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Years ago, I trapped a "possum" at a rental property and was dismayed to see it lying dead. I didn't wish to kill it, then it dawned on me it was faking and I felt really stupid. So I took the Have-a-Heart trap home, opened the door and the critter eventually walked out and disappeared into the woods. There are analogies here to Carville and the democrats.
We came home one night to a possum in our garage. When it played dead, we used a push broom to start 'pushing' him out the door. Which at that point he started hissing and snapping at the broom. We got him out but same with D's. They may play dead but that's temporary, we need to be ready for the hissing and snapping.
Exposure negates most of their 'operations'. Hence, the Trump plan is Expose, Expose, Expose. The more exposure, the more the Dems are hung out to dry one the cloths line.
That is my prayer everyday! Expose expose expose. And I am pleased at punch with the results. The fence is shaking like never before and people are falling into one camp or the other. Good or Evil. Pick a side. Hope you are well.♥
Hah! My daily prayer since the first Trump administration has been: May all those deeds done in darkness be brought into the light and may all those who lay out traps be caught in their own snares. Please God make it so. Your Will be done!
It is hard not to have a divided nation... when half of it is a gaggle of radical lefty seditious Constitution-hating woke, deviant-supporting assclown maggots.
Opossums are the only marsupial in North American (kangaroos are marsupials). They are amazing creatures &, if you have any around your house, you are fortunate. They feast on ticks & other insects, fruit, mice, snakes, bird seed, road kill, plus many other things like garbage. They do not get rabies & are not affected by poisonous snakes. They have a very slow metabolism & that is probably why they play dead. Even though they look scary, they make wonderful pets if one is found motherless. They are gentle & can be litter box trained. The sad part is that their life expectancy is only 2 years. The only thing they have in common with Democrats is their ability to play dead (which the Dems haven’t displayed yet). I am fortunate to have two at my home.
I have a fondness for possums, which are plentiful where I live. I hate to see them denigrated by likening them to Democrats. How about instead of possums, we liken Democrats to fainting goats? Just a thought...
Not as great a visual, but how about the (genetically manipulated) stripped bass planted in Lake Powell that die as soon as they’re stressed. Oops. Maybe that’s a bit too literal. 😒
I have a whole new appreciation for opossums now. It is amazing how nature works. It is why I had a serious love/hate relationship with a large spiderweb in my house (VERY tall ceilings). I saw it had bugs in it that I didn't like....but that web! So conflicted. I saw a wasp eating a grasshopper and it was pretty amazing. Then I saw an obnoxious magpie eating a dormant wasp one winter day...it all seems to work out if we can be good stewards.
SadieJay - very insightful! The benefits of seeing beyond kneejerk love/hate polarization. Similar to the advice: "Patience, let the man work." That's what I appreciate about C&C's summarizing overviews, like today's posting. Helps seeing the bigger picture.
Exactly. Let's see how this all plays out. I had people move in across the road and they brought livestock which brought a plague of flies. It was so bad. But, after so many fly traps, a wonderful thing happened. The Phoebes/Western Flycatchers moved in. They have nests they return to every year for the last 15 years. Before that we didn't have those kinds of birds. And...it didn't happen all in one summer either. Had to realize that there are forces much larger at play than we can ever realize. In nature and in the human realm.
My lab hasn't like finding opossums in my yard and has given a couple a good smack down, but only one has died. They are huge so being well fed which like you wrote is fine with me.
Yep, love possums! Been nose to nose with the babies many evenings on my porch, where a tall shrub is planted. Just adorable, and yes, very beneficial to have around!
Touché! But possums really are quite beneficial to your yard and garden. And adorable when they’re babies. I suspect Democrats probably are too, until they learn to talk…😆
Yes thanks for this!! I was about to make the same comment - possums get a very bad rap but are actually very shy (non-aggressive unless trapped), very clean, always grooming themselves like cats and cannot be beat for tick control! I’ve grown to really appreciate these unfortunately unattractive little creatures :))
But totally non violent. The hissing is their defense before their nervous system shuts them down and has them playing dead. They are a good critter to have around. They won’t destroy your property of fight with your animals, like cats.
We had a possum get into a fight with a skunk and a groundhog. They were fighting for territory under our porch. The skunk won. 😳 Until we evicted it and the others. The groundhog actually tore into our duct work and made his home there. We didn't know it until we went to replace the unit.
Sleep with one eye open. Do not trust these opossums. They are criminal and evil. IF they are playing dead - they will pounce when ready to. We have always been 5 steps behind in the past. Time to be 5 steps ahead. I doubt Trump is ignoring them. He’s got others watching them play dead so he can focus on other stuff. Good!
I believe Trump's plan is to get all the rats and roaches to react which identifies them and their hidey holes. They are not that smart. Then you swoop in with shock and awe and exterminate them. Fight! Fight! Fight!
Did you read anywhere else that the Resolute was bugged with super-high-tech, grain of sand-sized listening devices ???!!!👀 Ugh the lousy rats! But it explains the cleaning🪣🧼🧽
I did see a little on that. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit. I wish the administration would come out and expose it and show the devices though. I hate all the “secrecy” of stuff. If they bugged places -show and also tell the people!
I don’t think that President Trump will allow any American Continent.
Look at what has done in one month with Venezuela, Mexico and Canada, now next is Brazil, Argentina and El Salvador were in already, now you will understand the big play that it is Greenland, the remaining countries in the continent neither are big military powers or want any type of war, they will allied sooner than later when they see that they future is not with a crazy European countries. In the meantime Europe can start resolving the emigration problem as easily as making all the “Newvist”
I was astounded to learn that there are two different animals, possums are European and opossum is strictly Americas. Same but different. Both eat worms, play dead and rise up hissing and showing teeth. They carry ticks. They look very much like huge rats. They are infact marsupials, and nocturnal i.e. night life foragers.
RJ Rambler… yes… and unknown to most unless you are one of the 5.5 million astute horse owners in America… the opossum transmits the deadly parasite Sarcocystis neorona which causes EQUINE PROTOZOAL MYELOENCEPHALITIS “EPM” via feed, hay and water the opossums wander through, their feces the carrier. Control is prevention of contamination…. So might we be wise to be wary of the democrats Marxist/communist playing dead fully aware they carry a deadly disease weapon in their waiting to destroy…
Maureen, I was just thinking about this as I was reading! In our experience, we have never had an opossum "play possum". They always come at us hissing and baring their teeth. It was quite a jolt to head into the feed room one night, and come face to face with one. We had encountered them around the property and dealt with them as we found them, but having one almost in my face was a bit too much! They can be difficult to "dispatch", as well. Blessedly, none of our horses ever came down with EPM.
Sometimes an opossum will saunter up my deck at night, look around for grub, and then saunter off. They are a lot larger when you see them up close, wow! My kitties had no interest in going to the slider and chuffing at them.
It sounds weird I know but they are like wool. I was shocked when I saw them but considering it's an island, once they got there New Zealand had a possum problem LOL
RINOS that go along to get along are even bigger traitors- they sold us out while hiding it and smiling to our faces. Not a single one of these idjits -dem libtard or rino, have a clue about what will really be lost when there’s no more USA. There are so many of them- they won’t all get to live the elite life they envision when America falls
Didn’t possums come from Europe on ships? Just like what we call Cheat Grass out west (foxtails). The grass was used to seed the plains for cattle but it choked out native grasses and is a huge problem.
Many bad things came from Europe, but many good things too, like many of us C&Cers!
How they got together in the first place is unfathomable. And when one is a political junkie, its hard to live with someone and remain silent with ones thoughts and reactions.
Pssst Nancy, the Have-a-Heart traps are only supposed to be used to carry the critters out of your neighbors’ line of sight…where you can then “dispose” of the critters properly so they don’t simply return the next day.
I currently have three opossums that visit my patio each night to eat cat kibble I put out for them. They are docile animals that don’t mind me watching them from the other side of the sliding door. In addition, they slurp up slugs and eat ticks. Beneficial and symbiotic critters.
For the first time in 15 years i Noticed a possum skulking around on my lawn in the dark. We do live near the woods, and we have plenty of Critters like bobcats, deer, bears, etc but never saw one of those on the property before. Hubby and I don't like them because they're mean Critters. It disappeared behind some plants when I shined a light on it.
Reminded me of when I was a teen my dad and I were in our garage and we found a possum at the bottom of a large trash can that had no lid. It looked up at us and hissed with that sneering, evil face of his, and I panicked but my dad just snatched up the can and quickly carried it to the driveway and tipped it over so The nasty Critter could run off. Don't like those things!
ROFL....I don't have possum(s) where I live....at least not the 4 legged kind. I am laughing out loud because I didn't realize they actually DID that! Now I wish we had them here. I'd love to see it.
Yes, they really do fake it like that. That picture will give me nightmares! We used to have them in our back yard all the time when we lived in Dallas. Our dog attacked one once, and it just lay motionless on the grass. I was sure it was dead. I got the dog inside, then gathered my courage to go pick up the disgusting thing to get it out of the yard before I let the dog back out. (Hubs must not have been home or it definitely wouldn’t have been me doing it!) But the critter was gone. I used to have nightmares about giant rats when I was a child, and possums look way too much like hideous giant rats for my comfort.
Fear is from hell… reject any form of it in Jesus’s name.
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
Yes! It's the first thing I see when I head out to feed my chickens. I blast those chemtrails by rebuking and binding them and declaring them water vapors in Jesus name, and calling out, no weapon formed against us shall prosper.
I think you focus on the wrong things to give your energy to. The Bible says that God/Christ make the commands, by His will we exist. We focus on His commands and are obedient. I found that commanding the devil kept my focus on the devil. It made me paranoid, which is what the devil wants. It's having a divided focus and loyalty. Whoever teaches that you can command the devil is the devil's tool and setting you up for a battle that you can't win and Christ has already won and IS IN CONTROL of. The only battle you control is your own spiritual battle. Focus on Christ and ask for His will His way.
We’ve had a couple of days without when the USAID spigot was first turned off but they are right back at it with full force unfortunately. NE Florida. I hear it’s happening over Gainesville as well. I still wonder why it’s not a main discussion topic. Everyone is affected. The gaslighting goes deep on this one. Military?
I live in farm country in the upper Midwest, and I haven’t seen the 6 to 8 trails every morning at sunrise coming out of the east and at sunset coming out of the west. I also do not understand why they are not stopped. RFK Jr should be on this. Likely is military connected which seems to be the toughest nut to crack.
I am confident that he is on this. Remember the tight-lipped self-discipline of the Trumpers in the years leading up to this time. Remember how RFK ceased to speak openly about vax danger from summer through election, until confirmation. We must be patient. In his confirmation speech he gave a hint about dealing with this problem.
I was paying rather close attention yesterday and the the day before. I noticed two things. All the contrails were going north and south, the same way all the commercial aircraft go here on the Atlantic side of Florida, and noticed they were being blown right over the ocean from the winds aloft. I also noticed the humidity in these last two days has dropped markedly. The I decided to do a search on that site, the aircraft I’d site, and sure enough, every contrail I could identify, because I saw the aircraft, were all commercial flights,mostly going to Orlando. ( thank god for Disney) and some were landing here in Daytona or in Sanford. And I made an assumption. The constant streaking across the sky at least here,is contrails. If they weren’t, wouldn’t the evil masters not spray when the winds aloft carry their precious poison right out over the ocean, miles from shore? Yall gotta get your thinking caps on, it’s not the problem you are being made to believe. It’s kinda like when I was little, I thought quicksand was gonna be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be.
I'm sorry but if those white lines disappear quickly, then yes, they are indeed CONtrails, vapor from the exhausts.
But when they remain and slowly break up
and do not go away, but instead, begin turning your beautiful blue sky milky white, that's your CHEMtrails. They are done on purpose, with evil intention. Do NOT try to explain them away or make excuses about their benign qualities.
It would be good to identify the airlines involved and openly out and boycott them. Perhaps even a few surreptitious photos in the pilots cabin showing the magic switches/buttons for good measure. Anything in their annual statements about THIS source of income?
They are contrails from high altitude commercial aircraft. They depend on the upper altitude weather conditions.
I live in Tulsa which has an American Airlines Maintenance base where they work on the engines.
About 20 years ago, my law partner and I were interviewing a potential client who happened to be a crew chief for American.
It happened that my partner, who was also my best friend, believed in every kooky conspiracy theory there was including chemtrails.
So at the end of our interview I asked this airline crew chief whether or not it was possible that there could be devices within those engines that sprayed chemtrails.
He told us absolutely not - while looking at us like we were f****** kooks. He said they break those engines down to the very nuts and bolts and that there's no way that they would not know if somehow there was some device in the engine to spray chemicals.
Since then, I've had the opportunity to ask the same question to two more aircraft engine mechanics: one for Piedmont Air and another for American - the latter being one of my good friends at my parish.
Both men confirmed what the first airline mechanic told us.
You can check this yourself by using FlightAware or another app whenever you see an airline making so-called chemtrails because you can identify what the aircraft is, what the flight is, and that it is in fact a commercial aircraft.
Nope. Seen them spraying at lower altitudes, seen them spraying in loop-de-loops, and the planes are always unmarked. They are never the size of "commercial" passenger aircraft.
Furthermore, I live in an area where geoengineering is admitted to and openly practiced--just look up marine cloud brightening, which allegedly only sprays "sea water" into the air.
Your initial interview is 20 years old? Come on. I have friends too. One of them works at a local chemical plant and says unmarked vats of flocculant get delivered to a local regional airport weekly. Boom. Proof just as solid as yours.
We live about 15 miles southwest of Gainesville and our beautiful blue skies have been crisscrossed with those horrible chemtrails the last few days. Makes me sick! Why aren't we hearing anything about stopping this from Trump, RFK and Rob Desantis?
Drove home from FL yesterday with gorgeous blue skies through FL, AL, TN, & KY. All throughout our 4 hour IL travels, skies were covered with wide stripes in every direction, obliterating the beautiful sky. I could barely read the marijuana & COVID shot billboards.
I think that fear can motivate us to act in ways contrary to our design (aka, sin). Fear itself is not necessarily the sin.
In fact fear is an important part of our God-designed emergency alert system. It does me no good to ignore a fear signal when it is going off - until I have properly assessed the threat. Key being "properly," of course. Some of us have hypervigilant threat detectors.
I heard my pastor point out that when John fell on his face in fear before Christ on Revelation 1, Christ himself stooped down and laid his hand of strength on John and told him not to fear. A very personal and embodied gesture. This was deeply comforting to me.
Fear is temptation. Like other temptations, if I willingly participate in it, that could be sinful. I think the proper response is to turn to the Lord and give Him glory, instead of wallowing in fear for the endorphin rush.
Paraphrasing James, lust or desire, when it conceives, gives birth to sin.
When we turn to the Lord in response to fear, instead of feeding those neural pathways by wallowing in the fearful endorphin rush, those neural pathways attenuate over time. We are literally putting to death the flesh! It's Good News that we can take up our cross!
It can be. It's a product of one's flesh. What does it say about one's faith?
It's like other temptations. If we wallow in them and participate in them, we will eventually sin. Strangely, people will wallow in fear because of the endorphins it generates! There are entire film genres based on this! These things are of the flesh.
In his epistle, James tells us that desire for that which is forbidden, when it conceives, gives birth to sin. Wallowing in fear for the sake of an endorphin rush, even unwittingly, means that we have business with the Lord. Turning to Him is repentance, and doesn't imply condemnation. It's not a thing that we only do when we have willfully done something morally culpable. We do it when we realize we have taken our eyes off of Jesus!
Fear can be quite legitimate, as I said before. If I round the bend on a trail and stumble upon a rattle snake, my body's fear response APPROPRIATELY AND AS GOD DESIGNED will cause me to stop and back up. Fear also can be a consequence of prior wounding in life. It can be a consequence of neural wiring (often a result of prior wounding/trauma).
None of this is an excuse to persist in fear. I am not saying that, and if you hear me saying that, you've heard wrong.
To say that people "wallow" in fear is really quite dismissive of those whose neural wiring predisposes them to significant fear from which they may have difficulty extracting themselves or simply "trusting God." For these people, often there are past harms and wounds that need tending and healing so that they are able to receive God's gracious care and love, and are able to trust that care and love. Most of these folks are not any more choosing to wallow in their fear than you would choose to lie on a bed of hot coals. Yes, they need to trust God and not fear. First, they often need to have help removing the barriers that get in the way of their ability to do just that.
Are there folks who persist in their fear? Yes. Are there folks whose fear keeps them from healing from their fear? Yes.
However, not everyone who struggles with fear fits that category.
You can count yourself fortunate that you have not had this kind of experience with incapaciting fear.
'To say that people "wallow" in fear is really quite dismissive of those whose neural wiring predisposes them to significant fear from which they may have difficulty extracting themselves or simply "trusting God."'
Before I was a believer in Jesus, fear defined me. I almost drank myself to death with PTSD. Glory to God that Jesus has delivered me from the worst of it, but I still struggle with anxiety.
Fear is often a choice that people make. But you said rightly that people need to trust in God!
I didn't mean to sound dismissive, so please forgive me. Some people, God delivers from certain temptations straight away, while leaving other thorns in their flesh. It has been my experience that He has left certain things for me and wholly delivered me from others. This is because I had things to learn! One of these is that I can't proceed on "autopilot," I have to keep Him in mind with intentionality. Often I find myself having acted unwisely or even sinfully because I failed to take my anxieties to Him!
There are certain things I have been tempted by that only subsided after 20 minutes of continuous prayer; it felt more like hours! Others, I notice that I didn't even notice, if that makes sense, and I remind myself as I type this to give glory to God for these things!
And temptation does not imply a moral failing. Fear is like any other temptation. Temptation not dealt with is what becomes a problem, and fear is no different! Some of these things take time, maybe even a great deal of it.
Again, you said, very wisely, that we need to turn to God! This is what He wants us to do! It's not a matter of our success or failure, only that we turn to Him! He said that the flesh is at war with the Spirit, and the Spirit is at war with the flesh. War is anything but easy. He has promised that He WILL complete the work He began in us!
And forgive me for assuming that you haven't had to deal with all-consuming fear. Obviously, I was wrong.
I agree that we must learn to trust our God. Ultimately, THAT {HE} is the only answer. "Entrust our will and lives to the care of God," as the 12 Steps describe it.
Some folks easily make this step. Others need to first experience the safety of another person before they can transfer that to God. And maybe get their biochemistry in some sort of reasonable balance too. And I am not talking about psychiatric meds. 😉
I too thank God that he does for us what we cannot do for ourselves. And that regardless, we in Christ are forgiven, free, and restored.
I appreciate the dialogue. Blessings to you as well.
Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Yes. I think that fear can motivate us to act in ways contrary to our design (aka, sin). Fear itself is not necessarily the sin.
I heard my pastor point out that when John fell on his face in fear before Christ on Revelation 1, Christ himself stooped down and laid his hand of strength on John and told him not to fear. A very personal and embodied gesture. This was deeply comforting to me.
Yes he says to fear him not other things. It is for sure sin if it says several hundred times DO NOT FEAR in scripture. Obviously one must look at what he is saying in regards to do not fear. Having fear is essentially not trusting God.
Fear can be quite legitimate, as I said before. If I round the bend on a trail and stumble upon a rattle snake, my body's fear response APPROPRIATELY AND AS GOD DESIGNED will cause me to stop and back up. Fear also can be a consequence of prior wounding in life. It can be a consequence of neural wiring (often a result of prior wounding/trauma).
None of this is an excuse to persist in fear. I am not saying that, and if you hear me saying that, you've heard wrong.
Some folks' neural wiring predisposes them to significant fear from which they may have difficulty extracting themselves or simply "trusting God." For these people, often there are past harms and wounds that need tending and healing so that they are able to receive God's gracious care and love, and are able to trust that care and love. Most of these folks are not any more choosing to wallow in their fear than you would choose to lie on a bed of hot coals. Yes, they need to trust God and not fear. First, they often need to have help removing the barriers that get in the way of their ability to do just that.
Are there folks who persist in their fear? Yes. Are there folks whose fear keeps them from healing from their fear? Yes.
However, not everyone who struggles with fear fits that category.
You can count yourself fortunate that you have not had this kind of experience with incapaciting fear.
There is a theme of not fearing that runs throughout the Bible. Since it is mentioned over and over that means that it is natural for us to struggle with worry and we need to be reminded not to worry. There is a difference between concern leading to action and worry leading to anxiety. One motivates while the other paralyzes with fear. Also, fear is the absence of faith. They cannot co-exist.
Jesus didn't suggest that we not worry; rather, He commanded that we not worry (Matthew 6:25-34 and Matthew 10:28.) Those were imperatives.
The Apostle Paul added to that in Philippians 4:5-6 "Be anxious for nothing but in all things by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made know to God and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4 is one of my favorite chapters.
Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Fear can be quite legitimate, as I said before. If I round the bend on a trail and stumble upon a rattle snake, my body's fear response APPROPRIATELY AND AS GOD DESIGNED will cause me to stop and back up. Fear also can be a consequence of prior wounding in life. It can be a consequence of neural wiring (often a result of prior wounding/trauma).
None of this is an excuse to persist in fear. I am not saying that, and if you hear me saying that, you've heard wrong.
Some folks' neural wiring predisposes them to significant fear from which they may have difficulty extracting themselves or simply "trusting God." For these people, often there are past harms and wounds that need tending and healing so that they are able to receive God's gracious care and love, and are able to trust that care and love. Most of these folks are not any more choosing to wallow in their fear than you would choose to lie on a bed of hot coals. Yes, they need to trust God and not fear. First, they often need to have help removing the barriers that get in the way of their ability to do just that.
Are there folks who persist in their fear? Yes. Are there folks whose fear keeps them from healing from their fear? Yes.
However, not everyone who struggles with fear fits that category.
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
Where are all the “make love not war” peaceniks from the 1970’s? They were all libs Dems. At least a few of them must still be alive. Now they all want to make war.
That's because they and the RINOs all get rich from kickbacks from handouts (of our tax dollars and the printing press which is bankrupting us) to the Mil-Industrial complex and overseas actors like Mr "kovbasa" zelensky.
I was in junior high during those ‘make love not war’ years. There were Peace Dove and Peace symbol posters everywhere, even in school. We didn’t dress like hippies, heck we weren’t even allowed to wear pants, only skirts and dresses. In high school we did grow our hair long and parted it in the middle and we shopped at Thrift stores and GI surplus stores cuz it was hip and cool. In college I considered myself a liberal, but as soon as I started a business I wised up.
A huge number of my school and college friends are still liberals and are now displaying ‘I stand with Ukraine’ on their fb pages. Yep, we’re all pesky old hippie boomers, but many of us are sane and totally unwoke.
My daughter is a nurse at a local hospital and also works part time in a nursing/rehab facility. She is truly astounded at all the crazy boomers coming through. Their years of drugs and alcohol have caught up to them in their late 60s and 70s. I asked her how much of their pathetic and sad state is due to lifestyle choices, and she estimated about 90%. More than a few former rockers have landed in these places too!
A couple of them are running HHS and national intelligence! True liberals have to leave the Democrat Party. Liberal didn’t used to be a dirty word. It used to mean free speech, anti-war, pro working class, taking care of the environment, etc. NOT big Pharma, censorship, the military industrial complex and pro war! Not to mention all the gender nonsense!
The ‘people’ (60’s 70’s hippie types- whatever) are very far removed from their current party’s agenda- those people just think they are on same page as their party but they really are just good little _ommie puppets and have no clue what is really happening. THAT scares me -Obedient soldiers
Brilliant - I hope nobody misses t hye fact that Sweden and Britain, the two foremost weapon industrialists, are the ones crying loudest for continuing warring...
I'm a Brit and absolutely set against Starmer taking it upon himself to push us into a war we can't afford and don't want for many reasons, including him being a God-awful premier and a stupid, nasty little man.
He is only trying to get on the world stage (he 'prefers Davos', after all) because he is SO HATED here. And thinks he can be a leader in Europe, who will run rings round him when they're ready. I wish Europe would take him off our hands.
We're being 'allowed' to lead to take the heat off France and Germany, also under threat because they are turning madly authoritarian.
Very interesting to hear your take on Starmer. Your description of him made me laugh, but as I read on I realized it is a serious matter for Britain. I'm sorry. Hopefully the meeting with President Trump took him down a notch or two!
I am so hoping that's going to happen, Patricia! I stayed up all night to watch the voting and to see Trump win. His pivoting back to truth and normality is exactly what the world needs.
Yesterday I watched an utterly terrifying documentary on Prime called I was a Muslim for a week. Pure propaganda. I feel So badly for the state of the U.K.
There was an attack on German civilians yesterday.
As obama, biden, and the previous VP - what was her name - were all plants of the cabal of the global marxists (including the EU), and US deep state/uniparty -to maintain control of the USA - so too is the penis pianist- he is a plant, I mean literally a plant (like Resident Cabbage), no better or no worse than Ms word salad.
But their multi decade reign of destruction of the USA is coming to an end under our heroic President Trump and his team. Keep the faith, stand arm to arm in supporting him. Their attacks will be relentless - they do not want to be shut off from our power and treasure.
Molly Hemingway and VDH believe Nuland, Rice, Vindman (same cabal that orchestrated impeachment #1) set up Zelensky to draw Trump into an embarrassing rage that would get US security guarantees- if so they should be prosecuted
The mere fact that Z met with at least one Democrat congressman prior to meeting with the President and VP should be enough to bring charges against those working against the good of the American people and our great country... just my opinion.
There were what looked to be about ten to fifteen or so in that little war monger huddle that they had before Zyyy went over to see our President. Lindsey Grahamnesty was there as well as Charles Grassley, but Coons, Klobuchar, Murphy, Whitehouse, and Blumenthal (the stolen valor war monger anti-constitution doofus) to name just a few I recognized.
Ahhh, that was who that was (I knew he was another "R"). I heard him speak (and heard his accent), I just couldn't see his face from the angle that I saw, thank you Beckadee!
I agree with Hemingway and VDH. I would also throw in many uniparty senators like insufferable oxygen thief senator (with a small s) chris coons - who just also happens to be a "delawarian" like resident cabbage... a strange coincidence?
I must apply my motto to this and nearly every catastrophic event we have suffered since at least the 1980s when they started building the infrastructure to steal US elections: "Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences".
We need to repeal the 17th Amendment (easier said than done), but that stupid progressive amendment of 1913 is why we continue to have these "senators" that are loyal to the cabal, the "campaign financiers", and not to their state, their state legislatures, nor to the Constitution.
Vladdy Z has now made himself of no consequence, he can globe-trot on his jet and spew CO2 all he wants, his usefulness and very life is on borrowed time--he serves at the pleasure of those who installed him and they are growing displeased suddenly. He may likely perish at their command (Putin will get the blame of course). One final life to give to stop Russia and keep Ukraine forever free.
Remember that one of his villas is in Florida. When I learned of that some years ago, I amused myself thinking of the welcome he'd receive from Floridians when he fled his country for the balmy south.
Substitution if I may: "Eau-de-Merde has now made himself of no consequence, he can globe-trot on his jet and spew CO2 all he wants..."
#TurdeauMustGoNOW
PS: Canada's lame duck soy boy Lord Governor Goodhair, who RESIGNED in January and SUSPENDED PARLIAMENT until March 24th jetted off to Europe. London to be exact. (No doubt he'll be greasing something while there. He'll be securing a new "posting"... 🤮)
Funny that "Canada was not mentioned as one of the countries invited to join the Sunday meeting when British Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the event during his trip to Washington to meet with Trump earlier this week" eh?
How DOES Sparkly Sox do it??
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Moreover:
Wonder how the heads of state of EXCLUDED European countries feel about that bit of disrespectful behavior by Starmer?
Such a "Unified Europe" that they excluded all the insignificant and unworthy nations; likely Team Trump will be courting many of these into a newer and more commercially-connected US orbit; Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, etc if this is how WEF-Aligned Europe demands we move forward with them.
No doubt, and interestingly, they also tend to be the most "Christian" of the countries in Europe (as well as the least "woke"), and most are from the "former Eastern block/Warsaw Pact". Funny how things have flipped since the fall of the iron curtain.
Let us not relax before the midterms. According to Edward Dowd, who always seems to be right, we are beginning a global recession. It is not Trump’s fault, but it will be blamed on him. The DOGE cuts are great, but if spending is not drastically curtailed, the deficit will still explode. Congress has to make some serious spending cuts. The economy was being artificially propped up by printing money to pay for illegal immigrants, hiring and paying more and more bureaucrats , proxy wars, and “green “policies. They just managed to kick the can down the road to get it past the election. Now the whole mess has been dumped in Trump’s lap. Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled that he is the one in charge who is going to be trying to deal with all this. And to me his greatest accomplishment so far has been lessening the chance of a nuclear exchange.
I’m betting that the big motivator behind DOGE was to pry loose all this waste fraud and abuse, so we save shit-tons of taxpayer money that will save the worst of the inflation/recession. Nothing succeeds like success.
They will try to remove both of them by political force (because of indoctrinated libs and low info "sway with the win" independents), and if necessary, by bullet, & by stolen elections.
I’d rather buy from Russia, than try to mine in Ukraine. Think of those political ramifications. And think of the good will from doing business with Putin. Real business. Not war business.
whatever bad result occurs when this war is resolved is to be pinned on DJ Trump, no matter what. The Dems will yet again spend years assigning blame to Team Trump for being pro-Putin, anti-Free Ukraine. That's the only strategy they've ever had since 2016.
I wish you were right that Zelenskyy didn’t sign the agreement because of where the rare earth deposits are located. Nope! The leader with little-man syndrome was wooed by Starmer and Macron to be their pawn because war is much more lucrative for the wealthy than mining rare earth deposits. Spilling blood makes you rich. 🤑
But that is the brilliance of our President's strategy. With a deal with both Russia (which they are working on based on what Pres. Putin said the other day) and with Ukraine, what better security guarantee for both countries, if the US is getting our tax money back in the form of rare earth minerals in the DMZ?
Zyyy won't take the "w" because his remaining in "power" depends on the war continuance. As soon as elections are allowed, he will be out. He was groomed and picked for the role he is playing for the globalists.
Wow. I fast read the document and looks like the Ukraine is becoming part of the British Commonwealth! *edit (not literally, but almost in practice) ...* Interestingly, it was signed on 17 Jan 2025... just before our President was sworn into office.
Great info, thanks Roger. I did not know they did this.
According to Alex Krainer, this deal was signed on January 16, 2025. This is an interview in which he discusses Ukraine, the U.S. and some bizarre shenanigans - like the rare earth deal - some of which don’t make sense to me (i.e. How Zelensky could sign with the UK and yet still be hopping around saying he wants to sign with the U.S.)
Krainer’s credentials and background look good but I just found this a couple of days ago so who knows if all of this can be trusted? Having said that, it seems to me that the UK in particular is being too clever by half and I suspect will soon find themselves in quicksand from which they can’t be extricated without help. (I’m hoping Nuland, Vindman, Rice and others join them.) You can find more of Krainer’s writings in his blog.
JM, sometimes it’s difficult in writing to understand what people mean. The “too clever by half” is all irony - in this case, English hubris may have gotten the best of them and their “brilliant deal” may not be so brilliant after all.
It’s too bad. I agree that the UK is fast headed over the cliff and it pains me to no end. I have loved the UK - history and people - but the sun is setting and way too many of them don’t see it. I feel for you and it makes me sad. I hope it turns around but right now it looks as if most of Western Europe has on blinders.
Thank you! The likelihood of the UK ever doing anything right nowadays is diminishing rapidly and it hurts to see the direction of travel. We are being led by people who are ideologically wedded to nonsense and blinded by the power they THINK they have, while being pushed by other agendas, like Davos. Appreciate your sympathy, and hope that what the US is doing will lead to some sort of Hallelujah moment here.
JM, I hope so too. It breaks my heart but makes me angry even more. When even our close English friends don’t seem to be able to see what’s happening, I’m appalled. We have travelled in the UK and hiked so much in Scotland I’ve lost count of the times we’ve been there. But now, I refuse to visit. Honestly, I can see an international “incident” with my name on the front pages - “American Woman Refuses to Be Silent on Freedom Issues” - or some such. (Or it could be a pub conversation arrest when someone blasts Trump and I need to correct their blathering. Heh) Anyway, I’m glad you’re there to fight the good fight because people like you are what’s needed. Good luck.
Do we really need Ukraine’s minerals so badly which would require keeping a presence in Ukraine? Sometimes it’s better to cut one’s losses and move on. The Europeans and Asians have been fighting amongst themselves for millennia. We are fools to believe our presence there can change millennia old mindset. Normalize relations with Russia and buy minerals for peaceful purposes from them.
I would suggest that Ukraine is very rich in many resources and having some influence over them vs. China and Russia would be prudent.
Ultimately, the rare earths in Ukraine may not be profitable to mine, depending on the actual mining costs; however, they have plenty of frackable gas and oil resources and are the breadbasket of Europe.
Please also see: Reprise - Putin's KGB Masterstroke: Fracking Banned in Europe
Zelensky admits that if Ukraine gets NATO membership, then he has “fulfilled his mission”.
His mission is not to govern Ukraine. His mission is NATO membership for Ukraine, which would immediately trigger WW3.
The reason his mission is WW3, is because that’s the only scenario where he MIGHT survive. His only way out is if NATO comes in and takes over the fight with Russia directly. That’s his plan, but realistically he would need the US in order to pull it off.
Zelensky, and his Deep State handlers, are literally trying to initiate full-scale WW3, in an effort to cover up the largest money laundering scheme in history, and crimes against humanity for bioweapon development.
That’s what we are witnessing.
This is not about Ukraine’s sovereignty. This is about covering up unfathomable criminality.
I asked grok about it (too lazy to read with a magnifying glass). But the treaty itself would have the finite details …
Based on the information in the "UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Declaration" published on the UK government website, there is no explicit mention of Ukraine signing away its mineral rights to the UK. The declaration, pursuant to the One Hundred Year Partnership Agreement signed on January 16, 2025, outlines a broad framework for cooperation between the United Kingdom and Ukraine across multiple sectors, including defense, economic development, technology, and energy. However, it does not specifically state that Ukraine has transferred or relinquished control of its mineral rights to the UK.
The document does mention collaboration in areas that could indirectly relate to mineral resources. For instance, under the section on economic and trade cooperation, it states that the UK will "establish the United Kingdom as a preferred partner to deliver Ukraine’s energy sector transformation, critical minerals strategy, and green steel production." This suggests a partnership to support Ukraine’s development in these areas, potentially involving investment, technical expertise, or joint projects. However, this language indicates cooperation rather than a transfer of ownership or rights.
Additionally, the declaration emphasizes supporting Ukraine’s economic resilience and reconstruction, fostering business-to-business relationships, and strengthening supply chain resilience. While these efforts could involve access to or development of Ukraine’s natural resources, including minerals, there is no clear evidence in the text that Ukraine has "signed away" its mineral rights—meaning a full transfer or surrender of sovereignty over those resources—to the UK.
Claims circulating on platforms like X suggest that Ukraine has already ceded its mineral rights to the UK as part of this deal, but these assertions do not align with the specific wording of the declaration. Without additional documentation, such as the full text of the accompanying treaty (which is referenced but not fully detailed in the declaration) or other official agreements, it’s not possible to definitively confirm or refute such claims based solely on this source. The declaration itself frames the partnership as a mutual endeavor, not a unilateral handover of assets.
In summary, the "UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Declaration" does not explicitly state that Ukraine has signed away its mineral rights to the UK. It outlines a cooperative relationship that includes energy and critical minerals, but this appears to be about collaboration, not ownership transfer. Further evidence would be needed to substantiate claims of mineral rights being relinquished.
I keep seeing posts on social media whining about national parks layoffs. It’s funny, none of these people were wringing their hands about citizens being blocked or restricted from visiting the parks during Covid. That was just fine 🙄 To save Grandma of course 🙄🙄🙄
I lived on a NC barrier island at the time of covid hysteria. The local ‘wackos’ actually issued a local ordinance to not walk the beach warning you would be fined!
I did it anyway, but was always looking over my shoulder for ‘karens.’ I, eventually, moved away because of the idiocy, but still miss my old home.
NPS is 95% left wing loons, they actively “resisted” the first Trump administration. They famously moved to create a pain points in any government funding lapse by shutting down parks - remember the barricades at monuments? Almost all were uneccesary from any justification point, at the same time they declared themselves as all “essential”. They leverage the public’s fondness of the parks to drive their political and self serving agenda. It is the puppy dog syndrome, any cuts of course will cause the puppy dog to die.
Yup that was my sense too, that they are using the tactics schools use when they don’t want budget cuts or are trying to get a budget increase. Focus on maximum pain points.
It's too bad the worker bees are getting the RIF notices. They need to start at the top, in the Washington Offices where all the GM & SES fat ticks on the Gubmint Dog hang out. Leave the lowly GS 5/7/9s alone so SOMEONE can do the work of We The People, please??
Some of us want to see it. It wouldn’t take long for these areas to revert back to nature or destroyed by people who don’t respect these areas. (Quite a few by what I’ve seen in the parks). . I watched a luxury golf course down the road that closed. Within a decade it has become impenetrable. Not an entirety bad thing IMHO.
Only around 1,000 probationary employees nationwide have been let go. But everyone who works in the system is worried about his/her own job being cut, so they are making a big deal of it by saying areas might be closed, services not offered, etc. They think they are the resistance, so they may deliberately make things worse so they can blame it on the cuts. But since their own jobs might also be on the line, maybe they won't dare.
I'm glad that the National Parks are being kept pristine. I've been reading a history of Reelfoot Lake called "The Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake." It got so bad there between squatters and land developers that the squatters who were there first began exercising vigilante "justice." This was in 1908. Things got out of hand and the group killed several people including 2 lawyers. And the killings were vicious. The governor of TN, after ignoring the problem for years, finally had to literally declare war on the group calling up the state militia to hunt down the vigilantes and eventually made the land public property and eagle sanctuary.
Make that one lawyer. It was nighttime. The other one escaped by diving into the swampy lake and hiding behind a sunken log and then making his way 10 miles to the friendly side of the lake before being found. It has been fascinating. I thought only the Wild West was known for this kind of stuff, but apparently not.
You talk as if you've never been to a national park.
Someone has to maintain the bathrooms, the trails, the visitor centers where we buy trail maps and books and memorabilia. Some of the educational interpretive programs are quite informative and interesting.
Yes, we need staff. Perhaps fewer? I don't know. Most definitely fewer DEI and climate change staff. 😑
One of our favorite parks had to close a couple of roads several years ago because they didn't have staff to maintain it (downed trees, washouts on the dirt road) after government cuts. 🤷♂️
You just wonder though, if the cuts they made were done purposely to hurt the park users most, kind of like what schools do when a budget doesn’t pass and they don’t cut actual waste or redundant/less useful jobs but zero in only on the programs and expenditures that are most important to the community 🙄 That way they convince more people to support the budget.
Here in Covidistan (WA State), they threaten to cut Police and Fire Departments, and EMS (ambulance service) if they don't get the tax raises they "need". Our government has no sense of priorities. I have thought, for many years now, that there should be a list of funding items on your tax return. You would check the boxes for what you want to fund, and you could weight your choices. For example: Of my tax dollars, 50% to military and 50% to National Parks. Or at the state level: 33% to Fire/EMS, 33% to Police, 33% to Roads & Bridges. This way would actually fund things for which people are willing to pay. One caveat: the politicians would have to live within that budget - no pulling money from another pot to cover their mismanagement of taxpayer money, 'cause you know they would!
Again, the worker bees are the low-hanging fruit. The big bucks paid out go to the upper level management who haven't gotten their hands dirty in YEARS, if at all. The budget analysts, the deputy muckety mucks...I say prune the trees again the TOP & let the roots keep growing...
If they can’t operate on their bloated budget and no show jobs, then cut the staff and hire temp workers. No need for full time trail watchers and campground tyrants telling you how fortunate you to be able to access your own land, roads and buildings.
I hate to tell you, but the people who run the campgrounds in our National Parks are all private entities, AKA "Concessionaires". It's the same for our National Forests. I used to be a USFS Forestry Technician in Recreation and Fire...we Gubmint worker bees felt like we were "caring for the land and serving people" and we were invested in the FS CULTURE...but then we got pushed out by private companies brought in to "do things cheaper" than us GS 4s & 5s. Really? Those people had no skin in the game. It was insulting...to me, anyway.
After a previous government shut down, I went to Crater Lake National Park early spring. I noticed restoration trucks at the lodge, so I stopped and asked them what was up. They disgustedly mentioned that park crews did not winterize the lodge with the eminent shutdown. So this grand old lodge flooded when the pipes broke during the spring thaw. Revenge seemed more important than protecting the properties they were responsible for.
I agree the parks probably have DEI and climate change bloat.
However, those paved and unpacked roads, parking lots, and trails have to be maintained. Trash bins emptied. Bathrooms serviced and maintained. And so on.
Some of us who go to the parks for annual vacations would like to have trails and roads open. Seems these folks like to close the essential services to make it unpopular to cut their funding. 😑
park employees do a lot more than that. watching for fires, other stuff. the Forest Service on the other hand.. and BLM. Id like to see whoever is rounding up Wild Horses to kill in the Unemployment lines!
They haven’t rounded up wild horses to kill in decades. Also the term wild horses is a lie spun by a narrative, they are feral horses, and in fact are not a native species at all on this continent. They are rounded up sometimes at great expense to the taxpayers to be adopted or fed forever because the are incredibly destructive to the environment and are also protected by federal law.
Geese are currently required to help the narrative of the spread of bird flu. Now, I'm wondering how you can protect a wild species that is spreading the disease that ends with the killing of domestic food sources . . . Not that I am actually concerned about bird flu, mind you.
None of them even see the shallow depths of their own hypocrisy, let alone how deep it goes. It’s quite comical to most of “us”. They don’t even realize the harder they bellow the harder we laugh. They take themselves seriously. We take them as idiocy.
My sister (who reads NYT daily) was devastated that some National Park employees were going to lose their jobs which, in her eyes, translated to the parks going out of business because of Trump’s EO.
My gentle response was “You need to look at the bigger picture.” She was too angry at Trump (for being Trump) to consider an alternate viewpoint.
It’s like the cuts to social services. It’s possible to make cuts if you root out waste and fraud, yet still provide services to those who need them. But all they see is “cuts” and immediately freak out 🙄
My mindless, only marginally informed sister in law thinks her MediCal will be axed. I can't convince her otherwise because she saw that lie on NBC or some such, and of course, they tell the truth about everything.
NP budget for this year is 3.6 Billion, revenue generated is 55.6 billion. I think a DOGE investigation of their budget is needed. Are they too top heavy where more desk sitters need to be fired and active rangers need to be increased? Always seems to be a problem with government offices. Just throwing more money at something doesn't improve it. Look at the DOEducation
It seems like nothing in the government is ever funded enough 😕 We never hear any department or agency say they have adequate funds, despite the huge amounts of money we spend on everything every year.
It should be mandatory for all those single military age males to enlist in the countries they're fleeing to for at least 2 years, in exchange for asylum status
First of all there is free speech on here so you can use whatever derogatory terms you want, but calling Democrats, dumbocraps, makes you sound like a 14 year old basement dweller. I have the same problem with commenters on many sites. My Michigan’s Governor’s name is Whitmer. It is not Whitless, Witchmer, or Whitler; names I see in nearly every comment section. It’s only my opinion but calling out stupid names just makes us seem juvenile.
And there are many Republicans just as guilty of extreme subterfuge. These many years of corruption and pillaging the American taxpayer would not be possible without the Grand Old Party’s help.
As far as nicknames for selected blood sucking insects: I still call FJB, FJB and Brandon. Michelle IS "Big Mike", and BHO (they are his adopted name initials), so that one stays too. O'Biden and "O'Buydumb" were also simple funny ones. The Turtle (no offense to real turtles) for The McConnell was stomach workout hilarious for some reason when I first heard it...
All of the nicknames would be even more hilarious, if the individuals weren't so evil and destructive to the Republic...
Humor is good for the soul, which is why the left, Demoncrats, commies, and climate change cult members are devoid of it.
Sometimes for the endless driving I do for my job, I turn on Mark Levin. Now at times that guy is just TOO INTENSE for me, but a lot of the time I am in stitches, often bc of his names.
MSLSD
Meet the Depressed
The Washington Compost
I mean, many of his names ARE about the level of 7th grade humor AND I find them hilarious.
Then there's Tucker, who can't not call Kamala "Carmela."
I guess of all the battles, this is not the one I'd fight--I get too many chuckles out of it.
I agree on Levin, I have to turn the volume down because of his intensity/passion/almost shouting at the microphone sometimes. And yes, he does have some hilarious names. I've adopted Meet the Depressed and The Washington Compost over the years and now just say them out of habit! MSLSD is hilarious too. I also like MSDNC as well.
And yes, Tucker is also a riot. Awesome delivery of information because it is authentic, and true...
I agree with you. Using derogatory nicknames is juvenile and makes you look like you have no argument. And I hate it coming from both sides, I hated it when Rush Limbaugh did it.
I just call them Demoncrats and the R's that are not on the side of the Constitution, "RINOs". I include them together, because both groups of blood sucking insects (politicians) collectively have been mostly responsible for the mess we've gotten into and what our President and a handful of congressmen/women are trying to repair.
Not for me. I think I mostly hate it when it’s generalized, like ‘magats’ or ‘dumbocrats’. ‘President Cabbage’ and ‘cocaine Mitch’ don’t seem to bother me as much, maybe because they aren’t swiping with a broad brush. Great, now I need to ponder this.
Same here. Calling an individual a funny derogatory name when that person earned it doesn't bother me very much, but indiscriminately calling an entire group of people a name does. Dumbocraps, libtards, demonrats, it’s all just as juvenile as Hillary calling Trump supporters deplorables. I don’t think we should talk about our fellow Americans that way.
Not in my book, but he is also not my governor. I just don’t like taking a person’s name and twisting it into something that sounds like kids calling names. However, it is a free country and free speech.
Re: what DOGE is battling... Even the Mafia never tried what the government has been doing. It's no different than the government /politician walking into a bank, putting money in their pocket, after which the bank mails us the note with repayment terms, extending into perpetuity, so that our grandkids, and theirs, can pay toward the ever increasing balance. Borrowing against our future, to line their pockets now!! #$$& Mo#h@r FuC&@r$!!!!!
Carville isn't out of touch. He's frustrated because all the stoopid Americans don't seem to accept the fact that he's a genius and that his opinions are gospel.
We in England are no longer allowed to be proud of anything English, including the flag and the language. And then Starmer goes and wraps himself in the flag ... 🤣🤣🤣 Can't even follow his own agenda. Need I say more?
True, however it is great when we have a population that is multi-lingual. It's a tremendous tool for better jobs, better relationships and better understanding of the many peoples that we call our neighbors, friends and co-workers.
Without question you are correct. And this was in place in 1776. But it has gone maybe way to far. When the outer tribes don't care if they ever speak English words.
I live in a mid size city in So Cal. The elementary school my children attended has a huge ESL program. I've been well acquainted with French, Chinese, Korean, Saudia Arabian, Lebanese, Icelandic, Sweden, Spaniard, Ethiopian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and many South American people. Truly the United Nations in one school!
Most of them newly arrivals who try very hard to make themselves understood in English. I've established deep relationships with some of them, and I found it interesting to have been asked somewhat regularly what America (USA) means to me by some of them. I remember the first time Fatima called me her "American friend"!
When people interact with one another on a regular basis, I find that we are not as different as others (our govt's) might make it out to be. We're all caring for our children, their education, our families, working to assimilate and at the same time teaching our children respect for their roots.
We NEED to keep our eyes wide OPEN on the Chinese invasion of the Americas... Every time I visit my family in Mexico, I see MORE and MORE Chinese people, setting up businesses, buying houses... turns my stomach bc I know they don't set up shop on their own. Their government's tentacles are well attached to them...
And constructive criticism being a key ingredient of “true friendship” impapo, and in the opinion of we #CREATORS (Conflict Resolving Educator Activist Truther Organizer Reader Socializers): I believe Mr. Magoo suffers from extreme farsightedness.
I concede that Trump is focusing on all the right (big) things, but--darn it--next Sunday is the dreaded "spring forward" time change and I want to keep Standard Time. Didn't he promise that? And what about our incandescent lightbulbs?
I’m praying he outlaws ALL-child gender manipulation and grooming. My grandchild is involved. I don’t give a tinkers you know what about lightbulbs. Sensing my mood here?
“Liked” in support of your grandchild, don’t actually like the situation of course. I’m praying for the same! Anyone who does surgical, medical, or social transition to children should be prosecuted, including parents, teachers, guidance counselors, therapists, doctors.
I too am impacted by this. Need congress to act. The funding accountability will slow this disgusting medical & phycological practice but laws are needed to sustain.
Yes. I meant that word. But it’s under the whole plan of manipulation. Dealing with this personally it hurts to say that other word all the time. 🤷🏼♀️
I understand. I have four grandsons, ages 8, 7, 6 and 3, and am so worried, especially for the two in CA. It does hurt to use that word but I think it's necessary.
I believe what our President said, “is he believes we should just stick to Standard time”. I am with him. I am old enough to remember when daylight savings time came into effect. Started in late 1960’s. It started in May then. Now it’s the second week in March! You are not saving daylight, you’re just doing the shell game of moving daylight from the morning to the evening. You’re not saving anything.
My sister runs international logistics for HP software/hardware. She detests the time change, nobody else in the world does it. It screws up shipping-majorly.
I looked it up and unfortunately Wikipedia didn’t have it quite right. Some countries did adopt a form of DST during WWI to save on using artificial light. The US formally adopted it in 1966 as stated below. I got this from the encyclopedia Brittanica. It is what I remember.
“In the United States, Daylight Saving Time formerly began on the last Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October. In 1986 the U.S. Congress passed a law that, beginning the following year, moved up the start of Daylight Saving Time to the first Sunday in April but kept its end date the same. In 2007 Daylight Saving Time changed again in the United States, as the start date was moved to the second Sunday in March and the end date to the first Sunday in November. In most of the countries of western Europe, Daylight Saving Time starts on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in October.”
And during the Nixon admin, they tried the DST all the time, but had to switch back because then dawn didn’t start until about 10-11 am!! Kids were getting hurt at bus stops, etc and the airlines have problems, too. Can’t fool Mother Nature!
The June month long celebration is coming. I look forward to the F gov not pushing that agenda. LED and DLS are nothing compared to everything else IMHO.
What was wrong was the Fed gov Outlawing the incandescent bulb...you Had to buy the awful mercury filled ones or LED. Way out of bounds fed gov. Just like when they told us you can't use paper sacks, must use plastic. Another great idea
In viewing Rahm Emanuel in the clip I was anticipating something different from the usual, silly me. But instead he went to the old and tired strategy “Carville is saying to stay out of Trump’s way as he cuts health care for tax breaks for the rich.” It will never end. All they have is class warfare. Divide and conquer. They’re stuck in the mud with no chain. Keep on rollen Mr. President.
I don’t believe it is Trump’s intention to cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, but anyone who messes with that will have an enormous backlash. This is one of the lies the Dems are using to scare people right now, and many people are believing it unfortunately.
Hey, it’s the white elephant in the middle of the room with a 700 pound gorilla on top! Where the hell are the unredacted Epstein files? And why are we sending even more of US tax dollars in the cover of night to a certain Middle East country that nobody will talk about because apparently if they do their career as a public figure or public commentor will end? MAGA DC, really lovely historic own-goal.
The very first thing Pam and Kash did was shatter the loudest and most sacred promises. It’s so phenomenally disappointing for them to start right out of the gate continuing the same obfuscation, lying, corruption, and ineptitude of the Democrats. Enough “3D chess”. How about some truth for a change. Straight up.
No more strongly worded letters. No more statements and talking. Hard documents, raids, indictments, and arrests. NOW.
I can hardly believe I'm the only one to like your post. EXACTLY the point. If someone can't be trusted in small things they certainly can't be trusted with big things. Not that epstein is necessarily a small thing.
Indeed. Obsession with Zelenskyy is its own disease. Quit wasting time on it. Make an offer, leave the offer out there, and wait for them to come to you.
The house to clean up is right here at home. There’s an incredible amount to do, it starts with genuine transparency, not fake transparency. It appears that Trump may never realize the most important lesson of all, that the miracle of a little over 50% of the population, many of whom are incredibly hard-core support was stronger than any in American history, it would have been impervious to a certain lobby that is so powerful that every single congressman except Thomas Massie does exactly what it wants. His movement was more powerful than all the CEOs added to the list. More powerful than all of his opponents in Washington. But he needs to look at it like a war, not a “deal“. If he keeps looking at everything as “doing a deal“, true and lasting change won’t happen. You cannot “out-deal” the Woke mind virus, Globalism, endemic corruption, Bolshevism. It’s war, period.
I understand, but they are using Zelensky as a distraction. It is preventing domestic action and preventing us from finally looking at where - into the trillions, now - US taxpayer money is permanently flowing, endless “emergencies”, to a certain country in the Middle East which apparently cannot be named or discussed in this context. Because no public figures ever do it.
But the problem is, Bondi is lying and obfuscating, and playing the same exact games as Democrats. In this case, patience simply means putting up with being abjectly lied to, and the problem only gets worse.
No. The time for her changing her ways is now. If she announced one major arrest per day for the next year, that would be very few people compared to the criminal element in our government. We have been patient for 8 years.
One last point of the analogy. It’s a laudable to want to build a new Rome. But first, they must excise a deadly cancer, immediately.
I agree. That why the analogy is war. “Oh my goodness, a rogue operator released all unredacted documents. There will be ‘investigations’ and ‘consequences’”.
Flip the narrative on them.
Patton wanted to drive to Moscow and would have changed the world in 1945, saving hundreds of millions from slavery and destruction.
"Consider that in just one month, Trump has got the Europeans holding emergency summits to discuss meeting one of Trump’s main goals from his first term: getting Europe to urgently discuss paying for its own security."
Yes, brilliant!
And it simply must happen. We can't afford NATO anymore, at least not to the extent we have been paying for it for the last 75 years.
Pie chart of the top 15 defense budgets. BTW, in all of my travels to numerous countries, there are two things that simply are not mentioned , featured, or displayed.in any other country: What university you attended, if applicable, and your military service, if applicable.
Listen to this Ukrainian girl who is now a US citizen talk about Z and the actual start of war. Checks out. CIA or Mossad began the process in 2014 when they installed their own president because the previous one liked Putin (so therefore no war). A must watch!
You sure can multitask Mr. Childers , I salute you and thank you . Safe travels. 🙌🏼
Years ago, I trapped a "possum" at a rental property and was dismayed to see it lying dead. I didn't wish to kill it, then it dawned on me it was faking and I felt really stupid. So I took the Have-a-Heart trap home, opened the door and the critter eventually walked out and disappeared into the woods. There are analogies here to Carville and the democrats.
We came home one night to a possum in our garage. When it played dead, we used a push broom to start 'pushing' him out the door. Which at that point he started hissing and snapping at the broom. We got him out but same with D's. They may play dead but that's temporary, we need to be ready for the hissing and snapping.
Exposure negates most of their 'operations'. Hence, the Trump plan is Expose, Expose, Expose. The more exposure, the more the Dems are hung out to dry one the cloths line.
That is my prayer everyday! Expose expose expose. And I am pleased at punch with the results. The fence is shaking like never before and people are falling into one camp or the other. Good or Evil. Pick a side. Hope you are well.♥
Hah! My daily prayer since the first Trump administration has been: May all those deeds done in darkness be brought into the light and may all those who lay out traps be caught in their own snares. Please God make it so. Your Will be done!
There's nothing like a polarized, divided nation to make it great again.
It is hard not to have a divided nation... when half of it is a gaggle of radical lefty seditious Constitution-hating woke, deviant-supporting assclown maggots.
Leo, two thoughts on your comment: 1) there is only one direction, up; or 2) its going to get worse before it gets worser.
Careful! I see one camp going all Biden/Harris/Zelenskyy/Starmer/NATO while the other camp is siding with Trump/Putin. That is: Evil A vs Evil B.
The Rothschilds run both of those sides. Sad but true.
So there is no good in the world?
Other than despairing what do you believe we should do?
You obviously do not believe God is in control, even of the mighty Rothchilds.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Sunlight is a great disinfectant!
Opossums are the only marsupial in North American (kangaroos are marsupials). They are amazing creatures &, if you have any around your house, you are fortunate. They feast on ticks & other insects, fruit, mice, snakes, bird seed, road kill, plus many other things like garbage. They do not get rabies & are not affected by poisonous snakes. They have a very slow metabolism & that is probably why they play dead. Even though they look scary, they make wonderful pets if one is found motherless. They are gentle & can be litter box trained. The sad part is that their life expectancy is only 2 years. The only thing they have in common with Democrats is their ability to play dead (which the Dems haven’t displayed yet). I am fortunate to have two at my home.
I have a fondness for possums, which are plentiful where I live. I hate to see them denigrated by likening them to Democrats. How about instead of possums, we liken Democrats to fainting goats? Just a thought...
Fainting goats is a way better analogy, and I love the optics! 🤣
Not as great a visual, but how about the (genetically manipulated) stripped bass planted in Lake Powell that die as soon as they’re stressed. Oops. Maybe that’s a bit too literal. 😒
I have a whole new appreciation for opossums now. It is amazing how nature works. It is why I had a serious love/hate relationship with a large spiderweb in my house (VERY tall ceilings). I saw it had bugs in it that I didn't like....but that web! So conflicted. I saw a wasp eating a grasshopper and it was pretty amazing. Then I saw an obnoxious magpie eating a dormant wasp one winter day...it all seems to work out if we can be good stewards.
SadieJay - very insightful! The benefits of seeing beyond kneejerk love/hate polarization. Similar to the advice: "Patience, let the man work." That's what I appreciate about C&C's summarizing overviews, like today's posting. Helps seeing the bigger picture.
Exactly. Let's see how this all plays out. I had people move in across the road and they brought livestock which brought a plague of flies. It was so bad. But, after so many fly traps, a wonderful thing happened. The Phoebes/Western Flycatchers moved in. They have nests they return to every year for the last 15 years. Before that we didn't have those kinds of birds. And...it didn't happen all in one summer either. Had to realize that there are forces much larger at play than we can ever realize. In nature and in the human realm.
Fortunate to have two opossums or two democrats Merry M? :-)
Too bad the Democrat party lifespan isn't also 2 years!
My lab hasn't like finding opossums in my yard and has given a couple a good smack down, but only one has died. They are huge so being well fed which like you wrote is fine with me.
Yep, love possums! Been nose to nose with the babies many evenings on my porch, where a tall shrub is planted. Just adorable, and yes, very beneficial to have around!
They are such ugly critters. Nasty. And opossums aren't much better.
Touché! But possums really are quite beneficial to your yard and garden. And adorable when they’re babies. I suspect Democrats probably are too, until they learn to talk…😆
They do eat ticks. And are used as anti-venom for snake bites.
🤣🤣🤣
And that’s when your only option is to get out the old 12 gauge you haven’t used since dove season and …..
See my comment below. Please stop with that rhetoric.
KMA
Indeed. Anything smaller won't penetrate that armored fur.
I walked up on one very early in the morning while watering, They are ugly creatures with dangerous claws and beady little eyes.
But they eat ticks!!
Yes thanks for this!! I was about to make the same comment - possums get a very bad rap but are actually very shy (non-aggressive unless trapped), very clean, always grooming themselves like cats and cannot be beat for tick control! I’ve grown to really appreciate these unfortunately unattractive little creatures :))
So do guineas 😉
Yeah, but guineas are loud! Very loud!
I didn't know that. Thanks.
And poisonous snakes!
But totally non violent. The hissing is their defense before their nervous system shuts them down and has them playing dead. They are a good critter to have around. They won’t destroy your property of fight with your animals, like cats.
The hissing works on me. 🤣
We had a possum get into a fight with a skunk and a groundhog. They were fighting for territory under our porch. The skunk won. 😳 Until we evicted it and the others. The groundhog actually tore into our duct work and made his home there. We didn't know it until we went to replace the unit.
Democrats shouldn't be judged on their looks, but their actions.
That’s doing them a favor actually.
While I judge Trumpsters based on smell.
I know we smell really good.
So that’s what brought you here to spread sunshine and good cheer?
You seem new to the neighborhood.
How can you smell anything with your nose so far up Adam Schiff's ass?
And just after you finally pulled it out of Biden's muddy diaper?
And long, scary, needle-like teeth. Beware.
Exactly
Sleep with one eye open. Do not trust these opossums. They are criminal and evil. IF they are playing dead - they will pounce when ready to. We have always been 5 steps behind in the past. Time to be 5 steps ahead. I doubt Trump is ignoring them. He’s got others watching them play dead so he can focus on other stuff. Good!
Great advice, Sunnydaze. The Demoncrats are always plotting and planning. And they always play the long game, just like their kin, the communists...
I believe Trump's plan is to get all the rats and roaches to react which identifies them and their hidey holes. They are not that smart. Then you swoop in with shock and awe and exterminate them. Fight! Fight! Fight!
That’s exactly right. Its like pulling the funding from USaid. Who squaked? Bernie and Elizabeth were 2 of the biggest and get the most $$.
Did you read anywhere else that the Resolute was bugged with super-high-tech, grain of sand-sized listening devices ???!!!👀 Ugh the lousy rats! But it explains the cleaning🪣🧼🧽
I did see a little on that. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit. I wish the administration would come out and expose it and show the devices though. I hate all the “secrecy” of stuff. If they bugged places -show and also tell the people!
I worry that there are tiny bugs all over the Whitehouse.....
Bugged and boogered [from Elon's kid]. Time for a light refinishing I think Trump said. lol
You are totally correct.
I don’t think that President Trump will allow any American Continent.
Look at what has done in one month with Venezuela, Mexico and Canada, now next is Brazil, Argentina and El Salvador were in already, now you will understand the big play that it is Greenland, the remaining countries in the continent neither are big military powers or want any type of war, they will allied sooner than later when they see that they future is not with a crazy European countries. In the meantime Europe can start resolving the emigration problem as easily as making all the “Newvist”
military conscripts and send them to Ukrania.
I was astounded to learn that there are two different animals, possums are European and opossum is strictly Americas. Same but different. Both eat worms, play dead and rise up hissing and showing teeth. They carry ticks. They look very much like huge rats. They are infact marsupials, and nocturnal i.e. night life foragers.
RJ Rambler… yes… and unknown to most unless you are one of the 5.5 million astute horse owners in America… the opossum transmits the deadly parasite Sarcocystis neorona which causes EQUINE PROTOZOAL MYELOENCEPHALITIS “EPM” via feed, hay and water the opossums wander through, their feces the carrier. Control is prevention of contamination…. So might we be wise to be wary of the democrats Marxist/communist playing dead fully aware they carry a deadly disease weapon in their waiting to destroy…
Maureen, I was just thinking about this as I was reading! In our experience, we have never had an opossum "play possum". They always come at us hissing and baring their teeth. It was quite a jolt to head into the feed room one night, and come face to face with one. We had encountered them around the property and dealt with them as we found them, but having one almost in my face was a bit too much! They can be difficult to "dispatch", as well. Blessedly, none of our horses ever came down with EPM.
Mrs. "the Knife"
My dogs have killed many possums !
I like the actual animal. They eat ticks. I think of the globalists as ticks.
Sometimes an opossum will saunter up my deck at night, look around for grub, and then saunter off. They are a lot larger when you see them up close, wow! My kitties had no interest in going to the slider and chuffing at them.
When I went to New Zealand I came home with a pair of possum gloves for me and as gifts. They are soft and warm.
Does your husband ever complain when you put on the gloves and play possum ?
Nope. He stole the gloves, played possum and I got rid of him.
😂 😂
The image in my head is of possum puppets . . .
Sorry, everyone!
It sounds weird I know but they are like wool. I was shocked when I saw them but considering it's an island, once they got there New Zealand had a possum problem LOL
RJ, opossums do not carry ticks, they eat them by the thousands. Please be careful with what you post.
They also eat black widows, violin spiders, rattlesnakes, snails, and a host of other things that is beneficial to have curbed.
Possums are actually Antipodean - and don't carry ticks.
😆I really thought you were describing Democrats but I guess is only a coincidence.
"THEY are also very hard to kill"
Perhaps the Dems are more like an ass, I like donkeys, and a oposs'um rat cross.
RINOS that go along to get along are even bigger traitors- they sold us out while hiding it and smiling to our faces. Not a single one of these idjits -dem libtard or rino, have a clue about what will really be lost when there’s no more USA. There are so many of them- they won’t all get to live the elite life they envision when America falls
The RINOs don't just "get along", I believe they take their %, whatever that is.
For sure!! Traitors as well
Didn’t possums come from Europe on ships? Just like what we call Cheat Grass out west (foxtails). The grass was used to seed the plains for cattle but it choked out native grasses and is a huge problem.
Many bad things came from Europe, but many good things too, like many of us C&Cers!
You mean the DemonRat possums….the real ones are quite docile and harmless
I thought Carville was dead. He looks like a talking skull. 💀
I keep wondering why we never hear anything about or from his alter ego wife, Mary Matalin... she was alway so much more sensible than him.
Has anyone done a wellness check on her?
How they got together in the first place is unfathomable. And when one is a political junkie, its hard to live with someone and remain silent with ones thoughts and reactions.
I thought I read they got divorced but it doesn't appear to be so.
because they all are part of the same parasitic class of "elites" that produce nothing but hot air.
I would have thought he'd have blown a gasket by now, but maybe he's reached a level of zen that the Democrats could only hope to reach in defeat.
Brilliant analysis Jeff!
I always thought the same thing. And, I don't understand how he found someone to marry him.....let alone......ugghhh.
I wish we had a "laughing" response!
That is a great description of him! 😆😂
LMFAO 😂😂😂
‘Skeletor’.
Good morning America 🇺🇸
GOD BLESS THIS NEW DAY…in peace and prosperity.
Great analogy.
Pssst Nancy, the Have-a-Heart traps are only supposed to be used to carry the critters out of your neighbors’ line of sight…where you can then “dispose” of the critters properly so they don’t simply return the next day.
With Carville and the democrats pushing evil policies, we need to keep kicking them while they’re down, and never let up.
That's right Carrie. Pure evil and they have wage total warfare against us for decades.
They destroyed America and they cannot ever be allowed to get their grubby evil hand of the levers of government again.
Pogo, the possum from Walt Kelly's comic strip, is famously known for saying:
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
Like like like - loved Pogo! Thanks for the reminder.
I currently have three opossums that visit my patio each night to eat cat kibble I put out for them. They are docile animals that don’t mind me watching them from the other side of the sliding door. In addition, they slurp up slugs and eat ticks. Beneficial and symbiotic critters.
Okay so maybe I don't have to hate opossums as much. We do have more than our share of slugs and large ones at that here in the Northwest.
"They are also very hard to kill"
Let’s drive James Carville into a “trap” then carry him out to The Bayou and release him with the alligators!😉🤪
For the first time in 15 years i Noticed a possum skulking around on my lawn in the dark. We do live near the woods, and we have plenty of Critters like bobcats, deer, bears, etc but never saw one of those on the property before. Hubby and I don't like them because they're mean Critters. It disappeared behind some plants when I shined a light on it.
Reminded me of when I was a teen my dad and I were in our garage and we found a possum at the bottom of a large trash can that had no lid. It looked up at us and hissed with that sneering, evil face of his, and I panicked but my dad just snatched up the can and quickly carried it to the driveway and tipped it over so The nasty Critter could run off. Don't like those things!
ROFL....I don't have possum(s) where I live....at least not the 4 legged kind. I am laughing out loud because I didn't realize they actually DID that! Now I wish we had them here. I'd love to see it.
Yes, they really do fake it like that. That picture will give me nightmares! We used to have them in our back yard all the time when we lived in Dallas. Our dog attacked one once, and it just lay motionless on the grass. I was sure it was dead. I got the dog inside, then gathered my courage to go pick up the disgusting thing to get it out of the yard before I let the dog back out. (Hubs must not have been home or it definitely wouldn’t have been me doing it!) But the critter was gone. I used to have nightmares about giant rats when I was a child, and possums look way too much like hideous giant rats for my comfort.
I was thinking the exact same thing! God bless Jeff. And yes, safe travels.
He is the best!
I like possums way more than democrats.
Fear is from hell… reject any form of it in Jesus’s name.
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
Isaiah 41:10
I love Matthew 14:28-31 (the wind/waves being our fears and unfaithful thoughts):
28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
29 “Come,” he said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind [waves], he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
I remind myself daily to NOT focus on the wind and the waves. :-)
Job 42:1 Then Job answered the Lord and said,
2 “I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted..."
Love this Kelli ~ Keep your eyes upon Jesus.
I need to remind myself every morning when I see ‘them’ spraying our skies. Fear not and trust in the Lord
They seem to have let up here, but the real test comes in spring. Stop the chemtrails!
Yes! It's the first thing I see when I head out to feed my chickens. I blast those chemtrails by rebuking and binding them and declaring them water vapors in Jesus name, and calling out, no weapon formed against us shall prosper.
Have no idea what my neighbors think... LOL
I think you focus on the wrong things to give your energy to. The Bible says that God/Christ make the commands, by His will we exist. We focus on His commands and are obedient. I found that commanding the devil kept my focus on the devil. It made me paranoid, which is what the devil wants. It's having a divided focus and loyalty. Whoever teaches that you can command the devil is the devil's tool and setting you up for a battle that you can't win and Christ has already won and IS IN CONTROL of. The only battle you control is your own spiritual battle. Focus on Christ and ask for His will His way.
I like that! Rebuke them.
A very good idea. Thank you.
We’ve had a couple of days without when the USAID spigot was first turned off but they are right back at it with full force unfortunately. NE Florida. I hear it’s happening over Gainesville as well. I still wonder why it’s not a main discussion topic. Everyone is affected. The gaslighting goes deep on this one. Military?
I live in farm country in the upper Midwest, and I haven’t seen the 6 to 8 trails every morning at sunrise coming out of the east and at sunset coming out of the west. I also do not understand why they are not stopped. RFK Jr should be on this. Likely is military connected which seems to be the toughest nut to crack.
I am confident that he is on this. Remember the tight-lipped self-discipline of the Trumpers in the years leading up to this time. Remember how RFK ceased to speak openly about vax danger from summer through election, until confirmation. We must be patient. In his confirmation speech he gave a hint about dealing with this problem.
I will confirm Gainesville. They haven't let up!
I was paying rather close attention yesterday and the the day before. I noticed two things. All the contrails were going north and south, the same way all the commercial aircraft go here on the Atlantic side of Florida, and noticed they were being blown right over the ocean from the winds aloft. I also noticed the humidity in these last two days has dropped markedly. The I decided to do a search on that site, the aircraft I’d site, and sure enough, every contrail I could identify, because I saw the aircraft, were all commercial flights,mostly going to Orlando. ( thank god for Disney) and some were landing here in Daytona or in Sanford. And I made an assumption. The constant streaking across the sky at least here,is contrails. If they weren’t, wouldn’t the evil masters not spray when the winds aloft carry their precious poison right out over the ocean, miles from shore? Yall gotta get your thinking caps on, it’s not the problem you are being made to believe. It’s kinda like when I was little, I thought quicksand was gonna be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be.
I'm sorry but if those white lines disappear quickly, then yes, they are indeed CONtrails, vapor from the exhausts.
But when they remain and slowly break up
and do not go away, but instead, begin turning your beautiful blue sky milky white, that's your CHEMtrails. They are done on purpose, with evil intention. Do NOT try to explain them away or make excuses about their benign qualities.
Watching too much Tarzan as a kid- lol.
I was surprised to see that commercial airlines were doing the spraying. But here's one pilot being sued for NOT spraying. https://www.bitchute.com/video/sLuSiVrf7WRA
It would be good to identify the airlines involved and openly out and boycott them. Perhaps even a few surreptitious photos in the pilots cabin showing the magic switches/buttons for good measure. Anything in their annual statements about THIS source of income?
Out were I live in California, I’ve been told Allegiant airlines has the contract to spray the chem trails.
Exactly right. "Chemtrails" - except for tiny scientific weather experiments - don't exist.
They are contrails from high altitude commercial aircraft. They depend on the upper altitude weather conditions.
I live in Tulsa which has an American Airlines Maintenance base where they work on the engines.
About 20 years ago, my law partner and I were interviewing a potential client who happened to be a crew chief for American.
It happened that my partner, who was also my best friend, believed in every kooky conspiracy theory there was including chemtrails.
So at the end of our interview I asked this airline crew chief whether or not it was possible that there could be devices within those engines that sprayed chemtrails.
He told us absolutely not - while looking at us like we were f****** kooks. He said they break those engines down to the very nuts and bolts and that there's no way that they would not know if somehow there was some device in the engine to spray chemicals.
Since then, I've had the opportunity to ask the same question to two more aircraft engine mechanics: one for Piedmont Air and another for American - the latter being one of my good friends at my parish.
Both men confirmed what the first airline mechanic told us.
You can check this yourself by using FlightAware or another app whenever you see an airline making so-called chemtrails because you can identify what the aircraft is, what the flight is, and that it is in fact a commercial aircraft.
There is no such thing as "chemtrails."
I believe this is in fact a big Intel psyop to make we conservatives look like paranoid schizophrenic nuts.
Nope. Seen them spraying at lower altitudes, seen them spraying in loop-de-loops, and the planes are always unmarked. They are never the size of "commercial" passenger aircraft.
Furthermore, I live in an area where geoengineering is admitted to and openly practiced--just look up marine cloud brightening, which allegedly only sprays "sea water" into the air.
Your initial interview is 20 years old? Come on. I have friends too. One of them works at a local chemical plant and says unmarked vats of flocculant get delivered to a local regional airport weekly. Boom. Proof just as solid as yours.
Be careful when you look up .......... they might be emptying the toilets !
Quicksand. Right! I remember when the comics featured it as the worst and scariest thing.
Heretic! 😉 I've remained skeptical myself, although I remain open-minded about it.
We live about 15 miles southwest of Gainesville and our beautiful blue skies have been crisscrossed with those horrible chemtrails the last few days. Makes me sick! Why aren't we hearing anything about stopping this from Trump, RFK and Rob Desantis?
Alan Devon….
We know the difference between chemtrails and contrails……they’re actually different. And we know what to look for.
Have you ever seen a chemtrail?
They stretch as far as the eye can see, and they usually basketweave.
Maybe you thought all this time that
contrails were chemtrails…..?
They’re at it Nebraska again
We have had an entire week in Phoenix with NO chemtrails. Hallelujah! And they were spraying heavily first half of February.
Drove home from FL yesterday with gorgeous blue skies through FL, AL, TN, & KY. All throughout our 4 hour IL travels, skies were covered with wide stripes in every direction, obliterating the beautiful sky. I could barely read the marijuana & COVID shot billboards.
Multiples yesterday in NE Oklahoma… Ugh.
It occurred to me, a week or so ago, given the number of times God tells us "Do not fear", that succumbing to fear is actually to sin.
I think that fear can motivate us to act in ways contrary to our design (aka, sin). Fear itself is not necessarily the sin.
In fact fear is an important part of our God-designed emergency alert system. It does me no good to ignore a fear signal when it is going off - until I have properly assessed the threat. Key being "properly," of course. Some of us have hypervigilant threat detectors.
I heard my pastor point out that when John fell on his face in fear before Christ on Revelation 1, Christ himself stooped down and laid his hand of strength on John and told him not to fear. A very personal and embodied gesture. This was deeply comforting to me.
Fear is temptation. Like other temptations, if I willingly participate in it, that could be sinful. I think the proper response is to turn to the Lord and give Him glory, instead of wallowing in fear for the endorphin rush.
Paraphrasing James, lust or desire, when it conceives, gives birth to sin.
When we turn to the Lord in response to fear, instead of feeding those neural pathways by wallowing in the fearful endorphin rush, those neural pathways attenuate over time. We are literally putting to death the flesh! It's Good News that we can take up our cross!
If you surrender yourself to Jesus and let Him take care of everything you have no fear because you know He is in control.
And fear is definitely not one of the fruits of the Spirit.
It is not. God knows it is natural to feel fear . He is comforting us with those words .
It can be. It's a product of one's flesh. What does it say about one's faith?
It's like other temptations. If we wallow in them and participate in them, we will eventually sin. Strangely, people will wallow in fear because of the endorphins it generates! There are entire film genres based on this! These things are of the flesh.
In his epistle, James tells us that desire for that which is forbidden, when it conceives, gives birth to sin. Wallowing in fear for the sake of an endorphin rush, even unwittingly, means that we have business with the Lord. Turning to Him is repentance, and doesn't imply condemnation. It's not a thing that we only do when we have willfully done something morally culpable. We do it when we realize we have taken our eyes off of Jesus!
Fearful? Turn to the Lord! Fear only Him!
Not all fear is a lack of faith.
Fear can be quite legitimate, as I said before. If I round the bend on a trail and stumble upon a rattle snake, my body's fear response APPROPRIATELY AND AS GOD DESIGNED will cause me to stop and back up. Fear also can be a consequence of prior wounding in life. It can be a consequence of neural wiring (often a result of prior wounding/trauma).
None of this is an excuse to persist in fear. I am not saying that, and if you hear me saying that, you've heard wrong.
To say that people "wallow" in fear is really quite dismissive of those whose neural wiring predisposes them to significant fear from which they may have difficulty extracting themselves or simply "trusting God." For these people, often there are past harms and wounds that need tending and healing so that they are able to receive God's gracious care and love, and are able to trust that care and love. Most of these folks are not any more choosing to wallow in their fear than you would choose to lie on a bed of hot coals. Yes, they need to trust God and not fear. First, they often need to have help removing the barriers that get in the way of their ability to do just that.
Are there folks who persist in their fear? Yes. Are there folks whose fear keeps them from healing from their fear? Yes.
However, not everyone who struggles with fear fits that category.
You can count yourself fortunate that you have not had this kind of experience with incapaciting fear.
'To say that people "wallow" in fear is really quite dismissive of those whose neural wiring predisposes them to significant fear from which they may have difficulty extracting themselves or simply "trusting God."'
Before I was a believer in Jesus, fear defined me. I almost drank myself to death with PTSD. Glory to God that Jesus has delivered me from the worst of it, but I still struggle with anxiety.
Fear is often a choice that people make. But you said rightly that people need to trust in God!
I didn't mean to sound dismissive, so please forgive me. Some people, God delivers from certain temptations straight away, while leaving other thorns in their flesh. It has been my experience that He has left certain things for me and wholly delivered me from others. This is because I had things to learn! One of these is that I can't proceed on "autopilot," I have to keep Him in mind with intentionality. Often I find myself having acted unwisely or even sinfully because I failed to take my anxieties to Him!
There are certain things I have been tempted by that only subsided after 20 minutes of continuous prayer; it felt more like hours! Others, I notice that I didn't even notice, if that makes sense, and I remind myself as I type this to give glory to God for these things!
And temptation does not imply a moral failing. Fear is like any other temptation. Temptation not dealt with is what becomes a problem, and fear is no different! Some of these things take time, maybe even a great deal of it.
Again, you said, very wisely, that we need to turn to God! This is what He wants us to do! It's not a matter of our success or failure, only that we turn to Him! He said that the flesh is at war with the Spirit, and the Spirit is at war with the flesh. War is anything but easy. He has promised that He WILL complete the work He began in us!
Again, I apologize if I sounded dismissive!
Be blessed, Copernicus!
Thanks for taking the time to write all of this.
And forgive me for assuming that you haven't had to deal with all-consuming fear. Obviously, I was wrong.
I agree that we must learn to trust our God. Ultimately, THAT {HE} is the only answer. "Entrust our will and lives to the care of God," as the 12 Steps describe it.
Some folks easily make this step. Others need to first experience the safety of another person before they can transfer that to God. And maybe get their biochemistry in some sort of reasonable balance too. And I am not talking about psychiatric meds. 😉
I too thank God that he does for us what we cannot do for ourselves. And that regardless, we in Christ are forgiven, free, and restored.
I appreciate the dialogue. Blessings to you as well.
Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Yes. I think that fear can motivate us to act in ways contrary to our design (aka, sin). Fear itself is not necessarily the sin.
I heard my pastor point out that when John fell on his face in fear before Christ on Revelation 1, Christ himself stooped down and laid his hand of strength on John and told him not to fear. A very personal and embodied gesture. This was deeply comforting to me.
How can you say it is not sin to fear when it says hundreds of times in the Bible DO NOT FEAR?
Perhaps they are said as words of comfort? As a mother would speak to her terrified child?
God says to fear him. It cannot be sin. Maybe the reason for fear is the issue. Do we fear the right things?
Yes he says to fear him not other things. It is for sure sin if it says several hundred times DO NOT FEAR in scripture. Obviously one must look at what he is saying in regards to do not fear. Having fear is essentially not trusting God.
Not all fear is a lack of faith.
Fear can be quite legitimate, as I said before. If I round the bend on a trail and stumble upon a rattle snake, my body's fear response APPROPRIATELY AND AS GOD DESIGNED will cause me to stop and back up. Fear also can be a consequence of prior wounding in life. It can be a consequence of neural wiring (often a result of prior wounding/trauma).
None of this is an excuse to persist in fear. I am not saying that, and if you hear me saying that, you've heard wrong.
Some folks' neural wiring predisposes them to significant fear from which they may have difficulty extracting themselves or simply "trusting God." For these people, often there are past harms and wounds that need tending and healing so that they are able to receive God's gracious care and love, and are able to trust that care and love. Most of these folks are not any more choosing to wallow in their fear than you would choose to lie on a bed of hot coals. Yes, they need to trust God and not fear. First, they often need to have help removing the barriers that get in the way of their ability to do just that.
Are there folks who persist in their fear? Yes. Are there folks whose fear keeps them from healing from their fear? Yes.
However, not everyone who struggles with fear fits that category.
You can count yourself fortunate that you have not had this kind of experience with incapaciting fear.
There is a theme of not fearing that runs throughout the Bible. Since it is mentioned over and over that means that it is natural for us to struggle with worry and we need to be reminded not to worry. There is a difference between concern leading to action and worry leading to anxiety. One motivates while the other paralyzes with fear. Also, fear is the absence of faith. They cannot co-exist.
Jesus didn't suggest that we not worry; rather, He commanded that we not worry (Matthew 6:25-34 and Matthew 10:28.) Those were imperatives.
The Apostle Paul added to that in Philippians 4:5-6 "Be anxious for nothing but in all things by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made know to God and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4 is one of my favorite chapters.
Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Not all fear is a lack of faith.
Fear can be quite legitimate, as I said before. If I round the bend on a trail and stumble upon a rattle snake, my body's fear response APPROPRIATELY AND AS GOD DESIGNED will cause me to stop and back up. Fear also can be a consequence of prior wounding in life. It can be a consequence of neural wiring (often a result of prior wounding/trauma).
None of this is an excuse to persist in fear. I am not saying that, and if you hear me saying that, you've heard wrong.
Some folks' neural wiring predisposes them to significant fear from which they may have difficulty extracting themselves or simply "trusting God." For these people, often there are past harms and wounds that need tending and healing so that they are able to receive God's gracious care and love, and are able to trust that care and love. Most of these folks are not any more choosing to wallow in their fear than you would choose to lie on a bed of hot coals. Yes, they need to trust God and not fear. First, they often need to have help removing the barriers that get in the way of their ability to do just that.
Are there folks who persist in their fear? Yes. Are there folks whose fear keeps them from healing from their fear? Yes.
However, not everyone who struggles with fear fits that category.
We appear to be on the same page.
https://believersportal.com/list-365-fear-not-bible-verses/. 🥰
There is one verse for each day of the year. I don’t think that’s simply by chance.
Thank you Patricia. I was just thinking to look up a list of fear not bible quotes to give my fearful mother.
“Worry is practical atheism.”
John Hagee
Amen, Ed!!!!!!
1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
Robin, yes - wanting to punish/hate/kill those we disagree with is a popular pastime.
😕
Trump's Ukraine rare earth minerals proposal is actually quite brilliant:
Our presence there doing business is a deterrent to Russia.
We get 75 % of our rare earths from China, maybe decreases that dependence. Plenty of other proven metal reserves to mine there!
We gain a foothold without NATO.
War ends, everybody recovers and makes $.
Whats not to like?
If Trump wants peace, that means the Democrats must respond with "we want war".
Where are all the “make love not war” peaceniks from the 1970’s? They were all libs Dems. At least a few of them must still be alive. Now they all want to make war.
That's because they and the RINOs all get rich from kickbacks from handouts (of our tax dollars and the printing press which is bankrupting us) to the Mil-Industrial complex and overseas actors like Mr "kovbasa" zelensky.
I was in junior high during those ‘make love not war’ years. There were Peace Dove and Peace symbol posters everywhere, even in school. We didn’t dress like hippies, heck we weren’t even allowed to wear pants, only skirts and dresses. In high school we did grow our hair long and parted it in the middle and we shopped at Thrift stores and GI surplus stores cuz it was hip and cool. In college I considered myself a liberal, but as soon as I started a business I wised up.
A huge number of my school and college friends are still liberals and are now displaying ‘I stand with Ukraine’ on their fb pages. Yep, we’re all pesky old hippie boomers, but many of us are sane and totally unwoke.
They’re all in the nursing home Rock Bands.
Or the rock band Nursing Home?
:-)
I've got their first album.😆
My daughter is a nurse at a local hospital and also works part time in a nursing/rehab facility. She is truly astounded at all the crazy boomers coming through. Their years of drugs and alcohol have caught up to them in their late 60s and 70s. I asked her how much of their pathetic and sad state is due to lifestyle choices, and she estimated about 90%. More than a few former rockers have landed in these places too!
Haha, not me! Read below.
😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Their slogans are as fake as they are.
Read below Running. Not all of us thank goodness!
I’m mainly talking about celebrities.
I didn’t take offense, Running 🌷it is pretty funny how 30-40 year olds blame boomers.
And people who just follow the virtue signaling trends.
A couple of them are running HHS and national intelligence! True liberals have to leave the Democrat Party. Liberal didn’t used to be a dirty word. It used to mean free speech, anti-war, pro working class, taking care of the environment, etc. NOT big Pharma, censorship, the military industrial complex and pro war! Not to mention all the gender nonsense!
The ‘people’ (60’s 70’s hippie types- whatever) are very far removed from their current party’s agenda- those people just think they are on same page as their party but they really are just good little _ommie puppets and have no clue what is really happening. THAT scares me -Obedient soldiers
Dawn, that describes my Dem friends - they just cannot see/accept how the Democratic Party has changed so radically. Caught in the past.
Bam! And they want corruption. And stolen tax money. And NGOs!
Brilliant - I hope nobody misses t hye fact that Sweden and Britain, the two foremost weapon industrialists, are the ones crying loudest for continuing warring...
Probably true.
I'm a Brit and absolutely set against Starmer taking it upon himself to push us into a war we can't afford and don't want for many reasons, including him being a God-awful premier and a stupid, nasty little man.
He is only trying to get on the world stage (he 'prefers Davos', after all) because he is SO HATED here. And thinks he can be a leader in Europe, who will run rings round him when they're ready. I wish Europe would take him off our hands.
We're being 'allowed' to lead to take the heat off France and Germany, also under threat because they are turning madly authoritarian.
Anybody who can help us, please do!!
Starmer -- NOT MY LEADER.
Very interesting to hear your take on Starmer. Your description of him made me laugh, but as I read on I realized it is a serious matter for Britain. I'm sorry. Hopefully the meeting with President Trump took him down a notch or two!
Patricia,
In Britain they arrest people for mean social media posts. It’s insane. The police there are a bunch of pansies.
It's so hard to believe that it's gotten that bad in Britain. But that's all that I have seen on various media outlets.
I am so hoping that's going to happen, Patricia! I stayed up all night to watch the voting and to see Trump win. His pivoting back to truth and normality is exactly what the world needs.
He came across as so incredibly arrogant in his meeting with Trump. I'm sure he viewed Trump as a dirty plebe.
Yesterday I watched an utterly terrifying documentary on Prime called I was a Muslim for a week. Pure propaganda. I feel So badly for the state of the U.K.
There was an attack on German civilians yesterday.
Europe has far more serious problems than Putin.
So true, Neil!!!
As obama, biden, and the previous VP - what was her name - were all plants of the cabal of the global marxists (including the EU), and US deep state/uniparty -to maintain control of the USA - so too is the penis pianist- he is a plant, I mean literally a plant (like Resident Cabbage), no better or no worse than Ms word salad.
But their multi decade reign of destruction of the USA is coming to an end under our heroic President Trump and his team. Keep the faith, stand arm to arm in supporting him. Their attacks will be relentless - they do not want to be shut off from our power and treasure.
Molly Hemingway and VDH believe Nuland, Rice, Vindman (same cabal that orchestrated impeachment #1) set up Zelensky to draw Trump into an embarrassing rage that would get US security guarantees- if so they should be prosecuted
The mere fact that Z met with at least one Democrat congressman prior to meeting with the President and VP should be enough to bring charges against those working against the good of the American people and our great country... just my opinion.
Yes, 100% - they were negotiating with a foreign leader behind the President's back.
There were what looked to be about ten to fifteen or so in that little war monger huddle that they had before Zyyy went over to see our President. Lindsey Grahamnesty was there as well as Charles Grassley, but Coons, Klobuchar, Murphy, Whitehouse, and Blumenthal (the stolen valor war monger anti-constitution doofus) to name just a few I recognized.
Roger Wicker- R from MS was there too. He was sitting directly in front of Zboy next to Grassley.
Ahhh, that was who that was (I knew he was another "R"). I heard him speak (and heard his accent), I just couldn't see his face from the angle that I saw, thank you Beckadee!
I agree with Hemingway and VDH. I would also throw in many uniparty senators like insufferable oxygen thief senator (with a small s) chris coons - who just also happens to be a "delawarian" like resident cabbage... a strange coincidence?
I must apply my motto to this and nearly every catastrophic event we have suffered since at least the 1980s when they started building the infrastructure to steal US elections: "Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences".
We need to repeal the 17th Amendment (easier said than done), but that stupid progressive amendment of 1913 is why we continue to have these "senators" that are loyal to the cabal, the "campaign financiers", and not to their state, their state legislatures, nor to the Constitution.
Yes, they themselves violated the Logan Act. Treasonous!!!
Possibly dr Trump arranged the Oval Office trap knowing fuller well his own upper hands....
If that is true, they are dumber than Zelensky. Have they learned nothing about President Trump?
who is VDH
Victor Davis Hanson
See my solution for a hissing possum. Works for third scum too.
Vladdy Z has now made himself of no consequence, he can globe-trot on his jet and spew CO2 all he wants, his usefulness and very life is on borrowed time--he serves at the pleasure of those who installed him and they are growing displeased suddenly. He may likely perish at their command (Putin will get the blame of course). One final life to give to stop Russia and keep Ukraine forever free.
Remember that one of his villas is in Florida. When I learned of that some years ago, I amused myself thinking of the welcome he'd receive from Floridians when he fled his country for the balmy south.
I have heard that and don't doubt it. But where is the proof? Public records should have a deed.
It won't be in his name.
I would expect that. Probably an LLC and through a series of shell company transactions.
Then, how do we know??
You're over the target!!!
The kabal has had it, all going the wrong way. When is Z out?
Substitution if I may: "Eau-de-Merde has now made himself of no consequence, he can globe-trot on his jet and spew CO2 all he wants..."
#TurdeauMustGoNOW
PS: Canada's lame duck soy boy Lord Governor Goodhair, who RESIGNED in January and SUSPENDED PARLIAMENT until March 24th jetted off to Europe. London to be exact. (No doubt he'll be greasing something while there. He'll be securing a new "posting"... 🤮)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-security-summit-europe-1.7472403
Funny that "Canada was not mentioned as one of the countries invited to join the Sunday meeting when British Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the event during his trip to Washington to meet with Trump earlier this week" eh?
How DOES Sparkly Sox do it??
🤬
Moreover:
Wonder how the heads of state of EXCLUDED European countries feel about that bit of disrespectful behavior by Starmer?
SNAFU?
You betcha.
Such a "Unified Europe" that they excluded all the insignificant and unworthy nations; likely Team Trump will be courting many of these into a newer and more commercially-connected US orbit; Hungary, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, etc if this is how WEF-Aligned Europe demands we move forward with them.
No doubt, and interestingly, they also tend to be the most "Christian" of the countries in Europe (as well as the least "woke"), and most are from the "former Eastern block/Warsaw Pact". Funny how things have flipped since the fall of the iron curtain.
Are we still paying for his jet?
and wifey shopping sprees all over Europe
4 yrs of Trump, plus 8 under Vance,
Will allow us to see, if there's still a chance.
Let us not relax before the midterms. According to Edward Dowd, who always seems to be right, we are beginning a global recession. It is not Trump’s fault, but it will be blamed on him. The DOGE cuts are great, but if spending is not drastically curtailed, the deficit will still explode. Congress has to make some serious spending cuts. The economy was being artificially propped up by printing money to pay for illegal immigrants, hiring and paying more and more bureaucrats , proxy wars, and “green “policies. They just managed to kick the can down the road to get it past the election. Now the whole mess has been dumped in Trump’s lap. Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled that he is the one in charge who is going to be trying to deal with all this. And to me his greatest accomplishment so far has been lessening the chance of a nuclear exchange.
My gut says, let us not relax period.
There are trillions at stake in the takedown of the Deep State.
And there is no act too evil for them to use against us.
Half the populace has below average IQs and will follow the wind wherever it blows.
The universe doesn’t need more Smart people, the universe needs more Good people.
That IQ reality is truly sobering. It challenges reasoning as a method to communicate.
we are going to NEED a: TOO BIG TO RIG II for 2026
I’m betting that the big motivator behind DOGE was to pry loose all this waste fraud and abuse, so we save shit-tons of taxpayer money that will save the worst of the inflation/recession. Nothing succeeds like success.
Nice rhyme!
Praying for that! God help us as we humble ourselves and pray for our land - the He has given us.
They will try to remove both of them by political force (because of indoctrinated libs and low info "sway with the win" independents), and if necessary, by bullet, & by stolen elections.
Yet another example of the enemy strategy to attempt to divide and conquer:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pam-blondie-is-an-embarrassment-trump-ally-accuses-president-s-a-g-of-breaking-the-law/ar-AA1A6mVT
and here:
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-zelensky-fight/
“Trump ally”
🤔😑
These people are so damned dishonest.
Unfortunately Most Ukrainian rare earth mineral deposits are now located in Russian occupied territory.
I’d rather buy from Russia, than try to mine in Ukraine. Think of those political ramifications. And think of the good will from doing business with Putin. Real business. Not war business.
How about buying from Russia vs. 75 % of our rare earths from China? China is the top enemy of the USA.
Ukraine is likely a small player and we don't know if the mining will be affordable.
This is strategic chess, right?
Interesting
Could this be one of the reasons why Zelensky avoided this agreement?
whatever bad result occurs when this war is resolved is to be pinned on DJ Trump, no matter what. The Dems will yet again spend years assigning blame to Team Trump for being pro-Putin, anti-Free Ukraine. That's the only strategy they've ever had since 2016.
Kind of like Biden and democrats should be held accountable for Afganistán and loss of US treasure and blood. This we can’t let the democrats forget.
I wish you were right that Zelenskyy didn’t sign the agreement because of where the rare earth deposits are located. Nope! The leader with little-man syndrome was wooed by Starmer and Macron to be their pawn because war is much more lucrative for the wealthy than mining rare earth deposits. Spilling blood makes you rich. 🤑
Disgusting to watch Zelenskyy and Starmer in front of 10 Downing giving each other fond hugs. Hmmm.....
Yup, I half expected some additional grab a#$ and tonsil hockey. What a clown show.
But that is the brilliance of our President's strategy. With a deal with both Russia (which they are working on based on what Pres. Putin said the other day) and with Ukraine, what better security guarantee for both countries, if the US is getting our tax money back in the form of rare earth minerals in the DMZ?
Zyyy won't take the "w" because his remaining in "power" depends on the war continuance. As soon as elections are allowed, he will be out. He was groomed and picked for the role he is playing for the globalists.
I thought that the number was 30 % in occupied territory?
Please provide references, interested.
Tuco, please, first tell us where you got that 30% number.
Hello Michael,
See outdated map which shows approximately 30 % of suggested rare earth reserves from Ukraine GEO Survey. Outdated.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2025/02/27/evaluating-the-ukraine-minerals-deal-high-risk-low-reward/
Also note that there are only 17 Rare Earth elements, and many people incorrectly lump in others like lithium.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/REE/rare-earth-elements
Standby on RE, I will find that.
In the meantime, there are massive amounts of oil and gas in the occupied areas - see:
https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/redux-putins-kgb-masterstroke-fracking
see USGS and other references therein.
And not going back to Ukrania or Europe
Not that I know much about the subject, but this map looks to me to say otherwise. Again, not an expert.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-ukraines-mineral-resources/
I think Putin mentioned that recently. I wonder too if Ukraine's stash was a part of the $$ loan deal from Old Europe.
Russia has offered Trump a minerals deal.
Maybe that’s what the negotiations with Russia are about. First one to sign wins.
That fraud Zelenskyy signed a minerals deal with Sir Keir Stalin a year ago.
Can you please supply some references to this? Interested.
Go to Gateway Pundit, March 2 post. Cannot paste a link for you via smartphone, sorry.
Got it. I don't think that prevents this deal, UK knew about Trump proposal.
In the meantime:
THM News: Most People Don't Know That the Europeans Are Helping Fund the Russian Side of the War https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/03/03/most-people-dont-know-that-the-europeans-are-helping-fund-the-russian-side-of-the-war-n3800352
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-ukraine-100-year-partnership-declaration/uk-ukraine-100-year-partnership-declaration
Official UK statement about the agreement signed Jan 2025. Go to gov.uk "uk and ukraine sign landmark 100 year partnership".
Wow. I fast read the document and looks like the Ukraine is becoming part of the British Commonwealth! *edit (not literally, but almost in practice) ...* Interestingly, it was signed on 17 Jan 2025... just before our President was sworn into office.
Great info, thanks Roger. I did not know they did this.
* edit above
According to Alex Krainer, this deal was signed on January 16, 2025. This is an interview in which he discusses Ukraine, the U.S. and some bizarre shenanigans - like the rare earth deal - some of which don’t make sense to me (i.e. How Zelensky could sign with the UK and yet still be hopping around saying he wants to sign with the U.S.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYZf1z-yWjs
Krainer’s credentials and background look good but I just found this a couple of days ago so who knows if all of this can be trusted? Having said that, it seems to me that the UK in particular is being too clever by half and I suspect will soon find themselves in quicksand from which they can’t be extricated without help. (I’m hoping Nuland, Vindman, Rice and others join them.) You can find more of Krainer’s writings in his blog.
UK government not clever. Thick as mince. But cunning, in a low, stultifyingly stupid way. Watch them crash and burn. And I'm English!!
JM, sometimes it’s difficult in writing to understand what people mean. The “too clever by half” is all irony - in this case, English hubris may have gotten the best of them and their “brilliant deal” may not be so brilliant after all.
It’s too bad. I agree that the UK is fast headed over the cliff and it pains me to no end. I have loved the UK - history and people - but the sun is setting and way too many of them don’t see it. I feel for you and it makes me sad. I hope it turns around but right now it looks as if most of Western Europe has on blinders.
Thank you! The likelihood of the UK ever doing anything right nowadays is diminishing rapidly and it hurts to see the direction of travel. We are being led by people who are ideologically wedded to nonsense and blinded by the power they THINK they have, while being pushed by other agendas, like Davos. Appreciate your sympathy, and hope that what the US is doing will lead to some sort of Hallelujah moment here.
JM, I hope so too. It breaks my heart but makes me angry even more. When even our close English friends don’t seem to be able to see what’s happening, I’m appalled. We have travelled in the UK and hiked so much in Scotland I’ve lost count of the times we’ve been there. But now, I refuse to visit. Honestly, I can see an international “incident” with my name on the front pages - “American Woman Refuses to Be Silent on Freedom Issues” - or some such. (Or it could be a pub conversation arrest when someone blasts Trump and I need to correct their blathering. Heh) Anyway, I’m glad you’re there to fight the good fight because people like you are what’s needed. Good luck.
I believe Krainer has a substack
This is a game of strategic chess, the RE side if it pans out will be a bonus.
Which would explain his reluctance to sign the deal with Trump.
I heard the same and Black Rock was the broker.
All roads seem to lead to Black Rock.
I saw that on Twitter. Don’t know if it’s true or not.
Do we really need Ukraine’s minerals so badly which would require keeping a presence in Ukraine? Sometimes it’s better to cut one’s losses and move on. The Europeans and Asians have been fighting amongst themselves for millennia. We are fools to believe our presence there can change millennia old mindset. Normalize relations with Russia and buy minerals for peaceful purposes from them.
I would suggest that Ukraine is very rich in many resources and having some influence over them vs. China and Russia would be prudent.
Ultimately, the rare earths in Ukraine may not be profitable to mine, depending on the actual mining costs; however, they have plenty of frackable gas and oil resources and are the breadbasket of Europe.
Please also see: Reprise - Putin's KGB Masterstroke: Fracking Banned in Europe
https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/reprise-putins-kgb-masterstroke-fracking
Never forget this was Zelensky's idea that he pitched to Biden. Trump just said "sure"
https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1896373700834041941
Zelensky admits that if Ukraine gets NATO membership, then he has “fulfilled his mission”.
His mission is not to govern Ukraine. His mission is NATO membership for Ukraine, which would immediately trigger WW3.
The reason his mission is WW3, is because that’s the only scenario where he MIGHT survive. His only way out is if NATO comes in and takes over the fight with Russia directly. That’s his plan, but realistically he would need the US in order to pull it off.
Zelensky, and his Deep State handlers, are literally trying to initiate full-scale WW3, in an effort to cover up the largest money laundering scheme in history, and crimes against humanity for bioweapon development.
That’s what we are witnessing.
This is not about Ukraine’s sovereignty. This is about covering up unfathomable criminality.
Bravo, well said 👍
There are at least two vids on YT saying there are no rare earths in Ukraine….https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tILXLxMTmgA&pp=ygUXIE8gcmFyZSBlYXJ0aGluIHVrcmFpbmU%3D, and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya9WKaveRXU
Thank you for those links, I watched the first video, am am now much more skeptical!
I also skimmed a paper from a lady Ukrainian geologist shamelessly promoting the reserves.
Perhaps the bottom line is there is a big difference between real proven deposits and promoted - also is it economically feasible.
Maybe the whole rare earth thing is just a red herring for a new strategic foothold ?
Except for the little issue that the UK signed a deal with Zelenskyy just before the inauguration. He already gave away the goods!!
I would be interested in the details of the UK agreement and how it would exclude the USA from a deal.
Me, too. I believe you already saw the link. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-ukraine-100-year-partnership-declaration/uk-ukraine-100-year-partnership-declaration
I asked grok about it (too lazy to read with a magnifying glass). But the treaty itself would have the finite details …
Based on the information in the "UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Declaration" published on the UK government website, there is no explicit mention of Ukraine signing away its mineral rights to the UK. The declaration, pursuant to the One Hundred Year Partnership Agreement signed on January 16, 2025, outlines a broad framework for cooperation between the United Kingdom and Ukraine across multiple sectors, including defense, economic development, technology, and energy. However, it does not specifically state that Ukraine has transferred or relinquished control of its mineral rights to the UK.
The document does mention collaboration in areas that could indirectly relate to mineral resources. For instance, under the section on economic and trade cooperation, it states that the UK will "establish the United Kingdom as a preferred partner to deliver Ukraine’s energy sector transformation, critical minerals strategy, and green steel production." This suggests a partnership to support Ukraine’s development in these areas, potentially involving investment, technical expertise, or joint projects. However, this language indicates cooperation rather than a transfer of ownership or rights.
Additionally, the declaration emphasizes supporting Ukraine’s economic resilience and reconstruction, fostering business-to-business relationships, and strengthening supply chain resilience. While these efforts could involve access to or development of Ukraine’s natural resources, including minerals, there is no clear evidence in the text that Ukraine has "signed away" its mineral rights—meaning a full transfer or surrender of sovereignty over those resources—to the UK.
Claims circulating on platforms like X suggest that Ukraine has already ceded its mineral rights to the UK as part of this deal, but these assertions do not align with the specific wording of the declaration. Without additional documentation, such as the full text of the accompanying treaty (which is referenced but not fully detailed in the declaration) or other official agreements, it’s not possible to definitively confirm or refute such claims based solely on this source. The declaration itself frames the partnership as a mutual endeavor, not a unilateral handover of assets.
In summary, the "UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Declaration" does not explicitly state that Ukraine has signed away its mineral rights to the UK. It outlines a cooperative relationship that includes energy and critical minerals, but this appears to be about collaboration, not ownership transfer. Further evidence would be needed to substantiate claims of mineral rights being relinquished.
I am not your other. Thank you for this clarification.
Some people stop getting financially fat and happy off US tax payers. They do not like trumps plan at all.
Except that Zelensky already made the deal with the UK behind Trump's back. So apparently no minerals for us.
Not sure what the deal says and if it is an exclusive. Starmer and Trump had that worked out prior presumably (?).
Russia is NOT our enemy.
Our enemies are the EU, the WEF, and our own radical left scumbags... along with their imported mud-people parasites.
And, obviously... Israel.
I keep seeing posts on social media whining about national parks layoffs. It’s funny, none of these people were wringing their hands about citizens being blocked or restricted from visiting the parks during Covid. That was just fine 🙄 To save Grandma of course 🙄🙄🙄
What about all the Biden era Keystone Pipeline layoffs. No-one seemed too bothered in DC about that either, nor Portland for that matter.
Check the Biography of the New Secretary of Energy
Exactly!!
I lived on a NC barrier island at the time of covid hysteria. The local ‘wackos’ actually issued a local ordinance to not walk the beach warning you would be fined!
I did it anyway, but was always looking over my shoulder for ‘karens.’ I, eventually, moved away because of the idiocy, but still miss my old home.
Reminds me of the ol Allman Brothers tune... "I've gone past the point of Karen..." 😄
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I heard stories of people in my Hawaiian island home being busted out on the ocean on a paddleboard w no mask.
You couldn’t even paddle board in CA, even with a mask.
As a child I read "Misty of Chincoteague" - a book about wild horses on the barrier islands.
Always wanted to go there.
Same! Read and re-read that book as a kid and dreamed about visiting the island.
Me too!!
Same. I loved those books, so happy that at least one of my kids also loves them 🤗
I read "The Black Stallion" - a book about a ship wreck at sea. Never wanted to do that!
I also moved due to leftist covid idiocy. Wait! Is that redundant?
Me too! Out of crazy CA, but that was in 2018, before C0vid. Thank God I did!
Those jogging on the beach, alone, in CA were indeed arrested.
NPS is 95% left wing loons, they actively “resisted” the first Trump administration. They famously moved to create a pain points in any government funding lapse by shutting down parks - remember the barricades at monuments? Almost all were uneccesary from any justification point, at the same time they declared themselves as all “essential”. They leverage the public’s fondness of the parks to drive their political and self serving agenda. It is the puppy dog syndrome, any cuts of course will cause the puppy dog to die.
They also shutdown every national park over COVID-19, then enforced this idiocy like they were concentration camp guards.
Exactly.
Yup that was my sense too, that they are using the tactics schools use when they don’t want budget cuts or are trying to get a budget increase. Focus on maximum pain points.
It's too bad the worker bees are getting the RIF notices. They need to start at the top, in the Washington Offices where all the GM & SES fat ticks on the Gubmint Dog hang out. Leave the lowly GS 5/7/9s alone so SOMEONE can do the work of We The People, please??
They, literally, can't fire the "higher-ups". No shit.
The higher-ups are the problem!
So messed up.
The land is owned by the people, why even have park staff?
Some of us want to see it. It wouldn’t take long for these areas to revert back to nature or destroyed by people who don’t respect these areas. (Quite a few by what I’ve seen in the parks). . I watched a luxury golf course down the road that closed. Within a decade it has become impenetrable. Not an entirety bad thing IMHO.
Only around 1,000 probationary employees nationwide have been let go. But everyone who works in the system is worried about his/her own job being cut, so they are making a big deal of it by saying areas might be closed, services not offered, etc. They think they are the resistance, so they may deliberately make things worse so they can blame it on the cuts. But since their own jobs might also be on the line, maybe they won't dare.
And they can't NOT work. They're being asked to provide 5 bullets of what they did each week, and it's being scrutinized by AI.
My brother is a high-level IT guy for the federal courts. He was over for a rockin' Mardi Gras party we threw Saturday night.
He told me about a response to the "what-did-you-do-last-week" email that was making the rounds.
It read "Your mother."
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Sort of like paying high property taxes and then having to buy town issued trash bags along with a transfer sticker.
I'm glad that the National Parks are being kept pristine. I've been reading a history of Reelfoot Lake called "The Night Riders of Reelfoot Lake." It got so bad there between squatters and land developers that the squatters who were there first began exercising vigilante "justice." This was in 1908. Things got out of hand and the group killed several people including 2 lawyers. And the killings were vicious. The governor of TN, after ignoring the problem for years, finally had to literally declare war on the group calling up the state militia to hunt down the vigilantes and eventually made the land public property and eagle sanctuary.
Fascinating
Make that one lawyer. It was nighttime. The other one escaped by diving into the swampy lake and hiding behind a sunken log and then making his way 10 miles to the friendly side of the lake before being found. It has been fascinating. I thought only the Wild West was known for this kind of stuff, but apparently not.
You talk as if you've never been to a national park.
Someone has to maintain the bathrooms, the trails, the visitor centers where we buy trail maps and books and memorabilia. Some of the educational interpretive programs are quite informative and interesting.
Yes, we need staff. Perhaps fewer? I don't know. Most definitely fewer DEI and climate change staff. 😑
One of our favorite parks had to close a couple of roads several years ago because they didn't have staff to maintain it (downed trees, washouts on the dirt road) after government cuts. 🤷♂️
You just wonder though, if the cuts they made were done purposely to hurt the park users most, kind of like what schools do when a budget doesn’t pass and they don’t cut actual waste or redundant/less useful jobs but zero in only on the programs and expenditures that are most important to the community 🙄 That way they convince more people to support the budget.
Here in Covidistan (WA State), they threaten to cut Police and Fire Departments, and EMS (ambulance service) if they don't get the tax raises they "need". Our government has no sense of priorities. I have thought, for many years now, that there should be a list of funding items on your tax return. You would check the boxes for what you want to fund, and you could weight your choices. For example: Of my tax dollars, 50% to military and 50% to National Parks. Or at the state level: 33% to Fire/EMS, 33% to Police, 33% to Roads & Bridges. This way would actually fund things for which people are willing to pay. One caveat: the politicians would have to live within that budget - no pulling money from another pot to cover their mismanagement of taxpayer money, 'cause you know they would!
Mrs. "the Knife"
I thought this same thing.
I like your idea of checking boxes. And yes their typical MO is to threaten to cut more essential services first 😕
Yep. I agree.
Again, the worker bees are the low-hanging fruit. The big bucks paid out go to the upper level management who haven't gotten their hands dirty in YEARS, if at all. The budget analysts, the deputy muckety mucks...I say prune the trees again the TOP & let the roots keep growing...
You already pay for it in your excessive taxes!
If they can’t operate on their bloated budget and no show jobs, then cut the staff and hire temp workers. No need for full time trail watchers and campground tyrants telling you how fortunate you to be able to access your own land, roads and buildings.
Privatize it like the postal service
I hate to tell you, but the people who run the campgrounds in our National Parks are all private entities, AKA "Concessionaires". It's the same for our National Forests. I used to be a USFS Forestry Technician in Recreation and Fire...we Gubmint worker bees felt like we were "caring for the land and serving people" and we were invested in the FS CULTURE...but then we got pushed out by private companies brought in to "do things cheaper" than us GS 4s & 5s. Really? Those people had no skin in the game. It was insulting...to me, anyway.
Uh, the postal service is losing money hand over fist. They claim to be privatized, yet still need more $ from Congress every year.
They’re not really privatized though. It’s a weird hybrid.
True.
Who but the park staff will haul away the gored moron who wants to take a picture of the buffalo. Only half kidding.
After a previous government shut down, I went to Crater Lake National Park early spring. I noticed restoration trucks at the lodge, so I stopped and asked them what was up. They disgustedly mentioned that park crews did not winterize the lodge with the eminent shutdown. So this grand old lodge flooded when the pipes broke during the spring thaw. Revenge seemed more important than protecting the properties they were responsible for.
That doesn’t surprise me somehow 😕
Definitely deliberate
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But RL, we need those park employees. We're too stupid to figure out how to drive through an open gate or park in a paved lot all on our own. Hahaha.
I agree the parks probably have DEI and climate change bloat.
However, those paved and unpacked roads, parking lots, and trails have to be maintained. Trash bins emptied. Bathrooms serviced and maintained. And so on.
We do need some staff.
Agree, but I sorta like the push hard and ease off later approach.
I get it.
Some of us who go to the parks for annual vacations would like to have trails and roads open. Seems these folks like to close the essential services to make it unpopular to cut their funding. 😑
park employees do a lot more than that. watching for fires, other stuff. the Forest Service on the other hand.. and BLM. Id like to see whoever is rounding up Wild Horses to kill in the Unemployment lines!
They haven’t rounded up wild horses to kill in decades. Also the term wild horses is a lie spun by a narrative, they are feral horses, and in fact are not a native species at all on this continent. They are rounded up sometimes at great expense to the taxpayers to be adopted or fed forever because the are incredibly destructive to the environment and are also protected by federal law.
Speaking of destructive and protected species, WHY are the stupid geese still protected???
Geese are currently required to help the narrative of the spread of bird flu. Now, I'm wondering how you can protect a wild species that is spreading the disease that ends with the killing of domestic food sources . . . Not that I am actually concerned about bird flu, mind you.
and snakes. Don't forget the poisonous rattlesnakes are protected.
I guess I didn’t know that because there aren’t any in my area but there sure are masses and masses of nasty dirty aggressive geese!
Liz,
Amen! The round up is incredibly cruel. I wouldn’t mind seeing those people in Hell!
None of them even see the shallow depths of their own hypocrisy, let alone how deep it goes. It’s quite comical to most of “us”. They don’t even realize the harder they bellow the harder we laugh. They take themselves seriously. We take them as idiocy.
Maybe we should adopt that catch phrase: all the trimming is needed to save grandmas Medicare!
That might just work 😆 Heads would explode trying to choose (like the meme with the hand not being able to decide between two red buttons to press 😆)
My sister (who reads NYT daily) was devastated that some National Park employees were going to lose their jobs which, in her eyes, translated to the parks going out of business because of Trump’s EO.
My gentle response was “You need to look at the bigger picture.” She was too angry at Trump (for being Trump) to consider an alternate viewpoint.
It’s like the cuts to social services. It’s possible to make cuts if you root out waste and fraud, yet still provide services to those who need them. But all they see is “cuts” and immediately freak out 🙄
My mindless, only marginally informed sister in law thinks her MediCal will be axed. I can't convince her otherwise because she saw that lie on NBC or some such, and of course, they tell the truth about everything.
Very good point! Oh the hypocrisy on the Left that just keeps coming. Some days i can hardly stand it anymore.
I am sure if a park's management could show they would turn a profit then DOGE would let them operate with enough staff.
The parks have always been understaffed and not funded well enough.
NP budget for this year is 3.6 Billion, revenue generated is 55.6 billion. I think a DOGE investigation of their budget is needed. Are they too top heavy where more desk sitters need to be fired and active rangers need to be increased? Always seems to be a problem with government offices. Just throwing more money at something doesn't improve it. Look at the DOEducation
didn't Nixon use Fed lands as collateral and we just manage them for foreign bankers anyway?
I wouldn't doubt it and it was right after he was finishing taking us off of what was left of the gold standard...
It seems like nothing in the government is ever funded enough 😕 We never hear any department or agency say they have adequate funds, despite the huge amounts of money we spend on everything every year.
I've long thought that that's on purpose. One wouldn't want PEOPLE spoiling nature. Yuck!
They could also care less about those who lost jobs/businesses due to lockdowns or because they wouldn't get vaccinated.
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It’s the beginning of the end of NATO. And it’s for the best. The Globalist agenda requires WW3 but, without America, they can’t afford it.
I hope to see the US, permanently, out of NATO. However, I think the EU could easily stumble into war with Russia.
I don’t think the Europeans are eager to send their sons and daughters to be slaughtered in a war against Russia. And Ukraine is flat out of manpower.
Maybe the illegal aliens invading Europe could be conscripted to fight the Russians!
It should be mandatory for all those single military age males to enlist in the countries they're fleeing to for at least 2 years, in exchange for asylum status
Someone should ask Zelenskyy if he wants to fight down to Ukraine's last man?
Don't worry, there is still the middle east and our never ending support of the insane Israeli government.
ONLY insane thing here is you beating your "hate for Israel" drum...
As always, there is no end to the list of countries the U.S. can meddle in.
Yes!!
God, I hope that's true!
Bingo
“James Carville sneeringly described as the GOP being “hellbent on dismantling the federal government.”
How can Carvilie be so out of touch? This is what most of us want.
Dismantling is essential. Making more government or bureaucracy to fix anything needs to stop.
He's a dumbocrap! They're all out of touch with "what most of us want." They only care about themselves.
First of all there is free speech on here so you can use whatever derogatory terms you want, but calling Democrats, dumbocraps, makes you sound like a 14 year old basement dweller. I have the same problem with commenters on many sites. My Michigan’s Governor’s name is Whitmer. It is not Whitless, Witchmer, or Whitler; names I see in nearly every comment section. It’s only my opinion but calling out stupid names just makes us seem juvenile.
And there are many Republicans just as guilty of extreme subterfuge. These many years of corruption and pillaging the American taxpayer would not be possible without the Grand Old Party’s help.
I’m pretty sure I’m keeping Obeyme.
Would you go so far as to use “Big Mike” for Michelle?
No.
As far as nicknames for selected blood sucking insects: I still call FJB, FJB and Brandon. Michelle IS "Big Mike", and BHO (they are his adopted name initials), so that one stays too. O'Biden and "O'Buydumb" were also simple funny ones. The Turtle (no offense to real turtles) for The McConnell was stomach workout hilarious for some reason when I first heard it...
All of the nicknames would be even more hilarious, if the individuals weren't so evil and destructive to the Republic...
Humor is good for the soul, which is why the left, Demoncrats, commies, and climate change cult members are devoid of it.
Sometimes for the endless driving I do for my job, I turn on Mark Levin. Now at times that guy is just TOO INTENSE for me, but a lot of the time I am in stitches, often bc of his names.
MSLSD
Meet the Depressed
The Washington Compost
I mean, many of his names ARE about the level of 7th grade humor AND I find them hilarious.
Then there's Tucker, who can't not call Kamala "Carmela."
I guess of all the battles, this is not the one I'd fight--I get too many chuckles out of it.
I agree on Levin, I have to turn the volume down because of his intensity/passion/almost shouting at the microphone sometimes. And yes, he does have some hilarious names. I've adopted Meet the Depressed and The Washington Compost over the years and now just say them out of habit! MSLSD is hilarious too. I also like MSDNC as well.
And yes, Tucker is also a riot. Awesome delivery of information because it is authentic, and true...
Which describes the left leaning cult members here that believe they are far superior to real people.
I agree with you. Using derogatory nicknames is juvenile and makes you look like you have no argument. And I hate it coming from both sides, I hated it when Rush Limbaugh did it.
I did like “Cocaine Mitch”. 😁
And another Karen has an opinion.
I just call them Demoncrats and the R's that are not on the side of the Constitution, "RINOs". I include them together, because both groups of blood sucking insects (politicians) collectively have been mostly responsible for the mess we've gotten into and what our President and a handful of congressmen/women are trying to repair.
I was just going to say, "I will make an exception for Rush" :)
What about President Cabbage.... is that on your list too :)
Would it help you for we dissenters to use satire in a bipartisan, equitable manner: dims & repugnants?
Not for me. I think I mostly hate it when it’s generalized, like ‘magats’ or ‘dumbocrats’. ‘President Cabbage’ and ‘cocaine Mitch’ don’t seem to bother me as much, maybe because they aren’t swiping with a broad brush. Great, now I need to ponder this.
Same here. Calling an individual a funny derogatory name when that person earned it doesn't bother me very much, but indiscriminately calling an entire group of people a name does. Dumbocraps, libtards, demonrats, it’s all just as juvenile as Hillary calling Trump supporters deplorables. I don’t think we should talk about our fellow Americans that way.
How about "demoNcrats" or "reTHUGlicans"?
No, because while they're not members of the low IQ party, THEY demand you bend to their will, because they're control freaks.
Prikzyer?
Not in my book, but he is also not my governor. I just don’t like taking a person’s name and twisting it into something that sounds like kids calling names. However, it is a free country and free speech.
L(ow)M(ental)W(orking)C(apacity)
You're not getting poked from the usurper. It's Nazi kind of abuse and lies.
No one gives a large rodent's patoot what you think, dear.
And yet you apparently do, as you had to reply in several spots. But if it makes you feel adult, go for it.
Lmwc,
Name calling is one reason why our society is devolving. We are not showing respect for the office, each other or even ourselves
You’re right, kind of trashy, or was it garbage. Can’t quite remember what the other basement dweller referred us as.
True that. I guess I hadn’t had enough caffeine yet
Re: what DOGE is battling... Even the Mafia never tried what the government has been doing. It's no different than the government /politician walking into a bank, putting money in their pocket, after which the bank mails us the note with repayment terms, extending into perpetuity, so that our grandkids, and theirs, can pay toward the ever increasing balance. Borrowing against our future, to line their pockets now!! #$$& Mo#h@r FuC&@r$!!!!!
Whenever I see Carville, I think of Kaa from the Jungle Book talking with a molasses Louisiana accent.
Accent is more “redneck/Anglo/Foghorn L.” than true La., which is Creole-ized/French, imho. 👍
Foghorn Leghorn, I miss him.
Boy, I say BOY....
I was honestly looking for a clip with that quote, but I had to stop and laugh with this humorous take by The Family Guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eQkmucXHE
Lots of "Now, listen here, son" too.
I think you might have posted the wrong link—I don’t see Family Guy but a podcast? Unless it was somewhere in the podcast episode?
Me too.
Since I am from the nasal Midwest, I bow to your expertise. 😁
I think he and his wife have a racket playing both sides for their salaries and fees.
There are “benefits” to that approach. One side is always “winning” or “losing”.
Carville isn't out of touch. He's frustrated because all the stoopid Americans don't seem to accept the fact that he's a genius and that his opinions are gospel.
By federal bureaucracy he means democrat slush fund and power - and yep we are all for that
Carville seems almost demented at this point. He can't handle the Democrat party destruction very well.
Govt “help” destroys.
Rather odd we did not hear one peep from Jolly old England...
When DJT announced the official American language was indeed English.
I for one am thrilled over it....it's the only one I personally know!
Just sayin.....and in English by the way.
Now if he would make Standard Time permanent I would be a happy camper🤠
As long as it's not done in Roman numerals on the clocks! 😂👍
Sundials 😆
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We in England are no longer allowed to be proud of anything English, including the flag and the language. And then Starmer goes and wraps himself in the flag ... 🤣🤣🤣 Can't even follow his own agenda. Need I say more?
Blimey JMB...
Pip pip...
and all that rot ye know.
God save the queen.
Now that it's an executive order, can I talk like a Brit and pretend I'm Paul McCartney
(Maybe I'll brush up on my Ringo Starr first) 🥸👍
If you want to go Liverpudlian ... But that's not the cut-glass Queen's English you know and love 😁
Suggest you look up an ex Member of Parliament, Jacob Rees-Mogg (on Substack or YouTube) if you want to go 'full Establishment'!
Quite Bonkers Sir...
And yet I'm having such a lovely tea time today.🧐
That's 'tiffin', don't ye know. With crumpets, lashings of jam and a pot of Earl Grey
It's a quite Mum to say the word Liverpool......
Just don't paint a picture of it.
A pool of livers?
I like yours better.
Hats off Old John/Paul/George/ and Ringo, you set the world on a tizzy.
The mass importation of radical muslim parasite scumbags and other primative mud-people, may have put paid to your Nation... sadly.
Your leadership has been a gaggle of corrupt, woke, DEI scumbags... but Starmer just might be the worst of them.
Peep
Dad: "That's it. I'm getting my belt."
We have to reserve the capability to identify infiltrators by making them say "aluminum."
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Lol!
Garage works too!
Perfect 😃👍
Thanks DJT....yesss....
Time to brush up on our comedy routines nation wide
True, however it is great when we have a population that is multi-lingual. It's a tremendous tool for better jobs, better relationships and better understanding of the many peoples that we call our neighbors, friends and co-workers.
Without question you are correct. And this was in place in 1776. But it has gone maybe way to far. When the outer tribes don't care if they ever speak English words.
Assimilation rejection. 🤔
If you live in a major city it is everywhere.
I live in a mid size city in So Cal. The elementary school my children attended has a huge ESL program. I've been well acquainted with French, Chinese, Korean, Saudia Arabian, Lebanese, Icelandic, Sweden, Spaniard, Ethiopian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and many South American people. Truly the United Nations in one school!
Most of them newly arrivals who try very hard to make themselves understood in English. I've established deep relationships with some of them, and I found it interesting to have been asked somewhat regularly what America (USA) means to me by some of them. I remember the first time Fatima called me her "American friend"!
When people interact with one another on a regular basis, I find that we are not as different as others (our govt's) might make it out to be. We're all caring for our children, their education, our families, working to assimilate and at the same time teaching our children respect for their roots.
Its a tough job.
And perhaps at times seems thankless.
Resilience and nursing quality to repair emotional trauma is not easy peasy.
If you can read a recipe thank a teacher.
If you can prepare a fabulous recipe thank your mom!
Thanks Mom!!!
3 things I would like to see. Close bases in Europe and bring everything and everyone home..exit NATO, and kick the UN out of America. Like today
YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and after NATO AND UN go down, I expect to see the end of the WEF/EU in short order.
this will be the liberation of the people of EUROPE!
We have 800 + bases out of country. How sick is that? But muh democracy!
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Base closures won't happen. Not when China has been quietly taking over ports around the world.
We NEED to keep our eyes wide OPEN on the Chinese invasion of the Americas... Every time I visit my family in Mexico, I see MORE and MORE Chinese people, setting up businesses, buying houses... turns my stomach bc I know they don't set up shop on their own. Their government's tentacles are well attached to them...
And could we please close the bio labs in Ukraine?
I’m new here but I’m really enjoying this blogger!
You are going to love it here!!!! I look forward to the comments as much as C&C itself. These people are wonderful!
Welcome to Club Reality. Stick around ... this is a great place to learn, to vent, even occasionally to rant - all amongst friends!
Don’t forget laugh! We laugh a lot here too 😁
The laughing part is of critical importance.
It truly is!
Yes, welcome Gail, I myself found Jeff's community when I really needed it. Stick around.
Welcome to the club! Jeff is the best
And constructive criticism being a key ingredient of “true friendship” impapo, and in the opinion of we #CREATORS (Conflict Resolving Educator Activist Truther Organizer Reader Socializers): I believe Mr. Magoo suffers from extreme farsightedness.
Welcome
Good morning and WELCOME to the ‘club’!! It’s a little overwhelming at first due to overload of info …it’s ALL good and…
All things become visible when exposed by the light!!!
Don’t forget your sunglasses, Jeff shines a bright light around here.
I concede that Trump is focusing on all the right (big) things, but--darn it--next Sunday is the dreaded "spring forward" time change and I want to keep Standard Time. Didn't he promise that? And what about our incandescent lightbulbs?
I’m praying he outlaws ALL-child gender manipulation and grooming. My grandchild is involved. I don’t give a tinkers you know what about lightbulbs. Sensing my mood here?
“Liked” in support of your grandchild, don’t actually like the situation of course. I’m praying for the same! Anyone who does surgical, medical, or social transition to children should be prosecuted, including parents, teachers, guidance counselors, therapists, doctors.
I too am impacted by this. Need congress to act. The funding accountability will slow this disgusting medical & phycological practice but laws are needed to sustain.
Did you mean "mutilation?"
Yes. I meant that word. But it’s under the whole plan of manipulation. Dealing with this personally it hurts to say that other word all the time. 🤷🏼♀️
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I understand. I have four grandsons, ages 8, 7, 6 and 3, and am so worried, especially for the two in CA. It does hurt to use that word but I think it's necessary.
I don't know if he promised to do away with Daylight Savings Time or not, but I'm all for doing away with it!
I believe what our President said, “is he believes we should just stick to Standard time”. I am with him. I am old enough to remember when daylight savings time came into effect. Started in late 1960’s. It started in May then. Now it’s the second week in March! You are not saving daylight, you’re just doing the shell game of moving daylight from the morning to the evening. You’re not saving anything.
In Arizona, we keep our clocks the same always. Guess what?! Things keep running just fine without the change. Come on in America! The water's fine!
Could your people please tell that to our people in California? I"m so sick of daylight savings time.
My sister runs international logistics for HP software/hardware. She detests the time change, nobody else in the world does it. It screws up shipping-majorly.
Daylight savings time started in 1918 so you are truly old.
I looked it up and unfortunately Wikipedia didn’t have it quite right. Some countries did adopt a form of DST during WWI to save on using artificial light. The US formally adopted it in 1966 as stated below. I got this from the encyclopedia Brittanica. It is what I remember.
“In the United States, Daylight Saving Time formerly began on the last Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October. In 1986 the U.S. Congress passed a law that, beginning the following year, moved up the start of Daylight Saving Time to the first Sunday in April but kept its end date the same. In 2007 Daylight Saving Time changed again in the United States, as the start date was moved to the second Sunday in March and the end date to the first Sunday in November. In most of the countries of western Europe, Daylight Saving Time starts on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in October.”
And during the Nixon admin, they tried the DST all the time, but had to switch back because then dawn didn’t start until about 10-11 am!! Kids were getting hurt at bus stops, etc and the airlines have problems, too. Can’t fool Mother Nature!
So what do they do in Alaska?
We don't change to winter time until the first Sunday in November because of Halloween trick or treating.
PLEASE, for the love of God and all that is holy, keep your paws off our ⏰ and our lightbulbs💡‼️
Right?! My Kenner Easy Bake doesn't work with LED!! 😡😡😡 Neither does my home made cardboard outside summer oven. 😭
The best chocolate cake eva!
I remember him saying we are not going to do time changes any more. Was this in an executive order as well? It needs to stop, one of my pet peeves
He restored the use of incandescent light bulbs already. Removed the restrictions.
The June month long celebration is coming. I look forward to the F gov not pushing that agenda. LED and DLS are nothing compared to everything else IMHO.
Ugh
What was wrong was the Fed gov Outlawing the incandescent bulb...you Had to buy the awful mercury filled ones or LED. Way out of bounds fed gov. Just like when they told us you can't use paper sacks, must use plastic. Another great idea
Like when the Supreme Court decided the gov't could mandate Obamacare. Still can't get past that one.
They flicker a billion times.
Pretty, but not healthy
Trump, is that you??
I guess some folks like high electric bills. Why use a 14watt LED when you can burn 100watts?
The point is choice. It's none of your business, it's my decision.
To save our eyes! And our sleep.🙆🏻♀️
They now make warm color temp. LED bulbs which emit much less blue light.
In viewing Rahm Emanuel in the clip I was anticipating something different from the usual, silly me. But instead he went to the old and tired strategy “Carville is saying to stay out of Trump’s way as he cuts health care for tax breaks for the rich.” It will never end. All they have is class warfare. Divide and conquer. They’re stuck in the mud with no chain. Keep on rollen Mr. President.
Agreed. Just the same tired bullet points careening off the walls back at ‘em.
I don’t believe it is Trump’s intention to cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, but anyone who messes with that will have an enormous backlash. This is one of the lies the Dems are using to scare people right now, and many people are believing it unfortunately.
Insert joke here:
Things oddly similar...
Christmas ornaments.
Wallpaper.
Jeffery Epstein.
Name 3 things that don't HANG themselves!
(Is Carville on the way?)
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Good morning, everyone!
Early Bird Specials....Happy New March Monday
Anne,
🍾💃🕺 It’s a wonderful morning 💃🕺🍾
May your days be many and your troubles be few,
May all God’s blessings descend upon you,
May peace be within you,
May your heart be strong,
May you find what you’re seeking wherever you roam.
And the insight to know when you’re going too far.
~Irish Blessing
Morning, top of!
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Hey, it’s the white elephant in the middle of the room with a 700 pound gorilla on top! Where the hell are the unredacted Epstein files? And why are we sending even more of US tax dollars in the cover of night to a certain Middle East country that nobody will talk about because apparently if they do their career as a public figure or public commentor will end? MAGA DC, really lovely historic own-goal.
The very first thing Pam and Kash did was shatter the loudest and most sacred promises. It’s so phenomenally disappointing for them to start right out of the gate continuing the same obfuscation, lying, corruption, and ineptitude of the Democrats. Enough “3D chess”. How about some truth for a change. Straight up.
No more strongly worded letters. No more statements and talking. Hard documents, raids, indictments, and arrests. NOW.
I can hardly believe I'm the only one to like your post. EXACTLY the point. If someone can't be trusted in small things they certainly can't be trusted with big things. Not that epstein is necessarily a small thing.
Indeed. Obsession with Zelenskyy is its own disease. Quit wasting time on it. Make an offer, leave the offer out there, and wait for them to come to you.
The house to clean up is right here at home. There’s an incredible amount to do, it starts with genuine transparency, not fake transparency. It appears that Trump may never realize the most important lesson of all, that the miracle of a little over 50% of the population, many of whom are incredibly hard-core support was stronger than any in American history, it would have been impervious to a certain lobby that is so powerful that every single congressman except Thomas Massie does exactly what it wants. His movement was more powerful than all the CEOs added to the list. More powerful than all of his opponents in Washington. But he needs to look at it like a war, not a “deal“. If he keeps looking at everything as “doing a deal“, true and lasting change won’t happen. You cannot “out-deal” the Woke mind virus, Globalism, endemic corruption, Bolshevism. It’s war, period.
I can easily manage obsession with BOTH ZELENSKY AND EPSTEIN FILES> no prob. Scorpio Superpower :)
I understand, but they are using Zelensky as a distraction. It is preventing domestic action and preventing us from finally looking at where - into the trillions, now - US taxpayer money is permanently flowing, endless “emergencies”, to a certain country in the Middle East which apparently cannot be named or discussed in this context. Because no public figures ever do it.
Nothing at all would have happened if DT hadn't first kissed the Middle Eastern a** in full view...
Clever strategy to get done what you can, then perhaps deal with the big one last.
Some of us are feeling that. Yet, Rome wasn’t built… Have patience, my instruction to myself.
But the problem is, Bondi is lying and obfuscating, and playing the same exact games as Democrats. In this case, patience simply means putting up with being abjectly lied to, and the problem only gets worse.
No. The time for her changing her ways is now. If she announced one major arrest per day for the next year, that would be very few people compared to the criminal element in our government. We have been patient for 8 years.
One last point of the analogy. It’s a laudable to want to build a new Rome. But first, they must excise a deadly cancer, immediately.
How do you think they got put in? Promises to protect the senators.
I agree. That why the analogy is war. “Oh my goodness, a rogue operator released all unredacted documents. There will be ‘investigations’ and ‘consequences’”.
Flip the narrative on them.
Patton wanted to drive to Moscow and would have changed the world in 1945, saving hundreds of millions from slavery and destruction.
The files have been wiped with a "cloth or something."
Put me on it the list too. I'm tired of this fake, UN-created Israel.
"Consider that in just one month, Trump has got the Europeans holding emergency summits to discuss meeting one of Trump’s main goals from his first term: getting Europe to urgently discuss paying for its own security."
Yes, brilliant!
And it simply must happen. We can't afford NATO anymore, at least not to the extent we have been paying for it for the last 75 years.
Loved the Polish PM comment!!!
I think that deserves to be placed on a T-shirt. I'd wear it, especially if in pink.
Oh, please don't bring the t-shirt scammers back!!
😆
You had me... until pink.
Just like Europe to enjoy a free ride on someone else’s dime.
Europe and the UK can’t even field one battalion! Plus they have state of the art black powder weapons!
The European Union Caliphate
Muzzle loaders, too.
Horses,too!!
More admirals than ships
I read if true they are low on tanks. Like 25. Britain that is.
Pie chart of the top 15 defense budgets. BTW, in all of my travels to numerous countries, there are two things that simply are not mentioned , featured, or displayed.in any other country: What university you attended, if applicable, and your military service, if applicable.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/largest-defense-budgets-in-the-world/.
Regarding Z: “What if he is just a puppet, a Biden-like figurehead installed by squidlike deep state forces?”
I assumed all along that this was the case
Zelenskyy: Joe Biden in a tee shirt.
Listen to this Ukrainian girl who is now a US citizen talk about Z and the actual start of war. Checks out. CIA or Mossad began the process in 2014 when they installed their own president because the previous one liked Putin (so therefore no war). A must watch!
https://x.com/bamtastic12/status/1896027919761490118?t=vh4JX4j_Q3Xn7e9HFV5bIw&s=19
Ask miss Vicky. She arranged it.
Watch this so called “controversial” documentary. You will see what took place there was a test for the US in 2020 that happened. https://watchdocumentaries.com/ukraine-on-fire/
🎯 Nailed it !
How did the war in Ukraine start ?
https://x.com/Johnwills2nd/status/1895981182569103393/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1895981182569103393¤tTweetUser=Johnwills2nd
https://x.com/Johnwills2nd/status/1895981182569103393/mediaViewer
Try that. I removed everything from the ? and after. It worked for me.
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