definitely aware of the men that control the world
Meanwhile China had been way ahead of us trying to meddle in South America and get rare earths, prime real estate, and influence while using that platform to destabilize the US
Except China smartly uses their Belt and Roads Initiative to win the hearts and minds of the people they "meddle" with. They build things for them while the US, swings their guns around and threatens people. Perhaps this country should consider making friends with other nations rather making threat against them. You know that old flies and honey saying.
Yes and no. The CIA set up Colombian drug cartels in the 1960’s and that entire stretch of Carib water has been notorious for piracy and drug running to USA for over 50 years. I know people who have encountered piracy there. Drug cartels buy speed boats and cannons now but in years past they would steal boats, even leisure sailboats. The owners would be killed and tossed overboard.
The other thing I can tell you from personal experience, the USA knows what vessels are out there. Customs still want vessels to check in when arriving to US shores but know who’s out there regardless. They have layers of surveillance incl satellite and have been tracking drug lord activity for a very long time at this point.
Those speedboats don’t drive themselves. For that matter, any innocent fisherman in a speedboat running out of Venezuela today is profoundly ignorant of his chances reaching his destination. There must be some other motivation at work.
The US loves a boogy man. It gives people a face to hate and turn their attention towards. Remember the Gaddafi "Madman" moniker? Soon everyone was calling him a madman thanks to repetition in the press and TV. We usually don't care about tyrants until they have something we want but first you have to vilify them. Hussein was our pal until he decided to sell oil for Euros instead of dollars. Then he was Public Enemy #1, even blamed for 9/11(which wasn't true) and for WMDs(that didn't exist). I don't know how much of what the gov't (and media) says is true and what is manufactured but I take all this current Maduro hype with a BIG grain of salt.
You know you can spin ANY protective measure taken to protect our shores and say the same thing. EVERY country has resources, so does that mean every attempt to protect our own is really a move to steal their resources? It’s such a conflation of circumstances meant to discredit this administration, even by some in our ranks. I’m tired of it. I say bombs away.
Except European countries have very few resources which is why Lindsay Graham’s idea of carving up Russia to seize its $135 T estimated natural resources appeals to them.
I think the Maduro move by Trump has more to do with and wanting to protect the western hemisphere from increasing Chinese influence in some South American countries. The Chinese were a huge influence in Biden’s open borders. They were set up at the Darian Gap pass. Why? Hmmmm
Adding on: for years I have been hearing how Hezbollah is all over Latin America, mostly from a couple of Latin American officials in interviews on the (formerly?) great John Batchelor Show.
Further to this, when Michael Yon was down at the Darien Gap, among the many points he made is that they were so deep into Venezuela that they are indistinguishable in accent, mannerisms from actual Venezuelans.
Wait, there’s more: I always wondered if our President was using hyperbole when saying that Venezuela emptied their prisons into the US in those four awful years. Yesterday I heard Michael Waller say exactly that phrase. IMHO he is one who would know.
We recently had a tren de aragua group take over an addiction rehab facility here in the pacific northwest. They were actually getting leftover covid funds from the state. They are everywhere.
They (Chinese) were also taking over the Panama Canal from the Panamanians! I had forgotten about that. Trump said that we built it and we want it back. It’s all connected.
Although not in the sense in common usage, by the technical definition, “Semite” can refer to those of Arabic ethnicity as well as Hebrew. Wikipedia informs me that Hussein was, in fact, of such extraction. Therefore, ironically, if you were opposed to him, you could be labeled “anti-Semitic”.
In a similar way, no Jew could denounce others of being “anti-Semitic” towards him, unless he could prove ancestry from the Twelve Tribes. Lots of them could, of course, but the blond, blue-eyed ones would have a tough time of it.
I’m already asleep half way through. The guy said “anti-semantic” on purpose. Wikipedia is rejected as a source in any University or decent high school classroom btw…..
“Sounds” comes from a need to confirm a biased agenda. Set “sounds” aside and develop critical thinking skills. Rise above black and white thinking and become part of the solution.
I am leaning towards the judges that release these folks. They are accomplices & complaisant. Why can’t they be tried as well? Why isn’t it a crime to simply allow the criminal to run free?
If doctors lost their licenses when they prescribed Ivermectin and went against hospital policies to save their patients....How is it that judges who actually allow criminals to run free and continue to kill not be held liable?
They also need to watch Wayne County, MI. This is where the late night ballots magically appeared to swing the victory for Biden. Also, where they put paper over the windows while they counted votes.
"Election monitoring by the Justice Department is not uncommon,” One would think that with the Dems accusing Republicans of voting fraud, they would welcome Federal observers, that the DEMS could stand alongside of, to monitor the process. Or are they concerned their voting fraud might be blocked?
Everyone thinks the election system is rigged when their guy loses, so we should all be thrilled that there will be some oversight. Honestly, though, until they do something about the states that have lax voting rules (mail in ballots, not showing ID, or showing ID but allowing illegals have driver’s licenses), I think the oversight isn’t going to make much of a difference. It will help with the middle of the night sudden surges possibly, but not with the ‘30 days later suddenly our candidate pulled ahead’ BS that CA pulls. The DC legislature absolutely needs to pass voter ID laws for federal elections.
Require ONLY Real ID or star card. If you can't fly without it, you can't vote without it. I hate the stupid things so I use my passport but,at least in my state, a Real ID requires more documentation ,including proof of residency. They put a little red Voter ID mark in the corner.
Real ID is more government control. No reason for a real ID to fly. Illegals have flown everywhere without any. A voters registration card and a driver's license with a picture will verify who you are..as only citizens should have either. No one should be allowed to register to vote unless you go to the parish/county seat in person with the documentation proving who you are and where you live.
Your comment about illegals flying without ID made me wonder how TSA let that happen. Must have been on Biden Airlines private transports? More rules for me but not for the protected class.😡
I refuse to get a Real ID. It's a gateway to complete surveillance. So next will you get the QR code tattoo? Or do the digital implant? You know. "For your safety..."
Why can't I fly without a real id, but all the illegals are flying without them? We already have all the laws we need, we just need to enforce them. This creeping surveillance, implemented incrementally, for our own good, is terrifying
Pretty sure you will have to eventually. I need to renew my passport. I will have no choice but to comply. I have a close relative living in Europe who may need my help and physical presence at some time. Otherwise I would not renew.
Many states were issuing Real Id's willy-nilly to illegals. KY is one place they were actually caught because a whistleblower stepped up and told how DMV was giving them to anyone for $200 a person.
Apparently, and we all can see it very clearly, passing more laws makes no difference. We have laws that only citizens can vote in federal elections.. so.. they still allow non citizens to vote. So the oversight is at the very least a step in one direction. Yes we need more however. I agree.
As usual, your comment is out of context and makes no sense. You’re always on here looking to stir things up. Maybe you should try actually contributing to the conversation.
Decarlos Brown should be put to death TODAY. No waiting for twenty years of appeals, nor the cost to taxpayers of $100,000 a year to keep him in jail. We all watched in living color as the monster stabbed to death petite Iryna, who was just trying to get home after a night of work at a pizza shop. Kill him now.
Who is the bigger threat? Beastly Decarlos Brown? Or the liberal judges who repeatedly released that deranged psychopath after each of his fourteen prior criminal arrests so that he could continue preying on us all? I’m just asking...Can a liberal judge get a life sentence, firing squad? asking for. friend...
Yes. All those judges should be held as accessories to first degree murder, criminally prosecuted and convicted convicted and put away for the rest of their lives.
I don’t think mental illness is an ‘excuse’ for murder. The idea that insanity is a defense for murder, only proves the insanity of the American criminal justice system.
… it should be obvious that anybody that murders somebody is mentally ill
Our government across administrations are the depop specialists. Any change in the toxic chemicals being dumped on our farmlands and foods? Nope. Any change in the toxic ingredients in our "food" - nope. Any change in the toxic injections across administrations? Nope. Business as usual.
[14] and My people, who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land.
Plain and simple... mail-in ballots should be illegal. There is no need for them at all. The military personnel could vote in person at sites that are set up for them. Shouldn't be difficult. And for everyone else, not able to get to the voting booths in person, sorry your vote will not be counted!
lending itself for thousands to be helped, it’s probably not worth having. OR, if you have mail in ballots, it should be stringently monitored for discrepancies, one way or another.
KC, one significant need if mail-in voting is allowed, would be to have court or law enforcement enforcing regular purging or cleaning of the voting rolls, as required by law. Old ballot addresses that no longer represent living voting citizens are used every election to print as many illigitimate votes as calculated to ensure a victory. Especially in Oregon, where they have not purged the votor rolld for years where ALL elections are mail-in ballots. It is widely quoted that "Oregon has the best mail-in ballot system." True if you are a Democrat and want "one party rule" and complete control of all elections.
You are absolutely correct. I know nothing abt Oregon except that it’s beautiful.
Here in GA, a group of moms grew weary of “just praying abt it”, and decided to learn the local systems and run for local offices, and do other political things where we could.
It snowballed into a force to be reckoned with.
One arm of this group figured out how to purge rolls and did it!! They reported that, in addition to dead
people being on the rolls, burned down sheds, dog houses, abandoned buildings, even medians were listed as viable addresses of voters. I think in one county, they found something like 4000+ nonexistent “voters” and or addresses.
The corruption is unreal. The swamp is becoming a sea.
Mail in ballots are different from absentee. With mail in, they send ballots to everyone and they are mailed back.
With absentee (how the military and truck drivers vote) the ballot has to be requested, and the signature is verified against the registration and either witnessed or notarized. Then it is mailed in prior to the election so everything can be verified ahead of time. I’m ok with that, but not mail ins.
I contacted our local cattle rancher that we buy our beef from, and asked them questions about all this including has Trump actually helped them the way he says he has? What are the ramifications of the Argentina beef being imported etc etc. The USA labeling and prices… all of the controversy. They responded and said as soon as they have some time to write a response they would.
We should all be questioning our local cattle ranchers. Seems it might be the only way to get some actual truth. Right from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
I’m a beef farmer (cow/calf) and can help a little.
We need to bust up the packer monopoly. Two American packers and two foreign packers control the entire American market.
We need to deregulate small packers. The big monopolists wrote regulations, which the USDA implemented, that bankrupted hundreds of small packers.
We need to have country of origin labeling. Right now, frozen quartered beef from China (or other countries) can be shipped into America, packed for consumers, and labeled as USDA inspected product of America. Americans have no idea what they’re eating and China has no interest in protecting our health.
We need to disallow govt aid to corporate farms. Family farms don’t get a dime, but the mega ag corporations get billions of dollars in govt money.
There are other things, but these would be a good start.
Which is kind of ironic given that the US cattle industry, including lots of normal ranchers, has done business with Argentina for decades - livestock and semen. I heard Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (I usually like him) say yesterday that one of the problems with the Trump proposal to import Argentine beef is that it is "inferior" and would only be good for ground beef products. I nearly whiplashed myself turning to stare at my radio. He then went on to opine that importing MEXICAN beef would be an immediate solution to high beef prices. Mexican beef is presently banned because screwworm has been detected in herds there. Do better Sid!!! As a beef-eating Texan and patriotic American I have no interest in the expansion of your power/budget to fight an invasive species. Personally I prefer beef from real cows in Argentina to artificial lab grown slop.
I saw that too. He admitted ranchers are making a "pretty good profit" . The idea of un quarantining Mexican cattle with screw worm which hasn't been found in our food supply seems sketchy( and disgusting) and I can see it now: slaughter ALL the cattle like they did the chickens because of bird flu
I did start ordering my beef from an American outfit delivery service. The prices are just too high for me. I average it out to about$18 a lb( that included hamburger, beef tips and hot dogs). $22 for a 6 of portion of sirloin.
So I looked at my local farms which were even more expensive if you can't purchase a half or more of a cow.
Now we eat beef when there's a sale and STILL spending about$8 a lb for sirloin $4 for hamburger. No labeling of where it comes from though
We buy our beef by the cow and spend $4 a pound cut and wrapped for organic grass fed and non gmo grain finished. It’s a fantastic deal! I recommend buying a whole cow for the price then selling some on if you need to. I’m also in Washington state where the prices are insanely high.
It is high. Too high. I am okay because I am down to just my husband and me. I cook and we rarely eat out unless we are traveling. But I do not know how families with kids make it anymore.
I do not dispute that. I am skeptical about Miller's push in light of screw worm. He had a plan to release some genetically modified species to combat the worm but the feds shot it down. But one of the problems facing Ametican ranchers is serious and prolonged drought. I agree with him that one of the best things we could do right now is expand grazing leases. But in the meantime I am okay with imported beef.
Oh my .. we just bought Argentinian beef the other day. It was plastic wrapped and when we opened it the date on the inner wrapping was June 1st indicating that was when it was packaged. It smelled awful! We returned it. When we got back to the store the next day (fully refrigerated on our end) it was green. Never will buy that again. Rib eye 1-1/2 lb almost $25 cheap but a bad idea !!
Or maybe about Scott bessent’s sweet deal to make his buddies whole on their foolish Argentine speculation. The whole thing connects to soros and stinks to high heaven. This makes holman’s 50k shrink in comparison to the 60 billion just handed out. Betcha didn’t know bessent is soros’ boy.
So the 20 billion plus the taxpayer backed “private “ funds are part of cleaning out? Bessent answered Pocahontas criticism by saying she is a Peronist. The ‘fact’ is that milei is implementing the policies of the Chicago boys that were implemented in neighboring chile at gun point and cia intervention. The people are going to vote against these policies that benefit the deep state financiers unless they get some of those new republican owned voting machines in down there, but if that fails there is always the Pinochet option.
Yes, and if I recall, our taxpayer dollars helped to subsidize the soy market there, which of course we saw no benefit. Remember all the bravado around Milei and his chainsaw optics? Yeah, the country is still a mess, poverty through the roof, etc. But the chainsaw got people all excited for amazing things to come!
Again, a good comment, Johnny. I don’t pay much attention to Argentina, but I do remember this guy and his chainsaw supposedly had turned the Argentina financials around and they were cooking. So I don’t know, again like I say I don’t follow Argentina, but it seems like they were doing really really good, so what happened?
Yes, the timeless “different” defense. Children in cages: that was “different” when O’Bama did it. Weaponizing the government: “different” when O’Biden did it. Deporting illegals: “different” when O’Bama did it.
Lon, I have been meaning to ask you, who is the guy with the high hair in your profile pic? Reminds me of when Lindsey Buckingham went through his high hair days lol.
Tom, that Bible verse is EXCELLENT! There are so many things I wish I'd never seen or read. I never watched that movie but there are others I wish I'd skipped. When we want something wholesome to watch before bed we often choose an episode of "Coastal Kingdom." You can find it on PBS or YouTube. It's a nature show from the South Carolina coast starring Tony Mills, a naturalist who loves and has something good to say about every single animal he encounters.
I thought the film was hilarious. The jokes wrote themselves. I’m not sure what I liked most about it: its off-beat quirkiness (putting it kindly) or the fact that most hated it.
I have watched it maybe 1.5 times in the ~ 50 years since its release. If it has any redeeming quality, it’s that it is a great depiction of a nightmare, as I suspect was Lynch’s intent. I don’t think it’s to be taken too seriously though.
Am I the only one seeing hypocrisy in both "sides" cheering on war when their leader is the one doing it? This war is a good one because Trump says so!
I said some weeks ago after Trump made his speech to the military gathering where he kept talking about peace to be ready for the double speak, and that we would see military actions follow his peace talk.
Hm. Killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to enrich the arms industry, further “foreign policy” objectives that do not benefit Americans and appropriate the oil of foreign countries vs. stopping the deliberate and wholesale poisoning of American citizens by savage criminals (the spiritual bankruptcy of their customers notwithstanding).
I am glad to see federal eyes on state elections, and state residents should not fear the disinfecting light of scrutiny by another level of government.
Election monitoring by the federal govt will also be desperately needed in Arizona next year, and probably many other "swing states" as well. I put that in quotes, because Arizona voters have strongly supported GOP candidates for many years in polling, but recent elections seem to be stolen with missing machines, broken machines, machine errors, wrong size paper, ink problems, etc. in red precincts. And then surprise bundles of ballots filled out in the same hand with the same name voters, overwhelmingly for Dem candidates. And then ballots are counted in a windowless, fenced off building with a rifle guard out front. Citizen observers are not welcome, I was told at the gate in 2022, when we were then handed a governor whose one issue was Abortion For All!, who had refused to debate Kari Lake, and an attorney general who is the most crooked wretch you can imagine.
I will urge the federal government to monitor the Arizona elections next year, due to the Dems' theft of recent elections here.
Yes, I too have serious doubts about how the Hobgoblin won when she also was a basement hiding candidate, just like OBribem, who refused to debate Kari Lake. I know of only ONE person who voted for Katie Hobbs and her merry band of thieves. AZ has gotten a huge infusion of CA leftists, but most of those are in Maricopa county.
"the US Military is finally being used to defend America rather than some godforsaken hellhole ten thousand miles away..." If defending our country, our families, our neighbors and friends from the onslaught of the unrestricted flow of highly additive and deadly drugs causes the dems to accuse us of being 'supremacist' then I am Proud to be an upstanding Supremacist American. We are not equal. We care for people in OUR country.
A friend who has been a certified poll worker for a decade said there’s a chain of command for every box of ballots. There are bands around every box which you can’t remove without signing them in or out. You aren’t supposed to be messing with voting machines unless you use your special code signifying you are an official with that privilege. There are numerous codes in place, every step of the way.
ALL of them were violated repeatedly during the Biden Trump presidential election. Shredder trucks came days early, everyone in the room, including hirees from Stacey Abrams TEMP AGENCY, Smiling Faces Temp, broke rules accidentally, bc they weren’t certified, and some other rules seemed to be purposefully broken.
Though she typically headed up the entire election process, having been a long time,
certified go-to, THAT year (of all years…) she wasn’t contacted to work the polls! She was shocked, and began asking questions. She was told most everyone working the polls was coming from Stacey Abrams Temp agency. She eventually was forced to go THROUGH the temp agency in order to be placed at the poll she’d worked for a decade. There’s more to this story but too long to add here.
There are typically 2-4 liberal “watchers” and 2-4 conservative “watchers”. That year, there were liberals, and on the conservative end, they PLACED women from some LGBTQ movement. LGBTQ movement types aren’t typically conservative.
Just pointing out past discrepancies which were largely “hand-waved” when presented to Sec. Raffensperger.
From my one experience for the last IL Gov race, I did poll watching and in this blue city I pointed out several irregularities among seasoned workers that they admitted and corrected. The Republican organization here has never called me back though I contacted them and offered to return.
I can arrest to many of the things your friend saw and experienced. It's rigged. Here it feels like even in the cities that the Republicans are against us. 😡
I am overjoyed that the Trump administration is deploying poll watchers to California. Our state is fraught with voter fraud (we did recall Newsom in 2022, but the fraudsters kept him in office). I'm praying this will lead to an investigation and, as we expect, Prop 50 passes, we can get it overturned. The good news? Over 70% of Californians are in favor of Voter ID. We are at about 350K of the million signatures we need to get it on the ballot. Pray for us!
"Trump's Asia Tour Riles the Times"
I feel like Jeff could just have the phrase "Trump's _____ Riles the Times" set to automatic, and the blank could be filled in with something new every day.
Everyday ? More like every half hour 😃.
Trump's Bathroom Break Riles the Times.
Golf game
Smirk. Don’t you just love it? I know it makes my ‘friends’ crazy!
The more he does, the more the media dupes find to be offended by. Whereas Puddinhead Biden was a hero.
Haircut.
😂🤣😂 Y'all r crackin' me up 🤣🤣😆
Fill in the blank: prefect
Six new things before breakfast. Our Prez is a whiz!
Yes. Believe it!
🤣🤣🤣
Can we get some ICE agents along with the DOJ monitors?
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Did you see the u haul attack on the US Coast guard base? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LujlLJA4XHg&pp=ygUhYXR0YWNrIG9uIHRoZSBVUyBDb2FzdCBndWFyZCBiYXNl0gcJCQYKAYcqIYzv
And an observation on these educators at no kings day protest.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/teachers-arent-built-today-like-the
FINALLY: A proper use for The Autopen!
Trump breathing riles the Slimes.
Bet they'd push for Maduro nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize
They whine about every single thing.
Tonya, you're on to something.
And don't you suspect that the Grey-pallored Lady, already, has her reactions "dialed-in" to "Whatever" Trump says/does?
For that matter, I just learned today that one AI, what-do-you-call-em, infestation offers addicts the option to create virtual/imaginary friends with whom to share ideas (and some "friends" have already "helped" teen users commit suicide).
It does not seem far-fetched to imagine that The Times has a SLEW of these AI zombies already defined, ginning out "takes" where more-expensive "carbon-based reporters" would have been crafting real stories based on real research and facts.
"Trump's breath in, Trump's breath out Riles the Times."😮💨😡
Ice agents should be at all the polling places.
It's crazy how voting ballots can have foreign languages.
Part of becoming an American is using English.
Yes, I called up the local election office asking why we had ballots in different languages since any foreigner seeking citizenship has to pass a language test. I also know that our state of Washington has corruptly been registering non-citizens to vote since 2018. The reply I received to my question was "we are helping our new voters" or something to that effect. I see right through that.
Awesome you called them out!! If more people took action rather than complaining on social media change might move along faster and better
They didn't finish the sentence...it was actually "we are helping our new voters to elect nothing but Democrats."
New voters, alrighty. Sorta like picking your own facts.
2018? Where have YOU been? I remembee the phraudulent "election" o Queen christine which was back about 1980 something. Phoney ballos were being "discovered" and counted weeks post election, and with the mail in ballot insanity we KNEW tthere were scads o non-citizen ballots. DMV never demanded any validation o citizenship to register to vote.
I don't believee we have had a clean elecion since Dixie Lee ray. How long ago waz THAT? (she was quite the character, motoring about in her British racing green Jaguar E Type (WITH manual gearbox and Laycock overdrive) and most times binging along he pet cougar.
I don't doubt there were non-citizens registered to vote in decades back. It's just that in 2018, Jay inslee reportedly fired the guy heading up the state licensing department because he was following election law TOO well and Jay needed more corruption than that. So he put in somebody who would just register everyone who came to get a driver's license no matter who it was or how not eligible to vote they were.
Exactly so. this is when the trickle became he gusher Now Phergie is "on the job" things can only get worse.
I keep considering sliding away to somewhere else, but WHICH somewhere else? Winters here are pretty tolerable. Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Nevada, not so much. More to the south the winters are much more tolerable but summers are not to pleasant. Ive been near Phoenix and San Antonio and Atlanta in summer..... . Not so very pleasant. But then I DID grow up in Orange County Cal and survived. 105 in the summer was tolerable as long as I was not shovelling concrete or digging post holes all day. riding my bike was alright in the heat because the air , being so dry, turned my sweat into a coolant.
Maybe DJ will become more aware o how things run here and put an nd to the sanct city, tieing up LE's hands,, enabling border jumpers to continue as they have...... maybe.
My state has special driver's license renewal forms and processes for illegal aliens. "No undocumented immigrant left behind!"
You mean, "illegal."
The last time I voted in CA, the ballot was printed in 17 languages.
This is absurd … MEXICO ballots Spanish only. So if you can’t read it and you ain’t a citizen you can’t vote !!!
Mexico also has a fraud-proof voter ID system. We should contract with them to do ours.
Yeah. The cartels just murder the candidates they don't like before the election.
So true. But they don't have any non-citizens voting. They don't have dead people voting. And they don't have mail-in voting unless the voter lives in a different country. Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta: QEPD.
To become a citizen, a legal immigrant is required to learn English, so what excuse is there for having ballots in any other language??
Unacceptable! If you live in this country and are eligible to vote you need to speak the language!
They are driving an average of 80,000 pound semis and can’t speak or read English!
And the highway death toll is rising Ohio D.
I think it's time for government agencies that allow this type of lawlessness that causes injury or death to an innocent needs to be held accountable, considered an accessory. This includes law enforcement and judges!
Agree!
https://san.com/cc/study-english-deficient-truckers-pose-greater-safety-risk-than-drugs-speeding/
Yes! Forget voting - they can’t read road signs or the DMV manual! Scary for the rest of us!
Another sad post..
https://substack.com/profile/369912610-snake-plissken/note/c-170713663?r=2i6r2t&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I keep waiting for CA to spontaneously combust from their wokeness. It is at a ludicrous level already. Gavin Newsom is the poster boy for wokeness and I can barely tolerate looking at his smarmy, unctuous face.
CMCM - Nailed it! 🎯
Congress could pass a law that says the ballots for elections for President or US congress are only in English - if it could get past the Senate filibuster.
Pathetic. The other day I was on phone with customer service for a high end furniture company - could barely understand the rep's accent and then was asked what language I wanted to continue the phone call in. I was like "really?" and he said it was a NY state law to ask that question. USA has lost so much ...
I'm sick of pressing 1 for English.
Still is.
yup
That is crazy. 🤪
We need a 'dislike' button.
More like, "Eff No!"
It also costs us millions to print them in different languages.
Easy money for the Print Shop. (Nice work if you can get it.)
muss bee a gennegshun, ¿no?
Prollly another minority do-nothing contract.
Spot on!
Protesters at any police action is forbidden by law so at the first sign of impedence in an ICE operation, local law enforcement should be summoned to arrest all those messing with ICE. If local law enforcement refuse to do their job then the DOJ should indict them for dereliction of their duty. When a few police chiefs are arrested and placed behind the bars they are so reluctant to utilize for criminals like DeCarlos Brown, others will think twice before failing to secure the area around ICE actions.
We have laws aplenty. The problem is with enforcement. The officers who would do so are deterred by higher ups in too many cases.
Something hs to give.
And all the liberal judges that keep stopping everything !!!
Especially the liberal judges. Surprising what percentage are minorities. Like there’s been a concerted effort to place them or something…
Most definitely- there has been a concentrated effort!! Unqualified but they have the right skin color
Arrests and long terms of incarceration remain a great tool to fight the Left.
Yes, what we are seeing is insurrection.
This is a test of longevity and attrition which is why NGO funding by creeps like Soros has to end. Funding goes away, Antifa and the others go away.
Not exactly a principled mob.
Treason
Meddling with a US Gummit enphorcement operation is a national issue so ICE or EphBeeAye would have jurisdiction. I'd much rather THEY handle that end o things, as local may well do a catch and release, the guilty never seeing a courtroom. In other words, no consequences. That;s the only way such conduct will change. A stint in the GreyBar Hotel works wonders with respect to changing one's behaviour.
Can the watchers stick around for all 28 days it takes CA to do their ‘counting’??
True story:
In late 2016/early 2017, I randomly ran into a woman who was part of the Jill Stein recount in MI. She was an observer for Trump in Wayne County [location of Detroit.] This is an example what she tole me in terms of BALLOT BOXES.
Boxes marked:
Trump 50
Hillary 250
Boxes open and tallied:
Trump 200
Hillary 100
Governor of MI at the time was an R "nerd outsider." He could have prosecuted the election workers. Instead, he didn't see a problem and ordered more "training."
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/07/michigan-ballot-recount-election/95107886/
You don't see voter fraud in many of these states because they choose not to prosecute voter fraud.
Might have been how he himself got elected. Douglas Frank saw algorithms applied since ~2000.
I don't understand what you are saying - if you are alleging fraud favoring Trump or fraud favoring Clinton.
Either way, I call bullshit. Ballot boxes aren't marked with one candidates name. For one thing, there are a lot of elections on a ballot in an election year. If they are marked at all, they would be with the precinct they are from. I have been an election worker, and will be again next month.
In reality, the ballots favored Trump.
But they were tabulated to favor Clinton. IN THIS PARTICULAR DEMOCRAT COUNTY
There was no reason for this random person to lie.
Or months ??
One unpopular proposition “passed” in mid-December 2024, one day before the deadline. Ummm, sure. They’re already saying that Prop 50 to remove Republican districts is “unquestionably” going to pass. Local NextDoor comments were about 70% “no.”
I just looked it up again...
"California's Proposition 50 election has seen over $200 million spent on campaigns for and against the measure, making it one of the most expensive ballot measures in state history. Supporters have raised approximately $132 million, while opponents have contributed around $78 million.
As a CA voter, I have thus far received for the two of us in my house:
1. Two postcards saying we need to vote on Nov. 4
2. Two multi-page publications about where and HOW to vote
3. Another publication with a decscrption of the Prop 50 measure, which
clearly states it is to retaliate against Trump.
3. 2 Ballots in the mail
4. Two more postcards reminding us to vote.
It sounds hopeless. I saw on TV this morning that when it passes, the Dems expect our Republican reps to be reduced down to 4 out of 52. It's a done deal that California is a supermajority Dem state and Republicans have next to zero power to influence anything in the state. But the loss of most of our FEW Republican seats in the House does have an impact nationally. Republicans are supposedly about 40% of the state, but effectively we will have NO representation in the House. With the detestable Adam Schiff and the nearly as detestable Alex Padilla as our two Senators, we are shut out of representation both. on a state level and. nationally, and there probably isn't any hope to change on a State level due to such overwhelming Democrat control plus all the illegal immigrants plus all the voter fraud that undoubtedly goes on.
Another bad thing is that in a non-presidential election such as this one, voters vote in small numbers. That unfortunately includes Republicans.
Very depressing.
'A Republic, if you can keep it", CMCM.
It's now or never, we cannot survive another dem president.
Get out the vote and tell all your like minded friends. I too live in CA- part time, but am registered to vote in CA. I’m hoping this is like is often the case: media spins it to sound like this measure is polling so well, but in reality they’re asking mainly Dems and most Rs won’t respond to polls. The reality will be much different. Losing this would be a huge nail in Newsom’s coffin regarding his future prospects which I hope are already dim.
You can't necessarily believe polls. For example, where do they do their polling? My guess is in a heavily Dem area to skew the results. Early on there was supposedly a large backlash against Proposition 50 with a majority on both sides against it. Now they media is telling us the opposite. I'm thinking their likely fake poll is merely designed to discourage R's from voting No. I've been reminding everyone I know to be sure their "No' vote is in soon.
CMCM, great summation, sadly. And this is the worst it’s ever been with no relief in sight. I sincerely hope that the fixing of many of the state’s problems is on the list - close to the top - for current fed administration as they are well aware of associated problems for rest of country.
Thank you! Same here, except in duplicate because of different registrations. 😡
I just looked it up again...
"California's Proposition 50 election has seen over $200 million spent on campaigns for and against the measure, making it one of the most expensive ballot measures in state history. Supporters have raised approximately $132 million, while opponents have contributed around $78 million.
As a CA voter, I have thus far received for the two of us in my house:
1. Two postcards saying we need to vote on
2. Two multi-page publications about where and HOW to vote
3. Another publication with a decscrption of the Proof 50 measure, which
clearly states it is to g against Trump.
3. 2 Ballots in the mail
4. Two more postcards reminding us to vote.
It sounds hopeless. I saw on TV this morning that when it passes, the Dems expect our Republican reps to be reduced down to 4 out of 52. It's a done deal that California is a supermajority Dem state and Republicans have next to zero power to influence anything in the state. But the loss of most of our FEW Republican seats in the House does have an impact nationally. Republicans are supposedly about 40% of the state, but effectively we will have NO representation in the House. With the detestable Adam Schiff and the nearly as detestable Alex Padilla as our two Senators, we are shut out of representation and there probably isn't any hope to change on a State level due to such overwhelming Democrat control plus all the illegal immigrants plus all the voter fraud that undoubtedly goes on.
Another bad thing is that in a non-presidential election such as this one, voters vote in small numbers. That unfortunately includes Republicans.
Very depressing.
State law says up to 30 days following Election Day to certify results. As far as I can tell, it’s the longest allowed in the US. 🤬🤬🤬
A DOGE approach in CA would take decades longer than the federal level. The machine is so entrenched, prying out the grift is a Herculean task.
Yes I am sadly too aware that the two northwest states are just as corrupted, I assert that they became so corrupted when Californians began moving north in droves beginning in late 1980s. I moved to CA in 1987, the year Bay Area folks were selling their homes and using the cash to snap up houses for cash in King County - Seattle area - and driving up property taxes fast and furiously. Pre-Microsoft money, Bill Gates was unheard of back then. Grrrrr.
I was in the Bay Area in the late 1960's and early 70's and, along with the drapht lottery and Berserkeley/People's Park riots, was aware o a change leading many to head north. I knew quite a number who were living in the Bay Area and coastal Northern Cal who moved even just a little bit to places like Bandon, Grant's Pass, some up to Portland, Vancouver Washingon, Olympia, Seattle. Sell a house in Santa rosa at $50K and buy a nice place (5 acres good bottom land along a small river at $25K, 27 acres at $60K) 20 years on one sold their place near Gran's Pass at $300K and cashed into two nice places near Prescot AZ.
I also know of a lot of Southern California people, most of them Dems, who retired and went to Oregon to live. They obviously took their destructive politics with them.
Hey, when did YOU meet my sisters?
I've been saying the same thing for years!
The ICE agents wouldn’t have to go looking for the deportees. Bahaha 😹
Wouldn’t do any good in CA if 85% are mail in ballots
That's where signature verification comes into play SB. If sigs are checked by a scanner what are the 'points' that machine is adjusted for? If sigs are read by eye, what training has the verifier had? How often are they trained ? Do they only check sigs once every couple years? As we know now, auto pens are very efficient. Auto pen a voter registration card, send a ballot to an address that doesn't exist. Ballots cannot be forwarded so it's returned to county clerk. That ballot is now ripe for fraud, another auto pen signature that is a perfect match...ballot processed.
Vote by mail was designed for cheating, plain and simple. People are lazy and want the connivence. It costs nothing (except taxes). They think they have done their civic duty. Then they can't believe their choice of candidate or tax measure or law never comes out the way they voted.
People will need to be forced into voting in person, on paper, one day, counted in precinct. If voter numbers decline sharply so be it. If a person can't devote an hour or two every couple of years, I don't want them voting. Besides, where does it say that everyone must vote? That's a false narrative the left uses to shame the right into supporting voting laws that only favor cheating.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, sermon over is over...
Good sermon! I’m in!
Riddle me this - why in the hell would anyone want to give up your vote, your God given right to vote, and vote by mail?
So, you put your completed ballot in the mail, and you feel all special and shit.
But shockingly, your ballot gets intercepted by the postal carrier, who has a hair up his ass and is very worried about who you voted for.
So, he opens your ballot and becomes super distraught upon discovering you voted Republican or Libertarian, anything but Marxism, Communism Democrat.
So, he chucks your ballot in the trash. Of which you know nothing about because you weren't there when he tosses your ballot in the circular file.
Your vote, your God given right to vote is just gone. Gone like a fart in the wind. All because he doesn't want any opposing party to win.
How does that work for you?
Don't think that can happen to you? Ya right...
And here's a shocker (not) for you. Leticia James gets appointed a Biden appointed Judge for her case. Who saw that coming? Probably everyone.
And her case gets combined with James Comey's case.
"Here’s the twist — on Friday, James’ attorneys asked that her challenging of Halligan’s legality be combined with Comey’s challenging of her legality. U.S. District Judge Jamar Walker, a Biden appointee, approved her request."
As Jeff Childers would say: "You can't make this stuff up."
and there will be no accountability. I was never hopeful when it was announced that all these crooks were going to be indicted. Remember when Trump posted a pic of obummer, Killary etc in orange suits a couple of months ago. Jesus can't come soon enough
Agreed…
Ice agents should be at all shopping malls.
Went yesterday to get new clothes for my 12-yr old and his comment was: “I feel like a tourist in Mexico”. Location: greater Chicagoland.
I wonder if that would scare away the progressives....
US congressional democrats are planning to put out an "ICE tracker":
https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1981149665585176738
Absolutely!
Great idea
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The name of Yahweh is a strong tower;
The righteous runs into it and is set securely on high.
— Proverbs 18:10 LSB
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“I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.” – Isaiah 42:8
Run to the Father, don’t walk!!!
Run to the father through Jesus the son, and give him the glory; great things he hath done.
Today's earworm. 😂🥰
Let the people rejoice!
Now I’ll have to play that on the piano today! Really loud.
Did you hear it Sue, all the way from Oklahoma? 😀It’s been too long since I sat down to play! Thanks for the reminder of that beautiful hymn.
I wish! But I can imagine it in my head. 🥰😍. And you are right; that one is best played and sung loud!
Excuse my language, but I love it when tyrants like Maduro, cower like a little b.tch and sound like victims when they reap what they sow. Consequences!
Does anyone else think Maduro strongly resembles Saddam Hussein? Not saying it means anything, just weird.
I was going to write this same comment! I first saw that picture of Maduro and thought "what does Saddam Hussein have to do with this story?".
Hahaha.
Clone
Saddam and his two sons were evil.
I just deleted my orginal comment. I was corn-fused with Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. I just realized my error and deleted my post. Sorry for the mislead
Kent, did you know you can hit the three dots to the right of your post, and a drop down menu will have an edit button and you can change your entire post rather than deleting it.
True... but taking him out in a bogus war-for-profit threw the ME into chaos.
Saddam was a CIA asset for a long time... but when he began selling his oil to countries for other than the US dollar... he was scheduled for removal.
The WMD horsecrap is still a massive stain on this country and caused over 500,000 innocent Iraqi deaths.
Exactly zero fentanyl comes from Venezuela. Our benevolent government has been attempting a coups there since the mid 2000s for their oil and rare earths.You people are so far propagandized by your cult leader and lazy with research you believe everything the lamestream media feeds you. It takes approximately 2 seconds to prove this whole "drug" thing is propaganda that you all are falling for. The "peace president" and Marco Narco have obviously tricked the propagandized to follow the peace president into more violence against a bunch of poor people again. Drop site had a great piece yesterday about just this. But yeah, we need to spread more "democracy"with the barrel of a gun. I cannot for the life of me understand why people "forget" all the lies and how long they have been attempting this. But now that they have a cult following...It can be done. Please inform yourself prior to such a shallow comment which will mean death for many more innocents incoming.
Then prove it in the 2 seconds you mention. We are waiting. Tick Tock.
Not sure he can as he’s the actual propagandist here today.
I am willing to keep an open mind but bring on the specifics, links where we can perform our own due diligence and any other references so we can sort out for ourselves.
This is one of many stories written. The Obama travesty attempted it too. Again for the 100th time. Its not a right left thing but the billionaires verses the rest of us. Stories as this were written during the bombers regime too. Lime Jeff wrote today. Obama was the one that normalized this extra judicial killing. It was wrong then and is wrong now. We used to I thought stated you were innocent until proven guilty in a court of law...But now because our "war" dept states anything it becomes proven without a court of law and peers. I mean its common sense these people lie constantly. How soon we all forget the covid lies and operation warp speed, initiated by the dear leader. Who I just read was being nominated for the noble prize for? This stack started because of the covid lies....But now your billionaire is back in all those lies stopped?
As that evil Clinton stated.. you have to have the willing suspension of disbelief..
All Im attempting is for you to look under yhe surface of the propaganda that is now legally allowed to be fed to you because Obama suspended the Smith-Mundt act. Just don't be lazy in what is being fed to you please and thank you
Sorry Aaron, but “This is one of many stories written.”
Key words: “stories written”. They are stories. Carefully crafted stories. We have gotten very good at recognizing the prose.
No honest president that is as big of a threat as Trump is has a chance to escape being equated to the rot we have been fed before. The way people try to sweep him into that corrupt pool shows there is absolutely NO ONE that would have satisfied you. Either that or you’re truly controlled opposition. Either way, I choose to NOT take part in tearing down this administration because they have more than proved their character and mettle. Can one of them stray? Is it possible? Sure. Last I checked they were merely human so yes. We will deal with it when there is irrefutable evidence, not speculative nonsense. Until then I’ve seen enough to stand by them, and that is after doing as much of the reading and cross referencing as anyone else. That doesn’t make me blind or lazy just because I feel you have come to the WRONG conclusions.
Just wondering how I am "controlled opposition"? Because I put facts in front of you this billionaire is lying and tricking you? Please lay out all the GREAT things he has done? No wars have been stopped. His administration still hasn't released the Epstein Files as promised. Right now is bombing Somalia, Venezuela, allowed an Al Qada leader to take over Syria. The guy less than a year ago had a 15 million dollar bounty on his head? He is crushing US farmers, sending billions to Argentina to crush ranchers, enriching his family fortunes with "trump coins". He has an Israeli first administration to go along as well. Just like Biden and all the rest before him.
I know you really want to believe, we all want something or someone to make the malfeasance go away. However, there is zero chance that ANY government person is going to be the one to make it happen for you.
I don't have the answer to a 200 year problem but I will and have succeeded at making people look under what is being clearly propagandized for them.
Im sorry your critical thinking skills lack the comprehension to know this billionaire is just like the rest of the billionaires who hate us pleebs.
But go on believing he will change your life for the better if that is what makes you happy and confident in your beliefs. As long as Israel doesnt take our first amendment away...we can still share our thoughts.. I don't hate just want people to critically think again as very few did during Covid.
It was critically thinking folks such as us that made this stack what it is. Don't forget that skill you had then with this billionaire actor who has tricked millions into believing in a false saviour... peace
With regards to the Covid lies, they are being dismantled systematically by Trumps cabinet, namely RFK jr and Marty Makary. The lies were fabricated and brainwashed into people’s heads by the Biden administration and the media and people actually still gets boosters of the poison thinking we are crazy saying the jab is poison. The Argentine beef thing-I did a deep dive on this because I was initially pissed but it turns out that the USA is still recovering from the devastating effects of our beef supply during COVID, and it’s been exacerbated by drought, so we are slowly growing our cattle ranches again which takes time. In the meantime the Argentine beef is serving a purpose in keeping our ground beef supplying the USA alive and it’s from a friendly country instead of Brazil which has become quite unfriendly and so we don’t buy their beef anymore. The goal is to get back to all USA beef. Regarding operation warp speed, I don’t believe that operation is about getting vaccines to the people quickly no matter their safety, but getting us out of the lockdown the government establishment intended to last for years, ushering in the great reset and the green new deal, which has been stated openly by the WEF. As in, never let a good crisis go to waste type statements. Trump is working on many fronts to pull our country from the uniparty rule, which has been controlling us since at least the 70’s when we came off the gold standard. Think about this. It takes time as well to deport 11 million illegal aliens that are sucking us dry. And being used to affect the results of our election thru social security number fraud. I’m encouraged by his progress!
I heard someone say yesterday that the beef for Argentina is especially needed for all the ground beef in particular.
Speaking of lazy, try proofreading sometime. Your post is so full of errors it is incoherent.
100 facts. Sending from a phone is a terrible idea. Sorry for the sloppy writing
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https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubio-secretary-state-push-venezuela-maduro-regime-change-boat-strikes/comments
Just as I suspected, his “facts” are feelings. A leftist comment section is now proof? 😊🤣🤣🤣
Yep just read it. Blue Sky all the way
Dropsite news is a leftist leaning publication supporting progressive causes. Me thinks you should also do more balanced research before claiming your conclusions as facts.
You are a clown for sure. In order to check your biases you read everything to find where truth is. Whether you agree with everything or not. Ive never voted left and have been writing in Ron Paul as my president since 06. Thank you for proving my point of how shallow you cultists are.
Thank you for your attention to this matter...Clown🤡
Aaaaaand there it is. All any of us needed to see to discern your character and motivation. When it turns into attacks like this my warning bells go off like noisy gongs. Your frustration over having no control of the narrative is palpable.
Yep Aaron you are a lefty. .. go straight to name calling and labeling.
Interesting that you end up resorting to ad hominem attacks and childish name slinging at people who disagree with you. I'm fine with considering whatever links and evidence you have that led you to your position, but I'd like to see such evidence coming from credible, non-progressive and non-biased sources.
Someone moving into the US drug trade? Paging Pfizer
Thus the Drug Trust, while maintaining the Stalinist Communist Government in Russia, simultaneously maintained a Communist back up regime in the United States, the Trotskyite Movement, in case the Stalinist regime should fall."
Eustace Mullins
Murder By Injection.
I’m no Venezuela fan , but Grok: According to the U.S. Department of State’s 2025 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report and the DEA’s 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment, fentanyl is almost entirely produced in clandestine labs in Mexico using precursor chemicals sourced primarily from China and India. It is then smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border, with over 92% of seizures occurring at or near ports of entry. Venezuela is not identified as a production, transit, or smuggling hub for fentanyl in any official U.S. reports
I don't consider AI as it gives what it is fed but I appreciate you taking the time to post this. China and India we already know about. Would need to see proof outside of AI. Cheers Dave.
Southern border has been screwed down pretty tight since Trump was inaugurated, mules are now inefficient . Cartels need other routes to get the large quantities of drugs inside the US. Our northern border is becoming another very weak point of entry.
Full change of direction, how can we change the will of the buyers? If we can reduce the demand the supply will dwindle. I may just be wishing upon a star...
Well I’m certainly not saying they aren’t drug boats - they are. I was more just saying they’re probably cocaine (also bad) and maybe not fentanyl.
cocaine or fentanyl, both bad news and have no place in our childrens or grandchildrens bodies.
I'm waiting too, let's see your evidence Aaron..
Actually why is Aaron even on Substack .. reading Jeff..?
It is reasonable and fair to have diversity of thought on stack articles. It would be better to have some "proof" so that we can perform due diligence and make up our own minds.
I agree with you. I read all sides and it truly is amazing how both sides will go straight to name calling us there is any criticism of the narrative. Problems will never be solved with this mindset.
Yes, and… on another platform when this sort of thing happens the most experienced immediately know what is going on.
TPTB are deeply invested in the information warfare being waged.
FH, what is TPTB?
Gosh, thank you so very much in your support of my thesis. You evidently are a true believer in your cult worshipping clan and the false prophet..
I'm not allowed in your cult if I challenge the dear leader? It's comments such as this, which hopefully afford others to come to my same conclusions about the cult. You have just written how lost and propagandized people like you are. I know though, when lost in the cult, you are unable to see how blind you are🤷♂️
Thank you for your support and validation in this matter! 🙏
Oh, so you want censorship when someone questions something or doesn't agree with you?
Try not to be a douche-bag.
Because Jeff is directly above the target, sights set precisely on the true problem(s).
I think we know the answer.
He's right.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Lz2MRIMkUA7B
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WB5UnoVrsrBg
It's not drugs anyway... it is the Venezuelan OIL Trump wants.
I have to do more research but ty for the links. Why don't we ask Trump about this by email, TruthSocial, by phone calls expressing concerns about all this? That is what I will do on Monday.
Sure...
You still think Trump is a truth-teller?
About Epstein, 911, JFK, Gaza, Russia?
Keeping an open mind but do trust him more than other Presidents. Just watched Tuckers series on 9-11 and boy, was that an eye opener. And to think I voted for Bush. If that is all true, we were sold a bill of goods on that one.
We already get 90 percent of the crude oil Venezuela produces. Are you saying we should buy more?
You are grossly uninformed, so should try not to speak.
In 2025, Venezuela primarily sells its oil to China, which receives the vast majority of its exports. Shipments to China are often rebranded as Brazilian or Malaysian crude to circumvent U.S. sanctions, allowing tankers to sail directly from Venezuela to China and reduce transit time. Exports to China accounted for about 90% of Venezuela’s total oil shipments in June 2025, up from 75% the previous month.
So many here with small brains and big mouths. Do some research before bleating.
Was the assassination attempt in Butler Pa. a staged event?
Warning, ad hominom attack!
Aaron (if that is your real name), you are excellent at spouting both the democrat and far left conspiracy theories in a blended woven stream, i gotta give you credit, but it is all bs. Venezuela/Maduro is not our friend in so many ways beyond fentanyl. They may not make it there, but they are complicit in it's distribution, as well as human and other trafficing.
As to how we know President Trump is helping us, an anecdote (one of many i could cite, to use your "additional" babble): we are traveling to TX and the south east US over the last several weeks, gas was ~$3.20 when we left, on the road we watched it drop to as low as $2.36. I'm a happy camper.
The price of gas is more based on world supply and demand, not who is in office at the moment but can manipulated somewhat by releasing fuel from the national reserves as Biden did. Right now, there is a world wide oil glut but that could end in another month and gas prices go back up.
Don't be a moron ahole.
Aaron makes valid points. If they make you spot your panties, tough shit.
See my links above then STFU.
Hi mspring, you replied to me not Aaron, just fyi:}
But you are correct. I don’t know. From reading your other comments I thought you might have some ‘research’ on that particular theory.
Somehow I forgot your insult always policy. My bad.
Just asking for a friend
You need an accurate long laundry list of every possible drug before you’re going to support protecting our citizens from the hundreds of thousands of deaths? Protecting the many law enforcement officers fr being shot when they got in the way of the cartel? Drugs are drugs. So they named the one we are most familiar with and inundated with these days, but there’s a long list of others ALSO killing our loved ones. And you have no proof that they haven’t had fentanyl on board. Since they got into bed with China it might be accurate. Simply saying “it’s not made there” is frivolous.
I don’t care what drugs they are carrying we are done with this shit and all who defend it. This isn’t the only ocean spot they are attacking drug boats either. They are protecting our borders and people like you are weakening them.
Do you really think that killing random people in the Caribbean is "protecting our country"?
I don't understand why you don't think that evidence isn't necessary to execute people. You don't care what drugs they are carrying? You don't care if they are even carrying drugs? These people, their boats, and whatever cargo they had have not been examined for evidence. The government simply pronounces them guilty because they are dead. Shades of Obama.
Why would China, which docks enormous cargo ships in US ports, full of unexamined containers, find it necessary to go to Venezuela and put small amounts of fentanyl into speedboats 1,000 miles from any US shore? Does that really make sense to you?
If you are going to support summary executions, they should make more sense than the story they are telling you. The plot holes are so big, the script writers should be ashamed.
Mrs. RW
“I don't understand why you don't think that evidence isn't necessary to execute people.”
I don’t understand how you can assume our military hasn’t done its due diligence. The hubris that people have to make such an assumption of this administration is unreal. There is absolutely no evidence they didn’t have sound proof and evidence before the strikes. Simply saying “we’ve always been lied to so certain this is more of the same” is not enough for me when it comes to an administration that has been following laws and procedures to a “T”. You can bet they have their ducks in a row.
No I don’t care which drugs because that takes the focus off of the real problem, that there are so many that have destroyed our country’s citizens, and the surrounding atmospheres of crime that comes from it has destroyed our country. I would have supported this approach many years ago with cocaine, meth, heroin. We kept doing the same things and thinking we would get a different result.
I have a son that could have died to this latest flooding of drugs into this country, ungodly strong marijuana laced with fentanyl - obtained by medical dispensaries!! Focusing on the one end of the problem (curbing his addiction - like our country always has unsuccessfully done for 50 years,) would NEVER have saved him. What saved him was making it impossible for him to have access to any of the drugs long enough for his body to truly recover so that his mind could make the decision for himself. But if he were to easily access them on our streets today he still is at risk. He is safe so long as he can’t bump into it on the streets. That’s the power of addiction.
I’d much rather try something new and combatting this at the OTHER end of the problem, the sources of entry and not having easy access on our streets, so that our fellow Americans presently looking like statues can recover and have a chance at a real life.
According to Mark Slaboda, when he was in the US Navy, they did annual drug interdiction drills.
What the protocol was at that time was that if the Navy suspected a boat of carrying drugs, they were to notify the Coast Guard.
The protocol was NOT to blow up the boat, the people, and the suspected evidence, and then pronounce them guilty posthumously.
Now you think that the Navy has some mind reading ability to do ''due diligence" without interdicting the boat and searching it?
Why would I assume that? That's magical thinking.
I am sorry that your son was into drugs and I'm glad that he is now clean, and I can see that the experience might have hardened you, but blowing up people without evidence just isn't done in civilized countries.
Actually, blowing people up, period, is not done in civilized countries.
The biggest drug running operation in the USA, since WW2, is the CIA.
If you want to stop drug running with explosives, the best thing to do is blow up Langley.
Killing random boaters in the Caribbean isn't going to do anything to stop drugs in America.
Mrs. RW
God bless you Mrs RW for pointing out that often ignored fact. The CIA was bringing drugs into this country in the coffins of dead American soldiers and flooding our cities with drugs. They used the money to fund more illegal operations. The same people that killed Kennedy. Journalist Gary Webb pointed all this out in the San Jose Mercury News and soon lost his job and then his life. This murder on the seas is a show for the public and getting the public ready for more military actions to come. Primiing the pump.
Where exactly is this "proof" that the military showed us and you write about? Because Faux News said it was so. To my knowledge there has been no "proof" that anyone or anything has contained drugs and it was on its way to states.
We simply hear about another boat being blown up with our cool gadgets that can do it. They "tell" us their Narcos but show no HARD EVIDENCE this is the case.
They this just week released two people back to their countries that lived through one of our perfect bombings.
They weren't charged with anything and were lucky enough to have survived. They were simply released. I guess they weren't terrorists after all...
That there my friend is EVIDENCE ALONE. They made a fn mistake. But we are to believe your benevolent leader... Got it.
The facts and information is available, if you want to comprehend it..
It seems pretty clear that this is about resources not drugs. I don't trust any government official telling me something's for my own good without evidence.
Trust the immense surveillance that is gathered by the military. More than we can ever imagine. Stop guessing. These leaders are not the corrupt Dem types, so I’m for trusting their judgment and actions.
Bliind trust is not a good thing.
Again comments such as this prove my point 💯. Thank you for your support 🙏
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Please provide all your irrefutable evidence what the dear leader and war department propaganda is...
Tick tock waiting...
I've been saying for years that if the US wants to solve the immigration problem, it only needs to stop destabilizing other countries and stop stealing their resources. If we allowed the countries of the Americas to develop their own prosperity, their citizens would happily stay at home.
I agree with part of this statement. I do wish America would leave other countries to their own devices. Sadly, for the people of those countries, they are often ruled by incredibly corrupt leaders in part due to long-standing political philosophies like liberation theology. It's a mess, but we shouldn't be cleaning it up (and to head off what I'm sure is one of your objections - no, America should not be participating in Color Revolutions because as we've seen, our installed leaders are rarely better).
I was teaching in Tehran from 1977 to early 1979 when the Iranian Revolution was gathering steam and then the Shah was deposed. Iran was really a pretty nice place back then and making a lot of progress. The Shah and his over the top monarchy with his Peacock Throne was a bit much for the people of the West, but nevertheless, he was doing good things for his country and I could see it quite clearly. But our CIA was heavily operating in the country, and the Shah was said to want more control over his own oil industry. He got ill with cancer, but things could have continued with the oversight of those he trusted, his wife and his heir Reza. There were communists in his government, and other opposition. The day I arrived in Tehran a CIA operative was assassinated and we were afraid to send our 7 year old daughter to Tehran American School because we worried it might possibly be attacked. Many of us there suspected that the U.S. at that point (the oh so naive Jimmy Carter was President then) thought that letting the revolutionaries take over was a good thing for their continuing control over the oil...Carter himself once made the comment that Khomeini was "a good religious man." Wrong!
All this said, does anyone think that particular "regime change" had a good outcome over the last 46 years? And how was the State Department so very wrong about it all? My students were all Iranians 18+ in age, and most of the time I was there I heard stories from them about a coming revolution with Khomeini at the head of it. Fiery religious sermons from Khomeini trying to incite people were being smuggled into the country and played in all the mosques. We asked our embassy officials about it and they knew nothing about it....or perhaps pretended to know nothing, hard to say which.
It is this well written comment and FACTS for why I attempt to awaken people. Thank you very much for posting. One woke, wakes another and another. Thank you again for writing how evil and messed up our government can be. We haven't learned one lesson from our failures... much ❤️
These abuses aren't a result of what we think of as government. They are the result of an intrenched bureaucracy unaccountable to the citizens. Trump is making the first effort ever to reduce its independence.
If they had good leaders instead of the criminals that are elected, maybe thst would be true. Their leaders are like the ones worldwide..stealing as much as possible. The love of money and power are the root of all evil. Too many gangs and cartels in Central and South America.
That's true in the US as well. To my way of thinking, that doesn't make it ok for some other country to disrupt out economy and politics. Allowing other countries to have their own sovereignty, just like we want, is the road to peace. And buying their resources instead of stealing them is the road to a stable peace.
I don't understand what your point is. The US already BUYS more than 90 percent of all crude oil produced by Venezuela. That has not resulted in their ceasing to send us massive amounts of cocaine and working to destabilize their neighbors. Do you think we aren't buying enough from them and that is why peace stubbornly refuses to break out? Or what? Lo único que entiende la gente como Maduro es el Gran Palo.
Can you please show me where you observed that all this cocaine is coming from Venezuela. Truly haven't heard this until this latest propaganda regime change came about. If I missed this someway I would sure like to know that it has been Venezuela since the CIA crack cocaine epidemic of the late 80s and 90s...
Maybe its true and im ignorant. I thought it was Columbian and Mexican cartels but hey I'm willing to be educated. If its only coming from our "war department" I may be a lil skeptical though..
I agree with NAB. People will come to an open border USA if they think life for them will be better for any reason whatsoever, and the US is not the source of all problems. It’s overly simplistic and not empirical to say it is. In Colombia, the owner of the corner market is liable to be kidnapped because he seems to be wealthier than the kidnapper. The government there has always tended towards corrupt opportunism for more than 1/2 a century. Not all of these features come from action by USA.
Destabilizing things like USAid, that has been shut down by Trump?! Yup we do need to quit destabilizing other countries by subterfuge, and confront them directly. Oh, yeah, that's also what our president is doing!
I think it would be good if you reflected upon the fact that the US didn't target Venezuela until after they moved to become a part of BRICS. Take a look at what happened to Ghadafi when he had amassed enough gold to start a North African currency. This would have cut the US petrodollar out of the picture in that part of the world. There is nothing the US hates more than having it's petrodollars cut out. Venezuela tried to do this. Suddenly, they are our next war. Gosh, what a surprise!
Bullcrap.
One point I'm having problems understanding is your comment regarding destabilizing other countries. Are you saying that Chavez and Maduro have created a wonderful country and we destabilized it. So tell me about Chavez and Maduro. I was in Venezuela in the late 70s. It was a very nice place. Then your heroes Chavez and Maduro came along and turned it into a pigsty, just like all good socialists and communists do. So please spare us the laughable narration that the state of Venezuela is the US's fault. You need to think things through a little better.
I can't imagine how you came to think that I view Chavez and Maduro as heros. I don't. At all. But, I don't think it is the job of the US to go into other countries and remove their dishonest or incompetent leaders. As I said, the same quality of leader can easily be found in the US, and I, for one, very much don't want other nations removing them for us.
Are we better off allowing other countries, like China, destabilize our neighbors? Perhaps we need to rethink our role in the Americas. The mess has been a long time in the making and won't be cured by next year.
Semi-submersibles seems an odd way to transport “innocents”.
Another mouthpiece with nary any proof. Whether its fentanyl or cocaine being shipped from Venz, doesnt matter, its illegal DRUGS
Trump just wants his Narco friend Juan Guido to be in charge. The US gov has assisted drug smuggling for decades. Wake up folks.
Narco Rubio was living with his brother who was caught smuggling drugs in FL. Narco Rubio claimed he didn't know! Effing laughable.
THANK YOU! I don't have time to provide the VOLUMES of the evidence of how this has been going on for years with several iterations of propaganda attempting to make something stick..But with this class of low information cultists it was simple this time...You nailed it. The link I sent and that site definitely leans left however they do a good job of Uncovering malfeasance in both parties...Edward Snowden anyone...Thats was them. These faux news people are retarded 😒. It takes Google and open mind to find truth.
But but cocaine that boat could never get here with...I mean retards.....that believe what is easily proven.. how many miles away is Venezuela and that little boat.
I think the primary 'low information cultists' here are you and good ol' johnny-o.
Says another cult follower who couldn't face reality if it hit them square in the nose.
that is foolish.
Our own CIA is one of the biggest drug-runners in history.
Maybe it was aspirin.
Canada has let in millions in Fentanyl precursors, just look up Sam Cooper, investigative journalist, substack author, author of Wilful Blindness, and the Bureau podcast.
Also, Isn’t Venezuela known for its cocaine, but I’m certain they are diversifying, now they are in bed with Chyna!
👆👆👆👆Vancouver is a known area for fentanyl. I keep waiting to see what the administration is going to do to stop this. China sends precursors to fentanyl to Canada and it’s made there and ends up in the US. Fentanyl killed my son and off the top of my head I can name 10 families who have lost their beloved children to this insidious drug. At least Trump is trying to stop it. Biden laughed at a woman who had tragically lost 2 children to fentanyl laced pills. Drug traffickers even put it in marujuana. This is a national tragedy and it has to stop.
So sorry about your son.
Exactly: CHINA! It’s the China threat that Trump is going after not Venezuelan oil. We have our own oil reserves. We don’t need Venezuela. But we would like to be partners with them again under the right circumstances.
Yes. While I get what is going on with Venezuela, what I don't understand is why we are not treating the Chinese trade in Fentanyl precursors to Mexico and Canada with the same seriousness. And yes, the main Venezuela drug export is cocaine. I know at one time the largest amount of those precursors was coming in through Mexico's West Coast ports of Mazatlán and Lázaro Cárdenas on Chinese cargo ships. Do not know if that is still the case, but a naval blockade of those ports could have discouraged a lot of those Chinese imports. Similarly, we ought to be taking a close look at the West Coast of Canada, which now is just about a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP thanks to its immigration policy. One element of NAFTA was our helpfully updating three superhighway drug corridors connecting the Mexican border with the rest of the country: I-35, I-29/I-94 and US Route 59.
I think the Maduro move by Trump has more to do with and wanting to protect the western hemisphere from increasing Chinese influence in some South American countries. The Chinese were a huge influence in Biden’s open borders. They were set up at the Darian Gap pass. Why? Hmmmm
Let him say so then.
Why keep lying to Americans?
Who is lying? Trump has said many times he wants to stop narcotics especially fentanyl into the US. Most fentanyl is from China.
Trump is lying... about MANY things, but to your point... he is claiming his attacks and possible war against Venezuela are related to drugs. LIE.
Yes, most fentanyl is from China, via Mexico. Venezuelan coke is NOT a big issue.
He is going after the bigger picture. It makes sense and we will all be better off for it.
I don't mind reading your diatribes, but please stick to the subject and stop attacking others. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
He made valid points.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Lz2MRIMkUA7B
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WB5UnoVrsrBg
It is pathetic to watch people fall for the bullshit, time after time. They never learn.
It is Colombia that grows and processes and transports cocaine. Usually the US ignores Colombia, because until this latest president, its ruling class was pro-American. Don't be surprised, though, now, if suddenly the US discovers that there are drugs coming from Colombia. OMIGOD! Who could have known that?
Fentanyl? It seems only last week that China was being blamed for fentanyl. But now that's down the Memory Hole.
"We have always been at war with (and gotten our fentanyl from) Venezuela."
If anyone wants to know which countries are involved in the drug trade, and which ones are not, you can look it up here.
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/data-and-analysis/world-drug-report-2025.html
Unless you'd rather close your eyes and believe the government as it lies you into another war.
Again.
Mrs. RW
Well said.
your own map shows cocaine coming from Columbia AND Venezuela.
"By Pino Arlacchi – Aug 28, 2025
During my tenure as director of UNODC, the UN agency against drugs and crime, I traveled to Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil, but I never visited Venezuela. There was simply no need. The cooperation of the Venezuelan government in the fight against drug trafficking was one of the best in South America.....
The 2025 UNODC report is crystal clear and should embarrass those who have built the rhetoric of demonizing Venezuela. The report only makes a minimal and brief mention of Venezuela, stating that a minimal fraction of Colombian drug production passes through the country en route to the United States and Europe. Venezuela, according to the UN, has established itself as a territory free from the cultivation of coca leaf, marijuana, and similar products, as well as a territory free from the presence of international drug cartels. The document has done nothing but confirm the previous 30 annual reports, which do not mention Venezuelan drug trafficking because it does not exist. Only 5% of Colombian drugs pass through Venezuela."
Mrs. RW
Cute, but wrong. Maybe you are talking about Venezuela before Chavez and Maduro. But I'm sure the UN agencies are all on the up and up.
Did you miss the part about ''2025"? Maybe if your reading comprehension improved, you would be able to tell when your government is lying to you.
Mrs. RW
Cocaine is a nothing-burger compared to fentanyl.
Drug users are free of blame?
Awww…..you didn’t get your cocaine this week, didja?
Call Hunter Biden. I’m sure he will share his with you.
Victims of fentanyl are also innocents. It’s so much easier to feel sorry for imaginary innocents than the real ones bent over in the streets.
Imaginary victims? FFS bombs and guns have consequences. We've just slaughtered maybe 100s of thousands of Palestinians that were Imaginary? Ahh my. My the dear lord have mercy on your soul. How many have we killed so far. Once bombs start dropping real people get maimed and killed. Fentenal does not come from Venezuela and our own DEA says as much. Whew...
Again thank you to all the commenting which validates my thesis on you cultists
That would confirm the foolishness of starting a war. When a terrorist group invades another country, massacres its citizens (including BABIES), and kidnaps civilians to use as bargaining chips (while the hostages starve in dark, underground cells in tunnels built with AID money) tell me why anyone should pity the aggressors? You’re a Hamas bot or so propagandized you’ve lost any sense of justice. Do I feel sorry for the “innocent” -yes, the murdered and kidnapped. The terrorists and those who put them in power? Not so much. I do believe in God’s mercy but keep in mind that God is also just. Evil doers will reap what they sow. Count on it.
And how many children are locked away without any charge in Israeli dungeons. Last number I heard was in thousands...Two kids...two kids were murdered in cold blood that day. How many thousands of Palestinians have been murdered in cold blood since?
The lsraeli news has stated as fact the Hannibal directive was initiated that day. Do you know what that is? Please explain it to us in the reply comments below...Killing innocents is terrible no matter who does it. Believe Jesus told us that...🤷♂️
I do know that over 2000 terrorists and convicted murderers were released to get the remaining hostages. Children? Where did you get that from? Hamas?
Wake up... do some research... don't be a sheep buying onto the BS propaganda.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vl6RQEgJlH06
Apartheid Zio-pig Israel is the most vile and corrupt "nation" on earth, founded on the BIG LIE of the 'holocaust".
Hundreds of thousands? According to Hamas? Gaza Bob?
Drug abusers are "innocent"?
except that the us has oil, gas, and coal reserves to last more than a century so there must be other motives
It could be both are true. There is drug trafficking from S. America and we want their oil and rare earths and will take it. We saw the same with Central America. We prefer certain chosen gov'ts that will allow our corporations in to take what they want. Unfortunately, it's an old and oft repeated scenario. The British did it before us. The Romans, the Mongols, Spanish, and so on....
Their land, their resources. Leave treasures and resources in the countries they are in. If they wish to sell them, good for everyone.
Well, history has shown it rarely works that way.
And that is a shame. I think about all the Egyptian/Greek relics and treasures at the British Museum and shake my head.
What's that expression, "to the victor go the spoils."
JFK believed that.
What you say has definitely been true in the past, Clem, America has been OK with just going in and taking the resources of other countries. I’m hoping that this president Trump is different from those in the past and is serious about trading for their resources
…instead of simply killing them and taking it.
There are people far above Trump that are making the real decisions on this.
Perhaps that is the case, but occasionally in the history of mankind, there has come a rogue that breaks away from the commands of the rulers of this world. I was just thinking that maybe Trump is one of those rogues, and I was thinking that because they tried to kill him in order to stop him. I may be wrong.
… time will tell, but I am definitely aware of the men that control the world
Meanwhile China had been way ahead of us trying to meddle in South America and get rare earths, prime real estate, and influence while using that platform to destabilize the US
Except China smartly uses their Belt and Roads Initiative to win the hearts and minds of the people they "meddle" with. They build things for them while the US, swings their guns around and threatens people. Perhaps this country should consider making friends with other nations rather making threat against them. You know that old flies and honey saying.
Yes and no. The CIA set up Colombian drug cartels in the 1960’s and that entire stretch of Carib water has been notorious for piracy and drug running to USA for over 50 years. I know people who have encountered piracy there. Drug cartels buy speed boats and cannons now but in years past they would steal boats, even leisure sailboats. The owners would be killed and tossed overboard.
The other thing I can tell you from personal experience, the USA knows what vessels are out there. Customs still want vessels to check in when arriving to US shores but know who’s out there regardless. They have layers of surveillance incl satellite and have been tracking drug lord activity for a very long time at this point.
Those speedboats don’t drive themselves. For that matter, any innocent fisherman in a speedboat running out of Venezuela today is profoundly ignorant of his chances reaching his destination. There must be some other motivation at work.
I know exactly zero fishermen that fish with 5 high powered engines at 80-100 mph.
fishing boats look very different and equipped differently as well. great comment Sue.
Do you know any that intend to make it to the USA?
It's 1500 nautical miles... in a small boat?
FACTS... the cultists just live with that Hillary line... They keep that willing suspension of disbelief 🤦♂️
True. Very similar to Biden butt-sniffers...
Hero-worship is difficult... when the "hero" is so often a jackass.
The boat they blew up before this last one was not running at all, it was floating off the shore.
But we are told that it was full of drugs that they were going to float 1,000 miles to the USA.
Sure, dudes. Pull the other one.
Mrs. RW
Yeah those incredibly fast unmarked boats filled with 55 gallon drum’s are just oil deliveries. Shut the fuck up if you’re just gonna be stupid.
The US loves a boogy man. It gives people a face to hate and turn their attention towards. Remember the Gaddafi "Madman" moniker? Soon everyone was calling him a madman thanks to repetition in the press and TV. We usually don't care about tyrants until they have something we want but first you have to vilify them. Hussein was our pal until he decided to sell oil for Euros instead of dollars. Then he was Public Enemy #1, even blamed for 9/11(which wasn't true) and for WMDs(that didn't exist). I don't know how much of what the gov't (and media) says is true and what is manufactured but I take all this current Maduro hype with a BIG grain of salt.
You know you can spin ANY protective measure taken to protect our shores and say the same thing. EVERY country has resources, so does that mean every attempt to protect our own is really a move to steal their resources? It’s such a conflation of circumstances meant to discredit this administration, even by some in our ranks. I’m tired of it. I say bombs away.
Except European countries have very few resources which is why Lindsay Graham’s idea of carving up Russia to seize its $135 T estimated natural resources appeals to them.
But anyone who knows anything about Russian history realizes that would be a fool's game, leading to disaster.
I think the Maduro move by Trump has more to do with and wanting to protect the western hemisphere from increasing Chinese influence in some South American countries. The Chinese were a huge influence in Biden’s open borders. They were set up at the Darian Gap pass. Why? Hmmmm
Adding on: for years I have been hearing how Hezbollah is all over Latin America, mostly from a couple of Latin American officials in interviews on the (formerly?) great John Batchelor Show.
Further to this, when Michael Yon was down at the Darien Gap, among the many points he made is that they were so deep into Venezuela that they are indistinguishable in accent, mannerisms from actual Venezuelans.
Wait, there’s more: I always wondered if our President was using hyperbole when saying that Venezuela emptied their prisons into the US in those four awful years. Yesterday I heard Michael Waller say exactly that phrase. IMHO he is one who would know.
So. (Sorry not sorry, Jeff)
We recently had a tren de aragua group take over an addiction rehab facility here in the pacific northwest. They were actually getting leftover covid funds from the state. They are everywhere.
So sickening to hear.
100%. Tareck El Aissami Was a recent vice president of Venezuela.
They (Chinese) were also taking over the Panama Canal from the Panamanians! I had forgotten about that. Trump said that we built it and we want it back. It’s all connected.
Gaddafi was one of Hillary's uncounted victims.
we must keep open minds even if it is not a good look for "our" side.
Gaddafi may have been a madman to us but his country was thriving-now look at it. My hope is that President Trump won’t play into the WEF’s hands.
Sounds antisamantic.
Although not in the sense in common usage, by the technical definition, “Semite” can refer to those of Arabic ethnicity as well as Hebrew. Wikipedia informs me that Hussein was, in fact, of such extraction. Therefore, ironically, if you were opposed to him, you could be labeled “anti-Semitic”.
In a similar way, no Jew could denounce others of being “anti-Semitic” towards him, unless he could prove ancestry from the Twelve Tribes. Lots of them could, of course, but the blond, blue-eyed ones would have a tough time of it.
I should have been an attorney.
LoL.
Just a play on words.
Agreed.
Agreed, Bard,
… everything we say is about the words we use
I’m already asleep half way through. The guy said “anti-semantic” on purpose. Wikipedia is rejected as a source in any University or decent high school classroom btw…..
Counselor Satan's Doorknob has quite a ring to it
VERY few jews in Israel have ANY genetic relationship to the biblical Hebrews.
Palestinians do.
Being that you are a bard... lol, I assume you meant antisemantic!
Bingo.
I’m a little confused as to your meaning:
antisemantic (not comparable)
Based on form or structure rather than meaning.
Devoid of meaning.
Hostile to meaning and clear communication; tending to conceal or undermine sense.
Misconstruction of antisemitic.
You nailed it. A nonsense word like another nonsense word.
Feel free to reconstruct.
“Sounds” comes from a need to confirm a biased agenda. Set “sounds” aside and develop critical thinking skills. Rise above black and white thinking and become part of the solution.
A questionable agenda with a meaningless word.
😂
This is the dumbest move Trump has ever made. I blame it on Rubio. Out with the neocons.
Nah, his dumbest and most appalling move is supporting, funding and arming Israel's genocide and land thefts.
Next is his support of the cockroach swine of Ukraine.
TAW
I am leaning towards the judges that release these folks. They are accomplices & complaisant. Why can’t they be tried as well? Why isn’t it a crime to simply allow the criminal to run free?
I know silly thoughts.
If doctors lost their licenses when they prescribed Ivermectin and went against hospital policies to save their patients....How is it that judges who actually allow criminals to run free and continue to kill not be held liable?
Such a great comparison!!
Aren’t they aiding and abetting criminals? They absolutely should be held accountable!
Exactly! Don't put the wrong words on your check memo or you go to jail but commit dozens of heinous felonies and ride free on the train.
Congress has the ability to impeach those judges. My question is why don’t they?
I wish I really knew.
Wonder if the TV Show "Judge Judy" had inspired a bunch of power hunger potato heads to get a law degree ?
Magistrate judges don't necessarily have any law training. Anyone can be appointed a judge or elected a judge.
WOW! Worse than I thought.
Not silly at all Dr. Linda.
They also need to watch Wayne County, MI. This is where the late night ballots magically appeared to swing the victory for Biden. Also, where they put paper over the windows while they counted votes.
If the people who voted can't watch the ballots being counted then someone IS cheating behind the closed door.
Find whoever it was that allowed the closed door counting and deal with them. Or toss all the votes from that location as being tainted.
We have the 3 evil witches running our state: Whitmer, Benson (SOS), and Nessel (AG). They are all in on it.
Agree Carrie
"Election monitoring by the Justice Department is not uncommon,” One would think that with the Dems accusing Republicans of voting fraud, they would welcome Federal observers, that the DEMS could stand alongside of, to monitor the process. Or are they concerned their voting fraud might be blocked?
Everyone thinks the election system is rigged when their guy loses, so we should all be thrilled that there will be some oversight. Honestly, though, until they do something about the states that have lax voting rules (mail in ballots, not showing ID, or showing ID but allowing illegals have driver’s licenses), I think the oversight isn’t going to make much of a difference. It will help with the middle of the night sudden surges possibly, but not with the ‘30 days later suddenly our candidate pulled ahead’ BS that CA pulls. The DC legislature absolutely needs to pass voter ID laws for federal elections.
Require ONLY Real ID or star card. If you can't fly without it, you can't vote without it. I hate the stupid things so I use my passport but,at least in my state, a Real ID requires more documentation ,including proof of residency. They put a little red Voter ID mark in the corner.
Real ID is more government control. No reason for a real ID to fly. Illegals have flown everywhere without any. A voters registration card and a driver's license with a picture will verify who you are..as only citizens should have either. No one should be allowed to register to vote unless you go to the parish/county seat in person with the documentation proving who you are and where you live.
Your comment about illegals flying without ID made me wonder how TSA let that happen. Must have been on Biden Airlines private transports? More rules for me but not for the protected class.😡
I refuse to get a Real ID. It's a gateway to complete surveillance. So next will you get the QR code tattoo? Or do the digital implant? You know. "For your safety..."
Why can't I fly without a real id, but all the illegals are flying without them? We already have all the laws we need, we just need to enforce them. This creeping surveillance, implemented incrementally, for our own good, is terrifying
Pretty sure you will have to eventually. I need to renew my passport. I will have no choice but to comply. I have a close relative living in Europe who may need my help and physical presence at some time. Otherwise I would not renew.
Many states were issuing Real Id's willy-nilly to illegals. KY is one place they were actually caught because a whistleblower stepped up and told how DMV was giving them to anyone for $200 a person.
Black oeople don't know how to get valid IDs so requiring them is voter suppression. Right?
Apparently, and we all can see it very clearly, passing more laws makes no difference. We have laws that only citizens can vote in federal elections.. so.. they still allow non citizens to vote. So the oversight is at the very least a step in one direction. Yes we need more however. I agree.
Ah, but remember, the left almost always does what they accuse the other side of doing. The Iron Law of Woke Projection never fails!
You actually just described both "sides."
Someone is just here to stir the pot today.
Someone (or many) are here to cheerlead for their preferred group of oligarchs. Good on you or something.
As usual, your comment is out of context and makes no sense. You’re always on here looking to stir things up. Maybe you should try actually contributing to the conversation.
You think the only way one can contribute is by bootlicking the Trump admin. Criticism is not allowed!
Election fraud was real and widespread in 6 critical heavily Democratic (duh) areas. Read Patrick Byrne's The Deep Rig. BTW he didn't vote for Trump.
Check smoke bombs at the door.
Decarlos Brown should be put to death TODAY. No waiting for twenty years of appeals, nor the cost to taxpayers of $100,000 a year to keep him in jail. We all watched in living color as the monster stabbed to death petite Iryna, who was just trying to get home after a night of work at a pizza shop. Kill him now.
Who is the bigger threat? Beastly Decarlos Brown? Or the liberal judges who repeatedly released that deranged psychopath after each of his fourteen prior criminal arrests so that he could continue preying on us all? I’m just asking...Can a liberal judge get a life sentence, firing squad? asking for. friend...
Yes. All those judges should be held as accessories to first degree murder, criminally prosecuted and convicted convicted and put away for the rest of their lives.
And all their assets liquidated and given to the victims families. They should be left penniless
Decarlos Brown has the excuse of being seriously mentally ill (he is clearly a psychotic schizophrenic). What are the judges' excuses?
I don’t think mental illness is an ‘excuse’ for murder. The idea that insanity is a defense for murder, only proves the insanity of the American criminal justice system.
… it should be obvious that anybody that murders somebody is mentally ill
They are Democrats, not that it is a legitimate excuse.
both are dangerous and sick.
Both are Depopulation Specialists.
Our government across administrations are the depop specialists. Any change in the toxic chemicals being dumped on our farmlands and foods? Nope. Any change in the toxic ingredients in our "food" - nope. Any change in the toxic injections across administrations? Nope. Business as usual.
Finally a comment that makes sense Johnny
Let's start a "Grow Our Own" movement !
Trying to do just that this year, wonderful experience.
Greed.
Everyone knows he did it since the whole thing is on video and many witnesses were present. This better be swift punishment.
And do it the way he killed Iryna, not with an "easy" out. Best comment so far, thank you.
Not now. Wait until Monday.
Torture him
Keep praying for our country and for this administration. If God is for us, who can be against us.
@Jin - Everyday, my wife and I pray,
2 Chronicles 7:14 AMP
[14] and My people, who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land.
https://bible.com/bible/1588/2ch.7.14.AMP
Amen and AMEN! Shalom Shalom
Be Well, Be Blessed,
Phillip
Plain and simple... mail-in ballots should be illegal. There is no need for them at all. The military personnel could vote in person at sites that are set up for them. Shouldn't be difficult. And for everyone else, not able to get to the voting booths in person, sorry your vote will not be counted!
Any time a rule lends itself for
millions to cheat while only
lending itself for thousands to be helped, it’s probably not worth having. OR, if you have mail in ballots, it should be stringently monitored for discrepancies, one way or another.
KC, one significant need if mail-in voting is allowed, would be to have court or law enforcement enforcing regular purging or cleaning of the voting rolls, as required by law. Old ballot addresses that no longer represent living voting citizens are used every election to print as many illigitimate votes as calculated to ensure a victory. Especially in Oregon, where they have not purged the votor rolld for years where ALL elections are mail-in ballots. It is widely quoted that "Oregon has the best mail-in ballot system." True if you are a Democrat and want "one party rule" and complete control of all elections.
You are absolutely correct. I know nothing abt Oregon except that it’s beautiful.
Here in GA, a group of moms grew weary of “just praying abt it”, and decided to learn the local systems and run for local offices, and do other political things where we could.
It snowballed into a force to be reckoned with.
One arm of this group figured out how to purge rolls and did it!! They reported that, in addition to dead
people being on the rolls, burned down sheds, dog houses, abandoned buildings, even medians were listed as viable addresses of voters. I think in one county, they found something like 4000+ nonexistent “voters” and or addresses.
The corruption is unreal. The swamp is becoming a sea.
Mail in ballots are different from absentee. With mail in, they send ballots to everyone and they are mailed back.
With absentee (how the military and truck drivers vote) the ballot has to be requested, and the signature is verified against the registration and either witnessed or notarized. Then it is mailed in prior to the election so everything can be verified ahead of time. I’m ok with that, but not mail ins.
Jeff, dig into the arrangement with Argentina and the beef industry. Ranchers in the US are very unhappy.
I contacted our local cattle rancher that we buy our beef from, and asked them questions about all this including has Trump actually helped them the way he says he has? What are the ramifications of the Argentina beef being imported etc etc. The USA labeling and prices… all of the controversy. They responded and said as soon as they have some time to write a response they would.
We should all be questioning our local cattle ranchers. Seems it might be the only way to get some actual truth. Right from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
We really need to support the local small farmer/rancher like you are, not Big Ag as they are a nightmare.
If/when they respond, please add their response to the substack.
Yes, Help Needed!
I’m a beef farmer (cow/calf) and can help a little.
We need to bust up the packer monopoly. Two American packers and two foreign packers control the entire American market.
We need to deregulate small packers. The big monopolists wrote regulations, which the USDA implemented, that bankrupted hundreds of small packers.
We need to have country of origin labeling. Right now, frozen quartered beef from China (or other countries) can be shipped into America, packed for consumers, and labeled as USDA inspected product of America. Americans have no idea what they’re eating and China has no interest in protecting our health.
We need to disallow govt aid to corporate farms. Family farms don’t get a dime, but the mega ag corporations get billions of dollars in govt money.
There are other things, but these would be a good start.
Thank you for that! I’ve been hearing those things too on social media (not explained well though), but you explained it well.
Which is kind of ironic given that the US cattle industry, including lots of normal ranchers, has done business with Argentina for decades - livestock and semen. I heard Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (I usually like him) say yesterday that one of the problems with the Trump proposal to import Argentine beef is that it is "inferior" and would only be good for ground beef products. I nearly whiplashed myself turning to stare at my radio. He then went on to opine that importing MEXICAN beef would be an immediate solution to high beef prices. Mexican beef is presently banned because screwworm has been detected in herds there. Do better Sid!!! As a beef-eating Texan and patriotic American I have no interest in the expansion of your power/budget to fight an invasive species. Personally I prefer beef from real cows in Argentina to artificial lab grown slop.
I saw that too. He admitted ranchers are making a "pretty good profit" . The idea of un quarantining Mexican cattle with screw worm which hasn't been found in our food supply seems sketchy( and disgusting) and I can see it now: slaughter ALL the cattle like they did the chickens because of bird flu
I did start ordering my beef from an American outfit delivery service. The prices are just too high for me. I average it out to about$18 a lb( that included hamburger, beef tips and hot dogs). $22 for a 6 of portion of sirloin.
So I looked at my local farms which were even more expensive if you can't purchase a half or more of a cow.
Now we eat beef when there's a sale and STILL spending about$8 a lb for sirloin $4 for hamburger. No labeling of where it comes from though
We buy our beef by the cow and spend $4 a pound cut and wrapped for organic grass fed and non gmo grain finished. It’s a fantastic deal! I recommend buying a whole cow for the price then selling some on if you need to. I’m also in Washington state where the prices are insanely high.
It is high. Too high. I am okay because I am down to just my husband and me. I cook and we rarely eat out unless we are traveling. But I do not know how families with kids make it anymore.
Actually Mexican beef is very good.
I do not dispute that. I am skeptical about Miller's push in light of screw worm. He had a plan to release some genetically modified species to combat the worm but the feds shot it down. But one of the problems facing Ametican ranchers is serious and prolonged drought. I agree with him that one of the best things we could do right now is expand grazing leases. But in the meantime I am okay with imported beef.
What do you want Sid Miller to do?
Not make a power play.
Oh my .. we just bought Argentinian beef the other day. It was plastic wrapped and when we opened it the date on the inner wrapping was June 1st indicating that was when it was packaged. It smelled awful! We returned it. When we got back to the store the next day (fully refrigerated on our end) it was green. Never will buy that again. Rib eye 1-1/2 lb almost $25 cheap but a bad idea !!
Or maybe about Scott bessent’s sweet deal to make his buddies whole on their foolish Argentine speculation. The whole thing connects to soros and stinks to high heaven. This makes holman’s 50k shrink in comparison to the 60 billion just handed out. Betcha didn’t know bessent is soros’ boy.
Get your facts straight about him. True he worked there. Who better to clean things out than someone who knows from the inside. That is the only way.
So the 20 billion plus the taxpayer backed “private “ funds are part of cleaning out? Bessent answered Pocahontas criticism by saying she is a Peronist. The ‘fact’ is that milei is implementing the policies of the Chicago boys that were implemented in neighboring chile at gun point and cia intervention. The people are going to vote against these policies that benefit the deep state financiers unless they get some of those new republican owned voting machines in down there, but if that fails there is always the Pinochet option.
And so those US ranchers should be rip roaring mad!
Yes, and if I recall, our taxpayer dollars helped to subsidize the soy market there, which of course we saw no benefit. Remember all the bravado around Milei and his chainsaw optics? Yeah, the country is still a mess, poverty through the roof, etc. But the chainsaw got people all excited for amazing things to come!
Again, a good comment, Johnny. I don’t pay much attention to Argentina, but I do remember this guy and his chainsaw supposedly had turned the Argentina financials around and they were cooking. So I don’t know, again like I say I don’t follow Argentina, but it seems like they were doing really really good, so what happened?
…How come now we gotta bail them out?
“that Obama’s strikes were different”
Yes, the timeless “different” defense. Children in cages: that was “different” when O’Bama did it. Weaponizing the government: “different” when O’Biden did it. Deporting illegals: “different” when O’Bama did it.
It’s always different.
Lon, I have been meaning to ask you, who is the guy with the high hair in your profile pic? Reminds me of when Lindsey Buckingham went through his high hair days lol.
Henry from the movie Eraserhead. Or, he uses a photo me after I wake up every morning.
just looked that up as never heard of it. it is henry and the story is ghastly.
It's disgusting. I have to watch all kinds of crap because my daughter majored in film.
I truly wish I had never watched it.
Psalm 119:37 (ESV)
"Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways."
I try not to remember anything about that vile film.
Tom, that Bible verse is EXCELLENT! There are so many things I wish I'd never seen or read. I never watched that movie but there are others I wish I'd skipped. When we want something wholesome to watch before bed we often choose an episode of "Coastal Kingdom." You can find it on PBS or YouTube. It's a nature show from the South Carolina coast starring Tony Mills, a naturalist who loves and has something good to say about every single animal he encounters.
Yes, I would not watch it after reading the summary.
I thought the film was hilarious. The jokes wrote themselves. I’m not sure what I liked most about it: its off-beat quirkiness (putting it kindly) or the fact that most hated it.
Thank you for the reply Lon. When the summary mentioned that Henry kills his child, that did it for me. But boy, some really high hair....
I have watched it maybe 1.5 times in the ~ 50 years since its release. If it has any redeeming quality, it’s that it is a great depiction of a nightmare, as I suspect was Lynch’s intent. I don’t think it’s to be taken too seriously though.
Am I the only one seeing hypocrisy in both "sides" cheering on war when their leader is the one doing it? This war is a good one because Trump says so!
I said some weeks ago after Trump made his speech to the military gathering where he kept talking about peace to be ready for the double speak, and that we would see military actions follow his peace talk.
Johnny o you are so unhappy here why don't you leave and go to the UK or Venezuela or anywhere else.
Hm. Killing hundreds of thousands of civilians to enrich the arms industry, further “foreign policy” objectives that do not benefit Americans and appropriate the oil of foreign countries vs. stopping the deliberate and wholesale poisoning of American citizens by savage criminals (the spiritual bankruptcy of their customers notwithstanding).
Do you see any moral distinction there?
I am glad to see federal eyes on state elections, and state residents should not fear the disinfecting light of scrutiny by another level of government.
Election monitoring by the federal govt will also be desperately needed in Arizona next year, and probably many other "swing states" as well. I put that in quotes, because Arizona voters have strongly supported GOP candidates for many years in polling, but recent elections seem to be stolen with missing machines, broken machines, machine errors, wrong size paper, ink problems, etc. in red precincts. And then surprise bundles of ballots filled out in the same hand with the same name voters, overwhelmingly for Dem candidates. And then ballots are counted in a windowless, fenced off building with a rifle guard out front. Citizen observers are not welcome, I was told at the gate in 2022, when we were then handed a governor whose one issue was Abortion For All!, who had refused to debate Kari Lake, and an attorney general who is the most crooked wretch you can imagine.
I will urge the federal government to monitor the Arizona elections next year, due to the Dems' theft of recent elections here.
Yes, I too have serious doubts about how the Hobgoblin won when she also was a basement hiding candidate, just like OBribem, who refused to debate Kari Lake. I know of only ONE person who voted for Katie Hobbs and her merry band of thieves. AZ has gotten a huge infusion of CA leftists, but most of those are in Maricopa county.
Ugh, that is the kind of state to state importation you want no part of:{
your AG and Tish James should do lunch. Imagine the possibilities.
Wish we could arrange a lunch for them both - in some prison somewhere.
They will get there on their own, not to worry...
"the US Military is finally being used to defend America rather than some godforsaken hellhole ten thousand miles away..." If defending our country, our families, our neighbors and friends from the onslaught of the unrestricted flow of highly additive and deadly drugs causes the dems to accuse us of being 'supremacist' then I am Proud to be an upstanding Supremacist American. We are not equal. We care for people in OUR country.
Typical sheep comment.
Dig deeper.
A friend who has been a certified poll worker for a decade said there’s a chain of command for every box of ballots. There are bands around every box which you can’t remove without signing them in or out. You aren’t supposed to be messing with voting machines unless you use your special code signifying you are an official with that privilege. There are numerous codes in place, every step of the way.
ALL of them were violated repeatedly during the Biden Trump presidential election. Shredder trucks came days early, everyone in the room, including hirees from Stacey Abrams TEMP AGENCY, Smiling Faces Temp, broke rules accidentally, bc they weren’t certified, and some other rules seemed to be purposefully broken.
Though she typically headed up the entire election process, having been a long time,
certified go-to, THAT year (of all years…) she wasn’t contacted to work the polls! She was shocked, and began asking questions. She was told most everyone working the polls was coming from Stacey Abrams Temp agency. She eventually was forced to go THROUGH the temp agency in order to be placed at the poll she’d worked for a decade. There’s more to this story but too long to add here.
There are typically 2-4 liberal “watchers” and 2-4 conservative “watchers”. That year, there were liberals, and on the conservative end, they PLACED women from some LGBTQ movement. LGBTQ movement types aren’t typically conservative.
Just pointing out past discrepancies which were largely “hand-waved” when presented to Sec. Raffensperger.
From my one experience for the last IL Gov race, I did poll watching and in this blue city I pointed out several irregularities among seasoned workers that they admitted and corrected. The Republican organization here has never called me back though I contacted them and offered to return.
I can arrest to many of the things your friend saw and experienced. It's rigged. Here it feels like even in the cities that the Republicans are against us. 😡
In Arizona, the GOP are definitely against us. John McCain left a large, ugly, and corrupt stain in this state.
McCainn the man who brought us Golden Showers.
Dang. I hadn’t even considered that even the republicans may be against us.
Two wings of the same diseased bird, and it ain't no eagle.
Uniparty in action.
Sec. Brad Raffensperger
Yes, thanks!’
I am overjoyed that the Trump administration is deploying poll watchers to California. Our state is fraught with voter fraud (we did recall Newsom in 2022, but the fraudsters kept him in office). I'm praying this will lead to an investigation and, as we expect, Prop 50 passes, we can get it overturned. The good news? Over 70% of Californians are in favor of Voter ID. We are at about 350K of the million signatures we need to get it on the ballot. Pray for us!