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Jeff Childers's avatar

ERRATA:

— ExxonMobil leads a consortium with Hess Corporation (acquired by Chevron this year), partnering with Guyana to develop the Essequibo reserves, not Texaco.

Matt L.'s avatar

Jeff, your posts are both informative and powerful, thank you.

Is there any similarities between what Venezuela is doing to try and secure Guyana offshore oil fields — and what Boko Haram & its offshoot Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) are doing to eliminate Christian populations who are concentrated in the very oil-rich southern Niger Delta region?

Both oil rich countries now under Trump spotlight (Canada too), and seems that can’t be a coincidence.

It’s also not lost on me (or the Iran mullahs it seems) that 10/7/23 occurred shortly after 6/18/23. What is significant about June 18, 2023? That’s the date Israel, after 23 years of resistance, finally agreed to co develop the gas-rich Gaza Marine w/ Egypt and the PA. IMO, Trump push to now ‘re-develop’ Gaza is also about monetizing the lucrative natural gas field discovered by BP in year 2000, just offshore. Which could be a bit of a positive game-changer to people groups in the region. Could they all have something jointly to protect that staves off further conflict, and Iran knew it and tried to stop it…?

Dots… fossil-fuel dots.

Boze's avatar

Highly recommend listening to Xoaquin Flores and his excellent open source intelligence reports. He was very recently interviewed by Crypto Rich and provides more and deeper analysis. He has a Telegram channel as well called @NewResistance. SO much going on in this dynamically changing geopolitical world.

Truth Seeker's avatar

Oil is not from fossils. That is a lie to induce scarcity mentality.

One day soon free unlimited unpolluting energy will ONCE AGAIN be available.

At that threshold there is no reason to create a war to steal resources.

In the meantime in answer to your question Yes the blockage around Venezueala is more about the oil $$$ that the Fentanyl and Cocaine racket.

Iran has its own self interests. They are not the same as the US.

No idea about your speculation. The facts you present are poignant.

Matt L.'s avatar

My current understanding is that oil is product of ancient fossilized plankton & algae (not dinosaurs). The only energy I can think of to reduce oil use is nuclear. On the back forty of Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation there is a vast field of machinery used to clean up the site, from atomic bomb development there in WW2. That machinery is radioactive and awaiting to be buried. These radioactive machine burials have been going on there repeatedly, for decades and decades.

The next go-around at nuke energy is going to need to be safer than Hanford, Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and Fukushima. I think it can be done, but trust is a bit low nowadays. And all it takes is a spike in cancers or emergence of 3 headed frogs to derail the enterprise, again.

That said, I’ve successfully ridden LEU (Centrus) stock all year long, the only domestic maker of yellow cake.

Truth Seeker's avatar

Was not trying to split hairs. However the issue of creating scarcity mentality is the reason oil or shale is referred to as "Fossil Fuel" As you mention best origin info has to do with ancient plants. It constantly renews and is horribly polluting.

Retired friend was Health Physicist in charge of Nuke Plant including evacuation for emergency. Stressful job. He was a relative risk person.

As you point out genetic mutations are no joke. Whether nuke energy can be relatively safe or not is a wildcard. If and when there is a problem its not containable.

Was not joking about the free energy prognosis.

Free energy from the "ethers" existed a very very long time ago. Building artifacts show harnessing, storage, and transmission capabilities at a time when there was no known modern building tools or engineers.

We are as cave dwellers by comparison.

30 million dead from the Quax, a much larger # disabled. Malignancy that Oncologists call "turbo" cancer surrounds...

RSgva's avatar

Also your great link about the Monroe Doctrine was an article in the (conservative) UK Telegraph, not the Guardian.

Amy Winans's avatar

And thanks for correcting XOM's spelling in your errata. Spelling Nazi here, haha, not really. My husband retired from the XOM Baytown refinery after 30 years in. No E on the end of ExxonMobil.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Need to check on it, Ukraine agreed to Trump’s 19 point peace plan After a lot of deliberating between American and Ukrainian officials.

Russia has said they will refuse it.

I guess that makes Russia the war monger now?

Truth Seeker's avatar

The issue with information is that it is easy to mislead.

DJT and Putin had an accord. Zel is being forced to abide if he can

withstand the push to oust. Stay tuned.

The most important issue is that DJT, The Peace President, will put the 9th peace feather in his hat very soon. Hence the terror attacks on the mainland...

Truth Seeker's avatar

As reported by Emerald Robinson. Credit where it is due.

Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Mark Kelly and the seditious six are trying to foment a color revolution. They know exactly what they’re doing. Former CIA officers like slotkin and Spanberger should never be trusted. They are trying to tear our country apart like they did to Ukraine and so many others.

Recognize the subversive steps of a Soros color revolution: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-execute-a-color-revolution

Occam's avatar

It's almost like the CIA is a real problem in American governance.

An entity unto itself.

M. Patrick McCrary's avatar

Agreed, but right in the middle of a very solemn story Jeff unloads this gem that cracked me up: "Russia has armed Venezuelan President Maduro with Sukhoi fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, and air defence systems. And probably aggressive nesting dolls, too, but that’s not important right now." I've got some nesting dolls sitting on the top of my refrigerator that I'm now eyeing suspiciously. As always, thanks for the levity amidst some less than happy facts about the world we live in today.

The Great Resist's avatar

“… but that’s not important right now.” Methinks Jeff has seen the movie “Airplane” more than a few times. 🤣🤣

The Imaginary Hobgoblin's avatar

"....don't call me Shirley."

"Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

Priceless.

MMP's avatar

and let's not forget: June Cleaver: "I speak jive"

Jeff S's avatar

And don't call me surely.

Karen Bandy's avatar

We have an old high school friend, lots of Shirley jokes. Still friends though 🤣

MMP's avatar

Just said the same! Classic!

The Great Resist's avatar

Every time I watch that silly movie, I catch a line, or see something in the background, that I never noticed in the dozens of times I watched it before. The attention to detail in that movie is quite remarkable.

Margot Wooster's avatar

There’s nothing creepier than an evil doll.

Jeff S's avatar

You mean, my old girlfriend?

Reelin’ In The Fears's avatar

Do you mean former girlfriend or current girlfriend who is old?🥴

Tom's avatar

Especially an evil clown doll.

SD Scott's avatar

Beware of nesting dolls with switchblades.

Donna in MO's avatar

We hosted some Russian ladies in our home as part of State department exchanges about 10 years ago, and they gave us sets of nesting dolls as a gift. Should I be checking them for listening devices?

M. Patrick McCrary's avatar

Absolutely! And check for a camera while you're at it.

Abiding Dude's avatar

More likely one is in your new Trump watch.

Silent scorn's avatar

Ever see the movie ‘The man who knew too little’ with Bill Murray? Hilarious movie with a funny nesting dolls scene in it. I might have to rewatch it tonight.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Yes! Love that movie! Thanks for mentioning it.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

So Russia is arming someone aiming weapons at Americans.

I'm actually impressed he admitted that. How on earth did that slip by?

Sal_Peenx's avatar

How absolutely sickening that the offspring of former soviets have infiltrated so deeply! 😕 🤮 Everything is connected in the most bizarre ways. I follow the Badlands News Brief. We never get the real story about anything... only the soap opera script of what the cabal wants us to believe. The MSM is priming the masses that we will lose the midterms because of "an affordability issue". How perfect! And how mae-believe. The term "affordability" is a nebulous, "moving target" kind of term, at best. Our people have been trained to live above their means and to "covet their neighbor's goods", when they should have been living according to "what they can afford" at any point in time. Let's help each other wake from this hypnotic spell! Our elections are fake. And treason traces back to Venezuela engineers and Fidel Castro. Listen to Lara Logan's "stolen elections" podcast, which POTUS referenced in a recent tweet or truth on X or TruthSicial, respectively. Thank heaven fo the C&C army!!

Willing Spirit's avatar

The media primes the masses for election losses so that when the Left steals them, there’s an explanation in place.

FH's avatar

Any chance you can provide more identifying information about Lara’ podcast? She’s got a relatively new program underway, Going Rogue, is it in that show?

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Half of the people here shill for soviets.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

The writer of this blog is pretty supportive of Putin. Look at how he gobbles up the propaganda.

DaveL's avatar

It always works this way with secret police, always.

Tom's avatar

Now I wonder if Alexa is short for Aleksandrya Semyonovich Bezos.

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

Might just be. Aleksa sounds much more Stasi.

shayne's avatar

Definitely a real problem!

Leskunque Lepew's avatar

It might be possible to link this to the JFK assassination. JFK was not a friend of the Deep State.

Truth Seeker's avatar

The CIA has for over 20 years been the meddlers in US elections, but also international using machine voting / Smartmatic, Sequoia, Dominion

Does appear that DJT has the goons surrounded. Stay tuned.

Classic Rider's avatar

Well, they killed JFK, so you might be right

Tim R's avatar

The test I always use is what would happen if the other side did it. Can you imagine if 6 republican congresspeople had said this during the Obama/Biden regimes? Front page WaPo everyday. They would already be censured and pressured to resign at the least. Can you imagine the angry faces on Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin (under his masks of course)!

Juju's avatar
Nov 25Edited

Members of the 1.0 admin were jailed for FAR less, and over hoaxes. Yeah we know what the other side would do if this were reversed.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

I don't think Mark Kelley committed a crime.

It's not a crime to tell people to follow and honor their oath.

Trump is simply being petty and vindictive.

Jake's avatar

Half the country doesn't think coming here illegally is a crime either. Hell, half the country including most politicians don't think stealing taxpayer funds is a crime either. What we think doesn't matter. It's what you can prove in court. Military law is different than civilian law. At his former rank, Kelly should know it too. People have been court martialed for a hell of a lot less.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Illegal entry is codified as a crime.

I watched the video. There are countless protestors all across the nation all holding signs saying "honor your oath" and to "not follow illegal orders".

That's a 1A issue.

Trump can do what he wants but in the end he is going to lose this too just like he lost the comey and james charges.

Silent scorn's avatar

The comey and James cases are not lost, yet. They were halted based on procedural issues-the claim that Lindsay halligan was not legally appointed. Ridiculous. The crimes themselves have not been disputed. They will appeal.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

They will lose again if they choose to appeal.

The statute of limitations is up.

The Great Santini's avatar

No, it is not a 1A issue. It was a seditious video. Why put out a video ‘reminding’ people that they don’t have to follow so-called ‘illegal’ orders. It was clearly a message meant to encourage disobedience to legal orders that the Seditious 6 didn’t like, thus violating 18 USC Section 2387 and UCMJ Art 94.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

He's repeating what the Constitution and UCMJ literally say.

When do those get charged with crimes? Abolished? Done away with?

Repeating our core documents isn't a crime.

FlyingDad's avatar

Love the interesting news that you find Jeff, I also appreciate the positive outlook. As far as Maduro and Venezuela, there is also the whole scandal with the voting machines and software by Smartmatic, I believe, that is having been revealed as a real election fraud apparatus. This might be another reason to take military action on Venezuela.

https://rumble.com/v7262q8-mega-election-fraud-exclusive-president-trumps-election-integrity-taskforce.html

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

So what happened to "no new foreign wars"?

More WMDs...

Kaycee's avatar

Methinks you doth protest too much.

Who was petty and vindictive - the Biden administration going after Trump for everything under the sun because they hate him? Because fucking Orange Man Bad!

I don't give two flying fucks, turn about is fair play! If Trump is being vindictive then they deserve every bit of it.

AKQuiltingGramma's avatar

Some words are quite simply never appropriate. Please learn some more useful adjectives.

David K Thiel's avatar

Jeff characterized the video correctly. It is propaganda. "The Seditious 6" tip-toed around the law; their intend is to divide, divide, divide.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

Completely agree, although in our current lack of consequences for bad behavior climate, I doubt much if anything will happen to them. Even Mark Kelly, as I wrote about above, I doubt he cares about losing his military pension when he’s in Congress, is currently worth tens of millions and has the opportunity to get insider stock trading information for the remainder of his term.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

They did and it's perfectly legal for them to do it.

They picked their words correctly because it was calculated to avoid being a crime.

Justin's avatar

Yes, that may be a stunt, and it is interesting that it was done by the Dumocrats, but this may be the only time they are technically right, and it is NOT sedition.

The 10th Amendment says it is everyone's duty to ignore and/or nullify any unlawful or unconstitutional laws. Especially for those who swore an oath to uphold the constitution.

If we want to bring up sedition, let's not forget all of the sedition during Bidung's entirely seditious term.

The Great Resist's avatar

Posted on X by Glenn Beck:

“This is the law @realDonaldTrump is looking for: 18 U.S.C. § 2387 — Activities Affecting Armed Forces General

This statute makes it a federal crime to do any of the following with the intent to interfere with U.S. military operations:

1.Advise, urge, or attempt to cause:

•insubordination,

•disloyalty,

•mutiny, or

•refusal of duty

among members of the U.S. military.

2.Obstruct or attempt to obstruct:

•recruiting,

•enlistment,

•or general military operations.

3.Distribute written materials advocating any of the above.

This law does not require advocating the overthrow of the government — that is § 2385.

Section 2387 is specifically about undermining the functioning of the U.S. military.”

https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1992661661606461538

Captain Mark Kelly is also subject to military code for the rest of his life, since he “retired” from the military (not just resigned as the other veterans in the seditious video did). He can be recalled to active duty, then court martialed under applicable military justice. And that would be exactly what Gollum deserves. As another commenter on this thread said, others have been court martialed for far less.

Susan G's avatar

Correct. And these six violated that law. Why do the Dems only care about free speech when they are speaking?

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Can we start charging people here for demanding current American servicemen abandon their posts?

Pepperidge farm remembers..what's fair is fair.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

While I certainly hope this happens, I think he’s already weighed that consequence and it didn’t matter enough to stop him from doing it. Doubt he’ll serve any jail time, so I don’t think he’s that concerned about the other possibilities.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

If you want to be technical people here have committed that when they said I should leave my post and go to Ukraine.

The Great Santini's avatar

The 10th Amendment says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It has no bearing on the actions of the Seditious 6.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Tons of seditious crimes by the biden admin

Michael Miller's avatar

Plenty of Constitutional conservatives have always advocated refusing unconstitutional orders. Oathkeepers is an organization of military, police, firefighters who are committed to honoring their oath to support obey and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They agree to refuse orders that violate the constitution.

I believe that the oath to the constitution supersedes any other comitment , as did Edward Snowden who gave up life in his country to warn us.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

And thusly the democrats didn't commit a crime in this regard. They worded it carefully to avoid being illegal.

Had they said "you all need to refuse to follow Trump's orders in regards to XXX" he'd have a somewhat better case.

CStone's avatar

Says the Ukrainian troll.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Sorry you lost your friends in the war, tovarisch.

You'll lose plenty more.

Another day, another 1500 Russian men droned to death.

Longstreet's avatar

Perhaps, but what these members of congress did was repulsive.

Carolyn's avatar

Are you back..they did commit a serious crime but I'm sure your eyes are blinded to actual truth

CraigN's avatar

Surprised anyone responded to 2N. I find that not engaging annoying people is the most effective course of action.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

sorry facts don't align with your narrative.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

He didn't.

It's not illegal to tell someone to not follow unlawful orders or respect the constitution.

He's an idiot and a leftist but he is 100% not going to be convicted and the admin is wasting it's time again.

David K Thiel's avatar

I suspect they know Kelly won't be convicted. This is just exerting some pressure on Kelly. A little payback for his despicable video.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

And now he’s going to be a hero to the left.

Great job, yall.

CMCM's avatar

Why on earth would Kelly be convicted? No one else is. They do what they do with near total impunity.

James D Teel II's avatar

Ole Bennnnn knows it as well. He’s just being obtuse as always.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

I do know.

He didn't commit a crime.

He intentionally worded it to align with the oath of enlistment/commissioning. He's going to walk and become a hero to the left.

Gaye's avatar

“Hero to the left.” Like Che and Marx and Obummer and all the rest. Sweet.

James D Teel II's avatar

If wishes were horses, then beggars could ride. You need to come down from your Wolkenkuckucksheim.

Michelle Enmark, DDS's avatar

I think Mark Kelly agrees with you or he would not have done this. Not only that but I’m not sure what the consequences might be other than taking away his military pension, which he doesn’t need since he’s worth tens of millions? Take away some of his medals? Apparently he has forgotten how to put them on his uniform anyway according to an observant retired military blogger ( if he’s correct), so they’re not super important to him either, I’m guessing. Doubt he will be put in jail. So the calculus may have been worth it to him for the damage it might cause. He’s did that calculation in his head before agreeing to make the video.

In addition, the other five face no real consequences which is a problem as well. This type of behavior will not stop if there are no painful consequences, figuratively or literally.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

I don't think they can even do that. It requires a crime to be committed.

Trump and Kegsbreath can hem and haw and stamp their feet but this strikes me as being ego and emotion driven, nothing more.

kittynana's avatar

@Benjamin- correct. But innuendo speaks volumes and is punishable by law.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

None of what Kelly did was a crime. If that's the case then we need to start imprisoning people on this very blog for advocating the desertion of American servicemen.

He did something no different than what the oath keepers still do.

Cousin Clem's avatar

I'm cursed to have CIA agent Spanberger as my governor. Unfortunately, Winsome Sears was a poor replacement for Youngkin but like NY, the densely populated areas are all stiffly liberal to their own detriment and the rural areas just can't overcome that block.

LMWC's avatar

Elissa Slotkin was elected to the Senate from Michigan in last year’s election. Trump handily carried Michigan and Mike Rogers the GOP candidate for Senate was ahead of Slotkin until the late morning hours of the next day. His lead disappeared until Slotkin was declared the winner by less than 20,000 votes. And our SoS, Jocelyn Benson is now running for governor. Crossover voting is blamed for Roger’s loss to Slotkin. We are really supposed to believe voters who overwhelmingly voted for Trump decided that they weren’t voting for the name below Trump’s on the ballot. The media ignores all of it. Until we get election integrity, this will keep happening.

rolandttg's avatar

The reason the down party voting does not align with presidential voting is the cheating . It was explained beautifully on a podcast on Ninoscorner tv who has examined in detail as no one else has exactly how Colorado did it, and why it is vital for the riggers to keep Tina Peters in jail long enough to slow walk kill her, as they are doing.

SD Scott's avatar

😫

Please provide a link!

Beckadee's avatar

Peter Bernegger is working hard on the MI elections. I first heard about smurfing from him and have shared his stuff here.

LMWC's avatar

Yes! He is working with Patrick Colbeck who has been in the Michigan fight since 2020 and the Big Steal. To me, Colbeck is a rock star.

SD Scott's avatar

Highly suspicious & same old playbook.

SD Scott's avatar

Election fraud is a factor. Mike Lindell battles on against Liberty Vote (Dominion 2.0).

He could use $support right now.

Dena's avatar

This Lara Logan podcast on the election fraud is super interesting, this is an X link but maybe found on other platforms like YouTube : https://x.com/laralogan/status/1991937573015400543?s=61

Jane Tracy's avatar

I have watched it twice and I felt it tied together so many loose threads that so many readers have tried unsuccessfully to weave together. This podcast of hers was excellent, scary, but excellent! Recommend reading for everyone ‼️

Dena's avatar

Yes, Venezuela behind stolen elections. Another reason Trump administration interested in then.

Based Florida Man's avatar

If we could just go back to same day voting with paper ballots.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Worst pillows in the world but I support that man.

Edit— ***Ok— NOT the worst pillows in the world!😝 I apparently didn’t get the right fill for myself!? Or something… And I had no idea the man made

moccasins and spreads!!?!

SD Scott's avatar

Oh, I love his pillows - and everything else he sells, so far!

The Giza dreams sheets are lovely! The moccasins are wonderful. The bathrobe is scrumptious. I like the bedspread, too.

It’s so hard to find this quality of cotton nowadays!

My mom calls him Mr Pillow. 😃

DS's avatar

Funny how I bought my "My Pillow" five years ago. It still supports my aging head (72) each night. I think they're pretty darn good pillows.

Lynn46's avatar

Two of mine over 10 yrs old. When I put them in the washer and dryer they come out like brand new.

I wish the bath towels were larger.

SD Scott's avatar

Same! Very beautiful, but I’m tempted to sew two of them together.

Dave Slough's avatar

Has the best absorbant towels

Tom's avatar

Funny enough, it seems the Shamwow guy is running for Congress.

I think I saw a headline on the internet, so it must be true.

Dave Slough's avatar

Yes I saw something about him too.

I think somewhere in the Carolinas

Karmy's avatar

We love his pillows and sheets. Quality materials. And his towels are wonderful.

SuezCanal's avatar

Love the pillows. Won't use any other. I travel with them.

CMCM's avatar

I especially like the small travel pillows, great for a long drive as lower back support.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Well maybe I ordered the wrong type/ fill? Or maybe I’m confused. It wouldn’t be the first time. 😬

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

His pillows are phenomenal!

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I edited my stance. 😉

SuezCanal's avatar

It's not expensive (if you have a promo code) to try different fills. He used to have 3 options but now he offers 2. I ordered all 3 and my preference is the regular, original loft. (And we have 5 MyPillow dog beds. The best. Can throw the covers alone in the washer, and the beds themselves.)

NoVA mom's avatar

Am cursed along with you Clem….not going to be a good time in VA…

Lydia Lozano's avatar

The first thing people need to do is find a way to take their kids out of public schools.

Lori's avatar

Yes, asap. Our children are not safe in public schools, not at all.

NoVA mom's avatar

Eldest daughter already planning homeschool curriculum for the future generation….

NoVA mom's avatar

Absolutely! We are in Loudoun county….🙄😤

rolandttg's avatar

Nearby , but in a red county. Travel through Loudon all the time for unending dental work, and shake my head every time I go in Wegmans and see the 'tards still wearing masks.

NoVA mom's avatar

Also - yes!! Laugh ALL the time seeing the paranoid maskers! Especially alone in their cars….

NoVA mom's avatar

Sorry about the dental work - been there, done that - hate it!)

Lydia Lozano's avatar

The epicenter of the madness ..... although Fairfax County is pretty screwed up too. At least that crook Connolly is no longer there.

Dena's avatar

A race to the bottom, WA, VA, CA, MI, OR, MN…

FH's avatar

I keep wondering: “former” Clown In Action as governor of a state that appears to largely be an extension of the swamp…what are they up to?

Lori's avatar

Why do you say Sears was a poor replacement? She certainly would have been better than the spamburger.

Cousin Clem's avatar

She was not very engaged in the campaign and seemed to be a little lost in answering questions on media interviews(in the few times she did them). But even the Attny Gen who wished death on his opponents' children won so what can you say about the voters? Party over all else.

rolandttg's avatar

Like I said, the very fact that murderous ghoul was selected should tell you your vote did not count.

Lori's avatar

Interesting, I did not get that same take. I still wish she had won; she is a class act.

Yes, Jay Jones is foul and grotesque.

Based Florida Man's avatar

Sears was never a sharp candidate. She's a Jamaican girl-boss never-Trumper and just never inspired the Right in any big way.

Lori's avatar

Too bad as she is better than what they voted in.

rolandttg's avatar

I live here too. You do know the fix was in from the start, I hope. It burns me up that so many people, including you know who , keep referring to "Deep Blue Virginia. " We are blue for the same reason Colorado is blue. They have made election stealing an art form.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

I was in VA last week and the state is absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately you have democrats coming back in to VA and the USMC museum was shut down.

Very sad.

Susan G's avatar

One of the Seditious Six, Chris Deluzio, is my congressman.

Jpeach's avatar

The CIA has been the Globalists’ Intel Agency for decades. Would America be better off if the CIA was defunded?

Beth's avatar

We can't defund them. They support themselves with all of their dealings worldwide. What do you think happens to all those drugs that they confiscate? And the boats? And everything else. They became a self-funded agency years ago, they just accept the additional funds from taxpayers, but they don't really need it.

The Great Resist's avatar

The don’t even need to confiscate the drugs, since they themselves are — or at the very least, are in bed with — the drug dealers.

Chevrus's avatar

You nailed it. Gary Webb is nodding from his grave….

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

The CIA literally is under the control of the Trump admin.

Beth's avatar

I have some oceanfront property in AZ for sale if you believe that. I've known the Intel guys for decades. They do whatever the Globalists want. Only pretend to follow presidents orders, and only when it fits their agenda. So, no, they are only playing along.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

If that's the case then the Trump admin needs to be fired and replaced with someone more competent.

They can't even control their own admin with a CIA director and ol' Tulsi.

Leapin's avatar

The CIA has no oversight and finances are off the books.

They are literally another branch of government.

Silent scorn's avatar

I do think part of it is and part of it is not.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Parts of the Trump admin fight each other and its pretty frustrating. Look at the capitulation agreement. Rubio and others had no clue what witkoff was doing.

Chevrus's avatar

Not ever and also never entirely….

Lisa Runquist's avatar

Yes. Defund it and do away with it entirely. If there are any good people left transfer them to one of the other still surviving agencies (was going to call them intelligence agencies but decided that there is nothing intelligent about any of them at this point).

FH's avatar

Taken down entirely. Impossible though. The entity will continue in one form or another in perpetuity, that’s the playground of evil. Sigh.

Beckadee's avatar

One of the 6 is Maggie Goodlander who is married to Jake Sullivan. That Jake Sullivan.

Leapin's avatar

You can make a pretty good case that Jake The Snake is a seditionist too.

Reelin’ In The Fears's avatar

Someone needs to ask those pieces of shit if a military drone operator is ordered to launch a missile at a fifteen year old American citizen that is sipping tea with a friend at an outdoor cafe should the drone operator refuse to follow the order?

Because that’s exactly what happened under the Obama regime.

Jane Tracy's avatar

DOW Pete Hegseth needs to exert his power and authority to show that it’s definitely against military law to say ‘seditious’ comments regarding the US Military! If Kelly doesn’t get investigated and tried in a Military tribunal, then what is the point! If Hegseth wants to be a by the book Secretary of Military and be the leader that he can be…. Do something Right and kill this rhetoric Now!🇺🇸🇺🇸

Lori's avatar
Nov 25Edited

Agreed. Having said that, I would never have trusted any of them to begin with no matter their previous positions. They are fanatic liberals and that's enough right there.

Jeff S's avatar

"fanatic" ... "liberal" ... repetition.

Yang Ming Mountain's avatar

In the end, the United States will likely perish because President Trump insists on treating treasonous criminals with public outcries from the patriots, yet NO ARRESTS NOR LEGAL ACTIONS TO PROSECUTE THEM.

This is a farce. The USA is over.

Becky's avatar

And when indictments like the ones for Comey and James are dismissed by one of the many, many corrupt judges, ad infinitum, indignant responses and articulate, outraged denouncements emerge from Republicans and our Speaker, who COULD REMOVE THEM, but don’t. They never do. This is not “be patient.” This is “It’s not going to change.”

SD Scott's avatar

Congress needs a cleansing.

Time to pray, people! The Lord is a worker of miracles.

Based Florida Man's avatar

Two term limit. That's it.

Yang Ming Mountain's avatar

It’s too late. Patriots will be rooted out first.

Silent scorn's avatar

Are you a paid troll? Why else would you be here?

Yang Ming Mountain's avatar

Hey Beth, only bozos like you would deem honest assessments as trolls. I would not be surprised if you follow the Q-anon trash as well. Obama, Clinton, Biden, Bush, Cheney, Pelosi …. are all traitors with hard evidence, yet none of them are arrested. If you can prove me wrong, why don’t you do so?

Becky's avatar

And how many more, elsewhere? Corruption in the “justice” system secures immunity for literal criminals.

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1993288561030746470?s=20

Tom's avatar

I'm left suspicious that the mishandling of the Grand Jury that lead to the dismissal was sabotage by incompetence.

It's a big club . . .

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

The Trump admin hired an incompetent lawyer who screwed up the cases.

Blame the Trump admin.

Jacquijacq's avatar

I’m not gg to lose hope - not yet! I too would like to see arrests.

Jay Horton's avatar

I don't know about being over, but it's going to be a hard slog to get it back on the rails, harder than first imagined especially with the typical limp-wristed prosecutions. It would appear for all practical purposed that "they" are taking care of each other; out of professional courtesy, decorum or what, what what???

Don't pay your taxes and find out just how fast "they" come after you! A helluva lot faster and harder than what we see these perpetrators of real sedition apparently receive from the same favored crowd.

WE DIDN'T GET WHAT WE PAID FOR.....!

Later Jay

Lori's avatar

Boo Hiss to you. The US will be just fine and we would be better without naysayers like you. Stay in your lane and go back to your physics lab where you belong.

The Great Resist's avatar

If only Substack had the country of origin feature that X just turned on a few days ago. A great many X accounts claiming to be disillusioned “former MAGA”, with US flags in their bios, have turned out to be based in Bangladesh, Thailand, Nigeria, Russia, UK, and various other third world toilets. Some (legitimate) US-based conservative X accounts are reporting a drop in “trolls” on their feeds by 70%+ since this new feature went live. Some of these fraudulent X accounts have more than a million followers.

Beth's avatar

So. Are you CCP?

LamedVav disavows all vaxes.'s avatar

Yang Ming- I think Beth guessed correctly. CCP.

Yang Ming Mountain's avatar

I was trained to kill CCP as an infantryman in my 20s. My family have been anti-Communism and anti-CCP for more than a century. It has never changed. Answering bozos like you @Beth is wasting my time. PROVE ME WRONG regarding the fact that Trump has no courage to uphold the law by arresting even one traitor.

This is no joke. Imagine the fallouts for patriots after 2028.

@Beth It’s more than likely that your parents were supporting the policies of the Communist spies in the FDR and Truman administrations, and you supported the decision to allow the CCP to enter WTO 25 years ago. My conjecture is that you enthusiastically build tombs for the prophets slain by your ancestors. What a loser!

WP William's avatar

Jason "Articles of Impeachment Part 1" Crow from Aurora and his Commie-Cohort Conspirators are simply amplifying the Soros "No Kings!" nonsense for media and moron voters for 2026--the innocent fishermen blown to pieces in the Caribbean, the deployment of Natl' Guard to defend Gestapo-ICE agents and facilities--these are the Illegal UnConstitutional Orders that the current Administration are pressuring our Service persons and Intelligence personnel to be part of. Grandstanding gloves-off political campaigning to destroy political opponents are what Dems do expertly. They must be countered in the most ruthless manner, micro-scrutinized and personally attacked verbally, legally, and muck-raked for everything and anything they've ever been involved in. Seems that phone tapping and computer hacking them all is warranted at a minimum.

Tom's avatar

If only there were oversight committees in Congress to assess the quality of actionable intelligence relied on in the targeting of these boats.

/sarc-off

If they did their jobs, they wouldn't be able to weaponize their own dereliction and incompetence. If they did their jobs, and were correct, we would have a record of it that they would cite, instead of putting moral hazard on troops at the lowest level.

Chixbythesea's avatar

If they can’t control it they want to burn it down, like so many rent controlled apartment complexes seized by Mandami, formerly owned by New Yorkers.

Tom's avatar

I think I'm going to refer to him as Madmani from now on.

Chixbythesea's avatar

Or “Comdami” perhaps.

Looks like he’s falling flat. Commie can’t deliver. He can’t even get the public to boycott their coffee purchases at Starbucks.

Of course, Starbucks came from Microsoft allegiance and is vaguely of the left, just too capitalistic for his liking.

Fun to watch progressivism stomp upon yesterday’s useful idiots. That’s an ouch. Though they’re likely understanding that taking one for the team is expected.

Like my rooster bravely stepping forward to be slaughtered by a hawk, and without a second thought, so his girls have a chance to escape. There is of course more nobility in the selflessness of a rooster than the Microsoft-Starbucks industrial complex.

S.P.H.'s avatar

Hard core elected leftists and judges that hate America. How do we stop that? Especially with a compromised election system, which goes back to before named leftists and judges. I'm not absolving the GOP in this mess by any means, but why so many are content in finishing in second place is beyond me. In politics, finishing second is finishing last. We all finish last when America haters are in charge.

Mid terms are right around the corner, be on your toes.

FlyingDad's avatar

No new FOREIGN wars. Venezuela is in the Americas. It’s in our hemisphere, Ukraine, the Middle East, Africa, not the same.

Tom's avatar

They are weaponizing the incompetence of their own oversight.

I would be curious to learn the results of a FOIA request on the number of hearings specifically meant to address Intelligence Committee hearings regarding the quality of the actionable intelligence relied on by the military in the targeting of the boats in question.

My guess is that they have not even bothered. Otherwise they would be howling from the rooftops that they have determined in their hearings that it is inadequate.

Bard Joseph's avatar

Could be trying to ensure bipartisan decision making.

Paging the War Powers Act.

FH's avatar

Doubt many will see this, but here’s a “tweet” reply and repost highlighting why the seditious six video is so terrible

https://x.com/infantrydort/status/1993276976321151385?s=46&t=2zaqeE0XC-LbUUB_8Hh19Q

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

“I, even I, am the LORD,

And there is no savior besides Me.

It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed,

And there was no strange god among you;

So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD,

“And I am God.

Even from eternity I am He,

And there is none who can deliver out of My hand;

I act and who can reverse it?”

— Isaiah 43:11-13 NAS95

✝️✝️✝️

Uncle Juan's avatar

Greetings to you this fine chilly morning…

The Lord bless and keep you this day!

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

And you as well!

The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in

From this time forth and forever.

— Psalm 121:8 NAS95

SD Scott's avatar

This is who we complain to: the one who rules heaven & earth.

Nothing can prevail against the Lord.

Essay33's avatar

"And there is none who can deliver out of My hand."

Thank you, Janice, I needed that today.

Guy White's avatar

All praise, honor and glory be to the Great I AM!!

Happy Thanksgiving (week) everyone 🙏

shayne's avatar

Hallelujah and amen!

Essay33's avatar

As someone whose USAF Major son respectfully refused the mRNA vax, was summarily denied his exemption request and refused his appeal, was threatened with court-martial and instead of advancing to Lt. Colonel (the paperwork for it was already done) left the military with no pension and no rank (it's as though his 13 years of service including multiple deployments meant nothing) I can not overstate how despicable Mark Kelly and company are. I can't overstate how outrageously evil they are. If Kelly isn't punished there really is no military justice.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I am so sorry this happened to him. Tell him to hang in there. Haven’t the military gone back and restored some people/ made them whole at this point? Seems like I read somewhere that they gave back positions, etc.?

My Marine niece and nephew each took 1 jab and had horrible medical

issues almost immediately. My niece went partially blind, developed a bizarre rash on her trunk, lost

feeling in areas, fainted, and more. She had to get her appendix out, became septic— it was nuts. Months later, most of her vision returned but she can’t see peripherally anymore. They tried to get her to take another jab! She filed a complaint and was eventually ok’d. Nephew had much of the same thing occur, and developed a turbo cancer which has since been healed. BOTH are young— late 20’s, early 30’s, super fit, and healthy. It’s tragic ehat they did/do to our military. I am

convinced a lot of the Gulf War Syndrome, depression, alcoholism and homelessness many experience likely stems from some of the vaccines they are required to take.

Essay33's avatar

He made the right choice (he knows several former colleagues with heart damage who can no longer fly). Delta Airlines hired him right after he separated so he has no regrets, though he misses the sense of team and close friendships he had for so many years. Commercial pilots don’t have that at all.

He was truly an outstanding officer and a highly skilled KC-135 pilot and trainer of pilots. He tried to explain in his exemption request (I thought very eloquently) that the character traits that made him excel also made him unwilling to subject himself to the vaccine, and was very concerned as well about the extreme adversarial division being forced on his men, vaxed vs. unvaxed; he felt it was a really dangerous mentality to encourage and actively worked against military cohesion.

I asked him recently if he’d ever re-enlist (they’d probably take him) and he said “No” immediately.

I’m truly sorry about your niece and nephew. They were forced to be guinea pigs and what was done was criminal.

rolandttg's avatar

Every officer who participated in forcing soldiers and sailors to take illegal jabs is a criminal. They claimed they were administering the "approved" Cominarty from Pfizer, but to this day, no Cominarty has ever been used in the US. If it were, Pfizer would lose its blanket immunity. The military brass knew it was illegal to force anyone to take experimental shots, but they lied knowingly.

Tom's avatar

There were reports of fake labels printed and slapped on to the vials.

rolandttg's avatar

Why would that not surprise me? I could ask my former son in law, as he was an officer at Quantico at an auxiliary medical unit that serviced both the base personnel and the presidential details.

Tom's avatar

Your son and I might well know many of the same people.

Essay33's avatar

It’s a small Air Force, that’s certainly possible.

Tom's avatar

Given the timeline, he would have been a young co-pilot when I was leaving the tanker. We might have even flown together.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

It never occurred to me that the whole vaxxed/unvaxxed thing would work against military cohesion, creating an adversarial atmosphere.

Brothers in Arms has flipped. Not so much brothers, on account of what’s in it not in your arm…

Truly an excellent point and one more loss due to this prolonged deceitful fiasco.

I am also truly sorry for what happened to your son. Pls tell him we are grateful for his patriotism and for his service.

Essay33's avatar

Thank you. The way people were suddenly tribalized and pitted against each other, vaxed vs. unvaxed, was apparently really bad in the military because it was totally antithetical to the military ethos. That really upset my son, who valued cohesion in his unit.

He wrote about that in his exemption request, about the damage being done to troop unity. It was terrible in so many ways.

Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Yes, about Gulf War Syndrome. Toxic anthrax shots but also exposure to depleted uranium.

Prayers for your niece and nephew regaining their health.

rolandttg's avatar

I am so sorry for your son, and deeply respect his commitment, Our beloved former son in law was given that ultimatum too, and sadly, knuckled so his gold digger wife could avoid the jab at her CIA job, quit, and become a non working housewife later in Okinawa. He was told he and one other were the last holdouts at the medical faclilties in Quantico, and it was jab or discharge. He had 15 years in at the time. So far so good, but who knows. Has 2 kids now, and neither has received any jabs at all, much to the chagrin of the Navy. In Japan, no kid receives any shotes before age 2.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I’m so sorry abt your former son in law. Hopefully, he’s heard of the many detox protocols out there, such as bromelian and nattokinase (spelling?)

Japan’s version of the CDC/FDA are closer to what we all used to believe ours was, as in, truly looking out for us and for good health outcomes. They backed off of several shots some time ago, and dropped one or 2 altogether. Good on them.

rolandttg's avatar

I am fully aware of the various protocols, and have given him all of the information, but thanks.

Tom's avatar

Your son's entire chain of command deserves to be tried in the manner of Nuremberg, and if any of their subordinates "died suddenly," they should face the appropriate consequenses.

As a retiree, the moral cowardice of the institution stunned me circa 2020.

I salute your son for having great big brass ones.

Essay33's avatar

Thank you. I have always been proud of him. He’s always been one to make well considered decisions, and been a leader in our family as well as in the wider world. He also married very wisely; my daughter in law stood 100% behind the decision to separate even though they had 3 children and she was an at home mom (she said to me “the Air Force won’t have him to kick around anymore”).

When he left the service they had to sell their lovely first house finally purchased after years of base housing, and leave the wonderful town where he was last based, but now they have a 4th child, and a house on an acre with chickens and fruit trees only 30 minutes from an airport, so it’s all worked out for their best. The military lost a good one in him.

Oregon Kathy's avatar

I'm curious, if your son hadn't landed a good job that he's happy with, might he have rejoined with the Trump offer? Was the offer at all adequate, reasonable, enticing?

Essay33's avatar

I don't think it was enticing at all. Before he signed the final separation papers I asked him about the option of not leaving because they'd halted the mandate and halted the forced separations.

He explained that it's either "up or out;" once he'd said "no" to something (in this case the vax) he'd been pulled out of the track for promotions. He figured that he would have spent the rest of his career in a vault somewhere and his ability to pilot would have deteriorated and cost him the second career in commercial flight he'd always planned on.

If Delta hadn't taken him he would have applied to others based on their hubs and where he wanted to raise his family. He briefly considered Alaska but didn't apply as they're kind of a mess, and went to Delta instead.

They've treated him well and he's content with his choice even though it was forced on him 8 years too early.

Oregon Kathy's avatar

Oh, that's too bad. So saying no is still held against them?

What's with Alaska? I know they are too DEI, is that it?

Johnny-O's avatar

I'm sorry. Looking from the outside, I don't see why saying not to follow illegal orders is even remotely controversial. I know these idiots did it for political reasons, but at the end of the day, yeah, you shouldn't follow illegal orders.

Essay33's avatar

A former military officer suggesting that some kind of unspecified illegal orders--what exactly is he referring to, do you think, given current events--might be given and that active military should be refusing unspecified orders they might think are illegal is unconscionable. If you can't see that this is a direct attempt to undermine the chain of command, and most specifically the Secretary of Defense and the Commander in Chief, well, you aren't familiar with the military at all.

Also think for a minute about the fact that nearly 8,000 servicemen and women were involuntarily separated from the military because they respectfully refused through exemption requests and appeals--almost all of which were denied--an order to inject their own bodies with an untested vaccine, because orders are orders and you follow them.

Ironically Mark Kelly didn't believe in vaccine mandates for civilians, but he did for the military, and initially he did not want people reinstated once they were kicked out for refusing the vax, because (and I quote him) "As a soldier, soldiers should follow orders."

What the hell is he doing calling for the military to question orders now?

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I SO wish I could read this reply to my husband who is watching the CBS Nightly News. They JUST did their level best to paint Trump as the idiot in the scenario, and to make the 6 dems out to be poor, maligned citizens.

*sigh*

Johnny-O's avatar

My comments aren't about vaccines. That's a whole issue of its own. It is illegal to murder people without evidence or proof, which is what is happening under the guise of "terrorists."

If you are happy going back to the Bush Cheney way of doing things, that is your choice. Me, not so much.

Politico Phil's avatar

BREAKTHROUGH: Nattokinase Experimentally Eliminates 84% of Amyloid Microclots — a Pathology Recently Found in 100% of COVID-19 Vaccinated Individuals Tested

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breakthrough-nattokinase-experimentally

Valerie's avatar

I didn’t take the jab, but I do take nattokinase for its heart health effects. In particular, it seems to strengthen the endothelial lining of blood vessels.

Dr Linda's avatar

I take it as well for about 6 years. No jabs, no covid, probably most likely, exposure from shedding.

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

Hey Doc Linda. . . What about Lumbrokinase? Back in time a bit I had heard it is even better for dissolution of fibrin etc. Have YOU looked into that? thx.

Dr Linda's avatar

I take it every other day. There is less data. Some consider it stronger. I have been doing for about 6 years.

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

Surely you are aware of Dr McCullough's Ultra Spike Detox solution for all this. . .

Is it just simpler and a LOT less expensive to take Lumbro & Natto individually? The added ingredients with US Detox are just "nice to haves"?

Tom's avatar

I'm afraid if I start taking it, something will break off into my bloodstream.

Is one supposed to start with a lower dose?

Chixbythesea's avatar

Is there any conflict with D3K2? I assume not but have to ask. Thanks

Johnny-O's avatar

And I imagine vax shedding is also a thing....so.

Phillip Zinni III DO FAOASM's avatar

Promising? "A breakthrough in-vitro study has shown that nattokinase" but in-vitro. Need minimally mammal studies, optimally human. With that said been taking 200mg BID since c19 "infection" (no vax); and recommending to my patients.

Be Well, Be Blessed, Phillip

Politico Phil's avatar

If memory serves, I believe I read that McCullough said that lumbrokinase was dramatically more effective than even nattokinase. Did you see that?

What part of the country do you practice in? Here in the FL panhandle it is difficult finding "alternative" doctors.

Phillip Zinni III DO FAOASM's avatar

Not looked into LKS? I'm in Reno, primarily virtual and licensed in FL, IL, CA, NV. Sorry for brevity. Be Well, Be Blessed, Phillip

The Great Resist's avatar

According to the study referenced in this article, you need 10,800 FU of natto daily to reverse heart disease:

https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/nattokinase-reverses-heart-diseasebut

My natto bottle says 2000 FU = 100 mg, so 10800 FU would be 540 mg. Perhaps a lower dose would be sufficient to “prevent” heart disease (as opposed to “reverse” an existing case). Either way, I think I need to find a stronger brand.

Phillip Zinni III DO FAOASM's avatar

Also in vitro, not in a human/mammal, agree more may be needed. Sorry for brevity, Phillip

pretty-red, old guy's avatar

BID then? = "bi-daily" two times a day?

MayBella82's avatar

What is BID? Always looking for ways to take better csre of my health. Thanks.

Politico Phil's avatar

Really🙄... I would have guessed that should be TAD.

It's got to be Latin (which I haven't studied since 6th grade)

Jacquijacq's avatar

I just know bid - prob bis in die twice a day.

Phillip Zinni III DO FAOASM's avatar

Yes, twice daily, Sorry for brevity, Phillip

AM Schimberg's avatar

Another 40-something year old friend of ours had a stroke yesterday.

Johnny-O's avatar

Yes, another 40ish year old died in our hometown recently. They apparently got some bad vax batches. The sudden deaths of younger people who are seemingly healthy is insane. I also feel that it has already been mostly normalized, which blows my mind.

AM Schimberg's avatar

Yes!! This friend is SUPER healthy. A health nut, sporty type. I think he'll be alright, but sheesh! These things did not used to happen to the extent they're currently happening. And sometimes I feel like very few people are seeing it!

Oregon Kathy's avatar

So with that good health, will he recover well from the stroke? Or...thinking about it, maybe for anyone to 'recover well' from jab maladies, they would need to detox?

Susan Clack's avatar

😒😒😒😰😰😰🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Barbara Moser, RNC's avatar

Check out HBOT for an embolic stroke. Great results!!

MnmMom's avatar

How does DMSO help for stroke? I knew about pain relief but not this. Very interested.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

DMSO is the duct tape of medical issues, the hot sauce of medical issues, too.

Like duct tape, it can fix darned near everything. Like hot sauce, “I put that *@%# on everything!”

Dr Linda's avatar

The forgotten side of medicine. MWD has done an immense amount of work. Also, he (she?) has written terrific summaries on Mercola

Salty K's avatar

Check out A Midwestern Doctors Substack. He has a dmso index at the top of his page

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Midwestern Doc is fabulous.

Jeff S's avatar

Oh, no, not another. Good luck.

Csher's avatar

Best news ever! I'm non-vaxed but got my spike protein load checked (SARS-CoV-2 Semi-Quant Spike Ab .... For anyone who wants to request it) and it was over 3k!! What in the world? The only thing I can think it's from is that I work in schools and 95% staff vaxed! And, STILL getting them! Therefore shedding.

Carlos's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

I’m quite sure that we all know someone that can benefit right now from this and save lives.

Carrie's avatar

“Public housing should be safe”…

I would argue that public housing by definition cannot reliably be safe. Anytime someone is given a handout for free, they are less likely to take care of it. Also, when government gives out housing, whatever organization is managing the free housing wants to make sure the units are filled, so that said organization remains relevant and keeps getting government money. That is how unsavory characters get into these free housing units. They are likely not well vetted. That leads to those we would agree need help end up in unsafe situations.

Hopefully this HUD hotline effort is another step in the right direction towards cracking down on crime.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

HUD, another unconstitutional federal government department, like HHS and the Department of Education … give all the usurped powers and funds back to the states and the people.

SD Scott's avatar

Cut out the cancer.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

HUD shouldn't exist.

100%.

Jeff C's avatar

True, but it goes well beyond that. I've given my kids gifts and though they may not treat them as well as I would, they don't actively destroy them.. There are luxury apartment buildings in nice areas that have nothing but renters, and they are beautiful. It's not just indifference but a pathological mindset.

Why are affluent areas generally well-maintained, clean, and low crime? Why aren't there blow out parties going past midnight and teenagers racing motorcycles up and down the street? Why don't the people who live in them trash their own neighborhood? It's because affluent people (generally there are always exceptions) are responsible and have good impulse control. They think things through, delay gratification, and follow proven systems rather than reacting to everything in the moment. That's how they got affluent in the first place.

Having skin in the game (i.e. ownership) is helpful no doubt, but it's not a panacea. You still have a huge number of people that cannot, or will not, control their behavior all thrown together. Immediate gratification and low impulse control are usually associated with low intelligence, and an inability exercise good judgement. Short of a life-changing spiritual awakening, these people will continue to make one disastrous decision after another.

There's a reason "the projects" were/are quite literally hellholes on Earth. Read about the Cabrini Green project in Chicago, it was designed to be a nice place but was completely trashed within a decade by it's own tenants.

Barbara's avatar

Good points. And each Housing Authority (HA) is rewarded for occupancy rates ~ higher occupancy can equal higher subsidies for the HA.

AM Schimberg's avatar

The whole system is corrupt!

Occam's avatar

Moral hazard at work.

Plus capitalism.

Eruca Sativa's avatar

Just like a HOA, public housing has rules that preclude tenants from "taking care" of anything. If your druggie/dysfunctional neighbors cause problems, you can't get them kicked out, no matter how tidy your unit or how well you manage your fixed income. It's not that they are not "well vetted" but that vetting is irrelevant. Unsavory characters have the same access bc the purpose of public housing is to provide housing. Criminal records are in the past and do not preclude s/o from access. For the non-criminal tenants and former offenders who wish to go on the straight-and-narrow, this is unfortunate.

Skeptical Actuary's avatar

In theory, very few of those units are handed out rent free.

nancy roberts's avatar

Just imagine for one moment and pretend Kamala Harris was our president this Thanksgiving...

right here, right now. 😳 Then, please take another moment to express great gratitude for all the unseen bullets we have dodged, because she isn't.

Dr Linda's avatar

Speaking as an exmilitary, we were never mandated to follow illegal orders. This is not a new concept.

I am not sure what these congressman thought they were doing. This is a sticky situation. Although, I believe this legal or illegal situation is decided by the military not civilian courts. Certainly not by congressman.

Juju's avatar
Nov 25Edited

I’m pretty sure they knew exactly what they were doing: drive a wedge between our military and the Commander in Chief to destabilize the perceived power of this administration, and poise the military to support the Democrat/liberal views so they would be ready and waiting once Dems were back in charge, who plan on using the military the very way they are accusing Trump “might”, to literally get rid of MAGA once and for all. The NG won’t shoot at innocent civilians unless they are attacked first, and even then they’ll use every non-lethal means possible. But after Jan 6 I’m convinced under Democrat control they WILL shoot at any MAGA stink-eye they think they see, and jail every one they can get their hands on. THAT’s when the military will have to disobey illegal orders. This administration has not done what the democrats are saying they fear, but the Democrats already DID do it back in 2021. Which side is truly worthy of fearing?

Karmy's avatar

Pure projection which is what the Democrats excel at. Accuse your opponent of what you are doing.

Juju's avatar

Oops typo. Thanks! Fixing it

Juju's avatar

Oooh thanks for the reference. I’ve been going through books lately like my morning coffee: excessively. Lol

Occam's avatar

It's just more grandstanding, performative nonsense from the usual suspects.

Supported by the msm, amplified by all of team anti-Trump. Business as usual.

WP William's avatar

it was a media ploy grandstanding for "No Kings!" messaging til we puke by next election season. WORKED brilliantly too.

Tom's avatar
Nov 25Edited

We were trained to disobey orders that were illegal on their face, like lining up non-combatant civilians and then shooting them.

If there was grey area, as in the fog of war and we were not privy to actionable intelligence, we should have been able to go to the chain of command with questions, assuming the chain was not riddled with moral cowardice.

These Congressmen have a mechanism to assess the quality of the intelligence being relied on: The various oversight committees. They are first being derelict in their oversight duties, and then weaponizing their own incompetence for the sake of political narrative.

They are pushing moral hazard down to the lowest level of the chain of command.

Moral cowardice in Congress, writ large.

Note who is first in Revelation 21:8:

"But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Dr Linda's avatar

I have been thinking about the Calley crimes. I wonder what, if anything, happened to the higher ups that told him to kill all those civilians.

Tom's avatar

Captain Ernest L. Medina denied giving the order. He was acquitted of all charges.

Dr Linda's avatar

Interesting. I never felt okay with that whole situation

Tom's avatar
Nov 25Edited

I have a sense that there may have been a culture that led to the order being given, but not in so many words. Or, Medina may have been lying outright.

In any case, the military's system of professional development is designed to create yes men. In my opinion.

Dr Linda's avatar

After serving, I think both were/are operational options. It was a disaster either way.

The Great Resist's avatar

There is civilian law that addresses this behavior. Glenn Beck posted this on X:

“This is the law @realDonaldTrump is looking for: 18 U.S.C. § 2387 — Activities Affecting Armed Forces General

This statute makes it a federal crime to do any of the following with the intent to interfere with U.S. military operations:

1.Advise, urge, or attempt to cause:

•insubordination,

•disloyalty,

•mutiny, or

•refusal of duty

among members of the U.S. military.

2.Obstruct or attempt to obstruct:

•recruiting,

•enlistment,

•or general military operations.

3.Distribute written materials advocating any of the above.

This law does not require advocating the overthrow of the government — that is § 2385.

Section 2387 is specifically about undermining the functioning of the U.S. military.”

https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1992661661606461538

Senator (ret. Captain) Mark Kelly is also subject to UCMJ for the rest of his life, since he “retired” from the military (not just resigned as the other veterans in the seditious video did). He can be recalled to active duty, then court martialed under applicable military justice. And that would be exactly what Gollum deserves. As another commenter said, others have been court martialed for far less.

Dr Linda's avatar

I read most of that this on various sources this morning when I did some research. I agree.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

Like all other federal employees, the military swear an oath to support the Constitution. Any orders in conflict with the Constitution should not be obeyed. While it is difficult at best to disobey, for instance being sent off to fight and kill foreigners in an undeclared war, knowing and supporting our Constitution should be the goal of every individual, who is required with the acceptance of his or her position, to swear an oath to support the Constitution.

MayBella82's avatar

is it worth disobeying when you have a Secret Clearance at best and do not sit in the meetings that decide these orders? The very servicemembers who would would be wrong. Now they lose their benefits, get a dishonorable discharge and end up in Leavenworth because they chose the hate in those 6 Congressmen instead of listening to their Chain of Command.

Stacy's avatar

Great! Now let’s do Milley. 😁

James Goodrich's avatar

As Comey and Latitia James charges are dropped by another Democrat activist judge dozens of Trump appointed district judges wait in the wings for country club, deep state lover, South Dakota senate majority leader John Thune to do his job and start confirming these judges. What is he waiting for? As we enter the 2nd year of Trumps term time is ticking. When Chuck Schumer came to the end of his control of the senate he had an interview on PBS and stated the democrat controlled senate confirmed 235 federal district judges and if Trump gets back in the White House they will tie him up at every corner. What is the problem with republicans doing their dam job, confirm these judged and start putting these people away? Treason is a crime but all of these heinous crimes go with zero jail time.

Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Allen Weisselberg, George Papadopoulus, etc. all went to prison or faced prison time on technicalities, most of these jail sentences that set precedent. President Trump himself faced 500 years in prison on technicalities, but Comey and James’s cases are brushed on technicalities.

Why are these country club republicans so afraid of the deep state? If this does not get corrected we, the frogs, will end up right back in the pot of slow boiling water.

SD Scott's avatar

These country club repubs ARE the deep state.

James Goodrich's avatar

They’re more like the cops that protect the mob. Did you see Comey’s joyous speech yesterday? Here’s a guy, and L. James as well, that tried to frame the president of the United States, and have a duly elected president removed from office for a story, a lie he helped make up, and he walks away with with that sleezebag smile on his face like a mob boss that gets away with multiple murders and corruption, saying you can’t touch me.

Jeff S's avatar

Comey can't die fast enough.

Johnny-O's avatar

This was set up to fail and be used as another political football to keep the culture wars going. yes, its all these activist judges - never mind the fact that Bondi appointed someone who has never led a criminal prosecution. Great plan for such a high profile case. Oh wait, its probably just 4 dimensional chess. Silly me.

Peter Schott's avatar

Sadly, gonna guess that a point that managed to disappear would be "accountability for all of the US funds that made it over to Ukraine". Still annoyed that we couldn't even get our own congress-critters to force that through to say "we need to know where this money we're printing for you is going". :(

On the other hand, would love to see some actual work done on the benefits for illegals - to cancel that funding would be a good boost for our economy and free up those benefits for others. (almost said hard-working citizens, but just couldn't do it....)

Taiga Rohrer's avatar

Of course congress doesn't want accountability for the funds that went to Ukraine, because part of it is sitting in their own bank accounts...

Pat Wetzel's avatar

We are living in a total banana republic.

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Chevrus's avatar

Then what happened>?!

Chevrus's avatar

If bribery does not work blackmail is always an option….and for the tiny percent that refuses….well, as they say: no body no crime.

Valerie's avatar

I agree, but nothing will change until businesses are held accountable for hiring illegals, and I doubt that will ever happen.

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But the big businesses donate to campaigns…

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Johnny-O's avatar

Recovery? For who? Layoffs last month were at like a 20 year high. Home sales down again. Repos continue to go up. I'm sure Trump and his billionaire friends really have our best interests in mind though. You would probably cheer Elon getting a $1 trillion dollar pay package. Maybe his pee really is golden by now.

Benjamin Two N's's avatar

That doesn't need to be a peace plan proposal because Trump can audit that now.

Why hasn't he?

william howard's avatar

Patience - once the peace plan is in place they can continue to follow the money - remember Z's right hand man is in the AUS asking for sanction - well there will be a price for that

Graham's avatar

Great blog as usual. Thank you for the updated info. I did not know about the oil fields. It makes much more sense to me now! I do hope the skunk, Mark Kelly, gets court martialed.

Lori's avatar

Kelly is truly a scumbag.

Politico Phil's avatar

Boris Johnson Urges Ukraine to Continue War

Posted Nov 25, 2025 By Martin Armstrong

Trump’s proposal for peace in Ukraine has been met with an overwhelming condemnation from the world’s neocons. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reemerges from the shadows whenever he hears word that a war may be winding down. He played an instrumental role in persuading Zelensky not to negotiate a peace treaty with Russia when it was apparent that Ukraine could not easily win, and now, Johnson is urging Ukraine to continue the war....

Plain and simple—Russia invaded due to the West’s failure to honor the Minsk Agreement. The neocons disregard the proposal entirely and conveniently disregard the original signed agreement when discussing conceding territory...

LET THE PEOPLE VOTE! The ethnically Russian people living in Ukraine have been unable to decide on their leadership. Zelensky outlawed their religion and language. Everyone believes they are protecting the people in these regions from the other side, but only one side is open to learning the people’s wishes. The 28-point plan saves the PEOPLE of both Russia and Ukraine. Russia cannot abandon the war without guarantees that NATO will back down and Ukraine is merely an EU puppet. Zelensky now has two days to decide whether he is willing to destroy his nation for the neocons.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/boris-johnson-urges-ukraine-to-continue-war/

Politico Phil's avatar

Is European Leaders Being Manipulated by NATO?

The European leaders are ignorant and are the puppets of NATO. They are too stupid to see that the Neocons are manipulating them. This nonsense that Ukraine should not be split is insane. That was the ONLY way to stop the ethnic killing in Yugoslavia. Czechoslovakia split in two as well. The Minsk Agreement, which even Germany signed, was to allow the Donbas to vote. Merz refusal to honor the word of Germany is dooming Europe to World War III.

There will NEVER be peace with Russia because people like Kallas hate the Russian people.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/is-european-leaders-being-manipulated-by-nato/

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

Not stupid, complicit.

CaliforniaLost's avatar

Why doesn't Boris go strap on a helmet and lead by example, show the West how to fight Russia? Is he still busy not investigating child grooming?

Chevrus's avatar

He’s the jagg-offspring of the upper crust who was born on 3rd and functions as a wee errand boy buffoon. He also happens to be an embodiment of just how ludicrous the ruling class has become.

Jack Bergeron's avatar

Russian Derangement Syndrome

SD Scott's avatar

Plunder by pirates. Has never changed.

Chevrus's avatar

The RF is in a position to repel borders so the half assed pirate class has to use proxy’s and quislings. Quislings do as they are told, proxies not so much. So EUroWeenies, you are all on notice because while you were gloating about your “adventures” in Ukraine and all the goodies you were going to get, record numbers of weapons and very upset migrants filtered into your states….and when the SHTF, it will happen very suddenly.

James's avatar

Then let the Euros commit their blood and treasure to prolonging the war, if they’re so keen on doing so. What’s that? They can’t do so? I’m shocked, shocked.

rolandttg's avatar

Boris is Britain's Bolton

SD Scott's avatar

I think he’s always been willing. But he isn’t going to emerge with much for himself if all of his corruption is disclosed.

Dr Linda's avatar

It is going to be a great day. C&C and I are in sync today.

It doesn't take Sherlock's avatar

Just thinking out loud. It seems like Floridians like having multiple jobs. [Exhibit A- Marco Rubio.] With the Kelly and Vindmans scurvy behavior, a lot of military justice will need to be released on them, and the other clowns like seditious retired generals. Seems DeSantis could be brought in as a "special advisor" to the DOJ and the Military justice system in 2026. Let him advise next steps, etc. Get the Left all in a lather. Since he is just an unpaid advisor they can't touch him. Then, if he acts well in that role in 2026 while he is finishing up his last year as governor, in 2027 he takes a paid role in the Trump administration and replaces Bondi before the end of 2027. Then the Vance/Rubio ticket announces they will look to keep DeSantis as Attorney General. This then sets DeSantis up nicely as a future VP pick in 2036.

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Ron would make a great president.

Politico Phil's avatar

I like that. But I have given up trying to make political forecasts a while ago.

SD Scott's avatar

Give him a hatchet.

Jeff S's avatar

I'm just gonna roll some dice.

Rick Ruffin's avatar

Thank you so much for your morning reads. Love having a white pill with my breakfast coffee.

Wondering why cartel money laundering through Venezuela is not another main point of conflict. Thanks for educating about the new oil discovery next door.