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That's exactly what makes a good April Fools' joke work. I've pulled off many in my younger days all because what I was telling people was completely believable...until it wasn't!
DEMS suddenly became so very Agist and Elder-phobic since the stammering tongue-tied Biden-Trump debate in June of 2024. They'll recover from it as soon as they have another opportunity to support an old sick white guy who's being challenged by an energetic Conservative of color. The highest principle of a Democrat is to have no principles.
I’ve been reading Jeff for 4 or 5 years, have never missed a post. And yet….. I didn’t clue in til the dog biscuit. Am I proud of my gullibility? No I’m not. 😅
To all of us didn't that didn't get it until the puzzle and dog biscuits....
That means we all Totally believed little Chucky Cheese Schumer actually said
“Joe could beat me in a foot race. If he were ten years older, he would still outthink the warmongering imposter currently hogging the Oval Office.”!!!
I got the same when I clicked on the last link twice. That's when I started asking myself "Am I crazy or what?". Luckily I was at the point where Jeff wished us all a happy day!
I made it almost to the end before light dawned, but then I totally fell for the NPR radio piece years ago (when it was not so biased) about maple trees in New England exploding if they weren’t tapped in time. I mean, I TOTALLY fell for it. Shared it with my family when they all got home, and they merely looked at me meaningfully and asked me the date.
Not fooled for a moment by Jeff's opening Babylon Bee-ish 2028 Big Guy Comeback coverage...now if it had been Hunter Biden or Dr. Jill Biden instead of old sick Joe, then yes, it would have been believable.
what Pope Leo XIV said in his Palm Sunday message: That Jesus “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying, ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.’”
For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
Guess the pope knows zip about the history of God’s chosen people and how many wars they had to wage, and many times because the Lord directed them to do so. Hard facts. War is awful, we all agree.
God sent His son to, and through, His Chosen People. The humble and wise ones followed the teachings of Christ. The others persecuted Jesus and his followers. God gave them a full generation to follow the Truth. In 70 AD, Titus destroyed the Temple and the faith that was centered on that.
Nowhere in scripture does God express that attitude toward "the nations." He chose the Jewish people (through Abraham) to bring blessing to the nations, by revealing God's holiness, wisdom and character before them. His purpose was to reach the nations through the Hebrews. They failed at that, but God knew they would; he already had a further, more comprehensive plan for the salvation of the nations; Jesus the Messiah, descendant of Abraham.
'Nuff said, if you don't understand this, you just don't (want to) get it.
Thanks Rev. I understand what you say and you are correct. I don't get it. All of it makes God like a comic book character plotting It's next move. Everyone can speak to God. Like Madge said, "you're soaking in it now." No chosen people or Messiahs needed. But to each his own belief. Best to you
There isn’t. But he must read a lot of narrative media or listen to people whispering in his ear instead of having his ear to the ground. IMHO the last two have had bad advisors.
Yes, we do. Cover to cover. But admittedly I’m one of those Catholics that left for Protestant Bible reading church and then returned to Mass. I love both services.
I currently attend 9am Mass (for past 1.5 years) and 11am Protestant services which my wife and I have attended for 20 years. Catholicism is my origin faith, and after my Mom passed it’s where I go to feel close to her. I also had the opportunity to walk St. James Camino last year which was so wonderful and healing. Catholic Mass now enriches my life in ways hard to describe, and not like before when I was a teenager. There is nostalgia for sure, but also a beauty of worshiping our King with a cross section of my community that I don’t experience at Protestant church.
Islam teaches violence and death to non muslims. How can he contradict himself so brazenly? You can't condemn war and champion Islam when they are self professed jihadists who want to take over the world for Allah 🤡
Why hasn't he condemned violence towards women trapped in Islam?
If he is talking to everyone, ok. If he’s singling out one “side,” not ok. No one is clean, so Popes have traditionally spoken to both/all sides of conflicts arms to appeal to each to make peace. They had also seemed to be much more in the know about who was doing to whom clandestinely. They didn’t follow mainstream news.
You’ve conveniently left out Patton’s prayer for good weather so that he could go kill our enemies. Guess what? The Lord granted us good weather to kill Germans. Go ply your crap amongst the illiterate.
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution:
“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.”
Katherine Clark
👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾
“Wrong.
The Elections Clause gives states the initial role to set time, place and manner, but expressly authorizes Congress to enact nationwide rules for federal elections (House and Senate races), including voter registration, list maintenance, fraud prevention, and ballot procedures.
The Supreme Court has interpreted “manner” broadly to include “notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices,” etc.
The Help America Vote Act imposes mandatory minimum federal standards on states (e.g., statewide computerized voter registration lists, provisional ballots, and election administration improvements) and provides federal grants (“requirements payments”) explicitly conditioned on compliance. States must submit plans showing how they meet these standards to receive funding.
The National Voter Registration was also enacted under the Elections Clause. It mandates that states maintain accurate voter rolls (“list maintenance”), offer registration at certain agencies, and accept a federal mail-registration form. Courts have upheld NVRA provisions as valid under the Elections Clause precisely because they target voter eligibility verification and roll accuracy.
Trump’s EO explicitly cites both HAVA and NVRA as authority. It does not create new substantive rules from scratch; it directs federal agencies to implement and enhance existing federal statutory requirements using federal databases (SSA records, DHS’s SAVE program).
Moreover, Congress’s power under Article I, Section 8 to tax and spend for the general welfare includes the ability to attach conditions to federal grants to states. This is classic conditional spending, upheld in South Dakota v. Dole (1987): conditions must be unambiguous, related to the federal interest (here, integrity of federal elections), and not coercive.
- HAVA already does exactly this—grants are withheld or conditioned on states meeting federal election-administration standards.
- The EO (Section 5) authorizes withholding “federal funds from noncompliant states/localities where authorized by law.” This is not a new commandeering of state legislatures; states can decline the funds (and the attached conditions) if they wish. Precedent confirms Congress (and the executive administering congressional appropriations) can use the purse to encourage compliance without directly dictating state election codes.
Finally, Trump’s EO’s core mechanisms operate through federal entities like the post office, not state legislatures:
- USPS rulemaking directs the Postmaster General to require barcoded, trackable “Official Election Mail” envelopes and to transmit ballots only to voters on the federal/state-verified Mail-In/Absentee Participation Lists. USPS is a federal agency; the President may direct its operations via executive order. States are not forced to change their own mailing processes—they simply cannot use federal postal service for non-compliant ballots if they want the service.
This avoids the anti-commandeering doctrine (Printz v. United States, 1997), which prohibits the federal government from forcing state officials to enforce federal law. Here, the federal government is regulating its own property (mail) and funds.
Once Congress has acted (via HAVA/NVRA), federal requirements preempt conflicting state practices for federal elections.
Something I haven't heard mentioned is the inordinate number of exceedingly tight races over the last quarter century in which tiny numbers of votes have dictated the winners.
Yes, with REAL safeguards, the Democrats are indeed toast.
"Something I haven't heard mentioned is the inordinate number of exceedingly tight races over the last quarter century in which tiny numbers of votes have dictated the winners."
Add to that a needed discussion about how to hold the USPS accountable for delivering bags of military absentee votes into ditches and dumpsters.
The USPS (at least some factions) appears to have done their part well in the 2020 election steal. Then the agency was rewarded by being exempted from the Covid vaccine mandates.
Honestly, what other job would have rendered more exposure to germs than the mail service?
One did have to wonder, at the time, just why the Congress and the USPS were exempted from the jab mandates—if those jabs were so very important to human health….And some Congressmen took it anyway—-the teenaged daughter of one took jab and died. Bet you remember that as well. I have long been wondering why Israel pushed the everyone-gotta-get-jabbed plan so very hard.
Since COVID the mail doesn't get delivered in a timely manner. It takes up to 10 days now for mail to go across the country when it used to take a couple of days. And mail to someone in my own county takes up to a week because now it has to travel to a special located to be sorted before it turns around and comes back.
In Memphis, mail delivery was so bad in covid that when my sons were getting married in 2023, I UPS'd their rehearsal dinner invitations in a box to my sister in Nashville and she put them in Nashville USPS & they all were delivered. Mail may be bad all over, but it's super bad in some locations. New Orleans the same.
Especially in local elections where literally a few hundred or thousand votes make the difference. Interestingly, especially in DA races where the 'winners' were heavily funded by Soros associated groups. In purple areas that is a huge deal and sufficient to shift to blue. My R husband ran in 2022, well known from years as prosecutor and on the bench, well respected and heavily favored by even many Democrats because the D candidate was so bad yet somehow lost to that guy. Partial recount yielded some very odd patterns. Any way the election process can be tightened up will at the very least, restore some confidence in the outcomes and make it harder for fraudulent meddling.
So glad you posted that - it needs to be seen far and wide. I saw it on X late last night and bookmarked it because it was such a great explanation. 👍👍
Totally got me! Forgot the date. But what’s that say about the state of the Democrat party when I’m sitting here thinking “we’ve seen worse,” and thinking it’s all in their wheelhouse so believable. 🤣
It was totally believable (the announcement)—the rest of it, I knew was Jeff having fun with it but I would totally not be surprised if they wanted him to run again and be the figurehead so the shadow government could run things again 😡
...and honestly; if the Republicans don't f--- things up, (which they are quite gifted at.) Biden may be the best hope for the Democrats... Either way, it was a great read.
At first, I was like “WHAT THE F”. Then I knew. But it actually would make sense due these clowns and their embarrassing tactics used in these last few years. Great post and God Bless us all!
Dang, Jeff, good one on the Cabbage - had me going for a couple of paragraphs, then I remembered what today was. Still, scary for a couple of minutes! Now, back to my coffee! 😂☕️😂
Yeah I was getting comfortable with the idea by the time u figured it out which wasn’t until I clicked on the link to Biden’s “Jill Biden managed tik tok account”, you can imagine how forward I was looking to going through those … the truth was a crushing blow ha ha ha
Separate federal and state mail-in ballots is not a hardship nor does it require brain surgery to enact.
South Dakota has separate "Federal voter" ballots for those who live in RVs and barely touch SD soil most of the year. This enables them to participate in federal elections that do impact them, while cleaving them from state elections that do not. https://legiscan.com/SD/text/HB1208/2025
The point is: It's not a big deal to separate federal from state balloting, regardless of the particular state's reason.
Agreed. States already print separate ballots for D, R and I (or undeclared) registered voters. And they're already printed up in what, 15 different languages?
Yup, Deb. They are already ranting that married women won’t be able to vote because their birth certificates don’t match their married names! Good Grief.
Tony, I imagine she is cavorting with my own mother up there … my mom is SO FUN and I think she must have many heavenly pals to worship Jesus with. All the mothers floating around in a worshipful pack! I can almost see them! Lord, please hear our hearts when we mourn the mothers we have lost … bless them and oh, Dear Father, keep their living children on paths of righteousness until You bring us home one day. Amen
May God have Mercy on the medical community for what they did, and what they didn't do.
I truly believe that I was able to get my father in law two more years back in 2020. North Florida Regional Hospital was going to let him die, but they didn't know my uncle was on the board for the Kidney Foundation.
My eyes are filling with tears. Then I get so angry at what they did to our families. Knowing the horrors is maddening. How many of our loved ones would still be here right now if not for the monsters in Big Harma and the med profession.
A day of remembrance that brings fresh grief. We have known our parents longer than any human beings so losing them is very very hard. Hoping Jeff's April Fools' Day joke brought you a bit of reprieve from sadness remembered on this day.
I do believe you can’t murder but you can kill. The bi le is very explicit abt this. You can’t lie in wait or plan a murder, nor shed innocent blood. But there is a soldiers prayer— Psalms something. I’ll have to look it up and edit this.
"Conversion therapy" -- more a dysphemism than a euphemism, IMO. Unlike such gently insidious terms as "gender-affirming care" or "revenue enhancement", the term "conversion therapy" seeks to demonize the specialist who is trying, by actually TALKING to the young dysphoric patient. Not to "convert", but to find out what ELSE might be going on in the young person's head BEFORE any irreversible medical intervention happens.
Talking. Debating. Always a problem for the "gender-affirming" crowd.
Surgical Gender Mutilation... or sit-down and chat about it first, understand why you're confused or just being an adolescent. And yet the first is called 'care' and the second is 'dangerous' and 'prejudiced'.
The ironic thing is that they are transing a lot of gay kids, and the "conversion therapy" line comes from the old days when they tried to teach gay kids to be straight.
Now they just drug and mutilate them.
And idiot liberals support that because of the label. Propaganda works.
I remember the term ‘conversion therapy’ being used with gay people a while back when they would go to a pastor for counseling about it. It is a deeply manipulative term.
As a long-time writer of April Fools fake stories, the cardinal rule is that you have to start with a story that sounds reasonable and then slowly lead the reader down the garden path to absurdity. I think everybody knew from the first sentence that there was no way Joe Biden was going to make a comeback.
Nevertheless, you did get in a few howlers! Loved the 500 piece jigsaw bit!
I made it to the fourth paragraph before I recalled today's date. Because....it IS because of today's date. Right? Right?!
🤣😅🤣😅🤣 I had to get to the dog biscuit fed to the puzzle before I got it!!!!!
But you must admit that is within the realm of possibility, given the subject.
That's exactly what makes a good April Fools' joke work. I've pulled off many in my younger days all because what I was telling people was completely believable...until it wasn't!
DEMS suddenly became so very Agist and Elder-phobic since the stammering tongue-tied Biden-Trump debate in June of 2024. They'll recover from it as soon as they have another opportunity to support an old sick white guy who's being challenged by an energetic Conservative of color. The highest principle of a Democrat is to have no principles.
I was hooked - Biden running ?!
I got it earlier than the puzzle because I said to myself”what a joke!” and bzz bzz, the light 💡 came on….April fools
Same! Also had a mini heart attack when I began reading. 😁
I kind of hoped it was true. The entertainment would be off the charts!
Touché! 😉
I loved that line, lol!!
Same😂😂. And mostly because it said Biden put together a 500 piece puzzle….but the biscuit thing really dinged the April fools bell
Anyone who has read C&C for any period of time over a year should have expected this from Jeff, yet he's SO GOOD at what he does! 😁
I’ve been reading Jeff for 4 or 5 years, have never missed a post. And yet….. I didn’t clue in til the dog biscuit. Am I proud of my gullibility? No I’m not. 😅
C'mon man, you know o'l Joe would have been nibbling on that dog biscuit while drinking his ensure...
Right???? 😆😁
To all of us didn't that didn't get it until the puzzle and dog biscuits....
That means we all Totally believed little Chucky Cheese Schumer actually said
“Joe could beat me in a foot race. If he were ten years older, he would still outthink the warmongering imposter currently hogging the Oval Office.”!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I clued in a bit earlier, but he still hooked me in the beginning and I’ve been following him for 5 years.
Did you click on all his links in the story… Hilarious!!!😆
I wish I had done that from the start because it made everything even funnier 😆🤣 Jeff even Rickrolled us! 🤣🤣🤣
Jeff's never gonna give you up.
😆 I sure hope he never gives us up! 😁
"Never gonna let you down,
Never gonna run around and desert you..." lol
Exactly what I came to the comments to say. We got Rickrolled!
Awww,now I have to go back and do that! I certainly got a morning belly laugh.
Thank you,Jeff!
I didn’t but I’m going to after I read the rest! 😆
Thanks for the tip - I was sad Sleepy Joe video cut out before he could bring up Corn Pop.
Yeah the Corn Pop part is classic 😆
@Molly- I didn't until you mentioned it! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
OMG, I went back and clicked on the links…hilarious!!! Classic Childers humor!
All I got when clicking was ads for local dementia clinics!
I got the same when I clicked on the last link twice. That's when I started asking myself "Am I crazy or what?". Luckily I was at the point where Jeff wished us all a happy day!
Me too! 🤦🏼♀️🤣
I made it almost to the end before light dawned, but then I totally fell for the NPR radio piece years ago (when it was not so biased) about maple trees in New England exploding if they weren’t tapped in time. I mean, I TOTALLY fell for it. Shared it with my family when they all got home, and they merely looked at me meaningfully and asked me the date.
Same!
Hahaha. I made it the end of that first paragraph and said to myself “wait a minute” !! Hahaha. I got April Fooled.
A Biden rerun is entirely plausible, coming from the asshat collection that is today's Democrat Party.
I would not put it past the Democrats to support it … they did when was going to run for a second term… he was brain dead then.
Not fooled for a moment by Jeff's opening Babylon Bee-ish 2028 Big Guy Comeback coverage...now if it had been Hunter Biden or Dr. Jill Biden instead of old sick Joe, then yes, it would have been believable.
Same here
I read the first two lines, believed them, then read them to my husband, who said "April Fool's".
Doh.
Mrs. RW
Lol, I clicked on the link and found a bunch of ads for Alzheimer's drugs or something, which tipped me off.
I knew it right away! Every yr 4/1 first story is joke.
Same here
Me too!! 🤣🤣
You guys are slackers. How long have you been availed of Jeff's wit? I was on to him by the third sentence. TAW (Thiel Always Wins).
OMG… it took me just a little less time, because I had already noted the date.
Doesn’t Jeff do an excellent job at fakes journalism? ROFL
Yeah, me too! He had me sputtering and freaking out, until I remembered what today was 😁....ya got me Jeff!
✝️✝️✝️
And He will be the stability of your times,
A wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;
The fear of Yahweh is his treasure.
— Isaiah 33:6 LSB
✝️✝️✝️
Amen!!
what Pope Leo XIV said in his Palm Sunday message: That Jesus “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying, ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.’”
And David said, "Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle".
We are at War with Evil Itself. We will be until Jeshua returns.
I am in agreement. And that is a large part of my support for this “operation”. Issued pellet guns, and told to “aim for the eyes”.
Exactly
Romans 13:4
For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
Guess the pope knows zip about the history of God’s chosen people and how many wars they had to wage, and many times because the Lord directed them to do so. Hard facts. War is awful, we all agree.
God sent His son to, and through, His Chosen People. The humble and wise ones followed the teachings of Christ. The others persecuted Jesus and his followers. God gave them a full generation to follow the Truth. In 70 AD, Titus destroyed the Temple and the faith that was centered on that.
"God's chosen people"....oy vey, that's some God. Picking It's favorites and to hell with everyone else. Pretty petty God.
Nowhere in scripture does God express that attitude toward "the nations." He chose the Jewish people (through Abraham) to bring blessing to the nations, by revealing God's holiness, wisdom and character before them. His purpose was to reach the nations through the Hebrews. They failed at that, but God knew they would; he already had a further, more comprehensive plan for the salvation of the nations; Jesus the Messiah, descendant of Abraham.
'Nuff said, if you don't understand this, you just don't (want to) get it.
Thanks Rev. I understand what you say and you are correct. I don't get it. All of it makes God like a comic book character plotting It's next move. Everyone can speak to God. Like Madge said, "you're soaking in it now." No chosen people or Messiahs needed. But to each his own belief. Best to you
everywhere all around all the time :)
C Clem, if it helps you feel better, Abram was a gentile when chosen by God.
Can't believe there's a pope who hasn't read the Bible.
Thou shalt not kill?
Except for oil and Wall St.
Not "kill"... murder.
Yes - BIG difference!
There isn’t. But he must read a lot of narrative media or listen to people whispering in his ear instead of having his ear to the ground. IMHO the last two have had bad advisors.
Catholics don’t read the Bible!
I read the Bible every day, Eileen. Easy to lump people all together with prejudice.
Sorry. I had 16 years of Catholic education and never cracked the Bible once—only the Catechism.
And that's on you.
I beg your pardon 🤔
You can thank the Catholics for having a Bible.
?? 😵💫
Yes, we do. Cover to cover. But admittedly I’m one of those Catholics that left for Protestant Bible reading church and then returned to Mass. I love both services.
Steve Wood helped me return in 1991 👍
I lived through the Jesus Revolution days in South Miami back in the 70s.
Ain't no place like Home.
Be Bold and Be Catholic ❤️
Viva Cristo Rey
I currently attend 9am Mass (for past 1.5 years) and 11am Protestant services which my wife and I have attended for 20 years. Catholicism is my origin faith, and after my Mom passed it’s where I go to feel close to her. I also had the opportunity to walk St. James Camino last year which was so wonderful and healing. Catholic Mass now enriches my life in ways hard to describe, and not like before when I was a teenager. There is nostalgia for sure, but also a beauty of worshiping our King with a cross section of my community that I don’t experience at Protestant church.
I do.
Pope Leo seems to be bending the knee to Islam.
I'd be cautious taking direction from him.
Islam teaches violence and death to non muslims. How can he contradict himself so brazenly? You can't condemn war and champion Islam when they are self professed jihadists who want to take over the world for Allah 🤡
Why hasn't he condemned violence towards women trapped in Islam?
Shame on him for affirming Islamic beliefs.
Where in the Bible, which is God’s Word, did the pope find that quote? There is no credibility in the papacy.
I'm not Catholic so I don't usually care what he says, but this was stupid.
The Pope? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Well Jesus said that he did not come to bring peace but to bring a sword.
This team of writers says it better than I ever could…
https://babylonbee.com/news/pope-leo-explains-god-does-not-listen-to-people-who-make-war-so-long-as-you-dont-count-david-joshua-elijah-saul-josiah-gideon-samson-or-anyone-else-in-bible
If he is talking to everyone, ok. If he’s singling out one “side,” not ok. No one is clean, so Popes have traditionally spoken to both/all sides of conflicts arms to appeal to each to make peace. They had also seemed to be much more in the know about who was doing to whom clandestinely. They didn’t follow mainstream news.
B, scripture address please? I'd like to read that in context.
You’ve conveniently left out Patton’s prayer for good weather so that he could go kill our enemies. Guess what? The Lord granted us good weather to kill Germans. Go ply your crap amongst the illiterate.
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution:
“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.”
Katherine Clark
👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾
“Wrong.
The Elections Clause gives states the initial role to set time, place and manner, but expressly authorizes Congress to enact nationwide rules for federal elections (House and Senate races), including voter registration, list maintenance, fraud prevention, and ballot procedures.
The Supreme Court has interpreted “manner” broadly to include “notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices,” etc.
The Help America Vote Act imposes mandatory minimum federal standards on states (e.g., statewide computerized voter registration lists, provisional ballots, and election administration improvements) and provides federal grants (“requirements payments”) explicitly conditioned on compliance. States must submit plans showing how they meet these standards to receive funding.
The National Voter Registration was also enacted under the Elections Clause. It mandates that states maintain accurate voter rolls (“list maintenance”), offer registration at certain agencies, and accept a federal mail-registration form. Courts have upheld NVRA provisions as valid under the Elections Clause precisely because they target voter eligibility verification and roll accuracy.
Trump’s EO explicitly cites both HAVA and NVRA as authority. It does not create new substantive rules from scratch; it directs federal agencies to implement and enhance existing federal statutory requirements using federal databases (SSA records, DHS’s SAVE program).
Moreover, Congress’s power under Article I, Section 8 to tax and spend for the general welfare includes the ability to attach conditions to federal grants to states. This is classic conditional spending, upheld in South Dakota v. Dole (1987): conditions must be unambiguous, related to the federal interest (here, integrity of federal elections), and not coercive.
- HAVA already does exactly this—grants are withheld or conditioned on states meeting federal election-administration standards.
- The EO (Section 5) authorizes withholding “federal funds from noncompliant states/localities where authorized by law.” This is not a new commandeering of state legislatures; states can decline the funds (and the attached conditions) if they wish. Precedent confirms Congress (and the executive administering congressional appropriations) can use the purse to encourage compliance without directly dictating state election codes.
Finally, Trump’s EO’s core mechanisms operate through federal entities like the post office, not state legislatures:
- USPS rulemaking directs the Postmaster General to require barcoded, trackable “Official Election Mail” envelopes and to transmit ballots only to voters on the federal/state-verified Mail-In/Absentee Participation Lists. USPS is a federal agency; the President may direct its operations via executive order. States are not forced to change their own mailing processes—they simply cannot use federal postal service for non-compliant ballots if they want the service.
This avoids the anti-commandeering doctrine (Printz v. United States, 1997), which prohibits the federal government from forcing state officials to enforce federal law. Here, the federal government is regulating its own property (mail) and funds.
Once Congress has acted (via HAVA/NVRA), federal requirements preempt conflicting state practices for federal elections.
The democrats are toast.”
David Clements
Thank you for this post
Something I haven't heard mentioned is the inordinate number of exceedingly tight races over the last quarter century in which tiny numbers of votes have dictated the winners.
Yes, with REAL safeguards, the Democrats are indeed toast.
"Something I haven't heard mentioned is the inordinate number of exceedingly tight races over the last quarter century in which tiny numbers of votes have dictated the winners."
Add to that a needed discussion about how to hold the USPS accountable for delivering bags of military absentee votes into ditches and dumpsters.
Perhaps at election time, an ICE agent or Natl Guardsman should ride shotgun with each USPS truck.
National Guard. ICE has other fish to fry.
Some authorities to keep them honest!
The USPS (at least some factions) appears to have done their part well in the 2020 election steal. Then the agency was rewarded by being exempted from the Covid vaccine mandates.
Honestly, what other job would have rendered more exposure to germs than the mail service?
One did have to wonder, at the time, just why the Congress and the USPS were exempted from the jab mandates—if those jabs were so very important to human health….And some Congressmen took it anyway—-the teenaged daughter of one took jab and died. Bet you remember that as well. I have long been wondering why Israel pushed the everyone-gotta-get-jabbed plan so very hard.
That was part of the psy op.
In real life, you aren't going to get a respiratory virus from moving pieces of paper.
I remember people bleaching their mail!
Crazy times.
Mrs. RW
And their groceries, too. Wild to see adults do this.
My neighbor—whom I used to consider a “conspiracy theorist” (until I became one myself) made this very claim.
NOT ALL mail gets delivered!
Since COVID the mail doesn't get delivered in a timely manner. It takes up to 10 days now for mail to go across the country when it used to take a couple of days. And mail to someone in my own county takes up to a week because now it has to travel to a special located to be sorted before it turns around and comes back.
We’re all noticing.
In Memphis, mail delivery was so bad in covid that when my sons were getting married in 2023, I UPS'd their rehearsal dinner invitations in a box to my sister in Nashville and she put them in Nashville USPS & they all were delivered. Mail may be bad all over, but it's super bad in some locations. New Orleans the same.
Especially in local elections where literally a few hundred or thousand votes make the difference. Interestingly, especially in DA races where the 'winners' were heavily funded by Soros associated groups. In purple areas that is a huge deal and sufficient to shift to blue. My R husband ran in 2022, well known from years as prosecutor and on the bench, well respected and heavily favored by even many Democrats because the D candidate was so bad yet somehow lost to that guy. Partial recount yielded some very odd patterns. Any way the election process can be tightened up will at the very least, restore some confidence in the outcomes and make it harder for fraudulent meddling.
Burnt inedible toast!
So glad you posted that - it needs to be seen far and wide. I saw it on X late last night and bookmarked it because it was such a great explanation. 👍👍
Thanks for this info.
Thank you copied for reference
Which enforces the Truth that we have plenty of laws. They just need enforcement.
Love David, he is amazing!
Does it say that DHS will have the data digitally?
The barcodes and database will be maintained by DHS.
Biden considering a run… oh! It’s April Fools’ Day! You had me going for a minute!
Totally got me! Forgot the date. But what’s that say about the state of the Democrat party when I’m sitting here thinking “we’ve seen worse,” and thinking it’s all in their wheelhouse so believable. 🤣
It was totally believable (the announcement)—the rest of it, I knew was Jeff having fun with it but I would totally not be surprised if they wanted him to run again and be the figurehead so the shadow government could run things again 😡
...and honestly; if the Republicans don't f--- things up, (which they are quite gifted at.) Biden may be the best hope for the Democrats... Either way, it was a great read.
Kamala seems like she might still be angling for it though…
I had honestly forgotten about her completely... but now that I think about it. I'm not sure there's anything funny about either of them.
Not funny for sure if they are in the position of running anything important 😕
I had the same thoughts about the shadow government
Oops, got me too, I had to post a rant as soon as I read that, lol.
It's the Democrats. Of course he's going to run. Or walk. Or whatever.
Or fall…
Hahaha!!!! Exactly!!!! It actually would not surprise me. At. All. !!!!
Got me,too. Then,I got a huge laugh!
Since I still have to go to work. I know the date 😂. So I was totally ready for Jeff’s shenanigans 😆🤣
Well Biden IS a fool, so it would have made sense.
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That link to the “hairy legs” speech is solid proof!
To think that he was president of the US!!! 🤯🤯
But, but… he was soooo much more “presidential” than the Orange Man 🙄🙄🙄
May God have mercy on his soul- lol
I can’t even bare to watch that video. It’s so embarrassing and even more creepy. Oh my, I feel like I need a shower😆
I'd be shocked if he didn't think he was fit... at least in the morning!
At first, I was like “WHAT THE F”. Then I knew. But it actually would make sense due these clowns and their embarrassing tactics used in these last few years. Great post and God Bless us all!
Would’ve been more believable if it was Dr Jill running for president.
True!
Best April fools yet. You got me that was awesome.
I would totally believe anything crazy coming from that blue zone masquerading as a political party
Dang, Jeff, good one on the Cabbage - had me going for a couple of paragraphs, then I remembered what today was. Still, scary for a couple of minutes! Now, back to my coffee! 😂☕️😂
Scary? That would be a gift to the GOP.
Yeah I was getting comfortable with the idea by the time u figured it out which wasn’t until I clicked on the link to Biden’s “Jill Biden managed tik tok account”, you can imagine how forward I was looking to going through those … the truth was a crushing blow ha ha ha
That's what I thought initially too...till I realized I'd been Fooled!
Blessings to all and let’s keep praying for our government
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And Constitution.
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Separate federal and state mail-in ballots is not a hardship nor does it require brain surgery to enact.
South Dakota has separate "Federal voter" ballots for those who live in RVs and barely touch SD soil most of the year. This enables them to participate in federal elections that do impact them, while cleaving them from state elections that do not. https://legiscan.com/SD/text/HB1208/2025
The point is: It's not a big deal to separate federal from state balloting, regardless of the particular state's reason.
Agreed. States already print separate ballots for D, R and I (or undeclared) registered voters. And they're already printed up in what, 15 different languages?
If an “American citizen” can’t read English, how did they become a citizen? Asking for a friend who is wondering why so many languages
It doesn't require brain surgery but it may require conversion therapy.
But I'm sure that the dems will say it is either racist or will be a hindrance to some trying to vote...voter suppression!!!!!
Oh probably 🙄😕 I think Jeff would bet Michelle’s Tahoe on that, or maybe offer to eat his keyboard if it doesn’t happen 😛
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Yup, Deb. They are already ranting that married women won’t be able to vote because their birth certificates don’t match their married names! Good Grief.
It pretty much goes against the constitution and gives more power to the fed govt, which may be fine now, but likely not be later.
States rights are important.
Prevents unified oppression.
No mention of paper ballot voting is the real problem.
All else leading to the New World Order.
RIP Dear Mom 💚
I look forward to being with You in Paradise, through the Holy Grace of God ❤️🙏
Tony, I imagine she is cavorting with my own mother up there … my mom is SO FUN and I think she must have many heavenly pals to worship Jesus with. All the mothers floating around in a worshipful pack! I can almost see them! Lord, please hear our hearts when we mourn the mothers we have lost … bless them and oh, Dear Father, keep their living children on paths of righteousness until You bring us home one day. Amen
{Tears}, as I imagined my own mom a part of that worshipful pack.
Way Cool. I'm the 12th of 13 siblings, but I was her favorite 😂
I was taking my daughter to see her Granny down in Miami when I got the call from my sister.
I'm forever grateful for the parents I had in this journey Home. They both have been absent for a while now, but I truly long to be together again.
This is Our Faith.
As Phil Keaggy sings, What a Day, What a Day, What a Day that will be. ☝️🙏😉
My mom is right there with all of them!
And add in spending time with Mary. Can you have Wow moments in Heaven bc that would be one for sure.
She's a Good Good Mother Mary ❤️💚
My condolences on your loss ❤️🙏
My father died 6 yrs ago today. three weeks after everything closed to 'stop the spread'!
EVIL!
I’m so sorry 😞
Vengeance is Mine says The Lord ☝️
May God have Mercy on the medical community for what they did, and what they didn't do.
I truly believe that I was able to get my father in law two more years back in 2020. North Florida Regional Hospital was going to let him die, but they didn't know my uncle was on the board for the Kidney Foundation.
Thanks God, and Uncle James Clark.
I’m so torn with the thought of vengeance and praying for them to repent. My mom was one of their victims. Remdesivir
My eyes are filling with tears. Then I get so angry at what they did to our families. Knowing the horrors is maddening. How many of our loved ones would still be here right now if not for the monsters in Big Harma and the med profession.
I will not forgive, I will not forget.
We cannot always wait for God's vengeance.
I’m so sorry for your loss 😢
A day of remembrance that brings fresh grief. We have known our parents longer than any human beings so losing them is very very hard. Hoping Jeff's April Fools' Day joke brought you a bit of reprieve from sadness remembered on this day.
Yes, someday further on. Sending sincere thoughts and prayers in your grief and may the ache in your heart diminish a bit so you can breathe again.
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I, too, am looking forward to seeing my beloved Mom once again.
GO, FLORIDA!!
And Trump’s tweet, “Go get your own oil!” is so very badass, I could cry— tears of respect, admiring tears, if you will.
Agreed with all my heart. I just adore our Pres!
Thou shall not steal
Watch someone protest "But looting is OK". Same as "You can't murder, but you can kill".
Mrs. RW
I do believe you can’t murder but you can kill. The bi le is very explicit abt this. You can’t lie in wait or plan a murder, nor shed innocent blood. But there is a soldiers prayer— Psalms something. I’ll have to look it up and edit this.
What about looting? I'm pretty sure there's a lot of looting in the Bible, so it must be OK. Anyway, that's our story and we're sticking to it.
Mrs. RW
"Conversion therapy" -- more a dysphemism than a euphemism, IMO. Unlike such gently insidious terms as "gender-affirming care" or "revenue enhancement", the term "conversion therapy" seeks to demonize the specialist who is trying, by actually TALKING to the young dysphoric patient. Not to "convert", but to find out what ELSE might be going on in the young person's head BEFORE any irreversible medical intervention happens.
Talking. Debating. Always a problem for the "gender-affirming" crowd.
Surgical Gender Mutilation... or sit-down and chat about it first, understand why you're confused or just being an adolescent. And yet the first is called 'care' and the second is 'dangerous' and 'prejudiced'.
The ironic thing is that they are transing a lot of gay kids, and the "conversion therapy" line comes from the old days when they tried to teach gay kids to be straight.
Now they just drug and mutilate them.
And idiot liberals support that because of the label. Propaganda works.
Mrs. RW
‘Hey Teacher, leave them kid’s alone’
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I remember the term ‘conversion therapy’ being used with gay people a while back when they would go to a pastor for counseling about it. It is a deeply manipulative term.
Starmer's last sentence "this will not be easy" was incomplete. He should have said "this will not be easy, because we don't have a navy anymore".
Well, of course the welders couldn't be called to work on Saturday, or even past 5 of a weekday. I mean, really!
He could have said, "this is going to hurt".
I believe the line is "Short term pain for long term gain".
Mrs. RW
I was riffing on a TV show about a proctologist.
Ah, never saw it.
I was riffing on the phrase used by so many talking heads after this war started.
Mrs. RW
Can’t believe you April firsted me with that! Just shows how crazy the world is now.
Make Biden Great Again could not be worse than MAGA.
As a long-time writer of April Fools fake stories, the cardinal rule is that you have to start with a story that sounds reasonable and then slowly lead the reader down the garden path to absurdity. I think everybody knew from the first sentence that there was no way Joe Biden was going to make a comeback.
Nevertheless, you did get in a few howlers! Loved the 500 piece jigsaw bit!
I wish I would’ve thought this was unbelievable. I wouldn’t be surprised by the Demonrats! Ol Joe might be better than anyone else they have. 😂
I sincerely doubt he will even live to the next election! I’m kind of amazed, he made it through his term!
Same! But that wouldn’t bother his Democrat handlers at all!
Of course, some people think he died early in his term and that what we saw after that was actors wearing rubber masks!
Completed in 3 weeks!!!!
'Only tried to feed it a biscuit twice...' 😂. On this morning, I bow to Mr. Childers
European Conversion Therapy 🤣😂🤣