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AMEN!!! Excellent read after today’s post … we’ve been through the valley of the shadow of death and now he is preparing a table before us right in the presence of the enemy!
The Nobel selection committee has just solidified its reputation as a pack of politically motivated buffoons...and in doing so, rendered all future selections suspect.
They've shown themselves as clowns for years now. It just became really obvious when they proactively awarded Obama the peace prize for doing ... nothing. Just the _idea_ that he might bring peace (and didn't in any way, shape, or form)
My dad worked for Mobil Oil until the late 80’s. It was a VERY conservative company, to the point that he was known as a bit of a rebel for occasionally wearing BROWN suits haha. One Halloween in the 70’s, my dad wore a Yasser Arafat costume at work. The president of Mobil was “not amused.”
Which part? We are undergoing the 7th political realignment in USA. “Republicans” used to resemble war mongers and corporatists and there was dogmatism. Morality has shifted.
Clair, I think the Peace Prize is the punch line, tacked onto the ends of jokes: "...and so, I did the only thing I could think of; I gave him the PEACE PRIZE!" HAHAHA. HAHAHA.
It has indeed! People can pretend to be impressed and give credence to this "Peace" prize, but it's known...WELL known... that it no longer means anything. In fact, I would rather like to see President Trump say "Thanks! ... but no thanks! 🇺🇲
Yes, Obama getting the peace prize a few months after getting in office was a joke. But to be fair, this brokered peace deal, while definitely a good sign, has not been executed yet.
Trump could do something so funny here: announce he is creating a new award called the “Trump Peace Prize” and operate it the way the Nobel was always supposed to, having recipients of a caliber that cannot be contested and make the Nobel winners look like they won a middle school drama club’s best actor award or most-popular-kid-in-class president award.
It's ironic, isn't it, that Trump was key in putting out 7 fires/wars/conflicts in the world whereas Obama got us INVOLVED in 7 and yet Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize. Obviously the Nobel Peace Prize is as meaningless as the Oscars are. I am not discounting the woman who "won." But I am saying there should AT LEAST have been a TIE this year, for lack of a better word.
Trump should create a new Peace Award, named after himself as the first recipient. “Trump Peace Prize”. The Nobel Peace Prize has made itself irrelevant.
Brilliant !absolutely brilliant! can you imagine the liberal heads exploding all at once? it would be magnificent. I truly hope he does it, just for the spectacle it will create.
This is a fair point … surely Trump would have said disparaging things about that panel of dummies passing out prizes these days … maybe they preferred to stay away from him? They anointed a Trump ally which betrays them somewhat?
I did a bit of research on past peace prize winners. Most of them were people I'd never heard of. Obama got his little prize after 8.5 months in office, and had not yet done anything except win the election and give a bunch of speeches. Even someone from the Nobel committee said this: Most scholars and Nobel observers now regard Obama’s Peace Prize as: “A prize to encourage a promise, not a prize to honor an achievement.”
I noticed that a great many of the winners were similarly awarded, and tended to be people involved in struggles in individual countries and people without particular worldwide influence.
Given some of the dubious past awards including the world's #1 climate grifter Al Gore in 2007 and Obama in 2009 (awarded mostly for some of his speeches), despite the stunning worldwide peace accomplishments of Trump this year, it's quite clear the Nobel peace prize (deliberately in small letters) is a relatively meaningless little piece of trivia awarded by a group of leftie globalists most of us wouldn't respect anyway. If I were Trump, I'm not sure I would want it anyway. At this point, it's like getting an award from Klaus Schwab.
It's interesting that in 1973 Henry Kissinger and Lê Dức Thọ were jointly awarded the peace trinket for having jointly negotiated the cease-fire in Vietnam. Apparently Kissinger was a controversial choice. And interestingly, Lê Dức Thọ refused his award because he said peace had not yet been achieved. Kissinger offered to return his prize after Saigon fell in 1975 and no lasting peace had been achieved.
Despite not having done anything of note, I sure don't remember Obama offering to return his prize. It's said he was embarrassed by it, but I wonder if he has it sitting on his mantelpiece right now?
I lost a good friend because she opposed the Iraq War and I wouldn't join her at a protest. Ironically, I knew the invasion of Afghanistan was a huge mistake, but didn't realize in my wildest dream what a complete mess that turned out to be. Scott Horton argues in his book "Enough Already" that a Clinton aide pushed for Gaddafi to be overthrown to push a tough image. In the early 1930s, General Smedley argued he was just a hired thug in his book War is a Racket. He rec'd accolades unlike the guy who went to jail for handing out leaflets opposing the WWI draft. The phrase 'can't yell fire in a theater' comes from Schenck v. US.
Hey Bard, NPP just awarded Maria Machado, a woman who was groomed at Yale for regime change operations. Her specialty is regime change in Venezuela. She’s been going after Maduro for some time now. So there’s your answer.
Apparently Norway is down with that as it turns out. Toured UC Berkeley in late summer of this year. Parking is hard to find there. They have four sparking plops reserved for NPP winners.
Well if Maduro China and the voting machine software scam ends up really all being tied together...then that's a huge assault by CCP against our nation. I would go fight to take Maduro/cartels down for that one. China cannot be allowed to overthrow us thru political allies on this half of the rock.
An academic question for you…. How do you feel about US regime change, election meddling, and spying on other countries, even Ukraine in 2014? It’s been rampant since WW2. What’s good for the goose, something something…..
I don’t like any of it. We need to be China proof and stop selling them land, etc…. We need to stop neo-cons in our government from mischief too.
That does seem to be a potential solution to fill the void of decreasing US production. With the EU trying to escape Russian energy Trump must think Venezuelan energy is his best option. It could prove costly.
On what planet is it an "option" to invade a sovereign country and take their resources? Only here, in the good ol' US of A can people think this is legal and justifiable (clue - it isn't).
J o you live in a world of fakeness. Believe GOD and trust HIM. Using your definition of sovereign and invading..Venezuela has indeed invaded the US with their drugs. Thugs. Gangs. And released criminals.
I live in a world where there is rule of law and where most people don't want war. The vast majority of people in Venezuela are law abiding citizens, just like everywhere. The vast majority of narcotics come from Columbia, btw.
Wait…. You didn’t actually just forget about ALL of human history???
From Ancient Rome to Aztecs, to a thousand years of Viking Raids, to the “Age of Imperialism” w/ Spanish Conquistadors and Queen E, etc…. the Entire British Empire…. Hitler in Europe. I could go on…. How does a person who presumably attended high school not know about ANY of that? By the way, Denmark still “owns” Greenland. France still controls African countries….
Did you not know that the EU, along with UK/CAN/US already have 18 names picked out for when they manage to carve up Russia into little satellite countries? That’s a joint effort. Maybe because Europe is crashing and Russia has an estimated $135 Trillion in natural resources. Russia will defend itself. This scheme is no secret.
Go back and take a world history course. You may in fact change your mind. ‘Cause right now you’re not making any sense.
Thank you. Cambodia and Thailand are still not at peace, nor are Israel and Iran - that is about to heat up yet again.
How about ending the big conflict in Russia/Ukraine that was promised? Instead more money and weapons go there - the exact opposite of peace. And I would bet the farm if we wait a year we will see there is no peace in Israel either. Not that it is all Trump's fault, but a lot of it is - at least currently.
Trump is doing his best but failing at a lot but slowly starting to come around.
Cutting off aid to Ukraine won't end the war, it will encourage it to go on because Putin will think he can finally seize Kyiv. It will also encourage him to go on more wars of conquest.
Ask yourself why Russia keeps getting more weapons and more aid from China, North Korea, Iran, and Belarus.
If there is so much peace in the world at the hands of the US, why do we need record military budgets year after year? And I'll save you the embarrassment of repeating the Orwellian slogan of "peace through strength" nonsense.
They did that when they gave the peace prize to Barack Hussein Obama — someone who never brought anything but hate and devision to the world. The whole committee are blathering buffoons.
JT - I’d add past selections as well. The same fraud happening with the committee happened in the past as well. Nominees often had political motivation.
True. So I guess that he was behind fomenting the terrorism doesn’t matter. Kinda like the arsonist getting an award for putting out the fire he started.
They are just a bunch of self-appointed, virtue signalling lefties, why does Trump even care? The joy on the faces of ordinary people in Gaza and Israel as they celebrate peace is reward enough.
The actual recommendation apparatus for the 2025 Nobel Peace prize closed Jan 30, 2025. Trump had only been President a very short few weeks. That may very well be why he didn't win it this year.
It remains to be seen if he gets it next year. He was passed over for the Abraham Accords, which sure seems like a big deal to me considering the history of the Middle East since 1948.
Yes. I was already convinced that the Nobel prize is politically motivated bullshit, not to be taken seriously as an indication of merit, when they gave the 2023 medicine prize to Kariko and Weissman for their work on the dangerous and defective mRNA jabs which killed millions of people, including my wife's co-worker Danielle:
The No-bell committee were never going to give this little prize to our fearless commander and chief That’s our job to award him with hard work at the ballot box. It looks like things are progressing nicely in that direction
I looked to see the nature of the people who comprise the Nobel committee. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is appointed by Norway’s parliament, where members historically lean center-left and emphasize multilateral diplomacy, international law, and humanitarianism over transactional or nationalist diplomacy. I looked at the entire list of people awarded since 1973 and there wasn't more than a couple who actually achieved big results. Rather, they worked at whatever they did, they hoped a lot. The UN got a few awards (ugh!), the EU got one, and frankly, I found a few of the awards pretty laughable. It's just not a worthy prize, IMO, but perhaps we've all been wrong in how we view it. I queried chat why Trump was and has previously been ignored despite some very real and obvious successes. Here's chat's perspective on the peace prize:
"In practice, the Committee has often chosen honoring ideals aligned with liberal internationalism, even when measurable peace wasn’t achieved. That’s why, despite Trump’s real diplomatic achievements, his foreign-policy style and worldview likely clashed too strongly with the Committee’s own philosophy."
Ultimately, doesn't that just perfectly align with liberal leftist thought anyway?
That's what I think. And the cash prize is not worth the insult to a person's integrity, acceptance of such a worthless babble. Nobel should have stayed out of politics.
Trump brought it on himself; two reasons. Promising to stop a war on day one, a failure, and making a big issue about how he thought he deserved it. If he hadn't talked about it so much he might have gotten it, he was daring people who don't like him, and they took his dare. I can't understand why he wanted it.
It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool as opposed to running your mouth and proving you are a fool. We can all relate to that.
You forgot the first rule of Trump: do not take him literally, but take him seriously.
If you (or anyone) heard him say, "I will stop the war on Day One" and believed it, and waited for the 24 hours to pass and peace to prevail, then maybe read the room better and re-evaluate who the "fool" is. Spoiler alert, that would be you.
By taking him "seriously," then you could trust that he was going to go for peace as soon as possible (because war is $$ wasteful, and Trump hates $$waste).
9 months into his second term, normally a lame duck term, he is responsible for ceasefires in 7 very hot wars, and you can add the 3 peace things from his first term AND the fact that he didn't start any wars.
In terms of peace, he has outperformed any president in our history, and perhaps all of them combined.
Last note: you mentioned "daring people who don't like him" as if that was a thing. Really? After all this time, who gives a royal or plebeian f#@#$ about the people who don't like Trump? If you haven't lost all respect for them by now, you need to start.
I hope this hurt your feelings and, yes, I don't give a f@#$.
Of course, you MUST be a deep thinking intellectual, and anyone who thinks you're not very bright--I'd call you a midwit, and that would be generous on my part--must be a "groupie."??
Is there any way you'd like to quantify or qualify your specific brand of "intelligence," so the groupies will know who they are dealing with, and genuflect as needed?
I think you misread me. To be honest I'm a pure-blood simpleton, I don't seem to be able to attach my hopes and desires, which might be much like yours, to what I actually see and hear. If someone who wants my support tells me something, and I put my faith in what I have heard them say, then I expect them to live up to THEIR words.
My vote is the only tool I have to try and provide sound, rational & ethical guidance to the country I've lived in all my life, and each day I thank our Creator for blessing me with the opportunity to live in such a wonderful country at such an amazing time.
It's quite simple really, do what you said you would do; I'll speak up when you don't.
Okay, here's the primer of deciphering political speak.
1. All other politicians. Whatever they say they are selling it as if it were true and you could bank on it. "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." "We must defend Ukraine from Russian aggression, fight them over there so we don't need to fight them over here."--All meant to be specifically true, and reliable. A chicken in every pot, peace with honor, we are helping the wretched of the world find new homes in America because we believe in their dreams . . .
And all, reliably, political lies.
2. Trump. He talks like a normal person, plenty of expletives, earthy subjects. He's a honey badger and honey badger don't care. It is his actual superpower, and you want him to tone it down so your panties can get untwisted.
What Trump says is true, not in literal terms but in policy terms. He believes in a great America and knows there is a bought & corrupt media, and an evil deep state. He can say I will end that war on day one and it is true: he will be about ending the war on day one. 9 months 7 conflicts in ceasefires or actual peace. Add the 3 from his first term and you have 10 conflicts solved or in the process. Name a better performance beginning with Washington?
If you are offended by figurative promises delivered (like peace and economic growth) then I can't help you.
If you want him to promise literal things that sound nice and have them turn out to be lies, then that's the Bush family, not DJT.
The problem is that all the gaslighting and posturing eventually at some point wears thins, and no longer credible. And buffoonery eventually discredits.
The other big problem is the Two Masters problem. You cannot server MAGA and the Israeli Master Manipulators and keep both happy. Ditto for Neocons and other bad actors.
I assume you mean me. I supported/voted for Trump every time I had an opportunity, but I don't think he's as special as his groupies do. You have every right to agree with everything he does, you aren't alone. So you shouldn't feel threatened when others don't see reality the way you do.
I trust you are celebrating the announcement about Qatar's Air Force being given an AFB in Idaho; TAW!!!
I've been rewatching episodes of the Apprentice on Prime and he is very good about asking for input from others before making his decisions. He also never gives up. Never. He is a positive thinker and just continues on never considering defeat.
He is also a student of Sun Tzu and follows those precepts.
Each day I hope for pleasant surprises and there are times that happens, but he does a lot of irrational things, from my perspective, that seem to be a continuation of Biden's irrational policies. All we can do is sit back and watch, as we pray!
Not only is the Ukraine war still ongoing, we are now talking about selling longer range missiles to them that they should use to strike Moscow. Peacemaker!
He's trying. He gave Putin every chance to back off.
Now Putin is going to pay the Trump tax which involves his refineries and bombers going up in smoke and in typical Trump fashion Putin is paying for it.
This is nothing new. It's been that way for decades. The economics, the literature prize aren't much better. It's basically an international happy face participation trophy for whoever is the current darling of the international leftist elite.
And it wasn’t only the Obama Nothing Burger award, there was also the prize given to a couple of scientists for developing some deadly substance that was used in the covid shots, and for decades prior, it’s literature prize was for crap fiction.
Well, I think the Nobel prize lost all credibility when the committee selected BHO right after he was elected before he did a damn thing. If I were selected (hey, about as qualified as BHO!), I’d refuse it.
If the prosecutors in the Mx. James affair were to follow her example, they would file an individual count for every time she signed her name or initialled an application, commitment form, or a mortgage payment check. Then we could boast that she had been convicted of some outrageous number of felonies.
I wonder if any of the defrauded counties will foreclose and sell her home at auction to pay the stolen back taxes. Or is that only reserved for the elderly and the sick? Just sayin'.
"$10 million taxpayer dollars to James’ get-Trump case" - it's stunning that you can put a direct hard value on TDS. Waiting to see if sudden liver failure (Tylenol chugging) trends measurably.
Bannon had a guy on yesterday who laid out the historical past of this woman and how she not only defrauded one bank, but several in many of these schemes.Her first one was stating she and her father were a married couple when she was 24 years old in order to purchase that property. Joel S Gilbert is the name of the man who has done a deep dive into her mortgage schemes.
I don’t understand why the mortgage lender is not being charged or at least fined. How could they possibly not know that such a high profile person was not lying?
From Nellie Bowles in this morning's The Free Press: She begins with "Katie Porter speaks for all of us" and she ends with "Gotta be honest with you guys, TGIF stands with Katie Porter. Can't explain why but I do. This is the correct vibe of a government official."
Just a reminder: Nellie Bowles is Bari Weiss' "wife." Bari Weiss is the new head of CBS news.
I for one sleep better at night knowing that one of our most trusted and valued news institutions is now headed by a lesbian, non-Christian, Israel sycophant who tried to propagandize the US into war with Iran. Only our best and brightest.
But seriously, on the two most important questions in life, 1) who do you worship? and 2) who do you marry and procreate with? Bari Weiss got them both spectacularly and mind-bogglingly wrong. This is who is now going to shape news and public opinion.
Don't listen to non-Christians for anything more important than the local weather report. Christ is King, we need to act like it.
With all this hoopla about how wonderful it is that Weiss is now head of CBS news, I decided to sign up for the "free week" of TFP. One week was 6 days too much. My only consolation is that trash has a way of taking itself out. Eventually.
I subscribed to her early on, when there weren't a jillion other Substacks to choose from, mostly due to her free speech stance. But it got to where she had to work some kind of dig at Trump every post and I was done.
Yeah, that was sort of tongue in cheek. The point was that this change at CBS is being celebrated by some on the right as some sort of victory. It's better than it was I suppose, but still awful.
For the non-discriminating reader/viewer, all the hoop-la about Weiss going to CBS was intended to make it look like CBS has turned over a new leaf. Nope, the leaf is gray and moldy when you turn it over. The mold and rot is still there.
I really don’t think anyone will be snowed but their residual viewers will be greatly angered. To build upon your point, I’m personally sorry about it as much as I am when in May I find moldy Christmas fruitcake at the back of the fridge.
The Bible is explicitly clear that God created man and woman, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. This is plainly clear in both the Old and New Testament, there is zero ambiguity. Yet on this most basic command, she fails miserably.
We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God so I don't condemn her and pray that she finds Christ. But no one who calls themselves a Christian should let her have *any* influence over their lives. We wouldn't listen to a pastor having an affair or embezzling from the church, as their behavior is diametrically opposed to the Bible's clear instructions. Yet we allow secular personalities to influence us despite the fact the fruit in their lives is rotten.
Beyond that, it's the simple denial of biological reality that you mention. It takes a man and a woman to create life, that is the natural order. Even if one has never read the Bible, God has given us the glory and order of His creation to show us the way. Paul speaks to this in Romans 1:18-20. Those who defy this reject God, regardless of what loophole they figure out to subvert God's clearly-revealed plan.
This stuff really is important. Despite being an overwhelmingly Christian country, we have lost the discernment that the Bible commands us to exercise. We are to follow God's Word and seek out fellow believers in all things. Just as a recovering alcoholic shouldn't be hanging out in bars, we should not be consorting with the world. People who reject Christ should not be shaping our opinions, morals and values.
As with all leftist associated enterprises, I can't boycott something I never use. I last watched CBS when Dan Rather first took the desk. That ran me off!
I do not need my faith to align with the journalists I read but you make a very fair point. There is now, exactly two sides. I know my side and will reside firmly there the best I can but also realizing there are many many more to come over the line to join us PRAISE JESUS IN HEAVEN!!!
Yes, to Christians the opinions of non-Christians are automatically negated on anything of importance. Our entire worldview is influenced by our belief that Christ is Lord. Why would we consider the opinions, values, and morals of people who reject this essential truth as relevant? They aren't.
I suppose your thoughts on who might win the World Series or other such inconsequential matters might be worth considering. I'm thinking repainting my living room, any suggestions on color?
BTW, the worship of your god of "tolerance" is exactly what brought the country to its knees. Thankfully, that is changing.
Edit: Noting also that the framing of this comment is disingenuous and in bad faith. No one here called for your opinions to be banned or you punished for saying them (as the Woke Left does to dissenters). I simply made the point they should be ignored in regards to the questions of life.
Not convincing, Nellie has always been a Hillary Clinton fanatic. I doubt this is a “wink and a nod” trolling of conservatives. Or a sly condemnation of an obviously borderline Porter. Nellie’s overall body of work does not comport with that degree of cleverness.
I’ve subscribed to TFP for over a year. I appreciate that they make an effort to present divergent viewpoints and not remain in a silo. The writing staff is approximately 1/3 liberal, 1/3 conservative and 1/3 independent. Their live 2024 election coverage was great that way. I think it is essential to listen to different viewpoints. Coleman Hughes is part of TFP team and recently had a respectful 3 1/2 hour podcast debate with David Smith. Bari Weiss does some of the best interviews I’ve seen. She prepares, asks thoughtful questions and lets them speak.
I liked the last Coleman Hughes piece, but I think it is fair to call out Nellie Bowles’s lack of substantive analysis and knee jerk support of Porter apparently simply because Porter is a women.
I’ve personally found TFP to still skew left but at least they seem to try to include other viewpoints.
I follow TFP, but have always found it quite liberal. The saving grace of it was that they at least did offer up some conservative views, much like Fox News.
Oh I do too, it’s liberal for sure. But not crazy. Some of the daily writers I just ignore bc I know their conclusions before they begin. But with pretty much every controversial topic, they have writers from both sides. I appreciate that. I actually thought Nellie was funny again today with the yacht joke, like look at us, we’re rich!! She’s kind of hot and cold on being funny but she does have 2 young children, so I cut her a break. And to Robird above, yes yes she’s a HRC fan (who I can’t stand & is a revolting person), but I think Nellie is also teasing us when she praises Hilary bc she knows over half of the subscribers can’t stand her!
To quote Gomer Pyle, USMC: “ Surprise, surprise,SURPRISE!”
Nellie is a born and raised San Francisco trust fund kid. She and her spouse now live in LA. Home of mayor Karen Bass.
Obviously not familiar with MATT 7: 3-5 “ You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Nellie Bowles’ TGIF is satire and sarcasm. She is making fun of Katie Porter, just as she has of Hilary Clinton in the past. Problem is that her humorous subtlety goes over the heads of many(most?) readers of which I include myself. I once looked forward to TGIF - and especially the comments section, but the sarcasm and satire ceases to be funny or relevant when it is misunderstood as serious by the average reader. I now skim the article and go straight to the comments.
Can't explain why TGIF stands with Lunatic Porter? Could it be because they like scalding hot mashed potatoes dumped on their heads? just wondering....
I don’t subscribe to The Free Press anymore, but TGIF was one of my favorites when I did. I’d love to actually read today’s. Nellie is hilariously sarcastic, and I think she’d find the Porter interview hysterical.
Everything changed when Elon Musk bought twitter. All of a sudden the playing field was leveled. Now with a legitimate company buying Dominion, happy days are here again.
That's laughable. Did it improve, yes. Did everything change? No. An easy way to measure that - no covid justice. No 911 truth. No truth on Butler, Charlie Kirk, etc. Its all a show. Same as it ever was. Don't forget that they have a visibility czar at TwitterX. New boss, pretty much the same as the old boss, just a different set of algorithms with many people still banned.
Right. I still get several Laura Loomer posts every day (paid big time Mossad Zio shill) in spite of not following her, and checking that I don’t want to see any more posts from her.
The NY attorney general did commit mortgage fraud. She out right lied on the mortgage application about the nature of purpose of owning this real estate. In a just world where the judicial system actually dispenses justice she would pay a fine and be barred from ever having another loan sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The local banks can take the risk going forward if they wish too.
The judge will prejudice this case and she will either get off Scott free or a minimal if any fine.
The DOJ should ask for the 30 years and millions in fines as their starting point and then go full bore and get her in some perjury trap lying to the FBI is way worse crime. Get the criminal conviction and then let Trump pardon her after an appropriate time in jail
Heard some news broad says James is being charged with something almost everyone does. I was like, sure, we all list our father as our husband. You cannot despise these folks enough.
Since you didn't, JC, I will.... shout-out to Earle-Sears for filleting Abigail Spanberger's like a catfish.
A high public official should personally be above reproach, especially if that official loudly proclaims how she is prosecuting other officials for real estate and financial violations because "no one is above the law". She should be held to the highest possible standards, if it is something commonly unprosecuted.
Trump case was complete and total BS and think James' case is pretty open and shut. BUT am I the only one bothered by a couple of lies on a form for a financial benefit that is less than 6 figures potentially getting 30 years? Don't get me wrong - cheats and fraudsters abound and the cost of their misdeeds end up costing us all in the form of higher prices, fees, etc, But there are so many laws on the books that can and do ensnare people every day and at some point the D's will be back and vengeful.
Many white collar criminals are not a menace to society - seems it would be more useful to have her forfeit her home to a homeless ministry, women's shelter, or the like. And then make her do a year or more of community service. Same with others people doing time for things like writing bad checks, could work at some community organization with their pay going to some multiple of restitution to those they ripped off. Frees the (expensive to taxpayers) prisons for the violent offenders who get released due to capacity issues, or for those who are given such a chance and don't live up to their commitment.
If it were an ordinary citizen, that would make sense. But in this case, it was a high profile person who held a top office in a state who was making national news on a daily basis.
"How many indictments will it take to satisfy the “arrests now!” crowd?"
I submit it's not necessarily "how many".
It's WHO. No little fish.
I'd take as few as...ten, if they include convictions of Fauci, Weissmann, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and two players to be named later.
I stopped reading Political and Spy Thrillers, ever since Trump came down the escalator. Clancy, Berenson, DeSilva, etc. could not write novels more compelling than what’s happened over the past 10 years.
Am I the only one who notices that this all seems a little too made for t.v.?? It's all a show, on purpose. The oligarchs are fighting over power and money, and the rest of us get screwed, as usual. Can you honestly say your financial circumstances have improved under Trump? How so? Consumer goods are still through the roof, housing is unaffordable, record number of people are living out of their cars, healthcare continues to go up (sickcare), continued record military budgets....etc.
Yes. I can say that. Gas is way cheaper than it was. $2.52 a gallon here yesterday. That’s a huge part of the budget for many people. And I’m not even in the state where gas is the cheapest. In my area other prices have stabilized or gone down. That may not be true everywhere but your question was “can YOU [emphasis mine] honestly say…” So.
Glad your gas prices have come down! Somebody should be benefiting. Here in the People's Republic of Washington-istan, leading up to the 2025 Inauguration, gas prices dropped from around $4.09 to $3.89. After the Inauguration, they started creeping up again. Then, in July the newest gas taxes went into effect, .06 for gas and .06 for "carbon offset". Now, the lowest gas price in our area is $4.49. Several gas stations have gas well over $5 a gallon. We keep trying to out-Cali California. The 3 West Coast governors have made a suicide pact for our states.
Yeah, Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell and WA governor Bob Ferguson, don't get as much press as Pritzker, Newsome, Brandon Johnson, or Kate Kotek, but they are just as bad or worse as any of them.
The long time DJ on the Sirius '60's channel Phlash Phelps, travels all over the country for fun. He was just in CA, forget where , I think Sacramento , and he said gas was $6.50 a gallon.
Yikes! I guess I should be grateful that our local gas is only $4.49, for now! Of course, gas prices are not the only prices going up. Property taxes have shot up again, car insurance is going up because of the legalization of "recreational" drugs, per the insurance agent, home owners insurance, food prices (don't know if folks in other states are seeing this as well). The WA state legislature passed the largest tax increases in state history, including capital gains (and estate taxes, I believe). WA state is going to force us to leave 'cause I don't know how we are going to keep up at this rate.
I wish. Here in Gavin Newsom's lefty-environmentalist dominated California you're lucky if you can find regular for $4.59. There are still $5+ per gallon prices in various locations.
If America is dumb enough to vote Newsom into the Presidency, they will be very very sorry every time they go to the gas pump. Here in CA we not only have very expensive special gas blends "to save the environment", there's a total of about $1.30 per gallon in taxes tacked onto the price of the gas itself. If he makes it to the presidency, Newsom would LOVE to extend those gas prices to everyone in the country. Voter beware.
OPEC controls oil prices - not congress, not the president. They can tinker at the edges through taxes, but it is largely out of our control. In fact, the price of oil is actually extremely low, and if our economy were honest, gas prices would be far lower. Its still $3ish where I live, far from cheap.
OPEC may control gas prices, but it's the politicians who control how the gas gets taxed into oblivion , such as here in California. California politicians in cahoots with the crazy extreme environmentalists worked to achieve special gasoline blends (changes summer to winter, too), plus all the various hidden and not so hidden taxes are added on, so that's why California gas prices are so much higher than most states.
You just asked if I was financially better off 🤷♀️ And I replied. Plus our policies as far as the rest of the would goes do have an effect on oil prices. And lower gas prices at least in some areas should help lower other costs or at least keep them from going up.
Yes, but my point is that overall, the economy sucks for everyday working people. If you save $50/month on gas, but your goods maintained their massive increase in price, are you really better off? It could be worse, I guess :)
Also, I don't know if many are even aware, there was a massive fire at I think the biggest refinery in CA this past week or so - but gas prices didn't spike, which proves my point that it is a global market controlled by OPEC. Price of oil is historically really cheap right now, but that isn't reflected at the pump or with the price of goods like food that gets shipped all over the world.
Gas and eggs have definitely reduced. Unfortunately Biden’s inflation prices will probably not go down. The wages must increase to even things out. That’s what happens when you have run away inflation and an administration says it’s temporary and then gaslights us saying there’s no inflation!!
“Letitia James pursued Trump. Then she was indicted.”
Because as long as there was a Democrat in the White House and she was doing everything in her power to lock the bad Orange Man up, she was immune to criticism, much less prosecution for an obvious fraud on a financial institution. And having declared Maryland as her "primary residence" might have interfered with her elected position in New York.
I’m guessing I’m missing something but I will plunge in anyway. I have family in Eugene, Leaburg, & Bend. Rain for all. I do realize that it is not unusual to have rain in Oregon.
Medford is Southern Oregon, near the Ca border. We do not share weather with the rest of Oregon. We have four lovely seasons with just an average amount of rain.
I was very pleased to see Dominion had been bought. We need to have DATA to decide whether an election was fair or not, how can anyone of any party trust the election process otherwise? It disgusted me to see things happening in 2020 that the US would have slammed a third world country for doing in their elections. I don't WANT the US to be a banana republic! We are BETTER than that!
And I'm LOVING watching Leticia James squirm. The rest of us can't get away with doing that, remember that from law school? And can you IMAGINE how much fun she'd have had if she had actually found a legit infraction like that on Trump and didn't have to invent one? I'm disgusted at not being able to trust the LEGAL system too. I don't WANT the US to be a banana republic! We are BETTER than that!
We need to rise above all this shit. WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT!
Yes, my first thought is of course we should have paper ballots. But is the plan merely to have paper ballots counted by electronic machines? That defeats the purpose.
It would be best to eliminate all electronic voting devices. Several changes should be made:
All votes must be cast on water marked paper ballots.
All votes must be hand counted in secure counting facilities with overseers from all political parties.
The number of ballots made available should not exceed the number of registered voters.
Voter rolls must be timely and vigorously scrutinized and reflect the actual number of eligible voters, people who personally make the effort to register to vote within a voting district.
The number of votes counted must not exceed the number of registered voters who personally showed up to vote.
Voters must show up in person with very limited exceptions for obtaining an absentee ballot.
Showing a legitimate government voter identification must be a requirement to vote. A picture identification card must be issued to the person when the person registers to vote, just as a driver’s license gets issued when a person proves himself or herself qualified to drive.
All votes must be counted immediately after the polls close with no breaks in counting.
A federal holiday should be instituted for national elections.
Localities must be required to provide adequate number of polling places to minimize the wait time to cast one’s ballot.
If you think this Dominion deal is good, please read this deep dive about Knowink and other companies we have in the US that are just like them from 2023.
IMO Liberty/knowink are very bad news for secure elections.
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I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart;
I will tell of all Your wonders.
I will be glad and exult in You;
I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.
For You have maintained my just cause;
You have sat on the throne judging righteously.
— Psalm 9:1-4 NAS95
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“with all my heart”
Every single moment of every single day, with all my heart, soul, mind and strength. I love Him so much!!!
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over
AMEN!!! Excellent read after today’s post … we’ve been through the valley of the shadow of death and now he is preparing a table before us right in the presence of the enemy!
many tables I daresay!
Nice connection.
As soon as I read your scripture this one popped in my brain. It’s amazing how the Lord assures us even in darkest of times.
And a good reminder that if we have never read the words, He won't bring them to mind.
He is amazingly gracious and brings His Word to mind when I least deserve to be encouraged by Him.
Bless you for your faithfulness in "feeding" us, Janice. Always an essential part of my morning.
Mine too. 😃
Amen. Thank you Janice!!
For He Alone is Worthy! 🙌🏼
Giving thanks to the Lord daily is a must! Not a suggestion but a must.
Who else is worthy??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaaQPZTVk_Y&list=RDFaaQPZTVk_Y&start_radio=1
AMEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TsOqTRUL3c&t=32s
My heart and mind turn towards my soon to be residence: Heaven!!!
AMEN! He is good!
The Nobel selection committee has just solidified its reputation as a pack of politically motivated buffoons...and in doing so, rendered all future selections suspect.
They've shown themselves as clowns for years now. It just became really obvious when they proactively awarded Obama the peace prize for doing ... nothing. Just the _idea_ that he might bring peace (and didn't in any way, shape, or form)
Also Al Gore winning. And Arafat. The Peace Prize has been a joke for ages.
My dad worked for Mobil Oil until the late 80’s. It was a VERY conservative company, to the point that he was known as a bit of a rebel for occasionally wearing BROWN suits haha. One Halloween in the 70’s, my dad wore a Yasser Arafat costume at work. The president of Mobil was “not amused.”
I actually feel sorry for your dad. There has been the 7th American political realignment since then. We’re still in process on that….
Please forgive my ignorance, but I don’t understand your comment…
Which part? We are undergoing the 7th political realignment in USA. “Republicans” used to resemble war mongers and corporatists and there was dogmatism. Morality has shifted.
Clair, I think the Peace Prize is the punch line, tacked onto the ends of jokes: "...and so, I did the only thing I could think of; I gave him the PEACE PRIZE!" HAHAHA. HAHAHA.
DYno-MIIIIITE!
It has indeed! People can pretend to be impressed and give credence to this "Peace" prize, but it's known...WELL known... that it no longer means anything. In fact, I would rather like to see President Trump say "Thanks! ... but no thanks! 🇺🇲
But BO was our first half-black president, silly! Anybody who thinks he had to “do something” must be a racist!
As Kat Timpf said last night, Obama won the Nobel “for vibes.”
Yepper! Such an honora.....
Nope... I can't even type it facetiously!
He is DIShonorable and a traitor to our country! 🇺🇲
That was when I began taking no notice of the Nobel … it’s a political org apparently
Agree 💯
Obama did do something.
He bombed the living daylights out of many countries..
And he overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and enabled the nazis to take over.
Mrs. RW
Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan...
Where were the outcries of Genocide then????
He gave over loads of munitions to the Afghan "military"...multiplying the deliveries in his final days in office.
I wonder who??? ultimately ended up with all those bullets and general purpose b$$$s which are the perfect size for roadside IED!!
I can't imagine they went to the black market...terrorists... cartels. NO NEVER that.
Yeah the O'bom(b)anator surely didn't bring peace did he?
Agreed. Which is also why this is idiotic - there is no peace yet. Time will tell.
What do think will happen when he tells them to shove it?
You know who else is a clown show? The current DOJ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECr-Hf3h5kw
Yes, Obama getting the peace prize a few months after getting in office was a joke. But to be fair, this brokered peace deal, while definitely a good sign, has not been executed yet.
Trump could do something so funny here: announce he is creating a new award called the “Trump Peace Prize” and operate it the way the Nobel was always supposed to, having recipients of a caliber that cannot be contested and make the Nobel winners look like they won a middle school drama club’s best actor award or most-popular-kid-in-class president award.
Good one Juju.
Still, I would love to see Trumpie outright REFUSE it if offered(also not likely).
THAT would be history making in itself and adeptly put them and their ilk in their place.
The Opposition leader of Venezuela was announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize today. 🙄🙄🙄
Then she dedicated it to President Trump
really? wow
Name the new WH ballroom the Trump Peace Ballroom.
He would take and pull the rug out from underneath them. Dunno how, but you read it here first…
Send that to the WH. It’s perfect!
I like this idea! 🥰
I like it!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
That would be hilarious and awesome!! 😁
A cross between WEF and Charlie Kirk show.
please don't place CK's name anywhere near the WEF.
Agreed
Celebration forced by PR firm.
RIP CK.
Hope his memory includes his recent visions that have been masked.
We already have that. Called MSNBC. Though it leans more to WEF by a factor of 95 to 5.
It's ironic, isn't it, that Trump was key in putting out 7 fires/wars/conflicts in the world whereas Obama got us INVOLVED in 7 and yet Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize. Obviously the Nobel Peace Prize is as meaningless as the Oscars are. I am not discounting the woman who "won." But I am saying there should AT LEAST have been a TIE this year, for lack of a better word.
Why would Trump even want it? They gave it to Obama after all.
Trump should create a new Peace Award, named after himself as the first recipient. “Trump Peace Prize”. The Nobel Peace Prize has made itself irrelevant.
Brilliant !absolutely brilliant! can you imagine the liberal heads exploding all at once? it would be magnificent. I truly hope he does it, just for the spectacle it will create.
Love this.
💯🎯🎯🎯🏆🏆🏆!!!
This is a fair point … surely Trump would have said disparaging things about that panel of dummies passing out prizes these days … maybe they preferred to stay away from him? They anointed a Trump ally which betrays them somewhat?
I did a bit of research on past peace prize winners. Most of them were people I'd never heard of. Obama got his little prize after 8.5 months in office, and had not yet done anything except win the election and give a bunch of speeches. Even someone from the Nobel committee said this: Most scholars and Nobel observers now regard Obama’s Peace Prize as: “A prize to encourage a promise, not a prize to honor an achievement.”
I noticed that a great many of the winners were similarly awarded, and tended to be people involved in struggles in individual countries and people without particular worldwide influence.
Given some of the dubious past awards including the world's #1 climate grifter Al Gore in 2007 and Obama in 2009 (awarded mostly for some of his speeches), despite the stunning worldwide peace accomplishments of Trump this year, it's quite clear the Nobel peace prize (deliberately in small letters) is a relatively meaningless little piece of trivia awarded by a group of leftie globalists most of us wouldn't respect anyway. If I were Trump, I'm not sure I would want it anyway. At this point, it's like getting an award from Klaus Schwab.
It's interesting that in 1973 Henry Kissinger and Lê Dức Thọ were jointly awarded the peace trinket for having jointly negotiated the cease-fire in Vietnam. Apparently Kissinger was a controversial choice. And interestingly, Lê Dức Thọ refused his award because he said peace had not yet been achieved. Kissinger offered to return his prize after Saigon fell in 1975 and no lasting peace had been achieved.
Despite not having done anything of note, I sure don't remember Obama offering to return his prize. It's said he was embarrassed by it, but I wonder if he has it sitting on his mantelpiece right now?
I would pay not to be nominated or to receive it. It is a blasphemy, not an award.
Taking the oil from Venezuela is a very "peaceful" idea?
If it bankrupts Maduro to EXPEDITE his ouster? Sure!
I voted not to get involved in foreign entanglements. I'm with Ron Paul, you get nasty blowback - known also as karma.
I understand Elizabeth but you MUST remember that the ENEMY also gets a vote.
What would you have voted for in WWII? If you had voted to also not get involved then you'd be speaking German now.
Do you like that option better?
Comparing WWII to Venezuela? That's funny.
And German is not even an attractive language. Now French or Italian, perhaps.....
Gail, you’re using a fallacy called “false equivalence.” Come up with a better argument.
There is a saying. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. Get involved in politics because it will involve you one way or another.
I lost a good friend because she opposed the Iraq War and I wouldn't join her at a protest. Ironically, I knew the invasion of Afghanistan was a huge mistake, but didn't realize in my wildest dream what a complete mess that turned out to be. Scott Horton argues in his book "Enough Already" that a Clinton aide pushed for Gaddafi to be overthrown to push a tough image. In the early 1930s, General Smedley argued he was just a hired thug in his book War is a Racket. He rec'd accolades unlike the guy who went to jail for handing out leaflets opposing the WWI draft. The phrase 'can't yell fire in a theater' comes from Schenck v. US.
so color revolutions are cool now?
We’ll see. He hasn’t done it yet.
Hey Bard, NPP just awarded Maria Machado, a woman who was groomed at Yale for regime change operations. Her specialty is regime change in Venezuela. She’s been going after Maduro for some time now. So there’s your answer.
Big oil has their own Che Guevara.
Apparently Norway is down with that as it turns out. Toured UC Berkeley in late summer of this year. Parking is hard to find there. They have four sparking plops reserved for NPP winners.
They were of course empty. What a farce.
Yasser Arafart too. Thems some quality from the far north for you. The ice got into their heads.
Sounds anti semantic.
Well if Maduro China and the voting machine software scam ends up really all being tied together...then that's a huge assault by CCP against our nation. I would go fight to take Maduro/cartels down for that one. China cannot be allowed to overthrow us thru political allies on this half of the rock.
An academic question for you…. How do you feel about US regime change, election meddling, and spying on other countries, even Ukraine in 2014? It’s been rampant since WW2. What’s good for the goose, something something…..
I don’t like any of it. We need to be China proof and stop selling them land, etc…. We need to stop neo-cons in our government from mischief too.
Agreed
That does seem to be a potential solution to fill the void of decreasing US production. With the EU trying to escape Russian energy Trump must think Venezuelan energy is his best option. It could prove costly.
On what planet is it an "option" to invade a sovereign country and take their resources? Only here, in the good ol' US of A can people think this is legal and justifiable (clue - it isn't).
J o you live in a world of fakeness. Believe GOD and trust HIM. Using your definition of sovereign and invading..Venezuela has indeed invaded the US with their drugs. Thugs. Gangs. And released criminals.
I live in a world where there is rule of law and where most people don't want war. The vast majority of people in Venezuela are law abiding citizens, just like everywhere. The vast majority of narcotics come from Columbia, btw.
Wait…. You didn’t actually just forget about ALL of human history???
From Ancient Rome to Aztecs, to a thousand years of Viking Raids, to the “Age of Imperialism” w/ Spanish Conquistadors and Queen E, etc…. the Entire British Empire…. Hitler in Europe. I could go on…. How does a person who presumably attended high school not know about ANY of that? By the way, Denmark still “owns” Greenland. France still controls African countries….
Did you not know that the EU, along with UK/CAN/US already have 18 names picked out for when they manage to carve up Russia into little satellite countries? That’s a joint effort. Maybe because Europe is crashing and Russia has an estimated $135 Trillion in natural resources. Russia will defend itself. This scheme is no secret.
Go back and take a world history course. You may in fact change your mind. ‘Cause right now you’re not making any sense.
That's not likely even close to reality. Think China CCP involvement people. Don't be this shallow with Trumpie.
Ooh, there's a CLUE!
I'm sure that wasn't even a hint of dry sarcasm. Lol.
People aren't paying attention.
Haha. What other historical options are you aware of?
Trump is 100% right to increase the pressure on Venezuela. Maduro is a bad actor and directly sending narcotics to America to poison folks.
The EU is working on dumping Russian energy but if Trump could encourage them faster it would be great.
not only do I not know who was up for any kind of Academy award, but I haven’t even been to a Hollywood movie in about eight or nine years.
What wars did Trump stop?
and rigged as well
What were these 7 conflicts? I don't think that is accurate.
Rwanda/DRC, India/Pakistan, Armenia/Azerbaijan, Cambodia/Thailand, Iran/Israel, Egypt/Ethiopia, Kosovo/Serbia, and now Israel/Hamass
hee hee ham ass
Thank you. Cambodia and Thailand are still not at peace, nor are Israel and Iran - that is about to heat up yet again.
How about ending the big conflict in Russia/Ukraine that was promised? Instead more money and weapons go there - the exact opposite of peace. And I would bet the farm if we wait a year we will see there is no peace in Israel either. Not that it is all Trump's fault, but a lot of it is - at least currently.
Trump is doing his best but failing at a lot but slowly starting to come around.
Cutting off aid to Ukraine won't end the war, it will encourage it to go on because Putin will think he can finally seize Kyiv. It will also encourage him to go on more wars of conquest.
Ask yourself why Russia keeps getting more weapons and more aid from China, North Korea, Iran, and Belarus.
Same two, all the time. Only one missing is Benn!
If there is so much peace in the world at the hands of the US, why do we need record military budgets year after year? And I'll save you the embarrassment of repeating the Orwellian slogan of "peace through strength" nonsense.
If you don't like it here, leave. Flights leave daily.
You are so obviously a Demonrat operative. And I’ll save you the embarrassment of saying you voted for Trump 3 times.
Him and “Bard Joseph” too. Probably one and the same Dem operative.
People who don't share your opinions aren't Democrat operatives.
Nobody here is getting a Covid booster yet Trump got his.
Ya'll democrats now or nah?
I'm here, just busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.
Anyone in Chicago? I could use a deep dish.
Google it you’ll find it’s correct. No don’t google it. Grok it. I’d tell you but my memory is shot
The Epstein file wars?
The innocent fisherman wars.
They did that when they gave the peace prize to Barack Hussein Obama — someone who never brought anything but hate and devision to the world. The whole committee are blathering buffoons.
yes obama the abomination.
JT - I’d add past selections as well. The same fraud happening with the committee happened in the past as well. Nominees often had political motivation.
Hitler won a prize.
I wanna say Dr John Enders, who created “viruses” to create “virology” also won one: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-disease-causing-viruses-are-pseudoscience
As did Yasser ARAFAT!
Poisoned. No chance to enjoy it.
The point is he received it. Headline news just reporting the Venezuelan nominee just dedicated her award to TRUMP! 🤩🤩🤩😂😂😂
Oslo was at least a peace treaty till he and Rabin were killed.
True. So I guess that he was behind fomenting the terrorism doesn’t matter. Kinda like the arsonist getting an award for putting out the fire he started.
Now invasion plans in the works. The perfect couple.
Maybe she didn't want to end up like CK.
Hitler sued for peace before Wall St screwed him killing 200,000 civilians in Dresden.
Gaza is s cake Walk.
They are just a bunch of self-appointed, virtue signalling lefties, why does Trump even care? The joy on the faces of ordinary people in Gaza and Israel as they celebrate peace is reward enough.
The actual recommendation apparatus for the 2025 Nobel Peace prize closed Jan 30, 2025. Trump had only been President a very short few weeks. That may very well be why he didn't win it this year.
At least, that is what I read on X early this am
It remains to be seen if he gets it next year. He was passed over for the Abraham Accords, which sure seems like a big deal to me considering the history of the Middle East since 1948.
I’m surprised they didn’t give it to Joe Biden for his “successful” withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Yes. I was already convinced that the Nobel prize is politically motivated bullshit, not to be taken seriously as an indication of merit, when they gave the 2023 medicine prize to Kariko and Weissman for their work on the dangerous and defective mRNA jabs which killed millions of people, including my wife's co-worker Danielle:
https://www.altamesafuneralhome.com/obituary/danielle-carmichael
The No-bell committee were never going to give this little prize to our fearless commander and chief That’s our job to award him with hard work at the ballot box. It looks like things are progressing nicely in that direction
I looked to see the nature of the people who comprise the Nobel committee. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is appointed by Norway’s parliament, where members historically lean center-left and emphasize multilateral diplomacy, international law, and humanitarianism over transactional or nationalist diplomacy. I looked at the entire list of people awarded since 1973 and there wasn't more than a couple who actually achieved big results. Rather, they worked at whatever they did, they hoped a lot. The UN got a few awards (ugh!), the EU got one, and frankly, I found a few of the awards pretty laughable. It's just not a worthy prize, IMO, but perhaps we've all been wrong in how we view it. I queried chat why Trump was and has previously been ignored despite some very real and obvious successes. Here's chat's perspective on the peace prize:
"In practice, the Committee has often chosen honoring ideals aligned with liberal internationalism, even when measurable peace wasn’t achieved. That’s why, despite Trump’s real diplomatic achievements, his foreign-policy style and worldview likely clashed too strongly with the Committee’s own philosophy."
Ultimately, doesn't that just perfectly align with liberal leftist thought anyway?
That's what I think. And the cash prize is not worth the insult to a person's integrity, acceptance of such a worthless babble. Nobel should have stayed out of politics.
Trump brought it on himself; two reasons. Promising to stop a war on day one, a failure, and making a big issue about how he thought he deserved it. If he hadn't talked about it so much he might have gotten it, he was daring people who don't like him, and they took his dare. I can't understand why he wanted it.
It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool as opposed to running your mouth and proving you are a fool. We can all relate to that.
You forgot the first rule of Trump: do not take him literally, but take him seriously.
If you (or anyone) heard him say, "I will stop the war on Day One" and believed it, and waited for the 24 hours to pass and peace to prevail, then maybe read the room better and re-evaluate who the "fool" is. Spoiler alert, that would be you.
By taking him "seriously," then you could trust that he was going to go for peace as soon as possible (because war is $$ wasteful, and Trump hates $$waste).
9 months into his second term, normally a lame duck term, he is responsible for ceasefires in 7 very hot wars, and you can add the 3 peace things from his first term AND the fact that he didn't start any wars.
In terms of peace, he has outperformed any president in our history, and perhaps all of them combined.
Last note: you mentioned "daring people who don't like him" as if that was a thing. Really? After all this time, who gives a royal or plebeian f#@#$ about the people who don't like Trump? If you haven't lost all respect for them by now, you need to start.
I hope this hurt your feelings and, yes, I don't give a f@#$.
don't know who you are, but....perfect!! 100% over target, bombs away,
Haha, I'm flattered to learn you are thinking about my feelings, but fear not, I scoff at groupies, I consider the degree of intelligence on display.
Of course, you MUST be a deep thinking intellectual, and anyone who thinks you're not very bright--I'd call you a midwit, and that would be generous on my part--must be a "groupie."??
Is there any way you'd like to quantify or qualify your specific brand of "intelligence," so the groupies will know who they are dealing with, and genuflect as needed?
I think you misread me. To be honest I'm a pure-blood simpleton, I don't seem to be able to attach my hopes and desires, which might be much like yours, to what I actually see and hear. If someone who wants my support tells me something, and I put my faith in what I have heard them say, then I expect them to live up to THEIR words.
My vote is the only tool I have to try and provide sound, rational & ethical guidance to the country I've lived in all my life, and each day I thank our Creator for blessing me with the opportunity to live in such a wonderful country at such an amazing time.
It's quite simple really, do what you said you would do; I'll speak up when you don't.
Okay, here's the primer of deciphering political speak.
1. All other politicians. Whatever they say they are selling it as if it were true and you could bank on it. "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." "We must defend Ukraine from Russian aggression, fight them over there so we don't need to fight them over here."--All meant to be specifically true, and reliable. A chicken in every pot, peace with honor, we are helping the wretched of the world find new homes in America because we believe in their dreams . . .
And all, reliably, political lies.
2. Trump. He talks like a normal person, plenty of expletives, earthy subjects. He's a honey badger and honey badger don't care. It is his actual superpower, and you want him to tone it down so your panties can get untwisted.
What Trump says is true, not in literal terms but in policy terms. He believes in a great America and knows there is a bought & corrupt media, and an evil deep state. He can say I will end that war on day one and it is true: he will be about ending the war on day one. 9 months 7 conflicts in ceasefires or actual peace. Add the 3 from his first term and you have 10 conflicts solved or in the process. Name a better performance beginning with Washington?
If you are offended by figurative promises delivered (like peace and economic growth) then I can't help you.
If you want him to promise literal things that sound nice and have them turn out to be lies, then that's the Bush family, not DJT.
The problem is that all the gaslighting and posturing eventually at some point wears thins, and no longer credible. And buffoonery eventually discredits.
The other big problem is the Two Masters problem. You cannot server MAGA and the Israeli Master Manipulators and keep both happy. Ditto for Neocons and other bad actors.
Excellent summary!! There are plenty of so-called “conservatives” who routinely expose their own TDS affliction.
I assume you mean me. I supported/voted for Trump every time I had an opportunity, but I don't think he's as special as his groupies do. You have every right to agree with everything he does, you aren't alone. So you shouldn't feel threatened when others don't see reality the way you do.
I trust you are celebrating the announcement about Qatar's Air Force being given an AFB in Idaho; TAW!!!
But he is not a fool and I love his confidence and believing he can get things done. Beats the opposite every time.
This morning:
"Trump tells Finnish prez that US is world’s LARGEST country
‘We have a lot of territory, more than anybody’ — Trump
Adds: US ‘very badly’ needs Finland’s ice breakers
More territory than anybody? 😂 Russia? Canada? But after completing his 2000th peace deal I see how the math works."
If that is all you have to complain about in life, you are lucky.
Yay Trump. Bigger than Russia Yay! Bigger than Canada Yay!
Go be a geography teacher since you are so hung up on this.
What a constant negative hemorrhoid you are.
“Negative hemorrhoid” - I love that!
Not everyone understands Trumpian math.
I think he, sometimes , engages his mouth before other parts of his brain. He is much better now at controlling that issue than previously.
I still appreciate his progress.
I've been rewatching episodes of the Apprentice on Prime and he is very good about asking for input from others before making his decisions. He also never gives up. Never. He is a positive thinker and just continues on never considering defeat.
He is also a student of Sun Tzu and follows those precepts.
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~enoch/Readings/The_Art_Of_War.pdf
Each day I hope for pleasant surprises and there are times that happens, but he does a lot of irrational things, from my perspective, that seem to be a continuation of Biden's irrational policies. All we can do is sit back and watch, as we pray!
From your perspective, comparing Trump doing a lot of irrational things to Biden's irrational policies is nothing but delusional.
I was thinking the same thing, Trump must be delusional to keep following Biden's policies.
Nice try...still delusional.
Not only is the Ukraine war still ongoing, we are now talking about selling longer range missiles to them that they should use to strike Moscow. Peacemaker!
Having tomahawks hit your capital has a calming effect on soviets like Putin.
You can put up a "Gun free zone" sign on your house. It'll make you safer.
He's trying. He gave Putin every chance to back off.
Now Putin is going to pay the Trump tax which involves his refineries and bombers going up in smoke and in typical Trump fashion Putin is paying for it.
But yes, I agree with your statement mostly.
Entertainment war criminals are not good optics.
As opposed to whom? The entirety of the European leadership?
This is nothing new. It's been that way for decades. The economics, the literature prize aren't much better. It's basically an international happy face participation trophy for whoever is the current darling of the international leftist elite.
I honestly believe Trump would like to win it so he can turn it down.
That would have been SOOOOO enjoyable to watch.
Machado is not hiding underground in Venezuela. She works in a bodega in my NYC neighborhood.
never heard of her. What a waste of a prize on her. a nobody from nowhere.
And it wasn’t only the Obama Nothing Burger award, there was also the prize given to a couple of scientists for developing some deadly substance that was used in the covid shots, and for decades prior, it’s literature prize was for crap fiction.
Well, I think the Nobel prize lost all credibility when the committee selected BHO right after he was elected before he did a damn thing. If I were selected (hey, about as qualified as BHO!), I’d refuse it.
If the prosecutors in the Mx. James affair were to follow her example, they would file an individual count for every time she signed her name or initialled an application, commitment form, or a mortgage payment check. Then we could boast that she had been convicted of some outrageous number of felonies.
And toss in mail fraud if she mailed those monthly mortgage checks.
And toss in wire fraud if she paid it online.
That should amount to about 2,350 years in prison and fines of about $35,000,000,000.00! Nice!
Sounds like a good plan to me 😁
Q: Should she get 30 years in prison, or the $1M fine?
A: Yes
Embrace the power of “and”! 😁
Both!
Definitely disbarred!
I wonder if any of the defrauded counties will foreclose and sell her home at auction to pay the stolen back taxes. Or is that only reserved for the elderly and the sick? Just sayin'.
"$10 million taxpayer dollars to James’ get-Trump case" - it's stunning that you can put a direct hard value on TDS. Waiting to see if sudden liver failure (Tylenol chugging) trends measurably.
Bannon had a guy on yesterday who laid out the historical past of this woman and how she not only defrauded one bank, but several in many of these schemes.Her first one was stating she and her father were a married couple when she was 24 years old in order to purchase that property. Joel S Gilbert is the name of the man who has done a deep dive into her mortgage schemes.
Yes, it was awesome! 24 years of mortgage fraud. Can’t wait to see her in orange!
I don’t understand why the mortgage lender is not being charged or at least fined. How could they possibly not know that such a high profile person was not lying?
😜
If New Yorkers who voted in fat ass Leticia & do same w/ Mamdani, I think the dunce cap currently held by Portlanders ought to be awarded to NY
8 million on welfare in one city? lol
And none of them voted, by their recollection.
From Nellie Bowles in this morning's The Free Press: She begins with "Katie Porter speaks for all of us" and she ends with "Gotta be honest with you guys, TGIF stands with Katie Porter. Can't explain why but I do. This is the correct vibe of a government official."
Just a reminder: Nellie Bowles is Bari Weiss' "wife." Bari Weiss is the new head of CBS news.
I for one sleep better at night knowing that one of our most trusted and valued news institutions is now headed by a lesbian, non-Christian, Israel sycophant who tried to propagandize the US into war with Iran. Only our best and brightest.
But seriously, on the two most important questions in life, 1) who do you worship? and 2) who do you marry and procreate with? Bari Weiss got them both spectacularly and mind-bogglingly wrong. This is who is now going to shape news and public opinion.
Don't listen to non-Christians for anything more important than the local weather report. Christ is King, we need to act like it.
With all this hoopla about how wonderful it is that Weiss is now head of CBS news, I decided to sign up for the "free week" of TFP. One week was 6 days too much. My only consolation is that trash has a way of taking itself out. Eventually.
And yes, God bless and keep us, every one.
The best part of TFP, especially TGIF is the comments, at least if they are not censored too heavily.
Not worth the cost of a subscription, however.
I love the comments. You can read/like them as a free subscriber…you just can’t comment.
I signed up with TFP when Weiss first started it and quickly learned that its content didn’t match its name.
I subscribed to her early on, when there weren't a jillion other Substacks to choose from, mostly due to her free speech stance. But it got to where she had to work some kind of dig at Trump every post and I was done.
Agree and same reaction.
I subscribe to TFP but delete after reading the headline, assuming I get that far.
I looked at the TFP front page for a nano-second because I'd never checked it out before. A nano-second was enough for me.
Not that I disagree, but the days of CBS's ability to "shape news and public opinion" are long gone.
Yeah, that was sort of tongue in cheek. The point was that this change at CBS is being celebrated by some on the right as some sort of victory. It's better than it was I suppose, but still awful.
And this move will not help.
Just because Bari was hired does not mean the world should now flock over there. The whole exercise is just a cultural curiosity. Who even cares.
For the non-discriminating reader/viewer, all the hoop-la about Weiss going to CBS was intended to make it look like CBS has turned over a new leaf. Nope, the leaf is gray and moldy when you turn it over. The mold and rot is still there.
I really don’t think anyone will be snowed but their residual viewers will be greatly angered. To build upon your point, I’m personally sorry about it as much as I am when in May I find moldy Christmas fruitcake at the back of the fridge.
🤣🤣. Yep
I know you know this but just want to emphasize: they cannot procreate together, without involving a third party.
The Bible is explicitly clear that God created man and woman, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. This is plainly clear in both the Old and New Testament, there is zero ambiguity. Yet on this most basic command, she fails miserably.
We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God so I don't condemn her and pray that she finds Christ. But no one who calls themselves a Christian should let her have *any* influence over their lives. We wouldn't listen to a pastor having an affair or embezzling from the church, as their behavior is diametrically opposed to the Bible's clear instructions. Yet we allow secular personalities to influence us despite the fact the fruit in their lives is rotten.
Beyond that, it's the simple denial of biological reality that you mention. It takes a man and a woman to create life, that is the natural order. Even if one has never read the Bible, God has given us the glory and order of His creation to show us the way. Paul speaks to this in Romans 1:18-20. Those who defy this reject God, regardless of what loophole they figure out to subvert God's clearly-revealed plan.
This stuff really is important. Despite being an overwhelmingly Christian country, we have lost the discernment that the Bible commands us to exercise. We are to follow God's Word and seek out fellow believers in all things. Just as a recovering alcoholic shouldn't be hanging out in bars, we should not be consorting with the world. People who reject Christ should not be shaping our opinions, morals and values.
Christ is King.
❤️
And I'm not volunteering for that assignment!
They've done that twice now.
As with all leftist associated enterprises, I can't boycott something I never use. I last watched CBS when Dan Rather first took the desk. That ran me off!
I do not need my faith to align with the journalists I read but you make a very fair point. There is now, exactly two sides. I know my side and will reside firmly there the best I can but also realizing there are many many more to come over the line to join us PRAISE JESUS IN HEAVEN!!!
YAY, Jeff C, for telling the truth!
So a non-Christian is automatically negated? Interesting!
We have so many fine people on our side, so why allow non-Christians to keep ruling over us?
Unfortunately, the Woke-Progressives feel the same way about Christians. Maybe there is a basis for commonality yet: intolerance.
Yes, to Christians the opinions of non-Christians are automatically negated on anything of importance. Our entire worldview is influenced by our belief that Christ is Lord. Why would we consider the opinions, values, and morals of people who reject this essential truth as relevant? They aren't.
I suppose your thoughts on who might win the World Series or other such inconsequential matters might be worth considering. I'm thinking repainting my living room, any suggestions on color?
BTW, the worship of your god of "tolerance" is exactly what brought the country to its knees. Thankfully, that is changing.
Edit: Noting also that the framing of this comment is disingenuous and in bad faith. No one here called for your opinions to be banned or you punished for saying them (as the Woke Left does to dissenters). I simply made the point they should be ignored in regards to the questions of life.
Bit a War of the Worlds isn't it. And good to see you excellent comments.
P.S. I am sick of appeals to our good nature, fairness and reason.
"Katie Porter Eats for ALL of us" ?
She sure looks like it.
😂🤣😂
Well.....I guess that squashed any interest in The Free Press. 🤷🏻
And what IS that, anyway?! "Can't explain why, but I do. "
Sheesh.
Such insightful and profound analysis on her part 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Nellie is just being her typical sarcastic self. She’s poking fun at Katie Porter, who made an absolute fool of herself!
Not convincing, Nellie has always been a Hillary Clinton fanatic. I doubt this is a “wink and a nod” trolling of conservatives. Or a sly condemnation of an obviously borderline Porter. Nellie’s overall body of work does not comport with that degree of cleverness.
As much as I'd love to bash TFP, you are correct. Her TGIF column is always snarky and sarcastic. She's making a joke.
Nellie is her wife, and my dog just had kittens.
Could one say that “her wife” and “his husband” are oxymorons?
Katie Porter speaks for every affluent narcissistic out of touch shrew. Good to know Nellie Bowles is being consistent in her values.
I’ve subscribed to TFP for over a year. I appreciate that they make an effort to present divergent viewpoints and not remain in a silo. The writing staff is approximately 1/3 liberal, 1/3 conservative and 1/3 independent. Their live 2024 election coverage was great that way. I think it is essential to listen to different viewpoints. Coleman Hughes is part of TFP team and recently had a respectful 3 1/2 hour podcast debate with David Smith. Bari Weiss does some of the best interviews I’ve seen. She prepares, asks thoughtful questions and lets them speak.
I liked the last Coleman Hughes piece, but I think it is fair to call out Nellie Bowles’s lack of substantive analysis and knee jerk support of Porter apparently simply because Porter is a women.
I’ve personally found TFP to still skew left but at least they seem to try to include other viewpoints.
I follow TFP, but have always found it quite liberal. The saving grace of it was that they at least did offer up some conservative views, much like Fox News.
Oh I do too, it’s liberal for sure. But not crazy. Some of the daily writers I just ignore bc I know their conclusions before they begin. But with pretty much every controversial topic, they have writers from both sides. I appreciate that. I actually thought Nellie was funny again today with the yacht joke, like look at us, we’re rich!! She’s kind of hot and cold on being funny but she does have 2 young children, so I cut her a break. And to Robird above, yes yes she’s a HRC fan (who I can’t stand & is a revolting person), but I think Nellie is also teasing us when she praises Hilary bc she knows over half of the subscribers can’t stand her!
To quote Gomer Pyle, USMC: “ Surprise, surprise,SURPRISE!”
Nellie is a born and raised San Francisco trust fund kid. She and her spouse now live in LA. Home of mayor Karen Bass.
Obviously not familiar with MATT 7: 3-5 “ You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
Nellie Bowles’ TGIF is satire and sarcasm. She is making fun of Katie Porter, just as she has of Hilary Clinton in the past. Problem is that her humorous subtlety goes over the heads of many(most?) readers of which I include myself. I once looked forward to TGIF - and especially the comments section, but the sarcasm and satire ceases to be funny or relevant when it is misunderstood as serious by the average reader. I now skim the article and go straight to the comments.
Can't explain why TGIF stands with Lunatic Porter? Could it be because they like scalding hot mashed potatoes dumped on their heads? just wondering....
Bowles has always suffered with TDS.
and both "ladies" are not to be trusted one iota.
I don’t subscribe to The Free Press anymore, but TGIF was one of my favorites when I did. I’d love to actually read today’s. Nellie is hilariously sarcastic, and I think she’d find the Porter interview hysterical.
Everything changed when Elon Musk bought twitter. All of a sudden the playing field was leveled. Now with a legitimate company buying Dominion, happy days are here again.
That's laughable. Did it improve, yes. Did everything change? No. An easy way to measure that - no covid justice. No 911 truth. No truth on Butler, Charlie Kirk, etc. Its all a show. Same as it ever was. Don't forget that they have a visibility czar at TwitterX. New boss, pretty much the same as the old boss, just a different set of algorithms with many people still banned.
Right. I still get several Laura Loomer posts every day (paid big time Mossad Zio shill) in spite of not following her, and checking that I don’t want to see any more posts from her.
I like the "rock" references.
The NY attorney general did commit mortgage fraud. She out right lied on the mortgage application about the nature of purpose of owning this real estate. In a just world where the judicial system actually dispenses justice she would pay a fine and be barred from ever having another loan sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. The local banks can take the risk going forward if they wish too.
The judge will prejudice this case and she will either get off Scott free or a minimal if any fine.
The DOJ should ask for the 30 years and millions in fines as their starting point and then go full bore and get her in some perjury trap lying to the FBI is way worse crime. Get the criminal conviction and then let Trump pardon her after an appropriate time in jail
So funny to read her declarations about Trump in light of her own misdeeds 😆
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/10/09/sean-davis-shares-some-letitia-james-projection-about-trump-thats-aging-worse-by-the-minute-n2420173
The left always projects onto us what they are up to. James is the perfect example!!
Is there a Big House big enough for Big Tish?
true, her ass is as big as the city of san fran.
so is Schifty next - one can only hope
did you mean Schitty?
The name is Schitty Schifty, to be more accurate. 😆
Heard some news broad says James is being charged with something almost everyone does. I was like, sure, we all list our father as our husband. You cannot despise these folks enough.
Since you didn't, JC, I will.... shout-out to Earle-Sears for filleting Abigail Spanberger's like a catfish.
Look at some of the racist emails Earle-Sears
gets from VA. Dems.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1976391454651203640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1976391454651203640%7Ctwgr%5Eb87838f972412b540264196ea34227661de0af7a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj%2F2025%2F10%2F10%2Fthe-list-of-excuses-coming-from-dems-for-abigails-complete-collapse-n2420184
A high public official should personally be above reproach, especially if that official loudly proclaims how she is prosecuting other officials for real estate and financial violations because "no one is above the law". She should be held to the highest possible standards, if it is something commonly unprosecuted.
Trump case was complete and total BS and think James' case is pretty open and shut. BUT am I the only one bothered by a couple of lies on a form for a financial benefit that is less than 6 figures potentially getting 30 years? Don't get me wrong - cheats and fraudsters abound and the cost of their misdeeds end up costing us all in the form of higher prices, fees, etc, But there are so many laws on the books that can and do ensnare people every day and at some point the D's will be back and vengeful.
Many white collar criminals are not a menace to society - seems it would be more useful to have her forfeit her home to a homeless ministry, women's shelter, or the like. And then make her do a year or more of community service. Same with others people doing time for things like writing bad checks, could work at some community organization with their pay going to some multiple of restitution to those they ripped off. Frees the (expensive to taxpayers) prisons for the violent offenders who get released due to capacity issues, or for those who are given such a chance and don't live up to their commitment.
See above. Why is the mortgage lender who approved her application not being charged?
They rely on the representation of the applicant. If they are lied too why would they be held liable for the lie?
If it were an ordinary citizen, that would make sense. But in this case, it was a high profile person who held a top office in a state who was making national news on a daily basis.
"How many indictments will it take to satisfy the “arrests now!” crowd?"
I submit it's not necessarily "how many".
It's WHO. No little fish.
I'd take as few as...ten, if they include convictions of Fauci, Weissmann, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and two players to be named later.
I'd like to nominate Alexander Vindman, the Ukrainian mole, as a later-player.
He is creepy!
Obama could use some justice, of that I have no doubt
Agreed, but...any justice for him would likely have to come from elsewhere.
I can't believe I didn't add Jack Smith to my list. I guess he'd be one of the "players to be named later".
Powers.
—“The accurate headline should have been, “First Letitia James ran on Getting Trump. Then she was indicted.”
Or, simply Letitia James FAFO 😁
I like the second.
EVERY SINGLE DAY, something that nobody could have predicted happens.
We live in interesting times indeed.
I stopped reading Political and Spy Thrillers, ever since Trump came down the escalator. Clancy, Berenson, DeSilva, etc. could not write novels more compelling than what’s happened over the past 10 years.
I dunno....Tom Clancy was pretty prescient about so many things ...I still say he was taken out, along with Breitbart. They knew too much.
Am I the only one who notices that this all seems a little too made for t.v.?? It's all a show, on purpose. The oligarchs are fighting over power and money, and the rest of us get screwed, as usual. Can you honestly say your financial circumstances have improved under Trump? How so? Consumer goods are still through the roof, housing is unaffordable, record number of people are living out of their cars, healthcare continues to go up (sickcare), continued record military budgets....etc.
Yes. I can say that. Gas is way cheaper than it was. $2.52 a gallon here yesterday. That’s a huge part of the budget for many people. And I’m not even in the state where gas is the cheapest. In my area other prices have stabilized or gone down. That may not be true everywhere but your question was “can YOU [emphasis mine] honestly say…” So.
Glad your gas prices have come down! Somebody should be benefiting. Here in the People's Republic of Washington-istan, leading up to the 2025 Inauguration, gas prices dropped from around $4.09 to $3.89. After the Inauguration, they started creeping up again. Then, in July the newest gas taxes went into effect, .06 for gas and .06 for "carbon offset". Now, the lowest gas price in our area is $4.49. Several gas stations have gas well over $5 a gallon. We keep trying to out-Cali California. The 3 West Coast governors have made a suicide pact for our states.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Anything to try to ruin Trump's efforts 🙄
Yeah, Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell and WA governor Bob Ferguson, don't get as much press as Pritzker, Newsome, Brandon Johnson, or Kate Kotek, but they are just as bad or worse as any of them.
Mrs. "the Knife"
The long time DJ on the Sirius '60's channel Phlash Phelps, travels all over the country for fun. He was just in CA, forget where , I think Sacramento , and he said gas was $6.50 a gallon.
Yikes! I guess I should be grateful that our local gas is only $4.49, for now! Of course, gas prices are not the only prices going up. Property taxes have shot up again, car insurance is going up because of the legalization of "recreational" drugs, per the insurance agent, home owners insurance, food prices (don't know if folks in other states are seeing this as well). The WA state legislature passed the largest tax increases in state history, including capital gains (and estate taxes, I believe). WA state is going to force us to leave 'cause I don't know how we are going to keep up at this rate.
Mrs. "the Knife"
$2.52 per gallon? 😢
I wish. Here in Gavin Newsom's lefty-environmentalist dominated California you're lucky if you can find regular for $4.59. There are still $5+ per gallon prices in various locations.
If America is dumb enough to vote Newsom into the Presidency, they will be very very sorry every time they go to the gas pump. Here in CA we not only have very expensive special gas blends "to save the environment", there's a total of about $1.30 per gallon in taxes tacked onto the price of the gas itself. If he makes it to the presidency, Newsom would LOVE to extend those gas prices to everyone in the country. Voter beware.
One of the many reasons I am glad I don’t live in California! And I definitely would never vote for Newscum for any elected office!
OPEC controls oil prices - not congress, not the president. They can tinker at the edges through taxes, but it is largely out of our control. In fact, the price of oil is actually extremely low, and if our economy were honest, gas prices would be far lower. Its still $3ish where I live, far from cheap.
OPEC may control gas prices, but it's the politicians who control how the gas gets taxed into oblivion , such as here in California. California politicians in cahoots with the crazy extreme environmentalists worked to achieve special gasoline blends (changes summer to winter, too), plus all the various hidden and not so hidden taxes are added on, so that's why California gas prices are so much higher than most states.
You just asked if I was financially better off 🤷♀️ And I replied. Plus our policies as far as the rest of the would goes do have an effect on oil prices. And lower gas prices at least in some areas should help lower other costs or at least keep them from going up.
Yes, but my point is that overall, the economy sucks for everyday working people. If you save $50/month on gas, but your goods maintained their massive increase in price, are you really better off? It could be worse, I guess :)
Also, I don't know if many are even aware, there was a massive fire at I think the biggest refinery in CA this past week or so - but gas prices didn't spike, which proves my point that it is a global market controlled by OPEC. Price of oil is historically really cheap right now, but that isn't reflected at the pump or with the price of goods like food that gets shipped all over the world.
Gas and eggs have definitely reduced. Unfortunately Biden’s inflation prices will probably not go down. The wages must increase to even things out. That’s what happens when you have run away inflation and an administration says it’s temporary and then gaslights us saying there’s no inflation!!
Covert Demonrat alert
I loved Baldacci but again he’s been a disappointment as of late!
Loved the Arles Pine series.
Atlee
That’s why I take the vast majority of predictions with a grain of salt!
“Letitia James pursued Trump. Then she was indicted.”
Because as long as there was a Democrat in the White House and she was doing everything in her power to lock the bad Orange Man up, she was immune to criticism, much less prosecution for an obvious fraud on a financial institution. And having declared Maryland as her "primary residence" might have interfered with her elected position in New York.
Her girth extends from New York to Maryland.
and I can just imagine her body odor.
Well, there goes my breakfast...
Jeff S 🤣
Isn't there some part of her fraud that breaks interstate commerce laws? Wouldn't that place her in Federal, not State court?
I'm not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, as you can tell.
Mortgage fraud is a federal count.
Then why does she have to be tried in a court specific to the location of the house?
“Letitia James pursued Trump. Then she was indicted.”
Correlation is not causation, until a progressive needs it to be for the sake of narrative.
"It took a while, but she finally found one."
RESPECTFULLY, it should instead state "she finally FABRICATED one"
“How many indictments will it take to satisfy the “arrests now!” crowd?”
Lots. All of them.
ALL OF THEM.
DITTO!!!
The thing is... Comey nor James have been arrested.
i.e. no mug shot.
Happy Friday!!! From rainy Medford!!
Rain? In Oregon? No way. It's supposed to rain in Spokane this weekend.
I’m guessing I’m missing something but I will plunge in anyway. I have family in Eugene, Leaburg, & Bend. Rain for all. I do realize that it is not unusual to have rain in Oregon.
I was trying to be funny (droll). It always rains in Oregon, except on February 29th.
I figured : )
Medford Oregon?
Yes… visiting my 95 year old cousin.
95? Wow. Great. Have fun!
Have a good time!
Medford is Southern Oregon, near the Ca border. We do not share weather with the rest of Oregon. We have four lovely seasons with just an average amount of rain.
I was very pleased to see Dominion had been bought. We need to have DATA to decide whether an election was fair or not, how can anyone of any party trust the election process otherwise? It disgusted me to see things happening in 2020 that the US would have slammed a third world country for doing in their elections. I don't WANT the US to be a banana republic! We are BETTER than that!
And I'm LOVING watching Leticia James squirm. The rest of us can't get away with doing that, remember that from law school? And can you IMAGINE how much fun she'd have had if she had actually found a legit infraction like that on Trump and didn't have to invent one? I'm disgusted at not being able to trust the LEGAL system too. I don't WANT the US to be a banana republic! We are BETTER than that!
We need to rise above all this shit. WE ARE BETTER THAN THAT!
Yes, my first thought is of course we should have paper ballots. But is the plan merely to have paper ballots counted by electronic machines? That defeats the purpose.
I think having the original paper ballots allows for a straightforward audit.
Which is a big step forward.
Orange man still bad; will never do anything right. spewing here daily
It would be best to eliminate all electronic voting devices. Several changes should be made:
All votes must be cast on water marked paper ballots.
All votes must be hand counted in secure counting facilities with overseers from all political parties.
The number of ballots made available should not exceed the number of registered voters.
Voter rolls must be timely and vigorously scrutinized and reflect the actual number of eligible voters, people who personally make the effort to register to vote within a voting district.
The number of votes counted must not exceed the number of registered voters who personally showed up to vote.
Voters must show up in person with very limited exceptions for obtaining an absentee ballot.
Showing a legitimate government voter identification must be a requirement to vote. A picture identification card must be issued to the person when the person registers to vote, just as a driver’s license gets issued when a person proves himself or herself qualified to drive.
All votes must be counted immediately after the polls close with no breaks in counting.
A federal holiday should be instituted for national elections.
Localities must be required to provide adequate number of polling places to minimize the wait time to cast one’s ballot.
If you think this Dominion deal is good, please read this deep dive about Knowink and other companies we have in the US that are just like them from 2023.
IMO Liberty/knowink are very bad news for secure elections.
https://joehoft.com/shocking-exclusive-bpro-knowinks-uncertified-internet-connected-cloud-based-election-systems-are-foreign-influenced-and-used-to-illegally-process-election-results/
I haven't even read today's installment of C&C because I thought it started out with "Comey's deranged" and I haven't stopped laughing at myself.
Before he legally changed his name, James Comey was known as "Greasy Slimy."
@Jeff- HAHAHAHA!
😂
Specifically, *Trump* deranged lol 😁
@Running- LOL!