No NYT reporter dared sign the headline; record refunds bury affordability strategy; Mamdani spends $28M on friends and family, $2M on a grocery store; young men find God; experts lose the plot; more.
Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
Another FAVORITE! That I often have to repeat to myself and others. Jesus and The Holy Spirit is that perfect gift creating shining stars from "broken on The Stone" clay pots created by the hand of The Potter.
As I was reading Jeff a few minutes ago, I said “Thank You” to God. HE is clearly working in the things we see happening. What is the outcome? We don’t know. The best is this: HE does know.
God has a track record of taking those that are least likely to be voted leader in their high school yearbooks and through them shower His grace and majesty on this world. A running theme of the bible. I understand that St. Paul was bowlegged and not so great to look at but wrote a good part of the New Testament. King David was an adulterous murderer. You get the picture.
That has been my viewpoint as well. Trump is an imperfect individual as pointed out continually by his adversaries. King David has been my comparison too.
04/16/26: As Jeff said, having a plan and being lucky is even better.
My guess is that since this occurs so seldomly in our own personal lives, that when we see it, we either can't recognize it for what it is; or do see it but, conditioned by countless personal reversals in the past, are not unreasonably wary or even distrust its existence/reliability/longevity.
I'm 74 years of age and I'm seeing things today that I only have very rarely experienced prior to the late 1960s*, or events that had happened before I was born (America's unity about winning WWII).
*1964: standing in line in the winter for hours on Park Avenue in order to be able to file past General MacArthur's coffin lying in state in the 7th Regiment armory.
" The Freemasons should control all men of every class, nation and religion, dominating them without obvious compulsion; uniting them through a strong bond; inspiring them with enthusiasm to spread common ideas; and with utmost secrecy and energy, direct them toward this singular objective throughout the world."
Of course it's about one person...you. It appears you just can't give up your desire to continue the 'professor' pablum in your lecture hall, even though you are retired. Have courage? Courage comes in many forms.
None taken. :) I like your comments and I've read a few of your posts. My problem is I don't have unlimited time in the day to read all the things I'd like to read. So. If I only get to one thing, it's C&C and a bible verse. On the days where I don't have time for that I don't read anything else until I've caught up on C&C.
Do not even worry about that. I like many of your posts when I come here. Honestly, it's refreshing. Besides, your heart is in a place I desire to get one day. You serve as an example of what is best about the Christian spirit.
Christ Himself in us is who we are. Not an imitation. Not perfected yet as He was. You can't make yourself to be like Him but He can do it. It's not about comparing anyone else or judging anyone but yourself to Christ and because we admit we can't makes us fall down and worship the One who can.
04/16/26: And it is time to quickly commend the unknown individual, perhaps Jeff, who took the trouble to ensure that the photos that accompany this column, when cut and pasted, do not explode into a size that renders 80% of it off the screen/page, making it unsalvageable. A small detail. Yet highly, highly appreciated. Thank you!
I did not see God referenced above, and that is by far the biggest of monumental mistakes and unforced errors. President Trump and crew making hay while the sun shines + 'luck' has some shine to it, but the reality of God's Devine miraculous intervention and ultimate leading is not to be taken lightly nor His grand work to be attributed to any other person or thing. Forgetting or ignoring God is most foolish and destructive.
I can attest that there are more young men coming to church since Charlie was executed. As well my sixteen year old grandson is involved in a newly formed Fellowship of Christian Athletes group in his Snocross Circuit. This was the first time in his 10 years of racing that Chapel was held regularly on Sunday between morning and afternoon heats. My heart was overjoyed to see young men, on their own, without parents, attending a devotional time that they sought to have.
I never doubted the kids would start looking to Christ again despite all the humbugging...even from other Christians.
Why did I have confidence?
Has anyone here ever backslid for awhile?
How'd that work out?
Not great for me...to say the least.
Im sure it had something to do with Charlie, but living without the spirit is empty.
Children/young adults may not be able to articulate it, but in their innocence they can feel it....well and sometimes he allows people to hit rock bottom....
They just need the smallest of "sparks" sometimes.
Yep! 70x7. the 70 weeks of Daniel. 490 years from the decree of Artaxerxes in his 7th year (458BC) until the crucifixion in 33AD. 490 ‘Days of Atonement’
Yeah, but for some reason I still have a potty mouth sometimes.
Its hard not to be being around construction workers and salespeople all day.
What's helped me is I have a game with my kids if I swear I have to put $5 in a jar that they get. Boy, and let me tell you, you'd think they were barn owls...lolol
Hilarious. I’m married to an electrician who played softball and hockey most his life, so while I have tamed his tongue some when we were younger, he has accentuated my vocabulary a bit more through the years. 🤣 And I’m a lady so that’s a bit less forgivable than you. Lol
Amusingly, up farther in the foothills on a traveled route and not far from where I live is a little restaurant called MotherTruckers! It has been there since the 60's I think.
Yeah I was so ticked off one day during the NFL season when the internet went out while my team was in a HUGE game that I drop a bunch of F-bombs and threw the remote against the wall.
I can relate…I grew up with a dad who cussed while parking in the church lot with a camel no filter cigarette hanging from his lips. Working with men in the agricultural industry and airline industry (on the ramp loading bags) didn’t help. It’s a struggle some days! 🤷🏻♀️
I like your comment Ryan, but I think a deeper way to look at it is not seeing the Spirit beside you. The Holy Spirit walks beside us every minute of our lives, we choose to ignore or abide.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23 Who in their right mind wouldn’t want and need this in their lives? Be… in the Word 🙏
We have been talking about the fact that many of my son’s early 40’s aged friends have never married. They work at jobs that pay well enough that they can indulge in what they want, and since marriage is no longer the requirement for sex, they see no reason to marry. But after covid, weddings that were postponed during lockdowns started happening among the 20 to 30 year olds, and now in my traditional church, baby baptisms are happening nearly every Sunday. I am amazed and so heartened by this. These young men returning to church are finding what we need, families that include marriage and babies. I am so encouraged.
"Young men are still drifting toward the GOP, which correlates strongly with religiosity" said Jeff
Still pushing the two party Divide and Conquer. If Gen Z was wise they might come together and be a real threat to the deep state. What is the US body count so far? Check the Dow Average?
With the Democrat’s track record that includes abortion up to & past birth, active and passive euthanasia, active attacks on proLife praying grandmothers, tolerance & defense of habitual criminals and sexual predators both in the general population and in office holders (until they become a political liability—I’m referring to Swallowell), illegal alien fraud schemes, booing God at their national convention, I’d say that the only church that the Democrats worship in is the Church of Satan, I don’t think anyone has to push anything: the only religious affiliation that Democrats seem to have is with the cult of the Arabian moon god, relabeled as Mohammedanism, aka Islam, so wholly incompatible with American culture that the first armed forces hymn starts out with ‘From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli,….’, commemorating the first military expedition of our new country.
No, sir, I think that the Democrat Party should be disbanded as a threat to this country, a corrupt RICO organization and left on the ash heap of history.
We are all fools. Those amongst us that possess a modicum of self-awareness realize that and strive to better themselves and seek redemption. It's a life-long process.
"If gen z was wise..." is a fantasy statement, you yourself know that human nature will never let that happen. The two party system gives people choices (admittedly not optimum choices what with the deep state being pervasive, but we get to choose the best of the two available)
@Ryan Gardner You said it "living without the spirit is empty"! Social media is so negative that after a point you crave something else. With Jesus, all things are possible even thought social media says no. God's Will be done.
It's funny though, it very much depends on who you follow. Though it's not quite "social media" in the sense of X or Facebook, I've seen Youtube comments shift a bit over time, even more so on Christian and Christian-adjacent channels, so much that I've seen genuinely respectful conversations between people who disagree, which I would have thought impossible five years ago.
I am so thankful my eighteen-year-old grandson, our first grandchild, is part of this generation of Christian renewal. Charlie Kirk had a huge impact on this. And regardless of what you might otherwise think of Donald Trump, he has represented fatherhood and masculinity, that it is really okay to be a man.
Nancy: Yes! My almost 14 yr old granddaughter is ‘awakening’ thanks to the leading of her friend, and PK ❤️(she is finding her SOG—Silly Old Gramma—is not so silly after all).
I rejoice at the presence of outspoken godly young men in our church unashamed to bring Jesus to all they encounter. The FCA, Cru chapters here are flourishing—clearly the work of God. Revival is happening and I am here for it!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Remember, the demons that infest our comments section are only here to sow division and hatred. Ignore them and they will eventually go away if there is no interaction.
What was I wrong about? I thought regime change was to already happen and we would be basking in Middle East peace according to you enlightened prescient geniuses? It was me who said otherwise at the outset, which has been proven to be nothing but true. But you can keep telling yourself otherwise if it makes you feel better.
If you believe government narratives about assassinations, I just don't know what to tell you.
My Orthodox Church is exploding with new converts, mostly young men, but there are also young women attending and now there are weddings in our future.
I have been heartened to see many college and professional athletes (especially men) boldly proclaiming their faith. The University of Louisville (Go Cards!) has a large, thriving Fellowship of Christian Athletes. I sure many others do, also.
Pete Hegseth, at this morning's Pentagon briefing, presenting his own sermonette following that given by his minister on Sunday (Mark 3). And his words at last week's briefing. You can tell that DJT has given him the green light to spread the word. Or rather, the Word. Contrast that to whichever evil Middle East war it was in which our chaplains were ordered to remove the crosses from their helmets--because those emblems offended the Muslims. Imagine being a guy who had just had a close encounter with an IED, and knew he was shortly to have another close encounter of a higher nature--and not being able to tell who was the chaplain. Absolute cruelty. And quite possibly one element in the poor enlistment rates of past years.
They have also realized that "offence" is a bogeyman in the West, and weaponized that - any behavior they want you to stop instantly becomes "offensive", even if it's something they have no problem doing themselves. (Not that I'm saying they aren't also genuinely offended way too easily!)
Yes!!! I have five children so am a bserving my own small study. I am a Christ follower but their dad is not. We peacefully navigate this in our household but the result is my children started their years of determinism fairly secular.
My oldest are 18 and 19 years old in college. Both girls, neither believers but … praise the Almighty … they are noticing how empty the world is, how cold and uninspiring. They are both in college and I pray that God touches their hearts with the truth. They are otherwise both very conservative girls who have not fallen for the wokeness that prays on our young women today.
My middle two are both in high school. My 16 year old came to Jesus in a dramatic way last year when He stopped her in the middle of a suicide attempt. Yes I tear up every time it comes to mind. Before she went about the business of swallowing a bottle of pills, the Spirit prompted her to pick up her Bible that my mother had given her years before. It fell open to the story of the woman who touched Jesus’s cloak in the middle of the crowd. She read it and has not been the same since.
My freshman boy is 14 and has long been a professed believer. He is unsteady on his feet as he navigates a secular school environment but I trust the Lord will faithfully guide him through this stage of life.
My youngest is only 8 but he is part of a few Christian communities (homeschool and other) and is receiving better education in that way than his siblings had.
I pray protection over my children and their friends, and salvation for my husband (his name is John if you are in the mind to pray). I am continually amazed by how God is working in these difficult times to secure His own. Praise God!
Your post was very moving to read!! 🙏❤️ Especially about your daughter who was saved by the Lord from ending her life. I’m so glad He intervened!! May He continue to bless all of you 🙏
It's a life long journey for all of us. You are doing a fine job as their momma! We speak Jesus into our children, grand children and great grandchildren ever single chance we get.
Wow! BelleT I got chills reading of your daughter's salvation! Praise be to God! Prayer is an amazing channel to God. I will pray for your husband's conversion to St. Rita of Cascia. She is the patroness of hopeless causes. She had quite a life of challenges that were resolved through prayer. https://www.saintritaofcascia.org/about/
I would guess that this is part of a natural boomerang reaction to the way young men have been treated over the last 20 or 30 years. It's a natural outcropping of being told over and over and over again that you are worthless because you are male and white. Sooner or later that's going to backfire. And thank God it's backfiring in this direction! Truth be told the AWFLS caused this. And I couldn't be happier!
Hopefully the way it will stick is many of these young men will rise up and become the future leaders of our churches, replacing the men/women that failed their flocks by allowing politics and secularism to permeate those spaces, both in their hearts and in their pews. Shame on all of them for failing Christ and His church.
All this outrage about Trump portraying himself as a healer, when scripture makes it crystal clear that we should be imitators of Christ; filled with the Holy Spirit and always healing!
My older daughter met her wonderful husband of nearly 30 years now through Fellowship of Christian Athletes at the University of North Florida. She was a basketball player, he was tennis. I will be forever grateful to that organization.
1. The HS Young Life participation is booming like never before in my community
2. Ash Wednesday Catholic Mass (evening) was so full there were not enough pew space, and parishioners stood in back and side of church, and kneeled on the ground. It was glorious
When coffee and covid was based on that, it was a really good newsletter. The further jeff delves into geopolitics, the worse it gets, and it is sad to see.
The stack has turned into a partisan hotbed - maybe purposefully or not - but it sure does get a lot of clicks to talk daily about the idiot shit libs and gender identity, etc.
Just saw a post on X that the a Supreme Court ‘appears in favor of establishing a national election day’ that would require all votes to both be cast and counted the same day. What do we think… is congress deliberately slow walking the SAVE act because they know this is a possibility and would be a cleaner solution? Or is congress just useless and inept?
Sorry for posting this without reading Jeff’s post first, but I was reading it on X when C&C posted and got a lil excited.
Its already established in the Constitution. It sets the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. But the cretins have disregarded the Constitution and built a month or two worth of election manipulation to s_Elect themselves and corrupt evil people like them, both dem and rino. SCOTUS simply needs to enforce the Constitution, what a novel idea!!??
The blatant dismissal of our Constitutional rights over the past five years is why the ridiculous push to revise our Constitution through Constitutional Convention (article 5) is dangerous and unnecessary. The left wants to blow up our Constitution and has recruited useful idiots on the right to do it for them.
Agree wholeheartedly. State of Hawaii did a con-con and it was a disaster. One of the things that Marxist managed to squeeze in there was that every single government employee was required by the Constitution to belong to a union. That all by itself, never mind the rest of the changes, is the reason we call Hawaii "the socialist Republic of hawaii." I am totally against a constitutional convention. Let's just start following it!.
There are a lot of different groups advocating for a Constitutional Convention. Most of them would do very bad things.
But remember, the convention is not the end of it. Any amendments coming out of it would still need to be ratified by 75% of the States. That's 38 of 50.
There is one convention of states worth the effort. You can read about it here:
Their "convention would only allow the states to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.” Their process guarantees it.
And remember this if you remember nothing else, the Constitution is OUR POWER over government, but the government has been infringing it for decades. Wouldn't term limits, fiscal restraints, and limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government be wonderful? We the people should be absolutely ready and willing to conduct a thoughtful, limited convention to put an end to the massive over reach of the leviathan of federal government.
I'm sorry but your last sentence is just silly and dangerous. Claiming that the left has recruited useful idiots on the right??? Come on. You should check out this group and you will find that they are not useful idiots of anyone. The founders gave us the power to enact amendments, we should use it as this group advocates. Because I guarantee you this, if you think the congress will ever limit themselves, that will never happen. They are the ones who have spent decades stealing our power over them.
There are only two mentions in the Constitution regarding federal elections: Article I, section 4 states that the "states will regulate the times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives," BUT Congress can make laws altering the states' laws. The second mention is in Article II , section 1: "Congress may determine the time of choosing electors [Electoral College ], and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States."
In the 1960s when I was in school, I remember the big deal made of election day. People went to the polls, and it was all on TV constantly as they updated various states and the voting. By midnight we pretty much knew who had won although West Coast votes were still coming in.
I think this media exposure as it was then might also have stimulated voting because it was more of an exciting, visible process on one day. You would go to a polling location assigned to you in your area, and at your assigned voting spot they had a list of registered voters and your name would be on it. You would print and sign your name next to the name on the list (which also had your address on it). They would hand you a blank ballot and you would go into little curtained booths to fill it out. Then when you were done you would go to a person who would put it into a slot going into a secure box while you watched, and they would tear off a part of the ballot with your ballot number on it. So you had proof of your ballot and that you voted on it, not someone else.
I don't know what they did if someone walked in to vote who wasn't on the registered voter list. Also, it seemed that absentee ballots were mainly for mlitary overseas, or a citizen who properly applied for it who lived overseas.
Our local synagogue used to hold an election day luncheon and all the bars were closed which helped make it into a big deal. I'd like to see elections also be held on a weekend, and as many people as possible should get the day off. I seem to remember that absentee ballots were for people who would be traveling (we had to do that once) and for those who physically couldn't make it to the polls. All in all, it was a very small proportion of the population who filled out absentee ballots.
The Juneteenth "holiday " has nothing to do with July Fourth. Rather it's a nod to a group of slaves in Texas who only heard about their freedom on June 19, 1865 several months after the war had ended.
Why should members of Congress even get pensions? They go from earning $170k (or whatever it is now) to having multiple millions in just a few years. They leave office (if we can get them out) with massive bank accounts from Heaven knows where, but we still have to pay them pensions for life???
Washington DC should be closed and made into a museum/amusement park. The capital should be moved to the Midwest with many new rules about serving the country.
Naw. Just enact term limits and meaningful campaign finance reform and the power of incumbency - the defacto version of a congressional employee union will disappear like a fart in a typhoon.
That’s an old, old story about human nature and politics going back to The Fall. Just the names change. Human nature is corrupted and requires redemption, which requires a desire to reconcile with God.
I am watching a series with Man In America of children sold to elites and govt's as spies and used for pedophilia and brainwashing. It is revolting and the interview with Anneke Lucas was heartbreaking. What she was forced to do at 9 years old makes me want to vomit and kill all those men. And yet none of them have been brought to justice. Every Elite should be assumed a pedophile until they prove they are not.
An excerpt from the interview:
This is Episode 3 of my Survivor Stories series, and my guest is Anneke Lucas. She was born in Belgium. She was sold by her own mother into a trafficking network at the age of six. By nine years old, she had been passed to what she describes as the global elite and put through a month of systematic mind control training at a villa in Heidelberg, Germany. She was being prepared to serve as an elite sex slave and spy for a very powerful American billionaire.
Here is the complete interview if anyone wants a deeper dive.
I love the Catholic Faith. It is utterly beautiful and many wonderful things have come from it over 2,000 years. Many notable public figures like Newt Gingrich and J.D. Vance have converted because of the beauty.
But the ‘Catholic Church’ with the supposed ‘Pope’ in the Vatican is not practicing the faith, just empty shells of symbolism. And I believe there is horrid corruption.
A priest that I do believe is practicing the ‘Faith’, while trying not to be persecuted by the ‘Church’ told about special living spaces in the dorms at seminary, where the sodomites lived together. He was an eye witness.
Horrible high level officials with proven crimes are not punished, but elevated to Vatican positions.
The Church Jesus established will survive, but there has to be a reckoning.
Screeching Lisa - Do you also go after Protestant pastors and youth ministers who molest children? What religion are you? And that would be "patience" not "patients". And yes I raised three taxpaying successful children; one a military vet who went to Iraq (he was fine, I had to be put on Valium), one married to an Irish rock star, one living in Seattle in a 100 year old fisherman's cottage on a hill. I have 7 beautiful grandchildren. I have lived in Italy, traveled the world and exercised racehorses for a living. You?
Did Congress fix immigration and secure the border? Did Congress impose tariffs? Did Congress declare or authorize war? Will they act to TRULY safeguard elections from Cheaters Foreign and domestic? USELESS indeed
I looked but it was hours ago and my timeline has moved on, I’m sorry. It was a repost from another account that I follow so I’m not even sure how to find it.
I honestly don't see how the Court could do anything else but restore some sanity to the voting mess we're in. But, I don't see any guidance in the Constitution those on the Court who are Originalists. In any case, any bets that KJB will come up with some half-assed reason why people shouldn't be able to mail in their ballots whenever they can get around to it?; or maybe she'll think that ballots should be received no later than midnight on the day before someone is to be sworn in?
I know I send out a lot of stuff, but this is a whole new category.
Unconstitutional coup & conspiracy across states to subvert the will of the voters to adopt popular vote presidential winner regardless of each state's voters' wishes. @#?!?Unbelievably illegal &
Exactly Jeff, they started with the wrong premise, that there was NO plan. There has been a plan for years, and we are beginning to see everything come together now.
And that London based "think tank", hmmmm, City of London again?
God prepared Trump over 5 decades to understand how the corrupt and evil in the world work, and now heis using Trump as an instrument of His will. So, pray to God and give thanks and to continue to protect and armor Trump, while giving him the wisdom, knowledge and experience which baffles the experts!
Dan, Jeff just got a shoutout from Susan on Promethean Action during their live YouTube stream! She liked his description of Starmer as a failed taxidermy experiment.
Promethean is very good. And Jeff's description was straight up accurate! But the UK suffers from the same problem with manipulated elections as we do.
And, Jeff is correct that positivity does not get you “likes”, “shares”, or “clicks”. Negativity and fear always gets you views. I suspect that most social media consumers are looking for fearful content. I wonder if some people think being in a constant state of worry is a virtue, thinking it means they care more than others.
I have no problem with you calling out Boomers, Jeff, I'm one myself, right in the middle. And I can't stand most of the Boomers I meet. I was a teen through the 70's, and I have to admit it was a great time to be young 😂🤣
YES! Me too, every day. And we had vinyl albums with incredible cover art. Real physical music. Now? We're back to mono, streaming someone else's collection. Going digital ruined music completely and turned it into a disposable commodity.
And when an album was released, it was such a big thing. Friends came together and sat down, put the needle in the groove and LISTENED to the entire thing. Maybe twice. Then we talked about it. There were even Listening Parties. Remember those? That would not happen now. And not to mention the sound! Far superior to the clinical digital audio. It sounded human. It sounded real.
I still have two milk carton boxes in my basement filled with all my old albums. I once gave about 30 of my most coveted to my daughter when she got into old record players in high school. We are estranged now and I’ll never get them back. I at least hope she found the joy in them that I had and hung on to them.
Still some goodies in that box in my basement. But I don’t have a way to play them anymore. I have boxes of VHSes too that I no longer have a way to play. And a box of cassette tapes, mixed in with a few 8-tracks. LOL And a tower of CDs. 🤣 Also 5 bookshelves full of DVDs. I have a certifiable museum here in my junk.
I remember we had one of those record players that was the size of a coffin, as long as a buffet console. It had the record player in the center, 8-track tape player on left, and the radio controls on the right. Each speaker must have been the size of a modern day mini fridge. Our TV was a separate trunk freezer sized monstrosity. Lolol I remember my dad dancing in the family room to The Four Tops, and then The Bee Gees. 🤣
Personally, I'm tired of the blanket "blame the boomers" meme. Boomers are really 2 demographic groups. Those of us born from roughly 1955 and up have had a very different experience than the older "boomers". Think of us as 10-15 years older than you, Jeff, and perhaps a bit wiser in some things.
Generation Jones (born 1954–1965) is a micro-generation bridging Baby Boomers and Generation X, often considered the "second half" of the Baby Boom or a distinct cohort. Characterized by growing up in the 1960s/70s and coming of age during economic stagflation, they blended optimism with pragmatism, experiencing a "harder edge" than older Boomers.
That sounds right. I’m a ‘64 model (two days before the cutoff 😆) and I don’t feel much affinity with the boomers. They grew up in a post war boom. I came of age with Jimmy Carter in a sweater, hostages in Iran, and expensive gas.
But we did have great movies and music. And my first vote was for Ronald Magnamus Reagan, so that was nice.
Agreed. I was born in 1964 also. Usually the baby boom is defined as ending in 1964, which would mean the 1964 group and a tiny bit of the 1963's are the only baby boomers that were born after JFK was killed.
Of course, the last 5 or 6 years of the group that don't remember JFK being shot have that psychological divide from the older boomers.
I clearly remember when Kennedy was shot. My family was in Florida. We were sitting in a room with massive sliding doors out to a balcony overlooking the ocean. But the mood was grim. I'll never forget that. Plus RFK plus MLK. Tumultuous times and I suspect there are more ahead.
I was born in 1954. My sibling and cousins are 7 years older than me. While they were going to Woodstock and anti-war demonstrations, I was learning how to do makeup and hair, busy with school activities, and totally oblivious to their experiences because I rarely saw them anymore, never watched the news, and none of my peers or even my teachers talked about it. Yes, completely different.
1957 here. I seem to recall gas lines (a real inconvenience for my passion for skiing), a friend having to move because their father lost their Wall Street job, plus a fairly free childhood roaming the countryside, home for dinner at 6pm, then out til dark. Disco reared its ugly head, but the good music was still there. A real mix of experiences very removed from the social movements of the 60s.
Roosters won’t wait around for others to step up. Instead, they’ll charge into any situation with conviction since they always seem to know the right thing to do, which makes them excellent leaders at work.
In their personal lives, Rooster people are also quite magnetic because they’re charismatic and bold, socially at ease, and love to compliment others with frankness.
It wasn't the materialistic jungle that it is today. And different places had uniqueness that's been overrun by today's homogeneity. So sad. I still find myself on a search for character in a town, character that's not slick and manufactured to sell.
That’s true. It seems like the world got entrenched in materialism in the early 2000’s. New houses with granite countertops, nice clothes and Vuitton bags, jewelry, cell phones etc.
Not sure where that town is. Mine certainly changed, grew like crazy. It’s not the same as when we moved here 40 years ago. Went from sleepy lumber town to tourist town.
I went to Wikipedia to check out Generation Jones. As an early era hippie times boomer (1951) with nieces and nephews a few years younger, I’ve sensed this great divide. I wondered where the name came from; guessed ‘keeping up with the Jones’ and that was one explanation, along with the great word Jonesying.
“The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness, and, possibly the original slant, the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving.[31][32][33] Pontell suggests that Jonesers inherited an optimistic outlook as children in the 1960s but were then confronted with a different reality as they entered the workforce, in the case of the United States, during the economic struggles of the 1970s and 1980s. Mortgage interest rates increased to above 12% in the mid-1980s, making it virtually impossible to buy a house on a single income.[34]
Generation Jones is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older siblings in the earlier part of the Baby Boom; thus, many note that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older Boomers. For example, Baby Boomers often filled senior and more lucrative employment positions vacated by retiring Greatest Generation and older Silent Generation members, leaving Jonesers with fewer opportunities for promotion because their Boomer siblings would enter retirement windows only slightly ahead of them. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of affluence granted to older Boomers but not to them.[35]”
My son calls us Boomers, to set us off. (we're not) I yell back, We're NOT Boomers You MILLENIAL! 😂 Two can play that game. Millenials are trying to change their name to Gen Y because of the "negative" connotation. Well you brought it on yourselves. 😂
Me too Juju. Generation Jones (born 1954–1965) is a micro-generation bridging Baby Boomers and Generation X, often considered the "second half" of the Baby Boom or a distinct cohort. Characterized by growing up in the 1960s/70s and coming of age during economic stagflation, they blended optimism with pragmatism, experiencing a "harder edge" than older Boomers. We were too young for Woodstock and too old for most of MTV.
Author John A. Zukowski wrote that Gen Jones is "a generation in a no-man's-land between the hippie and the yuppie." Yep, that's me, too. (1956) Hippie-yuppie-ti-yi-yo!
Millennials are a mixed bag; there's something of a divide between older and younger there too like there is with Boomers, though the cutoff isn't all that clean.
Your rightful name is Generation Me. Which you changed to Boomers, to avoid the "negative connotation" literally spelled out in the name. Tell that to your son, if you can stomach owning your own hypocrisy
I don't know any Boomers that were Generation Me. The ones I know are/were hard working, took care of their families, had a strong set of morals, set boundaries for their kids and produced healthy and happy children.
Must suck to be you with such negativity. You also sound like a jealous libtard. Best you exit stage left. No negative libturds wanted here. Cheers!
Well given you read ONE Substack, this one, and spent your comment time being insulting to its community, she did a very sane thing. The indignant and libtard was in your response. 🤣
Actually, you can find reference to a "Me Generation" in Baby Boomers, X and Millennials.
Overall - "The Me Generation" is a term coined in the 1970s by writer Tom Wolfe to describe Baby Boomers, characterizing them as self-involved, narcissistic, and focused on self-fulfillment over social responsibility. - Which I find highly ironic, seeing as the younger Baby Boomers to early Gen Xers fought for civil rights, gay rights, Native American rights, etc. and were some of the most invested in social upheaval and equality for women.
Tom Wolfe. Remember "Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff"? Two books that really captured the aura of the times. I may have togo back and read both. Thx for the reminder!
One of my college aged grandsons wanted me to watch and comment on a movie from
the 40s, just post WWII; The Best Years of Our Lives. The interesting part he wanted to see if I could identify as common to our current political climate was the appearance of a useful idiot Nick Fuentes type berating the returned veterans for fighting for an ‘evil’ America against Japan and the Nazis, who he declared were actually the good guys. The idiot was promptly ‘decked’ by one of the veterans, who laid him out.
We then talked about how different a time it was then, when such anti American talk wasn’t tolerated and there was peace of living in a united country.
I told him I enjoyed that life for about 15 years (1951-1966 or so). Then it seemed like all hell broke loose with crazy Supreme Court decisions about religion in public schools, the civil rights movement disturbances, the Vietnam War, multiculturalism, an explosion in illegal drugs, Middle East conflicts and mass illegal immigration.
Those next 60 years have certainly been a wild ride with a complete overturning of the apple cart.
It was much better before God was disinvited from public life.
Me too, right in the middle. Best time ever! And they ended the draft right about the time my brother turned 18! The only political thing going on was Cesar Chavez’ Scab Lettuce. I was a freshman at the liberal UofOregon and didn’t get involved, now I’m especially glad after finding out about that creep. Geez, 52 years later?
My sister works for a company that makes medical equipment, mostly for females. During the plandemic they made a machine that could test for Covid immediately with their own produced swabs. Needless to say with Joe Biden and the democrats dumping trillions of dollars into big Pharma and medical equipment companies, my sister, who has an extensive case of TDS, made a fortune. Stock options, 401 K plans, retirement, bonuses, etc. etc. etc.
Not long ago we had a talk and I asked her if she was worried, all of these accounts she has look very impressive but are just numbers on a screen. Bernie Madoff had similar statements constantly being sent out, or numbers you could see right on your phone screen. The problem, just like at today’s banks, if you want to go and withdraw say 25,000 dollars in cash they’ll laugh at you. They don’t have that money at the bank. They’ll question you, why do you need that kind of money? Then they may give you 5,000 if they have it, but that’s all you’re getting, see you next week! This recently happened at Blackrock. A bunch of investors for whatever reason wanted their money. Blackrock would only give them 30 cents on the dollar.? I’m worried these runs on banks will continue and probably worsen. We are certainly in financial rough times and with energy costs along with everything else going up it’s a struggle. The more governments print money the money is devalued, inflating costs. Many time interest will be increased to slow inflation. You see the problem.
Times are tough. Because of that, most people have found themselves unable to live their life financially the way they were just 6 or 7 years ago. People can’t afford their life, forcing them to borrow. This is why credit card debt is at an all time high and we all know that’s not cheap money. I think we are in for some choppy times to say the least. Bail outs and government checks are coming which will increase food costs energy costs and living in general will get more expensive. All this just a year or so after the last financial crisis, covid. How much more of this can people take?
The utter democrat arrogance of the plight of the people struggling is Ma. Governor Maura Healy is planning on signing into law a milage tax on all Massachusetts residence, and the new leading Democrat candidate for governor Tom Steyer is promising to open the border wide again letting millions of illegals flood into California. You can’t make this stuff up. J.Goodrich
Can't say the same thing about Texas. Houses and developments including new stores of all kinds are going in all over the place. I have the retirement that I planned for many years ago. My retirement account and income has only gone up since the Trumpster was reelected. I may be an outlier but I really don't think so.
Where I live in Oregon, in a small town near the California boarder, we have not recovered from the plandemic nor have we recovered from the Almeda Fire in neighborhoods like all the senior mobile home parks. Yes we still have our homes but we are under "management" so rent goes up every year, as well as property taxes, insurances, and food. I just was notified that I may possibly get an $80 COLA raise on my actual retirement check. That's nice but half our income goes to rent and food, that's nice too but we know so many people in this little town that rent out spare rooms, driveways, backyards to make money to survive. I don't blame Portland I blame Salem with its deep Democratic majority AKA: deep pocketed commies. GET OUT AND VOTE for the mid term. Thank you James for pointing out it is not just here.
"Plandemic" is turning into a worn out word, but the coining of the word "pandemic" sort of asks for a parody. Originally we had endemic and epidemic, which described things perfectly, and then someone came up with the idea of "pandemic." Sort of like someone came up with the usage of "gender" (a grammatical term) to describe sex, or something to do with sex. Women's rights turned into a euphemism for killing unborn babies. Guys like Tom Steyer revel in this stuff.
Sounds like the usual leftist nonsense. They don’t care if it makes sense, just that it attracts enough voters. But on the federal level they willfully failed to enforce laws about illegal entry in the previous administration.
You didn't tell us if your sister was worried. I hope your sister holds onto the stock options until they fall to the earth. That will be a good lesson for her.
Ordinary people can pull all their money out of funds pretty easily.
These days you might want to remember that banks are insured by the US government for $250K per depositor, and beyond that you might have some exposure.
I'm 75 and attend church weekly with my daughters family in a church nearby. My wife has alzheimers so she doesn't attend very often anymore. I noticed early the number of young people in this fairly new church which has four services and has expanded twice since I started there. Older people are getting more prevalent lately. They've found the place I guess. The grand kids come over after church and I feed them cleverly disguised leftovers that they like. They then also to interact with their grandmother. The long and short of this is, the Christian family lifestyle is coming back in vogue. Living in a Christian household can be a wonderful life. Mine was...
Another anecdote in support of your post: we joined Easter sunday at wife's home church in TX hill country. Packed with with a mix of old folk and young folk. Tons of kids, had a mini sermon where pastor has kids come to front to participate, and that itself was a crowd. God is good!
I wish I could attach a picture. My granddaughter got dedicated at church last month along with all the other new babies and there was barely room on the platform for all of them.
There had to be 30 or more babies. These kids are growing their church one way or another. 😆😆😆
I suspect the “core basket” looks a lot like food rations in Cuba. Rice, beans, white & dark sugar, eggs & milk (only if you have kids). Or maybe just things grown in NYC? Marijuana?
But, judging from the reactions from the EBT crowd when they were delayed in having their EBT cards infused with fresh funds during the budget shutdown in the fall, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth when restrictions were even mentioned on what could be purchased with EBT funds (excluding junk food and drinks), could Mamdani even go there? That is a big part of his base we are talking about. They want their junk food! And what about those who are vegans or require a gluten-free diet? This all sounds like an enormous can of worms.
"Even if it works, and actually sells price-stabilized Cheetos below market rates, then other grocery stores will close, since they can’t compete. Which is how you get Soviet-style Cheeto lines."
Comrades, I have to humbly admit that Soviet-style Cheeto lines was NOT on my bingo card!
Where does this line begin? I know you know Comrade. How? Your fingers and lips are stained bright orange.
If there is one thing I have noticed about those 'War Bloggers' - it's that none of them know shit about war. They're all just spewing their left-wing or rino spin. If they were at all knowledgeable, their hate for Trump and love of the swamp would never figure in to their results.
It is really hard to come up with a good analysis when you don’t have all of the information and are just guessing at parts. That is why I don’t take these predictions very seriously. Plus there are always unexpected events that can change things. It’s funny how none of these people seem to question themselves when they end up being totally wrong and still continue to spew out their predictions, expecting people to continue to believe them.
Their jobs are not to fairly analyze a situation, it’s to look at how it can be spun to make Trump look bad. That’s it. They are all compromised. That’s why they never admit that they were wrong and just move on to the next event.
Yes, I agree. But even if they were doing this in good faith, it would be very difficult to get things right since they don’t have all of the puzzle pieces.
Check TWZ; it's written by military and defense industry folks for a general audience, from their perspective but nonetheless realistic: https://www.twz.com/
The MIC is what both Eisenhower and JFK warned us about... a cancerous, corrupt gaggle of profit-driven scumbags... you were part of that?
Are you trying to imply that fine men, Cols Macgregor and Wilkerson, Scott Ritter, Prof Merscheimer, Jeffry Sachs and ex-CIA Larry Johnson don't know shit about war? They all think Trump is a lunatic zionist ass-clown and they are correct.
Jeff here twists himself into a pretzel daily trying to claim Trumpo has a "plan"... but no one seems to know it... other than maybe his boss Netanyahu?
BTW: 'Former military industrial person'... means you worked for a defense contractor, but never in the military on active duty? So YOU don't actually know shit about war either?
Exactly Jeff, let the man work. He is so different in many ways from previous leaders. Still flawed but dang he can think many many steps ahead when working on complex national and global issues.
I think it's fascinating to watch the increasingly ghoulish, self-destructive antics of the Democratic Party. They are literally snuffing themselves out psychologically ... in the most baldface, adolescent, and self-abasing ways. It's a ghastly spectacle, growing more obvious by the day ... and it's accelerating.
What's occurring is also increasingly unambiguous to the smartest people in the room ... EVERY room. Seeing who Trump REALLY is and what he's really achieving didn't come overnight to me. And I am by no means an insider: I am very much uninvested in politics, etc.
The evidence of Trump's stature - and his team's - is mind-boggling.
I can't wait to see what unfolds in the coming weeks and months.
Overnight a big mouth Democratic Ghoul is exposed and he's done. Probably will see prison bars for a while. Many are saying the Dems keep their reps in line with blackmail. I'm thinking that if the Dems are using blackmail, the Trumpster and his team also have that information and evidence. Look for Tulsi to drop a couple of turds in the Dems pool very soon. Remember the Trumpster always has a plan.
I forgot that Scott Bessent will also be part of this. Dems have been stealing too long for the dumb ones like Tampon Tim not to leave a trail of crumbs.
The corrupt RINOs for certain, which is why they remain silent. I don’t think the other republicans who are honest and upright know what the Dems have on each other.
Yes, that CIA slime Spanberger skinsuit is rolling right over all VA citizens. This is the crap that happens when Smurfs are in charge with a smurf house.
They also just issued a bunch of "gun control" measures. Of course, when news of it got out before it passed gun sales jumped immensely high. I expect that to go to SCOTUS soon.
And those turncoat RINOs who are advancing amnesty for illegals (so called "Dignity Act,") are going to lose us our nation if we don't stop it. NO AMNESTY!
Regarding all these smart guys: I assumed that there was always a plan & I just didn’t know it. In my opinion, that is how it has been with the President.
My wife has a cousin who farms on the ND/Canadian border. Always loved the sane Canadians. Our first trip with the kids was a vacation in Winnipeg. Good times. You gotta get out of there.
Tge French have an expression: "La politique du pire" ... which translates to "the politics of worst case scenario" ... Canada is currently on this path.
HMC, I expect some Canadians might apply to US as persecuted Christian refugees. I'm afraid that is the way it is headed now. Especially with Carney dumping ownership of land to First Nations (how does that even make sense, when people own their homes in those areas?). I know DJT will not allow the continued Chinese & cartels takeover next to our open border.
LOTS of them need to be, there is such a high percentage of them on all topics that are consistently wrong. Lots of them just in this one article....
Keep it up Mr Childers, you may be "only a lawyer" but you have the best track record I'm seeing out here in the wilds of the internet. THANK YOU, as always :D
It amazes me that we live in a time when people actually say things like “you’re only a lawyer” or “he’s only a plumber”. It’s as if they believe the human brain is completely incapable of mastering any other topic beyond what you studied in school or did as a business.
Yet Abraham Lincoln was self taught and went on to become president, and hundreds of thousands of others have too before and ever since.
I may only be an expert in computer science, but there isn’t any subject I can’t master if I put my mind and time to it - and end up with insights far better than those that DID study it as a career. (Except for maybe brain surgery because of my older age not having enough years left to truly master it. 🤣)
But politics? Economy? Sociology? Preventive medical health? Art of war? Business? Science? Investing? Heck nothing is out of reach for anyone who puts their mind to it.
I’m so tired of “you’re not an expert” type arguments. Newsflash: experts aren’t experts these days!
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Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
— James 1:17 LSB
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Another FAVORITE! That I often have to repeat to myself and others. Jesus and The Holy Spirit is that perfect gift creating shining stars from "broken on The Stone" clay pots created by the hand of The Potter.
As I was reading Jeff a few minutes ago, I said “Thank You” to God. HE is clearly working in the things we see happening. What is the outcome? We don’t know. The best is this: HE does know.
🙌 Amen, Juliann. ☝️
Trump is not lucky, he is implementing God's plan. Praise be to God for He is good and His mercy endures forever!!
God has a track record of taking those that are least likely to be voted leader in their high school yearbooks and through them shower His grace and majesty on this world. A running theme of the bible. I understand that St. Paul was bowlegged and not so great to look at but wrote a good part of the New Testament. King David was an adulterous murderer. You get the picture.
That has been my viewpoint as well. Trump is an imperfect individual as pointed out continually by his adversaries. King David has been my comparison too.
It’s so accurate! It’s also amazing to watch the change in Trump as he more frequently mentions Jesus as Lord, love it.
04/16/26: As Jeff said, having a plan and being lucky is even better.
My guess is that since this occurs so seldomly in our own personal lives, that when we see it, we either can't recognize it for what it is; or do see it but, conditioned by countless personal reversals in the past, are not unreasonably wary or even distrust its existence/reliability/longevity.
I'm 74 years of age and I'm seeing things today that I only have very rarely experienced prior to the late 1960s*, or events that had happened before I was born (America's unity about winning WWII).
*1964: standing in line in the winter for hours on Park Avenue in order to be able to file past General MacArthur's coffin lying in state in the 7th Regiment armory.
Blasphemy never sells.
" The Freemasons should control all men of every class, nation and religion, dominating them without obvious compulsion; uniting them through a strong bond; inspiring them with enthusiasm to spread common ideas; and with utmost secrecy and energy, direct them toward this singular objective throughout the world."
Adam Weishaupt, Munich 1765.
I believe you are someone who thinks a lot more of yourself than you should.
It's not about one person.
Can you not respond to the ideas posted?
Have courage.
Of course it's about one person...you. It appears you just can't give up your desire to continue the 'professor' pablum in your lecture hall, even though you are retired. Have courage? Courage comes in many forms.
Bard Joseph is a hack - mostly likely a bot. Ignore his ramblings.
I know. But it's fun to attack his musings.
There is wisdom in knowing who or what to ignore.
Courage in many forms?
Sounds like a lecture.
Stick to the topic
Yo I love christ. He is my savior. But I come here for politics.
I come here for both 🤷🏼♀️
Now that we’ve unnecessarily stated our declarations about the community, let’s just enjoy each other.
Facts. My apologies
Yo then skip the comments - not hard to be respectful. Some of us like both
Thanks Patti 🤗💟🙏
Yes ma'am.
Signed: Enemy of the People.
You should come for both. We are an amazing group.
No lies detected here. Just was making an observation. No offense intended.
None taken. :) I like your comments and I've read a few of your posts. My problem is I don't have unlimited time in the day to read all the things I'd like to read. So. If I only get to one thing, it's C&C and a bible verse. On the days where I don't have time for that I don't read anything else until I've caught up on C&C.
Do not even worry about that. I like many of your posts when I come here. Honestly, it's refreshing. Besides, your heart is in a place I desire to get one day. You serve as an example of what is best about the Christian spirit.
Christ Himself in us is who we are. Not an imitation. Not perfected yet as He was. You can't make yourself to be like Him but He can do it. It's not about comparing anyone else or judging anyone but yourself to Christ and because we admit we can't makes us fall down and worship the One who can.
04/16/26: And it is time to quickly commend the unknown individual, perhaps Jeff, who took the trouble to ensure that the photos that accompany this column, when cut and pasted, do not explode into a size that renders 80% of it off the screen/page, making it unsalvageable. A small detail. Yet highly, highly appreciated. Thank you!
I did not see God referenced above, and that is by far the biggest of monumental mistakes and unforced errors. President Trump and crew making hay while the sun shines + 'luck' has some shine to it, but the reality of God's Devine miraculous intervention and ultimate leading is not to be taken lightly nor His grand work to be attributed to any other person or thing. Forgetting or ignoring God is most foolish and destructive.
I can attest that there are more young men coming to church since Charlie was executed. As well my sixteen year old grandson is involved in a newly formed Fellowship of Christian Athletes group in his Snocross Circuit. This was the first time in his 10 years of racing that Chapel was held regularly on Sunday between morning and afternoon heats. My heart was overjoyed to see young men, on their own, without parents, attending a devotional time that they sought to have.
I never doubted the kids would start looking to Christ again despite all the humbugging...even from other Christians.
Why did I have confidence?
Has anyone here ever backslid for awhile?
How'd that work out?
Not great for me...to say the least.
Im sure it had something to do with Charlie, but living without the spirit is empty.
Children/young adults may not be able to articulate it, but in their innocence they can feel it....well and sometimes he allows people to hit rock bottom....
They just need the smallest of "sparks" sometimes.
Beautifully said Ryan. Thank you. Why does He keep taking us back after failures? Amazing Grace.
He lived as a human and he felt the same temptations we did even tho he was the son of God and could communicate with his/our Father at will.
Yes. And He left us the Holy Spirit. That's what these young people are experiencing. That just thrills me!
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit!
https://irp.cdn-website.com/2097b67f/files/uploaded/Gifts+of+the+Holy+Spirit.pdf
Praise Jesus!
He said, “Forgive 70 X 7” because that’s what He does. He loves us!
Yep! 70x7. the 70 weeks of Daniel. 490 years from the decree of Artaxerxes in his 7th year (458BC) until the crucifixion in 33AD. 490 ‘Days of Atonement’
Because He loves us and what parent doesn't want the best for their children?
Ryan you nailed it. "..living without the spirit is empty." Boom.
And yes, Charlie's passing had much to do with this as well.
Yeah, but for some reason I still have a potty mouth sometimes.
Its hard not to be being around construction workers and salespeople all day.
What's helped me is I have a game with my kids if I swear I have to put $5 in a jar that they get. Boy, and let me tell you, you'd think they were barn owls...lolol
Hilarious. I’m married to an electrician who played softball and hockey most his life, so while I have tamed his tongue some when we were younger, he has accentuated my vocabulary a bit more through the years. 🤣 And I’m a lady so that’s a bit less forgivable than you. Lol
Hahaha. We all fall short
I have to say Juju, my potty mouth has rubbed off on my better half and I do not feel proud of it!
Before my youngest joined the Marines, his most foul epithet was “Mother-trucker!”
Ah those were the days. Lol
Amusingly, up farther in the foothills on a traveled route and not far from where I live is a little restaurant called MotherTruckers! It has been there since the 60's I think.
Losing $5 a pop! What a great incentive.
Yeah I was so ticked off one day during the NFL season when the internet went out while my team was in a HUGE game that I drop a bunch of F-bombs and threw the remote against the wall.
Its known as the "internet rant" in my house now.
But, hey it only cost me $65 for the rant....
But it's been 6 weeks since the last time I had to put money in the jar.
At least im aware and trying...:]
Same RG 😢
I can relate…I grew up with a dad who cussed while parking in the church lot with a camel no filter cigarette hanging from his lips. Working with men in the agricultural industry and airline industry (on the ramp loading bags) didn’t help. It’s a struggle some days! 🤷🏻♀️
Goodness. Exactly same thing with my dad...except he was the pastor!
Now that would make it tough! But we’re all human and have fallen short. ♥️♥️
Thank you Lori for bringing Charlie to this conversation.
He is sorely missed. I hope he is able to see from Heaven what has been accomplished in his memory.
As do I, and millions more!
I like your comment Ryan, but I think a deeper way to look at it is not seeing the Spirit beside you. The Holy Spirit walks beside us every minute of our lives, we choose to ignore or abide.
Yes. Much better.
Kudos
“Living without the Spirit is empty”. Amen and:
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23 Who in their right mind wouldn’t want and need this in their lives? Be… in the Word 🙏
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We have been talking about the fact that many of my son’s early 40’s aged friends have never married. They work at jobs that pay well enough that they can indulge in what they want, and since marriage is no longer the requirement for sex, they see no reason to marry. But after covid, weddings that were postponed during lockdowns started happening among the 20 to 30 year olds, and now in my traditional church, baby baptisms are happening nearly every Sunday. I am amazed and so heartened by this. These young men returning to church are finding what we need, families that include marriage and babies. I am so encouraged.
And if they’ve never known him, they need to “taste and see that the Lord is good.” Psalm 34:8. Nothing this world can offer can ever compare.
"Young men are still drifting toward the GOP, which correlates strongly with religiosity" said Jeff
Still pushing the two party Divide and Conquer. If Gen Z was wise they might come together and be a real threat to the deep state. What is the US body count so far? Check the Dow Average?
"I ain't marching any more" sang Phil Ochs.
https://youtu.be/uRU_ruqnR6Q?si=YDOO5Lx6Lo32LzSq
Ah yes, a retired professor of literature.
With the Democrat’s track record that includes abortion up to & past birth, active and passive euthanasia, active attacks on proLife praying grandmothers, tolerance & defense of habitual criminals and sexual predators both in the general population and in office holders (until they become a political liability—I’m referring to Swallowell), illegal alien fraud schemes, booing God at their national convention, I’d say that the only church that the Democrats worship in is the Church of Satan, I don’t think anyone has to push anything: the only religious affiliation that Democrats seem to have is with the cult of the Arabian moon god, relabeled as Mohammedanism, aka Islam, so wholly incompatible with American culture that the first armed forces hymn starts out with ‘From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli,….’, commemorating the first military expedition of our new country.
No, sir, I think that the Democrat Party should be disbanded as a threat to this country, a corrupt RICO organization and left on the ash heap of history.
Good day to you.
The Democratic party is gone. Its now called the Socialist party.
You are too kind, they are the Communist party.
Sounds anti semantic.
How is MAGA working for you?
Nice list of bogeymen.
How many unborn fetuses killed with
the Defence budget?
Glad we were able to balance the budget.
Dont fall for the propaganda MD.
You are a fool.
We are all fools. Those amongst us that possess a modicum of self-awareness realize that and strive to better themselves and seek redemption. It's a life-long process.
Ah, yes. Those darned "semantics", we can't be having with those.
Amen!!
"If gen z was wise..." is a fantasy statement, you yourself know that human nature will never let that happen. The two party system gives people choices (admittedly not optimum choices what with the deep state being pervasive, but we get to choose the best of the two available)
The best of two evils. Amazing system, for sure. And that is if you believe we actually have election integrity.
Uh-oh, the Bots have arrived.
The hate and division starts now with Johnny-O.
uh-oh, the un-curious siloed "thinkers" have arrived.
We don’t take a look at this –
https://youtu.be/dNvIr6ZTgWY?si=iq-8iTjAa8awif4d
Describe first.
How is MAGA working out.
Every promise in the toilet.
There is no choice in the uniparty, all scripted, a show.
Genocide not an American value yet both sides support it.
Who has gone to jail yet?
"Lock er up"
Maybe "No new wars" after just this one more/last one...
Epstein photo?
One more war until peace! I'm certain that will happen of all places in the middle east!
"living without the spirit is empty "
I hope this applies to my two grown kids, specially the oldest. Woke as can be TDS sufferer.
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My son too.
daughter. . .
@Ryan Gardner You said it "living without the spirit is empty"! Social media is so negative that after a point you crave something else. With Jesus, all things are possible even thought social media says no. God's Will be done.
It's funny though, it very much depends on who you follow. Though it's not quite "social media" in the sense of X or Facebook, I've seen Youtube comments shift a bit over time, even more so on Christian and Christian-adjacent channels, so much that I've seen genuinely respectful conversations between people who disagree, which I would have thought impossible five years ago.
I am so thankful my eighteen-year-old grandson, our first grandchild, is part of this generation of Christian renewal. Charlie Kirk had a huge impact on this. And regardless of what you might otherwise think of Donald Trump, he has represented fatherhood and masculinity, that it is really okay to be a man.
So good to see men are back and not the metrosexuals of yesteryear.
Nancy: Yes! My almost 14 yr old granddaughter is ‘awakening’ thanks to the leading of her friend, and PK ❤️(she is finding her SOG—Silly Old Gramma—is not so silly after all).
I rejoice at the presence of outspoken godly young men in our church unashamed to bring Jesus to all they encounter. The FCA, Cru chapters here are flourishing—clearly the work of God. Revival is happening and I am here for it!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is all so encouraging!
Im sure grandma's prayers had nothing to do with it!...;)
/sarc/...
😂 oh I'm sure they absolutely did! Grandma's prayers are Powerful.
It would be nice to know who assassinated Mr. Kirk.
Then comes the fly in the ointment…shooo! Get lost!
Remember, the demons that infest our comments section are only here to sow division and hatred. Ignore them and they will eventually go away if there is no interaction.
"demons" - really? Very Christ-like of you. Same with Willing who routinely slanders and lies about me. Some Christian they are as well.
Definition of a demon. A persistently tormenting person, force, or passion. I think it’s applicable.
We are 99 percent there. Stay tuned
Really? It sounds like you are believing the mainstream/state narrative. Fat chance that is true
😂
Oh Johnny-boy...how many times can you be wrong before you start to realize how truly dim you are? I would guess hundreds...maybe thousands.
What was I wrong about? I thought regime change was to already happen and we would be basking in Middle East peace according to you enlightened prescient geniuses? It was me who said otherwise at the outset, which has been proven to be nothing but true. But you can keep telling yourself otherwise if it makes you feel better.
If you believe government narratives about assassinations, I just don't know what to tell you.
And what motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks to shoot Trump in the face.
My Orthodox Church is exploding with new converts, mostly young men, but there are also young women attending and now there are weddings in our future.
Soon there will be children! Praise be to God!
I have been heartened to see many college and professional athletes (especially men) boldly proclaiming their faith. The University of Louisville (Go Cards!) has a large, thriving Fellowship of Christian Athletes. I sure many others do, also.
Pete Hegseth, at this morning's Pentagon briefing, presenting his own sermonette following that given by his minister on Sunday (Mark 3). And his words at last week's briefing. You can tell that DJT has given him the green light to spread the word. Or rather, the Word. Contrast that to whichever evil Middle East war it was in which our chaplains were ordered to remove the crosses from their helmets--because those emblems offended the Muslims. Imagine being a guy who had just had a close encounter with an IED, and knew he was shortly to have another close encounter of a higher nature--and not being able to tell who was the chaplain. Absolute cruelty. And quite possibly one element in the poor enlistment rates of past years.
And the chaplains should have refused.
They’re in the military: refusal to follow an order is…..
don't care. God comes first and He gives the proper orders.
One saying NOPE and wearing that cross is an issue. . TEN THOUSAND saying NOPE is a victory.
That’s perhaps a point. I have not ever been in the military (left that to father and brothers).
On a side note, virtually everything offends the radical Muslims.
They have also realized that "offence" is a bogeyman in the West, and weaponized that - any behavior they want you to stop instantly becomes "offensive", even if it's something they have no problem doing themselves. (Not that I'm saying they aren't also genuinely offended way too easily!)
Pete drives the leftists absolutely insane 😂😁
Be funny if he makes the atheists begin to question their stance.
Yes!!! I have five children so am a bserving my own small study. I am a Christ follower but their dad is not. We peacefully navigate this in our household but the result is my children started their years of determinism fairly secular.
My oldest are 18 and 19 years old in college. Both girls, neither believers but … praise the Almighty … they are noticing how empty the world is, how cold and uninspiring. They are both in college and I pray that God touches their hearts with the truth. They are otherwise both very conservative girls who have not fallen for the wokeness that prays on our young women today.
My middle two are both in high school. My 16 year old came to Jesus in a dramatic way last year when He stopped her in the middle of a suicide attempt. Yes I tear up every time it comes to mind. Before she went about the business of swallowing a bottle of pills, the Spirit prompted her to pick up her Bible that my mother had given her years before. It fell open to the story of the woman who touched Jesus’s cloak in the middle of the crowd. She read it and has not been the same since.
My freshman boy is 14 and has long been a professed believer. He is unsteady on his feet as he navigates a secular school environment but I trust the Lord will faithfully guide him through this stage of life.
My youngest is only 8 but he is part of a few Christian communities (homeschool and other) and is receiving better education in that way than his siblings had.
I pray protection over my children and their friends, and salvation for my husband (his name is John if you are in the mind to pray). I am continually amazed by how God is working in these difficult times to secure His own. Praise God!
Your post was very moving to read!! 🙏❤️ Especially about your daughter who was saved by the Lord from ending her life. I’m so glad He intervened!! May He continue to bless all of you 🙏
Just beautiful! Miracles surround us if we can only see them…
BelleT: God has you and yours. Keep on keeping on! He Never Fails.
It's a life long journey for all of us. You are doing a fine job as their momma! We speak Jesus into our children, grand children and great grandchildren ever single chance we get.
Wow! BelleT I got chills reading of your daughter's salvation! Praise be to God! Prayer is an amazing channel to God. I will pray for your husband's conversion to St. Rita of Cascia. She is the patroness of hopeless causes. She had quite a life of challenges that were resolved through prayer. https://www.saintritaofcascia.org/about/
I would guess that this is part of a natural boomerang reaction to the way young men have been treated over the last 20 or 30 years. It's a natural outcropping of being told over and over and over again that you are worthless because you are male and white. Sooner or later that's going to backfire. And thank God it's backfiring in this direction! Truth be told the AWFLS caused this. And I couldn't be happier!
God make it stick! 🙏🏼
Hopefully the way it will stick is many of these young men will rise up and become the future leaders of our churches, replacing the men/women that failed their flocks by allowing politics and secularism to permeate those spaces, both in their hearts and in their pews. Shame on all of them for failing Christ and His church.
All this outrage about Trump portraying himself as a healer, when scripture makes it crystal clear that we should be imitators of Christ; filled with the Holy Spirit and always healing!
Lovely!
Yes, this is joyful news! God bless our young men and let them find moral and faithful women to marry and continue the lineage of families.
My older daughter met her wonderful husband of nearly 30 years now through Fellowship of Christian Athletes at the University of North Florida. She was a basketball player, he was tennis. I will be forever grateful to that organization.
Two 2026 anecdotes in support:
1. The HS Young Life participation is booming like never before in my community
2. Ash Wednesday Catholic Mass (evening) was so full there were not enough pew space, and parishioners stood in back and side of church, and kneeled on the ground. It was glorious
I love hearing that
Gotta prepare them to die for the bankers funding TPUSA and Vance.
Why are you even here? You seem to dislike most things posted…
This commenter is like a tick. It will crawl up your leg, find a place to sink it's two legs in your skin and begin to suck your blood.
These bots are parasites sent to these successful conservative sites to create hate and division.
Pay their words no mind.
They are meaningless rants of the truly lost.
When coffee and covid was based on that, it was a really good newsletter. The further jeff delves into geopolitics, the worse it gets, and it is sad to see.
The stack has turned into a partisan hotbed - maybe purposefully or not - but it sure does get a lot of clicks to talk daily about the idiot shit libs and gender identity, etc.
Is there one idea that is acceptable? Are you a communist?
Question everything.
Be a girl on the move.
Dont be stuck with one idea.
Exactly Bard, why don't you "move on"?
Why dont you discuss what is in the post rather than being obsessed with strangers.
If I had to guess, he just likes a good argument. In which case, ignore him and he'll move on.
Bard, have you considered inviting the Lord Donald Trump into your heart?
Hahahaha
Only after the resurrection.
That would be the final stunt.
Several newsworthy item begging commentary.
DJT is always right, Let the Man Work, Trust the Plan etc
He regularly calls out the fake news echo chamber suggesting the failing NYT's
will fall on their own sword.
The options to explain his uncanny ability to plan and create outcomes
has another explanation that exploded yesterday in certain arenas.
Dual simultaneous Time Lines that some people (those familiar
with Nicolai Tesla) have been pondering for a very long time. Time travel.
It implies the possibility of traveling the "multiverse" to see or influence
outcomes.
One explanation is Time travelers can create, or alter outcomes to include
preventing catastrophe.
DJT's brilliant uncle apparently was best friends with Tesla, acquiring
his manuscipts post mortem. Just saying.
Economic incentives salve the wounds of Derangement afflicted.
As conditions improve, with more Swalwel similar exposes incoming, the panicans
will approach extermination.
Just saw a post on X that the a Supreme Court ‘appears in favor of establishing a national election day’ that would require all votes to both be cast and counted the same day. What do we think… is congress deliberately slow walking the SAVE act because they know this is a possibility and would be a cleaner solution? Or is congress just useless and inept?
Sorry for posting this without reading Jeff’s post first, but I was reading it on X when C&C posted and got a lil excited.
Its already established in the Constitution. It sets the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. But the cretins have disregarded the Constitution and built a month or two worth of election manipulation to s_Elect themselves and corrupt evil people like them, both dem and rino. SCOTUS simply needs to enforce the Constitution, what a novel idea!!??
The blatant dismissal of our Constitutional rights over the past five years is why the ridiculous push to revise our Constitution through Constitutional Convention (article 5) is dangerous and unnecessary. The left wants to blow up our Constitution and has recruited useful idiots on the right to do it for them.
Agree wholeheartedly. State of Hawaii did a con-con and it was a disaster. One of the things that Marxist managed to squeeze in there was that every single government employee was required by the Constitution to belong to a union. That all by itself, never mind the rest of the changes, is the reason we call Hawaii "the socialist Republic of hawaii." I am totally against a constitutional convention. Let's just start following it!.
It is said that we have enough laws to address every attack. They just aren’t enforced. Adding more laws complicates and clouds the issues.
And why would they be enforced any differently than what we already have?
There are a lot of different groups advocating for a Constitutional Convention. Most of them would do very bad things.
But remember, the convention is not the end of it. Any amendments coming out of it would still need to be ratified by 75% of the States. That's 38 of 50.
There is one convention of states worth the effort. You can read about it here:
https://conventionofstates.com/#why-call-cos
Their "convention would only allow the states to discuss amendments that, “limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, impose fiscal restraints, and place term limits on federal officials.” Their process guarantees it.
And remember this if you remember nothing else, the Constitution is OUR POWER over government, but the government has been infringing it for decades. Wouldn't term limits, fiscal restraints, and limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government be wonderful? We the people should be absolutely ready and willing to conduct a thoughtful, limited convention to put an end to the massive over reach of the leviathan of federal government.
I'm sorry but your last sentence is just silly and dangerous. Claiming that the left has recruited useful idiots on the right??? Come on. You should check out this group and you will find that they are not useful idiots of anyone. The founders gave us the power to enact amendments, we should use it as this group advocates. Because I guarantee you this, if you think the congress will ever limit themselves, that will never happen. They are the ones who have spent decades stealing our power over them.
Where in the Constitution is that date set?
In 1845 Congress passed a federal law designating the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as Election Day.
In Arizona, where I live, the Az Constitution establishes it in Article 7.
Yes, US Constitution Article I section 4 authorizes such legislation. I hadn't realized you were referencing Arizona.
I should have been more clear, so thanks for asking.
And you are spot on about Article 1.
There are only two mentions in the Constitution regarding federal elections: Article I, section 4 states that the "states will regulate the times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives," BUT Congress can make laws altering the states' laws. The second mention is in Article II , section 1: "Congress may determine the time of choosing electors [Electoral College ], and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States."
In the 1960s when I was in school, I remember the big deal made of election day. People went to the polls, and it was all on TV constantly as they updated various states and the voting. By midnight we pretty much knew who had won although West Coast votes were still coming in.
I think this media exposure as it was then might also have stimulated voting because it was more of an exciting, visible process on one day. You would go to a polling location assigned to you in your area, and at your assigned voting spot they had a list of registered voters and your name would be on it. You would print and sign your name next to the name on the list (which also had your address on it). They would hand you a blank ballot and you would go into little curtained booths to fill it out. Then when you were done you would go to a person who would put it into a slot going into a secure box while you watched, and they would tear off a part of the ballot with your ballot number on it. So you had proof of your ballot and that you voted on it, not someone else.
I don't know what they did if someone walked in to vote who wasn't on the registered voter list. Also, it seemed that absentee ballots were mainly for mlitary overseas, or a citizen who properly applied for it who lived overseas.
Our local synagogue used to hold an election day luncheon and all the bars were closed which helped make it into a big deal. I'd like to see elections also be held on a weekend, and as many people as possible should get the day off. I seem to remember that absentee ballots were for people who would be traveling (we had to do that once) and for those who physically couldn't make it to the polls. All in all, it was a very small proportion of the population who filled out absentee ballots.
Yes...I worked overseas for 10 years and always voted by absentee ballot, as did a lot of Americans overseas. So not just military.
Now make it a holiday.
Indeed! National Voting Day is just a tad more important than Biden's National Trans Visibility Day.
Make Trans Invisible again! 😁
Science.
Glad that trans visibility day is now just Easter. 🥰
Or perhaps a half holiday: your option to take either am or pm off to go vote. Less burdensome on employers to pay for.
Must present proof of having voted for reimbursement!
Get rid of Juneteenth! Isn't 4th of July for all Americans?
The Juneteenth "holiday " has nothing to do with July Fourth. Rather it's a nod to a group of slaves in Texas who only heard about their freedom on June 19, 1865 several months after the war had ended.
Fortunately, it is on the calendar during the school summer holiday so it does not invoke “three day weekend” status.
Many have no clue what Juneteenth is really about.
The owner of the Juneteenth flag ( yes, there is one) explained it to me.
ID got rid of Juneteenth I believe.
A solid notion.
pair it with National Taxation Day
I’ve often said if there was no withholding and everyone had to write one check, things would change so fast your head would spin!
Agreed!
You’ll never go broke betting on Congressional uselessness and ineptitude.
Seriously. They are awful.
I honestly hate "liking" this comment but it so factual I had to like it.
Useless and Inept seem to be the modus operandi of many in the House.
I hate it!
Mark Twain agrees!
Congress is useless and inept (and corrupt) would be the right answer.
I think Congress should be abolished forever. Everyone in Congress would then be retired for good.
A new group of representatives could then be formed and this could be named "Progress."
I think everyone in congress should go home and random American citizens given the job for max 2 terms.
And no pensions off our hard work. They can fend for themselves. Let the illegal immigrants help them out.
Why should members of Congress even get pensions? They go from earning $170k (or whatever it is now) to having multiple millions in just a few years. They leave office (if we can get them out) with massive bank accounts from Heaven knows where, but we still have to pay them pensions for life???
Right there with you Judy.
Washington DC should be closed and made into a museum/amusement park. The capital should be moved to the Midwest with many new rules about serving the country.
Naw. Just enact term limits and meaningful campaign finance reform and the power of incumbency - the defacto version of a congressional employee union will disappear like a fart in a typhoon.
God is Greater than these entities.
That’s an old, old story about human nature and politics going back to The Fall. Just the names change. Human nature is corrupted and requires redemption, which requires a desire to reconcile with God.
I am watching a series with Man In America of children sold to elites and govt's as spies and used for pedophilia and brainwashing. It is revolting and the interview with Anneke Lucas was heartbreaking. What she was forced to do at 9 years old makes me want to vomit and kill all those men. And yet none of them have been brought to justice. Every Elite should be assumed a pedophile until they prove they are not.
An excerpt from the interview:
This is Episode 3 of my Survivor Stories series, and my guest is Anneke Lucas. She was born in Belgium. She was sold by her own mother into a trafficking network at the age of six. By nine years old, she had been passed to what she describes as the global elite and put through a month of systematic mind control training at a villa in Heidelberg, Germany. She was being prepared to serve as an elite sex slave and spy for a very powerful American billionaire.
Here is the complete interview if anyone wants a deeper dive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPegw6HoWk&t=57s
There you go again with your anti-Catholic lies!
I love the Catholic Faith. It is utterly beautiful and many wonderful things have come from it over 2,000 years. Many notable public figures like Newt Gingrich and J.D. Vance have converted because of the beauty.
But the ‘Catholic Church’ with the supposed ‘Pope’ in the Vatican is not practicing the faith, just empty shells of symbolism. And I believe there is horrid corruption.
A priest that I do believe is practicing the ‘Faith’, while trying not to be persecuted by the ‘Church’ told about special living spaces in the dorms at seminary, where the sodomites lived together. He was an eye witness.
Horrible high level officials with proven crimes are not punished, but elevated to Vatican positions.
The Church Jesus established will survive, but there has to be a reckoning.
Agreed. All the above is why I go to the SSPX.
Very good! The faithful fight on…
I’m Catholic and would never try to defend the Jesuits.
Screeching Lisa - Do you also go after Protestant pastors and youth ministers who molest children? What religion are you? And that would be "patience" not "patients". And yes I raised three taxpaying successful children; one a military vet who went to Iraq (he was fine, I had to be put on Valium), one married to an Irish rock star, one living in Seattle in a 100 year old fisherman's cottage on a hill. I have 7 beautiful grandchildren. I have lived in Italy, traveled the world and exercised racehorses for a living. You?
Haranguing Lisa, hopefully you're including the DNC who love killing babies.
We need the enforcement of citizen only voting, but we also need only citizens to count in the census.
Still would need verifiable voter ID to make a difference. Too easy to cheat just like the Learing Center in Minneapolis.
Congress is pretty much useless.... just my opinion!!!
Did Congress fix immigration and secure the border? Did Congress impose tariffs? Did Congress declare or authorize war? Will they act to TRULY safeguard elections from Cheaters Foreign and domestic? USELESS indeed
I would love a one day voting and counting. Cleans it up
Agreed. But without voter ID, how clean would it really be? We still need the SAVE act!
Well anything for Washington state would likely be a positive but YES VOTER ID
Funny that most other countries manage to do it all in one day!
Useless and inept.
But....a greedy and ignorant electorate will vote in.....
I agree. I think that’s what is going on.
I think the answer is yes. They hope for a "cleaner" solution, and are useless and inept! Far too many times congress has let SCOTUS do their work.
I think the goal of most in Congress is to do as little work as possible, while enriching themselves.
The Supremes don't initiate laws. They are constitutional arbiters.
They should do their jobs and not seek to encroach on others responsibilities.
Can you provide a link on X to that?
I looked but it was hours ago and my timeline has moved on, I’m sorry. It was a repost from another account that I follow so I’m not even sure how to find it.
Oh, that's ok; I might be able to find it by doing a subject search on X.
I found this one! Not sure if it’s the exact one I saw this morning or not.
https://x.com/realdonkeith/status/2044393345833709872?s=46&t=Paio8Fg6u1DIo-jQRCfLqg
I honestly don't see how the Court could do anything else but restore some sanity to the voting mess we're in. But, I don't see any guidance in the Constitution those on the Court who are Originalists. In any case, any bets that KJB will come up with some half-assed reason why people shouldn't be able to mail in their ballots whenever they can get around to it?; or maybe she'll think that ballots should be received no later than midnight on the day before someone is to be sworn in?
Best idea yet.
Have you heard about this?!?
NPVIC: This is very concerning -
I know I send out a lot of stuff, but this is a whole new category.
Unconstitutional coup & conspiracy across states to subvert the will of the voters to adopt popular vote presidential winner regardless of each state's voters' wishes. @#?!?Unbelievably illegal &
it's happening right now.
JHP explains:
https://jovanhuttonpulitzer.locals.com/upost/7861325/7-pm-cst-is-the-mid-term-rig-in-full-swing-you-look-you-tell-me-npvic-https-rumble-com-v78k
I read many substacks a day and yours is not only the most fun to read but the most informative. Love the content and style very much. Thank you.
Exactly Jeff, they started with the wrong premise, that there was NO plan. There has been a plan for years, and we are beginning to see everything come together now.
And that London based "think tank", hmmmm, City of London again?
LTMW because TAW because GAW.
God prepared Trump over 5 decades to understand how the corrupt and evil in the world work, and now heis using Trump as an instrument of His will. So, pray to God and give thanks and to continue to protect and armor Trump, while giving him the wisdom, knowledge and experience which baffles the experts!
Been praying for him every morning since Aug. 4, 2024.
Thank you V3. Me too!
Don't know why I only began on Aug. 4--should have started July 14.
Me 3!
Yes He did Dan, no doubt about it. Trump is genius but I can't see how he could plan, execute and advance like this without God.
I agree.
Dan, Jeff just got a shoutout from Susan on Promethean Action during their live YouTube stream! She liked his description of Starmer as a failed taxidermy experiment.
I also listen to promethean action! Their updates complement the C&C newsletter;)
Their show today was excellent, they covered many current questions.
I like to call him Stammerman. Has anyone been before me in this coinage?
I heard that too earlier today 💥
Promethean is very good. And Jeff's description was straight up accurate! But the UK suffers from the same problem with manipulated elections as we do.
funny how planning and hard work makes for better luck
Chance favors the prepared is how I think Louis Pasteur put it.
One of my military commanders always said, "The man with the plan, WINS".
I’ve heard that, too…but I’ve also heard it said that the “plan” goes out the window once the first shot is fired.
Or as, I think, Mike Tyson said - after the first punch to the face 🤔 🤣
TRUTH
And, Jeff is correct that positivity does not get you “likes”, “shares”, or “clicks”. Negativity and fear always gets you views. I suspect that most social media consumers are looking for fearful content. I wonder if some people think being in a constant state of worry is a virtue, thinking it means they care more than others.
Good observation.
Chatham House, and the Rothschilds, on display.
Actually President Trump and the One True Living God is on display.
Chatham House and Rothschild have been uninvited.
The Rothschilds own Trump, they’re the ones who bailed him out in the early 90’s.
Bless your heart. Your TDS is consuming you.
How much do you know about Wilbur Ross?
I have tried to have conversations with people with TDS. It is truly a spiritual disorder. Demonic. So.
I have no problem with you calling out Boomers, Jeff, I'm one myself, right in the middle. And I can't stand most of the Boomers I meet. I was a teen through the 70's, and I have to admit it was a great time to be young 😂🤣
We definitely had the best music! Still enjoying it in my 70’s.
My refrigerator magnet nails it: I may be old but I got to see all the best bands live. I’m 71 😁
YES! Me too, every day. And we had vinyl albums with incredible cover art. Real physical music. Now? We're back to mono, streaming someone else's collection. Going digital ruined music completely and turned it into a disposable commodity.
And liner notes. I loved those!
We related everything to the cost of an album. 4 bucks for lunch out or 4 bucks for an album. Album won!
And when an album was released, it was such a big thing. Friends came together and sat down, put the needle in the groove and LISTENED to the entire thing. Maybe twice. Then we talked about it. There were even Listening Parties. Remember those? That would not happen now. And not to mention the sound! Far superior to the clinical digital audio. It sounded human. It sounded real.
I still have two milk carton boxes in my basement filled with all my old albums. I once gave about 30 of my most coveted to my daughter when she got into old record players in high school. We are estranged now and I’ll never get them back. I at least hope she found the joy in them that I had and hung on to them.
Still some goodies in that box in my basement. But I don’t have a way to play them anymore. I have boxes of VHSes too that I no longer have a way to play. And a box of cassette tapes, mixed in with a few 8-tracks. LOL And a tower of CDs. 🤣 Also 5 bookshelves full of DVDs. I have a certifiable museum here in my junk.
I hear you Juju. I have a huge collection of albums. I really want a Technics stereo system like we had back in the 70's, but man, are they expensive.
I remember we had one of those record players that was the size of a coffin, as long as a buffet console. It had the record player in the center, 8-track tape player on left, and the radio controls on the right. Each speaker must have been the size of a modern day mini fridge. Our TV was a separate trunk freezer sized monstrosity. Lolol I remember my dad dancing in the family room to The Four Tops, and then The Bee Gees. 🤣
We did! But NOT the best fashion!
Ugh, that’s true! I have a couple of vintage fashion magazines to verify that! Some of it was cool, but much was just plain ugly.
I actually owned a powder blue leisure suit with white shoes right after I graduated high school lol.
If you’re out and about, this is the background music you hear. Everyone likes it.
Can you imagine classic rap or hip hop at a restaurant?
Give it 20 years and that's what they'llbe playing.
Maybe, but I kind of doubt it.
Personally, I'm tired of the blanket "blame the boomers" meme. Boomers are really 2 demographic groups. Those of us born from roughly 1955 and up have had a very different experience than the older "boomers". Think of us as 10-15 years older than you, Jeff, and perhaps a bit wiser in some things.
Generation Jones (born 1954–1965) is a micro-generation bridging Baby Boomers and Generation X, often considered the "second half" of the Baby Boom or a distinct cohort. Characterized by growing up in the 1960s/70s and coming of age during economic stagflation, they blended optimism with pragmatism, experiencing a "harder edge" than older Boomers.
I was born in 1952, myyounger sister was born in 1963. We grew up in totally different worlds.
That sounds right. I’m a ‘64 model (two days before the cutoff 😆) and I don’t feel much affinity with the boomers. They grew up in a post war boom. I came of age with Jimmy Carter in a sweater, hostages in Iran, and expensive gas.
But we did have great movies and music. And my first vote was for Ronald Magnamus Reagan, so that was nice.
Agreed. I was born in 1964 also. Usually the baby boom is defined as ending in 1964, which would mean the 1964 group and a tiny bit of the 1963's are the only baby boomers that were born after JFK was killed.
Of course, the last 5 or 6 years of the group that don't remember JFK being shot have that psychological divide from the older boomers.
I clearly remember when Kennedy was shot. My family was in Florida. We were sitting in a room with massive sliding doors out to a balcony overlooking the ocean. But the mood was grim. I'll never forget that. Plus RFK plus MLK. Tumultuous times and I suspect there are more ahead.
Sounds about right!
I was born in 1954. My sibling and cousins are 7 years older than me. While they were going to Woodstock and anti-war demonstrations, I was learning how to do makeup and hair, busy with school activities, and totally oblivious to their experiences because I rarely saw them anymore, never watched the news, and none of my peers or even my teachers talked about it. Yes, completely different.
1957 here. I seem to recall gas lines (a real inconvenience for my passion for skiing), a friend having to move because their father lost their Wall Street job, plus a fairly free childhood roaming the countryside, home for dinner at 6pm, then out til dark. Disco reared its ugly head, but the good music was still there. A real mix of experiences very removed from the social movements of the 60s.
Disco, yikes!
My thoughts exactly.
1957 here.... born in the year of the Rooster!
Is that good? (Tell me yes!)
It's very good, Pat. We are extraverts.
Roosters won’t wait around for others to step up. Instead, they’ll charge into any situation with conviction since they always seem to know the right thing to do, which makes them excellent leaders at work.
In their personal lives, Rooster people are also quite magnetic because they’re charismatic and bold, socially at ease, and love to compliment others with frankness.
1956 for me. Big one this year!
I think we all weathered Carter’s recession because we didn’t have a lot growing up. We knew how to live within our means.
It wasn't the materialistic jungle that it is today. And different places had uniqueness that's been overrun by today's homogeneity. So sad. I still find myself on a search for character in a town, character that's not slick and manufactured to sell.
That’s true. It seems like the world got entrenched in materialism in the early 2000’s. New houses with granite countertops, nice clothes and Vuitton bags, jewelry, cell phones etc.
Not sure where that town is. Mine certainly changed, grew like crazy. It’s not the same as when we moved here 40 years ago. Went from sleepy lumber town to tourist town.
Dee, your cousins and sibling would only have been 8 years old. How could they be at Woodstock unless parents took them?
She said they were 7-8 years older than she was. She was born in '54.
Thanks Lisa, read that too fast. Now it makes sense:}
There is a subset called Generation Jones for the latter "boomer" generation.
I went to Wikipedia to check out Generation Jones. As an early era hippie times boomer (1951) with nieces and nephews a few years younger, I’ve sensed this great divide. I wondered where the name came from; guessed ‘keeping up with the Jones’ and that was one explanation, along with the great word Jonesying.
“The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness, and, possibly the original slant, the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving.[31][32][33] Pontell suggests that Jonesers inherited an optimistic outlook as children in the 1960s but were then confronted with a different reality as they entered the workforce, in the case of the United States, during the economic struggles of the 1970s and 1980s. Mortgage interest rates increased to above 12% in the mid-1980s, making it virtually impossible to buy a house on a single income.[34]
Generation Jones is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older siblings in the earlier part of the Baby Boom; thus, many note that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older Boomers. For example, Baby Boomers often filled senior and more lucrative employment positions vacated by retiring Greatest Generation and older Silent Generation members, leaving Jonesers with fewer opportunities for promotion because their Boomer siblings would enter retirement windows only slightly ahead of them. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of affluence granted to older Boomers but not to them.[35]”
Pretty accurate.
My son calls us Boomers, to set us off. (we're not) I yell back, We're NOT Boomers You MILLENIAL! 😂 Two can play that game. Millenials are trying to change their name to Gen Y because of the "negative" connotation. Well you brought it on yourselves. 😂
I’m Older Gen-X born 1965 on the dividing year. I relate to both generations. I flip when it’s convenient to me. 🤣
Me too Juju. Generation Jones (born 1954–1965) is a micro-generation bridging Baby Boomers and Generation X, often considered the "second half" of the Baby Boom or a distinct cohort. Characterized by growing up in the 1960s/70s and coming of age during economic stagflation, they blended optimism with pragmatism, experiencing a "harder edge" than older Boomers. We were too young for Woodstock and too old for most of MTV.
Author John A. Zukowski wrote that Gen Jones is "a generation in a no-man's-land between the hippie and the yuppie." Yep, that's me, too. (1956) Hippie-yuppie-ti-yi-yo!
So true.
Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation
I’m a ‘64 model (two days before the cutoff 😆) so I figure I get to claim whichever generation I want.
If mom had had a difficult labor, I would have been in a different generation.
as Madonna sings, Borderline!
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Gen Why?
I like that.
Right! LOL
I'll own the term, even though I'm at the very tail end.
I was about to put the term "proud" in there, but how can one be proud of something one had no control over?
Park that dinky boat…… not doing the jabujhu6
Millennials are a mixed bag; there's something of a divide between older and younger there too like there is with Boomers, though the cutoff isn't all that clean.
But my favorite retort right now is, "OK Zoomer."
Your rightful name is Generation Me. Which you changed to Boomers, to avoid the "negative connotation" literally spelled out in the name. Tell that to your son, if you can stomach owning your own hypocrisy
I don't know any Boomers that were Generation Me. The ones I know are/were hard working, took care of their families, had a strong set of morals, set boundaries for their kids and produced healthy and happy children.
Must suck to be you with such negativity. You also sound like a jealous libtard. Best you exit stage left. No negative libturds wanted here. Cheers!
Another new account that reads only 1 Substack, this one, then is focused on insulting its community herein. 🤣
Exactly Juju!
Well done!
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Who takes all the selfies? Not boomers! 🤣
I run when the kids pull out their phones....
WTH are you talking about? Makes no sense. I am not of the Boomer generation which I clearly stated. 🤷
And to Lori, who indignantly and libtardedly replied and then blocked me after spewing ad hominems, I would also refer to the link above.
Well given you read ONE Substack, this one, and spent your comment time being insulting to its community, she did a very sane thing. The indignant and libtard was in your response. 🤣
yes, blocked your ass you libtard. suck it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation
Actually, you can find reference to a "Me Generation" in Baby Boomers, X and Millennials.
Overall - "The Me Generation" is a term coined in the 1970s by writer Tom Wolfe to describe Baby Boomers, characterizing them as self-involved, narcissistic, and focused on self-fulfillment over social responsibility. - Which I find highly ironic, seeing as the younger Baby Boomers to early Gen Xers fought for civil rights, gay rights, Native American rights, etc. and were some of the most invested in social upheaval and equality for women.
Tom Wolfe. Remember "Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff"? Two books that really captured the aura of the times. I may have togo back and read both. Thx for the reminder!
They were the best years of our lives.
The 1970's rocked.
Did they ever... Sun, surfing, night clubs, awesome concerts and movies, stick shift cars, gorgeous guys, drag races in souped up American cars...
Wait. I still drive a stick (don't laugh!)
I love driving a stick... When I first arrived in the US with my best friend, we bought a Kombi and drove around the country. That was 1982.
The libtard boomers are the worst. The absolute worst.
That's what I was talking about ... libtard boomers... angry, old and nasty 🤣
exactly Shayne!
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IDK, they have some competition with the libtard millennials. (Think, 40yo blue-haired screaming "Karen".)
Indeed!
One of my college aged grandsons wanted me to watch and comment on a movie from
the 40s, just post WWII; The Best Years of Our Lives. The interesting part he wanted to see if I could identify as common to our current political climate was the appearance of a useful idiot Nick Fuentes type berating the returned veterans for fighting for an ‘evil’ America against Japan and the Nazis, who he declared were actually the good guys. The idiot was promptly ‘decked’ by one of the veterans, who laid him out.
We then talked about how different a time it was then, when such anti American talk wasn’t tolerated and there was peace of living in a united country.
I told him I enjoyed that life for about 15 years (1951-1966 or so). Then it seemed like all hell broke loose with crazy Supreme Court decisions about religion in public schools, the civil rights movement disturbances, the Vietnam War, multiculturalism, an explosion in illegal drugs, Middle East conflicts and mass illegal immigration.
Those next 60 years have certainly been a wild ride with a complete overturning of the apple cart.
It was much better before God was disinvited from public life.
Me too, right in the middle. Best time ever! And they ended the draft right about the time my brother turned 18! The only political thing going on was Cesar Chavez’ Scab Lettuce. I was a freshman at the liberal UofOregon and didn’t get involved, now I’m especially glad after finding out about that creep. Geez, 52 years later?
My sister works for a company that makes medical equipment, mostly for females. During the plandemic they made a machine that could test for Covid immediately with their own produced swabs. Needless to say with Joe Biden and the democrats dumping trillions of dollars into big Pharma and medical equipment companies, my sister, who has an extensive case of TDS, made a fortune. Stock options, 401 K plans, retirement, bonuses, etc. etc. etc.
Not long ago we had a talk and I asked her if she was worried, all of these accounts she has look very impressive but are just numbers on a screen. Bernie Madoff had similar statements constantly being sent out, or numbers you could see right on your phone screen. The problem, just like at today’s banks, if you want to go and withdraw say 25,000 dollars in cash they’ll laugh at you. They don’t have that money at the bank. They’ll question you, why do you need that kind of money? Then they may give you 5,000 if they have it, but that’s all you’re getting, see you next week! This recently happened at Blackrock. A bunch of investors for whatever reason wanted their money. Blackrock would only give them 30 cents on the dollar.? I’m worried these runs on banks will continue and probably worsen. We are certainly in financial rough times and with energy costs along with everything else going up it’s a struggle. The more governments print money the money is devalued, inflating costs. Many time interest will be increased to slow inflation. You see the problem.
Times are tough. Because of that, most people have found themselves unable to live their life financially the way they were just 6 or 7 years ago. People can’t afford their life, forcing them to borrow. This is why credit card debt is at an all time high and we all know that’s not cheap money. I think we are in for some choppy times to say the least. Bail outs and government checks are coming which will increase food costs energy costs and living in general will get more expensive. All this just a year or so after the last financial crisis, covid. How much more of this can people take?
The utter democrat arrogance of the plight of the people struggling is Ma. Governor Maura Healy is planning on signing into law a milage tax on all Massachusetts residence, and the new leading Democrat candidate for governor Tom Steyer is promising to open the border wide again letting millions of illegals flood into California. You can’t make this stuff up. J.Goodrich
Can't say the same thing about Texas. Houses and developments including new stores of all kinds are going in all over the place. I have the retirement that I planned for many years ago. My retirement account and income has only gone up since the Trumpster was reelected. I may be an outlier but I really don't think so.
Same.
Looks that way in Florida, too.
Where I live in Oregon, in a small town near the California boarder, we have not recovered from the plandemic nor have we recovered from the Almeda Fire in neighborhoods like all the senior mobile home parks. Yes we still have our homes but we are under "management" so rent goes up every year, as well as property taxes, insurances, and food. I just was notified that I may possibly get an $80 COLA raise on my actual retirement check. That's nice but half our income goes to rent and food, that's nice too but we know so many people in this little town that rent out spare rooms, driveways, backyards to make money to survive. I don't blame Portland I blame Salem with its deep Democratic majority AKA: deep pocketed commies. GET OUT AND VOTE for the mid term. Thank you James for pointing out it is not just here.
"Plandemic" is turning into a worn out word, but the coining of the word "pandemic" sort of asks for a parody. Originally we had endemic and epidemic, which described things perfectly, and then someone came up with the idea of "pandemic." Sort of like someone came up with the usage of "gender" (a grammatical term) to describe sex, or something to do with sex. Women's rights turned into a euphemism for killing unborn babies. Guys like Tom Steyer revel in this stuff.
it was planned by the worst among us and it was a demic. plandemic works for me and I hope it sticks.
Words do matter.
I was going to right pandemic in quotations which I usually do but today I decided plandemic and I agree with you…
I know Tom Steyer….he is a viper. CA should Swalwell him
Yes, that thing (he is a demon in human form) is dangerous. And I do hope someone takes care of the viper.
@James, how does a state governor open up a federally controlled border?
Sounds like the usual leftist nonsense. They don’t care if it makes sense, just that it attracts enough voters. But on the federal level they willfully failed to enforce laws about illegal entry in the previous administration.
You didn't tell us if your sister was worried. I hope your sister holds onto the stock options until they fall to the earth. That will be a good lesson for her.
Ordinary people can pull all their money out of funds pretty easily.
These days you might want to remember that banks are insured by the US government for $250K per depositor, and beyond that you might have some exposure.
I'm 75 and attend church weekly with my daughters family in a church nearby. My wife has alzheimers so she doesn't attend very often anymore. I noticed early the number of young people in this fairly new church which has four services and has expanded twice since I started there. Older people are getting more prevalent lately. They've found the place I guess. The grand kids come over after church and I feed them cleverly disguised leftovers that they like. They then also to interact with their grandmother. The long and short of this is, the Christian family lifestyle is coming back in vogue. Living in a Christian household can be a wonderful life. Mine was...
Another anecdote in support of your post: we joined Easter sunday at wife's home church in TX hill country. Packed with with a mix of old folk and young folk. Tons of kids, had a mini sermon where pastor has kids come to front to participate, and that itself was a crowd. God is good!
I wish I could attach a picture. My granddaughter got dedicated at church last month along with all the other new babies and there was barely room on the platform for all of them.
There had to be 30 or more babies. These kids are growing their church one way or another. 😆😆😆
I suspect the “core basket” looks a lot like food rations in Cuba. Rice, beans, white & dark sugar, eggs & milk (only if you have kids). Or maybe just things grown in NYC? Marijuana?
Or more likely halal food.
Too expensive
Trump solves unsolvable geopolitical problems while Mamdani builds a no brand bodega. What's wrong with this picture New York??
guy needs to be ousted. he is a sick joke.
But, judging from the reactions from the EBT crowd when they were delayed in having their EBT cards infused with fresh funds during the budget shutdown in the fall, and the wailing and gnashing of teeth when restrictions were even mentioned on what could be purchased with EBT funds (excluding junk food and drinks), could Mamdani even go there? That is a big part of his base we are talking about. They want their junk food! And what about those who are vegans or require a gluten-free diet? This all sounds like an enormous can of worms.
"Even if it works, and actually sells price-stabilized Cheetos below market rates, then other grocery stores will close, since they can’t compete. Which is how you get Soviet-style Cheeto lines."
Comrades, I have to humbly admit that Soviet-style Cheeto lines was NOT on my bingo card!
Where does this line begin? I know you know Comrade. How? Your fingers and lips are stained bright orange.
If there is one thing I have noticed about those 'War Bloggers' - it's that none of them know shit about war. They're all just spewing their left-wing or rino spin. If they were at all knowledgeable, their hate for Trump and love of the swamp would never figure in to their results.
There are a few that seem to have good analytical skills, but I agree. No one really knows, and SO MUCH slop out there being called ‘news.’
It is really hard to come up with a good analysis when you don’t have all of the information and are just guessing at parts. That is why I don’t take these predictions very seriously. Plus there are always unexpected events that can change things. It’s funny how none of these people seem to question themselves when they end up being totally wrong and still continue to spew out their predictions, expecting people to continue to believe them.
Their jobs are not to fairly analyze a situation, it’s to look at how it can be spun to make Trump look bad. That’s it. They are all compromised. That’s why they never admit that they were wrong and just move on to the next event.
Yes, I agree. But even if they were doing this in good faith, it would be very difficult to get things right since they don’t have all of the puzzle pieces.
The two are mutually exclusive?
Jeff says "We need to carefully consume our opinion news" and then refers us to Pravda, I mean Fox and CNBC.
Dow and Wall St monitor all the inside trading over oil announcements, not the middle class economy.
Check TWZ; it's written by military and defense industry folks for a general audience, from their perspective but nonetheless realistic: https://www.twz.com/
I'm a former Military Industrial person. I hang out with lots of the same.
No, most of these people are just long on hype and politics.
And looking at some of those TWZ headlines, the folks writing at least some of those stories don't have a CLUE about what they're writing about.
The MIC is what both Eisenhower and JFK warned us about... a cancerous, corrupt gaggle of profit-driven scumbags... you were part of that?
Are you trying to imply that fine men, Cols Macgregor and Wilkerson, Scott Ritter, Prof Merscheimer, Jeffry Sachs and ex-CIA Larry Johnson don't know shit about war? They all think Trump is a lunatic zionist ass-clown and they are correct.
Jeff here twists himself into a pretzel daily trying to claim Trumpo has a "plan"... but no one seems to know it... other than maybe his boss Netanyahu?
BTW: 'Former military industrial person'... means you worked for a defense contractor, but never in the military on active duty? So YOU don't actually know shit about war either?
So, AD, if "Jeff here twists himself into a pretzel daily trying to claim Trumpo has a "plan"." is your outlook, WHY are you hanging out here?
Because he's the paid opposition.
Me? No, I'm not. The folks you quoted above? ALL ARE.
That's why they hate Trump. Because he's not about forever wars.
He wants them over quickly and he wants peace.
Exactly Jeff, let the man work. He is so different in many ways from previous leaders. Still flawed but dang he can think many many steps ahead when working on complex national and global issues.
I think it's fascinating to watch the increasingly ghoulish, self-destructive antics of the Democratic Party. They are literally snuffing themselves out psychologically ... in the most baldface, adolescent, and self-abasing ways. It's a ghastly spectacle, growing more obvious by the day ... and it's accelerating.
What's occurring is also increasingly unambiguous to the smartest people in the room ... EVERY room. Seeing who Trump REALLY is and what he's really achieving didn't come overnight to me. And I am by no means an insider: I am very much uninvested in politics, etc.
The evidence of Trump's stature - and his team's - is mind-boggling.
I can't wait to see what unfolds in the coming weeks and months.
Same here!
Many prayers being answered.
Absolutely
Overnight a big mouth Democratic Ghoul is exposed and he's done. Probably will see prison bars for a while. Many are saying the Dems keep their reps in line with blackmail. I'm thinking that if the Dems are using blackmail, the Trumpster and his team also have that information and evidence. Look for Tulsi to drop a couple of turds in the Dems pool very soon. Remember the Trumpster always has a plan.
I forgot that Scott Bessent will also be part of this. Dems have been stealing too long for the dumb ones like Tampon Tim not to leave a trail of crumbs.
True but the erasing of the trail of crumbs was developed by rank amateurs compared to the methods Doge and AI
The corrupt RINOs for certain, which is why they remain silent. I don’t think the other republicans who are honest and upright know what the Dems have on each other.
This is very worrisome in spite of all that
https://youtu.be/dNvIr6ZTgWY?si=iq-8iTjAa8awif4d
Yes, that CIA slime Spanberger skinsuit is rolling right over all VA citizens. This is the crap that happens when Smurfs are in charge with a smurf house.
They also just issued a bunch of "gun control" measures. Of course, when news of it got out before it passed gun sales jumped immensely high. I expect that to go to SCOTUS soon.
And those turncoat RINOs who are advancing amnesty for illegals (so called "Dignity Act,") are going to lose us our nation if we don't stop it. NO AMNESTY!
Yeah I saw that, and as in so many cases in recent memory, such nefarious actions will explode in the Democrats' faces
What a great word, snuffing. And linked with Dems is delicious. May they continue their snuff parties.
You may be unaware that snuff parties refers to the debased practice of raping and killing women on camera, and then passing the video around.
Mrs. RW
That is what the dems already do along with their SRA. Let them snuff one another.
Regarding all these smart guys: I assumed that there was always a plan & I just didn’t know it. In my opinion, that is how it has been with the President.
I recognize who those smart guys are. They used to be pro-Trump, and caught a lot of flak for it.
They aren't any more, because of the wars.
Mrs. RW
at the end of the day, are they really smart Dr. Linda or just professionsal full of shite bloviators?
☹️ I am Canadian. Our rough ride is going to get worse ☹️
We can pay you handsomely for Alberta, they want to leave anyway.
Just let them leave (which hopefully they will). No need for pallets of cash.
My wife has a cousin who farms on the ND/Canadian border. Always loved the sane Canadians. Our first trip with the kids was a vacation in Winnipeg. Good times. You gotta get out of there.
Praying for you, HMC. Trust God!
Tge French have an expression: "La politique du pire" ... which translates to "the politics of worst case scenario" ... Canada is currently on this path.
It will swing back with a vengeance.
Well when it goes too far, they do not have our 2nd Amendment.
HMC, I expect some Canadians might apply to US as persecuted Christian refugees. I'm afraid that is the way it is headed now. Especially with Carney dumping ownership of land to First Nations (how does that even make sense, when people own their homes in those areas?). I know DJT will not allow the continued Chinese & cartels takeover next to our open border.
Yes it is and I am so sorry about it. Please stay safe and healthy.
“focus on the results rather than the process.”
This isn’t just a Trump lesson. This is a life lesson.
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"Behold, the experts are committing Hari-Kari."
LOTS of them need to be, there is such a high percentage of them on all topics that are consistently wrong. Lots of them just in this one article....
Keep it up Mr Childers, you may be "only a lawyer" but you have the best track record I'm seeing out here in the wilds of the internet. THANK YOU, as always :D
It amazes me that we live in a time when people actually say things like “you’re only a lawyer” or “he’s only a plumber”. It’s as if they believe the human brain is completely incapable of mastering any other topic beyond what you studied in school or did as a business.
Yet Abraham Lincoln was self taught and went on to become president, and hundreds of thousands of others have too before and ever since.
I may only be an expert in computer science, but there isn’t any subject I can’t master if I put my mind and time to it - and end up with insights far better than those that DID study it as a career. (Except for maybe brain surgery because of my older age not having enough years left to truly master it. 🤣)
But politics? Economy? Sociology? Preventive medical health? Art of war? Business? Science? Investing? Heck nothing is out of reach for anyone who puts their mind to it.
I’m so tired of “you’re not an expert” type arguments. Newsflash: experts aren’t experts these days!
An ex is a has been, a spurt is a drip under under pressure. That makes an expert a drip under pressure!
A “has been” under pressure you mean. All the experts are has beens. Lol
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