Process servers seek Gov. Walz for grand jury subpoenas; Dems under investigation yet media silent; Newsom preps 2028 bid; Trump outdoes Canada on China/Taiwan; U.S. economy booms; much, much more.
There have been. Look at Comey and Leticia, the corrupt judicial system protects them. Trump is fighting an entrenched criminal syndicate that doesn't care about justice.
Highly successful people reach that success by VERY QUICKLY RECOGNIZING THEIR MISTAKES AND CORRECTING THEM.
Bondi's had a year. Nothing but TV and show crap, nothing of significance, fooked up Epstein effort.
Johnson done nothing in House but frustrate. Still backs him.
Far, far too much focus on Israel, Gaza, Iran, Ukraine. Almost nothing at home except economics. Which will be destroyed if he doesn't destroy the cycle of corruption before midterms are lost.
I don't understand the Israel control and focus of our "leaders," but I understand clearly the impact of the coup, the deep state, and the Communists that WILL destroy this country if Trump doesn't make some of them pay ultimate or extreme prices for their traitorous actions.
Sorry Folks they couldn’t even understand that the Prosecutor on the Comey case was not properly appointed. The DOJ isn’t going to deliver justice ever.
Makes you wonder why they would take the chance of losing the case.
Not to mention the prosecutor, Alina Habba, was Trump’s personal attorney (not because of her looks of course) and has no prior prosecutorial experience.
The problem isn't Bondi and Patel. It's the totally captured justice system, particularly in Washington DC. If they can't get an indictment from a Left-controlled system, there is no moving forward. How Trump fixes this, I don't know.
Thanks for posting this, Running Logic. I am in complete agreement with Josh Hawley on this matter. Hoping that someday relatively soon we will see some concrete action against rogue judges like Boasberg and company.
And after arrests come trials in liberal blue strongholds and appeals, often all the way to the Supreme Court. Not to mention the counter lawsuits for having the audacity to arrest the ‘untouchables’. All of this takes time and many, many legal work hours.
Epstein, as much titillating fun as it seems for some, should have been saved for
I keep telling people: before the midterms. These prosecutions are complex and Bondi has to work around Biden holdovers, but Trump will be audacious as usual. Patience!
Partisan and corrupt judges are indeed an issue, but they can’t stop all of this. Besides, the process is the punishment. Just dragging them into court costs them money and reputation.
There are serious crimes including the Russia hoax, waiving immigration law to let millions in unvetted, harboring illegals in “sanctuary” cities, election fraud, lawfare, Clinton crimes, Obama crimes, the autopen group…
Telling these people: “You might go to court but nothing worse” is not only NOT punishment - it guarantees they CONTINUE to commit crimes.
About those Clintons. Both of them refused to testify in closed-door Congressional depositions this past week. Contempt of Congress citations are expected shortly. Will anyone who has enough money ever be held accountable in Washington, DC????
I’m not saying they should only get the process. I’m saying that’s the best they can hope for, if they’re lucky, and many will not be lucky. Unlike Biden, Bondi will not be using b.s. lawfare against them. She’ll bring solid cases.
I second that! The damage that lying traitor Mayorkas unleashed on our country’s peace, culture and laws is going to reverberate for many, many generations.
You work your butt off, you pay tons in taxes, you stress over college funds, orthodontist costs, health care costs, retirement, your mortgage........while your elected officials literally gave your money away to the lowest IQ people on the planet with the likely justification being kickbacks into their campaigns and outright voting support.
Not only did these Somali fraudsters rake in millions, they did so in cash while filing for govt benefits at the same time. Let that sink in. The state gave them millions in income, they paid themselves in cash and got govt welfare support.
It’s about to get really spicy. Trump (rightly) is threatening to withhold federal funds to States that continue to allow ‘sanctuary cities’. Blue States legislators w/ D majorities are considering to withhold State payments to the Federal government in response. This issue will ultimately go to SCOTUS, and I wish it would do so quickly.
if it were a bloc of uneducated white folks with guns getting cash for votes it'd be the end of democracy. Somalis....just an opportunity for democracy to work on behalf of the underserved and historically marginalized.
If the Somalis did in fact take in millions out from under the noses of taxpayers, I have difficulty with their being considered unintelligent. Looks to me like they outsmarted everyone.
These Somalis who have an average IQ of 68 somehow came up with this plan to defraud the government?
Thet were just following "orders", because do you think they also came up with the plan to donate half of the money that they defraud the government out to ActBlue?
Exactly, Ryan. Need to find the puppet masters. That’s the pot of gold so to speak. The Somalis are useful idiots and expendable to those behind the schemes. I think the DOJ is hard at work following the money.
The game for guilty politicians is to DELAY DELAY by all means necessary and manage narratives until the next administration… electing their party to win POTUS and drop investigations.
They just WAIT IT OUT and it goes away with the administration change. Every time.
4 years is not long in politics, investigations and legal action.
"I ask you— have you ever seen anything like this?"
Sure! Entire duration of the puppet presidency starting in 2020. The difference? They put nearly everyone in jail, eventually on trial, and sentenced. Didn't even matter if you were guilty or not.
I echo Rabbit's comment above: start the trials. NOW
This is the only action that will save the midterms. Without arrests and trials starting of half dozen or more key, high profile perps against the country, the game is over and the gazillion E.O.'s and policies will just get reversed. And Trump will be impeached.
But if you do that... landslide in favor of MORE!
Too much talk. Not enough painful-to-perps action.
That’s Nickson, and she’s a great writer…this particular piece about a RICO case being put together in Florida that could ultimately catch some very big fish (Clinton’s, Obama, etc) is very encouraging! Hope springs eternal…
PA liquor stores (state run) have a complete section of Canadian alcohol. Yet in the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) two weeks ago I read a printer-made (i.e., not professionally printed) notice at the check-out claiming "Better for Canada, Better for Ontario"--that the LCBO is not selling any wines from America. Shoot yourself in the foot, Canada.
you have to have some of the strangest liquor laws. We were in Amish country in Marrieta and liked a beer we had in a restaurant / bar in town. Went to a store to buy some "Can't buy it in this county. Only (can't remember which counties)
Yep, fluoride is a byproduct of the fertilizer and aluminum smelting industries. How awesome they could make money off of unwise cities and states instead of having to pay to dispose of the hazardous waste…
I’ve never had someone explain to me why we had to put fluoride in water. Now my parents were born before fluoride and their teeth are horrible, so I understand it can be important. But there’s no evidence that ingesting it is beneficial, so why not just a topical application which has shown benefits?
Also regular brushing and flossing and dentist visits to have teeth cleaned. Plus general nutrition. I think all of those may have been contributing factors in people having issues with their teeth.
If dental education can be believed: Fluoride incorporated into the enamel as it is forming (in utero for ‘baby teeth’) gives the best protection. Topical fl can help remineralize small lesions but usually just delays getting a restoration.
I barely even use EVOO anymore. If I can’t use butter, tallow, or bacon grease, then I use Avocado or Coconut oils. EVOO is still yummy for some things but lately I’ve noticed it overpowers flavor negatively for many things I eat now whereas butter or animal fat does it best. And Avocado oil literally doesn’t impact flavor at all.
Yeah I think when our nutritional advice was bad you needed the overpowering taste of EVOO to aid the flavor of the cardboard we were supposed to eat. But it clashes with a red meat diet. Still tasty on fish though.
I still think it’s a healthy option, but like Susan said it really shouldn’t have been used for medium or high heat foods.
Now that my palette is clean and restored, it’s a more pungent taste that I reserve for things it belongs with, like bruschetta, dipping oils, light fish. However my husband (who makes 95% of our salads,) has changed to using avocado oil and it doesn’t mask or create any new flavor. Quite tasty with the S&P. When I made salad last I grabbed for the EVOO and literally the entire thing was ruined for me and I had to choke it down because it overpowered everything and I had grown accustom to the gentle flavor of avocado oil.
Now I just eat olives to get the benefits of the “oil”. 🤣🤣
Like "wild" salmon, much of the EVOO sold is adulterated. Often with canola. $$$. I only buy organic for any EVOO I cook with (nothing above medium heat). For anything I put on food , like salads , roasted vegetables or fish, I use olive oil I have been buying from Rare Wines in CA for over 30 years. They send their own tasters over every harvest season, and pick individual batches from small growers. The it is shipped here in reefers (refrigerated containers). They have the best, purest olive oil available here.
I make my own mayo with avocado oil. It’s like magic with an immersion stick. I make it right in the jar I store it in. I don’t need no rotten canola oil. I don’t use much EVOO either except for a salad dressing I make with some maple mustard. Yum-mo😊. I had breakfast with a friend at a restaurant recently. Got hash browns but my mouth actually burned with the bad oil so didn’t finish it. Ugh. I feel like handing the waitress a stick of real butter to take back to the cook in every rare restaurant visit.
I use those fats too, Juju. They're wonderful. I buy EVOO with highest polyphenols from an oil and balsamic vinegar store, really expensive but worth it, and I have that poured over my sour dough bread in the morning and over my salad at night. I buy up Kerrygold butter when it's on sale. I grew up with whole milk and tallow.
Healthy fats good! I put a tbls. of organic coconut oil in my coffee along with a few shakes of Ceylon cinnamon., good for inflammation. Very mild flavor, but good. I swear the Ceylon cinnamon healed my I-band leg soreness. If using cinnamon daily Ceylon over Saigon is better; Saigon can be toxic with overuse.
I absolutely LOVE olive oil!! 😍 Always have. But my mom’s family was Italian so I grew up with it. We used it before it became trendy. I also use real butter and coconut oil, depending on what I am cooking. Olive oil is great for sautéing vegetables and I don’t mind the strong flavor, I actually really like it 😋 I buy Portuguese olive oil that has a very “green” or almost “grassy” taste and I find it heavenly! But I do think it’s a matter of taste, and what you’re used to 🙂
Same in my family, Running Logic. My grandmother used olive oil decades before it became popular. Some wineries now grow olives and make delicious oil as well. Margarine was another one we didn’t fully embrace although my mother used to use it to make pie crust, otherwise it was butter. She even did a blind taste test ( using blindfolds lol) on us kids for fun- butter vs margarine on a saltine cracker 😆 to see if we could tell the difference. We now stick to butter, ghee, coconut oil, avocado oil, and of course olive oil. Each one has a use in certain situations.
Avocado oil for my house, and try to find the organic kind. High smoke point for cast iron cooking. But it’s true EV olive oil has greater antioxidants and we use that too.
I dehydrate my own Vidalia onions. I’m up to 40 lbs ordered and shipped to me every spring from Georgia and I dehydrate 20 lbs of diced and store in jars in my garage fridge. Like little pieces of candy, so good in everything.
So I dehydrated ripe Roma tomatoes two years ago and packed them in jars in olive oil layered with fresh rosemary and basil, S&P. I STILL have one jar left in my pantry I’m working my way through and they taste like I packed them last month.
Mark Carney is playing right into the hands of the communist leader. Just started reading Sam Cooper’s book, Wilful Blindness! Reads like a spy novel, but is true to life and Canadian politicians are like puppets being held by Chinese gangsters!
please know, a "vaccine" is coming very soon to give to cows to decrease their methane production, thanks to billl gates. Big dairy jabs the hell out of cows with all different jabs:{.
You almost have to feel sorry for Canadians ( the people, not the government; although there are a bunch of eastern Canadians who voted for the stupid, corrupt liberals)
Big Brother's Coming! - Revealed Secret Plan to Tag Every Man, Woman and Child
by Joe Frick
edited by matrixcutter
October 21, 2009
from ForumPrisonPlanet Website
The following article appears on page 444 of William Cooper's
'Behold a Pale Horse.'
It was originally in the August 1, 1989 edition of The Sun.
Insanely coincidental isn't it ?
This article from 1989 speak of using a Swine Flu pandemic to get people MicroChipped, and exactly 20 years later,
we have the swine flu pandemic in the age of tiny tiny microchips
CODED MICROCHIPS implanted in every person in the country would tie all of us into a master computer that could track anyone down at any moment, and plans for such a system are already under way whether you like it or not!
The secret scheme is being touted as a service for the protection of the people by high government officials, but some insiders who object to the move say it's just another way for Big Brother to control its subjects.
Transmitters
"Top-level national security agents are trying to convince sources in the Bush Administration to begin the project in which every man, woman and child will be implanted with a tiny transmitter," claims Davis Milerand, a critic of government intervention who says he has received leaked information from inside sources.
"They're trying to say this will be a good way for authorities to quickly track down missing persons and children, as well as criminals and spies."
Injections
"But with the astounding technology of today, everything about you could be contained in one tiny microchip, which would be connected to a government computer.
"Any government agency will know what any person has done and is doing at any time."
Other sources say the tiny transmitters can be injected painlessly from a tiny gun in humans without them even knowing it through a nationwide vaccination program.
"All the government would have to do is make up something like the swine flu vaccine," Milerand says.
"Imagine if they said there was a vaccine for AIDS. People would rush in droves to get shots.
"The doctors themselves may not even know what they're injecting. They could be told the microchips are genetic implants that reprogram the body into fighting disease."
He adds:
"The program would require all federal, state and local government workers to undergo the injections."
"It would only be a matter of time before everyone is implanted with a microchip, a slave to the government."
Minnesota is the perfect place for Trump to make an example out of left-wing politicians and their corruption. The state is big, but not too big. Walz and Frey are morons, no doubt too stupid to cover their tracks (unlike Newsom who is evil but clever). The Somalis are obviously a pretty rotten and corrupt group, also too foolish and arrogant to cover their tracks. They are the least sympathetic immigrant group possible.
On top of that you have the absurd "Minnesota nice" culture where never offending anyone (i.e. being "nice") is a phony substitute for actual kindness (looking out for other's best interests and being truthful with them). It's a population obsessed with showcasing their virtue, which makes them vain and arrogant, and vain/arrogant people are prone to do really stupid things. The perfect example being the now deceased Renee Good and her supposed "wife" who thought they were LARPing as female superheroes.
Add into the mix the diabolical Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) whose stronghold is in Minnesota. The "church" is ridiculous with homosexual bishops, trans pastors, and every other frootloop that comes down the pike being gleefully affirmed. It's the coupling of "nice" culture and a perversion of the gospels commands to be kind. The church's role in this whole thing, particularly mass importing 68-IQ Somalians and facilitating their fraud needs to be exposed. The church needs to be destroyed (which admittedly they are already doing themselves by driving sane people away).
There's a strategic genius in singling out Minnesota for this, particularly right in the middle of their God-forsaken Winter. Someone (probably Stephen Miller) thought this through.
I live in Mpls. & we have had an insurrection (the Marxist Dems) & an invasion (the parasitic pirates from Somalia). ICE is having one helluva time dealing with this so we the people shouldn’t? Propagandized, media mind controlled, the TDS mental illness off the charts, threatened (especially if you are conservative), lied to & taxed to death. As for MN nice: people will be nice to your face but put them in a car & you will find out what they are really like. Scandinavians are known to be emotionless but don’t forget that we are Vikings to the core. Watch out when the sleeping giant wakes up!!
Interesting that you mention Scandinavians. It was those countries who, after Germany, welcomed muslims into their countries to find they'd let the devils in. Sadly their young women found out the hard way. But, the tide is turning for them, finally.
Jeff C., not all Minnesotans are like this. I have lived in MN most of my 70 years and I love this state. It's full of kind and wonderful people, many of whom are faith-filled.
I just can't stand our catfish of a governor--I love Jeff's description of this fungus, Tampon Tim!!!! 🤠
I know and I completely get that Randy. But someone is voting for Tampon Tim so what I describe above must apply to a huge group of people in the state. Not you obviously, but lots of people.
Minnesotans stood by and watched while large areas of their low-crime, high social cohesion state was destroyed by insane immigration policies and letting criminals run free. It happened in a generation. Why did Minnesotans allow this? Because they had been brainwashed into believing that it wouldn't be "nice" to say no. They were manipulated through guilt that it would be evil and racist to object to the mass importation of illiterate, non-Christian aliens with no western civilization roots.
Seriously, of all the places to mass import Black, Muslim, East Africans, why was overwhelmingly White, Christian Minnesota chosen? It was obviously to destroy the Christian social fabric of the state, and not only didn't Minnesotans object, they facilitated it.
I point this out no to denigrate Minnesotans (well maybe a little) but to show this is what happens when people are more concerned with how others view them (i.e. being "nice", virtue signaling, vanity) than actually following Christ's commands to be kind. The mass importation was decidedly unkind to lower-class White Minnesotans who couldn't afford to flee the dysfunction brought by Somalians, what was done to them was evil.
The Minnesota Nice thing is definitely NOT a good thing, but the Minnesota goodbye most of the time is. (This is when it takes about 30-45 minutes to finally leave after beginning the process of leaving!)
However, the Minnesota goodbye to these bad Somali actors can't happen soon enough!!!!
Thanks Randy. I'm a hockey nut so there's lots of things I love about small town Minnesota (and Canadian for that matter) culture. The ethos of hard work, sense of fairness, and concern for others are all great things.
But what happened in Minnesota (and Canada too) was that the trusting, naive, good nature of these people was exploited. They thought everyone else was acting in good faith like they were. Not only that, they were brainwashed with a false morality that boasting about how much one "cares" become more important than being truthful about what was actually happening.
Ultimately, it's rooted in a perversion of the gospel and Christian morality. The masses accepted a false gospel completely at odds with what the actual New Testament says. This was done primarily by the media, Hollywood, and false teachers, all heavily influenced by Non-Christian bad faith actors.
To a T, this is the case in the Atlantic provinces of Canada… nice, nice, but cannot see the deceit of media and Muslims…so they are seen mostly as ignorant, not arrogant , but ignorant.
Thanks and agreed, but we should be clear that Muslims aren't the only issue here. Jews and Hindus are extremely hostile to Christianity, in fact the Talmud specifically blasphemes Christ in a manner that would shock most Christians.
This started decades ago, long before Muslims had a foothold in the US and Canada. And who facilitated the mass invasion of our countries by non-Christians? It wasn't Muslims. The leadership of every socially-destructive left-wing cause is dominated by one particular ethnic group, they are Jewish, usually atheist Jews. This isn't even debatable, they are overrepresented twenty-fold compared to their percentage of the population.
Mass importation of Muslims has been terrible for our countries, but you are blaming the symptom not the cause.
Add this to the list of immoral behavior. Sex ceremonies at Amherst college for 1st year students. Videos and pics. This is beyond grotesque and in a school chapel no less. Interestingly, the chapel does not have a Christian pastor, only other religions represented.
—“this is what happens when people are more concerned with how others view them (i.e. being "nice", virtue signaling, vanity) than actually following Christ's commands to be kind.”
Thanks, and I know that you meant what you said in a general way--Many times when I respond or reply, I also do so with my blinders on.
I wish I could send you the image I created after reading C&C this morning. It's an image of Walz with hands outstretched saying (and Jeff's catfish photo below), "I admit, I do look like a catfish!" 🐈 🐟 LOL
Jeff C: You are spot on about being nice. The Bible lists kindness as one of the fruit of the Spirit, not niceness. Being nice is not kindness. Speaking truth in love is kindness, even when that truth is hard.
That lutheran church is no church. They are mocking the word of God with their immorality. I look forward to minneapolis going the way of Sodom and Gomorrah which they richly deserve.
The Lutheran Church is no longer one broad rush body. The American Lutheran Church is divided into synods. This has been for well over a century. The Missouri and Wisconsin synods are the two Conservative synods. They vary only by a couple of doctrinal issues. The ELCA, is a marriage of two synods that expanded out to the West coast and has, as Jeff stated become an outlier, and if we could excommunicate the “Lutheran” from their title I would, but this is a problem all traditional churches are facing and one that is driving a wedge into many. The Methodist church is splitting apart and I don’t know if it will survive. The Baptists are feeling this and look at what’s happening to the Roman Catholic Church. Some may say this is good, but when we lose traditional values, we may never get them back.
My kids attended Missouri Synod (LCMS) schools once we decided we decided we needed to pull them out of public schools immediately. The schools were serious about Jesus, the Bible, and staffed by genuinely wonderful people. Because they were strongly biblical, they didn't fall for *any* of the worldly madness going on. Everything was tested against the Bible.
At orientation, the principal addressed the parents with, "my promise to you is that your children will NEVER be taught anything contrary to God's Word at this school." Hallelujah.
I can't vouch for every LCMS school obviously, but I can say our experience was a fantastic blessing. We are not Lutheran, but these people are my brothers and sisters in Christ. Finding the school was quite literally an answer to prayer.
My one criticism of the LCMS (and it's significant) is that at the national level they unbelievably still partner with ELCA on social services under some misguided sense of Lutheran brotherhood. I'm not an LCMS member, but if I was considering it, this would be a dealbreaker.
WELS… Wisconsin Lutheran Synod is absolutely staying true to its conservative, bible and catechism teachings. Born and raised and K-8 in our one room church school in rural Wisconsin.
How does a depressed person view life? There are sad days, and also ● ● ● Saturdays...
Speaking of, happy Saturday C&C! Start your cringing engines, and let the wincing commense!
A horse walked into a bar ● ● ● Bartender: Hey! ● ● ● Horse: Yes please
Witty WiFi IDs ● ● ● Drop it like it's hotspot ● ● ● The Promised LAN ● ● ● Wu Tang LAN ● ● ● Winternet is coming ● ● ● A LAN time ago ● ● ● I believe Wi can Fi ● ● ● Vladamir Routin ● ● ● What's the SSID
If you boil a funny bone it becomes a laughing stock. ● ● ● That's pretty humerus.
Funny, those road signs: "Caution - Watch for children! ● ● ● I mean, how dangerous can a child be?
My laptop was making funny noises today, it sounded like it was singing... ● ● ● Probably because it's a Dell
Why are mountains so funny? ● ● ● Because they are hill areas.
My friends told me a joke so funny that it stopped water from flowing ● ● ● It was damn funny
Women say they like a man who is "funny" and "spontaneous" ● ● ● But you knock on their bedroom window at midnight wearing a clown costume and suddenly it's all screaming and throwing things and police sirens.
When you tell a joke that's so funny... even HR wants to hear it again.
I was told since I’m ugly, to try to be funny. ● ● ● So I started telling people I’m good-looking.
In a movie theater crowd watches a movie. During funny moments only one person laughs. Confusingly, he turns around and explains: ● ● ● ● ● ● "Sorry, I haven't seen the trailer."
Why are 490 Romans funny? ● ● ● Because XD
It is funny how my wife waits for me in the kitchen all night till I come back from the pub... ● ● ● ...just to ask me what time it is.
A farmer heard some funny noises from one of his goats. ● ● ● Turns out the goat was just kidding.
People always ask what's so special about my chiropractor. I tell them she's so funny ... ● ● ● She cracks me up.
Me – “I am amazing at managing my credit card” ● ● ● Because my bank keeps sending me messages saying my account is ***outstanding***!
I think it's funny when dogs hide under the bed when they're scared. ● ● ● I'm thinking, "You silly gooses, that's the first place monsters go!"
It’s 1/4 funny ● ● ● A guy took his blonde girlfriend to a super bowl game. They had great seats right behind their teams bench. ● ● ● After the game he asked her how she liked it. ● ● ● “Oh, I really liked it,” she replied. “I just don’t understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents”
Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, ● ● ● “What do you mean?” ● ● ● “Well they flipped a quarter, one team got it, then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was...‘get the quarterback!, get the quarterback!’ ● ● ● I’m like Hellooooo, it’s only 25 cents!”
I named our router a long time ago. It’s “Show Me The Money”. It was funny back then to see it in the list, but these days I’m sure it’s odd to younguns. 🤣
INFLATION: dinner for three in Orlando Florida last night, no alcohol for any of us, only tap water. Three entrees. Not a high end restaurant - named “The Hampton Social”: $128. I ordered a burger $23. Wife had vegetarian entree, daughter had a (just ok) steak. They tried to charge me $10 extra for a side of broccolini - I will never pay extra for broccolini. I’ll maybe eat it, won’t buy it on purpose for extra, but I digress. I remember when a mid-tier (slightly higher end than a Carrabbas or Chilli’s) restaurant’s dinner for three would come in under $65 bucks… will deflation ever happen?
As an employer, the minimum wage is killing us. It's currently $17.13 in Washington state. I'm not sure if I can raise my prices high enough to keep customers coming.
Generally, no. Some asset prices like homes will come down. The stock market. Maybe even cars since they're unaffordable and demand is still a component of prices. But thanks to President Cabbage and the Fed, the massive amount of money printed into this economy has probably changed general price levels. Barring a massive deflationary recession. But who knows. That could happen too! I like Jeff's optimism but I'm not sure I'm all on board.
Wow, your answer was way better than grok or chatGPT. Sometimes when my wife asks me a question, I’m forced to answer (in a robotic voice): “your husband has reached the limits of his mental capacity. Please consult ChatGPT…”
They need to roll back all of the regulatory BS & spy tech that has made cars unaffordable, and bring back the basic car. My mom had a Saturn, that she drove for 12 years and then sold cheap to my 17 YO son who drove it another 6. Manual windows and no bells and whistles but very reliable until its last year. Then both he and my daughter both bought late model used Chevy Cruz's. Daughter bought one first and then he liked hers so bought one too. Similar in that they were small (good gas mileage), affordable and reliable. My son is still driving his 2013. although he did replace the engine 4 years ago due to his negligence in changing the oil. (expensive lesson, but still better than a car payment).
I agree with you 100%. Once a month (In Florida) we treat ourselves. Last week, my Chicken Picata was $17.55 - hubby’s salmon was $22.55. Portions were very modest, none left to take home. I would have paid a few $$ for broccolini :) I had to squint to find the steamed watery veges.
Karen, The Conservative Treehouse did an excellent explainer early in the C19 crisis on how supply chains for restaurants are different than for groceries, and how completely disrupted they were for restaurants, effects of which will unlikely go completely away. Not sure how to find that post though, sorry.
Never. The minimum wage may have increased and the auto workers may be making more but wages are still depressed in my field. I’m a software engineer and I took a $5k cut for my current job and I’m happy to have it because the jobs still seem scarce. When I see a new job posting, the salary is still depressed.
On another note, on 2 driving trips in last 3 months, I stopped for dinner at Cracker Barrel. It was over $50 for 2 people for 2 entrees and 2 drinks. Portions seemed smaller and you had to hunt for the chicken in the chicken and dumplings. So, costs are up, portions are smaller and lower quality. We rarely eat out unless traveling. So, yes, the cost of dining out seems to have skyrocketed.
Same here, and sticker shock is real. We rarely eat out for dinner but I do go to lunch with friends occasionally and the era of the $10 lunch menu is over. Paid $16 (plus tax and tip) for an Asian salad at a locally owned place, that was very good, actually, but a similar salad was $9.99 at a chain place a few years ago. And coffee, beef and chocolate in the grocery stores are still very high, although I have caught some sales on chicken lately, so guess the bird flu is less of a thing these days.
Having been in restaurant management, albeit many years ago now, food costs are a small portion of the overall tab. Venturing a guess that these demands for a 'living wage' for entry level jobs is driving this, and wages are NOT going down. I did meet a friend for lunch at a new noodle place last month, and a waiter came and took our order. BUT a robot, really more like a talking cart brought it to us! Waiter did come by and check on us and then brought the bill. I joked that did we need to tip him or the robot. Suspect more of that tech is going to replace jobs as I assume the waiter can cover more tables this way and thus need fewer waiters? Other than invitations to meet friends or a special occasion, we rarely eat out, but when we do, sticker shock seems to be the norm.
Our town keeps seeing more and more new restaurants opening up as part of these horrid 'mixed use' developments (apartments, retail and restaurants) that get big tax breaks. I just wonder how many will last, and or how many people can afford to patronize all of these places on a regular basis.
Speaking of those mixed use developments, the ‘affordable’ apartments are $1600 a month and are barely 400sq ft. Of course they are empty. The developers got the big tax breaks of course like you said.
And yep, too many restaurants, and we have food cart pods as well, a big deal these days, but the prices that used to be much cheaper are reaching brick and mortar prices.
Yes the entire KC metro is burgeoning apt and mixed use developments and most cities hand out incentives like candy in a parade. I keep asking who is going to LIVE in all of these apartments!? Metro population has seen some modest growth but we are not a boom town. And shipping out 20-30 million illegals is going to be a big help for this so called 'housing crisis' every pol likes to wring their hands over. My fear in my community is that if they sit empty they will turn to Section 8 to fill them and then it's all over. 15 years ago our lovely suburban enclave was 80%+ single family owned homes. We are now at 65% SF homes to 35% apartments. Crime is up. Traffic is a snarled mess and our 'small town feel with the big city amenities' and the high level of community volunteerism and engagement is now more like every other city, with woke harpies screaming at people, bike lanes with zero people on them and taxes going up non-stop due to idiots voting for them and then complaining about affordability.
I'm with you. Jeff keeps touting low inflation, but I do the shopping, and my eyes still bug out when I see the prices vs. the last time I was there. Don't eat except when we are on vacation, but our fall trip to Maine we stopped eating lunch out the last few days becausee we got sick of the prices. $35 for a clam belly Po Boy? Heck, that's more than a lobster roll.
The official inflation rate based on the consumer price index is a complete deception. Jeff needs to get off that and go find a real inflation representation. The price index formula has been "tweeked" and revised so many times by the Gov't to make it look good, it's now a complete lie.
Have not looked in years, but John Williams' Shadow Stats published inflation and jobless numbers using Carter era criterion. When I was looking for years inflation was in the low to mid '20's, and jobless over 10 %.
Paid $2K ~20 years ago for all of Bonners umbrella services and writers. Small annual premium too. I stopped the latter years ago after he kept chipping away, removing the best writers including himself, charging another premium for each, one at a time. Had dinner sitting next to him in 2008 at a party in honor of him being in Rancho Santana at his house for the first time in years. Nice guy, smart guy, very rich guy, but a weenie who makes other people do his dirty work.
When a populist talks about solving inflation he only means the rate at which the purchasing power of paper money, and pennies, is declining is "down" to something "acceptable" (to him/her). Populists don't "get" the ramifications of "un-sound money."
We went out to the Texas Roadhouse last week for my younger kid's birthday last week. I had an 8 ounce sirloin steak with 2 sides for $16.95, if I remember right.
Of course, here in Kansas, the minimum wage is still $7.25, and in this liberal hellhole of Lawrence, a lot of people actually are only paid $11 an hour.
I remember the inflation of the 1970s. And oh yes, the inflation/shrinkflation of 2007, for which I have never heard an explanation.
I have never ever seen prices come down. Whoops! I should say generally speaking. A pound of store labeled butter at WINCO has come down by around $.50 within the last few months.
Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon went to prison because they refused to testify against former President Trump.
President Trump - well we all know what the democrats threw at him. I think if Pam Bondi is sacked and someone halfway decent is put in, some high level people could go to jail.
Xi looks like he's thinking, "I'm now reduced to shaking hands with second-rate Prime Ministers... and isn't a Carney a traveling sideshow actor." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If any of you watch or listen to the Ruthless podcast, did you immediately think of ‘hard pivot’ when listening to the Shapiro/Newsome exchange? Newsome is Olympic-level at pivoting a question to his preferred talking points while not answering one iota of the question. It’s kind of hilarious until you realize that many people don’t see it, then it’s depressing.
Thankfully more people are finally paying attention, but man it's taken way too long. Faint silver lining, at least seeing through Newscum doesn't get us labeled a racist like it did with Obama.
Here's an idea: take any interview of Newsome and whenever the interviewer asks a hard question, put that text onto the screen and leave it there until he answers the question.
Let the un-answered questions fill the screen slowly until at the end, the listener can't escape the obvious fact that not one hard question was answered.
To be fair, most pols would fail this...which means we should do it to all of them!
And the one where Ben asked him about the extortionate taxes in California and Newsome started talking about taxes in other states. Ben said ‘but we’re talking about California.’ Hahahaha
A Mitt Romney clone. Same hair same forked tongue same two face… bet they could call gav… flip flop gav… or just little flip flop mittens both products of the same school of Trudeau et al. Gosh them fellas sure for a specific look and smell about them. Pee-Eewww 🧐
But just as much fun to see standing on thin air "just off" the edge of the cliff, staring straight into the camera: "Uh oh. I fink I see what I did wong."
" The Freemasons should control all men of every class, nation and religion, dominating them without obvious compulsion; uniting them through a strong bond; inspiring them with enthusiasm to spread common ideas; and with utmost secrecy and energy, direct them toward this singular objective throughout the world."
When process serving turns into convictions I will become interested.
Until then, its just any version of a grand psyop when the end goal to keep the masses at ease thinking justice will be served (aka a real Constitutional Republic) inorder to prevent the same mass from actually forceably obtaining justice (aka Democracy).
I feel the same sometimes. Like we’re strung alone until the administration changes and then everything stops. I like how Jeff refers to the “somebody said something” headlines. I tune out until milestones like indictments and arrests happened. Investigations may never end. Subpoenas are a waist unless they result in perjury charges, but those are lesser jail time and can result in dropping the actual crime charges.
You mean there is a Uniparty passing of the baton every four years? Thats rhetorical. One hand represents the Democrat party destroyers and the other hand represents the Republican party enablers (that includes Trump unless real Deep State destruction happens). The baton represents OUR Constitutional Republic... and just like an actual track, we always come back to the starting point in order to begin yet another loop around the track towards technocratic corporate fascism.
Please add to your list: Brennan, Clapper, Clintons, Fauci, Birx and Paul Ryan, the despicable little creep who, as House Speaker, did everything he could to thwart Trump 1.0.
That warfare can go both ways… why just yesterday I reminded my son to have faith in God… he said that’s the best thing he hear all week! 🙏 keep the spirit going 🙏
Did you know back when they decided to make people eat it,They sent out free recipe books to Housewives so they could incorporate it into their daily baking and cooking? Honestly, how evil!
When I was born in 1950, American housewives typically used coconut oil, lard, tallow and butter for cooking, all proven healthy,... and making their only laundry soap. I can recall my mom switching to Crisco to fry chicken in her new aluminum electric skillet, as opposed to the traditional iron skillet, and then scrapping the skillet to make gravy. Oh the convenience of modern 1950s life! No wonder my dad got Alzheimer's as well as cancer and diabetes. Of course, the Crisco commercials were all over the new black&white TV, along with Philip Morris cigarettes.
Subpoenas are great. However, the country is in sore need of incarcerations which are lagging far, far, far behind.
Subpoenas must come before indictments. Arrests come before prison time.
In other words, LTMW. Thanks Dave, in full agreement.
I thought there'd be at least one or two indictments at this point.
There have been. Look at Comey and Leticia, the corrupt judicial system protects them. Trump is fighting an entrenched criminal syndicate that doesn't care about justice.
Comey indicted only after replacing the prosecutor in charge, a week before statue of limitations expired, lefty judge throws it out, too late on it.
If that's prosecution, I'm stocking up on ammo.
Highly successful people reach that success by VERY QUICKLY RECOGNIZING THEIR MISTAKES AND CORRECTING THEM.
Bondi's had a year. Nothing but TV and show crap, nothing of significance, fooked up Epstein effort.
Johnson done nothing in House but frustrate. Still backs him.
Far, far too much focus on Israel, Gaza, Iran, Ukraine. Almost nothing at home except economics. Which will be destroyed if he doesn't destroy the cycle of corruption before midterms are lost.
I don't understand the Israel control and focus of our "leaders," but I understand clearly the impact of the coup, the deep state, and the Communists that WILL destroy this country if Trump doesn't make some of them pay ultimate or extreme prices for their traitorous actions.
Time is short. If the queue is full, unleash NOW!
It’s ALL theater .
Saving them for this summer to maximize effect on the midterms. Like don’t fire till you see the whites of there pasty faces.
Sorry Folks they couldn’t even understand that the Prosecutor on the Comey case was not properly appointed. The DOJ isn’t going to deliver justice ever.
Makes you wonder why they would take the chance of losing the case.
Not to mention the prosecutor, Alina Habba, was Trump’s personal attorney (not because of her looks of course) and has no prior prosecutorial experience.
Have you noticed ANY indictments, arrests or prison time for any of the seditious scumbags of the left? Me neither.
Russiagate... J6 committee... election FRAUD... (Omar's) immigration and campaign finance crimes?
Target rich environment... but Blondi and Kash only shoot blanks.
The problem isn't Bondi and Patel. It's the totally captured justice system, particularly in Washington DC. If they can't get an indictment from a Left-controlled system, there is no moving forward. How Trump fixes this, I don't know.
Congress is going to have to get off their bloated behinds and review some federal judges. Maybe some indictments there could also help.
An effort to impeach Boasberg:
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/01/08/mo-senators-hawley-and-schmitt-team-up-to-lay-out-the-case-for-boasberg-impeachment-and-accountability-n2197908?
Thanks for posting this, Running Logic. I am in complete agreement with Josh Hawley on this matter. Hoping that someday relatively soon we will see some concrete action against rogue judges like Boasberg and company.
KBJ next, Running. Incompetence on full display.
That would send a message!
It is BOTH.
Kash and Blondi are stone LIARS... who have betrayed us conservatives, hoping for a LEGIT DOJ and true equal justice under the law.
Yes, the Judicial system is FUBAR.
Blondi and Kash. I like it. Get them a Ford Torino with lightning flash paint job and turn em loose.
And after arrests come trials in liberal blue strongholds and appeals, often all the way to the Supreme Court. Not to mention the counter lawsuits for having the audacity to arrest the ‘untouchables’. All of this takes time and many, many legal work hours.
Epstein, as much titillating fun as it seems for some, should have been saved for
later.
So you’re saying the 10,000 attorneys at the DOJ can only work on one case at a time?
I keep telling people: before the midterms. These prosecutions are complex and Bondi has to work around Biden holdovers, but Trump will be audacious as usual. Patience!
Nothing matters if the judge on the bench is corrupt and willing to just throw everything out.
Partisan and corrupt judges are indeed an issue, but they can’t stop all of this. Besides, the process is the punishment. Just dragging them into court costs them money and reputation.
Well, no.
There are serious crimes including the Russia hoax, waiving immigration law to let millions in unvetted, harboring illegals in “sanctuary” cities, election fraud, lawfare, Clinton crimes, Obama crimes, the autopen group…
Telling these people: “You might go to court but nothing worse” is not only NOT punishment - it guarantees they CONTINUE to commit crimes.
About those Clintons. Both of them refused to testify in closed-door Congressional depositions this past week. Contempt of Congress citations are expected shortly. Will anyone who has enough money ever be held accountable in Washington, DC????
Or maybe it's about how much they know about so many people.
I’m not saying they should only get the process. I’m saying that’s the best they can hope for, if they’re lucky, and many will not be lucky. Unlike Biden, Bondi will not be using b.s. lawfare against them. She’ll bring solid cases.
Hope so.
The process can be part of the punishment but that hasn’t happened for most of these people either. It’s very challenging to be patient.
No, the process isn’t the punishment. That’s NOT what millions of Americans told themselves when DJT stated he was our ‘Retribution’.
I want to see myorkas hanged.
He must be in hiding somewhere.
I second that! The damage that lying traitor Mayorkas unleashed on our country’s peace, culture and laws is going to reverberate for many, many generations.
Congress is going to have to get off their bloated behinds and review some federal judges. Maybe some indictments there could also help.
That’s always been true though. Nothing new but the amount of
And yet the throwing out by corrupt judges seems to happen on just one side of the political divide.
I'm still keeping the faith, but it sure seems like it never goes anywhere unless its a republican.
But I think Walz got excited when he heard the word "probe".
Or maybe its the opposite and those faces he makes are cuz he realizes he faces a hundred miles of prison duck.
Sorry couldn't help myself.
PRICKster has been quieter lately since DOJ is targeting these fraudsters.
I noticed that.
Its soooo infuriating.
You work your butt off, you pay tons in taxes, you stress over college funds, orthodontist costs, health care costs, retirement, your mortgage........while your elected officials literally gave your money away to the lowest IQ people on the planet with the likely justification being kickbacks into their campaigns and outright voting support.
Not only did these Somali fraudsters rake in millions, they did so in cash while filing for govt benefits at the same time. Let that sink in. The state gave them millions in income, they paid themselves in cash and got govt welfare support.
It’s about to get really spicy. Trump (rightly) is threatening to withhold federal funds to States that continue to allow ‘sanctuary cities’. Blue States legislators w/ D majorities are considering to withhold State payments to the Federal government in response. This issue will ultimately go to SCOTUS, and I wish it would do so quickly.
Most of that cash went straight back to democrat politicians.
if it were a bloc of uneducated white folks with guns getting cash for votes it'd be the end of democracy. Somalis....just an opportunity for democracy to work on behalf of the underserved and historically marginalized.
They need to be "marginalized" all the way back to Somalia.
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
If the Somalis did in fact take in millions out from under the noses of taxpayers, I have difficulty with their being considered unintelligent. Looks to me like they outsmarted everyone.
They're just puppets.
These Somalis who have an average IQ of 68 somehow came up with this plan to defraud the government?
Thet were just following "orders", because do you think they also came up with the plan to donate half of the money that they defraud the government out to ActBlue?
Like they come up with that plan, too, right?
Exactly, Ryan. Need to find the puppet masters. That’s the pot of gold so to speak. The Somalis are useful idiots and expendable to those behind the schemes. I think the DOJ is hard at work following the money.
https://www.westernjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tim-Walz-4-817x429.jpg
. . . when he heard the word "probe".
I'm dyin'
it's a little "naughty", but i couldn't help myself.....
just callin' a spade a spade.
I guess I missed it. Could someone explain to me all the gags about probes and Walz?
please re-read Ryan's comment about him getting excited about the word, read it ALL.
then, LOOK at the image I posted the link to. . .
and consider Walz facing time in a prison . . .
then, read between the lines.
It's no fun if I have to spell it out for you.
I liked the image of the bloated catfish…it was perfect.
The game for guilty politicians is to DELAY DELAY by all means necessary and manage narratives until the next administration… electing their party to win POTUS and drop investigations.
They just WAIT IT OUT and it goes away with the administration change. Every time.
4 years is not long in politics, investigations and legal action.
Exactly. I hope it doesn't take 10 years to "disappear".
For example, how long did the FBI hold a 14 year old girls accusations about Epstien? Since 1996.
Maybe the DOJ needs to act like Ds and arrest first ask questions later...but, I suppose its better to rise above that so its considered legitimate.
This has become a sad truth.
Zero means they, incarcerations, don't exist. If Bondi is nipping at your heels you don't need shoes to protect your heels.
Yeah, Pamnesia's got to go.
I hate to say this, but i was right 7 months ago, after the Epstein dancing binder video, to say she needed to be replaced.
But, I think Trump is riding her hard now.
We shall see.
I wanted her gone after she threatened to arrest people for "hate speech" after the Charlie Kirk assassination. Hate speech is not a thing.
. . . riding her hard now.
Ha!
Bondi should have never even been appointed given her fraudulent behavior during the whole George Zimmerman/Travon Martin fiasco.
Perhaps....the Trump admin and DOJ are timing prosecutions for maximum impact. Just a thought...
Word on the street is that PACER shows over 500,000 sealed federal indictments. The subpoenas may be to walk the public through them before unsealing.
Good to remember. We have known about these for a long time. Maybe it will all be wrapped up in the RICO case.
Maybe .....
Makes sense.
Hang on a minute, I thought in-car serrations had something to do with the new Tesla update?
Unlike the Democrats, Trump is using due process, and letting them sweat while the process processes.
Sure
"I ask you— have you ever seen anything like this?"
Sure! Entire duration of the puppet presidency starting in 2020. The difference? They put nearly everyone in jail, eventually on trial, and sentenced. Didn't even matter if you were guilty or not.
I echo Rabbit's comment above: start the trials. NOW
This is the only action that will save the midterms. Without arrests and trials starting of half dozen or more key, high profile perps against the country, the game is over and the gazillion E.O.'s and policies will just get reversed. And Trump will be impeached.
But if you do that... landslide in favor of MORE!
Too much talk. Not enough painful-to-perps action.
Choose wisely.
I agree
Agreed.
Not to mention canola oil is getting MAHAd right off the mainstream diet along with the other seed oils.
Canola is best used for 1 thing, and 1 thing only. The 1st ingredient in Synthetic Motor Oil.
If they did not hydrogenate it, it would be poison. This way, it only kills you slowly. 7 years to get it out of your body
And now apparently the Chinese are going to make themselves unhealthy by importing the Canadian stuff.
No, they’ll sent it to us in our made-in-China medications.
Or bio-diesel.
Canada doing its usual level best to do something insignificant and tell Canadians how good its government is.
Virtue signaling as always
Elizabeth Nixon dropped a great article this morning about corruption in Canada, along the lines of what’s going on with our NGOs here in the US.
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethnickson/p/the-monstrous-century-long-theft?r=z2cc5&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
That’s Nickson, and she’s a great writer…this particular piece about a RICO case being put together in Florida that could ultimately catch some very big fish (Clinton’s, Obama, etc) is very encouraging! Hope springs eternal…
Yikes, I did spell her name wrong. Thanks for correcting me!
She is a great writer! I enjoy reading her Substack pieces very much!
Yes, that is a great article. I’m currently reading Nickson’s book “The Monkey-puzzle Tree” and it’s a page-turner.
If you're interested in monkeys and conspiracies, check out Dr. Mary's Monkey by Edward T. Haslam. You won't believe it.
A good way to support some of the substacks we follow (without paid subscriptions) is to purchase their books!
Jaw dropping article. Buy her a cup of coffee!
She is a GREAT follow.
She definitely is!
Yes… excellent if not profound and ominous deep dive…
Thanks for linking - just read to my Canadian born hubby who knew all the names and found it fascinating!
Yes! Read that this morning too!
What I like about her is that she is optimistic, seeing the tide turning!
She’s said that she refuses to be black-pilled.
I refuse to be black pilled too.
PA liquor stores (state run) have a complete section of Canadian alcohol. Yet in the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) two weeks ago I read a printer-made (i.e., not professionally printed) notice at the check-out claiming "Better for Canada, Better for Ontario"--that the LCBO is not selling any wines from America. Shoot yourself in the foot, Canada.
MAid appears to be doing something approximating that.
you have to have some of the strangest liquor laws. We were in Amish country in Marrieta and liked a beer we had in a restaurant / bar in town. Went to a store to buy some "Can't buy it in this county. Only (can't remember which counties)
In PA cannot purchase beer/ale in state liquor stores. Only in special beer stores. Whyyyy?
Sounds like a 200 hundred year old law to me. 🙄
Probably more like a post-Prohibition thing (but not sufficiently interested to look into this--I just brew my own)
Same here in Nova Scotia... no more USA wines or whiskeys 🙄😢🇨🇦
Exactly what I was thinking.
The world is waking up to the fact that Canola oil is an industrial byproduct, not actual food.
Acting as though this is a fabulous trade is silly.
What’s next? Asbestos?
Fluoride in water, hopefully.
Edited to clarify: Investigate and stop fluoridating water.
Yep, fluoride is a byproduct of the fertilizer and aluminum smelting industries. How awesome they could make money off of unwise cities and states instead of having to pay to dispose of the hazardous waste…
I’ve never had someone explain to me why we had to put fluoride in water. Now my parents were born before fluoride and their teeth are horrible, so I understand it can be important. But there’s no evidence that ingesting it is beneficial, so why not just a topical application which has shown benefits?
Also regular brushing and flossing and dentist visits to have teeth cleaned. Plus general nutrition. I think all of those may have been contributing factors in people having issues with their teeth.
If dental education can be believed: Fluoride incorporated into the enamel as it is forming (in utero for ‘baby teeth’) gives the best protection. Topical fl can help remineralize small lesions but usually just delays getting a restoration.
Interesting, thanks!
Well, I was referring to the “deal” with canola oil.
Surprised they didn’t get a “deal” with asbestos,
too. But I didn’t make that very clear. 😝😉
😹
You’ll never guess who’s pro fluoride in water.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-admin-fights-historic-fluoride-ruling/#:~:text=The%20Trump%20administration%20is%20fighting%20a%20court,of%20the%20district%20court's%20September%202024%20decision
no surprise. I don't agree with Trump on lots of other things too. There are lots of studies about how bad it is. Several books written about this; e.g., https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Fluoride-Hazardous-Drinking/dp/1603582878
Kennedy Jr is against fluoride in drinking water.
Maybe Carney is going to get last laugh after all, poisoning the Chinese with his sketchy seed oil.
Right! I got off the seed-oils long before it was fashionable. Stuff went rancid in my FL cupboard. And it didn’t taste as luxurious as EVOO.
I barely even use EVOO anymore. If I can’t use butter, tallow, or bacon grease, then I use Avocado or Coconut oils. EVOO is still yummy for some things but lately I’ve noticed it overpowers flavor negatively for many things I eat now whereas butter or animal fat does it best. And Avocado oil literally doesn’t impact flavor at all.
I see your point! We use butter quite a lot, especially in my morning eggs. Or sautéed mushrooms….. Or sautéed asparagus….
Yeah I think when our nutritional advice was bad you needed the overpowering taste of EVOO to aid the flavor of the cardboard we were supposed to eat. But it clashes with a red meat diet. Still tasty on fish though.
I still think it’s a healthy option, but like Susan said it really shouldn’t have been used for medium or high heat foods.
Now that my palette is clean and restored, it’s a more pungent taste that I reserve for things it belongs with, like bruschetta, dipping oils, light fish. However my husband (who makes 95% of our salads,) has changed to using avocado oil and it doesn’t mask or create any new flavor. Quite tasty with the S&P. When I made salad last I grabbed for the EVOO and literally the entire thing was ruined for me and I had to choke it down because it overpowered everything and I had grown accustom to the gentle flavor of avocado oil.
Now I just eat olives to get the benefits of the “oil”. 🤣🤣
Like "wild" salmon, much of the EVOO sold is adulterated. Often with canola. $$$. I only buy organic for any EVOO I cook with (nothing above medium heat). For anything I put on food , like salads , roasted vegetables or fish, I use olive oil I have been buying from Rare Wines in CA for over 30 years. They send their own tasters over every harvest season, and pick individual batches from small growers. The it is shipped here in reefers (refrigerated containers). They have the best, purest olive oil available here.
Almost exclusively butter now myself. I have some good duck fat but it never caught on with me. Yet. Lol.
Now you're talking, asparagus mushroom omelette...
I make my own mayo with avocado oil. It’s like magic with an immersion stick. I make it right in the jar I store it in. I don’t need no rotten canola oil. I don’t use much EVOO either except for a salad dressing I make with some maple mustard. Yum-mo😊. I had breakfast with a friend at a restaurant recently. Got hash browns but my mouth actually burned with the bad oil so didn’t finish it. Ugh. I feel like handing the waitress a stick of real butter to take back to the cook in every rare restaurant visit.
Janet, do you have a recipe for that lovely mayo?
I'm not Janet, but I have homemade mayo in my frig at all times. It's delicious and easy with the immersion blender!
Oil of choice - one cup
Egg - one (raw) or pasteurized carton eggs if you're squeamish
Lemon Juice - 3 Tablespoons
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Sugar - 1/2 - 1 teaspoon
Mustard - Squirt
Start immersion blender at bottom of container and bring up slowly for one pass or a few passes. Refrigerate - mine is fine for a few weeks.
Thank you Peace!
without the sugar
Please share your avocado oil mayo recipe! Plus, how quickly does it need to get used, having no preservatives in it?
I'm not Janet, but I have homemade mayo in my frig at all times. It's delicious and easy with the immersion blender!
Oil of choice - one cup
Egg - one (raw) or pasteurized carton eggs if you're squeamish
Lemon Juice - 3 Tablespoons
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Sugar - 1/2 - 1 teaspoon
Mustard - Squirt
Start immersion blender at bottom of container and bring up slowly for one pass or a few passes. Refrigerate - mine is fine for a few weeks.
I have a grape seed oil that says it’s cold pressed. Would that be ok too?
Some people say EVOO shouldn’t be heated. I mostly use it for dressings now.
Correct. It becomes toxic when heated to frying temps.
Good to know it’s frying temps, maybe not just warming up a bit. 😄
Yes it’s not made for frying. But I rarely fry anything anyway.
Same.
I use those fats too, Juju. They're wonderful. I buy EVOO with highest polyphenols from an oil and balsamic vinegar store, really expensive but worth it, and I have that poured over my sour dough bread in the morning and over my salad at night. I buy up Kerrygold butter when it's on sale. I grew up with whole milk and tallow.
Healthy fats good! I put a tbls. of organic coconut oil in my coffee along with a few shakes of Ceylon cinnamon., good for inflammation. Very mild flavor, but good. I swear the Ceylon cinnamon healed my I-band leg soreness. If using cinnamon daily Ceylon over Saigon is better; Saigon can be toxic with overuse.
Check out Kassadrinos Olive Oil Juju. Right from Greece and at the top of taste!
Ohhh thanks!
I absolutely LOVE olive oil!! 😍 Always have. But my mom’s family was Italian so I grew up with it. We used it before it became trendy. I also use real butter and coconut oil, depending on what I am cooking. Olive oil is great for sautéing vegetables and I don’t mind the strong flavor, I actually really like it 😋 I buy Portuguese olive oil that has a very “green” or almost “grassy” taste and I find it heavenly! But I do think it’s a matter of taste, and what you’re used to 🙂
Same in my family, Running Logic. My grandmother used olive oil decades before it became popular. Some wineries now grow olives and make delicious oil as well. Margarine was another one we didn’t fully embrace although my mother used to use it to make pie crust, otherwise it was butter. She even did a blind taste test ( using blindfolds lol) on us kids for fun- butter vs margarine on a saltine cracker 😆 to see if we could tell the difference. We now stick to butter, ghee, coconut oil, avocado oil, and of course olive oil. Each one has a use in certain situations.
I use unflavored coconut oil
Avocado oil for my house, and try to find the organic kind. High smoke point for cast iron cooking. But it’s true EV olive oil has greater antioxidants and we use that too.
I’ve heard for years now so many Olive oils are cut with canola and other cheap oils. I’ve used Maria Emmerich recipes for the best Mayos
We’ve been doing keto-voire for years and love our butter/tallow/bacon grease fats
Do appreciate some of the good brands of olive oil many are sharing 👍
What is EVOO?
Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Ah, yes, thank you!
Extra virgin olive oil
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Duh
Extra virgin olive oil..
Olive oil
Problem is, it's almost impossible to know you're getting the real thing, and much of the time you're not!
Especially from supermarkets.
The only place I see it in my kitchen is in commercially prepped stuff. I just need get better at label reading, and sun-drying my own tomatoes
I dehydrate my own Vidalia onions. I’m up to 40 lbs ordered and shipped to me every spring from Georgia and I dehydrate 20 lbs of diced and store in jars in my garage fridge. Like little pieces of candy, so good in everything.
So I dehydrated ripe Roma tomatoes two years ago and packed them in jars in olive oil layered with fresh rosemary and basil, S&P. I STILL have one jar left in my pantry I’m working my way through and they taste like I packed them last month.
You go girl! Nice job!
That sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing this Juju.
I source olive oil from Israel, lard and tallow from 5 Mary's.
Lnks: https://blessedbuyisrael.com/. https://fivemarys.com/
I use Canola oil in my chainsaw, and my quadbike. Why drink it when you can use it?
Very good lubricant for small machinery
Should pass that handy tip to Gavin's wife.
Lmaoooop 🤣🤣🤣 I’m coughing here! Coffee coughing. Coffing? Coffeeing?
Right??? 🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆
Snort! Choke!
ROFL! Best comment so far this year.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 He's greasy enough!
Mark Carney is playing right into the hands of the communist leader. Just started reading Sam Cooper’s book, Wilful Blindness! Reads like a spy novel, but is true to life and Canadian politicians are like puppets being held by Chinese gangsters!
They are what American politicians were before Trump, they are where we still would be if not for him.
Coconut and olive oil are the healthiest to use and just regular milk.
Whole raw
milk remineralizes your teeth.
My children drank a lot of milk while growing up. Four of the seven have still never had a cavity and all are over fifty.
Me too, and I am 71 years old.
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please know, a "vaccine" is coming very soon to give to cows to decrease their methane production, thanks to billl gates. Big dairy jabs the hell out of cows with all different jabs:{.
How to buy clean food:
https://www.thebudgetsavvytravelers.com/mrna-vaccines-in-meat-how-to-buy-clean-food-nationwide/
They’ll probably contain the Covid shot. He’s determined to kill all of us. He is a mad scientist.
Can't they just have a bit of Beano?
I just saw that Gordon Ramsey is pushing “I can’t believe it’s not butter” I guess he sold his soul …
I didn't know they still made that stuff - yuck!
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You almost have to feel sorry for Canadians ( the people, not the government; although there are a bunch of eastern Canadians who voted for the stupid, corrupt liberals)
Bureaucrats, anxious propagandised women, and Trudeau's millions of 'new' Canadians. Unfortunately, in Canada that is enough to win.
We’ve been “friendship partners” with a few Chinese college students over the years. They cook everything in canola oil/go through gallons of it😳
how are so many still alive?
You must send a lot of condolence cards.
That stuff is in everything. Cheap junk oil.
As that nasty oil should be. No good for humans for sure
Excellent!
✝️✝️✝️
O Lord, open my lips,
That my mouth may declare Your praise.
— Psalm 51:15 NAS95
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Until I am chipped.
Big Brother's Coming! - Revealed Secret Plan to Tag Every Man, Woman and Child
by Joe Frick
edited by matrixcutter
October 21, 2009
from ForumPrisonPlanet Website
The following article appears on page 444 of William Cooper's
'Behold a Pale Horse.'
It was originally in the August 1, 1989 edition of The Sun.
Insanely coincidental isn't it ?
This article from 1989 speak of using a Swine Flu pandemic to get people MicroChipped, and exactly 20 years later,
we have the swine flu pandemic in the age of tiny tiny microchips
CODED MICROCHIPS implanted in every person in the country would tie all of us into a master computer that could track anyone down at any moment, and plans for such a system are already under way whether you like it or not!
The secret scheme is being touted as a service for the protection of the people by high government officials, but some insiders who object to the move say it's just another way for Big Brother to control its subjects.
Transmitters
"Top-level national security agents are trying to convince sources in the Bush Administration to begin the project in which every man, woman and child will be implanted with a tiny transmitter," claims Davis Milerand, a critic of government intervention who says he has received leaked information from inside sources.
"They're trying to say this will be a good way for authorities to quickly track down missing persons and children, as well as criminals and spies."
Injections
"But with the astounding technology of today, everything about you could be contained in one tiny microchip, which would be connected to a government computer.
"Any government agency will know what any person has done and is doing at any time."
Other sources say the tiny transmitters can be injected painlessly from a tiny gun in humans without them even knowing it through a nationwide vaccination program.
"All the government would have to do is make up something like the swine flu vaccine," Milerand says.
"Imagine if they said there was a vaccine for AIDS. People would rush in droves to get shots.
"The doctors themselves may not even know what they're injecting. They could be told the microchips are genetic implants that reprogram the body into fighting disease."
He adds:
"The program would require all federal, state and local government workers to undergo the injections."
"It would only be a matter of time before everyone is implanted with a microchip, a slave to the government."
thats why we are taking no more jabs.
No scripture quotes?!
Minnesota is the perfect place for Trump to make an example out of left-wing politicians and their corruption. The state is big, but not too big. Walz and Frey are morons, no doubt too stupid to cover their tracks (unlike Newsom who is evil but clever). The Somalis are obviously a pretty rotten and corrupt group, also too foolish and arrogant to cover their tracks. They are the least sympathetic immigrant group possible.
On top of that you have the absurd "Minnesota nice" culture where never offending anyone (i.e. being "nice") is a phony substitute for actual kindness (looking out for other's best interests and being truthful with them). It's a population obsessed with showcasing their virtue, which makes them vain and arrogant, and vain/arrogant people are prone to do really stupid things. The perfect example being the now deceased Renee Good and her supposed "wife" who thought they were LARPing as female superheroes.
Add into the mix the diabolical Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) whose stronghold is in Minnesota. The "church" is ridiculous with homosexual bishops, trans pastors, and every other frootloop that comes down the pike being gleefully affirmed. It's the coupling of "nice" culture and a perversion of the gospels commands to be kind. The church's role in this whole thing, particularly mass importing 68-IQ Somalians and facilitating their fraud needs to be exposed. The church needs to be destroyed (which admittedly they are already doing themselves by driving sane people away).
There's a strategic genius in singling out Minnesota for this, particularly right in the middle of their God-forsaken Winter. Someone (probably Stephen Miller) thought this through.
I live in Mpls. & we have had an insurrection (the Marxist Dems) & an invasion (the parasitic pirates from Somalia). ICE is having one helluva time dealing with this so we the people shouldn’t? Propagandized, media mind controlled, the TDS mental illness off the charts, threatened (especially if you are conservative), lied to & taxed to death. As for MN nice: people will be nice to your face but put them in a car & you will find out what they are really like. Scandinavians are known to be emotionless but don’t forget that we are Vikings to the core. Watch out when the sleeping giant wakes up!!
Interesting that you mention Scandinavians. It was those countries who, after Germany, welcomed muslims into their countries to find they'd let the devils in. Sadly their young women found out the hard way. But, the tide is turning for them, finally.
Merry: Your comment reminded me of Kipling’s poem
“The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon.” Saxons, of west Germanic origin, sound like Vikings 😍
When you’ve had enough, you’ve had enough. Thanks, MaryAnn!
Jeff C., not all Minnesotans are like this. I have lived in MN most of my 70 years and I love this state. It's full of kind and wonderful people, many of whom are faith-filled.
I just can't stand our catfish of a governor--I love Jeff's description of this fungus, Tampon Tim!!!! 🤠
I know and I completely get that Randy. But someone is voting for Tampon Tim so what I describe above must apply to a huge group of people in the state. Not you obviously, but lots of people.
Minnesotans stood by and watched while large areas of their low-crime, high social cohesion state was destroyed by insane immigration policies and letting criminals run free. It happened in a generation. Why did Minnesotans allow this? Because they had been brainwashed into believing that it wouldn't be "nice" to say no. They were manipulated through guilt that it would be evil and racist to object to the mass importation of illiterate, non-Christian aliens with no western civilization roots.
Seriously, of all the places to mass import Black, Muslim, East Africans, why was overwhelmingly White, Christian Minnesota chosen? It was obviously to destroy the Christian social fabric of the state, and not only didn't Minnesotans object, they facilitated it.
I point this out no to denigrate Minnesotans (well maybe a little) but to show this is what happens when people are more concerned with how others view them (i.e. being "nice", virtue signaling, vanity) than actually following Christ's commands to be kind. The mass importation was decidedly unkind to lower-class White Minnesotans who couldn't afford to flee the dysfunction brought by Somalians, what was done to them was evil.
The Minnesota Nice thing is definitely NOT a good thing, but the Minnesota goodbye most of the time is. (This is when it takes about 30-45 minutes to finally leave after beginning the process of leaving!)
However, the Minnesota goodbye to these bad Somali actors can't happen soon enough!!!!
Thanks Randy. I'm a hockey nut so there's lots of things I love about small town Minnesota (and Canadian for that matter) culture. The ethos of hard work, sense of fairness, and concern for others are all great things.
But what happened in Minnesota (and Canada too) was that the trusting, naive, good nature of these people was exploited. They thought everyone else was acting in good faith like they were. Not only that, they were brainwashed with a false morality that boasting about how much one "cares" become more important than being truthful about what was actually happening.
Ultimately, it's rooted in a perversion of the gospel and Christian morality. The masses accepted a false gospel completely at odds with what the actual New Testament says. This was done primarily by the media, Hollywood, and false teachers, all heavily influenced by Non-Christian bad faith actors.
New Zealand and Aussie have the 'she'll be right, mate' attitude, and sadly those two countries are on the brink. Auckland is awful now.
To a T, this is the case in the Atlantic provinces of Canada… nice, nice, but cannot see the deceit of media and Muslims…so they are seen mostly as ignorant, not arrogant , but ignorant.
Thanks and agreed, but we should be clear that Muslims aren't the only issue here. Jews and Hindus are extremely hostile to Christianity, in fact the Talmud specifically blasphemes Christ in a manner that would shock most Christians.
This started decades ago, long before Muslims had a foothold in the US and Canada. And who facilitated the mass invasion of our countries by non-Christians? It wasn't Muslims. The leadership of every socially-destructive left-wing cause is dominated by one particular ethnic group, they are Jewish, usually atheist Jews. This isn't even debatable, they are overrepresented twenty-fold compared to their percentage of the population.
Mass importation of Muslims has been terrible for our countries, but you are blaming the symptom not the cause.
Add this to the list of immoral behavior. Sex ceremonies at Amherst college for 1st year students. Videos and pics. This is beyond grotesque and in a school chapel no less. Interestingly, the chapel does not have a Christian pastor, only other religions represented.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/this-has-gone-way-too-far-videos-show-bizarre-sexual-ceremony-that-elite-amherst-college-pushes-all-first-year-students-to-attend/?utm_campaign=january16morningnote&utm_medium=email&utm_source=iterable&utm_content=morningnote
Well I scrolled to the bottom and there was this link: https://freebeacon.com/campus/amherst-lays-off-administrators-behind-sexually-explicit-programming-and-announces-communications-chief-will-retire/
Looks like some of these perverts got the axe! Not to say the school is not likely still a woke mess but at least there were some token firings.
WOW 🤮🤮🤮🤮
—“this is what happens when people are more concerned with how others view them (i.e. being "nice", virtue signaling, vanity) than actually following Christ's commands to be kind.”
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This!!
Thanks, and I know that you meant what you said in a general way--Many times when I respond or reply, I also do so with my blinders on.
I wish I could send you the image I created after reading C&C this morning. It's an image of Walz with hands outstretched saying (and Jeff's catfish photo below), "I admit, I do look like a catfish!" 🐈 🐟 LOL
I wonder which came first, Ilhan or the invasion?
sounds like minnesotans have an IQ is equal to somalis.
Jeff C: You are spot on about being nice. The Bible lists kindness as one of the fruit of the Spirit, not niceness. Being nice is not kindness. Speaking truth in love is kindness, even when that truth is hard.
That lutheran church is no church. They are mocking the word of God with their immorality. I look forward to minneapolis going the way of Sodom and Gomorrah which they richly deserve.
The Lutheran Church is no longer one broad rush body. The American Lutheran Church is divided into synods. This has been for well over a century. The Missouri and Wisconsin synods are the two Conservative synods. They vary only by a couple of doctrinal issues. The ELCA, is a marriage of two synods that expanded out to the West coast and has, as Jeff stated become an outlier, and if we could excommunicate the “Lutheran” from their title I would, but this is a problem all traditional churches are facing and one that is driving a wedge into many. The Methodist church is splitting apart and I don’t know if it will survive. The Baptists are feeling this and look at what’s happening to the Roman Catholic Church. Some may say this is good, but when we lose traditional values, we may never get them back.
My kids attended Missouri Synod (LCMS) schools once we decided we decided we needed to pull them out of public schools immediately. The schools were serious about Jesus, the Bible, and staffed by genuinely wonderful people. Because they were strongly biblical, they didn't fall for *any* of the worldly madness going on. Everything was tested against the Bible.
At orientation, the principal addressed the parents with, "my promise to you is that your children will NEVER be taught anything contrary to God's Word at this school." Hallelujah.
I can't vouch for every LCMS school obviously, but I can say our experience was a fantastic blessing. We are not Lutheran, but these people are my brothers and sisters in Christ. Finding the school was quite literally an answer to prayer.
My one criticism of the LCMS (and it's significant) is that at the national level they unbelievably still partner with ELCA on social services under some misguided sense of Lutheran brotherhood. I'm not an LCMS member, but if I was considering it, this would be a dealbreaker.
WELS… Wisconsin Lutheran Synod is absolutely staying true to its conservative, bible and catechism teachings. Born and raised and K-8 in our one room church school in rural Wisconsin.
Well said. Agree with the points you made.
How does a depressed person view life? There are sad days, and also ● ● ● Saturdays...
Speaking of, happy Saturday C&C! Start your cringing engines, and let the wincing commense!
A horse walked into a bar ● ● ● Bartender: Hey! ● ● ● Horse: Yes please
Witty WiFi IDs ● ● ● Drop it like it's hotspot ● ● ● The Promised LAN ● ● ● Wu Tang LAN ● ● ● Winternet is coming ● ● ● A LAN time ago ● ● ● I believe Wi can Fi ● ● ● Vladamir Routin ● ● ● What's the SSID
If you boil a funny bone it becomes a laughing stock. ● ● ● That's pretty humerus.
Funny, those road signs: "Caution - Watch for children! ● ● ● I mean, how dangerous can a child be?
My laptop was making funny noises today, it sounded like it was singing... ● ● ● Probably because it's a Dell
Why are mountains so funny? ● ● ● Because they are hill areas.
My friends told me a joke so funny that it stopped water from flowing ● ● ● It was damn funny
Women say they like a man who is "funny" and "spontaneous" ● ● ● But you knock on their bedroom window at midnight wearing a clown costume and suddenly it's all screaming and throwing things and police sirens.
When you tell a joke that's so funny... even HR wants to hear it again.
I was told since I’m ugly, to try to be funny. ● ● ● So I started telling people I’m good-looking.
In a movie theater crowd watches a movie. During funny moments only one person laughs. Confusingly, he turns around and explains: ● ● ● ● ● ● "Sorry, I haven't seen the trailer."
Why are 490 Romans funny? ● ● ● Because XD
It is funny how my wife waits for me in the kitchen all night till I come back from the pub... ● ● ● ...just to ask me what time it is.
A farmer heard some funny noises from one of his goats. ● ● ● Turns out the goat was just kidding.
People always ask what's so special about my chiropractor. I tell them she's so funny ... ● ● ● She cracks me up.
Me – “I am amazing at managing my credit card” ● ● ● Because my bank keeps sending me messages saying my account is ***outstanding***!
I think it's funny when dogs hide under the bed when they're scared. ● ● ● I'm thinking, "You silly gooses, that's the first place monsters go!"
It’s 1/4 funny ● ● ● A guy took his blonde girlfriend to a super bowl game. They had great seats right behind their teams bench. ● ● ● After the game he asked her how she liked it. ● ● ● “Oh, I really liked it,” she replied. “I just don’t understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents”
Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, ● ● ● “What do you mean?” ● ● ● “Well they flipped a quarter, one team got it, then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was...‘get the quarterback!, get the quarterback!’ ● ● ● I’m like Hellooooo, it’s only 25 cents!”
It only hurts when IP
I met an Australian network engineer
I asked him "do you come from a LAN down under?"
😂😂😂
Second question the bartender asks the horse? … Why the long face?
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says “we don’t allow your kind here”, so the horse sues him for discrimi-NEIGH-tion.
Still laughing about the “helllooo. It’s only 25 cents…”. Thank you for that morning laugh.
If I won $1.28B, I’d give a quarter of it to charity.
Not sure what I’d do with the other $1,279,999,999.75 though.
🤣🤣
I named our router a long time ago. It’s “Show Me The Money”. It was funny back then to see it in the list, but these days I’m sure it’s odd to younguns. 🤣
Tiday’s generation: Given me WiFi or give me death
Hubs named ours, Obummer
My son named his FBI Investigation Van
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Someone in my neighborhood named theirs "FBI surveillance van"...
Or maybe it's actually the Feds, can't be sure.
My favorite two had a clown and a pub mentioned. Those are hilarious.
Three clowns bounce into a bar.
The bartender sighs, shakes his head, and says, “Parliament’s the next block over.”
Speaking as one, the clowns reply, “Our mistake”, as they cartwheel out the door.
Love the jokes!
I was going to tell a time-traveling joke.
But you didn't like it.
😂😂😂
😅 Interestingly…I actually read a time travel book yesterday. I loved it.
There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light;
She set out one day,In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
—Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, 1923
Warning sign near my friend’s house with 5 very busy young boys:
“SLOW children playing”
Her youngest took issue as they most certainly were not slow.😂
🤣😂
🇺🇸 Good morning, Patriots 🇺🇸
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
smiles when sadness intrudes,
rainbows to follow the clouds,
laughter to kiss your lips,
sunsets to warm your heart,
hugs when spirits sag,
beauty for your eyes to see,
friendships to brighten your being,
faith so that you can believe,
confidence for when you doubt,
courage to know yourself,
patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank MFT.
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
...
When the Soul slept in beams of light.
God appears and God is light
~William Blake
INFLATION: dinner for three in Orlando Florida last night, no alcohol for any of us, only tap water. Three entrees. Not a high end restaurant - named “The Hampton Social”: $128. I ordered a burger $23. Wife had vegetarian entree, daughter had a (just ok) steak. They tried to charge me $10 extra for a side of broccolini - I will never pay extra for broccolini. I’ll maybe eat it, won’t buy it on purpose for extra, but I digress. I remember when a mid-tier (slightly higher end than a Carrabbas or Chilli’s) restaurant’s dinner for three would come in under $65 bucks… will deflation ever happen?
I wonder how much of an influence is the rising minimum wage, which is out of control.
As an employer, the minimum wage is killing us. It's currently $17.13 in Washington state. I'm not sure if I can raise my prices high enough to keep customers coming.
Right? And CA increased by another dollar and change, effective Jan 1, on top of $20.
$21/hr in CA is chump change there. It is all relative.
At least in TX, wait staff don’t make minimum wage but server wage of about $2.00/hr. They make their money only through tips.
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Generally, no. Some asset prices like homes will come down. The stock market. Maybe even cars since they're unaffordable and demand is still a component of prices. But thanks to President Cabbage and the Fed, the massive amount of money printed into this economy has probably changed general price levels. Barring a massive deflationary recession. But who knows. That could happen too! I like Jeff's optimism but I'm not sure I'm all on board.
Wow, your answer was way better than grok or chatGPT. Sometimes when my wife asks me a question, I’m forced to answer (in a robotic voice): “your husband has reached the limits of his mental capacity. Please consult ChatGPT…”
I guess business school was worth something! Back in the day...
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They need to roll back all of the regulatory BS & spy tech that has made cars unaffordable, and bring back the basic car. My mom had a Saturn, that she drove for 12 years and then sold cheap to my 17 YO son who drove it another 6. Manual windows and no bells and whistles but very reliable until its last year. Then both he and my daughter both bought late model used Chevy Cruz's. Daughter bought one first and then he liked hers so bought one too. Similar in that they were small (good gas mileage), affordable and reliable. My son is still driving his 2013. although he did replace the engine 4 years ago due to his negligence in changing the oil. (expensive lesson, but still better than a car payment).
I agree with you 100%. Once a month (In Florida) we treat ourselves. Last week, my Chicken Picata was $17.55 - hubby’s salmon was $22.55. Portions were very modest, none left to take home. I would have paid a few $$ for broccolini :) I had to squint to find the steamed watery veges.
Sounds cheap to me. We’re in Oregon though, I think restaurants are still reeling from the plandemic.
A modest portion of salmon would be $30-35. The chicken $26
Karen, The Conservative Treehouse did an excellent explainer early in the C19 crisis on how supply chains for restaurants are different than for groceries, and how completely disrupted they were for restaurants, effects of which will unlikely go completely away. Not sure how to find that post though, sorry.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/30/an-example-of-field-to-fork-inflation/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/28/here-we-go-kraft-heinz-tells-grocery-retailers-price-increases-beginning-2022-will-be-20-percent/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/07/perfect-storm-coming-conagra-announces-food-price-inflation-likely-to-remain-around-11-percent-through-2022/
All three articles touch on what you are saying. It might be the 3rd one that you are referring to, though.
Nice work there Tyler. I don’t have time or patience to do the search.
Yes it is the third one you posted. Thanks!
Thanks, maybe Treehouse is in Substack. I’ll check.
Karen, Tyler replied to me, and I confirmed the post is the third link.
When I visit NY state, even the rural areas, I really notice how much more pretty much *everything* costs, compared to Indiana 😕
Never. The minimum wage may have increased and the auto workers may be making more but wages are still depressed in my field. I’m a software engineer and I took a $5k cut for my current job and I’m happy to have it because the jobs still seem scarce. When I see a new job posting, the salary is still depressed.
On another note, on 2 driving trips in last 3 months, I stopped for dinner at Cracker Barrel. It was over $50 for 2 people for 2 entrees and 2 drinks. Portions seemed smaller and you had to hunt for the chicken in the chicken and dumplings. So, costs are up, portions are smaller and lower quality. We rarely eat out unless traveling. So, yes, the cost of dining out seems to have skyrocketed.
Same here, and sticker shock is real. We rarely eat out for dinner but I do go to lunch with friends occasionally and the era of the $10 lunch menu is over. Paid $16 (plus tax and tip) for an Asian salad at a locally owned place, that was very good, actually, but a similar salad was $9.99 at a chain place a few years ago. And coffee, beef and chocolate in the grocery stores are still very high, although I have caught some sales on chicken lately, so guess the bird flu is less of a thing these days.
Quoting little Boyd Baxter (from Tim Allen's Last Man Standing): "THANKS, OBAMA!"
Yep. Lunch is now $20 and dinner is now $40 per person with tax/tip and no drinks.
More like without tip, pre-tip.
Having been in restaurant management, albeit many years ago now, food costs are a small portion of the overall tab. Venturing a guess that these demands for a 'living wage' for entry level jobs is driving this, and wages are NOT going down. I did meet a friend for lunch at a new noodle place last month, and a waiter came and took our order. BUT a robot, really more like a talking cart brought it to us! Waiter did come by and check on us and then brought the bill. I joked that did we need to tip him or the robot. Suspect more of that tech is going to replace jobs as I assume the waiter can cover more tables this way and thus need fewer waiters? Other than invitations to meet friends or a special occasion, we rarely eat out, but when we do, sticker shock seems to be the norm.
Our town keeps seeing more and more new restaurants opening up as part of these horrid 'mixed use' developments (apartments, retail and restaurants) that get big tax breaks. I just wonder how many will last, and or how many people can afford to patronize all of these places on a regular basis.
Speaking of those mixed use developments, the ‘affordable’ apartments are $1600 a month and are barely 400sq ft. Of course they are empty. The developers got the big tax breaks of course like you said.
And yep, too many restaurants, and we have food cart pods as well, a big deal these days, but the prices that used to be much cheaper are reaching brick and mortar prices.
Yes the entire KC metro is burgeoning apt and mixed use developments and most cities hand out incentives like candy in a parade. I keep asking who is going to LIVE in all of these apartments!? Metro population has seen some modest growth but we are not a boom town. And shipping out 20-30 million illegals is going to be a big help for this so called 'housing crisis' every pol likes to wring their hands over. My fear in my community is that if they sit empty they will turn to Section 8 to fill them and then it's all over. 15 years ago our lovely suburban enclave was 80%+ single family owned homes. We are now at 65% SF homes to 35% apartments. Crime is up. Traffic is a snarled mess and our 'small town feel with the big city amenities' and the high level of community volunteerism and engagement is now more like every other city, with woke harpies screaming at people, bike lanes with zero people on them and taxes going up non-stop due to idiots voting for them and then complaining about affordability.
I'm with you. Jeff keeps touting low inflation, but I do the shopping, and my eyes still bug out when I see the prices vs. the last time I was there. Don't eat except when we are on vacation, but our fall trip to Maine we stopped eating lunch out the last few days becausee we got sick of the prices. $35 for a clam belly Po Boy? Heck, that's more than a lobster roll.
The official inflation rate based on the consumer price index is a complete deception. Jeff needs to get off that and go find a real inflation representation. The price index formula has been "tweeked" and revised so many times by the Gov't to make it look good, it's now a complete lie.
Have not looked in years, but John Williams' Shadow Stats published inflation and jobless numbers using Carter era criterion. When I was looking for years inflation was in the low to mid '20's, and jobless over 10 %.
https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/p/bpr-week-in-review-junk-statistics
But even the CPI is hopelessly cooked....
Paid $2K ~20 years ago for all of Bonners umbrella services and writers. Small annual premium too. I stopped the latter years ago after he kept chipping away, removing the best writers including himself, charging another premium for each, one at a time. Had dinner sitting next to him in 2008 at a party in honor of him being in Rancho Santana at his house for the first time in years. Nice guy, smart guy, very rich guy, but a weenie who makes other people do his dirty work.
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Exactly. I've seen others like Doug Casey, Ed Dowd etc talk about this. Next time I run across a real analysis, I'll post it.
When a populist talks about solving inflation he only means the rate at which the purchasing power of paper money, and pennies, is declining is "down" to something "acceptable" (to him/her). Populists don't "get" the ramifications of "un-sound money."
We went out to the Texas Roadhouse last week for my younger kid's birthday last week. I had an 8 ounce sirloin steak with 2 sides for $16.95, if I remember right.
Of course, here in Kansas, the minimum wage is still $7.25, and in this liberal hellhole of Lawrence, a lot of people actually are only paid $11 an hour.
You are in the city of Mickey Mouse and libtards. Everything is more expensive there.
Sounds like California prices.
I remember the inflation of the 1970s. And oh yes, the inflation/shrinkflation of 2007, for which I have never heard an explanation.
I have never ever seen prices come down. Whoops! I should say generally speaking. A pound of store labeled butter at WINCO has come down by around $.50 within the last few months.
La dee da.... Trump has a long list of investigations, subpoenas, etc, etc. Just like the Clinton's, they'll ignore them and nothing will happen.
Getting tired of all the hot air about discovered fraud, treason, etc, etc. But NO consequences.
Just a few low level subordinates or minions have been charged with anything.
This includes the pandemic liars as well.
Yeah yeah yeah .... But no consequences for the originators of the total fleecing of the American tax payer.
Not for lack of effort by Trump administration ..... The deep state is just too deep.
Sad but true
Early days. Have faith. And vote!
Voter turnout is critical indeed!!!!
Our only hope and faith is in Jesus Christ!
Every day we're one day closer to His return.
Unfortunately our nation is too far gone to ever return.
Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon went to prison because they refused to testify against former President Trump.
President Trump - well we all know what the democrats threw at him. I think if Pam Bondi is sacked and someone halfway decent is put in, some high level people could go to jail.
Trump put Bondi there ... Why wouldn't she put people in jail?
Xi looks like he's thinking, "I'm now reduced to shaking hands with second-rate Prime Ministers... and isn't a Carney a traveling sideshow actor." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Xi's body language is totally, "get this guy away from me"
"Put him with the others..."
It's a Photoshop paste-in of Carney's head onto Putin.
That Carney head does seem unsized for the body.
I actually wondered what was behind the text box in that picture. Did Xi have a dog leash around Carney’s lower nether equipment?
xi's face tells it all.
As a Canadian, I will tell you this.
"The Liberal Party of Canada", is the Canadian Arm of the Chinese Government.
Marx Con Carney is a Snake, making sure Canada is Bankrupt, and soon for sale to his Chinese Masters
He’s a direct product of the UK isn’t he? Smarmy Carney 🧐 Stay the course and hold the line Canada! 🇨🇦🇺🇸💪🇨🇦🇺🇸💪🙏🙏🙏
Former head of the (Rothschild) Bank of England
If any of you watch or listen to the Ruthless podcast, did you immediately think of ‘hard pivot’ when listening to the Shapiro/Newsome exchange? Newsome is Olympic-level at pivoting a question to his preferred talking points while not answering one iota of the question. It’s kind of hilarious until you realize that many people don’t see it, then it’s depressing.
He uses the same tactic as Barack Obama - the smooth but slimy deflect and redirect that doesn't answer the question but projects the blame elsewhere.
Ugh, it’s so SMARMY. And so obvious to anyone paying attention.
Thankfully more people are finally paying attention, but man it's taken way too long. Faint silver lining, at least seeing through Newscum doesn't get us labeled a racist like it did with Obama.
Here's an idea: take any interview of Newsome and whenever the interviewer asks a hard question, put that text onto the screen and leave it there until he answers the question.
Let the un-answered questions fill the screen slowly until at the end, the listener can't escape the obvious fact that not one hard question was answered.
To be fair, most pols would fail this...which means we should do it to all of them!
Ooh I like this idea!
And the one where Ben asked him about the extortionate taxes in California and Newsome started talking about taxes in other states. Ben said ‘but we’re talking about California.’ Hahahaha
That being said, I might watch a debate with Newscum and Kackles. 😆
😂 I’ll bring the popcorn 🍿 Susan Seas! 😂👍
That would be fun!
Newsom takes slime to a whole new level. He's going to run in 2028 as The Blob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq0our4mceQ
The only thing Newsom should run for is the rocket that will take him to Mars.
Ben Shapiro is as bad or worse... a true Zio-pig liar and POS.
Love the Ruthless boys!
And yeah, hard pivot. But it was moronic this time.
Shapiro: “So the real question is can a man become a woman?”
Newscum: “uh…well…I … er… bu bu … but the grace of God.”
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Yes, he mentioned God twice in that clip. Man I was hoping for a ⚡️
Right?? 😆
A Mitt Romney clone. Same hair same forked tongue same two face… bet they could call gav… flip flop gav… or just little flip flop mittens both products of the same school of Trudeau et al. Gosh them fellas sure for a specific look and smell about them. Pee-Eewww 🧐
Newsom is a psychopath.
He's going to use clips from all his podcasts, with Right side voices, to his advantage during his campaign.
It's what they do. "you can still chose your doctor". "no mandates"
Would like to see a meme of Grusome speaking out of both sides of his mouth. 😁
Hahaha! Walz DOES look like that catfish!! I predict that is going to end up being made into a widely spread meme before the weekend is out
I always get a strong Elmer Fudd vibe from Walz.
Oh yes that too! A less likeable version of Elmer Fudd 😆
But just as much fun to see standing on thin air "just off" the edge of the cliff, staring straight into the camera: "Uh oh. I fink I see what I did wong."
Minnesota has 150 Masonic chapters.
" The Freemasons should control all men of every class, nation and religion, dominating them without obvious compulsion; uniting them through a strong bond; inspiring them with enthusiasm to spread common ideas; and with utmost secrecy and energy, direct them toward this singular objective throughout the world."
Adam Weishaupt, Munich 1765.
Slime begets slime:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9b8zWlWWgccP
Chosen to be VP candidate?
Just another World Order villain crisis actor. Move over Klaus.
Cackles & the Catfish
Bipartisan SCUMBAG Ticket...
Newscum and Fine
Flush twice and remember the Glade spray!
When process serving turns into convictions I will become interested.
Until then, its just any version of a grand psyop when the end goal to keep the masses at ease thinking justice will be served (aka a real Constitutional Republic) inorder to prevent the same mass from actually forceably obtaining justice (aka Democracy).
I feel the same sometimes. Like we’re strung alone until the administration changes and then everything stops. I like how Jeff refers to the “somebody said something” headlines. I tune out until milestones like indictments and arrests happened. Investigations may never end. Subpoenas are a waist unless they result in perjury charges, but those are lesser jail time and can result in dropping the actual crime charges.
We wait and see.
You mean there is a Uniparty passing of the baton every four years? Thats rhetorical. One hand represents the Democrat party destroyers and the other hand represents the Republican party enablers (that includes Trump unless real Deep State destruction happens). The baton represents OUR Constitutional Republic... and just like an actual track, we always come back to the starting point in order to begin yet another loop around the track towards technocratic corporate fascism.
The REAL Parties are:
Zionists
MIC/Defense
Banker Scum/Fed
Marxists
WEF
By masked bandits trained by IDF in masks, possible illegals themselves called ICE to defy your constitutional rights.
Please add to your list: Brennan, Clapper, Clintons, Fauci, Birx and Paul Ryan, the despicable little creep who, as House Speaker, did everything he could to thwart Trump 1.0.
Paul Ryan aka Eddie Munster!
Has anyone noticed a lot of spiritual warfare lately?😂
I think much of what we are seeing transpire across the country, and even the world, is the result of spiritual warfare.
It all
reminds me
of that verse that says the devil will be let loose for awhile— to basically
go berserk, “…knowing he has but little
time…”
Yes. Islam at top of that list.
That warfare can go both ways… why just yesterday I reminded my son to have faith in God… he said that’s the best thing he hear all week! 🙏 keep the spirit going 🙏
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its been around a long time now. just getting worse.
Modified cottonseed oil, aka Crisco, is the original seed oil, which I assume you mean POISONOUS seed oil.
Did you know back when they decided to make people eat it,They sent out free recipe books to Housewives so they could incorporate it into their daily baking and cooking? Honestly, how evil!
When I was born in 1950, American housewives typically used coconut oil, lard, tallow and butter for cooking, all proven healthy,... and making their only laundry soap. I can recall my mom switching to Crisco to fry chicken in her new aluminum electric skillet, as opposed to the traditional iron skillet, and then scrapping the skillet to make gravy. Oh the convenience of modern 1950s life! No wonder my dad got Alzheimer's as well as cancer and diabetes. Of course, the Crisco commercials were all over the new black&white TV, along with Philip Morris cigarettes.